He Left a Building Site With £3,000, Now in 40 Countries | Callum Webb | Football for Breakfast

Callum Webb grew up on a council estate in Liverpool, left school with no qualifications, spent his first ten years working on a building site and at 25 had £3,000 in a drawer. He spent every penny of it on a personal training course. Today he co-founded POW8R - the number one live stream and on-demand fitness app, featured in Vogue and GQ, with members across the globe. In episode two of Football for Breakfast, Jim Johnson sits down with Callum in the greasy spoon cafe to talk about football, fitness and what they have in common. The answer, it turns out, is everything. They start on the Kop. Callum's earliest football memory is sitting on a stanchion on the old standing Kop as a four or five year old with his grandad - a memory that shaped not just his love of football but his understanding of community, belonging and what it means to be part of something bigger than yourself. From there the conversation moves through the treble season, the 2001 FA Cup final his grandad's brothers took his ticket for, and the week in 2005 where Callum scored a free kick at Anfield for Cardinal Lennon on the Monday night and watched Liverpool win the Champions League in Istanbul on the Wednesday. He brings a ticket stub to the table. It isn't his. His parents accidentally burned his memorabilia when he moved out. So he called his grandad. In the second half, Callum talks about the moment at 25 when he looked around the building site and knew it wasn't the life he was signing himself up for. How he googled personal training courses at 11pm, found one for £2,999 and spent everything he had. How three months in he made the decision to coach female clients only - a niche move that felt risky and turned out to be the making of him. How he went into online coaching before Covid, watched thousands of people show up to his free Instagram classes during lockdown, and walked away from a six figure coaching business to launch POW8R with zero members on day one. Jim puts it to him halfway through: you left the building site, but you've been building ever since. Callum hadn't thought of it that way before. This is Football for Breakfast. Cafes. Clubs. Communities. Culture. ⏱ CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 00:33 Welcome to Football for Breakfast 01:00 Growing up in Liverpool and earliest football memories 03:41 The old Kop - standing, swaying and his grandad 07:09 The treble season and Callum's core football memory 09:24 The 2001 FA Cup final and the tickets he gave away 10:07 Playing football with his dad and brother 11:23 Country Park FC and the Liverpool scout who spotted him 14:47 Growing up on a council estate and life after school 16:00 Six years on the building site and the moment everything changed 17:45 Spending his last £3,000 on a personal training course 19:21 Niching into female-only coaching three months in 22:00 Jim's marathon story and Callum's advice on mindset and training 25:28 Going online before Covid and scaling the business 26:34 Launching POW8R with zero members 27:30 The Istanbul 2005 ticket stub - and why it's his grandad's 29:47 Penalty shootout - five quickfire questions 32:55 You left the building site, but you've been building ever since 35:35 Callum becomes a Good Companion 🎙 ABOUT CALLUM WEBB Callum Webb is co-founder of POW8R, the number one live stream and on-demand fitness app as featured in Vogue and GQ. Built from the ground up by Callum and his partner Holly, POW8R delivers live kettlebell classes, on-demand workouts, nutrition plans and community support to members worldwide. 🔗 LINKS POW8R: pow8r.com OSS Security: osssecurity.com Football for Breakfast newsletter: footballforbreakfastpod.com/newsletter 🎧 LISTEN ON SPOTIFY & APPLE PODCASTS Search Football for Breakfast or find us via the links in the bio. Football for Breakfast is a production by The Good Companions, presented by OSS Security. New episode every Tuesday morning. #FootballForBreakfast #CallumWebb #POW8R #FootballPodcast #Liverpool #LiverpoolFC #Istanbul2005 #FitnessEntrepreneur #Leadership #BusinessPodcast #FootballCulture #GoodCompanions