Dre Baldwin is the world’s only Work On Your Game expert. A 9-year professional basketball player, Dre teaches mental toughness, self-confidence and self-discipline to athletes, entrepreneurs and business professionals.
Dre started publishing to YouTube in 2006 — a discipline that continues to this day, with content going out to his 120,000+ subscribers and being viewed over 40 million times.
Dre has given 3 TED Talks, published 14 books and 150+ basketball programs.
Do you allow setbacks in your business to slow you down or veer you off course? IN THIS BLOG POST, Dre teaches us how to stop this from happening!
Here are a few key secrets we talked about in this episode:
- Michelle introduces Dre Baldwin.
- Dre shares the first major NO he heard, taking us all the way back to his very first time trying out for a minor league basketball team.
- Dre let nothing get in the way of his goals and dreams! He spent time working at Footlocker and Bally Total Fitness, while also working on his basketball skills.
- In order to make the pros, Dre had to crack the code and figure out what they were looking for in an athlete in order to excel.
- Dre had a shocking experience when he went to tryouts for the first (and second time).
- Dre briefly shares what working in sales at Bally Total Fitness was like.
- While attending exposure camp, Dre found an agent, who then got him a contract with a team in Lithuania but the contract didn’t last long. Dre shares the whole story!
- The lowest point of Dre’s life was when he was working the overnight shift at a grocery store. Dre explains why this was the lowest point and how he got out of it.
- Dre shares how he got his spark for basketball back.
- Dre’s next contract took him to Germany He shares this drama filled story with my listeners.
- His agent worked to try to get him on a team in Ireland which fell through, but ended up being the turning point for Dre and his YouTube channel.
- “Work on Your Game.” ~ Dre Baldwin
- “Everybody has a game that you’re in. You’re gonna win your game. You’re gonna lose your game, but you gotta show up every day, do the work.” ~ Dre Baldwin
- Dre shares the ONE THING that makes him stand out above so many others.
- Dre shares what he would tell his younger self.
Get more from Dre:
- The Mental Handbook: The Guidebook to Approaching Sports & Life With a Bulletproof Mindset
- The Mirror of Motivation: Self-Guide To Self-Discipline
- 25 Reasons to Quit Worrying
- When To Quit (YES, There IS a Time)
- Be The Hope You Wish You Had
- The Super You: Unlocking and Living With Your Highest Level of Confidence
- Buy A Game: Dre Baldwin’s Early Basketball Story
- The Overseas Basketball Blueprint: A Guidebook On Starting And Furthering Your Professional Basketball Career Abroad For American-Born Players
- Basketball: The 4 Essential Mental Game Tools
- Ask Yourself A Better Question: Change your Questions, Change Your Thoughts, and Change Your Life
- How To Get More Females
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P.S. Don’t stop working towards your goals! Dre Baldwin talks to us about working on our game IN THIS BLOG POST!
