1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Chip Baker (author of "The Success Chronicles"): June 8th, 10am

Episode Date: June 6, 2022

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the Coppull Chevrolet GMC Studios, here is your host, Derek Pearson, presented by Beatrice Bakery, on 93-7 The Ticket and The Ticketfm.com. Happy Monday, everybody. Thank you for spending time with us this next hour. In fact, breaking news, this next hour, not only brought you by Beatrice Bakery, but this next hour brought to you by. the folks from Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul. Stop by. Let them fix you a plate.

It's good stuff all the way around. Lots to go through 4-2-464-5-6-8-5. Starter-Hamond text line. If you want to comment, ask questions, get this stuff in play. You can, in fact, be a part of the conversation. So please do so. This will be a good one.

As a matter of fact, this will be an exceptional one, one of my favorite people. You can follow on the, live video stream Sarder haman's video streams Facebook YouTube Twitch and now Twitter live Twitter live video stream is up so you can follow what's going on in studio and actually get eyes on our guest it is a special special day I've been blessed to be in the in the company of some great coaches and some great people great human beings who should job then through impact and influence or to create more great people, great coaches, great human

beings. That's all we're trying to do in this space is no matter what sport, no matter what region of the country you're in, no matter what level of coaching you get to, the mission and the end game should be positive impact and influence. And I have been blessed and honored to be put into a circle. I was introduced to this next young man, this gentle soul, this angel, this superhero while I was in Houston, and then later through his podcast and then through this compilation of stories and lessons and victories. He is family, he is friend, he's a spirit, he's my spirit animal all in one. Just one of the best human beings I could possibly introduce you to and share with you

guys. Rico, if you would, please. You can bring, yeah. Coach, Wavy, we got to set the mood for Chip Baker. Hey, hey, hey. Of Houston's finest, Chip Baker, brother Baker, how are you doing this morning, man? Oh, man, I'm over here freestyle and then my birthdays with Chip Bay.

We'll be Thursday. Come on, Chip Baker, from the Success Chronicles and the impact of influence in the series that is bestselling, one of Amazon's bestselling author, five-time. Will Booker T. say five-time. You got to hold up your hand, five-time best-selling author. Kind, sir, how are you this morning? Oh, I'm great. You know, it's always a treat when the players get to meet.

Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. So I was talking to Jay Foreman just a bit ago, and we were trying to define a couple of things. And you and I had, this has been a part of the conversation that we had this week. First of all, congratulations on once again creating this compilation of great coaches, great human beings who tell great stories for great lessons. Tell the folks who you are for the folks that don't know who Chip Baker is. give them the full five-minute version of who you are because all of it matters.

Well, yeah, so first I just, you know, I always want to start with thanks. I'm truly grateful to be on the ticket today. Truly grateful that the big man has allowed us to cross past. Coach D.P. Truly been a blessing to my life. And so I want to start out with saying thanks first because I know that I'm blessed to be able to do this. of these awesome things. I don't take one ounce of it for granted. And so I just want to say thank you,

first off. But myself, I am Chip Baker. I am a fourth generation educator, teacher, former coach. I'm just completing my 23rd year in education. I coach for 20 years of those 23 years. Currently, I am the climate and culture coach at Oak Ridge High School, but I'll go back. You know, since you say I got a little time, I'll go back back. Please. But, you know, raised parents separated when I was five years old, born in Dallas, Texas, raised by a single parent mother. You know, father was in my life, just not in the house.

You know, a lot of times people get that misconstrued, you know, good folks. But I want to make sure I can clear that up. But raised in her in Texas, which is close to Texas A&M University, raised there was, you know, come from a family of church folk and educators. and so I don't put an S on that because down south folk means a lot. Yep. Yep. So we're in church a lot, and I'm truly grateful for that because that allowed me to have a foundation of service.

It allowed me to have a foundation of knowing that it's bigger than me. It allowed me to have a foundation of knowing that it ain't about you. It ain't about me, right? It's about what I can do to help others, and I'm grateful for that foundation. I was involved in sports. All growing up, my mom put me around some positive people, positive models, role models to show me what it's supposed to be like, i.e. coaches, like we talked about, played four sports for four years in high school,

played college football at West Texas, A&M University. And then once I left there, I came to Conroe Independent School District, where I started my coaching teaching career. Did, you know, starting the junior high, did that for three years. Then went to high school. I ended up being the offensive line coach, head powerlifting coach at Conroe High School. Then I got an opportunity to go to my hometown to be the head coach athletic director there. I'm grateful for that.

I did that for a couple of years. And then I came back to Conroe, ISD, to Oak Ridge High School. And that's about the time where I started on my YouTube channel and podcast, which is the Success Chronicles. And what I do is I just interview people from all walks of life and share their story. for positive inspiration and motivation. And, you know, really, I just wanted to, you know, highlight those great people that I've been blessed to be around because I couldn't keep it to myself, you know,

couldn't be selfish with it. I wanted to highlight them. But what I didn't know is that along that journey, I will continue to learn so much. I will continue to cross pat, my, my, my ROI would determine my ROI, my rate of, my rate of, my, radar of influence would determine my return on my investment. And the inverse relationship, my return on my investment would determine my radar of influence, right?

And so I started to meet more great people like yourself, Coach D.P., started writing books about four years ago. And now I just, you know, just released like my 11th book. Wow. Say that again, right? I didn't take a deep breath before I said that. 11th book crazy in like four and a half years.

And so it's been awesome. The journey. And I've told you this before. I tell people that I'm close to. And every day I'm continuing to be blown away. You know, I'm a guy from a small hometown in Texas, you know, raised by a single parent

mother. just striving to do my part to make the world better. And along that journey, I mean, just I'm blown away completely every day. And so that's just a little bit about me, Coach D.P. And again, I just want to say thanks so much for the opportunity to be here. It's, there's certain people that you, that you meet in life. And when you came to the house in the woodlands, and the moment you walked in the door, I just kind of,

knew. Oh, this, this, this dude, me and this dude are going to go on a journey together. And, and little did we know, right, that we had no way of knowing. Yeah. Where this would be, that it would show up where we are today. Yes, yes, yes. And it's funny that you say that because I was thinking the same thing about you. You know, I think, you know, when, when you meet good people, you just know. you know when you when you when you get in that aura of greatness that aura of love that aura of people that give service you you just know and so you know that was one thing

that you know right off the top that just like you said that was about you and really I know I think when we did the interview I was on we were on a timetable but we could have gone on and on and on to the break of dawn oh wait a minute Right? We could have continued to go like we always do when we get together, you know. Here's the added value is that when these projects are put together, and it's anywhere from 10 to 20 coaches, there's a lot of pre-book release conversations that happen. and when you have 20 positive mission-purposed coaches,

they all coach each other. Like we all get better every time we're together. And I can't underscore that enough, Chip, I'm so appreciative of getting smarter every single time I'm in your space. That's awesome. I appreciate that. You know, the saying is iron sharpens iron, but I'm going to take it a little deeper.

I think vibranium sharpens vibranium. Hey, hey. Come on. Right? Right. I mean, look, we sat yesterday, and there were coaches from all over the country. 17 in this book that are all telling,

one, telling their athletic story of them being embryos in this thing who haven't quite fully formed. And then there's some great coach who puts his, as I said this weekend, you know, there's that moment with great coaches and great teachers, educators, parents, mentors, where they put their hand in the middle of your back to make sure that the friction that you're facing, you go forward or else. Like there's power in that.

What is your story? What coach for you put his hand in the middle of your back and just said, Chip, go forward, go up, but do not stay here? Well, for me, that's a great question. I think it's a culmination. You know, and it was hard for me to, like in my chapter, to just narrow it down to one, right? And so for me, I just reflected on the traits of all of those great ones that I've pulled from to allow me. to be the best version of me. And my first coach was my mother.

My first head coach. Right. Was my mom. And I tell this story all the time about, you know, growing up, you know, we didn't have a washer and dry in the house. We had to go to the laundromat, the washertteria, what we call it down here. Right. Right.

And so, you know, my first coach, you know, taught me how to be a great teammate from that experience. You know, she'd get me and my sister, we'd get together. meeting the living room. She said, hey, boy, you know, she know my name. She gave me my name. But when she said, boy is serious, right? Right, right. She said, hey, boy, you go through all the rules and you gather the dirty clothes and you bring them and you put them in this sheet, right? We couldn't afford laundry basket, right? You put them in this sheet and you tie the sheets up. It's probably going to be a couple different sheet. You tie them up, you know, and then when you finish, we're going to put them in a car. I'm assistant.

You go get the laundry detergent. You round about out of quarter, right? And we're all going to meet here. Y'all got 15 minutes, you know, ready break. And so, you know, and, you know, being a coach, you know, she gave out the law and we worked the fundamentals. And I knew what the consequences were, too, if I didn't follow through. You were absolutely right about that.

Yeah. But the bigger picture is it allowed me. And I told you my journey, I played four sports for four years. So there was sometimes when we would do that on Saturday mornings, I was dead. My body was sore. I was tired. But if I don't do what I'm supposed to do for the team, then my team don't have clean clothes for the week.

Right. Right. And so that first one was my mother. And, you know, then from there, you know, she had me around like my little league coaches, my little dribbler's coaches. When I got to high school, Coach Reader, Coach Jimmy Reeder, coach Tommy Dodson, the Davis brothers,

you know, Coach Reader showed me that it was okay to smile and enjoy what you do. Now we're going to work hard. Yeah. We're going to have a good time, you know, and then on to college, you know, my coach is there, you know, let me go back, Coach Mullinix in high school as well.

But in college, you know, those coaches showing me, you know, the business of being about the business. You know, like be about your business. You know, when you're away from here, you got to be about your business because it allows you. And then into my career, oh, my gosh, I was, coach, I've been around so many men that have just taken me, put the o'em around me and say, hey, you know, I'm going to show you how to do this because you're going to be doing this one day. And then going a step beyond that and just putting me in positions. to do things where I'm the youngest on the staff, but I'm getting some responsibilities. Or, you know, I may not even feel that I'm worthy enough to be doing, like, you sure?

Right. Me? Right. You know, yeah, yeah, you. You know, and we got you. I'm not going to let you fail. And so just being in those situations. So for me, it's been a number of people.

And, you know, in the chapter, I start with a quote that says, I'm a product of a a whole lot of people loving me, you know, in one of our, my books. And so that's what it's been. You know, all of those coaches have loved me, taking care of me, and I'm truly grateful for that. Say that again, though, that we are a product of. A whole lot of people loving, loving us. Man, I, because we were talking about what makes a great coach.

And I've been on, it's amazing how many panels. where they ask the question, right? And they said, right, in order, we talk about great coaches and we talk about winning, but we never really break down those two things so that it's easy to identify whether somebody's great at it or not. And I said, in order to be a great coach, the first thing you have to be is a great person.

Come on. Right. You can't be a bad person. and be a great coach. The two don't go together. Right. Right. Right?

And so for you, when I say that great people make great coaches and great coaches make great people, because great families make great people. And great people make great families. We can talk about great schools, great programs, make great people. and great people make great programs. If you don't have great people in the programs,

they're not going to be good people. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Totally true. You know, I just think that, you know, as I hear you say that, I'm a part of a men's group, a leadership group through my church.

And we're doing a study in this book called Kingdom Man, or Tony Evan. I was reading some stuff in there today. And it's kind of along the same principles. You know, all of those great traits that make great people, it's crazy how, and that's why it's important to put yourself around good people because when you're around good people, all that stuff oozes out of them. You know, like, like, I can, I don't have to, like, hear what they say.

I can watch what they do by their actions and see the greatness in them, how they treat people, how they go and put their arm around a kid that has no clue why. They got, hey, I have me at this big program here in Nebraska. I don't know why I'm here, but this coach believes in me, and he has his own right, and he said, as I can do it. Well, I probably can do it then. How about that? You know?

How about that? It just oozes out of them. And so, yes, it's awesome to be around great people. And then the good part, this is the good part here at Coat D.C., the secret sauce, right? The secret sauce is when those people realize that they've been blessed with God-given talent and ability, and they harness it, and then they use that to be a blessing to so many. Like they sprinkle it, right? Like they have an overflow of it and they wipe it up with a sponge, right?

And then they squeeze that sponge out on everybody that they come in contact with. It is the value of the squeeze because the juice shows up. Hey, Chip, do you have another 15 minutes? My friend? For you, yes. All right, we're going to go to break. We'll come back more from Chip Baker from the Success Chronicle. and the impact of influence.

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