#359: Mindfulness, Happiness, Leadership and Success in the "Business of Life" as an Entrepreneur with Matt Altman

In an engaging podcast interview, host Ryan Tansom welcomes Matt Altman, co-founder and CEO of the lifestyle apparel company, Sportiqe. Together, they delve into the deep connections between business, personal growth, and emotional wellbeing. Matt highlights how Sportiqe's values and 'can-do' attitude fostered connectivity, mindfulness, and proactive initiatives amid the global pandemic. His enlightening perspective suggests that true success encompasses not only wealth accumulation but also the cultivation of happiness and inner peace.

Matt recounts his transition from professional sports to entrepreneurship, a path filled with struggles including bouts of anxiety and depression. This journey sparked his realization that businesses can make a significant positive impact by fostering a culture that caters to fundamental human needs. He also draws an intriguing parallel between personal experiences and business outcomes. He equates life's external accomplishments, such as earning money or acquiring possessions, to business revenue, while internal experiences like happiness, gratitude, and emotional wellbeing represent profit.

Matt envisions expanding Sportiqe while preserving its core values and commitment to quality and hopes to inspire other businesses to adopt similar practices that promote personal growth, self-awareness, emotional balance, and social responsibility as crucial aspects of business success.

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What You Will Learn

• The intersections between professional and personal growth
• The importance of inner peace
• How conscious capitalism and business values intersect
• What it means to have personal growth as a reflection of business success
• The interconnectedness of inner and outer worlds

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Bio:

Established in 2006, Sportiqe was co-founded by Matt Altman who saw a need for on-trend, premium apparel in the destination retail space. Headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, they are a global, Modern American Comfort Brand, that is committed to delivering elevated basics using premium fabrics, innovative on-trend designs and fashionable fits that not only look and feel good, but provide superior comfort no matter where you roam. Since its inception, Sportiqe has outfitted more than five million people around the globe partnering with some of the most recognizable brands in the world, such as the NBA, Trek, Nintendo, Warner Bros, Live Nation and Dave Matthews Band, providing comfort to all.

Interview Quotes:

11:25 - “Business owners and leaders have a disproportionate amount of ripple effect into things that they're doing because of the leverage of their team, their ecosystem, their stakeholders.” - Ryan Tansom

12:23 - “What every human being wants is the same thing: we want to be happy.” - Matt Altman

16:03 - “If I had inner peace, then I can do anything.” - Matt Altman

30:56 - “To me, the profit is the experience that we’re having. Are we happy? Are we experiencing gratitude?” - Matt Altman

31:44 - “You can make millions and millions of dollars and then be super depressed and not happy. Well then you’re running a deficit business when it comes to your life. I feel like that is the biggest challenge.” - Matt Altman

47:55 - “We all have 168 hours in a week, what are you going to do with it?” - Ryan Tansom

48:45 - “As humans, i think we tend to solve our issues that we have internally, by doing external things.” - Matt Altman

01:06:35 - “The only other thing that's in the present moment besides your breath are your choices.” - Ryan Tansom

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