November 17, 2025 • 20 mins
Being called “crazy” is often just what people say when your commitment exposes their comfort, and this episode shows how to turn that judgment into fuel for your purpose. We explore powerful examples—Walt Disney, Sarah Blakely, and the Savannah Bananas—who were dismissed before they redefined their industries. You’ll learn simple mindset shifts that make intense goals feel aligned, sustainable, and mission-driven. If you’re ready to own your “crazy,” this episode gives you the framework to start.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- Why people label bold ambition as “crazy” and how to reframe it as a strength
- Real-world stories of creators and founders who succeeded after being doubted
- Practical mindset tools to anchor your commitment and stay consistent over time
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Two hard things.
Help one person be good and dogood.
Live a life of discipline andyou will always win.
Welcome to win today.
SPEAKER_01 (00:16):
Thank you so much for tuning in.
My name is Roman Camison.
I'm your host.
My purpose in this world is tohelp push people further and
harder than they believepossible and become unshakable
in what matters most to them intheir lives.
Every week you're gonna learnfrom either myself or a renowned
expert in their field, and we'regonna unveil pieces of our
playbook to help you win today.
(00:38):
Please, if you love this show,subscribe and share it with
somebody that will benefit fromit.
Let's dig in.
You're crazy.
You're crazy for doing that.
You're crazy for believing that.
You're crazy for having thisgoal.
I keep hearing that lately,especially as I share more about
(01:02):
the upcoming venture runningacross the state of South
Carolina to provide to familiesthat have a loved one currently
battling cancer.
And I decided to have thisepisode because I understand
that there may be a lot of otherpeople that are going after
something big right now or evendreaming of something big,
(01:24):
thinking of something big.
And that could be something thatthey're hearing from others.
You're crazy.
And I understand that evenhearing that could be something
that deters somebody from goingbig because the perception of
the world is hey, you are quotecrazy.
(01:47):
So what if crazy is just whatpeople call commitment that they
don't yet understand?
So we're gonna look atredefining crazy and building a
positive relationship and beingable to provide encouragement to
(02:07):
folks that may not understand sothat they can go on a
challenging adventure of theirown.
So simply put again, what ifcrazy is just what people call a
level of commitment that theydon't personally understand yet?
So redefining crazy and goingfrom judgment to signal.
(02:34):
I was running last week or acouple weeks ago.
I've been challenging myself aswe've been preparing for this
run across the state.
I've been challenging myself todo marathons before work.
So I've done a few sets now ofFriday morning getting up about
1.45 a.m.
(02:54):
to do a marathon before workstarting at 2.30 a.m.
and go run a full marathon andthen go straight into a into a
full work day.
And on this last run, I decidedto pull out my phone and record
some mid-run thoughts.
I was feeling a little fired up,and it was in response to the
(03:19):
crazy comments.
And I said, for those that callme crazy or say, hey, you're
crazy for doing this right now,you're crazy for being out at 2
30 in the morning running amarathon.
Here's my response to you.
You're damn right that I'mcrazy.
Crazy motivated and crazydedicated to my goals.
(03:44):
Crazy dedicated to being able toprovide to families that don't
even know that I exist, but I'min their prayers.
They're praying for somebody tohelp them help their family,
help their loved one that'sgoing through a tough situation
(04:05):
right now.
And I'm crazy committed tomaking that happen and being
able to answer prayers for thesefolks.
So, yes, you can call me crazy,but I'm always gonna respond
with I'm crazy committed anddedicated.
Because there are people that Ibelieve call me crazy out of
(04:30):
possible admiration, but Ibelieve there are also those
that have said that with maybenot the best intentions in mind.
And again, I understand thatpeople can hear that and be
overly concerned about theperception of the world, and
(04:52):
then not go down this road.
So I love whenever I hear that,you're crazy, because what I now
tell myself is yeah, I'm crazycommitted, I'm crazy dedicated,
and that's what I heard.
So my premise of this episode isthat crazy simply equals deeply
(05:17):
committed to somethingmeaningful, and we're going to
share a few examples of how thathas played out in the world,
some other real world examples.
And I want y'all to beencouraged by this, not feel
that because you're going aftersomething big that you are quote
(05:41):
crazy.
So being called crazy is oftenthe first indicator that you're
doing something uncommon andworth doing.
Let me remind you of a pattern.
Every world changer got laughedat in the beginning.
(06:04):
So people that we often love totalk about or we admire in some
way, or these names come up alot in conversations, got
laughed at and called crazy inthe very beginning.
Yet we are the ones thatpurchase their products.
We are the ones that havevisited their businesses, we are
(06:26):
the ones that talk about them asexamples of maybe who we want to
become, or we wish we had alittle bit of this person or
that person.
So here's here's one thateverybody knows in terms of the
business, but you may not knowthe backstory.
Disney.
(06:47):
So Walt Disney was fired fromone of the early companies that
he worked at for lack ofimagination.
I believe it was a newspapercompany, was fired for lack of
imagination.
The person that ultimately cameup with the place that is known
(07:10):
for creating magic, and theirengineers are actually called
Imagineers, is fired for that.
People wouldn't even loan Disneymoney.
The banks refused to fund Disneybecause they thought that this
is freaking crazy.
You're telling me, you'retelling us that you want several
(07:32):
hundreds of thousands of dollarsor even millions at the time, to
build a park where a mouse isgoing to be the main character,
and people are going to flock tothis place to celebrate a mouse.
And the bank said, Yeah, have anice day.
(07:55):
And more often than not, peopletold Disney that Disneyland
would fail and then it would notwork.
What is it today?
Today it is one of the most, ifnot the most, successful
entertainment empire on the faceof the earth.
(08:17):
Many of you may have been toDisneyland or have been to
Disney World and probablyexperience the magic for
yourself.
Imagine what would havetranspired if Disney, if Walt
Disney, bought into thatnarrative.
He's like, ah, yeah, maybe I amcrazy.
I'll just stop right now.
I'm gonna stop.
(08:38):
There's no way that that this isgonna work.
Uh, one of my favorite podcaststhat I've been listening to over
the last few months is theFounders Podcast by David Senra.
And he does a an amazing jobcompiling all of these stories
about successful entrepreneursand founders that we often can't
(09:05):
find just in reading one bookabout them or one article.
So he does all of the researchand then shares even a lot of
the information that isn'tpublicly available about these
founders.
And so, with that, if you wantmore examples of people that are
quote crazy, but really, aswe've said in the beginning,
(09:26):
insanely committed, check thatout.
And here's here's another one.
So Sarah Blakely is the founderof Spanks, which she helped
revolutionize this for women,cutting the feet off of
pantyhoses and having a morecomfortable pant, pant leg for
(09:47):
for women.
And at the time Sarah wasselling copiers and faxim
scenes, I believe she was makingabout$10,000 a year.
And she had this idea.
I want to have a morecomfortable fitting pantyhose
(10:08):
and something that's morestylish.
And so she startedexperimenting, cuts the feet off
of pantyhose.
People tell her, hey, you'recrazy.
This is an absurd idea.
And she pitched it to a bunch ofdepartment stores.
People laughed her away, said,Hey, you are crazy.
But guess what?
What was she really?
(10:28):
She was insanely committed tothis vision and this goal that
she had.
That you know what?
No, we can actually we can dobetter here, women.
We can do better than thisboring pantyhose, and we can
come up with something that isvisually appealing to to the eye
and comfortable.
(10:49):
Sarah Blakely today, youngestself-made female billionaire.
And when she sold Spanx, Ibelieve this was in the last
five years, when she sold Spanxfor I believe ten billion
dollars, she gave everybody inthe company a full paid vacation
(11:11):
for their family, first classaccommodations, everything, as a
thank you for standing by her.
So there's two examples now ofpeople that are quote crazy, but
just insanely committed, and itdoesn't matter what you tell
(11:36):
them, they are more thancomfortable being uncommon.
The next one, again, another onethat that everybody will that
everybody will recognize is theSavannah Bananas.
So Jesse Cole, the founder ofthe Savannah Bananas, who
(12:01):
basically this this team hasbecome as notable as every major
sports franchise in the world.
So Savannah Bananas are just aswell known as the beloved New
York Yankees, the Los AngelesDodgers, the Dallas Cowboys.
(12:26):
You say Savannah Bananas, peoplethat don't even play sports or
have watched a sports game intheir life know about the
Savannah Bananas.
The Savannah Bananas, when theystarted in Savannah, Georgia,
they literally could not sell ahundred tickets to the game.
(12:48):
So the people, the team now thatis selling out every venue that
they go to, including NFL andMLB stadiums, if they if the
Savannah Bananas are goingsomewhere, there will not be an
empty seat.
At the very beginning, could notsell out a minor league field.
Nobody attended their games, butwho had this grand vision in the
(13:14):
midst of being called crazy?
Jesse Cole.
Jesse saw this opportunity torevolutionize baseball and make
it a more fun game thateverybody can enjoy and where
the fans where the fans actuallyhad input into how the game
(13:36):
goes.
So at a Savannah Bananas game,if the fans believe that the
umpire made the wrong call, thefans, not the team, not the
coach, the fans can challenge acall.
If a foul ball is hit in a gameand a fan catches it, the batter
(13:58):
is out.
How cool is that that we havetraditional baseball, which is
still awesome, but we have thisteam, and now several teams that
have spanned off of the SavannahBananas that has completely
(14:19):
innovated the game, gottenpeople involved, and it what's
also evolving from this is anentire new business model.
So the Savannah Bananas couldmake infinitely more money than
they do right now.
They don't charge any taxes ontheir tickets, they don't charge
(14:41):
ticket processing fees.
When you get into the game,there is unlimited food and
water and drink, and Jesse iscreating this fans first
experience.
Everything is all about thefans.
So now, because of someone notlistening to or perhaps
(15:08):
reframing being called crazy, wehave what will ultimately be one
of the greatest sportinginnovations of all time.
Just like the HarlemGlobetrotters.
The Harlem Globetrotters in theSavannah Bananas will go down in
(15:30):
sports history for the entiretyof mankind.
All because these people didn'tlisten or buy in to the
narrative that they're crazy.
Here's why a lot of people reactin in this way.
(16:27):
When your commitment exposestheir comfort level, they call
it irrational.
Normal behavior is oftenrewarded socially, but uncommon
behavior or pursuing some levelof greatness, however you define
(16:50):
that, isn't normal.
Here's a cool quote that that Ifound.
People don't call you crazy whenyou're doing something
impossible.
They call you crazy when you'redoing something that they wish
they had the courage to try.
And y'all know I don't like thetry word, but it's part of the
(17:11):
quote.
But people don't call you crazywhen you're doing something
impossible.
They call you crazy when you'redoing something they wish they
had the courage to try.
Now, I'm not saying thateverybody that has called me
crazy doesn't have the thecourage to do some of the things
(17:31):
I'm going after.
What I'm getting at here is thatthere are folks that I know for
sure that could push themselvesin the same level, same manner,
maybe even more than what I'mdoing.
And rather than explore thatlimitation for themselves, it's
(17:57):
easier to call me or you orsomebody else crazy.
So this is now what I'mchallenging you with.
What is your crazy?
If judgment didn't exist in thisworld, what would you commit to?
(18:26):
If all you heard from peoplewas, man, you're super
committed.
What would you do now that maybeyou wouldn't do before?
Because now the narrative iscompletely changed.
So my encouragement is that A,we rewire what crazy actually
(18:51):
means, and B that you havesomething that you're crazy
about.
And it could be anything, itdoesn't need to be endurance.
The world doesn't need morenormal, it needs more people
that are on fire for something.
Crazy is the birthplace ofpossibility.
(19:13):
If someone calls you crazy, saythank you or say you're damn
right.
Because they're noticing yourcourage and commitment.
You could be crazy aboutendurance, you could be crazy
about go be crazy about yourfamily, go be crazy about being
the best father, spouse,husband.
You could be, be crazy aboutbeing the best girlfriend, you
(19:35):
could be, best wife, you couldbe.
Be crazy about the business ideathat you're pursuing.
Be crazy about how you show upfor people.
Be crazy about reading booksevery month, whatever the case
may be.
Go go find go find your crazyand win today.
(19:57):
Thank you.
Two hard things.
Help one person be good and dogood.
Live a life of discipline andyou will always win.
Welcome to win today.
SPEAKER_01 (00:16):
Thank you so much for tuning in.
My name is Roman Camison.
I'm your host.
My purpose in this world is tohelp push people further and
harder than they believepossible and become unshakable
in what matters most to them intheir lives.
Every week you're gonna learnfrom either myself or a renowned
expert in their field, and we'regonna unveil pieces of our
playbook to help you win today.
(00:38):
Please, if you love this show,subscribe and share it with
somebody that will benefit fromit.
Let's dig in.
You're crazy.
You're crazy for doing that.
You're crazy for believing that.
You're crazy for having thisgoal.
I keep hearing that lately,especially as I share more about
(01:02):
the upcoming venture runningacross the state of South
Carolina to provide to familiesthat have a loved one currently
battling cancer.
And I decided to have thisepisode because I understand
that there may be a lot of otherpeople that are going after
something big right now or evendreaming of something big,
(01:24):
thinking of something big.
And that could be something thatthey're hearing from others.
You're crazy.
And I understand that evenhearing that could be something
that deters somebody from goingbig because the perception of
the world is hey, you are quotecrazy.
(01:47):
So what if crazy is just whatpeople call commitment that they
don't yet understand?
So we're gonna look atredefining crazy and building a
positive relationship and beingable to provide encouragement to
(02:07):
folks that may not understand sothat they can go on a
challenging adventure of theirown.
So simply put again, what ifcrazy is just what people call a
level of commitment that theydon't personally understand yet?
So redefining crazy and goingfrom judgment to signal.
(02:34):
I was running last week or acouple weeks ago.
I've been challenging myself aswe've been preparing for this
run across the state.
I've been challenging myself todo marathons before work.
So I've done a few sets now ofFriday morning getting up about
1.45 a.m.
(02:54):
to do a marathon before workstarting at 2.30 a.m.
and go run a full marathon andthen go straight into a into a
full work day.
And on this last run, I decidedto pull out my phone and record
some mid-run thoughts.
I was feeling a little fired up,and it was in response to the
(03:19):
crazy comments.
And I said, for those that callme crazy or say, hey, you're
crazy for doing this right now,you're crazy for being out at 2
30 in the morning running amarathon.
Here's my response to you.
You're damn right that I'mcrazy.
Crazy motivated and crazydedicated to my goals.
(03:44):
Crazy dedicated to being able toprovide to families that don't
even know that I exist, but I'min their prayers.
They're praying for somebody tohelp them help their family,
help their loved one that'sgoing through a tough situation
(04:05):
right now.
And I'm crazy committed tomaking that happen and being
able to answer prayers for thesefolks.
So, yes, you can call me crazy,but I'm always gonna respond
with I'm crazy committed anddedicated.
Because there are people that Ibelieve call me crazy out of
(04:30):
possible admiration, but Ibelieve there are also those
that have said that with maybenot the best intentions in mind.
And again, I understand thatpeople can hear that and be
overly concerned about theperception of the world, and
(04:52):
then not go down this road.
So I love whenever I hear that,you're crazy, because what I now
tell myself is yeah, I'm crazycommitted, I'm crazy dedicated,
and that's what I heard.
So my premise of this episode isthat crazy simply equals deeply
(05:17):
committed to somethingmeaningful, and we're going to
share a few examples of how thathas played out in the world,
some other real world examples.
And I want y'all to beencouraged by this, not feel
that because you're going aftersomething big that you are quote
(05:41):
crazy.
So being called crazy is oftenthe first indicator that you're
doing something uncommon andworth doing.
Let me remind you of a pattern.
Every world changer got laughedat in the beginning.
(06:04):
So people that we often love totalk about or we admire in some
way, or these names come up alot in conversations, got
laughed at and called crazy inthe very beginning.
Yet we are the ones thatpurchase their products.
We are the ones that havevisited their businesses, we are
(06:26):
the ones that talk about them asexamples of maybe who we want to
become, or we wish we had alittle bit of this person or
that person.
So here's here's one thateverybody knows in terms of the
business, but you may not knowthe backstory.
Disney.
(06:47):
So Walt Disney was fired fromone of the early companies that
he worked at for lack ofimagination.
I believe it was a newspapercompany, was fired for lack of
imagination.
The person that ultimately cameup with the place that is known
(07:10):
for creating magic, and theirengineers are actually called
Imagineers, is fired for that.
People wouldn't even loan Disneymoney.
The banks refused to fund Disneybecause they thought that this
is freaking crazy.
You're telling me, you'retelling us that you want several
(07:32):
hundreds of thousands of dollarsor even millions at the time, to
build a park where a mouse isgoing to be the main character,
and people are going to flock tothis place to celebrate a mouse.
And the bank said, Yeah, have anice day.
(07:55):
And more often than not, peopletold Disney that Disneyland
would fail and then it would notwork.
What is it today?
Today it is one of the most, ifnot the most, successful
entertainment empire on the faceof the earth.
(08:17):
Many of you may have been toDisneyland or have been to
Disney World and probablyexperience the magic for
yourself.
Imagine what would havetranspired if Disney, if Walt
Disney, bought into thatnarrative.
He's like, ah, yeah, maybe I amcrazy.
I'll just stop right now.
I'm gonna stop.
(08:38):
There's no way that that this isgonna work.
Uh, one of my favorite podcaststhat I've been listening to over
the last few months is theFounders Podcast by David Senra.
And he does a an amazing jobcompiling all of these stories
about successful entrepreneursand founders that we often can't
(09:05):
find just in reading one bookabout them or one article.
So he does all of the researchand then shares even a lot of
the information that isn'tpublicly available about these
founders.
And so, with that, if you wantmore examples of people that are
quote crazy, but really, aswe've said in the beginning,
(09:26):
insanely committed, check thatout.
And here's here's another one.
So Sarah Blakely is the founderof Spanks, which she helped
revolutionize this for women,cutting the feet off of
pantyhoses and having a morecomfortable pant, pant leg for
(09:47):
for women.
And at the time Sarah wasselling copiers and faxim
scenes, I believe she was makingabout$10,000 a year.
And she had this idea.
I want to have a morecomfortable fitting pantyhose
(10:08):
and something that's morestylish.
And so she startedexperimenting, cuts the feet off
of pantyhose.
People tell her, hey, you'recrazy.
This is an absurd idea.
And she pitched it to a bunch ofdepartment stores.
People laughed her away, said,Hey, you are crazy.
But guess what?
What was she really?
(10:28):
She was insanely committed tothis vision and this goal that
she had.
That you know what?
No, we can actually we can dobetter here, women.
We can do better than thisboring pantyhose, and we can
come up with something that isvisually appealing to to the eye
and comfortable.
(10:49):
Sarah Blakely today, youngestself-made female billionaire.
And when she sold Spanx, Ibelieve this was in the last
five years, when she sold Spanxfor I believe ten billion
dollars, she gave everybody inthe company a full paid vacation
(11:11):
for their family, first classaccommodations, everything, as a
thank you for standing by her.
So there's two examples now ofpeople that are quote crazy, but
just insanely committed, and itdoesn't matter what you tell
(11:36):
them, they are more thancomfortable being uncommon.
The next one, again, another onethat that everybody will that
everybody will recognize is theSavannah Bananas.
So Jesse Cole, the founder ofthe Savannah Bananas, who
(12:01):
basically this this team hasbecome as notable as every major
sports franchise in the world.
So Savannah Bananas are just aswell known as the beloved New
York Yankees, the Los AngelesDodgers, the Dallas Cowboys.
(12:26):
You say Savannah Bananas, peoplethat don't even play sports or
have watched a sports game intheir life know about the
Savannah Bananas.
The Savannah Bananas, when theystarted in Savannah, Georgia,
they literally could not sell ahundred tickets to the game.
(12:48):
So the people, the team now thatis selling out every venue that
they go to, including NFL andMLB stadiums, if they if the
Savannah Bananas are goingsomewhere, there will not be an
empty seat.
At the very beginning, could notsell out a minor league field.
Nobody attended their games, butwho had this grand vision in the
(13:14):
midst of being called crazy?
Jesse Cole.
Jesse saw this opportunity torevolutionize baseball and make
it a more fun game thateverybody can enjoy and where
the fans where the fans actuallyhad input into how the game
(13:36):
goes.
So at a Savannah Bananas game,if the fans believe that the
umpire made the wrong call, thefans, not the team, not the
coach, the fans can challenge acall.
If a foul ball is hit in a gameand a fan catches it, the batter
(13:58):
is out.
How cool is that that we havetraditional baseball, which is
still awesome, but we have thisteam, and now several teams that
have spanned off of the SavannahBananas that has completely
(14:19):
innovated the game, gottenpeople involved, and it what's
also evolving from this is anentire new business model.
So the Savannah Bananas couldmake infinitely more money than
they do right now.
They don't charge any taxes ontheir tickets, they don't charge
(14:41):
ticket processing fees.
When you get into the game,there is unlimited food and
water and drink, and Jesse iscreating this fans first
experience.
Everything is all about thefans.
So now, because of someone notlistening to or perhaps
(15:08):
reframing being called crazy, wehave what will ultimately be one
of the greatest sportinginnovations of all time.
Just like the HarlemGlobetrotters.
The Harlem Globetrotters in theSavannah Bananas will go down in
(15:30):
sports history for the entiretyof mankind.
All because these people didn'tlisten or buy in to the
narrative that they're crazy.
Here's why a lot of people reactin in this way.
(16:27):
When your commitment exposestheir comfort level, they call
it irrational.
Normal behavior is oftenrewarded socially, but uncommon
behavior or pursuing some levelof greatness, however you define
(16:50):
that, isn't normal.
Here's a cool quote that that Ifound.
People don't call you crazy whenyou're doing something
impossible.
They call you crazy when you'redoing something that they wish
they had the courage to try.
And y'all know I don't like thetry word, but it's part of the
(17:11):
quote.
But people don't call you crazywhen you're doing something
impossible.
They call you crazy when you'redoing something they wish they
had the courage to try.
Now, I'm not saying thateverybody that has called me
crazy doesn't have the thecourage to do some of the things
(17:31):
I'm going after.
What I'm getting at here is thatthere are folks that I know for
sure that could push themselvesin the same level, same manner,
maybe even more than what I'mdoing.
And rather than explore thatlimitation for themselves, it's
(17:57):
easier to call me or you orsomebody else crazy.
So this is now what I'mchallenging you with.
What is your crazy?
If judgment didn't exist in thisworld, what would you commit to?
(18:26):
If all you heard from peoplewas, man, you're super
committed.
What would you do now that maybeyou wouldn't do before?
Because now the narrative iscompletely changed.
So my encouragement is that A,we rewire what crazy actually
(18:51):
means, and B that you havesomething that you're crazy
about.
And it could be anything, itdoesn't need to be endurance.
The world doesn't need morenormal, it needs more people
that are on fire for something.
Crazy is the birthplace ofpossibility.
(19:13):
If someone calls you crazy, saythank you or say you're damn
right.
Because they're noticing yourcourage and commitment.
You could be crazy aboutendurance, you could be crazy
about go be crazy about yourfamily, go be crazy about being
the best father, spouse,husband.
You could be, be crazy aboutbeing the best girlfriend, you
(19:35):
could be, best wife, you couldbe.
Be crazy about the business ideathat you're pursuing.
Be crazy about how you show upfor people.
Be crazy about reading booksevery month, whatever the case
may be.
Go go find go find your crazyand win today.
(19:57):
Thank you.
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