Elise Hu

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I would love to have someone who took care of my car or someone who cleaned up the dishes after dinner, but then I'd want them to leave.

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What do you get when you combine a major flood and near bankruptcy?

In this case, the unexpected awakening that reshaped an entire business into a brand that much of the world knows.

In his talk, Whole Foods co-founder John Mackey takes us back to the night his first store was destroyed and how a community rising from the mud inspired his lifelong philosophy of win, win, win.

Doing good for yourself, the community, and the world around you.

That was John Mackey speaking at TED 2025.

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This talk was fact-checked by the TED Research Team and produced and edited by our team, Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, Lucy Little, and Tansika Sangmarnivong.