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The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

154: Lewis Howes - How To Acknowledge Greatness

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Ryan Hawk

Business, Careers, Management

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Episode 154: Lewis Howes - How To Acknowledge Greatness

Lewis Howes is an online marketing expert, sought after business coach, author, podcaster, USA Men's National Team Handball Player, and Lifestyle Entrepreneur. In 3 years, Howes went from sleeping on his sister's couch to running a seven figure online education business. A former pro football player, and two sport All American, Howes experienced a career ending wrist injury that forever changed the trajectory of his business career.
He has spoken to thousands at conferences, educated entrepreneurs and professionals around the world on how to make a living doing what they love. Howes has developed multiple educational online courses for entrepreneurs and business owners.  His latest book, "The School of Greatness" is a New York Times Best-Seller.

The Learning Leader Show

"Do I have permission to make this the best interview you've ever done?"

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

  • Being passionate and obsessed with your craft combined with a commitment to being great will help you sustain excellence
  • Lewis sharing the painful moments about being sexually abused as a kid and how that impacted him
  • The things that hold us back from being a true leader
  • The power of vulnerability
  • Let's change our conversation style... Instead of asking, "What do you do?" Let's ask, "What are you most excited about in your life? What are you most grateful for in your life?"
  • His vision = Serve 100 million people
  • Dealing with depression when a wrist injury ended his football career
  • "Follow your curiosity" 
  • Master a skill to serve others - Be challenged -- Look at your life in 6 month seasons
  • Why Lewis transferred back and forth multiple times in college
  • Focusing on your strengths and how it helps
  • How to prime someone you are about to interview
  • Why we all should acknowledge the positive attributes of a person and most importantly TELL them
  • "I want to acknowledge you for..."
  • A true leader is always learning

"When you're a startup, you have to be willing to take a lot of risks."

Continue Learning:

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Episode 071: Nate Boyer - Green Beret, Texas Football, The NFL

Episode 047: David Marquet - "Turn The Ship Around"

Episode 107: Simon Sinek – Leadership: It Starts With Why

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Episode edited by the great J Scott Donnell

Transcript

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0:00.0

So why talk about something that may not be as fun as the thing that is the most fun first?

0:06.2

I think when you build that relationship where people get to share the thing they're most excited about,

0:11.6

the thing they're going to love the most, then instantly they're most excited about, the thing they're gonna love the most,

0:13.7

then instantly they're gonna have a better connection with you.

0:16.9

They're gonna instantly remember that feeling with your face and your voice.

0:22.1

And that is an incredibly powerful experience even if you have 10 seconds with that person

0:27.0

as opposed to just every other average person that says what do you do and you get the same boring response and you forget that person's name.

0:35.0

So that's what I try to create.

0:36.7

Our leaders born or are they made.

0:39.1

Our host Ryan Hawk believes that leaders can be made through determined, focused work on learning the art

0:44.8

and science behind the makeup of other successful leaders.

0:48.3

Now it's time to inhale knowledge and exhale success.

0:51.6

You're listening to the Learning Leader Show with am Ryan Hawk and thank you so much for being here. A dynamic featured

1:15.4

leader tonight, it's Louis Howles. He is a lifestyle entrepreneur, high performance business

1:20.4

coach, author, and keynote speaker.

1:24.0

Also a New York Times best-sellerist recent book,

1:26.8

The School of Greatness provides a framework

1:30.0

for achieving real sustainable and repeatable success.

1:33.7

Recognized by the White House and President Obama as one of the top 100 entrepreneurs

1:38.6

in the country under the age of 30.

1:41.6

Been featured everywhere entrepreneur entrepreneur the New York Times

1:44.6

Forbes Men's Health at a show and many other places a few of the topics we got

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