Dan Martell - EVERYTHING IN MY POWER ｜ Dan Martell Original (Micro-Doc)

00:00:00.000 If somebody would have told me when I was 16, sitting in a jail cell, that my life would look the way it does today, I would tell them they were full of shit. 1.00

00:00:18.000 How can I help you? 1.00

00:00:19.000 Uh, can I get a medium Americano black?

00:00:22.000 Anything else?

00:00:23.000 That's it.

00:00:24.000 Wow.

00:00:25.000 Thank you.

00:00:26.000 you know i've been coming here for years and they keep asking me if i have a uh loyalty card

00:00:33.060 and something in me just doesn't want to get it at this point

00:00:36.800 i do not have a points card

00:00:39.320 so we're going to speak to two different high school classes so that's really exciting i love

00:00:47.920 i absolutely love more than i love talking to entrepreneurs i love talking to uh teenagers i

00:00:54.000 I remember one time I was speaking to a ninth grade class

00:00:57.200 and the kid that was directly in front of me

00:00:59.260 actually fell asleep.

00:01:02.840 This is the shittiest highway in the world. 0.52

00:01:05.440 Maybe not the shittiest.

00:01:07.080 So you're saying that I shouldn't videotape this highway?

00:01:09.320 I'm just saying if you're gonna get some footage

00:01:11.060 of driving, there's better roads to shoot.

00:01:15.120 This is definitely not one.

00:01:19.480 All right, big talk today.

00:01:21.880 Here's the funny part is I'm trying to give a talk

00:01:23.960 and try to put myself back in the headspace that I was in when I was then and the the first thought

00:01:30.500 I have is I wouldn't have even been there because I probably would have found out there was an

00:01:33.900 assembly and I would have you know fucked off to Tim Hortons across the street so then I go to the

00:01:38.860 next order it's like okay well who got who got caught trying to sneak out and got brought back 0.84

00:01:43.100 in the room because that's that might have happened to me so then I'm thinking what could I say what

00:01:48.040 could I possibly say in 55 minutes? What's that one thing? A big one would be high school

00:01:54.740 is such a small fucking blip. It's nothing. If I would have defined my life based on my 0.99

00:02:02.660 test scores, holy shit, I'd be living under that fucking bridge right there. Yeah, there's 1.00

00:02:10.180 There's a lot of stuff I'd love to share.

00:02:17.180 When I was your age, I found myself in a high-speed chase driving down the highway in a stolen car

00:02:22.180 with a handgun next to me, high on drugs, trying to get away from the police.

00:02:27.180 I ended up in jail when I was 15.

00:02:29.180 On the last day I was getting out, the guard stops me and he says,

00:02:32.180 I'll see you soon. 1.00

00:02:33.180 I was like, what an ass! 1.00

00:02:34.180 And I said, why would you say that? 1.00

00:02:36.180 He goes, we always do.

00:02:38.180 I lasted a day.

00:02:39.180 I got out, started hanging with the wrong people.

00:02:42.120 My life spiraled out of control.

00:02:43.640 I started realizing that I'd rather be numb to the world

00:02:46.900 than have to deal with any feelings whatsoever.

00:02:50.200 You're the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

00:02:53.740 You know what my problem was? 1.00

00:02:55.800 I was spending time with fucking losers. 1.00

00:02:59.260 And then I'd wonder why my life was spiraling out of control. 1.00

00:03:02.560 I just had to look around, and everything changed.

00:03:05.420 I ended up going to a place called Portage, just outside of Norton.

00:03:09.180 And I did 11 months of therapy.

00:03:11.100 And at the end of that stint,

00:03:13.240 I was working with this guy named Rick.

00:03:15.120 And I was in the cabin and we were cleaning it out

00:03:17.000 and I come across a computer.

00:03:19.100 And I'm sitting there with a computer

00:03:20.340 and there's this book next to it.

00:03:21.860 It was yellow.

00:03:22.700 And it said Java programming on it.

00:03:24.860 I got released a few months after that moment

00:03:27.360 and I discovered this thing called the internet.

00:03:29.980 And since then, I've been involved

00:03:31.980 in 30 plus technology companies.

00:03:35.120 And I feel blessed that even though

00:03:36.960 that's where I came from,

00:03:38.280 my life doesn't look anything like that today.

00:03:40.700 I'm going to tell you the most creative thing

00:03:42.760 you can do with your life

00:03:44.060 is figure out who you are

00:03:45.900 and do that every day.

00:03:48.020 Every day do you.

00:03:50.440 So I hope that in some little way

00:03:52.180 that I was able to spark something in you guys today.

00:03:55.180 Thanks for having me.

00:03:55.980 I spoke to about 700 kids two classes you know I got to tell you even after the first session

00:04:11.580 when this kid Noah came up to me and admit that he felt like he had no self-worth and that he's

00:04:16.680 already tried to kill himself and he's had the gun to his temple and that he really appreciated

00:04:21.120 coming in and share my story here's what i believe i believe that it's the right person 0.92

00:04:28.160 the right message at the right moment it's not fabricated it's not bullshit it's like real

00:04:34.000 i care about you and i feel compelled to say these words and people can't deny it they can't dismiss

00:04:39.920 it and i think it's one of the most powerful things and gifts that we all have that we need to

00:04:46.400 sharpen up and use more so remember the day that my dad drove me here dropped me

00:04:53.480 off everybody said hello and that was that I spent 11 months here really just

00:04:59.720 trying to figure out what made me tick my feelings and my anger you know how to

00:05:07.400 how to lead I mean the cool part about Portage is the residents actually run

00:05:11.600 the facility the staff are there but the staff are there to support they're not

00:05:14.720 there to actually there's this whole hierarchy that you kind of grow into and work into and

00:05:18.860 that's the new gym geez like literally i wish i could show you guys what

00:05:23.500 this is this is crazy nice that's not even close to what but you know what the facilities don't

00:05:33.480 matter it's the people and i had some pretty incredible people show up in my life let's do

00:05:39.240 this Roberta don't fall we're just talking about yeah yeah I forgot you know

00:05:59.400 me I'm not good with this computer stuff we're literally gonna go to the

00:06:03.780 parking lot to call you. Do you get younger and younger every time I see you?

00:06:10.260 I know, I told him the same thing. I told him the same thing.

00:06:16.040 Rick just called me on his way to something. He said, hey, did you again?

00:06:20.560 Oh, I know. He was going to call you right now.

00:06:25.300 Well, no, today was, like, I literally was supposed to go to St. John's.

00:06:28.780 What I like about Dan, he's humble enough in his life right now to say there's something

00:06:33.420 that happened 20 years ago in treatment that still helped me today. Basically, focus on

00:06:41.340 what you're going to say. You will be inspired and you will be also learning something today.

00:06:46.680 So Dan, it's all yours. Thanks, Luke. If I ask you guys why you're here and I said,

00:06:53.720 do you wish that that wouldn't have happened? Most people put their hands up and they say,

00:06:57.480 I wish that wouldn't have happened. I got in trouble. I got arrested. I got caught by

00:07:01.240 my parents. I did this thing I feel absolutely embarrassed about. They wish it didn't happen.

00:07:05.440 What I say to people, I would not change a thing. Nothing. Zero. I'm who I am because I came here.

00:07:11.180 You guys are going to be who you are because you came here. Because you met each other. Because

00:07:14.600 you were inspired. You heard each other's stories. What you want to do in life is become the person

00:07:21.660 who can deal. So when a problem comes into my world, instead of wishing that didn't happen,

00:07:28.020 I say I'm grateful for the opportunity to learn

00:07:31.320 and then I look inside and I say

00:07:33.760 what do I need to learn to be the kind of person

00:07:35.520 that can deal with those sides of problems

00:07:37.080 when you start business

00:07:38.260 a $10 problem is a big problem

00:07:39.920 and then it goes to $100

00:07:42.380 you can't even think of a $100,000 problem

00:07:45.460 that's just like what are you talking about

00:07:46.720 my business will never do $100,000

00:07:47.900 it's not even part of the realm of possibility

00:07:50.080 but as you grow

00:07:51.780 as you figure it out

00:07:54.120 that's what happens

00:07:55.220 so i just want you guys to start right where you're at finish this program do the program

00:08:01.660 put in the work the ones that don't succeed you know why this is i'll tell you i know why

00:08:06.540 because they still have it in the back of their head that i might use again

00:08:11.300 that you know what if i can prove it to myself and get out there and do three years sober five

00:08:17.160 years sober maybe someday somehow maybe i'll just do weed i'll just smoke weed the end of the day

00:08:21.180 here's what I've learned is, you know, people say, what's your drug of choice? I was, my drug of

00:08:25.820 choice was not feeling. That was, that was literally, why did I do drugs? I didn't want to

00:08:30.020 feel. I didn't want to understand. Today, I would never want to numb that. I love showing up every

00:08:34.900 day, 100,000%. I would not want to not feel that. I think that's the joy of life. So how do you stay

00:08:42.900 sober? Work the program. Fuck the plan B, because I know some of you guys got it. Get rid of that.

00:08:49.420 take that, bring it into the program

00:08:51.560 and know that if you

00:08:53.740 stay sober, that your

00:08:55.600 life can be so incredible

00:08:57.620 and magical. My commitment

00:08:59.500 to you is you guys get out, you stay sober for a year

00:09:01.580 and you come to see me with your

00:09:03.260 dream job or the company you want to

00:09:05.620 start and I will do everything 0.99

00:09:07.520 in my fucking powers to make that happen. 0.98

00:09:10.880 Everything. 0.99

00:09:13.280 That's

00:09:13.720 my commitment.

00:09:15.880 And I would love to do that for you.

00:09:18.380 I didn't have a guy coming to this program saying this.

00:09:23.280 I'm dead serious.

00:09:24.200 I've helped people get there.

00:09:26.100 But you've got to do it first.

00:09:27.580 Just get rid of the plan B.

00:09:29.580 Simple guy.

00:09:30.880 You too.

00:09:31.420 Keep in touch.

00:09:32.180 Stay sober.

00:09:33.260 Don't use the word maybe. 1.00

00:09:34.420 That was bullshit. 1.00

00:09:35.360 I won't listen. 1.00

00:09:36.660 Okay, keep it up.

00:09:37.480 Nice meeting you, man.

00:09:38.760 I didn't talk last time, but it was when they did the graduation in September, last September.

00:09:43.900 I'm moving into Woodstock with my son, which for me is awesome in the location.

00:09:55.040 I think that alone can have to be sober.

00:09:58.080 Plus, I've been too far out of my rock bottom.

00:10:01.000 I'm just done.

00:10:01.900 I just really don't want to keep drugs anymore.

00:10:03.900 Who are you going to hang out with?

00:10:05.780 No one.

00:10:06.520 My girlfriend.

00:10:07.060 You've got to fix that.

00:10:09.080 What if your girlfriend breaks up with you?

00:10:10.860 Yeah.

00:10:11.680 Yeah, exactly.

00:10:12.560 Your bad habits?

00:10:13.900 that's built up. Okay. You need to refire a new set of habits to the point where this,

00:10:21.900 because you're not firing it, weakens and this becomes the new norm. Right. And you're going

00:10:26.180 to have to do these like weird little hacks with your life and like have somebody else hold your

00:10:29.500 pills and not answer the phone if a certain person's call and dah, dah, dah. It's just

00:10:33.420 going to feel like, man, life is so onerous, but give it time. Like 48 days is what they say,

00:10:41.600 but call it a year like after a year some of the stuff that you felt was like so much work

00:10:46.820 actually just becomes the norm you can only keep what you give away you want sobriety go to go to

00:10:52.140 AA go to the meetings give sobriety you want love in your life it's not a 50-50 it's full on 110

00:10:58.380 percent I never want you guys to say I'll they gotta meet me halfway like I it's so crazy

00:11:05.920 it happens all the time well I would do that but my wife doesn't it's like go all the way in go 1.00

00:11:11.000 100% you only get to keep what you give away the fact that you're here and 0.98

00:11:24.920 you're dealing with shit you're way more positioned to be a creator than an MBA 0.99

00:11:29.480 I fucking run circles around those ding-dongs and the reason why is that 1.00

00:11:33.380 they're just so fucking risk adverse 0.99

00:11:41.000 You know, every time I go back, did you hear about this kid, you know, did you hear about 0.99

00:11:46.700 Bobby?

00:11:47.700 He got shot.

00:11:48.700 I'm just like, wow.

00:11:52.700 And then I started thinking about all the people that didn't make it.

00:12:03.880 People realize that addiction is one of the most patient things in the world.

00:12:10.000 doesn't matter it'll wait it'll wait 55 years and then one day when you're not

00:12:14.860 paying attention when you're not on top of your game it'll show up it'll strike

00:12:23.480 hello hey sexy yeah I just wanted to call tell you I love you and I'll let

00:12:29.680 you guys get back to your thing and I'm heading over now to the YEC gala I will

00:12:37.440 I think Raphael flew in for that, so I'm excited to see my little protégé.

00:12:41.720 Okay, well, may he hide everybody for me?

00:12:43.600 I will.

00:12:44.120 Love you, babes.

00:12:44.860 Okay.

00:12:45.480 Love you.

00:12:46.280 Bye.

00:12:46.620 Bye.

00:12:52.880 I love going in not knowing.

00:12:54.680 I love just going in and say, blah, blah, blah, and just like, you know, hug people and get

00:13:00.220 excited for the entrepreneurs.

00:13:01.900 I love being their biggest fan.

00:13:04.260 That's how people get me.

00:13:05.340 If you want to know how to get me, talk to me about kids.

00:13:08.540 That's the secret.

00:13:10.200 The secret of getting me to say yes.

00:13:13.500 This way.

00:13:14.200 Yeah.

00:13:14.980 I cannot show you a yes.

00:13:15.940 The little leaders.

00:13:17.060 I want to meet these kids.

00:13:18.600 How old are they saying?

00:13:19.520 No, I want to meet them.

00:13:23.120 Natalie took a seat.

00:13:24.540 Brother?

00:13:25.120 Brother?

00:13:27.620 Jared, have you ever met my brother, Mo?

00:13:29.300 No.

00:13:29.740 Yeah, this is my brother.

00:13:30.460 Look.

00:13:30.600 I heard you think so.

00:13:30.760 Oh, that's good.

00:13:31.400 Let's see.

00:13:35.340 All right, our first category of the night, the idea architect, what's your impact?

00:13:49.380 Look at this, look at this.

00:14:02.300 Dang it! Yes, sir.

00:14:04.300 I hold it to five pounds. If you drop your book, you're fine.

00:14:08.300 I can't answer this.

00:14:10.300 And if this is the light of mine, I'm going to let it shine because I think it can save lives.

00:14:16.300 Alright, GQ.

00:14:18.300 Thank you everyone for your time. I hope you enjoy your evening. And remember, buy a leaf, you save a tree.

00:14:24.300 I don't understand. Shit. That was a one. 1.00

00:14:32.300 Shit. 1.00

00:14:33.300 What I'm eating from you, judges, is expansion to production. 1.00

00:14:36.300 That's pretty good.

00:14:39.300 Financials?

00:14:49.300 I want coffee.

00:14:53.300 Hey, do you know where the coffee went?

00:14:55.300 Yeah.

00:14:56.300 Can I follow you and get some?

00:14:58.300 Yes.

00:14:59.300 That'd be awesome.

00:15:01.300 And I'm not accepting bribes.

00:15:04.020 I can't be bought.

00:15:05.860 Unless you have chocolate.

00:15:07.260 All right, I'm not trying to swear.

00:15:09.060 I'm just gonna throw this out.

00:15:12.580 That.

00:15:14.420 Are we doing that with Burris?

00:15:15.340 I say we start there,

00:15:16.260 because I didn't have a few thoughts.

00:15:18.160 This was the key though, that.

00:15:20.320 That was summer?

00:15:21.200 She drops her competitor's products. 0.76

00:15:24.260 Summer Venture, is that what it is?

00:15:25.540 This was Summer Venture.

00:15:26.600 I don't know a lot of entrepreneurs

00:15:27.600 would have had the confidence to do that.

00:15:29.920 Yeah, no, that to me is a winner.

00:15:31.920 Avery, I want to talk to her. Are her parents here?

00:15:33.920 She's amazing.

00:15:34.920 Uh, her father is for sure.

00:15:36.920 I would love to talk to them about something.

00:15:38.920 Yeah.

00:15:39.920 Let's do this.

00:15:41.920 Okay.

00:15:43.920 I want to meet Avery.

00:15:49.920 Pour la première place,

00:15:52.920 on a Lips by Avery.

00:15:59.920 Congratulations, that was so awesome.

00:16:06.920 That's yours, and then we're going to go here and here.

00:16:08.920 Let's get in here.

00:16:10.920 So, it is.

00:16:12.920 Like, there's no, you're going to have to put some work in.

00:16:14.920 Definitely.

00:16:15.920 Right?

00:16:16.920 So that's like kind of the agreement.

00:16:17.920 Yeah.

00:16:18.920 Invest in the business.

00:16:19.920 You agree that you're willing to be open to feedback.

00:16:20.920 You're going to put in the hard work.

00:16:22.920 If I suggest that you go and meet with these five stores on Saturday morning, your dad's

00:16:25.920 morning your dad's willing to drive you right you do it it's gonna be scary

00:16:30.780 people are gonna say no to ya you got to get back up do it again I have no doubt

00:16:36.000 she's gonna do it that's the funny part it's so incredible

00:16:42.200 100% such a great job you know Brian okay we'll talk soon all right have a

00:16:47.400 great night at the YEC young entrepreneur awards and just made an

00:16:52.260 offer so we'll see if that's accepted. There was no fear there was so much joy

00:16:59.340 and excitement for what she was creating that I was like you're gonna have to go

00:17:02.280 in and try to sell this at these retailers okay yeah yeah uh-huh I'm just

00:17:08.340 like wow not even a hesitation and you forget you forget what it's like when

00:17:14.340 you first start off and I still know it's so long ago that I kind of forget

00:17:19.440 those late nights of just being super curious and fascinated and you know finding anybody who's

00:17:26.860 willing to listen to your crazy idea and even better finding people who are willing to throw

00:17:30.920 down throw some money and then like building the first little version of the thing and getting it

00:17:35.760 to the customer and you're like what else can I create it's like well I'm trying to make money

00:17:41.040 first business only happens when there's profit that's made other than that it's really just a

00:17:46.400 project.

Dan Martell - November 06, 2017

EVERYTHING IN MY POWER ｜ Dan Martell Original (Micro-Doc)

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