Justin Forsett helps teams and leaders push through hard things and level up to grow through opposition and succeed despite adversity. He’s CEO, Co-Founder of Hustle Clean, makers of a personal cleaning product line, has been a Shark Tank Contestant and is a Graduate of Harvard business school’s executive training program.
Justin Forsett Speech Topics:
The Underdog Hustle to Entrepreneurial Success
How one NFL Pro-Bowl player went from inventing a product in a locker room to serving people in the community, and how a simple body wipe became a brand on a mission.
Justin Forsett’s journey to successful entrepreneur reads like a movie script, complete with the charismatic leader forging a career after nine years as a professional NFL player.
Justin always viewed himself as an underdog. As a seventh-round pick in the 2008 NFL Draft, the 5-8, 195 pound-running back was working out multiple times a day just to be able to sustain his career.
With so many periods of the day allotted to training, he didn’t always have time to shower before team meetings. Just as Gatorade helps with hydration and Muscle Milk helps with recovery, he sought something that would quickly treat hygiene.
“I wanted to come up with a solution,” said Forsett, the CEO and founder of Hustle Clean. “There was nothing in the personal care industry that speaks to the athlete.”
While still playing with the Seattle Seahawks, he conceptualized a body wipe — a disposable, anti-bacterial wash cloth that removed sweat and body odor. And he then commercially marketed it in 2014.
What started as a quick alternative to showers, ShowerPill, which Forsett, a graduate of Harvard business school’s executive training program, founded with his Cal-Berkeley football teammates Wendell Hunter and Wale Forrester, has been rebranded as Hustle Clean to meet the larger demands of the personal care industry rather than just face and body wipes.
The company landed on Shark Tank in 2018, and although the team didn’t secure an investment, the exposure helped accelerate sales. Last year, Hustle Clean brought in more than $1 million in revenue.
Justin inspires the resilient and relentless to keep grinding. The thick skin he developed playing football has helped prepare him to venture into a world where just 1% of venture-funded startup founders are Black.
Takeaways:
• Set yourself up for success. Investing in your dream starts with investing in yourself.
• Bet on yourself. Develop a lifelong determination to achieve, lead and continue in trying times.
• Surround yourself with the right people and unleash the full potential of your greatest resource: relationships.
• Invest in “social capital”. Be kind to people, find ways to serve others and make others better around you.
• When the going gets tough, the tough keep hustling. You simply can’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
• Focus on leaving a legacy, invest in things that matter, and set bigger goals ie: building generational wealth and closing racial wealth gaps.
Greatness Grows Best in the Shadows – A Story of Perseverance and Hope
You’ve heard the expression, “It’s not how many times you get knocked down that count; it’s how many times you get back up.” Now imagine getting “knocked down,” or in this case, fired, eight times in nine years…AND STILL coming out on the VERY TOP of your game.
Justin Forsett is a product of persistence.
“Undersized and overmatched,” Justin went from poverty to peak performance through hard work, grit, perseverance and hope.
In his riveting presentation, you’ll learn the tools you need to not only overcome just about any obstacle, but also thrive through it and come out a winner.
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Bio:
Former NFL running back Justin Forsett was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in 2008 and played for seven teams in nine years, including the 2014 Pro Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens. Known for his speed and agility on the field, he is now a respected leader and businessman off the field. And as an award-winning motivational speaker, he shares his stories of sacrifice, setbacks, and success.
A Florida native, Justin was determined to play in the NFL. Despite his 5’8″ stature, he broke several high school records and earned a college scholarship to Cal—where as a senior, he was named to the First-team All-Pac-10 Conference.
Justin retired from the NFL in 2017 and moved from the backfield to the boardroom. The company he co-founded with college teammates even appeared on ABC’s Shark Tank. Although they didn’t get a deal, they used the feedback to rename, rebrand, and relaunch their company. Now known as Hustle Clean, and with Justin as CEO, this multi-million dollar wellness company sells all-natural body wipes and personal care products online and at major retailers.
If your team is ready to be inspired and motivated by Justin Forsett’s story of overcoming adversity and success on-and-off the field, reach out today.
WHY JUSTIN
Do your teams struggle with risk-averse individuals who are afraid of failure and resistant to conflict? Is this fear of rejection leading to stagnant organizational growth and career paralysis?
Justin Forsett helps organizations shift how they perceive failure. He has first-hand experience overcoming obstacles like homelessness and firings to becoming a Pro Bowl NFL player and Forbes-recognized CEO of a multi-million dollar wellness brand. Throughout this journey, he learned that greatness grows best in the shadows. And now Justin can help organizations like yours turn its fear of failure into fuel for success.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Justin’s keynote will take your team on an emotional journey of laughter, inspiration, and hope. Afterward, they’ll leave with a mental playbook full of practical tools to help them overcome tough times. His coaching will flip their perspective on adversity and have them embracing Justin’s core belief: challenging moments do not define us but refine us. And with the right mindset, moments of failure become opportunities for greatness.
With Pro Bowl running back Justin Forsett calling plays in the huddle, your organization’s end zone is closer than you think.
