Story #5 Reggie Nelson - from under-privileged to above-average

Reggie Nelson was poor boy in the UK, raised by a single mum after his dad died, excluded from school and got into trouble with the law...

 Without a father figure to guide him, and a mother who had to work long hours the future looked bleak for Reggie but he did not give up.

 Instead, he sought out those who are well off and asked him how they did it. On the advice he got, he went to university and went on to get a good job in finance.

 Read his story reported on Financial News London here...

Or watch his interview here...

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