David Katz - Use Your Own Failures to Inspire You (Failure)

ManTalks Podcast

Connor Beaton

Relationships, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2015

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

David Katz is the Founder of The Plastic Bank and recent winner of the EO Global Citizen award. The Plastic Bank is the world's only organization to monetize plastic recycling. The Plastic Bank gives opportunities for the disadvantaged to collect and trade plastic waste as currency and the organization aims to create a global micro recycling economy to help reduce poverty and clean the environment. David speaks to Connor on raising a special needs child, the importance of being present in your work, and so much more on today's episode. Key Takeaways: [1:05] ManTalks will be having a one day event in Vancouver. [2:10] Connor introduces David Katz [4:00] What does David do? [6:30] How does David's plastic business work? [10:25] Consumers are demanding corporations to make a conscious change in the environment. [13:00] How does an entrepreneur make money? By adding value. [14:40] What was David like as a kid? [18:00] Enjoy the journey and focus on being happy today. [23:15] Despite being a C-student, David went to university. [25:55] Connor listened to the radio recently and hated it. [28:00] What makes David present? Exercise. [31:10] We never regret exercise when you're done. [40:00] How did David learn to work through the obstacles and not flee? [44:25] David was inspired by failure. [59:05] What's David's defining moment? [54:40] Grow the most vulnerable part of yourself. [61:10] Everything is meaningful when you know what to look for. [64:35] What kind of legacy would David like to leave? [70:00] What's one question David never has been asked before? [73:00] What's David most excited about? [74:55] Life is limitless. [76:45] Remember ManTalks is hosting a one day event in Vancouver. Mentioned In This Episode: http://mantalks.com/ http://plasticbank.org Music Credit: Parlange & Latenite Automatic (jesusparlange.com– lateniteautomatic.com) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome to all of our listeners in the podcast. I am Connor Beaton, the founder of Man Talks. And unfortunately, Mr. Roger Nairn, my co-host is not available today, so it'll just be myself and our guest.
0:28.6	Just to remind you, the goal of this podcast is to bring you inspiring men and inspiring conversations.
0:33.5	The real goal here is that we want to help you, the listener, you know, become your best version.
0:38.8	So how are we going to do that? We're going to find some incredible men in the world and,
0:42.8	you know, experts in the fields of relationships, sex, business, health, wellness, fitness,
0:48.4	spirituality. And we're going to let them share their journey and their voice and their wisdom with
0:53.7	you. So it's a pretty powerful podcast.
0:56.1	Before we get started, before I introduced our guest today, I just wanted to let you know about an upcoming event that we have in Vancouver.
1:03.3	We are putting on our very first one-day event.
1:05.9	It's going to be a huge, huge event.
1:07.6	We're looking at about 250 to 300 people here in Vancouver in the convention center.
1:12.7	And we have some amazing people coming to speak, like the ex-captain of the Vancouver Whitecaps,
1:17.8	J. DeMarrett. We've got the founder of 1-800 Got Junk, Mr. Brian Scudamore. We have the CEO of
1:24.6	Kit and Ace, which is a sister company to L Lemon, Mr. Daryl Kocki.
1:29.8	So those are just to name a few. We have some incredible speakers. It's going to be an amazing
1:33.7	lineup. And the focus of the day is going to be grow yourself, grow your relationships,
1:39.4	and grow your business. So you won't want to miss that. Check that out. It's on the Mantox
1:43.1	website at Mantox.com. It's called the One Day Intensive. So you won't want to miss that. Check that out. It's on the Mantox website at Mantox.com.
1:45.2	It's called the one day intensive. So hopefully we can see you there. So for today, I would like to
1:51.3	introduce to you a very, very special guest, Mr. David Katz, who actually just spoke at one of our
1:57.0	events. And it was, it was amazing. So we thought we would share him with our online community
2:01.3	so david is the president of or was the president of the entrepreneurs organization or e o he was
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