17 - Michael Phelps, Olympic champion: The Toughest Battle Is in Your Mind
Fortt Knox4 Maalis 2017

17 - Michael Phelps, Olympic champion: The Toughest Battle Is in Your Mind

We love to have these debates about who's the greatest of all time in any given sport; maybe it's because you don't even have to be an expert to get in on them. All you need to know is the yardstick for success. Serena Williams or Steffi Graf? Tom Brady or Joe Montana? That's what makes Michael Phelps special. There's no debate. He's the greatest swimmer and most decorated Olympian of all time. He won 28 medals over four different Olympic Games, 23 of them gold. The question is, how? Well, Michael Phelps is not a fish. Doctors have shot down the notion that his abnormal wingspan and flexible joints give him an outsized advantage. It turns out, Phelps worked hard on his craft. He also does a few mental exercises that the rest of us would do well to emulate. I sat down with him for the Fortt Knox podcast to get some of his best insights.


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75 - Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO: The Vision for Power in Cloud and AI

75 - Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO: The Vision for Power in Cloud and AI

I’ve never had a repeat guest on Fortt Knox in the year and a half I’ve been doing this. That’s not because there’s a rule against it, I just never had a compelling reason to.   That changes this week...

7 Touko 201836min

74 - Vlad Shmunis, RingCentral founder and CEO: A Multi-Billion-Dollar Midlife Crisis

74 - Vlad Shmunis, RingCentral founder and CEO: A Multi-Billion-Dollar Midlife Crisis

Vlad Shmunis just wasn't an enthusiastic employee. Didn't like following directions. And he had ideas – lots of ideas. Eventually, something had to give. So the entrepreneurial engineer took a leap, e...

28 Huhti 201834min

73 - Rafat Ali, Skift founder & CEO: A Long Journey to Paid Content and Beyond

73 - Rafat Ali, Skift founder & CEO: A Long Journey to Paid Content and Beyond

Rafat Ali has done something remarkable in an era where it's really tough to make money telling people the truth. He built and sold PaidContent, a site that covered the digital media revolution with t...

21 Huhti 201831min

72 - Rob Solomon, GoFundMe CEO: This Leader Bet the Farm on Generosity

72 - Rob Solomon, GoFundMe CEO: This Leader Bet the Farm on Generosity

GoFundMe is a generosity powerhouse – it's helped people raise a total of more than 5 billion dollars for all kinds of causes and pet projects. Rob Solomon is its CEO. Late last year, Solomon made a b...

14 Huhti 201824min

71 - Tim Ryan, PwC U.S. Chairman: Tech is Reshaping the Dynamics of Global Business

71 - Tim Ryan, PwC U.S. Chairman: Tech is Reshaping the Dynamics of Global Business

Tim Ryan grew up in a working-class family in Boston, where his early jobs included a paper route and a job at a grocery. He’s now the U.S. chairman of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the global accounting fi...

30 Maalis 201833min

70 - Tony Xu, DoorDash CEO: It's About Data, Not Just Food or Delivery

70 - Tony Xu, DoorDash CEO: It's About Data, Not Just Food or Delivery

This week on the podcast? DoorDash cofounder and CEO Tony Xu. He just raised more than half a billion dollars to build out his business.  There’s this idea out there that today’s consumers are lazy, a...

24 Maalis 201825min

69 - Danny Govberg, Watchbox CEO: Tech Didn't Kill the Luxury Watch Business After All

69 - Danny Govberg, Watchbox CEO: Tech Didn't Kill the Luxury Watch Business After All

Everybody loves a David and Goliath story. The problem is, in business these days, the David is usually a family business, and the Goliath is some technology-juicing giant. Goliath is usually winning....

17 Maalis 201823min

68 - Abe Ankumah, Nyansa cofounder & CEO: Building on a Legacy of Entrepreneurship

68 - Abe Ankumah, Nyansa cofounder & CEO: Building on a Legacy of Entrepreneurship

Abe Ankumah had never touched a computer before he arrived at Caltech in 1997, but quickly became captivated and decided to major in computer science. Now he’s the cofounder and CEO of Nyansa, a Silic...

10 Maalis 201832min

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