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What Robin Hood CEO Wes Moore Learned From Loving His Career on Wall Street to Pursue His Passion Plus, Moore explains how all of us have skills that can be used to help during a crisis.

By David Meltzer

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On this episode of The Playbook, Robin Hood Foundation CEO Wes Moore talks about:

  • Why everybody knows the things that make their heart beat faster, but few of us choose to seek them out [8:48].
  • What he learned from leaving his career on Wall Street to pursue a career he was truly passionate about [10:14].
  • How Robin Hood is generating billions of dollars to fight against poverty and how he's leading the organization through a time of dire crisis [13:31].
  • Why you need to find your "unmatched skillset" and utilize that to make the world better during the current crisis [21:16].

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David Meltzer

Co-Founder of Sports 1 Marketing, Speaker, Author and Business Coach

David Meltzer, co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing and host of Entrepreneur's podcast, “The Playbook”, is a Top 100 Business Coach, global public speaker and three-time international best-selling author who has been honored by Variety as “Sports Humanitarian of the Year”.

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