I know what you do now, but let's go back to early Diamond, like, star athlete.

I was 14 years old, was a football player. Up until this point, my mission and my vision was to get to the NFL so I could take care of my family.

Everything that you have built yourself to be and every goal and vision that you had for the 1st 14 years can no longer happen. What was your because that moment?

In that moment, the because was my family. It was my mom. It was my little brother. It was how do I become the best version of myself over these next few years?

Diamond, what's 2 tips you'd give to that high school junior senior that's going to the next level, again, whether it's athletically or in life?

The number 1 thing would be to treat every single day. So what I call the 1 day contract mentality. The second tip is be as coachable as you possibly can be. If there's 1 thing I've learned through working with some of the best athletes in the world, some of the best coaches in the world, some of the best executives in the world, they are always, always, always seeking to learn. They're curious to get better.

They're seeking feedback. The best of the best want to be coached.

Welcome to Mick Unplugged, where we ignite potential and fuel purpose. Get ready for raw insights, bold moves, and game changing conversations. Buckle up. Here's Mick.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another exciting episode of Mick Unplugged. And today, you need to get ready for a powerhouse who's making waves not only on the field, but in the hearts of fans and athletes alike. He's fierce. He's a visionary. He's resilient, and he's pushing boundaries when it comes to professional baseball and, more importantly, the mindset that you need to make changes every day.

Please join me in welcoming the dynamic, the amazing, the man that's about to tell you some crazy cool stories. My man, mister Diamond Hall. Diamond, how are you doing today, brother?

Man, doing fantastic, Nick. Appreciate you having me on.

I appreciate you being here, man. Like, Diamond, you know, I've been a huge fan of yours. Got to recently, like, know your story. There's so much information about you out there, and then just following your content, man. Like, so many places I wanna go, but I think we should let the audience know today.

Today is, like, the intro of Diamond Hall. But we're gonna set up a very special, exclusive, private episode with Diamond where we're gonna sit down for hour and a half, 2 hours, and let him do those crazy cool things that he does around mindset and power. Diamond, how you feel about that?

I think that's a fantastic idea. And if if you're watching right now, there should be some excitement bubbling up and boiling up inside of you.

Absolutely. So let's talk about it, man. Like, I know what you do now, but let's go back to early Diamond, like, star athlete. Right? The guy that was on the cover of all these magazines and newspapers and in the media, high school phenom.

Yeah.

And then something happened, and and all of a sudden, you had to change. So so let's talk to people about that that don't know that story or those stories.

Yeah. So I guess, the place to start is, to your point, I was 14 years old, was a football player. Up until this point, my mission and my vision was to get to the NFL so I could take care of my family. And I remember it like it was yesterday. We were playing, we were playing Nick, Nick.

They had green jerseys, white, white letters. And, I, I lined up as a slot receiver, so lined up as a slot and I was running the streak. And so my quarterback, he pulled back and he throws it to our tight end who ran a slant. And so I look back. I see our tight end catch the ball, and then he gets hit super hard.

Boom. Fumbles. And so for me, I'm running full speed towards the towards the football, and I dive head first, like, feet extended above the ground, arms out extended. And I remember seeing as I was as I was diving for the football, I remember seeing another guy on the other team. He was diving for the football as well.

A little bit smaller than me, sized them up. Like, you know, when you hit the matrix button, everything goes in slow motion. I exhausted him. I was like, okay, I'm definitely gonna get this. And I remember hearing a loud crack.

And I was used to getting hit hard, was used to hitting other people hard, and everything blacked out. And I remember staring at the sky. And all of a sudden, my teammates come into my field of vision. And you hear the crowd go, oh. Mhmm.

And my teammates come over, and they're looking down at me. I'll never forget this moment. When 1 of my best teammates, 1 of my best friends at the time, Ryan Bayer, he's looking down at me and he's like, diamond, get up, diamond, get up. And I can see my field of vision shaking. So I knew he was like, he had his hands on me and he was shaking.

And I remember in that moment thinking to myself, like, oh my god. Like, I'm paralyzed. And I think I was the first 1 I think it was the first 1 to notice. And I remember looking back over Ryan and saying, Ryan, I can't get up. I can't move.

And then he, like, takes this step back, and I see, like, his eyes start to tear up. And I could see the emotion, like, boiling inside of him. Like, oh my goodness. This is my best friend. He's like, he can't move.

And I know we were thinking this at the same time. Like, this is the stuff you see on TV. This is the stuff that you see in in people's careers. And now in my brain, I'm thinking to myself, look. I'm gonna be staring at the ceiling for the rest of my life.

Somebody's gonna have to feed me through a tube. And I I'm 14 years old, having to come to peace with this all at 1 time.

Right.

And I remember the ambulance came and got me, put me on the stretcher, took me to the hospital. And when we were in the ambulance truck, you know, my mom was in the she was in there with me. And I remember looking over at her and telling her everything was gonna be okay. And at this moment, I knew everything was not going to be okay, but I still said it. I still it still came out Yeah.

Just to give her some form of comfort in that moment. And she starts pouring out crying because in her mind, she knew everything wasn't gonna be okay. I knew everything wasn't gonna be okay. So we get to the hospital and, 24 to 48 hours later, something amazing happens. I ended up getting my feeling back in my fingers, then my arms, then my upper body, then my feet, then my legs.

And I remember the doctors coming in and saying, like, this is a miracle. Like, diamond, like, you're not supposed, like, that was supposed to be it. Right. You have something called congenital stenosis. We did all the scans.

We ran all the numbers. You have something called congenital stenosis. And I'm like, in my mind, like, what's congenital stenosis? What is that? Then, so he explains it to us quickly.

He says, you've got, everybody has a little bit of fluid around their spine that keeps them safe from being paralyzed when they have head on collisions. Everybody's got a certain amount. He said the amount that you have around your spine is abnormally much less than the average person, which is why this happened, which is why you went head on with this guy and you're temporarily paralyzed from the neck down. And I was like, okay. Perfect.

I'm good. I've got my feeling back. Listen. When can I get back on the field? And I remember the doctor taking, like, this big deep breath.

He looks down like this. He looks over at us. And you could tell he's, like, mustering up the courage to tell me something. Yeah. And my mom was like, oh my goodness.

And so he looks over at me and he goes, Diamond, I got good news and I got bad news for you. So, well, doc start let's start with the good news. What's the good news? He said the good news is you're moving. You're walking.

Your hands work. Your feet work. Everything from your neck down works. It wasn't supposed to be this way. It was supposed to be the opposite.

He said the bad news is is that based on you having congenital stenosis and the danger that it would put you in if we let you back on the field, he said I can't clear you to play this game anymore. And for me, I'll never forget those words. I remember in that moment, I got light headed. I had to sit down, and I was thinking to myself, what in the world am I going to do now? Yeah.

Like, I'm supposed to be the 1 to provide for my family. I'm supposed to be the 1 to get to the NFL. I'm supposed to be the 1 to make all of this money so our family can be great, and life can be awesome. What am I gonna do now? I've put all of my time, all of my effort, all of my energy into this game.

Nothing else. Just this game. I get there early before everybody else. I stay later than everybody else. I put in more effort.

I studies I study film more than anybody else. Like, that game that doc, that game that I just had, like, we had Ohio State there. There's Cincinnati. There's Alabama. Like, like, this is like, I was born to do this.

This is who I am. I am a football player. And so I remember over the next few months, it was 1 of the wildest months I've ever had in my life because I was what I was doing was I was having like, my identity was gone. Yeah. When you asked me who was diamond hall at that time when I'm 14 being 1 of the best running backs in the country, I'm gonna tell you I'm a football player.

I'm a running back.

I'm a stud. Right? Yeah.

That's what that's what's coming out of my mouth. At the time, did I know what it meant to did I know what it meant to tie those states of my identity? I had no idea. And so what I was going through was I was my identity was gone, so I had to develop a new identity. And I remember coming across a leadership coach at the time, and he reached out to me, and he was like, Damon, I wanna work with you.

I know who you are, but I think I I think I've got some things that can help you through this time frame and weaponize you for the things that you're about to have to endure and for the potential that you have and who you can become. I was open to it. 1 of the best leadership coaches in the world. And he walked me through this exercise and I'll never forget this framework that he shared with me that I now share with all the athletes that I work with. He was like, the reason why this is so tough for you.

It's not because of the time. It's not because of the effort. It's not because of all of the energy that you put into this game. What it is that you're going through and that that is so tough for you to get through is is your identity. You believe you are a football player, and that's not true.

He said, I wanna share with you a framework, a 3 step framework that I share with all of my highest performing athletes around the world that allow them to be the 1% of the 1%. Mhmm. He said, there's 3 identities that you have to adopt from this day forward only if you're willing to, though. He said, number 1, you have to be willing to look yourself in the mirror and say, I am a lifelong learner. I am a go grower.

Yeah. Okay. I already do that. I'm I gotta, he said, number 2, you have to be willing to look at yourself in the mirror and say, I am a lifelong achiever. I am a go getter.

I said, I can do that. I've done that. But you're saying I gotta I gotta adopt this to my identity, to who I am. He's like, yes. He was like, this third thing is the thing that people typically miss.

And some people throughout the course of their life, they never adopt this into who they are. And I leaned in and he goes, I am a go giver. I am a lifelong contributor, meaning you are everything that you do comes from a foundation of service, servant leadership, contribution, adding value, giving. He said, if you can adopt these 3 identities, you will be perfectly fine for the rest of your life no matter what life throws at you, no matter what you do, no matter what you want to be the best in the world at. And he was like, are you committed to adopting these 3 identities?

And in that moment, I felt like I was becoming somebody totally new. I said, absolutely. And so, what I didn't realize at the time is that, something that I realize now and something I know now that research tells us is that our behavior does not drive our performances. Our identity does.

That's right.

And so with those 3 identities that I adopted, totally changed my world forever. Mhmm. And so if you're listening to this right now, I wanna ask you a question. I wanna ask you, who are you? When somebody says, who are you?

What do you say? For me, I don't say I'm a mental performance coach for the Baltimore orioles. I don't say I'm a speaker. I don't say I'm an author. I don't say I don't say any of those things.

I say I'm a giver, I'm a learner, and I'm an achiever.

That's okay.

Nothing more, nothing less, but it wasn't until I asked myself, it wasn't until I was posed these questions. And for you, if you're listening right now, it's not until you ask yourself and you get a sheet of paper, you get a sheet of paper, a notebook, and you write down the question at the top. Who am I? And you get in bullet point format, and you actually list off what comes to mind for you. Then you'll be able to see where you stand.

Yeah. And what things you need to adjust in order to become the best version of yourself. Because I'll I'll share this with you. 1 of the things that most people don't know is that the version that you're currently experiencing right now is not the best version of you. In fact, there is a version of you that exist right now that is 100 times better than the version of you that you're currently experiencing.

The question that you have to ask yourself is what are you willing to do? Who are you willing to become? To get there. Right? To get there.

To unlock that version of yourself. And so that's my long way to way of sharing with you how I got here. I appreciate you asking me that question.

No. Wholeheartedly, man. And there's a lot that I wanna unpack and unplug there. And, 1, just appreciating the soul that you are, more importantly. Right?

Like, that's that's what I I love about Diamond Hall is just the soul. And and those 3 components of who you are is really who you are. And, you know, a lot of times and I wanna take what you said a little bit further. A lot of times, people will go through some type of exercise like that, and it stays on paper. Right?

And and they're like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is who I am.

But then they don't exude any of the qualities that they actually put on paper because either 1, they don't believe it. 2, they don't know how to actually put action behind the things that they did. Or 3, and this is what I think a lot happens, that changes daily. Like, whoever they're trying to please or whatever entity they're trying to please that day, that week, that month, they try to chameleon what they think people want them to be or or how they should be seen. Mhmm.

Yep. And that's why I appreciate Diamond Hall. Diamond Hall is Diamond Hall every day. And and you said something that I want a lot of people that are watching or listening to pick up on. You've gotta work at it every day.

Like, you've gotta be a constant learner. You've gotta be constantly evolving because who you are today to Diamond's point is not who you're gonna be or should be tomorrow or next month or whatever. And so, Diamond, I wanna go ask you to go deeper on something because, you know, obviously, you you follow Mick Umpquaad, and we talk about your because. That thing that's deeper than your why. And to me, everything that you put on there, what you're asking people is what's your because.

Right? Like like, what's your because? So I'd love to ask Diamond, like, 14 year old Diamond, after the incident, and everything that you have built yourself to be and every goal and vision that you had for the 1st 14 years could no longer happen. What was your because that moment?

In that moment, the because was was my family. It was my mom. It was my little brother. It was how do I become the best version of myself over these next few years to the point where it will impact them in a positive way? And I thought a little bit further.

How do I become this next best version of myself so that it impacts my children in a positive way, in their children's children, and their children's children. And this this developed over a course of time, but it but now my because has grown into developing generational wealth. When I say wealth, most people are gonna hear the problem is most people are gonna hear just finances. Right. That that is so far from what this actually is.

It's a piece of it, but it's just a piece. The other piece of creating generational wealth, other pieces of creating generational wealth are generational wealth and riches and resources. Most importantly, generational wealth and riches and relationships and your habits and your body and your career. The things that you do daily that make who you are. So for me, then that was my because, and now my because, my why is to continue to become and continue to hunt down the next best version of myself so that when this is all said and done, I've got a legacy that I can leave behind for generations to come.

Yeah. Yeah. I love that, brother. Totally love that. So let's talk about you know, obviously, football was no longer an option.

But my man, Diamond, didn't stop there, though. Right? So can I do football anymore? The competitive spirit that you have Man. That that thirst of being the best of the best, the elite of the elite, you turned that into something else.

So what'd you do next?

Next, I I, you know, I put football aside. I was like, okay. I'm gonna all in with basketball. So a year later, very similar situation happened with basketball. Dove head first for, for, for the basketball and then went head on with somebody, temporarily paralyzed, knew what was going on this time around.

Doctors didn't clear me to play anymore. Same story. And then I came across the game of baseball. And baseball's a much it's a it's such a it's such a different game. It's it's it's much more of a of a mental game than any other sport than I've ever come across.

And, you know, when I started when I started playing baseball, I was I was 1 of the 1 of the best athletes. It was 1 of the strongest, 1 of the fastest, etcetera, etcetera. But the skill acquisition piece, the skill piece was the hardest. And, you know, the adversity that you face in the game of baseball, like, when you when you have an at bat and you strike out your first at bat, you've gotta wait 40 minutes until your next at bat. So you have to be able to have a conversation with you and yourself, and you've gotta be able to win those conversations between you and yourself before that next at bat comes up.

So 1 of my 1 of my good friends, Ryan Barnett, a different Ryan. He, after a practice, he was like, man, Diamond, I know you're playing catch up. I know you're 1 of the hardest workers out here. You're 1 of the best athletes out here. If you study this book, if you study this from cover to cover, it's gonna change the game for you.

And I looked down and it's a book called Heads Up Baseball by doctor Ken Ravizza and Tom Hanson. And what it was was a book on mental skills, the skills of the mind specifically for the game of baseball. And so I started studying this book, and this is when the bookshelf starts to grow. And then I came across, I think it was, like, 2 days later, came across, John Maxwell's 3 60 degree leader. So this was, like, for me, the birth of professional, personal, and self improvement.

I've got a leadership book in 1 hand, and then I've got a mental skills book and mental performance book in the other hand. I've got leadership, and I've got mindset. And so after I I read these 2 books, like, I became obsessed with learning, specifically in these 2 areas. Like, I would buy books that, you know, that you that people get in their in their PhD programs. Like, I would look it up on Amazon.

It'd be, like, $300, and I would get this big thick book, and I would go through it. And, I would highlight stuff. I would write stuff on the side, and then I would figure out how, like, how can I put this into practice in my game tomorrow? And, so over the next 4 years, studied the mental side of the game, studied the leadership piece. And I remember we had a tournament.

We had a baseball tournament at Western Kentucky. And this is when I first came across Jeff Mercer, who's now the head coach at Indiana. And during the time, I was still reading the heads up baseball book, and he saw me reading the heads up baseball book, putting the things into practice. And we we connected. We we crossed paths.

And at the time, he was a scout for the, for the Hilltoppers. And so I ended up not ended up not going going to Western Kentucky. I ended up going to I got a scholarship to a junior college in Illinois, Robinson, Illinois, Lincoln Trail Community College, 2 year college plan. The goal was to I'm gonna dominate these 2 years, and I'm gonna get drafted in my 2nd year, my sophomore year. And while I was there, I came across an incredible coach, Kevin Bowers.

I remember jumping in his office. We were having a good conversation 1 day, and then he pulls a book from his bookshelf. He says, diamond, like, this is this is yours. Read this. And I looked down, and it's the, it's the mental game of baseball by Harvey Dorfman.

And it's this thick book, talks about all of the specific mental skills that exist, and it's it's much thicker than, than heads up baseball still, just as good. But, it talks about all the mental skills that you you need to study in the game of baseball that separate the best of the best. Because some people say, you know, the game is 90% mental, 10% physical. The numbers are the numbers are interesting there. But so read this book, and it ended up helping my game get to the next level and ended up getting a scholarship from there to Grand Lake State University, a division 1 down south in Louisiana, where I came across another amazing coach, James Cooper, who's now a manager within the within the Yankees organization.

And he gave me he gave me 2 books. He gave me relentless by Tim Grover. This is, Kobe Bryant's former former trainer, Michael Jordan's former trainer, and he broke he broke the mindset pieces down in such a great way. I I read the book, and I was like, this dude is right. He wrote this book about me.

I gotta reach out. I gotta I gotta talk to him on the phone. Yeah. And so I reach out, like, 10 times. No response.

The 11th time I reach out and he responds. He said, yeah, I got some time to to jump on the phone with you. So connected with him, picked his brain, taken notes the whole time and learned so much. And then the second book that he gave me was body mind mastery by Dan Millman. This is now Dan Millman was a guy that Phil Jackson used to bring in with the Chicago Bulls.

Yeah. And you you you hear people talk about Phil Jackson being the zen master. And, you know, you hear Michael Jordan talking about being composed under pressure, all of these all of these things, when you take that relentless mentality and then you combine it with this poise under pressure and this calmness and this this ability to allow the moment to be the moment, then you get the Michael Jordans, the Kobe Bryants. And it's no coincidence that they became who they were when they came across Phil Jackson. So studied the mess out of that.

And once my career was coming to an end, reconnected with Jeff Mercer, who was at Western Kentucky. Now he was the head coach. Now he was the head coach at, at Wright State University, and he was like, Diamond, look. Let's do something that's never been done before. I was like, I'm intrigued.

I'm listening. And, he was like, I wanna bring you on staff as the 1st full time mental skills coordinator in college baseball. First time in history this is gonna be done, so you're gonna be leading the charge. And I know you're only 23, but I believe you are the best fit for this. I believe you're the best fit for this role.

And I was like, okay. First things first, can we do a roster rundown? Can you run me down can you run me through the roster that we have, the guys who we have, what they need to work on so I can customize the process super big on hyper individualization. He said yes. He's like, but before we do that, I want you to build this system, and this is what totally changed my career.

He said, I want you to build our mental skills and leadership system on the foundation and reverse engineer from 3 things. He said the first thing is championships. We want to win championships here, period. Number 2, we want you to develop our guys' development into the most mentally tough group in all of college baseball. Look.

We're a mid major. We don't have the same resources that LSU has, that, that Cal has, that that some of these SCC schools have. This is going to be a game changer for us. And he said, number 3, we want our guys to get drafted. And so those 3 things were the the fundamental things that I reverse engineered our system off of.

And if I wouldn't have come across Mercer, my brain would not have worked that way. And, so I was there for 2 years then stepped off staff, and I was like, I gotta share this stuff with the world. And stepped off staff, created an online business, and created a book, created an online course, was traveling the world, was making a ton of money, but then I was like, man, there's something there's just something missing here that that I had at Rightstate that I don't have right now. I don't know what it is. So I searched for 2 to 3 weeks.

And what I figured out was that I have a deep, innate desire and need to be in person in the trenches with whoever I'm working with, so that I can see them develop. And so I can coach them up in the moment so that they can become the best versions of self of themselves in front of my eyes. And I have I can mold them. I can you know? And and that was something that I was not getting when I was doing everything virtual.

So once I figured that out, I was like, okay, I've gotta I've got to fill that need because that's something that that allows me to fulfill my purpose. So I stepped on staff at ING as a leadership coach, was there for 3 years, built a really great relationship with with Dave Serjeant, who at the time was our national baseball head coach. And before that, he was with the he was with the pirates. I mean, I mean, very runs a tight ship, runs a tight ship and very strategic. You talk about chess.

He was 1 of the best in the world at problem solving and making moves, like, 12 moves ahead. Yeah. And I learned so much from from coaching, from working under him. And he had a very similar philosophy that, that that Mercer had. He was like, look, I want you to build the system based on us being able to reverse engineer from winning a national championship.

Like, that's the ultimate national championship in development. We are here to develop these guys and to win championships. So I reverse engineered our system based on those 2 things. And, you know, the 1st year, we had so many top prospects. We we had such some of the best prospects in the country, and, we did we ended up losing 2 games.

And so to give you context, at IMG, we don't get to play in, like, we didn't get to play in, like, the state championships, etcetera, etcetera. We had to win out. We had to go 25 and o in order to be considered for a national championship. So we lost 2 games in that 1st year, and we didn't get we didn't get the national championship. And, I remember texting I remember texting Terrence back and forth after that year was over.

And we've got our we've got we've got the screenshots. We've got the thread of talking about, like, next year, this time, we will be national champions. And I told him, I was honest with him. I'm gonna do everything in my power to to optimize what we have, to optimize our systems so that we can so we so we can pull this off. And he was like, I believe in you, Dee, etcetera, etcetera.

Now you're gonna do everything that you can. And a year later, we pulled it off, won a national championship. And on paper, we weren't on paper, we didn't have the best prospects the best prospects in the country. But what we did have was we had elite teamwork. Everybody was on the same page.

We we dominated every single day and treated every single day like it was a championship day. Every single rep mattered. Every single thing that we did, it played a role in us reverse engineering from winning the national championship. 1 of the things that Tersh used to say was it's gonna take all of all of us to make this thing become a reality. And so we got everybody on board, and we ended up pulling it off.

And I was so grateful that year to be able to to be able to work under Tersh, to be able to learn from Tersh, to be able to work with that staff, to be able to work with that group, because so many great things came from it. So many relationships were built. So many connections were made that, wouldn't have been made otherwise if I wasn't if I didn't have that opportunity to do so. So and so a year goes by, and I get a call from the Orioles. And, get a call from the Orioles, say, hey.

We've been following you these past, you know, these past few years since you were at Wright State, and, we want to you've got a blank canvas coming in. When it comes to this when it comes to this role, we believe you're the best person, for the job. And, you know, thought on it, went through the interview process, ended up getting the green light, and, here we are. Just finished up the 1st year.

Amazing. That's really good stuff, man. And I I wanna highlight something that you said. Treat every day like it's a championship day. Right?

And so for a lot of the leaders, the entrepreneurs out there, you gotta treat every day like it's winning time. Right? And a a lot of folks, I know you're not playing sports. Right? But you are a leader.

Right? There there are people that depend on you. There are people that rally behind you and with you, and you gotta treat every moment in your business like it's winning time, like it's championship day. And I I love the fact that you said that. And so, you know, before we we end here, Diamond, I have a specific group of people that I know follow and listen and watch the show, and they are parents that have kids that are in sports.

Right? Like, high school sports. And Yeah. Whether they're going to the next level from a collegiate or athletic standpoint, they're always gonna go to the next level in life. Yep.

Right? And so I would love for you to give a couple of tips to that high school junior or senior right now on why mindset is important, why winning time is important. And, specifically, I'm talking to 2 people. I'm talking to Gianni Paradiso. That's my young gun right there.

And Corey Moss. I'm talking to you too. You're gonna hear from the expert right now. Diamond, what's 2 2 tips you'd give to to that high school junior or senior that's going to the next level, again, whether it's athletically or in life?

The number 1 thing would be to treat every single day as though you were on a 1 day contract. This is what I call the 1 day contract mentality. This is something that when you engage in this and you commit to this every single day, there is a you have the guaranteed success probabilities that go through the roof because while your teammates, while the people around you are taken every other day off and you're looking at every single day as though you were on a 1 day contract, your performance, the way you go about your work, your coachability, your openness to listening and to putting into practice, the feedback that you do get from your teammates, from your coaches, your work ethic, your standards, your values, they will shoot through the roof. And so every day the contract starts over. It's not a 10 day contract.

It's not a, it's not a 1 year contract. If you treat every single day, like you are being heavily evaluated by wherever you wanna get to, whether it's whether whether we got professional scouts, whether we got college scouts, the specific colleges, the specific organizations that you wanna be a part of. I want you to imagine in your mind that they are there with a video camera watching everything that you do. What would your behavior look like? How would you treat your teammates?

How would your leadership look when your teammate is down at the end of the dugout or or or whatever sport you play, when your teammate is over there on the bench and he's down and you've got a video camera on you and then the video camera is panning back over to your teammate, back over to you, what will you do in that moment? Will you go over and will you sit sit next to them? Will you put your arm around them? Will you give them some words of encouragement? Like, that's that's how I want you to engage in the 1 day contract mentality.

And that's not just applicable for for these 2 who we're talking to right now for the for the athletes who we're talking to. Right? That's, that's applicable for every leader across every industry, every performer across every industry. If you treated every single day, like today was the last day on your contract and you're being heavily evaluated, you're being videoed. You've got a mic, you've got a lavalier microphone right here.

They can hear everything you say. They can see everything that you're doing on your computer. They can see everything that you're doing on your phone. They see exactly how you're using your time. In fact, at the end of the day, you're gonna get a time sheet of every single thing and every single thing that you did, every single behavior that you engage in throughout the course of the day with the time stamp right next to it.

What would that day look like? The 1 day contract mentality. You put them to sit in practice for 365 days straight, and then you've got people next to you who don't even know this mentality exists. Let me tell you. After that 365 days, you will be light years.

It'll it'll it'll send you through a time warp. You will be light years ahead of your competition. Your your your competition is gonna be taken, like, full weeks off. They're gonna be taking 3 days a week off. They're they might they might take a full month off.

Oh, I'm taking this month off. I'm not gonna while you're operating on this 1 day contract mentality, it will totally separate you and put you inside of the 1% of the 1%

Yep. Of your peers. Love it. What's the second tip you give them?

So we got the

1 day contract mentality. What's tip number 2?

The second tip is be as coachable as you possibly can be. If there's 1 thing I've learned through through working with some of the best athletes in the world, the top 1 percent of the top 1 percent, having conversations with some of the best coaches, some of the best coaches in the world, some of the best executives in the world, they are always, always, always seeking to learn. They're curious to get better. They're seeking feedback. The best of the deterg Dave Turgeon always used to say this, and I'll never forget it.

He said, the best of the best want to be coached. Michael Jordan wanted to be coached every day. LeBron James wants to be coached every day. Tom Brady wanted to be coached every day. In fact, there's a video of him sitting in, sit I just watched their I just watched the, the Netflix Netflix roast.

It was hilarious. But there was a video I remember seeing on on Instagram of him being in Belichick's office and then going over the strategies for the upcoming Sunday, just those 2. And this was at the prime of his career. You you get some people who get to the prime of their careers, and they they're they're focusing on a totally different set of behaviors, totally different set of things that don't include them sitting in their head coach's office, mapping out the strategies for the upcoming Sunday. Steph Curry wants to be coached.

Bill Belichick has a coach. Bill Belichick has mentors. Phil Jackson had mentors. Like, the best of the best have coaches. The best of the best want to be coached.

The best of the best are coachable.

Love it. Be coachable. Love it. Amazing tips from Diamond. Which is why, when we started this episode, we talked about having a special 1.

And that special 1 is gonna be Diamond Hall giving all of us a master class. A master class on mindset. A master class on leadership. But, most importantly, a master class on being the best version of yourself every day. And so, a couple of weeks from now, you're gonna get that 90 to 2 hour master class 90 minute, 2 hour master class of nothing but Diamond Hall giving away tips that he normally charges 1,000 of dollars for.

But because he loves Mick Unplugged and the Mick Unplugged audience, we're doing this for you. Ladies and gentlemen, it has been my distinct honor and pleasure to have my friend, my buddy, my coach, mister Diamond Hall Diamond. I appreciate you, sir.

Mick, appreciate you having me on.

Love it. So really quick, where can people find and follow you before we get to this master class in a couple

weeks? Yeah. So, just got the Instagram back. Was was hacked for 2 years. It was at 30 k 2 years ago, and they got hacked like that.

Learned so many things for being off of off of social media. But, but grateful to be back and and see some of the faces and build some of the relationships that I've built. So every platform is is Diamond Hall, diamynhall. Feel free to reach out. Most importantly, if you have any questions, feel free to shoot me a DM and ask questions.

Always open to always open to responding and and giving you everything that I have.

Love it. Diamond, again, appreciate you, brother. And for all the viewers and listeners, remember, your because is your superpower. Go unleash

it.

Thank you for tuning in to Mick Unplugged. Keep pushing your limits, embracing your purpose, and chasing greatness. Until next time. Stay unstoppable.