Hey everyone and welcome to our throwback episode. In our throwback episodes, we are reintroducing you to some of our most popular episodes.

This is great for new listeners who want to learn more about the work we've done in the past.

And it's a great refresher if you've been a listener for a long time. Enjoy.

Dre, thanks for joining us today. Thank you for having me. Yeah, man. It's my pleasure. So how are you get it started by telling us a little bit about yourself and what you do? Sure. I get a 60-second background. I come from the city of Philadelphia, now live in South Florida. I was always in the sports. I started playing basketball. Finally got around the basketball around the age of 14. Didn't make my high school team so I was a senior, which doesn't sound like you're going to become anything in sports, but I ended up walking on to play college basketball, end up playing at the division three level, which is the third tier of college sports. That's not the level that produces the proofs, but got out of college with my degree from Penn State and still wanted to play professional basketball. It was a very far-fetched

idea even then, but I was able to hustle my way in, make it happen. At the same time, I start

publishing videos of my basketball workouts to this brand new website called YouTube.com. And that's

actually where people started to know me was from YouTube, funny enough.

And it's funny because you do all that work to become a pro athlete, but now everybody

knows you from YouTube.

So people knew me from YouTube videos, making basketball drills and stuff.

And I built an audience there while I'm playing overseas.

And then those players, when they learned about my story, that background that I just told you about, they just asked about my mental approach because they're like, that sounds kind of far-fetched, that kind of background to become a pro, how'd you do it? What was your thought process? So I started answering the questions about how I think. And those answers actually became the thing that most people know me for now, which is the the mental game side of things, as I call it, or bulletproofing your mindset. And this whole philosophy is called work on your game. And what we do now is we help business professionals, entrepreneurs, and of course, athletes take the mental tools to get you to the top 1% in sports. And we translate how those tools will work the same way in the business world and in everyday life.

So that's what I do now.

This is great, Dre.

This is great.

And I love this for a number of reasons.

First of all, the resilience, grit, discipline, hard work that you displayed to get to where you are.

And then the fact that you've been able to really understand that that part of the game to the point where you can teach other people the mental side, right?

Because it takes a different level of understanding to be able to teach somebody effectively, especially something that's so intangible as the mental side.

So take us down this path because the majority of people who are listening

to this, they're business professionals, they're in the working world, they're trying to figure out

how they can get an edge by using the skill of negotiation, persuasion, effective communication,

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