What Got You There with Sean DeLaney

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Apolo Anton Ohno is America’s most decorated Winter Olympian of all time, Author, Speaker on a life mission to help you become your best in health, work, and life.

Apolo Anton Ohno claimed his first major speed skating title at the US Championships at the age of 14—after just six months of training. Over the next decade and a half, he went from kid prodigy to the most decorated US Winter Olympian in history—a title he still holds—earning eight Olympic medals in short-track speed skating across the 2002, 2006, and 2010 Winter Games.

His new book, Hard Pivot: Embrace Change. Find Purpose. Show Up Fully! Apolo shares his most valuable lessons for overcoming challenges with resilience, creativity, and purpose.

With Hard Pivot, Apolo combines practical guidance, personal stories, and deep insights from the psychology of success into a resource to help you through challenging times. Here he shares his most valuable lessons and tools, condensed into the Five Golden Principles:

• Gratitude: A daily practice to help you maintain perspective, cultivate empathy, and alleviate stress
• Giving: How to elevate your life’s purpose by offering your time, attention, and resources to others
• Grit: Exercises to build mental stamina, resilience, and toughness to persevere through hard times
• Gearing Up: Ways to prepare yourself to meet the unknown with flexibility and grace
• Go: Develop the courage to take risks, learn from success and failure, and come back stronger

Checkout Sean's Ultimate Annual Review + 2023 Planning Program over 10,000 have watched!

Episode Transcript + Video 

Apolo Anton Ohno is America’s most decorated Winter Olympian of all time, Author, Speaker on a life mission to help you become your best in health, work, and life.

Apolo Anton Ohno claimed his first major speed skating title at the US Championships at the age of 14—after just six months of training. Over the next decade and a half, he went from kid prodigy to the most decorated US Winter Olympian in history—a title he still holds—earning eight Olympic medals in short-track speed skating across the 2002, 2006, and 2010 Winter Games.

His new book, Hard Pivot: Embrace Change. Find Purpose. Show Up Fully! Apolo shares his most valuable lessons for overcoming challenges with resilience, creativity, and purpose.

With Hard Pivot, Apolo combines practical guidance, personal stories, and deep insights from the psychology of success into a resource to help you through challenging times. Here he shares his most valuable lessons and tools, condensed into the Five Golden Principles:

• Gratitude: A daily practice to help you maintain perspective, cultivate empathy, and alleviate stress
• Giving: How to elevate your life’s purpose by offering your time, attention, and resources to others
• Grit: Exercises to build mental stamina, resilience, and toughness to persevere through hard times
• Gearing Up: Ways to prepare yourself to meet the unknown with flexibility and grace
• Go: Develop the courage to take risks, learn from success and failure, and come back stronger

Checkout Sean's Ultimate Annual Review + 2023 Planning Program over 10,000 have watched!

Paul Assaiante is currently the Men’s Squash and Tennis coach at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, Ganek Family US Squash Head National Coach, Professional Speaker and Author. Two-time Olympic Coach-of-the-Year, World Championship Coach and the “winningest coach in college sports history”, Paul Assaiante has motivated top athletes from around the world. His core belief is the need to embrace our fears in order to remove the obstacles to our success. He captures this concept in his book, Run to the Roar: Coaching to Overcome Fear, a visionary reflection on leadership and mentoring from one of America’s most successful coaches.

Assaiante has led the Trinity men's squash team to seventeen national titles. From 1998-2012, Assaiante and Trinity won 252 consecutive matches, including thirteen national championships—the longest winning streak in college sports history. 

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#1. Benjamin Zander- A leader’s job is to awaken the possibility in other people.

#2. Will Guidara - You can speak things into existence and the power of nonverbal communication.  What would you attempt to do if you could not fail?

#3. Lesson from my Mom- You need to stand up for what is right and what you believe in!

#4. Arnold van den Berg- Don’t allow your past to define your future. You can change your life with your mind.

#5. Adam Robinson - you need to ask yourself the question, Who do you want to be in this world?

#6. Dr. Dan Dworkis - Never Waste Suffering.

#7. Paul Black- Just keep showing up.

#8. David Senra- The great founders have the work ethic of Kobe Bryant and the self belief of Kanye West.

#9. Frank Slootman - Don’t try to be me. You need to become you, whatever the best version of you is. 

#10. Apolo Anton Ohno - If you want to be great you need to be intentional with everything you do.

I have a bonus one for you! 

#11. Brunello Cucinelli - "Nothing compares to the love for another person when it comes to reaching immensity and infinity."

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Pauline Brown has been a massive influence in the building of some of the world’s most influential luxury brands. She is the former Chairman of North America for LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, where she oversaw and lead 70 brands in five sectors including fashion and leather goods, watches and jewelry, perfume and cosmetics, wine and spirits, and selective retailing.  Earlier in her career, she held senior executives positions at The Carlyle Group, Estée Lauder and Avon.  She began her management career at Bain & Co.

In 2021, Pauline launched an innovative e-learning platform, called Aesthetic Intelligence Labs, which teaches executives and entrepreneurs how to build brands that stand out, careers that thrive, and businesses that last. The platform is an extension of a popular course she introduced at Harvard Business School in 2017 and currently teaches at Columbia Business School, and is described in her groundbreaking book, "Aesthetic Intelligence:  How to Boost It and Use It in Business and Beyond," which was published by HarperCollins in 2019.

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This is from a webinar presentation Sean did that walks you through his Ultimate Year End Review + 2023 Jumpstart planning process! To watch the video and download the presentation CLICK HERE! 

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Want 2023 to be your best year yet? Want to learn why 91% of people don’t achieve their New Years Goals and how to not be one of them? 

This is the exclusive program I use with the high performers I coach to achieve their goals, get clarity on what matters most and then design a life focused on those things.

What it will teach you:

Ultimate Goal Setting System

Clarify Your BIG 5 Life Buckets

How to Create Your 2023 Vision

Identify Your 3 Key Habits for Success in 2023

If you’ve had problems setting and achieving your goals in the past then get ready for that to change!

In order to live your best life you need to reflect back on your previous year to discover what’s working, what isn’t and how you can improve moving forward. Our tested Review & Jumpstart program can be the most important step you take in unleashing your potential and making 2023 the best year yet!

Watch the video where I walk you through the program and if you really want to take your performance to the next level then keep scrolling to get more info about having me personally coach you this year! 

Sean 

Interested in having me coach you through this plannig process? Send me an email - [email protected] 

This is from a webinar presentation Sean did that walks you through his Ultimate Year End Review + 2023 Jumpstart planning process! To watch the video and download the presentation CLICK HERE! 

Watch this presentation! 

Want 2023 to be your best year yet? Want to learn why 91% of people don’t achieve their New Years Goals and how to not be one of them? 

This is the exclusive program I use with the high performers I coach to achieve their goals, get clarity on what matters most and then design a life focused on those things.

What it will teach you:

Ultimate Goal Setting System

Clarify Your BIG 5 Life Buckets

How to Create Your 2023 Vision

Identify Your 3 Key Habits for Success in 2023

If you’ve had problems setting and achieving your goals in the past then get ready for that to change!

In order to live your best life you need to reflect back on your previous year to discover what’s working, what isn’t and how you can improve moving forward. Our tested Review & Jumpstart program can be the most important step you take in unleashing your potential and making 2023 the best year yet!

Watch the video where I walk you through the program and if you really want to take your performance to the next level then keep scrolling to get more info about having me personally coach you this year! 

Sean 

Interested in having me coach you through this plannig process? Send me an email - [email protected] 

Adrian Fenty is the founding managing partner at MaC Venture Capital. Prior to MaC, Adrian was co-founder and Managing Partner at M. Ventures and Special Advisor to Andreessen Horowitz. He began his tech career as a consultant to Rosetta Stone, EverFi and several software startups. Fenty is a former two-term city Councilmember and Mayor in his hometown, Washington DC.

On this episode Adrian shares the best advice he received from Marc Andreessen, how to lead change, what he's uncovered about great entrepreneurs! 

Checkout my NEW DAILY PODCAST- MOMENTUM MINUTES! Momentum Minutes is a short daily podcast that’s going to add a little inspiration to your morning by sharing lessons on leadership, business and self mastery.

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Hey guys it’s Sean and I’m launching a NEW DAILY PODCAST called Momentum Minutes! 

Don’t worry What Got You There isn’t going anywhere but After talking to a dozens of listeners the number one thing I kept hearing is how you want MORE WISDOM IN LESS TIME! Which is why I’m launching the Momentum Minutes podcast so you can hear the most important ideas I’m discovering in about a minute a day.

Momentum Minutes is a short daily podcast that’s going to add a little inspiration to your morning by sharing lessons on leadership, business and self mastery. After spending 5+ years interviewing over 300 of the world's most successful people and reading hundreds of books I’m distilling down the best ideas and sharing them on this podcast. 

Momentum Minutes is a daily podcast that is now available on all podcasting players so click the search Momentum Minutes in your favorite podcasting app and hit subscribe! Also it would mean so much to me if you give it a listen, write a review and share with anyone you think it might inspire!  And after listening Let me know what you think by sending me an email to [email protected] 

Don’t worry I’ll be back next week with another episode of What Got You There but to hold you over until then check out the 15 episodes of Momentum Minutes already released!