This content was created by Ravi Gupta. This content was uploaded by Ravi Gupta. This is a podcast titled "Welcome to Glue Guys!" recorded in September 2024 featuring multiple speakers including Ravi Gupta, Alex Smith, Shane Battier, and others. The conversation introduces the podcast's theme centered on leadership, teamwork, business, sports, parenting, and personal growth, emphasizing the "Glue Guy" mindset of doing the unrecognized work to improve teams and relationships.
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I'm Alex Smith.
I'm Shane Battier.
And I'm Ravi Gupta. Welcome to Glue Guys.
The namesake of this pod, Glue Guy, is doing the things that no one's asking you to do to make your team better, unflappable.
We all are going to do our.
Job a little better, was the message.
We all just need to do our.
Job a little better.
Do you see what I'm saying?
I don't get to tell you what.
Game you're playing, but I get to teach you that your responsibility to go figure this out, and I'm here to help you.
Pat Riley is a great saying about culture. Culture is not like, the ideal of what a group should be. What culture is, what is the minimum that this group will be willing to accept? The minimum.
And when he walked around the locker room right before the game and was like, alex, are you going to live today? Because I'm going to live that for.
Me, he was a glue guy.
Sometimes the team needs certain type of leadership. Sometimes the team needs you to pick up the fucking trash. Sometimes the team needs you to move the microphone. Just figure out what the team needs and do that.
You know, it wasn't until I really had to work on myself, really flex that muscle and develop that muscle to be like, yeah, man, it's all right. It's all right to let people in, and especially people who care about you.
I think it's a requirement to be a good guy, to be a great leader. You can't just dip your toe in. You've got to be all in.
People can just sniff bullshits from so far away, they can just tell immediately.
He would just go off. He would start cussing off. Phil Jackson, he would go over to.
The ball rack, throw the ball rack.
Like, into the stands, start punting basketballs.
Tip over the Gatorade water reminds me so much. Urban Meyer, he had his core, was like a psychologist more than a football coach. That edge, you talk about creating that as a leader. Like, he created that edge.
And so, of course, first I'm like, sheepish.
I'm like, man, I can't believe Jeff.
Bezos kicking me out of here. So I'm like. I kind of slink out.
I'm like, oh, man.
And then like, holy shit, I'm going to have this story for the rest of my life.
Ravi, Alex and I become friends after we realize that for each way, our backgrounds couldn't be more different. Black guy, Indian guy, and a white guy. There are many, many more ways we couldn't be more the Same Blue Guys.
Is a podcast about business, sports, and parenting. But it's also a podcast about fun stories, friendships, and giving each other shit. But mostly it's just about the lessons that life keeps giving us and our never ending pursuit to be the best possible teammates. We'll be back with you each week.
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