Never take no for an answer, says Lionel Foy

This appeared in The Millennial Source

The Millennial Source spoke to Lionel Foy, football agent as well as founder of LionHeart In The Community (LITC), a London-based social enterprise, about what sets him apart. “The best advice I can give my younger self, is to never take no for an answer,” he says.

How did you feel when you realised you could go into entrepreneurship full time?

How did I feel? I felt…it is a scary thought of course, when you know you don’t have that guarantee of income coming your way and you have to create that for yourself. It is scary. But I got a lot of satisfaction from being able to pay myself.

You know, even as an entrepreneur I had members of staff who earned more money than myself. The wages or expenses I was able to pay myself, I really derived a lot of satisfaction on that. And I feel that it is what kept the dream alive.

Describe your mind using three words

Hyper-active, analytic, constantly solution-focused.

As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

I wanted to be a footballer and my dad wanted me to be a lawyer. I was caught in both wherever I went. So the football thing didn’t work out, obviously because I didn’t have…