the3alarms

In episode 31 of the Most Awesome Founder Podcast, we introduce Eric Partaker, entrepreneur, peak performance coach, early employee at Skype, founder of UK restaurant group, Chilango, and author of The 3 Alarms: A Simple System to Transform Your Health, Wealth, and Relationships Forever.

We’re discussing Eric’s founder journey from selling chocolates as a child to his early career as a McKinsey Consultant; from joining Skype as a small company to founding a large restaurant chain; to his work today helping entrepreneurs and CEOs update their internal software for optimizing performance and well-being

Eric is an incredible storyteller with experiences rooted in a rich and varied career. His insights into how we can learn to perform our best while feeling satisfied along the way are not to be missed. So I hope you enjoy listening as much as I did our conversation.

Part 1: Eric Preview (00:04)

Part 2: Welcome Eric Partaker (01:54)

Part 3: Erics’s early lessons in entrepreneurship (02:42)

Part 4: From McKinsey to Skype to founding an award-winning Mexican restaurant chain to helping founders develop and scale - Eric’s career journey (10:57)

Part 5: The magical Skype experience (14:04)

Part 6: Structure and the power of the brand: The benefits of consulting before entrepreneurship (17:35)

Part 7: Combination and sequency as the cornerstones for founding a startup in an area outside your expertise (20:21)

Part 8: How Chilango was hit by COVID-19 (25:18)

Part 9: Identity, Productivity, Anti-Fragility: What are the most foundational things for entrepreneurs to do on their journeys (28:46)

Part 10: “Life is a three-lagged stool - Work, Health, Relationships”: How life outside of work defines your success at work (35:28)

Part 11: “Prioritize one thing in each dimension per day”: How Eric organizes his life based on the principles he teaches (38:00)

Part 12: “Take action!” Eric’s number 1 advice for entrepreneurs (42:12)

Part 13: What book is Eric currently reading? (43:16)

Part 14: What’s on Eric’s playlist? (43:48)

Outro Gerrit (44:48)

Eric Partaker is a Certified High-Performance Coach, Award-Winning Entrepreneur, CEO, Speaker, and Author of The Chilango Burrito Bible and hist most recently released book in September 2020 The 3 Alarms: A Simple System to Transform Your Health, Wealth, and Relationships Forever.

Some of the things that will be discussed in this episode are:

• What does it take to get into a company you really want to work for?
• Why you may want to keep applying at that company that keeps saying no.
• What is the 80/20 principle and how to use it to overcome perfectionism? 
• What does it take to become a top-performing CEO?
• How does one have it all? Family and a Successful Career.
• How can you become a high performer without sacrificing your health and your relationships?
• What did I learn by studying the world's most successful people for the past 20 plus years?

As a Peak Performance Expert Eric Partaker helps CEOs and entrepreneurs scale-up themselves and their companies, while also improving their well-being. Within his approach he draws from his time advising Fortune 50 CEOs at McKinsey, his experience helping build up Skype’s multi-billion dollar success story, and his own entrepreneurial journeys – together with behavioural science from Stanford University, as well as techniques from the worlds of elite sport and the military, areas where peak performance is key. Eric has been named UK “CEO of the Year” at the 2019 Business Excellence Awards, one of the “Top 30 Entrepreneurs in the UK”, 35 and under, by Startups Magazine, and among “Britain’s Most Disruptive Entrepreneurs” by The Telegraph. His work has been featured on over 7 major TV stations, in the Wall Street Journal, and The Economist. He has also appeared as a guest judge on The Apprentice with Lord Alan Sugar.

• Learn more about Eric Partaker by visiting these sites:
• https://www.ericpartaker.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-partaker-5560b92
• https://www.facebook.com/PPIericpartaker
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYRealX1sBZmvCw9VXUvWyg/videos