I was told that the KK was going to get me and that's righting when you're a child.

Chief Marketing Officer to Vice President of Global Brands, an almost three decade career at Nike.

That's right, yeah. You know Nike was really the only

brand that was putting people of color in their communication. That showed me you could make a living

doing what you love.

Why is the Air Force One Shoe an example of Nike not chasing call?

It wasn't created to make a statement in culture.

It was created to make a statement on the court and the fact that Moses Malone

won on the court in the Air Force One. That's cool. Your authenticity is your cultural currency. The minute your audience can no longer see your original pursuit, they partner with someone else.

April 2021, significant month for you in your life.

I got a DM through 23 in me, and that opened up meeting my birth families.

The last thing you want to be is rejected and it was just

uh... So without further ado, I'm Stephen Bartlett, and this is the diary of a CEO, USA Edition.

I hope nobody's listening, but if you are, then please keep this to yourself. Greg, I'm a tremendous believer in the fact that our early years are incredibly formative.

What are the things that really left a remaining mark on you in terms of their influence as an experience or an event or trauma?

Yes, again, I had two passions growing up, sport and art.

And really why I got involved in art, an art of all sorts, whether it was drawing, painting,

sculpting, is growing up as a half black, half white, adopted kid into a white family going to a all white school system and

experiencing lots of adversity through racism and other things.

Art was the thing that I was able to essentially escape from reality

and find myself in the art and that's when I started to discover that I could draw things in accurate detail.

You know, I could dream and then put that on paper and it was very powerful and it was a way for

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