Sports + Outdoor Mentors
Join our community as we build the definitive content source to inspire and motivate sports and outdoor industry leaders, providing practical career and business insights. We started with a podcast and YouTube channel, and in 2025, we’ll be adding the following: ✳️ Webinars ✳️ Newsletters ✳️ And much more! Click the follow button to keep updated and join the community. You can watch the podcast on YouTube and Spotify or listen to it on your favourite podcast platforms, including Apple and Spotify. Thanks for your support, and see you soon. 🙏
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Sunday Dec 24, 2023
Sunday Dec 24, 2023
Sports + Outdoor Mentors is a source of inspiration, motivation, practical career, and business lessons for future and existing sports and outdoor industry leaders.
Join us every Sunday for a new episode.
In this episode, Richard Collier, CEO of Jack Wolfskin, shares valuable insights into his career path from being a middle-distance runner, his time at Adidas as a Product Manager, being a consultant, leading the product creation at Helly Hansen, and most recently, being CEO of the Global Outdoor brand Jack Wolfskin.
Richard Book Recommendation
Black Box Thinking: Marginal Gains and the Secrets of High Performance - by Matthew SYED - https://amzn.to/47bRvr8 (Amazon affiliate link)
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Sunday Dec 17, 2023
Sunday Dec 17, 2023
Sports + Outdoor Mentors is a source of inspiration, motivation, practical career, and business lessons for future and existing sports and outdoor industry leaders.
Join us every Sunday for a new episode.
In this episode, meet Franz Bittmann, Founder & CEO of namuk, the kids' brand, as he shares insights into life before Namuk, the challenges of finding a home/work balance, sustainability, and much more.
Franz Bittmann's Recommendations (please note we use Amazon affiliate links):
Steve Jobs, Paperback by Walter Isaacson - https://amzn.to/41mVZKt
Follow namuk:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/namuk-outerwear-for-kids/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/namuk/
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/franz-bittmann-67b04424/
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dantrapp/
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Sunday Dec 10, 2023
Sunday Dec 10, 2023
Meet Greg Nieuwenhuys, the Chairman of Mammut and Wattbike, as he shares insights on putting family first, his competitiveness, cultural differences, vulnerability, AI, sustainability, and much more.
Sunday Dec 03, 2023
Sunday Dec 03, 2023
Meet Julien Durant, the Co-founder and CEO of Picture Organic Clothing, as he shares insights into his early motivations and career, launching and leading a purpose-driven brand with two friends, the value of having a Mentor, and much more.
Thursday Nov 23, 2023
Thursday Nov 23, 2023
In this episode, Romain Millet, the CEO of Millet Mountain Sports, talks about his time in China, the role of Digital, the importance of family, feeling alone as a CEO, and much more.