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# Michael Howard
- URL: https://www.thebeyondpodcast.com/guests/michael-howard/
- Published: 2026-08-03T14:24:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-10T11:57:29.000Z
- Description: Founder of a 250-strong office design and fit-out firm, built from homelessness at 17 on away-from-pain motivation.
- Author: Elliott King
- Tags: guest, Michael Howard

**Founder, Office Design and Fit-Out Company**

Michael Howard runs a multi-million-pound office design and fit-out company employing 250 people, and his route there started with brief homelessness at 17\. He credits away-from-pain motivation, the drive to escape being broke, over any towards-success ambition, and a mid-life turn to radical self-education for the mindset that built the firm. By choice, he keeps a low public profile.

On The BEYOND Podcast he talked with host and producer Aleksandra King through the unglamorous truth of entrepreneurship: the maths that kills most startups, sales as problem-solving, hiring for character, owning mistakes, customer-centric culture, and the pressure and purpose of profit at scale.

## Credentials

- Founder of a multi-million-pound office design and fit-out company
- Scaled the firm to 250 employees
- Self-educated from homelessness at 17 to business ownership

## Their episode

*Michael Howard: The Truth About Building a Business– Pressure, Pain & Profit*, on The BEYOND Podcast with Aleksandra King.

[Listen to the episode](https://www.thebeyondpodcast.com/michael-howard-the-truth-about-building-a-business-pressure-pain-profit/)