Yeah, networks. Hey guys, we have a special guest today. Woohoo. Going to let Jeff do the introduction. That's right. Dr. Delator McNeil is in the house with us today. If you guys don't know, if you guys watch Daily Blast Live, he's a friend of the show. Yes, yes. He was nice enough to come over and do our podcast today.

So many inspirational moments I've had with this gentleman.

Just in the short period of time, I knew him and I know it's going to get emotional, but he's the guy to help out with things that we've been going through. As I've ever say, he's Jeff going to cry on this episode. No, I just ran upstairs to get his book so I'm a little winded.

Hahaha.

I will cry.

But Doug, why don't you introduce yourself a little bit before we get started in the world. Sure. Well, first of all, thank you all so much for the hospitality and the opportunity to come and hang out with you all. It really, really means a lot to me. I'm Dr. Delator, everybody. Peak Performance expert, Hall of Fame, keynote speaker. of speakers, paid speakers in the world. Wall Street Journal USA Today bestselling author

of my newest book, Shift into a higher gear, better your best and live life to the fullest. And I also am a presentation skills master trainer. So I train and mentor people who want to become professional speakers and make a living doing speaking. So that was quite the intro. I'm glad you did it. But, uh, we're, we're the, if it all, we're the,

I guess we'll jump right in, doc, because I was that positive guy. I don't know how much you know about like me coming up in this business. Please, please. But yeah, I, uh, you know, I always was a dreamer, right? You know, after I played college football,

I really felt like I had nowhere to go.

Okay.

And, you know, I graduated with a marketing degree,

but that's not what I really wanted to do.

Okay. I played college football, I really felt like I had nowhere to go. And I graduated with a marketing degree, but that's not what I really wanted to do. So I moved to LA to become an actor. Not knowing anything about acting. I just had that dream to do that. Live there for a couple of years and I came back to Chicago like two and a half, three years later. Oh, dope. Kind of with my tail between my legs. Yeah, it didn't work. But it didn't work.

I had to move back on my parents and I kind of lost my way a little bit. And drinking too much party, not establishing myself in any way, bad relationships. I think all of that goes hand in hand. But I did have a boss that turned me on to motivation. He introduced me to Tony Robbins and all these other old school guys because I was at the sales. and he put me in a room.

I remember half, he was my friend first.

I worked with him when I was at the sales. And he put me in a room, I remember half,

he was my friend first, I worked with him when I was like 16

and he's like, come back to work with me, my best friends work there and things like that. And he's like, when you're gonna be here eight hours, I want you in there for four hours, I'll pay you to listen to this stuff. And I'm like, that doesn't work.

And he's like, just sitting here

and then the other half you get on the phones.

And as I did that, and he goes,

you could go on your auditions, do whatever you want to do

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