Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
[00:00:09] Speaker B: The podcast for those who find themselves immersed in adversity and choose to write their story instead of having others write it for them. I'm Drew Duraney, and I'm your host.
Today's guest is Sean Murphy, also known as Mr. Motivation. Sean Murphy is a motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and educator dedicated to helping individuals break free from limitations and create a life of purpose.
From his humble beginnings as the son of a single Caribbean mother to rising through challenges as an army staff sergeant, Shawn's story is one of resilience and transformation.
After facing financial hardship and homelessness, Shawn devised a personal strategic plan that turned his life around.
He went on to earn a master's in education, inspire students as a college professor, and receive recognition from first lady Michelle Obama for his work with veterans.
Today, he leads Wake the Beast, a nonprofit recognized for its impact on equity and inclusion, offering courses, mentorship, and the groundbreaking web series Cut the Stigma, which addresses mental health in the black community.
Through his book, Unbreakable Valor, Sean shares his blueprint for overcoming challenges and building a successful life.
Enjoy the show. Sean Murphy, Mr. Motivation. I am thrilled to have you here, my friend. Thanks for coming on.
[00:01:37] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Appreciate you, man. This has been absolute pleasure. Let's go.
[00:01:41] Speaker B: All right, here we go. Here we go. Hey, folks. You know, I always thank the individual or group who introduced me to my guest, and. And this time I get to thank. It's probably like the second time I've got to do this second or third. Wasabi publicity. Thank you so much for introducing me to Sean Murphy.
That's the gift that keeps on giving.
So wonderful stuff. Thank you again, folks. As you know, I always start with how when we're young and we're taught by our family and everybody around us, and it's not a malicious teaching, yet we're taught that life is linear. It's a straight line. If you do A plus, B plus, C, D is going to happen, and we believe it and they tell us because they want it to happen for us. And for the most part, life is linear until it's not. Until that external circumstance comes in between one of those letters and derails our path in life from that straight one to a more circuitous one.
When that happens, that's when adversity rears its ugly head, and we've got a choice. Do we face adversity head on or do we retreat and run away?
I always say there's three types of men out there.
Man number one's got a ton of blind spots, so he doesn't even notice the adversity. He's living life the way people tell him to live and he doesn't change anything.
And I don't have that man on the show.
Then there's man number two. Man number two certainly sees the adversity, says I'm a victim, everybody else is to blame. That's life doing it to me. I can't change anything. It is what it is. And he just lives life without making any changes. And on his deathbed, he's got a ton of regrets. I don't have him on the show either. I have man number three, Sean Murphy, Mr. Motivation on the show. And man number three has got a heightened self awareness, sees that adversity and says, I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I see that adversity as an opportunity, not a barrier, an opportunity to take massive action, do things differently and become a stronger man on the other side.
So, Sean, for the audience, my friend, reach back as far as you need to for that defining moment. Whether it was the tap on the shoulder, the whisper in the ear, or like I needed the 2 by 4 upside my head, that kind of woke you up and transformed you from the man you used to be to the man you are now. And how that impacted you personally and professionally, my friend.
Man. Man.
[00:04:07] Speaker A: Loaded question.
[00:04:09] Speaker B: Oh, it's big.
[00:04:11] Speaker A: So this in two parts. The defining moment. I think when I transitioned from the military, I've always been someone who, you know, always knew what the next two, three steps were.
This particular instance, I. I had a plan, but it just backfired. It didn't play out, you know, how I had imagined. And I go from being, you know, stats on promotable, you know, important person, if you would.
I had a pretty significant role to unemployed, broke Sean, right? In a matter of less than six months.
And that was, that was tough for me. And I'm. I'm in Missouri. I was just got transitioned from Missouri, Fort Linda woods.
And I only jobs I was getting offer was like 12 an hour. And I'm a staff, so I did eight years. This is crazy. But I didn't have my degree, so I thought my social capital was enough to get me back in the game on the civilian side, into the, you know, in the military sector.
So, so that was a struggle. And when I write my book on my life, that'll be the Blue funk chapter. Because I'm outgoing, extrovert, I'm that guy. But in this moment, I just wasn't him. And I couldn't even go outside Because I was. I was a front. And I literally stayed in my house probably 30, 60 days. I only went out to substitute teach, come back, because that was what was helping me keep, you know, food on the table. Not even pay bills, but food on the table, right? And so that was a. My. My low point. And I'll tell you, I said, I. I'd rather struggle in New York, right? And I moved back to New York and live my mom's. And then, you know, probably two years later, I'm in a whole different place. So how did I get there? One, I looked at my mom, who came from Barbados.
Her mother illiterate, her father literate, her father sold. He was a fisherman. And my grandmother, she sold what he brought in from the sea at market.
And she came here in hopes of making a better way. And I thought about what she went through to get here, what she gave up and sacrifice to give me a chance at success.
And now, even in my blue funk, I had more than she had. Wow. I said, I gotta leverage this. I gotta. You know, and you talk about your why, your reasons. And one, you know, one of my quotes is, you know, poverty sucks. I'll never be broke again. And just remembering what I went through as a child, I said, I can't go back to that. And I think that that fear of going back into poverty was like, just kind of kickstarted me to keep going. And I've had several of. You know, we talk about failure. I've fallen in love with failure. But when you're going through it, you don't understand or appreciate it because it hurts. Now, I paused there. I'm two guys. Like. Because when you do the. Wayne Dyer had taught us about quantum moments. Okay? And when you look back on life, you be like, dang. This moment with you bringing up your unearthing this was a change the trajectory of my life.
[00:07:21] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:07:22] Speaker A: And before my. My struggles, getting out the military, Buddy Lee is my mind. He was E4. He said, Murphy, he's my. My drinking buddy. We play ball. He said, murph, I'm about to go to board. I'm gonna get E5 promoted. I'm gonna get promotable, make E6. I'm going to Hawaii. And on my partly. What are you talking about? Let's go get a drink, you know?
And Drew, he did everything he said he was going to do.
[00:07:44] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh.
[00:07:45] Speaker A: I was just, like, floored.
[00:07:48] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:07:48] Speaker A: And I've given him his flowers. Actually talked to him a week ago, and I said to myself, well, if Buddy Lee could do it. I know I could do it.
[00:07:56] Speaker B: There you go.
[00:07:56] Speaker A: So that was the first thing. And two, my big bro, Casey, he's a Marine. I won't hold it against him. He made some poor life choices, but I love him.
[00:08:05] Speaker B: Right.
[00:08:07] Speaker A: And backstory, Drew. I never knew my, my. So I grew up when I talk about coming into this world, one, with three strikes, black male, fatherless and in poverty. Right. So never knew my father. In the age 6, I learned that he was a victim of gun violence.
[00:08:27] Speaker B: Oh, boy.
[00:08:28] Speaker A: Right. So never had that father figure, that guide, role model.
[00:08:33] Speaker B: Right.
[00:08:33] Speaker A: Consistently so. My big brother, stranger playing ball. And he just took a liking to me, took me under the wing and I was fighting with. I was going to get out the military. He said, boy, sit your behind there. You ain't do college while you was in here. You ain't gonna go out and do it in hood. And I'm just so grateful that he saw greatness in me before I really did.
[00:08:55] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:08:55] Speaker A: He poured into me and he told, get. Get your Cammy straight. Go to the board. And I did everything he said, Drew. And that's what got me to E6 promotal prior to my transition. Now all that's connected with the, like the, the how I. I got there and I'm sharing with listeners and viewers sometimes about the people that you meet along the way.
Unexpected angels that help shape your destination to get you in that journey. And when I, I transitioned, I said from the dropout or transition to two, say two years later and into where I'm at now.
I came up with my framework because I said, how did I do this?
[00:09:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:33] Speaker A: And it started with mindset, right? My. My 5M formula for success. Mindset, motivation, money management and massive movement, which I've heard you use that term before.
[00:09:43] Speaker B: Right?
[00:09:43] Speaker A: And mindset. Having I had a victim mindset, I got out. I was like, yo, my leadership ain't helped me. I. I had to take extreme ownership. That's that creative mindset. Yeah, right.
Money. Stop chasing money. I started chasing purpose. Money flows where energy goes. I had to change my whole approach to it. And that's. This came about through reading. I started reading and consuming content because when you're in that. That dark place, what else you got to do, right? I just started to read. I wanted to still be productive motivation. I talk about my why, what are my reasons? Life's going to beat us the heck up. How will you respond when these things happen to you? It's about, you got to find that empowering lesson that's in the event that's happening and use it to get out. And then I'll. I'll close out with the last two management.
You're the CEO of your life.
I heard your guy. I listened to your podcast. He had the Iron five. Well, I call it the SEAL Team six. These are the people you need around you to go next level. So you got the doubter. We have big dreams and vision. We just like in go mode. Well, the doubter identifies the blind spots.
Right? You need the in instigator. They keep you fired up. You got to identify Drew, your example, who's doing what you want to do at a high level. Figure it out. Reverse engineer their journey and clone it and apply it to you.
The taskmaster, your accountability partner, someone you checking with daily, weekly, monthly. Am I hitting my benchmarks? We. Where are my struggles? How can we do better? And the last two, your cheerleader. Because you need that person that loves everything you do.
[00:11:22] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:11:22] Speaker A: And then your. Your connector. People that get you in the rooms. You can't get in on your own. So that's who you need on your team. And the last thing is massive movement. So that's what I did. That was my framework to go from stuck stalling and starting over to living and thriving in success.
[00:11:39] Speaker B: I love that framework, man. I mean, there's so much to talk about here.
First thing I want to get to is in the military. You mentioned the term promotable. What was that. That. That term you mentioned? E. Something Promotable.
[00:11:50] Speaker A: Yes. I was E6 promotable. So that means I was on the cusp of going to the next rank. E7.
[00:11:55] Speaker B: Oh, I get it. I get it. And so you were helped by Mr. Lee.
[00:12:00] Speaker A: Yeah, buddy Lee. Buddy.
[00:12:02] Speaker B: Buddy Lee. To get yourself promotable. Okay, well.
[00:12:06] Speaker A: Well, so. So. So Buddy Lee was my inspiration because sometimes you gotta see someone that's in the trenches with you.
[00:12:13] Speaker B: Right.
[00:12:14] Speaker A: Believe this thing could happen for you. So he was my example, and my big bro, KC was one that really dropped the hammer and really got me, like, to commit to change.
[00:12:25] Speaker B: Got it. Okay. So that's part of your framework. So. So Buddy Lee would be. Of the. The six things you talked about, what would Buddy Lee be?
[00:12:34] Speaker A: I think so.
Of the five informula or five informative.
[00:12:38] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:12:39] Speaker A: So I think motivation. I think motivation, Probably.
[00:12:44] Speaker B: Motivation.
[00:12:44] Speaker A: Yeah, I think motivation.
Yeah.
[00:12:48] Speaker B: And kc, what was Casey?
[00:12:49] Speaker A: So KC said my big bro. He. If I think about the SEAL Team 6, he. That's the. My example. That's my example. He was a few. So people could have different roles.
[00:12:59] Speaker B: Oh, I see. Okay. So you have. They can have more than one role.
[00:13:01] Speaker A: More than one, yeah.
[00:13:02] Speaker B: The whole point is surround yourself with those people who've got your back, who know you well and want you to succeed and will bring you up rather than push you down, kind of.
[00:13:12] Speaker A: Correct. Correct. Yeah.
[00:13:13] Speaker B: All have different roles within that context.
[00:13:15] Speaker A: Yeah. You know what I always say? True. Because, you know, you. You look at our study like, you know, people passing and just to get insight. But you go to a funeral, you got all these people holding you up, the pallbearers. I don't want you hold me up that day. Hold me up now.
[00:13:28] Speaker B: I want me while I'm alive, man. Let me know what you feel about me while I'm here. Yeah.
It's so true, because I say that, too. We talk about all these great things about the person who's in the casket and did he or she know this stuff when he or she was walking the earth with you? And that's. I love the way you put that, man. I love it. I love it. I love it. All right, so the transition out of the military. Now, I know in speaking to veterans and in speaking to police officers, those two areas, police officers and military, the transition out is not easy. And there's not a lot of assistance, help, guidance on how to go from one to the other within a very short timeframe. Am I correct on that?
[00:14:11] Speaker A: Yeah. Drew, I'll say this to be fair.
[00:14:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:16] Speaker A: The resources are there now. I'm removed. You told my 2006. So I'm a long time ago, Right?
[00:14:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:22] Speaker A: The resources were there.
I use an I statement.
Didn't take advantage.
[00:14:28] Speaker B: Okay. So they're there. Okay. So it's a choice.
[00:14:31] Speaker A: I took for granted the help that was there. Now, once you transition out.
[00:14:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:37] Speaker A: It's a different ball game. They cut the umbilical cord and you got to figure it out.
[00:14:41] Speaker B: But so the preparation's there while you're still in.
[00:14:44] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. Yeah.
[00:14:45] Speaker B: Even if they know you're transitioning out, they still have resources there to help you. It's. Once you are physically out, cord cut, then you can go to the VA though. Right. Okay.
[00:14:55] Speaker A: Good luck with that.
[00:14:56] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what I heard. Yeah.
[00:14:57] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:14:59] Speaker B: All right, so you're out, and we heard about your trials and tribulations beforehand. Tell me about those two years you started. You took accountability.
[00:15:07] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:07] Speaker B: And what was that first? Once you got self awareness and accountability, what was the first step you made to getting to where you are right now?
[00:15:18] Speaker A: So is one deciding Where I wanted to be. Okay, right. Deciding where I wanted to be. And I'll tell you a story. When I grew up a low income community, you know, drugs, crime, all the things.
[00:15:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:31] Speaker A: And I watch this show, I talk about this all the time. Lifestyles of the rich and famous.
[00:15:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:37] Speaker A: Robin, Champagne, Carry our dreams.
[00:15:41] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:42] Speaker A: I would watch this because my mom's ain't gonna let me watch too much tv, but I see this dude all around the world. Jets. And I look outside my window and I'm like, I don't see none of that.
[00:15:51] Speaker B: I don't see that.
[00:15:52] Speaker A: And I was like, you know, I, I want that. And I, I, I, I think it's Bob Proctor. He said, I found a 10 acre lot because I was looking for the 10 acre lot. So I started looking for that, what I saw on the tv. So like, I wasn't comfortable where I was at, cuz everything in life, they give you these cards and you can say one or two things because life's about choices. This is it, it's what it is, right? Or there's more, there's more. See that? There's more takes action. You got to get curious.
[00:16:22] Speaker B: Yeah, I love it.
Curiosity. Yeah.
[00:16:26] Speaker A: So that's one of the things I started, I reactivated. What do I want? I wanted that Robin Leach life.
[00:16:32] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:33] Speaker A: What do I get there? Now I gotta identify people that are doing things at a high level that I want to get to.
[00:16:39] Speaker B: Right.
[00:16:40] Speaker A: I started studying the, the Les Browns of the world, Jim Rollins, Earl Nightingale, you know.
And now you start hearing their stories. Oh, I'm not an isolated thing. Then he didn't have his father, he dropped out of college. This dude's on top of the world. Okay, I can do this too, right? So you gotta now you add in, cuz words, change your words, you change your world. So, so what are the words that I'm saying to myself?
Right? Like, Sean, you could do it. You may be down now, but you could bounce back, right?
And I think you just go on this journey. Like I'm, I'm a forever journey of self mastery, right? Yeah, self mastery. I gotta get better every day, every week, every month. I gotta assess where I'm at, where I've been, what I could do differently. And I think once you start, it starts there with the mindset and, and then the belief that change is possible because we oftentimes block our blessings. We say, well, listen, I'm from this zip code. People like us don't make it. You know what I mean?
[00:17:43] Speaker B: Hear that?
[00:17:43] Speaker A: That rich life ain't for me. Whatever. And. And we stop ourselves.
One of the other things, Drew, that's big that I had to sidestep is that confidence piece. Because lot of us lack self confidence.
One of the reasons why, in my opinion, we lied to ourself. We say self imma start working out. I'm gonna stop smoking, and I' ma quit drinking. We never stop. We never start. We never quit. And then we do this over and over and over. Then you get this bright idea years later, and you wonder why you talk yourself out of it because you don't believe you.
Hello. So you gotta recalibrate your mindset and start whatever you say do. There's a book, the four agreements. One of the agreements you make with you in the universe. Be impeccable with your word. And that means to yourself, don't lie to yourself. You get me? And I think that's how you start to, you know, sidestep the. The lack of self confidence and self doubt. And then I. I have delusional self confidence, Drew. I can do anything. Okay. Give me a little bit of time.
[00:18:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:47] Speaker A: Give me the resources. I'm gonna figure it out.
[00:18:49] Speaker B: There you go.
[00:18:50] Speaker A: And then I think we.
We're in a society now. It's like the microwave society. We want it instant right now.
[00:18:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:56] Speaker A: Right.
Every. Every overnight success is 10 to 15 years.
[00:19:00] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:19:01] Speaker A: So, you know, that's how I did it.
[00:19:04] Speaker B: I love that, man. You know, I talk often about desire and faith, and that came from the book from Napoleon Hill. But if you. If you have a desire for something, it's kind of like re. Engineering. You look at the end first, where do you want. Who do you want to be? And then how do you get to be that person? Is exactly what you talked about. And so. So now I want to get into.
Now I know how you did it. And it took. Took a while, because it does never overnight. I want to know where Mr. Motivation came from and how you're using that in your professional life.
[00:19:42] Speaker A: So, Mr. Motivational listeners and viewers, remember I was in the military, and I remember being in basic training. And my drill sergeant, drill sergeant Linkfeller, he had me in the A group, and we running. We running. And he be like, all right, privates, when we get to the water tower, we all set. We just did about four miles.
[00:20:00] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:20:02] Speaker A: So now I'm fixated on this water tower. I'm about to give you all I got to this water tower.
[00:20:07] Speaker B: Drew, Drew, Drew, y.
[00:20:09] Speaker A: We get to the water tower, this dude takes off.
I'm like, buddy, yes.
I'm, like, deflated. But I tell you what, he starts hitting this cadence motivated, rock steady. And that's when the caters there, it starts just reactivating the energy. You're like, all right, I could go another mile.
[00:20:31] Speaker B: Oh, I love it.
[00:20:32] Speaker A: So, Drew, I wanted to become the cadence for people.
When you feel like quitting, when you tired, you think you can't go forward no more. I want you, whether you tap into my podcast, my one of my speeches now, my motivational music, it's going to give you what you need to go to keep going and keep digging deep. So that's where that Mr. Motivation I got it came from.
[00:20:57] Speaker B: I love that. I love that. Okay, so you mentioned three things that you're. That you're working on. I, I the last part. Let's start with the last one, the motivational music. Please let us know all about that.
[00:21:08] Speaker A: Oh, man. Drew. So it started.
I'm a college professor. I went from college dropout, fast forward. I now teach college course on how to be successful in college. And I know I was tapping in 20, 30 scholars a. A semester, but I'm like, dang, you know, there's someone in Japan and Australia or on Fort Hood base that needs this. And I wanted to create the platform to reach them. So that's the mis motivation. The speaker got it started.
[00:21:33] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:21:33] Speaker A: And I said, you know what? A lot of speakers, Drew, how do I differentiate myself? And I've always been like, a creative.
[00:21:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:40] Speaker A: So I will listen to Adam Won't lose. And he would say, did hard work. I used to hate you. You made me better over some beats. And then one day, it just hit me, I could do this.
[00:21:51] Speaker B: I love it.
[00:21:52] Speaker A: So call my producer, Keith Jones. I got an idea, because my friends and I got crazy ideas. I said, I want to do an album. What are you talking about, Murph? I said, listen to this guy. He listened. He said, oh, you got the words, I got the beats.
So start doing the album, Drew. He said, start writing. This was July. So two things was the why for this? I wanted to, one, increase my presence, increase my impact, help people. But two, I wanted to show my kids that you don't gotta be smart or talented to be successful.
[00:22:23] Speaker B: I love this.
[00:22:24] Speaker A: And effort. You could do anything. Daddy don't know nothing about this. This space here. But in about five years, I'm be rocking stages. Right?
[00:22:32] Speaker B: There we go. Yeah.
[00:22:33] Speaker A: So we about nine song, nine tracks in. And I said, you know what? I'm a Brooklyn dude, right? Everybody thought I could rap because I'm from Brooklyn. And I was like, you know, I want to do one. I gotta do one song. I'm in the studio, we gotta do it.
Hardest thing ever. Oh, my goodness.
I just could. Murph, you gotta ride the beat. You're going too fast. I was just a mind about to explode.
[00:22:56] Speaker B: Oh, my God.
[00:22:57] Speaker A: But I love the challenge, right?
[00:22:59] Speaker B: Right.
[00:22:59] Speaker A: So I get it done. And like, Murph, listen, remember, you're not a rapper. I'm like, all right, that's cool.
[00:23:06] Speaker B: So I love it.
[00:23:06] Speaker A: We go to market and I was like, okay, I'll keep doing this thing. I like the motivation, you know, the speaking and then I like the poetry.
[00:23:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:15] Speaker A: But I like the rap, though. So, Drew, I could have easily stayed in the poetic lane, right? Because Murph likes the challenge. I said, no, I'm gonna do this. I want the hard thing.
[00:23:25] Speaker B: Okay?
[00:23:25] Speaker A: And I start studying common most deaf J Big. And now, I mean, I'm. I think about 12, 15 songs out.
And one of the beautiful thing. My heart is full. Drew. Two years ago, launch Music Fest. I'm on stage, I did, I think a 20 minute set. All music.
My daughter runs backstage. She jumps on me. She said, daddy, you said you was gonna do this three years ago, and you're doing it true. You gotta pay me nothing, brother.
[00:23:59] Speaker B: No, no, no, no. That's payment enough, man. You're a rich man with that.
[00:24:03] Speaker A: You can't tell them they can't do anything.
[00:24:06] Speaker B: No.
[00:24:07] Speaker A: You see what I'm saying?
[00:24:07] Speaker B: Oh, I love that. Does she have a favorite song of yours?
[00:24:10] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Hers is acting different, and I think Murphy's Law.
[00:24:14] Speaker B: All right, all right. Now, I've never done this before because I've never had anybody on who can rap. Yeah. Can you do her favorite one?
[00:24:21] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Listen, soon as you decide to step inside the door, you are now bound to be subject to Murphy's Law, a type of teaching that you've never learned before. So put your mind to the test. See how well you perform.
Listen, it ain't about where you go to college at. It's about what you retain, where you apply all of that knowledge at. Don't stress your brain trying to fill out all those college apps. Find strengths in your weaknesses. Continue trying to polish that. Don't let those worlds suck you into that obnoxious crap. You. You looking for the answers. They're within you. I could promise that. So keep your ear to the wind, baby. Follow that. If you love it, let it go.
Holla back, Drew. That's Law.
[00:25:04] Speaker B: I love Murphy's Law. I love Murphy's Law. That was awesome, man. Thank you for sharing that. All right, so we got the music, the speaking, and what was the first thing you mentioned?
[00:25:14] Speaker A: So my new book or the book? Yep.
[00:25:18] Speaker B: Unbreakable Valor.
[00:25:20] Speaker A: Oh, through the Soul Drew of Resilience.
[00:25:25] Speaker B: Wow.
So we've got the book, we've got the speaking, we've got the music. What don't you do, man?
I'll tell you, you are inspiring.
Totally inspiring.
Is there anything that you want to mention to the audience that we have not touched on that you think is going to pick them up and, and give them some hope and inspiration?
[00:25:50] Speaker A: No. I mean, I'll share.
I was leaving about three quotes, but one of my mantras is I fail, I grow, I win. And I want you to really embrace that because there's like five levels of failure.
You know, the ability to fail, the wantingness to fail, the willingness to fail, the desire to fail bigger and faster. And then you want to fail exponentially with others.
So you want to fail. And in failure, the lessons are learned. That's how you grow and you apply what you learn because knowledge without application is not going to get you there. And then that's how you win eventually. Right. And it's not about, you know, the goal or the objective. You'll hit it. It's who you become on the way to achieving that goal. Right.
[00:26:36] Speaker B: So yeah, I love that, man. Because majority of us, we either, all of us really, we either seeking pleasure or trying to avoid pain.
So when you think about that you're suggesting seek failure in some way, shape or form because it makes you stronger when you stand up to it and you learn from it. Because if we never fail, we never can see what it's like to succeed. Right.
We need that dichotomy, we need to. That distinction between failing and succeeding. I love that. That is awesome. So the audience certainly has captured essence of Sean Murphy, Mr. Motivation.
And they're going to want to get in touch with you. So folks, website, Mr. M I s t r motivation.com certainly definitely Instagram. And now I'm going to throw it back to. To Sean because there was two things that he. They mentioned about the music. How do we get in touch with for the music piece?
[00:27:34] Speaker A: Yeah. So on Spotify, Mr. Motivation. M I S T R Motivation. And then my Instagram is Mr. Motivation Music.
[00:27:41] Speaker B: Okay, and how do we pick up the book?
[00:27:44] Speaker A: Oh, the book. Oh, Amazon. Actually two things. If you want to author sign copy, you can go to my website and find them and I'll mail you the book or Amazon a drop, ship it to you.
[00:27:54] Speaker B: All right. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. All right.
[00:27:56] Speaker A: So.
[00:27:58] Speaker B: Gee, I could talk to you forever, man. You got me motivated, man. I'm like, I'm sitting here, I'm like, I gotta learn how to rap now.
[00:28:06] Speaker A: Feature Drew.
I don't know.
[00:28:08] Speaker B: I don't know, man. You haven't seen me dance and sing, so I don't get. I don't know. But you know what, you're motivated me enough that I think I can learn maybe on the side you can, we can do. Oh, my God. My, my oldest son, Matt Matthew loves, loves all types of music. And if his father learns how to write what's a song out, he will this then, then that means anybody can do anything.
All right, all right, I got, I got two final questions for you, my friend.
[00:28:36] Speaker A: Do it.
[00:28:36] Speaker B: All right, here's the first one.
You're in your happy place. You're sitting down with 7 to 10 year old Shawn Murphy and you're going to give him advice about life. What are you going to tell young Sean?
[00:28:50] Speaker A: Man, I'mma tell him that his circumstance doesn't dictate his future.
Okay, I'm going tell him to dream big. I have this one verse.
Dream big dreams, live them out and dream bigger. I would tell them to do that. Dream big, dream living out and dream bigger. And the other two pieces chase financial literacy. Like understand how money works, understand how to invest, how to stand and just understand that whole ecosystem. And the last thing, proximity is power.
Be really intentional with your friend group.
[00:29:27] Speaker B: Love that. That's wonderful advice. All right, let's switch, switch gears. You're now sitting down with young entrepreneur, young businessman Sean Murphy. You want to give him advice about business? What are you going to tell him?
[00:29:38] Speaker A: Yeah, I'll tell the young entrepreneur.
Get mentors similar to the SEAL Team 6. Your mentors get a.
A board of personal directors. That's just to help you go next level. So whether it's real estate, whether it's stocks, get someone in each of those buckets. And I would tell him to actively seek opportunities to attend conferences, networking events, really immerse himself into that space, whichever sector he's in.
And what's the other one? Oh, leverage business credit.
[00:30:13] Speaker B: Oh, I love that you want to dive into that a little more. Leverage business credit.
[00:30:18] Speaker A: So, you know, I've started several businesses this up to this date and I've never done the business credit. And I'm like, oh, that's crazy. I'm in the process of doing that now, but it's something that, you know, I use my personal finances to fund all my things. You know, money back, stack back the house. But it's better to leverage your business credit so your personal isn't impacted.
[00:30:42] Speaker B: That's beautiful. That makes sense. Makes sense. And there's a way to do that. I know there are experts who can teach you how to do that. That's awesome. All right, well, I want to thank you for not just coming on, for. For coming into my life, my friend. It's just there are certain people who can impact you in a short amount of time, and you've done that for me.
Please keep doing what you're doing. You're a wonderful human being and you're helping a ton of people, and I know that your music reaches the soul, your books are reaching the mind, and your speaking is reaching the heart. So I love it, man. Keep doing what you're doing.
[00:31:19] Speaker A: Thank you, brother. Appreciate you. Thank you for the opportunity.
[00:31:21] Speaker B: Absolutely. Everybody out there, please take care of yourselves.
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