LA Lakers President, Jeanie Buss ON: Empowering Women in Leadership On & Off the Court

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Jeanie Buss sits down with Jay Shetty to talk about believing in your own strength in an industry with more male leaders, how you can learn from your own mistakes and take the lead, and that gender doesn’t matter, it’s the people and the talent they have. Jeanie Buss is the controlling owner and president of the Los Angeles Lakers. She is the daughter of Jerry Buss, a real estate investor who later owned the Lakers and other sports businesses. At age 19, she started in the family business as general manager of the Los Angeles Strings professional tennis team, and later became the owner of the Los Angeles Blades professional roller hockey team. What We Discuss with Jeanie: 00:00 Intro 03:46 A memory that you have from being a young girl 06:22 Respect people no matter what their circumstance is 09:05 What are some of those leader's parallels that you're seeing in your journey? 12:59 Don’t let critics and outside detractors feed the outcome 15:33 You can’t sit by the sidelines when you see something is wrong 20:26 If there are people in our community that is suffering, what can we do? 23:44 When a big decision is to be made, everybody looks for a scapegoat 28:54 Overcoming your biggest personal challenge 33:07 Internal rituals for yourself to help stay calm in the chaos 36:22 Gender doesn’t matter, it’s the talent that matters 42:28 What can you learn from LeBron James? 44:44 The best memories shared with Kobe Bryant 50:50 Jeanie on Fast Five Like this show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening on Instagram & tag us so we can thank you personally! Episode Resources: Jeanie Buss | LinkedIn Jeanie Buss | Instagram Jeanie Buss | Twitter Achieve success in every area of your life with Jay Shetty’s Genius Community. Join over 10,000 members taking their holistic well-being to the next level today, at https://shetty.cc/OnPurposeGenius See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices