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0:00 Intro to Terry Crews
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4:33 Terry Crew’s episode begins
5:55 Coming out of an abusive household and art as a refuge
8:00 Athletics as a way out of Flint
9:20 Bet on me, being source for the family
10:23 Drawing teammates to make ends meet while in the NFL
12:50 Life after the NFL
13:12 From Alfa-male and friendships to the loss of identity
15:00 Deep depression, moving out of the pity party
16:35 Not seeing who we are, and stoping the descent
17:40 asking friends for money and moving beyond broke
19:14 Sweeping a factory floor and the magic of taking charge of your circumstance
20:22 Revisioning your low-point, beyond pride to self-responsibility
21:14 If anything needs to change it is on me, and making the hard stand in true friendship
22:20 The masculine sense of entitlement that is built in culturally
22:50 When pride prevents you from seeing things how they truly are
23:31 The lone male gong out their alone and dying in the pride of solitude
25:00 The caustic mix of religion and alcohol and the birth of shame
26:36 Pornography as an escape, and learning to have a double life to hold up the false-self
27:44 Becoming the false-self and descent into porn addiction
28:45 Wife- I don’t know you anymore, I am leaving. Facing rock-bottom
29:30 Facing you darkest secrets
29:44 Guilt and shame, and facing it by coming clean
30:10 Facing another rock bottom
31:50 Being alone with yourself, who are you really
32:12 Facing the shadow, claiming the liar, and moving beyond
32:50 Believing the lie
34:00 Changing your beliefs
34:14 That I was more valuable than my wife and kids
34:44 Facing your own shadow and confronting way relating to those you love the most
32:25 The cult of masculinity and de-programming
36:10 Growing up without a role model and a process of individuation birthing boys to men
36:44 Pimp-culture
37:00 “The Game” - keeping women off balance to manipulate and control
37:23 Bringing it back to psychology of slavery and pimp culture - and praising this toxic masculinity
38:00 The thing you believe is the things that is repeatedly discussed and shown - that is what you accept
38:42 A conscious state of questioning
39:15 The challenge of saying no to people, moving beyond people-pleaser
40:40 That is your power, the ability to say no, and yes! - the impeccability of your word
41:27 The seismic shift within
42:20 “The world can be an illusion… I found there were things that were wrong with me that I liked… and that is a very dangerous place to be”
43:55 “You are priceless already, there is nothing you have to do to get more value” - number one thing…. as a human being.
44:45 The opposite of creativity is competition
45:24 You need other people to be successful for you to be successful
46:33 “Creativity, you are the only person who can give what you got”
47:00 “You can only be creative when you know your value, when you know you are priceless”
47:20 The fallacy of being more valuable - “when you become your wins, you inevitably must become your losses, and when you becoming losses thats where the challenges come in”
48:35 The cycle of shame
49:00 When you know you are good just the way you are, then you can do anything
49:34 The true success is just doing what you want
50:14 The power of authenticity and creativity
51:00 And that is where I choose to live, on my own planet
51:20 Choosing your atmosphere
52:11 Being at affect to other people’s agendas, vs being at cause
53:00 To know I am one person
53:23 Life gets better!
54:00 When you are free from the paradigm I am not jumping back in!
55:00 “I stand for love, I stand for strength, I stand for being a real man”
56:10 “Its impossible to realize an outside, without first realizing an inside!”
56:54 Death as a moving up
57:19 The sun does not go down, we go around the sun, its an illusion…
58:00 My spirit, it ain’t going nowhere
58:47 Acknowledgement of Terry Crews
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Michael Trainer has spent 30 years learning from Nobel laureates, neuroscientists, and wisdom keepers worldwide. He's the author of RESONANCE: The Art and Science of Human Connection (March 31, 2026), co-creator of Global Citizen and the Global Citizen Festival, and host of the RESONANCE podcast.
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