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Sean Michael Crane's Unstoppable Mindset
Sean Crane shares his story of Redemption and how his struggles early on in life helped him develop a mindset and perspective that he has used to cultivate the life of his dreams. Sean walks you through his most gruesome moments from seeing his mother overdose as a kid to watching his father in a standoff with police. After years of experiencing a living hell Sean was arrested and faced life in prison. Sean shares the most impactful moments behind bars and how they changed his life forever. After 5 1/2 years incarcerated Sean returned home a different person with a compelling vision to inspire the world. Now, a family man, successful entrepreneur and person of influence, Sean is on a mission to spread his message and impact lives across the globe with his lessons and the same breakthroughs that have helped him in his life to this point.
Sean Michael Crane's Unstoppable Mindset
Embrace Life_ Overcoming Fear and Pursuing Purpose
What would your life look like if you truly believed you might not wake up tomorrow? For Sean Crane, this isn't a hypothetical question. At just 23 years old, facing life imprisonment, Sean experienced a profound awakening that permanently altered his relationship with time, purpose, and potential.
Death surrounds us in unexpected ways. Sean reflects on losing his father without warning, watching his uncle pass away in his garage, and receiving that devastating call about his 49-year-old mother—gone halfway through the life she deserved to live. These moments briefly illuminate what matters, but why do we so quickly forget? Why do we return to mindless scrolling, hitting snooze, and making excuses?
The true revelation isn't learning to fear death—it's becoming terrified of unfulfilled potential. This fear transformed Sean from an addict to someone who rises at 4 AM daily, maintains strict nutrition, and relentlessly pursues growth. "Everything I'm doing is purpose-driven," he explains. "The internalized message is that was my best effort and that was me being my best self."
Modern distractions—endless screen time, substance use, pleasure-seeking—quiet our inner voice guiding us toward greatness. This explains humanity's consistent return to practices like fasting, cold exposure, and meditation across centuries. These aren't trends but essential reconnections to our deeper selves.
When you finally align with your authentic path, something magical happens. Everything becomes possible—the dream business, ideal relationships, optimal health, and genuine fulfillment. The process strengthens your belief, creating a powerful upward spiral of growth and achievement.
Want to experience this transformation firsthand? Join Sean's upcoming mastermind this August in Santa Barbara. Connect with driven individuals committed to leveling up their mindset, business, leadership, and fitness. Reach out via Instagram @Sean_crane_official to learn more and secure your spot.
I realized in that moment, when I sat in my cell and reflected on the life I lived, was the life I wanted to live. I figured it out. I realized, fuck, precious, it goes by quick. We don't know what the future holds in store for us. Why am I letting fear hold me back? And it's a moment that that, like that switch, just in these, superpowers inside of you are unlocked. You'll see a whole nother world man, world man.
Speaker 1:Welcome back to another episode of the Unstoppable Mindset Podcast. I'm your host, sean Crane, out here in the 805, beautiful Santa Barbara, california. We're blessed man. It's been 72 degrees, sunny, immaculate weather every day out here. You're probably in Florida sweating your ass off because it's humid, right, hey? But real quick, I got a mastermind coming up in August. If you want to come out here and grow and level up with 10 to 15 other men who are driven to improve their mindset, their business, their leadership, their fitness, check me out on Instagram Sean underscore crane underscore official. Shoot me a DM, let me know you're interested. I'll share all the details with you.
Speaker 1:You guys, life is short. Pay attention to this message. If you're somebody that's coasting, making excuses, you need to wake the fuck up. Okay, you need to share this message with anybody that you know is procrastinating on their goals, because you know what? You might not even wake up next week, you might not be here next year. In fact, there's people in your life, in my life right now, who will not be here next year. In fact, there's people in your life, in my life right now, who will not be here next year, people that we care about, people that we grew up with. God forbid, it's someone close to you, but that's the reality of it.
Speaker 1:When my dad died, I didn't think he was going to die that weekend. When my uncle Mike died, I didn't think he was going to die that day. When my uncle Jerry died when I was 19, he died in my garage. I didn't think he was going to die. I remember when I called home to talk to my uncle Mike and he told me my mom passed away. I didn't expect that. You know, a couple months before that, my grandmother had passed away. She lived a long life. She was in her 90s. My mom was 49 years old, 49. She lived half her life. She could have lived a whole nother life.
Speaker 1:And you know, I'm always reminded about how precious life is when I see a newborn child or a baby or someone passes away and I have to attend a funeral. Those moments put things in perspective for us. Why can't we feel that and live that way each and every day? That's the question I have for you, and that's one of the biggest mysteries of life that I feel I've been able to figure out and understand because of my time in prison, because at 23, I was facing life in prison and I had no idea if I was going to ever get out.
Speaker 1:And I truly feel like I died and got a second chance at life, to the point where I don't take things for granted, I don't make excuses, I don't procrastinate, like I realized in that moment when I sat in my cell and reflected on the life I lived was the life I wanted to live. I figured it out. I realized, fuck man, this is precious. It goes by quick. We don't know what the future holds in store for us. Why am I letting fear hold me back? And it just reprogram my brain and the way I operate and the way I look at life.
Speaker 1:And again, I was reminded of this yesterday, though I was on a walk. It was beautiful out. Every day I like to walk for an hour and 90 minutes and collect my thoughts and get some cardio in. And one of my clients was messaging me talking about how his best friend had passed away the week before and he was just down and depressed about it because this man was only 48 years old and he died suddenly of some pulmonary issue, right, something to do with the heart, the lungs, blood flow to the brain. It wasn't a stroke, but it was something similar and this is the really sad part is that the only person who was home was his 10 year old daughter and he actually died in her arms on their couch. Those are the stories, man, for me, like they just send chills through my body and put tears in my eyes because it it's so sad to see someone go so early, you know, and we're all fearful of death and we don't want to leave before it's our time, whenever that is. We don't want to leave our children, we don't want to leave our significant other, we don't want to leave too early. But you know, I would challenge you guys on that thought process because this is where I go, like if I die right now, dude, I don't want people to be fucking sad. I want people to be fucking sad. I want them to be thinking about damn.
Speaker 1:Sean went all in on his dreams. Like he was doing it, man. He called his shot. He was all in on his purpose. Like, look at the life he created for his family. Look at the goals he achieved. Like damn, look what he overcame. I want you to use my life as inspiration. That's how I want people to interpret me passing. Believe we go to a much better place. We're here to learn, we're here to grow. We're here to experience.
Speaker 1:Most people don't have that perspective. Most people think like every little detail, every little mess up, every little situation is the end of the world. Oh, my God, you're caught in your emotions. Fear, anxiety, stress is just suppressing your potential. You don't realize that all those emotions and everything you're going through is to learn and experience something. If you had an open mind and you were not looking at things through such a narrow lens, you'd be able to see the bigger picture. But anyway, I would challenge you guys not to be worried about dying and if you leave this planet early, I want you to be terrified as fuck that you won't reach your potential and achieve your goals.
Speaker 1:That's what still gets me up every day at 4am. That's what still keeps me super driven every single day. That's what still gets me up every day at 4 am. That's what still keeps me super driven every single day. That's why I still eat fucking ground beef and white rice three times a day, and today I had plain egg whites and oatmeal. I don't care about tasty stuff and pleasure. It's purpose-driven. Everything I'm doing is purpose-driven. It's when I do things. The internalized message is that that was my best effort and that was me being my best self. The food I eat, the time I wake up, the way I work out the books I read, the way I am with my family, the way I treat other people, the messages I share online, the continuous education that I'm obtaining so I can become valuable for other people, the time I spend with clients, the way I listen to people, how much I care, like everything that I do has to reflect how much I truly care about this life.
Speaker 1:Right, and so a lot of people, though. They're worried about dying. You know you're worried about oh, what if I had a tumor or I got cancer? But instead of thinking and worrying about that, why aren't you so fucking terrified that you're letting this time pass you by and you're not maximizing every second you get? Why are you sleeping in so much? Why are you wasting so much time on your phone? Why are you letting those negative thoughts fuck you mentally? Why are you not treating people better? Why are you not taking better care of your health and your body? Drink more water like less sugary drinks. Eat better food. Stop eating processed food Like. Are you reading books? Are you scrolling on your phone? You have a super computer in your brain. Use it. Learn, program yourself. Dude. You can become and do anything you want with this type of mindset. But the thing is most people you've never died Like. You've never been in a situation where you really thought your life was over.
Speaker 1:That's what happened to me, and I thought about all the little details in my life where I didn't give my best effort and I wasn't living as my truest best self. It might have been the way I responded to someone. It was the fact that I didn't play sports in high school. It was the fact that I hung out with the knucklehead losers that allowed me to continue on that bad path. It was my choices. But I look back at all those little things. Why did I smoke so much weed? Why did I take pills and drink? Why wasn't I hanging out with the football players? Why didn't I read more books? Why didn't I go to college? Like all the little stuff in life, and then the big picture stuff. It was just glaring at me, you know, and it was my own conscious. I knew who I wanted to be, but I ignored that voice for so long. And that's why drugs and alcohol are so bad, because it suppresses that voice. That's why being on your phone so much and seeking pleasure all the time has such a negative effect on you, because it quiets that voice inside of you.
Speaker 1:That's why the ancient people would fast, that's why they would go. You know, native Americans, they would do the sweat lodges, right? People that live in Europe, in the northern European countries, would do like cold plunges and stuff. That's why now it's coming back, because we got so far removed from like, spiritually, what enlivens us and what helps us get clarity to source, right, that people were becoming corrupted. People are becoming anxious and depressed in this great fucking world that we're blessed, right. Those are symptoms because people are not in alignment and they're not attuned deep down inside right. So, like I do sauna and cold plunge every day, I work out and train my mind and body. Every day, first thing I do is get up and pray to God for guidance and strength and for his will to be done not mine, because my ego, my pleasure-seeking behavior, that part of my brain, I got to continue to eradicate that each and every day. That's what led me to being a drug addict.
Speaker 1:No-transcript. I'm going to go off on a tangent here, because you need to hear this. If you're not feeling alive every day and grateful for your life to the point where you almost get tears in your eyes and you want to go around and tell people what you're doing and show them on social media and talk about it, it's because you're holding yourself back. You have so much more to give and the moment that that switch just flips and these superpowers inside of you are unlocked, you'll see a whole nother world man. These superpowers inside of you are unlocked, you'll see a whole nother world man. You'll see a whole nother world.
Speaker 1:You could build the business of your dreams, have the family of your dreams, live in the best house that you want, send your kids to the best school. Have everything in abundance, have the health and physique that you want. You could run a fucking hundred miles right now, right? You could be disciplined in your nutrition. You could get into meditation. You could start to read books and then share what you're learning with other people. You probably want to start a podcast. You probably have a voice that needs to be heard.
Speaker 1:Whatever that truth is inside of you, whoever it's calling you to become, you have to listen to it. That's how you live the ultimate life. You get so immersed in the process of living you forget about dying. You're not worried about stuff because you have a path that God is showing you and you're going down that path. And every day, every month, every year, you get stronger. Your conviction grows, your faith. It takes over your entire life, man, and I'm telling you because I've committed myself to this path I'm on for 13 years now. Every week, every month, every year, I get stronger. My gratitude grows greater. My faith is solidified internally because I'm proving those visions and dreams and goals true and that voice in my head I'm proving it true through action. Does that make sense? The longer you stay on this path, the more you believe in it. The more you believe in it, the more that magic starts to happen in your life. That's when you get results, whether it's money, a new relationship, a better occupation, career or business right. You start to look in the mirror and love who you see, right. Everything about you is going to start to reflect that internal transformation.
Speaker 1:So, you guys, the message today is that life is short, you're going to die, I'm going to die. People around you are all going to die. Make sure that when they're at your funeral or they're remembering the life that you lived, they're going. Damn, he or she. That was an amazing individual. She inspired me.
Speaker 1:You know when they, if you have a funeral and people are coming up to talk about you, make sure that lines out the fucking door. Don't be at one of those funerals. Don't be laying in that coffin where no one wants to get up and talk. That's pathetic, right. And, by the way, if you go to a funeral or memorial and you see that happen, get up and say some positive words, because all of you have value. All of you are beautiful individuals.
Speaker 1:Inside of each and every one of you is potential. It is like all the greatness in this universe is comprised inside of you, but we all have a dark side. We have these sinister thoughts and feelings and emotions like the devil's trying to eradicate your potential each and every day, and a lot of you are losing that battle because you're giving into temptation, fear and all this other stuff that's plaguing your potential and you traveling that path that you're meant to travel. But I just I need you to understand this, because I was once someone who felt really broken and less than and ashamed of myself because I used drugs for so long and alcohol, and I just knew that I was better than that. I want to be an athlete, I want to inspire people, I want to change the world.
Speaker 1:God put that feeling in my heart, you know, but I went down this dark path for so long. I forgot about that person and I was able to redeem myself. I was able to transform my life. I was able to close the door on that chapter and open the door to this beautiful life that I always wanted to live. And if I could do that in a jail cell, facing life in prison after 10 years of addiction, with a warped fucking mentality, and change all that, you can change anything in your life right now, too. You got to fight. You got to take action, never stop.
