363: Blake Mycoskie - Success Is Measured By Helping People, Not Money
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Blake Mycoskie (IG: @blakemycoskie) is a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, and bestselling author most known for founding TOMS Shoes.
In the Spring of 2020, he co-founded his newest company, Madefor. This is a ten-month program that applies the principles of modern neuroscience, psychology, and physiology to make your brain and body better.
In his free time, you can find Blake outside enjoying nature whether it is rock climbing, surfing or snowboarding.
In this episode, we discuss:
- COVID-19 struck when Blake was attending a 7-day silent Vipassana retreat
- Blake’s morning routine
- Journaling allows you to focus on the present moment
- Intermittent fasting helps recalibrate your body
- Growing your own garden is a valuable teaching experience
- Experiencing financial freedom & time freedom after the sale of TOMS Shoes
- Suffering is the path to inner awareness
- Preparing for a good night’s sleep
- Stop using your smartphone as an alarm clock
- Where did the name Madefor come from?
- How do I use my life to help others?
- The mental health epidemic
- Eliminate distractions to do your best work
- Measuring success by helping people, not money
- The story of TOMS
- The idea of sell one, give one
- The lessons of becoming a dad
- The power of gratitude
- Smiling at others and looking at them in the eyes
- A sense of community and human connection helps you live longer
- Schedule your time to maintain balance
- The best part about living on a sailboat for 6 years
- The concept of essentialism
- Exercise & movement needs to be fun
- What’s your personal mission statement?
- Understanding breathwork
- Focus on one habit for 30 days
- Ultimate health = freedom
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Related links:
Follow Blake Mycoskie on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Blake Mycoskie - Start Something That Matters (book)
Listen to Dr. Satchin Panda previously on TUHP (episode #353)
Andrew Huberman - Huberman Labs
Marty Siegelman - Positive Psychology Center
Listen to Dan Buettner previously on TUHP (episode #170)
Dan Buettner - The Blue Zones (book)
Listen to Greg McKeown previously on TUHP (episode #250)
Greg McKeown - Essentialism (book)
Listen to Laird Hamilton previously on TUHP (episode #323)
Listen to Gabby Reece previously on TUHP (episode #324)
Wim Hof - The Wim Hof Method (book)
Related episodes:
359: Dr. Daniel Amen – The End Of Mental Illness
358: Jack Canfield – The Success Principles
350: Courtney Carver – Simplify Your Life & Closet
332: Dr. David Perlmutter – Brain Wash, Prioritizing Meditation, The T.I.M.E. Tool
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| 0:00.0 | a huge part of my mental well-being is having a strong identified purpose and I started |
| 0:06.2 | to feel that that purpose wasn't there. |
| 0:08.5 | At the same time I think I had really neglected some of the mental practices that really are important for well-being, |
| 0:15.3 | meditation being one of them, and that's when I started actually experiencing for the first time |
| 0:20.0 | in my life depression. Being so driven at such a young age and starting many companies and then |
| 0:26.4 | the great roller coaster of Toms kind of distracted me from really look internal. It really started to question whether my best days were ahead of me or were my best days behind me. |
| 0:37.8 | And that I think can lead to a lot of people to having some mental challenges and feeling depressed. |
| 0:43.0 | Hello and welcome to the ultimate health podcast episode 363. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm Jesse Chappas and I'm here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:55.3 | Each week I'll bring you inspiring and informative conversations about health and |
| 0:59.2 | wellness, covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, |
| 1:02.6 | fitness, mindset, and so much more. |
| 1:05.4 | And you may have noticed the opening sounds a little bit different today. |
| 1:08.6 | As I mentioned, we're on episode 363, |
| 1:11.6 | and the opening has been the exact same since the beginning and the reason for this change is that |
| 1:16.5 | Marnie has officially left the ultimate health podcast and what she's doing is putting |
| 1:21.3 | her energy fully into her new show, The Ultimate Baby Podcast, |
| 1:25.1 | which is excellent and I highly recommend you go over there, check out her show and subscribe. |
| 1:30.3 | And she's also putting her energy into our baby girl Sorrell. |
| 1:34.0 | We have a new baby and hence Marnie's new show |
| 1:37.0 | and we're just pivoting and evolving |
| 1:40.0 | and you're still going to get a show for me each and every week |
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