194: Nate Checketts - CEO Of Rhone: Leaving Comfort To Make An Impact
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Launching While Employed: Early Hustle
Nate shares commuting work sessions, late nights, and committing train time to building Rhone before going full-time.
Episode 194: Nate Checketts - CEO Of Rhone: Leaving Comfort To Make An Impact
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"If I didn't think people could change, then I think life would be less meaningful."
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
- Common themes of leaders who sustain excellence:
- It's easy to say someone "got lucky" but that is almost never the case
- Routine - The best have a routine for long term success. Need good years, need good months, need good weeks, need good days. You must plan for that success. Create routines
- Advice from Jack Dorsey:
- How to stay focused?
- Focus on one thing at a time
- Set specific days for certain meetings and do not deviate. Take ownership of your calendar and schedule
- How to stay focused?
- Nate's Routine
- Wake up at 5 am
- Spritual time, meditation
- Write in The 5 Minute Journal
- Exercise, Yoga, Running
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday - At his desk by 7:30
- "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." - Ben Franklin
- "Be the dentist of your own calendar"
- The story of getting Rhone started in 2011
- Nobody was doing premium menswear
- Feb. 2013 incorporated
- Spent an hour each way on the train commuting to his job working on Rhone
- "Why does it feel like taboo to talk about inspiring men? It shouldn't"
- Describing the fund raising process
- "Raising capital is much more art than science"
- "The biggest key for us was photography. People needed to see it"
- Why Shane Battier is a Rhone guy
- After raising $8M, how do you decide where to spend that money?
- Speaking about the success of his Dad, Dave Checketts (CEO of Madison Square Garden, New York Knicks)
- How to instill a work ethic in your children?
- What it was like growing up with ultra successful parents and how that impacted him
- How Nate and his wife parent their children
- How the quote "He was born on third base and convinced he hit a triple" has motivated Nate
- How he made money creating a sports camp in his backyard growing up
- "You can't teach effort"
- Books to read:
- Learning Leader = "I love the idea of being an eternal student."
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." - Benjamin Franklin
Continue Learning:
- Follow Rhone on Twitter: @rhone
- Follow Nate on Twitter: @natechecketts
- Connect with me on LinkedIn
- Join our Facebook Group: The Learning Leader Community
- To Follow Me on Twitter: @RyanHawk12
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