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'Don't Be Needy
Be Succeedy'
The Book




L. VAUGHAN SPENCER ( L-VO )


Self Help & Management Guru (Gangsta Motivator)
L. Vaughan Spencer is the hilarious award-winning
alter ego of Neil Mullarkey.

"A superb pastiche - Borat meets The Office" - The Sunday Times

L-Vo, as he likes to be known in a J-Lo kinda way, first arrived in a show called "Men Are From Mars, Neil Is From Surrey", in which Neil played L-Vo - aka The Gangsta Motivator because of his brilliant motivational raps, as well as to honour some unfortunate people who had been to L-Vo's Succeeder Workshops. But audiences wanted to believe in L-Vo, so the other characters disappeared and the show became "Don't Be Needy Be Succeedy".

This show won the Fringe Report Award for the
Best Satire at the Edinburgh Festival
.

L. Vaughan Spencer has toured theatres across the UK and Ireland, as well as appearing before British, American and international conference audiences across the Northern Hemisphere.

• Review from the London Evening Standard •

"Neil Mullarkey is one of the most respected, gifted performers on the circuit. His character, L. Vaughan Spencer, has considerable mileage; full of quasi-fascistic psychobabble, he delivers some brilliantly breathless raps. Spencer does for motivational tree-hugging what Al Murray's Pub Landlord does for tin-pot barmen, twisting language until the laughs cascade. If Spencer is at one with his hair, Mullarkey is certainly at one with his craft. Eerily life-enhancing comedy."

L. Vaughan Spencer has gone from being a stage sensation to being a phenomenon in Britain's corporate world.

Presenting himself as "Management Guru & Gangsta Motivator" L-Vo appears at conferences, dinners, training sessions and team building workshops. His words have special resonance for anyone who has ever encountered management training, personal development or someone who's too big for their boots. "He will inspire, motivate, entertain and, most of all, make you laugh."

• Review from The Sunday Telegraph •

"My favourite live business spoof of the year. L Vaughan Spencer is the perfect antidote to the endless bogus management consultants and coaches who ply the corporate circuit."

• Review from Sales Interaction •

"Our business has the opportunity to work with a large number of well known organisations across a wide range of industries including retail, healthcare, financial services and professional services.

Whilst working with these companies I have had the chance to witness (and book) a large number of conference and after dinner speakers many of whom are very funny and entertaining.

L Vaughan Spencer (aka Neil Mullarkey) is not just entertaining and funny. He has a unique gift of being able to capture an audience’s total attention whilst simultaneously being entertaining, thought provoking, irreverent, outrageous, creative and also little bizarre – he does this at the same time as being very very funny.

His ability to weave an organisations messages, challenges and “hot topics” into his performance is both slick and professional.

L Vaughan Spencer doesn’t bake cakes – but if he did Mr. Kipling would be would be in trouble for he is an exceedingly good entertainer."

More information about L-Vo's work with business people at www.Succeedy.com

And Now, L-Vo's definitive self-help book

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Videos you will want to watch...

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Say YES to Success




Immerse yourself in L-Vo's world
Visit his very personal website
www.TheSucceeder.com




L-Vo's Succeeders' Song
by "The Succeeders"




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The award recognises the remarkable achievement of Neil Mullarkey in the creation of life-coach extraordinaire L Vaughan Spencer, in a show which enlists the enthusiastic co-operation of his audience in a ruthless satire of self-improvement through the quality of Neil Mullarkey's comedic excellence and sharp, lyrical and gifted writing.


REVIEWS & ARTICLES
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FULL OF MULLARKEY

Management Today
"Already a guru in the US, L-Vo ls now intoning his famous motto on the UK's motivational speaker circuit. But who is Sooti-n-Tsu...?"


Jersey Insight
"Don't Be Needy, Be Succeedy was an ingenious production, brilliantly performed, and, quite simply, extremely funny. I laughed like a drunk gibbon. And today I'm a succeeder...!"


London Evening Standard
"Mullarkey is very good at piling on the preposterousness..."

ThreeWeeks Online
"Mullarkey is ‘succeedy’ and off-the-charts wonderful..."


Metro
"Neil Mullarkey is a very funny man indeed..."


Fringe Report
"Neil Mullarkey's smash hit as L Vaughan Spencer..."


Edinburgh Guide
"Mullarkey ...he's good and we need this sort of sharp parody..."


Chortle
"This 'spiritual Swami' ...superbly captured by Mullarkey..."


one4review.com
"Mullarkey is genuinely funny..."


The Scotsman
"Neil Mullarkey's brilliantly crafted character..."


The Independent
"Playing the truly terrifying motivational speaker extraordinaire..."


BBC
"Stars of the Fringe..."


BBC
"From Footlights To Fringe..."


Guardian
Guardian Newspaper Endorses the "Be Succeedy" Method...


The Times
"A new guru takes centre stage..."



Immerse yourself in L-Vo's world
Visit his very personal website
www.TheSucceeder.com