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Jan. 23, 2023 - Stew Peters Show
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LIVE: AVOID A LIFE OF QUIET DESPERATION!
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the Trenches with Teddy Daniels The older I get the more I think.
You only get a minute, better live while you're in it, cause it's gone in a blink.
And the older I get, the truer it is.
It's the people you love Not the money and the stuff That makes you rich And if they found a fountain of youth I wouldn't drink a drop And that's the truth Funny how it feels I'm just getting to my best years yet The older I get The fewer friends
I had But you don't need a lot And the ones that you've got Have always got your back And the older I get The better I am And knowing when to give And when to just not give a damn If they found
a fountain of youth I wouldn't drink a drop, and that's the truth.
Funny how it feels, I'm just getting to my best years, yeah.
The older I get.
The longer I pray.
I don't know why I guess that I I've got more than sin.
And the older I get.
You start in a second.
More thankful I feel.
For the life I've had.
And all the life I'm living still.
Thank you for all tuning in again today.
Just getting my notes in order.
I think you're going to like today's show.
All right, folks.
Welcome yet again.
To another episode of In the Trenches.
With Teddy Daniels.
And yeah, you saw me drinking my coffee there.
One of the best simple pleasures in life right now is a good cup of coffee.
Man, I'm a coffee nut.
Love it.
Keeps me going.
Folks, you know what?
This past week, so I looked on the calendar a couple days ago.
Folks, I'm going to have a, didn't realize it was this soon.
I'm going to have a birthday in about two weeks.
I went to bed the other night and thought back, started thinking about my life and lessons learned, where I was eight years ago, 10 years ago, 15 years ago, 20 years ago, 25 years ago, coming up 30 years ago.
Boy, I was a wide-eyed 18-year-old kid who just couldn't wait to get out and conquer the world.
And let me tell you something.
I think what I'm going to share with you today, if you're a younger person, take heed.
If you're middle-aged, there's still time.
And even if you're Little grain of beard and lung and a tooth like me.
Folks, I'm living proof that there is still time in life.
And again, I started thinking about this.
I woke up.
And honestly, I'm counting the pages here.
One, two, three, four, five, six pages of notes.
And I wanted to share with you kind of the lessons learned in life, mostly from the times that I failed.
You know, when you win, you really don't learn anything.
But when you lose, you do.
Like I said, when I laid down, I started thinking about this.
Stuff going through my head, I... Grabbed my notebook and just started taking notes.
So, folks, I've got to tell you this.
Most people out there, and I was one of them, they live lives of quiet desperation.
There's millions of people out there with unsatisfying lives.
It kills your soul.
You sit in traffic.
You go to work.
You sit in a cubicle.
You come home.
During work, you got stupid meetings.
And you got to deal with dumbass co-workers.
Folks, I've been there.
And the whole time, you're making money for somebody else.
It's the trap.
It's the trap in life.
And folks, you got to find your passion.
And you can escape.
You can still do it.
Because you've been trapped.
Here's a question I ask a lot of folks in their late 20s, early 30s that I talk to.
And they're like, man, you've done some cool things in your life, man.
How'd you go about doing it?
And I ask them, how much did it cost you?
How much money did you take to sell out on your dream?
You know, folks, and it's the trap that so many people fall into.
And everybody does it, so you do it too.
This gets pounded in to kids through parents, through the education system.
Folks, I'm a Gen Xer.
My parents were obviously boomers, and what it was is go to school, go to a good school, get good grades, get into a good college, then get out and go find a great job.
Or ultimately, you're working for somebody else.
I hold schools responsible for really pushing and pounding this message into young people.
There's so much more to life than just sitting in traffic, going to a shitty job you hate, and coming home and being bought off with a big-screen TV or that fancy car you just leased, and then we'll get into more of that later.
Folks, what I want to talk to you about is taking that dangerous path, not the safe path.
You know, the safe path is go get a job, guaranteed income.
It's safe.
Not a lot of risk involved.
And for many people, and again, I was one of them, you sell your soul for that safeness in that job.
Now, you can still escape from that.
It's not going to be easy.
It's going to be a struggle.
You have to have a passion.
Whatever it is, everybody's passion in life is different.
Find your passion.
Make a plan.
And do it like your life depends on it because ultimately it does.
Ultimately it does.
Folks, life is temporary.
We don't have a lot of time on this earth.
And I truly feel for all those souls who were stuck into the trap for 25, 30 years and they don't know how to escape it.
They don't know how to go out and pursue their passion in life.
It's going to take discipline, folks.
It's going to take a lot, a lot of discipline to get out of that trap.
If your passion is, oh boy, writing.
Say writing is your passion.
You want to be an author.
Folks, everybody on this planet is awarded 24 hours a day.
And even that's not guaranteed.
You know, you figure eight hours at work, hour commute there, hour commute back, half hour getting ready, half hour unwinding.
It's 11 hours.
Sit down for an hour a night.
Just sit down for an hour and pursue that passion and write and write and write like your life depended on it because ultimately it does.
And folks, let me tell you that it's not going to be easy.
There's going to be a lot of failures along the way.
I have failed more in my life than Than I've ever succeeded.
And I'm thankful that I have.
Because I've learned from those lessons.
And every time I fail and I get knocked down, it's when I get back up and say, okay.
You've got to do your self-evaluation.
Say, okay, this is where I went wrong.
Let's do this again and let's try it this way.
Failures are good, folks.
Failures are very, very good.
Sometimes you just got to start over.
And you can't look at everything as a failure.
I tried looking at it as an opportunity for knowledge.
Because every time you get out of your comfort zone and you try something different, you learn.
Boy, do you learn.
Sometimes learning the harsh lessons of life, you got to get out and learn it the hard way.
Reading self-help and success books isn't going to do it for you.
You got to go out, get your hands dirty, try, and if you fail, you learn.
And when you get back up, you go do it again.
With that knowledge that you gained, From what you just attempted and failed at.
You got to look at every failure as an opportunity for growth.
Harness that feeling of loss.
Harness that feeling of failure.
And use that to motivate yourself to a win.
There is a progression to everything in life.
In everything that you do.
Now, failure's great.
I got a phrase.
Every no is closer to a yes.
And folks, you see these people all the time.
They're like, oh, that guy's an overnight success.
Well, overnight successes normally take about 10 years to be called an overnight success.
And when I say every no is closer to a yes, I'm going to give you a personal story here.
I started a company in Colorado back in 2013.
And that company was to provide security and cash transportation for the legal marijuana industry.
There was nobody in the space doing it.
And I would decide, okay, do I eat dinner tonight?
Or do I put gas in the car and go visit these businesses that I have on the list?
And it was sacrifice, and it was okay.
It's like I'm eating ramen noodles tonight, but I'm going to go stop into these five places.
And I would have a buddy come with me, and let me tell you, we knocked on doors and knocked on doors, and it got to the point where he would pull up in the lot, I would hop out, go in and ask to see the decision maker.
Decision maker wasn't there.
I'd ask whoever was in charge, and their answer was always, no, not interested, not interested.
I'd come back out to the car, my buddy would say to me, so how'd this one go?
I said, man, it went great.
He goes, we got one?
We got a client?
And I said, no.
They said no.
He goes, how's that great?
I said, because every no is closer to a yes.
That's why.
So, and folks, you know, this was after I had an experience in Afghanistan where I nearly died.
And this is what really changed my mindset on life, being a temporary experience.
Back in 2001, going on 12 years now, it was a Saturday evening.
I was on the phone with my mom.
And we hung up, just like every conversation that we had.
The next morning, I was notified that she was killed in a car accident that night.
2012, I nearly lost my life on a mountain in Afghanistan.
And that's what really made me realize life is temporary.
Get out of the trap.
It can be gone tomorrow.
What you have today can be gone tomorrow.
And you better bet your ass that your employer would post your job before your obituary even hit the newspaper.
So a couple things I learned.
Don't waste your time trying to fix people that don't want to be fixed.
It's not worth your time or energy.
Sometimes you just need to move on.
Folks, I learned this as a boss and as a leader.
A lot of times one of my biggest downfalls through my own self-evaluation was expecting everybody else to have the same work ethic that I had and baffling myself why they didn't.
So, you got to manage your circle.
And you got to cut people out.
You got to cut people out of your life who aren't on the same mission that you're on.
That don't have the same values that you have.
That aren't as motivated as you are.
Folks, you got to cut them out.
And initially, it's going to be a hard thing to do, but you will find yourself much happier in life just by saying one word.
No.
Cut the negative out.
You don't need it.
You don't need the anchors who don't have the same mindset that you have.
And folks, you gotta do difficult things in life.
Knowledge and experience is worth so much more than money.
Think about what I just said.
Knowledge and experience is worth so much more than money.
People need to fail and fail and fail and fail again.
Be tough.
Be disciplined and be determined.
You still may fail.
But when you do get that win, it's going to be so much sweeter.
I talked not too long ago about my company.
Boy, let me tell you, it was about a month of straight no's.
And then there was a group of heavily armed robbers running around hitting the industry in Colorado.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars being stolen, people getting pistol whipped, weapons being fired.
Let me tell you, my phone started ringing off the hook because I had made all those contacts, all those no's turned into yes's.
I put the work in, and I made it happen.
Here's something, folks, something I learned in life.
Treat people nice.
Be kind.
Be inviting.
But don't be a doormat.
Be firm in your convictions.
Put forward positive energy.
Treat people the way you want to be treated.
Now, I know people are going to say, Teddy, you know I followed your political campaigns.
You are harsh.
You are rough.
But think about this.
I never took the first swing at anybody.
I only counterpunched.
And again, that's not being a doormat.
That's, okay, someone wants to come at me.
Now you forced my hand.
Now I've got to come back at you.
And folks, go do what it is you want to do in life.
Don't make excuses.
Just go do it.
Think about this.
If somebody else is doing what it is that you want to do, you can do it too!
Stop with these false barriers and these fake ceilings that you subconsciously put into your own mind.
If somebody else is doing it, Even if somebody else isn't doing it, if this is what you want to do, go get it done.
Folks, everybody makes their own path in life.
And unfortunately, this negative programming, this negative ceiling, these false barriers that...
Human beings instinctively, you know, our psyche, we put upon ourselves.
Again, I think that was fostered through the educational system in school.
It could be a generational thing with parents, family, or even friends.
Man, that's crazy.
You can't do that.
Folks, when I started my first company out in Colorado, Boy, if I had listened to everybody that said, this is a stupid idea, it'll never work, I would have never done an IPO and taken that company public and took it public with a market cap of $44 million.
It started with $5,000.
Nobody's ever done it before.
Let's go get it done.
Let's do it.
All the people that are telling you no, you can't do something, Those are the people that don't have the confidence and the discipline to go do it themselves.
And folks, timelines don't mean shit.
Stop telling yourself, I'm 30 years old, or I'm 40 years old, or I'm 50 years old.
I should be here, or here, or here.
Folks, that's all bullshit.
You're alive.
You still have breath in your lungs.
Go.
Do it.
You still have time, no matter what age you are in life, to go out and right the ship and do what it is you want to do in life because it can be gone tomorrow.
Go do it!
Man, you're not your past.
You can evolve.
Learn from your mistakes and learn from your past.
You are not who you were a year ago.
You are not who you were a month ago.
And you are not who you were yesterday.
But think about this.
Those failures that I've had in life, they've made me who I am.
If everything was easy breezy, And I won at everything I ever did, I'd be a completely different person.
I wouldn't just be as hardened.
I wouldn't be as determined.
You got to learn.
But those failures, man, they build character.
And how you respond to those failures builds character.
You know, you would not be who you are if you never failed, or never screwed up, or never messed up, or never made a mistake.
It all defines who you are.
Your losses and your wins.
And your losses especially, because let me tell you, nothing worthwhile in life ever, ever comes easy.
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So, getting back to this, folks, lessons I've learned in life.
And trust me, I've learned a lot.
I'm that guy that's learned shit the hard way.
I'm a little thick-skulled.
Don't ever seek comfort by lowering the standards for yourself.
Always, always, always set the bar high.
And work to attain it.
Nothing pisses me off more in life than mediocrity.
I don't care if you don't win every time.
But did you try your hardest?
Did you give it all the effort that you had?
Did you, as the saying goes, did you leave it all out on the field?
If you did, okay.
That's life.
But at least try, man.
Set the bar high.
Folks, you know, my dad was a brick and stone mason.
Hard-working guy.
He looked and acted like Paul Sr.
from American Chopper, if you remember that show back in the early 2000s.
He was a hardcore dude.
He instilled a lot of this stuff on me.
He wanted me to live a life that was better than the life that he had.
He pushed me.
He made me work.
He made me set the bar high.
He made me push and push and push and push to attain the goals that I had set for myself.
He always used to tell me, with a backbone and a work ethic, you can do anything you want to in this life.
You can be whatever you want to be and you can do whatever you want to do.
Folks, difficult things, things that suck, make life in general less difficult.
Be unbreakable.
Go out, get out of your comfort zone, and do things that suck.
A couple examples, folks.
I look back.
Whenever I'm faced with what I feel may be an obstacle or I think, man, this is going to suck.
This is going to be tough.
I look back at my time playing college football.
I was a starting guard for the West Virginia Mountaineers.
Boy, and I remember as a young man, through summer practices, as a freshman, getting my ass kicked by the upperclassmen.
That sucked.
Before that, I went to military school.
That sucked.
I enlisted active duty in the United States Army at 35 years old.
Went through infantry school at 36 years old.
And at 37 years old, I was in combat in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.
It don't suck any worse than that.
I fought for my life.
So folks, anytime I think something sucks, I go back and I reference those hardships in my life.
And I say to myself, man, if I could do all that, this shit's going to be easy.
It's going to be easy.
Be unbreakable.
Be the person that cannot be broken.
And the way you do that is by going out and doing stuff that sucks, getting out of your comfort zone, trying new things, experiencing new things, and failing, and winning, and failing some more.
Folks, it's your mindset that determines who you are and what you achieve.
Your mindset, the mind, is the most powerful weapon on this planet.
They say life is 90%, or I'm sorry, 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Are you going to be a woe is me and throw a pity party for yourself every time something doesn't go your way?
Are you going to learn from the experience, ruck up, and move forward?
And again, I told you about my dad, about hard work.
Hard work and mindset beats talent every day of the week.
Folks, there are millions of talented people in this world who are not living up to their potential because of a poor mindset and a lack of discipline.
I've seen guys And I'm just going to stay in athletics here.
I've played ball with guys and against guys who I thought were incredible, amazing athletes.
But at some point in life, somebody told them, yeah, you're not good enough.
Well, that kind of gave them an out.
Or they didn't have the discipline.
To really hone that talent to get to where they were.
I had a high school coach who gave an interview back when West Virginia was still in the Big East.
And it was probably the biggest compliment anybody could ever pay me.
And he said, you know, Teddy's not the most talented player in the world.
But he makes up for that through sheer effort.
He's the first one here and the last one to go.
And he gives everything he has on every single play.
Now, folks, I was a high school football American.
Dozens of Division I scholarship offers.
And I was not a talented player.
I worked my ass off because I knew where I wanted to go.
So mindset.
Mindset determines everything.
Everything in life.
Now here's too many people in life, they sold their lives and their dreams to sit in a box and work for a machine that doesn't value them.
You can go home and get a nice flat screen TV. You can lease that nice car and have your 2.5 kids and two weeks of vacation where you can go spend money at the shore, Disney, or the Grand Canyon.
And then you go right back to the plantation and do it all again next year.
Folks, that's not living.
That's a sad shadow of life.
That's a sad shadow of yourself and your potential.
I've been there.
I've been there.
It's a trap.
They lure you in with, oh, you get great dental benefits or health insurance and, you know, we'll give you the two weeks paid vacation.
They lure you in.
And that's how they want it.
I've been there.
Society tells you, get good grades, get into a good college, drown in student loan debt, and go to work for the machine or somebody else.
Go make them rich and sell your soul.
Sell your dreams in the process.
You get the scraps.
These multi-billion dollar companies, these poor folks sitting in these cubicles, they get the scraps.
They get the leftovers.
Schools need to start teaching cognitive thinking.
They need to start teaching entrepreneurship.
And I truly feel that the education system is a big part of that trap.
And folks, there's no easy road.
It does not exist.
You're going to hear the excuses.
Well, I can't do this because, or, you know, my situation won't allow me to do this because.
I don't want to hear it.
Everybody in life runs into obstacles.
Everybody has difficulties.
How have you prepared to overcome these challenges and roadblocks and these difficulties?
Folks, you are ultimately responsible for your own life, Nobody else is.
It's you.
Stop blaming others for where you are or aren't.
And here's how I look at it, folks.
If you have time to come up with excuses and bitch about your situation, then you have the time to take responsibility and fix it.
I don't want to hear you bitch.
I don't want to hear you complain.
I don't want to hear the excuses.
Fix it!
Take ownership of your life if you are not happy.
If you take ownership, you can regroup.
That's extreme ownership.
Not pointing the finger at anybody else.
I am where I am because I put myself here.
The good and the bad.
If you blame others, You lose that control of your life.
You lose that ownership.
You know who blames other people?
Losers.
Losers blame other people.
Keep losers and negative people away from you.
People who complain they can't catch a break.
Man, I can't ever catch a break.
Get rid of them!
Get rid of those people in your life.
Winners don't make excuses.
Surround yourself with winners.
You know there's a phrase out there, you're judged by the company you keep.
Folks, if you hang out with losers, let's say your five closest friends are all losers, guess what?
You're going to be a loser!
If your five closest friends are all go-getters and motivated and disciplined and are winners, guess what?
You're going to be a winner too.
Get the negative people out of your life.
And folks, I talked about this a little bit earlier.
You have to seek difficult tasks, but not just seek them.
You have to enjoy them.
Anytime you look to get into something new, you got to tell yourself, man, it's going to be tough, but I am up for the challenge.
Discipline equals freedom.
There's no excuses, no breaks, no days off.
Do not be afraid to discipline your life.
And folks, it's part of people's natural psyche to avoid discomfort.
Boy, you've got to love discomfort.
You have to immerse yourself into things that are uncomfortable.
That is the only way you grow professionally, personally, spiritually.
The only way you grow.
Folks, never in a million years did I ever think I'd be sitting here behind a microphone.
This is all brand new to me.
It was a little uncomfortable.
You know how I got into this?
When I was running my campaigns, I would use my social media platform and I would put out live videos.
I would just tell it how it is.
I would do national TV interviews.
I'd just tell it how it is.
I would tell the national media, the national liberal media, where to go, where to stick it, how far up to stick it.
I think people kind of enjoyed that.
I wasn't out trying to impress anybody.
I was just speaking my mind.
Stu Peters.
Stu Peters gave me an opportunity.
At the time, I didn't know if I was ready for it.
It was a little scary.
It was a little uncomfortable to sit here and do an hour or a show every day.
But you know what?
Okay, it's going to be uncomfortable.
I've got to learn, and I'm going to grow.
I'm not going to make excuses.
I'm going to take extreme ownership into everything, and I'm just going to keep going hard.
You need to relish discomfort.
That is how you grow.
Go do it and do more of it.
Be a get shit done type person.
And folks, like I said, every time you jump into something that's uncomfortable, every time you do something that's uncomfortable, you learn and you get better at doing it.
And folks, every journey out there, it all starts with one step.
Just one step.
You can't look at where you want to be and look at where you are and say, man, I'll never attain that.
It could be a thousand mile journey.
As long as you're taking that step.
The next day you take another step.
And the day after that you take a third step.
You'll get there.
Keep moving forward.
Regardless if it's hard, take another step.
Develop your potential.
Too many people out there just want to be comfortable.
They don't want to do uncomfortable things.
Folks, you got to earn being comfortable.
And again, that's my mindset.
I understand that's not everybody's mindset, but maybe people can start thinking a little differently.
Earn being comfortable.
The way you earn that is through the rewards of discipline.
You got to push hard through the struggle.
And then you get to enjoy comfortable.
The easiest way I could break this down for you is, Do hard things.
Do things that suck.
Put yourself into uncomfortable situations until they are comfortable.
You know, there's a phrase out there, act like you've been there before.
Well, you've been there before.
And trust me, your self-confidence.
Man, the more you push, the more you grind.
The less you're going to worry about what other people say or think.
Because you're going to see the accomplishments.
Even through your failures, you're going to see it.
Go be a dangerous person.
You can only be dangerous by getting knocked down over and over and over again.
But you know what you have to be to get knocked down?
You have to be standing up.
Get knocked down.
Dust yourself off.
Get back up.
Get knocked down again.
Dust yourself off.
Get back up.
Wash, rinse, and repeat, baby.
That's what you got to do.
Adjust your mindset.
Keep getting up.
Folks, I say the most dangerous people in the world are those who have been torn down, Broken, and rebuilt themselves.
There is nothing, nothing in the world that can beat those type of people.
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So, again, folks, I was one of those guys caught in that trap.
Just working the normal schedule.
The safety, the paycheck, the life of quiet desperation.
So fortunate that I got out of that.
I was able to break out of that.
My mindset might be a little different than most people.
I'm the type of guy that if you tell me I can't do something, I'm going to go do it just to prove you wrong.
You know, when I was a kid and I was an underclassman in high school, I was playing varsity football.
I told a coach one day I wanted to go play big-time college football.
He goes, ah, you ain't good enough for that.
Okay.
By my senior year, I was a high school football All-American with numerous Division I scholarship offers.
Tell me I can't do something.
When I wanted to enlist in the military, I enlisted at 35 and went to boot camp at 36 years old.
You know how many people told me, you're too old.
You'll never get through infantry school.
It ain't going to happen.
My mindset was, well, there's only two ways I'm leaving Fort Benning, Georgia.
And that's either in a hearse or across that parade field.
When I was on that mountain fighting for my life in Afghanistan, they were going to have to kill me.
They were going to have to kill me.
Folks, it's almost like that Terminator movie.
I like the first one with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
It came out in 1984.
You just got to keep going and going and going.
Pursue your dreams.
Pursue your passions in life.
Because they could all be gone in a heartbeat.
So, the big thing is to don't compare yourself to anybody else.
You know, I love Tucker Carlson.
Never compare myself to him because Tucker Carlson has had a different life than I've had.
The only person I can compare myself to is who I was yesterday and making sure I'm better today than I was yesterday.
Never sacrifice who you could be for who you are.
Folks, you've got to take risks.
Sometimes you've got to take a chance.
Who do you want to be in life?
What do you want to be in life?
Don't sacrifice that for who you are right now.
One step at a time and make it happen.
Be confident.
Be confident in everything you do.
People are going to judge you regardless.
Don't play the game with them.
Know who you are.
Take full evaluation of who you are.
I call it know thyself.
Every person out there is full of flaws.
And most people are ignorant about who they really are.
Recognize and honestly point out your strengths and your weaknesses.
Take full stock on everything and be honest with yourself.
Once you know who you truly are, that will help you move forward in the direction that you want to go in life.
And don't do anything.
Don't do anything.
I almost feel like it's a Friday afternoon safety brief in the military.
Don't do anything to F up your life.
Now, for you young folks, you can F up at 25.
You can F up really good at 25.
But man, don't make the same mistake at 35.
Don't make it at 45.
If you're where you are at 35, if that is the same place you were at 25, then you haven't moved.
If at 45, you're in the same spot you were at 25, you haven't moved.
Do something.
Folks, I'm going to leave with this.
Whatever you do in life, whatever you choose to do, whatever your passions are, whatever you decide, You got to be all in.
You got to be all in all the time.
No excuses.
Be all in.
Because ultimately, you are responsible for who you are.
You are responsible for what you accomplish.
And if you don't like who you are, if you don't like what you're doing, change it.
If you're going to change it, listen to this again.
You've got to be all in.
There's no half-ass in anything in life.
It's going to be tough.
It's going to be difficult.
But that will let you grow.
Your failures, you will learn some.
You may fail ten times at something before you get it right.
But as long as you've learned from every single time you failed.
And again, the naysayers, screw them.
They're the ones stuck in the safety of their safe little life.
You would be the one out, venturing.
It takes courage, folks.
And people are going to tell you.
They're going to give you a million excuses on why you can't do something.
Get those people out of your life.
You need people who are going to stand behind you and say, you know what?
I'm with you.
What do you need?
Let's go get it done.
Got to be all in.
Folks, I want to thank you for tuning in yet again today.
It's always a pleasure and an honor.
You can also go to my Rumble channel, In the Trenches with Teddy Daniels.
Visit our website, teddy at teddydaniels.tv.
And folks, like I said, I never in a million years thought I'd be sitting here.
I was the poor kid, the hellion, the ruffian that was...
Never supposed to amount to much in life.
But I didn't listen to everybody else, did I? Kind of went my own way, did my own thing.
And I'm still not where I want to be.
You constantly have to challenge yourself and constantly have to make yourself uncomfortable.
Sometimes you need to burn the forest down for fresh growth to sprout up.
Just keep pushing forward.
Keep challenging yourself.
Keep doing things that suck.
Keep doing things that are uncomfortable and go all in all the time.
Love you, folks.
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