Episodes

  • Love Matters (ft. Garrett Gee)

    Love Matters (ft. Garrett Gee)
    May 23 2024
    Love matters — in life, business, personal growth — it matters immensely. But this doesn’t mean that becoming a loving person always comes easily. With life’s challenges and burdens, it can be difficult to define who you want to be and then commit to becoming that person.

    Garrett Gee, Family Travel Journalist at The Bucket List Family, is just the person to break down this week’s Shawnism: Love matters. Whether you’re loving others, learning to love yourself, or trying to minimize the trauma your children experience as they grow, love is a cornerstone of all things in life — and Garrett joins Let Me Save You 25 Years to share his thoughts, stories and experiences on this topic.

    Join us as we discuss:
    • The importance of love and why it’s difficult to be a loving person
    • Why emotional intelligence is the secret trait the world needs more of
    • Choosing who you want to become, then following through
    • Why some burdens are worth the weight (and others aren’t)
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    45 mins
  • Maintain Top Ambition with Infinite Patience (ft. Nate Checketts)

    Maintain Top Ambition with Infinite Patience (ft. Nate Checketts)
    May 9 2024
    If you want a successful business, you can’t treat it like a side hustle. When you jump in, proudly wear the title, and love the grind long-term — that’s when the magic happens. You have to maintain top ambition with intimate patience if you want to build something iconic.
    Nate Checketts, CEO and Co-Founder of Rhone did just that. Jumping head first into his business, Nate left behind a job at the NFL to build something spectacular. And better yet — he broke past the fear and embarrassment to wear the company on his shirt with pride. In doing that, he didn’t just build a men’s athletic wear company, he built a company that inspires those who challenge themselves in the relentless pursuit of progress. Nate and Shawn D. Nelson break down this week’s Shawnism by diving into:
    • Why perseverance, patience, and ambition are key to long-term success
    • Building a business with the right mindset and goals
    • How to push through obstacles to make a worldwide impact beyond your brand
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    58 mins
  • Practice Stubbornness with Confident Humility (ft. Travis Mills)

    Practice Stubbornness with Confident Humility (ft. Travis Mills)
    Apr 25 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 Travis Mills Foundation, 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
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • We Can All Win Together (ft. Ginny Clarke)

    We Can All Win Together (ft. Ginny Clarke)
    Apr 18 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
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Stay Cool & Be Kind (ft. Marshall Mosher)

    Stay Cool & Be Kind (ft. Marshall Mosher)
    Apr 11 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 Marshall Mosher 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
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    47 mins
  • Know Yourself & Know Your Purpose (ft. Miki Agrawal)

    Know Yourself & Know Your Purpose (ft. Miki Agrawal)
    Apr 4 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 Miki Agrawal. 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
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    57 mins
  • Hire Better Than You & Let Them Own It (ft. Tessa White)

    Hire Better Than You & Let Them Own It (ft. Tessa White)
    Mar 28 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
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Everything Else is Dust (ft. Montell Jordan)

    Everything Else is Dust (ft. Montell Jordan)
    Mar 21 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.
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    1 hr and 17 mins