Blake Mycoskie
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977 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Blake Mycoskie’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But looking back now, I think this was prevalent all through growing up and into my tennis career and then into business and then to Tom's.
I think I had this kind of core wound that I never really addressed, and I don't think it really surfaced as much until after I sold Tom's.
But it was the fact that I just never felt that I was enough.
And I think so much of my drive and ambition and starting five companies before Tom's, and then my desire to really help the world and help people, kids get shoes, was all tied to this kind of deep need for external validation, because I didn't feel that I was enough just as I was.
And I think it really came to light once I sold the company.
And then I should have been feeling my best.
I helped 100 million kids get shoes.
I made hundreds of millions of dollars myself.
I had this great family.
And that still wasn't enough.
And I still didn't feel that intrinsic sense of worth.
And that's when I was really faced with that wound that had probably been there since I was a kid.
Oh, all of it.
I think I literally, I moved away from home at age 15 and lived at a tennis academy.
I practiced five, six hours a day.
I didn't go to the movies on Friday nights with my friends because I was hitting on the ball machine.
My whole identity was based around being a competitive tennis player and a great competitive tennis player.
It's hard because you don't have teammates, right?
It's all unused.
There's a lot of pressure for someone who's young.
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