Darren Prince’s Triumphant Journey from Baseball Card Pioneer to Mega Agent & Recovering Addict
The Excellence Project with Eric Worre
Eric Worre
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Show Notes:
01:27 - Eric welcomes Darren to The Excellence Project.
03:25 - Darren details his first very successful business - buying, selling and trading baseball cards.
13:04 - What Darren’s dad noticed about him that completely changed his life.
17:05 - Successful people have 3 things in common.
17:37 - Darren explains why he sold his wildly successful baseball card business.
20:21 - Eric asks Darren what the most reckless thing he did with a million dollars at age 19 was.
21:08 - How Darren started working with Muhammad Ali.
25:23 - His life-changing introduction to Magic Johnson.
28:37 - Darren details the mistake that almost cost him his business and reputation.
31:31 - The moment he decided to become an agent.
34:54 - Darren shares his advice on how to build a network.
38:39 - Darren recounts how he became an addict.
45:04 - Eric asks Darren why some people can take opioids without getting addicted.
49:00 - Darren pulls back the curtain on when he hit bottom and joined Alcoholics Anonymous.
01:00:36 - Eric asks Darren how he was able to let go of the shame of addiction and repair his self-worth.
01:03:10 - Darren explains why he would be OK if he lost everything tomorrow.
Resources From This Podcast:
Ego Is The Enemy by Ryan Holiday
Aiming High by Darren Prince
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| 0:00.0 | How many were you taking it at your absolute peak? |
| 0:03.7 | I know, I know, I put it this way. |
| 0:06.4 | I tell people I was more of an addict, |
| 0:08.0 | not as much of an abuser, maybe 12, 15 pills a day. |
| 0:11.3 | I know people that were taking so much more. |
| 0:13.9 | Yeah, no, it was, you know, three in the morning, |
| 0:15.7 | three in the afternoon, three at night. |
| 0:17.6 | I set my alarm because I used to do international business. |
| 0:20.8 | My then life, I knew that there was something wrong, |
| 0:23.7 | but she couldn't do anything. |
| 0:24.6 | I would set my alarm at three in the morning, literally wake up, |
| 0:27.9 | snort three pain killers and go into the living room |
| 0:30.5 | of our apartment in New York City and get on the phone |
| 0:32.4 | and start calling people in Australia and England |
| 0:34.5 | and became a lay-alive and people were so blind by the fact |
| 0:39.3 | that it built up such a big agency. |
| 0:41.3 | Success, success, success, success. |
| 0:44.2 | People were willing to look the other way because of that. |
| 0:47.0 | Welcome to the Excellence Project. |
| 0:48.4 | My name is Eric Warrior. |
| 0:49.5 | Today we talk with agent to the stars, Darren Prince, |
| 0:55.6 | on early entrepreneurship, networking skills, |
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