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Who Are Yer? // Stu Wood

Stu Wood from Woodshires tells us his celebrity crush, business heroes and what he enjoys about working from home.

Name: Stu Wood

Company: Woodshires

Job Title: Director/CEO

What are three words to describe yourself: Confident/Understanding/Nerdy.

What do you love about working from home: I am a creature of comfort. I enjoy the small details of home life and being home more allows me to enjoy it more. Although I am not working in an office, I create method and detail in every component to my day to create routine.

Favourite sports team: McLaren F1 team.

Favourite Book: The Chimp Paradox by Prof Steven Peters.

Favourite Podcast: Don’t listen to them.

Favourite Band/Artist: The Black Keys.

Best Business Moment in your life: Seeing my childrens characters emerge over time and how we as parents influence the people they become.

What advice would you give to 18-year-old you: Cut your hair!

If you were allowed to have 5 people, living or dead, in lockdown with you, who would they be: Stephen Fry – to educate and talk me softly to sleep, Barrack Obama – to learn how to not let power go to your head and to be a decent chap, Mr Tumble – keep the kids entertained with his spotty bag, David Bowie – to keep me entertained, Donald Trump – something for me to kick exceedingly hard when I’m feeling stressed (Barrack can help me).

What restaurant are you most looking forward to returning to: Andersons steakkkkkkk.

Celebrity Crush: Anya Chalotra – chick from The Witcher (once she loses the hunchback. Grrrrrrr)

Your Business Heroes are: Steve Jobs – It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

What superhero would you be: Tony stark – Iron Man.

Why Downtown: The only pro-active group I came across when we had not long started.

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