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The Futur with Chris Do

283 - The Power of Vulnerability - With Jordan Rogers

The Futur with Chris Do

The Futur

Arts, Education, Marketing, Design, Business, Self-improvement

4.9998 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

From Struggle to Strength In this episode, host Chris Do sits down with Jordan Rogers, detailing his recovery from heroin addiction and incarceration to achieving professional acclaim at Nike and becoming a significant advocate for personal branding. By leveraging his struggles to forge a connection and inspire athletes and individuals alike, Jordan highlights the essence of resilience, authenticity, and the strategic use of personal branding. The narrative further explores how personal experiences and unique stories can not only enrich one's professional growth but also inspire broad, impactful success. Jordan's work, particularly with college athletes, underscores the crucial role of embracing vulnerabilities, recognizing strengths, and the proactive pursuit of personal potential beyond waiting for opportunities. His success story, marked by growth in followers and recognition from figures like Tiger Woods, serves as a testament to the power of authentic personal branding and its pivotal role in achieving happiness, health, and wealth. The script encapsulates the intersection of personal hardships with professional triumphs, advocating for the strategic and authentic use of personal branding in navigating and leveraging one's unique journey towards broad-reaching impact and success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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