Jay Williams | Difficult Conversations to Learn and Grow
The Jon Gordon Podcast
Jon Gordon
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Positive University Podcast, bestselling author Jon Gordon is joined by Jay Williams.
Jay is a former NBA player, drafted as a second round draft pick by the Chicago Bulls. He is currently an ESPN analyst, motivation speaker, president of Jay Williams Group and the New York Times bestselling author of "Life is Not an Accident: A Memoir of Reinvention".
Jon and Jay have a really thought provoking conversation about racism, prejudices, having difficult conversations that lead to growth and finding solutions to move us forward.
As always, if you enjoy this episode don't keep it to yourself. Tell a friend about it and encourage them to listen too.
If you're new to the podcast, swing over PositiveUniversity.com where you can find links to past episodes with guests such as Doc Rivers, Matthew McConaughey, Tony Dungy and many more. While you're there, sign up for the Positive U email so you get notified of new episodes each week.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to John Gordon's Positive University podcast. My name is Daniel Decker. I'm the co-host of |
| 0:06.8 | Positive View and on this episode John is joined by Jay Williams. Jay is a former |
| 0:11.4 | NBA player drafted as the second second round draft pick by the Chicago Bulls. |
| 0:15.9 | He is currently an ESPAN analyst, motivational speaker, president of the Jay Williams Group, and |
| 0:20.9 | the New York Times best-selling author of Life is Not an Accident, a memoir of |
| 0:25.4 | Reinvention. |
| 0:27.0 | John and J. have a really thought-provoking conversation about racism, prejudices, having |
| 0:31.8 | difficult conversations that lead to growth and |
| 0:34.1 | finding solutions to move us forward. The thoughts they share are really |
| 0:37.8 | compelling. As always if you enjoy this episode don't keep it to yourself |
| 0:41.6 | tell a friend and encourage them to listen to |
| 0:44.6 | if you're new to the podcast swing over to positive university.com where you can find |
| 0:48.4 | links to past episodes with guests such as Doc Rivers, Matthew McConaughey, |
| 0:53.0 | Tony Dungy, and many more. |
| 0:55.0 | While you're there, make sure you sign up |
| 0:56.4 | for the positive view email |
| 0:57.8 | so you get notified of new episodes |
| 0:59.6 | when we release them each week. |
| 1:01.4 | All right, let's join John and Jay. Hey this is John |
| 1:05.2 | Gordon with positive you and today my guess is Jay Williams Jay how you doing? |
| 1:09.8 | I'm doing good John I'm doing good. |
| 1:13.0 | Everybody in my family is healthy. |
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