My friends welcome to the sheep get shared podcast.
I'm your host Austin Creed and my friends, you
know, I'm gonna be totally honest with you I'm
walking down the street. I had a really hard
conversation You know if you if life's not going
the way you planned maybe maybe you're an older
guy listening to the show and Life has worked
out for you. You took a lot of risk in your life
But there was a season of your life when nothing
seemed to be going your way You seem like you
were rolling snake eyes on anything and everything
you ever tried and They were just different twists
and turns and looking back you understand why
they were there But you know in the moment especially
for me in this moment I'm a younger guy. I'm
trying to build myself and it's incredibly difficult
good seems like everybody's Winning except for
me, but I know it's not the truth enough. You
know if you can you can understand If you're
trying to build something in your life, if you're
trying to become somebody and you don't understand
what I'm talking about, you understand the struggle
of striving and seeming like every time you work
your heart out, you only get halfway or something
gets in your way, whether it's you or some outside
thing. And it's one of those very unfortunate
situations. Yeah, there's There's no way I'm
alone on this. I know for a fact that I'm not.
Let me ask you, have you recently in your professional
career been in a really tough situation where
you took a lot of risk, both personal and professional,
and you've just felt like you've been kicked
in the nuts every time you tried something? Trust
me. That's been me. I'll tell you that right
now. I mean the first one tell you that I Felt
that very much in the last couple years, especially
And so if you struggle with that I get it I totally
totally understand that But you see here's the
problem the temptation to give up The temptation
to give up is so overwhelming It really is You
know, you look at famous people, famous inventors,
famous politicians, famous leaders, famous captains
of industry, and you look and you see yourself,
how did these people achieve such unbelievable
wealth, unbelievable fame, unbelievable success?
How do they do it? How did they manage to overcome
all the adversity, both internal and external?
How did they manage to do all that and still
overcome and achieve it how do they do it well
I ask myself that all the time because money
is very real and the problem is it's one of the
things that I don't know the worst times in my
life been for my depression has been when I broke
or I'm not seeing the return that I think I should
be getting that's a really hard one That's something
I've been really wrestling with. So if you've
experienced that recently, you're not alone either.
It's very easy to have a pity party for yourself
and think to yourself that you deserve this and
deserve that. First of all, you don't deserve
nothing. Nobody does and that includes me. You
have to earn everything that you get in life
and you do, whether it's good or bad in the same
way that you deserve what plants in your backyard,
whether you plant cash, crops or weeds, doesn't
matter. you get back what you put in maybe not
in the way you expect but you do you get back
what you give and my friends it's so easy to
give up look to me that's the point of the show
today it's so easy to give up I'm half tempted
to give up but the thing is I'm the kind of guy
that jumps if you're anything like me you jump
out of the of the plane or how parachute on You're
like I gotta I gotta just plant I'll figure it
out That's kind of how I'm you could argue that's
impulsive and I would understand that But I refuse
to lose How about you do you refuse to lose are
you gonna give up? Because whether it's getting
the physique that you want Whether it's getting
the person and love interest in your life or
a success. You got to keep going. You got to
be willing to take risk. And let me tell you,
it hurts when it doesn't work out because I'm
seeing that for myself. It's really hard. It's
easy to read a book and go from start to finish.
And you could think to yourself, it's easy for
the protagonist to make it to the end because
you're the reader. You know how the story ends.
It doesn't directly affecting your life versus
when it's you. It's really easy to think, damn,
how do I do this? How do I keep going every day,
suffering the difficulties, the adversities,
the self doubt? That's a big one, by the way.
How do I overcome all those things? And, you
know, contrary to popular belief, I don't think
that life is meant to be enjoyed. Truthfully,
I think life is meant to be a grind and life
sucks. Life is not meant to feel good. People,
especially the conservative people, are taught
to deny the immediate pleasure and we embrace
what is difficult. We deny the self and in doing
so we allow ourselves to become more than just
the base monkey instinct within every man. And
the problem is so many of us have a hard time
doing that because it's not natural for us. I
could go down the whole dopamine instant gratification
wormhole but at the end of the day you have to
have a reason why you're struggling so much because
you can't just struggle to struggle unless you're
a masochist which you are I mean I don't understand
you at all but when it comes down to it you have
to have a why and one things that I've been struggling
with is my why. Why do I do this show? Why do
I continue to do the sales job that is incredibly
difficult for me? Why do I keep doing it? And
the answer is because I refuse to fail. In plain
English, I refuse to fail. I will not give up.
I might have to pivot, but I'm not giving up.
This show, the one you're listening to right
now, will go to number one. When it comes to
conservative podcasts, when it comes to men's
self development, it'll get to number one. It
will happen tomorrow. It will happen next week,
but it's going to happen. Why? Because I refuse
to stop making content. I refuse to give up in
the same way that you have to refuse to give
up in your life. I don't know what motivates
you to get up in the morning. Whatever motivates
you to get up in the morning, you got to set
that as your North Star. You know, sailors before
all the fancy technology they have today, they
would use the stars and navigate. and the North
Star was one of the easiest ones to pick out
because it was so bright and they would follow
the North Star in the same way that you had to
follow your North Star and if you don't well
it's the one you're getting lost and sometimes
that North Star is gonna be blurry because the
storm's rolling in it's not always gonna be easy
to find it but you have to have a will as cheesy
as it's gonna sound and trust me I hate eating
a lot of cheese much less hearing it in the arguments
and the motivational clips I see on the internet
but where there's a will there's a way and the
problem is a lot of people don't have the will
they lose it the will to go to the gym the will
to suffer failure failure failure is an end it's
not meant to be negative failure is meant to
be learning experience at least to me I mean
you can feel free to disagree if you want to
But it's not meant to be something that destroys
you. It's meant to be something that molds you
into something stronger than before. People with
scars tend to look tough, right? Of course they
do. Scars mentally are developed through failure.
A cut in the sting of failure. And that makes
us stronger. To many of us, we don't want to
suffer that. We don't want the pain. We fear
the failure. Don't fear failure. fear giving
up that's what i fear that's why it affects me
so much when everybody around me seems to be
questioning me and i feel like atlas carrying
the world on my shoulders it's very easy to get
overwhelmed and oh feel like the world's closing
in on you trust me i feel that way right now
you might even be able to hear it in my voice
i don't know sometimes i can't even tell you
know i'm not wearing these older guys who drives
a Ferrari and acts like oh guys just do what
I tell you and you'll be rich like me no it's
not the kind of show this is in fact I'm a mostly
broke guy trying to figure out his life at age
25 out of the military and life's not going the
way I want it to frankly but this isn't a sob
story this is there are different chapters in
the book you read a story If you don't read I
recommend you do especially have a couple books
that you can always refer back to if you want
a good book to add to that list you could put
my book in there biblical bachelor it's fantastic
but you know enough with the self -plug ready
I feel see I feel even gross saying that to you
trying to pitch my way in I feel gross even doing
it but you know I'm doing anyway why not if I
don't advocate for myself who's gonna do it you
you're gonna advocate for me I'll believe when
I see it people are too busy to really care about
anybody but themselves for the most part which
I don't blame them by the way I'm not holier
than now in that regard but nonetheless it's
really easy for us to get distracted the problem
is too many of us just focus on the distractions
in our life instead of what's really important
and I really don't blame you to be honest it's
important to never Give up. If you take nothing
else away from listening to the show today, which
you might argue is a bunch of rambling. For anything
else, don't give up. I'm literally sitting in
an empty park. I'm literally standing in an empty
parking lot right now outside of a coffee shop
a couple blocks away from my house. And it's
depressing. It's raining here in Georgia right
now. It's raining in a lot of places in America
right now. Midwest to the south. And let me tell
you it's Serious overwhelming It's I want to
give up so bad and just pack it up break up with
my girlfriend. I don't want to But I don't know
what really what to do with my life right now
I want to feel like I failed her as I'm feeling
myself in my own head I don't want to I don't
want to be like that really don't I Feel like
in most things I've ever done I failed And you
could sit here and say, well Austin, this is
just part of your growth as a person. Maybe you're
right. Maybe you're right. But especially in
the moment, never feels like it. If you've ever
had difficult times like this in your life, you
know as well as I do that you're just not in
the head space to hear it. Because you've got
to figure out for yourself what the plan is.
What are you going to do? What are you going
to do? I mean, that's the only question I keep
hearing in my head. What are you going to do?
And the answer is, I'm gonna do what I've always
done. Keep on going. Work towards the goals I've
set and do what I set out to do. My why was to
make this show number one. That was the whole
reason I took my sales job. This show is what
I care about. I would do this show multiple times
a day. You give me a coffee and a newspaper,
I could do the most dynamic show you could ever
imagine. for a full hour on a radio show or a
podcast for an hour straight. You have the most
dynamic show you could ever imagine. You don't
believe me? I'll do it. Hell, I can start doing
it starting tomorrow. Why not? I'll wake up in
the morning. We can start doing a news day every
morning. Hey, you know what? Maybe it's not a
bad idea. Why not? You guys let me know. What
do you think? Should I start doing a new show
like that? Maybe. Why not? Why not? I read the
news anyway, I might as well share with you how
depressing it is. How unbelievably gross most
of it is, especially on X, all this propaganda.
I mean, there are downsides to free speech, I'll
tell you the truth. But I still support it, even
if I don't like it a lot of times. I still support
it anyway. This show lives and dies by the First
Amendment. I'm not... Got in this fight with
this guy on X a couple days ago. I think it was
either yesterday or the day before. It was so
funny. people who have a couple thousand followers
they think the guys like me who have a couple
hundred on x are gonna be like oh no no no how
do i argue with him dude was a schmuck a moron
couldn't hold no i couldn't shine in my shoes
and my friends you need to remember when it's
important to you this show is the most important
thing in my life to me right now one of the few
things that keeps me sane you the loyal audience
of the show you keep me sane and i want to thank
you for that Let me know do you think I should
be doing a dynamic morning show why not? Hell
why not? Let's do it I'll start doing by tomorrow.
Why not start doing in the morning from now on
and I can do an evening show That's a little
more dynamic about a certain topic that we want
to talk about I mean, why not what's stopping
me and the answer is me. That's who's stopping
me on that one Anyways my friends You let me
know, do you like the stream of consciousness
of the show or do you like people who sit there
with a blackboard and they beat you up with a
chalk and a blackboard and a bunch of bucks sitting
in a circle talking about some BS? Oh, we talked
to this this blonde with lipstick this only fans
check over here and how make her look stupid
Hey there, Brittany. What did you think about
this? Oh, well, you see Josh. I thought about
this and a lot of other dumbass whore Okay, let's
go to a commercial break and preach to you about
all here's a supplement company I'm gonna give
you some protein. You can look like me as a the
peptides in the The SARs and the steroids. You
can look like me with this protein powder. And
I thank you very much. And let's give Dr. the
blog a lipstick. That's what so many podcasts
have become. Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me I'm wrong.
You can't. You know it's true. So my friends,
why not? I'll start doing the morning and evening
show from now on. You can plug this back in the
future to this show. And that's when we decided
to do it. My friends, take care of yourselves.
I'm about to walk back to my house. I gotta figure
out what I'm gonna do with my life. Let me know
how you figured out how you've dealt with yours,
whether ups and downs, whether you're older or
younger than me or the same age, doesn't matter.
Let me know. I wanna know. My friends, take care
of yourselves. We'll see how everything plays
out. Until then, I'll see you next time. Peace.