283 - The Power of Vulnerability - With Jordan Rogers
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The Futur
4.9 • 998 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | do something publicly and make great things and put it into the world and let the world respond to that and |
| 0:07.4 | Help you refine your process so many creatives and people get discovered by the internet today. |
| 0:14.4 | I mean, Instagram is probably the primary tool that people are finding great creatives. I'm going to do. I did some preliminary listening to some of your interviews and your backstory. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm fascinated by where you've gone and what you're doing and the kinds of thoughts that you have on personal |
| 0:54.4 | branding. I don't want to rehash too much of the background, which I think you shared with your |
| 1:00.5 | audience that I think at 15 years old you went to a party you accidentally |
| 1:05.0 | the guy hooked on some pretty hard drugs and you went on a dark journey for a |
| 1:08.9 | number of years and were addicted to heroin in and out of rehab and then was incarcerated for a period of time. |
| 1:15.4 | And so that's the backstory. |
| 1:17.4 | What I'm really fascinated in talking to you about what it's like to be a person of prominence |
| 1:22.1 | at a company like Nike that we all love and respect and admire for all the things that they do, especially in the brand play and your thoughts on personal branding. |
| 1:30.3 | So for those people who don't know who you are Jordan could you introduce yourself and give us the cliff notes version of your story? |
| 1:37.0 | Yeah, absolutely. I'm Jordan Rogers. I recovered from heroin addiction after a year of incarceration 20 years ago. |
| 1:44.7 | So got the opportunity around the age of 21 to sit incarcerated for over a year and think about |
| 1:50.6 | what I wanted my life to look like. And quite honestly, I set the bar really low. |
| 1:54.6 | I just didn't want to stick a needle in my arm again, |
| 1:57.0 | but God had bigger plans for me. |
| 1:58.8 | I had a bigger opportunity. |
| 2:01.0 | And so I started putting one foot in from the other, got my life back |
| 2:06.8 | together, became a personal trainer, eventually chased this dream job at Nike. |
| 2:10.0 | He spent five years trying to get into Nike Inc. and finally landed that dream job after a lot of |
| 2:16.4 | hustle and that's where I became really passionate about personal branding. |
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