Nhamo Shire is known as London’s ‘Mr basketball’ and this year he set up the London City Royals basketball team. Shire had a tough start in life, living alone in a bedsit in London at the age of 14 which could have seen him easily fall into a life of drugs and crime, but when he discovered basketball he put all his focus into the sport. A few years later he broke his ankle and was told he’d be lucky to run for a bus again. The basketball had given his life so much purpose, so this left him at a loss as to what to do. His steely determination saw him fight his way back onto the court, but that wasn’t the last of the big knock-backs in his life – he reconnected with the father he never knew in Zimbabwe, but he passed away soon after; basketball continued to give him the focus he needed to stop his life from crumbling.
Nhamo talks to Sandro about how the basketball court was his sanctuary at these difficult points in his life and about how he set up a ‘Midnight Madness’, a late-night social group to help vulnerable youngsters from similar backgrounds as his, which brings them together to play basketball and help give their lives focus.
You can connect with Nhamo at
London City Royals: www.londoncityroyals.com & www.london-basketball.com
Sandro Forte is a highly respected and successful businessman who has built an astonishing network of well-known individuals, sports stars and celebrities over a career spanning more than 30 years.
Author of the bestselling book ‘Dare to Be Different’ and a sought-after speaker, Sandro has decided to access his enviable resources to produce a podcast series, centred around personal development, which invites a different person each episode to talk about their successes, their challenges and what lessons they have learned in life to make them who they are today. Their insights and wisdom both educate and motivate as they explain how success, whilst not always easy, is achievable for anyone.
These interviews provide inspiring and informative insight from the perspective of an impressive and varied range of personalities.
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