Episode Details

Randy Cohen is the founder and Chief Energizing Officer of TicketCity, which he started as a university student with $1,200 and six basketball tickets.

Four decades later, he is an author, entrepreneur, connector, father, grandfather and the heart behind the Loop of Love—a philosophy centred on giving back, bringing people together and helping them leave a room feeling better than when they entered.

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Timestamps:

00:00 — The question that opens every interview: “Who are you?”

00:45 — Randy’s Loop of Love and the identity beneath his title

02:47 — Starting TicketCity with $1,200 and six basketball tickets

03:20 — “Heart of a cougar, soul of a lion”

06:18 — The early role model who taught Randy to light up a room

07:32 — Risk, the circle of life and entering a different season

09:13 — The LAYER model: listen, acknowledge, explore and respond

11:10 — The books and practices helping Randy learn to simply be

13:02 — Getting 1% better and shifting from winning to giving back

13:56 — The $5 million restaurant mistake

14:25 — Why you cannot own a business without showing up

15:23 — Closing the restaurants and discovering that less is more

18:44 — COVID, lost identity and watching his life force disappear

20:07 — How Randy began getting his colours back

21:16 — Small relationship practices that restore energy

24:09 — How gratitude creates a loop that interrupts overthinking

25:19 — Joseph Campbell, dragons and the Mental Fitness Blueprint

26:21 — Stop slaying dragons and start flying with them

29:28 — Randy’s hot-tub ritual and morning hummingbird report

29:56 — Creating enough space to notice what others are carrying

31:49 — What a life well lived really means

33:01 — The people and principles that shaped Randy’s swagger

36:49 — Final reflections, TicketCity and living the dash

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Music: Clouds - Joakim Karud

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