Quick Cut: S2E151 How to be an Agent of Change with Damon West
The Brian Buffini Show
Brian Buffini
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🗓️ 28 November 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Introducing: Quickcuts
For the month of November we’ll be bringing you something special.
It’s a short, high-impact episode every Tuesday, but don’t worry, on Thursday’s you can tune in to the full in-depth conversation.
When faced with adversity, you can either let your environment change you for the worse, or you can find the power inside to change your life for the better. In this episode, bestselling author and keynote speaker Damon West tells how he went from incarceration in a Texas maximum-security prison to helping people worldwide transform their situation, overcome challenges and create positive change.
YOU WILL LEARN:
· How he descended into a life of drugs and crime.
· How the ‘coffee bean mindset’ transformed his life.
· Why he now dedicates himself to being useful.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
The Coffee Bean, by Jon Gordon and Damon West
The Change Agent, by Damon West
S1E106 Leading Your Life and Business with Jon Gordon
Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“When you change the way you think, you change the results in your life.” – Damon West
“Once you believe in yourself, then other people can believe in you too.” – Damon West
“No matter where you are in life, you have the ability to be grateful for something.” – Damon West
“When you own your past, you're no longer a slave to your past. When you own your past, you can write a better future.” – Damon West
“Be a servant to other people; look for ways to enrich the lives of people.” – Damon West
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life Podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | For the month of November, we're bringing you something different. |
| 0:08.0 | It's called a quick cut and it's a short high impact episode every Tuesday. But don't worry on Thursdays you can tune into the |
| 0:15.8 | full in-depth conversation. We hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:20.3 | Well the top of the morning to you and welcome to It's a Good Life. Today we have a very special |
| 0:26.0 | guest for you. His name is Damon West. Damon was a Division I quarterback playing in North Texas. |
| 0:31.5 | He ended up suffering a career ending injury, spent a number |
| 0:35.0 | of years in a number of different careers, and one day he got exposed to a drug called methamphetamine |
| 0:39.8 | and Damon became instantly hooked, eventually receiving a 65-year prison sentence for a man |
| 0:46.7 | in his early 30s. |
| 0:48.1 | He mints a mentor named Jackson who introduced him to a concept called a coffee bean. |
| 0:52.6 | Damon experiences a personal and spiritual transformation, |
| 0:56.3 | ultimately gets released from prison after seven years. |
| 0:59.2 | And what a transformation that's been. |
| 1:00.8 | Today he's a professor of criminal justice. He's a best-selling |
| 1:04.4 | author including the coffee bean who he wrote with our good friend John Gordon. |
| 1:08.4 | So excited to have you on the show today. Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:11.4 | Brian, thanks so much for having me, man. |
| 1:13.0 | And look, your team has been incredible. |
| 1:15.0 | I do a lot of podcasts and you don't always find the team that has that attentive to detail |
| 1:20.0 | and really cares about you know how you're doing in your space about being here |
| 1:25.2 | those guys were great I would they worked with me what really well so you your |
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