Digital Social Hour
How I Turned $5M Winnings Into a Mission | Jeffrey Allen DSH #1347
Mon, 21 Apr 2025
How does a $5M win turn into a life-changing mission? 💡 Join us on the Digital Social Hour as Sean Kelly dives deep with Jeffrey, the inspiring winner of MrBeast’s Beast Games, who’s turning his incredible victory into hope for his son Lucas and the fight against a rare disease. From thrilling challenges to heartfelt family moments, Jeffrey shares his journey of resilience, purpose, and giving back. This episode is packed with valuable insights into the mindset of a champion, the power of optimism, and the impact of using a platform for good. Learn how Jeffrey navigates life after winning, his efforts to fund research, and the lessons he’s learned from overcoming challenges. This conversation is a must-watch for anyone looking to find inspiration and purpose! 🌟 Don’t miss out—watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories and exclusive insights. 🚀 CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Jeffrey’s Life After Winning $2,000,000 00:29 - Jeffrey’s Life Before Winning $2,000,000 04:59 - Our Favorite Hosting Platform, Kinsta 06:01 - Mental Game Choices in Life 06:41 - Moments of Doubt After Winning 09:48 - Duration of Jeffrey's Disease 13:06 - Maintaining Optimism Through Challenges 14:41 - College Decision-Making Process 16:04 - Filming Location of Beast Games 17:06 - Luck vs Skill in Success 21:18 - Reflecting on Regrets 23:27 - No One Took the Money 24:31 - Criticism of Dino 28:46 - Reality TV Show Applications 29:58 - Impact of Getting Laid Off 33:07 - Keeping the Win a Secret 34:31 - Stopping Gambling and Drinking 36:37 - Watching NBA Playoffs 38:54 - Future Plans and Goals 39:36 - Starting a Charity Foundation 39:44 - Closing Remarks APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Jeffrey Allen https://www.instagram.com/legacy.831/ SPONSORS: KINSTA: https://kinsta.com/dsh LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ The views and opinions expressed by guests on Digital Social Hour are solely those of the individuals appearing on the podcast and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the host, Sean Kelly, or the Digital Social Hour team. While we encourage open and honest conversations, Sean Kelly is not legally responsible for any statements, claims, or opinions made by guests during the show. Listeners are encouraged to form their own opinions and consult professionals for advice where appropriate. Content on this podcast is for entertainment and informational purposes only and should not be considered legal, medical, financial, or professional advice. #mdscratchjedi #newpascratchofftickets #newscratchofftickets #palottery #jediscratcher
Chapter 1: Who is Jeffrey Allen and how has winning the Beast Games changed his life?
Okay, guys, Beast Games winner here today in Las Vegas, Jeffrey. About to be a fun week for you, man. Thanks for coming. I know. Glad to be here. You got a lot of fun stuff planned. WrestleMania, right?
Yeah, a little bit of WrestleMania. Then David Blaine, and then heading down south to go to, or heading over west to go to Disney.
How fast has your life been changing lately?
Yeah, a lot, a lot different. I mean, sitting here with you is super cool. A lot still the same, you know, still coaching my son's baseball team, taking the kids to school. But yeah, just I, every few days I kind of have these sprints where a podcast recording, sitting down with a TV station, whatever it may be, but life is good, man. I love it. Does it feel kind of unreal? Yeah, I know.
I was sitting last night with my son in the hotel and it's just like so much to be grateful for. I mean, it truly is almost a miracle that I won and that I actually, we get to do other things my wife and I wanted to do for our family.
Yeah.
And you got a great head on your shoulders because when you look at the stats on lottery winners, a lot of them end up broke again or they blow the money. But it sounds like you're still doing what you're doing.
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Chapter 2: How is Jeffrey managing his $5 million winnings for his family and mission?
I'm not spending a thing. Yeah, we've spent a little bit, you know, family vacation, got my wife something nice for her birthday. But other than that, it's kind of going, how do we make this work to ultimately achieve our goals? Yeah.
And your goal, your son is a big part of your goals, right?
Huge part. Yeah. With a rare disease that doesn't have a treatment, doesn't have a cure, just trying to figure out ways. And part of me is like, how do I... how do I look at this fresh? You know, forever you want to throw money to academia to do academic research. But I do think there's other ways to try to help get creatine to his brain.
And I think I got to get creative to do it. Yeah. I'm sure a ton of different people reached out to you with their opinions. Was there anything interesting that caught your eye for that? I mean, yeah, you get everything.
And again, I'm probably open to too much, but like everything from, hey, I'm an expert. I've been studying plant medicine my whole life to I am a prayer specialist who knows how to connect with people telepathically to a protein researcher at a prestigious academic institution who's like, hey, like, I think I can help implant certain cells into the brain to be able to accept creatine. So like, wow.
I got part of me is like, I need someone to help, um, kind of make sense of what's, what's reasonable and what's not. Yeah. But either way people want to help. And that's like the biggest, uh, one of the biggest takeaways from beast games is I don't have a ton of people saying, Hey, can I have some money? Can I do this? Of course I get that in my DMS, but these are perfect strangers.
I have more people saying, how can I help? Or I'd love to help, or I'd love to pray, or I'd love to support. That's beautiful. Yeah. I think Jimmy did a good job painting your story on the show. Yeah. It's, um, Jimmy Mack, the entire team. Yeah. I mean, I couldn't be more satisfied with the edit. Yeah.
Your character arc was, was brilliant, man. It worked out well. Yeah. Cause they waited about halfway to start telling your story. And then I, it really grew on people, I think.
But, but, and that's probably by design, but also like, I didn't get to tell my story until you get deeper into the games. Cause that, that was my, my whole aim was I want to go on the show to tell Lucas's story. Yeah. But to do that, like I need to have a camera in my face and have these questions being asked, but it really didn't happen until I, Until we got to the island, episode five, six.
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Chapter 3: What is Creatine Transporter Deficiency and how does it affect Jeffrey's son?
So like it was just, wouldn't have been worth it for me. Yeah. Shout out to her for winning that. I did not think she would. When I first saw the 10 laid out, she was the only girl, right? She was the only girl.
And there was like, there's just some really amazing, amazing athletes. And again, with Mr. Beast, you just don't know like what you're getting into. Like when I trained for Beast Games, like I was lifting weights, I was sprinting. Like I thought it was going to be super physical. Yeah.
And the only physical challenge in the Amazon Prime games was episode six, pulling the monster truck and doing the sprints, but you had to choose into it. Everything else was mental chance, psychological, emotional.
Yeah.
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And yes, they'll migrate your site for free too. That's K-I-N-S-T-A dot com slash DSH. I had to pick, I think I would have picked the mental one. Yeah. This chance is too, I don't want to lose on chance. I want to lose on a skill-based game.
But going into that game, it's like you get sucked into these narratives that people plant. And people are planting, hey, I think chance is going to be like, we're going to get rewarded if we choose chance. And so people start buying into that. Granted, they could have. They spun that wheel and it could have been, hey, we're going to save 16 of you guys.
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Chapter 4: How does Jeffrey balance optimism and pragmatism in facing his son's rare disease?
Chapter 5: What was Jeffrey’s experience competing on the Beast Games and the role of luck vs skill?
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And yes, they'll migrate your site for free too. That's K-I-N-S-T-A dot com slash DSH. I had to pick, I think I would have picked the mental one. Yeah. This chance is too, I don't want to lose on chance. I want to lose on a skill-based game.
But going into that game, it's like you get sucked into these narratives that people plant. And people are planting, hey, I think chance is going to be like, we're going to get rewarded if we choose chance. And so people start buying into that. Granted, they could have. They spun that wheel and it could have been, hey, we're going to save 16 of you guys.
But instead, I think 12 out of 16 had to go home. I know that was rough. Super rough. Like I would have, I'm so glad I didn't choose Chance. And there was like a small part of me that was kind of like, is this my time to let Chance take me? And I'm so glad I did. Yeah. Was there any part of the show where you thought you were going to get out? A hundred percent.
Episode two, when, I mean, we literally got eliminated for an hour. um, on the ball drive. Oh yeah. I remember that. Yeah. And so like I was processing, what am I going to do? Uh, what is today? I'll fly home tomorrow. I'll hang out with the family for a day. Then I'll be back to the grind. Um, episode three and the cubes, I thought I was going to get out after episode four and the helicopter.
Like I didn't realize how much of a, um, kind of a ruckus Jeremy caused with his handing out the tickets. Right. Um, so like I had to like earn trust back with people. Like, so I, there was like three episodes in a row or, you know, three challenges in a row where I go, oh my gosh, my back's up against the wall.
After the monster truck, I felt like super confident and kind of, uh, I don't want to say I sailed, but I was remarkably calm kind of after that. You saw that on the show too, just with your demeanor. Yeah. It just, you kind of get into the zone and then you realize, gosh, like I looked around and I think part of it, part of the thing that helped me win was the people.
Yeah.
And there was just, you know, out of the people who were on the island, there were 60 of us, I'd say 90% were really good people who didn't want to screw people over. And that helped.
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Chapter 6: How did relationships and alliances influence the outcome of the Beast Games?
There's a few I didn't know very well, but I'd say eight out of 10. I was, there was four of us who were part of an alliance that we're on good terms with. The other four I knew really, really well. And the other two I would say I'm neutral with.
Hmm.
So, like, for me, when I look at relationships, you're either negative, neutral, or positive. Right. And I don't think I was negative with anybody in the top 10. And I don't think there was really anybody who was super negative with each other. That probably helped you in the phone game, right? Being on good terms with everyone. Totally. Yeah.
And, you know, I think being interested in others, like, truly interested in others and getting to know them. It's, you know, people want to help people they know. Yeah. And when you are interested in others, you know, they... and become interested in you and you kind of form this bond and the phone game really, really helped me.
I think that was my favorite game to watch because it was all mental, psychological game.
And you have to, you eventually have to make a move, you know, and like I was, obviously I was there, but after I get out, like I have no clue what's going on with the phones. And so when I watched that and I saw Yessie947 make her move, which was awesome. So she planted a seed, I think in round three to get voted in round four.
And then Gage made his move, I think in round five, I'm like, oh my gosh, like these are two people I knew pretty well. who made moves that I did not expect them to make. Gage's move was, no one expected that one. The way they edited it too. I mean, that edit was awesome. I have goosebumps thinking about it. It was just brilliant. And Gage is like the sweetest guy, a really talented musician.
And he would never harm a fly. And then he makes this move. No one expected it. Oh, and just him giving a throwaway vote for Mikey 453. I'm like, that was brilliant. Yeah. That was an iconic move and it helped you win another 5 million.
So I know, I mean, again, like Gage, Gage will become a legend in the creatine transport deficiency because he, you know, in essence gifted me more money to invest into a cure. So like he's going crazy. Our next conference we have, I'm going to make sure Gage is there to meet the kids. Oh, I love it. He's an absolute stud. Love the guy. So you have conferences for this? Yeah.
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Chapter 7: What challenges does Jeffrey face with social media and digital content creation?
So I grew up not similar to you. I didn't really care about it in high school and college. But then once I started making money off it, that shifted my perspective. When was that? That was probably... Right when I dropped out of college. I grew up in Jersey. I went to Rutgers. Yeah. And then I figured out how to make some money off Instagram. Sweet. And that to me was like a switch.
Yeah. It's like there's no turning back.
Yeah. Because then I felt like I wasn't wasting my time.
I was being productive with it. And I'm sure you've shared this with people, but like, what is your advice for people who have this kind of entrepreneur spirit who are junior, senior in high school? Like how do you assess whether they go to college or not?
Oh, that's tough. Yeah. For me, it's, it's passion based, you know, like if they, if they really feel like college isn't the answer, like, Test some stuff out beforehand too. Don't just drop out or like not go with no plan. Exactly. Like I, at least when I dropped out, I had some money that was coming in. Yeah. Yeah.
I could show my mother who was pissed obviously at the time, but I showed her, I had like this amount of money coming in and I was really passionate about it. Let me take a break. What's your mother say now? She loves it. She watches every episode. No way. Shout out to my mom. Hey mom. Yeah, she's great. Still back in New Jersey? Yeah, she's in Pennsylvania now. Okay.
You've been out to Jersey ever?
Yeah, I grew up in Ohio. Oh, nice. Yeah, I grew up in Ohio, so just spent time all over. It's just nice. I mean, it's an hour, 15-minute flight from the city. Yeah. And then I lived a little bit in Pennsylvania, too. Where was Beast Games filmed at? Um, originally the, the, the episode zero was in Vegas. Oh yeah. At Allegiant stadium. So the one on YouTube, um, and that was, that was a trip.
That was a ton of fun. That was 2000 people or 2000 people. And I had no clue. Like I, like when I signed up, I thought it was, this was beast games. Like I'm going to be gone. And then a video, Jimmy gives us a video like an hour before we turn our phones. Like, Hey, by the way, This is 2,000 people. We're going to cut it down to 1,000. And then you'll go to the Amazon Beast Games.
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Chapter 8: Where was Beast Games filmed and what were the highlights of the competition?
in in the first challenge on these games oh i didn't know that and guess what because like you had to like in in that challenge is like you have to someone in your row and the row is like 80 some deep has to eliminate themselves and on in order for the rest of the row to move on yeah and if you're thinking about your how you're a type a charger like are you really going to eliminate yourself
no so like the rows that were safe were the ones at the end which were either the helpers or the more altruistic folks who needed help so it's like I think on paper it looks like chance but actually it's the makeup of those rows that is really cool that you chose into yeah the final two players were similar numbers crazy right we were right next to each other for two and a half days on the first episode that's nuts did you see her at the stadium too
Yeah. She was, um, she was kind of a prominent leader at the stadium. Like for me, like at the stadium, I was like, what am I doing here? Like, I'm such an old man. Um, and obviously I'm not a bit like I was probably in the, you know, the, the top 10% of age. Yeah. On the show, there's a lot of young people, a lot of young people.
But like the cool thing is like age and everything else, age, color, sex, gender, all disappears. Like you just connect with people if you want to. And so I became great friends with people who literally could be my daughter or son based on age. But yeah, in episode zero, she was, she was a leader. She was a force. It seemed like throughout the show, she sort of had a group she was leading, right?
Yeah. it's, it's interesting. She didn't have like a, an alliance per se. She didn't have a group. Just, she led everybody. Like if people called on her to lead, she would step up. She was, um, she's awesome. She's an absolute force. Like she's super talented, big heart, played hard. Um, But that's, that's who I wanted to, like, I literally wanted to go against her at the end.
Episode one, I told her like, I want to go against you at the end. Yeah. It's crazy how it happened. Wow. You manifested that. Cause she turned out a million too, right? A couple of times for other people. So she turned on a million for 60 people in episode two, episode three. Yep. She turned on a million when she could have taken it in the money grab in episode eight.
And nobody would have got eliminated. And at the end, when it was three of us, me, Gage, 974, and Tawana, 830, she could have taken a million dollars to eliminate herself. Oh, yeah.
And she got written down on that one too, surprisingly. Crazy. I was surprised. I was shocked. Yeah, I was shocked. Yeah. I was watching it with my fiance and I told her, there's no way it's her. It's one of the other three.
And I don't know... Because like for me, I just figured everybody viewed her like me. Like I had a ton of respect for her. She always put herself behind others. Super integrous. So when I saw that, I was like, I was shocked. And obviously I think that helped me too. I think that kind of shook her a little bit. It definitely did.
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