Austin Ekeler, Running Back For The LA Chargers on Creating a Mindset For Success

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David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

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🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Today’s episode has Austin Ekeler, running back for the Los Angeles Chargers, sharing his thoughts on the mindset he’s used to become one of the NFL’s strongest players. On this episode, Ekeler and host David Meltzer chat about how to create a community that empowers others to be their best self, our role in the “cycle of giving back”, and how to have the toughness to overcome any doubt you experience. — Office Hours features billionaires, millionaires, entrepreneurs, celebrities, athletes, and entertainers to talk about success, failure, and everything in between. Other guests from Season 2 include: Daymond John from Shark Tank, entrepreneur and best-selling author Ed Mylett, US Olympic beach volleyball legend Kerri Walsh Jennings, chef and restaurateur Wolfgang Puck, New York Times best-selling author, researcher, lecturer, and corporate consultant Dr Joe Dispenza, "The Iceman" Wim Hof, and Grant Cardone, CEO of Cardone Enterprises, Cardone Capital, international speaker, entrepreneur, and author of The 10X Rule. Stream Season 2 of Office Hours now on Apple TV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to office hours. Our next guest is Austin Eglier, star running back for the Los Angeles Charters.
0:08.9	Welcome back to office hours.
0:10.9	Now you guys, I'm giddy. Let me just tell you that. I'm a fanboy of very few people as you know
0:17.0	I ran the most notable sports agency in the world and there's very few athletes that give me that
0:22.4	jock sniff or attitude but this guy here he is my faves. He's not my second favorite of my sons
0:30.8	but we're both huge Los Angeles Charter fans and I'm an average division three football player who
0:37.7	wanted to be Austin Eglier and I think that's the biggest compliment that I can give you man because
0:43.2	I've seen everybody play. You know who my business partners have been in the Hall of Fame and what
0:47.2	we do within the context of football but dude you play with a mindset a heart set in the hard work
0:54.1	the handset that it takes to be successful and my favorite thing about you Austin is that you
0:58.8	lived your career like mine because of our extraordinary size you had at least speed and talent but
1:04.7	people have always laughed at you, scoffed at you, made fun of you. I bet you even if we walk
1:11.0	through the lobby of the win here from Luire Studios and I told people this is the best running
1:15.3	back in the NFL people would laugh at us, scoffed at us, make fun of us and go come on that guy plays
1:20.8	football but you do play football and I think what you possess and I'm looking forward to win
1:28.4	you know 10, 12 years from now when you finish playing that I get to do more business with you
1:33.3	because I do business with that mindset, heart set in hands that that it takes to have a spirit of
1:37.6	excellence. Where do you think that comes from? First off I want to say thanks for having me on the show.
1:43.0	I appreciate the confidence men respect is mutual but I got asked us so many times and I had it
1:49.2	I think about it I'm like how does this you know how does my mindset just you know come to be what
1:53.6	it is today and you know over the years I think it was just my upbringing and always being around
1:59.2	sports and always being around a leadership role and always just having some type of success in
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