Paul Rabil, Premier Lacrosse League Co-Founder

Paul Rabil (0:00)

If someone does well, and you're an athlete who doesn't like to celebrate someone else's goal, then you're probably not an empathic individual, and you're probably gonna skew when someone messes up into yelling at them. But if you can practice empathy in positive moments too, it's really a riching experience.

So I also like to call that out, that is in the workplace as well.

Michael Gervais (0:30)

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Now, this week's conversation is with Paul Rabil, a professional lacrosse player and co-founder of the Premier Lacrosse League. And that's a new professional lacrosse league that was launched in October 2018 It's very disruptive. And what he's done is he pulled together 160 of the best players in the world and also wrapped around the whole thing, a major media rights deal with NBC Sports Group. Pretty cool.

Paul has influenced the sport at every level, winning championships and MVPs twice in the college ranks and the NCAAs.

And then also multiple times in professional outdoor and indoor lacrosse, as well as becoming the two-time world lacrosse champion with Team USA.