E172 - Adrian Gore: Building a business empire on a core purpose
The High Performance Podcast
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4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Adrian Gore is a businessman, entrepreneur, founder and CEO of multi-billion dollar company Discovery Holdings with 40 million customers around the world. Discovery is the parent company of Vitality. The Vitality Programme is the world’s largest incentive-based health promotion programme designed to encourage and reward people for having good lifestyle habits with a focus on prevention and wellness instead of curative care. Discovery was names in the top 5 companies changing the world by Fortune Magazine.
Adrian talks about taking risks, achieving potential, the power of purpose and why you should avoid egotistical people. “IQ divided by ego must be much greater than one!”
This is a special bonus episode you can hear in full on our premium service High Performance Plus. Sign up (there’s a free trail) and get ad-free podcasts and exclusive bonus content - https://highperformanceplus.supercast.com. In the extended version on High Performance Plus - Adrian discusses the power that comes from setting yourself a goal for realising your full potential, something he is putting into practise by setting himself the challenge of running a 5-minute mile at 58 years old with expert guidance from Lord Sebastian Coe.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, I'm Jay Cumpfrey and this is High Performance, the podcast that reminds you it's within. |
| 0:06.6 | Your ambition, your purpose, your story are all there. |
| 0:09.4 | Here in the new year we're going to help unlock it by telling the lived experiences of the planet's highest performers into your life lessons. |
| 0:17.0 | However, we do get lots of messages myself and Professor Damien Hughes from people who want more. |
| 0:22.6 | They want more content, they want more access to high performance. |
| 0:25.6 | And if you would like to start 2023 getting closer to your own version of high performance, then you can subscribe to High Performance Plus. |
| 0:34.2 | For the price of just a couple of cups of coffee a month, you will get extra episodes, you'll get bonus content, you'll get exclusive Q&A sessions, all with no adverts. |
| 0:45.2 | If you want to sign up for High Performance Plus, you can just click the link in the description to this podcast or check out the High Performance Podcast.com. |
| 0:54.2 | And today we're uploading for High Performance Plus subscribers, a conversation with the incredible CEO of the Discovery Group, Adrian Gore. |
| 1:03.4 | Now if you want the full extended chats, then you too can subscribe to High Performance Plus. |
| 1:08.4 | But if you can't or you don't fancy it, I still wanted to give you a 15 minute taster of the conversation we had with Adrian because I think there is so much value for you. |
| 1:16.8 | He's the founder and the CEO of a multi billion pound turnover business, but he's done it through putting value and behavior at the heart of what he does. |
| 1:26.4 | So here is a short taster of the conversation you can hear in full right now on High Performance Plus. |
| 1:32.4 | This is the CEO and the founder of the Discovery Group, Adrian Gore on how he's built his empire. |
| 1:40.8 | Well, at first of all, thank you very much for joining us. Let's start as we always do in your mind what represents High Performance. |
| 1:52.0 | I think High Performance is represented by I think real impact that changes people and he's sending it very, very hard to achieve and it must be a force for good in my view. |
| 2:01.8 | So you know, off the cuff, I would say it is about impact, it is about achievement, but I think it must have a sense of purpose and morality to it. |
| 2:09.8 | And that actually rings true with the life that you've lived in the business that you've created. Let's talk about Discovery. |
| 2:16.8 | One of the most impressive businesses on the planet, one of the most impactful businesses on the planet, you regularly name the top CEO in South Africa. |
| 2:27.8 | So let's talk about where this all started from because you get entrepreneurial people, you get people that are doers and graft. |
| 2:35.8 | But it's the big thing that I'm interested in. Where did this mindset of having a positive impact as well as being an elite business person come from? |
| 2:42.8 | Look, I think the start of Discovery was decades back when Nelson Mandela was kind of coming out of prison in the end of apartheid. |
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