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NDTV
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- NDTV
Pack Like A Pro, Always Keep Silk Scarf: Travel Hacks From Shark Tank Judge
At Bloomberg Pursuits, we love to travel. And we always want to make sure we're doing it right. So we're talking to road warriors to learn about their high-end hacks, tips, and off-the-wall experiences. These are the Distinguished Travel Hackers . Fashion entrepreneur Daymond John first came to prominence with his pioneering hip hop clothing line, FUBU, but he's probably now best known as one of the original sharks on ABC's enduring reality hit Shark Tank. He'll return for season 17 in October to dole out deals to budding business types. The 56-year-old John lives in Miami with his family and logs more than 400,000 miles in the air every year. His favorite airline? "I'm sure it's the same as everybody: Emirates," he says. "Of course the rooms with the showers and the cabins are the best. I got sick on one plane, and I needed to take a shower to feel fresh. I take it about 20% of the time." Here's his best advice for packing light, getting over jetlag and enjoying your vacation, even when you're worn out by work travel. A silk scarf is a surprisingly versatile accessory. I never go anywhere without a silk scarf. My favorites are a traditional brown Louis Vuitton one, because it's a dark color, and another by Kenneth Cole. I use it when hopping out of a plane-I swear that little bit of time with my neck exposed can potentially give me a cold-and I can throw it straight over my shoulders, or use it as a pocket square to elevate more casual looks. I can also put it around my wrist if I'm trying to be cool. Finland in the dead of winter is wonderful. We went to Finland for New Year's Eve, a Santa Village. It was great, a little cottage with staff dressed up like elves and Santa, running around in the middle of the forest. My nine-year-old daughter had a fun time, dog sledding and snowmobiling. We went to Hidden Arctic Clouds villas. Those cottages get booked up so quickly, so if you want to go and stay there instead of a hotel, you need to book it a year ahead of time. Don't forget to book an easy vacation from time to time. At Baha Mar, I love the restaurants, I love the nightlife. I love that you can just stay there all day if you want, and everything's at your disposal. They treat me extremely well. A very, very simple, easy, easy trip. I travel about 250 days per year, so the easier it is on vacation, the better it is for me. The best bar in the Caribbean is a no-frill's institution. There's a bar named Footprints in the Bahamas. I take a little boat out there when I stay at Baha Mar. The guy who owns it, Ronnie, woke up 30 years ago, said to his wife "Do you love me?" She said "I don't really know." So he left and opened this little bar. I respect that he made a decision to go off and live a simple life. People come in off the boats, they catch fresh fish and eat it right there. Ronnie appreciates the simplicity and the hard work, and he's probably well into his 70s now. Embrace being hungry when you have jetlag. Over the last six months, I've been doing intermittent fasting. So now, if I leave New York at 5 p.m. and land in LA at 8 p.m., I won't eat dinner at 8 p.m. because my body still thinks it's 11 p.m. in New York. I will wait until my next regular mealtime is to eat. This small discipline lets me reset my internal clock faster and is a key to keeping my energy levels stable. If you've missed a meal time, skip it-don't make it up. Vintage stores are the best places to shop in a new country. Between the late '90s and now, it appears that every place has become the same. It used to be that there were specific brands, things you could find only in that country. When Instagram and all these things started coming out, everything started looking the same. But go to the vintage stores in these countries, and you'll find brands that were only made to be distributed there, ones you wouldn't see in America. Double book so you never miss a connection. I've double booked myself on different airlines when I have a tight connection. You can't use your name for two bookings on the same airline, but you could book a Delta flight that leaves at 6:30 p.m. and an 8 p.m. flight on a different airline. Book a more expensive fare that can be canceled for a credit, and you can use the credit on your next flight. Unpack like a pro in any hotel room. I have one charger that has multiple outlets on it and I get all my stuff plugged in there to recharge together. I then take out my toiletries, put them where they're supposed to be. I take out my workout stuff and all my vitamins and arrange them on the desk. And I leave my clothes across the chair. I don't put them in the closet.
Bloomberg
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Bloomberg
The Airline Hack One Entrepreneur Uses to Never Miss a Connection
At Bloomberg Pursuits, we love to travel. And we always want to make sure we're doing it right. So we're talking to road warriors to learn about their high-end hacks, tips, and off-the-wall experiences. These are the Distinguished Travel Hackers. Fashion entrepreneur Daymond John first came to prominence with his pioneering hip hop clothing line, FUBU, but he's probably now best known as one of the original sharks on ABC's enduring reality hit Shark Tank. He'll return for season 17 in October to dole out deals to budding business types.
Associated Press
14-03-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Discover Your Inner Shark With Daymond John
From FUBU to Shark Tank and countless ventures in between, Daymond John's phenomenal entrepreneurial journey has spanned more than 25 years. Through his many successes as well as failures, he has learned a few things about getting the best out of business and life. Speaker: Daymond JohnStar of ABC's Shark Tank An entrepreneur in every sense of the word, Daymond John has come a long way from taking out a $100,000 mortgage on his mother's house and moving his business operation into its basement. John is CEO and Founder of FUBU, a much-celebrated global lifestyle brand, and a pioneer in the fashion industry with billions in product sales world-wide. Former President Barack Obama appointed Daymond John a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship (PAGE) to harness his energy, ideas, and experience to help develop the next generation of entrepreneurs both at home and abroad. John is an award-winning entrepreneur and has received 100s of awards including the Brand Week Marketer of the Year, Advertising Age Marketing 1000 Award for Outstanding Ad Campaign, Ernst & Young's New York Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and was named #2 on LinkedIn's Top 20 Voices, a list of the top influencers. Most recently, Real Leaders Magazine named Daymond John one of the Top 20 Keynote Speakers in the World in 2024 as one of the leading voices driving change. His marketing firm The Shark Group offers advice on how to effectively communicate to consumers through innovative means and connects brands with the world's top celebrities for everything from endorsements to product extensions. John is also an author of 6 best-selling books including his New York Times best-sellers, The Power of Broke (2016) and Rise and Grind (2018). He released his fifth book, Powershift in 2020 that walks through his tried-and-true process of how to transform any situation, close any deal and achieve any outcome. John's most recent book, Little Daymond Learns to Earn (2023) is his first for kids, reached the New York Times and Amazon best-seller list the first week of its release. Finally, John is celebrating his 16th season on ABC TV's critically acclaimed business reality show Shark Tank, which has has now gone on to win five Emmy® Awards in the US. Millions of weekly viewers world-wide tune into the show, as John demonstrates his marketing prowess and entrepreneurial insights. Tuesday, March 18, 2025 1–2 PM ET | 12 CT | 11 MT | 10 PT During this event, hear first-hand, how a man, with no formal business training whatsoever, went from driving cabs and waiting tables to achieving global product sales exceeding $6 billion, and starring on ABC's hit reality business show, Shark Tank. Join PNC for this special event featuring 'The People's Shark' Daymond John, where he will reveal how you too can live the American Dream.
Yahoo
27-01-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Forget quiet quitting, Shark Tank star Daymond John says the loud quitting trend is ‘absolutely amazing.' Here's why
Shark Tank judge Daymond John understands that loud quitting, a trend often led by Gen Zers and millennials, is born out of toxic workplaces. Everyone has—at least once—dreamed of leaving it all out on the table and exiting their toxic job in a blaze of flames a la Jerry Maguire or Bridget Jones. A quick phone call with friends or families often holds us back from acting on said visions, but Shark Tank judge Daymond John thinks it's a natural and at times a needed response to a bad boss. "I think it's great when there's a toxic boss [or] toxic environment," John, also the CEO and founder of FUBU, said of the phenomenon in a short interview posted on TikTok. Loud quitting is when a worker leaves their job publicly and shares the details of their exit often on social media. Of course, there's a potential downside to said behavior. If it's a repeat habit, vocally quitting might hurt an individual's reputation more than a company's.' "If you do it too much, and you get too much attention over it, and it's not a bad place to work, I think you [can] hurt yourself in the future,' John said. 'If you say the wrong things you may get sued for slander, there's also loud replies.' But generally speaking, he thinks an employee loudly quitting is a warning sign to an employer that something is not right in the workplace. "You see a bunch of people loud quitting, you better pay attention to what's going on with your staff and your team, because you awoke so much emotion that these people have collectively started saying 'I don't care what happens to me, [and] out publicly, this place sucks,' John said, adding that he thinks 'that's absolutely amazing." Gen Zers and millennials have gained a reputation for letting it all out when they leave a job. Some have even turned to TikTok and other social media platforms to post stories of why and how they quit—even filming themselves sending resignation letters live. In part, they're likely responding to previous generations getting burned by their employer during the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 recession and figuring that there's no need to protect a company that won't protect them. 'What they have seen, if nothing else, is organizations will cut back, take steps in order to keep their profitability in a heartbeat,' Marcie Merriman, EY Americas' cultural insights and customer strategy leader, told Fortune in 2023. 'They've seen it happen to their parents, they've seen it happen to millennials, and in the last few years, many of them have experienced it themselves.' Much like how young workers are shirking the taboo around talking about money in favor of discussions around salary transparency— this trend is said to help bolster community. 'I had no idea so many people would see, relate and share their own stories – or their fear of leaving their current workplace, or their strong desire to do what I did,' Christina Zumbo, who went viral in 2022 after posting her sending in her resignation notice and discussing how her job impacted her mental-health, told BBC. In the United States, employee engagement sunk to a new decade-low, according to Gallup. Less than a third (31%) of employees report being engaged and 17% are actively disengaged— levels not seen since 2014. A lack of clear expectations and a sinking feeling of someone caring about them and encouraging them at work likely feed into this malaise, per Gallup. This high disengagement can sometimes result in what has been labeled 'quiet quitting,' or a turning away from hustle culture in favor of simply skating by and putting in no more than the required effort to get by. Facing a difficult job market, many employees (including bosses) have entered what Gallup called 'The Great Detachment.' Sometimes though, workers are being pushed past quiet quitting. A rise of undertrained managers since the pandemic has led even more employees to the brink. After all, the job of mid-level manager has become all the more important and stressful during this era of recurring return-to-office pushes. Nevertheless, it's enough to shed talent About 69% of workers would leave their job if they have a bad manager, according to LinkedIn's Workforce Confidence survey conducted this past summer. Young employees are more likely to quit because of a bad boss, they found. Perhaps workers are simply so fed up that they're willing to take leave as loudly as possible. This story was originally featured on
