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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Scott O'Neil | Secrets of Happiness, Leadership, and Success from the CEO of an NBA Team

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Scott O'Neil is one of America's most admired sports executives, CEO of the Philadelphia 76ers and author of Be Where Your Feet Are. He joins us to share the wisdom and incredible experiences of happiness, leadership and success that he has gained throughout his life.


Scott O'Neil is the author of Be Where Your Feet Are, available now | https://read.macmillan.com/lp/be-where-your-feet-are


Follow Scott on Linkedn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-o-neil


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Transcript

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0:00.0

A good friend of my Randall Wright said, you need to publish this, like this can actually

0:04.3

help people.

0:05.3

They said, like, you're talking about leading leaders, you're talking about helping

0:08.3

build the next generation.

0:09.3

He's like, what if you can touch somebody, like, what if you can make an impact?

0:12.6

What if you, what you do actually makes it, makes a difference?

0:15.9

And so, um, so I just went through the process.

0:17.9

I actually, I hired a writer, Michelle Bender, who's amazing, um, because, uh, my agent,

0:23.6

Jan Miller said something really funny when I went, it was talking to her.

0:26.1

She said, you're a book.

0:28.0

This is not a book.

0:29.1

Which I thought was really, really funny and really humbling.

0:33.7

And so she's like, I like, yeah, I like what's in there, but we got to get

0:37.1

what's in there on here.

0:38.1

You know, so it was really funny.

0:39.2

So I got, I got real help, um, which was great.

0:42.4

And then, um, and then the folks of St. Martin's, um, Tim Barley, I think he's the best

0:46.5

editor in the world, um, made sense out of it.

0:48.9

And, and it allowed me in my voice to, you know, I get, I told you, I want to, I want

0:54.8

to make a dent on the world a little bit.

0:56.2

And hopefully this does.

1:01.4

I'm Srinie Rao.

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