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🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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0:00.0 | What's up everybody? Do you hate your job as I know so many people do? Are you struggling to find that perfect place or just struggling to get ahead in your career? |
0:08.0 | Well, if you are, today's guest is the perfect inspiration to get you back on track. I'm so excited to bring back this episode with Powerhouse Endurance Athlete and Houdini of Successful Career Failures, Sarah Rob O'Hagen. |
0:21.5 | Sarah is a marketing executive who's been through the ringer, experiencing multiple career failures, getting fired and being forced to reinvent herself time and time again. |
0:30.5 | Through it all, she developed a level of grit and determination that's truly remarkable and is going to help you get ahead in your career no matter what's going on for you. |
0:39.5 | In this episode, Sarah shares her insights on what it takes to bounce back from failure and come out stronger on the other side. |
0:46.5 | And in these challenging economic times, her message could not be more relevant. So if you're ready to take your life and career to the next level, stay tuned. |
0:55.5 | And if you find this episode helpful, do not forget to rate and review the podcast. It really helps us more than you know. |
1:02.5 | Alright, I'm Tom Billew and welcome to Impact Theory. |
1:06.5 | Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of Impact Theory. On today's episode, we are joined by arguably the most interesting woman in the world, entrepreneur activist and endurance athlete, Sarah Rob O'Hagen. |
1:19.5 | Sarah spent the majority of her 20s with the constant fear of being fired and relentlessly fighting to find her own lane. |
1:26.5 | After a string of crushing failures, she went on to become the global president of a five billion dollar company where she led its successful reinvention. |
1:35.5 | Get ready to have your mind blown by one of Forbes' most powerful women in sports, Sarah Rob O'Hagen. |
1:42.5 | How you doing? Awesome! How are you? Very good thank you. Wow! Absolutely fantastic. It's awesome to be here. |
2:11.5 | Doing this research was really interesting. Seeing how much fun you have was really surprising. Because you think as people become more and more aware of what women especially have to do to really climb the ladder, you think of them as really taking on aggressive traditional male tactics. |
2:30.5 | But you're also fun and funny and laugh till you snort. It may happen today. I'm very open to that. So that's pretty incredible. Now I wore the shirt in your honor, which toughened the fuck up buttercup. |
2:44.5 | Yes, it's gone! I love that. I do that. I love how you answer to every question about what people have to do to succeed with. Basically you've got a shine, you've got to outwork people, you've got to bust ass. |
2:56.5 | And is it true that in New Zealand that one of the biggest insults you can say is your half-assing? Oh for sure. That means you're a fucking not-brain-it. And that means you're not even contributing to the team that alone doing the best that you can do. So for sure, that's not cool. |
3:13.5 | I love that. You said something in the book. You have to have an honest assessment of your ass-ness level. |
3:21.5 | Actually, you mentioned Adam Grant. Adam partnered with me and we created a quiz that is now on my website extremu.com, which measures your ass-ness level. Are you kicking ass? Are you half-ass? Or are you totally not asking at all? And it's awesome. Like we've gotten it down to psychological rigor. |
3:39.5 | What are some of the questions? It's really interesting. I have wrote my book as you know, where I basically studied some of the world's most successful people |
3:50.5 | through a very broad range of walks of life in Korea. So you know, I'm talking Bodimelo, who's a downhill skier, Mr. Cartoon, the tattoo artist, Conberlees and Rice. Kind of successful, right? |
4:02.5 | And I interviewed these people and then said, how do I figure out the common threads of what made them essentially achieve their potential, which is I know what you believe in? |
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