73. What If？
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Summary
In this episode of Real Talk, I share two lessons that have not only shaped who I am, but also shaped who my legacy will stand for and shaped the leadership lessons that I've been able to teach others by standing in the face of fear.
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told my teacher dumb bitch i'm gonna get millions watch this in the project living
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spoke it till existence mold changed to 50 got mold cost than did i only weigh 180 but my watch
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cost 250 what's going on guys it's sal for selling you're listening to the show for the
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realists say goodbye to the lies the fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome
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to motherfucking reality i'm back ladies and gentlemen first and foremost in the most kind
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prolific manner thank you i'm humbled i'm grateful i'm thankful for all the love and support you guys
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shared on my very first god bless this average home episode um you know one of the things that's
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valuable or excuse me one of the things that's most important to me is making sure that my life
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experience is able to create value for other people and it's it's through lessons it's through education
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and understanding that the intangible asset the one that can be taught so that you can utilize
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that asset to help better your life or maybe make a better decision with your day-to-day activity
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that's what matters to me that's what makes that as long as i'm in that conversation at some point
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in time understanding that i was able to bring you value teach you a lesson that's what's most
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important to me and the share the love uh the support that you guys gave on my very first episode
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of real talk i i just want to say thank you i appreciate it more than you'll ever know and i
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hope i hope and the goal is to continue to bring you value in today's value i want to i want to i want
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to share with you because it's there's two lessons that i want to bring you one's a personal lesson
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one's a professional lesson but both of them are driven by the same fuel and that fuel is fear
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and understanding that through fear is what everything you want in life that's where it
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fucking resides it's through that that fear where most people will never walk they'll never face the
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challenge they'll never step up to the plate and it's because they get anxiety it's because they
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get scared it's because they get this little bitty phrase what if what if i fail what if they make fun
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of me what if my friends don't like it what if they don't support me and i'm here to tell you
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that it's not about what if it's about what if not what if you don't do it what if you don't chase
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your dreams what if you don't stand up for yourself what if you do not step up to the plate and take
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that challenge how much value are you going to be able to provide to your future family how much value
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can you bring to your team how much value can you bring to your kids if you've never faced fear
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yourself how do you expect to teach them how to face their biggest fears and understanding that in
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life you break the mold through fear and why most people never become successful is because they're
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afraid of the what if and that what if is driven by fear it's insecurity it's anxiety it's just flat out
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being fucking scared and i'm going to share with you two experiences for me personally that have not
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only shaped who i am it's shaped who i'll be it's shaped who my kids will be it's shaped what my
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legacy will stand for it's shaped the leadership lessons that i've been able to teach the people
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around me it's shaped my friendships it's shaped my marriage and that's simply standing in the face of
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fear those two lessons are this one's personal and the personal one i'll share with you first
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i was always able to get away with being i don't want to say in shape but i was a college athlete i
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got drafted although it was like in the last pick of the last round of the mlb draft i was still
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drafted i played professional sports believe it or not this fucking oompa loompa looking guy here
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just kidding still handsome but that that i was always able because we trained so hard we were always in
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a heat i was always in a weight room we were always doing something physical that i was always
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able to kind of overcome my fat gene right and although i was always extremely extremely insecure
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about it i never really had to face the fear because of the lifestyle that i lived but once i
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got into the professional setting that lifestyle was no more and that fear and that anxiety and that
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insecurity it's still there it was still there like i was i could never get away of man i never look
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good in something i've never taken my shirt off and been proud of what looks back in the mirror no
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matter how great of shape i've been in it i've always been afraid to take my shirt off at the
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pool and i'm in the motherfucking fitness game think about that my whole life my whole life i
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just went on vacation with my family i was nervous to take my shirt off at the beach with my own
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fucking family but i know that that fear is something that i had to face if i was ever going
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to share that lesson with other people and something that's important to me as i started on the front
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end of this episode is my legacy my ability to help other people through their fears is
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something that lights my fire it's something that i was driven to do i've always been and forever
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will always be the person like i'll help you move i'll help you cut your grass i'll help take a tree
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down like i love to help and i understood that that fear that anxiety my ability to help in that
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fashion that was that was what i was meant to do i understood that if i was going to win at that
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game that i had to go first and i had to take my shirt off i had to stand in front of the
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internet i had to show them that i was scared shitless just like they are and it was through
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that fear that i was able to shape who i am today was able to shape the people's lives that i've that
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we as a company have been able to change all through just simply taking the first step and that first
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step although it'd be the most scary insecure fucking afraid step i've ever had to take from a
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personal standpoint in my entire life i look back as just simply facing that fear is one of the best
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things that i ever chose to do because i chose to face that step i've been able to fulfill my own
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narcissism my own drive by helping other people change their lives because i can look them in the
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eyes and i can tell them what it's like to face that fear i can tell them what it's like to take
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your shirt off and take a picture of yourself put it on the internet accept the challenge i can look
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them in the eyeballs and i can speak to them i can speak to their soul because i speak fat like i
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understand it no matter if you're a guy or girl like i understand that piece of life that insecurity
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and i knew that i could help but i could only help them if i faced up and fucking took the challenge
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myself and it was through that sense of fear facing that challenge of fear that i've been able to
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reshape my career been able to reshape my life i've been able to reshape a message that i can teach
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my children on how to overcome their fear so that they can fucking make the most of their life
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my second lesson i want to teach you is a professional lesson one that we all have
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thought of and you're probably thinking of if you listen to this show you've been in these shoes at
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one point in time or the other and maybe you're in them right fucking now i was 28 years old i had
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quote unquote life by the balls i worked for the arguably the best fortune 100 company in the planet
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earth johnson and johnson i sold med device i had the job that all of my friends wanted they all chased
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everybody thought i had the fucking gig and i did i made three four hundred thousand dollars i was
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27 26 27 28 29 years old man i had life by the balls i had company car i had 401k i had retirement
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i had expense account i did i did whatever i wanted whenever i wanted with whoever i wanted and i made a
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lot of money doing it but what i realized is like i wasn't fulfilling what drove me like they tell you
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these things that they tell you that you're helping these people change their life oh you're gonna have
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the most lightweight mesh so you can help them live a comfortable life but like in my brain like i knew
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man like that's not what fulfilled me i never met that human that human when i walked in they were on
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a table they were knocked out like i was talking to the doctor and i was able to sell but i was ever
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able to fulfill like what i loved about life which is helping people like i was never able to deliver
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that product no matter how good i was at my job i couldn't fill that bucket
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and i remember starting to have the conversations with andrew and chris about you know hey we're
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going to start first form we're going to get it moving you know we're going to do this thing
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together what and i remember the anxiety and the and the what ifs and i remember the drinking and
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the nervousness and all these things that were built up in my brain because i was afraid because of
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the fear that fear was only driven by one fucking question it's what if what if i fail
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what if i don't succeed what if all my friends are right what if i have to go back and face him
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listen to him tell me i told you so what if i had to do that but i understood and this is the one
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thing that i'm i'm most thankful that my dad taught me is about competitiveness is you can use that for
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you or against you and i learned to choose and i chose to use it for me he's like no no motherfucker
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what if not that ain't gonna those words are not going to be spoken to me you're not going to tell
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me i told you so i'm going to fucking tell it to you and in that face of adversity like i understood
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that doesn't eliminate the fear it just gives you the fucking determination to continue to take
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one fucking step at a time and just like a marathon it doesn't matter that you run it in two hours you
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don't have to set the world record it simply matters that you ran it simply matters that you had the
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courage to fucking step up to the starting line and put one motherfucking foot in front of the other
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that's the fear you got to overcome and if you can learn to look at the mirror and respect the human
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that looks back at you because you put in the work from overcoming the fear that's the feeling that you
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want out of life you don't want you don't want to live the life that everybody else has you want to
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live your fucking life and fucking write your story and that's only going to come through you
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facing your fears and your fears are different than my fears but we all have them their insecurities
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they're wrapped up in different blankets they have different disguises but we all fucking have them
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i just chose to use mine for what fuels me so that i can go help people change their lives
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and when i look about at taking that challenge that fear and facing it fucking head on i was able to
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write on both sides personal and professional what my legacy is going to stand for the lessons that i'm
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going to teach my kids the value that i want to provide to the world through building young men and
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women young leaders and better brothers mothers sisters fathers husbands and helping them change
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their their personal lives helping them just just knowing that my fucking positive message of facing that fear
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could simply be the difference of whether that person decides to fucking take the challenge or not
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just letting them know that it's okay to be vulnerable it's okay to be scared but it's not
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okay to fucking not face it not okay to fucking not go after it it's not okay to fucking let somebody
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else's what if dictate your fucking story you need to control that narrative by saying what if not
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motherfucker understand that mediocre people don't like high achievers and high achievers don't like
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mediocre people and what i mean by that is your ability to get outside your comfort zone makes
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everybody else a little bit squirmy it makes them nervous makes them feel a little bit more mediocre
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your what if thought that they're going to have about you cannot be controlled by somebody else's
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mediocre thinking you're designed to be fucking great as humans we're designed to face adversity that's
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our goal that's our mission that's what we're designed to do and if you're ever going to live
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a life full of fucking of that fullness that completeness that respect that looks back at you
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in the mirror it's only going to be earned through the fucking work of facing your fears that i promise
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you and i don't share with you this lesson because it's like some hokey pokey bullshit up on the
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internet i share with you this lesson because this is what has helped me most in my life taking that
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challenge facing my fears both personal and professional they're the two things that have shaped who i am as a
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human right now but for who i am as a human when i won't be here the lessons that they'll teach my kids
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the lessons that they'll tell my family the lessons that'll be told about me in these walls
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that's through facing the motherfucking fear and if you want those stories to be about you i suggest
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that you saddle up you put one foot in front of the other and you start attacking your motherfucking
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fears today and so i'm going to leave you with this this is the value this is the lesson whether you
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choose to face it or not it's on you that's not on me i chose to face mine and it's the most proud
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decisions that i've made in my entire life don't let the what ifs control your story don't let the
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what if i fail what if they make fun of me don't let those control your narrative your job your
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opportunity your obligation on this earth given by god is to make the best motherfucking life that you
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have the best fucking life that you could possibly live is your obligation to the society and if you
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want to be the best husband mother brother sister you're only going to get there if you learn to face
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your fucking fears and that's it for today ladies and gentlemen i hope again my goal is to provide as
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much value as physically possible and i hope that today made you think that's my goal my goal is to help
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you overcome your fears and if it's whether it's physical or professional using my stories my
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experience to help push you through those thresholds that's my goal in sharing today's story
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