About Paul Howarth
I help founders and leaders remove the internal patterns that are silently limiting their external results.
Not because I read about it.
Because I lived it.
I grew up in Burnley, Lancashire. I played professional football. I built businesses, invested, and helped oversee exits worth more than £50 million. On paper, I was doing everything right.
In 2016 I entered rehab for alcohol addiction and depression. I was suicidal, divorced, and £100,000 in debt. In my darkest moment I held out my hand in the dark and asked for something greater than myself to either take me or save me.
It saved me.
What followed was ten years of the most honest work I have ever done — not on my businesses, but on myself.
I trained as a psychotherapist, studying the deep mechanics of how human beings are wired, why we repeat patterns we hate, and what it actually takes to change.
I rebuilt my finances, my relationships, and eventually my sense of who I am.
I now live at Evermoor Farm in Lancashire with my family, where I home-school my children and work with founders and high-achievers who are navigating the gap between what they have built and how they actually feel.
That gap is not a weakness.
It is information.
The work I do sits at the intersection of three worlds that are rarely combined:
Clinical psychotherapy and identity work.
Real business building, investing, and exit experience.
And a deep belief that growth is not linear — it is cyclical, relational, and rooted in understanding who you actually are.
Through The Growth Equation I have developed a set of proprietary frameworks — the Identity Model, the 7 Human Hungers, the Growth Equation, the S.P.A.C.E. Method, and the TLC Diagnostic
That give people a precise map of the patterns running their behaviour and a practical method for changing them.
This is not motivational content.
It is not therapy.
It is not generic business coaching.
It is the work that happens when someone who has been to the bottom and built their way back decides to share everything they learned.
The book is the beginning. The rest is up to you.
Start with the free self-sabotage assessmentFind your pattern in five minutes.
