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Chukky Okobi is an 8 year veteran of the National Football League and a Super Bowl winning champion with his hometown Pittsburgh Steelers. Today he\u2019s an emotional intelligence and integrative psychology professional, using his psychology expertise not only as a Keynote & Motivational speaker, but mainly as a mental performance coach for venture capitalists, startup founders, entrepreneurs, and current/former pro athletes. \n\nChukky Okobi has the personal experience to guide other ambitious corporate leaders to recognize that Success is Simple...if you know the Basic Instructions of Mind Mastery.\n\n\nThis Episode\u2019s Heavy-Hitters:\n- Chukky made the decision he was \u201cgoing pro\u201d at age 7-- he just didn\u2019t know what sport he would go pro in until he played football at age 13 and decided it was \u201cway easier than it looked on TV.\u201d\n- Chukky\u2019s dad didn\u2019t know he played football until he was in college and his mother was so busy she barely had time to notice either. \n- Chukky had to seek out and \u201ccollect father figures\u201d through his coaches and other mentors on the teams he was a part of.\n- After getting rejected from Louisiana, as they deemed Chukky to not be \u201ctop 10 material\u201d he got recruited to Purdue, where they beat top rival Louisiana in the first two games they faced off for a combined score of 112 to 9.\xa0\n- Chukky says the games leading up to the Super Bowl are more memorable for him than the actual Super Bowl game where he won his ring itself, since they couldn\u2019t lose a single game and had to fight for their spot to make it.\n- Everything in your past isn\u2019t real-- it\u2019s just your perception of what happened. Since your future hasn\u2019t happened yet, that\u2019s not real either. All that\u2019s real is now, so why not make your own story?\n- Chukky says: \u201cPeople have 99.9% confidence that the sun is going to come up tomorrow\u2026 Why don\u2019t you just apply that same confidence to yourself?\u201d\n\nIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review/rating: https://ratethispodcast.com/thepozcast\xa0\n\n#thePOZcast\xa0 is brought to you by our friends at Interseller \u2013 the prospecting + outreach platform of recruiters and sellers. Whether you\u2019re doubling down on business development or recruiting talent, Interseller does all the heavy lifting of finding contact data, automating the email and follow-up process, and syncs all that rich data into 20+ CRMs and ATSs. Reach out and get going in a 2-week *free* trial today and let them know you heard about them from Adam on #thePOZcast.\n\nCheck out a free demo today! https://bit.ly/2Fbm/BZ\n\nFor more, please visit www.thePOZcast.com Thanks for listening!