103: Ken Lubin | Founder Executive Athletes

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

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As a professional recruiter and founder of Executive Athletes Ken Lubin knows what it takes to build a career. As one of the ultra endurance athletes that built the epic Stone Steps in Pittsfield, Vermont he knows grit and hard work too. He says it’s what will get you hired, and what will make you successful once you land a job. Knowing the company culture, offering them what they need is crucial too. Become the indispensable lynch. Building a massive network that includes all types of people, not just those who can obviously help you may be the most important step of all. Garner lots of career development gems in this week’s episode.

Lessons:
1. Be the guy that does the hard thing and you’ll distinguish yourself from the rest of the pack.
2. Know the culture of where you want to work and find out how you can fit in.
3. Realize the power of the network: even when it doesn’t look like a connection has any benefit at the time it may prove to be beneficial down the line.

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's never easy. We good? We are here for Spartan Up the podcast in the middle of
0:06.6	Woods, Pittsfield Vermont with Ken Lubin.
0:13.0	Um, uh... I'm going to do it. You want me to do it?
0:15.0	Yeah, you welcome us here.
0:17.0	Okay.
0:18.0	Welcome back to Spartan Up a podcast.
0:19.0	Today we will be interviewing a wonderful guy by the name of Ken Lubin.
0:23.6	But first I'd like to acknowledge the communist behind the camera, Marion.
0:27.0	And we have Dr. Johnny Waite.
0:31.8	We have our dear friend Dave is now joined us. I'm
0:33.9	Sefra and Joe of course here at the beautiful Muddies on the Green Mountain
0:37.2	Trail and this guy's really interesting. He's done a really cool thing with networking with executive athletes and we'll see what he has to say.
0:46.0	We are here for Spartan Up the Podcast in the middle of Woods, Pittsfield Vermont with Ken Lubin, who runs Landscaping for Love.
0:54.0	The reason that's a funny joke is Ken's been around for a long time while we put on
1:01.0	crazy races, death race, a a gogee here in Vermont and this
1:04.4	staircase that you see and those couple hundred people down there are fixing the
1:08.4	stairs that were built a lot three four years ago 2013. 2013 seems like a lifetime ago we built a one mile long staircase
1:16.9	so that's what we're standing on and that is retired CSM Frank Grippy screaming
1:20.8	in the background anyway we're to talk about how to become
1:24.0	successful with Ken here with Landscaping for Love. Landscaping for Love, I love it.
1:28.0	So remember we were like the Egyptians carrying rocks up this hill with.
1:33.7	I was talking to Marion about the head lamps and watching just white light
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