This is a transcript excerpt from a live Rose Bowl Speaker Series event hosted by Scott Duffy in Pasadena to support the Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation. The segment introduces the foundation’s fundraising mission and panelists (including Warren Moon and Mark Watts) and features Scott Duffy’s short talk on "leadership through legacy," where he outlines four core value types (personal, experiential, giving, receiving) and emphasizes the importance of values and receiving as part of building a legacy.
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Hi, my name is Scott Duffy, and I'm here live at the Rose bowl in beautiful Pasadena, California, to kick off the Rose bowl speaker series and also to honor the Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation.
So tell me. Tell me a little bit about why we're here today. Well, we're doing a speaker series to raise money for the Rose Bowl. My personal mission is to complete the war and Moon Tunnel, Tunnel number one, who is MVP and my business partner, but moreover, to talk about leadership through legacy. And so I'll be doing a short little TED talk about leadership through legacy and building a legacy and the importance of that, as well as an extraordinary panel with Mark Watts, who was the talent producer of NFL Network, with, of course, Warren Moon, Sean Merriment, Roger Abramson, and of course, the king of New York during the World Series, Jim Laris.
Oh, yeah.
The Rose Bowl Legacy foundation, which Warren and I both sit on the board of advisors for, we raise money to transcend the legacy of the Rose bowl, to create an experience here so that not just the game can be played, but all types of content can be seen here, both in person and on TV and, of course, now social media. But to portray and transcend the values that the Rose bowl represents.
The Roseville Legacy foundation has a mission of preserving, protecting, enhancing the future of this venue. We're one of four national historic landmarks nationwide from a sports venue entertainment standpoint, and we're very, very proud of that. And if we're going to continue to protect this for the next hundred million people, it really lies with Legacy's high ceiling. As a 501 organization, we're very iconic at the Rose bowl, but we're also not a church. We're not a hospital. We don't necessarily have an alumni base. So those 100 million fans are what's important to us, to protect us for that next generation. We're very fortunate to have him involved with us here at the Rose bowl, and I hope you guys feel the same way getting to hear him speak today. So without further ado, Dave.
Thank you, buddy.
Good. L.
They asked me what I wanted to talk about, and I said, leadership through legacy. When I look at Legacy, I think to myself, who has the most impact in my life? The process is understanding your values. And there's four core values that there are. One, your personal values, two, your experiential values, Three, your giving values, and four, your receiving values. And the key to the legacy is, you know, in the end, the only thing that you'll have left is what people remember you for. The impact that you had or empowerment that you gave them in their lives. And that's what we should strive for, to enjoy the pursuit of that potential, of being a legacy. I started changing and shifting my energy about receiving and realizing that receiving was just as important as giving. The problem that I had was that most of my life, I thought, you know, gosh, if I had to bankrupt my personal values, would I bankrupt those? My ethics, my character, my legacy? No way. My brand, my legacy. All the people I've assisted and helped in my life, would I bankrupt that?
No way.
But that's a legacy to leave. That's leading through legacy.
