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Fresh Life Church

Blake Mycoskie | A Conversation

Fresh Life Church

Pastor Levi Lusko

Religion & Spirituality

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this interview, TOMS founder Blake Mycoskie shares about his faith and entrepreneurial spirit launching a company that has given away over 88 million pairs of shoes to those in need. The foundation of TOMS is made possible by the mentality to live as the head and not the tail, something we can all learn from.

Transcript

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Your business acumen kind of actually began when you were in high school and your dad wanted you to get a job.

0:16.0

Yeah. You know, you know, Levi. So yeah, my dad was giving me a really hard time my freshman year in college because I had never had like a

0:26.4

an actual job and it was not because I was privileged or entitled it was because all I did

0:32.0

is play tennis and all I did is practice and so it was very hard to have a job.

0:36.0

So he said this summer you have to get a job. Like he just laid down the law and I got some interviews and and actually got a job at

0:45.4

Papa do's waiting tables.

0:47.4

Italian or yeah.

0:48.4

Cajun food.

0:49.4

Cajun seafood.

0:51.4

I had to start weighing these tables, had to memorize this huge menu.

0:54.8

It was nothing that I wanted to do. All I wanted to do was play tennis. And then I

0:59.4

recognized through a friend that a lot of people in our community spend a lot of money

1:05.2

at country clubs paying for lessons for their kids to go to summer camp tennis

1:09.8

camp or women's leagues or private lessons and I was like well I can teach tennis as good as anyone

1:15.8

I've all I've done my whole life is play tennis so I literally like create a flyer

1:20.6

win to kinko's made like 500 of them, or maybe a thousand, and put them in every

1:25.4

mailbox in my neighborhood.

1:27.5

And like the next day I started getting phone calls.

1:29.4

And so my dad came home from work work and he saw me out.

1:32.9

We had a tennis court, so that's important to know in the backyard.

1:35.8

And he saw me out there and he's like, what happened?

1:37.8

I thought you were supposed to be working.

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