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Jason stands ten toes down for sports fans. Today, he takes umbrage with Stephen A. Smith blaming the fans for the influx of Europeans into the NBA, referring to the “whitening” of the game. Jason comments on Stephen A. explaining Kevin Durant's rant about AAU and European basketball. Is Stephen A. leading blocking for NBA overlords? Dre Baldwin and Jay Skapinac join Jason to discuss Smith's comments; the fact that Luka Doncic and LeBron James simply don't blend; and whether Cameron Boozer is a better prospect than Darryn Peterson. Danny Kanell and Jason cover a full spectrum of football topics from he Rooney Rule to the best college quarterbacks of the 21st century. Kanell also explains why he would pass on Kansas star Darryn Peterson. ​​Today's Sponsors: Relief Factor If you're living with daily aches and pain, Relief Factor might be the real deal for you too. Try the 3-week QuickStart today! Visit https://ReliefFactor.com or call 800-4-RELIEF. ➢ Subscribe Jason's other channel https://www.youtube.com/@JasonWhitlockHarmony  https://www.youtube.com/@JasonWhitlockBYOG  ➢ Connect with Jason on Social Media:  https://x.com/WhitlockJason https://www.instagram.com/realjasonwhitlock/ https://www.facebook.com/jasonwhitlock ➢ Send Jason an Email FearlessBlazeShow@gmail.com ➢ Support The Blaze Visit https://TheBlaze.com. Explore the all-new ad-free experience and see for yourself how we're standing up against suppression and prioritizing independent journalism. Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://www.fearlessmission.com and get $20 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jason explains the outrage of feminists regarding President Trump's comments while speaking with the U.S. men's hockey gold medal celebration in the locker room. The president quipped that he had to invite the U.S. women's gold medal team, along with the men, to the State of the Union address or he could be impeached. Feminists were immediately outraged at the affront to the very existence of women! Butter and T.J. Moe join the show to expound on the topic of patriarchy vs. matriarchy. It's NFL Combine time, and Bucky Brooks comes aboard covering everything NFL, as well as ESPN's ranking for the top 100 quarterbacks of the century. Jay Skapinac and Dre Baldwin conclude the show, chatting about the saga of Darryn Peterson and the potential for one of the worst sequels in sports: the rematch of the aging Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao. ​​Today's Sponsors: Ghost Bed I used to think a mattress was just furniture until I tried my GhostBed. With a 101-night risk-free trial, you can see the difference for yourself. Right now, they're offering their lowest prices of the season, plus an extra 10% off. Visit https://GhostBed.com/FEARLESS and use promo code FEARLESS. Blaze State of the Union Tonight, Donald J. Trump delivers his first State of the Union address as the 47th president. Join your favorite BlazeTV hosts for live commentary on key issues like the housing crisis, immigration, and the limits of government. It's the perfect time to sign up—use code SOTU40 to save $40. Visit https://fearlessmission.com for your backstage pass. ➢ Subscribe Jason's other channel https://www.youtube.com/@JasonWhitlockHarmony  https://www.youtube.com/@JasonWhitlockBYOG  ➢ Connect with Jason on Social Media:  https://x.com/WhitlockJason https://www.instagram.com/realjasonwhitlock/ https://www.facebook.com/jasonwhitlock ➢ Send Jason an Email FearlessBlazeShow@gmail.com ➢ Support The Blaze Visit https://TheBlaze.com. Explore the all-new ad-free experience and see for yourself how we're standing up against suppression and prioritizing independent journalism. Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://www.fearlessmission.com and get $20 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The U.S. Olympic hockey team managed to win the gold medal, beating heated rival Canada while stomping on the throat of anti-American sentiment. While the media focused on social issues, Jack Hughes' goal in overtime was amplified by his and teammates' postgame comments: proud to be Americans. Butter returns to "Fearless," teaming up with Steve Kim to discuss a growing list of feel-good sports stories over the last few months. Where does Hughes' toothless celebratory picture rank among the most memorable sports snapshots? How about U.S. goalie Connor Hellebuyck ranking among the all-time best big-game performances? Jay Skapinac and Dre Baldwin join Jason and Steve, covering a plethora of pertinent basketball topics and rumors that Floyd Mayweather is returning to the ring to alleviate financial issues. The show concludes with the Peanut Gallery review. ​​Today's Sponsors: BUBS Naturals The holidays can disrupt your recovery and overall well-being, which is why BUBS Naturals Collagen Peptides is essential for restoring collagen levels and supporting joints, skin, and recovery. Go to https://BUBSNaturals.com and enjoy 20% off your purchase with code “FEARLESS” at checkout for a limited time! Relief Factor If you're living with daily aches and pain, Relief Factor might be the real deal for you too. Try the 3-week QuickStart today! Visit https://ReliefFactor.com or call 800-4-RELIEF. ➢ Subscribe Jason's other channel https://www.youtube.com/@JasonWhitlockHarmony  https://www.youtube.com/@JasonWhitlockBYOG  ➢ Connect with Jason on Social Media:  https://x.com/WhitlockJason https://www.instagram.com/realjasonwhitlock/ https://www.facebook.com/jasonwhitlock ➢ Send Jason an Email FearlessBlazeShow@gmail.com ➢ Support The Blaze Visit https://TheBlaze.com. Explore the all-new ad-free experience and see for yourself how we're standing up against suppression and prioritizing independent journalism. Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://www.fearlessmission.com and get $20 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jason highlights the noticeable difference between the navigated paths of Pat McAfee and Stephen A. Smith. McAfee wants to be the manliest man in the business in search of fame, while Stephen A. Smith panders to women and the soap-opera crowd, building a political brand in search of power. Steve Kim and Dre Baldwin join the show to expound on the McAfee and Smith diverging brands. They discuss Darryn Peterson calling the shots at Kansas as he installs personal time management while Kansas prepares for March Madness. ​​Today's Sponsors: PreBorn PreBorn has helped rescue more than 400,000 babies, and every single day, they continue that work by offering mothers something powerful and life-changing: an ultrasound. Will you help us? Just dial #250 and say the keyword “BABY” or donate securely at https://Preborn.com/FEARLESS  ➢ Subscribe Jason's other channel https://www.youtube.com/@JasonWhitlockHarmony  https://www.youtube.com/@JasonWhitlockBYOG  ➢ Connect with Jason on Social Media:  https://x.com/WhitlockJason https://www.instagram.com/realjasonwhitlock/ https://www.facebook.com/jasonwhitlock ➢ Send Jason an Email FearlessBlazeShow@gmail.com ➢ Support The Blaze Visit https://TheBlaze.com. Explore the all-new ad-free experience and see for yourself how we're standing up against suppression and prioritizing independent journalism. Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://www.fearlessmission.com and get $20 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The dictionary defines tanking as deliberately losing or failing to finish. Jason delves into Mark Cuban actually saying that the NBA should embrace tanking. Cuban implied that teams should be more focused on the game-day experience and ticket prices than on tanking. Dre Baldwin, Steve Kim, and Jay Skapinac join the show, offering their takes on Cuban's comments, the notion that Michael Jordan could become the face of NASCAR, and the cancellation of Cam Newton's BET show, “106 and Sports,” after only eight episodes. This cancellation followed Newton's remarks about not having any attractive women in his life to avoid sexual relations with them. Danny Kanell makes his weekly appearance, opining on Kyler Murray, Travis Hunter, and Tyreek Hill. Jason closes the show by checking in on the journey of Pastor Brooks as well as the pastor's remembrance of Jesse Jackson. ​​Today's Sponsors: CB Distillery Everything CB Distillery makes is premium quality — no artificial fillers, no junk. Just clean, plant-based CBD that people trust and come back for. Whether CBD is already part of your routine, or you've been curious about trying it, now is the time to stock up and save up to 50%! Visit https://CBDistillery.com and use code VIP. ➢ Subscribe Jason's other channel https://www.youtube.com/@JasonWhitlockHarmony  https://www.youtube.com/@JasonWhitlockBYOG  ➢ Connect with Jason on Social Media:  https://x.com/WhitlockJason https://www.instagram.com/realjasonwhitlock/ https://www.facebook.com/jasonwhitlock ➢ Send Jason an Email FearlessBlazeShow@gmail.com ➢ Support The Blaze Visit https://TheBlaze.com. Explore the all-new ad-free experience and see for yourself how we're standing up against suppression and prioritizing independent journalism. Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://www.fearlessmission.com and get $20 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jason proclaims that for basketball to prosper, college basketball and the NBA need to work hand in hand. A player should develop his competitive edge and enhance his overall game on the college level prior to entering the NBA. It's incumbent upon the NBA to become a true partner with college basketball to maximize the players' game and marquee value. Dre Baldwin and Jay Skapinac join the show to discuss which games they enjoy the most: college ball or the NBA. How do we interpret the NBA All-Star Game TV ratings and Kendrick Perkins saying the younger players don't respect LeBron James? Matt McChesney comes aboard talking about Deion Sanders after former CU player Christian Fauria jumped off the Prime bandwagon. ​​Today's Sponsors: PreBorn PreBorn has helped rescue more than 400,000 babies, and every single day, they continue that work by offering mothers something powerful and life-changing: an ultrasound. Will you help us? Just dial #250 and say the keyword “BABY” or donate securely at https://Preborn.com/FEARLESS  ➢ Subscribe Jason's other channel https://www.youtube.com/@JasonWhitlockHarmony  https://www.youtube.com/@JasonWhitlockBYOG  ➢ Connect with Jason on Social Media:  https://x.com/WhitlockJason https://www.instagram.com/realjasonwhitlock/ https://www.facebook.com/jasonwhitlock ➢ Send Jason an Email FearlessBlazeShow@gmail.com ➢ Support The Blaze Visit https://TheBlaze.com. Explore the all-new ad-free experience and see for yourself how we're standing up against suppression and prioritizing independent journalism. Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://www.fearlessmission.com and get $20 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The NBA followed the NHL All-Star model of “them against us.” The league delivered an entertaining and competitive foursome of games that have been unanimously praised. Is it enough to save the format? Dre Baldwin, Steve Kim, and Jay Skapinac join the show to provide the answer. They also discuss Victor Wembanyama and Anthony Edwards, who were at their best. Are they the new faces of the league? Kevin Durant was burned twice yesterday: his poor ASG play and the release of the leaked message he sent via an X burner account. More than two years ago, Jason told you that Stephen A. Smith was being installed as a presidential candidate … or was it a warning? In a weekend interview with CBS, he kicked off the candidacy platform in a more polished and affable manner. Jason explains how the interview was a means of mending the fence with black women while disregarding Jesus. ​​Today's Sponsors: Relief Factor If you're living with daily aches and pain, Relief Factor might be the real deal for you too. Try the 3-week QuickStart today! Visit https://ReliefFactor.com or call 800-4-RELIEF. Mars Men Kick off the New Year strong with Mars Men, a natural testosterone stack that supports your body's own production rather than replacing it. For a limited time, my listeners can receive 50% off for life, plus free shipping AND 3 free gifts. Visit https://MenGoToMars.com today! ➢ Subscribe Jason's other channel https://www.youtube.com/@JasonWhitlockHarmony  https://www.youtube.com/@JasonWhitlockBYOG  ➢ Connect with Jason on Social Media:  https://x.com/WhitlockJason https://www.instagram.com/realjasonwhitlock/ https://www.facebook.com/jasonwhitlock ➢ Send Jason an Email FearlessBlazeShow@gmail.com ➢ Support The Blaze Visit https://TheBlaze.com. Explore the all-new ad-free experience and see for yourself how we're standing up against suppression and prioritizing independent journalism. Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://www.fearlessmission.com and get $20 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

T.J. Moe, Dre Baldwin, and Shemeka Michelle join Jason to discuss whether the TPUSA Super Bowl halftime show will succeed. Will it fill the void left with Bad Bunny taking the stage during the Super Bowl broadcast? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shemeka Michelle and Dre Baldwin join Jason to discuss the Grammys and in particular Nicki Minaj responding to host Trevor Noah dissing her during the broadcast. Minaj took to social media to highlight the demonic music industry. They will dissect Jemele Hill claiming that Donald Trump is responsible for Don Lemon's arrest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pam Grier claims she was forced to avoid seeing black people hung in trees during walks with her mother as a child in Columbus, Ohio. Jasmine Crockett further claims lynchings are still prevalent today in the South, and Trump is encouraging white supremacists to take off their hoods, while Coco Gauff states it's tough being a black woman in America. Dre Baldwin and Shemeka Michelle join to discuss whether black women have gone loco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we have the opportunity to learn from Dre Baldwin as he shares his transformative journey from a high school benchwarmer to a professional athlete and successful business leader. We dive into the powerful relationship between structure, discipline, and presence, uncovering practical strategies for developing confidence and turning consistent effort into true dominance in our careers. Through stories of personal growth and actionable insights, we discover how programming our mindset and asking better questions can unlock untapped potential in both business and everyday life.Timestamps:(00:00) - Michael Reddington introduces Dre Baldwin and previews episode topics.(03:33) - Dre Baldwin explains unconscious communication.(07:19) - Examples of context clues and perceptions in daily life.(12:53) - Discipline and how it translates into dominance for business.(14:07) - Dre Baldwin links discipline to structure, accountability, and sustained results.(20:24) - Leading by example and embodying discipline for business success.(26:35) - Dre's late start in basketball and journey to becoming a professional athlete.(33:35) - Using marketing and self-promotion to overcome disadvantages.(38:11) - The "third day" concept as the separator between amateurs and pros.(46:42) - How better questions unlock discipline and drive mindset shifts.Links and Resources:http://ThirdDayBook.comhttp://SalesDisciplineBook.comGet Dre's #DailyMotivation texts: Text LIVE to 305.384.6894 or click http://www.DreAllDay.com/text Power Presence Protocol: http://PowerPresenceProtocol.comSponsor Links:InQuasive: http://www.inquasive.com/

From the courts of professional basketball to the boardrooms of business, Dre Baldwin unpacks why discipline, systems, and consistency—not motivation—separate the top 2% from the rest. A masterclass on structure, presence, confidence, and sustainable success.00:35- About Dre BaldwinDre is the owner of Work On Your Game Inc.He's also an author of several books. 

On today's episode of “Harmony,” Jason is joined by Shemeka Michelle, Dre Baldwin, and Virgil Walker to discuss the chaotic events in Minneapolis with ICE and a bunch of protesters. Is this the second coming of George Floyd? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Suspect officiating, Shedeur capping, and Baker failing to cook. Fearless tackles the most intriguing topics from the weekend football action. Jason Whitlock is joined by Steve Kim on how Derrick Henry could spend much of the fourth quarter on the sidelines as the Baltimore Ravens blew an 11-point lead losing to New England... DK Metcalf tells a Lions' fan, keep my name out your mouth shoving the fan in the stands during the game. Metcalf is the latest in a lineage of Steelers' diva receivers... Why was Myles Garrett well after the play, credited with half a sack? Shedeur Sanders proves once again he's apt to gain more yards rushing than passing, and fails to capitalize during the final three drives to the Browns to victory... Shannon Sharpe says it's all about the pinky. Is Trevor Lawrence now who we thought he was then? The CFP action on Saturday was an abomination. The show concludes with Virgil Walker, Shemeka Michelle and Dre Baldwin discussing Dave Chappelle proving he's the latest "plant" misguiding through idolatry along with the strange twist of Nicki Minaj all but replacing Candace Owens in the TPUSA universe. Buckle up... CLICK HERE to Subscribe to Jason Whitlock's YouTube: https://bit.ly/3jFL36G CLICK HERE to Listen to Jason Whitlock's podcast: https://apple.co/3zHaeLT CLICK HERE to Follow Jason Whitlock on X: https://bit.ly/3hvSjiJ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode of “Harmony,” Jason Whitlock is joined by Shemeka Michelle, Virgil Walker, and Dre Baldwin to discuss whether Erika Kirk and Candace Owens can make peace after Kirk revealed she is meeting with Owens for a private discussion. They also talk about Bari Weiss and CBS ambushing the MAGA movement with a town hall Weiss led with Kirk as a guest.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode of “Harmony,” Jason Whitlock is joined by Shemeka Michelle, Virgil Walker, Anthony Walker, and Dre Baldwin to discuss Erika Kirk, Candace Owens, and Tim Pool debating Charlie Kirk's death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Some people talk about mindset — Dre Baldwin lives it. On this episode of The CJ Moneyway Sh$w, CJ sits down with Dre “All Day” Baldwin — former professional basketball player turned entrepreneur, author of 35+ books, and global speaker whose Work On Your Game philosophy has reached millions worldwide. From scoring two points a game in high school to carving out a nine-year pro basketball career overseas, Dre's story is a masterclass in grind, growth, and grace under pressure. In this powerful conversation, CJ and Dre dive into: The walk-on story that started it all at Penn State Abington How rejection built his mental game stronger than any coach ever could Why “work ethic is a strategy,” not just a buzzword How to turn your discipline into a global brand — brick by brick Dre also opens up about life before social media — how he learned to self-motivate without followers, clout, or algorithms. “If I didn't make the team, I just got better. There was no Plan B — just Plan ‘Keep Going.'” This episode is for every creator, athlete, and entrepreneur who's ever been told they weren't good enough. Because Dre Baldwin is proof that belief beats talent when talent stops working. Listen → https://pod.link/1707761906 Watch → https://www.youtube.com/@themoneywayshow8493 Shop → https://c.jmoneyway.com Subscribe → https://substack.com/@cjmoneyway?r=3vvrmy&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile #TheCJMoneywaySh$w #DreBaldwin #WorkOnYourGame #Discipline #Mindset #Entrepreneurship #BrickByBrick #BleavNetwork #Motivation #FromBenchToBrand #BigDog #GR3 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What if you could stop running on empty—and still perform at your best? That's the question Erin Coupe, author of "I Can Fit That In" (and host of a podcast by the same name), invites leaders to ask. She challenges the old "time management" mindset that rewards burnout and box-checking, replacing it with a human-centered strategy of presence, choice, and renewal. Her message? Productivity doesn't come from cramming more into your day—it comes from creating rituals that restore you. Erin works with executives and teams to help them shift from survival mode to sustainable performance. Through keynotes, workshops, and cohort-based learning, she guides people to design their own energizing rituals—intentional practices that bring clarity, calm, and connection. It's not about doing more. It's about aligning what you do with what truly matters. Her approach transforms corporate cultures. Teams that once ran on autopilot begin building trust, transparency, and shared language. Leaders rediscover focus and resilience. And when people take these lessons home—teaching them to spouses, partners, and even kids—the impact multiplies. As Peter Winick explores in this episode of Leveraging Thought Leadership, Erin's work goes beyond productivity hacks or quick fixes. It's about conscious leadership. Healthy boundaries. Self-respect. And recognizing that how we show up—at work and at home—is a choice. Tune in to hear how organizations are embracing her frameworks to create more intentional, energized, and emotionally intelligent workplaces—one ritual at a time. Three Key Takeaways: • Rituals energize, routines drain. Intentional rituals create meaning and renewal, while rigid routines often lead to burnout. • Mindset drives performance. Shifting from overcommitment to presence and self-respect builds clarity and sustainable success. • Culture grows through connection. Shared rituals and language strengthen trust, resilience, and emotional intelligence within teams. Loved Erin Coupe's insights on transforming burnout into clarity through intentional rituals? Then don't miss our conversation with Dre Baldwin on Think Big, Act Bigger. Both episodes explore how mindset shapes sustainable performance—Erin focuses on the inner rituals that ground us, while Dre breaks down the mental systems that drive consistent action. Together, they form a one-two punch for leaders who want to perform at a high level without losing themselves in the process.

In this episode, Patrick Francey sits down with Dre Baldwin to explore what it really takes to command a room, win consistently, and translate athletic rigor into business results. Dre opens by defining presence as an energetic signal people feel before they know your resume. It is not height, clothing, or a pasted-on smile. Presence is the outward expression of inner order built from discipline, structure, strategy, execution, and confidence. Patrick shares a story about receiving feedback that his natural intensity could feel intimidating. By loosening his look and adding a conscious smile, he noticed people approached him more easily. Dre explains that strong presence creates productive tension. You can dial that tension up or down, but easing it too much can reduce your impact. Dre draws on sports to explain why presence cannot be faked. In basketball, the scoreboard is objective. Talent gets you in the door, but disciplined habits keep you there. The pros and the “plumbers” both know thousands want their spot, so work ethic matters most on the days you do not feel like showing up. That same logic applies in business. Leaders with true presence raise standards without speeches. Their very arrival makes others sit up, focus, and perform. Mindset is the first lever. Dre uses the BE → DO → HAVE model. You become the person, then you do the work, and only then do you have the results. Because most thoughts are subconscious, you must reprogram the mind through repetition, immersion, and emotional intensity. Practical cues like posture, eye contact, and putting your phone away can spark a quick confidence reset, but lasting presence comes from living your structure daily. Dre also addresses life after sport. He intentionally planned his transition rather than defaulting to coaching or training. The concept of “credibility fusion” allows you to carry forward lessons from different arenas and combine them into a coherent value proposition. He closes with his GAME model for achievement: define what winning looks like, build the skills and tools, install structure that produces discipline, let discipline create consistency, let consistency build confidence, and let confidence power performance and results. Patrick wraps by highlighting the episode's central insight: presence is a way of being that anyone can build through disciplined execution and a trained mind. To receive Dre's FREE book, The Third Day

What does it really take to build unshakable discipline and a winning mindset? For that and more, follow us here and subscribe to our YouTube channel!In this episode of Built Online, we talk with Dre Baldwin, former professional basketball player and founder of Work On Your Game, a company helping entrepreneurs systematize discipline, confidence, and mental toughness. Dre shares how he went from uploading basketball drills on early YouTube to building a global brand, why success is a process of “being” before “doing,” and how entrepreneurs can reprogram their mindset to perform at the highest level. ------------DRE BALDWIN:- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/Dreupt- Website: http://www.workonyourgame.com- Book: http://thirddaybook.com- Facebook: http://facebook.com/WorkOnYourGameUniversity- Instagram: http://instagram.com/DreBaldwin------------

Ready to upgrade your game? In a fascinating interview with Sales POP! Online Sales Magazine, author and former pro athlete Dre Baldwin broke down his system for disciplined execution and dominance. This isn't your typical "work harder" advice. It's a strategic framework built on four critical pillars. First, Dre introduces his "third day" concept, highlighting how discipline separates pros from amateurs. He explains that it's about showing up consistently, even when motivation is gone. Second, he challenges the myth of "too much confidence," arguing that true confidence is built by giving yourself permission to become the best version of yourself, your "Super You." Third, Dre teaches us to distinguish between physical and mental errors, a key to developing mental toughness. Lastly, he stresses that personal initiative is what turns knowledge into real-world results.

This week we chat to Dre Baldwin.  Dre is an International Social Media expert, author, entrepreneur and business coach with a professional athlete background. After graduating with a Business Marketing & Management degree from Penn State Altoona in 2004, Dre played professional basketball internationally for 9 years, spanning 8 countries.  Dre had started blogging in 2005, and began filming and publishing his basketball workouts and motivational messages to YouTube in 2006.In 2009. He has published over 4,800 videos to YouTube, which go out to his 100,000+ subscribers and have been viewed over 35 million times.   Tune in now!

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What if the only thing standing between you and consistent results in your business was a system—a real, repeatable strategy that guarantees progress regardless of your background or industry? I’m thrilled to introduce someone who’s not only lived the highs of professional sport but has translated that same discipline into a business methodology that’s changing lives—Dre Baldwin. Dre is the founder of Work On Your Game, a platform built to teach business owners and entrepreneurs how to harness discipline, mental toughness, confidence, and personal initiative. After a nine-year career as a professional basketball player, Dre pivoted into entrepreneurship, becoming a renowned speaker—having delivered four TED Talks—and the author of a staggering 41 books. His work is all about making success replicable through systems, not just motivation. In this episode, Dre breaks down how to apply a professional athlete’s mindset to business—where routine, structure, and focus aren’t just helpful but essential. Whether you’re just starting or scaling, the ideas Dre shares are powerful, actionable, and immediately relevant. You’ll also hear how you can get a free copy of his book, so make sure to listen all the way through. Trust me—this conversation is loaded with golden nuggets that’ll fire you up and equip you to implement straight away. We’ll be talking about: ➡ [0:00] Introduction➡ [3:00] Dre’s background and transition into business➡ [6:07] From sports to entrepreneurship—ten years of evolution➡ [9:03] Becoming CEO, speaker, and author of 41 books➡ [12:03] Why your business growth is tied to personal growth➡ [15:04] The passion and process behind authentic selling➡ [18:05] Why industry doesn’t matter—discipline applies universally➡ [21:06] When you’re doing everything “right” but results lag➡ [24:20] Marketing vs Selling➡ [26:19] Dre’s 3 tips on marketing your business ➡ [28:53] Collaborations build relationships➡ [34:39] Discipline comes from…➡ [38:52] Getting foundations right➡ [39:09] The real role of marketing vs selling➡ [44:06] Going back to basics➡ [45:21] Dre’s advice for people just getting started ➡ [49:31] Getting structure in place ➡ [51:19] Check out Dre’s socials and website ➡ [52:43] Everybody has a game➡ [53:22] Recommended reads that shaped Dre’s mindset➡ [53:49] Dream superpowers and how they’d use them➡ [54:23] Quotes that drive Dre’s philosophy and actions➡ [55:24] Advice Dre would give to his younger self➡ [56:00] Final reflections Resources Recommended Book: ➡ The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene: https://amzn.to/4m5RVHE ➡ The Sales Discipline System by Dre Baldwin Grabe a free copy at : https://www.salesdisciplinebook.com/how-to-hit-your-quotas-every-time-and-top-you-team-s-sales-charts-no-more-unpredictable-income-or-slow-revenue-months Quotes: ➡ “You're not a champion in life until you’re in a situation where you’re losing, and you still win” by Damon Dash About our guest: Dre Baldwin is CEO and Founder of Work On Your Game Inc. He has given 4 x TED Talks and has authored 41 books. Dre had a 9-year professional basketball career, playing in 8 countries. Dre’s Work On Your Game framework is a "roadmap in reverse" to help 6-figure professionals systematize & scale their businesses to 7 figures. Connect with Dre Baldwin ​ ➡ Dre Baldwin’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorkOnYourGameUniversity/ ➡ Dre Baldwin’s LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dreallday ➡ Dre Baldwin’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drebaldwin/?hl=en ➡ Dre Baldwin’s Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@DreB ➡ Dre Baldwin’s Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/drebaldwin ➡ Dre Baldwin’s X: https://x.com/dreallday?lang=en Connect with Work On Your Game ➡ Work On Your Game’s Website: WorkOnYourGameUniversity.com Third Day Book website: ThirdDayBook.com Connect with Direct Selling Accelerator: ➡ Visit our website: https://www.auxano.global/ ➡ Subscribe to Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DirectSellingAccelerator ➡ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/auxanomarketing/ ➡ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/auxanomarketing/ ➡ Email us at communnity_manager@auxano.global If you have any podcast suggestions or things you’d like to learn about specifically, please send us an email at the address above. And if you liked this episode, please don’t forget to subscribe, tune in, and share this podcast. Are you ready to join the Auxano Family to get live weekly training, support and the latest proven posting strategies to get leads and sales right now - find out more here https://go.auxano.global/welcomeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What's really holding you back from the life you want?Is it a lack of talent… or a lack of belief? Are you waiting for permission to step into the version of yourself you know is possible—but haven't unleashed yet?Too many ambitious people get stuck watching others succeed, telling themselves they'll “get their shot” someday. But what if that day never comes—unless you create it?Our guest today, Dre Baldwin, knows exactly what that's like. Cut from his high school basketball team three years in a row and barely scoring two points per game the one year he played, Dre had every reason to quit. Instead, he turned rejection into fuel—eventually carving out a 9-year professional career overseas, building a massive online following before “influencer” was even a word, and becoming a leading voice on discipline, confidence, and mental toughness.Dre's not just another motivational speaker—he's a systems thinker who can break down winning mindsets and processes so clearly that anyone can apply them. Whether you're chasing athletic dreams, building a business, or just trying to level up your life, Dre's insights on mindset, self-permission, and creating opportunities will challenge your excuses and sharpen your game.Quotes:“My superpower was and is my ability to understand something and then be able to break it down and put it back together and articulate it to other people. It doesn't matter the subject.” - Dre Baldwin“The mind decides, the flesh obeys. Once you decide that something's going to happen, your body has no choice but to follow if you've actually decided.”  - Dre Baldwin“That belief they can see what nobody else sees, especially in themselves, is a separating factor from influential individuals who go on to create something.” - Matt BeaudreauKey Takeaways:Belief Before Evidence – Dre kept working on his game for four years without external proof of progress. You must believe in your own potential before the results show up.Self-Permission Changes Everything – Most people stay stuck because they conform to their current identity. Give yourself permission to operate as your “Super You,” and you'll unlock abilities you've always had.Create Your Own Opportunities – Dre went from no offers to a pro career by cold-calling 60 agents and sending game footage himself. Don't wait—initiate.Conclusion:Dre Baldwin's story proves that success isn't about waiting for the perfect break—it's about creating it, long before anyone else believes you're ready. From the blacktop courts of Philadelphia to nine years as a pro athlete, and now as a sought-after entrepreneur and mindset coach, Dre has shown that the right mix of belief, discipline, and systems can turn any ambition into reality.Whether you're chasing a championship, building a business, or reinventing your life, the principles in this conversation aren't just inspiring—they're actionable. Your “Super You” is already there, waiting. The only question is: will you give yourself permission to step into it?Resources & Links: FREE Book – The Third Day: http://ThirdDayBook.com (3- and 10-book gift options available) – Become an affiliate (40% commission) here. FREE Book – The Sales Discipline System: http://SalesDisciplineBook.com (Bulk options available) Work On Your Game University: http://www.WorkOnYourGameUniversity.comAbout Dre Baldwin:Dre Baldwin is CEO and Founder of Work On Your Game Inc. He has given 4 TEDx Talks, authored 41 books, and his content has been consumed over 103 million times. His daily Work On Your Game MasterClass has over 3,300 episodes and 7.6 million listeners. Dre enjoyed a 9-year professional basketball career, playing in 8 countries. His framework is the “roadmap in reverse” for professional High Performance, Consistency, and Results.Website: http://www.WorkOnYourGame.com Contact: Marielle@DreAllDay.comSocial Media:InstagramYouTubeFacebookLinkedInTikToX (Twitter)

In this episode of GrowYourself, I sit down with Dre Baldwin, former professional basketball player and creator of the "Work On Your Game" brand to talk about what it really takes to show up when you least feel like it.Dre unpacks his powerful “Third Day” concept, shares how he transitioned from a Division III walk-on to a 9-year pro career, and why discipline, not motivation, is the real key to consistency and success.We talk about how to stay ready, build a system that works even when you don't want to, and how asking better questions leads to a better life.Topics We Cover:Why “The Third Day” separates the pros from the amateursHow to stay disciplined when no one is watchingBuilding confidence from the inside outDre's system for showing up daily (without burnout)How to prioritize life, family, faith, and successPODCAST INFO:Apple - https://tinyurl.com/GrowYourselfAppleSpotify - https://tinyurl.com/GrowYourselfSpotifyLinkTree - https://linktr.ee/kevinmcnultyConnect with Dre:Book: The Third Day - https://www.thirddaybook.com/Website: Dre All Day - https://www.dreallday.com/Website: https://www.drebaldwin.com/Podcast:    / @dreb  Connect with Kevin:X: @kevinspeaks2uLI: @kevinmcnultyspeaksFB: @kevinrichardmcnultyIG: @kevinmcnultyspeaksLinkTree: https://linktr.ee/kevinmcnulty

On this episode of Great Practice, Great Life®, Steve Riley welcomes Dre Baldwin, former professional basketball player, prolific author, and founder of Work on Your Game Inc. Dre shares how his career was shaped not just on the court, but at home, where his parents modeled daily discipline and quiet resilience that made him “too stupid to quit.” From an early age, Dre watched his parents show up for their responsibilities, day in and day out, regardless of how they felt. That consistency became the foundation of his own mindset: showing up was non-negotiable. It's a lesson he carried into his athletic career and beyond. When he didn't get drafted into the NBA, Dre pivoted. He found another path—one that required just as much discipline, and just as much resilience. Rather than see setbacks as failures, Dre treated them as invitations to grow. He began documenting his process and sharing videos online—before content creation was even a buzzword. As he continued to show up, his audience grew. His approach resonated not just with athletes, but with entrepreneurs, business professionals, and attorneys—anyone striving for consistency in the face of pressure. In this episode, Dre shares how he built a global platform rooted in daily execution and mental discipline. He talks about how a professional mindset—distinct from an amateur one—is the key to long-term results. Dre also introduces key ideas from his latest book, The Third Day, where he breaks down how to keep showing up when motivation runs dry. If you've ever felt burned out, unmotivated, or unsure how to push through, this episode is a must-listen. Dre Baldwin's Work on Your Game philosophy is a reminder that success isn't a moment—it's a practice. In this episode, you will hear: Dre Baldwin's transition from professional basketball player to influential content creator and coach  Insights into the distinction between amateur and professional mindsets  The role of resilience and creativity in overcoming challenges and achieving success  The concept of “The Third Day” and its importance for consistent persistence and professional commitment  The application of sports discipline and resilience to everyday life and professional settings  The importance of personal development and using setbacks as opportunities for growth  Dre's approach to content creation and engaging with a diverse audience beyond sports Catch Dre Baldwin live at this year's Summit! Dre will take the Atticus Summit stage as a keynote speaker with Work on Your Game: Apply the Pro Athlete Mindset at Work & in Life. In this engaging and inspiring session, you'll discover the Mental Game strategies Dre used to go from a benchwarmer to a professional—principles that apply not only at work, but also in the gym and in everyday life. You'll learn how to maximize productivity on “The Third Day,” leverage “Separation Days” to gain an edge over competitors, unlock your highest level of confidence through “The Super You,” prepare like the top 1% of achievers, and condition yourself to win like a champion athlete. Don't miss out! Early bird pricing for The Summit ends July 31. Register now and save! Support the Show Enjoyed this episode? Share it with a fellow podcaster or friend who'd love it too! Love what you're hearing? Help us grow by leaving a positive review—your support means the world. If there's a topic you would like us to cover on an upcoming episode, please email us at steve.riley@atticusadvantage.com. Supporting Resources: Dre Baldwin: www.dreallday.com Work On Your Game: www.workonyourgame.com Includes free training from Dre to increase business without working harder  Dre (DreAllDay) Baldwin LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dreallday Dre Baldwin Instagram: www.instagram.com/drebaldwin Dre “DreAllDay” Baldwin YouTube: www.youtube.com/@DreAllDay Want to contact Dre? Marielle@DreAllDay.com Text Dre to get his free #MondayMotivation text: 1.305.384.6894 The Third Day: The Decision That Separates The Pros From The Amateurs by Dre Baldwin: ThirdDayBook.com Dre's Books on Amazon: www.amazon.com/stores/Dre-Baldwin/author/B00AQ9NA7A Podcast: Work On Your Game: Dominate With Mindset, Strategy & Execution: podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/work-on-your-game-dominate-with-mindset-strategy-execution/id1102601387 Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill: www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Landmark-Bestseller/dp/1585424331 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene: www.amazon.com/Concise-Laws-Power-Robert-Greene/dp/1861974043 The Summit: atticussummit.com Episode Credits If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Emerald City Productions. They helped me grow and produce the podcast you are listening to right now. Find out more at https://emeraldcitypro.com Let them know we sent you.

Dre Baldwin is the CEO and Founder of Work On Your Game Inc. A former professional basketball player, Dre has delivered four TEDx Talks, authored 41 books, and amassed over 103 million views on his content. His Work On Your Game MasterClass podcast has over 3,300 episodes and 7.6 million listeners. Dre teaches entrepreneurs, athletes, and business professionals how to master discipline, confidence, and mental toughness to drive performance and consistency.SHOW SUMMARYDre Baldwin is the CEO and Founder of Work On Your Game Inc. A former professional basketball player, Dre has delivered four TEDx Talks, authored 41 books, and amassed over 103 million views on his content. His Work On Your Game MasterClass podcast has over 3,300 episodes and 7.6 million listeners. Dre teaches entrepreneurs, athletes, and business professionals how to master discipline, confidence, and mental toughness to drive performance and consistency. SHOW SUMMARY In this episode of Selling from the Heart Podcast, Larry Levine and Darrell Amy are joined by Dre Baldwin, also known as Dre All Day. Dre shares the powerful concept of “The Third Day”—the moment where discipline, mindset, and resilience collide. From basketball courts around the world to stages and podcasts that influence millions, Dre reveals how consistency and confidence are key to thriving in sales and life. The episode also highlights how sales professionals can show up as their authentic selves and maintain performance even when motivation is gone. If you're ready to rise above mediocrity and embrace discipline as your edge, this is your episode. KEY TAKEAWAYS The Third Day Concept: The toughest day in any journey is the Third Day—the day you show up without external motivation. It's also the day that separates amateurs from professionals. Discipline Creates Confidence: Repeated, consistent effort builds internal belief and trust in your abilities. Mindset is Foundational: Success in sales (and life) begins with how you think and view yourself. Take Initiative: The best opportunities come to those who proactively create them. Show Up Authentically: Selling from the heart means showing up as your true self, no matter the setting. Sales as Service: Selling is not about pressure—it's about helping, guiding, and leading.HIGHLIGHT QUOTES Discipline is the decision that separates the pros from the amateurs.Your moral obligation as a salesperson is to help people, and that's the only way you make money.Nobody can perform in a way that is incongruent with how they see themselves for an extended period of time.Mindset is the foundation of everything. What you think leads to what you do, and what you do leads to what you get. 

In this episode, I join Erik Berglund (a former client and host of I Have Some Questions…) for a deep dive into what truly drives fulfillment. We unpack my path from Wall Street to building a seven-figure coaching business and now scaling his hedge fund, Tiger Rock Capital Management.Topics include:The hidden gap between external success and internal satisfactionWhat makes a coaching business actually scalableWhy emotional regulation and identity drive real resultsHow to know when it's time to go all-in on yourselfI also share how my background — including a JD-MBA, years in finance, and hundreds of thousands invested in coaching and therapy - shaped my mission and mindset.

The Great Black Race Hoax could be the scam of the decade. On a special episode of "Fearless," Jason is joined by American author and political analyst Boyce Watkins, entrepreneur and influencer Dre Baldwin, public speaker and author Vince Everett Ellison, and "Fearless" contributor Virgil Walker to discuss the nationwide Ponzi scheme that has fooled Americans for the last 5-10 years. In the second hour, a second panel joins the show as former police officer and conservative political commentator Brandon Tatum, political scientist Wilfred Reilly, and "Fearless" contributor Delano Squires give their takes on the Great Black Race Hoax. This calls into question every racially fueled feud that has occurred over the last decade. The demand for racism far outweighs the supply. We must stand for truth in this era of deception. If you can't get enough of "Fearless," hop over to "Jason Whitlock Harmony," where Steve Kim and Whitlock expand on Angel Reese's dramatic antics. Anthony Walker also joins the conversation to address Joe Rogan's possible conversion to Christianity. An amazing show you don't want to miss! That's all folks. ​​Today's Sponsors: PreBorn PreBorn empowers women facing unplanned pregnancies to choose life by offering free ultrasounds and compassionate support. This care aims to foster a profound connection between mothers and their unborn babies, instilling hope. To support PreBorn's mission, dial #250 and say "BABY" or visit https://preborn.com/FEARLESS. The Last Rodeo Don't miss The Last Rodeo, a compelling story of grit, redemption, and family values, in  theaters right now!. Secure your seats now at https://Angel.com/JASON. Relief Factor With Relief Factor, you'll feel better every day, and you'll live better every day. Get their 3-Week QuickStart for only $19.95 – that's less than a dollar a day. Call 1-800-4-Relief Or Visit https://ReliefFactor.com  SHOW OUTLINE 04:16 Is Systemic Racism A Scam? w/ Dr. Boyce Watkins, Virgil Walker, Vince Ellison, Dre Baldwin 44:56 Angel Reese 0-8 From Field in Loss to the New York Liberty 1:02:30 Is Systemic Racism A Scam? w/ Delano Squires, Brandon Tatum, Wilfred Reilly, Shemeka Michelle We want to hear from the Fearless Army!! Join the conversation in the show chat, leave a comment or email Jason at FearlessBlazeShow@gmail.com Want more Fearless content? Subscribe to Jason Whitlock Harmony for a biblical perspective on everyday issues at https://www.youtube.com/@JasonWhitlockHarmony Get 10% off Blaze swag by using code Fearless10 at https://shop.blazemedia.com/fearless Make yourself an official member of the “Fearless Army!” Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://get.blazetv.com/FEARLESS and get $20 off your yearly subscription. Visit https://TheBlaze.com. Explore the all-new ad-free experience and see for yourself how we're standing up against suppression and prioritizing independent journalism. CLICK HERE to Subscribe to Jason Whitlock's YouTube: https://bit.ly/3jFL36G CLICK HERE to Listen to Jason Whitlock's podcast: https://apple.co/3zHaeLTCLICK HERE to Follow Jason Whitlock on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3hvSjiJ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest this time, Dario Valenza, is all that and more. Dario hales from Australia where he grew up and went to high school. He then attended two years of college but then left academia to work on working on designing yachts for, among events, the America's Cup races. Eventually he did return to college to finish his degree. He does tell us that he has a passion for design thinking and designing. As you will discover he has designed yachts, aircraft including innovative drones and even automobiles.   We talk about how his over-arching passion for design thinking also helps him design functioning and successful teams. Dario is a team leader by any standard.   He founded and owns a successful design and implementation company, Carbonix. Much of the work in which he is involved today is around having designed and now manufacturing long-range drones that can stay aloft and travel up to 800 Kilometers before needing refuelling. His products can and are being used for major surveying jobs and other projects that take advantage of the economic enhancements his products bring to the table.   Dario and I discuss leadership and how his design-oriented mindset has helped him be a strong and effective leader. I will leave it to him to describe how he works and how he helps bring out the best in people with whom he works.       About the Guest:   I have a passion for design and design thinking. This is the common thread that has led me to build yachts, planes, and cars - as well as create the teams and company structures to turn visions into reality.   I believe that beautiful design, as well as enabling and inspiring, is inherently valuable. Testing a new design it in the real world, particularly in competition, is a way to interrogate nature and understand the world.   I spent the first decade of my career working on racing yachts as a boatbuilder, designer, construction manager, and campaign manager. My treasured achievements include being part of several America's Cup teams and pioneering full hydrofoiling for World Championship winning boats.   I applied the lessons learned to other fields. This trajectory diversified into aerospace applications including drones.   I work to create products that bring joy by being desirable, aesthetically pleasing, and ergonomically correct, while always adding value through effective and efficient performance. I'm always keen to share my experiences and tackle new challenges with like-minded teams.   Ways to connect Dario:   Main point of contact is LI: https://au.linkedin.com/in/dario-valenza-a7380a23 Carbonix URL: www.carbonix.com.au Personal website: www.dariovalenza.com   About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/   https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast   If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can subscribe in your favorite podcast app. You can also support our podcast through our tip jar https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/unstoppable-mindset .   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review   Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.       Transcription Notes:   Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:20 Hi everyone. This is your host, Michael hingson, and you are listening to another episode of unstoppable mindset. And today our guest is Dario, if I'm pronouncing that right, Valenza, how do i pronounce it? Oh, good. Oh, good. I can sometimes speak the King's English really well. Dario is a person who has a great passion for design, and he's going to tell us about that. He has been involved in designing many things, from yachts to aircraft to other kinds of things, as well as teams in companies, which I think is very fascinating, that make products and bring things about. So we're going to get to all of that. Daro is in Australia, so it's early in the morning. There for you right now. But welcome to unstoppable mindset. We're glad you're here. Yeah, my pleasure. Glad to be here. So what time is it over there right now? About 11am Yeah, and it's little after three here. So, yep, you're 20 hours ahead   Dario Valenza ** 02:27 of us. No, here, it's Saturday, I assume. There it's Friday. It is to the confusion.   Michael Hingson ** 02:33 So, so, as it's always fun to do, can you tell us about the future over the next 20 hours?   02:40 So, so far so good. Yeah, there you are. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 02:43 thank you for being here and for being a part of unstoppable mindset. Let's start, if you would, by maybe you telling us a little bit about kind of the early Dario, growing up and some of those kinds of things, so that people listening and watching can get to know you a little bit better.   Dario Valenza ** 03:01 Yeah, absolutely. I think the interest in how things worked was there as long as anyone can remember being exposed early on to different mechanical things and from household appliances to looking at trains and busses and cars outside. I think that all piqued my curiosity. But I remember the first time I came across the concept of a sailboat. Something clicked, or something about the way an aerofoil works, the way it can generate motion out of wind, the balance of forces, the structures, the things that all need to work for a sailboat to work. That sort of got me hooked, and then I spent every waking moment I could reading about it, doing research, making models that I'd sail across the pool, getting involved at the local sailing club, and just being hands on. And I think that's really where the passion started. So certainly, there's a general wanting to see how things work, and there's a specific aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, structures, just, I find it endlessly fascinating. And you're always learning, and   Michael Hingson ** 04:10 should always be learning. I think that's one, of course, the real keys is always learning, which some people think they don't do, but and some people try very much not to do, but that's not the way to really progress in the world. So I'm glad that you do that. You've always lived in Australia.   Dario Valenza ** 04:27 No, actually, born in Italy, moved here probably 10 years old, went to high school and uni here.   Michael Hingson ** 04:37 Yeah, you do seem to have a little bit more of an Australian accent than an Italian one?   Dario Valenza ** 04:41 Yeah, I think I was young enough when I moved that I learned the language pretty quickly. I did spend few years in New Zealand and a few years in Europe, so I think my accent is probably a little bit of a hybrid, but mostly Australian. I'd say, do you speak Italian? Yes. Funny, you get rusty at it, though, like when I go back, it probably takes me a few days to get used to speaking it, yeah, but it is in there   Michael Hingson ** 05:08 which, which makes some sense. Well, so you went to high school, and did you go on to college?   Dario Valenza ** 05:15 Did the first couple of years of an engineering degree, dropped out to go and do the America's Cup. Eventually went back and finished it. But really haven't spent more time working than started. Putting it that way, the things I was interested in, particularly the the advent of carbon fiber in in racing yachts, hadn't found its way into any curriculum yet. It was it was happening on the frontier in that environment. And so my judgment was you could learn more by doing it and by going to uni. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 05:49 yeah, on the one hand, with school, to a large degree, it's theory, and putting it into practice is something that always brings you closer to it, which which makes sense. Well, so you, when you went to your first America's Cup, what did you were you just an observer? Were you involved in designing a yacht, or what?   Dario Valenza ** 06:10 I was a boat builder. I was hands on, on the manufacturing, and that was the way in that was the the opportunity I had to actually be part of a team and prove myself over the course of the campaign, I obviously showed an interest in design, and I became more de facto part of the design team. But I really always like to sit at that interface between the designing and the building, so that there's a practical element to yes, there's a theory, yes, there's a design, there's a bunch of analysis you can do having that practical mindset of, is it easy to build? Is it practical? Is it possible to then tune it and modify it and improve it? And that actually led me to a lot of the logistical challenges of, how do you plan a build? How do you allocate time towards the things that make the biggest difference towards performance. So the journey was really from hands on boat builder to sort of logistics, to design   Michael Hingson ** 07:08 well, and design is clearly been your passion overall. So that makes some sense. When did you do your first America's cut?   Dario Valenza ** 07:17 So I was involved in the 2000 event in Auckland, which was the first time the Kiwis defended after winning in 95 right? Then I did 2003 also in Auckland, 2007 in Valencia. And then there was a bit of a hiatus after Valencia, because of the deed of gift match. And I was involved in a couple of teams as that transition happened. And eventually 2012 I peeled off to start my own business.   Michael Hingson ** 07:44 So let's see the New Zealand won in 2000 right?   Dario Valenza ** 07:48 They defended successfully in 2000 so they they won in 95 in San Diego against Dennis Connor, and it took them five years to basically set up a defense. So from 95 to 2000 and then they won, and they rolled straight into 2003 they lost in 2003   Michael Hingson ** 08:05 that was to Italy. Was it to the Swiss or to the Swiss? Right? Okay,   Dario Valenza ** 08:11 even though the core of the sailing team was the former New Zealand team, the basically flag of allegiance, but yeah, the lingua team. Now, Were you successful challenger, which is amazing. Were you   Michael Hingson ** 08:25 living in New Zealand in 2003   Dario Valenza ** 08:29 Yes, yeah. So when you become involved in a team, basically the whole operation camps out at a at a base in the lead up to the event. At the time, the yacht still had to be constructed in country. So in 2003 for example, I was with a Swedish team. I actually spent a little bit of time in Sweden during the construction of the yacht, and then traveled with a yacht to New Zealand, and stayed there for the duration. I asked,   Michael Hingson ** 08:58 because I went to New Zealand in May of 2003 the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind, or of the blind, asked me to come and do some speaking. It was, of course, after September 11, and I was pretty visible, so I went down and actually helped them raise something like close to $300,000 by giving a bunch of speeches around New Zealand, but I remember listening to the radio and hearing all the irate people because New Zealand lost. The government didn't put enough money into it, and we shouldn't have lost it was pretty fascinating to to to hear all of that.   Dario Valenza ** 09:38 There was a campaign called the loyal campaign, just basically trying to reprimand the Kiwi sailors that affected at the end of the day. It's a professional sport. There were nationality rules, but it was really residency, so as long as they signed on with the Swiss team within a certain time. Period, it was like two years or something, and basically set up a residence in Switzerland, and they were eligible to compete. And I think there's been a history of that since the New Zealand government having Lisa supported in New Zealand, because it's certainly an investment in the national industry and tourism, everything that comes with it. And I think they did walk that back, particularly for the last event. And the latest result of that is the Kiwis defended in Spain last time around, which is again, unusual.   Michael Hingson ** 10:35 Well, it was, it was fascinating to watch the races, and we watched them was before I went to New Zealand. But that's why my wife and I watched, because we knew I was going there, and it was, it was all being defended in New Zealand. And of course, they were using sails, and the yachts were just going at normal sailboat type speeds. But I know then later, so much redesign took place, and the boats started traveling significantly faster, right?   Dario Valenza ** 11:08 Yeah, absolutely, there's been a change in that respect, just on the atmosphere in Auckland again, with my perspective, having, as I said, obsessed over sailing, worked my way up, got involved in campaigns, helped to put sponsors together with skippers, to get funding to build boats, and arriving in Auckland with the prospect of trialing with a team, you walk out of the airport and there's the actual boat that won the copy, 95 was sitting in The car park. There are posters. You can really see, like they called it the city of sales. And as I arrived the round the world race was stopping by in Auckland, so there was a sort of festive atmosphere around that. And you could really see people were getting behind it and getting involved. And it felt, you know, they had parades at the beginning of the event. So it was really special to be there at a time when there was maybe 12 teams. It was a big event. And to your point, they were symmetrical ballasted monohulls. So they were fairly conservative, you know, long, narrow, heavy boats. And the competition was really to eke out a one or 2% gain to have better maneuverability for match racing. And it was really down to that kind of refinement. And what happened after 2007 I mentioned a sort of hiatus, basically, two teams took each other to court, and they went back to what they call a deed of gift matches, which is the default terms that they have to abide by if they can't agree to a mutually agreeable protocol. And that deed of gift match ended up being in multi holes. So there was a catamaran and trimaran, and they were big and fast. And I think then, when the Americans won out of that, they they sort of got seduced by, let's make this about the fastest sailors and the faster boat in the fastest boats. So they went to multi holes. The next evolution was hydrofoiling Multi holes. And then once the boats are out of the water, the drag drops dramatically, and now they can go really fast. They ended up narrowly the Kiwis ended up narrowly losing in San Francisco. The Americans then defended Bermuda. The Kiwis eventually won in Bermuda. And then they in in sort of consultation with the challenge of record. That was Italians. They wanted to go back to monohulls, but they wanted them to be fast monohulls, and so they came up with this concept of a hydrofoiling monohull. So the boats now are certainly the fastest they've ever been, and the nature of the racing has changed, where it's more of a drag race than a sort of tactical match race. But it's still fascinating, because it's all about that last bit of technology, and it's all about resource management. You have so much time, you have so much budget, how do you get to the highest performance within that time that you can access, that the Sailors can get the best out of? So it's all a balance of many variables, and it's certainly tactical and strategic and very fascinating, but   Michael Hingson ** 14:18 hasn't a lot of the the tactics, in a sense, gone out of it, because it's now so much, as you put it, a drag race or a speed race, that a lot of the strategies of outmaneuvering your opponents isn't the same as it used to be.   Dario Valenza ** 14:37 Yeah. So if you imagine, the way you think about it is, it's a multi dimensional space. You've got all sorts of values that you can dial in, and the weighting of the values changes depending on the boat and the racing format and the weather so on a traditional monohull maneuvers are relatively cheap because the boat carries momentum. So when you tack you go. Through the eye of the wind, you lose drive for, you know, a second, three seconds, but your speed doesn't drop that much because a boat's heavy and it just powers along. And so if you have a three degree shift in the direction of the wind, it's worth tacking on that, because you'll then get the advantage of having a better angle. Similarly, if you're interacting with another boat, tacking to get out of their dirty air, or tacking to sit on top of them, is worthwhile, and so you get that the incentive is, I can spend some energy on a maneuver, because I'm going to get a gain when you have boats that are extremely fast, and we're talking three, four times faster than the wind, if the wind direction changes by three degrees, it's almost immaterial. And so it's not worth tacking on it. If you go through the dirty air of another boat, you get through it really quickly. And on the other hand, when you maneuver, you're effectively, you go from flying on the hydro force to gliding. You only have, like, a few boat lengths that you can do that for before the hull touches the water, and then you virtually stop. And so basically, the aim is you minimize maneuvers. You roll with the wind shifts. You roll with your opponent. And hence they've had to put boundaries around the course to force the boats back together, because otherwise I'd go out to a corner, do one tack and then go to the top mark. And so it's a different racing. It's still there are tactics involved, but the trade offs are different, that the cost versus reward of different tactical choices is very different.   Michael Hingson ** 16:31 But the race obviously goes with the newer designs, goes a lot faster, and it isn't hours and many hours of racing as it used to be, is that right?   Dario Valenza ** 16:42 It's also shorter course, so the format is kind of optimized for television, really, for, yeah, broadcast. So you have many short races, and it's it does mean that if you have a big disparity, like if one boat makes a mistake and falls a long way behind, it's over pretty quickly, because it did happen in the past where you get a boat that was outmatched or did something wrong and just spend three hours following the leader with no chance of catching up. So there's certainly a merit to having short, sharp races, but I think it's probably more physical and less cerebral, like, if you look at, yeah, the way the old boats worked, you had 17 people on there providing all the mechanical power, maneuvering, putting spinnakers up and down, dip ball driving, moving their weight around the boat. He had a tactician. They would have conversations about what's happening and react, you know, in a matter of seconds, not in a matter of milliseconds. Now you have eight people on the boat, four of them are just pedaling bikes, basically to put pressure into an accumulator to run the hydraulics. You have a helmsman on each side, and you have a trimmer on each side, and they don't cross the boat, because the boats are so fast that it's actually dangerous to get out of the cockpit. So it's very much more, I guess, closer to sort of Formula One in terms of it, you've got you've got speeds, you've got the reaction times are shorter. Everything happens more quickly, and there's certainly less interaction between the boats. Do you have   Michael Hingson ** 18:19 a preference of whether you like more the old way or the newer way of doing the races and the way the boats are designed.   Dario Valenza ** 18:28 If pressed, I would say I'd prefer the old way. But that's probably the bias, because I was involved more back then. Yeah. I think it's equally fascinating. And that sort of brings me to Yeah. So even you know, we'll get into how it applies to business and things like that, and it's the same problem, just with different variables. So my view with the cup was, whatever the rules are, you've got to try and win within them. And so they will change, the boat will change, the venue will change, the weather will change, budget limitations, all these things play into this multi variant problem, and your job is to balance all those variables to get the best   Michael Hingson ** 19:10 outcome right in the rules. Exactly.   Dario Valenza ** 19:12 Yeah. I mean, the teams do have a say. So I was, for example, in the committee that designed the rule for the catamarans that went to San Francisco, having said that what we thought we were encouraging by the rules, and what actually happened was nothing to do with each other, because once you set the rules, then the fascinating thing is how people interpret them, and they'll interpret them in ways that you can't possibly imagine, hence unintended consequences. But yeah, you have a say, but ultimately they are what they are, and the point of competing is to do well within those rules. Having said that, if they get to the point where you're just not interested anymore, then don't compete. But it is what it is. Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 19:54 So how long did you do yacht design and so on, dealing. With the cup,   Dario Valenza ** 20:02 probably 15 years altogether, was 12 or so in the actual America's Cup, and a few years before that, working up to it, doing various different projects, and that's sort of in a professional capacity, getting paid before that as a passion. It's pretty much my whole settling my teens, maybe a few years before that as well.   Michael Hingson ** 20:21 So what did you do after that?   20:25 I started my own business.   Michael Hingson ** 20:26 There you go. Well, tell us about the business and what you what you started with.   Dario Valenza ** 20:36 Yeah. So it the the aim was what we call long range aerial data capture. So fancy way of saying drones with a long range that can carry out surveys effectively. So whether it's taking photographs, video, LIDAR scans or combinations thereof, the sort of underlying motivation was the importance of data. So having come out of the America's Cup and seeing the way you develop is you interrogate what's happening with the boat and the boat and the crew and the conditions, and the more channels of information you have, the more informed decisions you can make about improving now, applying that to real world problems, to things like linear infrastructure, to mining to land management. It seemed like to me there's a gap where if you could have better aerial data, you could make better decisions. And I happened to have a tool in the design and manufacturing processes that came out of the America's Cup that would allow me to create a lightweight airframe that would have that efficiency and be able to give that range. And this was at a time when, you know, people were already starting to think of drones as a solution, though there was a lot of hype around them, but it was really all around the electronics, around multi rotors, around things that you could effectively buy and put up in the air and do a short mission wave and then land. The idea of a long range drone, other than in the military, was pretty much unexplored, and I think largely because to make it work commercially financially, you needed the range you need to be able to cover in the order of hundreds of kilometers in one flight, so that you're not having a ground crew, effectively driving the line relocating from point to point as the surveys carried out. So initially it was fairly conservative in the sense that the main focus was to set up that manufacturing capability. So basically, copy or transfer those process out of the America's Cup into a commercial setting. So making molds, curing carbon, the way you document or the way you go about it, that design process, and I was open to doing custom work to subsidize it, basically. So doing stuff again, for for sailboats, for racing, cars, for architecture, just with that composite manufacturing capability as a way to prove it and refine it. And whatever money was coming out of that was going into developing a drone airframe. And then I was fortunate enough to have a collaboration with a former colleague of mine in the cup who set up a business in Spain doing computational fluid dynamics, and he alerted me to a contract over there for a military surveillance research drone. We, by then, had an airframe that more or less we could demonstrate, and we could show that it was lighter and was more efficient, and then fly further and it had a more stable flying path and all of that. So we won that contract, we supplied that, and then out of that came the commercial offering, and it basically grew from there.   Michael Hingson ** 23:50 But when did you start dealing with the drone design, the airframe and so on,   23:57 probably to 2015   Michael Hingson ** 24:00 Okay, yeah, I think I had started hearing about drones by then, and in fact, I know I had by that time, but yeah, they they were still fairly new. So how far would your drone travel?   Dario Valenza ** 24:16 So we have two versions, the old electric one will do a couple of 100 kilometers, the petro hybrid one will do up to 800 and so we're really squarely in the territory of crude helicopter, smaller, small fixed wing planes like Cessnas, and we're really going into that same way of operating. So we're not so much selling the drone to a utility to do their scans. We are providing the data that comes out of the scan, and we're using the drone as our tool to get that data. And by effectively mirroring the model of the traditional sort of legacy aviation, we can offer, obviously, a lower cost, but also better data. Because we fly lower and slower, so we can get a higher resolution and more accuracy, and there's a obviously carbon footprint reduction, because we're burning about 2% of the fuel, and it's quieter and it's safer and all of that stuff. So it's really doing that close in aerial survey work over large distances the way it's currently being done, but with a better tool,   Michael Hingson ** 25:21 the electric drone, you said, only goes a couple 100 kilometers, is that basically because of battery issues,   Dario Valenza ** 25:27 absolutely, especially power density. So not so much energy density, but power density really how much energy you can store in the battery in terms of mass, and obviously the fact that you're not burning it off, so you're carrying the empty battery around with you. Right?   Michael Hingson ** 25:45 Any interest in, or has there been any exploration of making solar powered drones?   Dario Valenza ** 25:52 We've certainly looked into it, and we've developed relationships with suppliers that are developing specialized, conformal, curvy solar panels that form part of the structure of the wing. There are a couple of considerations. Most prominent is the trade off that you're making. Like if you take add solar panels to a wing, even if they're integrated in the structure, and you minimize the structural weight, they will have a mass. So call it an extra kilo. Yeah. Right now, if I were to take that extra kilo and put it in battery or in fuel, I would be better off, so I'd have more energy by doing that than by having the solar panel   Michael Hingson ** 26:36 dealing on efficiency yet, yeah,   Dario Valenza ** 26:37 yeah. So obviously, on a hot day, when you're flying with the sun directly above, you probably would be better. But over the course of the day, different locations, banking, etc, it's just not there yet. Net, net, particularly considering that there'll be a degradation and there'll be a maintenance that's required as the panels deteriorate and the various connections breakdown, etc. So it's not something you'd rule out. Then the secondary consideration is, when you look at our aircraft, it's fairly skinny, long, skinny wings. When you look at the area from above, there's not a lot of projected area, particularly the wings being thin and very high aspect ratio, you wouldn't really be able to fit that much area right when it comes to and then you've got to remember also that if you're generating while you're flying, your electronics have to be very different, because you have to have some way to manage that power, balance it off against the battery itself. The battery is multi cells, 12 S system, so you then have to balance that charging. So there's some complexity involved. There's a weight penalty, potentially a drag penalty. There is a Net Advantage in a very narrow range of conditions. And overall, we're just not there yet in terms of the advantage. And even if it could extend the range by a few minutes, because we have an aircraft that can fly for eight hours, doesn't really matter, yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 28:04 So dealing with an electric drone again, have you ever looked into things like fuel cells as opposed to batteries? Or does it not make we have,   Dario Valenza ** 28:14 and there's a company in France that we've been collaborating with, it's developing a hydrogen fuel cell, yeah?   Michael Hingson ** 28:21 So I was wondering, yeah. And   Dario Valenza ** 28:23 again, this is about, sort of, maybe sounds a bit conservative, but you know, during these lessons from the Americas capitals, talking about being seduced by the latest shiny thing can come at the detriment of achieving what you need to achieve today. So we're very conscious in the business in carbonics, of having this roadmap where there's a lot of nice to haves, there's a lot of capability that we want going forward, and that's everything from the remote one to many operations, detect and avoid fail safes, additional comms, all stuff that will enable us to do what we're doing today, plus x, y, z, but we need to be able to do what we can do what we have to do today. And most of the missions that we're doing, they're over a power line in the middle of nowhere. They're in relatively non congested airspace. The coordination is relatively simple. We have the ability to go beyond visual line of sight. We have the range, so it's really let's use what we have today and put all the other stuff in time and space. As the business grows, the mission grows, the customers get more comfortable, and that's a way to then maintain the advantage. But it's very easy to get sucked into doing cool R and D at the expense of delivering today.   Michael Hingson ** 29:42 Yeah, it's R and D is great, but you still gotta pay the bills. Yeah, so you have worked across several industries. What's kind of the common thread for you, working across and designing in several industries? Yeah. So   Dario Valenza ** 30:00 I think it's a high level problem solving is having an outcome that's very clearly defined and a rule set and a set of constraints. And the challenge is, how do you balance all those elements to deliver the best value? So whether it's, how do you design a boat within a rule to go as fast as possible? How do you develop a drone to fly as long as possible, given a certain time and budget availability? You're always looking at variables that will each have their own pros and cons, and how do you combine them so things like, you know, team size versus burn rate versus how aggressively you go to market, how do you select your missions? How do you decide whether to say yes or no to a customer based on the overall strategy? I see that as you have all these variables that you can tweak, you're trying to get an outcome. How do you balance and weigh them all to get that outcome?   Michael Hingson ** 30:58 Yeah, well, you've I'm sorry, go ahead.   Dario Valenza ** 31:01 I was gonna say, I mean, I have also, like, an interesting motorsport and when you look at a formula, one strategy, same thing, right? Did you carry a fuel load? Do you change tires? Do you optimize your arrow for this? It's a similar type of problem you're saying, I this is my aim. I've got all these variables. How do I set them all in a way that it gives me the best outcome? Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 31:23 and in your design and and as you construct and look at what you're doing, you decide exactly what the parameters are, and you know when you're going to change the tires, or, you know when it's time to put in more fuel or whatever. And then, see, you've got to really know the product very well,   Dario Valenza ** 31:42 absolutely. And again, in the case of salvo racing, it's almost exemplary, because the rules are spelled out, and you have, it's a very artificial set of constraints, and you have a race day, you'll have your budget, and obviously you can work to increase that, but the time is what it is. And then in the rules, you actually get to trade off length versus width, versus mass versus sail area. Do I make my boat more powerful so it goes faster in strong winds, or do I make it skinnier so it goes better in light winds? You look at the history of the weather in the venue, and the teams that win are the ones that get all those mostly, right? So it's not necessarily the latest, fastest, more, most extreme solution, it's the one that best balances all these variables. Yeah, you transfer that into business, and it's a similar thing. You've got, you've got funding, you've got burn rate, you've got people, you've got customers, probably more variables, and it's a little bit more fuzzy in some cases. So you need to work harder to nail these things down. And it's a longer term. It's an open ended prospect. It's not I've just got to race on Sunday, then I can have a break for six months. It's you do it today and tomorrow and tomorrow. So it's going to be sustainable. But I the way you think about it in the abstract, it's the same,   Michael Hingson ** 33:00 and you also have to keep evolving as technology grows, as as the industry grows, as demands change, or maybe better than saying as demands change, as you foresee demands changing, you have to be able to keep up with it. And there's a lot to all that. There's a lot of challenge that that someone like you has to really keep up with. It's   Dario Valenza ** 33:23 a balance between leading and listening. So there's a classic Henry Ford line that if I'd asked the customer what he wanted, he would have told me a faster horse. We've fallen into the trap sometimes of talking to a customer, and they're very set about, you know, we want to use this camera to take these this resolution, at this distance, because that's what we use on a helicopter, because that's what used on a multi rotor. And you have to unpack that and say, Hang on, what data do you actually like? Because we have a different payload. We fly in a different way. So let us tell you how we can give you that solution if you tell us what we want, and I think that applies across various sort of aspects of the business. But to your point about the continuous evolution, one of the most fascinating things out of this experience of almost 10 years of sort of pioneering the drone industry is just how much the ecosystem has evolved. So when we started out, the naive assumption was we're good at making airframes. We can make really good, lightweight, efficient aircraft. We don't necessarily want to be an electronics manufacturer. It's a whole other challenge. Let's buy what we can off the shelf, put it in the aircraft for the command and control and go fly. And we very quickly realized that for the standard that we wanted in terms of being able to satisfy a regulator, that the reliability is at a certain point, having fail safes, having programmability. There was nothing out there when we had to go and design. Avionics, because you could either buy hobby stuff that was inconsistent and of dubious quality, or you had to spend millions of dollars on something out of the military, and then it didn't work commercially. And so we went and looked at cars, and we said, okay, can seems like control area network seems like a good protocol. Let's adopt that. Although some of the peripherals that we buy, like the servos, they don't speak, can so then we have to make a peripheral node that can translate from can to Rs, 232, or whatever. And we went through that process. But over the years, these suppliers that came out of hobby, came out of consumer electronics, came out of the military, very quickly saw the opportunity, and we were one of the companies driving it that hang on. I can make an autopilot module that is ISO certified and has a certain quality assurance that comes with it, and I can make it in a form factor under the price where a commercial drone company can use it. And so it really accelerated the last maybe three, four years. There's a lot of stuff available that's been developed for commercial drones that now gives us a lot more options in terms of what we buy rather than what we make.   Michael Hingson ** 36:13 Well, now I have to ask, since you brought it up, does anybody use Rs 232, anymore? I had to ask. I mean, you know,   Dario Valenza ** 36:21 less and less, yeah, at one point, like we use it for GPS parks, because we didn't have anything that ran on can right slowly we're replacing. So the latest version of the aircraft now is all cap, but it took a while to get there. That's   Michael Hingson ** 36:37 gonna say that's a very long Rs 232, cable you have if you're going to communicate with the aircraft, that'd be I still have here some Rs 232 cables that I remember using them back in the 1980s and into the 1990s but yeah, Rs 232   Dario Valenza ** 36:57 horrendous ones was, there was a, I think it was a light LIDAR altimeter. Someone will correct me, it ran on I squared C, oh, which is the most inappropriate possible thing. And it is what it is. So all we, all we could do is shorten the wire length as much as possible and live with it until we found something better, and   Michael Hingson ** 37:18 then we also had parallel cables. Yes, of course, one connected printers,   Dario Valenza ** 37:26 and we have ethernet on the aircraft for the comms. Well, yeah, there's a lot of translating that we need to do. And again, I'm not an electronic engineer, but I understand enough of it to know what's good and what's not. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 37:38 yeah. The days have gone by with all of the RS, 232, and parallel ports and all that. Now it's all USB and Ethernet and cams and other things like that which making kind of fun. Well, what other industries have you been involved in besides the drone and the boat or yacht world?   Dario Valenza ** 37:56 So I've done a little bit in cinemable Things which was kind of pituitous. The last of the Star Wars prequels was filmed in Sydney, and I happened to be here for a few months between America's Cup campaigns. And there's a few boat builders that were asked to go and do fiberglass work on the set, and they recommended me to do some of the structural design work for some of the sets. I don't think I was credited, but it was fun. Again, not something I planned to do long term. It just happened to come up, and I did it for about three months. As I said, a little bit in motor sport, more as a hobby, but as an interest. But we've made in the early days of carbonics, we made spoilers and wings and bits and pieces for cars when we were getting going, but mainly the sailing of the drones, really, because I've been in the drones now for 10 years. So right?   Michael Hingson ** 38:51 What? Why did you switch? Or maybe, why is it the wrong answer? But what made you switch from doing yachts to drones, and how did the drone story come about?   Dario Valenza ** 39:05 Yeah, so I mentioned the angle of the importance of data, looking for a real world problem where data was going to make a difference, and having the right so that not a solution in search of a problem, but the right solution for this problem, saying, if we can design an airframe that can do this, there's an obvious advantage and an obvious saving that that would make a difference to the world that has a big market. Now that's the theory, then to take the plunge. It was a bit of a combination of things. It was being beholden to the unpredictable movements of the cup, where your career depends on who wins and where it goes, and as a young single man, that's fantastic once you're trying to get married and have a family, becomes a little bit more of a problem. So again, starting your own business doesn't exactly give you stability. Cheap but more stable, I guess. And really that combination of an opportunity, being able to say I can actually see if I can make this work, and see what happens, wanting to be located in one place, I guess, looking for variety as well, and knowing that, you know, I still could have contact with the Americas Cup World, because I said I was doing custom work, and we had people from the cup working in carbonics. But it's really that point where you say, Do I want to keep following the circus around the world, or do you want to try and do my own thing and see how that goes? And I can always go back. And the aim is, you know, once you're committed, then you sort of tend to try and make it work no matter what, and it becomes the new aim, and that's what you put your energy into.   Michael Hingson ** 40:52 I had a guest on unstoppable mindset named Dre Baldwin, and Dre was a professional basketball player for nine years. He went to high school, was on the bench the whole time, went to college, played in college pretty well, but wasn't really noticed until he went to a camp where people could try out and be scouted by professionals who wouldn't come and see you because you weren't famous enough to be seen just by them coming to look for you. But he got a video, and he got some good suggestions, and anyway, he eventually made that into a nine year career. And I asked him, when we talked, why did you end the career? Why did you leave and start a business? And the business he started was up your game LLC, and it's all about helping people up their game in business and so on. And of course, he does it all in the sports environment. But I asked him why he left, and one of the things that he said was it, what people don't know is it's not just the games themselves and the basketball that you play. It's all the other stuff. It's all the fact that if you're going to really do it and be reasonably well, you need to go to the gym a lot, not just when they tell you to practice, but you got to take the initiative and do it on your own. You have to do other things. And he said, I just got to the point where I didn't want to do that, all that invisible part of it anymore. And so he left and started his own business, and has been very successful, but it was an interesting answer. And in a sense, I hear, you know what you're saying. It's really where you're going to go, and what is, what's really going to interest you, which is what has to be part of whatever you do?   Dario Valenza ** 42:34 Yeah, that all makes sense. I think, in my experience, I've never not had an obsession, so to speak. So yeah, with the sailing absolutely like, if you want to be in the America's Cup, it can't be a day job. You have to be committed. You have to be able to concentrate, innovate again, if you're I wasn't an athlete on the boat, so it wasn't necessarily about going to the gym, but certainly doing research, doing testing, working on the boat overnight before I went out the next day. It is a competition, so that the longer, the harder you work, assuming you still keep your performance up, the better you're going to do. So it was an obsession. I accepted that I never it never occurred to me that I don't want to keep doing it right. It was really the logistics. It was thinking, because of the cup had gone to court, we'd had the deed of gift match. Everything had been on hold for a while. It got going again, and the rules changed and there were fewer teams. I'd actually spent a bit of time fundraising for the team that had come out of Valencia to keep it going until the eventual San Francisco cup. So that was interesting as well, saying that, you know, is it getting the reception that I hoped it would, in terms of people investing in it and seeing the value, and kind of looking at it and saying, Okay, now I've got to move to San Francisco the next one, who knows where it's going to be, the format and all those things, you just sort of trade it off and say, Well, if I can make a go of something where I can do it in my hometown, it can be just as interesting, because the technical challenges is just as fascinating. And it's really about, can I create this little environment that I control, where I can do the same fun stuff that I was doing in the cup in terms of tech development, but also make it a business and make a difference to the world and make it commercially viable. And that was really the challenge. And saying that, that was the motivation, to say, if I can take the thing that interests me from the cup and apply it to a commercial technological challenge, then I'll have the best of the best of both worlds.   Michael Hingson ** 44:44 What? What made you really go into doing drones after the yacht stuff?   Dario Valenza ** 44:52 So yeah, certainly that aerial data capture piece, but also the it's very announced. I guess. So most of the work that I was doing in the cup was around aeroelastic optimization, lightweight structures, which really dynamics, yeah. And so, you know, a yacht is a plane with one wing in the water and one wing in the air. It's all fluids. The maths is the same, the physics is the same, the materials are the same. If you do it well in the cup, you win. If you do it well in drones, you win also. But you win by going further and being more efficient and economical at doing these missions. And so it's sort of like having this superpower where you can say, I can make this tool really good that's going to give me an advantage. Let's go and see if that actually makes a difference in the market.   Michael Hingson ** 45:44 Well, I mean, as we know, the only difference really, between water and air is that the molecules are further apart in air than they are in water. So why? It really isn't that much different? He said, being a physicist and picking on chemists, but you know, I do understand what you're saying. So when did you actually start carbonics? Was that when you went into the Drone   Dario Valenza ** 46:05 World? So the business itself early 2012 and as I said, those are a few years there where we're doing custom work. And as it happened, I ended up supplying to New Zealand because we built an A class catamaran, which is effectively a little America's Cup boat for the punters, kind of thing that did well in some regattas. It caught the attention of the team New Zealand guys. They decided to use them as a training platform. We did a world championship where they were skipping the boats the carbonics built did really well in that sort of top five spots got a bunch of commercial orders off the back of that, which then brought some money into subsidize the drones, etc, etc. So by the time we were properly so the first time we flew our airframe would have been, you know, 2015   Michael Hingson ** 46:55 but nobody has created an America's Cup for drones yet. So there's a project for you.   Dario Valenza ** 47:01 They're all sort of drone racing, so I'm not surprised. Yeah, and I think again, it's really interesting. So when you look at motorsport and yacht racing in the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, the 2000s it really was a test bet, because you had to build something, go compete with it, learn from it, repeat. And you'd get, you know, the case of motorsport, traction control, ABS, all that stuff. In the case of sailing, that the use of, you know, modern fiber materials for ropes and structures, that was really sort of the cauldron where the development happened. And I think that was sort of the result of an analog world, so to speak, where you had to build things to know. I think now, with better compute and a more sophisticated role that simulations can play, it's still there is value in competition, but I think it's done in a different way. You're doing it. The key is to iterate virtually as much as possible before you build something, rather than building as many things as possible and doing the development that way.   Michael Hingson ** 48:13 Well, here's an interesting Oh, go ahead, yeah.   Dario Valenza ** 48:16 So I think that affects, certainly, how sport is seen in terms of there's probably more emphasis on the actual athletic competition, on the technology, because there are just other areas now where that development is happening, and SpaceX drones, there are more commercial places where control systems, electronic structures are really being pushed well before it was mainly in sport.   Michael Hingson ** 48:45 Well, here's a business question for you. How do you identify value that is something that you uniquely can do, that other people can't, and that here's the big part, people will pay for it,   Dario Valenza ** 49:01 cost per kilometer of scan is really my answer in the case of carbonics, saying you want to get a digital twin of a power transmission line over 800 kilometers. You can do that with a helicopter, and it's going to cost 1000s of dollars, and you're going to burn tons of fuel, and you can only get so close, etc. So you can only do it in visual conditions, and that's sort of the current best practice. That's how it's done. You can do it with satellites, but you can't really get in close enough yet in terms of resolution and independent on orbits and weather. You can do it by having someone drive or walk along the line, and that's stupendously inefficient. You can do it with multi rotor drones, and then, yeah, you might be able to do five kilometers at a time, but then you got to land and relocate and launch again, and you end up with this big sort of disparity of data sets that go stitch together by the time you add that all up. It's actually more expensive than a helicopter. Or you could do it with a drone like. Fly for 800 kilometers, which is making it Yes, and making a drone that can fly for 800 kilometers is not trivial, and that's where the unique value sits. And it's not just the airframe that the airframe holds it all up, but you have to have the redundancies to command and control, the engineering certifications, the comms, the stability, the payload triggering and geo tagging. So all of that stuff has to work. And the value of carbonics is, yes, the carbon fiber in the airframe, but also the the team ethos, which, again, comes out of that competition world, to really grab the low hanging fruit, make it all work, get it out there and be flexible, like we've had missions with stuff hasn't gone to plan, and we've fixed it, and we've still delivered the data. So the value is really being able to do something that no one else can do.   Michael Hingson ** 50:54 So I assume that you're still having fun as a founder and the owner of a company,   51:02 sometimes,   Michael Hingson ** 51:05 more often than not, one would hope,   Dario Valenza ** 51:07 Oh, absolutely, yeah. I mean, obviously there's a huge amount of pride in seeing now we're 22 people, some of certainly leaders in the field, some of the best in the world, the fact that they have chosen to back the vision, to spend years of their professional life making it happen, according to the thing that I started, I mean that that's flattering and humbling. There's always a challenge. It's always interesting. Again, having investors and all that you're not it's not all on my shoulders. People that are also invested, literally, who have the same interests and we support each other. But at the same time, it's not exactly certain. In terms of you're always working through prices and looking at what's going to happen in a day a year, six months, but you sort of get used to it and say, Well, I've done this willingly. I know there's a risk, but it's fun and it's worth it, and we'll get there. And so you do it   Michael Hingson ** 52:10 well, you're the you're the visionary, and that that brings excitement to it all. And as long as you can have fun and you can reward yourself by what you're doing. It doesn't get any better than that.   Dario Valenza ** 52:26 So they tell me, yeah, how do you absolutely, how do you   Michael Hingson ** 52:31 create a good, cohesive team?   Dario Valenza ** 52:36 Values, I think, are the base of them would be very clear about what we are and what we aren't. It's really interesting because I've never really spent any time in a corporate environment, nor do I want to. So keeping that informal fun element, where it's fairly egalitarian, it's fairly focused, we're not too worried about saying things how they are and offending people. We know we're all in it together. It's very much that focus and common goal, I think, creates the bond and then communication like being absolutely clear about what are we trying to do? What are the priorities? What are the constraints? And constantly updating each other when, when one department is having an issue and it's going to hold something up, we support each other and we adjust accordingly, and we move resources around. But yeah, I think the short answer is culture you have to have when someone walks in, there's a certain quality to the atmosphere that tells you what this team is about, right? And everyone is on their page, and it's not for everyone. Again, we don't demand that people put in their heart and soul into 24/7 but if you don't, you probably don't want   Michael Hingson ** 53:56 to be there. Yeah, makes sense. So what kind of advice would you give to someone who's starting out in a career or considering what they want to do with their lives?   Dario Valenza ** 54:08 Where do I start? Certainly take, take the risks while you're young and independent, you don't have a lot to lose. Give it a go and be humble. So getting my experience going into the cup like my approach was, I'll clean the floors, I'll be the Gopher, I'll work for free, until you guys see some value, like I'm it's not about what am I going to get out of this? It's how do I get involved, and how do I prove myself? And so being open and learning, being willing to put in the hours. And I think at one point there was a comment during the trial that he doesn't know what he's doing, but he's really keen, and his attitude is good. And I think that's that's how you want to be, because you can learn the thing you. That you need to have the attitude to be involved and have have a go.   Michael Hingson ** 55:05 Have fun. Yeah, you have to decide to have fun.   Dario Valenza ** 55:14 Yeah, absolutely. You have to be interested in what you're doing, because if you're doing it for the money, yes, it's nice when you get the paycheck, but you don't have that passion to really be motivated and put in the time. So right by this is that the Venn diagram right, find something you're interested in, that someone is willing to pay you for, and that you're good at, not easy, but having that openness and the humble and saying, Well, I'm don't try and get to the top straightaway, like get in, prove yourself. Learn, improve, gain skills, and probably, in my case, the value of cross pollination. So rather than sort of going into one discipline and just learning how it's done and only seeing that, look at the analogous stuff out there and see how you can apply it. Yeah. So again, from from boats to drones, from cars to boats, from really racing to business, abstract the problem into what are we trying to solve? What are the variables? How's it been done elsewhere, and really knowing when to think by analogy and when to think from first principles,   Michael Hingson ** 56:23 that makes sense. And with that, I'm going to thank you. We've been doing this for an hour. My gosh, is life fun or what? But I really appreciate it. Well, there you go. I appreciate you being here, and this has been a lot of fun. I hope that all of you out there watching and listening have liked our podcast episode. Please let us know. I'd appreciate it if you'd email me. Michael h i at accessibe, A, C, C, E, S, S, I B, e.com, or go to our podcast page, which is w, w, w, dot Michael hingson, that's m, I, C, H, A, E, L, H, I N, G, s, O, n.com/podcast, and I would ask you how, how can people reach out to you? If they'd like to reach out to you and maybe learn more about what you do, maybe join the team?   Dario Valenza ** 57:09 Yeah, probably the easiest way would be LinkedIn, just Dario Valencia. Otherwise, my email is just Dario D, A, R, I, o@carbonics.com.au.au,   Michael Hingson ** 57:21 being Australian, and Valenc spelled V, A,   Dario Valenza ** 57:25 l e n z, A, but the email is just dario@carbonics.com.au You don't need to know how to spell my last name, right? Yeah, sorry for the LinkedIn. It'll be Dario Valencia, V A, l e n z A, or look at the carbonics profile on LinkedIn, and I'll be one of the people who works. There you   Michael Hingson ** 57:43 go. Well again, this has been fun, and we appreciate you, and hope that people will reach out and want to learn more. If you know of anybody who might make a good guest, or if any of you watching or listening out there might know of anyone who would be a good guest for unstoppable mindset, I sure would appreciate it if you'd let us know, we really value your help with that. We're always looking for more people to be on the podcast, so please don't hesitate. And also, wherever you're listening or watching, we sure would appreciate it if you give us a five star rating. We really appreciate your views, especially when they're positive, but we like all the comments, so however you're listening and so on, please give us a five star rating and let us know how we can even do better next time. But Dario, again, I want to thank you. Really appreciate you being here with us today. This has been a lot of fun, and I'm glad I learned a lot today. So thank you very much.   58:37 My pleasure. You   **Michael Hingson ** 58:43 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. To subscribe to our podcast and to learn about upcoming episodes, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com slash podcast. Michael Hingson is spelled m i c h a e l h i n g s o n. While you're on the site., please use the form there to recommend people who we ought to interview in upcoming editions of the show. And also, we ask you and urge you to invite your friends to join us in the future. If you know of any one or any organization needing a speaker for an event, please email me at speaker at Michael hingson.com. I appreciate it very much. 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From time to time I am contacted by someone who says they have an interesting and thought provoking guest who would be perfect for Unstoppable Mindset. Such was the case when I was contacted about our guest this time, Dre Baldwin. Dre and I had an initial conversation and I invited him to appear as a guest. I must say that he more than exceeded my expectations. And now he is back for a second time with us with more stories and insights.   You may recall from my first episode with him that Dre grew up in Philadelphia. He wanted to do something with sports and tried out various options until he discovered Basketball in high school. While he wasn't considered overly exceptional and only played one year in high school he realized that Basketball was the sport for him.   Dre went to Penn State and played all four of his college years. Again, while he played consistently and reasonably well, he was not noticed and after college he was not signed to a professional team. He worked at a couple of jobs for a time and then decided to try to get noticed for basketball by going to a camp where he could be seen by scouts and where he could prove he had the talent to make basketball a profession. As he will tell us, eventually he did get a contract to play professionally. Other things happened along the way as you will hear. Dre discovered Youtube and the internet and began posting basketball tips which became popular.   In this episode we continue to discuss with Dre the lessons he wishes to convey as well as his life philosophy. Dre discuss more about the value and need for personal initiative. He tells us the value of having a personal initiative mindset and how that can lead to high performance.   I asked Dre about how playing basketball prepared him for his work in business. His answer will surprise you. It did me. As he points out, his business preparation came earlier and in different ways than playing basketball.   I also asked Dre why he left playing professional basketball. Again, his answer is fascinating. I will leave that for Dre to tell you.   I hope you enjoy my talk with Dre as much as I. Dre Baldwin provided many lessons we all can use. Who knows? Dre, you and I may talk again. Stay tuned.       About the Guest:   As CEO and Founder of Work On Your Game Inc., Dre Baldwin has given 4 TEDxTalks on Discipline, Confidence, Mental Toughness & Personal Initiative and has authored 35 books. He has appeared in national campaigns with Nike, Finish Line, Wendy's, Gatorade, Buick, Wilson Sports, STASH Investments and DIME magazine.    Dre has published over 8,000 videos to 142,000+ subscribers, his content being consumed over 103 million times.    Dre's daily Work On Your Game MasterClass has amassed over 2,900 episodes and more than 7.3 million downloads.    In just 5 years, Dre went from the end of his high school team's bench to a 9-year professional basketball career. He played in 8 countries including Lithuania, Germany, Montenegro, Slovakia and Germany.    Dre invented his Work On Your Game framework as a "roadmap in reverse" to help professionals with High Performance, Consistency and Results.    A Philadelphia native, Dre lives in Miami.   Ways to connect Dre:   http://Instagram.com/DreBaldwin http://YouTube.com/Dreupt https://www.facebook.com/WorkOnYourGameUniversity http://LinkedIn.com/in/DreAllDay http://X.com/DreAllDay http://TikTok.com/WorkOnYourGame   Kindly use this link for our Free book, The Third Day

#3282: Why The "Red Pill" Movement Is GREAT For Society [Part 1 of 2] by Dre Baldwin

to a first contract and enjoyed a 9-year professional basketball career.  For the past 14 years, Dre has pioneered personal and professional development, helping tens of thousands of people master their "Game" in business, sports, and life.  “In life, you can never get to the highest level of anything if you are afraid of going too far.”  0.00:    Dre's background in Pro Sports 3.00:    Importance of financial literacy for young athletes 7.00:    Growing up in the early days of the internet and finding basketball 12.00:  Early naïve confidence as an athlete 15.30:  The number one trait is discipline 20.00:  Developing the creative muscle through repetition 27.00:  How to grow your Disciple using anchors, motivation, and structure 33.00:  Finding your non-negotiables and structuring them in your day 41.30:  When to decide to retire from pro sports to pursue other opportunities 50.00:  Life abroad as a professional player 54.00:  How Parenthood is the best life hack for being your best self www.drebaldwin.com Until next time, love and good vibes.  Podcast Website: https://enterthelionheart.com/ Check out the latest episode here: Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/enter-the-lionheart/id1554904704 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4tD7VvMUvnOgChoNYShbcI

Where do I get the energy? One of our Work On Your Game University members, Jen, asked me that recently — and I gave her an answer on the spot. But the more I thought about it, I realized this is something many of you might be wondering too. So in this episode, I break down where my energy comes from and how you can get more of it for yourself. Energy is one of the five key things you need to succeed — and today, I'll show you how to get more of it. Show Notes:  [03:01]#1 I do things that I like and enjoy.  [11:10]#2  Energy is a skill, it is not a talent.  [17:58]#3  Momentum is a self serving mechanism.  [22:22]Recap Episodes Mentioned: 2466: The Law Of Inertia Next Steps: ---

#3256: How To Protect Your Mental Health As You Age [Part 2 of 2] by Dre Baldwin

In this episode, I'm joined by Dre Baldwin, CEO and Founder of Work On Your Game Inc., a former professional basketball player turned business strategist. With over 103 million content views, 7.3 million podcast listeners, and 35 books written, Dre is an expert in high performance, mindset, and building systems that allow entrepreneurs to scale with confidence. We dive into: - Why mindset is the foundation of every successful business - The four pillars of high performance: mindset, strategy, systems, and accountability - How systems—not talent—create sustainable growth - The biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make when scaling to seven figures - How to remove yourself from the day-to-day grind and step into true business ownership If your business depends on you doing everything, this episode will shift your perspective and help you build a scalable, self-sustaining business model! Free resources from Dre: - Free book: http://ThirdDayBook.com - Free training to increase business without working harder for your listeners: http://www.WorkOnYourGame.net - Dre's text number to get his FREE #MondayMotivation text 1.305.384.6894 Where to Find Dre: - Website: http://WorkOnYourGame.com/Dre] - Instagram: @DreBaldwin - YouTube: http://YouTube.com/Dreupt - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorkOnYourGameUniversity - LinkedIn: http://LinkedIn.com/in/DreAllDay - Twitter: http://Twitter.com/DreAllDay - TikTok: http://TikTok.com/WorkOnYourGame *Loved this episode?* DM me (@meraki_media_management) your biggest takeaway, or share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. If you're serious about scaling without burnout, check out Dre's coaching programs and start building a business that runs without you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join me, Aswand Cruickshank, for a live session as I reflect on the “Three P's”—Professionally, Personally, and Physically—as I gear up for March 2025. In this livestream, I'll share my monthly goals inspired by the powerful insights of my mentor, Dre Baldwin, and reveal the steps I'm taking to stay in a state of constant improvement.What to Expect:New Beginnings: How I'm setting fresh goals for the new month.Creative Journey: My plan to write the intro chapters of “How to be a Win-Trapreneur.”Live Engagement: Strategies for hosting and securing events to expand my influence.Community Building: Insights into growing a high-ticket community on Patreon.If you're passionate about growth and ready to #MakeYaMove, join the conversation, share your goals, and let's take this journey together!

This episode dives into leadership and personal development, featuring insights from Dre Baldwin, a CEO and founder of Work On Your Game, Inc. Baldwin, known for his prolific content creation and public speaking, shares his unique approach to leadership and personal growth, emphasizing the importance of discipline, confidence, and mental toughness—competencies rooted in his background as a professional basketball player.Listeners are introduced to innovative concepts like the "third day," which represents the critical moment when initial enthusiasm wanes, and true commitment is tested. Throughout the discussion, Baldwin illustrates the intersections of sports and business, revealing how skills acquired in athletics can parallel business success. His candid discussion on maintaining momentum in both personal and professional landscapes offers valuable strategies.Baldwin's message is clear: continuous self-improvement and goal-setting are pivotal to success, regardless of background or field.

#3192: How Lawfare Works [Part 2 of 3] by Dre Baldwin

In this high-energy episode of Mindset Mastery Moments, Dr. Alisa Whyte sits down with the powerhouse of mental game mastery, Dre Baldwin, to uncover what it truly takes to dominate in business, sports, and life. From being a high school benchwarmer to a 9-year professional basketball career, Dre's journey is a masterclass in resilience, discipline, and personal initiative.Dre shares how he went from teaching himself basketball at 14 to playing professionally in Lithuania and eight other countries—and how he used setbacks as fuel for comebacks. He walks us through his game-changing philosophy built on the four pillars of discipline, confidence, mental toughness, and personal initiative, offering a no-BS breakdown of what it really takes to unlock potential and embrace challenges.Key Takeaways from this Episode:

What separates elite performers from everyone else? Former pro basketball player Dre Baldwin reveals how true champions create distance between themselves and the competition - and it happens long before game day. Drawing from his nine-year professional basketball career and experience impacting over 103 million people, Dre breaks down his revolutionary concept of "separation days" and explains why discipline, not talent, is the ultimate differentiator. He shares powerful insights on how to build momentum through consistent daily action. Learn: Why most people misunderstand when competitive advantage is really created The hidden psychology of maintaining discipline when no one's watching How to develop unshakeable confidence through systematic preparation The counterintuitive truth about handling setbacks and failures Why processing speed may be more valuable than raw intelligence Get my weekly newsletter - Adaptation Book Erik for your next event Start AIM7 for Free Check out Work on Your Game University Connect with Dre on Instagram, X, or YouTube Purchase - Work on Your Game Quotable moments: "The separation day already happened three months ago... it's doing the work that you do in the dark that comes out in the light." - Dre Baldwin "Discipline is the foundation of everything I do... people want to learn how to get more of that in their life." - Dre Baldwin "What we consider to be intelligence is really about processing speed - it's not about whether you can get the right answer, it's how quickly you get it." - Dre Baldwin ABOUT THE BLUEPRINT PODCAST: The BluePrint Podcast is for busy professionals and Household CEOs who care deeply about their families, career, and health. Host Dr. Erik Korem distills cutting edge-science, leadership, and life skills into simple tactics optimized for your busy lifestyle and goals.   Dr. Korem interviews scientists, coaches, elite athletes, entrepreneurs, entertainers, and exceptional people to discuss science and practical skills you can implement to become the most healthy, resilient, and impactful version of yourself. On a mission to equip people to pursue audacious goals, thrive in uncertainty, and live a healthy and fulfilled life, Dr. Erik Korem is a High-Performance pioneer. He introduced sports science and athlete-tracking technologies to collegiate and professional (NFL) football over a decade ago. He has worked with the National Football League, Power-5 NCAA programs, gold-medal Olympians, Nike, and the United States Department of Defense. Erik is an expert in sleep and stress resilience. He is the Founder and CEO of AIM7, the #1 pickleball health and performance app that helps pickleball players win more, recovery faster, and prevent pain and injury. SUPPORT & CONNECT Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/erikkorem/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/ErikKorem LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-korem-phd-19991734/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/erikkorem Website - https://www.erikkorem.com/ Newsletter - https://adaptation.beehiiv.com/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

#3159: How To Argue by Dre Baldwin

Ever wonder why motivation fades precisely when you need it most? Former pro basketball player and 4-time TEDx speaker Dre Baldwin reveals the hidden pattern that derails most people's goals - and how to break through it. In this powerful episode, Dre shares his revolutionary "Third Day" framework, developed through nine years of professional basketball and reaching over 103 million people through his Work On Your Game platform. He breaks down the psychology of sustainable success and reveals how to maintain momentum when enthusiasm fades. Learn: The crucial moment that determines success or failure in any endeavor Why traditional motivation advice may be sabotaging your progress How elite performers maintain consistency when others quit The counterintuitive approach to celebrating wins without losing edge The hidden pattern that separates champions from everyone else Get my weekly newsletter - Adaptation Book Erik for your next event Start AIM7 for Free Check out Work on Your Game University Connect with Dre on Instagram, X, or YouTube Purchase - Work on Your Game Quotable moments: "Time is the most valuable resource that we have. Every time we add time to a situation by delay, we're placing a blind bet that we will have time in the future." - Dre Baldwin "The third day is not the moment that it happens, but the decision that you make." - Dre Baldwin "Getting through the tough days needs to become your normal mode of operation." - Dre Baldwin ABOUT THE BLUEPRINT PODCAST: The BluePrint Podcast is for busy professionals and Household CEOs who care deeply about their families, career, and health. Host Dr. Erik Korem distills cutting edge-science, leadership, and life skills into simple tactics optimized for your busy lifestyle and goals.   Dr. Korem interviews scientists, coaches, elite athletes, entrepreneurs, entertainers, and exceptional people to discuss science and practical skills you can implement to become the most healthy, resilient, and impactful version of yourself. On a mission to equip people to pursue audacious goals, thrive in uncertainty, and live a healthy and fulfilled life, Dr. Erik Korem is a High-Performance pioneer. He introduced sports science and athlete-tracking technologies to collegiate and professional (NFL) football over a decade ago. He has worked with the National Football League, Power-5 NCAA programs, gold-medal Olympians, Nike, and the United States Department of Defense. Erik is an expert in sleep and stress resilience. He is the Founder and CEO of AIM7, the #1 pickleball health and performance app that helps pickleball players win more, recovery faster, and prevent pain and injury. SUPPORT & CONNECT Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/erikkorem/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/ErikKorem LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-korem-phd-19991734/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/erikkorem Website - https://www.erikkorem.com/ Newsletter - https://adaptation.beehiiv.com/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of The Sales Gravy Podcast, take a look back at the best insights from the year. These moments aren't just memorable, they're actionable advice that sales professionals can take into 2025 to thrive in an ever-evolving landscape. Key Takeaways: This year reinforced a crucial truth: the fundamentals of sales never go out of style, but adapting to the environment around you is key. Buyers are sharper, busier, and more discerning, which means the best salespeople need to work smarter and harder to stay ahead. Here's what stood out from our conversations this year: – Objections Are Opportunities: Objections aren't something to avoid, they're invitations to build trust. When a buyer pushes back, it's a sign they're engaged. Instead of sidestepping concerns, lean into them. Acknowledge the issue, ask thoughtful questions, and use the conversation to demonstrate your understanding of their needs. – Relentless Prospecting Wins Deals: The deals you close tomorrow start with the work you do today. This year, we discussed the importance of consistent prospecting and how staying disciplined with your outreach pays off. Whether it's calls, emails, or social touches, keeping your pipeline full is the foundation of success. – Empathy Drives Connection: In a crowded marketplace, standing out often comes down to how well you connect with your prospects. Leading with empathy and emotional intelligence helps uncover the real problems you can solve. Listening, not just to respond, but to understand, creates trust and sets you apart from competitors. – Simplify the Process: A complicated sales process creates unnecessary barriers for your buyers. Instead, focus on making every step clear and straightforward. Simplify presentations, eliminate unnecessary details, and provide actionable next steps. Buyers are more likely to move forward when it feels easy to do so. – Consistency Is King: Talent might get you started, but consistency is what keeps you winning. Showing up daily, sticking to your routines, and doing the small things consistently makes a big difference over time. Success in 2025 will be about maintaining that focus, even when motivation dips. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k2hJ3pyNBU Thriving Under Pressure with a SEAL's Strategy In high-stakes sales situations, maintaining composure is crucial. Drawing from his extensive military experience, retired Navy SEAL Master Chief Stephen Drum emphasizes the importance of preparation, adaptability, and mental resilience. By implementing a structured approach—commit, prepare, execute, and reflect—sales professionals can enhance their performance under pressure. This method enables individuals to stay focused, adjust to changing circumstances, and continuously improve their strategies. Physical Fitness Fuels Sales Success Josh Hulsebosch dives into how physical fitness directly impacts sales performance by enhancing energy levels, mental clarity, and resilience. Maintaining a "proud posture," standing tall with shoulders back and chest open, not only boosts confidence but also improves breathing and communication, essential for effective selling. Prioritizing regular exercise, proper nutrition, and adequate sleep equips sales professionals to handle the demands of their role, leading to increased productivity and success. It's Not About You—It's About Them The moment you realize sales isn't about you is the moment you start winning. Too many salespeople and entrepreneurs fall into the trap of making their pitch the center of the conversation, focusing on their product, their needs, or their numbers. But here's the truth: your prospects don't care about you—they care about themselves. Success comes when you shift your mindset and make everything about the customer. Carole Mahoney discusses how to ask better questions, listen deeply, and focus on their pain points, goals, and dreams. When you solve their problems and make them the hero of the story, you'll not only close more deals but also build lasting relationships that fuel your business. The Power of Discipline to Drive Success Discipline is the steering wheel that keeps you on course, while motivation is the gas pedal that drives you forward—and Dre Baldwin mastered both. He didn't wait for opportunities to come knocking; he created them. Dre's story is a blueprint for sales pros and entrepreneurs: consistency in your daily actions builds momentum, and staying disciplined keeps you laser-focused, even when motivation fades. It's not about being perfect, it's about showing up, doing the work, and staying in the game long enough to turn possibilities into realities. That's how you move from dreaming to doing. Leveraging AI Without Losing the Human Touch AI is changing the sales game, but here's the deal: it's a tool, not a replacement for your hustle. Victor Antonio demonstrates that the best salespeople know how to blend the power of AI with human connection. Use AI to gather insights, predict buyer behavior, and streamline processes, but don't forget that people buy from people they trust. Your ability to empathize, build relationships, and create value is what sets you apart. AI can enhance your strategy, but it's your skill, grit, and adaptability that close deals and build long-term success. Eyes Forward Looking ahead to 2025, the key to thriving in sales is staying grounded in these principles while being flexible enough to adapt. Whether it's perfecting your prospecting routine, mastering the art of connection, or streamlining your process, every action compounds toward bigger results. Here's to a successful new year filled with growth, opportunity, and plenty of closed deals. Get your New Year off to a winning start with Jeb Blount's popular on-demand course: The Essentials of Setting Winning Goals

Send us a textEver wondered how a Division III college basketball player could become a digital content powerhouse? Meet Dre Baldwin, whose extraordinary journey from the court to the digital realm is nothing short of inspiring. Join us as we uncover Dre's path to success, built not on a single viral moment but on relentless consistency since 2005. His transformation from basketball tutorials to a mindset coach is a masterclass in personal branding, showcasing how authenticity and dedicated content creation can pave the way for an empire of over 100 million views online.Explore the nuances of personal branding and its power to monetize influence in today's digital landscape. Through Dre's experiences, learn how a focused, engaged audience can be more valuable than sheer numbers. We'll share insights into Dre's early ventures into YouTube ad revenue and selling basketball training programs, illustrating how these early steps evolved into significant income streams. Dre's story is a testament to the importance of targeted audience engagement and the immense potential of turning digital influence into tangible success.In this deep dive, the importance of leveraging personal strengths and embracing collaboration is a recurring theme. Discover Dre's proactive approach to outreach, where strategic emails and personalized outreach videos highlight the impact of merging digital marketing with traditional methods. Whether you're building a personal brand or elevating your business presence, this episode offers strategies for maintaining a positive online footprint and crafting a legacy that stands the test of time. Get ready to master the art of personal branding and digital marketing with insights that could transform your approach to success.Thanks for tuning in to this episode of Follow The Brand! We hope you enjoyed learning about the latest marketing trends and strategies in Personal Branding, Business and Career Development, Financial Empowerment, Technology Innovation, and Executive Presence. To keep up with the latest insights and updates from us, be sure to follow us at 5starbdm.com. See you next time on Follow The Brand!

Let's pick up right where we left off. I'm laying it out straight—here's why I avoid the corporate grind. I'd rather be honest and deal with the fallout than play the fake game and get caught up in office politics. I chose the independent route because in my world, honesty and real results matter more than fitting into a corporate mold. Show Notes: [02:37]#7 I would rather be honest and piss you off than lie to please you.  [09:03]#8 I cannot stomach seeing incompetent and fake people being rewarded for bullshit. I can't deal with it.  [17:13]#9 The educational system is designed to train you to succeed in the corporate world. [22:17]Recap Episodes Mentioned: 2219:  The 12 Work On Your Game Commandments [#1-3] 1663: Your Favorite Flavor Of "Shit Sandwich" Next Steps: Text Dre Baldwin: Text Dre at 1.305.384.6894 (or go to http://www.DreAllDay.com/Text) Work On Your Game University: http://www.WorkOnYourGameUniversity.com  Sponsor: AG1 by Athletic Greens: http://drinkAG1.com/WORKONYOURGAME  Get Dre's Emails FREE:  Http://WorkOnMyGame.com  Free Audiobooks:  The Third Day: http://www.ThirdDayBook.com/audible The Mirror Of Motivation: http://www.MirrorOfMotivation.com/audible Get The Free Books: The Third Day: http://ThirdDayBook.com  The Mirror Of Motivation: http://MirrorOfMotivation.com The Overseas Basketball Blueprint: http://BallOverseas.com  Basketball: How To Play As Well As You Practice: http://HoopHandbook.com/Free  Donate:  CashApp: http://Cash.app/$DreBaldwin  PayPal: http://PayPal.me/DreAllDay  Be sure to Subscribe to have each new episode sent directly to you daily! If you're enjoying Work On Your Game, please Review the show and let us know!  Dre on social media: Instagram [http://instagram.com/DreBaldwin] Facebook [http://Facebook.com/WorkOnYourGameUniversity] Twitter / X [http://X.com/DreAllDay] YouTube [http://youtube.com/dreupt]  Facebook Business Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/6figuresandgrowing/  All Episodes + FULL Work On Your Game Podcast archive at:  http://WorkOnYourGamePodcast.com

In this class, I'm diving into why I'm not built for the corporate world. If you've ever felt like you don't fit into the “go along to get along” culture, you'll get where I'm coming from. I break down how I'm wired differently, why I can't be fake, and why being my own boss is the only way that works for me. Show Notes: [02:56]#4 I lack the ability to go along to get along.  [10:06]#5 I cannot deal with people being fake, nor can I pretend to be fake. [18:19]#6  I'm good at climbing ladders. I just don't want to. [22:24]Recap Episodes Mentioned: 2764: There Are No "Safe Spaces" In Real Life 2765: How To Create Your Real-Life "Safe Space" 2672: Entrepreneurs: Stop Climbing Ladders Next Steps: Text Dre Baldwin: Text Dre at 1.305.384.6894 (or go to http://www.DreAllDay.com/Text) Work On Your Game University: http://www.WorkOnYourGameUniversity.com  Sponsor: AG1 by Athletic Greens: http://drinkAG1.com/WORKONYOURGAME  Get Dre's Emails FREE:  Http://WorkOnMyGame.com  Free Audiobooks:  The Third Day: http://www.ThirdDayBook.com/audible The Mirror Of Motivation: http://www.MirrorOfMotivation.com/audible Get The Free Books: The Third Day: http://ThirdDayBook.com  The Mirror Of Motivation: http://MirrorOfMotivation.com The Overseas Basketball Blueprint: http://BallOverseas.com  Basketball: How To Play As Well As You Practice: http://HoopHandbook.com/Free  Donate:  CashApp: http://Cash.app/$DreBaldwin  PayPal: http://PayPal.me/DreAllDay  Be sure to Subscribe to have each new episode sent directly to you daily! If you're enjoying Work On Your Game, please Review the show and let us know!  Dre on social media: Instagram [http://instagram.com/DreBaldwin] Facebook [http://Facebook.com/WorkOnYourGameUniversity] Twitter / X [http://X.com/DreAllDay] YouTube [http://youtube.com/dreupt]  Facebook Business Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/6figuresandgrowing/  All Episodes + FULL Work On Your Game Podcast archive at:  http://WorkOnYourGamePodcast.com

In this class, I'm breaking down why I can't work in the corporate world full-time. Just like I talked about in episode 1667, where I explained why politics isn't for me, the reasons are pretty much the same. Today, I'll share why I wouldn't make it in the corporate space either. Show Notes: [03:23]#1 I am very good at following rules and processes. I simply just don't want to.    [11:27]#2 I say too many things that are complete nonsense that I cannot hold my tongue about and not say something.  [22:25]#3 I refuse to have bosses. I just don't want anybody telling me what to do.  [26:56]Recap Episodes Mentioned: 1667: Dre For President? Governor? Mayor? Why I'd FAIL In Politics 997: Why You Need To Start A Podcast 2338: The TRASH That Is The American Medical System Next Steps: Text Dre Baldwin: Text Dre at 1.305.384.6894 (or go to http://www.DreAllDay.com/Text) Work On Your Game University: http://www.WorkOnYourGameUniversity.com  Sponsor: AG1 by Athletic Greens: http://drinkAG1.com/WORKONYOURGAME  Get Dre's Emails FREE:  Http://WorkOnMyGame.com  Free Audiobooks:  The Third Day: http://www.ThirdDayBook.com/audible The Mirror Of Motivation: http://www.MirrorOfMotivation.com/audible Get The Free Books: The Third Day: http://ThirdDayBook.com  The Mirror Of Motivation: http://MirrorOfMotivation.com The Overseas Basketball Blueprint: http://BallOverseas.com  Basketball: How To Play As Well As You Practice: http://HoopHandbook.com/Free  Donate:  CashApp: http://Cash.app/$DreBaldwin  PayPal: http://PayPal.me/DreAllDay  Be sure to Subscribe to have each new episode sent directly to you daily! If you're enjoying Work On Your Game, please Review the show and let us know!  Dre on social media: Instagram [http://instagram.com/DreBaldwin] Facebook [http://Facebook.com/WorkOnYourGameUniversity] Twitter / X [http://X.com/DreAllDay] YouTube [http://youtube.com/dreupt]  Facebook Business Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/6figuresandgrowing/  All Episodes + FULL Work On Your Game Podcast archive at:  http://WorkOnYourGamePodcast.com