When Personal Challenges Persist Amidst Success | Jared Cook

Jared is a native Utahn, a business leader, thoughtful religious man, and really doesn’t care about all the little stuff. Jared has faced some hard things and being able to identify that correctly is important. We talk about the issue of having to handle personal things while still moving in on one’s career. Many consider people who have reached success in business and careers to have achieved the easy point in life, but in reality life often will continue to be challenging and success can even bring on new issues/challenges that weren’t there before. Jared lost his son to cancer and talks about that experience, and then what helps the most when people reach out and remember him.

Jared is a native Utahn, a business leader and a thoughtful and caring Father. His focus is on making a difference in all aspects of life and being a force for good. Jared has faced a full set of challenges, which have given him life experiences and opportunities to give back.

Jared works on being able to clearly and correctly identifying his priorities and how he can improve and help others. We talk about the issue of having to handle personal things while still moving in on one’s career. Many consider people who have reached some level of success in business and careers to have achieved the easy point in life, but in reality, life will continue to be challenging and success always brings new issues to be resolved. Jared has many life experiences that shaped him, one major challenge being that he lost his son to brain cancer. We talk about that experience, and what helps when loved ones pass on and how people reach can out and remember them.

Jared’s journey 1:55
Jared’s motivation 8:57
Story of trouble 11:40
Compassion and empathy 17:26
Books that help 21:15

“By 19 I enlisted in the Navy and I was off to boot camp, and that was another set of skills that helped me and shaped me in a way to have structure and dedication, and realizing that I can do hard things, and when things get hard, you take those experiences and you put them in the cookie jar. Every time you’re in a place where you’re struggling, you can reach back in the cookie jar and remember those experiences to help you get further on.” 2:59