Martin Lewis: It’s time to stop being taken advantage of (E246)
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Trustworthiness isn't just a label; it's built through consistent actions and a commitment to doing what's right, even when challenging.
Martin Lewis is a prominent figure known for his expertise in consumer finance, and the founder of the ‘MoneySavingExpert’ website and platform. In this episode, Martin highlights how corporations are taking advantage of communities, focusing on the financial burden that big institutions in Britain place on the country.
Touching on his own experience during the pandemic, Martin expresses the desperation for stability felt by many. He emphasises to Jake and Damian his commitment to charity, driven by a desire to reform the system and improve lives.
He recounts his upbringing in a unique educational environment, which taught him early lessons about privilege and empathy. Addressing his own mental health challenges, Martin shares the effects of his personal struggles, and what coping mechanisms he developed.
Offering insights into how he achieved success, Martin explores the impact and sacrifices throughout his journey. Ultimately, he shares the value of integrity in our personal and professional lives, and promotes individual accountability and moral business conduct.
This episode focuses on developing trust, building an ethical society, and the importance of navigating personal and professional challenges.
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| 0:00.0 | For me, you cannot market trust. |
| 0:05.0 | Trust only comes from being trustworthy. |
| 0:09.0 | When a struggling 90-year-old grandmother with onset dementia is paying the maximum for her energy |
| 0:15.6 | bills because she can't access the system and doesn't understand what to do and |
| 0:19.1 | therefore she pays more to boil a kettle than I do. that is all of our problem. That is society's |
| 0:25.4 | problem. How hard do you want to push? How much do you really want to be the number |
| 0:31.4 | what in what you do on the big picture do you really want to be |
| 0:35.2 | that successful because there's a cost to it there's a cost to pushing as hard if I've |
| 0:39.0 | pushed and as hard of other people have pushed. That is Martin Lewis and this is high performance, the show that |
| 0:45.8 | unlocks the minds of some of the most fascinating people on the planet. I'm |
| 0:49.9 | J. Cunfry and alongside our high performance expert, Damien Hughes, we learn from the stories, struggles and successes of our guests, |
| 0:57.8 | allowing us all to explore, be challenged and to grow. |
| 1:01.6 | And I was thinking long and hard about the introduction to this episode, |
| 1:04.8 | and I came to the conclusion that if high performance |
| 1:08.0 | and what we've created stands for anything, |
| 1:10.4 | then it's trust. |
| 1:12.0 | You trust us to speak to some high achieving people not just to put them on a |
| 1:16.3 | pedestal and celebrate their successes but also to get the truth, the truth about the cost of success |
| 1:22.1 | and the price that many people have to pay for the things |
| 1:25.2 | that they've achieved. |
| 1:26.2 | You trust us to speak to some of the most famous sports people on the planet to get behind |
| 1:30.2 | the stories and most importantly you trust us to bring the high performance |
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