I want you to imagine you just won the World Series… This is the highlight of your entire life.
You are the star pitcher and the most popular baseball player on the planet.
After the game you decide to run to your drug dealer's house before you plan to meet up with your teammates to celebrate.
Next thing you know you are watching the victory parade on TV. It takes you a minute to realize that you are lying on the floor of your drug dealer.
This is the story of my upcoming podcast guest Dwight “Doc” Gooden. I recently had the honor of sitting down with Dwight and we talked about his highs and lows. His fall from grace and his multiple comebacks.
In 2019 Dwight received two DUIs in a span of a week. It was time for some radical change.
He decided it was time to finally get some help and in his words “take off my mask” that he had always worn. Never processing the trauma of seeing his sister shot as a child. Never processing his mom shooting his dad or the rats running across his little body as he slept as a youth.
This interview is a top-5 interview all time for me. Not because Dwight was a childhood hero of mine, which he was. But because his message is the exact reason I formed a men’s group in the first place.
Driven by shame, fear, and insecurity even Dwight Gooden couldn’t outrun his unprocessed emotions. Eventually spilling over until he got real and let them in.
This is the exact type of work we do in We Are The They. A group of successful men that want to be able to take their mask off and be ok not being ok. To feel like you are enough even though you fall short so painfully often.
This is a story I could share 100 times with different details but the same outcomes. Men, if this resonates come check us out and see why over 325 other men have already signed up for our leadership program.
Nothing changes 'til we change things. Reach out and let’s chat. Don’t miss your victory parade of life because you were afraid to be seen and celebrated.
.png)