Let Me Save You 25 Years by Shawn D. Nelson

Let Me Save You 25 Years

A podcast for anyone with aspirations to do anything. Conversations with the Founder & CEO of Lovesac.

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Business is a Contact Sport (feat. Gary Vaynerchuk)
45 min Nov 7, 2024

Business is a Contact Sport (feat. Gary Vaynerchuk)

Season 2 of the Let Me Save You 25 Years podcast is officially here, and Shawn D. Nelson is back to bring you some brand-new, life-changing Shawnism’s each week. This week we start with a hard truth that many of us have to learn: Business is a contact sport.

Love Matters (ft. Garrett Gee)
44 min May 23, 2024

Love Matters (ft. Garrett Gee)

Love matters — in life, business, personal growth — it matters immensely. But this doesn’t mean that becoming a loving person always comes easily. With life’s challenges and burdens, it can be difficult to define who you want to be and then commit to becoming that person.

Maintain Top Ambition with Infinite Patience (ft. Nate Checketts)
58 min May 9, 2024

Maintain Top Ambition with Infinite Patience (ft. Nate Checketts)

If you want a successful business, you can’t treat it like a side hustle. When you jump in, proudly wear the title, and love the grind long-term — that’s when the magic happens.

Practice Stubbornness with Confident Humility (ft. Travis Mills)
1 hr 7 min Apr 25, 2024

Practice Stubbornness with Confident Humility (ft. Travis Mills)

When you can practice confidence to leverage humility that can temper your stubbornness — the possibilities are endless. This week a true American hero joins the pod to break down this week’s Shawnism: practice stubbornness with confident humility.

We Can All Win Together (ft. Ginny Clarke)
1 hr 6 min Apr 18, 2024

We Can All Win Together (ft. Ginny Clarke)

We can all win together — but not without a conscious effort to connect, grow and perform as a top-tier leader. Are you making decisions that serve the people around you best, or do your decisions serve you?

Stay Cool & Be Kind (ft. Marshall Mosher)
47 min Apr 11, 2024

Stay Cool & Be Kind (ft. Marshall Mosher)

There is no situation you could land in that can’t be approached with a cool head and a healthy dose of understanding. Life isn’t about what happens to us — it’s all about how we handle it.

Know Yourself & Know Your Purpose (ft. Miki Agrawal)
56 min Apr 4, 2024

Know Yourself & Know Your Purpose (ft. Miki Agrawal)

Everyone says, “be authentic” if you want success. But what really is authenticity? Before you can be authentic, you have to know yourself and your purpose.

Hire Better Than You & Let Them Own It (ft. Tessa White)
1 hr 7 min Mar 28, 2024

Hire Better Than You & Let Them Own It (ft. Tessa White)

You want success? You CAN’T be the smartest person in the room. You shouldn’t want to be. When you’re building something great and scalable, you need to surround yourself with people who are better and smarter than you and enable them to do their best work. Until then, you’ll never be able to get a product better than the one in your own brain.

Everything Else is Dust (ft. Montell Jordan)
1 hr 17 min Mar 21, 2024

Everything Else is Dust (ft. Montell Jordan)

Life is busy, especially when you’re investing yourself across a lot of avenues. Between business, family, relationships and everything in between, It can be hard to balance everything. But, balance isn’t what you need — prioritization is the key to investing in the right areas of your life. Everything else is dust.

Talk Big, Work Small (ft. David Meerman Scott)
49 min Mar 14, 2024

Talk Big, Work Small (ft. David Meerman Scott)

Don’t be a cover band — play your own original music. Proudly. If it’s truly original, unique and interesting, you’ll appear larger than life, even when your resources are meager. It all starts with this week’s Shawnism: Talk Big; Work Small.

Embrace Uncertainty (ft. Lukas Gage)
54 min Mar 7, 2024

Embrace Uncertainty (ft. Lukas Gage)

There are a few universal principles that set successful founders and entrepreneurs apart from those who fail, and no one’s talking about them. One of those superpowers successful entrepreneurs ALL have in common? The ability to THRIVE in uncertainty.

Quit or Keep Going (ft. Joe De Sena)
1 hr 1 min Feb 22, 2024

Quit or Keep Going (ft. Joe De Sena)

The nastiest, gnarliest physical, mental, emotional things we face are really quite simple: QUIT or KEEP GOING.

Both are viable and reasonable options, and both should be used at certain times in our lives. You have to start with a strong WHY. Why are you doing this? Your purpose is the main thing that will drive the decision to stop or keep going.

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