How to Build Unshakable Confidence When You’re Losing Feat. Alan Stein Jr.

This is the Ed and Myles Show. Alright. Welcome back to the show, everybody. So today, I've got a guest back on that all of you told me is one of your all time favorites. So the downloads were through the roof because when you do a podcast with Alan, you get value out of every single minute. So we're gonna really talk about your mindset, winning, the philosophies that make people fulfilled and successful, and he's just great at it. He's got a new book out, by the way. I wanna make sure that I get the book in here first, which is called Next Play. And I already know what the the meaning of the book is, so we're gonna get into that. But just so you know his background, he's a guru in NBA circles. He's a mental coach. He's helped a whole bunch of different NBA players. Just think Kevin Durant. Let's just start with that name alone with their mental games, with their shooting games, with high performance techniques. And we're gonna get into a lot of that stuff that applies to you directly in your business and your life today with Alan Stein. Welcome back, brother. It's so good to see you. Thank you so much. You're the best hype man in the world. Well, it's a fact. If I ever become a boxer or a rapper, I'm taking you with me, man. You're the hype man. Yeah. I'm big in the rapping circles. I figured you were. Like, you, you know, not everybody comes back twice. You gotta really knock it out of the park to be on the show twice. So the fact that you're back here means my intro is accurate. Why'd you write this book? Like, next play of all the things of you could go through mental techniques, mindset, strategy, success principles. Why next play? It's the the mantra that's had the biggest effect on my life, and it's done it from a very holistic approach. I mean, it's it's affected me as a father and as a parent. It's affected me as a business owner, as a speaker, as someone who still identifies as an athlete and still tries to hoop, like, next play just has so much utility. And when I first heard of it, because in in full transparency, coach k, the legendary basketball coach from Duke, was the one that came up with the concept. K. And I read about it in his book in the the early two thousands, but I didn't have the emotional maturity to actually implement it. Consciously, it made sense, and I thought, yeah, this would be very helpful. But I was I allowed myself to be emotionally hijacked all of the time, and I allowed myself to get frustrated and disappointed by things that had happened in the past, and it took me away from being present. It wasn't till ten years later when I was working at DeMatha …