Love as a Leadership Strategy: Insights from Whole Foods Co-Founder, John Mackey

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Can profitable businesses change the world for good?

John Mackey, co-founder of Whole Foods Market, has proven the answer is a resounding YES… for the last four decades.

John grew a single ‘hippy grocery store’ in Austin, Texas, into a global chain with $22 billion in annual sales and 540 locations worldwide.

And he did it all with an unwavering commitment to sustainability and ethical practices, showing us all what’s possible when entrepreneurs embrace positive values and transformative leadership.

His pioneering and widely influential books, Conscious Capitalism and Conscious Leadership, serve as blueprints for integrating ethical values into successful businesses.

And his most recent book, The Whole Story: Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism, gives us an intimate look inside the personal and spiritual journeys that fueled his groundbreaking approach.

In this conversation, John shares insights from his personal transformation—from spirituality to psychedelics – along with the milestones of his experience with Whole Foods.

We dig into the ethos that drove the company’s growth while he was at its helm, and his ongoing passionate advocacy for a corporate model that benefits both people and the planet.

Get ready to be inspired by a visionary who continues to help us all think differently about our responsibility towards each other and the world.

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0:00.0	This is the best time in the entire history of the human race to be alive is right now.
0:06.0	If there are problems, hey, go out and solve them in caring loving ways.
0:10.0	That sheer job, take it on let us love let us create let us play again and
0:19.2	again and again forever. Love, play creation,
0:24.9	but sums it all up for me in a way.
0:26.5	Welcome back or welcome to The Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm your host Dr Michael Jervay by
0:36.8	trade and training a high-performance psychologist. Have you ever wondered if profitable
0:41.6	businesses can really change the world for good.
0:45.0	John Mackie, co-founder of Whole Foods Market, has proven the answer is a resounding yes.
0:51.0	So John grew a single hippie grocery store in Austin, Texas into a global chain with
0:57.2	22 billion in annual sales and 540 locations worldwide and he did it all with an unwavering commitment to sustainability and ethical practices.
1:07.0	He's showing us all what is possible
1:10.0	when entrepreneurs embrace positive values and transformative leadership.
1:14.0	And then he committed to put it in writing.
1:16.0	He's got three books I want to mention.
1:18.0	Conscious capitalism and conscious leadership,
1:21.0	and both of those service blueprints for integrating ethical values
1:24.9	into successful businesses and then his most recent book the whole story
1:30.2	adventures in love life and, it gives us an intimate look inside his adventure, his journey,
1:38.0	the way that he fueled this groundbreaking approach.
1:41.8	So in this conversation, John shares insights from his
1:44.4	personal transformation. We dig into the ethos that drove the company's
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