Michael McLean
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Michael McLean’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So in my daughter's particular case, she has six hours of private tutors a day. And we accomplish more in six hours than she would in six years. But it's interesting because I hired the number one math teacher in America and here in Naples. And what do they start every day with? They start every day with fitness and movement.
skipping rope push-ups all this she's been doing this since she was five years old so they get the body moving because the body is before the mind then ryan she does old school mathematics like she's 12 years old but she's at a college level of mathematics because what is math mac is the ultimate problem solving it's black and white it's not opinion based it's hard and it's difficult
And then she does cursive writing. She writes out the best advertisements in history. So she'll write out a Gary Halbert ad. She'll write out an Ogilvy ad. So that's cursive plus copywriting. And then the other thing that she does after that is she'll do something entrepreneurial, whether it's a lemonade stand or writing her book or whatever.
But the reason that this isn't taught is because they don't want it taught. They don't want a world of top one percenters or top five percenters. They want followers. So what you do is the exact opposite of what the one percenters. What does the world need more? You know this better than anybody. We need more leaders. There's such a leadership vacuum.
I always say to my daughter, I'm like, I'm with Dana White on this. If your kids, and you have two of them, if they even have a speck of badass in them, They're going to own this world. Yeah. And like I say to my daughter, I look at the other kids her age and I say, these are not your peers. These are not your peers. And that's the biggest thing.
So just the fact like it's what happens at the kitchen table and in your home is more important than anything that happens in the White House. But that goes back to my initial thing about this is the greatest time in history because a guy like you is raising a couple of badass entrepreneurs who Who are going to run over people because they're going to be equipped for the new age world.
Yeah, I mean, I've been coaching youth sports for 23 consecutive years. And the term I use similar years is ROI. Show me the ROI. Everybody wants to be led. Everybody likes structure. Everybody likes discipline. Show me the ROI of the other way. So you're right about the shift. There's a shift happening here, but man, oh man, people are responsible for their own.
And what you're doing for your kids is you're literally stacking the deck, Ryan. You are, I call it putting your kids on the power play. You're putting an extra man on the field. Like my job as a father is to make sure my kid lives her adult life on the fucking power play. Like I don't want to, I want a loaded deck. I want a stacked deck.
And to do that, guys like us and our wife have to work a long time, but there's no competition. And that's the other thing, the man or woman in the glass, like that was Richard Williams 101 with the Williams sisters where, you know, he didn't let Serena and Venus play in all these tournaments, even though the agents were hanging around.
And he's like, my kids are going to practice most of the time. And he's like, he kept telling Serena and Venus, they can speak five languages. None of these players are your peers. Your mom and I want you to be artists. We want you to be musicians. We want you to be athletes. We want you to be good people. And if one of these things works out, fantastic.
But weaponizing your children goes back to what Brene Brown says, which is clear as kind, unclear as unkind. like I could tell you horror stories you wouldn't believe from my hockey, coaching young kids in hockey, power skating, is the COVID kids especially, the China virus kids especially, five to zero, It's a culture of quitters coming.
Now, I'm not one of these guys who ever used to say, oh, well, the next generation. I'm not saying that at all. The China virus crippled what's coming. So I'll start out, Ryan, with 50 kids in a low-income skating program on a September. By Thanksgiving, I got 25 kids. That means mom and dad let 25 kids quit. I'm not upset that the kids want to quit. Every kid wants to quit.
I want to quit every day. But the fact that the parents are so soft as fucking shit that they let these kids start quitting when they're 2, 3, 4, and 5... That's a crippling habit. My dad calls it patronizing. So if you want to raise cupcake kids and snowflake kids and poodles, just lie to your kids all the time and patronize them. And eighth place trophies, like you said, is the secret to this.
Our kids are afraid of failure because of eighth place trophies. Now you're doing the right job where you know what? Bill Parcells said it best. When Bill Parcells, in my opinion, the greatest football coach in history, the scoreboard says who's best. The scoreboard says who's best. And that's the way you can get better when the scoreboard doesn't say you're the best. But you nailed it.
Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind. So when you have these cupcake parents, they think they're helping their children when actually, Ryan, they're crippling them for life.
So when I have an elite man, a generous, a driven man come to me, buys my book, he joins my mastermind, whatever the hell he does, the number one thing, and the only thing, like one of your speeches, the only thing that I could, one thing to 10X his life is the first thing I say, Ryan, like whether he was a pro hockey player, pro football player, whether he's a nine-figure entrepreneur, a man without a mission is a man without balls.
So we don't go any further than that. And I get these men and some brave women in my program, and they think about when they get up in the morning, they pray about their mission. When they go to bed at night, they ask their subconscious to think about their mission. When they go for a walk in the morning for an hour, half an hour outside without their phone, they think about their mission.
They talk to their kids about their mission. They talk to their wife about their mission. It's all about the mission. Any great leader that you've developed that's gone from a people pleaser or one of these cupcakes or one of these poodles is a man or a woman on a mission. And a man or a woman with no mission, they have no mental balls whatsoever.
So when a guy like you goes to a barbecue or a ball game or to church and somebody walks up to you, you can instantly tell whether they are a man on a mission. You can see it, Ryan, in their eyes. You can feel it in their voice, their high frequency, their high agency, their body language. They cannot not talk about their mission.
When they talk to a guy like you, you get chills and they get chills. When they talk about their mission, it's like the hair starts to stand up on the back of our head. And it's contagious. And the leaders that are on a mission, all of a sudden they become magnetic to money. Money quickly becomes no problem. Money loves a man on a mission. They become magnetic to the opposite sex.
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