Sean Price & Lee Marples

The TPM Podcast

This week’s podcast hosted by Sean Price of Velez Managed Services is with Lee Marples Director and Co-Founder of think3, an independently owned creative agency from the East Midlands. In addition to being the Co- Founder of Derby Swap Shop.

“My favourite question is always WHY? Why does it have to be in that way? Why can’t we do it differently? Why do you need 30 days to do that, can you do it in 25, you got to be able to find a way to do that?”- Lee Marples

Lee was once the commercial director and the financial director for the UK’s largest and independent education businesses coming into the business at a young age. Prior to that, Lee started out his career as an auditor and worked his way up to being an exceptionally well-known entrepreneur, now working with brands and businesses across the world. Todays episode we take a look at the effects of being in a leadership position and how it impacts your mental wellbeing. As well as the struggles of being an entrepreneur, being the face of your business and the constant pressure to achieve success. We discover from a young age Lee grew up surrounded by numbers, whether it was daily life or his family teaching him “if you can understand numbers you can understand anything!” It was this initial lesson that set him out onto a successful career.