S2E242 Drive to Survive with Derek Daly
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Welcome to its a good life, the podcast for entrepreneurs where is all about growing yourself and your business? Here's your host, founder of america's largest business coaching company, brian. The feeling.

Well, top the morning and welcome to its a good life on your host, bria thi. And you know, since twenty sixteen, this show has endeavor to bring a guest with the mindset, motivation and methodology for success. Today might be, i'm always thinking of you guys, but I gotta say today might be the most self intel gent interview i've ever done.

Because grown up in doublin, especially in in the sober but doublin called dungeon m, there was one man who was like, he was the icon of, uh, all of us kids when we're grown up, because not only did he get up out of the neighbourhood, but on an an international scale. H he became a formula one driver, and his name is direct daily. And i'm i'm gonna admit that when I was a kid, I was a fan boy, as my kids would call IT today, and direct all liars.

He had to, he had to work his way up and eventually had forty nine starts and form in the won, did some remarkable things that has gone on to do remarkable things since. And with the the just the absolute explosive growth of the form of one race and the drive to survive show, all my kids are now farmer one fans because of that netflix show, we thought today would be great. And Derek has not only been a race car driver at the master of fast with the column when we were kids, but he's an entrepreneur, is the best in law that he's been on the network television scene for twenty five years, competed against world champions.

And he has some great insights. And he's like our irishman, we, he found a way to get paid for talking. And so that's how we do IT direct daily. IT is an absolute honor and privilege to have on the show today and in to introduce you to a huge ideas of people. But we're gonna to know your story today.

And ran IT is such a pleasure for me to join you. I mean, we came. I was hard for me to believe when I began to look into your background. But if he had drove far, maybe two minutes, you go from your door to my dog, right? And I was very much a working class neighborhoods that we lived in, and they're radio, many story lines.

So to have to to have a dream or an idea that, you know, maybe you will take a step into the unknown to go the side of the world and see what happens. That was a bit of a brain move back then, but we didn't realize that because I think we were driven by by by doing something, maybe making a mark, maybe creating a legacy. Although we didn't fully understand or know how to do that, we were willing to give IT a.

give IT a go, right? And grown up where we did when we did like that. You are you're a little bit of me, but you know, ireland in the sixties and seventies now, in child of the sixties and even into the eighties, I mean, we tell us, and even Younger irish people, I go back there.

I've known concept to this, but IT wasn't just a phrase. We were considered a third war, a country. Economically, we were. We certainly as spirit to be in downturn. And we've always been greatly humor, always great with stories, and always great with music and laughter and food and i'll that stuff.

But at the end of that, when you talk about success and break them out and and even if you try to you, but like, what do you do and what? Who is your man and who do you think you are not not gonna work. And so, you know, you know, for you, like still of, I remember vividly my childhood, and I remember that was IT was equivalent to someone landed on the moon that a fellow from don drum could end up and form the one.

And how in the world did you even get into IT? Because there was no money around, you know, it's a rich man's game. How did you even get into the the race car business?

Yeah and and I I I think it's fair to say your dad becomes your role model at some because really he he he's the closest person to you who's out in the fields work and and doing stuff. And so my role model was a dad who sold vegetables out of a corner option store. We eat chickens in our backyard and when we grew open, that sold dinner, would you go about top the head of the chicken and in your model and others? I mean, this is the reality .

where in the city, where in the city.

where and when you tell people that attend your talk over the one thousand and two, which are not, that was our reality. I, I was twelve years of age, walk and hold from school one day, leather school bag on your back, short pants. And I turned into the streets.

And we impact that, you know, well. And there was an english register truck, a Green truck, with sydney Taylor racing on the side of fish. And I thought i'd bet there's a racing car in there.

And I I was always fascinated by cars and racing. There were no racing circus s in ireland of the time, not. So there was a straight race in Donald in on the outskirts of double city and sydney. Taylor had come from england with his racing car. And his sister happened to buy groceries from my dad.

which, by the way, my mother board grows from. I found out.

yeah. So I go to my dad. I said, there's a racing truck in the nebo hood he said yes he said, at seven a clock, let you boys are groceries.

Here is our brothers care. And you can see at at seven oclock we go back to almost the doors, seven o'clock. Here's this usable twice, rob, on B, T, H, with a Green stripe in an area.

Shrock on the front. Lish with the first racing can I ever touched? And so my dad said, i'll take you to dumb in tomorrow to see IT less.

We got a domain now to give people an idea what a village in in in downwind looks like there was grass banks um that just SAT on there were no garage ils there was no safety the literally SAT on the grass bank he could move around between the trees and set on another grass bank and the car is literally when wasn't by a two feet from where you were when the most dangerous thing in the world. Now, ryan, that afternoon, I, I, I still remember the smell, the oil, the sites, the sound that, the rubber, the noise. I remember everything today is clear.

The H, D, video, as if that happened last week and I told my dad, that's what i'm going to do. I'm going to be a professional x and and I mean, I was so naive thinking that I had to get a job wasn't practical because that taking too much time out of my day, I couldn't be a racing over. I had a job.

I was that nai eve as a twelve year old. And that's from the dream started when I saw sydney tailor racing went out. And that was a life changer for me. And you had to go to school and you had to do the you know do a certain amount of learning um um but in the back of my mind I was always seeing how can I become a race and job so .

you had a dream, had A A little vision as they today today we have no practical way at all to be able to execute this. There's no racing business is no raising culture. There's no free money flown around the place.

There's no there's no internet billionaire around around in joblins. You know, IT was I tell my one one of things my kids did. I said they watch the movie, the commitments, which is a great follow for anybody here.

And I go like, these are some of the socket fields my school played in, like we would win a match against share of street and the lady to thrown bottles out of the the apartments that, as you know, like the that and I go, no, that's not exaggeration. And like, that's how I was. So how in the world you have this dream there?

There's hundreds of thousands of people listening today, and they they have a dream theyve wanted to own a business. They wanted to grow. They wanted do this.

They have this thing they want to pursue. And yet, logically, there is not. And I think that's why novita sometimes is a beautiful thing.

Because when you first get the dream, the next thought shouldn't be how IT shouldn't be how the next door is. Let yourself go there, let yourself see yourself, sit and avoid problem with the, imagine a shamrock on the front of the court. Drive for the right.

How about that? yes. So what? What were the steps? How did you get in the game?

So at sixteen um I went what they call stock car racing and iron stock car racing is demolition derby ruh bang. Uh, get an old road care, put put A H, set a sy bells into this break all the glass with a hammer and sudden are racing. I was sixteen.

Now remember, we didn't have a drivers' like this driver car in ireland until eighteen. The time my dad would told me on the end of a rope across the streets of dublin city to a small dirt track and santi stadium and I started racing, was sixteen. I knew the only thing I knew by cares is what my dad taught me. And what you mess around with yourself.

what was he does? what? What does jim? So jim, daily, obviously, he didn't tell you.

So this was a very, I already picking, is a very unusual irishman who didn't say, that's a terrible idea. That's daft. We don't have money for this.

How are you ever going to be a raised car driver? Mean, to this day, that could be the the phrase at home. So this is an unusual man. He sell vegetable les on the corner and he's like, yes, okay, you're too Young to drive, i'll drive you cross town and told you over there he just, I just believed in that seems like right.

And so there was an incident at one of the races where I got his and my car flipped opposite down and lands up on the roof. There was glass and scraped line everywhere from those. The sofa was left in the back seat in the doors, and i'm crawl and out through the back window. I look up and my dads running and in a full sprint across the track, in between cars, to pick me up, and he said, let's told this thing home and see, can we .

fix .

that rise? And brian, I didn't really grass or understanding the type of support I had, but I think IT in grain an element of confidence in me to have a go. As you say, you can see the dream, but unless you open the door and take the step, you know, and and a lot of people say, well, yeah, yeah, somebody out the door.

Yeah, no matter what doors are open, me, you have to walk through the door yourself to make things happen. You like, does a responsibility. But but my dad, in his own quiet way, hopely supported what I did.

I love us. Love that I get a goose bomb thinking about, because that my mother was that person to me, my was was a great role model. What my mother was, my, her, every day of her life you can do brightly.

Do you do ninety four and care home? The other day i'm gone, you can do a briny. I mean, it's not you know so you have that support when some people it's a friend, is a family member, it's a coach, it's whatever.

So just practically then you're doing the demolition derby. You know obviously you catch somebody's eye at some point. Time end up in .

farm the three and you great seventy two, I win the a stock car chapter. And I know the next obviously step is to go formula ford racing. If a word yes, formula d was the lowest level of single c or open real racing cars that you could started.

yeah. And so all I had to do was find the morning. So i'm standing in idle drum with a friend of mine. My girl, a friend at the time, said, do you know my aim? And just came back from australia.

He was a labor in the iron ore mines, and the year in five thousand pounds of six months, the light bull bands off. We could work a winter and make five thousand. I said, I can buy a racing care that this, you you just had to do this.

Now there are two choices. At the time, the alaska oil pipeline was starting, and there was a labor's in the iron ore mines of australia. For alaska, you had to pay a thousand pounds for clothing to keep you warm, so you couldn't die in australia.

You cut the sleeves off your shirt and the legs off your pants. You are well dressed. That was that right there. That was the decision. Two weeks later, we were in perth, australia, at the single man's quarters. They handle us that has with quarks around us, so that eating by bug, they flew us up to the northwest, dropped a mine, pesh. The effort for for .

twenty years.

all of the time I was nineteen, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, just almost twenty. And I tell people IT was the hottest, hardest, dirtiest, most enjoyable saying i'd ever done in my lifetime. And to that stage, and you got paid eight h straight time for the fourteen hours, doubled time with the next eight hours and triple time, if you could do to the four, you wouldn't be a loud work out hard today.

But we were on emission myself of a friend of mind, David Kennedy, from don drone. I wanted by racing car, where you were down there for a mission. Well, there was draw addicts and, uh, convicts and criminals. I mean, that's what the labor you. But there were also guys on a mission that I wanted to buy a house, wanted to buy a, yet we have no wanted to buy a racing careers.

And back in one thousand nine hundred and seventy two, five ground was a lot of money. I, an that was .

big doll of ford, went to model park. Yes, but I just hope the couple of years earlier and start of the race.

I mention my cousin john Morris, who no doubt will be listening to this episode. So he was a formal afford owner they own to the garage in renal a the marrs. You probably seen this a talking very chicken across over now.

And IT was the maros is garbage. He was there for forty years, and they were in the car business, six cars, and he was performing for IT. So when I force got introduced, ed, the cars was formed, afford city, the model park. And I went many times, and I was always, and they go read daily, drove here was like, don't touch .

the sacred rock.

So you found you were pretty good at, obviously, acrimony so much. I had the vision. You got pretty good at IT.

pretty quick. Well, circumstances began to find a place to support me. So I got a model。 I end this second hand car.

I'm good, but I couldn't win. I wasn't the car wasn't quite good enough to win. And then in the middle of the year they had the irish formula forward festival where dollars came from, uh, england.

And we all had a big crashing abon, a speed festival. And I was run in second behind a friend of mine, and I couldn't pass them. And I had block me, and I tried to pass, and he had block me.

I try and pass some block. And I thought, you know what, i'm going to make this stick. And I was down the inside of, and he saw me too. Lady went to block me.

I ran into the back of one over over the top and flip the Carry opposite down, learned the other roll bar smoke can steam and broken body workers suspension and the opposite entry to crawl out of this thing. And I am just about out. I look up, and here is my dad springs and across the grass, jumped out with the fence sprint across, right?

He puts his arms around me. He's walking away. You know what he said to me? I know that cars destroy, but i'm glad I had to go.

Go bomb and and I just, you know, again, I don't want to be smart, our country of origin here, but that was shocking. Thinking in one nine hundred and seventy two for irishman, you know, we were still talking about the famine. We were still talking about the english Operation.

We are still doing this. And people were poor as all church mice. But to have that level of belief telling you, dad, this goose pom, you know, I want amazed and deal.

And so unknowns to myself, circumstances were about to start to fall into place. The record stroking lives my car puts IT on the trailer or looking as I manage money. Australia is gone there is my investment. Just a small ring, rick, or standing there say, well, yeah, was he was good while that you you sure you don't say older in one of those Green rever, those Green hunting jacket and welcome things, whatever they .

were about a walks .

of us yeah, rise me up. And he said to me, he says, if you can find enough money to buy a brand new engine, we would take that crashed car and give you a brand new one. He says, by the way, my never, john crowley, john crossly, was from belfast who built the fastest formula ford cars in the world, open belfast.

I said, don't I know money? I go today, weekend, day. I said, I need to borrow six longer pounds.

He still has some money left monstrat I need to bother six hundred pounds to buy an engine set IT up to him. All shock out. Got a new car one to one.

Della, set a new array card for day out. Your eleven races left of the chAmber ship. I one eleven times, uh, I had ten pole positions and four lap records.

And so now the rockers have taken off. I now realized I have to go to england at the island. I done everything I knew, not till the england.

That's what the home of professional racing was. So to do that, I got sell my car. I had a chamar of winning car that was worth five ground.

I could sell us, and I had the cash, but I had the cash to live or to race, but I could do the to the same time. So I went down and bar an old turbos from a cell n dondrup. My mother made some curtain sous, my dad mate, a mattress, a friend, and I was a current.

There are made a sliding door. And that was my home and my workshop and my transport for the next year in england. As I went right stock to right, struck, just trying to make fifty nine pounds per a win as a way kitchen.

The next one amazing, except circumstances. And so I don't know what you remember about ninety. Seventy six was the year of the last great summer in england party ever rained.

IT was the most perfect weather. Where were gypsies going to track? To track irish gypsies racing? And I want twenty three races that year.

And at the end of the year they have the the british formula forward festival. Hundred and fifty guys from around the world came. That was called tribute, James, tribute. James hunt .

just sponsored.

James hunt was gonna ent the trophy. I went there, but two weeks before, I destroyed my car in a crash in england, so I couldn't compete. There was a prototype car, sit in in the coroner, and I went and asked, the owner said, if I get a bunch fellows around with me, do you think we could take all those project parts, assemble a car, because I really want to do the formula for festival.

Don't we had a hodge podge at three new zealand enders who said, you know, we're going to help you went to brands hatch. I won the heat the quarter, a final assembly. Al, on the final. I look up on the party and and James hunt, and to made the amazing that was one thousand .

nine hundred and seventy six. wow. Now listen peek of his powers.

So so a week later I get a call from sell IT from donor goal called Derek maman. He said, I followed you for the last year. I didn't know whether I had the gumption to make IT or not, but he said, I see what you're done by yourself.

I'll help you to move up to form at the three british formula three changes ship everybody don't want to went to formula one, said, I will help you do long story shorts, had a caravan, had a stroke, had wooden rams where you had one mechanic, did all the stuff ourselves, went to england, began to run reasoned, well, you are fourth and fifth and six. And there there, about with the bridge ground, pretty came around. Biggest event to the year.

Everybody's there. I'm leading the race with the british champion behind me, Steve, and sent england versus ireland, delivers Stephen south, unable, is a dog fight the whole way. And i'm leading the race were halfway through.

And I make a tiny mistake. I break about two feet too late. Leave about three feet of room on the inside of the corner.

And I knew in the millisecond that I made the mistake. And you catch the car and you're in control. You're in the right year.

My the rest of my brain power saying he's gonna do this. He's gonna to the next king. He's gonna to force me to back off.

I'm not gonna back off. Go out of the corner where side by side as a left time came down to the long front straight. He's doing exactly what he said.

He came over. I didn't move, you know, take irish guy, don't tell me to do sometime. I I don't want to do.

We hit wheels if fly woon. The air ended open intensive care at stop Mandarava hospital. I went off into the grass races over.

I'd come back to direct magmatic and he's got a scale because I just so weigh the people. And I was almost in tears. I said, Derek, we have to go to the next formula one race.

I can win these races. We have to go to austria as the next formula one race with a formula three support traits. Now this is where against really interest we go to australia.

Never been there before. I call a fy on the pole beside Nelson. P. K, he's also try to get to form at. At one, i'm strapped into the car, big Derek sitting beside me, or all feeling, got this older gentleman with a sort of a shuffle on a link, goes across the one of my cat goes to big dark c he says something to big deal comes out of the cop because i'm strapped in.

He says that felt there, said, if you win the race, he put on a formula one care by the end of the year. I said he was IT. He was, said, a .

fellow of sydney Taylor. Oh my g, no way the same.

Yes, I could. I go out. Have a burn stormer. Win the race.

Go back to england when the next five in a row, winter, british cham and sydney. Today I put me on a formula one. Carry that I to her. wow. So I went from formula ford with James hunt to form a one in thirteen months.

wow.

IT out to day. Brian is still the fastest rise ever from from a forward to form one.

Yeah, just make I just look at that right? God's prevents in IT all. But you know, you had a dad who believed in a new cap shown up. Yeah, you had a dream yourself.

But one thing I keep here and Derek, which is yeah you you go for even when when you went for IT and you crashed, people saw, okay, you get an engine. I'll give you a car uh when you when you went for and crashed again, okay, i'm going to give you another shot. You know, people respect people who go for and many people today.

And in fact, one of things we will talk a little bit about, one of the things were experiencing right now with a lot of Younger people is there has never been a greater desire for someone to start a business, and there's never been more reticence on the part of Young people to take a risk. People will be competitive since covered all the stuff jensie kids, yes, they have all these aspirations, but they're afraid to go for. And here you are. Tell the story. You were rewarded again and again and again, not for just the rewards for of winning, which obviously did but when people saw you go for IT, that's when the big breaks .

came right? And so you know this, brian, somebody's always watching. People don't understand that somebody is always watching um and the the the next path to most people's success is already within their network. I just don't quite know I yes.

right.

And so I became good friends of mario and dredge because we race together in formula one. And the first book that I route there was a chapter in this um about desiring commitment and the whole chapter was formulated on the question and I asked mario, I said, you've been there.

You won the world chamar if you've done everything you want the ending on I said, what do you think is the magic ingredient? Was IT budget? Was IT the best car? Was the people, the engineers? He said, what was that? He said, desire, desire to keep pushing the boundary, desire to keep getting up, desire to keep overcoming what happens.

And desire is, is, is the test. Because if you don't get up, ryan, was that you probably weren't mentally skilled to keep pushing through anyway. So you're Better off to give. But those who truly have the dream, those who really, genuinely and there are the people you want to associate IT, they they keep pushing through. But when he said to me, desire IT became the opening chapter of the last chapter of my book, and I and I use them in my key nodes.

The day that the accidents, the road blocks, the speed bomb, they're just a mental test to grow you and stretch you and position you to do things that you are capable of doing. Happened on the yet. And may you don't even know that .

you can actually do IT. And we have a big book, an audience, what's the name of that book? And where can folks get their hands on OK?

So this one has called race to win, the race to win the seven essential skills of a complete champion. And I wrote this brand, and purely because I have mom and dads asked me as my, my older son now is a professor, racing. I, mom and dad, what my son, my daughter do this because they don't know the skills and we don't know them, and they were right. So I took the time as a passion to write the book, to give them an understanding of the skills IT takes to stand on that pirep dia more after i've had other assets to read IT from different sports and say, you know, I the principles.

it's a great business voter's I am. I'm driving in to the office a lot of times I got. Desire song play in and in the car on the way you know it's it's there's universe of principles. I know it's the corner's stoned in your talks today yeah and I just want to land this playing little because i'm not going to spend huge one of time on your farm in career IT was fantastic, I remember was like a national holiday. The forest time you won a point when you won a point in the in the canada and .

I yeah I can't remember .

where I was your finished forth and mister pody bia fraction and IT was like weave in a nations around don drum. But yeah, I I wanted take because I had an incident my own life, you know, one thousand nine hundred and eighty six, I came to amErica on a holiday and got into a very serious crack. I was right a motorcycle, thirteen surgeries over the course of the two years.

You know, you have this great career. You you're heralded in england and in ireland especially, you do all these stars. I mean, today, you know, you look at these guys that the rock stars of sports, and you've had this, you've had this great career, but in one thousand nine hundred and eighty four in michigan had this own believable accident. And I, I, I don't want to bring up the pain of all that stuff, but I do, you know, in keeping with how you got through that and how you got past that, how you overcome that, maybe you tell us a little bit about that.

Yeah, yeah. And my life, my life has evolved in short sectors, clear sectors with all connectives. So I go to america. I I want to a race of the five water only because I was fascinated by the they were doing two hundred miles in our between concrete walls with just a springle type of of event and he made long story short I gotten into a big accident uh at the mysian international speed I was increasingly condition um like sixteen surgeries a beach by form um you know bone grafting, skin grafting um three years and therapy with friends asking will race again or even more poto question as well.

Could you ever having consider racing again and the connection back to the early days when your on medication is hard to help to think clearly? Want to mean you're just there and you stupid. You're line in the bed.

They're managing your pain to the point where they can get you often and you can get mobile again. Um I was in hospital for two months, wheelchair for two months, coaches for two months, with six months before I actually stood on my legs. But an amazing that a circumstance began to fall in to place.

I mean, the bed feel and sorry for my self one day and i'm just know a can around like this. I look over and my mother is standing in the door way. Amazing, I thought lived on here and then have any conversations with anybody saying you're doing anything, whatever was anyway, the motor clubs around ireland?

I chipped on about a ticket, put on the plane. Remember, SHE was only on every one plan in her life, which was to monicker to see me race in one thousand nine hundred and eighty. She's got across the island to get in new york.

Find a way to there. Find a way to end, end up. Anyway, she's up the door. He was, so he says on here to help you, you know, with with your physical s hering and just SHE stand two months there when i'm in the hospital now I remember physical therapy for me at time, at that time was so low.

The first thing I had to do was I had to put a well cro band, a remley singer, and lift a little wooden kids, a wouldn't block off vocal o shit. I couldn't do what I didn't have the strength to do. Or anyway, the question was, what are more than I do? Will I go back racing?

I remembered a conversation I had with my dad when I was twelve years of age and done buying. I told me to become a fashionable right driver. He told me two things.

He said, i'll help you in every possible way, as long as IT isn't financial help you need. I completely understand that. Yeah, right.

And then he says, always remember, you'll be responsible for the legacy that you live in the sport. Nothing clean me at that time on my head. Until my accident, I realized I could not had this accident.

The legacy that I live in, the sport that I ve loved to dedicated my life, too. So I had to go cover. I had to go to the physical of therapy.

I had to go to the pain barrier. I had to get raced fit again. I had to find another race, ten and eight months after my accident, with the aid of a walking stick. And in china, half, he likes my boots because I couldn't end my ankles, disabled dock walk to a racing care. And I qualified for the hundred, five, hundred eight, all because of the one word legacy, my dad told me.

And and in my presentations today, brian, and you fully understand this, I tell people, everybody in this audience, we're all in control of our legacy that we leave, whether IT in your family or your neighbour or your community are your job. And so I I ask a really simple question, if there was a book written about your company and there was a chapter about you, what would you like IT to say you? And you see the power of that.

And I didn't realize the power that my dad had of me when I was trail years. Debate was what drove me back to getting race fit. Get back to race ago.

I want the biggest international race of my career after my accident and my accident. And LED me to a television career that went on for twenty four years. Yeah, I got to after my accident, I was in a wheelchairs.

I got introduce by E, S, P, N, charted, retain your contract. They called me, said, dairy would you like to do? Color will pay you first.

I say, sure. I absolutely no idea what I was. I'd never heard that.

Where can television in our natur? I didn't know what a color commenters, what was? I was amazing. So they are, pay me to travel the world to talk about the sport. The three years .

in recent?

yes. So then I had two careers gone. I was a racing driver, and I was television broadcast.

which then naturally LED into the speak, and that you do today, yes, and travel all over.

you know, today. And I did the television bright, d know, at no formal training. But I lined on the irish ons. I lined on the ability to tell stories because I wasn't a facts and figures guy, i'm not a data guy, i'm a story teller. And then I didn't realize that my story had any value to anybody until I started getting rounds of applause after the launches. When you will tell them a couple of stories about what yeah guys saying to another, we would pay a two hundred dollars you and as such, a simple despite but the but the power run of the principles of high performance sports, I think has has such a relevance of funny, particularly today. Yes, business is is more complex today.

There was one thing that stuck out in your book to me and IT was the difference between going and fast and being fast. And I thought I was so applicable to the business side of things. I'd love you to share that because you know a lot about IT.

So so when when people talk about racing drivers, oh, you go fashion, go faster. Yes, we're in a speed environment, but the successful takes end up in a position to celery on the Victory podium understand it's not just about going fast, but it's about being fast. Being fast as too right people in the right position is doing the right things.

What are even more important element of being fast, brian, is the ability to remove the speed bombs that might be slowing you down. And that's an innate understanding that the team, the extraordinary team and our field who can Operate out on the edge of what might be possible, understand removing the speed bump, right? Everybody has to do list. A P list might be even more valuable. Yeah.

you know, it's funny. I have all my executives and some of them around the state, and they're all in town and we're having a week long series of meetings and all that kind of good stuff. And and the conversation they had yesterday was all about identifying the speed bumps and the thing slow us down.

Yes, you. And so there you go. It's in everything. And we all have IT personally, and we all have a professional. I I have a series of questions.

I asked everybody, but I have one thing i'd love you to know. So i'm where me. I'm where at me jacket today.

I Derek, i've gotten to the, I was a James hunt guy, obviously grown. He was the James bond of live. And the movie rush came out, and everybody got to see that again.

My kids got into drive to survive. And of the in car is cute Young fellows drive. And I got three girls, and the girls are all into this.

And the next thing, you know, where watching form into one. And my wife, I am very simple. We're into whatever our kids are, and it's gotten me back in the game.

So no, I am back. I met Austin, the gravy silver stone going to vages this year. Here's the thing.

I'd love enough for anyone out there who's an enthusiast like myself. What's the one thing about formula one that the average person just would have no idea about? I drive and a farin a one car. What's the one thing that would be that people would have no clear about?

You may, after hours.

Well, there's that too.

So oh, so I will discuss in here, but I just finish the draft of my autobiography, y and I have a lot of the stories, James hunt things in some of them of the early days and some of the soft that went just just amazes me. I think when you talk about formula one cares. I I don't think people can grasp the performance level of the vehicle itself.

Yes IT only ways about um I think of ways about twenty two thousand panels approximately but at at two hundred miles an hour and generates more than double its own weight in downforce so that car can roll upside down along the roof IT has that much sumption and and and and people do do not understand how to speed this a two old demilitarize which by the way, is not to be considered fast anymore at two hundred miles and area you covered the following to have a football field every second and you today, brian at the hotel five wonder you are not even a lab passion worker test. You can only do to wonder that's all you can do to send your home and black out, right? right? You considered a hazard. Two hundred mines .

have your .

blinkers on. Ah yeah, yes yeah but but so so formula want you can't hide anything. IT scratches you physically, emotionally and interaction.

Al, all the same time. You you can't hide anything and and you you're judged on the latter, you just did. And so it's such a high pressure environment to be in. And and if if I had a failure, if I had a weakness brime, when I look back on my career, I didn't have a manager or a coach at a critical time, life is go and fast, and I was making the steps faster than everybody else.

But when I got to the top of the mountain to form me, I want, I didn't possess the skills I needed to stay there, right? And and if I was to change something, I would add A, I would add a manager or a coach that could teach me the skills to Operate alpha level. And it's so, but here's the thing. It's such a great education for me. I used that to to to benefit people around me in my network.

for sure. Well, look, I mean, where the largest business coach in company in amErica and what we do is one of things we help people do, like our average client will ten follow their business within a five year period time. The chAllenges, you get a nose bleed.

Oh, I know i've gone from formula forward to formula one. I don't belong here. I'm in impostor.

I'm used to be in a death. Now i'm dead. Free back into debt. You have to change to think, and you have to perspective, yet you have to change that environment.

Like you say, grown up and double in when we did, you know, there was no one for you to be appear of, where would you? I've learned that your dad, he can help you as much as you cat, but at the end of the day, as fabulous he was as sell. And that was my down as a house painter.

My dad is said to me many times in the last few years, i'm glad you didn't listen to award. I told you because when I would say i'm going to open this business, i'm going to spend like and I out of like because he just I was miles beyond his frame of reference. You know, you have to find people who can get you to that next level and then help you get a custom to that next level.

And then that becomes the basis to get the level be after that. And you've live that in you have lived that in, in the broadcast business. Now you've lived in in the in the speak in book writing business.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you know, I tell people performance is personal, but high performance is highly person. And if if I can now use my experiences to paint the picture for people, the mission for me is so fulfilling.

My mother always told me, by the way, let me just, let me just add another caviar from my mother. The two months that you spending the hospital with me can imagine a mother watching your son, like strap top blood using the bandage ages, uh, all cast separate. You imagine her, you know, just just the general feeling of your mother SHE leaves.

And we would talk every sunday, right when I got out of husband, SHE knew I was walk around again. One day, he called me. He says, do you have another drive lined up yet? Can imagine. But the reason I tell you that story is when kids feel that support that on conditional support, I I believe that allows you the freedom to take bigger steps because you know even if you fault IT doesn't measure, your support system is still there.

And it's it's hard to explain to people and I didn't even realize that at the time that jack of that it's only when you go to eh yeah and so it's a great foundation for families and general because families create a community, community create a success. Stories is a great foundation for famous to understand. Hey, trust factor when is laid? So that is not back or the big steps content.

So what we do in the coaching business, we say your mom and dad who is your champion, they were your champion and then would have held even direct daily even for there was a coach.

And that's idea, right? So yeah yeah, that's championing and that's the roles like there's different roles and those roles here's the person is championing in my mother, you can do a briny when I buy and commercial buildings in Sandy ago and higher and hundreds of people, my mom didn't have the expertise to help me with that. What he could chap me go.

You can do brain you, you, you again. And Derek, we've had a lot of fantastic people on this podcast, from famous movie stars and athletics to j leno's and mathematic haze. And new name is, and we always ask people five questions and people are gonna.

I Normally do little shorter podcasts inst, but two laws and don drama are gonna have a good time on this car today. And I get to beyond has been fantastic. But I want to ask you these five questions. I asked everybody, whoever comes on the show, just the rapid fire off the top your head here IT goes. Number one, what's the single best piece of advice you've ever .

been given came from my dad? Will always be responsible for a legacy that you need.

Yeah, I love us. I love power. great. what? What a man he was.

What a legacy he has. His legacy obviously lived out, not as children, but especially in user. What one talent, or give the aisha possessed that you currently don't?

I'd love to be a rockstar singer.

You know, that's the number one. We all have a little. I think we we all want to do that. You know.

I just went to vegas st to the sphere and watch to youtube and what on mazing.

My brother, I went there in november. I was my sister was there misuse SHE traveled around the world and whatever .

else yeah.

what bone book has been most instrumental for .

you and not a book guy? Okay, I I do not read books OK unless there autobiography.

Okay, tell me biography enjoyed. But i'm at di near IT is, yes.

I was in mahamad ali's house in one thousand nine hundred and eighty four in his house with him. Yeah, he had me read a chapter from the kan to five friends of his IT was the most unbelieved thing I ever. My heart was going to like this, my eyebrow. But yes, he was.

That was great. What an experience. right? You there there's an old verse that show me a man skilled LED in his labor he will serve before things, you know, a form of a ford guy from model park ended up in mahadei SE house, you know, talking with friends.

How crazy is that? Alright, are a movie watcher. Because I have a question about what's the one movie you watch over over again. If it's on the TV, you'll always stop and check .

IT out what's the one you watch facial be for me was James bond, gold singer. And it's fueled my loss of .

astern americans.

The movie i've seen the most ground pre one thousand hundred and sixty three. Uh, James garner.

yes. yeah.

He I got to meet James and he was in all of me because I was to television, a broadcast, of course, something and what? no. Europe, peace, iron from ground three.

Last but not least, what is the good life? Me, in the direct daily.

whenever I sign autograft, I all use the words slaughter because and I told me, like salute in italian launch, the lisa translation is good health. yes. And having been through the meal with my accidents, you understand what I like to be debilitated and not have the ability to live the good life.

So the most important thing for everybody is to be healthy enough to enjoy the good life. And then make sure you start taking off your bucket list. Yes, don't say i'm gna do IT next year starts get them done because you will run out of time.

It's the beautiful stuff. They're gona think then that I find us most all read the same stuff because that sounds like dress, car, drive. yeah.

Now that's good. I have six kids who at every night and dinner say slaw, ch, as they raise their glass. So IT is a beautiful thing.

Listen, I hope people enjoyed. Listen to this. I enjoyed this podcast as much as any interview i've ever done. Ah you're an absolute treasure at of course, like a Patty's homble. In your own way, what you've achieved has been extraordinary, but I think who you are is more extraordinary.

And now I know the real reason why, when I heard about your dad and I heard about your mom, I get the ghost bumps as I picked me on mother and father, and the support had myself. And unfortunate. We wear as as as guys to have that.

Not everybody gets that. Not everybody has that kind of champion. But that type chaining is available. It's available to friends. It's available to mentors.

It's available to books and people who have written books like race to win, and that can be a mentor to you, and you can always go get a coach and get some help along the way. But Derek, it's been a privilege to having on here today, god blesh. And thanks so much for being just such a great sport with our audience today and being such an inspiration .

and have to explain this to people. But they are in the IT was great crack IT .

was great cracks theyve heard that phrase to thanks so much, Derek. And as we finished appeared today, i'm gonna have a my champion to raise bavin and she's gone to leave us with her famous urged blessing I hope you enjoy today show until next time. Good, blessed.

May the road rise up to meet you, and may the wind always be a drawback. May the rain fall soft upon your fields and the sunshine warm upon your face, and until we meet again, may god hold you in the halloween his hand see you next time.