Kevin Carroll, Author, Speaker, Creative Catalyst
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 16 January 2019
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Kevin Carroll, an author, speaker and creative catalyst.
It is Kevin’s job to inspire businesses, organizations and individuals - from CEOs and employees of Fortune 500 companies to schoolchildren - to embrace their spirit of play and creativity to maximize their human potential and sustain more meaningful business and personal growth.
He has helped turn creative ideas into reality for organizations such as Nike, Starbucks, Adidas, Walt Disney, Target, Proctor & Gamble, Under Armour, Mattel, the NBA and many others.
The focus of this conversation is much more about how Kevin became the man he is today rather than the “what” of his accomplishments so I want to give a quick rundown of Kevin’s stops along the way.
Raised by his grandparents in Philadelphia, Kevin spent endless hours at the neighborhood playground where he found his calling: a red rubber ball.
His subsequent pursuit of play and his ‘red rubber ball’ took him overseas with the Air Force, where he served as a language interpreter and translator, gaining fluency in Croatian, Czech, Serbian, and German.
After serving in the Air Force for ten years and earning his college degree, Kevin became an athletic trainer at the high school and collegiate levels in Philadelphia.
His expertise in sport performance recognized by the 76ers organization and led to his job as the Head Athletic Trainer for the Philadelphia 76ers in 1995.
While at the 76ers, Nike tapped Kevin to bring his unique experiences to the sneaker giant in 1997.
Although no job “officially” existed at the time, Kevin was directed to create a position at the company that would add value to the overall mission of the brand.
Kevin left Nike in 2004 to create his own company, Kevin Carroll Katalyst, committed to elevating the power of sport and play around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | You know when I think about mastery I think about the beginner's mindset. I just love that idea |
| 0:06.3 | of always being that beginner's mind there's something new to learn every day and so Tabula Rasa |
| 0:12.4 | I think that's how you get to mastery is recognizing |
| 0:14.8 | that I only know what I don't know and I'm open to learning and that beginner's |
| 0:19.4 | mindset is that there's something new to learn every day and so I'm going after that I'm seeking that and so |
| 0:26.1 | that's the way I look at mastery is sustaining that beginner's mindset. All right. Welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Michael Jervay. |
| 0:34.0 | And by Welcome back or Welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay. |
| 0:44.0 | And by trade and training, I'm a sport and performance psychologist. |
| 0:48.0 | And the whole idea behind this podcast, behind these conversations, |
| 0:51.0 | is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery. |
| 0:54.3 | And we want to understand what they're searching for. We want to dig to |
| 0:57.8 | understand their psychological framework, which is really how do they make sense of |
| 1:02.3 | the world and themselves in it. |
| 1:04.4 | And we also want to understand the mental skills that they use to build and refine their craft. |
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