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Chapter 1: What inspired Jared Allen's journey from Idaho State to the NFL?
The NFL, everybody's fast, everybody's strong, everybody, or some form of an all-American problem. What makes all these people in college the 1% of 1%? When you get to those levels where everybody's good, everybody's great, it is a mindset and it's your work ethic. Guys that work hard, that are hustlers, like that motors, all that, you hear the high motor.
And I'm like, you're actually using those in a negative connotation. At that point, everybody's talented. So the fact that I'm willing to outwork you just shows that mentally you're weak.
Chapter 2: How did Jared Allen achieve his record-breaking 22-sack season?
And that's how I equate it. I wasn't willing to work out to meet the standard that I thought was acceptable. I could have hung on for paychecks and racked up five sacks a year and done the minimum, but that's just not who I was. And so I take that same philosophy of what we're doing. So If that passion for something burns or if I'm not willing to put that effort in, then we get out of it.
We don't do it in the first place.
Chapter 3: What leadership lessons can be learned from Jared Allen's NFL experience?
What greater mission or greater purpose to be all in on than your kids and your wife and in your faith? All this goes away. When we go in front of our maker, whoever you believe your maker is, when you go in front of them, dollar signs and zeros in your bank account mean absolutely nothing.
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Chapter 4: How does Jared Allen translate NFL grit to business success?
Let's get unplugged.
Ladies and gentlemen, today's guest is a phenom. If you look up the word or the term man's man in the dictionary, you find this guest. NFL Hall of Famer, legendary at everything that he does, man of faith, and a man who is an owner of the best bourbon I've ever had in my life. I am talking to none other than the GOAT himself, Mr. Jared Allen. Jared, how are you doing today, brother?
Oh, I'm doing great.
Chapter 5: What philanthropic efforts is Jared Allen involved in?
I mean, I need you to just be around my house 24-7 every morning with that intro. You got to have a great day after that intro. I apologize for the dogs barking over here. My golden dude will think she's a Rottweiler.
All good, brother.
All good, man.
I'm doing great.
Chapter 6: How does Jared Allen sustain excellence beyond his football career?
How about yourself? I am great now that I am with you. I'm honored to have you on. There's so much I want to talk to you about because you're someone who, on and off the field, I've admired for a long time. You're someone who, when you played sports, even the things you do off the field, you don't hide your faith. You never hid your faith.
And that's something I truly admired about you, man, because, you know, when you have the spotlight on you like you did and all the things that you were doing, you still gave honor where honor was due.
Chapter 7: What is the story behind Jared Allen's bourbon brand, Full Ryde?
And I've always respected you.
Well, I appreciate that. Yeah. You know, um, you know, like, like a lot of people, you know, I grew up in the church. Uh, I had my ebbs and flows, right. I always, I always laugh and sit growing up, you know, had that heart rate monitor relationship, right. You know, Sunday morning was always an apology for Saturday night at some point.
Chapter 8: What life lessons does Jared Allen share about family and legacy?
Right. And as I got older, as I grew, you know, going through challenges in my life, you know, I had great people around me. I have a great family. You know, for all their flaws, you know, my mom and dad are fantastic people. And, you know, even though You know, they were married my whole life. They're not married. I mean, I got divorced when I was young.
But, you know, my stepdad's an amazing person. So, you know, I got great influence. That's what I'm just trying to say. And, you know, as you go through life like that, you tend to always come back around to your foundations, right? And so as I got older and made mistakes and, you know, I had my grandfather as a big part of my life. A lot of people heard me talk about him.
Um, and then my best friend's dad growing up was our pastor. And, um, you know, I remember, I remember forget what he said, you know, I'll never forget that. I was 20, roughly good. I guess I was 24 years old, 25 years old, maybe I guess 26 years old or something. And, uh, and that's what he said. He said, the world needs more moral heroes. You know, it's enough assholes in the world.
And when your pastor cusses at you, you're kind of like, okay, yeah, you know what? I need to, uh, I need to, uh, I need this relationship. Anybody who's been married, I'm going on 16 years of marriage. I got to tell my friends too. I said, you know, you don't want peaks and valleys, right? This is flatlining and marriage is a great, is a great thing. Consistency.
And so that's kind of where, where I was at, you know, and, and I'm always, so I think, you know, getting to my long winded version of getting back to kind of why I always wanted to live the way I, you know, I lived and, and be so transparent with people is, is that, You know, I understood that feeling of, you know, when people would ask you, what's the one thing people don't know about you?
Oh, I'm a Christian. Like, that's not what you want to say. Right. And that's not being also through that process of growing up and learning that you are a role model, whether you want to be one or not. Right. So what is it? And that's, you know, kind of going back to how I was raised is like, who are you? What is that authentic person that you look like? Right.
You know, if you're praying and you're reading your Bible and you're doing certain things, why are you hiding it, right? And if this is how you were raised, this is what you stand on, then you need to live by those principles. those factors too that you stand on. Right. And so those are kind of those mature, that maturation process of maturing and stuff like that.
And I, you know, I realized, you know, that again, I'm just going to be me. I don't know how to be anybody else, but me, right. It's too, it's too hard to try to be a different version of yourself or different people. And so I tell my kids just be authentically you. And so I tried to pass that along. And then I think I also had a great understanding of,
I genuinely loved what I did for a living, right? And I had a lot of respect because, you know, I came from, I didn't have a lot of money growing up. I mean, we had prosperous times and we had really, really poor times, you know? So, you know, I understood and would read fan mail when people would talk about, you know, you know, football was their escape, right?
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