The Danny Miranda Podcast

#333: Harley Finkelstein – Shopify President On Mentorship, Anxiety, Loss, MrBeast, & Storytelling

Mar 24, 2023

58:22

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Importance of Giving Your Child Confidence

2min

How to Pick the Right Mentor for Your Life

2min

The Importance of Mentorship

2min

How to Cut Out Energy Vampires

2min

How to Deal With COVID

5min

How to Use Anxiety to Create Better Results

3min

The Importance of Debate in Law School

4min

The Importance of Gratitude

5min

10.

The Importance of Resilience in the Age of COVID

3min

11.

The Importance of Finding Meaning in Trauma

4min

12.

How to Make Your Entrepreneurship Journey About the Service to Other People

3min

13.

How to DJ for a Charity Event

4min

14.

The Importance of Requalification

4min

15.

Toby's Brain Works

2min

16.

Building Real Relationships With Shopify

6min

17.

How to Be a Successful Entrepreneur

3min

18.

How to Start a New Podcast

3min

Harley Finkelstein is the President of Shopify.

In this conversation, we spoke about mentorship, loss, and working with MrBeast, what he learned from law school, and the pivotal lessons he learned from his grandmother - who was a Holocaust survivor.

(0:00) Intro

(1:20) Why Is Harley On The Show?

(2:00) Parental Encouragement

(3:40) Seth Godin

(5:37) Mentorship

(10:21) How Harley Manages Anxiety

(14:40) Managing Pressure

(17:55) Law School (& Moot Court)

(21:29) Handling Pain & Loss

(26:10) Pivotal Lessons From Grandmother (Holocaust Survivor)

(33:33) Finding Meaning

(40:52) Tobi Lutke

(44:44) MrBeast & Working With Celebrities

(51:55) Getting Better At Storytelling

(54:40) Challenge

Resources

Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl – https://www.amazon.com/Search-Meaning-Classic-Tribute-Holocaust/dp/1846042844

Harley's Links

Harley’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/harleyf

Shopify: https://www.shopify.com

My Links

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