How the World’s Best Stay at the Top and How You Can Too with Molly Fletcher

The Secret to Sustained Success The rarest thing in life isn’t success—it’s sustained success. How do the greatest performers, leaders, and athletes not only reach the top but stay there? That’s what we’re unpacking today with the incredible Molly Fletcher. Molly was a trailblazing sports agent—dubbed the “female Jerry Maguire”—who negotiated over $500 million in contracts for some of the biggest names in sports. She’s now one of the most in-demand speakers in the world and the author of Dynamic Drive, which breaks down the keys to long-term success. In this conversation, she shares the mindset shifts, daily habits, and high-performance strategies that separate those who stay great from those who fade away. We talk about why the best don’t focus on outcomes, but instead on the process—a lesson from the greatest champions in the world. Molly explains why protecting your energy is critical, how to prevent achievement from leading to complacency, and how to find alignment in life so success doesn’t come at the cost of fulfillment. And for anyone thinking about making a big life transition, her personal story of reinvention will show you how to take that leap with confidence. If you’re chasing more—more success, more fulfillment, more impact—this conversation is for you. Key Takeaways: Why the top 1% aren’t addicted to winning—but to getting better every day The hidden killer of success that no one talks about How to align your life so success and fulfillment go hand in hand The power of reinvention and how to know when it’s time to pivot A simple exercise to protect your energy and avoid burnout This one is packed with real, actionable insights from someone who’s lived it. Let’s go! 👉 SUBSCRIBE TO ED'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL NOW 👈 → → → CONNECT WITH ED MYLETT ON SOCIAL MEDIA: ← ← ← ➡️ INSTAGRAM ➡️FACEBOOK ➡️ LINKEDIN ➡️ X / TWITTER ➡️ WEBSITE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00Ed Mylett?

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• 0:45Ed Mylett?

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• 1:30Ed Mylett?

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• 2:04Speaker 01

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• 2:38Ed Mylett?

  This is the end mile show.

• 2:42Ed Mylett?

  Welcome back to the show, everybody. Okay, so the lady that is sitting here today, I've wanted to have on the show for quite a while, but I want her to hear why I wanted her to have on the show. So as you guys all know, I speak, I'm lucky to speak around the world, you know, 80, 100 nights a year. And several times when I've gone to different events, when she is also at the event, I'll ask the organizers, hey, who else has spoken at the event? And they'll tell me the people that spoke and they'll list the six or eight or 10 or 20 speakers that are there. And then I'll say, well, who stood out? Who did the best? And inevitably, if we're at the same event, I'll hear Molly Fletcher. They loved her, but I didn't ever get a chance to see her speak because we're usually not there at the same time. And so, and then her name came up about this book that she's got out.

• 3:25Ed Mylett?

  And I'm like, I know that name because I hear about her speaking. Then I researched her, then I watched her speak and I'm like, oh, I get it now. She's incredible. So my guest today has a new book out called Dynamic Drive. She's got a great podcast too, but we're really going to talk about her and the book. And I know this hour is going to rock with all of you. So Molly Fletcher, welcome.

• 3:43Speaker 02

  Hey, it's awesome to be with you. It really is. I'm pumped to be here.

• 3:46Ed Mylett?

  Thanks for coming all the way to Florida.

• 3:47Speaker 02

  Hey, man, I love it. Little Jacksonville, this is, your house is beautiful. This whole setup is ridiculous. It's awesome.

• 3:53Ed Mylett?

  Thank you. So they call you the female Jerry Maguire. Why? Tell us about your background a little bit. I usually don't do that. I usually get right into the stuff, but in your case, the background's so unique, especially for a woman in that space, it's not as common. It's becoming more common, but it wasn't especially when you were grinding away. So tell us about your career, your previous one.

• 4:12Speaker 02

  Yeah, for sure. Well, I mean, it was, it was, you know, essentially I was a student athlete in college and then I moved to Atlanta. I wanted to get in the business of sports, but I didn't really know what that meant or looked like. So sort of through some odds and then jobs, I got an opportunity to work at a marketing agency and an athlete representation agency with a couple of coaches and a couple of baseball players. And my role at the time was to drive Lenny Wilkins around, who was the head coach of the dream team, to all of his appearances during the Olympics. And then at the end of the Olympics, I was sitting on the floor in my office and the agency, and literally, we had like six clients. And I remember thinking, like, how are we going to grow? I mean, like, I could keep running around and getting endorsement and appearance deals

• 4:54Speaker 02

  for these half a dozen guys, but like, how are we going to grow? And so I sort of popped up, you know, I was like 23 and walked into our leader's office and I was like, what's our, you know, what's our growth plan? And he said, what do you, what do you mean? I said, well, like, how are we going to get more clients? He goes, well, referrals. I mean, you know, Lenny referred Chuck Daly and Chuck referred Fratello and he goes through it and I said, gosh, I mean, what if we got a little bit more aggressive? And he was like, what do you, what do you mean? I said, well, like, we got baseball players here, we got Georgia Tech has a great program because we're based in Atlanta. And so essentially, he's looked at me after pausing for like 30 seconds, what felt like an hour, and he said, look, if you can figure it out, knock yourself out, go for it.

• 5:38Speaker 02

  So I put a plan together and then I started with baseball and I would go down to Georgia Tech and literally lean on the fence and try to pick off top round guys.

• 5:47Ed Mylett?

  No way.

• 5:48Speaker 02

  And, you know, I'm looking down the fence and there's, you know, guys and cackies and golf shirts and chewing tobacco and bubble gum and so I packed a chew and, no, I'm just kidding.

• 5:58Ed Mylett?

  All right.

• 5:59Speaker 02

  But I, but like that year, I kind of, and I had to learn the language and I got to know the scouts and the parents and the, you know, the coaches and they helped me understand the business side of it and I signed a couple of guys that year and a couple more and, and it really just evolved.

• 6:13Ed Mylett?

  How long were you in the business?

• 6:15Speaker 02

  Almost 20 years.

• 6:16Ed Mylett?

  20 years.

• 6:17Speaker 02

  20 years.

• 6:18Ed Mylett?

  And one of the neat things about that, which we're going to now, going to talk about this world, I've had it on the show and with some of the mental work I do. The 1% type, you know, that freak, so to speak, especially the ones like you talk about in the book that repeat.

• 6:32Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 6:33Ed Mylett?

  They're, they do think differently.

• 6:35Speaker 02

  Totally.

• 6:35Ed Mylett?

  And that's why I love doing this show because now I got someone here up close. By the way, I'll tell you an interesting. Um, you met Christina, my wife, we met when we were little kids in elementary school. Also, my best friend at elementary school is Greg Ginsky, who's one of the top sports agents in the world now. Mainly in baseball, he's with Vayner Sports now they've partnered, but so I love that business and that world. I know there's a lot to it. There's negotiation, there's keeping the client, it's not losing the client, it's creating the experience and all that stuff. But in general, like that world of the top of the top. What is different about how they think in your mind? I know there's a lot different, but what first comes to your mind when I say that about the peak, peak performers?

• 7:14Speaker 02

  I mean, I think what's, what's really interesting is they don't focus on achievement. They don't focus on the outcome, which people think, well, that's totally weird, Molly. You're telling me these guys wake up every day and gals and they don't talk about winning and focus on winning. And, and yes, they have that sort of concept of you. I mean, that is certainly the North Star, but they're more worried about waking up every day and finding ways to get just a little bit better. They're curious about it. They want feedback. They're adaptable. They're resilient. They're ridiculously disciplined. The ones that do it over and over again. I mean, there's a really big difference between getting to the big leagues for a cup of coffee.

• 7:52Ed Mylett?

  That's right.

• 7:53Speaker 02

  And there's a really big difference between getting your card out on tour and the difference between those guys and the ones that win and stay out there is it's, it's, it's a desire to get better every single day without a focus on the outside in, more of a focus from the inside out.

• 8:11Ed Mylett?

  I want to ask you about that. I've tried to nuance this all my career in coaching people and it's this. Having a goal and an outcome, let's say to get to the big leagues. Or if you're in the big leagues, the team to win the World Series that year or to win the Super Bowl. So there's the outcome.

• 8:29Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 8:29Ed Mylett?

  But then it's not being attached and addicted to the outcome as you do the work. Because oftentimes that can create additional pressure. It gets you off of process.

• 8:39Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 8:39Ed Mylett?

  So I know it's not in the book necessarily, this one topic, but what are your thoughts on that? Like you're supposed to have a goal and an outcome, but being addicted to the outcome is not what the top do.

• 8:47Speaker 02

  No, no. I mean, they're addicted to the things that they can control to get better. They're not obsessed about the uncontrollables, the best ones. They don't obsess about the all the noise. They're not, they're not waking up every day worried about what the triple A third base guy is putting up with the numbers. They're getting to the field and putting in the extra work. They're not worried about the other and it sounds, I mean, they have a lens toward it, right? Like it's almost like the rear view, the side mirrors in your car, like you glance at them.

• 9:20Ed Mylett?

  Yep.

• 9:20Speaker 02

  Cause you kind of got to know what's going on, but you can't stare at them or you're going to run into a tree, right?

• 9:26Ed Mylett?

  Really good.

• 9:27Speaker 02

  So it's, it's, it's this visibility to it, but a, but a laser focus on what are the things that I can control to get better? And it's also a world where it, this is going to sound totally crazy, but when I was an agent, every single athlete, I had about 300 athletes and coaches, NBA coaches, college coaches, broadcasters. I mean, a team of agents, certainly that were helping us, but every single one of them wake up every day and they have to get better. Because otherwise they totally, I mean, they'll lose their job.

• 10:00Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 10:01Speaker 02

  And so it was so interesting to me when I sort of stepped away and started speaking and writing, I was like, this is so interesting. The world people don't operate like that.

• 10:10Ed Mylett?

  I know.

• 10:11Speaker 02

  And I know that sounds so ridiculous, but I really didn't know that that wasn't normal. Because all my life, that was sort of all I knew.

• 10:20Ed Mylett?

  You know what? Same here. When I got out of playing baseball and I got into the real world, I'm like, whoa. Remember my dad telling me, he goes, you know, you're going to figure out this whole getting ahead thing is not as difficult as you think. You're not even competing with about eighty-five percent of the people. Cause they're not even consciously trying to get better. They've got no process. They've got this dream of this, whatever they want, but they're not really doing things daily.

• 10:40Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 10:41Ed Mylett?

  To get it. And by the way, if you question this theory, everyone, just go listen, go watch any YouTube video out there on Kobe Bryant. How much he talks about process and that. Go listen to John Wooden, who literally never talked about winning, yet won more than any coach.

• 10:53Speaker 02

  Totally.

• 10:53Ed Mylett?

  In history. Look, go look at Tiger Woods, who just said, look, I just want to addicted to my process, addicted to my process. And I want to be in contention on the back nine on Sunday, but it wasn't always just to win. And this is weird, like thing that they project on to these people. They're just winners. Turns out that's not what they're focusing on most of the time.

• 11:11Speaker 02

  Right. No, they're not.

• 11:12Ed Mylett?

  What about this concept?

• 11:13Speaker 02

  And if they focus on it, Ed.

• 11:14Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 11:15Speaker 02

  They lose focus on the behaviors that in fact are going to get them to the outcome that they want.

• 11:20Ed Mylett?

  Hmm.

• 11:21Speaker 02

  I mean, you know, you play golf, I play golf. Like if, if you're sitting there and you're like, wait a minute. If I, if I go par, par, birdie, birdie, I, I'm going to come in under eighties. You, you bogey the hole.

• 11:31Ed Mylett?

  That's exactly right.

• 11:32Speaker 02

  Right? So it's, it's the same thing in.

• 11:34Ed Mylett?

  It's exactly, it's exactly why I said this, this out, separate from outcome. Wayne Dyer actually taught me that when I was really young, because that's exactly what happens when you golf. You're like, hold on a second here. If I just go one over the last three, I shoot even. And then now you shot seventy-seven. Or it's being over the putt and you're so obsessed with what making this putt will mean to you. That you've elevated the pressure. And this is what happens to people when they walk into a board meeting, they've got a big presentation. If I get this accounted, I mean this, but if I don't, what will it mean? And you're, you're going through all these machinations and what's happening is, this is what I, maybe you can speak to this. When you're outcome focused, by definition, you are now not focused in the moment.

• 12:16Ed Mylett?

  Because that outcome is a future result, even if it's one second from now, whether you make the putt or not. But if you're focused on the process.

• 12:22Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 12:23Ed Mylett?

  The execution of the thing you've got to do right now, now you're fully present. So when you hear people say, be fully present. You can't do that and be addicted to this winning outcome all the time, correct?

• 12:33Speaker 02

  Totally. Well, and you hear great coaches say, be where your feet are. Like they tell their players. I mean, I often say that when I'm speaking to people. Be where your feet are, right? The best present we can give people is to. Be present when we think about relationships and others, but, but it's hard in the world that we live in. I mean, there's so much noise, there's so much coming at us. And one of the things that I often talk about is there's so much in the world that we can't control, but there's so much that we can, right? Like attitude, mindset, all the things I talk about, curiosity, discipline, resilience. And I think sometimes we have to pull back in service of being present, to your point, and say, what are all the things I can control?

• 13:09Ed Mylett?

  Right.

• 13:09Speaker 02

  Write them down, put them in an inner circle, and then all the things that you can't, put them in the outer circle and let them go. You know, it makes me think of, I mean, Ed, literally, I had a, my husband and I had our first child, she was five months old. And then I found out that I was 12 and a half weeks pregnant with twins.

• 13:27Ed Mylett?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 13:28Speaker 02

  With twins.

• 13:29Ed Mylett?

  And in the prime of your career or building your career.

• 13:31Speaker 02

  Totally, prime of my career. And so I find this out, I looked down at my watch, I'm at the OB doc office, at their office, I looked down and I was like, I look at my husband, I look at the doc, I go, listen, I got a 1230 lunch with Doc Rivers, guys, I gotta hop. Doc was in town playing the haunts. I jump in my car, drive like a maniac to meet Doc, who had 45 minutes at the moment. And it was a moment where literally, I'm walking into this meeting with Doc going, do I tell him?

• 13:56Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 13:57Speaker 02

  I mean, you know what I mean? Like you tell somebody you're in three kids in 12 months, it's jam a meeting up, you know what I mean?

• 14:03Ed Mylett?

  What did you decide to do?

• 14:04Speaker 02

  So I didn't, I parked it. And it was a little bit of what can I control? I can control showing up and being present for Doc.

• 14:10Ed Mylett?

  Yep.

• 14:10Speaker 02

  Serving him, you know, showing up in a way that will allow him. I mean, he had a lot going on. We had 45 minutes. It was like, let's lock in on him. He's a great guy, but I'll tell him in a week or a few weeks.

• 14:22Ed Mylett?

  That principle, by the way, I have to tell you, this idea of the, it just sounds so general. Well, hey, just focus on what you can control. It's not what people do. Like, just listen close. It's not what people do. And it's a, it's a foundational principle to peace.

• 14:36Speaker 02

  Totally.

• 14:36Ed Mylett?

  Prosperity, success. Like my dad and sobriety. My dad was an alcoholic and you know this, and my dad was sober for the rest of his life, 35 years worth. And the whole Part of the program that worked for my dad was understanding what was within his control and what wasn't and surrendering all of the things that weren't having they they even say in AA and the wisdom to know the difference. A wise person lives this way.

• 15:00Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 15:00Ed Mylett?

  A wise person. And what ends up happening is and you talk about this in the book, then you can actually focus on energy.

• 15:06Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 15:07Ed Mylett?

  And you talk about this a lot, like how I just did a podcast on this. So I'm so glad that you wrote it in the book, but your version of it's better than mine and and and a little bit nuanced too. But how much of like this idea of energy reserves and and because it's the I do believe it's the key thing in my success. I don't deplete my energy with things that aren't within my control. And so just talk about the old work. You talk about in the book, just energy, energy reserves, how that applies to success.

• 15:36Speaker 02

  Which is, I mean, that is amazing. I mean, good for you because it's it's hard.

• 15:39Ed Mylett?

  Really hard.

• 15:40Speaker 02

  Through that. It's really hard. It's really hard for people. And, you know, for me, I learned about this through mistakes, truly.

• 15:46Ed Mylett?

  Same here.

• 15:47Speaker 02

  I I mean, I found myself at times just completely exhausted, totally drained. And I remember it was a my mom flew in to help with our daughters when they were really young and I was running around. I was like, you know, LA, Vegas, Dallas keynote, you know, and I got home and I was exhausted and I was in tears on one of the flights. I was literally flying back and I had my head. I was just, I was exhausted. And my mom, who's just the boss, looks at me and goes, what are you going to do? Like, you need to be more intentional. And so it was this, it was sort of a combination of that conversation. And then what I also saw with great athletes that allowed me to pull back and say, wait a minute, energy is actually key to performance. And and we live in a world and particularly

• 16:31Speaker 02

  in business that's operating against calendars. I mean, practically speaking, the world operates against time. But athletes and peak performers, they operate against the lens of energy in service of saying, how do I have the kind of energy I need for what matters most?

• 16:49Ed Mylett?

  When it matters most.

• 16:50Speaker 02

  When it matters most. And it's funny, sometimes when I'm speaking, I'll say, does anybody ever like show up to a meeting and get there and go? What am I doing here? Like, why am I in this meeting? And then you get to the meeting that really matters? Two hours later or the next day? And you're not fully present. You don't have the energy. You haven't taken the time to prepare. So for me.

• 17:12Ed Mylett?

  What do you do for years? Then how have you preserved it?

• 17:15Speaker 02

  Well, I think, one, I think it's about getting really clear first. Right? I think it's about creating, you know, I'm a big fan of alignment. Sort of versus the word balance, which candidly, as a woman, you hear all the time. Like you can balance the kids and the work and all that. It's about alignment. So I think first you've got to say, how do I show up as the very best version of myself? In all the roles I play in my, in my life. Right? So wife, mother, sister, parent, you know, all of these things. How do I show up as the best version of myself in all those roles? And then pull back and say physically, mentally, emotionally, relationally and spiritually in all those roles? And then identify what that looks like.

• 17:57Speaker 02

  And I mean, this may sound like a total, a little bit intense, but I think you literally can pull back and create a spreadsheet, essentially of all your roles, the best version of yourself in all those roles. And then I think you've got to say, okay, now I have the lens for yes and no.

• 18:13Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 18:14Speaker 02

  And then the byproduct of that is alignment into your core values, your mission, your purpose, the legacy you want to leave. Because I think what happens so often sadly is, you know, you ask people who are running around and they're busy and they're just hammering it. And you go, I asked this to a friend of mine the other day. She was just grinding and tired. And I said, what are you, what are you chasing?

• 18:39Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 18:40Speaker 02

  She goes, what are you talking about? She's got this big job. And I said, what do you mean? I said, what are you, what are you chasing? I mean, are you like, are you trying to get another how? I mean, what, like, what is it?

• 18:52Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 18:52Speaker 02

  And she goes, what the hell kind of question is that?

• 18:54Ed Mylett?

  It's the most important question.

• 18:55Speaker 02

  Totally.

• 18:56Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 18:57Speaker 02

  And so for me, saying, what am I going to say yes and no to? And then having the energy for those things. And, you know, this was me making a lot of mistakes. And again, my mom looking at me when our girls were young and said, somebody's going to raise those girls and I hope it's you.

• 19:15Ed Mylett?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 19:18Speaker 02

  And she's my idol.

• 19:19Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 19:19Speaker 02

  Like, whoa, I gotta get clarity.

• 19:21Ed Mylett?

  You know, it's, um. You know, I said I'm good at that, but as we're talking, I go through phases where I am. And the question of like, what are you? What are you chasing? What are you getting? You know, most people and true with me too, I don't even know. I just know like that's I'm a grinder. And I'm after it and I'm not going to get outworked and

• 19:45Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 19:45Ed Mylett?

  Brendan Burchard and I were talking about this today, like so many people are just white knuckling it through their entire life and I don't even think they remember why.

• 19:52Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 19:52Ed Mylett?

  It's what they know. Um, they're they it may not be what they're even running towards. I think oftentimes people are running from something too.

• 19:59Speaker 02

  Really good way to say it.

• 20:00Ed Mylett?

  You know, like you're just going to keep running from whatever's bugging me, whatever's in my past, whatever I don't want to be anymore.

• 20:06Speaker 02

  Right.

• 20:06Ed Mylett?

  But I don't even know what I'm running to.

• 20:08Speaker 02

  Right.

• 20:08Ed Mylett?

  And I remember my, um, this may be too personal, but I won't say their names. I think I said it on a show recently and I shouldn't have, but remember when my, um, my godfather and my uncle, who I look like passed at forty eight. Still don't know really what he died from, um, but forty eight is too young and I was at his funeral. And, uh, so I must have been, I'm going to make it up. I bet I was twenty one at that funeral, something like that. Maybe twenty. And, uh, I remember his little boy got up there. My cousin, he was probably eight or nine. He had this little boy voice still, you know, he hadn't had puberty yet. And he goes, my daddy worked so hard. I think he worked himself right into heaven. And I've never forgotten him saying that at that time.

• 20:50Ed Mylett?

  And I think so many people are going to literally just work themselves to death at some point. It might not be at forty eight.

• 20:55Speaker 02

  Right.

• 20:56Ed Mylett?

  But they may not have any more joy in their life by the time they get to eighty eight, if they keep up at this pace. Why? What are you pursuing? You know, you can actually enjoy your life and and also to your point in the book about sustained success. Really, to me, what I got out of the book is like, there's a difference between getting to the tour for a year or two or getting, and by the way, I've watched this. I have way more friends.

• 21:16Speaker 02

  Mm hmm.

• 21:17Ed Mylett?

  That used to be wealthy than currently are.

• 21:20Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 21:20Ed Mylett?

  Meaning for a little while they did well, for a little while they were wealthy, now they're not anymore. For a little while they were successful and now they're not. The rarest thing in life is sustained success. Part of it is the addiction to winning, not having a process that serves you. Part of it is depleting their energy, but then the other parts of it are what you have in the book. So what are some of the keys that we've not talked about to sustaining?

• 21:45Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 21:45Ed Mylett?

  A six, cause you've been around, like you talked about, you know, Lenny, I mean, I

• 21:49Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 21:49Ed Mylett?

  I got stuck in an elevator actually with him in Atlanta one time. What a nice man, by the way, right? Just a wonderful man, a great player and a great coach. And, uh, but he sustained success for a very, very long time.

• 22:00Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 22:00Ed Mylett?

  I look at the teams that I look at someone like Mike Tyson, who repeated as heavyweight champion for a very long time.

• 22:06Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 22:06Ed Mylett?

  This is what's rare. It's not, it's rare to become a champion. It's really rare to repeat.

• 22:11Speaker 02

  Totally.

• 22:11Ed Mylett?

  What are some of those keys?

• 22:13Speaker 02

  Yeah, I mean, when I think about sustained success and, and to your question, and to put a little ball on the energy piece, which is one of the keys in the book, what I would encourage people to do is look at your schedule through the lens of energy. And so one of the things I love to tell people to do, pull back and say, what are the things that give you energy that take under 30 minutes? They give you energy physically, mentally, emotionally, relationally, for under 30 minutes. And then what are the things that give you energy over 30 minutes? Because what you hear a lot is, oh, well, I got spring break in a month. I got Christmas break, I got the weekend. It's like, no, that's not sustainable though, right? So we want to make sure that we're inserting, you know, micro breaks throughout the day. We're inserting the things that, that are truly integral to us feeling our best.

• 22:58Speaker 02

  You know, what are those things? I mean, for me, I have to protect workouts, you know, all, you know, sauna, cold plunges, like time with my girls, my husband, my parents, all that stuff. So I would just encourage people, because we live in a world that operates against schedule.

• 23:11Ed Mylett?

  Let's stay on that for a second. I'll say on that one point, you know what I used to do? I used to fit those things in around my other stuff. Now I schedule those first. Do you do that?

• 23:20Speaker 02

  Totally.

• 23:21Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 23:21Speaker 02

  Yeah, I didn't always.

• 23:22Ed Mylett?

  Me either.

• 23:22Speaker 02

  I did it after I

• 23:23Ed Mylett?

  I'm like, I'll get it in, I'll get it in. And then I didn't always get it in.

• 23:27Speaker 02

  Right. And I think if you don't decide where you put your energy.

• 23:30Ed Mylett?

  Yep.

• 23:30Speaker 02

  Then everybody else will.

• 23:32Ed Mylett?

  Oh.

• 23:33Speaker 02

  Right?

• 23:34Ed Mylett?

  Good.

• 23:35Speaker 02

  If you don't decide where you put your energy, the world will, everybody else will.

• 23:38Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, very good.

• 23:40Speaker 02

  And, you know, I don't think we should give that, that is a precious resource to outsource.

• 23:48Ed Mylett?

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• 24:31Ed Mylett?

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• 25:57Ed Mylett?

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• 26:39Ed Mylett?

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• 26:53Ed Mylett?

  The other precious resource though is um building experience towards success. The reason I'm shifting to this is um. By the way, she went to Michigan State. See, I do my research. And when you got out of school, your dad had all these personal development books all around all the time. Right? I'm gonna let you tell the story, but I think the punchline of the story is most profound. By the way, and I never got a chance to meet Zig. But would you tell him the story about, because one of the reasons I wanted you on is that I want people in the personal development and business space who have actually accomplished something and now they're teaching them. And one of my concerns about the space, and I think everyone, I think everyone can help someone.

• 27:36Ed Mylett?

  But there's a lot of people have entered this space and I'm like, exactly, have you, what did they do before this? And and and uh, you know what I'm saying? So you were one of the real ones in the fact that you had this extended career in a very difficult industry that was also male dominated and kind of Zig Ziglar, if you guys don't know who Zig is, it was like, he's one of the Mount Rushmore's of motivation, personal development, business spaces is Zig Ziglar. Tell him the story.

• 28:04Speaker 02

  Well, I mean, it was awesome. I mean, he was, my dad was a pharmaceutical sales rep and so his office was in the basement of our house. And when I had two older brother, I have two older brothers who literally treated me like a little brother, not a little sister. So when they weren't beating up, you know, pounding on me, or had my head in the toilet, or whatever was happening, and it was brutal, I would go down to my dad's office and on the corner of his desk were these Zig Ziglar books and there was this stack of them. And, you know, I'd go down and see him and I'd start to notice this stack of books by Zig, you know, See You at the Top, right? Like Born to Win, Secrets of Closing a Sale. And I would, I would pick them up and read them from time to time. And I wasn't even really a big reader, but I started reading them and I thought, this is

• 28:47Speaker 02

  so interesting. Like, and this was probably in like middle school, early high school. And I thought, wow, like you can take in information, you can take content in, and it can change the way you do what you do. Like, it can change the way you show up in the world and, and do what you do. And I thought, this is super cool. And we would listen to the tapes on my way. I played tennis at Michigan State. When I played junior tennis, we'd throw them in and listen to the cassette tape in the car. He was so good. Oh, my gosh. So then I was like, man, I want to meet him. Like, I gotta meet this guy. I mean, I think, and I literally wanted, I thought, I want to do what he does at one day. And so I start blowing him up. I mean, letter to postcards, letters, phone call,

• 29:27Speaker 02

  I mean, just completely hammering him until he agreed to give me 20 minutes. And I flew to Dallas and met with him. And, you know, it's, it's a, I tell this story often on stage. And, I mean, he was so humble, so kind. I mean, to take 20 minutes Sure. For, I mean, a schlap at 21 years old. And, and he looked at me and he said, you know, Molly, here's, here's what I would tell you. Go, go do something. Just go do something. And then maybe you can go talk about it. Yes. And you know, it was underwhelming at some level, right? Sure, deflating a little bit. Well, you're like, I spent 200 bucks. I worked hard for that 200 bucks to buy a ticket to come here. Yeah. And you told me to go do something. But, you know, he was right. Yeah, he was.

• 30:09Speaker 02

  I mean, right? Like, and that's, you know, it's about taking action. I mean, that's one of the things too. And I talk about as confidence comes through action.

• 30:18Ed Mylett?

  Hmm.

• 30:18Speaker 02

  You know, we've got, we can't sit in a corner and just.

• 30:21Ed Mylett?

  Talk ourselves into it. Right.

• 30:22Speaker 02

  Right. With all the athletes that I work with, I mean, like us speaking, you get more confident, confident and more comfortable. The more you do it, the more reps you get.

• 30:31Ed Mylett?

  Yes. Did you, by the way, I, I really believe that. I believe that's great advice. When you would observe these athletes, coaches, they're in a different stage of their career. And I know you work with a lot of coaches too. And then I'll ask you a coach question in a minute, but when you observe the really great, so you have to understand this, everybody with athletics. The idea of ever getting to play division one sports is so small, it's unbelievable. Then the idea of getting from there and getting to any level of professional sports is ridiculously miniscule. I mean, like you're talking about everyone was the best player in their town. Everyone was, and then when you get there, what's blown my mind is I've gone to speak to professional sports teams over the years.

• 31:12Ed Mylett?

  Is how many of the guys get there and don't take their lives and career seriously?

• 31:18Speaker 02

  Hundred percent.

• 31:19Ed Mylett?

  There's a huge difference in the NBA between certain players and others. You would think, ah, they're all the same coaches, they're all the same trainers, the same speaker came in and talked to the team. Yet there's a huge difference at that level. There's a huge difference in MLB. There's a huge difference in the NFL. The ones who stayed.

• 31:38Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 31:38Ed Mylett?

  And built legacies and changed their families forever. What did they do different than the other ones? Cause everyone's talented. So what was, was it, were they earlier, were they later, were they more specific in their training? Like what, what was that?

• 31:53Speaker 02

  Well, it's interesting. You use the word talent and they didn't rely on talent. They didn't rely on the talent because to your point, everybody, everybody that gets drafted, everybody, they're all talented.

• 32:06Ed Mylett?

  Mm hmm.

• 32:06Speaker 02

  And, and that's one of the things I often tell parents is to not tell your children, oh, you're so gifted. You're so talented. You're just a natural because you know what then Johnny thinks that's enough.

• 32:20Speaker 02

  And it's not enough to do it where Johnny might want to go do it. So they don't rely on talent and to me they unpack. You know, they're, they're curious. They, they, they welcome obstacles. You know, to them, you know, challenges are opportunities, obstacles are opportunities to get better. They're resilient as heck because they're always pushing themselves to get better because they have to. Or they don't stay there. So whenever we push ourselves into a stretch zone, we get uncomfortable. And it won't always work, right? Like, it's not like you and I every day, like we go do X or Y and we just nail it.

• 33:02Speaker 02

  Like anybody that's done anything that we've read about or that's a little bit interesting. They, they failed a ton.

• 33:09Ed Mylett?

  Don't they also though, you and I were just talking about this with Damon in, in the kitchen.

• 33:12Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 33:13Ed Mylett?

  Like, I love to be coached. I love to be told what I'm doing. I love to be told what I'm doing wrong.

• 33:18Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 33:19Ed Mylett?

  Like I, I welcome it. I, this is something you gotta really ask yourself if you're listening. Do you hear most feedback as criticism? And I think great players that I were around wanted to be coached hard.

• 33:33Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 33:33Ed Mylett?

  Wanted the information. I, we were just in my kitchen talking about speaking. Little nuance, little different things. Here's what I don't do well. Here's what you want to do well. You're sharing something, I'm sharing something. And if you gave a speech, I bet you would want me as a friend to go, hey.

• 33:47Speaker 02

  Hundred percent.

• 33:47Ed Mylett?

  How can I get better?

• 33:48Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 33:49Ed Mylett?

  Right?

• 33:49Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 33:49Ed Mylett?

  And I think that's a subtle thing. I don't think most people ever ask. How can I get better?

• 33:54Speaker 02

  Hundred.

• 33:54Ed Mylett?

  Give me some feedback. It might even hurt my feelings. I want this.

• 33:58Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 33:58Ed Mylett?

  Most people like, validate me, tell me I'm incredible. Everything's great as it is. I'm amazing, just as me. You know, like that's the whole message of person right now.

• 34:06Speaker 02

  Right, right.

• 34:06Ed Mylett?

  Is that one of the elements?

• 34:08Speaker 02

  I mean, they're curious.

• 34:09Ed Mylett?

  That's in the book, yeah.

• 34:10Speaker 02

  They're curious. They, they really want to know. Cause you know, you speak and people go, that was amazing.

• 34:16Ed Mylett?

  Correct.

• 34:16Speaker 02

  It's like, dude, no, I want, I want my husband in the back of the house. Who's gonna go, hey, listen, you jammed that up. You should have done this or you should have this. That's what you want and you need, you know, we all need sort of that personal board of directors that, that has no agenda. But for us to get better. And I think to your point, they look at the, you know, great athletes, high performers in any industry. They view no as feedback.

• 34:41Speaker 02

  Not as a dead end or a blocker. In fact, I heard somebody say this. I thought this was cool. When they hear no, first they assume it's right. Interesting. So in other words, like when you get tough feedback, often, you know, we, we, we have a natural tendency to get a little maybe defensive, right? And that's where I think you turn defensiveness to curiosity.

• 35:04Ed Mylett?

  So good.

• 35:05Speaker 02

  And, and now we can unt, you know, tap into something, right? That we can do a little better.

• 35:11Ed Mylett?

  Why, uh, I'm really processing all this quickly. I'm loving this. This is my type of conversation right now.

• 35:17Speaker 02

  Fun.

• 35:17Ed Mylett?

  I love this. Why of everything did you call it dynamic drive?

• 35:22Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 35:22Ed Mylett?

  They use the word drive a lot in your work.

• 35:24Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 35:25Ed Mylett?

  I watched a lot of your speaking, drive, drive, drive. What is it? Number one? And why is that the centerpiece of the book? But drive, it could be a general term. What does that mean to you?

• 35:35Speaker 02

  Well, the reason di- dynamic drive, I mean, drive in the traditional sense, the word, like if you look it up on Webster, it's to pursue an outcome. Drive in the traditional sense is about achievement. And so it's finite.

• 35:50Speaker 02

  Which to me is a very dangerous thing to pursue, something that in fact is finite. And so the opposite of dynamic drive in fact is complacency. Because the, the prime time to become complacent in life, ironically, is after you've achieved. Because you, you know, hey, listen, you know, but when you see the best coaches in the world, or they win a national championship or a world two, they're on the phone grind in the next morning, trying to get another guy on the team or another gal on the team.

• 36:17Ed Mylett?

  That's right.

• 36:18Speaker 02

  And we live in a dynamic world that's ever changing. And so dynamic drive is, you know, the, the, the thing that I think is so critical for people to know is that it isn't reserved for elite athletes. Like it isn't something that people are born with. It isn't it's some kind of a special, you know, DNA spark that these other people have that we all have access to this. We all have access to all of this. And what makes it a little bit different, I think, is that when we anchor it with purpose. So the red thread through all of the seven keys and that I, is this anchor around. What is our mission? What is our purpose?

• 36:59Speaker 02

  Because we we know that when when we're pursuing better, it's gonna get hard.

• 37:04Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 37:05Speaker 02

  It's gonna get harder. We're gonna have speed bumps and we're gonna get no and we're gonna we're gonna fail sometimes and we're gonna wonder, but if we know why and it's anchored in something that is in our soul, man, they're just speed bumps that you drive right over and through.

• 37:21Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, it's gotta be bigger than that bump.

• 37:23Speaker 02

  Hundred percent.

• 37:23Ed Mylett?

  It's so interesting you say that because here's the real real. I'm loving that we're having a real deal today.

• 37:30Ed Mylett?

  The greatest killer of drive is achievement, ironically, in most people. It's the actual achievement. If you're listening to this, you had a little bit of success. Are you like literally a starving, crazy, driven, dynamically driven as you really were when you were totally broke? As when you got a little bit of success or you got that promotion or now you got a house or now you're making six figures or now you're making seven figures or now you're this. And the psychos of life, the great ones of life, somehow when they start getting fed some of this success, they're more driven almost. It's not some slow asphyxiation inoculation to who they used to be. And then they lose themselves in this success. Golf's such a great analogy for that for me because I watched different people win majors. And you can tell certain golfers when they win that first big major,

• 38:14Ed Mylett?

  they literally think their life is made. They go on like a nine week party tour. They don't make a cut the next nine weeks.

• 38:20Speaker 02

  Totally.

• 38:21Ed Mylett?

  They're on late night talk shows. They're just, they get out of shape over the next two or three years. They put on 25 pounds. I have a very good friend who won the PGA championship. I'm not gonna say his name. And I swear to you, it's 30 years later. It's all he talks about to this day.

• 38:34Speaker 02

  No way.

• 38:35Ed Mylett?

  It was game over. But then when Tiger won a major, he's like, you know, 21 more to catch Jack or whatever it was. Like he got fueled by it. You could tell he was putting the green jacket on it. I'm gonna put this on myself next year. It's just, that's the thing. And it's because everyone's hungry when they're broke. Everyone's driven when it's not going. Not everyone, but most people have some level of drive when there's nothingness. But as the cup gets filled, are you still thirsty?

• 39:00Speaker 02

  Right.

• 39:01Ed Mylett?

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• 41:10Ed Mylett?

  there's a difference between like success and fulfillment.

• 41:13Speaker 02

  Totally.

• 41:14Ed Mylett?

  And you talk about it in your speeches, and that you also write about it.

• 41:18Ed Mylett?

  What, what, to you, what does that mean? Like, what is the difference? Because there are, then there's this hollow thing where people have like got their championship, got their money, got their house, got their trophy, got their title. Yet their internal world.

• 41:35Speaker 02

  Is a disaster.

• 41:36Ed Mylett?

  Is a disaster.

• 41:37Speaker 02

  I know, I know.

• 41:38Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 41:38Speaker 02

  And I think that is inherently this pursuit of a goal and attaching deeply to the traditional definition of drive and, and attaching deeply to something that is external versus internal. And if we're chasing something outside or something candidly material and we think that's going to fill us up, you know, if you want to feel good for, you know, an hour, go, go eat a hamburger. Do you know what I mean? But if you want to feel good forever, then all of our behaviors have to be anchored in the legacy that we want to leave. And who we want to make an impact with? Who do we want at our 90th birthday party? What do we want on our tombstone? Right?

• 42:22Speaker 02

  Like, that to me is such a critical thing to live in fulfillment versus success. I mean, you and I both know, and I think that was one of the things that I became so passionate about is seeing people achieve and achieve and achieve. And they were so alone. And it breaks my heart and I just don't want people, I really, it makes me emotional. I don't want people to live like that.

• 42:49Ed Mylett?

  I see that.

• 42:50Speaker 02

  It's just, it's not.

• 42:51Ed Mylett?

  Have you been good about it? You, you've been successful at at least two careers. Hard ones to be successful in too. The, the speaking space, like I said, you're tremendous. And that is not easy to get into. And I hate to do a gender thing, but it's probably harder for a woman too. Right? And then in the sports world, uh, definitely more difficult.

• 43:14Speaker 02

  Sure.

• 43:14Ed Mylett?

  For a woman. Any unique things, my audience is about 50 50.

• 43:18Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 43:19Ed Mylett?

  Any unique things that you would say to women when it comes to business or success or achievement or navigating these worlds?

• 43:25Speaker 02

  You know, for women, to me, it is, it is different. And I really, I really do appreciate you asking this question because I, for me, I was told, you know, I had three kids in 12 months. And so when that happened and I had a team of agents, you know, I, everybody was like, hey, listen, you got it. Like you can balance it all. You can balance. So that was what I tried to do. I tried to like nail being a great wife, nail being a great mom, you know, take care of all the clients that I had, you know, the team of agents, make sure I'm calling my aging parents every day. I'm super connected to my brothers, you know, connected with them, my girlfriends from college. And when you pull back and think about that, it is such

• 44:06Speaker 02

  a nebulous, unattainable, ridiculous pursuit. Like you're gonna lay in bed every night and just the teeter totter is gonna be perfectly level. So for me, we've been told the wrong pursuit. It's, it's, that is not what we're chasing. In fact, I think to pursue anything in life wholeheartedly and do it at a level that, you know, is remarkably passionate, passion-based, purpose-centered, you will be out of, out of balance.

• 44:34Ed Mylett?

  That's right.

• 44:34Speaker 02

  You will be. So to me, it's about intentionality and alignment. And so what I always encourage, you know, men and women to do, but certainly women that are, you know, that wanna thrive in their professional careers, but not at the risk of compromising their health, their most important relationships, you know, even their sleep, their nutrition, all of those things. But they wanna be able to do both and you can, you can, but it requires alignment.

• 45:02Ed Mylett?

  You've used that word like three times. What does that mean to you?

• 45:05Speaker 02

  Alignment?

• 45:05Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 45:06Speaker 02

  So one of the things I love to have people do is to pull back and say, what are the most important things in your life?

• 45:12Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 45:13Speaker 02

  Right? Like, so what are those things? Personally, professionally and physically, my, all that. And then, so you've identified this list of things. And then pull back and say, on a scale of one to 10, how am I doing? Like, how am I doing? How am I doing on my workouts? How am I doing on being a spouse or whatever, a daughter, all of these different roles, a leader? How am I doing? And rate them. And then when you see the gap and you say, okay, they're all a 10 because they're important to me. I'm a five on something. I'm a six on something. I'm a four on something. I got a gap. I gotta get aligned. So to me, then you identify what that gap is and pull back and say, okay, how do I, how do I realign that?

• 45:57Speaker 02

  And, and you know, the truth is that was when I came home from that trip and I was in tears with my mom.

• 46:02Ed Mylett?

  Someone's gonna raise your kids. I hope it's you.

• 46:04Speaker 02

  Right. And that was when I went, okay, I'm out of alignment essentially.

• 46:09Ed Mylett?

  Got it.

• 46:09Speaker 02

  And so I've got to now look at my schedule, look at the things that are most important to me. And to your point earlier, put those in first. Protect those things.

• 46:20Ed Mylett?

  Yep.

• 46:20Speaker 02

  And then fill in the gaps with everything else.

• 46:24Ed Mylett?

  I always say that. Show me what you schedule first in your calendar and I'll show you your priorities. The alignment thing made me think, just for what it's worth, I've now seen a chiropractor because of my back. And when I'm getting out of alignment, he does an adjustment. And it's important to check whether you're in alignment or not. Give yourself a metaphorical life adjustment.

• 46:41Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 46:42Ed Mylett?

  A crack.

• 46:42Speaker 02

  Totally.

• 46:43Ed Mylett?

  Give yourself a crack. Do you know Jessica Mendoza is the ESPN broadcaster? Do you know she assists baseball on ESPN?

• 46:49Speaker 02

  I, I mean, I know her, but I don't know her.

• 46:51Ed Mylett?

  Yeah. So Jessica was on the show. She's become a friend since. This is a long time ago too. There's been these moments on the show that have stood out for me over the years where usually in every interview, not every, that's not true. Probably in every eighth or ninth interview, someone will say something and it just goes in there for me and doesn't leave. And when I was done interviewing Jess, she goes, I just want to thank you for something. And I said, what's that? She goes, you didn't ask me as a woman, how I keep everything in balance with my family and work. And I said, I said, well, why is that a big deal that I didn't ask you? She goes, because men never get asked that.

• 47:20Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 47:21Ed Mylett?

  Only women. And it's a little bit offensive. You know, why in the world am I the one that has to have everything in balance? The balance is a fallacy in life.

• 47:28Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 47:29Ed Mylett?

  And it's one of those things I think that we project sometimes on as if women are supposed to actually keep all these things together. And I'm not doing the gender thing, but having said all of that, it is a little bit different. There are different pressures. There are more responsibilities. And it's worth acknowledging as we do the show.

• 47:43Speaker 02

  Yeah. I mean, I'm glad. Yeah. And, and to me, the best gift for me ever was, is being a mom. I mean, it is the 100% is the most incredible.

• 47:55Speaker 02

  Role that that I have the opportunity to influence our our three daughters. So no, and and I think the reality is women do juggle still. I mean, we we're we're different. I mean, and I'm just being real. I mean, I think I think there's a reality there.

• 48:11Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, I think one of the realities is I I don't mean this negative towards my brothers, but like a woman's responsibility and attachment to their children and the depth of that and what it means is it just seems to me to be they're the primary kick taker most of the time, no matter what. Those roles have not changed. They came from your body, you know, and so there's just a depth there that I'm thinking about my kids a lot, but my wife's thinking about my kids all the time, right? And and I just I think there's a there's just a lot of weight there. By the way, you talk a little bit on your talks and in the book about like, you know, you also have the ability to reinvent yourself in life, too,

• 48:52Ed Mylett?

  right? Great people do that. Like, I was watching a stat today about Tom Brady and they're saying if you just took his career after he was 35 years old, that's the GOAT career of all time in football, like after 35.

• 49:04Speaker 02

  That's insane.

• 49:04Ed Mylett?

  Right? That from 35 to 42.

• 49:06Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 49:07Ed Mylett?

  In that window, that's the greatest quarterback career of all time. It's not Mahomes. It's not Manning. It's not Montana. He won four Super Bowls, three MVPs and threw for like and won 20 playoff games or something in those after 35 years old, not not the previous one, right? Which is is crazy. So he clearly continued to reinvent himself. Do you also see that trend, including yourself? You reinvented yourself. You went from the the sports agent, female Jerry Maguire world to the speaking world, to the podcast world, to the author world. Is that another piece? And maybe is part of that like going, what matters to me now?

• 49:40Speaker 02

  Totally. I mean, and I think you're I think the way you live into your purpose in life, your mission like it can change. It can evolve, right? But I mean, for me, I I loved every hot second of being an agent, man. It was so fun. It was amazing. And we had incredible clients. But then I wrote a book and people started saying, hey, we go talk about it. And and I was like, wow, this is landing. This is really helping people. I mean, a lot. And I remember just doing a little bit of that for I would go talk to sports marketing departments. I'd talk to teams, you know, and then I wrote another book and then companies were like, hey, will you come and talk? And that was when I went. Whoa, this is, this is helping a lot of people. And that's when I pulled back and thought,

• 50:24Speaker 02

  okay, I can negotiate a billion dollars in deals, two billion, five billion. Or could I maybe make a bigger impact doing this? And leave maybe a little bit of a different legacy, but one that maybe spans beyond just the sports world.

• 50:40Ed Mylett?

  That's a full circle Zig Ziglar moment, though, right?

• 50:43Speaker 02

  Totally right.

• 50:43Ed Mylett?

  Like all of a sudden, whoosh, back to that desk.

• 50:46Speaker 02

  And you know what's, and you're a man of faith and I am too, a woman of faith. And I didn't do that.

• 50:52Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 50:53Speaker 02

  No way, man. Like, I, I go to Atlanta, like, I'm an, I loved every minute of being an agent. I wrote a book. My very first book I wrote because all these young kids were like, I want to be an agent. How do I become an agent? So I would meet with all these kids because I wanted to help them.

• 51:08Ed Mylett?

  Interesting.

• 51:08Speaker 02

  My dad did not love his job. And it always, I thought, wow. And I figured it out once and I thought, how many, how many hours do you work in your life? And it's a big number.

• 51:18Ed Mylett?

  Sure is.

• 51:18Speaker 02

  It's like eighty two thousand hours or something. And I thought, wow, I don't want to hate it. You know what I mean? Like, I want to love whatever it is I do. So it really struck a chord with me when I would try to meet with these kids because simultaneously I was recruiting athletes. And so these kids would come in and meet with me. And they're young kids and they're essentially recruiting me. You know, I always say get them to like you enough to hire you or help you.

• 51:42Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 51:42Speaker 02

  And I would meet with them. And then after like the third or fourth like guy that came up to meet with me, my boss walks by the office and he goes, like, is that guy a middle infielder for tech or like, who is it? And I was like, oh, no, he's just really nice young kid. Like, and then like the third time he's like, by the way, I'm not paying you to like mentor everybody in town.

• 52:00Ed Mylett?

  Right, right.

• 52:00Speaker 02

  So I wrote a book to help them. And then it just, you know, it was all, and then the phone started ringing to speak. And then it just evolved organically. And so like, I didn't do that.

• 52:09Ed Mylett?

  You did not do that. That's a god thing, for sure.

• 52:11Speaker 02

  Totally.

• 52:12Ed Mylett?

  But it doesn't just evolve organically. There's a moment of decision too. I mean, it evolved organically.

• 52:16Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 52:17Ed Mylett?

  But then there's the hard decision. So, um, I want to ask you about that because, you know, there's a mo, I do think you have to check in on yourself and go, is this still my dream anymore? We don't even check in on ourselves. To your point, like, what am I doing? Why am I chasing this still? Right? Like, this was 20 years ago. Dust off a new, audit yourself. Is this still my dream? But there's probably people listening to this right now that have a job, but they've got a side hustle.

• 52:41Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 52:42Ed Mylett?

  And they're thinking, hey, eventually you'll leave it. Or maybe they're in a kind of mediocre relationship and they're like, you know, I want to spend the next 20 years in this mediocre relationship I'm in.

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• 53:24Ed Mylett?

  There had to be a moment though, where you, and I'm sure it worked itself out, but was there a conscious moment because you're successful in this other career where you go, I know this, it's easy for me. I'm good at it now. That's the other thing that comes with where you currently are. If you've been doing anything a long time, you're probably pretty good at it. Now I'm going to go to this unknown thing. Who knows if the world's going to like me for 15 or 20 years or two years. How was that a hard decision and how did you make it?

• 53:51Speaker 02

  Yeah, I mean, it's interesting. I mean, yes, I mean, it certainly was. And you know, it's funny, my husband will say now, like, I mean, I thought she was going to just do this for a couple of years and then figure it all out. But you know, the truth is, Ed, what I had started to speak and I had really felt like, man, this is helping a lot of people. This is really cool. This is filling me up more.

• 54:09Ed Mylett?

  There you go.

• 54:10Speaker 02

  And I also felt like I could, I knew how to recruit players and coaches. I sort of knew what that looked like and it was not as challenging to me as it had been. But the truth is, I tell the story in the book and it was, it was sort of a last minute decision. It was an evening and we thought, well, let's, let's all go to a Braves game. And so, you know, whenever a team was coming in town to play and I had a player on another team and obviously we had guys on the Braves were based in Atlanta. I would always try to go to those games because I could not got a couple, see a couple of guys at the same time. So long story short, we're sitting on the third baseline and we're all in a row and we had a couple of friends with us and our girls were probably six, six and seven.

• 54:53Speaker 02

  And it's the bottom of the sixth inning and a player gets up to bat and he sprays a foul ball that's probably going 110 miles an hour and it hits one of my twins in the front of her head.

• 55:04Ed Mylett?

  Oh my gosh.

• 55:04Speaker 02

  In the front right side of her, of her head. I've never actually told this story before, but it hit her in the head and, and we had, you know, it was where they were coming down and bringing us hot dogs and cokes and. And I mean, the ball was going 110 miles an hour. I mean, Chipper Jones was playing third base. He said, Molly, nobody could have made that. I wouldn't have made that play. So it hits her in the head and I look over at my husband and he looks at me like, this is bad. Like, this is not good. Cause I had not seen it. I had turned. And so we scoop her up and emergency brain surgery, five hours to press skull, bone fragments all throughout her brain. Oh my gosh. And we had this miraculous doctor, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, who I am forever,

• 55:47Speaker 02

  and I, and again, a God wink, six months prior to that, I had joined the board of CHOA. So they do this unbelievable, you know, surgery, pull out brain, bone fragments in the brain, nine plates in her skull. They wheel her back at like five in the morning to a room and I'm there and the doc comes in the next morning and he said, look, you know, this is really bad. I mean, like her brain is gonna swell for sure. He's like, you don't get hit with a fastball like this. And, and then like five hours later, he comes back and you know, she's got gauze all over her. He comes back and he said, it's not, it's not swelling yet,

• 56:29Speaker 02

  but it's gonna, I mean, this is just way, it will. And then like the next day, he's like, this is incredible. It's not swelling. Like this is, and I mean, she certainly, there's definitely, I mean, it was absolutely challenging, no question about it. But, you know, she is a highly functioning, you know, just thriving young woman who, you know, God protected, no question about it. But I share that story in the book in part because I don't, you know, the irony at some level isn't lost on the fact that a sports agent daughter gets hit in the head with a baseball. And three months later, I left the business.

• 57:13Speaker 02

  And so I often say, like, I almost wonder, right? Like, it was like, what do I need to do to tell you to go do this all the time? Do I need to do all of this?

• 57:24Ed Mylett?

  Sounds terrible. I'm gonna hit your daughter over the head with this.

• 57:27Speaker 02

  What do I need to do? And so

• 57:29Ed Mylett?

  And she's okay.

• 57:30Speaker 02

  Yeah, she's unbelievable. She's just incredible. She's a total miracle.

• 57:34Ed Mylett?

  That's a great story.

• 57:35Speaker 02

  But, you know, so was it a hard decision? It had started to build. And I was feeling more clarity to step away and do that. And then that happened and, you know, it was almost like, I don't know what else I need to do to tell you to to step away and go do this. And, and, you know, and I'm just, obviously, it's like most change in life, you sort of pull back and go, God, I wish I had done it sooner.

• 58:01Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 58:01Speaker 02

  You know, I mean, you, you pull back and go, God, I wish I had that. You know, what's to like, have done it earlier? Cause I probably should have.

• 58:08Ed Mylett?

  It's all worked out, though. You've made such a difference with your speaking. By the way, with the book too. By the way, it's called Dynamic Drive. You guys should go get it. Let me ask you one last question. I'm just gonna leave this one open. I usually don't finish interviews this way. But there's a lot in the book we didn't get a chance to cover. Is there a lesson or a strategy in the book? That you want to kind of gift the audience with or a thought that I didn't ask you about? That is left in the book. There's stuff in there on negotiation, which I found fascinating too. But like, what would you, what would you leave us with?

• 58:37Speaker 02

  I, you know, I think if anything, it would be, take action. Right? Like, go, it's like Zig said to me, go do something. Because I think, you know, what we, confidence comes from action. And, you know, I remember when I was on the beach in Northern Michigan, where I grew up. As a kid, we would go up there and, and I asked my mom that question. I said, Mom, like, if I could instill one thing in, in these girls as they grow up, like, what would you say is really critical? And she said confidence. And that's literally the seventh key in the book. In other words, confidence is so critical to having the courage to step into change, to having the courage to ask questions, to having the ability to take feedback, to to hear, know, and keep going, to be resilient.

• 59:21Speaker 02

  You know, it takes confidence to to do things that are maybe a little bit different than everybody else, which sometimes shows up like discipline. So I would encourage people to to step in and take action. And that's how we can unlock the spark that's inside of everybody that isn't just for great athletes. It's inside of every single person that's listening to those podcasts. And it isn't, you know, reserved for elite athletes and coaches. It's it's in all of us. And my mission in life is to help everybody spark it.

• 59:50Ed Mylett?

  You did it today. By the way, I think that was probably a critical thing I should have asked you about earlier, but this is for everybody. It's not just for these people you see on TV. That's how they got on TV is because they do these things that are in the book. So go get dynamic drive. You guys Molly, this was really good, like really, really good. I like when the conversations are easy. Yeah, and they flow. Someone knows what they talk about. They know what they believe in, and they know how to talk about it. It makes the show really easy to do. And there was some stuff in there for me today, just on evaluating what your dream is currently. That's making my mind turn a little bit, even as I'm talking to you right now. So that's cool. Thank you.

• 1:00:23Speaker 02

  Thank you so much. So fun.

• 1:00:25Ed Mylett?

  So good, guys. All right. Hey, listen, we talked about her book. Make sure you get on the email list. I keep telling me to remind you guys of this because you can get the programs earlier at mylet.com. Go put your name in there. Share this episode fastest growing show on the planet in this sector for a reason. God bless you. Max out.