148: Jason Wachob - CEO of MindBodyGreen: How To Build A Life, Not A Resume

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🗓️ 7 August 2016

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Episode 148: Jason Wachob - CEO of MindBodyGreen: How To Build A Life, Not A Resume

JASON WACHOB is the Founder and CEO of mindbodygreen, the leading independent media brand dedicated to wellness. His site (mindbodygreen.com) receives 10 million unique page views per month! He has been featured in The New York Times, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, and Vogue. Jason has a BA in history from Columbia University, where he played varsity basketball for four years. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, and loves German Shepherds, Chuck Taylors, and guacamole.

Episode 148: Jason Wachob - CEO of MindBodyGreen: How To Build A Life, Not A Resume

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"You Don't Want To Spend Your Life Climbing A Ladder That you Realize Is The Wrong Ladder When You Get To The Top"

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

Being around passionate people who have a palpable energy will help you sustain excellence
"If you're not progressing, you're dead."
mindbodygreen is dedicated to helping you live your best life
4,400 contributors write for mbg
How does Jason respond to people who are critical of his work and view it with skepticism? -- "Go to mindbodygreen.com and look around, tell me what you think"
How playing basketball at Columbia helped him as a leader
How 9/11 impacted him and why it made him think about his career
At age 25, he made $800,000/year -- but he hated it
Why Jason felt he was going backwards and like he was a loser
Flew 150,000 domestic miles -- And he's 6'7
How yoga healed his back issues (he was previously told he needed surgery)
For the first 2 and a half years of mbg, he made no money
In 2012 he chose to raise capital
"Your problems don't go away... They change."
"Raising capital can be the quickest way to kill your business."
Build a Life, Not A Resume -- We all know people who like to check off certain career boxes. Don't do that.
As an entrepreneur, you have to be extremely comfortable with ambiguity -- You go to bed at night not knowing if your business will succeed
You can't work for 2 and a half years making no money unless you are extremely passionate about it...
A learning leader has to evolve - Progress, Progress, Progress

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night, and in between does what he wants to do." - Bob Dylan

Continue Learning:

Read: Wellth - How ILearned To Build A Life, Not A Resume
Read: MindBodyGreen.com
Follow Jason on Twitter: @JasonWachob
To Follow Me on Twitter: @RyanHawk12

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0:00.0	Why do you want to be in a relationship?
0:02.8	You ultimately get to this answer,
0:05.0	you think it's going to bring you happiness.
0:07.1	And so why not just make the shortcut?
0:11.0	And I believe in trying to build a life and I think there's nothing wrong with trying to achieve massive
0:17.2	massive success and wealth, but I think it's about enjoying the journey along the way and this magic balance of what I call
0:27.1	the middle path.
0:28.1	And so on one hand, you're a type A, you're working hard, you're kicking ass, you're setting goals and you're achieving them and you're working hard you're kicking ass you're setting goals and you're achieving
0:33.7	them and you're advancing and that's fantastic but at the same time I believe
0:40.0	the sort of magic happens with having a greater spiritual and emotional
0:46.4	awareness to what you're doing.
0:47.8	Our leaders born or are they made. Our host Ryan Hawk believes that leaders can be made through determined, focused work on learning the art and science behind the makeup of other successful leaders.
1:00.0	Now it's time to inhale knowledge and exhale success.
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