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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: a matter of fact, he's helping us find some rental
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Speaker 1: to our episode. We change it up a little bit,
Speaker 1: my pups. We changed it up. The wolves we wanted
Speaker 1: to get. We wanted to get. We want different variety
Speaker 1: of guests on here. You know. That's one reason we've
Speaker 1: had shab On, Rich Frohning, Michael Chandler, a bunch of
Speaker 1: different people, Sean Booth to name a few different people
Speaker 1: out of the football world. Because yes, we get we
Speaker 1: have that little edge with football. We get our initial
Speaker 1: client tele our initial audience is football. But it's very
Speaker 1: important to us that we are we show you guys
Speaker 1: that we are more than just a football podcast. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of shit that goes on with us that
Speaker 1: we're very intrigued about. In this episode, here we have
Speaker 1: on performance coach and author Ben Newman. Ben is somebody
Speaker 1: that I've been close with for several years now. You know.
Speaker 1: He's a best selling author and he's a performance mental coach.
Speaker 1: He works directly with the Alabama Crimson tight football team.
Speaker 1: He works with he just got hired on for the
Speaker 1: Kansas State football team. He works with athletes in the NFL, PGA, NBA, MLB, UFC,
Speaker 1: and the n C Double A. He's a stud man.
Speaker 1: He writes for Forbes. He is uh, he's the white
Speaker 1: guy for me, Taylor, and I said down with him.
Speaker 1: We got into some great conversations a little bit about
Speaker 1: my story with Ben. My journey with Ben. I'm getting
Speaker 1: some mental coaching done since I've been in the league.
Speaker 1: Taylor and him go banter back and forth about Michigan
Speaker 1: and Michigan State. Him going to Michigan State, Taylor going
Speaker 1: to Michigan. Taylor drops some fucking jim. Uh, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of good storytelling. This is a this is a
Speaker 1: really cool episode to get super deep in a good way. Uh.
Speaker 1: We have fun at the beginning, and then we get
Speaker 1: in some real nitty gritty ship man, and it's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a big believer in mental performance. Taylor
Speaker 1: and I both are will be sending each other videos
Speaker 1: Law of Attraction, mental psychology training ship from David Goggins,
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan, Tony Robbins, Conor McGregor, all that shit. Dude.
Speaker 1: We said, we're constantly sending each other ship so, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a big part of our lives, staying on kind
Speaker 1: of the mental grind, just as much as performance and
Speaker 1: physical you know, super important stuff and really insightful things.
Speaker 1: I think you guys are really gonna like this Bend
Speaker 1: Newman episode. You can find him on social Media's at
Speaker 1: Continued Fight on Instagram and Twitter. That is at continued
Speaker 1: fight and again. He is a He is a mental
Speaker 1: performance coach for the Alabama football team, Kansas State football team.
Speaker 1: Guys around all different varieties of leagues, myself, guys in
Speaker 1: the guys in the NFL. So I think you guys
Speaker 1: are really gonna like this one. It's a big change up.
Speaker 1: It's not just bullshitting the whole time. Uh, We're following
Speaker 1: his story. We're talking about a lot of ship and
Speaker 1: some stuff that is very relatable. And I hope you
Speaker 1: guys take into your lives and when you after you
Speaker 1: guys listen to this. If you guys feel like we
Speaker 1: would greatly appreciate it, share this episode. Let us know
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Speaker 1: and you know you guys are in this thing with us,
Speaker 1: but I appreciate you, motherckers, and I hope you guys
Speaker 1: enjoyed this episode.
Speaker 3: Ben Newman, So you know there's one can of worms
Speaker 3: that we probably should opened that you probably didn't.
Speaker 1: Tell them what's ahead.
Speaker 3: Then I went to Michigan State.
Speaker 1: Oh I forgot.
Speaker 4: I just gotta make sure I talk slow. Remember everything I.
Speaker 1: Love.
Speaker 3: I love when when he made Braybell point up to.
Speaker 4: The yeah, yeah, man, we got to make sure people.
Speaker 4: If you go on the bus, man, you're in corn
Speaker 4: Husker territory.
Speaker 3: Actually, I was terrified.
Speaker 2: It's not amy and.
Speaker 4: It's kind of just like welcome, glad to have you,
Speaker 4: Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, coloring books will be fine.
Speaker 1: All right, Aaron, he's over here like about to rip
Speaker 1: it out of the fucking bus. I have to get
Speaker 1: that black cart out. They can pay for it. Yo.
Speaker 1: It's raining outside, his storming. It doesn't matter, doesn't fucking matter.
Speaker 1: It's just like you know, it's a storm, and it's
Speaker 1: one of those storms to where the lightning flashes and
Speaker 1: the noise happens within.
Speaker 2: A sex like yeah, it's like death's all around us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Generator going on outside.
Speaker 2: No excuses, play like a champion, Rule number seventy six.
Speaker 4: Just a lot of a lot of adversity, dude, a
Speaker 4: lot of adversity.
Speaker 1: So then, what were you thinking before you came on
Speaker 1: this bus, Like, like what was going through your mind?
Speaker 1: Like we've been boys a long ass time, and you
Speaker 1: knew I got this thing rolling me and the boy.
Speaker 3: I already told you. I literally I thought to myself,
Speaker 3: I've been on hundreds of interviews, and I never have
Speaker 3: been terrified for what the hell is going to be asked.
Speaker 3: I'm looking over it, Taylor, like Bro's gonna bring the heat.
Speaker 1: The dude is. The dude is witty. Man, you gotta
Speaker 1: come fucking correct if you want to dance with the devil,
Speaker 1: because Will knows.
Speaker 3: Will knows if he has asked anything wrong that if
Speaker 3: that thunder.
Speaker 1: You're that thunder?
Speaker 2: Do we Probably you probably heard that.
Speaker 3: I mean you said if I say anything wrong, yes,
Speaker 3: you're gonna it'll be relatively tame Will. That depends I.
Speaker 2: Don't know what you guys. Relationship is like.
Speaker 4: Will might just be getting a little little box today,
Speaker 4: but he might come out of the shell.
Speaker 1: No, I'm ready to go.
Speaker 3: He always cuts it to me real.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I always try to cheer Ben because he's a
Speaker 1: he's a performance coach, he's an author. He does motivational speaking.
Speaker 1: So I always ask him all the time, like, you
Speaker 1: know been like you never played football, so how do
Speaker 1: you motivate football players? That's a chirp and and and
Speaker 1: actually a question, like you know, you walk into some
Speaker 1: of these locker rooms the teams have you on like
Speaker 1: bam and all them they bring you in k State
Speaker 1: and they want to they lean to you for inspiration
Speaker 1: or motivation like these coaches do. And then you walk
Speaker 1: into a room with a bunch of you know, football players,
Speaker 1: dogs that are going to look at you as you know,
Speaker 1: an author, somebody who hasn't played and wonder, what the
Speaker 1: hell is this guy even going to give us?
Speaker 3: Well, I think I think you know this is that
Speaker 3: if I go into Alabama, within the first five minutes,
Speaker 3: they're gonna hear my mom's story. They're gonna hear the
Speaker 3: challenge adiversity I went through with my dad. Parents divorced
Speaker 3: when I was six months old, right knowing that my
Speaker 3: mom passed away, then my dad had his issues, and
Speaker 3: they know that, like, I've been through shit in my life,
Speaker 3: and that's the goal that I have, no matter what
Speaker 3: group I'm in front of, sports or business like, it's
Speaker 3: real life. And so whether I how many downs of
Speaker 3: football I played, which was freshman year high school and
Speaker 3: basketball solid solid freshman team. So the whole thing is
Speaker 3: they realize I've been through some shit in my life
Speaker 3: and I've been blessed at mentors and coaches to get
Speaker 3: me up off that Matt life. And then I always
Speaker 3: say Now that's my story. But I know everybody sitting
Speaker 3: in this room you have a story too, and it's
Speaker 3: helping them realize. Like I know, you've been through your shit.
Speaker 3: I've been through my shit. So if we can't connect there,
Speaker 3: there's really no work for us to do. There's really
Speaker 3: no motivation to come from until I can figure out
Speaker 3: what's in your heart, what's the fire that lies inside
Speaker 3: of you or the burners, you know I like to
Speaker 3: call it. It's going to cause you to get up
Speaker 3: on those days you don't want to do anymore.
Speaker 1: Right, you want to talk about in a nutshell your
Speaker 1: mom's story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's I think about it every day.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: You know, we all have a story. We all have
Speaker 3: challenge and adversity. And for me, I had to grow
Speaker 3: up fast because my mom was diagnosed with a rare
Speaker 3: muscle disease. Nineteen eighty three was the year I was
Speaker 3: five years old. When she was diagnosed. She goes to
Speaker 3: a hospital in Boston. Everybody in their muscles, they have ameloids.
Speaker 3: So Taylor, you have ameloids, Will's got them, I've got them.
Speaker 3: If you have an excess of amyloids, you have a
Speaker 3: disease called ameloid dosis. Ameloids slowly eat away at your
Speaker 3: muscles and you die. There's no cure for the disease.
Speaker 3: So my mom goes to Boston meets with a woman
Speaker 3: by the name of doctor Mark with the Skinner. Doctor
Speaker 3: Skinner tells her you got two to four years to live,
Speaker 3: and you're only the second woman under forty years old
Speaker 3: I've ever seen or heard of having this disease. Ammal
Speaker 3: A doses and my mom greatest prize fighter I've ever
Speaker 3: met in my life. My mom takes out an old
Speaker 3: journal and she starts writing and allowed that to become
Speaker 3: a place where she unleashed her positive mental attitude onto
Speaker 3: the world. And she wrote, beat the statistics, beat the odds,
Speaker 3: live with the disease that is chronic and fatal, believe
Speaker 3: in yourself, combat anything purpose in life. And she showed
Speaker 3: up every night. As I've told you so many times.
Speaker 3: You know, my mom would come to the dinner table
Speaker 3: with an IV stand when we had twenty four hour
Speaker 3: nursing care in the house to ask me how my
Speaker 3: day was at school. So it's like when I get
Speaker 3: hit with something in life, it's like you better come
Speaker 3: with some serious heat and some serious fire. If you
Speaker 3: think you're gonna break me, well, what I've seen with
Speaker 3: these two eyes and one of the special moments I
Speaker 3: have with my mom's story because she taught me how
Speaker 3: to live, She taught me how to fight, she taught
Speaker 3: me how to rise up when you don't want to
Speaker 3: do it. And she passed away eleven days before my
Speaker 3: eighth birthday. But I continue her fight all the time
Speaker 3: I share her story. You are only the second person
Speaker 3: that has touched you. We actually the first, and then
Speaker 3: I actually I shared it this year with one speaking engagement,
Speaker 3: but you were the first person that I let up.
Speaker 3: And remember when I took out the journal, So we
Speaker 3: have this moment. I keep my mom's journal in the
Speaker 3: safe at home, and it was I think before your
Speaker 3: second season where we knew like you were really starting
Speaker 3: to make moves and things were really starting to take place,
Speaker 3: and I said, man, I said, I want to show
Speaker 3: you something. We go up to the office because you
Speaker 3: always come over and stay at the house, and I
Speaker 3: pulled out the journal and just gave it to him,
Speaker 3: and you just sat there like there aren't many things
Speaker 3: that make you speechless. And he's like, bro, I don't
Speaker 3: know what to say yeah, and just like touching this
Speaker 3: journal because he and I become so close, and then
Speaker 3: to touch that journal that's been my life's testimony. H
Speaker 3: It was just wild for me to be.
Speaker 1: Able to Yeah, they're like looking at handwriting and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. It's just my mom's Yeah. Knowing that was
Speaker 1: back in What'd you say in nineteen eighty three?
Speaker 3: She passed away November second, nineteen eighty six, but nineteen
Speaker 3: eighty three was when she was diagnosed. So she made it.
Speaker 3: She made it three years.
Speaker 1: And what was going on? Your dad was having issues
Speaker 1: too back then. I meant to where you had to
Speaker 1: kind of you talk about growing up fast, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you had that stuff going on with your mom, but
Speaker 1: also your dad was you know, had his issues to
Speaker 1: where you had to be You're the You're.
Speaker 3: I'm the youngest, you're the youngest. Yeah, so my older brother. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so my mom passes away, Dad moves back into the house,
Speaker 3: and you know, he had issues with addiction, He had
Speaker 3: all types of stuff. I'm now coming home as an
Speaker 3: eight year old boy, and you think Dad's napping on
Speaker 3: the couch, but you know he's just he's had his day.
Speaker 3: And so that's by eight years old, right, And thankfully,
Speaker 3: you know, my dad turned that challenge into a great
Speaker 3: example for me that you can also fight through anything,
Speaker 3: because nine months later he realized, like, man, I can't
Speaker 3: live this way, I can't have kids. And you know,
Speaker 3: my dad has been a great example that.
Speaker 1: What were the things he was doing?
Speaker 3: Drugs and alcohol and you know, stuff that is challenging
Speaker 3: and tough, and so finally he got sober and he's
Speaker 3: literally been sober ever since. So nine months after my
Speaker 3: mom died, to now.
Speaker 2: Was he was a reason why, Like not the reason,
Speaker 2: but as part of.
Speaker 4: That reason, because of all the struggles you had to
Speaker 4: go through.
Speaker 2: With your mom and everything like that.
Speaker 3: So they were. They were divorced when I was six
Speaker 3: months old. So I think what it was though, was
Speaker 3: other issues my dad has had that it was such
Speaker 3: a hard life that I think he just he turned
Speaker 3: to that. And part of everybody's wired different, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean. There's people who can, right, we can
Speaker 3: have our bourbons, we can have fun, and people can
Speaker 3: handle it, and there's other people. It's it's a disease,
Speaker 3: no question. Yeah it's a disease.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 4: I mean, anything can really become an addiction if you
Speaker 4: let it, whether it's video games. I mean, sugar is
Speaker 4: just such an addictive product that I literally have had
Speaker 4: people argue with me about that.
Speaker 2: No, sugar's not addictive.
Speaker 4: It's absolutely an addictive thing. You can't just look at
Speaker 4: his addiction as you know, just drugs or alcohol. Those
Speaker 4: are the easiest things to point out, but you can
Speaker 4: turn so many things into you know, addiction, even things
Speaker 4: that are good for you. You know, if you're working
Speaker 4: out all the time or whatever, you don't you still
Speaker 4: have to go.
Speaker 2: Out and live your regular life too, and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: But yeah, those types of things, especially like you know,
Speaker 4: drugs and alcohol, those are very difficult to go through,
Speaker 4: and it's so easy for people that don't do with
Speaker 4: those issues to look and say, hey, well it's not
Speaker 4: that big, just stop doing it, just stop doing your fine. Well,
Speaker 4: I mean, if you drink, your brain is chemically imbalanced.
Speaker 4: It's a depress you feel shitty when you get off fit.
Speaker 4: What's the easiest thing to do. We just still have
Speaker 4: a couple more. We'll hear the dog. They always say,
Speaker 4: we'll hair the dog. They bit you a little bit
Speaker 4: of that, and you start compounding those things on top
Speaker 4: of each other, and you come you become codependent on
Speaker 4: those things, and so it's it's a very it's a
Speaker 4: hard and you know, windy road and again definitely puts
Speaker 4: you into a spiral if you if you let it.
Speaker 4: And that goes for drugs too, not just illegal drugs,
Speaker 4: but you know, prescription drugs and all that those stuff.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm very open with the fact that, like
Speaker 4: I mean, I've been giving prescription drugs before, like rolling
Speaker 4: ankle or something like that, and you know, you don't
Speaker 4: you don't feel better. There's no way you feel better
Speaker 4: than when you're on one of those pills that they
Speaker 4: make you feel amazing. But it comes. It comes with
Speaker 4: those you know, the repercussions. The next day you're a
Speaker 4: little more you're a little more agitated, you're a.
Speaker 1: Little more sure sep.
Speaker 4: It is a slippery still, but you get it's realizing.
Speaker 4: And I think the biggest thing that people need to
Speaker 4: understand is the biggest best thing you do for yourself
Speaker 4: is sit with yourself and and understand who you are
Speaker 4: and going through that process. The best process is to
Speaker 4: say well I am this person's figure out who you
Speaker 4: are not and then shaving that down process of elimination
Speaker 4: to finding out who you are and then growing from that.
Speaker 4: Those are the best ways to become like you know
Speaker 4: not you know, so, needing drugs or needing alcohol you
Speaker 4: can really stuff dependent. Yeah, that's the word I'm looking for.
Speaker 4: So it's it's definitely a slippery slope.
Speaker 2: It's hard for a lot of people.
Speaker 3: You bring up an interesting point that drugs, alcohol, anything
Speaker 3: in life. It's it's the way people think about things, right,
Speaker 3: and you and I have had so many great conversations
Speaker 3: about it. But how you think about things determines how
Speaker 3: you show up right. Right, it's your belief system for everything. Right,
Speaker 3: you've done what you've done playing in the NFL. You've
Speaker 3: done what you've done playing because you believed you would
Speaker 3: play in the NFL. Right, you believe you'd stand across
Speaker 3: from another man and you would freaking punish him over
Speaker 3: and over. And that's a belief system. So then your
Speaker 3: work shows up that way. People aren't in touch enough
Speaker 3: with the fact that you've got to be truthful with yourself.
Speaker 3: You got to look in the mirror and say, I
Speaker 3: either believe I will absolutely dominate any man that's in front,
Speaker 3: I will punish everybody in front of me, or you're
Speaker 3: gonna have doubts. And you can't have both. You get
Speaker 3: one of the other. And people have to be truthful
Speaker 3: with themselves. And I know there's a lot of people watching.
Speaker 3: They're not professional athletes, right, And so for you in
Speaker 3: your life, you got to show up. You got to
Speaker 3: be truthful about why you are where you are. And
Speaker 3: if you're not where you want to be, you got
Speaker 3: to you gotta look at yourselves say what am I
Speaker 3: willing to change? Yeah, and you got to work hard
Speaker 3: in another area otherwise you're probably gonna fall short of
Speaker 3: what you actually want.
Speaker 2: It's tough.
Speaker 4: It's because if if you play sports, it's the easiest
Speaker 4: way to figure out, Okay, where am I at? Like
Speaker 4: you could figure out I get my ass kicks. Okay,
Speaker 4: I know I need to do I need to work
Speaker 4: on X, Y and Z.
Speaker 2: Life.
Speaker 4: It's not as black and white. It's you gotta you know,
Speaker 4: you got to read, You get to educate yourself.
Speaker 2: You got to see.
Speaker 4: You got to find your own deficiencies in yourself. What
Speaker 4: it makes means to hear why are these things making
Speaker 4: me into here?
Speaker 2: And working on those things?
Speaker 4: And I mean that's The best part about football is
Speaker 4: it's such a competitive sport.
Speaker 2: It'll tell you where you're at right then and there.
Speaker 4: And so I mean, that's that's a big reason why
Speaker 4: I'm so confident, is that football's helped me learn to
Speaker 4: be a confident person. Not just that, but also like
Speaker 4: when you have an issue with something, instead of hiding
Speaker 4: from you to take a head on and if you
Speaker 4: don't go and a tacket there, I mean, if I don't,
Speaker 4: if I don't do something in the first fifteen minutes
Speaker 4: of learning about something, I let it get the best of.
Speaker 2: Me, which is a really difficult thing.
Speaker 1: Sometimes, right, but figuring out like you guys are saying,
Speaker 1: the self awareness factor, and then figuring out those weaknesses
Speaker 1: and then okay, how do I supplement those weaknesses If
Speaker 1: I can't do them, do them on my own us
Speaker 1: with our diets, all of us you know, live well,
Speaker 1: eat well, stuff like that. If you know you're struggling
Speaker 1: in another area, you know. That's why we ended up
Speaker 1: meeting up and going over psychological stuff, mental trainings and
Speaker 1: things that kind of like you kind of try and
Speaker 1: brainwash yourself being like a young rookie. That's how we met.
Speaker 1: We met over Twitter.
Speaker 3: So I gotta tell the story. I mean, everybody's good
Speaker 3: Twitter story. Yeah, well, I mean yeah, So we meet
Speaker 3: over Twitter because we had a mutual friend. We didn't
Speaker 3: know each other. All my work had been in the
Speaker 3: corporate world. So I started speaking in two thousand and six,
Speaker 3: coaching two thousand and eight, started books, and actually the
Speaker 3: first talk I ever gave in sports in my old
Speaker 3: high school basketball team in twenty eleven when the coach called.
Speaker 3: So I'd done a little bit in sports, but not
Speaker 3: a lot, never worked with a professional athlete. Yet I
Speaker 3: had these six mental training tools for the business side, sales,
Speaker 3: for sales, yeah, for people in sales and business performance.
Speaker 3: And I was like, man, these will work in sports too,
Speaker 3: And so Will and I get connected, and it was
Speaker 3: like he's like, yeah, I'm gonna through the relationship. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna trust this guy, and I'm gonna sit down with him.
Speaker 3: I had never used these, right, so it's like, right,
Speaker 3: we'll see see if this works in the world of sports.
Speaker 3: And Will was in between the month of OTAs because
Speaker 3: he had just been signed as an undrafted free agent
Speaker 3: by the Redskins and was right before he was reporting
Speaker 3: for training camp and I remember sending you that message.
Speaker 3: After we connect, him like, he, ay, man, you want
Speaker 3: to get together and talk mental toughness. Right. So I
Speaker 3: had a belief, Hey man, this is going to work
Speaker 3: with this guy. And then he was like, yeah, let's
Speaker 3: get together. Let's do it. So we met every Monday
Speaker 3: for a month.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: The first time we meet, he sits down. We're sitting
Speaker 3: across in a booth. I said, man, what's on your mind?
Speaker 3: And he says, uh, will Man? I said, what's on
Speaker 3: your mind? So those twenty thirteen what's on your mind?
Speaker 3: He says, you know what, if it doesn't work out
Speaker 3: with the Redskins, there's thirty one other teams. I knew
Speaker 3: I had his ass, right. I mean the moment he
Speaker 3: said that, I knew it was game over. These principles
Speaker 3: are going to work, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I looked at him and I said, wait a second, man,
Speaker 3: I said, I know, we're just meet for the first time.
Speaker 3: I got I'd like, I gotta ask you a question.
Speaker 3: I got to ask you a question. What happens if
Speaker 3: every day you start waking up and you tell yourself,
Speaker 3: I'm a linebacker with the Washington Redskins, and if you
Speaker 3: doubt yourself. In the middle of the day, you tell
Speaker 3: yourself again, I am a linebacker with the Washington Redskins.
Speaker 3: And before you go to bed, you tell yourself, man,
Speaker 3: I'm a linebacker with the Washington Redskins. Now bear in mind,
Speaker 3: he's seventh out of seven on the depth chart. Right,
Speaker 3: they got it, They've got they got his Alfred Morris
Speaker 3: camp jersey number forty six waiting for when he gets
Speaker 3: to camp. And Walker, yeah, and he looked at me
Speaker 3: and he says, you know what, he goes, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: start saying that every single day. And he basically at
Speaker 3: that moment he snapped his fingers like you said, fifteen minute,
Speaker 3: you got to make a decision, right and bang he
Speaker 3: believed in it.
Speaker 2: Do you still say every day that you're the linebacker
Speaker 2: for the Washington Redskins.
Speaker 1: No, No, I don't doone. I don't I do have
Speaker 1: goalsough Ben at Ben has helped me a lot. Like
Speaker 1: I would go to Montero and he's in Saint Louis
Speaker 1: and we would meet. We didn't meet in the middle
Speaker 1: and just sit for like what an hour or two,
Speaker 1: and you know, he would have stuff for me to do,
Speaker 1: Like I read a couple like mental books, so I
Speaker 1: was like obsessed with like mental psychology stuff. You know
Speaker 1: how it goods you. You get motivated and you get
Speaker 1: ready to go. And he wanted he reached out and
Speaker 1: wanted to help me, and I knew he spoke and
Speaker 1: did other things. So I was like, yeah, that'd be awesome.
Speaker 1: I'd be honored to sit and you know, come up
Speaker 1: with a plan because again you're like you're intimidated, and
Speaker 1: then you go through OTAs and you're an undrafted guy
Speaker 1: and you figure out like these guys don't know me
Speaker 1: at all like I thought they would coming from Nebraska
Speaker 1: because I was in Nebraska, and you're like, all these coaches,
Speaker 1: whoever gets me into a camp, all I need to
Speaker 1: do is get into a camp like they're and these
Speaker 1: coaches they already know me, like Boe and them do
Speaker 1: it with the with Nebraska, and they're gonna think, oh,
Speaker 1: we got this guy, we got a diamond in the rough.
Speaker 1: They didn't get drafted. You get there and you realize like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna not gonna make this team and you're
Speaker 1: at the bottom of every depth chart. Bro, I'm talking, Well,
Speaker 1: there was two of us undrafted rookie free agents, and
Speaker 1: he was playing before me. Like I was like, there
Speaker 1: was three units and I wasn't. I just got to
Speaker 1: mix in with the third unit every now and then.
Speaker 1: And he wanted to meet, and you know, we met,
Speaker 1: and I was kind of like nice and brainwashed going
Speaker 1: into camp and you.
Speaker 2: You said, I want to meet with Will. First.
Speaker 3: I sent a message to him, and then he said, yeah, man,
Speaker 3: let's do it.
Speaker 1: He reached out. He's like, yeah, I love that you're
Speaker 1: in the I said something about mental training. I can't
Speaker 1: wait to get home and get him some book or
Speaker 1: something like that. He reached out, said yeah, it's me.
Speaker 1: Let's meet halfway. And then I went into camp.
Speaker 3: But hold on before let me, I got to mention
Speaker 3: this because I think this is for everybody, because you
Speaker 3: had mentioned some of us were not in sports, right,
Speaker 3: and so if you remember, he was a captain of Nebraska,
Speaker 3: right number twelve all time tackles. So it's like, I
Speaker 3: knew this guy could play some ball. So I said
Speaker 3: to him, I said, I said, man, I said, what
Speaker 3: made you a captain of Nebraska? Tell me all the
Speaker 3: things that were one hundred percent in your control that
Speaker 3: you did, right, and we just broke it down. He's like, man,
Speaker 3: I studied more film more than anybody else. Man I
Speaker 3: was in the playbook more than anybody else. I was
Speaker 3: on top of my nutrition and all these things he
Speaker 3: could control. So I just asked the back to him.
Speaker 3: I said, what happens if you show up that same
Speaker 3: way with the Redskins? I said, what if you're another
Speaker 3: coach breaking down game film as a rookie? I said,
Speaker 3: focus on all these things you can control. And it
Speaker 3: made him reconnect back to that confidence, like I am
Speaker 3: that same dude. I am gonna go and it doesn't
Speaker 3: matter where they tell me I am on a depth chart,
Speaker 3: because I used to tell them, don't worry about where
Speaker 3: they tell you are in a depth chart. Worry about
Speaker 3: taking somebody's job when you get there, and absolutely dominate.
Speaker 3: Lock in one day at a time, you win one
Speaker 3: day at a time. It's going to take care of itself.
Speaker 3: And those are the conversations we had, and then he
Speaker 3: followed through with the action. And I think for anybody listening,
Speaker 3: you can either say, oh, I have no idea what
Speaker 3: it's going to take to be successful. Where you go
Speaker 3: find out or you look at your past success and say,
Speaker 3: am I actually willing to consistently do those things over
Speaker 3: and over and over again to keep having success. So
Speaker 3: you're the one who decided, man, I'm gonna choose the
Speaker 3: action I take, And you just showed up different than
Speaker 3: the kid who was like, man, I don't make it.
Speaker 1: All The boy the Boys and the Boys goes back
Speaker 1: early and I'm in the film room and I'm literally
Speaker 1: game planning our offense for training camp for like those
Speaker 1: few plays, I might get sure to be out there
Speaker 1: because you're like, Okay, you can't fuck up if you
Speaker 1: get that opportunity. Well a good you know. Fortunately for me,
Speaker 1: some luck played into it. Keenan who was a draft
Speaker 1: pick the year before and like the fourth round Keenan Robinson,
Speaker 1: he's a stud player. He gets hurt and tears his
Speaker 1: peck on day one up training camp, so immediately I
Speaker 1: go from seventh and rotating with the third unit to
Speaker 1: now I could just get to be with the threes.
Speaker 1: And then the guy who was undrafted in front of me,
Speaker 1: Jeremy Kimbro, he moves up with the second unit. He
Speaker 1: hurts his hamstring in that first week, so I immediately
Speaker 1: get thrusted to go with the twos and the boy
Speaker 1: has a day one day where I had like two
Speaker 1: picks and stuff like that to where I got to
Speaker 1: be with the second unit in preseason. So look like
Speaker 1: all this stuff kind of happens, And definitely that that helped,
Speaker 1: Like knowing all that stuff and you're going in like,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna show out a few plays I
Speaker 1: do get. But fortunately, fortunately on a personal level for me,
Speaker 1: a couple guys go down in front of you, which
Speaker 1: is what happens. Bribel said on You Know when he
Speaker 1: was on the podcast, the injury in the NFL's one
Speaker 1: hundred percent, so you better be ready for your opportunities
Speaker 1: are going.
Speaker 2: To go down all the time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, people who probably listening to that when you're explaining,
Speaker 4: like well, what a dick, Like he's unfortunate things for me,
Speaker 4: Like people got hurt.
Speaker 2: Like that's just the way it is.
Speaker 4: That's just the way it is, man, because a lot
Speaker 4: of times in the NFL, it's not how good you are,
Speaker 4: it's not how like it's sometimes like hey, this.
Speaker 2: Guy's our guy, and that's what it is. Sorry, and
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to go on a different team and
Speaker 2: that's just that's just how it works. And there's really
Speaker 2: no right or wrong like rhyme or.
Speaker 4: Reason, but it is what it is, and like it
Speaker 4: just when stuff starts clicking like you, like you do
Speaker 4: take advantage of that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: So and then when that guy goes down and you
Speaker 1: know how it is, it's that next man of mentality,
Speaker 1: Like when you're out last year, who is Dennis Kelly
Speaker 1: who comes in after you?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: Yes, Dennison actually end up getting hurt too. So the
Speaker 4: first the first first game of the season, I got
Speaker 4: knocked out. We had the longest game in NFL history,
Speaker 4: but against the Miami Dolphins. Is there were so many
Speaker 4: so much rain and thunder and lightning. So I ended
Speaker 4: up getting knocked out right after the second half, right
Speaker 4: after the first half, in the in the third quarter.
Speaker 2: So I was out.
Speaker 4: The next week, Dennis was starting at left tackle. Dennis
Speaker 4: ended up having a situation. I'm not gonna talk about
Speaker 4: his stuff is it's not that's the number one right
Speaker 4: I've never talked about so like Ray and Dennis had
Speaker 4: his thing.
Speaker 2: So now we had our third tackle and Jack was
Speaker 2: out too, So out yeah, Jack. Jack was hurt.
Speaker 4: He was coming back from his injury. I get hurt,
Speaker 4: so our starters are out, Dennis is now starting. He
Speaker 4: gets his situation on Wednesday or whatever that week he's out.
Speaker 4: So we're playing the Houston Texans with our fourth and
Speaker 4: fifth tackle.
Speaker 2: And it's like it's just wild.
Speaker 4: Kevin pan File, Kevin pant File or pant Field and
Speaker 4: I don't remember who was starting here at right, and.
Speaker 1: He either got activated or brought Tyler Merris.
Speaker 4: He Tyler did such a great job, dude. He came
Speaker 4: in and was he was a stuck cause I got
Speaker 4: hurt in Buffalo too, and he he came in.
Speaker 2: And held his own against Jerry Hughes.
Speaker 4: But yeah, like Tyler's that kind of do too, like
Speaker 4: kind of he's been lucky enough to be with the Titans.
Speaker 2: Like I think he's going his fourth year. It's kind
Speaker 2: of like you like he's behind me and Jack and Dennis,
Speaker 2: and like he's kind of.
Speaker 4: Like on that bubble every single year. He's got that stress,
Speaker 4: like right now is going to be the most stressful
Speaker 4: time of the year.
Speaker 2: Figure out what's going on. He handles it so well.
Speaker 2: He's a man.
Speaker 4: He really had some stuff on pro. But we went
Speaker 4: into that game and it's like Kevin Panfield. We picked
Speaker 4: him from Tampa Bay. We like he was on the
Speaker 4: team for six months, he was starting. And then Tyler
Speaker 4: has been on the team for three years, but he's
Speaker 4: never had played, he's never played in a real game,
Speaker 4: and now he's dressing and playing.
Speaker 2: It's it's just wild how things just happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and it happens that fast, and no one
Speaker 1: gives a ship like get there at all, like the
Speaker 1: head coach, and then they'll look at you like, hey,
Speaker 1: you're up at your time, like your name is the
Speaker 1: one being said in meetings now and you sit there
Speaker 1: with that like nerves feel like yo, I gotta go
Speaker 1: out there, and I gotta go out there and ball now,
Speaker 1: like it doesn't matter that I am. I was a
Speaker 1: fourth guy, or people are going to be like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, he made a mistake because he was a
Speaker 1: four stringer, and the like no, you gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: perform or you'll get your ass get cut.
Speaker 4: They don't expect any any drop off, Like there's some
Speaker 4: elite dudes that when then they go down and you're
Speaker 4: just like fuck man, like your quarterback goes down, yeah,
Speaker 4: for sure, ship, or like you got a wide receiver,
Speaker 4: Like it's a big time dude, Like you can't really
Speaker 4: replace those, right, He's gonna a little bit of a
Speaker 4: drop and if like things just happened, man, and they
Speaker 4: expect you to play just as well as that when
Speaker 4: you're a.
Speaker 1: Star, yeah at the start, and then when you're like
Speaker 1: that young cat or you're finally getting an opportunity, like
Speaker 1: you know, that might be your only opportunity you get
Speaker 1: because if you're say you're a lower rounder, undrafted guy,
Speaker 1: you might only get one shot. If you're higher, you
Speaker 1: might get a couple like slap on the wrist and
Speaker 1: get a few extra chances because you're you know, that's
Speaker 1: why they drafted you. But when you're on that lower cuff, man,
Speaker 1: if you don't, if you don't take advantage when you
Speaker 1: do get when your name is called, like it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: he didn't work out, get him out of here. But
Speaker 1: if you do work out, it's like, oh, we found somebody,
Speaker 1: we got lucky. Oh it's our scouting department, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is us, we found him. But if not, it's like,
Speaker 1: oh he didn't work out. We figured Yeah.
Speaker 2: There's definitely not a shorte of people that want that
Speaker 2: want to play in the NFL. That's for sure, Yeah,
Speaker 2: no doubt.
Speaker 4: But if you're like, I don't know, the NFL is
Speaker 4: one thing I feel like talking to full of plays.
Speaker 4: I mean, I've sat in so many rooms and motivational
Speaker 4: speakers have come in, and you know, nine times out
Speaker 4: of ten, I get pretty hyped up. I'm easily hyped
Speaker 4: because I love watching those motivational videos.
Speaker 2: I should read more. I'm gonna read more.
Speaker 1: Send them to you.
Speaker 2: You need to, Yeah, we do, because I'm all about that.
Speaker 2: Like I love I love like.
Speaker 4: I just love the idea of like being great. You
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. I love like all that kind
Speaker 4: of stuff. I'm watching those videos and.
Speaker 1: Reading this Taylor like to give you guys kind of
Speaker 1: start for interrupting. But Taylor will like get hype in
Speaker 1: the morning, right well, because we work out together and
Speaker 1: they'll like send me say it's like Econa McGregor or
Speaker 1: something about law of attraction or something. Joe Rogan said,
Speaker 1: that's a huge Like he'll like send it, you know,
Speaker 1: and it'll just get you hype. So that's like what
Speaker 1: he's talking about when he says he gets super into that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you can't be just like you know, if
Speaker 2: it's football players, it's easy. You feel.
Speaker 4: You put a video a couple of guys making some
Speaker 4: big hits, there's a hyped up they go out to
Speaker 4: play football, Like what's it doing between football players? And
Speaker 4: then when you go into like a fortune five hundred company,
Speaker 4: and you got to go and talk to these people
Speaker 4: that are have been suits their whole life since birth,
Speaker 4: they've been suits.
Speaker 3: Well, for for me, it's actually the same principles and
Speaker 3: the same lessons, right. It's finding somebody's burn, it's finding
Speaker 3: somebody's motivation. It's finding the actual reason why they want
Speaker 3: to do the work. And if you find the reason
Speaker 3: why somebody wants to do the work, they're going to
Speaker 3: go do the work right, And then it's holding them
Speaker 3: accountable to it. And it's very similar. There's business people
Speaker 3: who they want you to get them all fired up, right.
Speaker 3: There's sales teams. I may go give a sales talk
Speaker 3: and they're like, can you bring the heat like some
Speaker 3: of those locker room videos we've seen. And then you
Speaker 3: know there are some athletes who are like, bro, if
Speaker 3: you bring anything like that, like, don't ever leave me
Speaker 3: a voicemail again to hype me up for a game. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's some NFL players like the messages. To them, it's
Speaker 3: very chill. It's you know, it's a poison confidence type message.
Speaker 3: It's more laid back. And then there's other guys like, man,
Speaker 3: if you're going to leave me a voicemail, you better
Speaker 3: bring it otherwise, don't leave me a message. So it's
Speaker 3: the same way, right, because there's gonna be guys in
Speaker 3: the business world who were former athletes, right, maybe they
Speaker 3: played high school football, maybe they played college. To me,
Speaker 3: we all have that adrenaline, and everybody likes that adrenaline
Speaker 3: up differently. So I believe my goal is I got
Speaker 3: to connect with somebody and figure out what are they like,
Speaker 3: what motivates them? And once I find that, man, I'll
Speaker 3: go get it right. And so I think that's like
Speaker 3: with Will, one of the things we'd have like maybe keywords, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, there's so many different things. Man. Once you'd
Speaker 3: hone in on something like you'd say it to him
Speaker 3: and he would just be ready to go. And there
Speaker 3: were almost times he was like I would be like
Speaker 3: that message was too long for you, wasn't it? Like
Speaker 3: you just needed me to say this because we've become
Speaker 3: so close like brothers. He's just like, bro like that,
Speaker 3: just just give me the three words.
Speaker 1: That's all I had. Yeah, Like I don't need the
Speaker 1: whole paragraph. Everybody just straight, yeah, straight.
Speaker 2: Will is I got.
Speaker 4: I hate complimenting the boy, but Will is definitely without it.
Speaker 4: I won't be hardest, like Will wants to be great
Speaker 4: so bad and it's not just like my whole life
Speaker 4: since I got a scholarship off ROC talk all the time,
Speaker 4: I got to offer from Utah State spring ball going
Speaker 4: into my senior year and I as us an offer
Speaker 4: from them. I was like, I'm going to the NFL,
Speaker 4: like that's it, and people are like, well, and then
Speaker 4: you know, I don't know, it's not I'm going that
Speaker 4: is it.
Speaker 2: It's done. And I never had a plan, a plan B.
Speaker 2: It was always like, well, I'm going to the NFL.
Speaker 2: I'm going to the NFL.
Speaker 4: Will has done such a great job of making his
Speaker 4: dream scome true of going to the NFL, working so hard,
Speaker 4: becoming a captain, while the other captain the Redskins right,
Speaker 4: doing those types of things. But the whole time, I
Speaker 4: all get in this car and he's listening to some
Speaker 4: damn podcasts about real estate and he's listening to a
Speaker 4: podcast about you know, how to diversify your portfolio so
Speaker 4: your money grows. But and it was like this dude
Speaker 4: just like want He just wants it.
Speaker 2: Whatever that is. It's it's very admirable to see.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fuck yourself.
Speaker 3: And I believes, well he doesn't. He doesn't realize that that.
Speaker 3: He inspires the hell out of me too, right, So
Speaker 3: it's I maybe came in, We'll still do this.
Speaker 1: Ticket.
Speaker 3: Hey it's iron, it's it's iron sharpens iron. But I
Speaker 3: mean he he definitely motivates me. His story, his belief,
Speaker 3: his fight, I mean all kinds of crazy stuff. The
Speaker 3: only issue I've ever had with Will is when we
Speaker 3: first started speaking together, getting his ass off the stage
Speaker 3: because we went to Nebraska and it's like, I don't
Speaker 3: know how you get the mic out of his mouth.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you get to speak every now and again,
Speaker 3: you know, because like we'd get I remember the one
Speaker 3: time we went to that military university, right, and he's
Speaker 3: all these troops, and I think he's fired up because
Speaker 3: he's speaking to the troops, right, And it was I
Speaker 3: think we each had twenty minutes and you know, so
Speaker 3: he's got twenty, I've got twenty. He goes first, We're
Speaker 3: like thirty five minutes in. I'm like, bro, I just
Speaker 3: want to like thank him for their I.
Speaker 5: Gotta say hi, yeah, we got to get you off
Speaker 5: the stage. And then he's like, did I go too long?
Speaker 5: And I'm like, yeah, you took the whole time. So
Speaker 5: I'm glad you've taught him. He's got to share, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I don't think I'm I talk more than him.
Speaker 3: Well, I always tell him, you know, there's three boys
Speaker 3: in the family. I say, this is the only family
Speaker 3: I've ever met where literally like you're like the only child,
Speaker 3: yet there's three children, you know what I mean. He
Speaker 3: doesn't share, He doesn't do any of that.
Speaker 4: Now, down through the little things where transition actually a
Speaker 4: table person, I really think about it.
Speaker 1: You get down on a naty greedy but how like
Speaker 1: so you you are where you are now, but it
Speaker 1: all started somewhere, like you get down in Michigan State.
Speaker 1: Why like why all of a sudden are you now
Speaker 1: being told or asked to speak? Why are you now
Speaker 1: in these rooms? Like where where did it start? Where
Speaker 1: did it come from? Because you worked in Northwestern Mutual. Correct.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was a financial advisor over ten years, and yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean I had a great run, you know, on
Speaker 3: that professional side of things. But you know what, I
Speaker 3: always look at the tough stuff I've been through and
Speaker 3: how I responded. That defines the person that you become. Right, So,
Speaker 3: if it wasn't enough my mom and my dad and
Speaker 3: all these things, I was a paper broker in Chicago.
Speaker 3: I was engaged for thirteen hours to my sweetheart. Right,
Speaker 3: had I gone to Michigan, maybe I would have worked out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll tell you. You hear your motivational speaker. I
Speaker 4: just can't imagine like someone coming from Michigan State Like,
Speaker 4: I feel like the only motivation is getting the hell
Speaker 4: out of there.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: You have to think to yourself, man, like, that's why
Speaker 4: when you knew man, my mom, my dad. But I
Speaker 4: got the fuck out of this call. That's why other
Speaker 4: thing and and now and now your.
Speaker 2: Motivation is me. I'm really happy for you. You've come
Speaker 2: this far.
Speaker 3: Oh god, so engaged thirteen That won't be the end
Speaker 3: of it either, now that he's opening it up. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so engaged thirteen hours. Thank god? She told me no
Speaker 3: otherwise I wouldn't have the life that I have. I
Speaker 3: go back to the first time I was invited to speak, right,
Speaker 3: I got paid five hundred bucks. I'm like, this is
Speaker 3: the thing. And then like after that, I would get
Speaker 3: coffee cups, you know, And then you got to come
Speaker 3: home and tell your wife like, hey, I got a
Speaker 3: coffee cup to speak. She's looking like, how the hell
Speaker 3: is that going to pay the bills? Right when I
Speaker 3: go to San Diego and they give you this beautiful
Speaker 3: picture book and everybody signs it. Yet they paid my expenses, right, So,
Speaker 3: like you live in this this land where here's my dream,
Speaker 3: here's where I know I can get to. And everybody
Speaker 3: always ask me. They're like, you work for Alabama Football,
Speaker 3: you work for Kansas State, but you've worked for Microsoft,
Speaker 3: Like how did you start. I'm like, well, I didn't
Speaker 3: start there, right. Everybody wants that, and you know, you
Speaker 3: hop on social media these days and everybody's an author,
Speaker 3: everybody's a speaker, and I wish the best everybody because
Speaker 3: I'm an abundant guy, right, But you got to put
Speaker 3: in the work, and everybody wants the end result. Nobody
Speaker 3: wants to do the work and it's like, look, I
Speaker 3: hope you do become a great speaker. I hope you
Speaker 3: do write books, but have a willingness to do the
Speaker 3: work right, right, So I spoke, What did I tell you?
Speaker 3: I spoke to my high school basketball team. That's my
Speaker 3: first work in sports. I've gone back for eight years,
Speaker 3: still giving back to my high school basketball team because
Speaker 3: I love my coaches. They've helped me become the man
Speaker 3: that I am today. Right, you've met him, You've come
Speaker 3: back to my high school. So it's all those little
Speaker 3: things that you have a willingness to do because there's
Speaker 3: passion and you've got to fire inside you to go
Speaker 3: do it rather than focusing on money, focusing on the results.
Speaker 3: And most people don't want to do the work these
Speaker 3: that's whatever.
Speaker 2: That's where everyone wants to quick fix.
Speaker 4: Everyone wants to just be rich and they want to
Speaker 4: be famous in all this and it's like it's we
Speaker 4: talked about it in a podcast before. It's like people
Speaker 4: see the results of what football's done for us, not
Speaker 4: the hard work that we put in to get the
Speaker 4: result of football. Like you know, Sundays are great, but
Speaker 4: there's camped, there's working out, there's literally no off season,
Speaker 4: you have to go. You get a couple of weeks
Speaker 4: of vacation, but you're working out all the time, trying
Speaker 4: to stay on top of it. Me and we are
Speaker 4: always talking about nutrition, We're talking about our workouts, and
Speaker 4: all that stuff accumulates over time, and it's like, you know,
Speaker 4: there's a lot of you always see those little motivational
Speaker 4: posters and it's like a it's a cat hanging from
Speaker 4: a branch and it's like just keep.
Speaker 2: On going or whatever. But then you see like the
Speaker 2: uh with the iceberg, and it like shows the tip.
Speaker 4: Of the iceberg, that success, but you see it built
Speaker 4: like how you build everything, and people don't see all
Speaker 4: the hard work you put in. And then you have
Speaker 4: the tip of the iceberg, which is like what everybody
Speaker 4: actually wants. But anything, anything worth having or doing, you
Speaker 4: have to work for.
Speaker 3: But here, here, here's the crazy thing. You give that
Speaker 3: iceberg example. Here here's the wildness. And sometimes I like
Speaker 3: to be more direct, just to like shake up the
Speaker 3: listeners to realize what we're talking about. Here they see that,
Speaker 3: and they still don't see what's beneath the water, like
Speaker 3: they literally see it. And it's like somebody just like
Speaker 3: that's actually how you get there, right, Like, do you
Speaker 3: want to see the reps that Taylor's put in? You
Speaker 3: want to see the footwork that he's put in, You
Speaker 3: want to see the number of hours that Will's put in,
Speaker 3: all the stuff that's below and you could put that,
Speaker 3: they don't see it. All they still see is the Iceberger.
Speaker 3: It's like people fight the fact that, like you have
Speaker 3: to work in order to get the things that you want.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I.
Speaker 3: Do you do you ever like watch guys like well,
Speaker 3: I appreciate that, thank you.
Speaker 4: Do you ever watch guys like Tony Robbins or Eric Thomas,
Speaker 4: like those individual speakers and like take things from them,
Speaker 4: learn things from them or anything like that.
Speaker 3: So I like to learn from everybody. I mean I
Speaker 3: read books like Crazy. Eric Thomas and I actually hung
Speaker 3: out for a couple of days at BAMA training Camp
Speaker 3: last year, which was a great time. And what I
Speaker 3: pay attention to is how does he interact with people? Right? So, yeah,
Speaker 3: I heard his talk. His talk was great, but like
Speaker 3: how does he interact with people?
Speaker 2: Speaker?
Speaker 3: Yeah, great speaker, but like watching him, you know, we'd
Speaker 3: be eating and it we'd be eating with the players.
Speaker 3: How's he interacting with the that's the stuff I want
Speaker 3: to see, like how do you treat people? How do
Speaker 3: you deal with people? What are the questions that you ask?
Speaker 3: And he's engaging with guys, right, So it's like if
Speaker 3: I meet somebody, like, I don't want to know, Taylor,
Speaker 3: what that makes you great? I want to hear, like
Speaker 3: what did you do to get to where you are? Like,
Speaker 3: I want to learn when you meet somebody. So those
Speaker 3: are the things I look for. And of course, I
Speaker 3: mean the moment you stop growing, you're done, right, I
Speaker 3: mean if you just say, oh, I've made it to
Speaker 3: this point. And we always talk about the seduction of success.
Speaker 3: You can't be seduced by success, right, you have to
Speaker 3: have that belief and pa, I mean standard over feelings,
Speaker 3: which is what I learned. Man, we can clear this up.
Speaker 2: What do you mean by that you can't be seduced
Speaker 2: by success?
Speaker 3: So Will taught me something called standard over feelings.
Speaker 1: I got that from Tony Robbins.
Speaker 3: Okay, so standard over standard, standard over feelings. So and
Speaker 3: then I came up with seduction of success.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: So as he kind of took me through this, I said,
Speaker 3: all right, well, from what I've seen the people I've
Speaker 3: shared the stage with, the people that I've learned from
Speaker 3: books I've read. The highest performers are not seduced by success.
Speaker 3: So the moment that you have achievement, you actually crave more.
Speaker 3: You realize, like, because of that achievement that makes me
Speaker 3: realize what I can, I'm gonna go get after it
Speaker 3: again tomorrow. And most people, let's give sales right, business world,
Speaker 3: they sell something great yesterday, they walk into the office. Man,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to dial the phone for like a week.
Speaker 3: I may not dial the phone. You see that commission
Speaker 3: check I'm going to get And the next thing, you know,
Speaker 3: three months later, they're like, what happened to my business? Right?
Speaker 3: And you're like, dude, you didn't work for three months.
Speaker 3: Now we average out that big commission over three months,
Speaker 3: it's average. And then they're upset what happened? You got
Speaker 3: seduced by your success rather than realizing that's the moment
Speaker 3: where you really grow if I don't define myself by
Speaker 3: that check and I say, man, I can get after
Speaker 3: it again tomorrow, And then you say, how can I
Speaker 3: get better tomorrow? And that becomes a cycle. You do
Speaker 3: it over and over and over again. That's grit, you know,
Speaker 3: that's conviction, passion, perseverance, getting after it one day at
Speaker 3: a time. That's how you become great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's definitely it.
Speaker 1: No, that's what. No, that's what I said. I like
Speaker 1: the seduction of success because it's all about the whole standard.
Speaker 1: Old feelings is the thing that I learned from Tony Robbins.
Speaker 1: Listen to all his YouTube stuff. You have this standard.
Speaker 1: Like me personally, like when I listen when I listen
Speaker 1: to that, whenever he was talking, it's like, Okay, Will Compton,
Speaker 1: what do I want to be? Okay, I want to
Speaker 1: be a Pro Bowl linebacker? What does a Pro Bowl? Okay?
Speaker 1: Are you start with the end of mind? So okay,
Speaker 1: it's Pro Bowl? Right? I want to be great. I
Speaker 1: want to be a great linebacker. What is a great
Speaker 1: linebacker do on a daily basis? And it's that standard
Speaker 1: you write out for yourself. Because day one, Will Compton,
Speaker 1: when we're motivated in the off season and we're about
Speaker 1: to go day one, the boy gets in talent and
Speaker 1: we're ready to go day one, that same Will Compton
Speaker 1: is not going to feel the same as day thirty,
Speaker 1: Will Compton, Day thirty, we'll start having his feelings like
Speaker 1: you wake up, you might want to snooze that alarm
Speaker 1: a extra more times, we might want to take a
Speaker 1: day off. But if you have that standard written out
Speaker 1: of what the pro bowl version of Will Compton looks like,
Speaker 1: and what does a pro bowl or doing on a
Speaker 1: daily basis, how does he eat, how does he talk
Speaker 1: to himself, what does he listen to, what is he reading?
Speaker 1: And how does he go about his life? Compared to
Speaker 1: if you just go by your feelings all the time,
Speaker 1: you're gonna wake up, You're gonna you feel sorry. Here,
Speaker 1: I'm a little more soret today. I'm gonna eat this food.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna eat these treats are desserts. I'm going to,
Speaker 1: you know, talk to myself in in a feeling sorry way, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you put all this work in yesterday, get seduced a
Speaker 1: little bit by that success, and you don't continue to
Speaker 1: live out that standard that you wrote for yourself on
Speaker 1: day one. That's why I think it's super important things
Speaker 1: down because you see it and you remind yourself, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is where I was when I was super motivated
Speaker 1: compared to how I'm feeling now in the dog days
Speaker 1: of a season or a training camp and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So that's, uh, that's why I like the whole standard
Speaker 1: over feelings mantra.
Speaker 4: The unfortunate thing is a lot of times people do
Speaker 4: have success and they're not going to want success again
Speaker 4: until they have that failure next. Yeah, they'll go and
Speaker 4: they'll this is so great, and then you think you're
Speaker 4: so great, and then all of a sudden a couple
Speaker 4: of things happen and you're like, well, maybe I'm not
Speaker 4: so good. You feel sorry for yourself, then yeah, take
Speaker 4: it up and make yourself and it makes you appreciate
Speaker 4: what the success actually was that day to.
Speaker 1: Day absolutely, and then overcoming that you you your character
Speaker 1: is built through how you respond in adversity, right, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're all gonna be successful at certain periods of time,
Speaker 1: but like you just say, like, you're gonna get humbled,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get kind of shaken, a little bit, But
Speaker 1: how you respond is ultimately who you were in the
Speaker 1: first place. You just needed to realize that, you know,
Speaker 1: my shit isn't what I thought it smelt like all
Speaker 1: the time. And then you overcome that, and then you're
Speaker 1: even more of a fucking bad as Yes, more of
Speaker 1: a fucking wolf, I guess.
Speaker 3: But I've always believed that if you put it in
Speaker 3: the hard work, then you're prepared when the bad stuff happens.
Speaker 3: And if you don't put in the work, you're not prepared.
Speaker 3: And a lot of that is the mental side, right,
Speaker 3: That's the big difference, is the mental side, because maybe
Speaker 3: a young guy does come in, right and he all
Speaker 3: of a sudden he's pushing you. But then it's your
Speaker 3: mental belief in yourself. It's the push. It's all those
Speaker 3: reps that start to come out. It's that belief and
Speaker 3: you're like, I don't care who this guy is, I
Speaker 3: don't care what the position is. Nobody's taking anything away
Speaker 3: from me because I own this right right, And it's
Speaker 3: just a different level of belief that comes out. Man,
Speaker 3: that fire lights up in your eyes and you could
Speaker 3: just I mean, it's just you just attack it.
Speaker 1: We're getting super motivated in this pod right now. Boys.
Speaker 4: I always wonder about that, like you just have a
Speaker 4: good point. Like I always wonder like, when is he
Speaker 4: going to be the point where someone does come in
Speaker 4: and challenge They will not challenge me, but so they
Speaker 4: do draft left tackle and I do you have like, Okay,
Speaker 4: this is the guy that's going to take over lawan spot.
Speaker 4: He's getting old, he's this that, Like I wonder how
Speaker 4: I'm gonna hopefully, like I always think about that. I
Speaker 4: hope I handle that with poise, and I hope I
Speaker 4: like I help that guy because when I came in,
Speaker 4: I didn't get a lot of help from the older guys,
Speaker 4: and so I had to go do it kind of
Speaker 4: go do it on my own. And I hope that
Speaker 4: when the guy comes in, whoever that person might be,
Speaker 4: hopefully he's in elementary school right now, like he comes
Speaker 4: and let me, let me take you through this, like
Speaker 4: this is how I learned to be a better play
Speaker 4: this is that, but still like obviously play like that.
Speaker 2: I think that's the difference.
Speaker 4: Like being motivated isn't like, you know, knocking someone down
Speaker 4: to take a step up. It's if you help everybody
Speaker 4: go up, like being the best time you learn is
Speaker 4: when you're teaching. So I'm helping that person whoever, whoever
Speaker 4: he is. You know, hopefully he's in diaperson. I'll be
Speaker 4: able to handle aver. If you called himself new Dell,
Speaker 4: we have to.
Speaker 1: Fight, yea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the window right there I don't know if you
Speaker 3: guys have shared this yet, if you talked much about
Speaker 3: London Fletcher, but exactly what you're describing is exactly how
Speaker 3: London Fletcher treated you. Yeah, for sure, you know London Fletcher.
Speaker 3: I just remember the stories you told me of you know,
Speaker 3: he would literally wait in the hot tub and he'd
Speaker 3: be waiting and you would chat and you'd ask him
Speaker 3: questions and he'd answer, and the reality was like he
Speaker 3: was on his last legs, he was finishing his career,
Speaker 3: and he could have been like why am I going
Speaker 3: to get He knows he's a Hall of Famer and
Speaker 3: he knows. I mean, why would I talk to this
Speaker 3: kid like why am I going to give him any busins?
Speaker 4: It's way easier to be that guy when you know
Speaker 4: you're gonna be a Hall of Famer or you know,
Speaker 4: like you've hit the top. It's those guys that you
Speaker 4: know had some success, was kind of consistent in that area,
Speaker 4: but never really got I think, did it big.
Speaker 3: But you know, but London London was always that dude.
Speaker 1: I know, I know you're saying because literally you're saying that,
Speaker 1: and I'm kind of thinking, like I was. It was
Speaker 1: hard sometimes to step out of my zone and help
Speaker 1: her Shawn for Sewan because I was kind of like,
Speaker 1: it's not like I know I'm going to be some
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer and I've already done what I've done
Speaker 1: in the NFL. It's like I knew they drafted a
Speaker 1: guy in the first round. I signed here to challenge
Speaker 1: and have a role on the team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you can say that to be humble. But
Speaker 3: I remember last year when we talked and you were helping,
Speaker 3: you were helping Rashan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I definitely I definitely helped him, helping them.
Speaker 1: In my mind, he's talking about battle.
Speaker 3: Absolute yeah, absolutely right.
Speaker 1: Like you're sitting there like do I want to do
Speaker 1: I want to fully help him because I want to
Speaker 1: play the spot he's playing.
Speaker 3: But to me, to me this now you're talking about
Speaker 3: what legacy is. Right, So you didn't want to do it,
Speaker 3: but you did it. Something tells me if you ever
Speaker 3: get that feeling, you may not want to do it,
Speaker 3: but you just vocaliz you're gonna do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 3: And then you're gonna be home and you're gonna be
Speaker 3: touching that guy. You're gonna be like bro man, I
Speaker 3: had a hell of a run. I love this game.
Speaker 3: This game was good to me. And man, I'm watching,
Speaker 3: I'm enjoying what you're doing out there, and you're gonna
Speaker 3: know you're gonna have a piece of the next flip
Speaker 3: of that belief in him that caused him to go
Speaker 3: on and have a great career. That's what legacy is
Speaker 3: all about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's just crazy. How like I'm twenty eight now,
Speaker 2: so I'm old as fuck, but I remember being like.
Speaker 4: In high school, and I remember being like my first
Speaker 4: couple of years in college, even the end of college,
Speaker 4: and my first couple of years in the NFL, thinking
Speaker 4: like this is the only thing that matters. I think,
Speaker 4: how good like how you're known in football, and the
Speaker 4: older you get, you get married. He said that you
Speaker 4: have a kid like he realized, like just being you know,
Speaker 4: your character of who you are off the field is
Speaker 4: the most important thing. So if I'm if I'm meet
Speaker 4: some kid who's trying to take my job and I
Speaker 4: treat him like an asshole, He's always going to remember
Speaker 4: me as an asshole. He's never going to remember me
Speaker 4: for who I know I am, or how I treat
Speaker 4: my friends. And so that would be more important to me.
Speaker 4: I think that would override any egotistical battle. I hope
Speaker 4: with like, you know, playing the game of football, like
Speaker 4: I want to be this, I want to play ten
Speaker 4: more years. I want to do, like you know, achieve
Speaker 4: all these you know goals that really at the end
Speaker 4: of they don't mean very much. It's a team spoil
Speaker 4: you know, these individuals don't truly mean as much as
Speaker 4: you feel that they do when you're in.
Speaker 1: The moment, Yeah, there is there a moment where that
Speaker 1: kind of clicks for you and you thought that way
Speaker 1: or is it kind of a combination or was there
Speaker 1: a conversation maybe a vet I know when you were
Speaker 1: telling me this sort about Whitworth and guys you look
Speaker 1: up to, like, was there ever a moment where you're like, yo,
Speaker 1: this is I'm changing my perspective or maybe a drive
Speaker 1: home and your listeners.
Speaker 4: My I think my moment for me was after this
Speaker 4: last season, the twenty eighteen season, I hated football. I
Speaker 4: I really did not like playing the game at all.
Speaker 4: I didn't I was met at the coaches. I didn't
Speaker 4: get along with my offensive line coach. Me and Rabel
Speaker 4: got back got out a lot and I was like
Speaker 4: what the fuck? Like I was, I just I was like,
Speaker 4: how do because I told will Wi first mail, I'll
Speaker 4: play it forever, I don't even care, and I like,
Speaker 4: I still wanted to play more. But I was also
Speaker 4: like mad about football and all these different things. And
Speaker 4: what I learned was is it wasn't any of their fault.
Speaker 2: It was mine. Like I was the one that was
Speaker 2: being a cancer. I was the one that was self entitled.
Speaker 1: Not necessarily people as like he's he wasn't a cancer.
Speaker 1: I know what you're saying, Yeah in your own mind.
Speaker 4: My mind, in my mind, I guess more than anything,
Speaker 4: I was a cancer to myself right right, So like
Speaker 4: I wasn't going in the locker room like saying a
Speaker 4: bunch of stuff for any musicst in to that. But
Speaker 4: what I did do was I I did feel a
Speaker 4: little self entitled. I signed a big contract, and I felt,
Speaker 4: you know, I deserve this and I deserve that. Why
Speaker 4: are they treating me like this and not taking on
Speaker 4: that master responsibility. I still played well. I had a
Speaker 4: good season last year, but I didn't really see the
Speaker 4: responsibility that I had when I signed that big contract,
Speaker 4: And I think I thought things are more owde to
Speaker 4: me than that. I actually, you know, I should have
Speaker 4: been giving instead of receiving. So I'm looking at myself.
Speaker 4: I'm in California and I'm sitting there and I'm listening
Speaker 4: in the ocean. I'm sitting on the beach looking out,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, it's not It's not anybody's fault of
Speaker 4: mind that I'm feeling this way. Like I that resistance
Speaker 4: I was getting from verybel He's a great he's a
Speaker 4: great coach, and you know, there's always gonna be things
Speaker 4: that he and I agree and disagree on, but at
Speaker 4: the end of the day, like his goal is to
Speaker 4: make sure a team goes in the right direction. And
Speaker 4: I was causing resistance. I was I was dragging them
Speaker 4: down a little bit in that, whether it was in
Speaker 4: my head or not. So having that control, having the
Speaker 4: understanding of knowing what you can control, is the only
Speaker 4: thing that actually matters. And if someone comes to you,
Speaker 4: if someone came to me and said fuck you, well
Speaker 4: I know that that probably has nothing to do with.
Speaker 2: Me the words that they said. It has more to
Speaker 2: do everything that's going on with them.
Speaker 4: And I was the guy saying fuck you the whole
Speaker 4: time because I was, you know, I felt all these
Speaker 4: things that I thought I deserved when and reality wasn't real,
Speaker 4: And so I had to start reading more. I started,
Speaker 4: you know, I actually like I had to get off
Speaker 4: my phone more. I had to like start doing things
Speaker 4: to make myself grow. And now I went in and
Speaker 4: these OTAs have been the most fun OTAs. The camp
Speaker 4: has been the most fun. Like it's because I'm only
Speaker 4: focusing on the things of control and accepting the responsibility
Speaker 4: that I do have on this team, and so those
Speaker 4: are it's always hard to admit because you never want
Speaker 4: to be the bad guy or feel like the villain.
Speaker 4: But it was definitely something that I needed to start
Speaker 4: taking a hold of and understanding, like, you know, you're
Speaker 4: in your six you got to you gotta be a leader.
Speaker 4: You know, you got to be a guy that you
Speaker 4: can't just be dicking around all the time and just
Speaker 4: be laughing. And you got to know when's a good
Speaker 4: time to joke, when's a good time to you know,
Speaker 4: be serious, and and finding that balance of stuff like that.
Speaker 2: But and so those things definitely helped me.
Speaker 4: Kind of realize that it's not as important to have
Speaker 4: the accolades and stuff like that. It's more important when
Speaker 4: I leave this locker room whenever it is that these
Speaker 4: coaches and these players that I play with, said, man,
Speaker 4: Taylor is a good dude, Like he cared about the boys.
Speaker 4: You know, they'll their kids will hang out with my
Speaker 4: daughter and be like, yeah, my dad, my dad looked dead.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: That's that's the ship. I was like, man, like, it's
Speaker 4: so important. It's so important to be It's not important
Speaker 4: that how people view you, but it's important to have
Speaker 4: peace in your own self right. You know, people people say,
Speaker 4: don't be so self centered. I think it's really important
Speaker 4: to be self centered, because what is self centerce we
Speaker 4: have the center of yourself, you know, and understanding like
Speaker 4: who you are and how what motivates you and your character. So, yeah,
Speaker 4: it was tough. It was definitely a tough off season
Speaker 4: for sure. But it's like, I'm really grateful once I
Speaker 4: started to figure it out, really grateful to know that,
Speaker 4: you know, it's the the dislike or displeasure of football
Speaker 4: is totally within my own hands, whether it's going I'm
Speaker 4: playing well or not, Like it's all that perception, you know,
Speaker 4: Perception is reality.
Speaker 1: That's what I hear that's why I hang out with
Speaker 1: that motherfucker.
Speaker 2: Well, I kind of think I went all over the
Speaker 2: place too.
Speaker 3: No, so here, here's what I captured in hearing that,
Speaker 3: and I would go even just a little bit deeper.
Speaker 3: Is the stories people are going to tell your daughter
Speaker 3: about how in year six you flip the switch where
Speaker 3: you already have this in you. I mean, I've watched
Speaker 3: you play, I watched him try to take you off
Speaker 3: the field, and you're coming back on the field, but
Speaker 3: literally this mentality that you've never approached six seconds of
Speaker 3: play as intently as and intentionally with as much fire
Speaker 3: as you do now because of your daughter, and because
Speaker 3: people are going to say you had to scrape daddy
Speaker 3: off the field to get him off the field, you
Speaker 3: had to pull him out of the locker room, to
Speaker 3: get him out of the locker roo because he would
Speaker 3: have done anything for his teammates, whether it was on
Speaker 3: the field or in the locker room. And it's all
Speaker 3: about legacy. And I think you flip that switch to
Speaker 3: having the ability to look your daughter in the eyes
Speaker 3: because reality is you're probably gonna be playing ten years
Speaker 3: from now. Right Well maybe okay, so.
Speaker 2: Probably will, but I don't have an ego, right, But
Speaker 2: you know what I'm.
Speaker 3: Saying, Like when it comes to your daughter, she may
Speaker 3: not get to see you in your prime, and your
Speaker 3: prime is right here, and embrace it like you never
Speaker 3: have before, because your daughter is watching every single move
Speaker 3: that you make. And that's not what I realize. Like
Speaker 3: with my mom, Like people are like, man, like your
Speaker 3: mom died eleven days for your eighth birth How do
Speaker 3: you remember any of this? And that's all I had, right,
Speaker 3: all I had was eleven days for my eighth birthday.
Speaker 3: That's it, right, So kids pay attention. Right, everybody's watching
Speaker 3: your behavior, and I think it's an exciting time for you.
Speaker 3: Where now that you've made it through that mentally and
Speaker 3: you just watch what happens, right, you'll turn up to
Speaker 3: a whole other level.
Speaker 4: The thing is, it's not like the the blessing and
Speaker 4: the curse of like the mind is. It's not just
Speaker 4: like a oh, I've reached.
Speaker 2: That level and that's it.
Speaker 4: Like it's a constant maintenance and constant work. It like,
Speaker 4: stay on top of those things, right, bless them now.
Speaker 4: And if I if I don't, like you know, stay
Speaker 4: reading or or keep up on you myself or you know,
Speaker 4: I always my wife is such My wife is so smart,
Speaker 4: she's so incredibly intelligent, and she's she can break things down.
Speaker 4: And the story I loved telling is when I was
Speaker 4: in year two, after my second season, people are talking
Speaker 4: about replacing me, Matt Neely keyboard Warriors, probably saying we
Speaker 4: gotta get we hear this guy. You know those types
Speaker 4: of guys.
Speaker 2: Listen, Matt, I'm just kidding's now, you know that.
Speaker 3: I yeah, that's always.
Speaker 2: Been a fan.
Speaker 4: But I do say that there are big titan faithful
Speaker 4: people that wanted me out. And I met my wife right.
Speaker 2: After that offseason.
Speaker 4: I met her June thirty July January thirty first a
Speaker 4: proposer five weeks later, and she helped me just like
Speaker 4: kind of realize the bigger picture. And the one thing
Speaker 4: that always sat with me is like, if your life
Speaker 4: was like a garden and you have all these different
Speaker 4: pieces of your life, whether it's social life, your business life,
Speaker 4: your family life, and all I gave these pots and
Speaker 4: if I'm watering the football one all the time, that's great,
Speaker 4: and that one's going to grow, but look at all
Speaker 4: these other ones dying around it, and you're and if
Speaker 4: those die that's going to affect the plant that's living too,
Speaker 4: And so you got to continuously water all these plants
Speaker 4: all the time and stay on top of it and
Speaker 4: kind of check and balances when you get to watch
Speaker 4: yourself a little bit like Okay, I'm dipping into the
Speaker 4: negative a little over here. I gotta go water that
Speaker 4: plant for a second. Stay on top of those things.
Speaker 4: If you're not so anally focused.
Speaker 2: That's what I was.
Speaker 4: I was like, I gotta do this. I got to
Speaker 4: do foot both. I got to I was like strangling
Speaker 4: myself that it was actually holding me back. And once
Speaker 4: I let go and allowed myself to, you know, have
Speaker 4: a relationship like I do with my wife and you know,
Speaker 4: socially and everywhere else.
Speaker 2: And I am more like a healthy version of all that.
Speaker 4: Like I've sense that I made three Pro bowls in
Speaker 4: a row and it's just crazy and I have like
Speaker 4: we joke all the time. She goes, uh, the first
Speaker 4: contract that was yours, that second contract's mine.
Speaker 2: I was like, you damn, You're damn right. She's awesome, man.
Speaker 4: But it does it definitely puts things in perspective. And
Speaker 4: I say that when we talked about earlier, how you know,
Speaker 4: sometimes you got to fall, like you have that success,
Speaker 4: you got to fall to know how good that success tasted.
Speaker 4: Because my first year I didn't play the first five games,
Speaker 4: I still made All Rookie Team. I was a first
Speaker 4: round draft pick, and I felt like I was on
Speaker 4: top of the world.
Speaker 2: Well after that.
Speaker 4: Second season, I was like, I was like, holy shit,
Speaker 4: like I might be at a league in a couple
Speaker 4: of years. People are calling for my head and like
Speaker 4: that motivates you, it makes you want to be better.
Speaker 4: But I know now going through both those that someday,
Speaker 4: if you're going to be hey, you too old, Bud,
Speaker 4: You're too old, there's a faster kid out there that's
Speaker 4: gonna take your job. And if you don't stay on
Speaker 4: top of it, you know, you get last a year
Speaker 4: or two longer after that, but eventually it's gonna catch
Speaker 4: up to you.
Speaker 2: Except for Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, no doubt, man, I think uh, I
Speaker 1: think that just kind of is relatable to everybody, that
Speaker 1: everybody constantly fucking goes through speed bumps. Right Like you're
Speaker 1: sitting there saying that, I'm thinking about my rookie year,
Speaker 1: like when I didn't get activated and I was on
Speaker 1: peace squad the whole year, and when I was like
Speaker 1: really bitter about it and pissed off that like when
Speaker 1: somebody tore their ACL they went out and got you know,
Speaker 1: somebody else to play special teams and not be the backup.
Speaker 1: And it's like, yo, I thought you guys were gonna
Speaker 1: activate me, and you know, dude.
Speaker 3: You called me week thirty. Every week from week thirteen
Speaker 3: on he was activated, the coach told him this, bro,
Speaker 3: this is the week. Yeah, literally from week thirteen on.
Speaker 1: Hey, and I'd be so pissed off, and you had
Speaker 1: asked if I'm still doing the prize Frider day, like
Speaker 1: still check marking the boxes and the things that kind
Speaker 1: of got me to where I was.
Speaker 2: I was a prize fighter day.
Speaker 3: So I believe similar to what you just said about
Speaker 3: water in the plants, I share what I call a
Speaker 3: price fighter day. So it's doing things that are personal,
Speaker 3: professional athletic, or of service to others and make sure
Speaker 3: every day you're checking something in all those boxes that
Speaker 3: are one hundred percent in your control, putting all your
Speaker 3: effort in so you can say I won the day.
Speaker 3: And if you can stack winning those days, you can
Speaker 3: actually have balance in your life. Right, an all pro
Speaker 3: professional football player can have balance, right, be a hell
Speaker 3: of a dad, be a hell of a husband, read books,
Speaker 3: and do all those water the water the right plants
Speaker 3: every day. Not go he it's football season, don't I
Speaker 3: won't read a book. It's football season. I won't hang
Speaker 3: out with my wife. No, it's you can do those
Speaker 3: things if you choose to do them, and that that's
Speaker 3: what he's referring to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, still find that balance too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure, sorry for sure. But all I'm saying
Speaker 1: is like you need those people in your life to
Speaker 1: check you and kind of like you got to look
Speaker 1: in the mirror, like, yo, okay, will are you doing
Speaker 1: these things that Ben asked you about? Like this year
Speaker 1: when I, you know, when stuff would go down with
Speaker 1: me and I had that injury and I was out
Speaker 1: for like four or five weeks, and you know, I
Speaker 1: wasn't having the most fun either, and kind of taking
Speaker 1: on my new role of being a guy in the
Speaker 1: background and kind of just being a camaraderie guy. And
Speaker 1: then charl would question me a lot about like you
Speaker 1: don't think you're just going through a phase, or Hey,
Speaker 1: how's that new book that you're reading? Or I thought
Speaker 1: you weren't gonna I thought you said you were gonna
Speaker 1: eat those things, or they kind of just check you
Speaker 1: and to make you look in the mirror and realize, like,
Speaker 1: am I being holding my own self accountable through like
Speaker 1: these questions. That's why it's so it's super important to
Speaker 1: have people in your life that hold you accountable, check you,
Speaker 1: check up on you, review with you what's going on
Speaker 1: and whether or not you might say something that might
Speaker 1: be a white lie. In the beginning, you're still standing
Speaker 1: there brushing my teeth at night, knowing, Okay, am I
Speaker 1: really doing these things that that they asked me about
Speaker 1: that like Ben asked me about that, Charle asked me
Speaker 1: about like am I holding myself accountable in that nature?
Speaker 1: Or am I just going through a phase and just
Speaker 1: kind of feeling sorry for myself? So everybody goes through
Speaker 1: that shit, man, That's why it's important you are. You
Speaker 1: are who you surround yourself with. That's why we're around
Speaker 1: each other all the time. That's why we're always like
Speaker 1: feeding each other's minds with like with stuff. We have
Speaker 1: our partners at home, you have our mentors, You have
Speaker 1: guys that you want to lean on, like yo, or
Speaker 1: a younger that you want to teach and you're actually
Speaker 1: getting something from him even though you don't realize it.
Speaker 1: Like you're getting something from somebody younger than you that
Speaker 1: you're giving to and you're just like kind of clinging
Speaker 1: on to them. It's super important, it's super important.
Speaker 2: It's it's uh, I don't know, man.
Speaker 4: People People have such a knack for feeling fucking sorry
Speaker 4: for themselves. It's a wild now, It's it's crazy. How
Speaker 4: if you just if you just took a moment and
Speaker 4: learned about yourself five minutes a day, sat there, didn't
Speaker 4: do anything, and you don't have to cross your legs
Speaker 4: and say, oh, you know, and meditation is in all forms.
Speaker 4: I could sit here like this for five minutes just
Speaker 4: kill myself. What's bothering me? Why is it bothering me?
Speaker 4: And the more you learn that it's not gonna be
Speaker 4: like you're gonna have the perfect attitude all the time.
Speaker 4: But what it does do is if when I do snap,
Speaker 4: it gives me a chance to say, five minutes later,
Speaker 4: be like, Okay, why is that bothering?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: This is going on distresses on me. Well I can't
Speaker 4: let that affect this. So I can go and you know,
Speaker 4: diffuse any situation and I'll let it build on top
Speaker 4: of itself.
Speaker 2: But if you never take the time.
Speaker 4: To learn anything about you, you're gonna always it's like
Speaker 4: blame other people. And if you blame other people, you're
Speaker 4: it's most of the time, if you're pointing at somebody
Speaker 4: else and it's your.
Speaker 2: Fault, it's probably something you've done right, you know.
Speaker 4: That's why it's so it's depression is a huge thing,
Speaker 4: and especially now in twenty nineteen, it's so huge because
Speaker 4: there's so many ways to not sit with yourself or
Speaker 4: it's almost mind numbing for people. You can get on
Speaker 4: social media and sit there on Twitter for hours, Instagram
Speaker 4: for hours and you never have to actually check in
Speaker 4: with the reality.
Speaker 2: That's hurting you in the back end. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: one thing leads to another.
Speaker 4: They keep compounding on top of each other and then
Speaker 4: people start blaming Well, you're just you're a fuck.
Speaker 2: You're a football player and you live the best.
Speaker 4: Like listen, I've had my own adversity with my family,
Speaker 4: Like I've grown up a certain way that I mean,
Speaker 4: they're you know, live and around. So I'm not going
Speaker 4: to like dive in you know, on a podcast about it.
Speaker 4: But you know, we've had We've had a lot of
Speaker 4: issues that I've had that I've had to work through.
Speaker 4: But it's not like I just came out of the
Speaker 4: room with a goal, with a cape on, with a conta.
Speaker 2: Nothing goes on and we've done it everyone else.
Speaker 4: It's just like it's it's like the more you feel
Speaker 4: sorry for yourself, the more you're gonna you're have more
Speaker 4: things to feel sorry for yourself about. So stop, like,
Speaker 4: stop complaining people. It's so easy to find things to
Speaker 4: complain about, and it's really it's really hard to.
Speaker 2: Find things to be happy about. It's crazy.
Speaker 4: If you on your if like people tell me the
Speaker 4: journal all the time, I really do need to start
Speaker 4: doing it. But if you just say five things a day,
Speaker 4: you're grateful for the positivity and it's the law of
Speaker 4: attraction and see it's the universe.
Speaker 2: If you just if you.
Speaker 4: Speaking positive, you speak in a positive tone all the time,
Speaker 4: it's gonna it's gonna end up that way. But if
Speaker 4: you're constantly shitting on yourself, whether it's a joke or not,
Speaker 4: you're gonna that you're gone, it's gonna come. It's gonna
Speaker 4: come get you people, gonna stop feeling sorry for yourself.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I always talk about the burn, as I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 3: and the burn is that underlying fire that really lights
Speaker 3: the purpose and the why, because I think there's a
Speaker 3: lot of guys talk about purpose and why and and
Speaker 3: it's like, well, man, I don't really know what those
Speaker 3: things are. Well, tell me what the burn is. Tell
Speaker 3: me like when you think about this, like taking no
Speaker 3: action is not on the other side of these thoughts, right.
Speaker 3: So for me, every day waking up thinking about my
Speaker 3: mom and I actually put together this burn challenge where
Speaker 3: I encourage people every day, first thing you do, before
Speaker 3: you check text message, before you do this, wake up
Speaker 3: and just write out what your burn is in a
Speaker 3: journal for thirty days. Just write one sentence. Yeah, one sentence,
Speaker 3: and I'm on day twenty two right now. I don't
Speaker 3: even need to do this. I've been thinking about my
Speaker 3: purpose and my burn every day, my whole damn life
Speaker 3: because of what I had to see. I'm setting an example.
Speaker 3: And you know how many people they message me on
Speaker 3: Instagram like what is this? You know, and it's what
Speaker 3: is this? And then it's like that you can just
Speaker 3: tell from their tone like what kind of nonsense? It's
Speaker 3: what nonsense?
Speaker 1: Is this not?
Speaker 3: Hey, help me understand the meaning of this. And then
Speaker 3: some people can make but people don't realize what you
Speaker 3: think about. You one hundred percent control your mindset. You
Speaker 3: can either control your mindset and say papers wrote about me,
Speaker 3: papers said this paper did that, or I mean, if
Speaker 3: we had more time, we could sit here and say,
Speaker 3: what did you really think about when the paper saw that? Right,
Speaker 3: there was some fire that said, man, I'm gonna go
Speaker 3: into the weight room now with your with your baby girl. Right,
Speaker 3: you wake up every day and you think about the
Speaker 3: example that you set for your baby girl. The other
Speaker 3: side of that is not getting your reps in in
Speaker 3: the gym. The other side of that is not doing
Speaker 3: what it takes to be recognized as one of the
Speaker 3: greatest left tackles to ever play the game. Right, You've
Speaker 3: done the Pro Bowls, but now we take it to
Speaker 3: the next level. Right, And most people don't realize you
Speaker 3: control those thoughts. And as you have those, life changes
Speaker 3: and things change. First, baby I had man. Life changed.
Speaker 3: It's like, now you're an example for somebody else. Now
Speaker 3: legacy means something else. Now I'm taking the pen that
Speaker 3: my mother passed to me, I get to pass it
Speaker 3: to my son. I get to pass it to my daughter.
Speaker 3: That's a hell of a responsibility and something I will
Speaker 3: absolutely attack every single day to make sure I can
Speaker 3: touch as many lives as I can. And like to me,
Speaker 3: you think about something like that, you think about your
Speaker 3: daughter in that context, getting after it right, one play
Speaker 3: at a time. That's like it's easy, but most people
Speaker 3: don't realize you one hundred percent can control thinking that way.
Speaker 3: They'd rather get up and say, gosh, my boss did
Speaker 3: this yesterday, And that's because it's easier. I'd rather have
Speaker 3: that than actually do what it takes to control your mind.
Speaker 2: It's a victim's mentality.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's crazy.
Speaker 4: Like I'll watch my daughter. I'll watch my daughter watch
Speaker 4: my wife, and my wife will go do something. It
Speaker 4: might she'll walk away and then the wind will come
Speaker 4: up behind her and pretend to do the same thing.
Speaker 4: And then they'll go the next thing, and like my
Speaker 4: she coughs, my daughter will be like like pretending to cough.
Speaker 4: Like the bean is she's a sponge. I mean it's
Speaker 4: not just the bean, it's everybody. But might call my
Speaker 4: daughter the bean for those.
Speaker 2: Who are listening. She's a complete stuff. She's so awesome.
Speaker 1: Did we drop the fucking gym today?
Speaker 2: Is there anything else where we really need to hit on?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Ben, you got anything else?
Speaker 2: And then you want to do you have for people?
Speaker 4: For people that do have connected with the things they've
Speaker 4: heard on this that they can follow you. What kind
Speaker 4: of social media is you got?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So at continued fight is uh is my social media?
Speaker 2: That's the primary?
Speaker 3: Well, that's that's Instagram, that's Twitter, and those are the
Speaker 3: most popular ones.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: What about a website?
Speaker 3: Website is Ben Newman dot net, Okay dot net And
Speaker 3: if you go to b n C speakers dot com,
Speaker 3: you go to b n C speakers dot com, you'll
Speaker 3: find Big Willie over here, one of our speakers. We've
Speaker 3: been on the road. We've probably done thirty something speaking
Speaker 3: engagements together. And Will's a hell of a speaker. I
Speaker 3: told you I was joking that you couldn't get him
Speaker 3: off the stage. Yeah, but I'll tell you what, this
Speaker 3: is one of the most intelligent guys I've met. I
Speaker 3: remember we went to North Dakota State. We had just
Speaker 3: come off of actually, so I was there four years
Speaker 3: for the head coach, took me to Kansas State with him,
Speaker 3: and three of the four years we won a national championship.
Speaker 3: He comes in the year after we had followed short
Speaker 3: of winning the national championship, and the way he inspired
Speaker 3: those kids, man, they still fricking talk about it, and
Speaker 3: we ended up going back to back the years after
Speaker 3: that man inspired the quarterback who just got drafted by
Speaker 3: the Chargers, Like his level of inspiration is really something else.
Speaker 3: And that's why I know for him that fire because
Speaker 3: I think back to when we were in your apartment,
Speaker 3: when you were on practice squad. We went out to
Speaker 3: dinner to celebrate it. I came out to see him
Speaker 3: and he was right now, he's on practice squad talking
Speaker 3: about I'm gonna have camps, I'm gonna give back in
Speaker 3: my community, I'm gonna speak, I'm gonna do all these things.
Speaker 3: He didn't hold back the fact that he was on
Speaker 3: practice squad to keep him from believing he would have camps,
Speaker 3: believing he would save money. You wrote down you believe
Speaker 3: you'd invest in real estate. And far too many people
Speaker 3: are worried about the chapter where they are and how
Speaker 3: they're never going to get to where they're going rather
Speaker 3: than recognizing the chapter where you are right now might
Speaker 3: be the best damned chapter, and you solidifying the foundation
Speaker 3: that's going to give you the mindset to go conquer
Speaker 3: and achieve everything you want in your life. And that's
Speaker 3: what you've done. And that's why I love this guy
Speaker 3: to death. I'm sure you can tell, but he's like
Speaker 3: an uncle to my kids. I would do anything for
Speaker 3: this guy, and that's why I want the listeners to know.
Speaker 3: Forget following me like I would do anything for this dude,
Speaker 3: and that, to me, that's what life is all about.
Speaker 3: It's about knowing you've got relationships like this. I could
Speaker 3: call this dude at three o'clock in the morning and say, Bro,
Speaker 3: something went down in Saint Louis, And unless there was
Speaker 3: something that he absolutely couldn't do it, he'd be like, bro,
Speaker 3: I'm in the car. He'd be like, brow, I'm in
Speaker 3: the car. And I always dreamed he would answer that
Speaker 3: he would come for me, and now he tells me
Speaker 3: he'd sleep.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: I'll go looking for a new friend, doing good.
Speaker 1: Joe hyping me up. There's an Alabama transfer. It was
Speaker 1: that long snapper. He came from Bama.
Speaker 3: Yup, Scott, he's a band now, Yeah, Scott.
Speaker 1: He came up to me when we were there working
Speaker 1: on He's like, hey, do you know Ben Newman? And
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I know Newman. He's like, Yo,
Speaker 1: He's talked about you a lot. Man Like it was
Speaker 1: probably it was a really cool thing. Knowing he transferred
Speaker 1: from there and came from somewhere I've never even been,
Speaker 1: and knowing that you probably you know, said say these
Speaker 1: nice things. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: I remember one of the linebackers from Bama before the
Speaker 3: National Championship last year, you mentioned on an elevator somewhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was cool. He say. We were at the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. J Mosley's brother cousin Jamie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, brother, and we.
Speaker 1: Were on the elevator at the Pro Bowl and he
Speaker 1: said the same thing, like you know Ben Newman. I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I know Ben. That's my boy. He's like, man,
Speaker 1: he always comes to Baman and says a lot of
Speaker 1: great stuffcause'mitting there thinking, I always get curious, knowing you're
Speaker 1: about to go in another locker room, what is going
Speaker 1: to be the feedback just because you know you stepped
Speaker 1: in the sports world, not like that long ago, like
Speaker 1: I what five however long seven years ago?
Speaker 3: Now twenty thirteen was the first time.
Speaker 1: I'm always wondering, like when you step in these new
Speaker 1: life locker rooms, like how guys are going to take
Speaker 1: some of this stuff in. I always get curious. I
Speaker 1: know how I took it in, But you know, there's
Speaker 1: a sometimes there's levels of think you know, think about it.
Speaker 3: There's two things going through my mind that I that
Speaker 3: I got to share before we stop. First one is
Speaker 3: every message has to be different. When coach Climbing went
Speaker 3: from North Kota State and he went to Kansas State
Speaker 3: and we sat down because he would always have me
Speaker 3: develop a theme for the season, right, and this season
Speaker 3: it's pound the Stone. I've never used pound the Stone
Speaker 3: at Alabama. I've never used pund the Stone at North
Speaker 3: Kota State, never used it with the Dolphin, never used
Speaker 3: it anywhere, right, So for me, like, it's got to
Speaker 3: be something fresh, it's got to be something new. And
Speaker 3: too many coaches think, well, I'll go from here and
Speaker 3: I'll just pick it up and I'll put it over here. Man,
Speaker 3: you got to find out how those guys tick. You
Speaker 3: got to find out what's in their locker room. You
Speaker 3: got to find out how they think. And then I
Speaker 3: had a buddy of mine, Joshua Medcalf, who wrote a
Speaker 3: book called Pound the Stone. Let me use it. But
Speaker 3: I think it's finding what's actually going to resonate. And
Speaker 3: it's been a blessing that we've been able to find
Speaker 3: these messages that have worked, and they have and then
Speaker 3: the behavior comes behind it. They rally around it. No
Speaker 3: different than for the boys. Right I'm sitting here watching
Speaker 3: from home knowing you two dudes were the ones who
Speaker 3: did that, and that was one of the proudest moments, no,
Speaker 3: and that like, even though you weren't getting everything that
Speaker 3: you wanted last year and the time that you wanted it,
Speaker 3: you were in there, the two of you for the boys,
Speaker 3: getting those guys to rally, getting those guys to give
Speaker 3: all them stuffs. Dude, that's the stuff that it's all about.
Speaker 3: It's keep it's continuing to fight when you don't want
Speaker 3: to do it. And here here's the beauty of this formain.
Speaker 3: I've got to tell this story because we wouldn't be
Speaker 3: sitting on this bus right now, and none of these
Speaker 3: stories of people you've met in my ability to share
Speaker 3: your story to inspire others. And it's a crazy inspiration.
Speaker 3: Bro that first training camp that I go to to
Speaker 3: see him, right, So for four weeks we get together,
Speaker 3: We're doing all this mental training stuff. This is the story,
Speaker 3: none of this. We're not here right, all right? So
Speaker 3: I literally.
Speaker 2: This train got I gotta put it out.
Speaker 1: Go ahead.
Speaker 3: Sorry. So he calls me the day before I'm supposed
Speaker 3: to get there and he says, Bro, he goes, there's
Speaker 3: something really bad with my hamstrings. So I get there.
Speaker 3: Turns out we didn't know and at the time he
Speaker 3: had a torn hamstring. So he comes from practice, he says,
Speaker 3: meet me at the Team hotel. And I'm thinking I'm
Speaker 3: just gonna be hanging out at training camp, and it's like,
Speaker 3: oh man, we got to go work. So we meet
Speaker 3: across from the Starbucks. We're at the Omni Hotel in Richmond, Virginia,
Speaker 3: and I sit across from him and I looked at
Speaker 3: him and I said, Bro, I'm like, can you go?
Speaker 3: And He's like, I could go, I could go, And
Speaker 3: I'm like, who knows. What's the situation is? Can you
Speaker 3: go without hurting yourself and causing long term damage? Can
Speaker 3: you go and he's like, bro, I can go. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna get this thing strapped up. There's one trainer I
Speaker 3: can trust. I'm gonna go in there. I'm gonna get
Speaker 3: strapped up. I can go. I said, go do your thing,
Speaker 3: Go take what belongs to you. He went out that practice,
Speaker 3: he had an interception, he had a pick six on
Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins, and another ball that you dropped for an interception.
Speaker 3: And it was that day where he became a member
Speaker 3: of the Washington Redskins. But he made the choice to
Speaker 3: fight through the pain and then we find out what
Speaker 3: was it two years later. He actually played on a
Speaker 3: fully torn hamstring for almost two full years. And you've
Speaker 3: got people bitching that they can't take the nuts step
Speaker 3: in their life. If anybody's tweaked their hamstring, they don't
Speaker 3: want to walk. And you've played on it for two
Speaker 3: years and everything that has happened in this entire story,
Speaker 3: You guys wouldn't have this relationship if you wouldn't have
Speaker 3: stepped on that field. Because when you're seven out of
Speaker 3: seven on the depth chart, right when you're seven out
Speaker 3: of seven and you go in there and say I
Speaker 3: got a bad Hammy Taylor what do they do? Hey, bro,
Speaker 3: go ahead and pack your bags and get out of here.
Speaker 3: We don't have time to worry about you. We're gonna
Speaker 3: get somebody else. And you always fought, man, I've always fought.
Speaker 1: Thank you. That's unbelievable at continued fight. Appreciate you wolves.
Speaker 1: Go out there and be a fucking wolf today. That's
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