Michael McLean
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89 appearances
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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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They become magnetic to good fortune. They become magnetic to other people because they're a man or a woman on a mission. But when my guys and gals, when they finally, and I call it something bigger than yourself, because they say to me the same as you, I don't know what my purpose is, Michael. I don't know what God wants for me. And I'm like, God wants you to be a man on a mission.
And if you'd put the cell phone down and you get off TikTok and you'd stop watching the NFL for nine hours a day, God's trying to tell you, your creator is trying to tell you, This is what I need you to do to serve other people. So my guys, Ryan, gradually, it doesn't happen in one hour, they gradually become a man or a woman on a mission that's based in service. That's the secret.
It's based in service. They literally, for the first time in their life, find something that's bigger than themselves. And you and I are both doing this. Like I haven't had to work since 2017. Here I am, you know, consulting with other men and women because I'm a man on a mission and I've found something bigger than myself. And it took me months to find my latest calling.
When I bought my first hockey team, my mission was to win a Barkley Cup. When I got in the insurance business, my mission was to become the number one agent in the nation. I sell that. I start a barber shop. The mission was to be the number one. I've been on a mission as a husband for a while, as a father. So some missions are a month. Some missions are 30 years. But you have to be on a mission.
And it changes everything. And you know this better than anybody. Less than 1% of 1% of 1% of 1% of the people you meet today, whether it's at your kid's school or whether it's at the ballpark, nobody's on a mission. But when you meet that man or woman who's on a mission, You can just feel it. You're magnetic. They cannot not talk about it. It's like me coming on this podcast.
Like I'm like, I'm going to go talk to Ryan. I don't do podcasts anymore because I like talking to men who are on a mission. If you're not on a mission, I'm not going to talk to you. I'm a man on a mission and nothing comes before the mission. So I don't participate in anti-social media. I don't follow the news. I don't follow politics.
I built a seven-figure company again without even trying because I'm on a man on a mission. When my marriage is struggling, it's when I'm not a man on a mission. When I was a lousy parent in the first couple of years of my daughter's life, I wasn't a man on a mission. And it's normal to lose your way, but you have to continually bring yourself back to men on a mission.
When Nick Saban went to Alabama and lost for the first three to four seasons, that's a man on a mission. So now Saban retires and he goes on TV. That's the next mission. You know, wherever Bill Parcells went in the NFL to take over the worst team from the outhouse to the penthouse, man on a mission. Elon Musk is a man on a mission. Like it's costing him billions of dollars. It's costing him.
He doesn't give a shit. He's a man on a mission. Trump has done the unthinkable. Trump is unreasonable. You can't be president. You'll never win. He's a man on a mission. And as you can see with those guys, Margaret Thatcher was a woman on a mission. Richard Williams, Earl Woods, those were men and women on a mission. And you like you said, it's sports, it's life, whatever.
But it all starts and ends with the mission. Nothing becomes before that calling.
Well, that goes back to Ryan afraid of winning. Sedating and medicating, now it's in your phone. But here's a big point that I make with my athletes and my students and my daughter. Being passionate about something or curious about something isn't enough. So a guy like you... People would look at you and say, you know, Ryan's really passionate about coaching. And to that, I say, yes, he is.
But what separates you from everybody else is you found a mission that you're obsessed with. I don't want anything to do with anybody else. that's not obsessed about their mission. So I don't go to lunch. I don't go to dinner. I don't go visit my sister. I don't do anything with people that aren't on a mission.
And I'm way, way too far gone to spend time with beta males and gamma males who talk about the weather or talk about Elon Musk or talk about, I'm like, tell me about your mission. So obsession, my dad said to me, so I walk into my dad, my dad says, you know, you're interested in taking over the family insurance business. And this is way back in the day, 20 years ago.
He said, don't you even think of buying this business unless you're gonna take this to the next level 10X and this becomes your obsession. Don't buy it if you're passionate about it. Don't buy it if you're curious about it and don't buy this agency If you want to drive a nice car, you better be obsessed or before you start, do something else. So number one in the nation.
Didn't take long because I was a man on a mission. Then I walk into my dad's office five years later. I said, Dad, I'm going to take over this bankrupt junior hockey team. Nobody can win in a small community. He says, the only question you have to answer is, are you on a mission? Will this be your next mission? I said, absolutely. He goes by it.
So this is the same thing is we just have to keep asking our creator, what's the next calling? What's the next purpose? And I'm sorry, but passion doesn't work. Passion isn't enough. When I won a Berkeley Cup with my hockey team in 2019, you want to talk about a force, a powerhouse, but we couldn't win for six straight years. We always lost in the finals, in game six and game seven.
I walk into my dad's office. I said, Dad, I don't know what it is, but we just can't win that championship. And he said, you need to fill that locker room with 23 young men that are on a mission. He said, you got a few guys in there that are, you know, they're curious about winning. They're, you know, they've got some passion.
But he said, you need to fill that locker room with trainers, with coaches, and with athletes that are sick to their stomach when they come up short. And he said, when you lost last night, you know, he said, how many people in there were beyond, how many people in there were suffering physically, suffering mentally?
He says, anybody that wasn't sick to their stomach when they lost, you need to upgrade and replace. And that goes back to obsession. So you're a man on a mission. I can tell it in your voice. I can tell when I talk to you. I can tell when I watch a video, but you're not passionate about it. You are passionate, but you're obsessed. And you're talking about going to speak. Nobody wants to fly.
Nobody wants to go to the airport. Nobody wants to live in a hotel. Giving the speech is the 90 minutes of fun. But what gets you through all that other horseshit is the fact that you're obsessed with what you're doing and you're a man on a mission. And this stuff is so contagious in your home. Nothing drives me crazier than life balance talk. Are you kidding me?
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