Happy Productive with Jennifer Dawn: Where Business Success Meets Personal Fulfillment | Extracting Strength From the Struggle with Joel Green

Performance and skills coach Joel Green has “developed callus for defeat and downturn”, and is a great example of someone who goes far beyond obstacles. Some people might think that he was born to be in the NBA, but it's actually the opposite.

Joel grew up in North Philly and had to face many obstacles throughout his childhood. It all started when he was just a 6-year-old and witnessed a shooting. He started playing basketball when he was young, but then, tragedy struck when his brother died. This loss changed his life forever, and it made him realize how important family was to him.

Joel used this terrible thing to fuel his fire, and as he got older, he realized how his physical training could also help his mental training. He mentioned that, even when he was training 11 hours a day in college, his grades improved enough for him to graduate with honors.

Joel retired early from his basketball career to pursue his dream of being in business. With this dream and a fascination with psychology, he became a businessman with a purpose: he wants to help people like himself who have faced adversity in their lives. Joel wants to provide children with tools and techniques to prepare for a world of pro-level in sports through his company Pro Level Training.

Joel says that growing up in a rough environment made him develop a callus to failure which helped him set goals and stay focused on what mattered most to him. His basketball career made him prepared to lose, and he developed an ability to pivot in the face of failure. He's not shy about speaking about his failures—in fact, he says that he sees them as midpoints and times for reevaluation.

Joel deeply believes that we can get a prize from everything, no matter how terrible the situation is, and that the extraction of good from all situations is a life choice.

Show Notes

😎 Joel does some cool stuff: A Division 1 basketball player who applied the same intangibles to the business world. 01:05
🧀 Being a model and the face of Cheez-Its is a new level of coolness. 03:15
⛹🏾‍♂️ Athletic life prepared him to look at losses in business as midpoints and lessons. 04:09
🌟 Embracing the pressure of accountability: “With every single defeat, there was a reason why I was defeated” 05:42
🏀 Pro Level Training camps in partnership with Nike: showing kids what it takes to get to the pro level in nine different sports. 07:25
📈 After doing 12 Spartan races, Jennifer’s business revenues multiplied by two and a half times. 08:47
🧠 Connection between neurological enhancement when you challenge yourself physically. 10:35
👩‍💼 The mind creates so much nonsense, drama, and resistance: ‘I could do so much more than my brain was telling me I could do.‘ 12:35
😲 In college when Joel was training 9-11 hours a day, his grades increased, and he graduated with honors. 14:27
🤯 Joel grew up in an abandoned house in Philadelphia and witnessed a shooting when he was just 6 years old. 16:55
🎯 ‘You are a product of your environment’ doesn’t count, and Joel thinks that environment is a product of you. 18:59
🏡 His parents took Joel and his siblings to model house which made Joel realize he wanted his life to be better, cleaner and peaceful - just like the model house. 20:22
🙅🏻‍♀️ Jennifer decided at 13 that she would not end up like the abused girl she heard of on the news. 22:26
💪🏾 He was setting goals and strategizing during his childhood and used a family tragedy for fuel: Getting something great from something terrible is a choice. 24:32
✍🏾 Joel prepares his first book Filtering: The Way to Extract Strength From the Struggle based on his brother’s death and how he used grief to his advantage. 28:59
💡 Writing a book for six years and becoming a speaker: “My story was not for me - it helps others.” 32:04
🤗 Joel loves developing partnerships, and he doesn’t ignore when people contact him. 35:45

🏀 Connect with Joel: www.joelbgreen.com
🌟 Connect with Jennifer: www.jenniferdawncoaching.com
👟 Sign up for a retreat: shorturl.at/clPR8

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Happy Productive with Jennifer Dawn

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