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How Leaders Lead with David Novak

3 More Questions (Junior Bridgeman) with David Novak and Koula Callahan

How Leaders Lead with David Novak

David Novak Leadership

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.8596 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Welcome back to 3 More Questions, an episode series where we continue the conversation that we started last week with our featured guest. On this episode, we're talking about our interview with Junior Bridgeman, former NBA player and leading entrepreneur to learn even more about how to go farther together. ... BONUS RESOURCE: To gain confidence as a leader, you need a plan for tackling common leadership challenges. My new online course "Taking People With You" will give you practical ways you can resolve issues and keep your team moving forward toward your biggest goals. Get free access here — https://howleaderslead.com/courses/

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0:00.0

Welcome to How Leaders Lead. I'm Kula Callahan, here to bring you another edition of three more questions with David Novak.

0:10.0

David, it's great to be with you again. How you doing today? And are you excited for today's conversation?

0:15.0

Absolutely cool. I always look forward to talking to you. and I'm really excited about this one because we're

0:20.8

going to be talking about a good friend of mine, Junior Bridgman. He's a former NBA player and now one of the

0:27.3

greatest entrepreneurs in our country. He's so, so successful. And just recently, he and I partnered

0:33.7

along with Jimmy Kersdorfer and Chester Musselmanman and we bought Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville,

0:39.9

Kentucky together. And, you know, we wanted to buy it because we wanted to keep it local. And we

0:46.3

wanted to create a unique golf experience that you can only find in Kentucky. And we are in the

0:51.1

midst to doing that right now. And I can't wait for the 2024 PGA,

0:55.3

where we're going to showcase everything that we've done to make the course and the clubhouse

1:00.2

even better. So stay tuned, Kool. I know you're a big golf net. I am a big golf fan, and I am so

1:06.0

excited to see how you jazz that place up. It must be so fun to get to collaborate with all these different

1:11.4

minds around how you can create a really incredible experience at that course. I know you've

1:16.4

probably loved your time brainstorming with all those guys, especially Junior, who we'll talk about

1:21.4

today, whose episode is so fantastic. Well, it's really funny because we've applied all the

1:27.2

techniques that we've learned

1:29.0

in business to really make the transition into the ownership of Valhalla very special.

1:34.4

You know, we had a planning day where we talked about our purpose, our mission, the culture

1:38.8

that we wanted to have, all the objectives that we wanted to set, the timetable we were going to have for all of our capital

1:46.3

expansion moves, and we're really running it like a business, and to have this super talented

1:53.1

group of people to do it with is really, really a lot of fun for me. And of course, you know,

1:58.3

to be doing something in a sport that you love even makes

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