239. Rebroadcast: Just Be Nice with Josh Jones

Description

Josh Jones is the CEO of Odin Sports, a company specialising in the supply of performance sports apparel and branding/marketing strategies for sports organisations.

Leading by example, Josh created the Just Be Nice Project supplying new clothing to homeless Australians. Donations are given, one-for-one, for items purchased through the #JBNProject range.

Passionate about bridging the gap between social responsibility and corporate accountability to commercial outcomes, Josh extensively consults and mentors businesses and entrepreneurs, both non-profit and for-profit entities to provide commercially viable, socially responsible outcomes.

In this episode we talk about:

How Josh Jones started the JBN Project
How he created his company to offer good quality products and to help people
Working with non-profits organisations to help them with life efficiency and transparency
The Odin Sports structure of business
What the Odin Sports clothing company does to help homeless people
How Josh manages to keep his prices competitive
Josh's motivation and where it comes from
How to go from having nothing to having whatever you want
Working very hard to succeed
Being fortunate and successful
The importance of being grateful and understanding what makes life better
How understanding leads to opportunity
Josh's definition of success
The volunteering aspect
How he maintains commercial success
The one question that Josh gets asked the most
What JBN do in non-profit development
Josh's programs with other organisations
Josh's self-esteem and confidence, and where they come from
The biggest decision Josh ever made
How Josh really enjoys food with family and good friends
Josh's experiences and happiness around food
Creating a moment with beautiful memories
The importance of giving and interacting with people
Tying his self-esteem to what he loves doing
How to do something for as long as you can by working really hard
The importance of practising in order to improve
The correlation between effort and improvement
How he’s always building himself up, practising, honing his skills and getting the most out of himself all the time
How he is proud of people who are trying their very best

Josh Jones's fondest food memories

"Half of my family is Polynesian, so food features prominently in my family. I've got a younger brother and a younger sister, and at primary school we were the only ones to finish all our graduation dinners. I was always at my friends' houses. I was every cooking mum's favourite kid because I would eat everything. I’d always come back for seconds and thirds.

"Food for me is one of the great pleasures. It's one of the luxuries that I really enjoy. I really enjoy going out for a meal with good friends, enjoy good wine and good food. That was always the experience that I’ve chased as a reward for what I have been fortunate enough to do and to achieve."

Know more about Josh Jones

Who would you love to have dinner with and where?

“I think Barrack Obama. I'd love to sit down and pick his brains. I would like to hear what keeps him up and what his frustrations are. He’s a fascinating guy, very intelligent and I respect him very much. I think he would be a wonderful dinner guest and a really great conversationalist.”