Welcome back to another episode of real business owners with myself, Trevor Cowley. Today we have an incredible guest, Sean Martin. He's the author of Beyond the Bronx. He's been to prison. And I don't know if that's where you found your purpose or. Ironically, yeah. Yeah, I was going to say, I was literally thinking about that this morning. I was like, man, everything that I'm doing right now came off of the back of me being at a low place. And I was sitting there thinking about how many people are wasting their, have you ever heard the saying, don't ever waste a good crisis? Oh, yeah. You know? I haven't, but. So that's it. Like everybody's going to hit a point in life where they're going through like a crisis where they hit the bottom.

They hit this low point, right?

Right.

And it's really what you do right there that determines how your life ends up.

And it's like my life ended up being better because of the lows that I've experienced because I was still willing to question myself, audit myself. I was self-aware,

knowing that I needed to change and do something different and was willing to go through the pain

and that discomfort of different, right? Because it's just unfamiliar. So it's really cool. I mean,

they always used the term rock bottom. And I couldn't stand it

because, you know, rock bottom's different for everybody. You could be rock bottom, you know, might be

financial, it might be lost love. It might be a loss of a child. It could be anything. Yeah.

But it's in the darkest places where we sit sometimes stewing in misery, uncertainty, doubt, shame,

guilt, that we actually have nowhere to go but up, number one.

And if you have the power to change the perspective, I mean, you've got limitless opportunity

to dream.

And that was where I dreamt my story that I get to live now.

It was like a freaking prison cell in a black and white composition notebook, you know, about 15 years ago because I had nothing to lose.

But what I learned in that prison cell was I didn't have the distractions of the world anymore.

You were left with yourself and your thoughts.

Yeah.

Without alcohol, without drugs,

without women, gambling, whatever vices, all of them. Yeah. And actually discover who the hell am I?

Yeah. And it took me a while. It took me a lot of books. It was picking up Awaken the Giant Within,

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