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Work On Your Game: Discipline, Structure, and Execution Under Pressure

#3496: The Costs Of Presence

Work On Your Game: Discipline, Structure, and Execution Under Pressure

Dre Baldwin

Business

4.9599 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We all love the confidence, influence, and magnetism that come with strong presence—but everything has a trade-off. When your presence gets stronger, it doesn’t just attract respect, it also attracts envy, intimidation, and resistance from people who don’t understand your energy. Real presence forces people to react, and not every reaction will be positive.  In this episode, I talk about the dark side of presence. I break down what happens when your presence grows and how to handle the challenges that come with it. Show Notes [05:40]#1 You will trigger insecurity in other people. [21:52]#2 You create enemies. [26:28]#3 Your responsibility becomes heavy when you're a person of strong presence.  [28:48] Recap Episodes Mentioned: 2174: There Are No Perfect Scenarios – Only Trade-Offs 989: Why You Will Lose Some Friends Over The Next 5 Years Next Steps: ⚡️ Power Presence Protocol  Command The Room Without Words → http://PowerPresenceProtocol.com  🎓 Work On Your Game University Get structured, get paid → WorkOnYourGameUniversity.com 📲 Get Dre’s #DailyMotivation Text → 305.384.6894 (or http://www.DreAllDay.com/text) 📧 Dre’s Daily Emails (Free) Clarity. Strategy. Execution. → WorkOnMyGame.com 🤖 Chat with DreGPT 🤖🔥  AI that thinks like Dre → DreAllDay.com/AI 📚 Claim Your Free Books The Third Day → ThirdDayBook.com Mirror Of Motivation → MirrorOfMotivation.com Sales Discipline System → SalesDisciplineBook.com Overseas Basketball Blueprint → BallOverseas.com How To Play As Well As You Practice → HoopHandbook.com/Free 🎧 Free Audiobooks The Third Day → ThirdDayBook.com/audible Mirror Of Motivation → MirrorOfMotivation.com/audible 💵 Support the Show CashApp → Cash.app/$DreBaldwin PayPal → https://www.paypal.biz/workonyourgame  📱 Connect with Dre Instagram → Instagram.com/DreBaldwin TikTok → TikTok.com/@WorkOnYourGame YouTube → YouTube.com/DreAllDay Twitter / X → X.com/DreAllDay Facebook → Facebook.com/WorkOnYourGameUniversity 🎙 All Episodes + Archive → WorkOnYourGamePodcast.com

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0:00.0

I send out a daily motivation text every single morning that is guaranteed to have you

0:03.8

focused, sharp, and on point to start your day.

0:06.5

And I promise you, you want to receive this message.

0:08.9

All you had to do to join my text community is to text me at my number 305-384-6894.

0:14.8

Once you join, we'll tell you all your options for how often you can get text bias and all

0:18.3

of that.

0:18.8

Just text me at the number 305-384-6894 to get that daily motivation.

0:25.9

Presence puts a target on your back and it can leave you feeling isolated.

0:29.2

And the bigger your presence, the more isolated you will be.

0:31.2

This is a guarantee.

0:34.2

Work on your game.

0:35.7

Work on your game. Work on your game. Work on your game. Work on your game. This is Drey Baldwin, and Work on your game is the system that turns discipline into dominance. Today's topic is the dark side of presence. Now, we talk about presence here often. You probably know that. You're a regular

0:55.5

listening to the show. And it gets talked about generally, even by myself, as if it can only be

1:01.2

a positive thing, only good things come out of having presence. I told you about all these

1:05.3

things. How it's the unconscious signal, how it makes up not 85% of communication, which is nonverbal, how presence takes all

1:15.2

the things that you consciously do and the things that are true about you, your logical skills

1:18.9

and things that people can measure and count and discuss, and it becomes a multiplier of those

1:23.5

things and how it is the first impression and the last impression that you make on people.

1:27.5

I mean, nothing but positive can come out of having presence, right? Well, the answer is wrong.

1:33.3

There are some challenges to having presence, some ways that it can, some ways that it does,

1:37.7

rather, have a dark side. So we talk about the confidence, the magnetism, having influence,

1:42.9

the dark side to it and must exist because everything life has a tradeoff. Remember, there are no perfect scenarios in life only tradeoffs. I told you about that in episode 2174. And we call it a tradeoff. I'm using the term dark side here because it'll probably draw more clicks than if I called it the tradeoff. But I could call it the tradeoffs. Maybe that would would be a title. We'll see. Or the reason that it is a trade-off is because everything in life is a completely

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