#187: Dre Baldwin: A Pro Athlete Mindset to Dominate in Business, Sports, & Life
Enter the Lionheart
Lawrence Dunning
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
to a first contract and enjoyed a 9-year professional basketball career. For the past 14 years, Dre has pioneered personal and professional development, helping tens of thousands of people master their "Game" in business, sports, and life.
“In life, you can never get to the highest level of anything if you are afraid of going too far.”
0.00: Dre’s background in Pro Sports
3.00: Importance of financial literacy for young athletes
7.00: Growing up in the early days of the internet and finding basketball
12.00: Early naïve confidence as an athlete
15.30: The number one trait is discipline
20.00: Developing the creative muscle through repetition
27.00: How to grow your Disciple using anchors, motivation, and structure
33.00: Finding your non-negotiables and structuring them in your day
41.30: When to decide to retire from pro sports to pursue other opportunities
50.00: Life abroad as a professional player
54.00: How Parenthood is the best life hack for being your best self
Until next time, love and good vibes.
Podcast Website: https://enterthelionheart.com/
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Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/enter-the-lionheart/id1554904704
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| 0:00.0 | The structure tells you where to go, what to do, and how to do it. |
| 0:03.7 | The motivation gets you started and a discipline is what keeps you following the path and, |
| 0:08.5 | you know, running the play, as we say, sticking to the script the way that you're supposed to. |
| 0:12.2 | So number one, what do you care about enough to get disciplined and follow the disciplines that will be given to you? |
| 0:18.3 | Number two, what can be your motivation to get started? |
| 0:20.5 | That can be something that usually maybe some form of emotional triggering, whatever gets you |
| 0:24.4 | started is fine. Then number three, what structure are you going to plug yourself into such that |
| 0:29.3 | as long as you follow that structure, you are going to get the desired outcome? A single theme is too narrow for great minds and daring hearts. |
| 0:51.3 | Get ready to enter the Lionheart with your host, Lawrence Dunning. |
| 0:55.7 | Gray, it is such a pleasure to have you on. I've been following your content for a long time, |
| 0:59.7 | and you're not only inspirational, but you talk the talk and walk the walk. And we were just talking |
| 1:04.8 | before I started recording. And there's so many coaches that coach because they can't do. |
| 1:09.1 | And you're one of the few that does it all, |
| 1:11.5 | and you help people be their best so really awesome to have you. Well, I really appreciate it. |
| 1:16.8 | Martin, Sophie, I can live up to that building in this conversation. |
| 1:20.4 | Great. Can you just give a little, you know, 20,000 per view of who you are and what you're |
| 1:24.8 | about just to give a bit of context before we start for people |
| 1:27.6 | listening? Sure. I come from the city of Philadelphia now based in South Florida, always in |
| 1:32.4 | the sports growing up, got into basketball kind of late as a teenager, 14 years old, barely |
| 1:37.5 | played in high school, walked on and played college ball, then grinded and hustled my way into |
| 1:42.8 | playing pro balls, but became a nine-year professional career |
| 1:45.9 | overseas from the United States, that is. And then at the same time, started publishing videos |
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