You're listening to the Impact Theory Podcast, your source of empowering ideas and actionable techniques from the world's highest achievers.

Join host Tom Billio, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the billion dollar brand Quest Nutrition, on a journey to unlock your potential and realize your vision of success.

Welcome to Impact Theory.

Everybody, welcome to Impact Theory.

You are here, my friends, because you believe that human potential is nearly limitless, but you know that having potential is not the same as actually doing something with it.

So our goal with this show and company is to introduce you to the people and ideas that will help you actually execute on your dreams.

Alright, today's guest was twice named to the Forbes list of the most powerful women in sports. She's been the marketing director at Virgin, the marketing director at Nike, and her two most recent gigs were as the president of Gatorade and then Equinox.

She is such a super stud that the media has dubbed her the Pied Piper of Potential, but that's not at all what anyone would have guessed when she was growing up.

By her own admission, she showed no early signs of success. She wasn't voted most likely to succeed or selected as her school's valedictorian, and her climb to corporate prominence was messy and hard.

She got fired twice in her 20s and went through what she calls the Canyon of Career Despair as she struggled to find her lane and develop her unique talents.

Despite some hard knocks, like the time she was told she needed to learn how to dress better and a deep and nearly constant fear of getting fired, she began to find success by stepping out of line, staying true to her authentic self and doing things her way.

There were many tears and much continued messiness, but like any good kiwi, she muscled through, double down in times of trouble and pushed herself to improve daily.

Despite her total lack of interest in being perfect, she has found her way, building an unbelievable career that is uniquely her, and regardless of any ups and downs, by the time she was 38, she was the global president of a $5 billion company leading at successful turnaround in reinvention.

At age named her one of their women to watch, Fast Company highlighted her as one of the most creative people in business, and Cheryl Sandberg called her a woman who doesn't just sit at the table, she stands on it.

Please help me in welcoming the CEO of Flywheel, the author of Extreme You and the founder of the Extreme You movement, the woman bestselling author Adam Grant called, a badass of the highest order, Sarah Rob O'Hagen.

How you doing? Awesome, how are you? Very good, thank you. Wow, absolutely fantastic. So, the well-menged. It's awesome to be here.

Man, doing this research was really interesting, seeing how much fun you have was really surprising, because you think like as people become more and more aware of what women especially have to do to really climb the ladder, you think of them as really taking on sort of aggressive traditional male tactics, but you're also fun and funny and laugh till you snort, which is one of your-

It may happen today.

Hey, I'm very open to that. So, that's pretty incredible. Now, I wore this shirt in your honor, which toughened the fuck up, buttercup.

Yes, it's gone. Yeah, I was really- I love that, I do that.

I love how you answer to every question about what people have to do to succeed with. Basically, you've got a shine, you've got to outwork people, you've got to bust ass.

And is it true that in New Zealand that like one of the biggest insults you can say is you're half-assing it?

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