Dre Baldwin: Mental Toughness & Business Coach, Former Professional Basketball Player, Author

<div>Now here’s a guy with an unbelievable vision, drive, and a relentless pursuit of success. Dre Baldwin not only helps athletes get recognized for their talents; he’s a former basketball player, speaker, influencer, YouTuber, and author of <em>The Third Day: The Decision That Separates the Pros from the Amateurs.</em> Tre is a master at teaching discipline, mental toughness, and personal initiative.<br> <br> </div> <div>Listen in as this well-spoken motivator tells of his personal path from his high school team's bench, to the first contract of a 9-year professional basketball career, then pioneering new genres of personal branding and entrepreneurship via an ever-growing content publishing empire, publishing literally thousands of YouTube videos, viewed over 73 million times.<br> <br> </div> <div>If you could use a spark to get your life moving, this is the podcast for you.</div> <br> <div><strong>In this episode you will hear:</strong></div> <br> <ul> <li>When I realized I had no talent for baseball, I stopped that, then stumbled across basketball.</li> <li>I did not go pro immediately after college.</li> <li>After college, I attended “Exposure Camp”, a job fair for athletes. After that event and dozens of cold calls and videos to agents, I was finally signed to a contract to play basketball in Lithuania.</li> <li>I gained popularity, not from basketball videos on YouTube, but from the motivational things I said on them.</li> <li>I launched <em>The weekly Motivation</em> on YouTube.</li> <li>I had to find a way to do something I love to do, plus be a computer geek, and make money from it.</li> <li>I’m a very competitive person.</li> <li>At home, I was taught discipline, respect, honoring authority, and respecting elders.</li> <li>I would make up challenging stories in my mind so I’d have a target to shoot at. If I don’t have anything to aim for, I’m not gonna give my best effort. But when I do, it brings out the best in me.</li> <li>Our generation, ages 30-50 – we are the best generation.</li> <li>People a