023: AJ Hawk – Why Does This Show Exist? What Does The Future Hold?

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Ryan Hawk

Careers, Management, Business

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2015

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Episode 023: AJ Hawk – Why Does This Show Exist? What Does The Future Hold?

One of the most enjoyable conversations I’ve had doing this podcast. My brother AJ and I discuss why I am doing this podcast. AJ has no fear to ask me anything and dives deep into my “Why” and we discuss how this show will progress…

From The “About Me” page on www.LearningLeaderShow.com

Leaders are learners. The best leaders never stop working to make themselves better. As Kobe Bryant once said, “There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own.” That’s really why the Learning Leader Show exists. To come together to understand the journey successful leaders are on so that we can better understand our own.

This Show is full of stories told by world class leaders. Personal stories of successes, failures and lessons learned along the way. Our guests come from diverse backgrounds—some are best-selling authors, others are genius entrepreneurs and one even made a million dollars wearing t-shirts for a year. My role in this endeavor is to talk to the smartest, most creative, always-learning leaders in the world so that we can learn from them as we create our own journey.

Episode 023: AJ Hawk – Why Does This Show Exist? What Does The Future Hold?

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The Learning Leader Show

“The scientist is not the person who gives the right answers; he’s the one who asks the right questions.” – Claude Levi-Strauss

Some Questions AJ Asked Me:

How do you do this show? When do you have time?
What’s your ultimate goal with the podcast?
How do you do it better than others?
How do you feel about where podcasts in general are headed?
Would you ever charge people to listen to your podcast? (NO)
How about doing in person episodes?
How do you make sure your podcast doesn’t feel scripted?
What is pronoia?

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

Why I love doing this podcast
My goals – Goals already achieved and others I have for the future
My thought process on making a great podcast
The importance of my preparation for each episode
The facts behind the growth (HUGE) of podcasts
Why I believe in pronoia and what it means
The importance of taking action

“There are two types of pain you will go through in life: the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.” – Jim Rohn

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Did you enjoy the podcast?

I really enjoyed having this conversation with AJ. Would you like to see us do it again? Reach out to us on Twitter (@OfficialAJHawk & @RyanHawk12) Who do you know that needs to hear this? Send them to The Learning Leader Show!

Episode edited by the great J Scott Donnell

AJ Hawk Bio from Packers.com

Ranks No. 1 in franchise history (since 1975) with 1,025 tackles, having surpassed John Anderson (1,020 from 1978-89) for the team mark in the 2013 regular-season finale.

Has posted 100-plus tackles in four consecutive seasons (2010-13) and in seven of his eight years in the NFL (2006-08, 2010-13).

Has led the team in tackles five times during his career (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012-13), which ties LB Nick Barnett for the franchise record (since 1975).

Followed the likes of Lawrence Taylor (1981), Derrick Thomas (1989), Junior Seau (1990) and Willie McGinest (1994) as one of only 29 linebackers drafted in the top five since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970.

Played in 51 games at Ohio State with 38 starts, collecting 394 tackles (196 solo), 41 stops for a loss, 15½ sacks, seven INTs, 13 passes broken up, two fumbles recovered and three forced fumbles; also returned both a blocked punt and INT for TDs…A three-year starter (2003-05), he earned first-team All-Big Ten honors each of those seasons…Available for every play during his college career, he started his final 37 contests in consecutive fashion…Earned his degree in criminology.

Given name Aaron James Hawk…Nicknamed “A.J.” by his parents since birth, after legendary Indy car driver A.J. Foyt…From Centerville, Ohio…Married the former Laura Quinn, The couple has a 3-year-old daughter, Lennon Noel, and a 1-year-old son, Hendrix Knight…Brother, Ryan, played QB for the Birmingham Steeldogs of Arena Football and played in college at Ohio University…

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0:00.0	What I have found is that even if you go to the some of the places that seem like the worst place in the world and someone has like the
0:08.0	mode the word you look from the outside like man this guy is this is brutal what this person has to deal with day in and
0:13.2	and out. Some of those people have the greatest attitudes of all of them. Of all of
0:17.3	us, that's like the most inspiring thing ever, I think, when you see these people
0:20.7	that look like they have everything that could go wrong has
0:25.1	gone wrong like in the in the lottery of life that they have been given and they
0:31.2	just seem to have an attitude and they seem like some of the happiest people in the world.
0:34.8	So I think no matter what your situation is obviously how you look at it.
0:38.4	Our leaders born or are they made?
0:40.8	Our host Ryan Hawk believes that leaders can be made through determined, focused
0:45.0	work on learning the art and science behind the makeup of other successful leaders.
0:49.9	Now it's time to inhale knowledge and exhale success.
0:53.3	You're listening to the Learning Leader Show
0:55.4	with Ryan Hawk. Hey and welcome to the Learning Leader Show. I am Ryan Hawk.
1:15.0	Tonight's episode is going to be quite a bit different from all the other
1:18.6	episodes that you've listened to here on the Learning Leader's show.
1:21.7	Reason being is that I'm flipping the script with this one.
1:25.8	My younger brother, AJ, is going to host this episode,
1:29.7	and he's actually going to interview me.
1:31.5	And the reason we're doing this is because I never did an intro
1:35.6	episode to this podcast specifically stating why I'm doing it what has inspired me why I love the topics of leadership and learning.
1:45.6	I talk about it from time and time on the episodes, but never in this type of setting.
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