Heavenly Hotseat
Doug Stewart, founder and CEO, Green Energy UK, March 2023
Ten questions on life, loves and learnings from a friend of Heavenly. This month, we welcome Doug into the Hotseat.
1.Where and when were you happiest
It’s not past tense – I love my family and no matter what, they make me happy! But if you want a period in the past, it’s probably at university: not a care in the world and everyone had the same ‘income’.
2. What do you value most in other people?
Honesty.
“Concentrate on your own products and abilities and stop obsessing with the competition.”
3. What is the best piece of advice you have ever been given?
Concentrate on your own products and abilities and stop obsessing with the competition.
4. What did you dream of being when you were young?
A bin man: I was fascinated by their tipping lorry.
5. What was the last thing that made you laugh out loud?
At a one-liner joke session with my friends: ‘Old people say there’s no place like home; but when you put them in one…’
6. What keeps you awake at night?
Currently the pain in my knees, but normally…the things I should have done today.
7. What is your favourite word?
Yes.
8. Which talent are you most envious of?
The ability to read music and play a musical instrument – any instrument!
9. Which famous painting would you choose to have in your home?
Anything by Salvador Dali, but if it had to be one it’d be the Persistence of Memory.
10. What is your proudest moment?
It’s constant: my kids.