Dan Martell - October 21, 2019


Shine Your Light ｜ Dan Martell Original (Micro-Doc)


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13 minutes

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126

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In this episode, I talk about my past addictions and how I got into drugs and alcohol. I also talk about how I became a computer genius and how my addiction led me to a life of crime and crime.

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00:00:00.000 Head into Portage today to go talk with some kids. It's a rehab center, hopefully changing lives.
00:00:30.000 this up here this is this is where I got pulled over when I was 16 so I was coming down the
00:00:43.740 highway and the roadblock was over there and there was trees so you couldn't see and this
00:00:48.780 is about where I got pulled over just right here on the side of the road the police asked me for
00:00:53.880 my driver's license and insurance and all that stuff I didn't have a license he said just pull
00:00:58.200 I lied and when he kind of turned around I took off and ended up smashing into a
00:01:08.400 house not too far from here. Everything changed in this little part of the world.
00:01:28.200 I know Dan for 22 years. When Dan came to treatment, he was very angry, but we felt and we knew he had potential.
00:01:46.200 He's himself, and that's why I respect that guy so much, because he's himself.
00:01:55.200 No matter what, no matter who he's speaking to, he's going to need the same Dan Martell.
00:02:03.200 At 16 years old, I found myself driving a stolen car high on drugs just outside of Sussex,
00:02:10.200 and it was actually on the exit to Sussex where there was a routine roadblock.
00:02:15.200 block we actually just stopped to see it on the way here where the police had set up and I couldn't
00:02:21.200 see it so when I kind of took the exit they were there I didn't have my I didn't have a license
00:02:25.300 and they asked me to pull over to the side and I decided to gun it and I thought if I could just
00:02:30.220 get away from them maybe I could run into the woods and hide and what had happened prior to
00:02:35.620 that a few weeks is I did a break and enter and I had stolen a bunch of guns and I had a handgun
00:02:40.500 in a backpack sitting next to me and I said to myself if I got pulled over or stopped by the
00:02:45.440 police I was going to point the gun at the police and let them do their job and as I was trying to
00:02:52.000 take off I was in the neighborhood I was I had quite a bit of distance but they were pretty
00:02:55.600 much right behind me and I saw an open garage and I thought if I could pull into the garage
00:03:02.460 and close the door I could hide out and I came way too fast into this guy's yard and smashed
00:03:08.240 into the side of the house and started pulling on the handgun that was in the backpack and it got
00:03:14.220 stuck and I kept pulling on it and pulling on it. I could hear the police getting closer and next
00:03:19.520 thing you know the door opened and the police grabbed me and my feet didn't even touch the
00:03:22.380 ground and they threw me in the back of the cop car and I woke up sober the next morning in the
00:03:26.400 Sussex jail, the city jail, not knowing what my life was going to look like, not knowing
00:03:32.120 you know what I was gonna what kind of trouble I got myself into and uh I got released to portage
00:03:38.260 so I remember the day that I got brought here in the sheriff's van driving down that same road that
00:03:43.880 I just drove my car down you know 22 years ago if somebody would have said I'd be driving down
00:03:49.480 this highway in a supercar I would have just thought there's no way like it's just you're
00:03:53.840 it's crazy like how would that ever happen um and uh I did an 11 month program here I had a lot of
00:04:01.760 shit I had to deal with. And Rick asked me one day, I actually did like a summer program here
00:04:08.060 after I graduated to work, to build, I don't, yeah, I guess you guys don't even have the trailers
00:04:13.120 anymore, the old trailers. Anyways, I helped build that. And I learned way too many Dixie Chicks
00:04:19.880 lyrics than I care to admit, because that's Rick's musical choice. But there was an, and it still,
00:04:27.640 is there cabins up there? Are those gone too? Yeah, so there used to be cabins at the top and
00:04:32.200 because there was an old church camp and we were clearing out one of the rooms and there was this
00:04:36.400 old computer with a book on Java programming, a programming language, like random, just sitting
00:04:41.760 there and I opened up this book and I started to read it and I was like, oh, this kind of reads
00:04:45.400 like English. It's not, you know, gibberish. I always thought computer programming would be this
00:04:49.560 like weird foreign, you know, like hieroglyphics or you needed to be like a math scientist to
00:04:53.980 understand it. And I just booted up the computer and I followed chapter one and I got the computer
00:05:00.480 to say, hello world. Okay. Now it doesn't sound that exciting. I thought I was a computer genius.
00:05:09.160 I thought I was like an undiscovered Doogie Howser of programming. Okay. That's how high I was on my
00:05:15.700 own, my ego at the time. But like that was enough of a spark to just realize like, oh, if I can make
00:05:22.460 could do that I wonder what else it could do and and truthfully computers became my new addiction
00:05:28.380 and I got out and this is 1997 discovered this thing called the internet which turned out to
00:05:36.480 be kind of a big deal most of you guys have never lived without that it was just starting when I
00:05:41.240 got into computers and business became kind of my outlet to express the creativity that I had
00:05:48.900 and the way I look at it is that entrepreneurship is really the ultimate personal development
00:05:53.720 program. When you talk about betterment and learning how to be a better person,
00:05:57.860 there's really no better feedback mechanism than building a business because if you're stuck,
00:06:03.300 people think they have business problems when they really have personal problems that just
00:06:06.400 show up in their business. And then programming became my new addiction and I've been fortunate
00:06:12.180 enough since then to have started five software companies. I've sold the last three. I became a
00:06:17.220 multimillionaire when I was 27. I've since now invested in 40 other companies. Four of them are
00:06:23.120 billion-dollar companies. And I don't share any of this to brag. I share this to give you guys
00:06:27.500 context for what's possible, okay? In a 22-year period, I went from right where you guys are
00:06:32.900 sitting to living a life that I didn't even have the ability or the understanding to dream of,
00:06:39.520 okay? In 22 years. And I'm just getting started. I'm not even 40 yet. I'm having a lot of fun,
00:06:46.760 and I'm still just getting started.
00:06:49.800 And throughout that journey,
00:06:51.220 there's just been so many incredible people
00:06:52.960 that have just showed up at the right time.
00:06:54.840 And it's why it's so important for me to come back
00:06:56.920 and share my story with you guys
00:06:58.560 and, you know, support anybody here
00:07:01.500 that someday, if you get out
00:07:02.800 and you stay sober for at least a year
00:07:04.500 and you reach out to me,
00:07:05.960 I will help you achieve any dream
00:07:07.620 you possibly could design.
00:07:09.380 That's my commitment.
00:07:10.540 I've done it for many graduates.
00:07:12.500 I had somebody reach out to me the other day.
00:07:14.280 I really believe that's why I'm here on earth so that's my story if you guys have any questions
00:07:22.660 let's have a conversation
00:07:23.840 here's what's interesting about what you said is that I've had a lot of faith and I'd be lying
00:07:32.500 if I told you when I got out of here I had any faith in myself to do anything I've done today
00:07:36.180 it literally was all right how do I stay sober that was it I had one goal when I got out of here
00:07:43.940 don't relapse. So in AA, if you want to be, if you want to have sobriety, you actually have to
00:07:50.140 support other people's sobriety. I'll tell you, that's a lesson I learned at 17 that most adults
00:07:56.340 to this day haven't figured out. Isn't that crazy? These are things that you guys are learning.
00:08:00.800 I'm good in business today because I was in this room.
00:08:07.060 The challenge is when you guys get out and you have friends that are still struggling,
00:08:10.480 you're going to want to help them because you care about them. Does that make sense?
00:08:15.080 Here's what happens. I call it the tugboat versus the lighthouse. You guys want to learn what this
00:08:18.760 is about? You guys want to know? It's pretty cool. I don't have to share it.
00:08:23.860 You guys want to learn? Lighthouse versus tugboat? Okay, cool. It's really simple.
00:08:28.240 The other people in your life are like boats
00:08:30.820 drifting in the ocean with no rudder. Now you
00:08:34.720 got clean, you built a better boat, and you got a rudder. And you see that
00:08:38.620 and you act like a tugboat.
00:08:40.160 And what does that mean is you go ramming out there
00:08:42.120 and saying, fucking, you guys got to make a better decision.
00:08:44.380 You got to go this way, that way, right?
00:08:45.640 Because you're sober.
00:08:46.480 You're clean.
00:08:47.040 This could be to your parents.
00:08:48.060 This could be to your stepfather.
00:08:49.040 This could be to your cousins, your uncles,
00:08:50.260 whoever it is, people in your life.
00:08:52.140 The problem with that is that it's going to drain you
00:08:55.100 and it's going to frustrate them.
00:08:56.600 Does that make sense?
00:08:57.540 So anytime you feel an inclination
00:08:59.400 to give somebody else advice,
00:09:01.280 go look in a mirror and give it to yourself
00:09:03.120 because we all can be better.
00:09:06.060 I don't know how you carry yourself around.
00:09:08.140 it's like big motivation
00:09:10.120 just trying to translate this all out
00:09:12.060 and I'm just trying to be successful
00:09:14.460 but can you do me a favor
00:09:16.040 can you take that word try
00:09:17.860 wrap it up and throw it out
00:09:20.060 I don't
00:09:24.140 you'll never hear me use the word try
00:09:25.760 I just don't
00:09:28.340 like the Yoda thing there is no
00:09:30.260 try there is do or do not right
00:09:32.000 but it's funny how like in the language
00:09:34.320 we use it just it sets
00:09:36.180 so much intention for the future
00:09:38.640 Who you are today is not who you need to become to get to the next level.
00:09:42.400 Does that make sense?
00:09:43.340 Like who you were when you showed up, okay?
00:09:45.320 Think about your beliefs and values that you had when you showed up.
00:09:49.120 The person that graduates doesn't believe or act that way anymore.
00:09:53.660 Does that make sense?
00:09:55.000 Like you probably have new habits.
00:09:56.900 Do you agree?
00:09:57.840 You have a different perspective on life.
00:09:59.800 You're still fundamentally who you are, right?
00:10:02.200 Whatever your name is and how you show up in the world, you're that person.
00:10:05.660 But the habits, beliefs, and values that you have are different.
00:10:10.060 And the reason why that's true is because if you didn't change that,
00:10:13.480 you wouldn't be able to have this.
00:10:15.140 Like, you know, when you're sober for a year,
00:10:17.720 you're not going to be the same kid, person that showed up day one at Portage.
00:10:22.500 So it's like every day when I ask myself what's next,
00:10:25.920 I'm actually asking myself this cool question of who do I need to become to get that?
00:10:30.680 Because I believe every day we wake up, we have a decision to make.
00:10:33.200 we can either live an ordinary life
00:10:35.760 or we can live an extraordinary life.
00:10:38.940 That's a decision.
00:10:41.100 We all have the power.
00:10:43.120 So that's the cool part.
00:10:50.080 Cool part is you don't have to do it alone.
00:10:51.800 I'm here. I'll help you.
00:10:52.900 And I've got a team, man.
00:10:54.220 I've got a team. I've got resources.
00:10:56.300 And I will help you guys achieve
00:10:57.960 whatever you want to set as a dream.
00:11:00.680 You've got to do some work.
00:11:01.920 But we'll do it together.
00:11:02.960 Does that make sense?
00:11:04.160 That's the commitment.
00:11:05.340 But you've got to stay sober a year.
00:11:06.620 That unlocks the conversation.
00:11:08.900 Cool?
00:11:10.240 Awesome.
00:11:10.780 Let's go eat.
00:11:11.900 I don't know.
00:11:12.220 Let's do three.
00:11:15.340 It's really just ask yourself, what's the next move I can do today?
00:11:18.560 That's it.
00:11:19.160 Just today.
00:11:20.560 A lot of it I learned being here, right?
00:11:23.420 Rehab, it's not like 10 years in the future.
00:11:25.520 It's today.
00:11:26.720 How do I stay sober today?
00:11:30.440 So who's leaving?
00:11:31.440 You guys are leaving?
00:11:32.680 I called my girlfriend off the first time in a few days, and she told me one of her really, really good friends, and so...
00:11:54.680 The unfortunate part of Isaiah, the only person that can keep you here is you.
00:11:58.680 All I know is that if I didn't stay, and I could have.
00:12:00.960 So this is the crazy part about my program.
00:12:02.360 It was 11 months, and after five, I could have left
00:12:04.960 because I had a 10-month sentence.
00:12:06.780 I did five in St. John Regional,
00:12:08.960 and then I had five closed custody technically here.
00:12:12.620 And that day, all the staff and everybody knew
00:12:15.560 that was the day that I could have left and not get arrested.
00:12:18.400 And I'd been gone for a year.
00:12:21.140 Not get arrested, not nothing.
00:12:22.660 Yeah, it was just like, it was a hard day, man.
00:12:25.840 I just know that my life would have looked dramatically different
00:12:28.520 And I probably wouldn't be here today.
00:12:30.380 I wouldn't be alive, period.
00:12:33.000 All right.
00:12:33.960 See you, man.
00:12:34.600 Reach out, eh, Colton?
00:12:35.560 Yeah, I will.
00:12:36.120 All right.
00:12:37.160 See you, man.
00:12:38.180 Is that a trouble?
00:12:39.220 That's cool.
00:12:44.660 That's what I...
00:12:46.100 That was the first billing.
00:12:47.720 This is the camp where I found the programming book.
00:12:51.880 Right in there.
00:12:53.180 That was the one.
00:12:56.180 Crazy.
00:12:58.520 I don't know.
00:13:28.520 Thank you.