Trent Shelton
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3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 28 Jul
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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.
And the thing that started my first conferences, quote unquote, I didn't have the money to throw on conferences. So I called them live conversations and it gives me chills to this day. I had a lot of money to be able to travel to places. I had enough of a following where, you know, maybe two or three people would show up in the city.
My very first city was Las Vegas because I put on Facebook at the time, like, how many people do I have in Las Vegas? And like 10 people responded. So I said, cool. Scrapped up some money, flew to Las Vegas. I asked a person that was on my Facebook, hey, does anybody have like a location I can borrow, a library, like a classroom?
A woman hit me up and said, hey, my uncle has a classroom you can use. I said, cool. I get this classroom and I invite everybody for free. We sit down, we have these live conversations. I bring some merchandise to sell to cover my flight, cover my hotel. And I did this in probably 10 or 11 cities. The next year I came back, it would grow by 20. It would grow by 30. Two years, it'd be 100 people.
But I tell people I started by going to libraries anywhere free that I can have these small little small groups, quote unquote, I call them live conversations, so people can experience who I was and see this was a real thing. And I put in that legwork to be able to be who I am today.
Yeah. I mean, sometimes I pinch myself, right? Where it's like, man, how did I get here? I never get used to it because I know where I started. But yeah, on that stage, you know, I always, I always want to show people because like you say, you can come on somebody's like, if you watch me now, you're probably like, oh, you always had a gift or you just lucked into or whatever.
And I love to show people where I started. I love to show people everything that I've been through because that's the relatable piece that people can understand. Say, oh man, if Trent started here or if this person started here, then I could do it too. I think in social media era, we show just perfection. We show where we're at.
And while that's inspiring, what's relatable and connective is actually showing people how you got there. And so I always honor that anywhere I'm at to talk about how I got to the place that I got to.
So I'm super excited that you actually connected with that because before that event, a little bit backstory, like I wasn't sure because I don't share it at every event, but something told me like, man, just share this part, like show people like the journey a little bit. I'm glad I did. So thank you.
So rehab time, you know, the words came to me in 2009 and I'm not sure exactly like why that popped up. I'm thinking that it was sports. It was a little bit of Rihanna at the time, like she had that big song checking into rehab. And I think for me, rehab meant in sports, putting the strength back into a weakness.
So obviously, you know, you get hurt, you go to rehab and you got to come back, you know, and usually you come back stronger than what you were if you do it right. And so I was like, man, that's like a life thing. So rehab time for me at first meant just going to the gym. It meant getting my body right, to set myself up for this football stuff. But little did I know it was bigger than that, right?
It meant mind, body, and soul. We all have something we can rehab. We all have something we can put to strength, make stronger, make better. That was the journey of it. And it started there. And the genius thing that I tell people I did that, I mean, today it's really not that genius, but I built community. I wasn't just interested in having a follow. I wanted just people to follow me.
I want to turn my followers into family, right? I wanted people to become true supporters and not just believe in me, but believe in Rehab Time. And it gives me chills to see people embrace Rehab Time, how I embrace it and what Rehab Time did for me is doing for other people. And so I started calling my community rehabbers. every video you hear, it's like, hey, rehabbers across the world.
And it seems so simple now, but it's a place where people can feel a part of. And that movement grew over, you know, obviously the last 15 years, but it really boomed in 2015, 2016, when I was doing my own tours and going out there and giving people a place to wear their merchandise and just a whole community. That's what made it special.
Because I don't know when there's 16 million, I don't know that many people. I don't know people across the world. It's the people that Share the videos. It's the people that show up in the comments. It's the people that really believe in me because they've experienced my authenticity and they know how much this means to me. That takes us across the world. So that's rehab time.
You know, it's me, but it's really the rehabbers that make it go.
Yeah. So if I can give you like a short version of it. First, I have five words that I live by. I say this in the mirror every single day. Scientifically, it is proven to make you take ownership and it will change your life. And those five words is it all starts with you. And I look in the mirror every single day and tell myself, I don't say me because I'm looking at the better version of myself.
I'm saying it all starts with you. That sentence is a battle cry, is a champion plea to take ownership over your life. So if you want to turn your pain into your power, you first have to acknowledge that you're in pain. Self-awareness to me is one of the greatest gifts because some people are not even aware of it. So you first have to have self-awareness.
The second thing is that you have to make a choice. I always tell people you're a choice away from a new beginning. Like literally right now, you can make a choice to stop it. You can make a choice to start it. You can make a choice to continue it, but you're a choice away from a new beginning. You don't need a new year. You don't need a new month. All you need is a new moment.
And so making that choice and making that choice real to say, you know, I don't even know where I'm going because a lot of people stay in pain because number one, their condition, even just neurological pathways, that's a whole deep thing, chemically bonded to things. But a lot of people stay in pain because they don't know where they want to go.
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