Trent Shelton
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4 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 28 Jul
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Tristan's now 16, which is crazy. You know, Tristan wasn't, and he knows this, you know, it wasn't like Tristan was planned at the time when me and Maria, me and Maria were dating. Now Maria's my wife, but it was a surprise. I was like, man, like, okay, I'm not ready for this, but it's here, right? I can't run from this reality at all.
And the first time I held Tristan, and most parents have this moment, but This was, man, the first time I held him, I was like, it's bigger than me. And for the first time in my life, I really, really truly felt that I'm responsible for someone else. And so I had to go inward and ask myself this simple question. Do I want Tristan to follow in my footsteps?
And to be totally transparent, my answer was no at that time. If I was able to give Tristan the current life that I was living in and say, hey, here's your life, I wouldn't be proud of that. And so Tristan always tell people is the reason that I became a better man. It's the reason that I say, okay, I got to make sure I leave a better path for him. And he became my why. He became my reason.
I even tattooed his face on me. He still brings up to this day. A tattoo, we get, we argue and he's like, you have, you have my tattoo. So that's his favorite thing to go to. He gave me a bigger sense of meaning, a bigger sense of purpose in my life that held me accountable to the things that I said I wanted to do.
He was the push for me to really make it happen and build a better life for my family.
Yes, 2010. You know, I said Tristan was the reason I became a better man. In this moment, losing my college roommate, you know, one of my best friends in my life. The suicide was the reason that I walked into my purpose, was the reason that I started Rehab Time, was the reason I stayed, like really made it a real thing.
You know, he killed himself and he killed himself because he lost some things in his life. He lost a relationship. He lost a dream and he felt like life wasn't worth living. And it was my commitment to him I don't even say the word promise. It was a commitment because commitment doesn't work off convenience. Commitment is loyal despite what's going on.
It was my commitment to him to live the rest of my life being what y'all see today. Helping people with their self-worth. Helping people know that despite what you lose, who you lose, you don't have to lose yourself and there's more to your life.
That's why every stage I ever speak on, you know, that message is always echoed because it was my promise to him in his casket, my commitment to him in his casket that I'm going to be this person. And I want people to understand, like, this was not like what y'all see today. This is me being a speaker and being, you know, all the things.
This was a very big commitment because this wasn't who I was. I'm a quiet person by nature. You know, I wasn't a speaker. I wasn't all these things. And so for me to walk into this and make that commitment, it was huge. I was walking to a new beginning, an unknown territory, but I found a sense of purpose that I knew that was bigger than me.
That's how Rehab Time and that's how my journey really started in 2010.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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