Right About Now with Ryan Alford - Hard Work Works with Artist and World Series Champion Matt Szczur

Episode Date: August 1, 2023

Welcome back to The Radcast! In this episode, we have a special interview with Matt Szczur, a true superstar who has conquered the world of sports and art. Not only is he a Cubs World Series Champion and a versatile athlete, but he is also an incredibly talented artist.From his days as a standout athlete at Villanova to achieving his dream of becoming a World Series Champion with the Chicago Cubs, Matt's work ethic has always been unwavering. He believes that consistency and hard work are the keys to success, whether it's on the field or in the art studio.But there's more to Matt than just his personal achievements. He values the importance of teamwork and understanding others. He knows that true success comes from supporting and listening to those around you.Matt embodies the spirit of a winner, both in sports and in life. His story is filled with dedication, passion, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. Tune in to this episode to discover how you can pursue greatness in both your personal and professional life.Matt shares his inspiring story of achieving success with the Chicago Cubs after growing up playing multiple sports in South Jersey and earning a full scholarship to Villanova. (02:07)Ryan and Matt discuss their experiences as professional athletes, emphasizing the importance of hard work and dedication in achieving success. (03:05)Matt's story of becoming a bone marrow match for an 18-month-old girl from Ukraine and staying in touch with her family has brought awareness to the importance of privilege. (09:40)Matt from being an athlete turned into an artist who co-founded the Noble Gallery to support fellow artists in the sale of their works. (15:20)Through consistent hard work and discipline, Matt  was able to build an art career with his paintings of icons and celebrities, culminating in a Cubs World Series painting selling for $40,000. (22:42)Ryan and Matt emphasize that success doesn't come without hard work.(28:21)This episode is packed with information, wisdom, and passion and we know you will get a ton of value from this.If you want to learn more about Matt Szczur, follow him on Instagram @superszcz4 and his websites https://linktr.ee/superszcz4.Learn more by visiting our website at www.theradcast.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/RadicalHomeofTheRadcastIf you enjoyed this episode of The Radcast, Like, Share, and leave us a review! If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more, join Ryan’s newsletter https://ryanalford.com/newsletter/ to get Ferrari level advice daily for FREE.  Learn how to build a 7 figure business from your personal brand by signing up for a FREE introduction to personal branding https://ryanalford.com/personalbranding.  Learn more by visiting our website at www.ryanisright.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel  www.youtube.com/@RightAboutNowwithRyanAlford. 

You're listening to The Radcast, a top 25 worldwide business podcast. If it's radical, we cover it. Here's your host, Ryan Alford. Hey guys, what's up? Welcome to the latest edition of The Radcast. I'm Ryan Alford, your host. We say if it's radical, we cover it. We've got a radical story today, my friends. Got a lot of good

storytelling transition. We're talking with former Major League Baseball player. Let's call him a baseball badass. He played his whole life. We're just going to call him. I like to hyperbole here, Matt. Matt Caesar, former world champion. Not even a former. He is a world champion with the

Chicago Cubs, former major league baseball, and a hell of a fucking artist, if you say so myself. I went down the rabbit hole. I'm like, damn, this is some brilliant shit. So, Matt, man, it's a pleasure having you on the show. Thanks for having me on, man. I really appreciate you bringing me out here. Yeah, man.

In Jersey. That's my best Jersey. That's as good as I get. It gets bad from there. Jersey, I guess. I got my Southern accent. Yeah's as good as I get. I can't, it gets bad from there. Jersey, I guess. I got my Southern accent. Yeah. I don't have much of an accent. I'm from the South part of Jersey. So I don't really, I don't have that thick New York accent. Yeah. They call it the Long Island lockjaw. That's what my, my ex client, when I was in New York, he'd always say, we got that Long Island lockjaw. I'm like, okay, whatever that means. I have more of that silly water accent.

Yeah. You go anywhere in the country and you ask for a glass of water and they look at you like, we don't have that. Water. Yeah. We're just a y'all crowd down here in South Carolina. Y'all, you guys. I'm trying to mix in the you guys, but it doesn't feel as natural as y'all. What y'all doing?

Oh, man. Matt, it's good to have you on the show i've been following you and got to obviously doing some research with my team and seeing everything you've done with bone marrow and all that and i know we'll get into all that but let's tee it up man pro athlete from right out of the womb i don't know man baseball football villanova right yes sir let's tell everybody we'll give everybody a little bit of your background all right yeah I'm like I said I'm from South Jersey born and raised here ended up coming back after I retired a little bit of background you see all these professional athletes always advocating for when they have kids Chipper Jones just came out with something about I'm gonna let my kid play whatever he wants. And dude, that's what my parents did for me. I was in hockey, wrestling, basketball, football, soccer, and then just

gradually went to football and baseball. And then in high school, I went to track. So it was just an all around thing. And then whatever I was best at, I went for it. And yeah, I went to Villanova, full scholarship for football and played baseball there as well so it was two sport athlete get drafted in the fifth round a wild story I was able to put myself up there pretty high on the radar as a football player so I had the potential to get drafted in the third or fourth rounds that was like my main focus man I was like full bore on going to play football in the pros in the NFL what position went? I played wide receiver slot. So I was like the inside guy,

the shifty little wide receiver, Julian Edelman. At the time, it was Wes Welker. I feel like me and Edelman are the same age. So yeah, dude, I went to like a combine training facility. I planned on to go to the combine and the senior bowl. And then Jim Hendry, who was the GM of the Cubs, flew out to me and they offered me a new deal. I got lucky though, man. My junior year when I got drafted, I actually went to play

baseball, short season Boise, played for, I think it was like 30 days, batted 400, dominated pretty solid. And then I came back to senior year for my senior season football and had a pretty solid and then I came back to senior year for my for my senior season football and had a pretty solid season and just set myself up for for that bargain I love it Hunter I'll call you the Hunter Renfro the slot that's my boy I went to Clemson Clemson okay that's the modern day slot guy yeah you're right he was a one star out of college Dabo Sweeney picked him out of nowhere and I turned into a pretty good pro for the Raiders actually. Yeah, he did. I love it.

So yeah, college athlete, played two sports, good at both, end up in baseball. It's funny how things work, right? And I know you had the minor league career and then you get with the Cubs and you got these guys that play what, like 30 years and never win a title? And you're a world champion.'t that awesome amazing one thing that people really can't take

away from me man I was was a part of that the 2016 special team and you said you follow me on Instagram and socials man I do a lot of posting about it because it was just a special thing I was able to win an FCS division one double- AA National Championship with Nova and it was like it's on a different level but it's the same type of camaraderie in those those clubhouses or that locker room just everybody pulling for everybody nobody being like a single eye guy friends and family off the court or off the field so it was a tight-knit group and man it was a lot of fun I can't say that enough did you miss football yeah i did it's just a different it's a different animal man it's it's blood sweat and tears and

you're really going to war with those guys on the field so that's i think that's what i missed the most but i learned to adapt and have that same feeling in baseball as well it's just a different kind of feeling what's it's always hard i talk to a lot of athletes and I've talked to, and I've got friends that play pro and all, but it's always hard. I think you've got fans and those of us out here, I had the talent, but busted an ankle my senior year.

So they said sayonara to all of it, but didn't play. So the us is out here. It's always hard to describe. You played at the highest level in baseball. We're on the path for football. That experience, that camaraderie slash the toughness of football, and then baseball's different.

But it's always hard, I think, for people that didn't play to understand, I don't know, the culture culture the inside side of those things do your best to describe maybe and i know football just it stopped at villanova and you didn't play pro but like you were at the highest level though you were gonna get drafted so do your best to describe to me like what that feels like playing at that high level the buzz of that feeling yeah dude and that's what I told you off camera was what I'm searching for. It's you can't replicate that feeling, but like the buzz of the feeling you can ask a lot of professionals. And I feel like they would have probably something

similar, dude, especially for baseball. You like, I went through five leagues before I got to the big leagues. It's it's Arizona fall League. It's short season. It's low A. It's high A, double A, triple A. So that's six leagues before you get to the big leagues. The only thing that's different, yeah, you're playing better players, but it's the atmosphere. And when you get out there, when you stand on that field for the first couple of times, you're like, wow, holy shit, man, this is it. And then it's a game and you're competing, you're trying to win, and there's a bigger picture so that yeah you're always going to hear people yelling at you screaming at you but it's it's in one ear

out the other for me and that's how i always looked at it and i think you'll get the same answer from a lot of professionals that yeah when you get there it's wow i made it but it's time for business now we want to win it is business that's the thing like for fans it's craziness that's fandom we're crazy about it my team the cubbies sitting out like i'd spent work to summer and plus some out in chicago and so i know that crowd it's crazy and it's great though the culture and everything like that but it's that's fandom but at the end of the day it is a business and you've got to perform the pressure to perform and especially going through the different leagues i'm sure that was it overwhelming

or did you feel like you kept it in check i don't think it was too overwhelming and i just i had that background like man i played at nova so not saying that we had a ton of people there but we played at west virginia when there was 80 000 people like they were number two to see in the country we played a temple we packed the link i'm not saying that it was overwhelming but i feel like i was able to build that base to almost work my way into it and prepare for something like that by not even knowing i was doing it was i could see it be overwhelming for some people if they get pushed up too fast. But at the end of the day, man, everybody's going to adapt. These guys are professional athletes. You see these young guys get up there and they might struggle for a couple

of weeks or maybe a month or so, but they adapt, man. It's super impressive to watch and it was cool to be a part of. Are you a fan of the game still? Do you watch a lot of football? Are you a fan of pro sports? Growing growing up i was never a fan just because i played it so much man i had no no time to really watch anything and that that was on me man i just i i was at the field non-stop man i was just talking to my wife about it you look at everything and i've earned everything i was growing up and i wasn't the fastest i wasn't the strongest i'm like a little 511 white guy that's just running around trying to catch a football so i earned everything i did because i worked so so freaking hard it's that's

just that's just how it was you earn everything you get that's in life that's how it is though it's in everything everybody wants to hand it to them but it's either it will be fleeting or it won't mean as much yeah and that's and at the of the day, man, you can win the lottery. But if you earn yourself $100 million, you've been through that. So you appreciate it so much more. Where if it's just handed to you, you're just like, oh, okay. Now I'm still searching for some kind of feeling. That's just life, man.

You got to earn it. So I believe it was 2010. Around there. You'll correct me with dates but the bone marrow the how did that all come about so that was the most impressive part of your story and even today now i want to do justice to us and i want you to tell that story how that came about the impact it's had all of those things, it's a little bit of a story. That's okay. We're about stories here. Go for it. Yeah, let me give you a nice, short, simple version. So when I got to college in 2007, Villanova, the head coach was Andy Talley,

and he runs a foundation that's called Get in the Game. And he's actually super brilliant for doing this. So he was with Be the match who you know is does the bone marrow donations and like handles everything and he's let me let me put this in football and get every team every college team's got a from 50 to 100 healthy guys and he's let's get them all to do cheek swabs and tests and have the potential to save someone's life who needs some bone marrow. So in 2007, he would have these kind of rallies where as freshmen, we would just round up as many people as we could. And then at the end of it, we would test and it was simple. And

it's still simple. It's actually easier now than it was back then. It's like a simple cheek swab. You have these long Q-tip looking things. You put them in every corner of your mouth and you literally just put them back in and they send them away. Is it essentially DNA? Yeah, that's essentially it. They get your saliva and then just by the saliva, they can see if you're a potential match. So yeah, I did it in 2007 and I got called to donate in 2009. And it was right before we went to the playoffs for football.

I was a pretty solid part of that football squad. I went into my coach and I said, I just was called to donate and I'm going to donate. He just looked at me and put his head down. He was like, Matt, I know you would do that. You have all the support from us. I did the blood. After they do the saliva, they take your blood, they see if you're a potential match. It got down to five people and I was one of those five people. And then a week later, they called me and they were like, hey, you're the match. You are the perfect match for this little girl. We're going to, your donation was, I think at the time it was like November 21st or whatever

it was. I said, okay, I'll be ready. They called me back two or three days later and the little girl was too weak to accept the bone marrow. She, so I couldn't do it. And they just pushed it off. And we ended up winning the national championship game and I was the MVP of the game. So that's like that part of the story. So later in the year, it was my junior year. So it was like, if you're in a sports at all, that's your biggest year for NFL, baseball baseball all that kind of stuff so i was doing really well baseball wise and i got called to donate again at the end of the year it was like

our last last 12 days or no it's like the last month of baseball called to donate told my coach i said hey i got called again i'm going to donate so i ended up donating they give you this drug called nupogen which it increases your white blood cells and it enlarges your spleen so they treat it like mono you're not allowed to do anything for i think it was like three to four weeks so right before i i started taking this medicine i remember like it was yesterday i was at canada river shark stadium we were playing st joe's my last at bat i hit a home run opposite field and i like usually never do that. So went to donate. I'm out for three to four weeks. We have one,

one more series. And it's the West series. We go down to West Virginia and they were in contention to make the playoffs. And if we beat them, we knocked them out. So my first at bat back, I hit a home run too. So it was like a sandwich home run.

And like, I didn't really hit any home runs that year. And it was just like, wow, man, this is, this is pretty special for this to happen. Long story short, I ended up donating to bone marrow.

The girl was from Ukraine. She was 18 months old. And now she's 14. So everything worked out. And I stay in touch. Yeah, that's the short and simple story. That one transplant, is that all she needed to get to worship? Is it cheering or whatever you call it? Yeah, that's all she needed to get to work is it that's yeah cheering or whatever you call it

yeah that's all she needed man it was it was she so what she could have there's two procedures there's one that's through the hip which is like a little bit more painful but now they put you to sleep and you're just sore for a couple days and then the one that i did was they put a needle in one arm they extract your blood they filter it through a machine to get the white blood cells out. And then they have a needle in the other arm where it puts the blood back into it. And it's anywhere from a three- to six-hour procedure. So at the time, she could only accept the stem cell, which is the one I did. But yeah, man, you said you watched the story.

So like you said, she's in Ukraine. The family's not only fighting for her life and trying to find a way to keep their daughter alive, but they're fighting these wars as well. So it's just a wild story, man. They moved from place to place as refugees. They went to Israel, Canada, back to Ukraine, back to Israel, and now they're in Canada. So it's like just a wild story in itself. They're in Canada now? Yeah, they're able to get over.

They went to Israel right when the war started, when everybody was leaving. And they were there for three months, and they were just waiting for papers to go transfer to Canada and start a new life there. Isn't it crazy how much we take for granted? Like, we live daily lives, and we think we've got got problems and we don't have bombs being dropped on our head. You couldn't be more right, man. And then the awareness you've brought. I know that obviously stuck with you. And as you've come in out of baseball, we taught pre-episode.

Damn artist. Look, Matt, you can't have all the damn talent, dude. Matt, you can't have all the damn talent, dude. MVP of the championship football team. Good looking guy. Baseball player. Chicago Cubs World Series ring. Did you have the ring on?

Did you put the ring on, Matt? No. You know what? I was in my safe and I literally looked right at it. I can't do that, man. How much you had? I'm sorry. Maybe round two.

Okay, for sure. I got you. And you're an artist. Come on, man. You can I wish you had, but maybe round two. Okay, for sure. But man, and you're an artist. Come on, man. You can't have it all. Can you share some? Yeah. So that's like we were talking about before how I got started. And I give so much credit to my parents because they just let me do whatever I wanted. You know what? It wasn't, nothing was forced on me. No sports, not art, not school. It was the only thing that was forced on me no sports no not art not school it was the only thing that was forced is that i couldn't quit you can't quit you have to stick it out and that's how i was i feel like that's how i was raised and that's what has gotten me so far

just to push through stuff even if it didn't work or i didn't like it like i said before i was my dad was was very creative he was always a huge fisherman, created bucktails, sold them online. He was like a little hustler, entrepreneur, did construction, carved fish. He did it all. So I was always at his side at night. That was one of his ways to calm down after work. I literally, probably the same for every dad. They come home, they sit on their couch. Mom makes dinner, he eats dinner, goes back and sits on his couch and watches tv and does his hobby so i was always like right there next to him and i took that i did in grade school did art in grade school high school college and it was it was a way for me like we mentioned like there's so

much stress in baseball and there's high energy there's got to be a way to kind of come down after that game because you're on for three hours, three and a half hours, not to mention you're at the field for four or five hours before. So a way for me to wind down was always to have my art pad and draw. And then later on the line was an iPad. I had an Apple Pencil and I was able to do a little bit more with digital. And when 2020 hit, I i was like not that i was scrambling i was always a hustler and everybody would see me post this art and they were like hey we want some of that why don't you share so i just tried to do what was relative to the times we were living in

and i'm sure you watched the last dance and that was like dude everybody was watching the last dance so i'm like wow i'm chicago cub the world series champion oh yeah i grew up with jordan yeah dudes exactly i painted michael jordan and i freaking crushed it and i learned how to hustle i learned how to sell prints online and have and sleep and make money because i had that third party they would go they would buy the prints and that was that dude and i took a lot took love to that, love to making art and being able to have this therapy away from this madness of the world was happening. COVID was going on. Nobody could leave. So for me to get away, it was getting away from baseball. It was getting away from the madness in the world. And I was able to just put that on canvas and not pave my way for my future. But it almost helped me retire because I was able to transition into one thing right after I retired.

That's helpful. A lot of athletes don't have that. And I've talked to a lot of them. The highest of highs maybe had a longer career in whatever. And they are trying to replace that, not just their energy and time but it's just hard to have a career because they consider it business a business where you have that level of accolade and that level of awareness and the crowds and the fans and all that stuff and even if you're not like self-absorbed about it, trying to replace that is tough. Yeah. I think it's irreplaceable, man. And that's what I said earlier is I'm still

searching for that. I'm searching for the team. I'm searching for that atmosphere. And I know that I'll probably never get it. I'm going to work for it. And if I can find a way to do it through art or something else through social media and almost you miss making a difference too man you can motivate and inspire so many more people when you're on tv they see you on tv and you say one word and you inspire so many kids around the country and that's tough to leave too you see all the impact you make in some people's life when you're playing baseball and I think that's what I'm searching for too, because I was able to share my story much easier while I was playing than while I'm not. Yeah, man, but you're able, that's what, and you're seeing this, I'm not telling anything

you don't know, but like the power of social media and just us sitting here talking, the reach that you have and the influence that you can have with your art can and will go to places that you may not even know. And so it's powerful. I know you've transitioned and you mentioned the NFT thing, the digital side of stuff. That's right. I own an ad agency. So that's right in our wheelhouse with marketing and things like that. What's that been like? What's that process been? Yeah. So that's, like I said, man, man in 2020 i was not that i was searching because we were smart with money we didn't blow it i was never one of those guys that just went and bought everything but i want to be successful so if i can't make the money that i wanted to i could

have made 100 million dollars in baseball and then as soon as i would be done i would want to find something else yeah so that was just like how i was like bred. So in 2020, we just had my son. My son was like a couple months old and I had so much time to just figure things out. So I would literally, I would paint all day and it was like the last dance. I crushed it with doing in real life paintings. And I was just like searching for things online because I know that people were crushing online. And I ran into a friend who was never a teammate, but was a baseball player that came up with me. His name was Michael Johnson. His name is Michael Johnson. And he's, yo, C's, let's do this when the George Floyd thing happened.

And he's, let's do an NFT of the George Floyd. And I was like, what's an NFT? I had no idea what it was. And he was like, it would be great. A white and a black baseball player come together to make this painting and sell it as an NFT. So I said, okay, let's do it. So I put all my trust in him because, like I said, he's a fellow baseball player. I knew he had a great background. And we did this thing and it sold out in eight minutes. We made like 60 grand. And I was like, Mike, what just happened?

He's welcome to the new world. So I'm like, okay. And I literally did, I grinded for days on end. I had no idea what Ethereum was or Bitcoin was, but I figured out how to sell this digital art, put it on the blockchain, create these NFTs. And I really well doing it. And we go back to the team thing. Like I had this individual success, but I was still searching for more. It didn't matter how much money I was making. I'm like, I don't need more money, but I need more. I was passionate about it, but it just didn't feel the same. So then now I'm one of the founders of a company called The Noble Gallery.

And what we do is we bring on artists and we have a community. And the artists will make a painting for us. And we essentially sell their art their art we take a percentage and we pretty much guarantee their sellout so they know that they're going to sell out with us we make money for putting them on our platform and they get their money we really take care of the artists and that's one of the reasons why i feel like they everybody wants to drop with us and it's been good is that nft bubble burst though like it was all the rage two years ago and i know that digital art has longitude latitude it's got a long life because obviously that's kind of where it belongs but is that is it talk to you about the nft world

two years ago versus now i think the bubble burst i don't know if you can say the bubble bursted, maybe the PFP route. Yeah, maybe the PFP route did. All like the board apes, the punks are going to be around forever just because of the fact that they were the first. And that was like the originals. But I think as far as PFPs,

they could be over because it was just like, dude, it was free money. You could buy PFP for 0.08, which was like a hundred bucks. And then in two days later, you could sell itfp for 0.08 which was like 100 bucks and then in two days later you could sell it for five thousand dollars it was incredible and i think it was just like the new thing so people were just doing it and they felt the fomo and they wanted to buy it for whatever the price was but i think the art wise digital art that's just another medium like people paint on canvas they spray paint they paint with acrylics. They paint with watercolors.

I think this is just another form of medium for artists. And the artists that have stuck it out, like they still do well. Like they still sell at high prices. And so I don't think the art bubble has burst. But I think the PFP NFT bubble has probably. Are you 100% digital now? All your art? No, dude.

I do everything, man. I signed a deal with fanatics to do some of the paintings with them yeah dude like i said i'm a hustler man so i i enjoy doing all this stuff i enjoy spending time with my family i love golfing but definitely find ways to work what's your handicap of golf i'm like eight eight eight, nine. All right. I'm anywhere from like high seventies, low eighties. There you go. That's where I am.

The, but yeah, I thought you were going to say a plus five or something. I'd be like, dude, not that good. You never know those baseball players. Sometimes it's either a struggle or it's like unreal.

You hit it a long way. I hit it pretty far. Yeah. I struggled early on with the slice, but it's, you know how it is, man. If you put any work into anything, you can be good. I hate the guys that get pissed off when they stink and they only play once a month.

Come on, man. If you were working your job and you only did it once a month, would you be any good? Of course not. What's a bad day for Matt Caesar? Bad day. I'm not hearing many bad habits, so you seem to have it put together. What's a bad day for Matt Caesar? A bad day. I'm not hearing many bad habits. So like you seem to have it put together. What's a bad day for you? My bad days, both my parents have cancer.

So those are bad days for me. My mom had a couple of strokes last summer. My dad called me. I'm up early, man. Like 4.30, 5, I'm up grinding, working out. And my dad knows I'm awake. And he just had reached out. He called me. He's like, hey, mom's kind of unresponsive. She had a couple of strokes, had some brain surgery. So

those are bad days. Those are bad days. Like you said, we wake up and we're grateful to open our eyes and be in this country and have the freedom to do what we want to do. So I'm grateful every day, man. I get to see my mom and my dad all the time. They're right down the street from me. And part of the reason why I think it was meant to be for me to retire was because I'm here, because I'm spending these moments with my family. They're watching me. They're helping me raise my kid. So it's a blessing in disguise, I think. so I talked to guys like you and I think people listen and I think you've touched on a few of them, but I always liked to, to at least attempt to uncover it. Like what's the play plan. You've been successful in everything you've done.

You've worked hard. You've earned it all yourself. But like when you talk to other people and I'm sure you do just by the nature of your freaking Cubs world champion, ex world championship football player amazing artists i'm sure you get asked and all these how'd you do it how'd you get successful but what were maybe some of those like really tactical things that have been like in the matt caesar playbook of success i think any success is consistency is key man even it's funny because people think these YouTubers, these creators, they just became popular overnight.

These dudes are grinding. When I was doing paintings, I was grinding doing paintings and just posting to try and get some interaction. I got lucky. I did a few paintings and my wife and I, we started a foundation. And we raised money for the people around here who have cancer. We donate food, donate presents. And for one of our events, I did paintings of myself, portraits with football and baseball. And they both sold for $500.

And I continued to work and continued to paint icons and celebrities. And we won the World Series that year. And the Cubs reached out and they were like, hey, what about you doing a Cubs World Series painting for our bricks and ivy ball? And maybe I had a little head start, but they would have never asked me if I wasn't putting in that time, like doing cool artwork. So they sold that for 40 grand. And then my art career skyrocketed. But I put in the time to do it, man. I've been doing it my whole life.

And that's the same thing, like I said. Dude, I've been grinding at 4.30, 5 o'clock pretty much my whole life. And I did that because I did that at Villanova. Our workouts were 5.30, 6 a.m. in the morning. And I got better. That discipline that helped. We didn't have to work out that early. But the discipline helped me get better. And same thing right now dude i'm not i'm retired athlete

don't need to be working out at five o'clock in the morning but my ass is on the beach monday wednesday friday at five o'clock in the morning putting myself through suffering pain because i need to successful as winners man you're a winner, dude It isn't accidental People like to think that Oh, man, he fell into that He was so blessed to be naturally born as an athlete Bullshit Like I said

I was having that conversation with my wife today Because I was just an average kid In grade school Kids were faster than me Kids were doing more pull-ups than me i just wanted it more than everybody else your parents did a good job brother where can everybody keep up with everything going on i know you still involved the bone marrow stuff let's talk about some of the hit lists where everybody can stay following you learn more about the things that

we can only go so far on yeah dude all dude, all my stuff's on my Instagram social and SuperC's for, and my art website's mattcaesarart.com. I know that last name is a little bit difficult to spell. Spell it out for everybody. We'll have it on, they'll see it in the show notes in the list, but spell it for everybody. Dude, it's S-Z-C-Z-U-R. And listen to this, the funny part is like

when I go to places and they're like, all right, can you give me your last name, please? I literally spell out the last name for these people. And they can't even write it down right. Yeah, it's a weird combination of letters. You don't write it long. What's funny is when you said the letters, it sounded more like the name than the name looking at the name. I don't know if that makes any sense at all. But yeah, dude, that's me, man. You can find me on socials at the super C's for, and then

my website has everything as well. Really appreciate it, Matt. I want to stay in touch. I'm going to text you my number. I'd love to just continue your relationship. I love talking with people that are driven like you. And I know that our audience, we get a lot of value from a brother. Yeah. Thanks for having me, man. It's always great where I can come share the story and raise awareness. Yeah, man. Hey guys, you'll find us the radcast.com search for Matt Caesar or just search for hell. Just search for badass artists. You'll find all the highlight clips from today. World champion, Chicago Cub, Matt Caesar. You know where I'm at. I write and offer it on all the social platforms.

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