25 APR 2024 · When you can practice confidence to leverage humility that can temper your stubbornness — the possibilities are endless. This week a true American hero joins the pod to break down this week’s Shawnism: practice stubbornness with confident humility.  Travis Mills, just one of five surviving quadruple amputees from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, successful entrepreneur and business owner, and founder of the https://travismillsfoundation.org/, went from sitting in a hospital wondering ‘why’ to being the push behind several successful businesses. Now coming up on his 12-year anniversary of being injured, Travis serves as a true inspiration and the perfect example of practiced humility and confidence.  Join us as we discuss:  - Coping with challenges through humor and resilience - Your life as a reflection of the choices you make  - Entrepreneurship, work-life balance and building confidence

18 APR 2024 · We can all win together — but not without a conscious effort to connect, grow and perform as a top-tier leader. Are you making decisions that serve the people around you best, or do your decisions serve you? On this episode, Shawn D. Nelson is joined by Ginny Clarke, an expert with decades of experience tapping into the multitude of talent to match the right people with the right positions and developing world-class leadership within her own organization. With her five dimensions of leadership, Ginny chooses to operate from a place without fear, guilt, or shame on the belief that nothing bad can happen and everything happens for a reason.  With infinite possibilities for connection and growth with the right leaders and people, Ginny breaks down exactly how you can tap into success as a leader and help your team win — in life and in business.  Join us as we discuss:  - Finding ways to push forward together — why having enemies won’t lead to success - Starting with self-awareness, truth and alignment - The true secret to success - Ginny’s critical five dimensions of leadership

11 APR 2024 · There is no situation you could land in that can’t be approached with a cool head and a healthy dose of understanding. Life isn’t about what happens to us — it’s all about how we handle it.  On this episode of Let Me Save You 25 Years, Shawn D. Nelson is joined by the one and only adventure extraordinaire https://www.linkedin.com/in/marshallmosher/ to break down this week’s Shawnism: Stay Cool & Be Kind. Facing perhaps more than his fair share of adversity, Marshall has overcome everything from adventure challenges leaving his life on the line, career and business obstacles that kicked him back to square one and so much more — always coming out on top due to his mindset, gratitude and dedication to pushing forward.  Join us as we dive into:  - One of the most powerful tools for building bonds and personal development - How to remain cool, calm and kind, even in the face of major adversity - Making tough situations into great stories: Covid, acquired and closed businesses, and personal challenges  - Prioritizing gratitude every day, without exception

4 APR 2024 · Everyone says, “be authentic” if you want success. But what really is authenticity? Before you can be authentic, you have to know yourself and your purpose. There is no one better to break down the concept of knowing yourself and your purpose than serial social entrepreneur and best-selling author https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikiagrawal/. Miki shares that being yourself isn’t being an echo chamber — it’s about diversifying your experiences and perspectives and being comfortable with arguing your case. Until you’ve experienced and understood a wide range of perspectives from different people, you can’t really know who you are, what your strong beliefs are (and why) and be confident enough to back it up.  Join as Shawn D. Nelson and Miki Agrawal talk about: - Why building diversity into your experience is more about creating a mosaic than a melting pot (and why this mindset is far more valuable) - Learning your deepest truths and building enough confidence to share them - How to determine (or create) your purpose in life and business - Self-awareness, personal growth and long-term sustainability

28 MAR 2024 · You want success? You CAN’T be the smartest person in the room. You shouldn't want to be. When you’re building something great and scalable, you need to surround yourself with people who are better and smarter than you and enable them to do their best work. Until then, you’ll never be able to get a product better than the one in your own brain.  One of the world's foremost experts on jobs, careers, hiring, firing, culture building and more Tessa White, the ultimate job doctor joins the pod to break down this week’s Shawnism: Hire better than you, and let them own it.  Join us as we break down:  - Why micromanagement, ego and insecurity are the enemy of great work - How to lead a team to do their best work (and build a winning business) - Building a great company-wide listening ecosystem

21 MAR 2024 · Life is busy, especially when you’re investing yourself across a lot of avenues. Between business, family, relationships and everything in between, It can be hard to balance everything. But, balance isn’t what you need — prioritization is the key to investing in the right areas of your life. Everything else is dust.  Your family, the people you love and the things you really care about — how much of you are they losing to other things? While you can’t cut off all other time investments, you have to embrace prioritization. Joining us is the legendary Montell Jordan, legendary Def Jam Records headliner, musician, songwriter, singer, performer, and producer-gone-church leader was faced with many of these decisions over his career. When life offered him fame and opportunity, he chose to invest in his family and follow his faith and heart — everything else was dust.  When you learn to identify (and prioritize) what truly matters, everything else falls into place. Tune in to dive into this week’s Shawnism: everything else is dust.

14 MAR 2024 · Don’t be a cover band — play your own original music. Proudly. If it’s truly original, unique and interesting, you’ll appear larger than life, even when your resources are meager. It all starts with this week’s Shawnism: Talk Big; Work Small. You can be and become whatever you want — it just takes figuring out something in the universe you are good at or finding a pattern in the universe no one else sees. This is what legendary author and marketing master David Meerman Scott says. From big promises to small actions, like being active and engaged on social media and leveraging AI for productivity and ideation, you have to find the balance between bold talk and humble work. When you embrace BOLDNESS and set a title, or goal, or commit to an original mindset and talk BIG, then put in the small work to bring it to life, you can build a life (and career) that sets you apart and puts you on the path to ultimate fulfillment.

7 MAR 2024 · There are a few universal principles that set successful founders and entrepreneurs apart from those who fail, and no one’s talking about them. One of those superpowers successful entrepreneurs ALL have in common? The ability to THRIVE in uncertainty. On this episode, actor and writer https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukas-gage-35b7b973/, a Hollywood hot commodity who plays roles in your favorite shows today — White Lotus, Euphoria, You, and so much more — joins to break down this Shawnism: Embrace Uncertainty. Lukas shares how he has had to get comfortable with the unknown, including the uncertainty that comes from saying ‘no’. He shares the importance of betting on yourself — even when it means declining opportunities that promise high-payouts when they don’t feel aligned. Listen as Lukas and Shawn break down what is means to get comfortable with uncertainty and how you can embrace practices and mindsets that allow you to thrive, even when things aren’t clear.

22 FEB 2024 · The nastiest, gnarliest physical, mental, emotional things we face are really quite simple: QUIT or KEEP GOING. Both are viable and reasonable options, and both should be used at certain times in our lives. You have to start with a strong WHY. Why are you doing this? Your purpose is the main thing that will drive the decision to stop or keep going. For deeper insight into this topic, we welcome the Founder and CEO of https://www.spartan.com/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephdesena/, who talks about an important lesson to him: If you don't want to do it, you have to do it. Joe helps us understand the power of knowing when to embrace challenges and keep pushing forward, and when it's acceptable to quit.

15 FEB 2024 · Whether you’re responding to a life-altering mistake or a life-changing success, you need to keep this week’s Shawnism in mind: IT’S YOUR FAULT. Sure, there are often outside factors or other people that contribute to our decisions and their consequences. But, as Shawn and today’s guest discuss, there’s always room for more accountability—and that’s the not-so-secret ingredient to positive change and personal growth. Reality TV star and entrepreneur Jax Taylor (Vanderpump Rules) joins us this week and opens up about his journey from top of the world to rock bottom and back again. Jax doesn’t hold back from honestly reflecting on (and owning up to) his mistakes and behavior that led to his public fall from grace. But one thing that really makes Jax stand out is his commitment to the hard work and hard decisions that go into true and lasting growth. Shawn and Jax talk about the value of the RIGHT advice from the RIGHT people—and how anyone from your closest loved ones to a podcaster or author you’ve never met can save you from setting yourself back on your personal journey or having to start from the beginning. They also discuss why it’s so vital (though never easy) to balance and prioritize so many different important areas of your life, despite societal pressure to focus on things like finances and success. And, of course, throughout the conversation, they discuss how much control YOU have along the way—no matter what you’re responding to or what journey you’re on.