Steve Nash: NBA Star and Entrepreneur

Suiting Up with Paul Rabil

Paul Rabil

Sports, Business

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

"Rook...you've gotta be able to laugh at yourself." Steve Nash is one of the greatest on-floor playmakers in NBA history. He's won back-to-back MVP's, and modernized the way the 2-man game is played. Pretty amazing given his two favorite sports as an amateur were soccer and hockey. Pre-social media era, Steve's one of the few athletes that ventured into entrepreneurship and media while he was still playing. Today, he's part of the Vancouver WhiteCaps and RCD Mallorca ownership groups, he's a consultant for the Golden State Warriors, GM for the Canadian Senior National Team, and architect of the Steve Nash Foundation. On the podcast, Steve and I talk about why and how he became one of the game's greatest players, what he characteristics he looks for in the greatest competitors, and his secret sauce to success (...define "resilience"). His advice to any athlete or entrepreneur? "Declare your intention. Say it out loud and write it down. Then go for it." This is a great show. Hosted by professional athlete and entrepreneur, Suiting Up Podcast is a show that explores the psychology, playbook of tools, and strategies of the most influential people in sports, entrepreneurship, and entertainment.

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0:00.0	He said to me,
0:04.4	Rook, you want to make it in this league,
0:06.3	you gotta be able to laugh at yourself.
0:08.1	You know, and it was like,
0:10.1	it's one of those statements that when you're 22 years old, you kind of thinking well I kind of think if I can get to the basket I'm going to make it in this league you know if I can make threes I'm going to make in this league but then you're like
0:21.4	Something struck a chord with me and I was like, I get that, I get why.
0:25.0	Your ability to assimilate to a situation, to a group, to work with other people, to disarm them,
0:31.0	to show them that it's not all about you to not be insular or you know or me first like there's so
0:36.6	many ancillary qualities that come off just being able to be self-deprecating a laugh
0:40.6	of yourself in my opinion today's guest is the best floor general
0:45.0	and sports playmaker of all time.
0:48.0	He told me he was always an underdog
0:50.0	but his most valuable skill has been resiliency.
0:54.2	He picked up entrepreneurship during his MVP seasons.
0:57.5	He certainly has a Hall of Fame caliber NBA career.
1:00.8	Today he wears multiple hats.
1:02.0	He's a consultant for the Golden State Warriors. He's
1:03.9	the GM of Canada's National Hoopes team. Part of the ownership group for the
1:08.0	Vancouver White Caps and R Capps and R. Cairca. He is a social activist and a philanthropist for his foundation.
1:15.0	I wore my hair long because Steve Nash did.
1:18.4	Welcome to an all new episode of Student Up Podcast.
1:20.3	This is a show where I dive into the stories of Summit Today's
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