Helmet insights
Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
Midroll Media
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The long journey of the early adopter
Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 19 books and a long-time entrepreneur, freelancer and teacher.
You can find out more about Seth by reading his daily blog at seths.blog and about the workshops at akimbo.com .
To submit a question and to see the show notes, please visit akimbo.link and press the appropriate button.
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| 0:00.0 | George Owen was pretty smart. Not because he went to Harvard, but because as a hockey player for |
| 0:07.1 | the Boston Bruins, he realized something about hockey, two things actually. In hockey, you're skating |
| 0:13.2 | between 20 and 30 miles an hour, surrounded by other people going the same speed, carrying |
| 0:20.2 | pointed sticks, and surrounded by boards and glass. And number two, people are shooting a hard rubber |
| 0:28.3 | disc at speeds up to 50 or 70 miles an hour right at your face. No, George Owen, |
| 0:34.9 | defenseman for the Boston Bruins, figured out something really smart. He wore a helmet. He was |
| 0:41.6 | the first NHL player to regularly wear a helmet while playing hockey. Hey, it's Seth, and this is a |
| 0:51.6 | Kimbo. We'll be back in a minute to talk about helmets, safety, fear, risk, and guts. But first, |
| 1:04.7 | here's a message from our sponsor. Hey, it's Seth, and this is a podcast. It's a podcast produced |
| 1:15.2 | by Alex Depama. Alex is a bit of a podcast whisperer. Alex and I are inviting you to join us |
| 1:22.0 | in the podcasting workshop. And this is Alex Depama, Seth's co-teacher and producer. |
| 1:28.2 | In this class, you'll learn not just the technology to make a podcast, because honestly, |
| 1:32.0 | it's pretty easy. You'll learn to find your voice, you'll learn to find the others, |
| 1:36.3 | and together in this proven workshop that's back again, you'll discover that you can make a podcast, |
| 1:41.9 | not to make money, because unfortunately, you probably won't. But to make a difference, |
| 1:46.3 | to be heard, and to find the people who want to hear from you, which is even more important. |
| 1:50.8 | I hope you'll check it out. Visit a Kimbo.com slash go for all the upcoming workshops. Go make a |
| 1:58.4 | ruckus. After that first season of George Owen wearing a helmet, Barney Stanley, a player coach, |
| 2:08.5 | not related to the Stanley of the Stanley Cup, presented a helmet design to the board of |
| 2:13.7 | governors of VNHL. It was instantly rejected. It's worth noting that George Owen played hockey |
| 2:24.0 | in 1928, and it wasn't until more than 40 years later that another Boston Bruin Ted Green |
| 2:32.6 | started wearing a helmet regularly. 40 years went by, 40 years of concussions, of head injuries, |
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