REAL AF with Andy Frisella - Overcome All Obstacles, ft. Tyron Woodley - MFCEO19

00:00:00.000 What's up, guys? You're listening to the MFCEO Project. I am most emphatically not the MFCEO.

00:00:24.480 This is Vaughn Kohler, as Andy likes to say, Vaughn the Impaler, the pastor of Disaster. Thanks for listening to the MFCEO Project. I have bad news and good news. The bad news is that Andy is a little under the weather, so we are going to have to carry on without him. That's the bad news. So think about Andy. Throw up a prayer for him. I'm sure he will feel better soon. That's the bad news.

00:00:50.740 The good news is that... But that's because, Vaughn, he's sick as fuck. He's sick as fuck. I said under the weather. I'm going to say fuck more often today. This is Ben Newman, by the way. Because everybody tells me I don't say fuck enough. So yeah, this is Ben Newman here, and he's sick as fuck. We need to be clear on that. 1.00

00:01:05.660 Yes. Yes. Thank you. And I was getting to the good news, which is that Ben is here, which means that the fire is here. But in addition to fire, we have fists. F-I-S-T-S. Fists. Or fist bumps. Uppercuts. Jabs. You name it. We have all of that because of our special guest today. Would you like to introduce him?

00:01:24.160 I would love to. So we have a fellow brother of mine in the studio, Tyron, the chosen one, Woodley, the next welterweight champion of the world in the UFC. So welcome to the MFCEO Project Podcast, Tyron.

00:01:41.560 Boom, boom. Glad to be on, a fan of the show. And you can drop the F-moms for me as well. 1.00

00:01:48.200 You guys will say my own hails, because I love the word hail for some reason.

00:01:51.620 Yeah, well, you've gone way back with Tyron, I guess. Well, you didn't grow up with him, but you've known him before. You guys have had at least a professional.

00:01:59.720 We nursed together.

00:02:00.740 You nursed together.

00:02:01.340 We did, yeah. We nursed on the boobs together. 1.00

00:02:05.200 I don't know who's going to do it, whether you're going to give us a little background on Tyron or whether Tyron's just going to share his story, and we're just going to jump right into it. But how do you think the best way to proceed would be?

00:02:15.180 I'll mention something briefly, and then I'll turn it over to Tyron. You know, there are individuals that you meet in life, and, you know, we all have relationships.

00:02:21.620 Like this, where you meet somebody, and it's like an instant bond, like you have known somebody, you know, since we were nursing together, which is not the case.

00:02:29.160 And, you know, that's really what happened with Tyron and I. It was actually, Tyron's manager had reached out to me, and he said, hey, let's get you and Tyron together.

00:02:39.120 And I said, absolutely. I mean, I was a fan of Tyron's, and I said, this will be fantastic, both St. Louisans, and many people had said that we should meet each other, kind of like Andy's in my relationship when you introduced us.

00:02:48.560 And Tyron and I, I went over, I met him at his gym, ATT Evolution. He'll talk a little bit more about his business. It's amazing. He's not just a great fighter. He's a great businessman.

00:02:57.380 And we just absolutely hit it off. I mean, family, passions for life, process, work ethic, getting after it, giving it your best.

00:03:05.840 And for me, I can speak for myself, it's been like a fast brotherhood and really a blessing to have Tyron now in my life as a friend.

00:03:13.800 And I'm excited for everybody to get the opportunity to hear who he is and how he approaches life and how that can impact you and the fire that you bring to your life.

00:03:24.300 So, Tyron, I think what would really be fun for everybody is a little bit of background, you know, where you came from, which is an interesting place in American Headlines today,

00:03:33.140 and some of your beliefs in how you've grown into what you're doing today.

00:03:37.020 Well, I appreciate the intro, number one. Kind words by my man, Ben Newman.

00:03:41.560 I'm just a, you know, a young kid from Ferguson, Missouri, grew up walking up and down the streets.

00:03:48.180 We didn't have the video games and the cell phones like the kids of today.

00:03:52.220 So what we did was we played football, contact, notepads, sprinted on the street, chased each other, played wrestling.

00:04:00.280 You know, we pretty much weren't allowed back in the house until the lights came on.

00:04:04.060 So I just grew up in a rough environment, you know.

00:04:07.480 I was exposed to a lot of, you know, gang affiliation and things of that nature.

00:04:12.640 So those things just kind of built me in a different way.

00:04:15.260 So when I compete, those of you that see me in octagon and know me as a chosen one, fighting really doesn't scare me.

00:04:22.420 You know, I've been fighting my whole life.

00:04:24.020 You know, I fought for fun.

00:04:25.580 I fought because I had to, and now I fight for funds.

00:04:27.960 So in general, you know, I've just been a driven kid that, from a dysfunctional home, you know, father wasn't involved, but I never use it as an excuse.

00:04:37.180 Sometimes our youth gets to use it as an excuse.

00:04:40.380 My dad wasn't here.

00:04:42.180 I live in the ghetto, and, you know, I'm never going to be successful.

00:04:46.220 You know, I tend to challenge the odds.

00:04:48.740 I tend to challenge the stereotype on what people think you will become and what they think you should become.

00:04:55.180 And my whole life has been basically whatever you say I can do, I kind of end up doing.

00:05:00.760 So that's pretty much me in a nutshell.

00:05:02.980 Went to the University of Missouri from St. Louis, went to McClure.

00:05:08.280 Then I transitioned into MMA.

00:05:10.380 I was also a wrestling coach at Mizzou and SIUE before.

00:05:13.740 So I'm homegrown, man.

00:05:14.920 I've been here since been pimping, since been pimping, since been pimping.

00:05:20.200 So I've been there for a while.

00:05:21.720 Now, you didn't just wrestle at Mizzou.

00:05:23.820 Weren't you the first All-American out of the University of Missouri?

00:05:27.640 I was the first Big 12 champion.

00:05:29.720 First Big 12 champion.

00:05:31.620 University of Missouri used to be the floor mat of the Big 12.

00:05:35.700 They were the mockery.

00:05:36.780 They were the joke.

00:05:37.920 They were the easy match if you were assigned to wrestle someone from the University of Missouri.

00:05:42.020 So basically the way they're in basketball now, right?

00:05:44.420 Oh, hold on, bro.

00:05:45.420 Hold on, hold on.

00:05:46.340 Let the Tigers go. 0.94

00:05:48.420 So, yeah, I don't think they're doing the hot basketball to answer your question.

00:05:52.400 But I was committed to the University of Nebraska.

00:05:55.480 They had a thriving wrestling program, a ridiculous tradition.

00:05:59.140 Plus my favorite colors was red.

00:06:01.000 My recruiting trip was tight.

00:06:02.360 All these women was all over me. 1.00

00:06:03.720 So I was like, I'm committed.

00:06:05.120 I didn't go to any other recruiting trip.

00:06:07.520 You know, I was a Husker.

00:06:09.080 And then something happened with the coaching staff.

00:06:11.840 The head coach was forced to resign for illegal recruiting.

00:06:14.980 I think he was helping kids pay off some gambling debts and doing some things illegal.

00:06:19.160 So I was kind of left in the gray on where I wanted to go to college.

00:06:22.880 Then I, you know, went to the University of Missouri.

00:06:25.320 I didn't want to go to the recruiting trip.

00:06:26.680 I was dreading it because they were so damn horrible.

00:06:29.680 And I went there and I saw my teammate Justin Spates and I saw my teammate Ryan Bader,

00:06:36.180 my future teammate at the time.

00:06:38.120 They were doing sprints and indoor turf.

00:06:39.840 They was wrestling in the offseason.

00:06:41.680 I'm like, what are these dudes doing?

00:06:43.080 The season's over with.

00:06:44.280 And I saw something in them and I saw something in the future that I can either go to a program

00:06:49.460 that has a rich tradition already or I can come here and I can make the tradition.

00:06:53.560 I can be the guy that gives the University of Missouri a chance.

00:06:57.600 I can go there and I can make the difference.

00:06:59.200 My mom told me, she said, you should go there and make the difference.

00:07:02.420 I'm like, you go there.

00:07:03.520 I'm not going to Mizzou.

00:07:05.080 You know?

00:07:05.500 So I went there.

00:07:06.680 I prayed about it.

00:07:07.640 My gut told me to go.

00:07:08.700 And I can honestly say, University of Missouri has been in the top 10 every year since I got there in 2000.

00:07:16.980 It's 15 years strong.

00:07:18.460 They finished third twice in NCAAs.

00:07:21.380 This year, they was ranked number one.

00:07:22.780 It was undefeated going into the NCAA, do-me-wise.

00:07:25.640 So the tradition, I can honestly look back and say I was one of those guys that was a building block in what they have now.

00:07:32.920 So that mindset, we call it Tiger Style.

00:07:36.260 I transitioned that into MMA.

00:07:38.480 I transitioned that into life, into business, my gym, ATT Evolution in Brentwood.

00:07:44.760 So everything I do, I really use that same mindset.

00:07:48.560 Just get it done.

00:07:49.560 Don't let it hang over your head.

00:07:52.840 Don't complain about it.

00:07:53.960 Just do it.

00:07:54.800 And that's been my success story.

00:07:56.900 Well, obviously, your story is one of determination.

00:07:59.120 It's one of overcoming.

00:08:00.080 It's one where you've defeated a lot of opponents in your life, both in the octagon, on the octagon, however you say that, in the ring, but also different things that you faced in life.

00:08:11.000 And I know for the purpose of this podcast, we always want to give people fire for how to kill it in their lives.

00:08:17.340 And so I'd love to have a discussion just about, you know, Ben, as you've worked with Tyron, and Tyron, as you've kind of pursued your dreams of doing what you do, you know, what are the principles that guided you?

00:08:30.680 How did you get to where you are mentally, you know, physically?

00:08:34.120 What are the key ways that you've done that?

00:08:38.140 But before you do that, I have to ask, because I saw this on your bio.

00:08:42.460 You were an ag econ major?

00:08:44.220 Yeah, man.

00:08:44.940 That's awesome.

00:08:45.700 Ag econ major.

00:08:46.320 How did you decide to do that?

00:08:47.720 How did you decide to do that?

00:08:47.760 Agricocia economics and business marketing.

00:08:49.780 So I started off in engineering, and my first year in engineering school in Mizzou, I was pumped up to be this big computer engineer that was making, at the time, $60,000 was a lot of money.

00:09:01.960 So they were like, they're making $60,000, I'm going into this field.

00:09:05.280 I was on the dean's list.

00:09:06.420 I thought it was some big high shot.

00:09:08.140 Then I started competing, and I started, you know, I started as a freshman in college, and then we started traveling, and we started having to watch film, and we started to have to do these individual workouts.

00:09:19.080 And pretty much my timetable to academically, you know, strive and athletically strive started to, you know, compete against each other.

00:09:27.900 And then my grades started to drop, and I had one horrible semester, you know, I freaking was on academic probation.

00:09:34.900 So I switched to the business school. 0.91

00:09:37.880 I switched to the business school because I didn't have to have almost a damn 4.0 to get into it.

00:09:42.780 And when it was time for me to apply to the upper level part of the course, I was one point underneath where I needed to be.

00:09:51.620 I needed to have a 3.4.

00:09:53.660 I think I had like a 3.2 or 3.3 GPA.

00:09:56.700 So I went to the ag school to raise my GPA up for the business school, and I got over there, and I loved it.

00:10:05.160 I loved how personal it was.

00:10:06.640 I loved it.

00:10:07.040 We actually took real dollars out of our pocket.

00:10:09.440 We played the futures market.

00:10:10.860 We did cattle.

00:10:11.580 We did everything.

00:10:12.760 And I said, you know what?

00:10:13.760 If I'm a city boy or, you know, North County boy, and I can learn how, you know, how to think ahead and project, you know, I can sell anything.

00:10:23.100 You know, the business school kind of taught us to be in a classroom with 400 people, midterm final.

00:10:28.740 But this one was really hands-on.

00:10:30.460 The teachers really took extra time and effort.

00:10:32.920 And, you know, once I raised my GPA, I said, you know, I'm staying over here.

00:10:35.860 I loved it.

00:10:36.400 I enjoyed it.

00:10:37.220 So you planned to go to Nebraska.

00:10:40.700 Yeah.

00:10:41.040 You ended up going to Mizzou, and that, like, you embraced that.

00:10:46.380 You changed the way you thought of that.

00:10:47.920 And then you planned to be an engineer and ended up being an ag or econ guy, but you totally changed your thinking on that.

00:10:57.600 Ben, that sounds an awful lot like reframing.

00:11:01.540 Oh, absolutely.

00:11:02.460 I think, you know, one thing, if you look at, you know, Tyron's upbringing, which he alluded to, I'm sure he'll talk more about,

00:11:08.140 it is focusing on solutions throughout his life.

00:11:11.500 And one thing I'd love for the listeners to pay attention to, the most successful individuals I've had the opportunity to work with,

00:11:17.200 they have great capacity, and they challenge that capacity.

00:11:21.840 And that's what I believe Tyron has done.

00:11:23.820 I mean, it blew me away.

00:11:25.200 The first time we ever shared the stage to speak was in Las Vegas for MassMutual, and I got done.

00:11:31.540 I warmed up the stage for Tyron, and then all of a sudden, I mean, he pops up, and I mean, he was dropping knowledge from books about investments and insurance.

00:11:40.040 You would have thought that he was the one who spent the amount of time that I spent in the insurance and investment business.

00:11:44.860 The managing partner of that financial group came up to me, and he's just like, that just blew me away.

00:11:49.920 That was absolutely unbelievable.

00:11:51.360 And I think that's what makes Tyron so unique. 0.99

00:11:53.440 It's the way that he has challenged himself to be the best businessman I can be, but to also go kick the shit out of somebody in the octagon. 0.99

00:11:59.840 Yeah. 0.98

00:12:00.220 And it's really an incredible thing, but you did allude to it.

00:12:03.900 It's reframing, focusing on solutions.

00:12:05.700 That's what he's always done.

00:12:07.040 Right.

00:12:07.640 Right?

00:12:07.820 So I think for everybody, as you hear Tyron's story, pay attention.

00:12:11.260 Challenge your capacity.

00:12:12.900 I've always believed that everybody can dig deeper with the talents that they have, and you're going to hear with every answer that he has, it's challenging capacity and giving it your best.

00:12:21.240 So where did that start, Tyron?

00:12:22.980 Where did it start where you basically took adversity and you just reframed it into something to learn from and to grow from?

00:12:28.740 You know, when I was younger, I used to get suspended every week.

00:12:32.860 I spent an average of three or four days at school per week.

00:12:40.180 Wow.

00:12:40.420 We went from one day to two days to three days to five days and then school suspension to ten days suspended.

00:12:46.120 I was basically recommended to be suspended for 90 days three times.

00:12:51.660 The third time I got it, and I missed my entire freshman year.

00:12:55.480 I missed the homecoming.

00:12:57.120 You know, I thought I was some ladies' man, so I had all these fresh clothes.

00:13:00.320 I missed the ladies, missed all the, you know, you know, the first day of school and high school was a big deal.

00:13:06.520 I missed the first three months.

00:13:08.360 So I was at this academic support center, and I was just looking around. 0.98

00:13:12.520 I'm like, fuck, man, I'm going to end up being like everybody in here. 0.99

00:13:15.840 We're not going anywhere. 0.99

00:13:17.640 And that was my last fight.

00:13:20.360 That was my last fight.

00:13:21.200 And I used to maybe get in a fight weekly.

00:13:23.540 You know, my sisters, they always try to fight me in neighborhood fights, gang fights. 1.00

00:13:29.820 So, and I wasn't even a fighter of my family.

00:13:32.380 My family is, like, in the past was notorious for fighting.

00:13:35.860 My sisters, like, you know, Julia, if you knew her in the past, like, and it's funny that I'm the fighter, even though I fought a lot.

00:13:43.020 But my family, you know, we've been fighting for everything for a while.

00:13:46.820 So to answer your question, you know, it was a little gang that I thought I was a part of.

00:13:52.560 A week after I got suspended for 90 days, those guys came to the same academic center because they got into a fight at McClure High School.

00:14:00.960 And I'm like, you know what, I would have been here anyway because if I was in school, I would have been in that fight with these guys.

00:14:07.180 And then I would have still been here.

00:14:08.880 And I just looked at the path, and I was like, you know what, I'm changing my life.

00:14:13.200 And I don't know how I did it.

00:14:14.820 I do know why I did it, but I just really hit a 360.

00:14:19.240 You know, I went from a kid that was, you know, a teacher would already have my name disrupting class.

00:14:25.620 All they would do is date the referral, give it to me, send me to the office.

00:14:29.020 You know, and if they gave me the whole referral, I definitely wasn't taking it.

00:14:31.660 I was going to the bathroom and just chilling out.

00:14:33.540 So, you know, I had this down to a system.

00:14:36.360 I would, you know, finagle the principal and like, oh, she's just picking on me and, you know, playing a race car.

00:14:42.980 Whatever I needed to do not to get in trouble.

00:14:45.180 I had my mom thinking I was a saint, you know, and she was like, my baby would never do this.

00:14:50.140 And I was like, yeah, they're picking on me.

00:14:51.600 But then I started accepting personal responsibility.

00:14:54.580 I started to take my life into my own hands.

00:14:57.840 And I told my mom, I said, you know what, I'm going to be in the NFL.

00:15:01.260 You know, I'm not going to get in trouble anymore.

00:15:03.280 And from that point on, I had a 3.8 GPA or higher, zero referrals.

00:15:10.940 I never had any behavior issues in high school whatsoever.

00:15:14.020 I was on every national honor society.

00:15:16.760 I was in ROTC.

00:15:18.540 I broke every record Fort Linwood had in ROTC.

00:15:22.060 Like, I just shattered everything they had.

00:15:23.860 I was just mentally driven to get out of my situation.

00:15:27.320 And, you know, that drive just couldn't, it's something that always triggered.

00:15:30.700 Like, I took second in state my junior year, and I lost in the last second.

00:15:34.760 I was so pissed.

00:15:35.880 So, I spent that whole summer training, had a 72 cut list that was the longest car on earth.

00:15:42.620 But I traveled that baby everywhere.

00:15:44.780 I was in three different, you know, club teams.

00:15:47.100 I traveled the country.

00:15:48.140 I raised money.

00:15:48.840 I worked.

00:15:49.240 I had no spring breaks.

00:15:50.860 The next year, I went undefeated, 48-0, the largest win streak in the history of Missouri at that time.

00:15:56.600 Gave up zero offensive points.

00:15:58.360 And then, every year, something else.

00:16:01.080 You know, I didn't win the NCAA title in Mizzou.

00:16:03.920 I was the best wrestler in the country at that point.

00:16:08.060 And I, you know, didn't have a good tournament.

00:16:10.160 But then, they got me into MMA.

00:16:11.800 And now, I'm still driven because I've yet to be the best in the world in something.

00:16:16.500 And I'm so damn close right now that, you know, I want to cap off my athletic career with being the best in the world.

00:16:21.560 You just said something that hit me hard.

00:16:24.020 And I hope the listeners were hit hard by it, too.

00:16:26.660 You said, I don't know how I did it, but I know why I did it.

00:16:30.980 And it seems to me that what made the difference between everybody else who might have been in that student detention center and you is that you discovered a purpose.

00:16:41.660 You didn't want to be like everybody else.

00:16:43.980 Is that fair to say?

00:16:45.340 Yeah, you know, those guys, you know, some of those guys are in jail.

00:16:48.880 Some of them are dead.

00:16:50.180 Some of them, I know personally, have murdered people.

00:16:53.600 And, you know, I can't even hang around them because I just know what type of lifestyle they're in.

00:16:58.340 And I can't facilitate that type of company because of my family.

00:17:01.240 But I really just, I kind of knew better.

00:17:04.900 And I was doing things not because my dad was gone, not because, you know, I was just doing it because it was fun.

00:17:10.720 I like being a class clown.

00:17:12.400 You know, I like the attention that I was getting.

00:17:13.880 And so I was very conscious of my decisions.

00:17:16.060 So then I just consciously chose to stop.

00:17:19.040 And I was like, you know what?

00:17:20.660 Everybody, oh, they expected me to be a bad kid.

00:17:23.840 They already had me, you know, flagged.

00:17:26.040 They would tell all the teachers I had them in third grade, be looking out for him.

00:17:29.740 I remember my dad was a pastor.

00:17:33.480 And I dressed for career day as a pastor.

00:17:36.860 And I remember my third grade teacher laughing at me.

00:17:39.640 I'm like, whoo-hoo.

00:17:41.300 She was like, if you want to be a pastor, you got a whole lot of work to do, like on career day.

00:17:46.000 And I just remember that.

00:17:47.180 And, you know, I think I just wanted to prove everybody wrong.

00:17:51.100 You know, they all had me.

00:17:54.760 They already had my future, destined what I was going to be and what I was going to end up.

00:17:57.980 And, you know, I just completely shattered everything that they said.

00:18:02.080 Wow.

00:18:02.480 So did your, I mean, hopefully it's okay to ask.

00:18:05.520 Your father just died early?

00:18:07.380 No, he didn't die.

00:18:08.520 I mean, at one point he died to me as a human.

00:18:10.920 Yeah.

00:18:11.100 Because I just didn't, I didn't have emotions towards him.

00:18:15.120 I didn't love him.

00:18:15.840 I didn't hate him.

00:18:16.960 I was seeing him.

00:18:18.040 I mean, he only lived five minutes away.

00:18:19.280 I was seeing him at the grocery store.

00:18:20.460 I was like, hey, what's up, man?

00:18:21.080 It was like a random stranger that I just happened to know.

00:18:24.020 And it never emotionally hurt me.

00:18:25.960 It never made me want to be, you know, sad.

00:18:29.900 It never made me cry.

00:18:31.200 It never made me act out in bad behavior.

00:18:33.260 Like I said, I was conscious of all my stuff and nothing had to do with my dad not being there.

00:18:37.520 So I was one of the few kids that were probably blessed that wasn't affected in a negative way.

00:18:42.340 It actually made me want to go harder.

00:18:44.840 It made me cling to my coaches more, which means I was a way more coachable athlete.

00:18:48.800 And the way I raise my three sons now, you know, I'm probably the overly over-the-top dad just because, you know,

00:18:56.340 I remember when my dad used to walk through the door and he was freaking too tired.

00:19:00.360 Get away from me.

00:19:01.020 I'm tired.

00:19:01.560 I've been to work all day.

00:19:02.420 I just want to watch TV.

00:19:03.780 And I never do that to my kids.

00:19:05.200 I don't give a hell if I just got knocked out in the gym, if I ran eight miles, how tired I am. 0.98

00:19:10.380 I'll sit in my car for 20 minutes if it takes to get my damn self together. 0.97

00:19:14.220 So when I come in, I'm smiling, I got energy, and they get that warm embrace that I never got. 0.99

00:19:19.240 So if anything, it made me a way better parent.

00:19:23.220 And, you know, I just didn't want to do that, you know?

00:19:26.280 Yeah, there's that reframing again.

00:19:27.880 That's amazing.

00:19:29.160 It's amazing.

00:19:30.180 So reframing.

00:19:31.260 I got to check this out because I'm doing something I'm not even knowledgeable that I'm doing.

00:19:35.320 Reframing. 1.00

00:19:36.120 Well, I mean, you know, again, treating our listeners like they're idiots. 0.99

00:19:40.580 We've talked about this before, but, Ben, state your principle of reframing again. 0.99

00:19:45.240 Yeah, so, I mean, reframing right out of the mental toughness playbook, you know, it's our ability to focus on solutions rather than problems.

00:19:52.260 And the most successful individuals, that's what they do.

00:19:55.300 It doesn't mean that we live in la-la land and we don't experience adversity. 0.61

00:19:58.560 It just means when you face adversity, you have the ability to focus on the solution rather than the problem.

00:20:04.540 So naturally, from your story, some of the things you're sharing, that has happened.

00:20:08.360 You know, let's say there's somebody who's running a business who's in sales, who's listening right now.

00:20:13.840 You know, the way reframing would work is you get a phone call.

00:20:16.340 You thought you'd made an unbelievable sale.

00:20:18.220 You're just waiting on the purchase order to come in, and it's going to be this great opportunity.

00:20:21.720 You're generating revenue for your business.

00:20:23.200 And then you get a phone call that says, hey, we've decided to go another direction.

00:20:27.160 Well, we all have a choice at that period in time for growing a business.

00:20:30.280 I can go and I can complain to my friend Tyron and say, man, you won't believe what happened to me.

00:20:34.120 And then I go tell Vaughn, and then I go tell Tyler.

00:20:36.060 Or you can immediately say, can I pick up the phone and call another open opportunity?

00:20:41.640 Can I pick up the phone and take an action step that's a positive action step that will keep me moving the ball down the field?

00:20:48.040 That's what the most successful people do.

00:20:50.020 So even when you face adversity, you reframe it.

00:20:53.280 You know, one of the things after our experience down at the fights this last weekend, you know,

00:20:57.680 I wrote a piece that everybody can check out on Instagram and on Facebook about Tyron.

00:21:01.460 And how I believe that he reframed, and it was a powerful example for all of us, that, you know, here you show up to this fight.

00:21:10.260 It's the biggest fight of your life.

00:21:12.420 It's the fight against Johnny Hendricks that after winning that fight, you get your title shot.

00:21:18.120 And you already heard Tyron say it.

00:21:19.420 You know, it's the opportunity to be the best in the world.

00:21:21.580 This is for his title shot.

00:21:22.700 And he shows up, and his opponent had an inability to make weight, which in the UFC, that means the fight's canceled.

00:21:30.680 So at that point in time, what are the challenges that Tyron is facing?

00:21:34.080 Well, potentially the purse, the money, that could be at risk.

00:21:37.660 You don't know if you're going to get a title shot.

00:21:40.540 You know, do you just go home and leave?

00:21:42.480 You've got fans.

00:21:43.220 It's the uncertainty of how do I respond?

00:21:45.240 Well, what blew me away is when we talked the day before I was getting ready to take a red eye from Vancouver to go see him was he was so positive.

00:21:54.240 You know, in the media, did he bash Johnny Hendricks?

00:21:56.840 No, he didn't bash Johnny Hendricks.

00:21:58.540 Was he complaining about money?

00:22:00.560 No, he wasn't complaining about money.

00:22:02.280 What did he do?

00:22:03.500 He still went out and did what he said he was going to do.

00:22:06.900 This is a powerful example of reframing.

00:22:08.800 He went and he cut weight.

00:22:11.140 Even though his opponent had the inability to cut weight, he went and cut weight,

00:22:14.840 got down to 170 pounds.

00:22:16.680 You guys go check out the picture.

00:22:19.500 He was a chiseled machine who was prepared to go to war.

00:22:24.520 He handled what he said he was going to do.

00:22:27.200 And that's what I think reframing is all about.

00:22:28.960 That's what it means to be a champion.

00:22:30.800 So reframing, capacity.

00:22:33.460 I mean, for me, I learned so much.

00:22:35.240 I mean, I already believed so much in Tyron.

00:22:37.720 Love his heart.

00:22:39.160 Love how close we become as friends.

00:22:40.760 But I got to tell you, that day, the way he handled that situation.

00:22:44.040 That's an international stage, which just blew me away.

00:22:47.940 The level of professionalism blew me away.

00:22:51.400 I think another thing that really blows me away about your story, Tyron,

00:22:53.780 is that the way that you react to adversity is not just reframing it,

00:22:58.720 like Ben was talking about.

00:23:00.360 But so many people, when adversity happens to them, they get passive.

00:23:05.060 Okay?

00:23:05.740 And yet, when adversity happened to you, you were proactive.

00:23:09.360 Like, you came up with a plan to attack it and to overcome it.

00:23:13.860 Do you want to talk a little bit about that?

00:23:15.340 Like, how did you, over time, like from the time you were in high school and then in Mizzou

00:23:21.900 and then beyond that, what was the, you know, Ben's always saying attack the process.

00:23:26.040 What was the process?

00:23:27.080 You know, we have another podcast that we allude to a lot, which is called Kill It Every Day.

00:23:32.000 And it's the whole idea of being effective and, you know, dominating every aspect of your life.

00:23:36.940 So for you, what has that process been?

00:23:39.580 What are the daily habits, as Ben would say, what are the daily habits that have driven your success?

00:23:44.060 I mean, I think I am adversity.

00:23:45.720 You know, I'm so used to adversity.

00:23:48.300 It's always been everly prevalent in my life.

00:23:51.480 I look forward to it because it's all I know.

00:23:55.840 I don't know the easy way.

00:23:57.080 I've never been given anything.

00:23:58.880 You know, I should have fought for a world title.

00:24:00.620 I've beaten six, arguably seven top ten world to weights in the world in my career.

00:24:06.380 You got guys like blah, blah, blah, which I ain't going to give him any extra credit 0.99

00:24:10.780 because you got enough people on this briefcase right now.

00:24:15.840 You know, he had one top ten victory in fighting for a world title because of his mouthpiece

00:24:21.100 and ability to sell fights.

00:24:23.540 I'm used to earning it.

00:24:24.800 I'm used to overly earning it.

00:24:26.800 And I think that if anything is given to me easily, it feels like something's weird about it.

00:24:31.820 You know what I mean?

00:24:32.220 It might, you know, it's good for me to eat.

00:24:34.620 You know, you're giving it to me really easily.

00:24:36.060 So I'm just so used to doing that that it's always a lesson, whether it's focus, fighting temptation,

00:24:42.600 distraction, you know, heart, endurance.

00:24:46.140 It's always a lesson in every training camp, and it's never really to fight.

00:24:49.620 You know, I was talking to a friend of mine.

00:24:51.920 She does something called a First Fight Project, and just talking about your first fight.

00:24:56.180 And after that, we continue to talk about fighting.

00:24:58.520 You know, I was nervous that I wasn't nervous.

00:25:01.880 Nothing about Johnny Hendricks made me nervous.

00:25:04.100 You know what I mean?

00:25:05.640 Nothing about the fight made me nervous.

00:25:07.780 Now, this is the most dangerous fighter in my division in the world as far as power,

00:25:11.880 wrestling ability, competitive edge, and just he's been there before.

00:25:16.060 He's already been the champion at one point.

00:25:18.300 And arguably, you know, he would argue that every fight and his three losses were split decision losses

00:25:23.280 that one judge thought he won.

00:25:25.520 You know, he was one round away from being undefeated in each fight.

00:25:29.060 So, the only thing that made me fearful in most fights is me not competing to my level,

00:25:36.880 me holding back, me not letting go.

00:25:39.220 And people have the cliche statement that my hardest opponent is myself.

00:25:43.920 You know, I do believe that.

00:25:45.380 And it's a saying that says, I'm my hardest opponent.

00:25:48.440 Well, I am my problem, but I'm also my solution.

00:25:51.200 I chose to be my own solution that, hey, the same mindset that I'm, you know, having these superstitions

00:25:57.460 when I fought this guy at this time in this city or last time my kids came to my fight, this was a result.

00:26:03.120 I can also bash those superstitions and I can bash those thoughts that come into my mind

00:26:08.040 that you won't do it and you can't make it because people don't understand that it's a fear

00:26:12.900 in actually knowing that you can be successful.

00:26:14.980 When you realize, you know, like Bruce Leroy, when he realized he had the glow, you know,

00:26:19.800 or when you realize that you're the master and you got the power, sometimes you're scared that, 0.99

00:26:24.300 you know what, fuck, I can actually pull this off. 0.98

00:26:26.600 I can actually be the best in the world. 0.99

00:26:28.600 And sometimes people and individuals in life, they're so much more comfortable hanging out

00:26:33.660 and blending in a choir than stepping out and doing a solo because, you know what,

00:26:38.660 at some point they realize that, you know, I might be able to do this.

00:26:41.460 I might be able to pull this out.

00:26:42.640 I might be able to be the CEO of this company or I might be able to be, you know,

00:26:46.940 the person that gets drafted to the MLB or whatever.

00:26:50.180 And some people are scared to take that step.

00:26:52.440 You know, I just chose not to be scared, you know, and embrace it.

00:26:56.400 And I am the best in the world and I believe it and I think my peers believe it.

00:27:00.180 And now that they know that I believe it, you know, everybody was like,

00:27:03.420 Johnny Andrews was scared.

00:27:04.380 I'm like, oh, he's not scared.

00:27:05.300 He's a fighter.

00:27:06.280 You know, I started thinking about it.

00:27:07.740 I think he believes.

00:27:09.360 He might not be scared, but I do think he believes.

00:27:11.780 It's something special about me.

00:27:13.160 It's something.

00:27:13.940 It's a reason why I act so hard to fight him and he believes it's my time and it is.

00:27:20.180 So I've got a question for you.

00:27:22.040 It's really a follow up to everything you just said, you know, because so many individuals,

00:27:25.800 they have those conversations with themselves.

00:27:27.520 They have that fear.

00:27:28.940 The fear speaks to them.

00:27:30.360 It's a little voice on their shoulder.

00:27:31.520 And it sounds to me like you have, and I want to hear a little bit more of what goes on

00:27:35.920 in your mind to help everybody listening.

00:27:38.220 You take action when you face fear.

00:27:40.780 What causes you to do that?

00:27:42.200 So you hear that little voice.

00:27:43.640 Little voice tells you, you know, those goals are too big.

00:27:46.660 Those dreams are too big.

00:27:48.360 What is it that has caused you to take action in the past when you feel that fear?

00:27:52.460 You know, this is a gift and a curse for me.

00:27:54.380 Sometimes it's good.

00:27:55.300 Sometimes it's bad.

00:27:56.700 It's good because when I get fear, this guy's a great striker.

00:28:00.860 Every time I watch film on my next opponent, these guys are the best athletes in the world,

00:28:04.900 most of which I'm a fan of.

00:28:06.840 I've been watching for a very long time.

00:28:08.560 So when I'm watching a film, I'm actually sometimes watching the scout.

00:28:13.700 Then I end up stealing some of that technique.

00:28:15.600 Then I end up being amazed by what they're doing.

00:28:17.840 This guy might punch hard.

00:28:18.880 This guy might have extreme endurance.

00:28:21.260 So I've been watching film, and I saw all different angles of this.

00:28:25.000 You know, this guy, you can punch him a million times, and he will not get knocked out.

00:28:29.720 And, you know, all those things put some type of anxiety.

00:28:32.900 But I watched the film.

00:28:34.780 I talked to my coaches.

00:28:36.700 We put together a game plan.

00:28:39.300 My head coach, Dean Thomas, has a system called MMA Scouting Report.

00:28:43.920 So you can go to mmascoutingreport.com.

00:28:45.700 This is how we break guys down to a molecule.

00:28:48.120 I'm talking about eight to nine page detailed pages on my opponent.

00:28:53.400 Then I go and train for four weeks.

00:28:55.880 Then I go back and I watch the same film again.

00:28:58.400 And I feel a little bit more comfortable about it.

00:29:00.580 My stomach doesn't bubble as much.

00:29:02.680 You know, I don't start getting anxiety and sweating.

00:29:05.000 And then I train for two, three more weeks.

00:29:08.320 Then I go back and watch the film.

00:29:09.860 And I'm like, I'm going to own this guy.

00:29:11.940 I'm going to break him.

00:29:13.240 You know, I'm going to freaking give him the fight that he's never had before. 0.51

00:29:16.920 And I just gain confidence in preparation.

00:29:20.120 You know, my only fear is being in a fight and so tired and fatigued that I can't defend myself.

00:29:25.860 So what do I do?

00:29:26.900 At times I was overtraining.

00:29:28.560 I was overly doing it.

00:29:30.020 Overly doing the anaerobic, anaerobic exercises.

00:29:32.820 And putting myself in a position where I wasn't even having these things reflect in my fight performance.

00:29:38.560 Because I was beating my body up.

00:29:40.940 So then I had to mentally, like you said, I had to address the problem.

00:29:43.960 Think of the solution.

00:29:44.620 And Tyron, you know how to fight.

00:29:46.980 You don't have to, you know, you're not getting a right to passage anymore.

00:29:50.160 You don't have to do a tough man competition.

00:29:52.120 All you got to do is perfect your skills.

00:29:54.960 Acknowledge your opponent's strengths and weaknesses.

00:29:57.920 Address those.

00:29:59.040 Go back to your skills once again because that's what really counts.

00:30:02.160 And then be confident.

00:30:03.980 Be in good cardiovascular shape and you're going to be victorious.

00:30:07.220 I didn't have to do all the seven mile runs three days a week. 0.98

00:30:10.700 Running up the art museum hill with freaking damn training mask on and, you know, sled and all this other crazy stuff. 0.94

00:30:17.980 It looks cool, but do I really have to do that? 0.99

00:30:21.060 Because all those things are really just to mentally get yourself stronger.

00:30:24.700 And I'm like, if you're already mentally strong and you're ready to roll, then do it. 0.99

00:30:28.340 So that's how, you know, I do get, I get fear about stupid stuff now. 0.98

00:30:32.260 Like this whole fight, I was scared that I wasn't scared. 0.96

00:30:35.120 You know, the part that scared me about this fight is that at first opening when he said, you ready, you ready, let's get it on.

00:30:42.940 And when you close that gap and he walking towards you and you walking towards him, I know he want to punch me because I sure in the hell want to punch him.

00:30:50.600 And that awkward motion is the slowest.

00:30:53.540 I promise you, it feels like extra slow motion when you walking towards that person at an issue engaged.

00:30:59.480 That was the only thing that scared me about this fight. 1.00

00:31:01.560 And I was like, that's stupid. 1.00

00:31:04.280 Like, you know what I mean? 1.00

00:31:06.060 So this is obviously an entrepreneurial podcast.

00:31:09.680 It's a podcast about success and business and life.

00:31:12.240 So I love what you just said, but help our listeners connect the dots a little bit.

00:31:17.220 What you just said, imagine I come to you and I'm paying you to be a consultant for my business.

00:31:23.560 Many do actually.

00:31:24.620 It's funny you say that.

00:31:25.480 Is that right?

00:31:26.040 Well, okay, so take what you just said and specifically apply it to someone who's starting a business and then trying to navigate through all that stuff.

00:31:35.240 Well, specifically applying it to business is, as I talked about a second ago, knowing your opponent.

00:31:39.080 In business, you got to know your competition.

00:31:40.920 You also got to know if it's a niche market.

00:31:43.660 I would call myself a social entrepreneur, which means you're an entrepreneur, you own your business, but you're fulfilling the need.

00:31:49.360 If I go down the street and it's a, you know, one, two, three fitness right here, do you need to put a two, three, four fitness right next door to it?

00:31:57.440 So you got to do your research.

00:31:59.140 Also, you got to know your business and you got to have people that are with you that are willing to sprint in their lane, not cross over and get disqualified.

00:32:07.620 If someone's a great computer programmer and they're great at designs and websites, I don't need that person in the front desk doing sales.

00:32:13.440 If someone's a great salesperson and they can sell a shitload of memberships for me, I don't need you back there teaching Carter a kickboxing class when you're really not qualified to do it.

00:32:22.000 I think that same thing applies in sport.

00:32:24.620 I don't need my striking coach teaching me jiu-jitsu.

00:32:26.920 I don't need my jiu-jitsu coach teaching me mental toughness.

00:32:29.680 I don't need my mental toughness coach giving me a game plan for my fight.

00:32:32.740 So I think that's the main thing in business that we all fall apart.

00:32:36.140 We don't know our role.

00:32:37.660 We don't know that collectively we're stronger.

00:32:39.700 Imagine like a transformer. 1.00

00:32:41.980 You know, one part of the transformer is a damn head. 0.99

00:32:44.580 One part is the arm. 1.00

00:32:45.420 One part is the leg.

00:32:46.440 You know, I don't need the arm being the head.

00:32:48.140 I don't need the leg being the arm.

00:32:49.700 So that's the main advice I would have.

00:32:52.500 And when you know your market so well, you know your competition so well, and you know your runners so well, you know, and be willing to, I mean, this sounds shitty, but be willing to fire some people when you have to.

00:33:03.360 Because I held on to some people for way too long.

00:33:06.760 It cost me way too, I'm talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars into a gym.

00:33:10.900 And I'm a UFC fighter, and I don't have no, you know, flashy cars to show for it.

00:33:16.700 In the meantime, these employees breaking ground on new homes, got a new car, kids, you know, never, and I haven't made $1 in my gym.

00:33:23.900 So I had to change my mindset that I have four kids, I got a wife, I work my ass off, you know, and I'm in a sport where I have a small window where I can receive lump sums of money in this type of manner for a small period of time.

00:33:37.720 So I can't be catering to everyone else, especially when the loyalty is not there.

00:33:43.400 So get some invested people that if you stepped out, you would be comfortable that they would take on the same passion for your business as you do.

00:33:52.420 Now, they might not know the vision, you know, it's hard for you to, you know, get people to understand the vision and the big picture.

00:33:58.100 But if you get people invested where they feel like, you know what, this is my living room, you can't put your feet on the table.

00:34:04.480 And they treat the gym like that or your business or your, you know, car dealership.

00:34:08.500 Those are the takeaways I think martial arts are very parallel with business.

00:34:14.140 I think another one that's huge, and I love that you said that you were confident after you had prepared.

00:34:19.180 And I think there are a lot of people out there who are just cocky because they're cocky.

00:34:22.000 They have really high views of themselves, but they haven't proven anything.

00:34:25.800 But you went through this really elaborate process of analyzing your opponent, you know, working on your own strengths, you know, develop yourself mentally.

00:34:34.200 And because of that, you were confident.

00:34:36.280 And it seems like that is a very easily transferable principle into business that you can be confident that you can beat the competition if you take the time to do the work,

00:34:46.500 to prepare, you know, your product or your service and all the ways that you operate your business to do all that.

00:34:51.260 You can be confident that you're going to kill it.

00:34:53.100 And I also believe you've got to be gifted, you know. 0.70

00:34:55.580 The bad thing about the era and the world that we live in, we're a very social conscious environment in society right now.

00:35:02.880 So we have a lot of access to the way people are living.

00:35:05.920 We've got Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Periscope.

00:35:09.960 So we get to see the lifestyle of Rich and Famous.

00:35:12.940 Every television show, 50% to 60% of them are reality TV shows.

00:35:17.340 So then we're not saying, hey, I'm going to be a car mechanic because God gifted me with the knowledge to organize.

00:35:24.960 Or I'm going to be a doctor because, you know, I have, you know, I can do things meticulous.

00:35:29.600 I can be perfect in this area of medicine.

00:35:32.240 We want to do what we see other people do.

00:35:34.520 So now what we have is we have somebody who's practicing law who should be a school teacher. 0.97

00:35:39.520 And we've got a school teacher who hates her job and can't even stand kids that should be a damn judge or, you know, be something different. 1.00

00:35:47.420 So in life, we don't want to do things because God has given us a gift to do it. 0.95

00:35:53.000 We don't want to seek out and find what our purpose in life is.

00:35:56.340 We don't want to find out why do we have the ability to communicate so well.

00:36:01.420 Why do I look a certain way?

00:36:02.960 Why do I, you know, why do I multitask so well?

00:36:05.340 So we see what other people are doing in life, and we want to measure our success off of that.

00:36:11.320 Hey, Andy, you know, make all this effing money.

00:36:13.820 You know, First Farm is killing Supplement Superstore. 0.99

00:36:16.020 I'm getting into the supplement business. 1.00

00:36:18.400 Your ass might not be built for it. 1.00

00:36:20.240 You might break down if someone put in an order for, you know, $10,000 worth of supplements and cancel, 1.00

00:36:25.700 and now your whole month is off.

00:36:27.260 You might not be built for that.

00:36:28.660 So I think that's another problem in business.

00:36:31.480 Everyone wants to do it.

00:36:32.700 You know, you've got pastors that shouldn't be monitoring someone's soul

00:36:37.320 and helping them trying to get to heaven or whatever.

00:36:39.480 That's a good point.

00:36:39.940 They shouldn't be there.

00:36:40.820 You know what I mean?

00:36:41.580 So I think finding your purpose in life, you know, and I honestly am one of the blessed ones

00:36:46.920 that I feel like the reason why my name is a chosen one when I fight,

00:36:50.300 I feel like my adversity in life, the things that I went through, you know,

00:36:53.660 the upbringing I've had, all the freaking obstacles that I've had to overcome,

00:36:58.880 MMA is nothing to me when it comes down to that.

00:37:01.200 It's so many, like, if I explain to you how much more of an entertainment and business

00:37:05.540 this sport is in sport, it will blow your mind on what I have to do,

00:37:09.480 on the marketing aspect, on the sponsorship aspect, on the business, the manager aspect,

00:37:14.620 on the fight, the politic aspect. 0.84

00:37:16.520 You know, I'm like, damn, when do I'm supposed to train to be the best athlete in the world?

00:37:19.720 You know, I've got to do all these other tasks. 0.91

00:37:21.180 And so that's why I feel like I'm in this sport to show everyone that you can be a guy of integrity,

00:37:28.960 you can be a guy that loves his kids, loves his wife, not perfect, do make mistakes,

00:37:34.220 have your temptations and things you have to fight through, but you're a human being,

00:37:38.200 and you're at least trying.

00:37:39.340 And then use that platform to catapult me into my book, into movies, into entertainment,

00:37:46.440 into analyzing, being an analyst on a show, into being broadcast.

00:37:51.120 So fighting ain't even my last thing.

00:37:52.820 I don't even like fighting sometimes.

00:37:54.920 Like, some people all love fighting. 1.00

00:37:56.040 I live this shit. 1.00

00:37:56.780 When I'm not fighting, I'm not thinking about fighting. 1.00

00:37:59.080 I'm not watching every UFC that fucking comes on. 0.98

00:38:01.700 I'm not doing that. 0.99

00:38:02.620 When I'm at home, I'm chilling with my family.

00:38:05.420 I'm chilling with my boys.

00:38:06.660 I'm sleeping or I'm going to the gun range.

00:38:09.080 I'm not, you know, that overly invested person.

00:38:12.400 I don't, you know, and people take this the wrong way.

00:38:14.840 I'm not at every freaking Mizzou wrestling match.

00:38:18.260 I loved wrestling when I was in wrestling, but I don't go and watch it every day.

00:38:22.480 You know what I mean?

00:38:22.800 I don't know all the up-and-coming guys from the University of Missouri.

00:38:25.900 Now, I'm not saying I don't like Missouri.

00:38:28.360 What I'm saying is that MMA is a part of my life.

00:38:31.360 It's not my life.

00:38:32.820 At the end of this chapter, I'm going to move on to something,

00:38:35.440 and I'm going to enjoy the moment that I had then,

00:38:39.960 but I'm going to be moving forward.

00:38:41.800 You know what I mean?

00:38:42.960 So.

00:38:44.000 First, Will.

00:38:45.440 Now, Tyron.

00:38:46.620 Ben, I think you have a real future in guest programming.

00:38:49.340 Oh, you know what?

00:38:50.020 Yeah, we just get to.

00:38:50.800 These guys are amazing.

00:38:52.020 Where do you find these guys?

00:38:53.220 I paid him so much money to show up here just to be my friend.

00:38:56.580 Hey, he wrote everything for me, and I'm just repeating it.

00:38:59.040 So, you know, one thing, you think of capacity,

00:39:02.680 and I think this is really unique, right?

00:39:04.220 So if I go behind the scenes.

00:39:06.300 So here, Tyron is a fighter, but he's a businessman,

00:39:09.300 but he's a family man.

00:39:10.440 And didn't I also see, you see, because he just said,

00:39:13.060 he kind of foreshadowed, he's going to do other things.

00:39:15.720 Well, he's not waiting to do other things.

00:39:17.460 He's setting the stage now.

00:39:19.360 Didn't I recently see you in Straight Outta Compton?

00:39:21.700 You sure did.

00:39:22.760 T-Bone from the Lynch Mob.

00:39:24.660 Wow.

00:39:25.300 So, I mean, it's one of the most popular movies in the world today, right?

00:39:29.080 They killed the box office four weeks in a row as number one.

00:39:32.300 It's done, $150 million, opened up at $56 million.

00:39:36.840 So, drinks on me when the residual checks come out.

00:39:40.320 Yeah.

00:39:40.900 Well, you know, back in 1990,

00:39:42.600 I was the only skinny white kid from Hutchinson, Kansas,

00:39:45.460 who was listening to NWA.

00:39:46.860 Hell, yeah.

00:39:47.340 They used to call me Easy V.

00:39:49.040 Oh! 0.60

00:39:50.360 You know what's funny?

00:39:51.220 Another nickname, Tyler Favreau.

00:39:53.580 During the riots, during the riots that were in Ferguson,

00:39:58.080 that the young man was shot and killed on my son's birthday,

00:40:00.900 I was in Vegas.

00:40:01.840 So, I was flying back, and everybody,

00:40:05.060 I'll say, you know, I'm going to go to sleep.

00:40:06.700 You know, I'm tired.

00:40:07.440 I got to do some work tomorrow.

00:40:09.260 Some told me to turn on my internet.

00:40:10.860 So, I turned on my internet, right?

00:40:11.980 My fees were blowing up,

00:40:13.660 because everybody knew where I'm from.

00:40:15.120 And they're like, you okay?

00:40:16.160 You okay?

00:40:16.480 I heard this going on, da, da, da, da.

00:40:17.560 So, like, I'm talking about hundreds of messages, right?

00:40:20.160 So, I get off the plane.

00:40:21.040 I'm like, what the freak is going on?

00:40:22.900 So, I take my son to the house,

00:40:24.320 and I tell my wife, I say,

00:40:25.060 I'm going to drive down there and see what's going on.

00:40:26.600 She said, no, you need to be here with your family.

00:40:28.360 Didn't go.

00:40:29.140 That was the night that the QT got blowing up.

00:40:31.260 You know, glad I wasn't there,

00:40:32.840 because I didn't want to be, you know,

00:40:34.040 in that midst, in that environment.

00:40:35.800 Right.

00:40:36.100 But long story short,

00:40:37.400 as the riots and all the adversity

00:40:40.080 and all the controversy

00:40:41.220 and all the, you know,

00:40:42.960 national coverage we were getting on Ferguson

00:40:45.180 was going on with the riots,

00:40:46.580 we were shooting the riots from 1960

00:40:49.740 on Straight Outta Compton

00:40:50.680 at the same exact time.

00:40:52.800 So, to be a kid from this area

00:40:54.740 that really remember the Rodney King days

00:40:57.760 and when the riots took off

00:40:59.080 and Watts and all those things,

00:41:01.220 to be shooting those things at the same time,

00:41:04.620 I thought that was a great opportunity

00:41:06.040 for me to use that exposure and that message

00:41:08.240 and use, you know,

00:41:10.600 the story from then and now

00:41:13.060 to go out there and impact the youth.

00:41:14.500 That's when I went on that tour

00:41:15.780 to talk to all those schools in Ferguson.

00:41:18.040 I went to almost every elementary school,

00:41:20.360 middle school, high school,

00:41:21.940 some I went to, you know,

00:41:22.980 because a message for a freshman

00:41:24.320 is different than a message for a senior.

00:41:26.560 You know, I'm not going to talk

00:41:27.420 to a sixth grader about sex and drugs,

00:41:30.000 and I'm not going to talk about,

00:41:31.460 you know, a senior about

00:41:33.180 don't put gum in your friend's hair.

00:41:35.560 Right.

00:41:35.740 So, you know, I went to a couple of schools

00:41:37.640 a couple of different times

00:41:38.920 to give out different messages,

00:41:40.380 but I thought it was such a blessing.

00:41:42.380 Now, hold on a second.

00:41:42.700 A couple of different times

00:41:43.960 because capacity here.

00:41:45.380 A couple, right?

00:41:46.720 He's training to fight.

00:41:48.080 He's running a business.

00:41:49.520 He's in the most popular movie

00:41:51.500 in the United States of America.

00:41:52.840 Not a couple of times.

00:41:53.940 He's given over 40 talks in Ferguson.

00:41:57.420 Wow.

00:41:57.920 He's gone back to his community

00:41:59.120 over 40 times.

00:42:00.820 So when people sit here and say,

00:42:02.060 oh, I ran out of time.

00:42:03.260 I don't have time to do this.

00:42:04.380 I don't have the capacity.

00:42:05.560 I hope you guys are listening.

00:42:07.300 Yeah, you know, I give a speech on,

00:42:10.040 what is it, 0.99

00:42:10.680 when you guys are in the damn 0.99

00:42:12.080 Virgin Islands 1.00

00:42:13.000 or wherever the hell you are going

00:42:14.060 in Utopiaville,

00:42:17.600 I'm going to be giving a speech

00:42:19.280 or else I will be there.

00:42:20.140 So I'm doing a speech on

00:42:21.260 when is it time to give back?

00:42:23.420 And just, you know,

00:42:24.040 the premise of my speech is

00:42:25.140 there's never a good time to give back.

00:42:27.400 Ever.

00:42:28.100 You don't always have to give money.

00:42:29.620 You know, sometimes money

00:42:31.060 become a crutch.

00:42:32.200 You give somebody money

00:42:33.100 to pay their rent this month

00:42:34.360 and then they're like,

00:42:35.960 oh, I made it this month.

00:42:37.140 What happens next month?

00:42:38.620 What happens the next six months?

00:42:40.140 What happens when you gave them 0.98

00:42:40.980 so much damn money 0.97

00:42:41.840 now you can't pay your rent? 0.99

00:42:43.240 Sometimes it's a message.

00:42:44.480 Sometimes it's tough love.

00:42:46.040 Giving back is wherever you feel

00:42:47.300 spirit led to give,

00:42:49.020 whether it's time,

00:42:49.780 whether it's a listener,

00:42:50.760 whether it's advice,

00:42:51.640 whether it's food, money, 1.00

00:42:53.100 you know, a damn sweater, 1.00

00:42:54.620 whatever. 1.00

00:42:55.480 You give because you should,

00:42:57.580 not because you can,

00:42:58.640 not because it's comfortable.

00:43:00.160 Giving should never be comfortable.

00:43:01.620 It's always,

00:43:02.320 it's called giving

00:43:02.960 because it's a sacrifice.

00:43:04.680 You know,

00:43:04.980 if you're giving somebody a dollar

00:43:06.420 and you got a million,

00:43:07.720 that didn't really hurt you that bad.

00:43:09.080 You know what I mean?

00:43:09.440 You know,

00:43:10.500 so I do think that my time,

00:43:14.260 you know,

00:43:14.640 obviously it's limited

00:43:15.600 and obviously time is money.

00:43:17.220 If you're a businessman,

00:43:17.900 you understand that very well,

00:43:19.040 but I do believe our kids are worth it.

00:43:21.500 I believe that I was that kid

00:43:22.720 that was misled.

00:43:24.140 You know,

00:43:24.380 something clicked in me,

00:43:25.380 you know,

00:43:25.620 and I give God a lot of credit for it.

00:43:27.400 Something clicked in me

00:43:28.200 and I changed my life.

00:43:29.800 Had I not changed my life,

00:43:31.220 the same mental toughness

00:43:33.060 I would have had

00:43:34.000 as a wrestler

00:43:35.080 or a fighter,

00:43:36.440 I would have had

00:43:36.880 the same mentality in the street.

00:43:38.340 I would have been

00:43:39.140 a notorious guy in the street

00:43:40.560 and I would have been

00:43:41.260 the same type of cookie,

00:43:44.220 you know,

00:43:44.440 in the wrong jar

00:43:45.240 and I would have ended up dead.

00:43:46.580 I would have ended up in jail.

00:43:48.100 You know,

00:43:48.660 my first two years of high school,

00:43:50.660 I didn't even live with my mom.

00:43:51.880 We were evicted from my house.

00:43:53.760 She moved to South St. Louis.

00:43:55.400 I didn't want to go to school

00:43:56.440 at Roosevelt

00:43:57.040 because I wanted to see

00:43:58.620 all my friends.

00:43:59.680 So I stayed with my friend.

00:44:02.100 He had a mom and dad

00:44:04.540 that was divorced

00:44:05.240 and remarried.

00:44:07.140 They had this house paid off.

00:44:08.920 So, you know,

00:44:09.320 it was no adults

00:44:10.160 that lived there.

00:44:11.200 It was kids.

00:44:13.040 You know,

00:44:13.260 it was adults

00:44:13.860 but it was no parental use.

00:44:15.140 No,

00:44:15.680 nobody to tell me to do this.

00:44:17.220 Nobody to tell me to do that.

00:44:18.440 One of the guys

00:44:18.960 that stayed there,

00:44:20.280 you know,

00:44:20.600 was involved in the streetlight

00:44:21.740 and I asked him,

00:44:23.000 I begged him,

00:44:23.680 I said,

00:44:23.900 I'm tired of being broke.

00:44:25.000 You know,

00:44:25.220 I want in.

00:44:26.020 I want in the streetlight.

00:44:27.060 I need to make money.

00:44:27.960 I'm tired of being broke.

00:44:29.340 You know what he told me?

00:44:30.240 He said,

00:44:30.980 you're going to go to college.

00:44:33.560 He said,

00:44:34.060 you're going to wrestle.

00:44:35.460 He said,

00:44:36.340 you got a lot of things

00:44:37.560 that are going to go well

00:44:38.200 for you in life

00:44:38.840 and I'm not going to let you do that.

00:44:40.520 He said,

00:44:40.980 if you wash all my cars,

00:44:43.380 because there's a shitload of cars,

00:44:44.680 you take all my clothes

00:44:45.680 to the cleaners,

00:44:46.500 you make sure my shoes

00:44:47.460 are all lined up clean,

00:44:49.140 you know, 0.93

00:44:49.340 you cook this butt off. 0.98

00:44:50.200 Every time I cook, 0.98

00:44:51.440 you clean up the kitchen,

00:44:52.640 I'll take care of you.

00:44:54.200 And that was ideal.

00:44:55.360 Wow.

00:44:55.640 And every time I see him to this day,

00:44:58.040 he knows how I feel about him.

00:44:59.480 I'm like,

00:44:59.740 man,

00:44:59.960 it's nothing he can't ask me

00:45:01.200 because I would have been in the streets

00:45:03.020 and I would have been in the streets hard.

00:45:04.660 I had no fear.

00:45:05.840 I had no emotion.

00:45:06.900 When my dad left,

00:45:07.620 my emotional switch went off.

00:45:09.240 You know,

00:45:09.480 so,

00:45:10.200 you know,

00:45:10.480 I can only imagine.

00:45:11.680 That works great in business,

00:45:12.700 by the way.

00:45:13.500 I hate emotional businessmen. 0.96

00:45:15.520 They get butt hurt all the time. 0.91

00:45:17.140 You know,

00:45:17.360 for me,

00:45:17.780 if you tell me, 0.99

00:45:18.340 I'll F you,

00:45:18.840 I'm never giving you any money.

00:45:20.200 Okay.

00:45:20.920 If I ask you a year later,

00:45:22.220 can you give it to me?

00:45:22.880 I'm not going to be mad

00:45:23.780 a year before you said no.

00:45:25.400 Right.

00:45:25.660 You know,

00:45:25.780 I'm not going to try to tax you

00:45:27.080 a little bit more

00:45:27.600 because you said no.

00:45:28.700 So,

00:45:29.060 I know that's a segue,

00:45:30.100 but,

00:45:30.520 you know,

00:45:31.720 I just,

00:45:32.280 I'm really thankful for

00:45:33.760 people like that in my life.

00:45:36.280 I'm thankful.

00:45:37.040 I mean,

00:45:37.180 I actually,

00:45:37.860 I'm thankful for the grind.

00:45:39.300 I'm thankful for,

00:45:40.440 you know,

00:45:41.660 rough neighborhoods.

00:45:42.420 I'm thankful for adversity.

00:45:44.780 I'm thankful for all those things

00:45:46.060 that made me who I am.

00:45:47.440 I wouldn't have it any other way.

00:45:48.820 The only thing that I regret

00:45:50.320 is that I never enjoyed the moment.

00:45:52.420 I've never walked out to the octagon

00:45:53.920 and enjoyed the lights

00:45:55.340 and shook the hands

00:45:56.300 and enjoyed the people

00:45:57.200 and soaked it in.

00:45:58.480 I'm so scared to accept that

00:46:00.900 because I'm so used to adversity.

00:46:02.760 I put my headphones on.

00:46:04.040 I don't hear a sound.

00:46:05.240 When I get the Vaseline

00:46:06.260 put on my face,

00:46:07.180 I don't hear anything.

00:46:08.860 Wow.

00:46:08.920 I've never received the fans

00:46:11.240 ever in my career of competing.

00:46:12.920 So when I'm going out there,

00:46:15.200 someone said,

00:46:15.700 Tyrone,

00:46:15.900 you got to sit back

00:46:16.580 and enjoy the moment.

00:46:17.700 I said,

00:46:18.080 I'll enjoy this moment

00:46:18.920 when I'm done

00:46:19.560 because I don't want the moment

00:46:21.140 to get to my head

00:46:22.100 and make me feel like,

00:46:22.900 you know,

00:46:23.160 I'm something I'm not.

00:46:24.980 Well,

00:46:25.380 we're going to cover

00:46:25.880 a couple more topics

00:46:27.140 before we close up

00:46:28.260 for the podcast.

00:46:30.480 But before we do that,

00:46:31.480 guys,

00:46:31.700 I want to take a moment

00:46:32.720 and say,

00:46:33.180 if you want to go

00:46:34.520 and catch the show notes

00:46:35.840 for this very incredible

00:46:37.320 podcast episode,

00:46:38.960 go to the MFCEO.com

00:46:41.980 forward slash P19.

00:46:45.260 That's the MFCEO.com

00:46:47.400 forward slash P19.

00:46:48.860 We'll have extensive show notes.

00:46:50.140 We'll also have some links

00:46:50.980 to some of Tyrone's

00:46:53.180 personal accounts.

00:46:54.460 And while we're on that,

00:46:55.320 let's just go around

00:46:56.180 and check. 0.55

00:46:57.480 What's your social media connection?

00:46:59.840 My social media is

00:47:01.200 T-W-O-O-O-D-L-E-Y 1.00

00:47:05.620 is three O's.

00:47:07.020 T-Woodley with two

00:47:07.940 won't come off of the account.

00:47:09.580 So I got to roll

00:47:11.000 with the three O's.

00:47:11.960 So T-W-O-O-O-D-L-E-Y 1.00

00:47:14.860 that is on Instagram

00:47:16.940 and Twitter.

00:47:18.500 The UFC just helped me

00:47:20.300 with my fight fan page.

00:47:21.820 I should have done this

00:47:22.520 a long time ago

00:47:23.260 on Facebook.

00:47:24.780 I maxed out

00:47:25.800 on my followers

00:47:26.480 in 2009

00:47:27.700 when I did

00:47:28.600 the TV show

00:47:29.600 on MTV,

00:47:30.220 Bully Beat Down.

00:47:31.500 So I completely maxed out

00:47:32.820 and I just kind of

00:47:33.640 left Facebook alone

00:47:34.440 after that.

00:47:35.360 So now I'm back.

00:47:36.560 So check me out

00:47:37.320 at Facebook.com

00:47:38.520 slash Tyron Woodley.

00:47:40.440 It's my official

00:47:41.240 fan page.

00:47:42.840 And then you can find

00:47:43.740 my events

00:47:44.720 and things I have

00:47:45.320 going on

00:47:45.740 on TyronWoodley.com

00:47:46.960 and also my gym

00:47:48.400 at ATTEvolution.com.

00:47:51.080 Nice.

00:47:51.540 Ben?

00:47:52.260 At Continued Fight

00:47:53.500 is Periscope,

00:47:54.700 Twitter,

00:47:55.340 Instagram,

00:47:56.440 and then Ben Newman

00:47:57.200 for Facebook,

00:47:58.000 LinkedIn,

00:47:58.400 and everything else.

00:47:58.960 Right.

00:47:59.360 So obviously Andy

00:48:00.320 is at Andy Frisella

00:48:01.620 for Instagram

00:48:02.400 and Periscope

00:48:03.900 and I'm

00:48:04.260 at Vaughn Kohler,

00:48:05.240 V-A-U-G-H-N-K-O-H-L-E-R. 1.00

00:48:07.960 Tyron,

00:48:08.240 I'm going to turn this

00:48:09.360 a different direction

00:48:10.240 because I had kind of

00:48:11.580 asked before

00:48:12.120 if it was okay

00:48:12.680 to do this

00:48:13.200 and I'm going

00:48:14.360 to do it now.

00:48:15.040 We're going to go

00:48:15.400 a little deeper

00:48:16.040 and potentially

00:48:17.620 sensitive subject.

00:48:18.520 Well,

00:48:18.620 actually a sensitive subject.

00:48:20.100 So I lived

00:48:20.960 at least five or six years

00:48:22.500 of my life

00:48:22.960 in the Chicago area

00:48:24.140 and while I was there

00:48:25.860 I knew of an

00:48:27.140 inner city church

00:48:28.040 that was pretty unusual

00:48:29.820 in that it was

00:48:30.700 pretty racially integrated.

00:48:32.080 A lot of black,

00:48:33.020 a lot of white

00:48:33.560 and they would do something

00:48:35.380 during a certain period

00:48:36.720 of the year.

00:48:37.620 They'd have what's called

00:48:38.360 the Fudge Ripple Sunday

00:48:39.640 and basically

00:48:41.240 it was this attempt

00:48:42.000 at racial reconciliation

00:48:42.940 and essentially

00:48:44.060 they would all get together

00:48:45.740 in the fellowship hall. 0.90

00:48:47.380 The black people 0.96

00:48:47.940 would very frankly 0.93

00:48:49.480 share all of their gripes

00:48:51.160 with the white people.

00:48:52.520 The white people 0.94

00:48:53.080 would then get up

00:48:53.800 and share all of their gripes

00:48:55.280 with the white people

00:48:56.140 and then when they were done

00:48:58.120 they would have

00:48:59.040 Fudge Ripple Sundays

00:48:59.840 and they would of course

00:49:01.220 always do it on Sunday

00:49:02.380 and the local media

00:49:04.000 was just fascinated by this

00:49:05.440 because it was so effective.

00:49:06.800 It was so effective

00:49:07.780 just like getting the

00:49:08.760 you know,

00:49:09.560 getting the gripes out

00:49:10.440 and getting closer

00:49:12.020 to one another.

00:49:12.620 So I guess my question

00:49:13.480 to you is

00:49:14.160 what's your take?

00:49:16.000 How do we make things better?

00:49:17.460 How do we get along better?

00:49:18.960 I think we need 0.99

00:49:19.640 some damn Fudge Ripple Sundays 0.99

00:49:21.120 in St. Louis. 1.00

00:49:22.780 I think so.

00:49:23.280 You know,

00:49:23.500 I think

00:49:24.040 that's a phenomenon

00:49:26.600 when I'm at the YouTube

00:49:27.460 and now

00:49:27.800 because I've never

00:49:28.720 heard of that

00:49:29.180 and that's a brilliant idea.

00:49:30.460 For the record

00:49:30.800 I think

00:49:31.420 I think

00:49:32.140 it's LaSalle Street Church.

00:49:34.080 I think that's the name

00:49:34.620 of the church

00:49:35.060 but I'm not totally sure.

00:49:36.800 You know,

00:49:37.100 I think that's exactly

00:49:38.500 what needs to happen.

00:49:39.440 I think,

00:49:39.860 you know,

00:49:40.200 everyone can say

00:49:41.320 it's this person's fault

00:49:42.620 this person's fault

00:49:44.220 and this person's fault

00:49:45.320 and the fingers

00:49:45.940 are always out.

00:49:47.160 Fingers never here.

00:49:48.680 You know,

00:49:48.860 it's never pointing

00:49:49.440 at yourself

00:49:49.860 so I think

00:49:50.500 some personal responsibility

00:49:51.880 in our community

00:49:53.240 needs to be taken

00:49:54.020 upon law enforcement

00:49:55.140 as well as

00:49:56.300 the citizens.

00:49:58.000 Citizens,

00:49:59.120 in my opinion,

00:50:00.060 don't respect

00:50:00.960 law enforcement.

00:50:01.780 They don't trust them.

00:50:03.500 No one ever,

00:50:04.600 you know,

00:50:04.880 like we do it

00:50:05.640 subconsciously.

00:50:06.780 My sons,

00:50:07.620 my four-year-olds, 1.00

00:50:08.440 he'll tear your ass up 1.00

00:50:09.900 if you babysit him. 1.00

00:50:11.080 He is

00:50:11.920 the home alone kid

00:50:13.820 but if you tell him,

00:50:15.900 oh,

00:50:16.440 I'm going to call

00:50:17.020 Officer John

00:50:18.280 and he'll get all straight

00:50:20.900 but it's not,

00:50:21.600 hey,

00:50:21.760 Officer John is here,

00:50:23.020 he's your friend,

00:50:23.740 he's here to protect

00:50:24.480 and serve.

00:50:25.140 If you get in trouble,

00:50:26.080 this is who you're looking for.

00:50:27.480 It's always a negative

00:50:28.380 condensation.

00:50:29.000 Hey,

00:50:29.480 police behind you,

00:50:30.300 don't speed the police

00:50:31.060 behind you,

00:50:31.480 put on your seatbelt,

00:50:32.660 you know,

00:50:32.820 don't turn that corner

00:50:33.880 there over,

00:50:34.380 you know what I mean?

00:50:34.740 So it's like,

00:50:35.940 you already have this

00:50:37.060 preconceived notion

00:50:38.480 that the law enforcement

00:50:39.600 are here to harass you

00:50:41.320 and you know,

00:50:42.080 you know,

00:50:42.360 and it has been true

00:50:43.540 in my days at Ferguson

00:50:44.800 where I did see

00:50:45.860 a lot of harassing,

00:50:46.560 I did see some of my friends

00:50:47.480 getting beat up

00:50:48.060 and I did see,

00:50:49.000 you know,

00:50:49.220 some racial profiling

00:50:50.200 and pulled over,

00:50:51.240 you know,

00:50:51.640 for things that I shouldn't

00:50:52.500 but at the end of the day,

00:50:54.540 I've seen some of my friends

00:50:55.860 fulfill those stereotypes

00:50:57.740 that the law enforcement

00:50:59.600 do stereotype

00:51:00.480 and I have myself

00:51:01.720 fulfill those stereotypes

00:51:02.760 in the past.

00:51:03.840 So when we stop

00:51:05.380 pointing the finger

00:51:06.460 and we start looking

00:51:07.660 at mirrors

00:51:08.360 instead of pointing fingers,

00:51:10.120 I think our problem

00:51:11.500 and our solution

00:51:12.240 changes quite a bit.

00:51:13.980 The time and energy

00:51:14.780 we take,

00:51:15.420 just like we talk about,

00:51:16.560 you know,

00:51:16.760 getting stuff done

00:51:17.600 and reframing,

00:51:19.160 the reason why

00:51:20.060 I don't think so hard

00:51:22.960 about problems

00:51:24.280 and find solutions quick,

00:51:26.080 I don't have time to.

00:51:27.420 The time I sit

00:51:28.380 and complain about it,

00:51:29.760 you know,

00:51:30.020 I always use the house

00:51:31.040 as an example.

00:51:33.060 If my house

00:51:34.200 is really dirty,

00:51:35.660 for me to look around

00:51:37.140 it looks so overwhelming

00:51:38.360 to clean, right?

00:51:39.760 So what I do,

00:51:40.440 one,

00:51:40.600 I never let it get dirty

00:51:41.440 because I never want

00:51:42.020 to get to that point.

00:51:42.760 Two,

00:51:43.560 if it did happen

00:51:44.720 to get dirty,

00:51:45.860 then instead of

00:51:47.240 thinking about it,

00:51:47.860 I just start

00:51:48.380 cleaning it

00:51:49.080 immediately.

00:51:50.720 Before you know it,

00:51:51.620 you're fourth through,

00:51:52.360 you're halfway through,

00:51:53.460 you're tired,

00:51:54.120 but then you see

00:51:54.640 you only got halfway to go,

00:51:56.540 you keep going

00:51:57.380 and it's a refresher

00:51:58.240 that is done.

00:51:59.260 You can take that same time

00:52:00.720 just looking at it,

00:52:01.540 like,

00:52:01.640 oh man,

00:52:02.020 I'm gonna do it tomorrow,

00:52:02.760 hey,

00:52:02.880 I need some people

00:52:03.380 to help me.

00:52:04.300 That's what we need to do

00:52:05.300 with our problem solving.

00:52:06.680 So the time that we take

00:52:08.000 blaming people

00:52:09.140 and not accepting

00:52:11.260 personal responsibility

00:52:12.240 and not actually

00:52:14.240 making an impact,

00:52:15.980 the only thing right now

00:52:17.240 I think in our community,

00:52:19.260 you know,

00:52:19.500 whether it's race,

00:52:20.220 whether it's law enforcement

00:52:21.120 versus citizens,

00:52:22.140 whether it's,

00:52:22.880 you know,

00:52:23.300 just society in general,

00:52:24.760 is that that personal responsibility

00:52:26.420 is not being accepted.

00:52:28.120 That's the first initial step.

00:52:29.860 That's my message to kids.

00:52:31.220 It's not,

00:52:32.100 hey,

00:52:32.360 the police officers are racist, 1.00

00:52:33.760 they hate African Americans, 1.00

00:52:35.260 they don't do nothing, 1.00

00:52:36.240 they'll shoot you. 0.99

00:52:37.000 That is the silliest stuff ever. 0.99

00:52:38.760 I've seen my friends 1.00

00:52:39.920 completely bitch-slap 1.00

00:52:41.720 to oblivia 1.00

00:52:42.920 by a police officer.

00:52:44.100 You know the color he was? 0.95

00:52:45.500 He was black.

00:52:46.660 And he said, 0.78

00:52:47.340 I'm not your brother,

00:52:48.220 will you think

00:52:48.680 you're gonna go cry to your mom?

00:52:50.160 It's not a black and white issue.

00:52:51.680 You mean the police officer

00:52:52.520 was black? 0.94

00:52:52.820 The police officer was black, 0.84

00:52:53.600 yes. 0.76

00:52:54.300 So it's,

00:52:55.240 it's not a race issue,

00:52:57.740 it's not even,

00:52:58.760 you know,

00:52:59.140 a police officer,

00:53:00.080 law enforcement issue,

00:53:01.020 it's a respect issue,

00:53:02.260 and it's a personal

00:53:02.880 responsibility issue.

00:53:04.300 And I think that's

00:53:04.880 the greatest message

00:53:05.920 we can teach

00:53:07.160 to our kids

00:53:08.420 is to be,

00:53:09.800 one,

00:53:10.360 the best citizen you can be,

00:53:12.040 you know,

00:53:12.420 to do,

00:53:13.540 like my sons hate

00:53:14.460 when I try to make them

00:53:15.240 get straight A's in school.

00:53:16.860 Why do I have to get straight A's?

00:53:18.180 Why do I gotta be perfect?

00:53:19.440 I said,

00:53:19.960 I didn't say you have to be perfect,

00:53:21.620 but you just so happen

00:53:22.620 to be capable

00:53:23.460 to make an A.

00:53:24.800 And if you weren't,

00:53:25.600 I wouldn't try to push you

00:53:26.460 to make an A,

00:53:26.960 but because you showed me

00:53:27.960 you could in the first quarter

00:53:28.940 and the second quarter,

00:53:29.920 and in the third quarter

00:53:30.700 you got a B or a C, 0.99

00:53:32.260 well damn me, 0.99

00:53:32.600 you should have never showed me. 0.98

00:53:33.900 Now I know you can make an A,

00:53:35.400 so now I'm gonna get you a tutor,

00:53:36.620 now we're gonna stop

00:53:37.300 playing video games,

00:53:38.000 now we're gonna take that phone

00:53:39.100 until Friday

00:53:40.040 and you got the A back

00:53:41.540 on the fourth quarter.

00:53:42.600 So I think as humans

00:53:44.160 we have to

00:53:45.800 try to achieve

00:53:47.400 this level of perfection

00:53:48.700 that we know

00:53:49.240 we'll never get,

00:53:50.300 but every day

00:53:50.800 we gotta still try.

00:53:52.200 You know,

00:53:52.640 you mess up,

00:53:54.260 you make a mistake,

00:53:55.680 you can sit there

00:53:56.400 and let the dirt

00:53:56.960 fall on your head 1.00

00:53:57.800 and be buried alive, 1.00

00:53:59.300 or you can shake it off

00:54:00.160 and step it up.

00:54:00.800 So I think

00:54:02.040 that's the missing component.

00:54:04.480 The school district

00:54:05.960 is not meant

00:54:06.840 to raise your kid.

00:54:08.260 It's a reinforcement.

00:54:09.640 They're educators,

00:54:10.520 they're not parents.

00:54:11.900 When you go to a school

00:54:13.260 and you don't know,

00:54:15.800 your kids don't know 1.00

00:54:16.520 their own damn name, 1.00

00:54:17.660 I got a problem. 1.00

00:54:18.760 When they're writing

00:54:19.360 their nickname

00:54:20.020 as their name

00:54:20.520 on a piece of paper,

00:54:22.100 that's an issue.

00:54:23.100 You know what I mean?

00:54:23.680 When I see a kid,

00:54:25.100 my wife was an educator

00:54:26.400 in University City,

00:54:27.740 and she had one kid

00:54:28.780 that never came to school

00:54:30.000 on Wednesday.

00:54:31.160 And she finally asked

00:54:32.080 this kid,

00:54:32.540 why don't you ever

00:54:33.260 school on Wednesday?

00:54:34.520 Oh, because Tuesday

00:54:35.420 is $2 Tuesday.

00:54:37.280 And my mom said,

00:54:38.240 I don't have to go

00:54:38.780 to school on Wednesday.

00:54:39.440 I can hang out with her.

00:54:41.520 What are we teaching

00:54:42.340 our kids?

00:54:43.860 We're letting television

00:54:44.960 educate them

00:54:45.780 and raise them.

00:54:46.800 We're letting social media.

00:54:48.180 And if we don't raise them,

00:54:49.380 the streets definitely will.

00:54:50.960 And, you know,

00:54:51.380 I don't think

00:54:51.920 that's what we want.

00:54:52.600 So personal responsibility

00:54:54.100 and respect,

00:54:54.940 that's very simple principles,

00:54:57.020 very easy to do.

00:54:58.520 Those changes

00:54:59.400 just can happen immediately. 0.99

00:55:01.120 And damn, 0.99

00:55:01.680 the Fudge Ripple Sunday 0.99

00:55:02.680 is not a bad idea.

00:55:04.920 Incredible thoughts.

00:55:06.640 Boy, I could talk about this

00:55:07.860 for,

00:55:08.720 or at least listen to you

00:55:09.840 for quite a bit longer.

00:55:12.120 But I'm going to turn it over

00:55:13.040 to Ben,

00:55:13.540 because Ben,

00:55:14.060 you've worked

00:55:14.600 with Tyron.

00:55:15.520 You have a professional

00:55:17.880 relationship that has,

00:55:19.120 I think,

00:55:19.440 you know,

00:55:19.640 developed into a personal

00:55:20.600 relationship.

00:55:21.820 And you guys are friends.

00:55:23.300 So I'm going to ask you

00:55:25.760 kind of a tough question.

00:55:27.660 If you had to identify

00:55:28.580 one thing

00:55:29.360 that you are inspired by

00:55:31.340 the life of Tyron Woodley

00:55:33.140 and what you think

00:55:34.460 is the overarching lesson

00:55:35.920 of his life

00:55:37.220 as applicable to both,

00:55:39.160 you know,

00:55:40.740 success in all of life,

00:55:42.240 but also success in business,

00:55:43.900 what would it be?

00:55:45.960 So I guess the one word

00:55:47.320 would be mindset,

00:55:48.540 but you know,

00:55:48.960 it's hard for me

00:55:49.520 to have short answers.

00:55:50.580 So I'll say mindset

00:55:51.420 and then we're going

00:55:51.920 to have some subsets.

00:55:52.820 It's his mindset

00:55:53.620 that stems to everything

00:55:55.380 you've already heard him say.

00:55:56.340 It's the personal responsibility.

00:55:58.220 It's the capacity.

00:55:59.740 It's work ethic,

00:56:01.060 passion for life.

00:56:02.240 And what I'd really love to know,

00:56:03.820 because those are the things

00:56:04.660 that inspire me about you,

00:56:05.840 Tyron,

00:56:06.120 and, you know,

00:56:06.800 in our conversations,

00:56:07.720 they push me,

00:56:08.560 they motivate me

00:56:09.260 to think differently for my life.

00:56:10.960 How have those things

00:56:12.000 applied for you

00:56:12.880 in business as well?

00:56:14.100 You know,

00:56:14.220 we've talked a lot

00:56:14.740 about athletics,

00:56:15.520 but in business as well,

00:56:17.160 because I love how you

00:56:19.040 literally transition

00:56:19.920 all of those things,

00:56:21.060 that mental toughness

00:56:21.940 into everything that you do.

00:56:23.540 I'm going to use

00:56:24.060 a really,

00:56:24.780 really weird metaphor.

00:56:27.200 for a lot of people,

00:56:30.380 you won't catch them

00:56:31.500 with both hands out.

00:56:33.020 And that's a reference

00:56:34.140 towards giving.

00:56:35.380 Because these two hands 0.99

00:56:36.700 are always behind their butt, 1.00

00:56:39.500 covering their own butt. 1.00

00:56:40.920 So when you're willing to give 0.99

00:56:43.060 because you're not afraid

00:56:44.520 to be transparent,

00:56:45.940 you're not afraid to say,

00:56:47.040 hey, you know what?

00:56:48.740 I forgot you told me that,

00:56:50.120 you know,

00:56:50.460 you needed this shipment

00:56:51.220 out on this day.

00:56:51.900 I effed up.

00:56:53.460 I made that mistake.

00:56:55.060 We're always looking

00:56:55.880 for somebody else,

00:56:56.900 a way to get out

00:56:58.020 of something.

00:56:58.620 So I think

00:56:59.220 in business,

00:57:01.060 it's very respectable

00:57:02.680 when you showcase

00:57:04.380 personal responsibility.

00:57:06.260 I'm less likely

00:57:07.360 to fire an employee

00:57:08.980 that openly confronts

00:57:11.200 an issue

00:57:11.560 and something they did wrong

00:57:12.680 and in the future

00:57:13.860 immediately try to make

00:57:14.940 that situation better

00:57:16.080 than the person

00:57:16.980 that tried to hide it,

00:57:17.960 disguise it,

00:57:18.660 and it comes up later

00:57:19.900 and I found out

00:57:20.940 that they did this

00:57:21.860 and they, you know,

00:57:22.440 tried to sweep it

00:57:23.020 underneath the rug.

00:57:24.100 So that, you know,

00:57:26.520 personal responsibility

00:57:27.500 and respect

00:57:28.360 falls in the same thing

00:57:29.760 because if you respect me

00:57:30.980 as a business owner

00:57:31.900 and you respect

00:57:32.800 that I'm putting

00:57:33.480 my heart, soul,

00:57:35.420 tons of fight money,

00:57:36.940 energy

00:57:37.300 into making this successful,

00:57:40.040 then you will respect me

00:57:42.360 enough not to lie to me.

00:57:44.780 You know,

00:57:45.120 and people that have lied to me,

00:57:47.380 you know,

00:57:47.780 I have no respect for you.

00:57:49.540 So I think those things

00:57:50.960 go very great in business.

00:57:52.900 I love it.

00:57:53.660 Okay, so final thing

00:57:54.600 before we sign off.

00:57:55.940 You are the fighter right now.

00:57:58.340 That's the main, you know,

00:58:00.060 that's the main occupation right now.

00:58:02.580 Someday you might be a coach.

00:58:04.060 So what I want you to do

00:58:05.240 is I want you to,

00:58:05.960 in just the next couple minutes,

00:58:07.500 I want you to speak directly

00:58:08.940 to the listener out there

00:58:11.880 who is beaten up.

00:58:14.760 They've gone multiple rounds.

00:58:17.020 They're getting just destroyed

00:58:18.740 by life.

00:58:19.500 They feel like they can't

00:58:20.380 overcome the odds.

00:58:21.700 Could be because of their business.

00:58:23.300 Could be because they have,

00:58:24.340 you know,

00:58:24.900 terrible family life.

00:58:26.260 Who knows?

00:58:26.900 But they are just,

00:58:27.740 they're just struggling

00:58:28.500 to keep their,

00:58:29.440 their hands up

00:58:30.280 and to press on.

00:58:31.780 Give them a pep talk.

00:58:32.900 The person that's out there

00:58:35.040 listening,

00:58:35.860 whoever you are,

00:58:37.320 whatever you do,

00:58:38.420 whatever you don't do,

00:58:39.980 there's no individual in life

00:58:41.620 that's undefeated

00:58:42.460 in fights of life.

00:58:44.900 One thing that you have to realize

00:58:46.700 is that

00:58:47.180 you always have the ability

00:58:49.500 to get up.

00:58:51.380 It's my man,

00:58:51.980 Big Newman say,

00:58:53.380 when you face life adversity.

00:58:55.360 Excuses are embarrassing.

00:59:00.780 They are like buttholes.

00:59:02.600 Everybody has one 0.98

00:59:03.600 and they all stink.

00:59:05.320 If you want to lay down there

00:59:06.600 at the bottom,

00:59:07.640 you want to feel sorry

00:59:08.540 for yourself,

00:59:09.380 you want to blame everybody else

00:59:11.040 for you not being successful,

00:59:12.760 you will forever be there.

00:59:14.400 If you have kids,

00:59:16.080 not only were you choosing

00:59:17.320 to do that to yourself,

00:59:18.820 you're also teaching

00:59:19.800 your children,

00:59:21.200 you're teaching anybody

00:59:22.060 who surrounds themselves

00:59:23.220 around you

00:59:24.380 that that's okay

00:59:25.700 to be mediocre,

00:59:28.260 to have excuses,

00:59:29.840 and not take the risk.

00:59:31.700 Okay?

00:59:32.140 So now that we got

00:59:32.820 the worst case scenario

00:59:34.460 out of the way,

00:59:35.460 the good thing is

00:59:36.660 it's only uphill.

00:59:38.860 It's only light

00:59:39.660 at the end of the tunnel.

00:59:41.000 Every choice

00:59:41.860 that you make in life

00:59:42.920 is important,

00:59:44.520 but the most important choice

00:59:46.120 you can make in life 1.00

00:59:47.180 is to take the damn risk. 0.99

00:59:49.520 Faith is blind. 1.00

00:59:51.000 If you can see

00:59:51.740 through the glass

00:59:52.520 and you can see

00:59:53.080 the million dollars

00:59:53.760 on the other side,

00:59:54.960 it will be no bone

00:59:56.760 in your body

00:59:57.340 that won't start

00:59:57.960 sprinting towards that glass.

00:59:59.520 But when you got a tenant

01:00:00.640 and it's blacked out

01:00:02.000 and you can't see

01:00:02.820 how close you are,

01:00:03.780 you can't see

01:00:04.420 how many years

01:00:05.440 it's going to take there

01:00:06.140 and you can't see

01:00:06.920 if it's going to work out

01:00:08.040 at the end.

01:00:08.920 That's special something

01:00:09.940 in your body.

01:00:10.600 I don't know if you guys

01:00:11.180 are faith driven

01:00:12.380 or if you believe

01:00:13.240 in energies and universe,

01:00:14.920 but faith is things

01:00:15.900 that you cannot see.

01:00:18.560 When you take the risk

01:00:19.760 to step out on faith,

01:00:21.040 that is the most liberating,

01:00:23.840 free experience

01:00:25.140 you can have

01:00:25.980 in your life

01:00:26.660 and that is the beginning

01:00:27.800 to being successful.

01:00:29.060 When I was sleeping

01:00:29.860 on the couch

01:00:30.600 at 26 years old, 1.00

01:00:33.540 full-time damn job 0.99

01:00:35.100 as a wrestling coach 0.99

01:00:36.580 in my mother's kitchen

01:00:37.920 and my son didn't think

01:00:39.560 he had a house,

01:00:41.040 I freaking took

01:00:41.940 a leap of faith.

01:00:43.340 I couldn't afford

01:00:44.140 to be a fighter.

01:00:45.220 I took out student loans

01:00:46.340 just to pay for gas money

01:00:47.640 to travel to train.

01:00:48.780 I took a leap of faith

01:00:50.240 and today,

01:00:51.500 my family are experiencing

01:00:54.120 the fruits of our labor.

01:00:55.500 We're only just getting started.

01:00:57.540 We're going to go

01:00:58.180 all the way to the top

01:00:59.300 and my future

01:01:00.740 or the best

01:01:02.040 is yet to come.

01:01:03.440 My latter will be

01:01:04.360 greater than my past.

01:01:06.300 So you have to take

01:01:07.760 the risk.

01:01:08.540 Sometimes when you're

01:01:09.380 on the brink

01:01:09.880 of a breakthrough,

01:01:11.360 it feels like you're

01:01:12.320 on the brink

01:01:12.780 of a breakdown.

01:01:14.240 The devil don't waste

01:01:15.260 no time.

01:01:15.760 If you are being challenged

01:01:18.520 or if you're seeing adversity,

01:01:20.360 nobody's going to waste time

01:01:22.060 making you feel

01:01:23.420 as if you can't go forward

01:01:24.540 if it's not rainbow

01:01:25.600 at the end of the tunnel.

01:01:26.860 Fight through it.

01:01:28.300 Push through it.

01:01:29.820 Beat adversity.

01:01:30.920 Pass the test

01:01:31.540 the first time

01:01:32.320 because the next time

01:01:33.320 it's going to be harder.

01:01:34.620 Pass the test

01:01:35.160 of temptation,

01:01:36.420 of fear,

01:01:37.700 of self-doubt,

01:01:39.140 of self-worth,

01:01:41.060 insecurities,

01:01:42.700 slowfulness,

01:01:43.560 laziness in business. 0.98

01:01:44.800 All those tests

01:01:46.360 that you come in life,

01:01:47.780 pass them with

01:01:48.460 flying colors

01:01:49.100 and elevate yourself

01:01:50.180 and get promoted

01:01:51.200 and go to the next level

01:01:52.700 and keep rolling.

01:01:54.680 That's what I got to say.

01:01:56.260 Tyron, thank you so much

01:01:57.180 for joining us.

01:01:57.880 Ben, thanks for coming.

01:01:59.380 Always great to be here.

01:02:00.780 Everybody,

01:02:01.600 thanks for listening

01:02:02.180 to the MFCEO Project. 0.83

01:02:04.100 Keep killing it. 0.95

01:02:05.560 Boom. 1.00

01:02:05.860 Boom.

01:02:05.920 Boom.

01:02:06.040 Boom.

01:02:06.540 Boom.

01:02:06.860 Boom.

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01:02:10.760 All I do is work.

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REAL AF with Andy Frisella - October 13, 2015

Overcome All Obstacles, ft. Tyron Woodley - MFCEO19

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