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The Jordan Harbinger Show

324: Tony Hawk | How Did I Get Here?

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Business, Education, Science

4.812.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Tony Hawk (@tonyhawk) is a vertical skateboarding legend who enjoys household name status these days, but as we learn in discussing his book How Did I Get Here?: The Ascent of an Unlikely CEO, the journey’s been far from easy.
[Featured photo by J. Grant Brittain via Tony Hawk's Instagram]

What We Discuss with Tony Hawk:
  • Why taking risks is important for the sake of progress.
  • How personal success can be gauged independently of financial success.
  • Why your personal brand needs to be genuine and something you’re willing to protect.
  • Why it's important to learn everything about your craft -- even if you've "got a guy who handles that."
  • What The Tony Hawk Foundation does for underserved communities.
  • And much more...

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger.

0:05.3

As always, I'm here with my producer Jason DeFilippo.

0:08.0

On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's

0:11.8

most brilliant people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to

0:16.2

impact your own life and those around you.

0:18.7

We want to help you see the matrix when it comes to how these amazing people think and

0:22.2

behave and we want you to become a better thinker.

0:25.4

If you're new to the show, we've got episodes with spies and CEOs, athletes and authors,

0:30.0

thinkers and performers, as well as toolboxes for skills like negotiation, public speaking,

0:34.9

body language, persuasion, and more.

0:37.0

So if you're smart and you like to learn and improve, then you'll be right at home here

0:40.3

with us.

0:41.3

Today on the show, something from the vault, the legendary Tony Hawk, Pro Skater, and Business

0:46.3

Mogul.

0:47.3

Will uncover why taking risk is important for forward progress.

0:50.7

Maybe it doesn't sound like a big deal there, but when Tony tells it in his interesting

0:54.1

and sort of trademark, unique way, you'll really get a kick out of it and why you can't

0:58.4

be afraid to slam and get right back up again.

1:01.4

A pretty apt skating analogy for Business that I can readily identify with myself and

1:07.0

why your personal brand and being real are something that we need to be and something

1:11.9

that we need to protect at all costs.

1:14.4

Now, this might not sound like groundbreaking business information, but any interview

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