How Soccer and Investing Shaped a Purposeful Career

Two men stand in front of a purple background for a podcast titled "Building Dream Teams with Mario Götze."

What do soccer, impact investing, and lifelong learning have in common? Uwe Kurz on Lifelong Learning and Purpose at Work For one Tomorrow University learner, they’re all connected by a passion for purpose. In this post, you’ll discover how blending different interests can lead to a career filled with meaning, growth, and real-world impact.

What does playing soccer and impact investing have in common?👇🏻

Join Thomas Funke as he chats with Mario Götze, a professional athlete and business angel.

Playing Soccer and impact investing have usually nothing in common. Unless you are Mario Götze, then it is the most natural match on earth. According to Mario, the secret sauce to success for both is the same. In professional football, you are only as strong as the team you play with.

In angel investing, your investment is only as successful as the team you invest in.

Everything, literally everything, is a matter of building dream teams.

But how do you build such dream teams?

Mario sat down with Dr. Thomas Funke to reflect on what actually makes highly successful teams.

1. The leader is crucial and influences more than you think. Curious to find out who inspired Mario as a leader?

2. You need as much patience as drive to build dream teams. Want to know Mario's favorite technique?

3. The better the network, the better the chances of learning from founders, investors and funds.

What's Mario’s magic key to networking?

To get these questions answered and learn from Mario on how to build successful teams, sneak into this podcast episode of Changemaker Insights:

The Podcast with Mario is also part of our Build Your Dream Team Challenge. If you want to learn from outstanding personalities like him, click here to learn more about the challenge.

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