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You probably don’t know this yet…

But over the last 365 days, over 2000 founders pitched to a literal doorbell.

Some of those pitches were reacted to by @richardbranson, @danmartell and @simonsinek.

Those who were courageous enough to stand there were featured in videos that were watched by millions.

But what if we could do it better?

What if…

There was a way to help EVERY SINGLE PERSON who pitches?

It took us months of development, but now there is.

The Doorbell of Dreams is back.

With new locations added globally each month.

With advanced technology and a substantial value stack behind every pitch:

Every pitcher now gets a personalised deck in their inbox with the steps to make that dream a reality.

Every month, one pitcher will walk away with £1,000 (chosen live on Instagram).

They get access to the HelpBnk community and IRL support from people on the same journey.

A live session with the HelpBnk team (and sometimes @simonsquibb himself.)

Even a chance at a reaction video, a content feature, or a 1-1 with an experienced founder.

We listened to your feedback.

So we’ve rebuilt the entire thing.

These 60 seconds now have the capability to change your life.

So come and pitch your dream.

#helpbnk #entrepreneur

Could you have done what he did? 😳

#helpbnk #entrepreneur

He made a COMEBACK! 😳

Thanks to @leevalleyathleticscentre for allowing us to use their venue!

Thanks also to @roeisam for what he does best by connecting Blake to these athletes!

#helpbnk #entrepreneur

Every person on Earth should be learning AI right now.

If you’re not, you’re in trouble.

4 in 10 of the world’s biggest CEOs are already cutting jobs because of AI.

They’ve seen what it can do. It works 24/7 and never asks for a pay rise.

Humans can’t compete with that. And the employees will be the ones to take the hit.

There’s only one way to protect yourself…

Learn to use AI.

If you can use AI, you can build your own business. Or if you really want, you can become the person every company wants to hire.

Either way, you’re not the one being cut.

My course is just a few hours a week for 5 weeks but it will teach you everything you need to get ahead of 99% of people.

It’s taught by Sepehr Khosravi, one of the most respected AI builders in the world.

People would pay thousands to be mentored by him. But we’re giving it to you for FREE.

You don’t need to have ever used AI before. We’ll help you from scratch.

This is the most important skill you can pick up this year.

Comment “AI” and I’ll send the link 🔗

“I was four when I started to feel 'less than.' It was when I started school.

The teachers rewarded the best spellers, and I wasn't one of them. It started with a tut when I stumbled over reading, and then it advanced to open segregation. I was put in the slow class. I'm sure today someone would have spotted I was dyslexic, but back then I was just slow.

Somehow I worked my way into broadcasting anyway, and by the nineties I was Ireland's only national female radio DJ, working alongside 35 guys on air. I became a television presenter. I built something.

But when I had children, something primal took over. Every morning I held their faces and told them, 'You are magnificent and perfect.' Not to give them inflated egos, but because I knew what it felt like when nobody said it.

Then one day I was dropping one of them at school, holding her two little shoulders, looking her straight in the eye, saying the words, and I heard a teacher nearby laughing. 'She's cruising for a bruising,' she said.

It hit me like a thunderbolt. Nothing had changed.

So Mike and I started writing fairy tales, free online, set across the fifty states of America, each one quietly teaching a life skill, the way carrots hide in carrot cake. Two million views later, we started publishing books. Three of them hit number one on Amazon. In December our books landed in their first American library, and in January into their first American school.

I've been working on this full-time since 2021, and we're not yet cash positive. But I keep thinking about that four-year-old in the slow class, and all the ones sitting there right now who don't know yet what they're actually good at."

@unitedtalesofamerica

The reason 92% of people with a business idea never start isn't a money problem. They have a permission problem.

When Zapier had Harris Poll survey 2,000 Americans in 2020, 61% had a business idea, 92% never followed through, and 63% said money was the blocker. The UK answer is different. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor finds that 58% of UK adults who see a real opportunity say fear of failure stops them, up from 40% before the pandemic.

Both answers are real, but both are downstream of something deeper. The system optimises you for waiting. School teaches you to ask permission before you act. Jobs reward people who don't try too much. Most adults spend their entire lives needing someone else to say go.

So in March we ran a 31-day challenge with @SuperteamUK, @Solana and @superteamearn that removed the wait. $1,000 in USDG, build something real, no one to ask. 10 founders did exactly that.

Bronnie Ware spent years working in palliative care, and the regret she heard most wasn't a failed business or a bad investment, it was never having the courage to live a life true to themselves.

The question isn't whether you have what you need to start. It's what you'll do with the 31 days you already have.

Massive congrats to our 10 winners.

On Instagram: @rvaclassicc, @diamondphotography1, @edugroovehub, @tidepoolhospitality

On HelpBnk: @rvaclassic, @Diamondphotography, @chrishaldenby, @TidepoolHospitality, @rafael107, @Adebisi, @chelseawhite, @bansipatanvadiya, @valentineisichei, @crystlazxbt

Next challenge is coming. Watch this space.

#helpbnk #solana #superteamUK

Always wanted to do a group run in London

It’s happening this Sunday

Meet at the south side of London Bridge

9AM sharp

Don’t be late

5k - 10k or Half Marathon along the Thames

All paces are welcome

7km pace for the half marathon

Come and make friends

No need to sign up

Just show up

thank you @helpbnk

Always wanted to do a group run in London

It’s happening this Sunday

Meet at the south side of London Bridge

9AM sharp

Don’t be late

5k - 10k or Half Marathon along the Thames

All paces are welcome

7km pace for the half marathon

Come and make friends

No need to sign up

Just show up

thank you @helpbnk

I bought a Porsche, but don’t copy me.

I sold my company Fluid to PwC at 40 and the first thing I did was buy a Porsche to feel successful, but the car owned me because I had no purpose.

Money only buys you one thing of value and that’s time, so buy your time back before you buy the car.

#simonsquibb #entrepreneur #porsche

“My dad died when I was 21, a brain aneurysm, completely out of nowhere. One minute I was a college student covering shifts at a hotel, and the next he was gone. I didn't grieve properly. I just threw myself into work, and I still carry guilt about that.

But hospitality was the one constant when everything else fell apart, and I never really left.

Twenty-five years later I'm walking into pubs and restaurants across Sussex every day, selling gin for a local distillery, and every single operator tells me the same thing. They're cancelling services, cutting opening hours, overworking the people they have left, all because they can't find cover quickly enough or afford the agency fees. The flexible workforce already exists, passing shifts around on WhatsApp and Facebook, but there's no structure, no compliance, no protection for anyone.

I could just sell them their gin and go home to a steady wage. For a long time, that's exactly what I did.

Then a few months ago I pitched the idea out loud for the first time, just to hear whether it sounded like a real business or something I'd been telling myself. That was the moment it stopped living only in my head.

I built the MVP myself using AI tools, which tells you everything about where I am right now. I know my limits. But I also know this industry kept me going during the worst days of my life, and I'm not ready to just watch it collapse."

@tidepoolhospitality

She quit her job to chase 126 dreams… 🤯

You can support her on @mightymerilin !

#doorbellofdreams #scared #dream

“From age 9 until I was 26, I never had a single free summer. Every year was exams, retakes, pressure, and the constant message that I wasn't good enough. I didn't understand why until 2023, when I collapsed completely and a therapist finally confirmed I have ADHD. Suddenly my entire childhood made sense. The system was built around memorisation and long attention spans, and those were exactly the two things my brain couldn't do.

That same year we'd just bought our first home, and it had serious hidden problems. For eight months, on top of my full-time job, I renovated it myself. My father had to come and help because I was overwhelmed. My hair started falling out from the stress. Then I was made redundant.

At my lowest point I told Patricia: 'I give myself five years to change my life, or I'll lose myself completely.' That sentence didn't come from drama. It came from exhaustion.

Patricia has wanted to be a teacher since she was five years old. She used to line up her soft toys and teach them. In Spain, nobody gave her a chance for seven years. She worked in school canteens. So in 2019 I left my stable job and we moved to London, because I knew that if someone gave her one opportunity, her ability would speak for itself. She was hired by the first nursery she applied to, an OFSTED Outstanding nursery, and within months she was identifying things others had missed entirely. One child was struggling with reading and everyone assumed learning difficulties. Patricia watched him and thought it was his vision. The parents got him tested, he was prescribed glasses, and his performance improved immediately.

We've been together almost 18 years. We've never owned a car. We spent three years in a 33m² flat through COVID, saving everything we could. We still haven't been able to start a family, and that waiting has been Patricia's deepest pain.”

@missgrandeofficial

Community is one of the most powerful things you can build around a dream.

Yesterday at HelpBnk, the best pitch won a mentorship with Simon Squibb.

We've re-launched the doorbell of dreams in Dubai and you can now find it outside of Pepperoni Comedy Club!

The doorbell is simple. You ring it, you share your dream, and the community shows up to help.

We hosted a Pitch Clinic hosted by Adam Moss and Guy Parsonage (CEO & Head of Growth at HelpBnk). Learn how to pitch effectively, hear expert feedback, and even step up to share your idea live. The best pitch won a mentorship with Simon Squibb.

Pitching actually matters more than most people realise.

A study at Dominican University found that people who wrote down their goals and shared them out loud were 42% more likely to actually achieve them.

Pitching does three things at once. It forces clarity. If you can't explain your dream in 60 seconds, you don't understand it yet. It creates commitment. Once you've said it in a room full of strangers, walking away from it feels different. It opens doors. Half the people in that room know someone, have done something, or can introduce you to the person who'll help.

That's what the doorbell is really for. A simple action that turns a private dream into a public commitment, in front of a community that actually wants you to win.

We can't wait to see your pitch! Who knows what happens by spreading the word?