Episode 120 MLB Mindset with Shea Hillenbrand (Part 1)

John talks to Shea Hillenbrand — former 2x All-Star Major League Baseball (MLB) player who played for the Boston Red Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks, Toronto Blue Jays, San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Today Shea is a Global Elite Performance specialist that helps world-class athletes and leaders master their inner game so they can win in all areas of life, which provides true meaning to their success.

Listen to this episode to learn more:

[00:43] - Brief intro of Shea 

[02:36] - What made him fall in love with baseball

[05:41] - How he achieved his dream to become a pro baseball player without any resources

[07:33] - Pivotal moment in Shea’s life

[11:15] - The Red Sox and White Sox drafted him at the age of 20

[12:35] - Shea's message to the audience

[17:16] - Details of his success formula

[18:15] - Deciding to quit baseball and why

[26:12] - Turning relationships and self-improvement into a career rocket

[27:54] - The difference between passion and purpose

[31:30] - The five P's of life

NOTABLE QUOTES:

"Skillsets have utility, and if you wanna take yourself from where you are right now to where you wanna go to achieve that dream… you have to be able to master skill sets regardless of whatever that is because skill sets have utility, but they don't require talent. They don't require ability. They require commitment. They require dedication. They require sweat and tears and blood."

"You have to put the work in. You have to do it. You have to allow yourself to fail. You have to allow yourself to jump outside your comfort zone. You have to allow yourself to go out there and do it over and over again because you have to create resilience through the process."

"What do 97% of people do? They give up. They allow that failure to conform, to define who they are, rather than refine who they are." 

"Playing minor league baseball is extremely difficult. But I didn't give up… So when everybody said it was too hot, they were tired… I never gave myself that opportunity, that option. I trained that mindset, that MLB mindset to go out there and persevere and do it and pivot all the way to the top." 

"Life is about momentum. We could argue and discuss politics, COVID, and religion, but life is about momentum. And once you get into momentum, stacking little wins on top of each other, what's gonna happen is you will get rewarded."

"The most important conversation you ever have in your life is the conversation you have with yourself, not anybody else."

"The biggest thing that you could do for yourself is fill up yourself first, work on yourself, your personal pillars… Then your private pillar, that's your interpersonal relationships and people close around you, your family, your parents, your spouse, your kids. When you do that, your professional life will explode to a level that you didn't even think imaginable."

USEFUL RESOURCES:

https://www.sheahillenbrand.co/home 

https://www.instagram.com/shea_hillenbrand/ 

https://www.facebook.com/iamsheahillenbrand 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0WMafhmTCD6R_zUlAHasaw 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheahillenbrand/ 

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EPISODE CREDITS

Intro music provided by Tony Palacios - https://www.instagram.com/tonytonedog/         

Outro music provided by Jeff Scheetz - https://jeffscheetz.com/