The Money Mondays - The Art of Protecting Your Peace with Trent Shelton 🙏 E59

Episode Date: March 4, 2024

Trent Shelton is a Performance Coach at Trent Shelton Companies, where he leads a platform that reaches millions of followers across social media and produces inspiring content, events, and programs to help people transform their lives. He has over 12 years of experience in empowering people to overcome their challenges and achieve their goals through his motivational speaking, writing, coaching, and podcasting. Trent Shelton is also a former NFL player, a two-time best-selling author, and a featured thought leader in Success Magazine. He has partnered with top leaders worldwide and traveled to over 20 countries to deliver powerful messages of hope, resilience, and greatness. He aims to help people respect their greatness and become their best version. Like this episode? Watch more like it 👇 "You Can Make Your Brain Better & I Can PROVE IT" - Dr Amen: https://youtu.be/iztETp--diQ Dave Meltzer & Ryan Pineda Share Investing Strategies You Need 📈 : https://youtu.be/Sq__cgCkLAc Brad Lea & Alex Neist on What It Takes to Grow 8-Figure Brands: https://youtu.be/Bhti1QtQN48 Watch ALL Full Episodes Here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs0D-M5aH-0IOUKtQPKts-VZfO55mfH6k --- The Money Mondays is a business podcast here to teach you how to make money, invest money, and donate money by showcasing some of the world's most successful people and how they do the same. Hosted by serial entrepreneur Dan Fleyshman, the youngest founder of a publicly traded company in history, this money podcast gives you an exclusive behind the scenes look at how the wealthiest celebrities, entrepreneurs, athletes and influencers make, invest and donate money. If you want to learn more business and investing while you work to improve your financial life, you're in the right place! Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@themoneymondays?sub_confirmation=1 Dan Fleyshman, The Money Mondays Learn more here: https://themoneymondays.com Watch all the podcast episodes: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs0D-M5aH-0IOUKtQPKts-VZfO55mfH6k Let’s Connect... Website: https://themoneymondays.com Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-money-mondays/id1663564091 Twitter: https://twitter.com/themoneymondays LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-money-mondays/about/ TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@themoneymondays FB: https://www.facebook.com/The-Money-Mondays-110233585203220/

He said, no, don't feel sorry for me. Like I might look like I have nothing, but I have everything. And this is a God that seemed homeless. He said, I might look like I have nothing, but I have everything. And he says, you, you look like you have everything, but you have nothing because you don't have peace.

And in that moment in my life, I realized, and I promised myself that peace would lead my life and be my priority and be my guide through this life. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a special edition of the Money Mondays. We have a dear friend that flew in from halfway across the country to be here because of the timing is perfect for us, especially for you guys at home. On Tuesday, March 5th, today's podcast came out on Monday, March 4th. He is releasing his new book

called Protect Your Peace. This is the third time he's put out a book and practice makes perfect. And so after all these years of building up millions of followers, inspiring hundreds of millions of people, if not more, on how to be better people to turn themselves to God, spirituality, business, entrepreneurship, and everything between, his content is right here in the top top top 0.001% of my favorite content on social media And hopefully you guys are at home are gonna buy this book listen to Trent Shelton wait. I just told the name All right guys, I'm also here co-hosted with the real Tarzan obviously as you guys know Tarzan gets over 200 million views a month on Social media mostly focused on animal content. He's mixing in some workout content

because he's getting lean and mean over here. Getting shredded for the summer. As you guys know, we typically cover three core topics, how to make money, how to invest money, how to give away to charity. I wanna talk with Trent about some couple other things about investing in yourself, your mind, your soul, your body, and your family.

So we're gonna go into some different topics here on the Money Mondays, but if you guys can, keep us up there at number one. We've been number one for 43 out of the last 54 weeks. And so it's important for you guys to share these topics about money that you guys have been out there supporting us and there's gonna be a lot of clips today. So what we're gonna do is have Trent give a quick

two minute bio so we can get straight to the money. But sure man, well thanks man. Thanks for having me Dan, Tars and I appreciate you guys. Quick bio, a former NFL player. My career was about three years in and out. And then from there, because of hard times and we hit my rock bottom. Now I'm a motivational speaker, author, and I really man, just a coach. I mean, I coach 7-7 football, so I do all the things like that, man.

It's just a guy who really wants to help people. So that's a short bio, but that's me. Are you coaching one to many or one to one? One to many. I do one to one too. But it's very, very rare just because time wise, I got three kids. So but more one to many group training, group coaching, and things like that.

I'm going to ask you a money question around the gate. Why do you think that 85% of NFL NBA players end up bankrupt within five years of leaving the league. Easy. Well, I think you got to go back to how we're brought up. You know what I mean? A lot of times when you aren't brought up around money, have no financial literacy around it and you're being taught since you're a little kid that this is success. Let me borrow the things so I can go back home and show people I made it.

And they spend money on things that don't make them money and then you live a lifestyle. So I was one of those guys too. Like when I got to the lead, I was an unverte-draught-free agent, but I was trying to keep up with guys that got a million dollar contracts. So I bought the core. At that time, I bought the 26 inch floaters,

which is probably the worst investment ever. And I ended up getting cut like three weeks later. And so I realized at some point that, cause when you get a few hundred thousand dollars, when you come from not getting that money, that's a lot of money. Of course, absolutely. Until the point I realized, like, wait a minute, I can't live off of this. And so I had to lose it to be able to appreciate it.

And it taught me a lot. And I'm glad I went through that because the position I am now, obviously I make a lot more money now, but I know what to do with it. Right? That is literally why we're here on Money Mondays. Why Tarzan and I drive this dang RV across the country is to have these discussions to hopefully protect people that make some money.

They make a couple hundred thousand dollars. You do some right investments by like a duplex or a fourplex. You got to start getting some rental income, buy some stocks like, instead of buying the second car, the third car, the fourth car or the fourth watch and the fifth watch, you start buying some investments and oh my like, oh my gosh, it changes your life forever. And I'm like passionate about talking about this topic because when I see guys that, not

just athletes, obviously there's musicians, influencers, entertainers, people in real estate and everywhere in between, they make a bunch of money and then they end up either going bankrupt. And I think it's for a couple of topics. One is, they surround themselves with people that they want to show off to. Absolutely., they surround themselves with people that they wanna show off to. Absolutely. They also surround themselves with people that they have to carry.

That's right. Right? A thousand percent. You see the old stories of the MC Hammer, Mike Tyson, AI. Like when you see Alan Iverson, like these guys had a hundred million, 200 million. Evander Holyfield, like legends in the game, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt.

Luckily we're seeing now they're all coming back. That's right. Alan Iverson's ballin again. You know, Evander Holyfield's got businesses again like and so surround yourself with the people. Next part is the knowledge. None of us grew up learning about money. Right. They still don't teach you that about money in school. I think it's a very important topic and that's why I'm so passionate about it is that we need to be learning about money because otherwise you just go buy three cars and you go buy four watches and you think that, oh, maybe I can sell it later and you don't realize that car is half the price later, that watch is 30 cents on a dollar later, like you're

not going to be able to sell it later. And the third thing is intent. They don't know what to do. So when they do get the money, their intent is to go buy the stuff or to increase their overhead. And overhead is the biggest killer. They think they need a five bedroom, six bedroom, seven bedroom house when it's just them and their girl or them and their friends, right? They have to get three cars and they don't realize oh, it's only 1200 bucks a month and 14 bucks a month and 1600 bucks times three

forever, you know, absolutely starts to add up. Okay Trent, when did you decide that you were going to transition and start focusing on speaking and coaching? It had to be 2013 and just to be honest with you, it wasn't ever a business thing for me. It was a life thing for me. My best friend committed suicide, my college teammate, and it was a promise to him around that time. He died in 2011, but it became real for me in 2013. It was a promise to him that I would help people with their self-worth. And so a lot of my content that you see now comes from that because he lost sports, he lost a girl, and he committed suicide.

And I know how it feels to be at rock bottom. You know, I was close to even taking my life at times because once football is over, who am I? That's my everything. So when I lose that identity, there's nothing for me to live for. I never worked in nine to five, even today. So I was four years old, it's been sports.

And so when that stripped away, it's like, what do I do? And it pushed me into this space of me sharing my heart on Facebook. Like I was just picking on my cell phone. I didn't have no production. And I just say, you know what? I'm gonna take what I have, use what I have, and I'm gonna speak goodness into the world.

And that now changed over 15 years later to me doing what I do now. But even just, this is on my heart to say, like even from my shift of, even with money and things like that, like one of the things that I had to do But even just, this is on my heart to say, like even from my shift of, even with money and things like that, like one of the things that I had to do and I wanna say this is, I had to get out of the business of impressing people.

Cause when you're in that business, you're gonna go brink rough. And that was my thing. Like I had to get all these things to impress people or to take care of people. So I had to be able to tell people, no, I had to be able to set boundaries. And when you tell people, no,

you're gonna say how they really feel about you. So I'll give a million yeses. I was the one getting everybody in a club. We're doing all the things. But once I said no, a lot of those people switched up on me. Right. And so I'm at a point now where my circle is so small, but I'm not spending money. I don't need to spend trying to impress people. Tarzan, when you go from doing what you love to then having a million followers and two million followers and five million followers and ten million followers, your friends say you change. Things change around you.

The people that you grew up with are like, oh, you're too cool for us now. You're too good for us now. Now you're traveling so much. You don't hang out anymore. How do you deal with that as you're growing through life when friends think that you're leaving them behind or that you're changing when you're doing what you're supposed to do for your career and for your life. It's a great question, man I've gotten that a few times with people. I know they're like, oh, bro

You don't got Hollywood and missing that, you know, but the people that really know me they know I was gonna disappear anyway You know as soon as I got a chance soon as I got some money. I'm out. I'm gonna jungle I'm gone, you know, and I always come back out the people that I'm some money, I'm out, I'm going to the jungle. I'm going to the jungle. I'm gone, you know? And I always come back. The people that I'm really close with, I always keep in touch with them. I always, you know, because they were my rocks to where I got to where I'm at today.

That's right. I never forget where I come from, you know? One of my best friends, Joe, he let me seep on his couch. When I came to Florida, I failed. Went back home, he was established, he had a girl, he was working. He's like, bro, sleep on the couch, I got you, bro. And till this day, even 10 years before that,

he's my best friend, he's my best friend till this day. And that was over 10 years ago. And those people, I never lose contact with. I never lose my touch and base with them. A never lose my touch my touch my touching base with them Few of my uncle's few my honest people that actually been there They're never they're never gonna say you switched up People that were just you know. Oh, I knew that guy in high school. He Dm me there. Those are the guys saying I switched up. We weren't friends. Anyway, that's right

You know, we were just acquaintances. We were associates, you know But the guys I play football with that knew me just acquaintances, we were associates, you know, but the guys I play football with that knew me when I had snakes in my dorm, you know, I still talk to those guys till this day, you know, and it's cool to be, you know, still rooted into what you are. And when you make a million bucks or a million followers, it just amplifies exactly who you are.

You're a bad person, you're just gonna do more bad shit. That's right. Bad stuff. If you like animals, probably gonna get more bad shit. That's right. Bad stuff. If you like animals probably gonna get more animals You know if you're a car enthusiast probably gonna get more garage spaces to get more cars So if you're a serial entrepreneur when you're a kid selling baseball cards and you know at the flea market And when you get your first business going public and you make $50 million, you're probably going to get 100. Some car stores.

You're probably going to do it really big. Some people are going to say you changed up. Some people are going to say you got Hollywood. I don't think everybody's meant to make it out of the slums or get it out the mud and then take all your nice stuff and go back and put it back in the mud. or get it out the mud and then take all your nice stuff and go back and put it back in the mud. Yeah. You made it out for a reason.

It's okay to say what's up, but you don't need to go back. You don't need to stay back there. You got lucky enough to skyrocket it into the future of your dreams. Take it serious because as fast you got it, you can get taken away. A thousand percent.

Tran Shelton, you've gotten hundreds and hundreds of millions of views doing inspirational content when we're in a world filled with negativity content. And a lot of content that goes viral is drama, bull crap, and a lot of things that are really fresher to watch on social media, fake news, et cetera. How can we inspire more of the world to do more better content, inspirational content

and be positive? Well, I think everybody needs it. Everybody has their struggles. It doesn't matter how much money you have, how many follows you have or where you're from, everybody goes through struggle. And that's something that's taught me. Even the biggest entrepreneurs I know,

they deal with things, the people that have literally nothing in their life, they deal with things. And what I found out is that people need help. People need a voice and people need you. And for me, for so long, I was asking myself, like, why me? What makes me special? I think a lot of people. Stopped themselves for, for going to do what's on their heart, especially inspirational content, because they feel like they're not perfect.

And who am I to talk about things to help people when I'm not perfect? And the thing I always tell people, you weren't meant to be, you weren't born to be perfect, you were born to be real. And so people need your real story, your real message, because that's relatable. Like perfection content, as I call it, it's inspiring. So I can show you my house, I can show you all these things, which is dope. And that will inspire you. But the transformational content is the content

where you feel connected to, like, man, I go through that too. Man, Trent has millions of followers, but he struggles with depression too. Like I lost my mother, I almost lost my daughter, I lost my grandmother in the span of a week and people saw that and I wasn't afraid to show that. And the message that I got toward my Achilles

a year later ruptured it and dealt with injury depression as an athlete my first surgery ever I never got hurt playing ball my first surgery and I'm like, how do I move now? And so many messages came in from people that were hurt or people that lost their mother was like man I needed that so just imagine if I would have hid that To protect my brand just imagine if I would have like not even spoke upon that Not saying you have to but that was my healing too. That was my therapy. So a lot of my content is really therapy for myself. And I realize that it becomes therapy for other people. The number two fear in the world is snakes. But the number one fear is actually public speaking.

Yeah, for sure. How can someone that's out there listening that wants to be trenchelden up on these stages in front of thousands of people, how can they get over their fear to walk onto that stage? I would like to say this. For me, it was a deeper meaning, a deeper why. And I know we hear that a lot, like in personal development, know your why,

but my why was so strong. So for example, like snakes, right? And you just asked me, do I want to pick up a snake? And I was like, no, but it's a fear, right? But I guarantee if my daughter was in there and a snake was about to get my daughter, I wouldn't think twice. Right? Yeah. Right. Is the fear steered there? Absolutely. Would change the meaning of that situation became bigger. And so if you don't have a bigger meaning, fear is going to control you every single time. So as a speaker, as a communicator, like what's the meaning of why you're going to go on stage? I'm fearful all the time. I

have nerves before I'm doing this episode, but I know that there's somebody out there that needs this message and that why a meaning is greater than that fear. And so your meaning, your why, your mission, your purpose, your vision has to be greater than any fear and you will walk out on stage every single time. And I'm an introvert by nature, by the way. And people don't realize that they see me and they're like, oh, Trent, you're so extroverted. If you asked my father, out of the three boys who would be the pick to be a speaker, he would have picked me last.

Every single, he still can't believe it. And so he still can't believe it. To this day. But it means a lot to me because of that promise I made to my friend, because I know how it feels to be at rock bottom. It means so much to me that the fear doesn't control me. And I create healthy fears. Like, what if I don't go do this? Like, I'm getting messages where every day

where somebody's not committing suicide or their marriage got better or they have to leave an abusive situation every single day. So if I don't give this content, if I don't step on the stage, what does it cost to me? And when the opportunity costs, just like in business, when you understand the opportunity costs, you will go through fear every single time and you'll be consistent with it. So it costs me too much not to embrace my fear. Tarjan, the number two fear is snakes. You're out there, you're in Venezuela,

you're in this country, that country. And a lot of times you don't know those snakes in India. You're out there in Borneo, you don't know those snakes. They're not ones that you have at the Wild Jungle in the house. These are literally wild. How do you get over that fear and is there fear when approaching these big new snakes that you don't know their name? I used to really be scared of snakes when I was a kid. Until this day, I do find snakes as I'm traveling.

I have no idea what it is. I don't know if it's venomous, I don't know. I know where I'm at, but I just don't know what exactly that animal is. I know it's a snake. I just don't know exactly what type of snake it is. Does it have venom, how potent is the venom? I still pick it up, so I'm not necessarily scared of it but I'm ultra cautious because

I'm usually in the middle of nowhere with no medical attention or very little medical attention and if I get bit by something, it could be the last one, the last hurrah, you know, or I can get permanent nerve damage and never be able to use my left hand to reflect good or you know, my body is compromised. So I feel like with fear you can get over fear with knowledge. A lot of people don't know which is why they're scared. They have all these premeditated things that's maybe probably going to happen before they even happen.

So you're stressing yourself out before it happens. You're all off whack. You're all off your edge and then when it doesn't happen you're still stressed out during the present of it you stress yourself out before and then afterwards you're like oh my god you just put yourself through that whole workshop for no reason you know and the reason I brought the stress because I have to be calm in some of the situations Where in return I'm stressed because it's like I don't know what this is, but I want to pick it up

I want to get a video of it. I want to learn about it after I get some Wi-Fi or Go open a book and check out what snake this is in South Brazil and this one part of the region It's like wow that snake wasn't venomous I could have held it even more and got more, but it's just the cautious of it. And it's all about knowing. A lot of fears are passed down, especially snakes, especially in the Black culture.

That's right. Living in the South, all I heard growing up was a good snake's a dead snake. And that's just passed down and passed down. And Black snake, all Black snake chased me through the yard. Snakes don't chase people. I think there's like 3,500 to 4,000 species of snakes. I think maybe one or two of them would like come your way for a second and then just like as a bluff you know and they just go the other way. So you got 4,000 snakes that ain't gonna chase you. You know, so it's just snakes don't chase you

Not all black snakes or venomous snakes, you know I'm saying so it's knowledge is key to knowing to get over that fear man So Trent, I've always been a big advocate of coaches. Yeah mentors You know big advocate of coaches. Yeah mentors. Mm-hmm. Why is it important people whatever level they are at in their life? Well, there's just getting started in business They meet a relationship coach athletic coach, etc. Why is it important people to have coaches in their life no matter what level they're at? There's a saying That experience is the best teacher and I do agree to that to an extent right there's some things you have to go through to learn but also think why go through it if you don't have to. And a coach or a mentor,

or somebody that's already done it and proven, it just shortcuts your journey. You know what I mean? Like having people in my life that I can call and be like, should I make this investment? Does this seem smart? That's already done it. It saves me a lot of heartbreak, a lot of heartache,

and it saves me a lot of time. When I started throwing events, I made a call to one of my friends like, how do you do this? And it saved me a lot of money, a lot of heartbreak, a lot of heartache, and it saves me a lot of time. When I started throwing events, I made a call to one of my friends, like, how do you do this? And it saved me a lot of money, a lot of time. So having coaches and mentors are important because, number one, they're gonna keep you from making a lot of mistakes.

And then, number two, they're gonna shortcut the journey for you a little bit. And number three, they're gonna expand your mind. Like, when I get around, come in here. Like, my mind is, I love nature. Like, obviously, I don't love the things in nature, but I love nature. You can help me with that, right?

But I do love nature. I'm gonna protect your peace. Like I'm a nature and I love hiking. I love getting out in nature. It's like, I feel like it's God's natural medicine for the soul for me. But me now coming here and looking at this, right? It expands my vision.

Me getting around people who have more finances and how they look at money, it changes my relationship with money. And so I think it's important to get around more so you realize you can do more. I'm going to give you guys a real life example of why a mentor or coach, no matter what level you're at, is very useful. Imagine that I want to start a clothing brand and this person wants to start a clothing brand over here.

But I have Damon John and he's my coach. I don't know if I have to go too much farther. Damon John has done billions of dollars in sales since you probably weren't even alive. Right, 1999, 1996, 1997, he was out there with L.O. Cool J selling clothing brand back then. When I first started my clothing brand, I had a little 20 foot booth. He had the whole walkway. Okay, that was 25 years ago. And so if I have Damon John as my advisor, my mentor, my coach, and I'm like, hey, what manufacturer should I use? Hey, who should I use for merchant processing? Hey, do you know any sales reps, distributors? What should I do for my credit card processing if I'm going to do this? Should I give terms? Should

I do net 30 or net 60 or net 90? Should I give terms at all? Over here, you have no one to talk to. Imagine how much faster I'm gonna get to a million, five million, ten million, etc. versus you when you don't know what to do. It's like if we're walking through a forest, Damon John knows where the trees are, where the snakes are, where the pitfalls are, where to duck, where to jump. He knows all the things because he's gotten all the scratches, he's gotten all the bruises, he's fallen in those holes, he's been through all those things. Damon's been through it for 25 years and growing. This person is going blind and they're gonna fall in dirt and they're gonna fall in the mud and they're gonna get bit by the snake and they're gonna hit their head and boom. That's okay in theory, but why? When people have books that you can walk through life and tell you, hey, this is how you protect

your peace. This is how you deal with relationships. This is how you deal with X, Y, and Z. You guys have podcasts, YouTube videos, social media that you can learn for free or very cheap all the things in the world that you want to do. And then you can take the next level and hire coaches, mentors, go to masterminds, go to private events, go to big events, etc. and learn from some of the greatest people in the world that have built real life businesses in your category.

Passionately say, if you're going to go down a path and you want to start a clothing brand, learn from Damon John. You want to learn how to do XYZ, learn from that person. There are category influencers or niche influencers or people or mentors or coaches in your category, write the second that have written books, made social media content, or made very affordable ways for you to learn that will fast forward your success. Trent Shelton, as you're going through your career, why have you written the third book? Why did Protect Your Peace come out when you already had two books? You're already speaking,

you're already busy, why write a third book This was a book. I always wanted to write Even before my first book I've been living these words in 2009 literally it's a lifestyle for me to change my life And I won't go deep into the story, but you know 2016 I was going to 32 city tour my own tour Thousand well not thousands but thousands of people in totality. We did four outside the country Well, thousands, well not thousands, but thousands of people in totality. We did four outside the country, each city, probably about a thousand people. And I was burnt out. Like I had all the things like my videos are starting to go super viral.

And I'm growing this huge brand, right? Everybody's knowing me like Facebook and it's just, it's going crazy. But yet I didn't have peace inside of my soul and my heart. And so I had personal issues and I had business issues where I know I needed to fire people around me because I had my friends around me that probably shouldn't have been working for me. But I didn't want to fire them because,

man, if I fire them, like I'm letting them down. And so San Francisco, man, I'll never forget it. I go out there, I speak on stage and I muster up the strength. I make everybody happy. I'm literally smiling for the camera but down behind the scenes, I go back into this alley outside the theater and I come across a guy and I'll make this story short

It was a homeless guy and he sees me He said oh you're the guy that everybody here is here to see because he saw my picture in my name and he said man It must suck to be you whoa because I'm I'm literally crying like he can see it and I'm trying to wipe my eyes But he can see the stress on me. He said it must suck to be you and I said you know first I took kind of offense. I'm like But I I said, why you say that? He said, because I'm looking at you, you're making everybody else happy. I literally walked outside everybody's like trench shell, this trench shell nut, and you're back here and you look empty inside. And so what did I do? I tried to give him $100,

pushing my long cause I didn't want to deal with that conversation. He said, no, don't feel sorry for me. Like I might look like I have nothing, but I have everything. And this is a God that seemed homeless. He said, I, don't feel sorry for me. Like I might look like I have nothing, but I have everything. And this is a God that seemed homeless. He said, I might look like I have nothing, but I have everything. And he says, you, you look like you have everything, but you have nothing because you don't have peace. And in that moment in my life, I realized and I promised myself that peace would lead my life and be my priority and be my guide through this life. So peace sometimes says, you know what? That opportunity looks great externally,

but internally there's something there that doesn't serve your soul. Oh, that deal right there looks great financially, but there's something inside of me that's saying no. And so I've learned how to listen to my no. And so I wanna give this to the world and peace doesn't mean chaos doesn't exist. This isn't a book to like externally end all the chaos around you

It's just saying like these are tools that yes the chaos exists, but the chaos won't kill the calm inside you Right. Yes, the storm exists, but peace says this storm will pass And so you protect your energy protect your mind protect your soul That's the journey I take you on protecting those three things which equals protecting your life That's the journey I take you on protecting those three things which equals protecting your life. Tarzan, why is it so important to study and learn about the animals that you're interacting with? Oh, it's a great question. To learn about an animal before, especially in my field of touching things and hanging out with things,

you come across the right animal that you don't know about and he's got that energy He's got that alpha. He's got that top rank in the food chain Better understand what you get yourself into, you know, and it really helps to read or for instance, I have I have coaches in all different departments from apes to snakes to Elephants to birds birds sharks I have all these different people that I call up and you know I'll read books all day I'll go on the internet I'll surf articles I'll have my own personal research I'll call the people that have spent a lifetime long I've been alive just not

one species to get the right answer you know know. And a lot of times I come across animals that can really mess me up. And I get a gut feeling that I learn from snakes. Some snakes, you know, they're just not having a good day. And I don't know why, but internally, it's probably like my built-in safety net as a human to say, hey, if you do that, you're gonna die. And I do have these gut feelings a lot,

but again, I got it from snakes because I used to get bit a lot as a kid. So I could see a snake and no, he's gonna bite me. And luckily that turned into, hey, you stick your arm in that habitat, that lion might rip it off. Or if you go too close to that buffalo, he might stick those horns in your abdomen. Or if you get too close to that giraffe, he might front kick your teeth out.

So all these things come from learning, reading, asking questions, obsessing over the species so you know what it is. And even then, you also out sometime to get in front of an animal, I'm like, bro, he's gonna mawn me. I can feel it. And then there's also some animals that can mawn me and I'm like, oh, he's cool. He's chilling. I'm gonna go hang out with him.

You know, and it's just a feeling I have that I have to go with. Sometimes I go against her grain and I'll get bit by a small animal or a snake or get scratched by something. But when I come across that hyena and I got that feeling, I probably don't want to get my calf muscle ripped off. I probably don't want my ACL to get just chewed to pieces. If I come across that buffalo and he looks nice and fluffy and it's albino and I can get a cool selfie with it it but I don't feel like

I want his horn to be impelled in my chest probably gonna skip that one you know it's calculated risk how do you can I ask a question yeah how do you like because animals can figure energy right oh yeah for sure how do you stay calm in those moments where like yeah the animal seems cool right but like how do you even in fear like how do you, even in fear, like how do you stay calm so they don't feel that energy? Like is it something that you tell yourself or do? Yeah, you can, it's just like Mike Tyson

says you can have a game plan till you get punched in the mouth, you know? Same with animals, man. You can have this calmness and this, you know, this zen and it can still go haywire, you know. A lot of times I'm very like stone faced when I'm hanging out with something that's like threatening, stone faced. Whether it's coming in at me fast or it's moving frantically, I just won't even move. If an animal comes and this has a mark charge, trying to bite me

or buck at me, I just won't even pay almost any attention. It has to fully touch me or hurt me for me to get a reaction like, hey, you better back up. And I learned this with four rhinoceros. Now, my first got to Africa, 2018, 2017, and hopped out the safari car. And just keep your arms and feet in the vehicle at all times, you know, don't get out Don't keep your seatbelt on and I seen these I seen these rhinoceros on a video And the guy was like all these ladies were sitting in a Safari car and a rhino came up and the lady like Scratched his butt. I'm like, oh, that's a cool rhino. Like he's he's sweet, you know

So we happened to go toward the same path, the rhinos, and I seen them and they were massive. So I hopped out and one came a little close to me and I like got down so low and I like, I didn't have any eye contact and I was just calm though. I was chilling and but in my mind, I had for the first time, I was like, bro,

if this thing even comes towards you or like has a mock charge or even touches you, you gotta roll back underneath this car or you gotta jump back in the safari car immediately or you're gonna get yourself killed. They step on your head, step on your chest, it's a rhinoceros. And there's four of them.

You know what I'm saying? So in my mind, some many things are processing and some of it's like time slows down. Like an adrenaline rush, that first kickoff. You've been a kickoff, you know, you've been a kick return. So as soon as that ball hits the air and that guy catches it and hit that first block, almost everything just blinds out.

You know, it's like the games on to it. The last play at a fourth quarter over time. Same with animals, man. I just, I always stayed calm until it's, last thing I'll say, it's my best way to answer that. It's ballet or break dancing. Either slow or smooth, it's beautiful art to see. Or it's like, bro, you better start spinning on your head.

You gotta jump up, do a back flip. You gotta get up out of there, man. And that's how we're animals is. It's either super smooth, calm, swan-like movements, or it's like Tasmanian devil fighting a hot cobra. It's no joke. All right, Trent, I'm gonna ask you a very important question for our time and our generation. The households for the families have changed a lot over the years.

Mostly because of social media, our attention spans of the children, the household and architect of the families have changed a lot. And they're not going to church as much, people aren't having babies as much, there's a lot of things that are changing within the household. What can people do better to invest more time with their family? Disconnect with your family, not with your immediate, like, but disconnect from the world. And it's tough because, you know, even an entrepreneur space in a business space, like, the hard part, and I call this being mentally tough, is being able to balance personal and

professional life. Like, it's tough. Like, right now I'm gonna be in three cities in 24 hours. I'm flying back literally Reddoll so I can make sure I'm at my son's game. So these things I have that are non-negotiable for me to be there. So yes, you're gonna have seasons of grind, but you got to have seasons of actually understanding what matters. And so principle number nine, this book is called fulfillment. And I would tell everybody listening to this right now, like what truly matters to you? And so if your family truly matters to you, then it shouldn't be,

and don't take that to context, but it shouldn't be always, I have to find time for my family. No, for me, it's, I have to find time for these other things. And we literally connect. We do the things that families probably no longer do anymore.

We play games. I'm with my daughters all the time, reading them bedtime stories. So those are the things that matter because when I leave this earth, yes, I might be the man and hero to everybody else, but what does that matter if I walk inside my house and my kids don't even have a relationship with me and my kids don't even love me if I don't if I'm not a hero to them. So when I get texts from my kids, like I'm their hero and that to me is success.

And so you got to get back to change your definition of success and what that means to you. And I think sometimes then you have to lose certain things to realize that. So when I lost my mother, I realized more than ever, like what truly matters. And what truly matters is the people as you talked about earlier, the people who love you for you. Yes, you can love me for what I give and what surrounds my life. You can love me because I put out this content online, but there's people that love me just for who I am.

And those are the people I wanna spend my time when I give my energy to. So you gotta get back to that. There's another thing in our society I wanna ask you the question about because you're a professional athlete. Participation trophies. I hate it, bro. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. And I'll give you a perfect story. My son's 15 now. I'll never forget. He ran a track meet and he ran to 200 meters and they had a

ribbon for seven place and I took the ribbon. I said, bro, you lost. Like, we're not going to celebrate seven place in here. You lost. Get better. Yes. And I coach kids. I mentor kids and you we live in this world of everybody wins. Like little Johnny has to get a participation trophy because he was a part of the team. No, little Johnny was not good. You're not good enough in period. And once you give people that reality, it makes them work because what happened? What happens? You grow them up in a society where they think that everything entitlement. We live in entitlement culture. Oh, I deserve this because I participate. No, you deserve it

because you worked hard. Everybody's in play on my team. And I tell parents straight up, like, this isn't pay to play. If your kid isn't good enough, either he's gonna be good. He's going to have to put in the workers on set the bench. Because why would I make kids suffer that are relentlessly working hard on a craft for a kid that just wants participation? And some parents give me flack about it, but I'm helping you later in life because this warning will give a damn about you thinking that

I need this because I'm a part of it. And that's the problem with this culture. Yeah, you get a sales team and there's one guy that's doing 90% of sales what happens to other guys they're gonna get fired and they don't get a participation trophy for selling 400 bucks when the other guy sold 30 grand right it's the reality of life and also when they lose the rest of the year they need to be in practice. For sure. What are you worried about practice for if you're gonna get a trophy anyway? You know what I'm saying?

It's ridiculous, bro. The culture has to change that. And as you can see, I get fired up about that because it's building weak men. And I mean, weak, weak boys, and everybody thinks things are given. I asked my team, like, hey, what do you wanna do with your life?

Oh, I wanna make it to the NFL. And it's so funny, I'm like, hey, what do you want to do with your life? Oh, I want to make it to the NFL. And it's so funny. Like I'm like, okay, how are you going to make it? Are you working hard? Are you working? You're doing just what everybody else is doing. You just working like, you just doing the workouts that your coaches are giving you,

but you want a one less than one percent dream. And everybody thinks it's just easy to make it. And so I tell myself all the time, like you're not good enough. And I will champion him for sure. But I was like, bro, if you want to make it it you got to be doing things that nobody else is doing. Absolutely because it's terribly hard to make that dream come true. I think social media has made it look easy but even going D1 like less than 1% of people make it. So I just I really give people that real. I mean even as a speaker bro in this industry people think oh just because

I started a podcast, I'm gonna be successful. Or I started a business, I'm supposed to be, or I'm a speaker, and man, like, I'm not on stages. I'm like, bro, I've been doing this for 15 years, year and year one. Like grind it out, but most people quit because they don't get that instant gratification

or that entitlement that they want. All right, last topic, charity. Why should people in their households or in their business incorporate charity and philanthropy into their world? If I can tell you one thing that's blessed my life, it's given other people without expecting anything in return. I don't know how it works. I don't know why it works and I don't do it to receive back. But my dad and my mom has always taught me like when God blesses you, you got to bless them back by giving other people. And so I do things silently for people that I make a promise like I tell them make a promise, don't tell anybody. And it's like

planting seed in a fertile ground. And I can't explain it just brings a multitude of harvest back to your life. And so I also know how it feels like to be a rock bottom. So why wouldn't you do for others that you would want somebody to do for yourself? So you're giving these blessings, not to keep to yourself, but to spread to other people. And that's how legacy, that's how your goodness, you know what I mean, multiplies. And so that's what it is for me.

Because if I was in that position, you know, I got a chance to go to Fiji three times and I've done events for free. And people say, you should have charged, you should have charged. But I'm like, nah, man, I don't want to charge. It's a third world country. I want to go and give goodness back.

And I know at some point it might not come back financially for me, but it might come back for my kids. It might come back on a health thing that is maybe not tied directly, but I'm blessed because I did this for somebody kids. It might come back on a health thing that is maybe not tied directly, but I'm blessed because I did this for somebody else. And so that's why I believe that it's important and more people need to start being more givers. What is the final thing that you would say to people that are listening in our crazy world right now, especially in an election year, there's so much chaos in the media.

How can people stay calm in the chaos? I would tell you to really get clear on what matters. And it's so easy to lose your focus on things that don't serve your life, don't serve your soul, don't move a needle in your life. Get focused on the things that's going to really help you help your family and help your mission and your vision. And a lot of people, you know, pick up their cell phones, they scroll all day, they pick up their cell phones and say they don't have time,

but you're spending time on things that waste your time. So I'll tell you, get incredibly focused on the things that matter. And I'll just tell you this, I know it seems morbid, but forever comes with an expiration date. And so when you realize that, you'll stop playing with time. So that's what I'll tell you, stop playing with time and go live your best life.

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