Tony Hawk | Office Hours S3

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Today’s episode features a segment from Office Hours Season 3 with a very special guest, legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk. During our discussion, Tony talked about the philanthropic impact he’s had on the skateboarding community, his plans for the future of his personal brand in the next 3-5 years, the best advice for earning respect from your peers while you’re at the top of your game, and his extensive quest to landing the first-ever 900. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the flavor.
0:05.1	Welcome to office hours.
0:06.1	I'm David Meltzer, and we're going to start off with a legend.
0:10.0	You can't get any bigger than Tony Hawk, and I'm blessed to be from San Diego, the founder
0:15.7	of the skate park project.
0:17.7	He needs no other introduction.
0:20.1	Welcome to office hours, Tony Hawk.
0:22.3	Thank you.
0:23.3	Thanks for having me.
0:24.8	One of the best things about knowing Tony Hawk is that we're, believe it or not, in
0:29.5	these much better athletes than I am, the same age, and so I've known of Tony Hawk since
0:34.7	I've been about 19 years old and legendary skateboarder.
0:39.7	But what I love about Tony Hawk is I think of San Diego and the impact that Tony Gwyn had
0:46.2	on San Diego, one of the other legends named Tony from San Diego, but Tony Hawk has given
0:53.1	back to not just our community in San Diego, California, the country, but now the world.
0:59.5	And it used to be the Tony Hawk Foundation, Jason.
1:02.6	I know that your company has given a lot of money and support to that, and so have we.
1:09.0	But it's now the skate park project.
1:11.8	So I'm going to start off Tony to ask, why would you, after all these years, and I think
1:16.2	you're almost 20 years in on the philanthropic impact that you're having, why would you change
1:20.5	the name from yours, the Tony Hawk Foundation, to the skate park project?
1:26.2	Oh, that's tricky.
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