Building the Champion's Mindset (Akin Akman and Imran Amed) | BoF VOICES
The Business of Fashion Podcast
The Business of Fashion
4.6 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion, and welcome to the B.OF podcast. |
| 0:08.5 | Voices is the most stimulating gathering of fashion industry leaders on the planet. |
| 0:13.5 | What makes voices different is that we mix our industry with fascinating people from other sectors, |
| 0:18.6 | from the worlds of economics, activism, health and wellness, |
| 0:22.4 | medicine, film, philanthropy, technology, media, and so many more. Fashion doesn't live in a bubble |
| 0:28.8 | and nor should it. This is one of the sessions from our 2017 gathering. There's been a new kind |
| 0:34.8 | of Instagram influencer emerging over the past few years, and that's the health and wellness influencer. |
| 0:40.9 | These people show off their health and wellness regimens, whether that be diets or workout regimens or the clothes they wear and how they live their lives. |
| 0:50.3 | And it's become hugely inspirational for millions of people around the world. |
| 0:53.8 | And one of the most |
| 0:54.4 | popular ones is Akin Ackman, who is also one of Soul Cycles most sought after instructors. I invited Akin |
| 1:01.5 | Ackman to come to Voices 2017 to talk to us about his personal story, about how he became one of the |
| 1:08.9 | most sought after instructors in New York on the health and wellness circuit. |
| 1:13.2 | And as you'll see, Aachen's story doesn't come without its own ups and downs and challenges. |
| 1:17.8 | But what's amazing about it all is how he has come up with this philosophy of the champion's mindset |
| 1:23.5 | and how one can build the idea of a champion's mindset and everything we do, whether that be |
| 1:28.7 | how we work, how we live, and of course how we work out. So here's Akin Akman at Voices 2017 |
| 1:35.3 | on building a champion's mindset. Just a quick note, this conversation was recorded live |
| 1:41.7 | in front of an audience, so please excuse any audio issues |
| 1:47.4 | so today we're going to talk to Akin about building a champion's mindset but before I get into |
| 1:55.2 | the kind of Akin's kind of life philosophy I wanted to talk a little bit about his personal story and his journey. |
| 2:02.6 | And I can, you grew up, you were born in Turkey, right? |
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