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"beyond the nine to five i do how do you find it so first of all so without further ado i'm stephen bartlett and this is the diary of a ceo usa edition i hope nobody's listening but if you are then ple..."

"in anything i did and i strived in all the work i did and all of you know the different careers i've had in my life and the different you know art i've done i've strived always to go back to that inte..."

"the resistance you felt and the struggle you felt of bit trying to i guess conform to two different communities at the same time so tell me about trying to be an american in in a town where there's yo..."

"had this light right and i think that's you know going back to what you were asking it was the light that i saw that there is something beautiful out there for me to go and do for the world if i can j..."

"the hardest part is when you are constantly brought in your life in saying that you need to live by the expectations of others you end up either rebelling or you conform and i always wanted to make my..."

"absolutely what would you say to those people and what lessons have you learned about living a life expected of you i mean that's not the way to have a fulfilled life you can have a life and you can p..."

"the more you taste it the more you want more of it in your life at that phase in your life were you battling somewhat with your north star that light you referenced earlier which was dancing but also ..."

"by any means and and we're meeting like the ceos you know cfos of the company and um i remember talking to my boss saying hey you know what i really want to go to the performance i'm not like a big pa..."

"start looking at other jobs that would give me a bit more of the flexibility i wanted in my day to day but still pay the bills and that's when you move over to mtv i went to warner music right now we ..."

"thinking about like the probably if there is a right balance of conformity and rebellion in our life because conformity makes sense you know in some regards you can't just be a total robot right we'd ..."

"believe even class pass was really the epitome of that too in my life is bringing parts of me together that i would never have been able to bring together in any other way and you know i think so much..."

"that amen when you leave bain and company though is there a part of you because that expectation is it's never really yeah they really fully shake it right is there a part of you that whispers in your..."

"that's another important thing especially when we're exploring these decisions and identities it's you know back to the light thing it's sometimes it's not the people we think are going to give us the..."

"at different times in my life right for me it was the different communities that made me the entrepreneur i was it was my business community that helped me build class bus but it was also this girl wh..."

"the point you made about the way confidence is built i think is so so important because i think a lot of people think they see people like you now sat here um after all this all you've achieved and th..."

"to the feeling of touching somebody's life so many people might like again my dm's are like how do i find my why yeah and it feels almost like a privilege doesn't it for people that have figured that ..."

"path and your routine and meet a teacher right that will inspire the growth in you and that reflection in you because most of the times the hardest thing to do is to ask yourself what you love in your..."

"even that you kind of glossed over that but that's pretty extraordinary because a lot of people encounter a problem the issue you encounter trying to book that class and they go [ __ ] the world is no..."

"for it but that is extraordinary because a lot of people will encounter things i'll encounter things today i might sit on a chair and be like this chair could be better but then i'll carry on with my ..."

"do i get people to class and not make it so hard for people to get to class why is it important for people to go to class because then they can feel what i have in dance in their life it was just such..."

"i didn't care to spend money on the smaller things in my life right like i just didn't i didn't like i said i didn't travel i barely went shopping and by the way these are decisions i made right i thi..."

"i felt before i was blocking it right so the second i decided to go after building this company one of the biggest things i had to do was quit my job and on the day i quit i decided to write an email ..."

"right especially people i had worked with who were much older than me that i was quitting my job and here i was 10 15 years younger than most of them and i remember everyone looking at me almost think..."

"worrying about money and this is also an important thing is like when you are starting a company if i'm worrying about paying my bills right and if i'm worrying about like do i have the skills then i'..."

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"people that wants to make a sustainable switch my energy.com is the place for you let's go to the start then of this the class pass journey because i'm really compelled by you know much of the reason ..."

"into the market with a very clear product idea and it was a replica of what had worked in another industry so opentable which allows you to book restaurant reservations it seemed like the right parall..."

"because i i had never really faced failure in my life i mean going back to everything i just told you i had i'd sort of done things well and i tried to make sure that this would go well right by doing..."

"business model that you're going after and that woke me up and it was a a month or two period where we were trying to be comfortable like it was this comfortable place we were in because we had raised..."

"towards that and your mission so many entrepreneurs though and this is probably the mistake i made when i was 18 and started my first little tech company was um they get romantic about that initial hy..."

"obsessed and i learned that through that journey but um you know we started then putting this discovery pass out there so what we did learn is that you know we started finally actually going and talki..."

"magic of what we actually discovered in our second mistake of a product is that people loved variety they wanted to really go and try new things it's what motivated them they didn't want to do the sam..."

"years in right three years three isn't three years of stumbling around i mean i went to san francisco in uh in july of 2010 and this is june of 2013. so three years wow one of the quotes from your boo..."

"but she was the only person i would see outside of people at work you know it was i was living in this like closed circuit world and i don't i don't mind that like as somebody who has been on a missio..."

"cultivating relationships at that point in my life i didn't have time to and so it was a wake-up call and kind of going back to you know my mom may have been pestering me about it for the years before..."

"get from that place to living more in line with those values of connection community love and health so i you know i'll the details of like what i did on that session the first time i did it are in th..."

"but it was just such an important moment because i felt more i don't i don't want to say the word balance because that has so many you know wrong intentions with it but i felt that i was very clear ab..."

"what were you like as an entrepreneur as a leader and as a manager of people i would say i was very much i had a lot of positive energy i'm i'm a small human but i i show up with all of me um i am i e..."

"is that why you delegated the role of ceo yes absolutely at some point a ceo title becomes a lot of you know managing investors managing team doing press and i was like this is not what i want to be d..."

"it's a lot of money how does that change things for you um well you know we haven't exited so like the company hasn't been been sold yet so it's still private but um is your stake acquired or your sta..."

"of it i think as we've had a kid we've just had to become very clear on priorities right and he is and he's a partner at a law firm he's you know one of the youngest partners at his law firm it's insa..."

"that so it's about saying what does happiness look like to both to us individually but then us together as a family your journey has weaved and up down left right all of it it's been a tremendous roll..."

"moments where you know if i didn't care about sharing you know my insights and stuff like i could be you know somebody who wasn't happy but i i do things intentionally and therefore how can you not be..."

"up running a marathon thank you so much for your time and your wisdom it's so you're such a breath of fresh air for so many reasons but you're a real source of inspiration and what you've um what you'..."