John Mackey: Not Sure You're on the Right Path In Your Career? (Use THIS Framework When You Feel Lost About What's Next)

Was there ever a time when you believed that Whole Food was going to fail? There were times when it almost did fail, but there was never a time I actually believed it would fail. You said something beautiful about what it takes to keep people that whole foods was like Wow, you've had so many people working twenty, thirty, even forty years here. How do you do that? If you give people two things. Give'em purpose. And secondly, they want to feel they're loved. So if you give people purpose and love, why would they ever want to leave? Hey everyone, welcome back to On Purpose, the place you come to become healthier, happier, and more healed. I'm so grateful to have your ears and eyes for the next hour or so, and I'm really looking forward to diving in with today's guest. Today's guest is John Mackie, an entrepreneur and co-founder and visionary of

of whole foods market. In his 44 years of service as CEO, the natural and organic grocer grew from a single store in Austin, Texas, to 540 stores in the US, UK, and Canada with annual sales exceeding$22 billion. John co-founded the Conscious Capitalism movement and co-authored the New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling book entitled Conscious Capitalism. liberating the heroic spirit of business. And then the follow up Conscious leadership elevating humanity through business. John is also the co-author of The Whole Foods Diet, The Life Saving Plan for Health and Longevity, and The Whole Foods Cookbook. And today we're talking about his latest book.

which is called The Whole Story, Adventures in Love, Life and Capitalism. It's available right now. We're gonna put the link in the comments. I'd love for you to order this while you're listening along. I promise you it won't disappoint. Please welcome to On Purpose, John Merke. John, it's uh great to have you here. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me on, Jay. Yeah, really grateful to have you here. And I was saying to you just now before we started that I actually received conscious capitalism as such a pivotal moment in my life. I just finished three years of living as a monk. And

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