S2E196 10 Weeks With Wooden
It's a Good Life
Brian Buffini
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
John Wooden is regarded as the greatest NCAA basketball coach of all time. His achievements on the court are unmatched, but his influence extends far beyond the world of sports. In this episode, Brian shares how Coach Wooden impacted his life and how his powerful teachings can help you to achieve phenomenal success, both personally and professionally.
YOU WILL LEARN:
· The common traits of a successful person.
· The principles of the Pyramid of Success.
· The legacy of Coach Wooden’s philosophy.
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NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“There is no substitute for very hard work when it comes to success.” – Coach Wooden
“The two qualities of friendship that are so important are respect and camaraderie.” – Coach Wooden
“A leader who has loyalty is the leader whose team I wish to be a part of.” – Coach Wooden
“Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all.” – Coach Wooden
“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.” – Coach Wooden
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life, the Podcast for Entrepreneurs, where it's all about growing |
| 0:07.7 | yourself and your business. |
| 0:09.7 | Here's your host, founder of America's largest business coaching company, Brian the Feeney. |
| 0:15.0 | Top of the morning to you and welcome to today's episode, Entitled Ten Weeks with |
| 0:21.0 | Wooden. Can you imagine spending 10 weeks with Michael Jordan and you didn't know |
| 0:26.0 | who Michael Jordan was? Or 10 weeks with Jack Nicholas or 10 weeks with Warren Buffett? Imagine someone who's the absolute best in their field and here |
| 0:36.5 | comes a guy who spends 10 weeks with this person and only really knows him as a person. Well that happened to me in 1997 and that's the |
| 0:44.8 | story I'm going to share with you today and the lessons I learned from the great |
| 0:48.5 | coach John Woodin. You have to understand. Growing up in Ireland, this is long before the internet, long before cable, long before satellite. |
| 0:58.0 | So we had four channels, and I can tell you on our four channels the sports that were played were English |
| 1:04.7 | Premier League soccer Gaelic football hurling and then Irish rugby. |
| 1:09.9 | Bit of horse racing here and there and that's basically what we got to see. |
| 1:14.0 | When I came to America, hit the ground running in 1986, overcame some setbacks, got my |
| 1:20.6 | career gone after 10 years of pretty successful real estate career I was asked to start speaking |
| 1:26.3 | and Sharon and that's ultimately when we started what was initially called Providence |
| 1:30.9 | Seminars became Baffinany Company. In 1997 a remarkable thing |
| 1:36.0 | happened which was the CEO of one of the largest mortgage companies in America, |
| 1:41.5 | guy by the name of Charlie Reinhart, sat through a half day |
| 1:44.4 | workshop. These are free workshops I did all over America, about 120 of them a year. |
| 1:49.8 | And I was out there sharing our working by referral concepts, philosophy, the way of taking |
| 1:55.0 | care of people exceeding their expectations and it was a free seminar for realtors. |
| 2:00.1 | Well Charlie Reinhart was a CEO of a company called Home Savings of America. |
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