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Ever look up from a “stable” job and realize you haven’t felt alive in years? We take on the myth of practicality and talk frankly about why so many of us abandon childhood dreams, how the system nudges us to conform, and what it really takes to claw our way back to work that feels true. From the hard truth that only a small percentage ever reach their first ambitions to the way AI is reshaping “safe” careers, we pull apart the forces that push passion to the margins and share the counter-moves that bring it center stage.
Trainer Mike opens up about leaving corporate, facing repeated failure, and building a career that doesn’t feel like work. We dig into the trade-offs of comfort versus purpose, why intrinsic motivation beats external approval, and how to turn crashes into data that makes you better. We also explore how dreams can evolve with age: sometimes a childhood goal was a stepping stone toward the thing you were actually built to do. Along the way, we examine culture’s obsession with popularity over intellect, why kinematic talent gets outsized rewards, and how to choose risk on purpose instead of letting others choose it for you.
This is part mindset, part strategy. We get specific about daily routines that strengthen resolve, the power of community and service, and simple, repeatable actions that compound into opportunity: shipping work, collecting proof over permission, and finding asymmetric bets with meaningful upside. If you’ve felt the gap between what you do and who you are, consider this your nudge to start building a life you don’t want to escape. Hit play, then subscribe, rate, and share your next bold step with us—what dream are you bringing back?
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SPEAKER_01:Welcome to the No Shock Podcast. We are your host, Santa, T-Mike, and A Town.
SPEAKER_04:What up, what up? Come get your son. Hey, come get your son. Hey, yeah, you want some. Hey, yeah, you want some. Welcome back to the No Shop Podcast, and we are being presented to you by radio influence. That's our boy, J Ford. We got A Town in the background holding the dings down, but he's in the forefront as well. And you know it's a fucking brother. We are in front of a big photo, and on the episode, we're gonna talk about your view. Remember back in the day when you had dreams? Did you guys ever have dreams? Someone talked to me.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, I did.
SPEAKER_04:You did?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:You did? Well, what happened when your dreams got in A-town? You didn't have dreams growing up? Because you know you don't dream. That's right. And and what happens when your dreams got unalived as you got older? Remember back in the day when you used to want to be a farmer when you grew up? You used to want to be a police officer when you grew up. You used to be a professional athlete when you grew up. And then something happened, and that dream just got squashed.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, one time I had a dream I was fighting an alligator, and then I woke up.
unknown:Wow.
SPEAKER_01:What does that have to do with anything? Oh, yeah, it didn't come true.
SPEAKER_04:You wanted it to? I mean. Wait a minute. That makes sense. Santa's saying that? I mean, he did want it to come.
SPEAKER_01:I watched Steve Irwin.
SPEAKER_04:Let me bow his crock, Mike. I grew up with him. I'm good. I'm cook already. I'm already toast. The episode just started. Done. But with that in mind, everyone had a dream as a youth. There were amazing things that we used to dream about when we were young. And we had big time aspirations to actually attain them. And something flat all unalived them. With that in mind, we can imagine that the world is a difficult place to live in. And sometimes reality checks, right? We're being told that, you know what, it's cool to dream and all that, but that's not the real world. That's not the way things work.
SPEAKER_01:So, like, you know, actually me and Reem were talking about this uh yesterday.
SPEAKER_04:Shout out to your boy Reem.
SPEAKER_01:Shout out Reem. You know, hey, good luck in Thailand, man. Oh so uh you know, we we were talking about this th the other day and how you know you you have these dreams and aspirations that you want to you want to pursue those things. You know, you have these goals that you want to do as a kid. You know, you you want to pursue a certain career. You know, you know, what whatever it is, because you're passionate about that thing. And you grow up and then you you do something else, you do something different. And then, you know, you you get older, you get married, you have kids, and life kinda takes its course, and then that thing that you were passionate about at one time, you never did it. And you still like, yeah, man, what what what if I had done that? Ah, it's like like I I always wish I had done that thing.
SPEAKER_00:That's crazy. But I think uh, you know, I think throughout the years, while you're growing up and stuff like that, man, everything's gonna, you know, all your dreams are gonna change as as you get older, right? You know, uh when I was young, it was like playing outside. Um baseball, football, whatever, man. And then exactly like y'all said, try to pretend to be one of those great athletes, right? But for me, I was I was cursed ever since I came out. What does that mean? Yo, I'm looking at training Mike, and I'm looking up. Not straight eye to eye level, I'm looking up. Oh, well, being short. That's right. Are you kidding me? That's right. All the time. Drew the short straw. Yes, sir.
SPEAKER_01:How's the weather down there? It's it's pretty warm.
SPEAKER_02:It's brutal.
SPEAKER_04:But yeah, man. We in no way, shape, or form condone these short jokes on the No Shot podcast. So what I I totally get that. Because we do, we look at reality, right? We can sit back and say, time out. I can't wait to be an elite basketball player. Well, my boy, you're 5'7. That might be a little difficult, hence everybody.
SPEAKER_01:I think the average height for a guy in uh the U.S. is like, what, five, five ten, five eight?
SPEAKER_04:I believe it's five ten.
SPEAKER_00:I'd be happy with that.
SPEAKER_04:And the average height for a woman in America right now, it's still listed at five three. Yeah. Yeah, I'm glad I'm above that.
SPEAKER_01:Did you ever wear platform shoes? Never. No. Nor should you.
SPEAKER_04:That would just be awkward. Now, again, he's talking about all the big variables that send us into a tizzy and then ultimately steer us away from some of those big dreams. Now, again, some people dream to be a a big shot in the military, but they end up with flat feet or they experience some type of injury, and then the military looks past them and says, sorry, you can't enlist. Some people want to serve in a great way. They want to be paramedics, they want to be doctors, but then they get into school and realize, man, this is incredibly difficult. I want to help people. I want to do something different and unique and explosive and financially lucrative in my life. But man, the reality of it all seems like this is way out of my reach.
SPEAKER_00:Well, you know, to bring it back though, you. Perfect example, right? Trainer, trainer mic. This guy was working in corporate back in the day. You know, we did this, we did that. We was just going all over the place. And, you know, one thing was our dream was, you know, recording and all that stuff, you know? Right. The music industry was a big dream of ours. But then it changed, right? We we grew a little older. We were like, hey, man, I think we're about to get out of the prime on this. You know, and then that's when we went to job search and working for companies and stuff like this. But then Trandom Mike wakes up one day, he's like, I hate my life. I hate what I'm doing. I feel like I've been unalived. Right. But, you know, he he grabbed another dream, he grabbed another opportunity, and he stuck with it, and he loves it, you know, and what are you currently doing right now? So I don't it's kind of hard to say what on unalived, you know, our dreams or aspirations back in the day. I think it just constantly constantly changes.
SPEAKER_04:Now, I could say it could be in flux, but have you ever met an individual that literally said, Hey, I knew I was born to do this. I woke up one day as a little kid and said, This is what I'm going to pursue. I'm going to be that firefighter. I'm going to be that police officer. LeBron James. There you go, right? Shaquille O'Neal. Shaquille, okay. He double whammy, he double dipped.
SPEAKER_01:Like Tiger Woods.
unknown:What did he do?
SPEAKER_01:What did he do? He wanted the golf. He did that. And yeah, then he like he did it.
SPEAKER_04:But we're talking about those who didn't.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, wait. Oh. Oh, we are?
SPEAKER_04:Oh gosh, are you kidding me right now? Oh, I almost threw up in my mouth. That was crazy. Oh gosh.
SPEAKER_01:Welcome back to the No Shot Podcast.
SPEAKER_04:Santa's joining us now on this episode.
SPEAKER_01:I was on a different wave.
SPEAKER_04:You're not lying, and that wave is deep in the ocean, my boy. Deep out there in the ocean. So keeping that in mind, there are so many people that wake up every day absolutely miserable with what they do. Their hairs grow gray early. They think they have to run in the rat race with everyone else because the system that we live in says, you've got to take this route. That's cool and all this stuff that you want to be this or you want to be that. But guess what, little homie? Guess what? What's up, little shoty? You ain't gonna do that. That's right. Because you're not gonna be able to survive that way. It's cool to have dreams and all that. You want to be an artiste. You know what I mean? You're really good at drawing. No one cares you can't make money doing it. You're a fantastic opera singer. No one cares you can't make money doing it. You wanna be a ballerina. No one cares. You can't make money doing it. The system doesn't work that way. So, artist, so singer, so ballerina, it's time for you to sit behind this desk and tap on these computer keys and do some data entry for the next 30 years.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. But you know, that's that's kind of interesting you mentioned that because um I remember people saying, oh, get it get into computer science and stuff like that. That'll never go out, you'll always have work. That'll never go out of style. True. What happened? AI has taken over.
SPEAKER_00:But somebody in but AI still needs to be taught, though. Right.
SPEAKER_01:But now, like, how long is that going to stay as an open position? Aaron Ross Powell Oh, it's gonna be there for a long time. But the problem is it's like But it's it's less and less.
SPEAKER_00:Well, coming for you from a computer science background, I'm like it's it's somebody's gonna have to be behind that computer to fix it, you know? Because AI isn't gonna be perfect.
SPEAKER_01:No. No.
SPEAKER_00:So it's constantly learning, and somebody's gotta be in the background to to help it learn and progress you know the way it needs to. It it's gonna take a lot of people's jobs away, I ain't gonna lie.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Once that gets up and running, it's gonna take a lot of jobs away.
SPEAKER_01:Aaron Ross Powell So uh what per what percent do you think uh of people like can actually fulfill their childhood dreams or careers?
SPEAKER_04:Aaron Powell Hold on. Before we get to that point, let's go back to what was just said.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Reason why I'm saying that is because this okay, AI might take away some jobs, but we're talking about dreams being unaligned. How many people actually dreamt of doing some of those jobs? Like, really think about it.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, a town raised his hand.
SPEAKER_04:He had like a short palm, his wrist was all in for this chest. So, how about this? So, how many people grew up to say, I want to be a data analyst? How many people grew up to say, I just want to be in basic computer sciences? How many of those people said, you know what, I don't, I don't want to just do data analytics. I want to run a company. How many people said, you know what, I just don't want to do computer science. I want to build a mainframe that helps the entire world do something that they want to do. I want to be that person that builds the next TikTok. I want to be that person that builds the next LinkedIn. How many people were content with just saying, I'd love to sit at the moderate to low level? Does that make sense? Now, AI, you're absolutely right. AI is going to take a major role. And as ATO stated, AI is being programmed by people. That's people putting information in a box, and then the box learns how to distribute it faster, faster than most people can do it. Hence your job can be taken from you.
SPEAKER_00:Right.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:But that doesn't mean that computer science jobs are safe either, because they've already been teaching AI how to code. So you can actually go into AI and say, hey, give me code in Python to do this.
SPEAKER_01:Oh yeah, and it'll draw it up for you like in like a minute.
SPEAKER_04:Right. So again, jobs ain't safe. You ain't safe, you ain't safe, you ain't safe, voucher.
SPEAKER_00:But even even with training and stuff like that, you can actually just set up a camera in front and have AI analyze every movement that you're doing, and they can say your arm was too low, your arm is high.
SPEAKER_04:Hey, my boy, you ain't taking out train of mic, T Mike gonna hold down. No, you're absolutely right. I'm not even joking. Every aspect of life ultimately can be computerized, analyzed, and then functionally done. Even to the point of doing high-end surgeries, we can see AI using 3D models and graphics and systems that will create these apparatuses that can do the surgery more efficiently than the doctor's hands. You know what I mean? Your hands shake, my hands don't. I'm AI. If you need information, we can get it for you quick. Now let's swing back to that question you had, Sam.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. So um actually, yeah, only four percent of people in in the world complete actually do the thing they wanted to do as a kid. Facts.
SPEAKER_04:But that's why I'm like totally missed the cue saying facts. Oh, I was supposed to say facts. Let's try it again. Here we go. Facts. Facts. Facts. And your timing was off.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, I was I I was saying at the same time as you.
SPEAKER_04:Hello!
SPEAKER_01:Message.
SPEAKER_04:All right, back to the point.
SPEAKER_01:But yeah, that that's kind of crazy. Like, I I've known people that like, all right, I I wanted to be a pilot and they became a pilot. Or I wanted to be a cop and they became a cop.
SPEAKER_00:But we see that, we see those that 4% every weekend, every day. We saw them on the World Series, right? That's that 4% that said, I'm gonna live my dream and nobody's gonna stop me. That's why I kept asking, you know, with some of the other people that we know. It's like, what was the point that made you say, I'm dropping everything because this is what I want to do? You know? Like in it's softball, baseball, right? You know, it was there some situation or something that just said, this is why I love this game and I want I'm gonna pursue it. Period.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. I totally understand your point. My big problem is is you have to sit back and now assess what route is it going to take for you to attain that dream? How difficult is it gonna be, and how many naysayers are gonna be around you telling you this is a waste of your time and effort? How much emotional trauma are you willing to experience to attain the goal? How much, training Mike.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, okay. Because you've been through this, you know, this whole time, man, bringing up your brand, your work ethic, and everything like that. So how how are you, how did you deal with naysayers in your dream?
SPEAKER_04:So T Mike does it because T Mike has an intrinsic motivation like no others. That's the reason why I feel comfortable with saying I'm a part of that 4%. I've experienced failure after failure after failure, and all those failures effectively led me to my success because I decided to get back up and take another step forward on the narrow path. I said bump the wide path. You did. I don't care about being in a booth. I don't care about making a billion dollars. And I know a lot that might offend a lot of people. A lot of people might love money, but T Mike doesn't love money. T Mike loves this the experience. But he's not gonna turn it down. You want to throw a couple of dollars at your boy. All I'm saying in the end, though, is that my experience, my joy comes in the fact that I pursued something to where in which I never worked a day in my life. I don't work. I go out and I create success through other people's efforts, hard work and diligence, and relationship building. And thank goodness God has blessed me with a situation to where I get paid to do it. I get paid to do it, and my influence has grown dramatically because of that.
SPEAKER_00:But given the given the thoughts and and teachings from the rest of the world, right? What kept you on that track? Because when we were even doing the recording stuff back in the day, it was like we would have fun, have fun, and all of a sudden we think we had this great thing. And then somebody comes back, it's like, it was I.
unknown:You're like, crash.
SPEAKER_00:My spirit fell out of me. Because we've had that a couple of times, but you know, in in your current situation, you love it so much that even those crashes make you a better person, right? And better at your current position as well.
SPEAKER_04:You literally just answered your own question there, A Town. In fact, it's all the crashing, getting back up, and then seeing value in the crash. So I can get up and say, time out. When we did music, as aggressive as we were, as many times as someone said this was okay and didn't tell us that, yo, this was hot, like we thought it was. We still learned that we were progressing, we're moving forward. And then ultimately, we have to go back and be honest with ourselves. There were times we thought something was utter trash, and those same people that said our good stuff was bad, they said our bad stuff was good. Yeah. And that's what got us our attention. That's what got people saying, yo, y'all need to get a deal. That track was hot. I'm like, that took me five minutes on the toilet today.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, but then like sometimes when you get older, there's something you wanted to do, and then you realize there's no actual value in it anymore to you. Because you're like, all right, you know, my perception on that has changed, or you know, I'm not passionate about that anymore. Like originally, you know, I I wanted to be an international referee. Like I was like training towards uh meeting that goal. But then now I'm like, all right, you know, it's it takes a long time to get to that point. And do I actually want to do that?
SPEAKER_04:Now I I totally get that perspective. Something that I think is interesting, outside of something that I've looked upon my entire life as a lifelong dream, it's two different circumstances. There are dreams that are instilled into people that they've had since they were five. And every last one of us has had one. Like I remember when when I when I was really getting in with A-town and we were really starting to develop a friendship, relationship, boxing was a big thing in his family. And I always admired that. I really did. And it was in his dad, it was in him. He and I would actually get pads out and we would work together, we would train, and I've and I found a profound respect for that. And then it was music. We we when it came to music, it wasn't just the fact that we were tyrannical about it. It was the fact that we knew we had something that we could offer the world. And we enjoyed doing it. Yes, we enjoyed the grind, we enjoyed the sweat, we enjoyed all the time. Goodness gracious, the late nights. His dad built us a studio. Yep, bought all this equipment. We invested our heart, our soul, our sweat, our tears, our time, our sleep, our families, our travel, everything was involved in it. It was incredible. Did we know that the roadblocks that we were going to experience on the outside were gonna hit us the way they did? No.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:But it never stopped our pursuit.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Never did. You know, you know, I I talk to a lot of people, you know, my job and stuff, and uh I found Would you talk into the mic and stop talking? Like you're depressed. Sorry, but like I I talk to a lot of people, and I find that a lot of people are superstitious. They they th you know, like, you know, um I occasionally there's golfers that come through and um like some of them, if I mention the rain, they kind of get a little bit like a little bit salty that I I mentioned rain. And you know, like take gamblers to uh for example, like in in uh casinos, there's no thirteenth floor, there's no thirteenth room, like in anything that is going to make them superstitious, hotels don't do it because they feel that is it as if there's a certain action that they take or something that they say that's going to impact the future because they uh put that out there. And I I don't think that we have that much control over our lives. Like in in in that regard. You know, like if me saying something about an event, is that going to make that event more likely to happen just because I said it out loud instead of thinking it.
SPEAKER_00:I think for me, like I'm way too old to be worried about that. Like you know, that's uh that's I mean, growing up, you just learn and you learn uh there's gonna be things that that happen that you have no control over, and I just shake it off. I got more important people at the house that I gotta worry about, right?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. I mean that's my view too. Like, if something's gonna happen, it's gonna happen whether or not I I say it out loud or not.
SPEAKER_00:But the thing is is being smart and know how to, you know, get out of that situation. Because I'm sure that Mike is with his position has hit those roadblocks too. And I'm sure he sat back and thought, like, do I need to really work this hard to do my dream? You know, where I can just turn around and go work here and, you know, get vacation time, get, you know, weekends off and stuff like that. I'm sure he's he's ran into a bunch of things like that. But then he comes back and says, you know what? I'm going to do this. Period. It's gonna happen.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, that's actually my everyday. I question trainer Mike every day. I'm sure. It's it's paramount that I do though.
SPEAKER_00:But you have to. You know, you got other people to worry about right now, right? Exactly. So your hustle has been 100% go time every single day.
SPEAKER_04:Including, even take an example, this podcast. This podcast is a shot in the dark, right? In the end, we are looking at the fact that we can offer information to the world that might draw them into a place to where they think just a little bit more. We offer a little bit of comedy, we offer some seriousness, we offer some depression, we offer a lot of alternate egos. We offer amazing people on this podcast. But once again, it's a shot in the dark in regards to those hearts that we might change. Maybe there's inspiration that'll come from this that might incite a dream that was unalived a long time ago to get somebody to be maybe a little bit more excited about the next day. If you really look at the statistics in regards to people that wake up unhappy every day, in America, you're looking at over 80% of the populace of America wakes up unhappy about their day because of what they actually deem they have to do versus what they want. Versus what they want to do. So it's gonna take a sense of boldness.
SPEAKER_00:I agree. That's a scary step, right? Extremely. It's it's uh what? Fluid money coming in, or you gotta go run out there and get your paycheck every day, right? Which is what you had to do.
SPEAKER_04:Which is what I do every day, guys. I am crawling on the ground just to make sure that I'm able to not just inspire others, but to be able to live a life that I know that God honestly blessed me to do.
SPEAKER_00:So But with the strength to do it too, and the strength in the mind to do it, right? Because that's the other thing. You know, once they they break your mind, you're done. Oh my gosh. Are we preaching today on the podcast? A little bit.
SPEAKER_04:In the end, that's dead on, though, because that's how they destroy the dream. Ultimately, the only way they can unalive a dream is if they can convince you that it was worthless to have in the first place. Right? Because in the end, we can see that wait a minute, you've been given a talent. Why can't you utilize that talent to monetize off of it? Well, that talents that talent's really not all that valuable. And then we look at the way America works. What types of talents are typically glorified the most? Which talents give you the biggest bang for your buck in life financially? What talent? Yeah, what kind of talents? Are they intellectual or are they kinematic?
SPEAKER_01:Uh I mean, I guess in our society, things that are, I guess, entertaining.
SPEAKER_04:So would that make it intellectual or kinematic?
SPEAKER_01:Kinematic.
SPEAKER_00:What's the definition of kinematic? The art of movement. The art of movement. Kinesiology.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. Oh, oh, all right, right.
SPEAKER_00:See? He didn't want to ask what it was, uh what the definition was. I had to. I ain't smart like training.
SPEAKER_01:I was trying, I was trying to it it was in there.
SPEAKER_00:You just had to shake it out, that's all.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it fell out.
SPEAKER_04:On the floor. So with that in mind, if you look at the biggest bang for the buck, obviously we know Jay Floyd, owner of Radio Influence, works for a big-time NFL organization. Those individuals are paid more money per capita than anyone else in America. They are part of the one of the one percent. It's kinematics. It's your ability to perform a sport. But even within that realm, you have to be the 1% of the 1% to ever attain that, right? We got to look at it this way. There are people living out their dreams, and those dreams are not unalived because they've been busting their bottom since they were five years old to get to that promised land on a baseball field, on a football field, on a hockey ice rink, wherever they are, in gymnastics, even actors. They did the exact same thing. Look at the sacrifice that these people have made to attempt to live out their dream and not allow it to be unalived by what the system says they have to do. And for that effort, for that streamlined, hardcore, my eyes are locked in. Effort. They are given millions upon millions of dollars.
SPEAKER_00:Just to hit a ball or shoot a ball.
SPEAKER_04:Or just to get on a TV screen and act like someone they're not.
SPEAKER_01:I can do that. Right? Yeah, but I I think everybody our our culture right now is putting popularity over, I guess, um smarts, I guess you would say. Yeah, intellect. So like it's more important to be popular and to be noticed than it is to be smart.
SPEAKER_00:Aaron Powell Well, it's so much easier to be popular now. You got your social media, everything, right? It's it's when we were growing up, it was hard. If you weren't hanging around the the top, top in the class and stuff like that. You were nobody.
SPEAKER_04:And remember back in the day, intellectualism was actually celebrated. Yes. Like the smarter you were, the actually more people liked you.
SPEAKER_03:I mean super nerd. Leave me alone, super nerd.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, like the people were paying you to do their homework, right? Right. Right?
SPEAKER_04:You weren't even smart enough to get paid while we get to all the time. So with that in mind, you're you're you're nailing it. And we can see how dreams are effectively pushed out of the way when you look at the priorities that life states you've got to be able to maintain to survive in the world, right? You've got bills the older you get. Eventually you'll have a family you gotta take care of. Now, I mean, pursuing that goofy little dream of yours isn't worth it anymore. You had your chance when you were young, before all the obligations came into play. But then look at what the American public does. They envy all of those that are living their dreams.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. I mean, yeah, because like you want what other people have, but you don't want to have to do the work to get it.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, that's one way to look at it. But maybe it's a different scenario. Maybe it's wow, I had that exact same ability that person did back when I was young. And I actually still have that ability. But I gave it up. They made it.
SPEAKER_00:I'm too old. Be coming home crying with broken knees and stuff like that. You know, back in the day you could just do it, but today it's like ice packs on knees, back is killing me. You know, it ain't working no more. Like I played in the leagues for 30 years. What what? LeBron ain't got nothing on this. My MJ ain't got nothing on going home like, oh my bag. It can sacrifice my back. But I think, you know, growing up and being and now having, you know, your kids and stuff like that, it gives you the opportunity to say, hey, this is where I went wrong. Let me show you, you know, let me get you past that so you can be one step better than I was when I was young. You know. I completely agree with that.
SPEAKER_04:My big issue is this. What gave the system the right to unalive a dream? The entire foundation of this country was built on a dream.
SPEAKER_00:It was. But then you know, everybody with a lot of dough in the pocket said, you know what? Let's make it this way, you gotta go through this to get paid.
SPEAKER_04:I agree with that sentiment, but then if you really thought about it that way, the banana ball wouldn't exist.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I mean, but that like I think in in some sense you're right, Erin's creativity is stifled. I mean, you know, how many other people had an idea that was similar to like that they didn't follow through? Because it it wasn't cultivated. If if you can't sit in a classroom, sit still, and spit back out onto a piece of paper what you learned in a book, then you're not smart.
SPEAKER_04:That sounds like a personal trauma to me.
SPEAKER_01:It is, but yeah, it's still true. Flashback. Oh. His soul's crazy. Calling me out like that. He's gonna go sit in the corner. I'm gonna go home and cry.
SPEAKER_04:So where they're just rocking in the corner of the studio. But he he's absolutely right. I'll be right back up. Um Santa's exactly right. I I can't deny the fact that there are so many amazing dreams that are being expelled and expunged by people that are truly creative. And that creativity is boxed in and ultimately destroyed and squished, especially by major corporations in this country. They'll take the most creative individuals, utilize all their gifts and skills, and then dump them off to the wayside.
SPEAKER_00:But to go off of that, too, remember back in the day when we were all doing that whole uh gasoline prices were like skyrocket rocketing and stuff like that? Back in the day, that's today, my boy. It still is, but you know, when it first started occurring, you somebody from here, Clearwater, created an engine that took water.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Not gas. You know, nothing like that. It took water. And he said it was an easy conversion. He showed it. And he was like, did a couple of cars and they ran perfectly. You know what happened to that? Oh, yeah. He automobile disappeared. The automobile industry came in and bought it and then shelved it.
SPEAKER_01:Well, um, yes, same thing with um, there was a guy that created a motor that run on that runs on magnets. And it was uh polarizing magnets, because it was uh magnets that reject and attract that uh constantly create polarity. And then uh once you add like an electrical factor to it, it keeps pushing it. So then like that is the motor. And then that was also bought out by you know the higher ups. But uh wait, oh there's a guy actually, I think he's from Tampa. Uh I know he's some, I think he's somewhere in Florida. He's on social media right now. He found a way to convert plastic into gasoline.
SPEAKER_04:Actually, I heard about Homeboy. I heard about that one. He is I think he is T Town. So again, we take creativity and we squash it. Why? Because there's a system that needs to operate. And if you go outside that system, your creativity does that. We need to unalive your dream. That's very important because you will stop the system. And the people that run the system make a lot of money. And if you stop them from making money and you're making more money, and then you're making things more convenient for people in the world, then we got a problem. That means the system can fall apart, and we don't need the system to fall apart.
SPEAKER_00:And we need to quit hitting the fast-forward button so we're like slow down.
SPEAKER_01:Do you remember that movie? There was a movie with Adam Sandler, it was called uh clicker, where he would he would just fast-forward through parts of his life, and then eventually he was like he was the head of this huge corporation, and then he was like, What happened? And then it was like, Yeah, you just you fast-forwarded through your life and you skipped all the important parts. And I think we we do that a lot. So go watch click. But unlike that movie, we can't go back and relive our life and realize all the mistakes we made.
SPEAKER_04:Shout out Adam Sandler on the No Shot podcast. And we know Adam Sandler listens, so we love you, my boy. With with that in mind, that's a creative way of thinking about how creativity is stifled. But at the same time, what we're omitting is that initial point is the tenacity. It's the it's the willing to endure, it's to run the entire race. You know what? I believe it's a wonderful expression of the faith in your thought processing in your dream when you're willing to endure all the tragedies and traumas that come along with pursuing it. And that brings us to our sponsor, True Victory Apparel. If you're not perfect, this is the perfect brand for you. If you've ever struggled, if you've ever failed, if you've ever been the underdog, if you've ever doubted yourself or been doubted by others, this is the perfect brand for you. If you want to get better, be better, and make our world better, this is the perfect brand for you. Founded by U.S. military veterans and first responders, True Victory is a sportswear and streetwear brand dedicated to building everyday champions on and off the field. We're not simply a company, we're a cause. Our purpose is to transform lives and elevate humanity through the power and unity of sports, positive stories, and serving others. Our hope is to one day be the world's most trusted, inspirational, and generous brand. We're dedicated to the game, the grind, and the globe. But most importantly, we're dedicated to you. That's what it means to be always true. Go to www.truevictory.com, that is www.truevictory.com and cop the dopest brandware on the planet that will not destroy your dreams, but bring them back to life. And when you get there, you will use discount code Aaron Solano. That is A-R-R-O-N-S-O-L-A-N-O at checkout. Thank you to the brand. Yeah, true victory apparel for being the sponsor of the No Shop podcast. Santa, swing it back.
SPEAKER_01:Now how do we how do we get back to that, I guess, in a sense, like childlike state, where we think that, all right, you know, yeah, I'm a little older and I can I can still, you know, there's still things that I can do. Like, all right, like look look look at like there's a lot of things I can't do. All right, all right. But like there's still some things that like I've wanted to complete that like I still have time to complete and the ability to complete. I mean, I I I remember I was running a 5k a couple years ago, and there was a guy that was like 84 years old running this 5K. That's dope. And I was like, man, he's he's getting after it. Like he might not be the fastest, but he's out here. I remember when I was refereeing basketball, there was I was refereeing it with a guy that was 83. I mean, he couldn't hear or see real well, but he was out there. And then I was like, man, when are you gonna retire? And he was like, ah, you know, I might retire next year. And I was like, you know, I might not be alive next year.
SPEAKER_00:Don't you think that's a bit late, bro?
SPEAKER_01:But you know, like, but there there's people that like they're not, they're like, yeah, I'm still gonna, I'm still gonna get out there and get after these things. But then there's people that are way younger than us, they've already given up.
SPEAKER_00:I I could see that, yeah. I mean, that kind of speaks to to my journey, right? I didn't know I w I like coding or anything like that until I was at a job, you know, still working and stuff like that. I just found out because somebody brought a question and I was like, oh yeah, let me see if I can do that. Looking up on the internet, trying to figure out what code to do what, how to write code and all that stuff. And after that, I was like, I like this. Even though it's like thousands of lines of code that you see on in in nobody's right mind. They they like that stuff, man. But there's a few crazy people that do like me. That's what I said. So you know, and then I went to school for it. I finally got a degree, and it happened, what, in my 30s, 40s? So, you know, in that instance, yeah, you're right. Dreams, you can still handle some of the dreams and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_04:But so you can go back to the original point that that Santa was expressing, that maybe your dreams take a left turn. Or maybe they take a right turn. Maybe that dream turns into something else. Or maybe that initial dream was never the actual dream, but it might have been preparing you for what the real dream really was.
SPEAKER_00:Well, that that goes back into your situation, right? Because when you were growing up, it was all about playing baseball, playing ball, right? Yeah. And next thing you know, the good lawyer said, eh, your knees ain't gonna hold up, right? Yeah, team got bad knees. I'm gonna give you added talent for everything else, but I'm gonna hold these knees. I'm gonna hold these knees. But yeah, man, I mean, but then but the only thing that never changed, now that I look back at us and stuff like that, was your want to always train. Right? We'd be in the studio, we'd have the weightlifting stuff right outside, and you're like, give me an hour, I'll be right back. Boom, put him back. And it's like all those days that we saw working out, now that's what you do? It's crazy.
SPEAKER_04:It is. And to be honest with you, the beautiful thing about I think the way kind of God just made me is that I've never genuinely wanted to conform to what the world kept expressing me to conform to. I could have taken a bunch of different routes. Like, I've gotta state, I've always said this about me. I'm I'm gifted at a lot of different things, but I'm not truly superior at any of them. You know what I mean? Like, even as trainer Mike, I have so much room to grow as an individual. But the more I paid attention to what I've genuinely been built to do, it's always steered me towards how can I motivate someone else? How can I establish a relationship with someone else? I've always been secondary. I've never been the number one.
SPEAKER_00:That's not true either, because you've even during those days, you know, I'm I'm whining and crying like, man, I don't want to go outside. I don't want to work out with you. And it's like, hey down, let's go. Let's do this, let's go. And then we'll get back in here and we'll we'll knock it out. Every single day, every single time, it was always let's go hit the weights. Let's go hit the weights.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, but y you know, like like you you try to stay in the background a lot, and then you're always like pushed to the forefront in so many things.
SPEAKER_00:Like right now. Well, I mean, just because of the topic though, and he's always had this dream, you know, for for for years. Ever since I've known him, he's always had music was at one point, but it was always his training. It was every day, let's go train, let's hit it. It could be cold outside, he'd still be out there.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. Yeah, it has been a part of me since the beginning. Like I've been I've always enjoyed physical fitness, athleticism. But that was your release, right?
SPEAKER_00:Yes. As soon as you got onto that weight, it was like the world just went quiet, and it's you and the weights.
SPEAKER_04:Bingo. And it was it was understanding it. It was understanding kinesiology, it was understanding chemistry, it was understanding all those things that I had a big time interest in. Like just as much as it is pressing the weight, it's how I'm doing it. All those things, just like you guys, there are things that are inside of all of us. Absolutely. That are prescribed because they were put there. And ultimately, when we determine what route we want to take, is it officially a part of the dream that we had? Or was it something we were maneuvered into because of events in our lives?
SPEAKER_01:You know, boom. You know, I was listening to this, uh, I was actually at college at this time, and uh there was this guy that was he was like preaching and everything. I w I went to a a really strict Christian college and uh so I won't shout out, but uh shout out but uh still like you know it was like uh I don't really I don't really care for this but I remember I was like I was sitting in the in the back of this like auditorium listening to this guy preach and then he was like you know like ministry is the only thing that God calls people to. And then I was like, what? Like what what do what do you mean? And like at the end of the sermon, like there's all these kids going up and that are like because he was talking about like God only calls people into ministry, if you're pursuing anything else, then that's like your your desire, but that's not God's. And I was like, all these kids are going forward, and they're thinking that you know, they want to go and play football? Oh, God can't use that. They want to go be a lawyer, oh God can't use that. Oh, that they want to go do something else. Oh, God's not calling you towards that. And it's like anything, if if God has given you a passion for something, He's calling you towards that. How are you going to use it? Preach, Santa? Like, you know, like at one point in time I was trying to get my degree in ministry, and I realized like it's not my fit.
SPEAKER_04:That's not me, bro. Hey, like, like I totally get that point. I get that point. But let's steer it back um to the main thing being the main thing. What's the value in regards to the system unaliving people's dreams? What's the value? What do you mean? So I mean this. You have such a high level and high amount of diverse dreams from all types of people in all walks of life. I believe that the system categorically forces you to fit within their parameters, regardless of your dream or gift. 100%. Why why do they do that? Why does the system not want diversity? Why do you have to conform?
SPEAKER_00:Too many hands in the pot. I mean, they don't want you to bust up another, you know, company to take away money from them. It's it's it's their money, right? Well, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:But you know, there's a country that starts with a C and ends with an INA that uh that they uh wow they uh they have this test that they take. And i if if you get a certain score on this test, you're only eligible for uh certain jobs. And if you don't score high enough, oh yeah, y you are not eligible for those jobs. And then that's that's kind of what's happening in some regards, maybe in the US, not not quite to the extreme, but you know, maybe socially it's like, all right, well, you you shouldn't be playing baseball. You should be playing this sport over here. Oh, you you shouldn't, you know, go into that specific profession because people who have typically have a higher higher IQ or higher intellect than uh do that job and you just you don't really fit that. But the the great thing about uh I I guess our society is that yeah, you're given the opportunity to opportunity to to succeed because you can try, but you also have the opportunity to fail. And you can learn so much more from failure than you do success.
SPEAKER_00:What the problem is is being scared of that failure, right? Because we can be like um, you know, like with the job I have. I get medical, I get everything, right? Stability. Exactly. And comfort, right? Because I'm here and I know I'm gonna get that paycheck, I know I'm gonna get all the benefits from it. What happens when they let you go? It's like boom, you you lost everything now, right? Shocking.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Now, how about that? They'll unalive your dream, they'll stick you in their system, and then kick you out of their system as they see fit. Yeah. All while convincing you that you have to be in their system to survive in this world.
SPEAKER_00:But look at the dude that went left on it, right? He didn't go, he didn't go to college to get his special degree. He's he said, I know some of this stuff, but I'm gonna learn the other stuff. And we've had banter back and forth, like, why don't you just go to school, man, get that master's degree? He's like, I don't need to, not in the field. I'm like, no, you need to. But then when I started going for my master's degree in in cybersecurity, I was like, everything that that was said in that class was you basically just wasted money to get your master's degree in cybersecurity. All you need to do is go get your certifications.
SPEAKER_04:Then that's where brakes put on. Come on. Listen to what he just said. Like seriously, listen to what A Tom just said. Does that not just ultimately devalue the system? They are literally saying you're gonna pay us for a higher level of education, right? You know more stuff. But ultimately, within our system, we really don't even care. So all we're gonna do is take from you while promising to give to you, or tell you that you have to do it or you won't fit. When in the end, no, you don't. Because the guy, like he just said, that that took the left, wink wink, yeah, didn't do it and is still working. Well, he did drive up to a Yankees facility and said, Hey, I'm here. Yeah, it's true. But but at the same time, you gotta think about the audaciousness of that transaction. Like that's what America's foundational principles are actually built on. It's built on bold, audacious dreams that people were willing to pursue to the very end. But I think that's what a life to live.
SPEAKER_00:I think that's what the other thing is, is you you got a dream. Do you want to live that dream? If so, go get it, because nobody's gonna give it to you. Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_01:But that's also kind of counter counter to what culture is telling you at the same time. Of course I think. It says, all right, choose the stable option. Choose the thing that you know you can get. But what if you want to do something else, but it's a little bit risky? I mean, th there there's a possibility that you can get it, but it's more likely that you're gonna fail. But if you actually succeed, how much more valuable is that going to be to you?
SPEAKER_00:You know, if it's something that you want and you're working for it, I mean you're you're putting your all into it.
SPEAKER_01:I mean look at like Crosby. Like we w like Shout out Showtime, the homie. Like or uh uh any of the uh other people that we have connections to, like their story. Like uh uh Arsenal Fitness, like Shout out Cardo, like Tolberg, what up, baby? Like, you know, all of these people that we know, and you know, eventually you'll get to meet them too, is like they've had stories where like, man, I worked so hard for this. I didn't know if I was gonna make it, and but I kept working, and eventually I succeeded. And now it it all that effort has paid off to what I'm doing now.
SPEAKER_04:Now we we look at that too and say, wait a minute, the system told you you wouldn't be able to survive without them. You are. In fact, you might be more lucrative than ever. And then what do people that are still in the system do? They envy you. I wish I was that bold. I wish my circumstances weren't this tough to where I could go pursue that. They'll say, I'm too old, that's not worth it. But they'll complain every day they wake up, every day they wake up about what they're doing. They'll have their vacation, they'll spend their family time, all while wishing they were like that other family that went outside the grain. When they go on vacation, they're gone for a month. Now, I mean, when they come back home, other people have been making money for them the entire time. Yeah. There's no more broken bank accounts. There's no more, we're not sure what our what's going to happen in the next couple days with our paycheck. What happens when you get laid off? That's not a reality. That's that there's stability in that instability.
SPEAKER_01:So I I remember uh when I was working that was profound. Yeah, that was awesome. Give it up. Give it up.
SPEAKER_04:Give it up. I deserved that.
SPEAKER_01:I remember when I I was working for uh a grocery store and we we had this mandatory meeting that we were like we had to be there at like 5 a.m. and like nobody wanted to be there. It was like uh we were like trying to stay awake, but I remember in part of the meeting, they were like, you know, if you work for 40 years, you can retire a millionaire. 40 years and then I was like, oh, that's 40 years.
SPEAKER_02:That's so far away.
SPEAKER_01:Like, ah, like I don't want to be working here for the next 40 years just to retire a millionaire, and then I have less money than when I started.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. And guess who made all the money while you were busting your bottom? Oh yeah, the corporate. So why do they get it and we don't?
SPEAKER_01:But like now, like at the same time, you can rate sure you can rage against the system, or you can decide to do something about it.
SPEAKER_00:But I think it's also about mindset, right? Because most of those people at the top, that top four percent that make all that money, right? It's all about how strong their head is, right? It's nobody's gonna tell me I can't. I'm running this company, I'm gonna do it. Or Mike, nobody's gonna tell me I can't be the trainer. I'm gonna go out and do it. I'm gonna show you.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Hence, are you willing to take the risk?
SPEAKER_03:Right.
SPEAKER_00:And if not. But the strength in mind as well, man, because you know, once your mind says let's do this, it's your body's gonna do it, right? And I think that's the difference, and and I think that's the difference between everybody and that top four percent, right? Their mindset was you can tell me all day that it ain't gonna work. I'm gonna show you it's gonna work.
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SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Again, they could conform and just bottom out and say, well, this isn't worth the time. There's a billion and one clothing lines. There isn't worth the time. There's a billion and one podcast systems and radio, radio influences all over the world. But no, no, no, no. That's not who we are. And that's not who we'll ever be. In the end, we all have to make a life decision. Are you going to conform and complain? Or are you going to go against the grain? Man, that was profound too. Clever.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. That's a good thing.
SPEAKER_01:I think uh uh what what what is the determining factor? I mean, yeah, yeah, uh sure at mindset, but how do you get into the right mindset? What what what do you is it a certain routine? Is it making your bed every morning? Is it eating breakfast or like w what is it that uh creates the environment for you to actually pursue the things that you want? Is there a a magical combination or a a secret, you know, to making all that happen and everything's just gonna work out?
SPEAKER_00:A time, what you got on that? I was gonna say, it's already given to you. You just gotta crack it open and go. Because, you know, at least for me, it was my my pop. He was he was there all the time, man. Growing up, shout out Mr. S. That's my daddy. That's my second daddy. You know, even though he was in the military and all, he never hesitated to come home after an eight-hour day with me with a football, saying, Let's go throw the ball, pop. He was like, All right, give me five minutes, go wait for me outside. And he would be out there. And I'm I'm talking about he would just come back from TDY, from Korea, you know, we were stationed in Japan, he'd come back from Korea for a little bit, and he was always no matter if he's dead tired or not, he'd still go out there and throw that ball, you know. And I think it's it's the system that you grew up with and the people that that taught you to make your mind strong, right?
SPEAKER_01:You know, it's a common thread among uh a lot of the conversations that uh that I have and I think we have too, is that making time for other people. That that's like one of the most uh I guess you would say factors that is most determining in someone's success. You make time for others.
SPEAKER_00:And it was all about him too, because he t he he he was uh teaching, because even even like when he was training me to box, it was look, I'm gonna teach you everything. But as soon as you step in that ring, it's just you. You know, so that's you had to build yourself up because you you're one-on-one with somebody who you know who's just as strong as you, trained as much as you, maybe even more, right? And you gotta go in there with him and start to fight and be able to say, All right, I gotta remember all my training, everything my father told me, you know, and and put it to work.
SPEAKER_04:And so we can't allow all these things that have entered our airspace and our mind space to unalive our dreams. This country was built on those dreams.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, you know what? Uh with boxing, I gotta shout out Joey Barrero.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, that's why you interrupted me?
SPEAKER_01:Sorry, I'm sorry, man.
SPEAKER_04:No, if you're interrupting me for Joey, that's what's up. Obviously, Felix Trinidad. That's incredible. That's his uncle. Talking about a pedigree, talking about someone that's willing to pursue a dream, talking about coming from poverty, no money, poor influences, and to come out from the muck. Incredible. Those are the foundational principles of those who do not allow their dreams to be unalived. This episode has been enlightening, emotional. And now it's time for Trivia. Trivia.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:All right. I sure hope I can pronounce all these words correctly. All right. What is the outer layer of film of the brain called? Is it min mining? Min mining is min mining? Bro. Come on. Alright, it's M-E-N-I-N-G-E-S. Like, I was trying so hard to pronounce that in my head.
SPEAKER_04:What's the next word?
SPEAKER_01:Um gliile. That's it. Gliel. B gliel.
SPEAKER_04:He chooses He chooses questions with words he can't even pronounce.
SPEAKER_01:Like, I think it's I think I can pronounce them. I could. Like and then C is synapse. Alright, so what which one is it? A, B, or C. What I know is C is A.
SPEAKER_00:Synaps. You're gonna choose it. You're gonna choose C. I'm too C just because I think I think I know that word.
SPEAKER_04:I got it from somewhere. I don't think it's C. I believe uh it's the M word. A.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it's A.
SPEAKER_04:T might still get the ding though, A Town. Give me a ding. Yup. Give me a ding. Yeah, yeah. Give me a ding. Give me a ding.
SPEAKER_02:Give me a ding. Yah.
SPEAKER_00:He's only gonna get one.
SPEAKER_01:Like so actually so I I I chose I chose that question because that that's actually really important um for like headaches and depression. The more the brain expands, that's why you have headaches.
SPEAKER_04:But you couldn't even describe the words. I I know. How about you do better?
SPEAKER_01:I'm trying. I'm getting a headache just thinking about it.
SPEAKER_04:So go ahead. And what is the what is the cornball question?
SPEAKER_01:I'm pretty sure you're not gonna get this one right. Oh boy. In ancient Rome, what did they use for toothpaste? Was it A, powdered mouse brain? Was it B uh thyme? It's a plant that tastes like lemons. And then uh was it C limestone?
SPEAKER_04:In ancient Rome?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:I'm thinking limestone.
SPEAKER_00:What you got, Ata? I'm thinking limestone for some reason. I don't know why, even though it's probably like sandpaper on your teeth. Dumb.
SPEAKER_04:Maybe they did use it to think that it was cleaning them off. Yeah, the oops. Now what was what was B?
SPEAKER_01:Uh P, uh uh B was time.
SPEAKER_04:Now, time would be common sense, is what I would think. That they would grind it up in some way, shape, or form, and brush their teeth with it. Oh no though, would it be?
SPEAKER_01:And then A was powdered to me.
SPEAKER_04:I wanna know A again. I already knew what A was. Oh my gosh. I'm thinking of maybe it's A. Because they could dry it out. That's what I'm thinking. Because it's Santa. You just gotta remember it's Santa.
SPEAKER_00:It's it'll be like uh, because I know some people used to use like uh baking powder or something like that.
SPEAKER_04:You know, because it's Santa, I'm gonna go A, I'm gonna go mouse brains.
SPEAKER_00:Now that we talked it through, I'm kinda like, yay. I'm still on the C though. I'm still on the C.
SPEAKER_01:It's A.
SPEAKER_04:Goodness gracious gray balls of fire.
SPEAKER_01:Apparently, Mouse Brains does wonders for your teeth. Fiery balls.
SPEAKER_04:That's all I gotta say right there. What? Mouse brains and fiery balls. Oh my goodness. But I do get a date for that too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Moving on to Tampa Bay Eateries. Local Tampa Bay Eatery. Maggiano's Italian bar and grill. Jeff Ivan Makea, the executive chef of Magiano's, and his scratch kitchen team are proud use of the finest authentic ingredients to create classic Italian recipes that are delicious and will never leave you feeling hungry. Should you want to customize your dish or accommodate allergies or any personal taste, just ask Jeff Ivan and his team will be happy. To accommodate. They offer many of the finest pastas that you'll find in the Tampa Bay area with some of the most beautiful situations that you'll see in West Shore Plaza. Their location is unmatched, its decor is unmatched, and its location is easy to find. It is located at 203 West Shore Plaza in Tampa, Florida. The zip code is 33609 in West Shore Plaza. Once again, that is 203 West Shore Plaza, Tampa Bay, Florida. 33609. On to Gin Pub, T Mike. Yeah. Hey Ton, switch that music, my boy. Here we go. Once again, there's a beauty in having a dream as a young child. It's lucrative. It's wonderful. It's expressive. You sleep with peace and joy in your heart. When you wake up, it inspires you. When you walk around, you want to tell others about it. It brings a sense of joy and happiness that nothing else can. Dreams are beautiful. And as we get older, we can imagine that the world tells us otherwise. But the one thing I believe on the No Shop Podcast that Santa, Atown, and myself are trying to express to you is that your dreams are beyond valuable. They're ultimately who you are. And if you can learn to draw deeper and to fight against the grain and to not just give in to the world's demands, you can find yourself living out your dream in ways you could never imagine. And ultimately, that is our ultimate goal, and it'll lead us to ultimate satisfaction through life. Pair that with your faith, a little bit of God on top of that, and you're living your best lives. This has been the No Shot Podcast, and it's been brought to you by Jay Floyd at Radio Influence, A Town in the background and in the forefront, hitting you with the dings, and y'all know it's all about the brand. Yeah, true victory apparel. Dreams are what life is made of. Send us out, Santa.
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