Extreme You, Sarah Robb OHagan
Extreme You, Sarah Robb OHagan
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Extreme You
Step Up. Stand Out. Kick Ass. Repeat.

Author: Sarah Robb O'Hagan

Narrator: Sarah Robb O'Hagan, Sandy Rustin

Unabridged: 9 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/04/2017


Synopsis

The former president of Gatorade and Equinox draws unconventional insights and kickass lessons from her personal and professional experiences and from a band of highly accomplished ""Extremers"" from business, sports, and entertainment to help you rock your career and live the boldest version of yourself.From childhood, Sarah Robb O’Hagan felt destined to become a champion, but her early efforts at sports, in school, and in music made it clear she was no natural superstar. Unwilling to settle for average, she decided to go Extreme. From working with Richard Branson as a thriving Virgin Atlantic executive in her twenties to being fired and nearly deported a matter of months later, she learned through a series of surprising successes and epic fails that the extremes of her experiences were the engine of her success. Making her way up the corporate ladder to become an executive at Nike, global president of Gatorade, and president of the luxury fitness company Equinox—as well as a wife, mother, and endurance athlete—she took the opportunity to learn from her relationships with extremely successful athletes, entertainers, and business and political leaders, discovering that across a wide range of pursuits—from Olympic skier to disruptive entrepreneur, from White House chef to secretary of state—Extremers follow the same method to realize their potential. She learned to develop an almost magical inner drive, challenge by challenge, until she could outperform almost any competition; to embrace her interests, talents and idiosyncrasies and present them as unique specialties; and to step up—and step out of line—without letting her ego blow up all her hard work. She learned how to grit her teeth in the face of embarrassing failures, get over her weaknesses, and relentlessly test herself to reach her next level of success.In every challenging situation, personal or professional, individuals face the pressure to conform to the accepted norms. But doing so comes with heavy costs: passions stifled, talents ignored, and opportunities squelched. The bolder choice is to embrace what Sarah calls Extreme You: to confidently bring all that is distinctive and relevant about yourself to everything you do.Inspiring, surprising, laugh-out-loud funny, and practical, Extreme You is her training program for becoming your best version of yourself.

About Sarah Robb O'Hagan

Sarah Robb O’Hagan is an executive, activist, and entrepreneur, and the founder of Extreme You, a movement to unleash high performance. As the global president of Gatorade, she led its reinvention and turnaround, and she is the former president of Equinox Fitness Clubs. Named one of Forbes’s “Most Powerful Women in Sports” and one of Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business,” she has also held leadership positions at Nike and Virgin Atlantic Airways.  She is now the CEO of the fitness company Flywheel Sports. A sought-after expert on innovation, brand reinvention, health, fitness, and inspiring human performance, Sarah lives with her family in New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kelly on March 27, 2017

To oversimplify, this is a how to succeed guide. It'll help you advance your career or find courage to start over. The most valuable thing for me are the success stories from ordinary people who created their own niches and did extraordinary things. Everyone has something that they are (what I call)......more

Goodreads review by Leonardo on July 09, 2020

An interesting mix of biography, how to and pep rally. Nothing necessarily groundbreaking here, but she does a good job of showing how you need to keep examining yourself, challenging yourself and keep learning. I also liked the emphasis on humility and that she recognizes that a lot of the skill in......more

Goodreads review by Jen on May 18, 2017

O’Hagan’s recipe for career success manages to be arrestingly original in the overcrowded space of career self-help. The recipe: learn where you shine best, get your best at it, and find a specialized audience that needs it and can afford it. Her method for achieving the recipe is to take initiative......more

Goodreads review by Terralynn on October 17, 2019

Chose for the specific purpose of entertaining myself on multiple drives between Toronto and Ottawa and was curious of executive / business experience from a woman's experience. The "extreme" angle caught my eye and resonated with an approach I have to being intentional in whatever I do. The book ha......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on January 26, 2021

Shudder. Spent the first 45 mins or so absolutely hating the author and fighting the urge to throw this book down and never pick it up again. LOUD. CONFIDENT. EXTROVERT. TO THE VERY EXTREME. Screaming at you that this is the only way to be in business do well. Ultimately, there are certainly things......more