John WetmoreSales and Scaling Coach for Small Business and Corporations. Keynote Speaker. Podcast Host. Life Insurance Leader.

The Mistakes I've Learned From RUNNING

Name: The Mistakes I've Learned From RUNNING
Uploaded: 2025-08-12T20:46:07+00:00
Duration: 46 s
Channel: John Wetmore
Description: In this brief motivational monologue, speaker John Wetmore argues that mistakes are essential for growth, using vivid running anecdotes—such as chafing…

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In this brief motivational monologue, speaker John Wetmore argues that mistakes are essential for growth, using vivid running anecdotes—such as chafing and nipple irritation—to illustrate unexpected challenges. He parallels these physical setbacks with professional missteps in the insurance industry, emphasizing the need to willingly make mistakes, own them, seek feedback, and implement improvements. Wetmore highlights the role of external guidance, noting that he hired a running coach and an insurance mentor to accelerate his learning and performance in both domains.

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Mistakes. I think mistakes are insanely valuable. Most of y'all aren't willing to make mistakes. So when I'm out running, I had to be willing to make a lot of mistakes. Any y'all runners? You run for hours and hours and hours and sweat. Like, chafing is real. You go around in basketball shorts and like tighty-whities, you come home with some sores you didn't know you would have. And you wear a regular shirt, you run a few miles in the sweat, and your shirt's bumping up and down. That shit burns your nipples off. You don't know that in advance, right? And in insurance, I had to be willing to make a lot of mistakes. I had to mess up. When I do this strategy, I had to be willing to miss sales. I had to be willing to mess up with agents. We have to make mistakes, the willingness to make them, then we have to go make them, then we have to own we actually made the mistake, and then we have to take feedback on that mistake and implement changes from someone who's better than us. I do it in both ways. I hired a coach on the running side and I had a mentor on the insurance side.