Speaker, author, former NFL linebacker, and CEO of Matt Mayberry Enterprises, Matt Mayberry, shares the 3 big failures in his life that shaped him, the similarities between the field and the boardroom, and why you shouldn’t forget that you are extraordinary.
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Host (00:00):
He is a former NFL linebacker with the Chicago
(00:16):
Bears. His name is MattMayberry. He also played at IU
(00:51):
Indiana University. Was teamcaptain from 2009 to 2010 he is
one of the movers and shakers inthe world of speaking. He works
with some of the NFL teams, NBAteams. He shared the stage with
Stedman Graham, and he's just anall around stud and good guy. So
Matt Mayberry, welcome to theshow, my friend.
Matt Mayberry (01:09):
Pleasure to be here.
Host (01:10):
Can you tell us your story? Because it's like you
made it, and then you have this,this ankle thing, like, just
kind of walk us through how yougot started and how you how you
made it to the NFL.
Matt Mayberry (01:20):
Well, you know, really, it started for me, you
know, I really have three bigfailures in life that I always
come back to. It all started forme when I was a high school. I
was raised by two wonderfulparents provided me and my
brother with really everythingthat we needed. I had to be
successful young men and reallybe difference majors in this
society. One of my first bigfailures came when I entered
high school. I think when weenter high school, we're around,
(01:43):
you know, more opportunity forpeer pressure to make wrong
decisions. And that's whathappened in my life, you know, I
always say associations,everything. I started hanging
out with, you know, guys doingdrugs and doing, you know,
things that they shouldn't bedoing, breaking the law, you
know. So basically, I wasbecoming a keen drug addict at
16 years old. And to put that inperspective for you, I'm not
(02:05):
just talking about a littlemarijuana here and there. I've
done every single drug besidesheroin. That's the life I
started to enter. You know,robberies, getting arrested. You
know, cocaine, almost every day,getting suspended every other
week. My best sport growing upwas baseball. You know, people
that were close to me knew thatbaseball was my best sport and
that I probably could getdrafted out of high school.
(02:28):
Well, two months later, I endedup getting kicked off the
baseball team because I stoleone of my teammates while and
the other side of the story isit wasn't just a teammate, it
was one of my good friends. So,you know, you see what a dark
place I was in and, you know, myfifth and he came one night
after I went to an outpatientrehab facility, I missed school
for about a month. This was myonly way to stay in school. This
(02:49):
is my only way really to keepliving. My guidance counselor
called me ID in prison or deadby my 18th birthday, before my
18th birthday, that's what I wasbeing told. So I knew that there
was only one way out now to goto outpatient rehab and and try
to get better. After two weeksin the program, I came home one
night, had a conversation withmy father. And, you know, like
(03:09):
every other conversation when Iwas drugged out and being the
way that I was for the pastthree years, you know, anything
that he said went in one ear andout the other Well, for some
reason this time, I just startedto hear him more in depth. And,
you know, really, it started tohit me and run through my mind,
body and spirit. And after thatconversation, I went in the
bathroom, and for the first timein three years, I looked myself
(03:32):
in the mirror, and I hated whatI saw. I saw a monster. I saw
anger, I saw disgust. I justhated what I saw. I started to
realize, you know, all theterrible things that I've done
in this world, all the peoplethat I've heard, all the drugs
that I've done. I got in a fightwith my father before I broke
both of his ridge. You know, mymother has seen me do cocaine,
personally, all the stuff thatI've hurt the people that love
(03:54):
me most through I started to seethat those memories started to
play through my mind. And I gointo my room, and I really just
cry out to God, and that's whenI really get deep into my faith.
That was all I had left at thattime. You know, as I talk about,
you know, a lot faith into themiracle. You know, you're not
going to get a miracleovernight, but what will happen
(04:15):
is you can, you'll get clarityand peace of mind and direction.
And that night, when I asked,What can I do to get out of this
better place? What can I do topay back those people that I
hurt most, and athletic came tomind. That was the only thing I
knew. I knew I only hadfootball. I got kicked off my
baseball team, so I havefootball right here, right now.
A scholarship was the first onethat came to mind. That's how I
(04:37):
could pay back my mother andfire. That's how I could pay
back my grandparents that Inearly killed from all the
stress I put them through. Imean, I think when you're, you
know, grown parents have, youknow, cried to you almost every
night for the past two years,and you know, you've seen your
grandparents who were likeparents as well in your life,
almost completely die fromeverything that you've done, you
know, other other stress and howpain to put them through. I'm
(04:59):
so. It wasn't very powerful. Itwasn't about what can I do? It's
about what can I pay back thosepeople? And, you know, my father
always just hoped, and I'll puta Bible throughout the house. I
put a motivational bookthroughout the house. And it
just so happened at a, you know,the late great Zig Ziglar folks
here at the pop was laying on myback, and for whatever reason, I
saw, you know, the chapter wasopen. We're talking about the
(05:20):
power, of gold. And that's why Itruly discovered that that goals
can change our lives, that goalscould take it to the next level.
And I from, you know, we allhear about goals and how
important they are, but once wefully know how to set goals, the
proper and correct one, and onceyou know how to carry out and
you know, make definite plan toachieve those goals, our lives
will never be the same again.And I learned this at 17 years
(05:43):
old. I wrote a goal next year Iwill have the division one
scholarship. I didn't say, get adivision one scholarship. I
said, I will have a division onescholarship next week day I go
into school. Everyone stillthought I would drop. Everyone
still thought I was high becauseI was going in there saying,
Hey, I'm getting a visual onscholarship. I'm going to
Tennessee, to Alabama. I alreadystarted head schools and made up
(06:04):
in my mind. No one would believeme. Everyone doubted me. That's
when I devoted seven days aweek. My parents helped me out.
They hired a speed coach. Ineeded to factor. They hired a
strength coach. I had to getyounger for seven hours. I'm a
weekend to devoted every ounceof effort. I researched schools
that I had to, you know, get incontact with coaches, phone
(06:24):
numbers, emails, long storyshort, after so much blood,
sweat and tears, you know, nightthat I almost cried just because
I wired it so bad, I ended upwith 19 Division One scholarship
offers. A year later, I ended upclosing Indiana University
Manny, for one reason, I stillget it today yet tonight,
football powerhouse,temperature. Some of the other
offers I had, which was Georgia,Georgia pack, Maryland, but I
(06:46):
connected real well with thelate coach, Terry Heppner, big
mentor to Ben rock with burger,he told me, Matt, if you come to
Indiana, you won't just becomean asset. You become a bright
young man that will make atremendous difference in this
world. I promise you that you'llbe more successful outside of
football then you ever will beinside of football.
Host (07:03):
So what was your big kind of second failure?
Matt Mayberry (07:05):
Well, my big second failure came when I was,
you know, as you previouslymentioned, you know, projecting
me to go in the third round ofthe NFL draft. You know, I was
feeling good. I performed well,how my workouts, all the teams
that I met with, the workoutwith, for with the patriots,
Chicago Bears. So feeling good.You know, me and my family
really thought that I was gonnago in the third fourth month. So
as a player, you already havethat made up in your mind. You
(07:28):
know, get the big signing bonus.Okay, you got a little bit of
security, if there's a suchthing called security in that
league. So I'm feeling good, andwe'll come Draft Day. I didn't
get back Tennessee Titan calledme. I'll take a listen to fourth
round. So give my family aroundTV. We're getting ready to fit
you. They didn't pick, picksomeone else. They can happen
three other time throughout thatnight. And I think a lot of
(07:50):
people, you know, they don'tunderstand the severity of how
that makes you feel when youreally project you to go, you
know, in a certain round, youdon't get drafted at all. A lot
of things have to question, youknow, am I getting up to playing
a big am I? Am I as good as Ithought I was? You start to
question your Billy. Andluckily, 20 minutes later, that
kind of, when I talk about myblessing in disguise, Chicago
(08:11):
Bears from calling me JerryAngelo, the general manager
offer me a free agent contract Isign right there. Next thing you
know, I'm a Chicago bear. Youknow, hometown kid playing for
the hometown King. Kind of aCinderella story. Everyone in my
community kind of broke thestory, and now everyone's not
rooting for me. And that entersmy third biggest failure that
(08:31):
kind of really shocked my wholeworld, which, you know, as I
said, everyone in the community,everyone kind of built up this
Cinderella kid story, rootingfor me. Have a great training
camp. I work my way from 14 tosecond king behind land bridge
playing the San Diego charges onbeautiful Saturday evening out
in sunny San Diego, California,second quarter, big 320 pound
(08:53):
lineman comes crashing down onmy ankle with all the adrenaline
and everything built up in afirst NFL game, I said, Okay,
you know, I might have sprainedmy ankle. Well, the following
day, when I wake up and I'llcontinue to play throughout that
game, I had a great game,actually, even though I had a
missed back opportunity, it wasstill a pretty good game for me,
the rookie, my first outing. Butthe next day, when I get out of
(09:14):
bed, I completely collapse and Irealized, oh no, that can't be
good, because I know that underfells first thing the big
business, big money business,and that decisions have to be
made. Why go into this facility?Good treatment. That's when I
realized that they're going topick me. We'll get MRIs ray
comes back, that I can put thecore bone off my ankle. I'll be
(09:34):
out for nine months. And I knewthat...
Host (09:35):
This is your first game? It happened in your first game?
Matt Mayberry (09:38):
My first game as a rookie. And then, you know,
obviously, as you know, as arookie, you can't afford that. I
knew, hey, I'm out for ninemonths. I still remember sitting
down with my head down. Thedoctor walked in and said, Matt,
you won't be stepping on afootball field anytime soon. I
said, What do you mean, Doc? Hesays, Matt, you completely tore
a pulling off your ankle. Youknow, you continuing to play in
that game hurt. You know yourankle. What it was, I said, Now,
(10:01):
what do you mean? This is mydream. I'm living my dream. What
do you mean? You're out for ninemonths. You know that this is a
part of the game. There'snothing I could do. There's
nothing that you could do exceptheal and Rise and go to therapy
and do what you got to do to getit healthy. I said, but I'm a
rookie. They're going to cut me.What do you mean? You know why I
was saying that to the doctor. Iknew we couldn't do anything,
(10:21):
but I knew that my parent, thedark place, the drug addict of
me, everything was just startingto circulate through my thought
process, you know, man, this isit. You know, we reached an
injury settlement with theChicago Bears. It means I take
my money and I go my way. You goyour way. And, you know that
kind of when you know I wasdepressed, I was anger. I mean,
(10:43):
that was one of the worst timesin my life, because I've really
felt that I was the biggestfailure walking, even though, as
an athlete, you can't controlinjuries, but I felt that that
was the biggest failure.
Host (10:54):
So let me ask this now, Matt, so you go through this
whole thing, you have this, thisup and down story, and such a
great story of redemption. So Iknow now, as you look to the
professional world and and whatyou're doing, do you find a big
resemblance, you know, orconnection to sort of the
mindset of being successful incompanies compared to performing
(11:15):
in professional or division oneathletics?
Matt Mayberry (11:18):
Absolutely, you know, that's why, wherever I go,
you know, I always talk, even ifyou know the executives in the
audience I'm speaking acorporation or a conference, you
know, I always say, I personallybelieve, in my personal stories,
that athletics degrees teacherof all. And you know, even if
they want an athlete, obviouslythey're not going to be an
athlete, you know, five or 10years from now. And maybe even
(11:39):
that they might have a son or adaughter that you know might be
at age that they want to go intoathletics, and my hope is that
one day they get to experiencetruly, one of the greatest
teachers of all of life. Youknow, what it teaches about
ourselves and ourcharacteristics and the daily
disciplines in order to besuccessful? Um, athletics is
just unbelievable in thatrespect. But to answer your
(11:59):
question, absolutely, I see 100%resemblance between the top
athletes, between the topexecutives, and not only that,
and from an individualstandpoint, from a collective
team standpoint, the topperforming corporations compared
with the top performing teams inathletics.
Host (12:18):
What are some of those characteristics like, what are
some of those things that theyhave in common?
Matt Mayberry (12:23):
Number one is vision, first and foremost. And
I think we know as a footballteam, you walk in the beginning
of the season, Eric and you haveone goal of doing the Super Bowl
every single team meeting thatyou have, you revisit that
subject. And not only that, youknow exactly what you have to do
in order to get to that bigshow. You know what you have to
do day in and day out.Everything is scripted. You have
(12:44):
a set routine, set schedule. Thesame thing is transferred over
in the business arena. You youhave one goal, your one mission,
one vision. You know you 510,even 510, years from now the
business world. But every singleday, everybody has to be bought
into that vision, every singleemployee.
Host (13:01):
So I guess the part that I didn't know so much about your
story was the low points. Ifsomebody's listening right now,
Matt, and let's say that they'regoing through one of those low
points, what advice would yougive to that person?
Matt Mayberry (13:15):
Yeah, I think that the first advice is number
one. Just know that you'reextraordinary. I think so many
kinds. When we've been hitrepeatedly over in light, day in
and day out, we forget howpowerful we are. We forget that,
you know, hey, we truly areextraordinary. We come from an
extraordinary guy, and I thinkonce we can first realize that
aspect, we're destined forgreatness, no matter how dark
(13:38):
kinds may be throughout life, ifwe just continually move
forward, find ways to betterourselves, day in and day out,
work to become the best versionof ourselves. We will get there.
It's a matter of time.
Host (13:49):
Well, I admire your courage and stay the path. And
thank you for being here.
Matt Mayberry (13:54):
Absolutely. Thanks so much for having me.
He is a former NFL linebacker with the Chicago
(00:16):
Bears. His name is MattMayberry. He also played at IU
(00:51):
Indiana University. Was teamcaptain from 2009 to 2010 he is
one of the movers and shakers inthe world of speaking. He works
with some of the NFL teams, NBAteams. He shared the stage with
Stedman Graham, and he's just anall around stud and good guy. So
Matt Mayberry, welcome to theshow, my friend.
Matt Mayberry (01:09):
Pleasure to be here.
Host (01:10):
Can you tell us your story? Because it's like you
made it, and then you have this,this ankle thing, like, just
kind of walk us through how yougot started and how you how you
made it to the NFL.
Matt Mayberry (01:20):
Well, you know, really, it started for me, you
know, I really have three bigfailures in life that I always
come back to. It all started forme when I was a high school. I
was raised by two wonderfulparents provided me and my
brother with really everythingthat we needed. I had to be
successful young men and reallybe difference majors in this
society. One of my first bigfailures came when I entered
high school. I think when weenter high school, we're around,
(01:43):
you know, more opportunity forpeer pressure to make wrong
decisions. And that's whathappened in my life, you know, I
always say associations,everything. I started hanging
out with, you know, guys doingdrugs and doing, you know,
things that they shouldn't bedoing, breaking the law, you
know. So basically, I wasbecoming a keen drug addict at
16 years old. And to put that inperspective for you, I'm not
(02:05):
just talking about a littlemarijuana here and there. I've
done every single drug besidesheroin. That's the life I
started to enter. You know,robberies, getting arrested. You
know, cocaine, almost every day,getting suspended every other
week. My best sport growing upwas baseball. You know, people
that were close to me knew thatbaseball was my best sport and
that I probably could getdrafted out of high school.
(02:28):
Well, two months later, I endedup getting kicked off the
baseball team because I stoleone of my teammates while and
the other side of the story isit wasn't just a teammate, it
was one of my good friends. So,you know, you see what a dark
place I was in and, you know, myfifth and he came one night
after I went to an outpatientrehab facility, I missed school
for about a month. This was myonly way to stay in school. This
(02:49):
is my only way really to keepliving. My guidance counselor
called me ID in prison or deadby my 18th birthday, before my
18th birthday, that's what I wasbeing told. So I knew that there
was only one way out now to goto outpatient rehab and and try
to get better. After two weeksin the program, I came home one
night, had a conversation withmy father. And, you know, like
(03:09):
every other conversation when Iwas drugged out and being the
way that I was for the pastthree years, you know, anything
that he said went in one ear andout the other Well, for some
reason this time, I just startedto hear him more in depth. And,
you know, really, it started tohit me and run through my mind,
body and spirit. And after thatconversation, I went in the
bathroom, and for the first timein three years, I looked myself
(03:32):
in the mirror, and I hated whatI saw. I saw a monster. I saw
anger, I saw disgust. I justhated what I saw. I started to
realize, you know, all theterrible things that I've done
in this world, all the peoplethat I've heard, all the drugs
that I've done. I got in a fightwith my father before I broke
both of his ridge. You know, mymother has seen me do cocaine,
personally, all the stuff thatI've hurt the people that love
(03:54):
me most through I started to seethat those memories started to
play through my mind. And I gointo my room, and I really just
cry out to God, and that's whenI really get deep into my faith.
That was all I had left at thattime. You know, as I talk about,
you know, a lot faith into themiracle. You know, you're not
going to get a miracleovernight, but what will happen
(04:15):
is you can, you'll get clarityand peace of mind and direction.
And that night, when I asked,What can I do to get out of this
better place? What can I do topay back those people that I
hurt most, and athletic came tomind. That was the only thing I
knew. I knew I only hadfootball. I got kicked off my
baseball team, so I havefootball right here, right now.
A scholarship was the first onethat came to mind. That's how I
(04:37):
could pay back my mother andfire. That's how I could pay
back my grandparents that Inearly killed from all the
stress I put them through. Imean, I think when you're, you
know, grown parents have, youknow, cried to you almost every
night for the past two years,and you know, you've seen your
grandparents who were likeparents as well in your life,
almost completely die fromeverything that you've done, you
know, other other stress and howpain to put them through. I'm
(04:59):
so. It wasn't very powerful. Itwasn't about what can I do? It's
about what can I pay back thosepeople? And, you know, my father
always just hoped, and I'll puta Bible throughout the house. I
put a motivational bookthroughout the house. And it
just so happened at a, you know,the late great Zig Ziglar folks
here at the pop was laying on myback, and for whatever reason, I
saw, you know, the chapter wasopen. We're talking about the
(05:20):
power, of gold. And that's why Itruly discovered that that goals
can change our lives, that goalscould take it to the next level.
And I from, you know, we allhear about goals and how
important they are, but once wefully know how to set goals, the
proper and correct one, and onceyou know how to carry out and
you know, make definite plan toachieve those goals, our lives
will never be the same again.And I learned this at 17 years
(05:43):
old. I wrote a goal next year Iwill have the division one
scholarship. I didn't say, get adivision one scholarship. I
said, I will have a division onescholarship next week day I go
into school. Everyone stillthought I would drop. Everyone
still thought I was high becauseI was going in there saying,
Hey, I'm getting a visual onscholarship. I'm going to
Tennessee, to Alabama. I alreadystarted head schools and made up
(06:04):
in my mind. No one would believeme. Everyone doubted me. That's
when I devoted seven days aweek. My parents helped me out.
They hired a speed coach. Ineeded to factor. They hired a
strength coach. I had to getyounger for seven hours. I'm a
weekend to devoted every ounceof effort. I researched schools
that I had to, you know, get incontact with coaches, phone
(06:24):
numbers, emails, long storyshort, after so much blood,
sweat and tears, you know, nightthat I almost cried just because
I wired it so bad, I ended upwith 19 Division One scholarship
offers. A year later, I ended upclosing Indiana University
Manny, for one reason, I stillget it today yet tonight,
football powerhouse,temperature. Some of the other
offers I had, which was Georgia,Georgia pack, Maryland, but I
(06:46):
connected real well with thelate coach, Terry Heppner, big
mentor to Ben rock with burger,he told me, Matt, if you come to
Indiana, you won't just becomean asset. You become a bright
young man that will make atremendous difference in this
world. I promise you that you'llbe more successful outside of
football then you ever will beinside of football.
Host (07:03):
So what was your big kind of second failure?
Matt Mayberry (07:05):
Well, my big second failure came when I was,
you know, as you previouslymentioned, you know, projecting
me to go in the third round ofthe NFL draft. You know, I was
feeling good. I performed well,how my workouts, all the teams
that I met with, the workoutwith, for with the patriots,
Chicago Bears. So feeling good.You know, me and my family
really thought that I was gonnago in the third fourth month. So
as a player, you already havethat made up in your mind. You
(07:28):
know, get the big signing bonus.Okay, you got a little bit of
security, if there's a suchthing called security in that
league. So I'm feeling good, andwe'll come Draft Day. I didn't
get back Tennessee Titan calledme. I'll take a listen to fourth
round. So give my family aroundTV. We're getting ready to fit
you. They didn't pick, picksomeone else. They can happen
three other time throughout thatnight. And I think a lot of
(07:50):
people, you know, they don'tunderstand the severity of how
that makes you feel when youreally project you to go, you
know, in a certain round, youdon't get drafted at all. A lot
of things have to question, youknow, am I getting up to playing
a big am I? Am I as good as Ithought I was? You start to
question your Billy. Andluckily, 20 minutes later, that
kind of, when I talk about myblessing in disguise, Chicago
(08:11):
Bears from calling me JerryAngelo, the general manager
offer me a free agent contract Isign right there. Next thing you
know, I'm a Chicago bear. Youknow, hometown kid playing for
the hometown King. Kind of aCinderella story. Everyone in my
community kind of broke thestory, and now everyone's not
rooting for me. And that entersmy third biggest failure that
(08:31):
kind of really shocked my wholeworld, which, you know, as I
said, everyone in the community,everyone kind of built up this
Cinderella kid story, rootingfor me. Have a great training
camp. I work my way from 14 tosecond king behind land bridge
playing the San Diego charges onbeautiful Saturday evening out
in sunny San Diego, California,second quarter, big 320 pound
(08:53):
lineman comes crashing down onmy ankle with all the adrenaline
and everything built up in afirst NFL game, I said, Okay,
you know, I might have sprainedmy ankle. Well, the following
day, when I wake up and I'llcontinue to play throughout that
game, I had a great game,actually, even though I had a
missed back opportunity, it wasstill a pretty good game for me,
the rookie, my first outing. Butthe next day, when I get out of
(09:14):
bed, I completely collapse and Irealized, oh no, that can't be
good, because I know that underfells first thing the big
business, big money business,and that decisions have to be
made. Why go into this facility?Good treatment. That's when I
realized that they're going topick me. We'll get MRIs ray
comes back, that I can put thecore bone off my ankle. I'll be
(09:34):
out for nine months. And I knewthat...
Host (09:35):
This is your first game? It happened in your first game?
Matt Mayberry (09:38):
My first game as a rookie. And then, you know,
obviously, as you know, as arookie, you can't afford that. I
knew, hey, I'm out for ninemonths. I still remember sitting
down with my head down. Thedoctor walked in and said, Matt,
you won't be stepping on afootball field anytime soon. I
said, What do you mean, Doc? Hesays, Matt, you completely tore
a pulling off your ankle. Youknow, you continuing to play in
that game hurt. You know yourankle. What it was, I said, Now,
(10:01):
what do you mean? This is mydream. I'm living my dream. What
do you mean? You're out for ninemonths. You know that this is a
part of the game. There'snothing I could do. There's
nothing that you could do exceptheal and Rise and go to therapy
and do what you got to do to getit healthy. I said, but I'm a
rookie. They're going to cut me.What do you mean? You know why I
was saying that to the doctor. Iknew we couldn't do anything,
(10:21):
but I knew that my parent, thedark place, the drug addict of
me, everything was just startingto circulate through my thought
process, you know, man, this isit. You know, we reached an
injury settlement with theChicago Bears. It means I take
my money and I go my way. You goyour way. And, you know that
kind of when you know I wasdepressed, I was anger. I mean,
(10:43):
that was one of the worst timesin my life, because I've really
felt that I was the biggestfailure walking, even though, as
an athlete, you can't controlinjuries, but I felt that that
was the biggest failure.
Host (10:54):
So let me ask this now, Matt, so you go through this
whole thing, you have this, thisup and down story, and such a
great story of redemption. So Iknow now, as you look to the
professional world and and whatyou're doing, do you find a big
resemblance, you know, orconnection to sort of the
mindset of being successful incompanies compared to performing
(11:15):
in professional or division oneathletics?
Matt Mayberry (11:18):
Absolutely, you know, that's why, wherever I go,
you know, I always talk, even ifyou know the executives in the
audience I'm speaking acorporation or a conference, you
know, I always say, I personallybelieve, in my personal stories,
that athletics degrees teacherof all. And you know, even if
they want an athlete, obviouslythey're not going to be an
athlete, you know, five or 10years from now. And maybe even
(11:39):
that they might have a son or adaughter that you know might be
at age that they want to go intoathletics, and my hope is that
one day they get to experiencetruly, one of the greatest
teachers of all of life. Youknow, what it teaches about
ourselves and ourcharacteristics and the daily
disciplines in order to besuccessful? Um, athletics is
just unbelievable in thatrespect. But to answer your
(11:59):
question, absolutely, I see 100%resemblance between the top
athletes, between the topexecutives, and not only that,
and from an individualstandpoint, from a collective
team standpoint, the topperforming corporations compared
with the top performing teams inathletics.
Host (12:18):
What are some of those characteristics like, what are
some of those things that theyhave in common?
Matt Mayberry (12:23):
Number one is vision, first and foremost. And
I think we know as a footballteam, you walk in the beginning
of the season, Eric and you haveone goal of doing the Super Bowl
every single team meeting thatyou have, you revisit that
subject. And not only that, youknow exactly what you have to do
in order to get to that bigshow. You know what you have to
do day in and day out.Everything is scripted. You have
(12:44):
a set routine, set schedule. Thesame thing is transferred over
in the business arena. You youhave one goal, your one mission,
one vision. You know you 510,even 510, years from now the
business world. But every singleday, everybody has to be bought
into that vision, every singleemployee.
Host (13:01):
So I guess the part that I didn't know so much about your
story was the low points. Ifsomebody's listening right now,
Matt, and let's say that they'regoing through one of those low
points, what advice would yougive to that person?
Matt Mayberry (13:15):
Yeah, I think that the first advice is number
one. Just know that you'reextraordinary. I think so many
kinds. When we've been hitrepeatedly over in light, day in
and day out, we forget howpowerful we are. We forget that,
you know, hey, we truly areextraordinary. We come from an
extraordinary guy, and I thinkonce we can first realize that
aspect, we're destined forgreatness, no matter how dark
(13:38):
kinds may be throughout life, ifwe just continually move
forward, find ways to betterourselves, day in and day out,
work to become the best versionof ourselves. We will get there.
It's a matter of time.
Host (13:49):
Well, I admire your courage and stay the path. And
thank you for being here.
Matt Mayberry (13:54):
Absolutely. Thanks so much for having me.
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