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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Bob Hurley, Hurley International Founder

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Bob Hurley, founder and chairman of the global apparel brand, Hurley.

Something I love about these Finding Mastery conversations is we get to learn from people at all stages, across unique fields of expertise.

And in this conversation we get to learn from someone who built a globally recognized brand, which was acquired by Nike in 2002.

Bob has made his work his play from the beginning.

He started as a surf shop kid in Huntington Beach, shaping surf boards before acquiring the license to Billabong USA in 1982.

In 1999, he started his own clothing brand embracing the spirit and creativity of youth.

Bob has a phenomenal story to share and he opens up about how he built Hurley into the company that it is today, what his process looks like for making big decisions, and why he has a burning desire to be around “magic.”

He remains deeply involved in company operations today, except when “product-testing” in Indo or Fiji.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

A lot of my friends are now retired and what I'm learning, the more I talk to people and the more I talk to myself and the more I go inward is,

0:09.2

yeah, the most valuable thing is every moment you have with your relative, your spouse, your friend.

0:15.8

That is the most valuable thing.

0:17.2

It's what we really want.

0:19.2

We all want it desperately and we don't know that sometimes when we're younger because we think we want more money

0:23.8

we think we want a bigger contract we want a bigger car we want to win the

0:28.3

whatever we win and it's not really what we want those are those are fun things

0:32.2

along the way but we really just want love, you know, it seems like. All right.

0:45.0

Welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast.

0:48.6

I'm Michael Jervay.

0:49.6

And by Trade and Training, I'm a Sport and Performance Psych performance psychologist and the co-founder of

0:54.5

compete to create and my partner in that is head coach Pete Carroll from the

0:59.1

Seattle Seahawks where we've taken his insights and practices on how to switch on cultures, high-performing cultures,

1:05.0

and then my insights and practices on how to train the minds of people that want to be their very best.

1:10.0

And so we basically written up the curriculum to be able to share in an online format.

1:14.9

So we're really excited about what we're doing there.

1:17.6

But the idea behind these conversations is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery, to better understand what they are searching for, to understand their psychological

1:27.6

framework, which is how they understand themselves, how they understand events, how they

1:32.4

think about the world and the world view, if you will.

1:35.3

And we also want to dig to understand the mental skills that they use to build and refine their craft.

1:41.3

Finding Mastery is brought to you by Vitruvian.

1:44.0

Vitruvian is on a mission to help people live longer, stronger lives and their marquee product,

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