A simple truth changes everything: gratitude only matters when it moves. We take you from a loud Thanksgiving greeting to a grounded plan for serving families, mentoring young men, and building Project Redemption—our nonprofit focused on recovery, community impact, and real career pathways. The story runs through a rough childhood with addiction and instability, the hunger for belonging, and the choice to become the steady person younger eyes can trust. Along the way, we dig into daily habits that keep you centered when work gets messy: early morning reflection, small moments with your kids, and one-message-a-day appreciation that lifts someone right when they need it.
We talk candidly about being a man others can model, especially when the examples you had weren’t great. It only takes one person to prove a different life is possible. That’s why we’re pouring energy into schools, teaching mindset, health and fitness, networking, and money-making skills that hold up in the real world. Service anchors the vision: passing out meals on Thanksgiving, rebuilding fences, and even crafting cards with our kids for survivors of trafficking worldwide. Those two hours at a table with markers and glitter turned compassion into something you can hold.
If you’ve felt the weight of business volatility—quitting teammates, slow pipelines, financial strain—this conversation offers a practical reset: count what’s working, serve someone today, and lead at home first. Project Redemption is our promise to scale that ethic, starting with the recovery community and branching outward. Listen, reflect, and then act. Subscribe, share this with someone who needs hope, and leave a review with one gratitude you’re practicing this week.
Episode Transcript
This coming year, I'm starting a nonprofit called
Project Redemption, and it's allabout giving back to the
community.
I'm gonna help the recoverycommunity first and foremost,
but then I have a massivevision.
It's gonna branch out.
I want to speak at schools toyoung men.
I want to create career pathsfor people, teach them the
things that I've been able tolearn on my journey that have
helped me in my life, mindset,habits, health and fitness,
networking, what skills can makeyou money, what career path is
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gonna be the best for you.
So I'm really excited toimplement that next year.
And the reason I brought that upis because I think about next
year on Thanksgiving and beingable to go out and pass out
food, help people that are lessfortunate, really pour into the
community and be a catalyst forgood.
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Welcome back to another episodeof the Unstoppable Mindset
Podcast.
I'm your host, Sean Crane, andhappy motherfucking
Thanksgiving, you guys.
Had to throw a cuss word inthere, but honestly, hope you're
having a blessed day with someloved ones.
This episode is going out onThanksgiving.
And I just want to touch on acouple things that are related
to Thanksgiving and personallylike my viewpoints on the
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holiday and really family.
You know, I remember as a kidgrowing up, I always loved
Thanksgiving because it was justabout being with family, eating
some good food and getting tospend time together.
It wasn't about getting presentson Christmas or hunting some
freaking eggs or doing this andthat.
I just really valued time withmy family.
And I want to point somethingout to you.
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Everybody in life goes throughdifferent struggles.
Right now, you might be goingthrough tough times in a
relationship with your health,in your own mindset, whatever it
is.
But I want you to pay attentionto the people in your life that
you do have.
Those relationships, man, mightbe some kids that you have,
young children, might be yourmom, your dad, your spouse,
whoever it is, take the time togive them a big hug, send them a
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text, tell them you love themand appreciate them.
You know, and we should do thisall the time.
Something I try to do isconstantly remind people and let
them know how much I care aboutthem.
Because you don't know whenpeople are going to be taken
from you, first of all.
But honestly, like if you'veever got a text message in the
middle of the day, maybe you'rehaving a tough week and someone
says, Hey, I just want to letyou know I appreciate you, I
love you.
Like that feels good, right?
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Well, let's be that positivesource of energy for other
people.
So today, while you're eatingyour turkey or Thanksgiving,
maybe you're doing tamales,right?
I know a lot of Mexican familiestraditionally do tamales, um,
other stuff, whatever you'redoing, just be grateful for what
you have.
You know, for me, I went throughso much hardships in life.
I saw my parents fall apart infront of my eyes due to their
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addiction.
I didn't have that safety fromthem, that comfort from them.
It was always chaos.
And that's why I really valuethe holidays and the extended
family that I do have.
My aunts and uncles, my cousinson my dad's side of the family,
and more recently, my wife'sside of the family, her parents,
her siblings.
Uh, we have so many cousins inour family, uh, young kids
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running around playing.
Like, it's just so great to see.
One of the missions that I'vebeen on ever since I decided to
change my life was to be acatalyst for my family and my
family's lineage and the futuregenerations.
I want to be an example that theyounger generation can look to
and say, my dreams are possible.
You know, if Sean can go out anddo that stuff, maybe I can do it
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too.
We all need that person in ourlife.
For me, a couple of my unclesstand out to me as being those
notable figures in my life whenI was growing up.
I saw their success, I saw theirdrive, I saw their dedication.
And what it did is it would itplanted a seed for me in my
brain, right?
Like, dang, if they can do it,maybe I can one day.
And for a lot of people, we justneed that one person.
You know, I had a lot of badexamples around me growing up.
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People doing drugs, people goingto prison, people glorifying war
stories and that lifestyle thatI grew up in.
But it just, I just needed thatone person that chose the other
path, that chose sobriety, thatchose to be an honorable man,
you know, and I gravitatedtowards that.
So for you men out there, I wantyou to recognize that you're an
example to people around you.
You're gonna influence them.
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Make sure that you're doing theright stuff, man.
I can't stress how importantthat is.
And and for somebody that'sgoing through stress right now,
you know, I talk to a lot ofbusiness owners, and being a
business owner, it's atumultuous journey.
There's so many ups and downs.
There's financial stress, peopleare quitting, work's slow,
there's always stuff going on,and that's the way it's probably
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gonna be for most of yourcareer, right?
So learn to find gratitude inthose small special moments you
get with your wife and kids.
Learn to find gratitude each andevery day in the blessings that
you've been gifted and thethings that are going your way.
And for me, that's whatThanksgiving symbolizes.
It's the ability to sit back andreflect and think about your
loved ones, think about yourhealth, think about the fact
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that we just have this greatquality uh food and life, you
know, in America, and begrateful for that.
And don't just do it onThanksgiving, though.
Do it every day.
You could get up early every dayand reflect on all the good in
your life and create thatparadigm, that perspective that
you go out of the world with.
If you do that, you're gonna doso much better.
Um, for me, I'm really excitedthis coming year.
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I'm starting a nonprofit calledProject Redemption, and it's all
about giving back to thecommunity.
I'm gonna help the recoverycommunity first and foremost,
but then I have a massivevision.
It's gonna branch out.
I want to speak at schools toyoung men.
Um, you know, I want to createcareer paths for people, teach
them the things that I've beenable to learn on my journey that
have helped me in my life,mindset, habits, health, and
(05:20):
fitness, networking, what skillscan make you money, what career
path is gonna be the best foryou.
So I'm really excited toimplement that next year.
And the reason I brought that upis because I think about next
year on Thanksgiving and beingable to go out and pass out
food, help people that are lessfortunate, really pour into the
community and be a catalyst forgood.
One thing my wife and I havedone is started going to church
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recently.
And last weekend we took thekids, you know, to this really
great endeavor where the entirechurch got together on a
Saturday and there was about sixdifferent things that we could
choose to do.
One of them was like go rebuildbroken fences and fix people's
yards.
Another one was pass out food.
Uh, there was all thesedifferent things just to give
back to the community.
And uh the one that we gotselected for was to create cards
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for women who have beentrafficked.
I'm talking about sextrafficking, okay, all
throughout the world.
And these cards were going toplaces like Eastern Asia, Costa
Rica.
They were going all over theworld.
And my kids sat down for abouttwo hours.
We created all these cards.
You know, my my daughterScarlet's over there bedazzling
hers and putting all these cutehearts and colors.
Uh, my oldest son Mason, I readhis card and he was telling, you
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know, these people he don't evenknow.
Like, hey, God loves you, and Iwant you to know that like
people care for you, and you'respecial, and you deserve to have
a good life.
And it was just really cool tosit down and see the kids doing
that.
When I think about the holidaycoming up, Thanksgiving, and
when I think about just being agood human being, it's those
type of endeavors.
Give back to your community,spread love, be grateful for
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what you have.
You know, people that go throughtough times, like you, me,
whatever it is, we still have somuch to be grateful for.
And if you could focus ongratitude, you center yourself
around love and that goodenergy, you pour it into other
people.
I'm telling you, you can createa really special life for
yourself, and you can see allthe good despite all the chaos
going on.
So that's my message for youguys today.
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Go share love with people, makethem happy, put a smile on their
face, do good, and carry thatenergy all the way into 2026 and
beyond.
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