E70 - Mary Portas: Changing your thinking to change your results
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Mary Portas is an expert on retail and brand communication. Since 1997 she has been running Portas, a brand agency, producing challenging campaigns and championing brand development for clients.
She is credited with turning Harvey Nichols into a modern fashion brand in the ’90s. She became a member of the company’s board at the age of 30. She previously worked with John Lewis and Topshop.
In 2011 Mary was commissioned by Prime Minister David Cameron to lead an independent review into the Future of the High Street. She delivered the report in outlining 28 recommendations for rescuing the nation’s failing high streets. Her proudest achievement to date, is the creation of Mary’s Living and Giving shops for Save The Children. Currently the most profitable charity shops in the UK, she has so far opened 25 and has raised over £13 million and counting.
Mary’s latest book ‘Rebuild: How to thrive in the new Kindness Economy’ is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, welcome along to today's High Performance Podcast and the premise of this podcast |
| 0:07.0 | is really simple. |
| 0:09.0 | Opening up the minds of true high performers so that you and I can learn everything |
| 0:14.2 | there is to learn about high performance. |
| 0:16.9 | Every single episode just brings something new, a small nugget of information, a different |
| 0:21.7 | viewpoint on the world. |
| 0:23.0 | And I created this podcast because I grew up in a small village in Norfolk and I believed |
| 0:27.6 | that there was something that successful people knew or a door that had been open to them |
| 0:32.4 | that would never be opened to me as a kid from a small village with a dad who was a charity |
| 0:36.9 | work and a mum who was a teacher. |
| 0:39.2 | And then slowly over time when I was spending years in the Formula One paddock and I was |
| 0:44.0 | speaking to the people at the very top of that sport, I realised there is no secret. |
| 0:49.2 | There are just ways of living that can take you closer to a high performance life. |
| 0:54.1 | And every week on this podcast we aim to unlock those secrets. |
| 0:58.6 | Today we hear from a truly inspiring woman. |
| 1:05.2 | I always say to people be less tough on yourselves. |
| 1:08.4 | We so tough on ourselves. |
| 1:11.6 | And also there is a great English trait as well. |
| 1:16.6 | We do put ourselves down and I think start being kinder to yourself. |
| 1:23.0 | We have huge powers that we leave on tap because we actually just define ourselves by how |
| 1:28.5 | others are and where we are compared to. |
| 1:32.0 | Stop that. |
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