Trent Shelton: Life After Football

The Excellence Project with Eric Worre

Eric Worre

Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Networkmarketing, Business, Ericworre, Mlm

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🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Motivational speaker and former NFL Football player Trent Shelton discusses his supportive upbringing, football career ups and downs and transition to motivational speaker. He also shares why you should set standards, not goals, how the business side of football can kill the love of the game and that success is all about levels. 1:22:29

Show Notes:

0:00 - Introduction

01:39 - Eric welcomes Trent Shelton to The Excellence Project and they discuss the passing of their mutual friend Jessie Lee Ward.

05:37 - Trent details his supportive background and close family life.

15:09 - Trent explains why your level of dedication has to match the size of your dream and why his dad told him to hang around people who had as much to lose as he did.

21:55 - Trent reveals how he found out why it’s so important to guard your focus.

26:37 - Why you should have standards instead of setting goals.

37:07 - Trent recounts the difficulties he faced during the NFL draft and with different teams.

40:25 - The moment when Trent realized that football wasn’t it for him and how players can lose their love of the game.

50:20 - Eric and Trent discuss why some NFL teams don’t enjoy the camaraderie you would imagine they do.

55:24 - How Trent transitioned from football player to motivational speaker and got real with himself about what he was doing wrong in his life.

01:07:53 - Eric asks Trent about his book, Protect Your Peace: Nine Unapologetic Principles for Thriving in a Chaotic World.

01:11:38 - Trent’s encounter with a homeless man was a pivotal moment in his life.

01:13:46 - Trent explains the importance of setting boundaries.

01:18:17 - Eric asks Trent to share some thoughts about his parents.

Resources From This Podcast:

Protect Your Peace: Nine Unapologetic Principles for Thriving in a Chaotic World by Trent Shelton https://www.amazon.com/Protect-Your-Peace-Unapologetic-Principles/dp/1401973167/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Transcript

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0:00.0	Yeah, it was tough because I had to face myself and I've had to like I'll just be totally vulnerable here and I've told this story a lot even with my son.
0:11.6	So Tristan is 15th. I know because he's the start of this. He's 15 and at the time me and Maria who's my wife now.
0:20.0	She wasn't even my girlfriend at that time.
0:22.6	And we were in Indy, we had our situation, Tristan happened, unplanned.
0:27.0	And so all this is going on and I'm like,
0:29.6	what do I do in my life?
0:31.0	And I'm gonna be real, I wasn't a man at that time I didn't take ownership and I was trying to deflect and trying to point fingers and trying to place to blame on her I was actually in another relationship at the time.
0:42.5	So all these things are going on in my life.
0:44.6	It's like, what do I do?
0:45.4	I'm getting comfortable and if I got a kid to take care of.
0:47.0	What do I do?
0:48.3	My best friend commits suicide.
0:50.3	And so that was the moment where I say, you know what, it's time to be real with yourself,
0:55.4	bro. Welcome to the Excellence Project. My name is Eric Worry, and today I have good friend and
1:02.1	fought leader, Trent Sheldonton best-selling author, speaker, former
1:07.4	NFL player, does some amazing work. I first met him in 2020 in the midst of the pandemic and since then I've been able to see what he's doing around the world.
1:18.5	I think you're going to enjoy our conversation talking about everything from formulation to career to reinventing yourself and
1:27.8	contributing to the world. Finding a way to protect your peace in your life.
1:33.0	I think you're going to love it.
1:35.0	So with no further ado, let's jump right into my conversation
1:37.0	with Trent Shelton.
1:39.0	Trent Shelton.
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