Dre Baldwin: Mental Toughness & Business Coach, Former Professional Basketball Player, Author

Team Never Quit

Marcus Luttrell

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.9 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Now here’s a guy with an unbelievable vision, drive, and a relentless pursuit of success. Dre Baldwin not only helps athletes get recognized for their talents; he’s a former basketball player, speaker, influencer, YouTuber, and author of The Third Day: The Decision That Separates the Pros from the Amateurs. Tre is a master at teaching discipline, mental toughness, and personal initiative.

Listen in as this well-spoken motivator tells of his personal path from his high school team's bench, to the first contract of a 9-year professional basketball career, then pioneering new genres of personal branding and entrepreneurship via an ever-growing content publishing empire, publishing literally thousands of YouTube videos, viewed over 73 million times.

If you could use a spark to get your life moving, this is the podcast for you.

In this episode you will hear:

When I realized I had no talent for baseball, I stopped that, then stumbled across basketball.
I did not go pro immediately after college.
After college, I attended “Exposure Camp”, a job fair for athletes. After that event and dozens of cold calls and videos to agents, I was finally signed to a contract to play basketball in Lithuania.
I gained popularity, not from basketball videos on YouTube, but from the motivational things I said on them.
I launched The weekly Motivation on YouTube.
I had to find a way to do something I love to do, plus be a computer geek, and make money from it.
I’m a very competitive person.
At home, I was taught discipline, respect, honoring authority, and respecting elders.
I would make up challenging stories in my mind so I’d have a target to shoot at. If I don’t have anything to aim for, I’m not gonna give my best effort. But when I do, it brings out the best in me.
Our generation, ages 30-50 – we are the best generation.
People are following me, not for basketball videos, but just to watch The Weekly Motivation. This is life stuff – it’s not athlete stuff.
Using the challenges of your life to make yourself better for the future summarizes the entire self-help industry right there.
When you have the right people around you, you can go further, faster.
In life, you just have to show up.

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0:37.9	All right, everybody. Welcome back to the TNG podcast. I'm your host, Marcus LaTrell. Every
0:56.9	week it's my job to fire you up to ignite the legend inside of you and to push you to
1:01.7	your greatness. Join me every week and I take you into my briefing room with some of the
1:05.7	most hard-charging people on the planet. They're going to show you how to embrace the stuck
1:09.8	of life, teach you the values of working your ass off, and charge through whatever life
1:13.8	throws at you. This is the team never quit podcast. Don't buckle up, buttercup.
1:28.0	All right, guys. Welcome back to another episode of the Team Never Quit podcast. Marcus,
1:32.9	how you doing today, man? I'm blessed and unstoppable. There you go. Hey, we got a Patreon
1:37.0	question in the day. What is your dream car? Do you go classic or do you go supercar? What
1:42.9	are you thinking? Drey, you want this one? You go first. What do you got? Yeah, so the question
1:49.0	is what's the dream car? You're dream car. Dream car. Man, I'm not even that big of a car
1:55.0	person, but if I had to pick one, I'd probably pick a, I like Mercedes. So I'll go with,
2:01.1	I don't know, what's the highest level Mercedes they have? I don't know enough about cars. I'm
2:04.8	probably not doing this question, Justice. I'll probably go with the, what do you got? The S550.
2:09.7	Let's probably not the highest they have. I don't know. That's a good question. I'm not
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