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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I grew up at a kitchen table where my dad and mom sat down and they talked about winning. They talked about losing. They talked about the markets. They talked about marketing. They talked about money. They talked about, there was no doors in our house. There was no, okay, we're gonna now family. There's no such thing, life balance, seamless living. So your kids can feel your obsession.
Your wife can feel your obsession. And I tell my guys when they come to me looking for life balance, I'm like, you don't need life balance. You need to become a man on a mission where there's no longer any doors in your life. There's no work life. There's no personal life. It's just all one life.
And that's building your badass world where you build your business around your life, not your life around your business. But you can smell obsession and you can smell a man or woman who's on a mission.
can engage in this and we are such a blessing to be put here I just don't get it it boggles my mind well it goes back to mission like you anybody that comes to me or you Ryan who has a problem with alcohol a problem with drugs a problem with pornography a problem with gambling a problem with their marriage All you have to do is ask that man or woman, what's the mission?
Because all that shit goes away. Anybody that's distracted doesn't have a mission. Because, I mean, I haven't had a drink in four years. And the only reason I stopped drinking is because of my latest mission. I didn't have a meeting with myself. I didn't read a book about it. Alcohol is not congruent with my latest mission. And I didn't give up anything.
It's just not congruent with my mission as a husband, as a father, whatever. But everybody, like you just talked about the quiet desperation. That's 99.9% now. It's not 1%. It's 99. So if you and I meet 100 people today, 99.9% of them are living a life of quiet desperation. They're afraid of losing, afraid of winning, but they don't have a mission.
But when people come to me with all these vices and these distractions, I'm like, you don't lack time or discipline. You just aren't a man or a woman on a mission. When they get that mission right, then everything else falls into place. And the big part of the mission they don't know, Ryan, is it's about building a legacy of service. So I don't care who you are.
You won't be remembered in three generations. I don't care if you're Elon Musk. In three generations, the way things are going, they won't even know who he is. Nobody knows who Thomas Edison was. Nobody really knows what Reagan did. Nobody knows other than a couple things. So get over yourself with the people-pleasing.
Your great grandkids won't know anything about you unless you educate them on it. But if you want any legacy beyond 15 minutes after your funeral, you need to live a life of significance. And a life of significance is a man or woman on a mission serving other people.
And if you do not serve other people, whether it's coaching baseball or helping men or helping women or helping the Rotary Club, you'll be forgotten 15 minutes after your funeral. Maybe your wife, maybe your kids will be teary-eyed for a couple days, but there's no legacy. So for my guys, it's all back to significance. How can you serve more people?
And it's interesting when you plant the seed in a person's head and they sleep on it and they walk about and they journal and they think about it. All of a sudden, that mission will gradually come to them. This is the next mission. And the mission can be writing a book. It could be publishing some of your music. It could be feeding starving children in the third world.
It could be winning a Super Bowl. The mission can be anything. But a guy like you can't give a person a mission. It has to be authentic. Maybe you want to be the best husband and father in the world. Whatever it is, it has to be that person's mission. And then once that happens, the quiet desperation vanishes.
My guys come to me anxious, depressed, medicated, sedated, living a life of quiet desperation. The second they find their mission, they are completely transformed as husbands, fathers. And it's amazing because like you do, their kids want to hear the stories about the mission at the kitchen table. Their wife wants to hear about the mission. They're getting in better shape. Their sex life improves.
Everything improves because a man on a mission is the most magnetic person on earth.
One of the sayings I have written on my home gym wall is, when the king does not rise, the kingdom dies. And that goes back, of course, Ryan to mission. When the king does not rise, the kingdom dies. So I'll say to my guys that are struggling at home, maybe they've got no passion in their marriage. Maybe they're disconnected from their kids or grandkids.
When you walk in that door every night, are you a high frequency man or are you a low frequency poodle? And the majority of guys that are having struggles in their home are The king is no longer rising. And when you walk in there as a high-frequency man with the body language, the breathing, the attitude, the storytelling, you make yourself magnetic to the opposite sex.
You make yourself magnetic to your children, your grandchildren. You make yourself magnetic to money. And the opposite, everything you just discussed, is what repels winning like nothing else. One word. neediness. I call it men in diapers, men in diapers. So 99.9% of men are scared little boys in 2025, men in diapers showing up as scared little boys. And they're needy, needy, needy.
Their body language, their breathing, their mentality, the cell phone use, the porn, the drugs, the alcohol, what you do. They're men in diapers. So all you have to do is rise as a king. And how do you rise as a king? You get on a mission that'll never end, and everything else trickles downhill from there. My younger brother, David, founded his own law practice.
Well, guess what my younger brother deals with from time to time? Divorce. So I'll never forget at my stag 20 years ago, I was lying there in bed one morning, I said to my brother, I said, what's the real reason that marriages end 50% of the time or more now? And he said, well, he says, I'm gonna surprise you. He says, number one, which you know is money.
People fight about money problems, that's why it ends. But he says, number two, you'll never believe. And I said, what is it? He says, He says, the man stops growing. And he's a Tony Robbins guy. He's like, the man is no longer dangerous, as Dr. Peterson would say. He's no longer weaponized. He's now a needy little bitch. And he's literally repelled his wife or girlfriend from him.
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