Morning. This podcast is intense. It's for bold visionary dreamers with a passion and guts to become a champion.

Welcome back to Max Owl. I'm Ed Mylett and I'm so excited to bring you the program today.

The man that my left is literally one of the most interesting men in the world.

And at least for me, I can tell you that for today it's been something I've been looking forward to for a long time to pick this big brain of his.

You probably recognize his face and most of you know his name. This is Rob Deerdick.

And this is a guy who at 16 years old dropped out of high school. He founded a professional skateboarding.

He's been a professional skateboarder. He's got 21 Guinness World Records. He's a media stud.

He's a rock star in the entrepreneurial space. He's a branding master. But most importantly for me, this is a guy who's a tremendous husband and a great father.

And we're going to pick his brain about how he's accomplished all of those things here today. So thank you for being here, brother.

Thanks for having me. I've seen it in video and now to experience what it's actually like to be here alive. It's so much more beautiful and remarkable than I could ever imagine.

Thank you, man. I appreciate that. So let's be honest, man. You've had a pretty interesting life so far.

I have. I certainly have. It's the lowly with. I like to say I've lived a lot of lifetimes already. You know, do you feel that way? I do. Yeah.

What do you mean when you say that? Look, you want to be a professional athlete. You have this obsession and pursuit and you achieve that.

Like then you take that and now like, I want to I want to expand this and be the take this into television.

And then you go and live this entire television life. All these different businesses and different things.

You go from athlete to stunt guy to business guy to father to husband, you know, so each one of those is a pretty pretty significant chunk of life that's completely different than I am today.

I want to figure out how you did that. And I know the audience does too because they see this guy on TV. Obviously, I think arguably you're the face of MTV.

You know, from by the way, what's interesting about that too is for multiple generations too. Yeah.

Here I am at my age, you're the face and then my kids, you're still the face for them. And so the careers is just unbelievable. And I'm fascinated by you because when I saw you on TV, I kind of had this picture of who you were, which I think is probably accurate to some extent, but then there's these multiple layers of you like there are all people.

And so what I try to do on the show is get to those other layers. And so let's just start out. How does it do to drops out of high school at 16? Okay.

So there's a lot of people watching this who, you know, don't have advanced degrees, but want to go win in their life or maybe they're a parent. They got a child who's struggling in school. Did you drop out because things weren't going well in school? Did you drop out because of the whole skateboarding thing? I'm just curious.

Yeah, look, you know, I dropped out because I just was a professional skateboarder, right? Like, and I, you know, one year in my junior year, I got straight A's for the semester just to show them, like, look, it's not even hard for me.

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