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The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

194: Nate Checketts - CEO Of Rhone: Leaving Comfort To Make An Impact

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Ryan Hawk

Business, Careers, Management

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Episode 194: Nate Checketts - CEO Of Rhone: Leaving Comfort To Make An Impact

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The Learning Leader Show

"If I didn't think people could change, then I think life would be less meaningful."

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

  • Common themes of leaders who sustain excellence:
    • It's easy to say someone "got lucky" but that is almost never the case
    • Routine - The best have a routine for long term success. Need good years, need good months, need good weeks, need good days.  You must plan for that success.  Create routines
  • Advice from Jack Dorsey:
    • How to stay focused?
      • Focus on one thing at a time
      • Set specific days for certain meetings and do not deviate.  Take ownership of your calendar and schedule
  • Nate's Routine
    • Wake up at 5 am
    • Spritual time, meditation
    • Write in The 5 Minute Journal
    • Exercise, Yoga, Running
    • Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday - At his desk by 7:30
  • "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." - Ben Franklin
  • "Be the dentist of your own calendar"
  • The story of getting Rhone started in 2011
    • Nobody was doing premium menswear
    • Feb. 2013 incorporated
    • Spent an hour each way on the train commuting to his job working on Rhone
  • "Why does it feel like taboo to talk about inspiring men?  It shouldn't"
  • Describing the fund raising process
    • "Raising capital is much more art than science"
    • "The biggest key for us was photography.  People needed to see it"
  • Why Shane Battier is a Rhone guy
  • After raising $8M, how do you decide where to spend that money?
  • Speaking about the success of his Dad, Dave Checketts (CEO of Madison Square Garden, New York Knicks)
    • How to instill a work ethic in your children?
    • What it was like growing up with ultra successful parents and how that impacted him
    • How Nate and his wife parent their children
    • How the quote "He was born on third base and convinced he hit a triple" has motivated Nate
    • How he made money creating a sports camp in his backyard growing up
  • "You can't teach effort"
  • Books to read:
  • Learning Leader = "I love the idea of being an eternal student."

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." - Benjamin Franklin

Continue Learning:

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Episode 179: How To Sustain Excellence - The Best Answers From 178 Questions

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

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Episode edited by the great J Scott Donnell

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0:00.0

And this was the pitch. We know nothing about apparel or fashion. We know a little bit about e-commerce. So if you're going to invest, don't put any more money in than your spouse would get mad at you for if you lost it completely.

0:14.2

And so we raised a lot of five and ten thousand dollars checks from people and that's, you know,

0:21.0

that's not an insignificant amount of money, but for us, that's what got us off the ground.

0:29.6

Hey and welcome to the Learning Leader Show.

0:31.6

I am Ryan Hawk.

0:32.8

Thanks so much for being here.

0:35.0

Yeah, I get asked all the time, how do you decide who the guest for this show should be?

0:40.4

And tonight's story, tonight's episode is interesting in that regard as a gift.

0:47.0

My wife got me some clothes for Christmas

0:50.0

and I tried him on immediately loved him loved how they felt and they were called

0:54.5

Rh H-O-N-E clothes to work out in primarily and so normally when something like

1:01.3

this happens I immediately want to know who makes these clothes.

1:04.8

And so I looked it up and it's the guy who created this company who makes these clothes is named

1:09.4

Nate Checkets.

1:10.8

And Nate is my featured leader tonight. His company has grown 250% year every year. He's raised over 8 million dollars in funding.

1:19.0

Ron is incredible and Nate is as well and I loved him discussing his story in detail tonight.

1:25.3

A few of the additional topics we got into, the importance of routine and habits and how

1:29.7

this is positively impacted Nate's life.

1:32.4

Then what it was like at the very beginning of his entrepreneur journey

1:35.0

and the mistakes that he made.

1:37.0

Followed up by life and growing up with an ultra successful dad.

1:41.0

His dad is Dave Chekets, who was the president of the New York Knicks.

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