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Just Grow With It with Natalie Barbu

Staying Humble & Hopeful with Lokai Founder Steven Izen

Just Grow With It with Natalie Barbu

Natalie Barbu

Education, Business, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.8982 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Episode 175: With the highs, comes the lows, and as founder and CEO of Lokai, Steven Izen says, “Stay humble when you’re on top of the world and hopeful when you hit a low.” This week, Natalie is joined by Steven to discuss the importance of finding your balance and how the shift in mindset from founder to CEO made balance possible for him. Today’s episode dives into: What Steven's initial expectations and vision were starting Lokai How his view of success has changed since starting the business The differences between starting your first business and your second The difference between a CEO and a founder His take on the future of startups and why he invests in startups What he looks for when investing in startups and founders Thanks to Steven for setting up a very special deal for Real Reel listeners. Use code "Podcast15" for 15 percent off on any purchases made through lokai.com or elementsdrinks.io. Thank you so much for being a part of our podcast community! Please be sure to rate, follow, review, and of course, post to your highlight reel. Follow your host Natalie on Instagram @nataliebarbu and @therealreelpodcast. Follow Steven @stevenizen. Check out Lokai at lokai.com and Elements at elementsofbalance.io. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This podcast is

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is brought to you by Podcast Nation.

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My mindset is brought to you by Podcast Nation.

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My mindset on what success looks like is really how do I build a great team or continue to build a great team that loves what they're doing and has a passion for helping people find balance in life.

0:23.0

How is our company making a positive impact in the world?

0:26.6

And is this something that I am still passionate about and love doing every day

0:32.3

and want to keep doing for the next 20 years. Welcome to the Real Real, where I take you behind the Instagram reel and into the real lives of entrepreneurs, content creators, and anyone who inspires me and may inspire you too.

0:50.0

I'm your host Natalie Barboo and let's get into it.

0:53.0

Hi everybody welcome back to the real real podcast.

0:57.0

If my audio quality sounds a lot worse it's just because I'm recording this intro

1:02.0

with my AirPods I I am currently in Wilmington,

1:04.8

North Carolina and we're doing a little team trip here for Rella and I forgot my microphone.

1:11.8

So I'm going to keep this intro short and sweet because I would much rather you listen to the quality audio and not only that but the quality value, the messaging, the interview is so good in this one. So I'm very

1:26.4

excited because we are having Stephen from loci on the podcast. If you guys don't

1:31.8

know what loci is, I think that you guys either didn't have like

1:36.1

friends in the mid-to like 2010s even even now. I mean everyone wears them but it's the

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bracelet that has mud from the dead sea

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and then water from Mount Everest,

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and it's about your highs and your lows and balances.

1:49.4

And I think every single person and their mother

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and their cousin and their dog and literally everyone had this bracelet.

1:54.6

I am finally getting to interview the founder which I was so excited when he came on my podcast because that is one brand that I think has done such a good job at community and it's also done a good job at like going viral and getting into every single person's hands or in this case on everybody's wrist.

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