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

#3541: Why I Don't Speak At Colleges

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

Dre Baldwin

Business

4.9599 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

People often tell me I should be speaking at colleges, and in this episode, I explain why that doesn’t happen. My message is about discipline, responsibility, and producing results, which sounds like a perfect fit. The truth is my direct, unapologetic style doesn’t move well through large bureaucratic decision systems. Colleges don’t pick speakers based on impact—they pick based on risk tolerance. My work triggers too many risk flags before I even get a chance to step on stage. Show Notes: [05:55]#1 Decisions are made by committees, not individuals.   [24:45]#2 Speech is evaluated through emotion and ideology, not a truth or result filter. [27:45]#3 College students these days get treated as fragile instead of capable, which is unfortunate.  [31:39] Recap Next Steps: --- Power Presence is not taught. It is enforced. If you are operating in environments where hesitation costs money, authority, or leverage, the Power Presence Mastermind exists as a controlled setting for discipline, execution, and consequence-based decision-making. Details live here: http://PowerPresenceProtocol.com/Mastermind  This Masterclass is the public record of standards. Private enforcement happens elsewhere. All episodes and the complete archive: → WorkOnYourGamePodcast.com

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0:00.0

Power presence calibration exists. It is not training. It is not coaching. It is for people

0:07.3

already operating under consequence. If that's not you, ignore this. Information is in the episode

0:13.8

description. My work prioritizes clarity, responsibility, and consequence. That's my world.

0:19.9

Clarity, responsibility, consequence.

0:22.5

My work challenges narratives that are based around comfort.

0:25.9

Day olay.com. Work on your game. Work on your game.

0:33.3

This is Drey Baldwin, and Work on your game is the system that turns discipline into dominance.

0:41.1

Today's topic is why Drey Baldwin does not speak at colleges.

0:47.7

Anytime I speak in front of an audience of people, especially people in the, if there are any people in the audience in the 40 to 60 age range. This is

0:56.5

pretty consistent. People will comment to me. These are people in the audience who heard me speak.

1:03.5

They'll comment to me that I would do well to speak to up and coming professionals. Now, I'm pretty

1:09.2

good at speaking to seasoned professionals, but I take it as a

1:12.9

compliment either way when a seasoned professional tells me that, hey, my 10 years ago self would

1:18.7

have benefited from hearing what you said 10 years ago or 15 years ago or 20 years ago. I take it as a

1:23.8

compliment. I've had many people tell me that, you know, Dre, your message would be great with colleges or I'll have people come to me and say, hey, I have a son or a daughter who's 20-something, whatever number they say, or in college, and I'm going to get your books for them, or I'm going to send them to your website or have them listen to your podcast because I think the things you're talking about are very useful for them. I hear that all the time from people.

1:46.0

And they say that the work on your game message would be great for people who are set to

1:51.0

enter the professional world because work on your game is all about professional discipline,

1:55.4

responsibility, performance, and, of course, producing results as we're in a results-based

2:00.0

business.

2:00.7

All of you know this stuff. Now, given my background and the stuff that I do these days, it seems like a perfect match. I actually would agree with that assessment, what I told you here in this first 90 seconds. So, well, the problem is, this is not quite the way it works out. And that's what we're talking about here today. The reality of this is more structural than it is personal. It's not that my message isn't actually good or that these people are gassing me up and saying that, hey, your stuff would be useful, but it actually would not be useful. That's not the situation. My approach, as most of you probably know, if you listen to it, you've been listening to the show for a while, or if you met me in person or you, this is not your first time listening to me, you know what my approach is.

2:39.4

I have a very direct approach. I'm unapologetic. My message is grounded in responsibility. work on your game is a very direct message. I use the word you, Y-O-U a lot. I've had some people

2:49.8

criticize my message by saying, Dre, you say the word you too much. I've talked about this concept a lot. I've written emails and articles about it. When people say, Dre, you say the word you too much. It feels like you're talking directly to a person. It may feel very antagonizing or too direct or as if you're blaming or you're pointing the finger at that person

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