FOUNDER #21. From £20M to £260M in 8 Years: Wealth Manager Grows Family Business - Sean Standerwick
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Sean Standerwick opens up about building a wealth management business from £20 million to over £260 million, and the lessons learned along the way about money, discipline, and long-term thinking. What started as a traditional, hands-off advisory firm evolved into a modern, high-touch service built around ongoing relationships, smarter investing, and helping clients actually understand how to build real wealth. At its core, it’s not just about numbers - it’s about financial peace of mind, structure, and making better decisions early.
But behind the growth is a much bigger conversation around the realities of money in the UK today. From rising taxes and shrinking allowances to the pressure on business owners and high earners, Sean breaks down how the landscape has shifted - and why so many people are unknowingly leaving money on the table. Simple habits like using ISAs, pensions, and tax-efficient strategies become the difference between stagnation and serious long-term wealth.
Alongside this is a deeply personal journey - navigating a complex family management buyout, balancing business with life, and dealing with the emotional weight of taking over something built by a parent. What followed was a year and a half of intense negotiation, pressure, and growth - ultimately reshaping not just the business, but relationships and perspective.
Now, Sean focuses on helping entrepreneurs and founders build wealth the right way - starting early, thinking long-term, and avoiding the common mistakes that cost people years. It’s a grounded look at money, business, and the habits that quietly separate those who build lasting wealth from those who don’t.
This is the eventful life of Sean Standerwick.
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| 0:00.0 | What's one biggest mistake that people make regarding their finances? |
| 0:04.0 | Do you know, I think this is a massive thing that young people don't realise. |
| 0:08.0 | One thing I'm really big on is I've kind of called it wealth habits of just... |
| 0:13.0 | What is wealth management? |
| 0:14.0 | It's looking after your finances, it's building personal wealth. |
| 0:18.0 | You might be really successful, you get your head down, but actually |
| 0:21.2 | missing out loads of tax breaks. You know, I've had clients have come on, you know, 100, 200,000, |
| 0:26.8 | and today they've got over a million. What impact your thing has happened in the UK over the last |
| 0:30.8 | three or four years? The tax side of things has become a lot less favourable. What they've done |
| 0:35.6 | is squeeze business owners. I mean, we're living in the highest tax burden since World War II. People don't realise what impact this is going to have. What would you actually do? What would you break down? Well, let's just go through a few of them. Are you using nicer allowances? Pensions. Are you recommending that people listening to this should have a pension? Okay, I've got to be a little bit of careful because I'm regulated. |
| 0:54.8 | Generally speaking, |
| 0:55.3 | Hey guys, we've been running this podcast now for five and a half years. We've had some most |
| 1:04.7 | amazing business guests on here, Simon Squib, Daniel Priestley, Barry Hearn, the list just |
| 1:09.5 | goes on and on from billionaires to people who have built brands. If you want to come on the podcast and talk about your business and sit here with me in the studio and tell your story, go check out Dodgewoodall.com forward slash guest and check out the three minute video. We've also left the link below as well. Sean, welcome to the show. Hello, thank you for having |
| 1:28.4 | me. Good. Very much looking forward to us. Let's roll away back. How did you end up getting your |
| 1:32.0 | business from 20 million to 260 million in just 10 years? How do we do that? So we changed our business model. |
| 1:41.2 | So we originally just had an old school advisory financial planning firm |
| 1:47.8 | where we would look after people's money and we just might check in with them in five years. |
| 1:52.2 | We didn't have any ongoing service with them. We then realized there was an opportunity in the market |
| 1:57.2 | to actually offer an ongoing service where we can manage their investments and add a lot of |
| 2:03.5 | value. And so we went through our client bank and we moved them over to this new model of service |
| 2:11.3 | where they had a better portfolio, better level of service. And we've just accelerated that through the years. So I came on within the |
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