Jake Olson, Speaker, Entrepreneur, and Athlete
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 15 May 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Jake Olson, an entrepreneur, athlete, speaker and most recently a graduate at the University of Southern California.
When Jake was 8 months old, he was diagnosed with a rare form of eye cancer, retinoblastoma. The disease claimed his left eye at 10 months old and in November 2009, Jake lost his right eye after battling the cancer for 12 years.
He has used his experience to inspire and motivate others by authoring two books, creating a non-profit foundation to help visually impaired children and support cancer research and by sharing his story openly as a motivational speaker.
Jake is also a life-long USC football fan.
While in high school he learned to long snap and was the starting long snapper for his team his junior and senior year.
After being accepted to USC, he was offered a walk on spot with the USC football team and had his first opportunity to snap in a live collegiate game on September 2, 2017 and was named the Pac-12 special teams player of the week.
On May 19, he’ll be participating in the 7th Annual Tour de Pier in Manhattan Beach, raising money for cancer research around the globe and psycho-social support for families battling the disease in the South Bay.
You can learn more at TourdePier.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Of course you're angry about that situation. It's not fair. It's not cool. It's life didn't treat you right in that aspect but |
| 0:07.7 | But you still have so much in your life to be grateful for there's so much meaning still in life there's so much in your life to be grateful for. |
| 0:13.1 | There's so much meaning still in life. |
| 0:14.6 | There's so many blessings in your life |
| 0:16.6 | and that's where I, I'm Michael Jervay, and by Trade and Training, I'm a Sport and Performance Psychologist, |
| 0:36.6 | as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create. |
| 0:39.2 | And the whole idea behind these conversations is to learn from people who are on the path of |
| 0:43.4 | mastery and who are they those are people who have dedicated their life to |
| 0:48.0 | both craft and self to understand the nuances of those two. |
| 0:53.0 | And in these conversations, we want to dig to understand |
| 0:56.0 | their psychological framework, which is how they understand themselves |
| 0:59.0 | and the world, how they explain events, |
| 1:02.0 | and then we want to understand the mental skills |
| 1:04.0 | that they use to build and refine their craft. |
| 1:07.0 | I am really excited to announce that this year, |
| 1:10.0 | Finding Mastery is releasing our first ever holiday gift guide. |
| 1:15.0 | Yes. |
| 1:16.5 | Having spent decades working with and around some of the most driven people on the planet, |
| 1:21.8 | I know the high-performer types in your life can be a little tricky to buy for. |
| 1:25.9 | Their standards tend to be really high, they rarely settle. We all know the drill here. |
| 1:30.8 | And that's why we put together a list of some of our favorite products |
| 1:34.7 | that have been utilized by many of the leaders and athletes and creatives |
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