{"id":9200,"date":"2019-09-13T08:39:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T08:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.myspeaker.fi\/profiles\/mika-poutala\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:45","slug":"mika-poutala","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/myspeaker.fi\/en\/speakers\/mika-poutala\/","title":{"rendered":"Mika Poutala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"text-block_1e4d0ae550450e8d1db83476d3c2814d\" class=\"block-text block-text--columns-one lg:my-20 my-10\">\n      <div class=\"block-text__body\">\n      <p>Mika Poutala is a four-time Olympic speedskater, a motivational speaker and one of the most positive people in Finland. Poutala\u2019s professional sporting career lasted over a decade, with 130+ days of travel each year. He has celebrated huge successes and suffered painful losses. He came fifth in the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in 2010, and eight years later, in PyeongChang in 2018, he lost the bronze medal by three hundredths of a second.<\/p>\n<p>Mika Poutala has published a book on the demands of success (2015), in which he shows that the skills that he learnt on the skating circuit have stood him in good stead in the world of business and life in general. Poutala talks candidly about his failures or poor performances so that his readers can avoid the same mistakes. Truly multi-talented, Poutala is also a rapper in his spare time under the stage name \u201cPlastic\u201d, and he composed the official Team Finland themes for the Torino 2006 and Vancouver 2010 winter games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Themes<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What does success demand?<\/li>\n<li>The foundation for winning<\/li>\n<li>Meaningful life<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n    <\/div>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div id=\"video-block_a1bd69ded34c9c0483aebb1744abc463\" class=\"block-video space-y-4 my-10\">\n  <div class=\"container-small\">\n\n    <div class=\"relative my-10 aspect-video embed\">\n      <div class=\"z-20\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mika Poutalan ajatuksia pettymyksest\u00e4 OLYMPIALAISISSA\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yiUh_6VgEIw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>      <\/div>\n\n                <\/div>\n\n  <\/div>\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2566,"menu_order":1209,"template":"","profile_category":[340,319,320,323,325],"profile_tag":[281,163,186,285],"profile_language":[],"class_list":["post-9200","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","profile_category-wellbeing-health-speakers","profile_category-speakers","profile_category-attitude-change-speakers","profile_category-entrepreneurship-speakers","profile_category-growth-development-speakers","profile_tag-attitude-change","profile_tag-entrepreneurship","profile_tag-growth-development","profile_tag-wellbeing-health"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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