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Trent Shelton

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664 total appearances

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Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Trent Shelton: Your Pain Has a Purpose, Unlock Its Power | E76

Yeah, in a sense. It made me look at my life. It made me sit down with our other roommate. We were all three really close friends, and me and my current best friend, we sat down at that time and asked ourselves, what are we doing? Forever comes with an expiration date. You don't have time, even though you do have time. And it's like, how do we want to spend this time?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Trent Shelton: Your Pain Has a Purpose, Unlock Its Power | E76

Yeah, in a sense. It made me look at my life. It made me sit down with our other roommate. We were all three really close friends, and me and my current best friend, we sat down at that time and asked ourselves, what are we doing? Forever comes with an expiration date. You don't have time, even though you do have time. And it's like, how do we want to spend this time?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Trent Shelton: Your Pain Has a Purpose, Unlock Its Power | E76

And if we have two years, like what would we do right now? At that moment, I can honestly say that I would die with incompletion, right? I would die with dreams, with books, with all the things inside of me and things I never did, creations. And I made a commitment to myself at that moment. You know what? I'm going to go do all the things. All the ideas, I'm going to give it to the world.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Trent Shelton: Your Pain Has a Purpose, Unlock Its Power | E76

And if we have two years, like what would we do right now? At that moment, I can honestly say that I would die with incompletion, right? I would die with dreams, with books, with all the things inside of me and things I never did, creations. And I made a commitment to myself at that moment. You know what? I'm going to go do all the things. All the ideas, I'm going to give it to the world.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Trent Shelton: Your Pain Has a Purpose, Unlock Its Power | E76

And that's what created what people see now. It was just me honoring my ideas. Me honoring my ideas of going live back then when it wasn't the popular thing to do back in 2010. Me doing the spoken words that the people know. Me even writing books at that time. Me speaking. That was just me honoring my ideas. I didn't know it would turn into what it turned into today.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Trent Shelton: Your Pain Has a Purpose, Unlock Its Power | E76

And that's what created what people see now. It was just me honoring my ideas. Me honoring my ideas of going live back then when it wasn't the popular thing to do back in 2010. Me doing the spoken words that the people know. Me even writing books at that time. Me speaking. That was just me honoring my ideas. I didn't know it would turn into what it turned into today.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Trent Shelton: Your Pain Has a Purpose, Unlock Its Power | E76

And to be real with you, it wasn't even a thing of helping people. It was really helping myself. It was my therapy, my way of healing. And when I found out that, man, my transparency led to other people's transformation. So I said, oh, the things that I'm going through, other people are going through it too? Let me talk more about these things. And that led me down the path of changing lives.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Trent Shelton: Your Pain Has a Purpose, Unlock Its Power | E76

And to be real with you, it wasn't even a thing of helping people. It was really helping myself. It was my therapy, my way of healing. And when I found out that, man, my transparency led to other people's transformation. So I said, oh, the things that I'm going through, other people are going through it too? Let me talk more about these things. And that led me down the path of changing lives.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Trent Shelton: Your Pain Has a Purpose, Unlock Its Power | E76

This device right here changed my life, this cell phone. You know, at the beginning in personal development, there really wasn't a lot of example. It was great people, by the way, but it wasn't a lot of example where I could be like, oh, I see me in this person or I see me doing this. And a lot of it was professional. You know, a lot of it was you got to have the cameras and everything.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Trent Shelton: Your Pain Has a Purpose, Unlock Its Power | E76

This device right here changed my life, this cell phone. You know, at the beginning in personal development, there really wasn't a lot of example. It was great people, by the way, but it wasn't a lot of example where I could be like, oh, I see me in this person or I see me doing this. And a lot of it was professional. You know, a lot of it was you got to have the cameras and everything.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Trent Shelton: Your Pain Has a Purpose, Unlock Its Power | E76

And I didn't have that. You know, I didn't have any cameras. I didn't have a team. And so I said, what do I have? Because so often we focus on what we don't have and we let that paralyze us. So for me, I was like, okay, yeah, I don't have a lot of stuff, but what do I have? I got some heart. I got a message. And I got a cell phone. So I picked up my cell phone and I pressed live.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Trent Shelton: Your Pain Has a Purpose, Unlock Its Power | E76

And I didn't have that. You know, I didn't have any cameras. I didn't have a team. And so I said, what do I have? Because so often we focus on what we don't have and we let that paralyze us. So for me, I was like, okay, yeah, I don't have a lot of stuff, but what do I have? I got some heart. I got a message. And I got a cell phone. So I picked up my cell phone and I pressed live.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Trent Shelton: Your Pain Has a Purpose, Unlock Its Power | E76

And I know it's so popular now, but back then people weren't going live like that. And I pressed live and I streamed and I would share my heart. Simply as that. I had no idea of like, man, like these are the steps. These are the points. I'm just like, I'm going to press live and share my heart and talk about what I'm currently going through. And that's how I started as far as on the internet.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Trent Shelton: Your Pain Has a Purpose, Unlock Its Power | E76

And I know it's so popular now, but back then people weren't going live like that. And I pressed live and I streamed and I would share my heart. Simply as that. I had no idea of like, man, like these are the steps. These are the points. I'm just like, I'm going to press live and share my heart and talk about what I'm currently going through. And that's how I started as far as on the internet.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Trent Shelton: Your Pain Has a Purpose, Unlock Its Power | E76

And a big catalyst in my whole movement, I teach people this to this day. I said, man, you know, people weren't bringing me in to speak. Like I wasn't like, oh, come speak here. Most people, you know, they wait. They wait for people to come to them. But I say, man, you can't be passive. A passive life will pass you by. Get you passed by. So I said, okay, what can I do?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Trent Shelton: Your Pain Has a Purpose, Unlock Its Power | E76

And a big catalyst in my whole movement, I teach people this to this day. I said, man, you know, people weren't bringing me in to speak. Like I wasn't like, oh, come speak here. Most people, you know, they wait. They wait for people to come to them. But I say, man, you can't be passive. A passive life will pass you by. Get you passed by. So I said, okay, what can I do?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Trent Shelton: Your Pain Has a Purpose, Unlock Its Power | E76

So I reached out to all my connections in sports. I reached out to teachers. Luckily, I was a good student. Didn't disrespect. I reached out to my old teachers and said, hey, can I come speak to the school? So I would go speak to elementary schools. I would speak to high schools. I would speak anywhere I could. Teams, YMCA, it didn't matter.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Trent Shelton: Your Pain Has a Purpose, Unlock Its Power | E76

So I reached out to all my connections in sports. I reached out to teachers. Luckily, I was a good student. Didn't disrespect. I reached out to my old teachers and said, hey, can I come speak to the school? So I would go speak to elementary schools. I would speak to high schools. I would speak anywhere I could. Teams, YMCA, it didn't matter.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Trent Shelton: Your Pain Has a Purpose, Unlock Its Power | E76

Anywhere there were ears, even on the street corners, like that was facts. In downtown Fort Worth, I would go share my message. And that message started to get around. And so when I would go speak, somebody would be like, hey, can you come speak here? Because I just heard you speak here. Sure.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
Trent Shelton: Your Pain Has a Purpose, Unlock Its Power | E76

Anywhere there were ears, even on the street corners, like that was facts. In downtown Fort Worth, I would go share my message. And that message started to get around. And so when I would go speak, somebody would be like, hey, can you come speak here? Because I just heard you speak here. Sure.