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Fueled by Dare to Fail. Dare to Succeed.
Olympian and former NFL player now thriving as a CEO and Philanthropist, Jeremy Bloom pulls at the common thread that unites him with all of the defeats we encounter on our journeys to reach our goals. Sharing his hard-earned insights, advice, and practices including lessons from respected coaches, phenomenal athletes, and highly successful business leaders, Bloom coaches you in tackling defeats—big and small—and using them to drive, not derail, your success.
Bloom
How to rebound and reprogram after defeat
How to utilize the lessons from failures
Which motivators evoke winning results
Tactics for managing expectations for yourself and/or your team
How to create a badass business culture
Leaving a legacy
Olympian and former NFL player now thriving as a CEO and Philanthropist, Jeremy Bloom pulls at the common thread that unites him with all of the defeats we encounter on our journeys to reach our goals. Sharing his hard-earned insights, advice, and practices including lessons from respected coaches, phenomenal athletes, and highly successful business leaders, Bloom coaches you in tackling defeats—big and small—and using them to drive, not derail, your success.
Bloom
How to rebound and reprogram after defeat
How to utilize the lessons from failures
Which motivators evoke winning results
Tactics for managing expectations for yourself and/or your team
How to create a badass business culture
Leaving a legacy
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First published April 30, 2015
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About the author
Jeremy Bloom
1 book4 followersJeremy Bloom is CEO of the Marketing Technology company, Integrate and founder of Wish of a Lifetime, a nonprofit organization. In addition to his professional life, Jeremy is an accomplished athlete in both skiing and football. He is a three-time World Champion, two-time Olympian, eleven-time World Cup gold medalist and a member of the United States Skiing Hall of Fame. In 2005, he won a record six straight World Cup events, the most in a single season in the sport's history. He was also an All-American football player at the University of Colorado and played professional football as a wide receiver and return specialist in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
While playing with the NFL in Philadelphia for the Eagles, he completed a business entrepreneurship program at Wharton Business School where he studied real estate and finance. In addition to his athletic achievements, Jeremy possesses a driving motivation to give back to those around him leading him to, in January 2008, found Wish of a Lifetime, which grants lifelong wishes to 80, 90, & 100+ year old people. The non-profit has granted over 1000 wishes in all 50 states and has plans to expand to Canada and across the US.
In 2009, Jeremy entered into the business world and launched MDinfo.com, a health portal creating a dialogue between health experts and ordinary people throughout the world. In April 2010, Jeremy co-founded the marketing software company Integrate, the first advertising technology provider that empowers media buyers to plan, launch, analyze, and optimize marketing campaigns across performance, digital and traditional media. Through Jeremy’s vision and leadership, Integrate is transforming the global advertising market. The company has raised over $25M of venture capital from Comcast, Foundry Group and Liberty Global. Integrate was named as the "Best New Company" at the 2011 American Business Awards in New York City. Also in 2011 Jeremy was named by Forbes as 30 under 30, tech executives under the age of 30 making waves in the technology space and in 2013 Jeremy was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year.
Outside of business, Jeremy has continued to maintain his name within the sports world. He does commentary for College Football and is an Olympic Sports Television Analyst and has worked for ESPN, Fox, NBC and The Pac-12 Network.
Jeremy specializes in moving fast and making an impact. His focus and motivation provide unbeatable inspiration for his team at Integrate and Jeremy Bloom’s Wish of a Lifetime.
While playing with the NFL in Philadelphia for the Eagles, he completed a business entrepreneurship program at Wharton Business School where he studied real estate and finance. In addition to his athletic achievements, Jeremy possesses a driving motivation to give back to those around him leading him to, in January 2008, found Wish of a Lifetime, which grants lifelong wishes to 80, 90, & 100+ year old people. The non-profit has granted over 1000 wishes in all 50 states and has plans to expand to Canada and across the US.
In 2009, Jeremy entered into the business world and launched MDinfo.com, a health portal creating a dialogue between health experts and ordinary people throughout the world. In April 2010, Jeremy co-founded the marketing software company Integrate, the first advertising technology provider that empowers media buyers to plan, launch, analyze, and optimize marketing campaigns across performance, digital and traditional media. Through Jeremy’s vision and leadership, Integrate is transforming the global advertising market. The company has raised over $25M of venture capital from Comcast, Foundry Group and Liberty Global. Integrate was named as the "Best New Company" at the 2011 American Business Awards in New York City. Also in 2011 Jeremy was named by Forbes as 30 under 30, tech executives under the age of 30 making waves in the technology space and in 2013 Jeremy was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year.
Outside of business, Jeremy has continued to maintain his name within the sports world. He does commentary for College Football and is an Olympic Sports Television Analyst and has worked for ESPN, Fox, NBC and The Pac-12 Network.
Jeremy specializes in moving fast and making an impact. His focus and motivation provide unbeatable inspiration for his team at Integrate and Jeremy Bloom’s Wish of a Lifetime.
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November 8, 2017
I wanted to read, Fueled by Failure: Using Detours and Defeats to Power Progress, by former NFL player and Olympic skier Jeremy Bloom as I thought it was going to be a inspiring story of overcoming defeat and/or injuries to win again or build a new life after sports. Although the book did talk about some epic losses that Bloom suffered in his athletic career, but the book went a slightly different way than I had expected.
Bloom does share some of his secrets of how he deals with failure and how he prevents them from allowing failure to get a grip on him and cripple his future endeavors.
But instead of Bloom making his point in everyday life situations, Bloom uses various expiries in his business life to demonstrate how his failure fueled him to succeeded and how he took the lessons learned from past failures to succeed.
Although the book was not what I had expected it to be, I did learn aolot of good business advice.
Bloom does share some of his secrets of how he deals with failure and how he prevents them from allowing failure to get a grip on him and cripple his future endeavors.
But instead of Bloom making his point in everyday life situations, Bloom uses various expiries in his business life to demonstrate how his failure fueled him to succeeded and how he took the lessons learned from past failures to succeed.
Although the book was not what I had expected it to be, I did learn aolot of good business advice.
July 4, 2018
Enjoyed the 5 pillars of culture of Performance, Entrepreneurial, Personal Responsibility, Creativity and Humility.
A couple of other highlights such as the point that you are more productive when you enjoy working together (in a group). And the awesome "don't let good days go to your head and don't let bad days go to your heart".
Worth the read!
A couple of other highlights such as the point that you are more productive when you enjoy working together (in a group). And the awesome "don't let good days go to your head and don't let bad days go to your heart".
Worth the read!
January 29, 2018
"The enriching expierences on the journey through life happen somwhere between the dream and the reality, even if we fall a few times along the way. Impermanence is real; today is the youngest you will ever be." - Jeremy Bloom
Mind like a river
Extrensic vs intrinsic goals
Non profit section
Mind like a river
Extrensic vs intrinsic goals
Non profit section
November 7, 2018
This book is so inspirational and makes me want to go for my dreams because failure isn’t as bad as you think.
March 7, 2017
Jermey's take on failing is inspiring. His philosophy on how to achieve and how to come back from setbacks isn't new but his examples of how he did it was what made this book enjoyable. Here is my takeaways from the book:
Failure is not the sign of the end, It a lesson of how not to begin and how to become better. Define your own success and understand what is important to you. To become a great leader, you have to understand what motivates the people around you. Create the context to motivate them. Don't get confused about the things that motivate you.
Failure is not the sign of the end, It a lesson of how not to begin and how to become better. Define your own success and understand what is important to you. To become a great leader, you have to understand what motivates the people around you. Create the context to motivate them. Don't get confused about the things that motivate you.
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July 21, 2015
You can do it. Reach for the goal and succeed. Change your failures to wins. Hollow words or insightful commentary?
This is one of those book genres that you will either love, hate or be supremely indifferent to. A former U.S. Olympian and NFL player does good in business, becomes a CEO and philanthropist and writes his tablets of stone for the enlightenment of the public at large.
To this reviewer, at least, it did not feel to be a gold medal winner, yet equally it was not the equivalent of this reviewer running the 1500 metres race (i.e. laughably poor). If you can establish a connection with it, it might work for you, gaining benefit from the author’s coaching and guidance and seeing how to bounce back after defeat and motivate yourself to learn from past mistakes and move forward.
As you may expect, the book starts with the author’s own story and a journey through his failure and recovery before moving onto the self-help specifics of how not to let defeat beat you, how to define and work around failure and how to reprogramme your ego, develop and implement your own plan for success. Reading through it didn’t feel to be a revolution or something that will shake the world, it merely being a recap of what is fairly common sense. In the mind of those who need it, perhaps it will be different. It is not an expensive book, in any case, so even if you buy it on spec and get something out of it, maybe it won’t be the end of the world.
Fueled By Failure, written by Jeremy Bloom and published by Entrepreneur Press. ISBN 9781599185637. YYY
This is one of those book genres that you will either love, hate or be supremely indifferent to. A former U.S. Olympian and NFL player does good in business, becomes a CEO and philanthropist and writes his tablets of stone for the enlightenment of the public at large.
To this reviewer, at least, it did not feel to be a gold medal winner, yet equally it was not the equivalent of this reviewer running the 1500 metres race (i.e. laughably poor). If you can establish a connection with it, it might work for you, gaining benefit from the author’s coaching and guidance and seeing how to bounce back after defeat and motivate yourself to learn from past mistakes and move forward.
As you may expect, the book starts with the author’s own story and a journey through his failure and recovery before moving onto the self-help specifics of how not to let defeat beat you, how to define and work around failure and how to reprogramme your ego, develop and implement your own plan for success. Reading through it didn’t feel to be a revolution or something that will shake the world, it merely being a recap of what is fairly common sense. In the mind of those who need it, perhaps it will be different. It is not an expensive book, in any case, so even if you buy it on spec and get something out of it, maybe it won’t be the end of the world.
Fueled By Failure, written by Jeremy Bloom and published by Entrepreneur Press. ISBN 9781599185637. YYY
May 22, 2015
In his book Bloom provides actionable advice on overcoming failure through the personal lessons he has learned from well-respected coaches, athletes, and business leaders that have brought him to the top. The goal of the book is to help you push yourself through hard times, learn how to rebound after being defeated, create an amazing business culture, and uncover motivation you never knew existed. This book is a very simple read where you can pick up this book and literally read it in one afternoon.
For your convenience, we had Jeremy Bloom on our podcast, The Entrepreneurs Library, to give a deep dive on Fueled By Failure. With Jeremy’s experience he gives amazing insight on how to turn negative situations into results-driven positivity. If you would like to get a more in-depth look from the author himself check out episode 226 on the EL website or you can find the show on iTunes.
For your convenience, we had Jeremy Bloom on our podcast, The Entrepreneurs Library, to give a deep dive on Fueled By Failure. With Jeremy’s experience he gives amazing insight on how to turn negative situations into results-driven positivity. If you would like to get a more in-depth look from the author himself check out episode 226 on the EL website or you can find the show on iTunes.
June 25, 2015
The title is a little off-putting, because it is a little difficult to picture a successful, good-looking former athlete as a failure. I am glad I gave the book a chance though, because it ended up being a very worthwhile read. Bloom is deeply intelligent, and I appreciated his honesty as he shared his experiences. I was a little disappointed he didn't talk more about the incredible non-profit he started, but he effectively demonstrates the need for a quality mentor and details what he's learned from them along the way.
April 25, 2020
Not bad. It’s refreshing to hear practical advice on managing failures, companies, and people from a former athlete’s perspective. What Jeremy shared, either based on his own experience or what he instilled from mentors, confirmed a lot of my learnings from business school. I especially like one comment from the book: “sometimes failure isn’t from the efforts of the individual, but from a toxic environment from which you need to escape.” Life’s short. Gotta pursue what we love to do.
February 4, 2017
Quick airplane read with a few great actionable tid-bits about letting your failure fuel you rather than defeat you.
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