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The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show

Daymond John: Why Grit, Persistence, and Hard Work Matter

The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show

Chase Jarvis

Celebrity, Art, Career, Creativity, Money, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Education, Careers, Writing, Interview, Investment, Influencer, Business, Photography

4.8641 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Daymond John is the CEO and founder of the iconic lifestyle brand, FUBU, which he started by selling handmade hats on the street and went on to have more than $6 billion in sales. You’ve seen him as the “snake in the grass” star on ABC’s Shark Tank, which is currently in its tenth season of filming. He released his first NY Times best selling book, Power of Broke, in 2016, and is just about to drop his second, Rise and Grind.

This is Daymond’s second time bringing his buttery soft hands and understated wisdom on the show and somehow we had even more fun than last time. Between jokes and anecdotes, Daymond drops some serious wisdom on how to keep your goals, habits, and pursuit of your dream life simple and effective.

In today’s episode:

  • While writing Rise and Grind, Daymond found some killer recurring themes for living your most productive and best life. Most of them you’ve heard on the show before- meditation, importance of sleep, exercise- but he drops some new shared habits and techniques on prioritization and goal setting.
  • Entrepreneurship is simple. It’s just figuring out each roadblock, each problem, one at a time and not getting comfortable with it.
  • If you can’t answer why you want the success that you claim to, you probably won’t have the fortitude to keep going when the going gets tough. There’s power in defining exactly why you want the things you do, and revisiting your goals regularly to make sure you still want them.

Enjoy!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, what's going on?

0:05.5

You guys, it's Chase.

0:06.6

Welcome to another episode of the show.

0:08.4

That's right.

0:09.0

This is the show where I sit down with the world's top creators, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders.

0:13.5

I do everything I can to unpack their brains.

0:15.2

And my guest today, you will know him well.

0:17.2

He is the founder of Fubu.

0:19.8

He's The Shark.

0:20.8

He calls himself The shark and the grass shark

0:22.8

on ABC's hit series Shark Tank. It is none other than the Damon John. Super good to have

0:29.8

Damon in the house. It's the second time on the show, so he's a veteran. And in this episode,

0:33.6

we cover a ton of ground. We get into some backstory that I think a lot of folks don't

0:38.2

know around his decision of why he moved from one business to the next to the next.

0:44.5

In that previous conversation we've had on the show, which you should listen to if you're a fan

0:48.5

of Damon's or the show, he went into some detail about selling hats on the street corn.

0:52.7

That's how Fubu was born.

0:55.0

But we didn't talk about too much before then was his moving from one gig to the next because they weren't working. And I think so many entrepreneurs think that the folks that are on TV and who've struck it big with big brands, they just walk out the door one morning and they throw a dart and it hits the bullseye and

1:12.4

away they go.

1:13.2

And what we get into a little bit in this episode is how things weren't working for him.

1:18.5

His health wasn't where he wanted it to be.

1:20.6

He was working long, hard hours and jobs weren't paying him as well as, for example, waiting

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