E140 - Sunil Patel: The true cost of building a business worth millions.
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2022
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
This week on The High Performance Podcast, we speak to Sunil Patel, the Co-founder and CEO of Whisper, an award winning production company to Sunil created with High Performance host Jake Humphrey.
In this episode Sunil openly shares with us the highs and lows of being obsessed with your work and how this can impact your private life. He also goes into depth on how teamwork is at the heart of every decision he makes, and the importance of treating people with respect no matter what level you are operating at.
With almost 300 staff, Whisper has grown organically to a turnover of tens of millions having produced Formula One, International Cricket, The Paralympics and Women’s Euros 2022.
They have been named as one of the fastest growing production companies in Europe and Sunil has been named as a top 20 Indie Influencer 2019 by Broadcast Magazine and is a BAFTA-winning producer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, I'm Jake Cumpfrey and you're listening to high performance, our |
| 0:04.9 | conversation for you every single week. This is the podcast that reminds you that |
| 0:10.5 | it's within your ambition, your purpose, your story, it's all there. We just |
| 0:15.6 | hope you unlock it by turning the lived experiences of the planet's highest |
| 0:19.4 | performance into your life lessons. So right now, allow myself and Professor |
| 0:24.0 | Damien Hughes to speak to the greatest leaders, thinkers, sports, stars, and |
| 0:28.2 | entrepreneurs on the planet so they can be your teacher and please remember |
| 0:31.8 | this podcast is not about how achievement, it's not about how success, it's |
| 0:35.9 | about how happiness, how self-worth and taking you closer to a life of |
| 0:40.5 | fulfillment, empathy, and understanding. And here's the thing, this is the most |
| 0:46.5 | personal episode of the high performance podcast that I've ever recorded. |
| 0:50.2 | Today, this awaits you. It was just baked into me, that's kind of you had to |
| 0:56.8 | graph often, my graph came from seeing my dad, my mum, do it day in day out. I |
| 1:02.6 | think strength and a weakness of mine is I'm obsessive, I'm relentlessly |
| 1:07.8 | obsessive about everything and that has been very useful to get to this point |
| 1:12.5 | but it's also been very damaging to get to this point for me. A wake up I think |
| 1:17.8 | about whisper and the last thought I have is about whisper and that happened |
| 1:21.7 | for years and years and years and it was just nonstop and that came with |
| 1:27.5 | compromises in my personal life. I gave too much to the business, I'd miss out on |
| 1:33.5 | key milestones, not birthdays in my kids or my wife but you'd miss bedtime, |
| 1:39.6 | you'd miss the birthday party for a friend, you'd miss going on holiday with |
| 1:43.6 | your mates or whatever it was and there were the compromises I made. I made so |
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