What Got You There with Sean DeLaney

Too often, we think of art as something we create outside ourselves. But what if the most meaningful art you’ll ever make… is your life?

In this episode, Sean DeLaney goes beneath the surface and explores what it means to shift from passive participant to intentional creator and to live not by default, but by design. You’ll he...

This episode is about the impact you make, even when you don’t realize you’re making one.

Every thought.
Every word.
Every choice.

It all sends ripples outward and inward.

In this episode, we explore the unseen yet u...

So many of us live with the illusion that there’s a final moment of arrival—a place where the striving stops, the doubt fades, and we finally become enough.

But what if that place doesn’t exist?

In this episode of Beneath the Surface, we’re unraveling the my...

Your life expands with every act of courage. 

In this episode of Beneath the Surface, we explore one of the most essential, misunderstood, and transformational inner capacities: courage.

We’re not talking about the kind of courage that looks heroic or loud. We’re talking about the kind that shows up in unseen moments. The...

In this episode of Beneath the Surface, we explore the foundational force that sits quietly beneath every transformation: awareness. Without it, we’re just rearranging surface symptoms and never addressing the root.

You’ll hear about:

• Why awarenes...

The question hit me at a funeral:

If I keep living exactly as I am… what will my life add up to?

This episode isn’t here to give you answers. It’s here to help you ask better questions.

• How are you measuring y...

We’ve been taught to sacrifice joy now in hopes of earning it later.
But what if that entire model is broken?

In this episode of Beneath the Surface, we explore one of the most important truths about performance, presence, and fulfillment:

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What if the version of you the world rewards isn’t the version that makes you feel alive?

We’ve been taught that we have to earn love. Earn rest. Earn our right to belong.

But what if the model is backwards?
What if Being is the starting point — not the reward at the end of striving?

In this episode, I unpack the hidden cost of tying your worth to outcomes, approval, and perfe...

What if the key to your highest performance, deepest peace, and most alive life… wasn’t about doing more, but about being more you?

In this episode of Beneath The Surface, Sean DeLaney explores what he calls The Unobstructed Way—a path where your essen...

We’ve all been taught that in order to succeed, we need to push harder, grind longer, and sacrifice joy now in hopes of earning it later. But what if that model, the one most high performers live inside, is the very thing keeping us from our best?

In this episode, Sean DeLaney unpacks one of the most powerful, paradoxical truths about performance: 

This is Beneath the Surface — a new solo series from Sean DeLaney, creator and host of What Got You There.

This series is a place where I bring you the ideas I’m sitting with most —
the ones that challenge me, change me, and bring me back to what actuall...

Brian Dawkins is an NFL Hall-of-Famer who played 16 seasons in the National Football League, primarily with the Philadelphia Eagles. Brian is regarded as one of the greatest safeties of all time and during his illustrious career was named to nine Pro Bowls and five All-Pro first teams. Brian was the heart and soul of the Eagles defense and on this episode he discusses what it takes to become great, that challenges he ...