Speaker 1: Stay Calm is a production of I Heart Radio. Welcome
Speaker 1: to Stay Calm, your daily dose of calmness. I'm Bob Roth,
Speaker 1: and I've been teaching people to meditate for fifty years,
Speaker 1: helping them to stay calm under pressure, reboot and re
Speaker 1: energize their lives, and basically be a happier, healthier version
Speaker 1: of themselves. And now I want to help you do
Speaker 1: the same. Ready, sit comfortably, take a few deep breaths,
Speaker 1: and let's begin today's journey. Who hasn't heard of Tupperware?
Speaker 1: How many leftovers have you packed away in your plastic
Speaker 1: Tupperware court container? And maybe you've heard of Tupperware parties,
Speaker 1: perhaps bigger when I was a kid than they are now,
Speaker 1: but still in the rest of the world today there's
Speaker 1: a Tupperware party every one point five seconds. Well, I
Speaker 1: want to tell you about the man who was the
Speaker 1: CEO of Tupperware for twenty five years, Rick Goings. Rick
Speaker 1: has become a hero of mine for many reasons. Rick
Speaker 1: grew up dirt poor in the small town of Wheaton, Illinois.
Speaker 1: He graduated from high school with no money and no
Speaker 1: prospects for college. At seventeen, he moved himself into a
Speaker 1: rooming house and slept on a chair that folded out
Speaker 1: into a makeshift bed. He found a job selling Encyclopedia's
Speaker 1: door to door, and in three months he sold absolutely none.
Speaker 1: Someone suggested he joined the Navy, and when he did,
Speaker 1: the Navy discovered Rick's exceptional talent for leadership. After the Navy,
Speaker 1: Rick went to college, dropped out of college, started his
Speaker 1: own business, made a fortune, and then joined Corporate America,
Speaker 1: and climbed the ranks to top leadership positions in several
Speaker 1: companies until in he was named the CEO of Tupperware Brands.
Speaker 1: I introduce you to Rick not because he started from
Speaker 1: nothing and ended up running one of the world's most
Speaker 1: successful inner national companies. I introduce you to Rick because
Speaker 1: of who he is and what he did to transform
Speaker 1: Tupperware from the inside out and in particular, given economic
Speaker 1: empowerment to fifty million women in more than one hundred countries,
Speaker 1: helping them to rise above poverty to middle class and
Speaker 1: enable many of them to take leadership roles for the
Speaker 1: first times in their communities. Rick has been meditating for
Speaker 1: forty years, and he has taken the experiences and lessons
Speaker 1: learned from his practice to do what I think everyone
Speaker 1: should do when they meditate, use the energy, insights and
Speaker 1: convictions to develop themselves personally, but also to help make
Speaker 1: a better world in small or large ways. Rick and
Speaker 1: I met last year at his sprawling farm outside of Charlottesville, Virginia.
Speaker 1: Rick patiently took this novice horseback rider on trails. He
Speaker 1: said Thomas Jefferson and James Madison might have followed two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty years ago. He wanted to talk with
Speaker 1: me about a new David Lynch found in initiative to
Speaker 1: bring meditation to the one million veterans who suffer from PTSD.
Speaker 1: If we can save even one veteran's life through meditation,
Speaker 1: then it's like dropping a pebble into a pond. The
Speaker 1: ripples will spread out like a multiplier effect, impacting in
Speaker 1: a most positive way the lives of the children, wives
Speaker 1: and husbands, the whole community. Rick said. We meditated together
Speaker 1: as the sun went down, overlooking the rolling foothills of
Speaker 1: the Appalachian Mountains. Afterwards, Rick talked about the impact of meditation,
Speaker 1: quote t M has given me a firm base and
Speaker 1: a soulful foundation. It has given me a mindset of
Speaker 1: purposefulness for my whole life. That's why every morning I
Speaker 1: write the words add value on a piece of paper
Speaker 1: that I taped to my computer screen. I always want
Speaker 1: to be thinking what can I do today to add
Speaker 1: value to someone's life. Rick's been adding value for a
Speaker 1: very long time. For thirty years, he was a top
Speaker 1: leader of the Boys and Girls Club of America. During
Speaker 1: his years, the clubs serve sixty million kids, providing them
Speaker 1: with a safe space free from gangs, carrying adults when
Speaker 1: they often had none, and mentoring programs that gave them
Speaker 1: lifelong skills. But the Boys and Girls Clubs only served
Speaker 1: kids in America, So a few years ago, Rick and
Speaker 1: his wife Susan established the World Federation of Youth Clubs
Speaker 1: now in twenty four countries to bring the same services
Speaker 1: to kids around the world. You know, Bob Rick says,
Speaker 1: only five percent of the young people in the world
Speaker 1: live in the United States. Every kid needs help. Since
Speaker 1: his stint in the Navy, Rick has been a leader
Speaker 1: for fifty years. I asked him what makes a good leader.
Speaker 1: Without pausing to think, Rick says, a leader has to
Speaker 1: have calm, clarity, and vision. A real leader makes us
Speaker 1: feel safe in times that are not safe. A right.
Speaker 1: Let's end this time together doing something that I think
Speaker 1: should be a feature of our everyday life, and that's
Speaker 1: appreciation and gratitude. So let's take thirty seconds of quiet,
Speaker 1: thirty seconds to take a break, just take a moment.
Speaker 1: It turns out when we do that, it's good for
Speaker 1: our health as well. I'll be right back all right.
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining me today. I hope you heard
Speaker 1: something that inspires, that uplifts you and that you can
Speaker 1: incorporate into your own life. This is Bob Roth. Stay calm. Yeah, Hey,
Speaker 1: all of you out there, I'd love to hear from you.
Speaker 1: You can send me your stories, your questions, or anything
Speaker 1: else on your mind. Just connect with me on Twitter,
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Speaker 1: me an email at meditation Bob Roth at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: I look forward to hearing from you.