External Validation Isn't The Answer | TOMS Founder, Blake Mycoskie

Blake Mycoskie (0:00)

If there's one piece of advice that you could give me, as an entrepreneur, as a young man, is going out into the world, what would it be? And he pulled out a piece of paper and he wrote, the more you give, the more you live. And he handed me the piece of paper.

What's so fascinating is I think had he not planted that seed, TOMS never would have happened. Like I just would have kept on starting businesses to make money. But at some thing, six years after he planted that seed and he had passed away, I just had this feeling of, yeah, the more you give, the more you live. And that event has shaped my career and now pretty much everything I spend my time on.

Michael Gervais (0:47)

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Now this week's conversation is with Blake Mycoskie. He's a social entrepreneur and the founder of TOMS.

Blake started TOMS back in 2006 He just flat out revolutionized the idea of giving back. And so the way that TOMS works is every time somebody buys a shoe, they give a shoe to a child in need.

They were the originators of the one-to-one model.

Now with all of his focus going into TOMS and making it special, Blake realized that he wasn't taking care of himself the way that he needed to. And he was eventually diagnosed with mild depression. So with that diagnosis, it sprung up a new idea for him. And he began exploring how he could better show up for himself and others. And that ultimately led him to his newest venture called Made For, where he's helping people gain control of their lives.