REAL Mentors Podcast

Adam Jablin was standing in a room full of people who loved him, listening to them read letters about who he was and begging him to get help. His only thought in that moment was what everyone else was going to think. That is how deep the addiction had taken him.He went to treatment on a ten day trial basis because he could not imagine being gone for twenty eight. He never left. What came out the other side was a man with a gift he had been resisting without even knowing it — the ability to look at someone and see exactly who they are capable of becoming before they can see it themselves.Adam is an author, speaker and spiritual trainer who has worked one on one with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs and war heroes. He did not start with a website, a coaching program or a single certification. He started by sitting with one person for three hours at the request of a friend and watching her walk out of that room completely changed. That was the moment he answered the call.In this episode Adam and Sean get into what spiritual fitness actually means, why the most successful people in the world are often the most restless and disconnected inside and what it looks like when someone finally wakes up and experiences their own life for the first time.This Episode Explores:✅ Standing in an intervention listening to people he loved beg him to get help and only thinking about what others would think✅ Going to treatment on a ten day trial and never leaving✅ Sitting with one person for three hours with no credentials and watching her transform✅ Why he resisted his calling for years without realizing he was resisting it at all✅ What spiritual fitness actually means and why everyone already has the muscles they need✅ Why the most successful people often feel the most fake inside and what to do about it✅ The client who started smiling for the first time in years and got a text from his kids in that exact moment✅ Why doing everything for your kids is actually one of the most selfish things a parent can do✅ Why you owe everybody your story and why that is a badge of honor not a liability✅ What it looks like when someone finally wakes up and experiences their life for the first time🔗 Connect with Adam JablinInstagram: @adamjablinWebsite: adamjablin.comFollow REAL Mentors PodcastInstagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcastHost Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartin

Kevin McShan was born three months premature with cerebral palsy. At nine years old a doctor told him he would never walk without assistance. What happened next is what this episode is about.Kevin built a career in sports broadcasting, professional speaking and disability advocacy by refusing to let anyone else write the story of what he was capable of. He launched a podcast called Let's Have This Conversation during COVID because he decided there were only so many hours of news he could watch. Six years later he has recorded over 1100 episodes, built nearly 20,000 subscribers and has almost two million views on YouTube alone. He became the first regional ambassador of the Discoverability Network in Canada, keynoted for the state of Oklahoma and has delivered his message of inclusion and independence on stages across the United States and Canada.His model is simple. Inclusion is the gateway to independence and the only limitations on your life are the artificial ones you place on yourself.In this episode Kevin and Sean get into what it actually means to turn a so called tragedy into a tribe, why disability is one of the most misunderstood conversations in business and what it looks like to stack the cards you were dealt instead of wishing for a different hand.This Episode Explores:✅ Being born three months premature with cerebral palsy and what that meant growing up✅ The doctor who told a nine year old he would never walk without assistance and the therapist who changed everything✅ Building a broadcasting career by creating a platform that did not exist instead of waiting for one✅ Launching Let's Have This Conversation during COVID and growing it to over 1100 episodes and nearly 2 million views✅ Becoming the first regional ambassador of the Discoverability Network in Canada✅ Keynoting for the state of Oklahoma and delivering inclusion speeches across North America✅ Why diversity and inclusion have become so politically muddy and what actually matters underneath the debate✅ Living on $1,000 a month on Ontario disability support and what that reality taught him about opportunity✅ Why the only limitations on your life are the artificial ones you place on yourself✅ How to turn what the world calls a tragedy into a platform that changes lives🔗 Connect with Kevin McShanInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/kevin.mcshan8159/Podcast: Let's Have This ConversationYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@letshavethisconversationFollow REAL Mentors PodcastInstagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcastHost Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartinTags: Kevin McShan, Let's Have This Conversation, Sean Martin, REAL Mentors Podcast, cerebral palsy, disability advocate, sports broadcasting, professional speaker, inclusion keynote speaker, Discoverability Network, Ontario disability support, disability and entrepreneurship, overcoming disability, born premature, resilience mindset, inclusion is the gateway to independence, diversity equity inclusion, disability and business, podcast host disability, YouTube growth, turning tragedy into triumph, disability representation, New York poverty, Canadian advocate, keynote speaker Oklahoma

Justin Prince moved thirteen times before he was a teenager. No college degree, no professional background, making pizzas and doing construction work before he found his way into sales at a mall and realized he was actually good at it. He built his first business at 25 in the wellness space, watched it collapse overnight when the parent company pulled the plug and had to go back to the job he had just left with his tail between his legs.Then he built something that generated billions in revenue over eleven years. And the people closest to him, the partners he trusted, the ones who had eaten steak at his table and whose kids went to school with his kids, terminated him without a single phone call.His daughter was in the backseat when he got the call. She turned to her sister and said she thought dad was the company. That line says everything about what betrayal at that level actually costs.Justin came back and built MAKE Wellness into the largest bioactive precision peptide company in the world in under a year, doing 6.4 million dollars in the first four days and 7.2 million in month two. This is a conversation about what it takes to survive betrayal, rebuild your identity and go bigger the second time around.If you are an entrepreneur who has been knocked down, pushed out or told it is over this episode is exactly what you need to hear.This Episode Explores:✅ Moving 13 times before his teenage years and building hunger from instability✅ No college degree, no connections and selling bio videos in a mall at 21 years old✅ Building his first business at 25 in wellness and watching it collapse overnight✅ Building a company to billions in revenue then getting terminated without a single phone call✅ His daughter asking from the backseat what terminated means and why that moment defined everything✅ Why the people closest to you are never revealed until the pressure is on✅ Why his wife saw the wolves coming before he did and what that taught him about listening✅ Rebuilding from zero with back taxes, a pregnant wife and no income✅ Why he built MAKE Wellness around peptide science and creating real economic opportunity for families✅ Doing 6.4 million dollars in the first four days and becoming the largest bioactive peptide company in the world in under a year🔗 Connect with Justin PrinceInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamjustinprince/?hl=enMAKE Wellness: https://meet.makewellness.com/Follow REAL Mentors PodcastInstagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcastHost Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartin

Most people will grind for hours in the gym but refuse to sit still with their own thoughts for five minutes. Jennifer Clearwater and Cindy O'Connell have spent a combined four decades figuring out why that is and what it actually costs people in their health, their relationships and their results.Jennifer is a licensed professional counselor with a background spanning clinical practice, education, yoga and holistic wellness. Cindy is a retired professor, certified yoga teacher, national trainer and a woman who has maintained a daily meditation practice every single day for 37 years without missing once. Together they are the co-authors of The Elevation Principles and co-hosts of the Mindset Connection Podcast, which reached the top 12 percent of all podcasts worldwide in just over a year.In this episode Jen and Cindy break down what is actually happening inside the people who walk into their offices and corporate mental health workshops. Anxiety, unprocessed trauma, an inability to be still and a childhood program running in the background that most people have never once examined. They get into why people refuse to seek mental health help even when they are desperate for it, what simple daily mindfulness practices actually do to your brain chemistry and why three to six months of full immersion is the real threshold for lasting identity change.If you are serious about mental health, mindset transformation, anxiety relief or building habits that actually stick this episode will change how you think about all of it.This Episode Explores:✅ Why training your mind is harder than training your body and what that gap costs most people✅ How to maintain a 37 year daily meditation practice and what that level of consistency produces in a life✅ The simple grounded breathing and mindfulness practice Jen and Cindy taught Sean live on air✅ Why most people are running a subconscious program downloaded onto them in childhood without realizing it✅ The mental health stigma that stops high achievers from getting help and the professions where asking for help can cost you your career✅ Why three to six months of full immersion is what it actually takes to rewire your identity around any new habit✅ What happens to your anxiety and cortisol levels when you stop distracting yourself and sit in stillness✅ How nutrition and diet directly drive anxiety, depression and emotional dysregulation✅ Why attorneys, educators, corporate professionals and entrepreneurs are all suffering from the exact same things✅ What a corporate mental health workshop on stress, trauma and workplace loss actually looks like from the inside🔗 Connect with Jen and CindyPodcast: The Mindset Connection PodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindset_connection_/Book: The Elevation PrinciplesWebsite: www.mindsetnj.com/Follow REAL Mentors PodcastInstagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcastHost Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartin

Jeff Fieldstad built a successful financial services business from the ground up starting at 22 years old. He got comfortable, recognized the danger in that and moved his entire family to Las Vegas deliberately to surround himself with people operating at a higher level. He had another great run, sold the business in 2020 at 35 years old and thought he was finally done.He was not done. Three years into early retirement he came back as co-owner of a national window replacement company with something he did not have the first time around. Clarity on what actually matters.Jeff's entire philosophy is built around one idea. How you show up at home is exactly how you show up in business. A man who builds a fortune but loses his family in the process has not built success. He has built the opposite of it.In this episode Jeff and Sean get into what it actually means to let go of control in business and in parenting, why your path to a goal will constantly change even when the goal does not and what growing up watching his siblings make destructive decisions taught him about hunger, drive and the life he refused to settle for.If you are an entrepreneur trying to scale your business, build wealth and keep your family intact at the same time this episode is exactly what you need to hear.This Episode Explores:✅ Building a financial services career from scratch at 22 and walking away at the top✅ Moving to Las Vegas on purpose to surround himself with high level earners and what that environment did for him✅ Selling his business in 2020 at 35 years old and discovering that early retirement was not what he imagined✅ Coming back as co-owner of a national window replacement company with a completely different mindset and set of priorities✅ Why his wife's instincts have been right more times than he can count and what finally listening to her changed in their marriage and business✅ Growing up in a tough environment watching his siblings make decisions he refused to repeat and how that shaped his hunger✅ Why building wealth while losing your family is not success but the opposite of it✅ The Jim Rohn principle that completely changed how he approaches every challenge he faces✅ Why you cannot control the path to your goal and why surrendering that control is actually what moves you forward✅ How you show up at home is exactly how you show up in business and why that single idea changes everything🔗 Connect with Jeff FieldstadInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/mr_fieldstad/Follow REAL Mentors PodcastInstagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcastHost Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartin

Nate DeTracy was 23 years old when he lost both of his parents in a car accident. No safety net, no roadmap and no one coming to save him. He fell into drugs and alcohol until the day he walked into a gym and watched a man completely transform his body on stage. That single moment redirected everything.What followed was a career built on discipline, identity and an obsession with pulling other people up with him. Nate became an IFBB Pro Bodybuilder, built multiple seven figure organizations in direct sales, survived the 2008 financial crash when everything collapsed and rebuilt from scratch. He has personally developed over 30 six figure earners on his teams. Now he is partnered with MAKE Wellness, a groundbreaking peptide wellness company, where he broke every direct sales record in the company within his first three months.But what actually drives Nate is not the accolades. It is the why. In this episode he and Sean dig into what keeps people moving when the grind wears them out, why most people stop dreaming somewhere between high school and their first real failure and what it actually means to build leaders instead of just building a downline.This Episode Explores:✅ Losing both parents at 23 and choosing the gym over the streets✅ Building his first fitness business around elite athletes before the 2008 crash wiped it out✅ How his wife walking into his gym started his entire direct sales career✅ Why 20 percent of all millionaires were made through the direct sales channel✅ What MAKE Wellness is doing differently by making peptide science accessible to everyone✅ Why the hybrid affiliate and direct sales model is the future of network marketing✅ How to get clear on your why before the grind burns you out completely✅ Why your brain is literally wired to drive you toward or keep you away from your goals✅ The difference between raising good kids and raising good adults✅ Why it is never about who you are but always about who you are becoming🔗 Connect with Nate DeTracyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nathandetracy/MAKE Wellness: makewellness.comFollow REAL Mentors PodcastInstagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcastHost Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartin

Brent Gove has three rules for life. Life isn't fair, you are entitled to nothing and no one is coming to save you. Not the Republicans, not the Democrats, not your mentor and not your coach. You have to get on the struggle bus yourself and ride it all the way through.Brent sold over 5,000 homes, ran one of the largest Keller Williams franchises in the country, reached the top 11 agents worldwide at Re/Max and built an organization of over 40,000 agents by getting around the right people and actually implementing what they taught him. In 1999 he lost thirty thousand dollars in three hours and says it was the best thing that ever happened to him because it forced him to ask a question he had never asked himself before.In this episode Brent and Sean get into why suffering is a right of passage not a punishment, what it actually takes to build a real estate empire from scratch and why the biggest room in the world is always the room for improvement.This Episode Explores:✅ The three rules of life Brent lives by and teaches his kids every single day✅ Losing $30,000 in three hours in 1999 and why he calls it the best thing that ever happened to him✅ How asking one question he had never asked himself completely changed his production overnight✅ Getting around Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins, Jim Rohn and John Maxwell and actually implementing what they taught✅ Why the limiting factor in your life is always you and so is the solution✅ Building an organization of 40,000 agents and what leadership at that scale actually requires✅ Why suffering builds character and why protecting people from struggle quietly destroys their potential✅ How becoming a Christian shifted the way he leads his business and his family✅ Why you can never hit a goal you have never been willing to set for yourself🔗 Connect with Brent GoveInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/brentgoverealestate/Website: https://www.brentgove.com/Follow REAL Mentors PodcastInstagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcastHost Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartin

Jason Shipley started his first business with ten thousand dollars split across two credit cards, a triple net lease on an old pizza building in Hutchinson Kansas and no idea what he was doing. What he did have was an absolute will to win and a promise he made to his first employer — that in five years he would know more about the business than anyone. He kept that promise.Today Jason is the CEO of Midwest Custom Engineering, building custom industrial equipment for the bioeconomy, biomass and material processing industries across the country. He also runs a portfolio of companies and investments across real estate, debt notes and equities. He built all of it from nothing, taught himself plumbing and electrical along the way and never stopped learning.But the most important part of this episode has nothing to do with business. Jason shares the most devastating moment of his life and how he found his way through it one empowering decision at a time. This conversation will stay with you.This Episode Explores:✅ Starting a smoke shop on an Indian reservation with $10K on credit cards and no income✅ Cold calling a commercial real estate CEO on a Saturday and negotiating a triple net lease as a broke kid✅ Teaching himself plumbing, electrical and real estate from a $4,000 starting point✅ Promising his first employer he would know more than him in five years and delivering on it✅ Building Midwest Custom Engineering into a leading American manufacturing company✅ Investing across real estate, debt notes, equities and blockchain assets✅ The moment that tested everything he believed about God, life and resilience✅ How gratitude became the tool that pulled him out of the deepest despair of his life✅ Why everybody is going to go through something and how you find your way out🔗 Connect with Jason ShipleyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasonshipleyofficial/Website: midwestcustomengineering.comYouTube: youtube.com/@MidwestCustomEngineeringFollow REAL Mentors PodcastInstagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcastHost Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartin

Vanessa Baird-Streeter grew up in one of the most segregated areas of the country where her family could afford a better neighborhood but was never shown those houses. That experience became the lens she has carried into every room she has entered since.She started her career as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs, spent a decade in finance and then made history as the first woman of color to serve as Suffolk County Deputy County Executive. In that role she managed a $3.7 billion municipal budget, chaired New York State's most comprehensive police reform plan and led the COVID-19 response for Long Island's most underserved communities. Today she is the President and CEO of the Health and Welfare Council of Long Island and she is still doing the same thing she has always done, which is changing systems from the inside out.In this episode Vanessa and Sean get into what it actually costs to be the first in rooms that were not built for you, why success means nothing if you are not opening doors behind you and what it looks like to build a decades long career rooted in purpose over recognition.If you are interested in leadership, public service, generational wealth, breaking barriers or what it takes to create real change in your community this episode is required watching.This Episode Explores:✅ Growing up in a deliberately segregated Long Island community and what that shaped in her from the start✅ Building her career on Wall Street at Goldman Sachs and what finance taught her about access and power✅ Making history as the first woman of color to serve as Suffolk County Deputy County Executive✅ Chairing New York State's most comprehensive police reform and reinvention plan✅ Leading COVID-19 response efforts for Long Island's most underserved and vulnerable communities✅ Why she turned down grad school at University of Chicago and what that decision actually gave her✅ How always leaving on good terms and building bridges became one of her greatest career strategies✅ Managing a $3.7 billion municipal budget and what that level of responsibility requires✅ Why AI is eliminating entry level jobs and what education needs to look like going forward✅ What it means to lift others up without losing yourself and why she believes that is the secret to a fulfilled life🔗 Connect with Vanessa Baird-StreeterInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/vanessa.b.streeter/Health and Welfare Council of Long Island: https://hwcli.com/Follow REAL Mentors PodcastInstagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcastHost Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartin

Alexis Morgan founded her first real estate investment fund at twenty years old. By twenty one she was managing over forty million dollars. No Wall Street connections. No family money. Just a young woman who figured out how private lending works and built her own version of it from scratch.Today she's the founder of Peach State Capital Group, a private lending and real estate investing platform with over two hundred funded transactions and consistent double digit returns for her investors. She also runs masterminds and education platforms built for the people the financial system was never designed to include.In this episode Alexis breaks down exactly how private lending works, why relationships are the real currency in real estate investing and what it actually takes to raise capital and scale a real estate fund from zero. She gets honest about early money mistakes, the events that changed how she saw the industry and why she says yes to every first invitation.If you are serious about real estate investing, private lending, raising capital or building generational wealth this episode is required watching.This Episode Explores:✅ How to start a real estate investment fund with no Wall Street background✅ What private lending is and why real estate investors need it over traditional banks✅ How she raised and deployed tens of millions through Peach State Capital Group✅ Attending dozens of paid events in year one to build high value relationships✅ The $30,000 event that showed her what real estate investing looks like at scale✅ Using LinkedIn and Instagram to build investor trust through transparency✅ Why private lenders hold the most leverage in any real estate deal✅ How to transition from residential to commercial real estate investing✅ Building wealth and access for people Wall Street was never designed to serve🔗 Connect with Alexis Morgan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexismorganinvests/Peach State Capital Group: https://www.peachstatecapital.com/Follow REAL Mentors PodcastInstagram: https://instagram.com/realmentorspodcastHost Sean Martin: https://instagram.com/theseanmartin