This is the story of ex-GB and England Volleyball athelete Jake Sheaf and his company Deep Dish.
Deep Dish aims to bring beach volleyball and indeed beach life to all. It has 3 centres in the UK in Crystal Palace, Bournemouth and St Albans and also organises beach volleyball centred vacations to Gran Canaria, Portugal and Valencia in Spain.
This includes the popular Beach Tour which last year hosted over 2000 university students at the ultimate sporting escape to train and play and party.
Get the feel for Deep Dish immediately if you head to deepdishbeach.com. It looks so much fun! And importantly it welcomes and has something for all ages and all abilities from complete beginners to Olympians.
Jake takes us through the challenges of managing and funding life as a professional athlete which included building up an informal version of Deep Dish alongside his pro-volleyball journey for quite some years.
He talks about how that period helped him to prepare for life as a business owner and then when he retired from the professional side of his sport, he turned to develop Deep Dish full time.
This was not long followed with some tough times like, anything centred around socialising and being together, during the pandemic, but then swiftly followed by a surge in success in recent years and the company has been growing rapidly ever since.
Now Jake is entering a new challenge, as by the time this podcast goes out, he’s going to be a Dad so congrats and good luck to becoming a father Jake and great to learn about your story up until this next chapter.
Another business set-up story to learn from and be inspired by folks.
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