121: Tim Gentry | Focus on People

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

When your business is in trouble, this is the guy you need. Tim Gentry develops people to motivate his own success. As an Ironman competitor he exemplifies strengthening the body as a way to maintain a powerful mind, something he believes many business people neglect to their detriment. His suggestion: keep it simple and do just one thing every day. Listen for more tried and true methods to persevere and thrive. Gentry shares some gems on this week’s podcast.

Lessons:

1. Focused on the people in your business,and let hurdles dissolve to white noise.
2. To revive someone who is lagging, put them in charge of others.
3. Write down all the great things that are happening in your life and read them when you need inspiration.

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right, so you're a CEO, you submit the competition every day, but you don't really know anything about fighting.
0:05.0	Well, I would say I've had the opportunity. I trained at Hoose Gracie on the first...
0:11.0	We did. Under him himself.
0:13.0	Under his camp.
0:14.0	All right so if I like pushed you a son.
0:16.0	Like that?
0:17.0	Jesus!
0:18.0	Great.
0:20.0	Welcome back everybody.
0:22.0	We're here as always in the beautiful barn in beautiful
0:25.8	Pittsfield, Vermont and as always I am joined in this endeavor by Separate, Joe DeSena, Johnny Waite, behind the camera we've got Marion, who I guess I don't often say so I needed to make sure I said that and this time around we're going to be
0:43.7	talking about Tim Gentry a CEO for hire a young gun for hire a guy who can go out
0:50.3	there and clean up whatever needs cleaning up.
0:53.0	Is that correct?
0:54.0	Yeah, I always wonder about that, right?
0:56.0	You find out there's these companies that are humming along and all of a sudden they have a problem and they quickly oust the CEO.
1:02.0	And I always wondered, does that make sense because the
1:06.0	guy that's in there knows all the inner workings they bring somebody new and he's going to
1:10.2	take so much time to get up and running.
1:13.1	They're better up just keeping
1:14.7	keeping somebody in.
1:15.6	But I think what happens is it's hard for the person
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