Lewis Raymond Taylor (born 17 May 1990) is an entrepreneur, podcaster and public speaker from Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. He hosts a podcast show "Turning Adversity into An Asset" which includes actors, celebrities and TV personalities such as Matt Hookings, Ash Dykes, Kerry Katona, Dave Courtney, Billy McFarland, Gail Porter, Charlie Edwards, Dapper Laughs and Katie Price as guests. Taylor has been imprisoned on three occasions, one of which involved a conviction for brutally assaulting another individual. Subsequent to his release, he founded a coaching company known as "The Coaching Masters". In 2022, Taylor was a speaker at a TEDx Youth event held at Radley College, where he delivered a talk titled "Turning a Black Hole White." Taylor's life was documented in a Channel 4 programme Teens On Cons.
Early life
Taylor was born in Hertfordshire, England. He is a victim of sexual abuse and suffered from mental illness and substance misuse in his teens and at the age of 13 was arrested on multiple occasions for shoplifting, starting fires, criminal damage and car theft. He attended school in Kings Langley, where he was expelled at the age of 15 due to Antisocial Behaviour Order. At 18 years old, Taylor was sent to a Young Offender Institution and at the age of 24, he served his third prison sentence for violently attacking a man and causing grievous bodily harm. He later studied business at Highbury College and Business Management & Entrepreneurship at Portsmouth University.
Career
Following release from prison in 2015, Taylor received a qualification as a life coach and later founded a coaching company known as "The Coaching Masters". He gave a TEDx speech called "Turning a Black Hole White" at a TedxYouth event in Oxfordshire in 2022.