Unveiling Sharkgevity Secrets with Daymond John

Mick Unplugged

Realm

Education, Self-improvement, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Daymond John is a legendary entrepreneur, investor, and television personality best known as the "People’s Shark" on ABC’s Shark Tank. Rising from humble beginnings in Queens, New York, Daymond is the founder of the iconic apparel brand FUBU and has become a blueprint for business success, mentorship, and resilience. Facing and overcoming challenges including a lack of formal education, dyslexia, and even cancer, he now advocates for health, entrepreneurship, and personal development, sharing his hard-earned lessons with the world. His commitment to empowering others, authentic storytelling, and willingness to pay his knowledge forward makes him one of the most respected and influential leaders in business today.

Key Takeaways:

Find Your "Because": Go beyond your “why” and dig into your deeper motivation—your “because”—to truly understand what drives you both personally and professionally.
Be Cautious with Scaling: Whether in business or life, don’t rush to scale or spread yourself too thin; take time to learn the lessons and build a solid foundation before growing.
Prioritize Health and Longevity: Daymond’s health journey, including fasting and biohacking, shows that investing in personal well-being isn’t just a trend—it’s a transformative, lifelong pursuit that can inspire those around you.

Sound Bytes:

"The more things you own, they own you. Not because I want boats… I could buy a boat—I don’t want a boat. It’s irritating." – Daymond John

"Mentors are only going to tell you three things: don’t scale too quick, don’t spread yourself too thin, and don’t take in money or partners too soon." – Daymond John

"The most powerful thing you can ever do in your life is walk away—you at least leave with your dignity." – Daymond John

Connect & Discover Daymond:

Website: https://daymondjohn.com/

Instagram: @thesharkdaymond

LinkedIn: @daymondjohn

Facebook: @TheSharkDaymond

YouTube: @TheSharkDaymond

🔥 Ready to Unleash Your Inner Game-Changer? 🔥

Mick Hunt’s BEST SELLING book, How to Be a Good Leader When You’ve Never Had One: The Blueprint for Modern Leadership, is here to light a fire under your ambition and arm you with the real-talk strategies that only Mick delivers.

👉 Grab your copy now and level up your life → Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million

FOLLOW MICK ON:

Spotify: MickUnplugged

Instagram: @mickunplugged

Facebook: @mickunplugged

YouTube: @MickUnpluggedPodcast

LinkedIn: @mickhunt

Website: MickHuntOfficial.com

Apple: MickUnplugged

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, please join me and welcoming the man, the myth, the legend, my mentor.
0:22.6	The blueprint. That's uncomfortable. The people's sharp. Mr. Damon John. Thank you, man. I appreciate it. It's not uncommon. It's all this. My first question I asked on my guess, this is, what's your because? That thing that's deeper than your why. Like, I'm sure your why is your family, your employees. but there's a reason there you're why and I don't think I've been
0:24.1	because that's deeper than your why. Like, I'm sure your why is your family, your employees.
0:23.2	But there's a reason there you're your why.
0:25.3	I don't think I've been ever asked because.
0:26.5	What's your because?
0:31.4	So I guess my why, like you said, will be family, but what?
0:33.6	That's a good question.
0:37.4	So I guess the because forces you to say, well, I'm doing this because.
0:39.4	Right. Right.
0:49.4	Ease into things that in my economy's all perspective, right, but in fasting, you know,
0:53.4	I usually talking about a year, six months to a year to ease into things. So fasting.
0:57.1	We'll get to this beautiful piece behind this.
1:00.6	There was a conversation you posted on Instagram, I think,
1:04.2	when you ate like a year old turkey leg or something from the freezer.
1:05.3	Two.
1:06.6	Two year old.
1:07.9	Two year old.
1:08.7	Why?
1:10.1	Why not?
1:10.7	Why not? Why not?
1:13.5	All right, let me break it down to everybody here.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Realm, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Realm and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.