Planet Angel - Live an Ordinary Life in an Extraordinary Way

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In a way I feel like I should say that my part in creating Planet Angel came from a happy desire to create something special. But I have learnt that I need to be honest and, to be honest it didn’t!...

“Had some trouble with herself” the Maroon 5 song says, and I did… I was living in north west London, doing ‘well’ and pursuing the money/ company/ career progression thing. Underneath I was really just a happy go lucky musician type guy who was fascinated with electronics and loved people and parties and music and people having fun. For various reasons I had been living a life that was not right for me.

Then my very dear friend and role model died.  I lost it.  Things started to unravel, and, in the process I lost some people that had been part of my life for 10 years and that I care for very much.

I had drifted so far from my natural path in life that all I knew was to continue along the money/company/career progression thing and, although I felt lost inside, for a couple of years I continued in the business I knew best, which was IT.  There was significant success, I was MD of a small IT company and sold it to a big city company… Big investment.. Big floatation on the horizon.. Big bucks returns and all that (this was the dot.com era).. It was all there.  But inside I felt utterly exhausted and sad.  I was in a bad and lonely place and ‘took my eye off the ball’.

My business partner (and friend) used the opportunity to ‘make a few changes’ and in a flash I ended up unemployed, absolutely broke, having to fight for unfair dismissal in court, and depressed.

Angel had also been having loads of fun in her life (!), and, from that very very low point we dreamt. We dreamt of better things… We imagined a place, a gathering of like-minded people… We looked but we couldn’t find anywhere that provided what we wanted... Many purported to do so but when it came down to it, it was either ego, money or power that was the driving force…

So we started to organise our own magical gatherings of friends; on moonlit evenings on Primrose Hill, and around the lakes where the M4 meets the M25.  We won our unfair dismissal and put the winnings into the dream and then began – what turned out to be two years - of working in jobs we despised to raise further finance and to build momentum for the crazy dream that we called Planet Angel. 

It’s been a fantastic journey so far and there is so much more to be discovered... I never really believed in a future based on money or power but now i know that it’s not.  A happy and sustainable future is based on relationships, with the planet and the other inhabitants of it, with other people… and with ourselves.

I have met and work with people who are amazing.. people who I would never had met if I had not been through the things I have, and if I were not part of Planet Angel.  The people I know now are exceptional, and finally, I am able to be Pete, nothing more, nothing less.

Take care, Pete.