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On Purpose with Jay Shetty

LA Lakers President, Jeanie Buss ON: Empowering Women in Leadership On & Off the Court

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

iHeartPodcasts

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business

4.730.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Jeanie Buss sits down with Jay Shetty to talk about believing in your own strength in an industry with more male leaders, how you can learn from your own mistakes and take the lead, and that gender doesn’t matter, it’s the people and the talent they have.  Jeanie Buss is the controlling owner and president of the Los Angeles Lakers. She is the daughter of Jerry Buss, a real estate investor who later owned the Lakers and other sports businesses. At age 19, she started in the family business as general manager of the Los Angeles Strings professional tennis team, and later became the owner of the Los Angeles Blades professional roller hockey team.  What We Discuss with Jeanie: 00:00 Intro 03:46 A memory that you have from being a young girl 06:22 Respect people no matter what their circumstance is 09:05 What are some of those leader's parallels that you're seeing in your journey? 12:59 Don’t let critics and outside detractors feed the outcome 15:33 You can’t sit by the sidelines when you see something is wrong 20:26 If there are people in our community that is suffering, what can we do? 23:44 When a big decision is to be made, everybody looks for a scapegoat 28:54 Overcoming your biggest personal challenge 33:07 Internal rituals for yourself to help stay calm in the chaos 36:22 Gender doesn’t matter, it’s the talent that matters 42:28 What can you learn from LeBron James? 44:44 The best memories shared with Kobe Bryant 50:50 Jeanie on Fast Five   Like this show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening on Instagram & tag us so we can thank you personally! Episode Resources: Jeanie Buss | LinkedIn Jeanie Buss | Instagram Jeanie Buss | Twitter Achieve success in every area of your life with Jay Shetty’s Genius Community. Join over 10,000 members taking their holistic well-being to the next level today, at https://shetty.cc/OnPurposeGenius

Transcript

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0:00.0

When there's big decisions that need to be made,

0:03.4

it seems like everybody looks for the scapegoat.

0:13.9

Hey everyone, welcome back to On Purpose,

0:16.4

the number one health podcast in the world.

0:18.6

Thanks to each and every single one of you

0:20.6

that come back every week to listen, learn and grow.

0:24.8

I love the community we're creating,

0:26.7

the purposeful conversations

0:28.8

we've been having over the past few weeks

0:31.4

have just been absolutely phenomenal.

0:33.6

And today's guest is going to take us to another level.

0:37.4

I've been looking forward to this conversation

0:39.1

for quite some time since we connected on Instagram

0:41.9

and through a mutual friend.

0:43.4

And today I'm getting to hear about a story

0:46.1

that I think a lot of us may know very little about,

0:49.3

but has had such a big impact on our lives.

0:52.4

Today's guest is the one and only Genie Bus,

0:55.6

one of the most respected names in all of Boskable.

0:59.0

She's the controlling owner of the beloved NBA franchise,

1:02.6

the LA Lakers.

1:04.1

Genie started her stellar business career at a young age,

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