The Living Your Legacy Podcast
How Darren Prince Turned Addiction into a Mission to Help Millions
06 Feb 2025
Darren Prince, a bestselling author, public speaker, and CEO of Prince Marketing Group, joins the Legacy Makers Podcast to share his incredible journey. A highly successful sports and entertainment agent working with legends like Magic Johnson, Hulk Hogan, Chevy Chase, Carmen Electra. Darren battled a secret addiction behind the scenes. His struggles with opioids led him into a dark double life, but through faith, recovery, and a newfound purpose, he emerged stronger. Now, he dedicates his life to helping others overcome addiction and mental health struggles, spreading hope through speaking engagements, charities, and his bestselling book Aiming High.In this episode, Darren and the host discuss the stigmas surrounding addiction, particularly in different cultures, and why celebrities are often drawn into destructive behaviours. He emphasises the importance of building genuine relationships in business, valuing people over profits, and how his past experiences shaped his mission to help others. Darren reflects on what legacy truly means—not wealth or fame, but the impact we leave on people’s lives.CHAPTERS02:35 - The Double Life of Addiction04:54 - Cultural Stigmas Around Mental Health07:21 - The Celebrity Addiction Epidemic09:45 - Relationship-Building: The Secret to Business Success12:10 - The Super Agent Label & Its Meaning14:35 - Breaking Generational Curses Through Recovery17:02 - Faith, Meditation, and Healing TraumaConnect with Darren:Website: www.officialdarrenprince.comInstagram: @agent_dpTwitter: @Agent_DPLinkedIn: Darren PrinceBook: Aiming High: How a Prominent Sports and Celebrity Agent Hit Bottom at the Top – Available on AmazonBusiness: CEO of Prince Marketing Group (www.princemarketinggroup.com)Charity Work: Advocate for addiction recovery & mental health awareness
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Highly functioning until I wasn't and then it just became this crazy facade and this double life and you know I just know there's so many people out there that we know of and don't know of that are suffering from mental health and substance abuse and It's just so beautiful that you guys have this platform now around the world.
Darren Prince is a best-selling author, public speaker, and entrepreneur. He is the president and CEO of Prince Marketing Group, a sports and entertainment marketing agency that specializes in marketing and celebrity bookings.
My legacy's got nothing to do with my business career, man. I want to go up there, and people are remembering Darren Prince as the guy that went deep into health and came out on the other side. and sprinkled hope and recovery across the world for people suffering with mental health and substance abuse issues. That's legacy.
hello and welcome back to another episode of legacy makers podcast today joining me is a dear friend a business partner mr darren prince welcome to the show thanks for having me man so darren is a very famous celebrity agent worked with many of the biggest names in the history books of of legends and uh you know so very fitting for legacy makers but on top of that
He's working on his legacy, something that the world needs, something that's massively impactful. In your episode, you break down, you know, your battles and struggles with addiction and now how you've taken that, you know, and over the last 16 years, turn that pain and struggles into helping other people fight through it.
And you've got a top book, a bestselling book, charities, you speak around the world. So super excited for you to be here and have an episode and welcome to Legacy Makers. Thanks for that, man. I appreciate it.
so let's dive in um do you mind just uh kind of giving everyone a a teaser of what in the episode they'll kind of hear and your backstory into all this yeah so it's more or less uh being a fly on the wall to my life journey of working with some of the most elite icons in the world while i was more or less struggling uh deep in hell and addiction i found my
my purpose man on this journey yeah and i found my mission yeah on this journey and uh who would have thought working with all those icons would have given me a platform to meet people like you, get in business with people like you and get on a show like this.
And it's, you know, obviously I know your story and in the episode you break it down. It's, you know, fascinating how you've now turned this into something so great, but also what you went through back then when you were, you know, hanging out with some of the big famous celebrities at NFN and just battling this alongside it behind the scenes, right?
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