John Donahoe | Investing in Your Mental Wellness

TRAINED

Nike

Sleep, Mental Health, Training, Diet, Nike Podcast, Movement, Workout, Nutrition, Exercise, Recovery, By Nike, Running, Health & Fitness, Trained, Health, Fitness, Eating, Nike

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

How does the leader of the world’s largest sports company navigate corporate life during an unprecedented year — while juggling being a father, husband, grandfather and friend? By practicing a skill not usually taught in business school: asking for support. Nike president and CEO John Donahoe has spent the past three decades sharpening this ability, realizing that it’s a strength — not a weakness — to lean on others in times of mental and emotional stress. In this episode, the four-time CEO shares his journey with therapy, his core purpose at home and in the C-suite, and his prime role models (starting with his wife). He also explains how meditation has changed his life and how he uses gratitude in his own routine. Whether you’re leading a team or just joining one, we can all learn something from Donahoe’s mindful approach to challenge.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Trained, a podcast exploring the cutting edge of holistic fitness.
0:05.0	I'm Ryan Flerty, the Senior Director of Performance at Nike.
0:08.0	On every episode, I co-op the world's leading experts and athletes to talk about mindset,
0:13.0	movement, nutrition, recovery, and sleep.
0:16.0	All the ways to train your body and mind.
0:18.0	Today, I'm sitting down with the leader of the world's largest sportswear company
0:22.0	to talk about pretty much everything but the shoes.
0:25.0	Sport is one of the few things that still brings people together.
0:30.0	Sport brings people together within countries.
0:32.0	Sport means people together across countries.
0:35.0	Sport is the ultimate level playing field.
0:37.0	It doesn't matter the color of your skin, your size, height, weight, sexual orientation.
0:41.0	If you can play, you can play.
0:43.0	You can compete viciously.
0:46.0	But you play with a common set of rules and at the end of the game you shake the hands of your opponent.
0:51.0	And so I think the world needs sport more than any time, maybe in history.
0:58.0	That's Nike's CEO, John Donahoe, on why he thinks sport and everything that comes with it matter so much right now.
1:05.0	Turns out John knows as well as I do that the mental skills we need to lead on a court,
1:09.0	and I'm talking trust, purpose, resilience, are the same skills we need to succeed at work,
1:14.0	to find happiness at home, and to make a difference in the world.
1:17.0	And as the head of Nike specifically, he's in a unique position to see those connections.
1:22.0	Every day he's coming to work and thinking about what sport can teach him as a leader,
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