099: Alan Jope | Work Life Balance from A Top Executive

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Alan Jope, president of Unilever’s Personal Care business, understands how to live. With such an high position many would not be surprised if Jove was a man completely consumed by his work. Though his commitment to his job is complete, it is not the source of his identity. He and four friends are riding stretches of a world spanning motorcycle trip with its share of mishaps and broken bones. What he does is not who he is, but enables him to become the person he always dreamed he could be. In this episode Jope also discusses the benefits of mission driven brands.

Lessons:

1. Where you are in the world is more important than what you’re doing in it.
2. Concentrate most of your energy into what you’re doing now, not worrying about the future, and opportunities will open up as a matter of course.
3. In life, follow the packing rule: put the big thing in first.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Spartan Up Podcast. I'm Dr. Johnny Waite. We have Dave DeLuca. We have
0:05.4	Sefra. We've got Joe, we've got Marion behind the camera running the whole show.
0:09.7	And speaking to run on the whole show, Alan Jop, Unilever, Joe.
0:13.0	He had a great interview.
0:14.0	How awesome was that we were able to get to the, basically the head of
0:17.2	Unilever globally, consumer brands, all those brands that he's managing
0:22.0	and really get an insight into how to run a company that size and what it takes
0:29.5	We are here for Spartan up the podcast in Singapore with Alan Jope from Unilever who's about to head out.
0:36.2	You're about to head out on a pretty big motorcycle ride?
0:38.5	Yeah, that's what we do this.
0:39.7	There's four of us and we, about every six months, do an adventure bike tour off-road and we're
0:45.6	linking them together to ultimately go around the world. How far have you gone so
0:50.3	far? So far we've done we went across the Sahara Desert in northwest Africa
0:55.8	we were around the Gobi Desert in Mongolia we've been up south West Africa and
1:01.0	Namibia and we the latest thing started in Anchorage and we
1:05.9	rode around from Anchorage to Vancouver so we kind of pieced it altogether now.
1:09.8	Oh we also did Patagonia the new Dakar route. So you're not going in order?
1:14.4	Well, we are now.
1:15.2	What's coming out of it?
1:16.8	Like you get in the see parts of the world
1:18.0	you'd otherwise never see?
1:19.1	Un charted parts of the world.
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