Transforming Adversity into Achievement: Sean Crane's Journey from Prison to Prosperity

Have you ever wondered how the lowest points in life can lead to the greatest triumphs? Sean Crane's story is the epitome of transformation, and in this heart-to-heart session, he reveals the journey from addiction and false accusations to leadership and success. Together, we peel back the layers of hardship to uncover the resilience and tenacity needed to rewrite one's destiny.

The conversation takes an intimate turn as Sean and I exchange our personal battles with sobriety, the intricate dance with our inner demons, and the powerful realizations that come from self-reflection. We touch upon the courage it takes to maintain our promises to ourselves and how these commitments can dramatically elevate our self-worth and catalyze monumental changes in our lives. It's an exploration of how altering our daily actions and mindset can lead to enriching our wealth, health, and relationships beyond measure.

In a testament to the human spirit, Sean's post-prison life is nothing short of extraordinary. From just $200 and a trailer to becoming a certified personal trainer and business owner, his story is a masterclass in seizing opportunities in the face of adversity. Our dialogue invites you into Sean's world, a place where education, critical thinking, and self-awareness are the building blocks of a life once deemed impossible. His generous offer of a free copy of his book, "Prison of Your Own," is the cherry on top of this inspiring episode that's bound to leave you moved and motivated to embrace the growth that awaits on the other side of challenges.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:57

Welcome to the successful live podcast. I'm your host, Corey Barrier, and I'm here with my man, Sean Crane. What's up, Sean?

Speaker 2: 1:05

What's up, my man, how we doing Good brother.

Speaker 1: 1:07

Good, so I got to meet. Actually, I guess we didn't actually formally meet, but I did get to hear you, hear you speak at Tommy's event, which was a pretty moving story, and you know. So I'm pretty excited about how this conversation is going to go. But first, why don't you just give everybody a little bit of rundown of folks that may not know who you are, a little bit about who Sean Crane is?

Speaker 2: 1:33

Yeah, so my name is Sean Crane, peak Performance Co. So I have a company called Unstoppable 365 MFR, a self mastery program for men that want to crush it in life. Right Mindset, fitness, nutrition, relationships, business we cover it all. I'm a keynote speaker, best selling author. I got a crazy story.

Speaker 2: 1:52

I came here not the traditional way. I didn't go to business school. I wasn't born into a family that taught me how to run a business. You know, I grew up in a really beautiful place in Santa Barbara, california, wanted to be a professional athlete. I watched sports center every day at school. I played sports every recess, every lunch period. All I thought about was being in the big leagues, you know, and I was playing all the sports.

Speaker 2: 2:15

And then my home life started falling apart. Man, I realized my parents were both heavily addicted to drugs and alcohol and they were barely holding it together. In fact, most of my life I lived with my uncle, mike as well, and I just kind of thought that was normal. My dad's family was very close. He had a lot of brothers, one of seven boys and nine children total. So I had all these aunts and uncles and cousins around. The loyalty was big. We were very close. But there was a lot of dysfunction and that dysfunction started to really corrupt my life and seep into my life around 10, 11. And I saw horrible things, man. I saw my mother overdose in front of me multiple times. I saw her and my dad fight. Cops started coming to our house and my whole world just fell apart. So that's like the quick, you know two minute, you know breakdown of where I come from and you know what I've dealt with early on. I'll give you a chance to answer some questions before I just ramble on them.

Speaker 1: 3:11

No, that's great. You know, recovery is a part of my life as well, and it's been a little bit of a rocky one in that, you know, I quit drinking a little over 14 years ago, but about six and a half years ago I started smoking weed. It was really not my thing, like cocaine was my thing, drinking was my thing, and so it was a slow bleed, though, and what happened, is it got? I got away from the recovery program that I'm a part of currently, and got away from God and really just effed a lot of stuff up, just like it would have been if I was drinking. To be perfectly honest, we've all heard the phrase dry drunk, and that's kind of what it was. For me, so is. So is recovery part of your story or no?

Speaker 2: 4:02

Yeah. So you know when all that stuff happened at home, fast forward to when I was 14, my dad got arrested. He had to stand off in front of all of us with the cops. He had a gun and I thought he was going to die. I was going to get shot right in front of us. He didn't get shot, he surrendered. They ended up sending him to state prison and then, shortly after that, my mom just stopped coming home. She had this new boyfriend. She was completely strung out on drugs and really lost her mind. Drugs ruined my mother and it broke my heart and I was so devastated I didn't know how to cope with that pain.

Speaker 2: 4:35

I didn't know how to heal or move on beyond those moments. The whole world was just shattered and so I started smoking weed, I started drinking, started taking pills. All of a sudden I'm fully addicted to all these different substances at the age of 14 and 15. And it went that way off and on all the way to 23. You know, I could not see life without, I could not see a life for myself without being intoxicated or none to some substance, because that's the only thing that helped me to get through the day, if I really sat there and thought about what had happened in my life. I'd want to hang myself. The pain was that horrendous and I never thought about suicide. I was just in survival, finding ways to cope and try to get through life.

Speaker 2: 5:21

And so then, at 23, I was arrested at a party where we were all drinking, we were doing cocaine, we were doing all the drugs and everyone there was partying. And this huge fight broke out and I was accused of a crime I didn't commit. I was accused of a stabbing that took place in the midst of this huge fight that I didn't commit, and I was charged with attempted murder. So, at 23 years old, my whole life was very close to being over, and that's when I changed my life.

Speaker 2: 5:49

That's when I made the decision to get sober and to be my true self and I was really able to heal in my jail cell and let go of all the pain and resentment I had towards my parents. I cried in that cell, I wrote letters to them. I just shed those layers, man, those layers of trauma and shame. And I think it's because I knew I was up against such a massive challenge that I couldn't win this fight if I was going into a compromise like I had most of my life. It was almost this survival thing that took place inside of me. I said I got to let go of the past. I got something even more daunting in front of me and I did. And when I forgave my parents and I made the decision to get sober, my whole life changed.

Speaker 1: 6:31

So when we drag around I think this is kind of what you're saying here when you do, from at least from my experience when I drag around the past, whether it's a regret, whether it's you know it really does hold people back and I think the release from that is pretty massive. So, really quick, walk me through like what the hell is going like when that happened, right? I'm sure some of that's probably a blur. Walk me through like how many, how much time, how much time were you looking at and how much time?

Speaker 2: 7:09

did you do?

Speaker 2: 7:11

I was looking at life like the Mack sentence was never getting out and I ended up being convicted of assault with a deadly weapon and I was sentenced to six years, technically seven. I was supposed to do six. I did five and a half years because I had good behavior. In all these reasons why they let me out early. But I mean in the moment when you're facing life, it seems surreal. The first couple months in McTowney it was the worst nightmare you could ever imagine and the worst words don't even compare to what I was experiencing. And I was getting high in the county. I was, guys were coming in with stuff and I was using it because it worked in the past and it was working in the moment, like I was forgetting about what was happening. And then there's a couple of incidents in there and I got moved around. I got moved to this isolation cell and that was the first time I really looked myself in the mirror. I was like what the hell happened to you, sean? This is not who you are supposed to be. I'm not a prison guy, I'm not a jail guy, I'm not a criminal. I'm not a drug fiend, I'm not a bad person.

Speaker 2: 8:17

I tapped back into like my whole life. I knew that I was really the kid that loves sports, that just wanted to befriend people and have fun. And I wanted to push myself. I love competition, I wanted to be the best at anything. I tried and I loved like that's who I am. And I lost that kid for a long time and so in that cell I just made a promise I was going to be my true self.

Speaker 2: 8:40

That's when I made the commitment. I was like I can't continue to do the same things in here. That led me to this horrible circumstance, like I have to change. And you know, I was in that moment, man, I was coming off of like meth and all these pills and my skin felt all nasty. And I'm looking in this scratched up mirror it was something out of a movie scene, you know and I just felt like death, like I wasn't hungry, I couldn't eat, I was starving. At the same time, and there was just this moment of like. You know, it was just epiphany. It was this moment of sobriety that hit me. It was like, wow, you have to change. And I did. I changed my life from that moment forward. It was a deep internal commitment that I've kept ever since. In fact, I've had 11 years of total clean time as of the first of January, almost 12 years without a drink. And, dude, my whole life is transformed from making that decision.

Speaker 1: 9:33

Who's the struggle? So it's a struggle getting past that. It's not even a comfortable life Really. It's pretty uncomfortable chasing all those things, and I've been down the road of everything that's just described and it feels like it's something that well one. It's really hard to see past. You know, whatever that thing is that you're after, it's hard to see a life without it and a lot of people don't have the mindset to get there, and I think certain people are blessed with that. I think or maybe it's sheer determination and it turns into mindset. I think there's probably a little bit of both there.

Speaker 2: 10:22

Yeah, it's hard to pinpoint exactly what it is. You know, I know that some people have more grit, determination and willpower than others. You know I credit my ability to make that change Planning sports. Grown up, it instilled that discipline into me. But then I lost it. You know, and out of high school I worked for my uncle's tree service company and I'd be showing up hungover. I would smoke weed on the site, I would even drink, sometimes I would take pills, but I worked my ass off. I was the lead foreman. I would climb these huge trees all day long. I would do really good work. I took pride in my work ethic because I have my uncles here, all these men are watching me, and I wanted to do a good job. So, no matter how I felt, I showed up and I worked hard. I worked everybody, I really did. And then I would go party and rage at night and chase girls and drink and do what I did. So I had that work ethic. I knew I had forged that willpower in some form. I just hadn't applied it across the board in my life because I hadn't dealt with the trauma.

Speaker 2: 11:20

If we can't accept the things that cause us to feel shame and guilt. We're going to try to numb them and this is the biggest thing that I'm seeing in society right now. If you guys listening whoever's listening if you want to crush it in life and have the most success ever, this is the number one way you have to stop doing things that you regret. Okay, stop doing things that you think about oh, I should have done it this way. Oh, I should have got up early, I should have went to the gym, I shouldn't have had that drink, I shouldn't have stayed on my phone so late. Whenever you do things that you regret, you put yourself in that emotional state of shame and regret and the next thing that happens, whether it's conscious or unconscious, is you crave something, you have an urge or desire to get something to consume, something that's going to check out and help you numb that feeling. A lot of people use their phones and they don't even realize they start scrolling on content, watching this mindless YouTube crap. They think they're just looking for entertainment, but something happened that's leading them to numb and check out A lot of guys that nobody talks about this struggle of porn. They use porn to check out and numb themselves. Or we do what we did drinking pills, weed, you name it. And so this is the biggest problem in society right now and the reason why people can't get into a place mentally where they feel like they're tapped in and they're crushing it. It's because they're habitually doing things they regret and they feel shamed about, and then they try to numb that feeling out.

Speaker 2: 12:39

And so the coolest thing is when you study the frequency chart and a lot of these elite thinkers in the world and I'm reading this really good book Letting Go I'm trying to figure the author's name, I think it's. I don't want to butcher his name Letting Go Anybody that's listening. You got to read this book. It'll change your life.

Speaker 2: 12:56

But to tell them about human beings emit a frequency and energy based on your emotional state, and regret and shame is like at the very bottom. And when you're in that state of shame and regret, you want to use things to numb it out. You don't have inspiration, you don't have energy. Doctors will tell you you're depressed or you're anxious. You're just. You're not going to have clarity and be able to really tap into your higher self. You know so.

Speaker 2: 13:18

When I was able to let go of all the pain and all the trauma and all the anger and resentment towards my parents. I elevated beyond that state of shame and guilt. Then I remember what happened. It was this huge weight lifted off my shoulders and suddenly I didn't know this was happening. But I had all this freed up energy to channel into better things in my life, my truth, my purpose, right, and so you'll.

Speaker 2: 13:38

You'll know when you're, when you elevate beyond that, you start to feel more clarity of inspiration. You feel something different inside of you, you know, and so this is the best way that you can achieve a life of success is you have to align yourself every day with who you want to be, everything you do. From the moment you open your eyes, you want to go to sleep at night going damn, that was a good day. I'm so proud of myself. Like I did everything I did. I gave my best effort, I did all the things I said I was going to do, and if I live that way every day going forward, I know I'm going to get to somewhere really cool in life. And then that's all I did in jail for 2000 days and I got out and guess what? I was a different man and I believed in myself and I had a track record of showing up for myself and I said, well, what do I want to do with my life? I felt like I could do anything because I wasn't. I wasn't sabotaging myself, I was building myself up, you know.

Speaker 2: 14:28

So if anyone's watching or listening to this and you feel like you're stuck or struggling, I promise you, if you can just commit to doing the right thing every day, you're not going to be perfect, but be honest with yourself about who you want to be. Make the commitment to make those changes. If you start doing that right now, I promise you, in five years you're going to have the most beautiful, amazing life. You're going to make more money, your health is going to be better, your relationships are going to be better. All the stuff that we try to force and attain and get it starts to just materialize because you become the person that can create those outcomes.

Speaker 1: 14:59

A hundred percent. So a couple of things. One, I think people are addicted to that feeling, as crazy as it sounds, the addicted to the feeling of that emotion that takes them to the place they want to cover up. I think that's one thing. And then also I try to think about what is my future self gonna say Like? Is my future self gonna be happy with this decision, whether it be eating a Twinkie or no? The answer is no. My future self would not be okay with that. So why do it now? And if you can think outside of the box and think about it that way, then I make better decisions, right.

Speaker 2: 15:41

And in 100%. Go ahead. That awareness is so powerful. If you could do that moment to moment, every day and you're honest with yourself, that awareness is life changing, it really is.

Speaker 1: 15:53

And what does it do when you're not honest with yourself, if you break commitments to you, if you say, all right, I'm gonna. You know everybody's January, whatever it is right now, and you know half society's filling up the gym, and it drives me absolutely nuts In those promises. What I hate about it is I know what those promises they're gonna do to those people because they're not gonna fulfill what they say they're gonna do and I just think that sets you up for failure. Like, keep your promises to yourself. Edmai Lett talks about this a lot. If you say you're gonna do something and then you just don't do it, you're just setting yourself up for failure. You're lying to yourself.

Speaker 2: 16:33

Yeah, I mean, it's so hard for people to change. Right, breaking promises to yourself is the best way to lower your self-esteem. Right, it's the fastest way to increase your self-esteem is to keep those promises. But it kind of goes back to what you were saying a second ago. So, like our brain is really likes patterns and likes consistency. That's how we form habitual habits, right Habits and habitual ways of living. So you know, every time you look at the phone or you have that drink or you eat that food, you get a spike of dopamine. And over time your brain loves dopamine. You love dopamine, makes you feel happy for the moment, makes you feel at ease. So we know that there's certain ways that we can create that dopamine spike.

Speaker 2: 17:14

So when a person goes to the gym on January 1st, they don't get the dopamine spike. They're like this sucks, I'm tired, my body hurts. You know this is killing me. There's no dopamine spike. So they're trying to, you know, muster up willpower they don't have. And they go back a couple more days and you know finally like fuck, why am I doing this? I don't like this, this isn't fun, this isn't easy. Meanwhile, at night, they're still checking their phone. They're probably still eating certain foods they should in, or maybe having a drink, and their brain knows you're getting the dopamine spike there. So they go back to what's known Like the hardest way for men, especially over the age of 25, like after 25 year brain and the way that you function is just cemented in place.

Speaker 2: 17:53

You know it's really hard to change your programming. There's only three ways Traumatic experiences, like I had. Novel experiences, like being around new people, getting into environments, reading, changing your mindset that way, or repetition. A lot of people can't utilize repetition initially because they're weak minded and they don't have the habits built. That's why they're making new year's resolutions. So they need to seek out novel experiences or something that's gonna shock the system. That's the only way most people can change. Otherwise it's gonna be two steps forward, three steps back. Two steps forward, three steps back for their entire life and they're never gonna change.

Speaker 1: 18:33

And there's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with finding that novel thing. There's nothing wrong with like you can gamify this situation. If you're more apt to do something based on who you're around or you fill in the blank, use that right as long as it is going towards your overall goal. You mentioned that you work with a lot of men. Have you read no More, mr Nice Guy?

Speaker 2: 19:05

No, I think I've heard a lot of people refer to that book. I've never read it.

Speaker 1: 19:08

It's pretty interesting and it talks about how you know. I know for me, going through school, majority of my teachers were women. Right, I grew up with a mom. Majority of my teachers were women. My parents split when I was 12. So really it talks about how I guess how society is now, because we are taught by women for the majority, especially the first seven years of our life, is pretty much all women and I think that has an effect on how we turn out. Does that make sense?

Speaker 2: 19:49

Yeah, no, I mean it could. The way you're raised is really important. It has obviously has a massive impact on how you develop in your beliefs and just kind of like the way you carry yourself. I think you know we need strong men to create strong men. We need to be taught and led by people that we want to be like. We need to have that example.

Speaker 2: 20:12

So you know, just because guys go to school, boys go to school and they have a women teacher, they have a mom at home, they still should have a male role model and boys are always going to gravitate and want to be like their male role models. It's just innate in us. We're not going to want to be ah, silence. We're not going to want to be like mom, like we love her and she, but we don't connect with the same things she likes. We don't want to do what she does. We want to go out and hunt and kill shit and hype and like be men. You know men and women are very different in certain ways and that's just the way we naturally are and I think we just need to embrace that. And, like you know, young boys now growing up they got to be tough, you know they got to be taught to be tough and strong-minded and have good character and good morals. They need to be taught how to be respectful. They need to be shown what it's like to really treat a woman the right way and treat people in society the right way and carry themselves with a certain conduct that's lost on the world.

Speaker 2: 21:08

You know my oldest son. He's my step son. He's 13. The way he's starting to behave because of the kids at school and the stuff he sees I'm very aware of what he's watching on YouTube, what he's being, what he's seeing, what he's being subjected to. The sad thing is we don't have ultimate control over it with all these devices and all this technology. So it's very important early on that we instill the right beliefs into our children. Like that's something I'm very passionate about right now because I think it's just, it's under, it's not being spoken about enough in society and I don't think people are doing a very good job at preparing the younger generations for their future.

Speaker 1: 21:49

Yeah, I agree, I agree with you. I think it's probably I mean, maybe it's just because you know my daughter is 14 and a half, so like very similar age of your son, and it's really hard. Well, I'll just be honest with you. Like we don't have any control over this stuff and we can tell them to do the right thing and we can put parameters in place, but ultimately I've had to realize, like I have no control over it. I have no control. I can lead you down the right path, I can explain to you the right way to do things, but ultimately you're gonna do whatever you wanna do and I do the same thing, and that's been a hard pill to swallow for me.

Speaker 2: 22:27

Yeah, no, no, it is, it is, and you know it depends on how extreme of measures we want to take. You know, like my 13 year old doesn't have a phone when he's with us. He doesn't like that. All his friends have phones. You know this.

Speaker 2: 22:40

I mean, if you really want to go extreme, you can. You can move away, you can isolate your kids, you can go to extreme measures. Is that the result? Is that the answer? You know, maybe not, because, like, should we have to go to those measures and those links To protect our children?

Speaker 2: 22:58

You know, I think it's a societal thing and it's a complicated thing as well.

Speaker 2: 23:02

But my, right now, my, my three and four year old, they want to do everything I do Every time I go to the garage, they want to work out with me, they want to count on an ice bath, everything that I do.

Speaker 2: 23:12

Right now they're soaking up like a sponge. So I just want to be the best example for them, pass the most love to them that I can and hope when they grow up they want to be more like Dad than this fucked up world we're living in, because I don't know, I don't look around and see a lot of great examples and leaders right now, not in the government, not on TV, not in sports, not on social media. I think that you know people are just doing things more for entertainment and to be liked and to get views than to like. I think we need to get back to morals and integrity and high standards as individuals. I think we're missing that drastically right now, and so that's the man that I'm going to be for my family and for the men I coach and lead, and all my messages out to the world, because I know that that leads to fulfillment and happiness and harmony, both in the household and then, obviously, there's a ripple effect that takes place in our communities.

Speaker 1: 24:03

Yeah, so what are you finding as a commonality amongst the men that you work with? What are you finding that maybe they struggle with the most? What is it that you work with them? Yeah, I guess that's the question, yeah.

Speaker 2: 24:19

I mean, you know it's expensive to live right now in certain places in the country and you have to hustle and work really hard in certain industries to make money to take care of your family. So, like in California where I live I live in Santa Barbara. It's, I think, the second most expensive place in the country. You know, rent for a home or an apartment like a person working a regular nine to five cannot afford that, you know. And then you have the mom and dad working. They can't afford that. So you know, a lot of the guys that work with me are business owners and they're in the trades or they're entrepreneurs trying to make it and they've just neglected themselves. This is what it comes down to. They're so worried about providing and making money and taking care of the family. They've neglected their own health, both physically and mentally, so they're actually bringing a lesser version of themselves into their workplace and home and a lot of times you'll see this affect their stress levels. They'll gain weight or they'll have low energy. They don't feel the same. They don't feel like they can kick the door down and take over the world. They lost that spark, that drive that they once had, and so they reach out when they know that things are getting bad, like maybe something's happened in the marriage or they're just not there for the family the way they want to be, they're not healthy, they don't feel as good as they want to be.

Speaker 2: 25:30

So I help them get their mindset dialed in their bodies in the right shape they need to be in, and teach them about nutrition and all the right habits that we need to form every day to help us feel and be at our best. And then it's also simple, like what are you doing that you know you shouldn't do? And they'll tell me I need to quit smoking, I drink too much, I eat this crappy food. What do you think happens when we eliminate that stuff and then we add in a couple positive habits? It's like this massive breakthrough takes place.

Speaker 2: 25:57

It's massive transformation and it wasn't that difficult. But applying those things with all this other stuff going on in their lives is difficult. So the fact that we have an app that they follow and there's a blueprint every day where they just check these boxes and they do the action, there's weekly calls and there's other men that they can relate to who are all doing it together. Now they have a community that's conducive to their growth and who they want to be. They have support and accountability every day and they're not trying to figure it out on their own. We fast track them and then we hold them accountable. So that's the main thing right now in the mindset fitness and nutrition program that I run, that we're working on.

Speaker 1: 26:32

So a couple questions, what's?

Speaker 2: 26:33

the name of the app. Yeah, so the app is. It's my brand, it's unstoppable 365 MFR. You can only access it if you, if you work with me. It's not something you can just go by on the Apple Store or the like Apple or anything like that. Yeah.

Speaker 1: 26:49

Okay, all right, so let's. I've been, I've made a lot of new training. I used to own a hormone clinic and I used to be a trainer, so like I know what to do. But I've uncovered, I think, a hidden GM recently is a guy named Gary Brekka. Do you know him?

Speaker 2: 27:08

Oh yeah, yeah, Gary is dude. Gary is awesome. I I literally text him all the time and talk to him. I just did his genetic test. I met Gary when I was speaking in an event. We hit it off. I was speaking, he was speaking and dude like that. Guy is a genius. I mean, those are the type of people that need to be running our country right, like he needs to be in charge of health for the whole country. If we wanted to have the healthiest, most productive American citizens, he would be in charge of our health department. Right, I did his genetic test. I just did the 86 hour fast that him and Dana White did. I literally texted him. I was like, hey, could I do the cold plunge while I'm fasting? He's like, yeah, that's cool, but don't do any exercise where you get your heart rate up and he was giving me all these protocols. So he's, he's amazing Dude.

Speaker 1: 27:54

I yeah, I've watched almost every piece of this content. Like I've just absolutely blown away at the information that he gives about our food and it's just stuff that do like. Unless you know who Gary is. I don't know if anybody else is talking about this, but I know Gary is talking about it and I know, based on everything that I've listened to, he knows his shit up one side and down the other and I just don't think a lot of people have any earthly idea the garbage that we put in. I just don't think they know.

Speaker 1: 28:29

But I believe that you know, I believe that guy is making huge, huge, I don't know, dude, he's blowing up and I'm really glad that he's blowing up because I Mean, I feel like I feel so silly because, like I was in the industry for the longest time and everything that we were taught Is really not a lot of it is not right. A lot of it's not right. The vitamins, like it's pretty incredible. I'm waiting to get my test back as well. It should be back any day now. So did you have you gotten your results back?

Speaker 2: 29:08

No, we just sent out our genetic test, the swab, my wife tonight, so I got it for my wife tonight. And that's the thing like when you, when you do your own blood work in your own genetic test and you know what, what you need, what I need, what certain individuals we need, different compounds or nutrients based on our, our body type, right. So that's the future being able to very, get very nuanced in understanding what your body needs, all the way down to the food you eat. You know sleep all that stuff is super important.

Speaker 2: 29:39

Like some people can function off less sleep and they'll put content out about why you don't need much sleep. Other people, they do need more sleep, like they can't function at the high level that they want to be out with less sleep. So everyone's a little different and my thing is I love Self-optimization, self mastery. All that stuff's really exciting because it can help you to live longer, have a better quality life way into the later years, like 80s, 90s. I'm gonna run a marathon when I'm 90. You know what I mean. Like that's the mindset.

Speaker 1: 30:13

And at the rate we're going and and the stuff that he's talking about, we might be living to 140. That that you know, by the time we get, get there, like it's it. I really do believe there's such a massive change. If you have the information and you put it to, to, to use, I think we're gonna be living a lot longer than what our average. I don't even know what the average lifespan is, but I know it's probably not past 80. I think we're gonna live way further than that, if you know. You see, if we stay on this path and and once you get the information, dude, it's really it for me anyway, I, I can't deviate like I, I know now All the vegetables are, you know, have shit all over and pesticides all over them. Like I Can't not wash the vegetables at this point.

Speaker 2: 31:04

Yeah, well, no, it's scary. I mean you got to try to get organic food and you know free-range chickens and stuff like that beef that's not pumped with a bunch of antibiotics. And then the water that comes out of your, your sink and your shower heads. You got to filter that because we absorb most our toxins in the shower. Like people don't realize, your skin is your biggest organ and it's porous so it can absorb, you know a lot of stuff. When you're showering, all these toxins, all this stuff that's that's in the water, your body is absorbing that into your, you know, and so your organs are affected. It's in your bloodstream, it's in your tissues. You know what I did recently one of my clients he actually owns a company that like a water filtration company so he told me hey, look, put your area code or your zip code in this website. Go on this website, put your zip code in and it's gonna show you all the toxins in your water and how much above the limit they are not the legal limit, but like there's a. There's a couple different criteria, like one is okay, things shouldn't. Like this is deadly, this is like harmful to your health and this is above the legal limit. So anyway, I did it and my water had arsenic. It had got all this stuff, I mean, and some of them are like 200x what they should be it was insane. So when I saw that or I ordered filters for my shower heads and all my faucets. I don't want my kids bathing in that water.

Speaker 2: 32:32

That's how a lot of people end up developing cancer early on. Leukemia, all these young people, brain tumors, all these preventable, you know, deadly diseases, and then things like ADHD, anxiety, depression, all these issues with our emotional state. That's all. We're being poisoned. These are toxins affecting the way you operate. And then a lot of the stuff with kids sexuality. People don't talk about this or link the Tube, but it's like all the sudden we have all of these kids who are confused about their sexuality. Some people say because they're seeing it in the media and they're hearing about it. I think a lot of these kids are actually feeling this way and they don't know.

Speaker 2: 33:11

And I mean, if you study, what Altrazine is, altrazine is one of our most prominent pesticides in the country.

Speaker 2: 33:17

We spray all our vegetables and everything that is grown in the United States and when it rains, that stuff gets put in the soil and then eventually it makes its way back to streams and, and you know, rivers, and then Big bodies of water. And they've tested bottled water and there's still 40 percent Of the bottled water has altrazine, you know, and then all the water that comes out of our faucets it's contaminated. So one of the main symptoms of that Pesticide is affecting hormonal regulation in young people, and it even talks about studies and tests they've done on animals and it affects their sexuality when they're going through that puberty state or that, you know, for animals. I don't know what they call it, but I believe this is why you see a lot of young people confused about their sexuality right now. I think they've been, I really think they've been poisoned. I think they've been poisoned by plastics and pesticides and pollutants in the atmosphere, in the environment, and I think it's fucked them up. That's my opinion.

Speaker 1: 34:18

I, I agree. Um, I don't know if I thought about it quite that deeply, but, as you say, all that, it makes complete sense. I do wonder, you know? I wonder if people, even if the people who is listening to this, there are gonna be some people that are like these two guys are fucking read, they're ridiculous, like this makes no sense. There's no way that's the case. But it's a hundred percent like the pharmaceuticals that are in the water. That was, that was a. That was news to me. I don't think I really knew and I sure as hell didn't know about the chlorate, like I think I mean, yeah well, I've low ride.

Speaker 2: 34:53

You know what I mean? I just all this stuff. It's important to educate ourselves, whether you agree with my opinion or not. Like it's just important to do our own research and do diligence. Not jump to conclusions, but Understand that most the stuff that we see in the media and information we're given is filtered or misconstrued, and usually years later Either the truth comes out or we realized that that information was misleading. So I'm open-minded, you know what I mean. I try to read a lot, I try to study, I try to do my own due diligence, I try to listen to people that I believe in, but we don't always know what's going on.

Speaker 2: 35:29

Man and like, there's so many issues out in the world, whether it's, you know, young kids, sexuality, politics, all this stuff. Like the way I am, I know and I'm aware of all this stuff, but I don't spend a lot of time and energy Worrying about it. I focus on what I can control today. I can be a very good human being. I can give out my best effort, energy and my love to everyone that I come to contact with. I can strive to be an example For my family and for people who follow me on social media. I'm gonna continue to strive to get bigger and better results, to show people what's possible and like that's it. You know what I have control over. It's not a lie. It's my thoughts and my actions. So I almost have tunnel vision, man, like I don't. I don't really even talk about that stuff that much because I don't think about it that much. I'm focused on this moment and what's in front of me and how I can be the best person today.

Speaker 1: 36:17

Yeah. So I do want to go back for a quick second. When you got out, I know that you made a lot of changes while you were in. My guess is and I could be wrong about this, but my guess is life wasn't super easy as soon as you got out, because you had a lot of hurdles come To get past with the charges, like I don't convict the felons, so I get it. Uh, you know and maybe I'm wrong did how was that when? When you got out, did you think you know I'm gonna crush it like I'm gonna crush it? Here's my year? Your mindset was set. Did it work out that way with soon as you got out? Or what was the process of over? Yeah, or that process.

Speaker 2: 36:58

Yeah, yeah, I mean, getting out was just as much of a challenge as going through prison and, honestly, like when I got out I was really excited, but you get hit with a lot of like fear and you start getting nervous and worrying about how things are gonna go and there's a lot of pressure. I now I have to rebuild my life like I just went through this whole ordeal and I I did good, I overcame all the obstacles. Now I had this whole new Obscule in front of me and so when I got out, I was staying down a tree in a trailer, my aunt, uncle's property had $200 to my name and nothing else. And remember I was just like fuck, what am I gonna do now? You know, and I was working for my uncle the same job I did before prison for the first two months and I hated every minute of it. I knew in my heart I wanted to coach, I wanted to speak, I wanted to do what I'm doing today. But how the heck do I get here? Where do I start, you know? And so I remember I reached out to an old contact and I knew he did personal training in the gym and I told him about you know, what I did in prison to rehabilitate where my heart was what I wanted to do to help people. And it just so happened he was looking for another trainer to bring on board and To delegate some of his clients to, because he was growing, and he told me if I got certified he would consider hiring me. So I took the, the nasum test it's like all these essays, all these different right tests and a final, basically like Exam and I did it in two weeks. I locked myself from my aunt up, was In in their office it was like a little closet office and I just studied like crazy. And so I let him know hey, man, I'm certified, right.

Speaker 2: 38:31

And then, right when I was set to come down there and work with him, all these wildfires broke out in California that year and so my uncle almost lost his property. All the properties on the street were burning down. We had to evacuate and we went to this Airbnb. So now I'm displaced, I'm, you know, I have like a bag full of clothes and no possessions to my name. And then rainstorms as crazy rainstorm came through and caused Mudslide in Santa Barbara that year and the US 101 North was shut down. A lot of people died, like the mudslides literally covered their homes. There's this really wealthy area called Montecito where all these rich, wealthy people live, movie stars. Prince Henry just moved there. All these homes were devastated by the mudslide and the US 101 free was shut down.

Speaker 2: 39:15

Man, this is how badly I wanted to change and succeed, like I wouldn't let anything stop me. I remember I'm sitting there in that Airbnb. I'm like man, what am I gonna do? This isn't the way it was supposed to work. I have this job. I got certified. I just can't get out of here.

Speaker 2: 39:28

Like I'm stuck in this little bubble now because all the roads are shut down and one of my friends he flies single engine Cessna planes. He's now a pilot, but back then he was training to get all his hours. He would do sunset tours in Santa Barbara. Right when I came home, he took me up in his plane and took me over the ocean, just like a welcome home present. So I literally called him and I'm like Nick, are you flying your plane right now? Like what's going on? I'm stuck in this area. I need to get to Santa Barbara. All the freeways are shut down and he had been shuttling people back and forth who worked in Santa Barbara who are stuck. You had all these executives, hotel managers and all these people. He's like man. I've been shuttling people back and forth in the morning and in the evening. If you meet me down at the airport at 8 am or 7 am, I can bring you with me.

Speaker 2: 40:12

So I packed all my stuff. I didn't have any place to stay, no car, nothing. And I flew in with him to Santa Barbara and in the plane ride he looks over at me, is like hey, man, so where you gonna stay? What are you gonna do when you get there? Like dude, I don't know where I'm gonna stay. I'm just going to the gym to meet up with TJ that was my friend's name talk to the owner of the gym and make sure I can train clients there. That's it. It's like dude, you're crazy man. You know my dad has rooms for rent. Actually it's crazy. You say that he rents out rooms to college kids, but right now they're all gone on break. He might rent you a room. You should go talk to him after. And so we land and go right to the gym.

Speaker 2: 40:46

I met the owner. I told him the truth about where I came from. I was hungry. For a second chance. I want to give back and serve and help people. And he was a cool guy, man. He looked me in the eyes like I could tell you're motivated, I trust you, you can train here. And so now I had the job. And Then I went with my friend, nick, to his dad's house and he had a room and I gave him all my money.

Speaker 2: 41:05

I'd like seven, I like $900 to my name. I gave him 700. I gave him all the money I had that I'd saved up in that little bit of time. And then I raced over to my uncle's Mechanic. He had a junkyard and I just showed up. You know what I mean. I'm like Jim, what's up, man, I know that you fix up cars and you sell them. I need to borrow a car. I need to buy one, like what do you got? And all the cars he had like 2000, 3000, 1500. He wouldn't let me use it until I had money. But there was a Honda Civic and the whole rear end was smashed in. It was just beat to shit and he let me borrow it for two weeks, man.

Speaker 2: 41:37

So I had a car, a place to stay and that new job and the next morning I was literally at work. I parked that beat-up car around the corner. I never let anyone see me drive it because it was that bad and I trained my first client that next morning. My first client was a sheriff in the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department. I didn't know, but he knew right where I was when I walked in and he and I built a great relationship. Though I helped them lose a bunch of weight and I started building up a positive reputation in Santa Barbara. People knew I was back and I do. Sean's doing good, he's focused.

Speaker 2: 42:08

So eventually I left that gym, started my own fitness company in person training and I was getting clients all over the county, bouncing From gym to gym to gym every day, making more money. And then COVID shut all the gyms down. So, like all this happened in the first two years, man, and when COVID shut the gyms down, I had my wife, jessica, now my baby girl, scarlett, who was just born, mason, who is like doing zoom for school and we're all doing in COVID, you know. And then my wife was pregnant again with Preston, like we didn't waste any time. So I lost all my money and clients overnight and in that moment I had $1,400 to my name and a family to feed and take care of.

Speaker 2: 42:45

And that's when I I was like God, like what the heck man Like? I thought this was gonna be the easy part. I went through prison. I did the right thing, you know. I came out a better man, I'm sober, and I almost called my uncle back and asked him for a job. You know, I was like I was like dude, I didn't make it. You know, I tried but I didn't make it. I need a job back, but I didn't. I said, fuck that, I'm gonna go all in online. I'm gonna share my story with the world, I'm gonna write my book. I'm just gonna, I'm gonna go all in on this vision. And I did. And I remember, online I started getting clients, I started building my business, my book became a bestseller, I started getting speaking opportunities and I just never looked back from that moment, man, and that was like the defining moment. That was either gonna lead me to this life today or Lead me to giving up all my dreams. And I chose to believe in myself and to go all in.

Speaker 1: 43:33

And, if I'm not mistaken, I mean thank you for saying all that that was. That was super cool and correct me if I'm wrong, but the way you got on a lot of these stages were through sheer grit, through constantly putting yourself in the position. I think Tommy Mello is the one that actually maybe told the story, or maybe you told it on the podcast, or you told it on somebody's podcast, I think that. I think it was you, I guess you called you kept showing up. You kept showing up and eventually it was like you're just like, I think, am I doing that right?

Speaker 2: 44:13

Yeah, Tommy, and I spoke about it on his podcast and then he mentioned it when he called me up on stage. Yeah, I'm just relentless man, Like I know in my heart what I want to do. I know that I value to share. I feel like what I went through was such an impactful and transformative experience I want to share with the whole world. I know that I can change everybody's life. Like 99% of the people in this world right now, I feel like I can help make a positive change, you know. And so I'm just driven man. I'm driven to serve and make an impact. And yeah, I literally would call Tommy, text him, build a relationship with him, and I always let him know put me on that stage, I'm ready, I'll deliver. And the same thing with, like, Victor Rancourt he's a good friend of mine, I spoke on his stage last year. All these guys that I'm able to build relationships with. They know my story, they see me on social media, but then when they see my consistency, my work ethic, my dedication, you know I shine for all the right reasons, man, and it's like I have this saying the work I put in in the dark allows me to shine in the light, Like all those years and days and lonely nights of doing the right thing in prison.

Speaker 2: 45:13

I would be doing thousands of push-ups and squats while everyone else slept in the morning before breakfast. All those prayers, all those moments of reading books and journaling, like some people would be like what's it for? Why were you doing that, Sean? Why did you do that? I knew, I knew in my heart that if I did the right thing there and I maximized my days and I didn't make excuses, it was going to lead to a better life. And it has, and a lot of times. That's the test for all of us when you stick it out long enough to reap the reward.

Speaker 1: 45:40

Some people have it and some people don't. What's the guy? Really quick, the name. What's the name of your book?

Speaker 2: 45:46

Prison of your own, so my book is Prison of your own. I'm on Facebook, sean Michael Crane. You guys can reach me there and I'll give away a free copy. So listen up Sean Michael Crane on Facebook. On Instagram, it's Sean underscore crane underscore official. Send me a DM. Say free copy of your book or any takeaways from this, this interview.

Speaker 2: 46:08

I engage with all my followers, but if you want a free copy of the book, it's yours. It talks about being incarcerated for something you didn't do, the traumatic experience that I went through. But then I was able to shift my mindset to look at it as an opportunity and for anyone listening, if you feel like you're negative on and yourself talk yourself defeating you, let things in life like beat you down and hold you back. This books for you and I'll teach you how to leverage all those experiences to become more driven, more focused and get better results than you ever have. Those are assets waiting for you to utilize, but you got to learn how to utilize them. So send me the DM and I'll give you a copy of my book.

Speaker 1: 46:43

That's perfect. That was. That was great, brother. I really, really appreciate you, you know, sharing all that information here today. I think people are going to get a lot out of this. I had no doubt this is going to be a great conversation and I appreciate you giving away the book. It's super cool, and otherwise people should find you on Facebook. It's that easiest way to get ahold of you, right.

Speaker 2: 47:05

Yeah, facebook Shawn Michael Crane. I mean you can go to the website. I could share the links with you, but the easiest way is social media, because you can talk directly to me. Facebook, shawn Michael Crane S E A N. And then Instagram, shawn underscore crane underscore official. Shoot me a DM, shoot me a follow. I'll always be the one corresponding with you. I answer all my messages. Appreciate you, my friend, appreciate you, brother.