Ep 99 - The Power of Positive Energy with Damon West

What's Next with Eric Wood

Eric Wood

Sports

5 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Damon West, M.S. Criminal Justice, is a college professor, keynote speaker and best-selling co-author (with best-selling author and motivational speaker Jon Gordon) of The Coffee Bean: A simple Lesson to Create Positive Change. His first book and autobiography, The Change Agent: How a Former College QB Sentenced to Life in Prison Transformed His World, was published just three years after his release from a Texas maximum-security prison.

On today's show, the guys get into Damon's incredible journey of redemption. Topics include:

(2:23-7:10) - Growing up in Texas, college football career at North Texas

(7:10-14:10) - Damon's story of addiction

(14:10-19:10) - Getting sentenced to prison, words of advice from his Mom

(19:10-25:30) - Be a coffee bean, how Damon earned respect and spent his time in prison

(25:30-31:50) - Something Damon took for granted before prison

(31:50-40:45) - Program recovery, guard rails that help Damon with recovery

(40:45-43:25) - The power of negative entertainment

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0:00.0	Every room you go into, you'll either infect that room with your negative energy or you're
0:08.7	affected with your positive energy.
0:10.2	So you have an effect on everywhere you go, positive or negative, you know.
0:14.3	But he's telling me, man, he said, the way it works is if you walk around and you're a negative
0:18.3	person, you're going to attract negative people.
0:20.6	Negative things happen. You know, it's people that have this negative disposition in life,
0:24.6	and bad things seem to follow them, right? And that's what we get when we have this negative energy.
0:29.6	He said, but if you have this positive energy radio, if you're a coffee bean,
0:32.6	there's other coffee beans in there that'll find you because of your energy.
0:36.6	They'll be attracted to you because that to you because you're one of them.
0:42.4	Welcome to What's Next with Eric Wood, where we will prepare you to make your what's next in life your best yet by learning from high performers in a variety of industries.
0:51.5	Our next guest is Damon West.
0:54.4	Damon is one of the hottest motivational and keynote speakers in the country right
0:58.5	now because he has one of the most incredible stories on redemption out there.
1:03.5	He co-authored a book with John Gordon entitled The Coffee Bean, which Fortune 500 companies,
1:08.9	college football teams, NFL teams, and so many others are using the message to inspire their groups.
1:15.4	I can't wait for you to hear Damon's words today. They will impact you beyond measure.
1:20.5	There are over 100,000 new podcasts being released each week, so it means the world to me that you spent your time tuning into this episode.
1:28.3	Please rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast so we can continue to make an impact.
1:33.8	And if you're on social media, share it with your followers, please.
1:38.0	Enjoy.
1:39.9	Damon, welcome to the show, brother.
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