380: Blake Mycoskie | Made for Entrepreneurship
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Blake Mycoskie (@BlakeMycoskie) is the philanthropic founder of TOMS Shoes, author of Start Something That Matters, and co-founder of wellness subscription box service Madefor (get 20 percent off by using code MFJORDAN if you feel like checking it out).
What We Discuss with Blake Mycoskie:- What Blake's new Madefor startup can do to make you better (and how you can get 20 percent off by using code MFJORDAN if you feel like checking it out).
- Why entrepreneurship is more than just saying "I don't want a boss" -- it's seeking to remedy a problem the world needs to have solved.
- The benefits of cultivating the "beginner's mind" of a Buddhist.
- Why Blake advises founders in the early stages of a startup to bootstrap resources rather than seek investment dollars.
- What Blake sees as emerging business trends in a COVID-19 world and beyond.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Jordan Harbanger Show. |
| 0:02.9 | I really see myself as an artist and business is my canvas and culture and people are, you know, |
| 0:09.6 | the canvas that I love creating with. |
| 0:11.8 | I just love the beginning. |
| 0:13.4 | I love the incubation. |
| 0:15.0 | I love the idea creation. |
| 0:16.2 | I love the testing. |
| 0:17.0 | I mean, seeing in real time how people were experiencing something that I spent, you know, |
| 0:21.8 | a year and a half creating. |
| 0:22.9 | So I love the art of the start. |
| 0:24.6 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm Jordan Harbanger. |
| 0:28.6 | On the Jordan Harbanger Show, we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's sharpest minds and most fascinating people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you. |
| 0:40.6 | I want to help you see the matrix when it comes to how these amazing people think and behave. |
| 0:44.6 | And our mission here on the show is to make you a better informed, more critical thinker so you can get a much deeper understanding of how the world works and make sense of what's really happening. |
| 0:53.6 | Even inside your own brain. |
| 0:55.6 | If you're new to the show, we've got episodes with spies and CEOs, athletes and authors, thinkers and performers, as well as toolboxes for skills like negotiation, body language, persuasion and more. |
| 1:05.6 | So if you're smart and you like to learn and improve, you're going to be right at home here with us. |
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| 1:23.6 | Now, today on the show, Blake Mikoski, founder of Made For and more famously Tom Shoes, he originated him and Tom Shoes, that is, popularize the one for one giving model where you buy a pair of Tom Shoes and then a kid, you know, Guatemala gets a pair, you all have heard of that. |
| 1:38.6 | Tom expanded the one for one model from Shoes to coffee to bags to glasses. |
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