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The Chris Harder Show

357. From the Football Field to the White House with Anton Gunn

The Chris Harder Show

Chris Harder

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In This Episode You Will Learn About:

  • The importance of a high-functioning culture
  • The three questions that every customer will ask of your business
  • The value of how you treat and invest in people
  • What makes a 5% leader
  • The takeaways of working with President Obama
  • The challenges Black entrepreneurs face
  • The entrepreneurship of hip hop

 

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Show Notes:

Anton Gunn is a renaissance man. He has done everything. At the core, he's known as the leading authority on socially conscious leadership. He's also the best-selling author of "The Presidential Principles," which details what he learned as the former senior advisor to President Barack Obama. He met with the President regularly to help guide different policies, and we chat about his experience in the White House and the changes he had a part in. We also talk about leadership, diversity, and why both of those things are essential for massive growth.

Question Highlights:

  • Could you take us back to the time you were a disengaged team member trapped in a dysfunctional culture with a bad leader?
  • Could you share what a gold star brother is and tell us the significance of your brothers' sacrifice?
  • What is socially conscious leadership?
  • What was it like working for President Obama and what was your biggest takeaway coming out of it?
  • Can you speak on the systemic challenges that Black entrepreneurs face?
  • Could you speak on the topic of "Black exceptionalism"?
  • How can we best support Black entrepreneurs?

Guest Bio:

Anton Gunn is a former senior advisor to President Barack Obama and the world's leading authority on Socially Conscious Leadership. He has a master's degree in Social Work from USC and was a Resident Fellow at Harvard. He is the bestselling author of The Presidential Principles and has been featured in TIME magazine, the Wall St Journal, INC Magazine, BBC, NPR and on Good Morning America.

As an international speaker and consultant, he has worked with organizations like Microsoft, KPMG, Vanderbilt Health, Sodexo, Verizon Wireless, Aetna, American College of Surgeons, Blue Shield of California, and the Boeing Company. From playing SEC Football and being the first African American in history elected to the SC legislature from his district early in his career, to now working as a leadership development consultant and serving on multiple boards, he has spent his life helping people build diverse high performing teams and world-class leadership culture.

Follow me on social media @ChrisWHarder on Instagram and check out www.ForTheLoveOfMoney.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

It was a great lesson for me about be prepared for an answer and never be too big as a leader to sit down and listen to the people that you lead and when they give you something that helps you execute on it and that's exactly what he did.

0:15.0

Welcome everybody this is for the love of money where we are making you unapologetic about your pursuit of

0:25.0

success by sharing the tools, tips and stories of those who have already made it.

0:30.4

My name is Chris Harder and each week I will bring you incredible guests in order to prove that when good people make good money, they do great things. Hey everybody welcome back to another amazing episode of For the Love of Money I

0:48.6

cannot wait for you to hear today's episode because I am sitting down

0:51.4

with Anton Gunn.

0:53.5

Listen, this guy is a true renaissance man.

0:56.2

He has done everything.

0:57.4

Now at the core, he's known as the world's

1:00.3

leading authority on socially conscious leadership and so we are definitely

1:05.1

talking leadership and he's going to help us understand what socially conscious

1:09.0

leadership is. It's going to be very important to your business. He is the

1:11.9

best-selling author of the very popular

1:14.0

popular book, the presidential principles,

1:16.8

and that title should give you a little insight

1:20.0

that he was also a former senior advisor to President Barack Obama and met with him regularly,

1:27.1

helping him to guide different policies.

1:29.8

So we're definitely going to chat about what his experience was like in the White House and just

1:34.6

the cool different things that he was a part of.

1:37.1

He has been featured in Time magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Inc magazine, BBC, Good Morning America, you name it.

1:45.1

He is everywhere and deservedly so.

1:47.1

So it's such a privilege to have him on today's show.

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