
Why does "Prey Drive" hold the secret to your success? 🚀 On this episode of the Digital Social Hour, Sean Kelly sits down with Coach Burt, the powerhouse behind the concept of "Prey Drive," to unpack the psychology of activation and how it...
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All right, guys, Coach Burt here from Nashville, former women's basketball coach. Thanks for coming on, man.
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Absolutely.
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Yeah. You've been killing it. Author of 22 books.
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Yes. Started early, started at 25 years old, really, just to explain what I was doing as a basketball coach. So I had no intention of writing 22 books. Just started and really enjoyed the process and enjoyed packaging a method. And I think that's what a lot of people need, is a methodology.
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Absolutely. A few of them really took off, right?
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Yeah. A few of the books, I flipped the switch, became a Wall Street Journal bestseller, which is really the psychology of activating what we call the prey drive, which is your instinct to pursue. And I trademarked those two words. It's prevalent in an animal. An animal has a prey drive. And when I saw those two words, it's the animal's ability to stalk, capture and kill prey. And when I heard that, I'm like, man, I got to trademark that. And I believe in more vuja day versus deja vu, which is like a fresh twist on an old way of thinking. And there's 20 motivational theories. I deconstructed those theories, I codified those theories. And then I said, I'm going to come up with my own theory, which is there's a drive inside of you that that drive can be activated. And I'm going to trademark those two words. Prey drive. And that became really popular. Those two Words.
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Yeah. I love prey drive stuff. When I was a kid, I grew up without a father. My parents got divorced, and I was a basketball player. But I played super timid. I wasn't aggressive at all. I. I didn't have that drive in me.
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Yep.
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To, like, take it to the basket or whatever.
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Yeah.
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But now as I'm older, my game's completely different. Got the confidence back, and I'm a way better player.
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Where did that drive? Where was it initiated?
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Must have been through business mentors or something. Maybe friendships. But, yeah. Growing up without that father figure, it affected me, my confidence and in personal life and in sports.
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Yeah. Well, I was raised by a single mom and had me when she was 16 years old.
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Wow.
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And she was tough, man. She taught me we don't whine, we don't complain, we don't make excuses. She wouldn't let me miss a day of school growing up. And I hated that, really, until later in life. And I was really thankful that she instilled kind of a discipline in me and a toughness in me. So a lot of my prey drive actually came from just watching her survive.
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Wow.
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And watching her just get up every day and go get it, man.
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You were like, really just go straight at it type of kid.
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Yeah. I mean, she always. I mean, she was a kid having a kid. Right. She was only 16, and she always talk to me like I was an adult.
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Wow.
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And. But she was really disciplined and tough. And I do believe that some of prey drive is kind of conditioned. You know, a lot of people ask me, like, why do some people have it and some people don't have it? A lot of it is just conditioning. Right. Like environmental scripting, like what you're exposed to As a kid. Right. I had a lot of great coaches. I was raised on a baseball field in a gym, so. So when my mom was working, I was in a gym or on a baseball field. And those coaches really served as kind of a father figure for me.
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That makes sense. So do you think everyone has it? You just got to activate it. Someone has to activate it.
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I do think most people. I think everybody has it. Number one, I think most people don't know how to activate it or they've never been exposed to something that would activate it. And I kind of found that there were five activators when I was writing the book. Fear is an obvious activator. And so think of fear of loss. Huge activator. Right. If you fear losing something that you really care about, it'll activate the prey Drive, competition, big activator of prey drive. And a lot of people are just competitive, man. They want to be the best. Like competition brings out the best in people, it brings out the worst in people. Then you've got environment, like the environment you're around when you're thinking bigger exposure. Like this is why you need to be going to conferences, have business coaching, because you're exposed to bigger think and, and once you see something, it's like, man, there's a big world out there. And then embarrassment is an activator of prey drive. Right? It's like I'm personally embarrassed by where I'm playing at. I remember when I first started getting around big time people, like whether it be a cardone or any of those people, at first I was like, gosh, it's such a bigger world. I'm playing so small in comparison to what I'm capable of playing, you know. And so embarrassment can be an activator. So those five activators, people typically have a primary activator and then a secondary activator. And I think a lot of it has to do with your upbringing as well, your conditioning as well.
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100%. Yeah. When did you meet Cardone?
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First Met Cardone in 20, I want to say 2013, 2014. I had a radio show on the Fox Business affiliate in Nashville. I was constantly looking for people to interview and I was walking through a Chicago airport and saw 10x and I go, man, it looks like a great book. Picked up the book, I'm like, dude looks good. He's got great hair. He's got great hair. And I called his office and you know, and, and had him on. My marketing is hard, but I'll tell you a little secret. It doesn't have to be. Let me point something out. You're listening to a podcast right now and it's great. You love the host. You seek it out and download it. You listen to it while driving, working out, cooking, even going to the bathroom. Podcasts are a pretty close companion. And this is a podcast ad. Did I get your attention? You can reach great listeners like yourself with podcast advertising from Libsyn Ads. Choose from hundreds of top podcasts offering host endorsements or run a pre produced ad like this one across thousands of shows. To reach your target audience in their favorite podcasts with Libsyn ads, go to Libsyn ads.com that's L, I B S Y N ads.com today.
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The interviewing because I was always interviewing somebody big. And when I was finished, he said, man, you and I should be doing things together.
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Wow.
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And that led to me ultimately speaking at 10x in 2018 at Mandalay Bay.
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That was the second one, right?
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Second one, yeah, yeah, that was early on. But I. But I did original event with him in Riviera, Maya, Mexico. That was Bradley Cardone. I mean, like 75 people in like 2013. And I was just, you know, the biggest thing he did for me was I was just. He made me think a lot bigger. And he said one day, he said, man, your market is not Nashville, your market is planet Earth. Go back and figure out how to sell your products to everybody on the planet. And that piece of advice was like, you're thinking too small, man. And that was good. I needed to hear that. I needed to, because at that time I was really selling Coach and Sean. Like people had to come physically right in a room and I could get a hundred people in there. And that opened me up to, you know, now we have customers all over the world, Croatia, Dubai. But it was really from that statement that he said to me, that's incredible.
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A lot of people have these limiting beliefs, right?
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Yes.
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We were talking before we started how your life goal was to be a D1 coach. And that was. You would have been happy with that. But now look at you now.
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Yeah, I mean, it was kind of unintentional. It's like I was winning high school games. I was building kind of a national powerhouse. I loved it. I never thought about money. I never thought about anything. I lived in a little two bedroom condo that I loved and I love coaching, man. I just wanted to be the best at that and around probably three years into being a head coach because I got the head coaching job at 22. Wow. Yeah. I'm at this big second biggest high school in Tennessee and I'm using all this unique methodology. I'm bringing in Stephen Covey of 7 Habits of Highly Faith.
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I love that.
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So it's like I'm teaching these 14 year old kids seven habits. Good to great. Five dysfunctions of teams, power of intention. So imagine playing for somebody like me at 14 through 18 and I'm spending five and a half hours a day with you and I'm teaching you all these life and success. So people were constantly saying, like, man, what are you doing with these kids? Because they could see how the kids played. You know, you're, you're in the athletics so you understand it's like they had chemistry, they had discipline, they had prey drive. So people would watch my teams playing. Go, what are you doing?
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Yeah.
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That prompted me to sit down and write my first book at 25 years old. And it was called Changing Lives through Coaching. We don't sell that book today. We don't want anybody to buy it because it wasn't very good. And I didn't have a lot to say at 25. But. But it got me. Something crazy happened when I wrote this little book. I could, I wanted to write it for coaches, but coaches wouldn't buy it. It's like. Cause coaches are stubborn. Even if they're losing, they still don't want to. Right? But. But he got in the hands of business people. And business people started to call me and say, man, will you come speak to my team? And it was like, Dale Computers and State Farm Insurance and National Health, like big companies. And I would go speak for an hour and they would give me a check and I made more in an hour than I made in a month. And so that prompted me to go home and go like, man, what, what skill do I have? And I really had the skill of activation, activating a prey drive in people, building competitive intelligence in people, inner engineering people on how to really win, like at a deep, deep level. And that's what these companies saw in me. So companies started offering me, you know, six figures and I'm like, man, I'm not leaving until I win a championship. And so I stayed till 31 and then I retired at 31. I had written four books at that time. And then I retired from athletics at 31 years old.
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Wow. That was a high school championship. Yeah, in Tennessee.
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Tennessee, yeah.
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It's a woman's team.
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Right, yeah.
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What made you choose women over men?
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They're easier to coach. Now. The truth is. The truth is I started in boys and something told me I was coaching at 18 years old at an elementary school, and something told me, expand your resume, coach girls in the summer. I coached girls one summer. I loved it. They wanted to do what I asked them to do. They're not as much ego. And, and, and it just happened that a women's coach hired me to be an assistant.
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Wow.
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And so I just stayed on that side.
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Yeah. Speaking of ego, I feel like with all these crazy Nil deals these days, I'm sure the ego's at all time highs with these players.
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And I think, you know, it's easy to tell kids what to do. They, they try to do what you ask them to do. Right. They may have ego, they may have confidence problems, they may have issues just like everybody does, but it's even harder building great teams and adults. Right. And, and when you, when they went to Nil, you know, it's like, why did Nick Saban really retire? He really retired because he didn't want to deal with that. Right. It's gotten away from what college coaching was, which is preparing young men and young women for the future, getting an education, whether you agree with college or not. I mean, you know, I went to college for nine years, so it's like, it's like, it's like I kept pursuing degrees because I knew I'm like, I need to get business degrees, I need to learn more about business. But the truth is, I think where we're going with that's probably privatized education. Like, if my daughter wants to be a great podcaster, you know, like I'd send her to somebody like you and say, go study under this dude for two years. Like, that's your college.
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Yeah.
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That's where I see the future going 100%.
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You see guys like Jordan Peterson starting their own universities. I'd rather pay grant Cardone to mentor my kids, send them to college for a business degree.
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Yeah. And I think, I think, you know, when you're, when you have kids, you start thinking, okay, who is going to best put them in a position to be successful? And if they could speed up, like, like if they could really speed up the cycle. And I always say, if I wrote a book for 18 to 25 year olds, it would be go for the mentor over the money. Like, who's coaching you matters?
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I love that.
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Right. Like, like that really sets you up for success. Who's coaching you and the better the coach, the better the player.
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Yeah. And these days you got to be careful. There's a lot of gurus and coaches on Instagram.
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Well, there's a lot of people who've not built anything. Right. It's people saying that, that they've built teams, but they never built a championship team. When I'm on the phone with a prospect and they say, I'm looking at you versus so and so versus so and so, I go, man, I've actually built championship teams. I know how to win. I've inter engineered people. I've built a multimillion dollar company. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's not me just saying it on Instagram. I've actually done it.
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Right. And as a high school coach, you can't recruit. Right. So you got to deal with what you're kind of dealt.
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Yeah. It's a public school, so I had to take the kids that came to my school that were zoned to go to my school and figure out how to win with them. And I think that's really where the best coaches are. I don't think the best coaches are in college. I think there's great coaches in college, but I think the really great coaches are in high school.
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Wow, that's an interesting take because you assume that the college ones are like some of the best.
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Well, I mean, I think there's really great college coaches, but I think a lot of college coaches sometimes look down on some of the high school coaches when the truth is, some of, some of my buddies that were high school coaches could absolutely outperform. Right. They were just that good.
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I could see that.
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Yeah.
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Who do you have as your goat of coaches sports?
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When I come up, it was Phil Jackson. I was gonna say it was like that's, that was an era when he was coaching. And you know, like, I kind of grew up with Patino and, and Phil Jackson and Caliperi. Like, those were all great coaches at that time. When I was growing, Pat Riley was with the, with the Lakers. Pat Riley wrote the book the Winner within, which I think is probably one of the best coaching books, actual coaching books that talks about cycles of winning and how they won championships versus just somebody ghostwriting a book. And it's okay, right, Because.
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Because winning is cyclical. Right.
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Yeah.
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Like you see, the spurs were hot for 20 years. Now they're not that hot, but they're coming back.
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That's right.
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It's not like.
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Well, I mean, you look at the school I coached at, they. They Went on to win seven state championships after I left. Yeah. Seven of the next nine.
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How did that make you feel?
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Good.
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Like resentment?
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No, no, it made me feel like I built something.
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Okay.
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Because when you. When I got there, it was not a place you expected to win, hadn't won in 30 years. So to spend 10 years building something that was really dominated, I mean, that's really part of. You know, I was watching your interview with Brandon Dawson this morning, and he talked about Collins when he wrote Good to Great. Collins talked about the difference between a level four leader and a level five leader. And a level four leader is all built on the. Their personality. When they leave, it all goes down the drain. Like, everything goes down the drain. A level 5 leader builds something that sustains. There's a legacy there. And so them winning, you know, seven of the next nine state championships makes me feel like we built a strong foundation that the expectation of winning was there.
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Yeah. I gotta say, coaching is probably one of the toughest jobs in the world. You look at the average career of professional NFL coaches, it's like two years. Same with NBA, I believe it's tough.
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Well, I mean, that you're really hired to be fired. I mean. I mean, at the end of the day, it's like. Like, you know, and I get it, man. Your paid on performance and your ability to get people to do something. And so it's a very. It's like you're only as good as your last game.
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Right. It's tough though, because like you said, you need time. It took you 10 years. Like, you need time to build something. So if they're only giving you a.
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Year, it took me three years to get it to where it was stabilized. Right. And that's what I see with a lot of programs of rebuilding. It took me three years to get expectation and change the culture. And then it was like, get better, better and better. And then I kept getting beat. And this happens in the business world. I kept getting to a plateau and I kept getting beat by the same person. And this is where you don't go back and try harder. You go back and try different. They say a good plastic surgeon never makes more than 2.2 millimeters of change. They never make more than seven changes. Right. And it's. So it's strategic moves that you make. So when I would get to the same place, I finally sat down with people who won championships and said, what am I not doing right? It's like in the business world, when you show incremental growth, you get to the same place year after year after year. And you never sit down with somebody, says, what am I not doing? And they could see it. So these coaches were like, you're not doing this. You're not doing this. You're not doing this. And one dude's like, man, you play weak teams. You win 25 games, everybody tells you how great you are. And that hurt. You know, I was like, dude. And then. But he was like, go back and play better teams. You're. You'll get beat, but your teams will be battle tested. And that's what I did. So I made that shift. I dropped all the weak teams. I played the best teams all over the country. I went to California. I went to Texas. I went to Arizona. I went to Florida. Because they played different. They played different in different parts of the country. It's finesse in California, it's tough in Texas, it's. You see where I'm going?
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Yeah.
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And we lost some of those games, but the next year, we went 38 and three and won a championship.
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Awesome.
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So. And I didn't do anything different. I just tried different. I didn't try harder. It was pure. It's pure strategy.
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Yeah. And how have you been able to apply this kind of mindset to the business world? Because that's a way different world.
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What I figured out was that there's so many things that you learn in athletics. There's intensity in athletics. There's winning and losing. There's immediate feedback. There's a lot of prey drive. Right. Like as soon as you. It all goes to zero at midnight in athletics. So you could play on Tuesday night, feel good about yourself, listen to everybody tell you how great you are, and get lazy and get beat on Friday night. When I got into the business world at 31, I noticed there wasn't a lot of intensity. There wasn't a scorecard. There wasn't immediate feedback. It was moving at a slow pace, man. And it's like. So companies the first four years were hiring me like a Navy Seal. It'd be a $2 billion bank says, we want to do $5 billion. You got 500 people and. And you're in charge of all the strategy. I could literally take the same people, add no new people, not fire anybody, and get a 30 or 40% increase with the same people they had.
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Wow.
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Just with coaching. And it taught me good people with great coaching can get better, can perform at a higher level. So once I started doing that for banks, then. Then word spreads pretty quickly. They tell other people this is the guy you got to bring in. And so that's what I did for the first four or five years of the coaching company.
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That's incredible. So it didn't matter what industry they.
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Were in, it matter.
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Mental coaching.
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Well, it was. It was mindset, but it was systems, it was structure, it was aiming point, it was direction, it was motivation. Like some of these people, you know, did the same thing every day. There was no prey drive, there was no motivation, there's no energy.
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Right?
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So the business world needs a lot of what's in the athletic world. Persistence, intensity. Right. Prey drive. The athletic world needs a lot of business. Packaging, marketing. Right. That's really what the game is today.
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Right.
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So. So there's a crossover there that I saw and I go, man, I can capitalize on this.
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Yeah. Well, in the corporate world, you probably see a lot of people just coasting by. They're comfortable, right. They don't feel like they need to work harder.
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And. And there really is, you know, where there's no prey drive, there's no profit.
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I like that.
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Where there's no passion, there's no profit. So what people do in corporate America is they get into the role, they're really not getting coached. So how would they get any better? Right? Like, I mean, think about how many podcasts you do. Think about how much better you are today than you were six months ago, just through pure repetition.
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Right.
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Role play, testing, simulation. Well, most corporate people are not getting coached. There's no improvement. They're not getting any better. But people want more results out of them, and they're not going to get any better on their own.
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Yeah, because people stop learning after college. They think that's it.
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Average American reads less than one book a year for only 46% of people actually read a book cover to cover.
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Wow.
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Of the people that only read one book. So. So it's like they're not getting. They're not going to get any better. It's foolish to think your team is going to get better without any coaching.
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Right?
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And. And there's a lot of people today. Let's take coaching, for example. There's over 800,000 people in the United States who call themselves a coach. The average income of those coaches is 47,000 a year. Now, do you want to get business coaching from somebody making 47 grand a year? But that's what people are doing. They're life coaches, they're business coaches. They've never built anything, they've never won anything. And that's what's Happening. So what that's done is it's commoditized the coaching world, and it's made everybody seem like a commodity. And that's not true. I have a different skill set than a lot of the people I compete against or do events with. Right. Based on my unique past, my unique experiences. So everybody has their skill set. Elliot, Cardone, Robbins, all the greats have a skill set. But what makes a coach different is their unique past. And you are paying them for that past. Their past helps you build your future. So all of those years of me studying under Covey, whole person theory, Body, mind, heart and spirit, inner engineering, building winners from inside out, really knowing how to play really is what people are paying me for.
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Right. They're paying for the 10,000 hours you spent before you became known, right?
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That's right. And it was. It's funny is, you know, there's a lot of theory about the 10,000 hours. And, you know, they say you can fast, you know, speed up the 10,000 hours if you have intense practice with no fear of failure. That's why I like people that do skateboarding or things like that will break arms and legs, and they just have so many reps that I could actually speed up mastery. But it was in my 10th year that we won a championship, which is typically 10,000 hours. Yeah, it was in my 10th year of business that we showed a significant breakthrough in the business. So I think there's a lot of. I think there's a lot of stick with that theory. Just to be honest with you, you can speed it up, but with very intense practice, no fear of failure. And it always comes back to who's coaching you. If you study rapid transformation, it is who's coaching you? How hard do you go? How intense is the practice? So maybe you could do it in four to six years if you had the right mentorship.
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I could see that. Yeah, I think you still need the time no matter what, but if you have that mentorship, it could accelerate it for sure. But 10,000 hours for me is always work ethics. What been able to separate me from everyone else.
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Yeah, when I first started doing live radio, I was. I was. Man, I was. I was just terrified. I'm like, I'm doing live radio. It's live. Like, there's no editing, you know? So I hired a coach, and it was like a major country music artist. It was his coach, and she would sit right across from me in the studio and take notes the whole time. And on the break, she would coach me. And when I was finished. She would coach me. And I thought, man, that was a good. That was a good move. Because she said, don't say this. You're confusing listeners here. You can't say it like that. Like it was, you know, that's really what I needed.
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Well done. Yeah. You were proactive.
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Yeah.
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Rather than reactive.
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Yeah.
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Live radio, that's terrifying.
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It was great, though, but. But it allowed me to meet people like Cardone. It allowed me to meet Marcus Lemonis and Nito Cobain and some of the great people because everybody wants to promote what they're doing. So all I had to do was say, I got, you know, Marcus Lemonis on last week from the profit. And they would say, okay, I'm on. When can I be on?
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That's how I grew the show, too.
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Yeah.
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Leveraging past.
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Absolutely.
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So you were podcasting before it was even big then?
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I was podcasting when it was not even called podcasting. It was like Google, like, you know, like Google. And we tried to live stream it. It was on radio and we filmed it. But it was in the early days. Yeah. I would go into a studio every week and do this.
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Wow. You ever think about starting it up again?
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I do a pod. I don't do a podcast as much as I should. We got a great podcast studio in Nashville at the greatness Factory. And I do. I'm starting to do it more where I really sit down and interview people.
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Nashville's a great city to have a podcast, man.
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Yeah.
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There's a lot of talent in and out there. I just went there for the first time a few months ago.
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Yeah. Your people were telling me, I said, we got to get you to the greatness Factory.
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Yeah, I do want to get out there. How many people can I hold there?
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It's got 109 person, state of the art theater.
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Nice.
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And it's got a podcast. Brand new podcast studio. It's really cool. It's about an 8,000 square foot building. It's got everything from lounge, co working, private suites. Then it's got a level I call Disneyland for business adults.
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I love it, man.
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Beautiful theater, podcast studio, cool rooms called the money Lab, the dream foundry. I give everything a unique name.
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Yeah, you went hard on it. You spent $25 million on real estate, right?
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Yeah, I've bought about, in my life about $25 million worth of real estate between unique properties, Greatness Factory lodges to do cool coaching at, that kind of thing. So I took the money from the coaching business, built a successful business, took the excess cash from the coaching business and started buying real estate. Then I started using the real estate to do coaching. And I call that intentional congruence where everything feeds everything. So it's like, I love real estate, I love coaching. How do we build a greatness factory where there are real estate's appreciating. It's really like a deal factory. Right. And then how do we coach there and make it a cool experience? So all the real estate that I own for the most part, I use for coaching as well.
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That's brilliant to think that far ahead. Yeah, you're like a chess player.
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Well, it's like cool. It's like, come to my. You know, we have this Beautiful lodge, this 8,000 square foot lodge out in Tennessee that people love. And it's like perfect for Learning. Sits on 27 acres and it's like, okay, let's buy this lodge and let's use it for coaching. So here's, here's a, here's how this investment worked. 293,000 down to buy that lodge. Made back 500,000 in the first six months in coaching.
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Wow.
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And it's like, where could you get a return like that? See, using the real estate in a different way is really a creative strategy that we use a lot.
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That's a great way. Cause a lot of people buy real estate and they sit on it and then it pay it off. It takes forever. It takes 20, 30 years.
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And if you, and if you look at the greatness factory, the per square foot. Most bankers would never understand this is that I'm not, I don't look at it per square foot. Because If I'm charging $6,500 for 160 square foot office, I want you to think about that. Okay? It's crazy. It's crazy numbers. But for that office, a person gets to use the theater once a month. They get to use the podcast studio four times a month. They get to have all these amenities. So a person that is a thought leader goes, man, this is a great deal. I'll take the office plus the theater. And that's how you make the numbers work.
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Plus the networking component of it. They're around good people.
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That's right.
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I like that idea. It's like a we work but on steroids.
A
Well, I study, we work. I was telling your team out there for about four to five years. I mean at a very deep level. I put my team into we work for nine months to do research. And I looked at what I liked, what I didn't like. They had studies that showed about 70% of people that work in WeWorks have no meaningful exchange with each other. So when the whole concept is. And I think Adam Newman, by the way, the guy who founded WeWork, is brilliant. I mean, he raised more capital. He raised, you know, $10 billion. I mean, it was. He was. He was brilliant. And people say that model didn't work. They had revenues of $1.7 billion. They had 400 locations. They had 400,000 members. What didn't work is they spent 1.8 billion, so. And they were buying all these other companies. That didn't make any sense.
B
They grew too fast.
A
Yeah. But the concept worked. And thanks to Newman, guys like me come along and go, it's a great idea. This is where that Vuja Day comes in. Vuja Day is bringing a fresh twist to an old way of thinking, like I did Prey Drive. Okay, so the Greatness Factory is like a fresh twist on this. Every member gets access to coaching. Every member gets access to these events. So it's not co working, because I think co working is becoming outdated. It's like a deal factory. It's like a private country club for entrepreneurs that want to be in there.
B
Yeah. Like a mastermind slash, like, investment fund. Right.
A
Yeah. We've raised about $10 million in the Greatness Factory in the first seven months.
B
Wow.
A
Just from members. Just from people doing deals with each other.
B
That's incredible.
A
Yeah.
B
That's why I started the WhatsApp group for my podcast.
A
Right.
B
I want people to collaborate. Think about the collective power of all my previous guests in one room.
A
Well, I mean, I think. I think what you're building with interviewing some of the talent, most talented people in the world, is a. You got a seat at a big table. Number one. Literally got a big table here, but you got a seat at a bigger table. And then how you. How you package and monetize that, should you choose to, is unlimited.
B
Yeah.
A
From events to masterminds. To me, think about if you just did something and brought all of your best guests together and their specialty, what people would pay to put in that room. Yeah, yeah.
B
There's. Yeah, it's endless. Right. I got to get with you on some. Some ideas there.
A
Well, somewhere along the way, I picked up the skill of packaging. And packaging is anything the consumer can feel, touch, taste, or see. A lot of people have great intellectual property, which is their past, their know how. What they don't know how to do is package that past, market that past, and then monetize that past. And so that's a formula that I've kind of created. I help people find their X factor. What is that unique factor about you? How do we package that X factor? Maybe we package it into 12 different monetization strategies. Right. 12 different profit centers. How do we market that X factor? And ultimately, how do you monetize at the absolute highest levels?
B
I love that because a lot of people struggle with that, like, just keeping it honest. A lot of people have tons of followers, but they're broke. I know so many people that have millions of followers. They're chasing the fame, they're chasing the views, but they have no money.
A
Yeah. And I'm all for becoming known. Like, I wrote Person of Interest, which is one of my bestselling books. It's a small book about. It's actually the smallest book that I've ever written that probably sold the most copies. It's just how you become known. But the way you become known is for a skill. Okay. You have a hard skill. That skill can solve a real problem. And if money changes hands, when problems are solved, the more you refine that skill, the more demand there will be for that skill and the more you can charge for that skill.
B
Right.
A
And. And the money is in proportion to the size of the problem. Right. So when you become famous with no hard skill, then over a period of time, it's like, I like this person, but why would I pay money for them?
B
Yeah.
A
Like, what would they do for me? What problem would they solve for me?
B
It's like the TikTok Dancers.
A
Yeah. It's like. And if you can't solve a problem, there's no monetization.
B
Right.
A
So I think. I think the way you become known is you have a skill. You learn how to market that skill, package that skill and market that skill. And we probably have 18 to 20 different profit centers.
B
Wow.
A
Just from my one skill and that skill is activation. Activating a boldness inside of people. Activating an imagination inside of a person. Activating a prey drive inside of a person. I boiled that down to one word, activation.
B
Yeah. Waking people up, man. Cause a lot of people got ideas, right? People go through their whole lives not acting on it, but you're able to tap into that, wake them up. That's cool.
A
Yeah.
B
Not a lot of people can do that well.
A
And I think it came from who I studied. I've tried to figure out where that skill came from. I think it. I was just fascinated from 18 to 25 by Covey, who was so good at packaging concepts. And then I was coached by a guy named Dan Sullivan and through Strategic Coach and, and they taught us, give everything a unique name, make everything a unique process. So at the Greatness Factory, we have a dream foundry. We have the money Lab, we have the Level 10 podcast studio. Like everything's got a name.
B
Yeah. All that, man, you paid for some, some of the best mentors of all time. What made you. Because you said you were 18 when you had the first mentor. Yeah, I couldn't have been cheap, right?
A
I was, I was, I went to a free coaching clinic and it had like 800 coaches and the guy said, if you don't read another book this year, pick up a copy of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. I went, got the book, read it, didn't understand it. It's hard to read for an 18 year old.
B
Yeah.
A
And read right now, but it really is. But, but I fell in love with the depth of Covey. Like I read a lot of self help books today and it's like reading kindergarten book to me because. Because I like breath and depth and real methodology. Right. Like not cotton candy. And so when I read Covey, it spoiled me because I studied Covey for the next eight years, went through all the certifications, paid the money, and that gave me a huge competitive advantage because no other high school coach out there was doing that. No other high school coach was going to the business world and bringing the business world to the athletic world. And, and they would ask me, they're like, man, what are you doing? And I'm like, I'm coaching the whole person, body, mind, heart and spirit. And they thought you should see how they looked. They made fun of me. I had my own website. This is back in 1999.
B
Yeah.
A
I had a website, had a speaking page. And those other coaches were, were brutal to me. They would call me Mr. Motivational Speaker. And I mean, they were mean, man.
B
Look at you now.
A
But, but now they all call me and say, hey, how do I, how do I get my team? How long did my team.
B
I got bullied in high school for the same stuff. You know, trying to be unique and different.
A
Yeah.
B
But that's how you know you're on the right path.
A
Yeah. And you don't know that at the time. It's like, man, why are people being like this to me? But, but the truth is I learned something about competition. When I retired. My greatest competitor called me and said, will you come work with my team for a week?
B
Wow.
A
This was a person who wouldn't speak to me, wouldn't look at me. I thought hated me. Like, it was like war, right?
B
And.
A
And I'm like, you want me to work with your team? He's like, yeah, man. We want. We. I love what you do. He said, you were just a big threat. You were a big competitor. And they paid me to come spend a week with his team. I mean, I ran the practices. I did all the meetings for one week, and it was my greatest competitor.
B
That's crazy.
A
Yeah.
B
Wow. So he saw past the rivalry and saw how good you were.
A
Is like, man, you know, I couldn't beat these people for a long time. And then when I started beating them, it's like, you do have to actually back it up with results. You can't just talk about doing it. You got to go do it, man.
B
Yeah.
A
And it drove me crazy when I was a young coach, and the championship coaches wouldn't talk to me. They wouldn't look at you because they had a ring and you didn't have a ring. And it's like, what do I got to do to get in that club?
B
Yeah. Wow. I didn't know it was like this at the high school.
A
Oh, yeah. In Tennessee. Because Pat Summit was the head coach at Tennessee women's.
B
Yeah.
A
And she was such an icon in women's basketball that Tennessee women's basketball is just a major sport if you go to different states. Like, it's like, football's here, and lacrosse is a big here, or, you know, but Tennessee's big, big football and big, big basketball.
B
That makes sense. I remember seeing her on ESPN growing up as a kid. It was a big deal. Right.
A
And she set the tone. So everybody, you know, if you were in women's sports, you wanted to be like, Pat Summon, man. It's like, how do you win? Like her.
B
How good are you? Were. How good were you at basketball?
A
You know, I was a good little point guard. I really was. I knew I was going to be a coach early in life. My baseball coaches said, when you grow up, you're going to be a coach. My high school basketball coach called me professor. He's like, the way you think. You're always leading. You're always helping the younger kids. You're always directing. So I was a point guard. I didn't have your. I didn't have your size. So I was a. I was a little point guard, but I was scrappy. You know, I was tough and gritty and. And. And I knew at 15 years old, I wanted to be a coach. That's how young I figured it out.
B
We're gonna have to play horse one of these days.
A
I need to get out and practice some, man.
B
It's been a while.
A
And my daughter, my oldest daughter became a cheerleader, which is so ironic. I wanted to be a basketball player, but she wanted to be a cheerleader. So now I go to basketball games and watch my daughter cheer.
B
I love it, man.
A
I know.
B
Is she going to go to college, you think?
A
I think she could. I really do. She's got the skill, she's got a lot of drive. She's got a stubbornness about her that I think will serve her well in some ways. And she does have an aiming point of wanting to go to college and on a scholarship.
B
Okay.
A
Yeah.
B
Where do you think she gets the stubbornness from?
A
My two girls are just like me, man. And my son is like the nicest. My son is 4 years old and he just walks up and goes, I love you, dad. He's like the sweetest little kid. And my girls, this true story. We're sitting at breakfast one day and my two year old daughter's sitting there and she just looks over at her brother who's 4 years old and just punches him right in the face. It's like my girls are just tough and mean and in a, you know, in a, in a, in a, like a tough way. And my son is like this, this softest, gentlest little kid you'll ever imagine.
B
Maybe it could have been from your mom. You said she had some tough love on you.
A
She really did.
B
Maybe it cycles.
A
And I didn't, you know, and I didn't, I didn't know that until I just thought that's how everybody was raised, you know, but, but mom really did instill, like I remember saying, we don't whine, we don't complain and we don't make excuses. Wow. We dress up, we show up, we grow up and we always deliver. And that's how, that's how we do it in this house. So that's kind of how she raised me.
B
That's huge because a lot of people have victim mentalities. So.
A
And, and I think, you know, there's. I study a lot of psychology, There's a lot of learned helplessness. And it's just where people just give up, man.
B
Right.
A
They give up on their dreams. They give up and the prey drive has gone dormant. If it was activated at some point. It's like my buddy Tim Story says he'd be a great guest for you. Tim Story. You know, life can knock the shout out of you, you know, you come into the world screaming and life just kind of beats the shout out of you. And it's like you just, you know, you just, you just get knocked down so many times. You kind of have a learned helplessness.
B
Yeah, that's so true. Yeah. I always wondered what caused some people to just persevere versus give up. Because I've always had the mindset to not stop. But I don't know if that's genetic environment, you know what I mean?
A
That's probably a combination. There's three phases of prey drive. The drive must be activated and I go into the book and flip the switch. What I think activates it. After 33 years of coaching people, there must be a persistence to that drive, which is the ability to sacrifice. The word passion means to sacrifice. So you're willing to stick with something long enough. It's like suck the sour to get to the sweet. And then there's an intensity to a prey drive which is veracity of attack. It's like I'm going to set an aiming point and I'm going to friggin move toward it and I'm going to lock in until I see it through to its conclusion. And in the book I go through the habits of the top 1% of performers and remarkable boldness, which is striking fearlessness or psychological flexibility. The ability to move forward with something even if you don't know if it'll work. Then you've got intrinsic motivation, which are deep because goals. I don't like find your why. I think Simon Sinek's really smart, but I actually believe you can know your purpose and still be broke. I think you can know your purpose and still not be motivated.
B
Interesting.
A
This is after 33 years of coaching people, man.
B
Wow.
A
I believe what you need to know instead of finding your why is you need to find your skill and then you need to find a problem that you could wake up and solve every day. And then you need to know what's called a because goal. A because goal is a deep reason you do something when you don't feel like it's, I do this because of this.
B
I love that. Because finding your why is tough, but finding your skill, you know, you could. That's more achievable in my opinion.
A
Yeah. Because so many people, I would go speak around the country and, and, and people would say, man, I hadn't found my why, I feel like a loser. Or the truth is I believe you can know your purpose. Like, I know I was put on this earth to help people reach their Potential, right? It's all I've ever done since I was a kid. But that doesn't mean I feel like doing it every day. Just because I know my purpose doesn't mean I'm automatically motivated. So I believe it's like, what's your why? What's your why? So one day I picked up the phone, I called my top five students. I mean, my top money earners. They're stone cold killers, man. And I said, what's your why? And every one of them said, I don't know.
B
Wow.
A
Here's what they said. It's just who I am. This is just who I am. I get up and I go get it. It's in me. It's deep. So. So you got remarkable boldness, intrinsic motivation, great connection skills. Think about all the people you've interviewed and how good their connection skills are. The top ones, right?
B
Very good.
A
Okay, so that's a habit of the top 1%. Then you move to grit and resilience, and then you move to the ability to lock in and see something through to its conclusion. Those are the top five habits of the top 1% of performers. And if you know those top five habits, you can go, man, I struggle with remarkable boldness. It's like, I'm not. I'm not bold. Like, musk is bold, right? Trump is bold. Like, you see all these people? Cardone is bold. Like. Like people that do big things are bold. They have a flexibility, a psychological flexibility to move towards something. Bradley's bold. They have this flexibility to move towards something. They don't care what people think about them. Okay? That's remarkable boldness, intrinsic motivation, deep, deep connection. They treat everybody like family, okay? Ability to lock in. I see it and I move toward it. That's the persistence of prey drive. And then you've got grit and resilience, which, you know, if you had kids, which one of those would you. Which one of those would you give your kids? Think about that.
B
Those five, you're saying, yeah, that's a good one, man. I think not caring about what you think for a kid, because I got bullied every day growing up, and I used to care a lot about what people thought about me. No one gives a shit. They only care about themselves. So when I made that switch, Game changer.
A
Yeah. Because the truth is, I can go to a speaking engagement and here's what the percentages tell me. If I use the law of diffusion, which I do, tells me 2.5% of the people are going to see me and do Something with me. They're looking for a guy like me. 13.5% of people need to see me one to three times. 34% of people need to see me three to seven times. 34% need to see me seven to 15 times. 60, 16% of people ain't never going to do anything with me, no matter how good it is. So imagine when you speak at something, knowing that you don't. It's like people come up, say, man, it's incredible presentation. It's like, thanks. Somebody comes up size, you know, it's okay. Okay, thanks. Right? It's like. It's like, I don't get too high. I don't get too low. Because my confidence is not predicated on what you think about me. My confidence is predicated on what I think about me. You see where I'm going?
B
Yeah.
A
Confidence is a memory of success. It's an internal knowing that I can create or manifest what I envision in my mind. Right. That's what confidence is. It comes through consistent, ongoing, systematic repetition.
B
Right.
A
Okay. So when you. When you write a book, some people are going to like it, some people are not going to like it. When you go on a podcast, some people are going to like it, some people are not going to like it. So you got to make up your mind that your confidence is never predicated by what another person thinks about you. Because I always say, never place your destiny in somebody else's hands.
B
Love it.
A
Because that destiny is in danger when it's in somebody else's hands.
B
Absolutely. Especially these days of social media.
A
Yeah.
B
I mean, it could really ruin your confidence if you're not there. Certainly.
A
That's right.
B
Yeah. Growing up, I lacked confidence, for sure.
A
Well, we're working on a concept for kids called the Confidence Factory, which is a child of the Greatness Factory. It's specific to teaching people how to build, maintain, and protect their confidence. It's strictly for kids. They pay a membership fee. Just like they go play basketball, just like they go to gymnastics, just like they go to. My daughter goes to, you know, cheerleading. They would pay a fee to go to the Confidence Factory, and we're licensing that concept around the country.
B
That's needed. I've never heard of something like that.
A
I know. That's. So our first one's in Maryland just got funded last week.
B
Nice.
A
And I think it could be big, man.
B
That's so needed. Because a lot of kids are scared to open up to their parents about this type of stuff, you know, And I.
A
And I'm like, this is a funny story. I was struggling with my daughter because she's very headstrong, and. And I go, she needs a coach. Like a life coach. Right? And I Google, number one confidence coach for kids in Tennessee, and guess who it was.
B
It was you.
A
Me? I'm like, we're screwed. Because I'm like. I'm like, I'm trying to hire a coach for my kid. And it Google's telling me I'm the number one coach for my kid. And I'm like, I. Like, she's my daughter, man. It's like, no matter how much dad knows. Or I'm like, you do know I was a great coach, right? And she's like, dad, but you're not a cheerleading coach. And, you know, it's like, your kids don't. They don't look at you like that.
B
Yeah. She sees you as a father.
A
Yeah.
B
Not a coach. Right.
A
And even in my hometown, people see me. No matter how many things we do in the world, no matter how many good things we do in the world, people in my hometown see me as a basketball coach.
B
Wow.
A
Yeah. I mean, some of them's like, okay, he went on to do bigger things, but most people, like, when I go to the store or when I go to church or whatever, they see me and they're like, oh, yeah, there's Coach Burt, who's that high school basketball coach. He's that motivational speaker. That's what they say. Which drives me crazy.
B
Yeah, that's kind of like a negative.
A
Yeah, it's like, it's. It was great. I don't. I don't. I think it was a great decade of my life. I loved every second of it. But I started feeling like a level 10 person stuck in a level 4 vehicle.
B
Right. Because you're capped.
A
And I knew I had a big engine and I wanted to take it to a bigger arena.
B
Yeah. What's that next arena for you?
A
Probably building greatness factories around the country or. Yeah, building greatness factories. The confidence factory. Could be good. You know, I'm on the board of directors of a publicly traded AI company. CEOs here with me today. You know, and I think that could be really big. Called Hitsy Healthcare Integrated Technologies. I'm really enjoying that.
B
What is. What does that company do?
A
Basically, AI technology. The problem is people are living longer in their lives, but there's not enough workers to take care of people as they live longer. So the AI technology can track people in healthcare facilities that have fallen down. It notifies people immediately.
B
Whoa.
A
The Person who has dementia walks out the back door. It notifies people and then it has biofacial recognition that tracks certain things throughout the day. The workers that are coming and going to make sure people are really doing what they're supposed to.
B
That's cool. So you'll put this in all the elderly homes and hospitals and stuff.
A
And it's got other. It's so. So, yes, in healthcare first announced, we're seeing application for it in school systems.
B
I can see that. Well, the casinos have them here as soon as you walk in. They know they'll kick you out if you're banned.
A
That's right. And so, so it's just got a big, big upside that I think could really, really be big. So I'm really enjoying being on the board of directors of that company.
B
That's cool. Yeah. AI is definitely the future. I use it every day.
A
Yeah.
B
I use it to help prepare me for podcasts.
A
Well, and the truth is, you know, I called my mom who was, who worked in long term health care, and I said, tell me what the problems are. And she said, for every one, for every 23 residents, there's only one nurse. There's only one person taking care of 23 people. And she said, there's so much human error that's happening in these places that it's got to go to AI right on to, to catch up with all of this. So the AI can sit there and track when they take their medicine. It can track when people fall down. It can track all kinds of things that, that just get missed with human error.
B
I mean, thirdly, didn't cause deaths and misdiagnosis.
A
That's it. And so it's like, you know, the longer people live, the less people there are to take care of those people.
B
Right.
A
So that's the big problem that this particular company solves. It's called Healthcare Integrated Technologies, or HIT C for people that are looking up the stock.
B
That's cool. We'll link below anything else you want to close off with ma.
A
You know, it's, it's, man, it's good being here with you. I've watched your show. You're really good at what you do. You got a great place and you've interviewed a lot of really talented people. So it's an honor for us to be here with you, man.
B
Likewise, man. We'll link your Instagram and social media below as well. Thanks for coming on.
A
Absolutely.
B
Part two in Nashville one day.
A
I love it. Come on.
B
See you guys.
Digital Social Hour: Why 'Prey Drive' Will Change How You Succeed | Michael Burt DSH #1152
Released on January 31, 2025
In Episode #1152 of Digital Social Hour, host Sean Kelly engages in an insightful conversation with Michael Burt, a former women's basketball coach turned renowned author and business coach. The episode delves deep into Burt's groundbreaking concept of the "Prey Drive," exploring how this innate instinct can be harnessed to achieve unparalleled success in both athletic and business arenas.
Sean Kelly begins by introducing Michael Burt, highlighting his impressive portfolio of 22 authored books and his transition from coaching to business mentorship.
Michael Burt [01:05]: "Started early, started at 25 years old, really, just to explain what I was doing as a basketball coach. So I had no intention of writing 22 books. Just started and really enjoyed the process and enjoyed packaging a method."
Burt elaborates on his most successful book, which became a Wall Street Journal bestseller, focusing on the psychology behind activating the "Prey Drive."
Michael Burt [01:25]: "It's the psychology of activating what we call the prey drive, which is your instinct to pursue. And I trademarked those two words."
The conversation shifts to Burt's upbringing, emphasizing the role of his single mother in instilling discipline and toughness, which later fueled his "Prey Drive."
Michael Burt [02:42]: "I was raised by a single mom and had me when she was 16 years old. She was tough, man. She taught me we don't whine, we don't complain, we don't make excuses."
Burt credits his early experiences on the baseball field and in the gym, along with influential coaches who served as father figures, for shaping his relentless drive.
Michael Burt [03:41]: "A lot of it is just conditioning. Right. Like environmental scripting, like what you're exposed to as a kid."
Burt introduces the five key activators that can ignite the "Prey Drive" within individuals:
Michael Burt [04:00]: "Fear is an obvious activator. And so think of fear of loss. Huge activator. Right. Competition, big activator of prey drive... embarrassment can be an activator."
Michael Burt recounts his pivotal meeting with Grant Cardone in the early 2010s, which significantly expanded his vision from local coaching to a global market.
Michael Burt [05:05]: "He made me think a lot bigger. And he said one day, he said, man, your market is not Nashville, your market is planet Earth."
This encounter led Burt to transition from coaching to business mentorship, culminating in the establishment of his coaching company that intersects athletic principles with business strategies.
Michael Burt [07:03]: "Companies started offering me, you know, six figures and I'm like, man, I'm not leaving until I win a championship."
Burt shares his journey of building a nationally recognized high school women's basketball team, emphasizing the importance of discipline, methodology, and the activation of the "Prey Drive."
Michael Burt [10:22]: "When I got there, it was not a place you expected to win, hadn't won in 30 years. So to spend 10 years building something..."
Despite retiring at 31, Burt's legacy is evident as his former team continued to win multiple state championships.
Michael Burt [14:22]: "When you leave, everything goes down the drain. But a level 5 leader builds something that sustains."
Drawing parallels between sports and business, Burt explains how the intensity, persistence, and structured feedback from athletics can revolutionize corporate environments.
Michael Burt [16:59]: "There’s so many things that you learn in athletics. There’s intensity in athletics... as soon as you play on Tuesday night."
His coaching methodologies have led businesses to achieve significant growth without the need for additional manpower, underscoring the universal applicability of his principles.
Michael Burt [18:10]: "I could literally take the same people, add no new people, not fire anybody, and get a 30 or 40% increase with the same people they had."
Burt criticizes the saturated coaching market, emphasizing the importance of unique experiences and proven results over generic advice.
Michael Burt [21:10]: "All of those years of me studying under Covey... everybody is paying them for that past. Their past helps you build your future."
He contrasts his approach with that of average coaches, highlighting his success in both sports and business as evidence of his effective coaching strategies.
One of the standout topics in the episode is Burt's innovative venture, the Greatness Factory. This venture seamlessly blends real estate with coaching facilities, creating environments that foster growth, collaboration, and success.
Michael Burt [24:05]: "It's like, I love real estate, I love coaching. How do we build a greatness factory where everything feeds everything."
The Greatness Factory offers state-of-the-art facilities, including podcast studios and event spaces, serving as hubs for entrepreneurs and thought leaders to collaborate and thrive.
Michael Burt [26:05]: "Every member gets access to coaching. Every member gets access to these events. So it's not co-working, because I think co-working is becoming outdated."
Burt discusses the critical importance of packaging one's unique skills and experiences to create multiple revenue streams. He emphasizes that true value lies in the unique combination of one's past and how it can be leveraged to solve real-world problems.
Michael Burt [28:03]: "Packaging is anything the consumer can feel, touch, taste, or see... how do you package your X factor?"
He outlines a formula that involves identifying one's unique factors, applying diverse monetization strategies, and effectively marketing these packaged skills to maximize profitability.
Understanding the challenges faced by today's youth, Burr introduces the Confidence Factory, a spin-off of the Greatness Factory dedicated to building and maintaining confidence in children.
Michael Burt [42:10]: "We're working on a concept for kids called the Confidence Factory... teaching people how to build, maintain, and protect their confidence."
This initiative addresses the prevalent issues of low self-esteem and victim mentalities among children, providing structured environments to foster resilience and self-assurance.
As the episode concludes, Burt shares his involvement with an AI-driven healthcare company, Healthcare Integrated Technologies (HIT C), highlighting the intersection of technology and human care.
Michael Burt [44:14]: "AI can track people in healthcare facilities that have fallen down. It notifies people immediately."
He envisions expanding the Greatness Factory nationwide and continues to emphasize the importance of mentorship, structured coaching, and strategic planning in achieving lasting success.
In this compelling episode of Digital Social Hour, Michael Burt shares his transformative insights on the "Prey Drive" and its application across various facets of life. From his disciplined upbringing and successful coaching career to innovative business ventures like the Greatness Factory and Confidence Factory, Burt illustrates how innate instincts, when properly activated and harnessed, can lead to extraordinary success. Sean Kelly's engaging interview uncovers actionable strategies for listeners to activate their own prey drives, overcome limiting beliefs, and achieve sustained excellence in their personal and professional lives.
For those seeking inspiration and practical methodologies to unlock their potential, Digital Social Hour with Michael Burt is an unmissable listen.