Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast. A podcast all about leadership, change and personal growth.

The goal, to help you lead like never before in your church or in your business.

And now your host, Carrie Newhoff.

Well, hey everybody and welcome to episode 393 of the podcast.

My name is Carrie Newhoff and I hope our time together today helps you lead like never before.

Well, I've got to be honest, this was a fun one.

I am so excited to bring you my conversation with Rob Polinka.

Rob is the LA Lakers GM and vice president of basketball operations.

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subscription tools for churches and not for profits, use the code carry, C-A-R-E-Y and get 10% off for life. Well this was such a fun episode and such a privilege to do it.

After he won the world championship with the LA Lakers back in late 2020 we got a L.A. L. L.A. L. L.A. L. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. Kind of missed that email. We get like thousands a week and I don't know it just didn't come up and so I had a mutual friend text us and says hey the the GM of the LA Lakers would like to connect with you. You open to that? I'm like you mean Lakers would like to connect with you. You mean the LA like basketball? Yeah.

So I connected with Rob turns out he's been listening for a few years. Thank you Rob that was just so humbling. And what an incredible leader. And I had to be up front with

Rob, and this is why I had so many friends who wanted to be me. I am not a sports guy.

So of course I know who the Lakers are and Kobe Bryant and LeBron James. Yeah, I know that but like some of you would be like oh I got I got so many questions. So I want to tackle this from a leadership perspective and from a number of different things did a lot of homework

getting ready for this and Rob and I just had a great time so I'm so excited to bring you

that conversation. So Rob is a graduate from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

He graduated with high honors and then he is also a graduate come louder from the University

of Michigan Law School where he graduated in 1996.

He played basketball as well with the University of Michigan.

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