Sean Archer on Rising from Trauma to Purpose | 1,500

Kevin (0:00): And welcome to the show, everybody. My name is Kevin. This is Positive Talk Radio, my favorite person in the whole world at this moment is right there, and her name is Brichelle. Brachelle, who do we got to talk to today? And it's it's gonna be a great show.

Brichelle (0:20): Yes. I I'm speaking to everybody from my heart with this show today. Please stay here to be here for the full hour. Sean Archer is gonna be our guest of the hour. He's an author, executive and entrepreneur, but so much more.

Brichelle (0:36): Through the things that he's survived and rebuilt and scaled and is becoming. It is an honor to be here alongside you, Kevin, to have Sean to share his story and talk about what is what life is all about and share his message. So please stay with us. Please know that you can follow along at seanarcherlives.com. And without any more said, let's bring him right in.

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Kevin (1:40): Where hope has a voice And that voice is yours. And, again, welcome to the show, everybody. We've got a a terrific gentleman. His name is Sean Archer, and he's done so much and been part of so much and dealt with so much. First of all, I gotta tell you, Sean.

Kevin (2:01): You got a couple of folks that would like to say hello to begin with And Stacy Kramer said two seventy and gives you a heart and says, there you are. And then also Joseph Leonard says, here it is. And he throws a heart your way. Ain't that cool? That's awesome.

Unknown Speaker (2:23): Welcome to the show, Sean. How are you?

Unknown Speaker (2:25): Thanks, Kevin. How are you doing, Kevin? Hey, Michelle. I'm doing pretty good. Like I said, a little bit nervous, but just a conversation.

Sean Archer (2:34): We'll have that and hopefully, in the end, give somebody some inspiration and help them just realize it can always be worse and it can always get better.

Kevin (2:43): Amen. That's exactly right. So tell us a little bit about your background and and the man that you are today isn't always the man that you were in the past, but you've you have you've grown and that's part of what life is about. And so tell us a little bit about yourself.

Sean Archer (3:05): Sure thing. I'm currently a maintenance manager at a steel mill in Portage, Indiana. I've been there for a very short time. Before that, I was another maintenance manager at another plant just kind of in and out of plants being a manager, worked my way up from a tech, a mechanic, electrician, went to college, got an MBA from DeVry University, dropped out of ninth grade. But from there, I just worked my way up.

Sean Archer (3:34): I'm now an author, so to speak, which I'm proud of that.

Unknown Speaker (3:39): Yes. Indeed. And by the way, I don't know if you know this person, Rochelle. Do you know this person?

Unknown Speaker (3:46): Yes. Gaudi 1971 says, hello. Looking forward to this. And, Shubman, I told my dad to be here. And he loves these shows that we do.

Unknown Speaker (3:55): And as you just mentioned, you're a new author. How do you feel about that?

Sean Archer (4:00): It's kind of stagnant. I feel like writing the book was difficult. Mhmm. Getting it in the right hands is even it's more stressful than actually getting it done, I guess. Mhmm.

Kevin (4:14): I want you to take my advice here and just relax and let it be. It is a good work. It's going to get out there. And it's it's going to be it's gonna help people. And that's and that's the biggest thing.

Unknown Speaker (4:31): So be proud of yourself. You did a great job, Sean.

Sean Archer (4:34): Definitely. Thanks, Kevin. I'm definitely working on it. It's one of those things you get, I guess, when you go through so much. You have survivor's guilt, abandonment issues, oh god, a whole list of emotional issues, things from trauma.

Sean Archer (4:51): And I think I'm still trying to learn that I'm doing okay. It doesn't matter how well I do. It doesn't matter whether I make 6 figures or $8 an hour. I know that I'm gonna be okay.

Unknown Speaker (5:03): Very good.

Kevin (5:04): You are going to be just fine. Tell us a little bit about your background so that people can get a sense of the man that you are today from where you were.

Sean Archer (5:15): Oh, sure thing. I can start as early as I grew up in the diversity projects in Chicago which is on Diversey And Damon. It's little project houses. My mother was a crack addict, unfortunately. And she abandoned me in another country when I was seven years old.

Sean Archer (5:34): She literally just left me, my brother in an alley, and sold my sister to another family. So from there, I got really sick. We're eating garbage, sleeping in trees, just kind of trying to survive for months. And I ended up in a hospital and found somebody that spoke English. I know that was the hardest part.

Sean Archer (5:55): I ended up telling them my father's address and phone number. So they got him on the phone and say, better pick your kids up or you're going to jail. So from there, picked us up in Mexico, bring us back to Chicago, and then for about seven years, treated me like crap. And I I asked him one day, a week before my thirteenth birthday, why do you beat me and not my brothers and sisters? And that's when he told me he wasn't near my dad.

Sean Archer (6:21): He only picked me up cause they threatened to lock him up if he didn't for child neglect. So he kicked me out a week before my thirteenth birthday. I've been on my own ever since. I'll be 47 next week. So I've been on my own for quite a while From sleeping under front porches, abandoned buildings, stolen cars, in and out of juvenile adult jail.

Sean Archer (6:45): Just struggled with a lot.

Kevin (6:50): Well, and and you are now you you you mentioned that you dropped out in the ninth grade, but you have an MBA. How the heck did you have an MBA if you dropped out of high school?

Sean Archer (7:05): I had to get my GED first, of course. They won't let you go to college without getting a GED or a high school diploma. So in 1998, in Joliet Correctional Center, a maximum security prison, I got my GED. And then in 2015, I was in '14, I was in DeVry University getting my bachelor's. And then I got that.

Sean Archer (7:28): I graduated in 2018. And then I didn't feel like it was enough. I remember telling my wife, like, once I get my bachelor's degree, I'm gonna quit school. It's so difficult, so hard. I'm not smart.

Sean Archer (7:42): I'm missing twenty percent of my brain, so I feel half retarded, well, literally. And then I had to just tell my wife, I'm not gonna do it anymore. I quit. So I finished my bachelor's, got my diploma, and signed right back up for my MBA. It just it didn't seem like enough.

Sean Archer (7:59): I didn't feel accomplished. And I realized that that's just a sickness that I've done so little in my life that everything that I do is never gonna be enough. So I actually went for my PhD, and I'm still going for that. I got about a year and a half, two years left, but I'm taking a break right now.

Kevin (8:19): And Rochelle, I'm gonna quibble with Sean just a little bit that that he is he's a very special man. And he has done a a great deal. And you when you say you haven't done anything with your life, that's a lie. You've done a lot. You just don't appreciate it because you didn't have the experience to be appreciative of it and now you do and we're here to shout your name from the mountaintops because you deserve it.

Kevin (8:51): You you're isn't he doesn't he, Rochelle?

Brichelle (8:54): Yeah. I remember, Sean. I've thought about you since we met because, you know, sometimes when you hear people's story and not to say that any trauma really is comparable, but when you go through the same kinds of things as other people and you can relate, you have kind of a soft spot for them. And I realized you had said that, I told you God chooses his toughest warriors, and you said, I think he picked wrong. And I was like Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (9:18): You definitely did. Okay, hold on.

Unknown Speaker (9:19): Because I've And had this thought

Brichelle (9:22): then I came to think, you know, sometimes it's in it's in the process. That journey sometimes is a little longer for other people, because what comes out of that, all of that good, all of that compiling stuff that has happened, it if it is so much one way or another and it flips around on its head, it's gotta take some time. And I don't even think that you've gotten to see the most beautiful days that kind of make those things make sense that have that internal thing in your home. But it's these outer things you're pushing yourself to do that will guide you there. I mean, I I've had a lot of things inside of me fighting, but I will tell you, Sean, I'm never going back to school.

Unknown Speaker (10:04): And I'm really young, so I feel a

Unknown Speaker (10:06): little less humble to be

Brichelle (10:08): saying that. But I think it is amazing that you still have a motivation to do big things and to learn. Without learning, that's when stuff stops, and you are just going at it full force.

Kevin (10:22): And by the way, Joseph Leonard says he definitely does choose his Yeah. Warriors.

Unknown Speaker (10:30): I knew it.

Kevin (10:32): So so and I I just love the fact. And by the way, everybody that's listening, Sean deserves your appreciation and to let him know that you're there for him and which by the way, not everybody can say. So you are you are a very lucky man, but you've earned a lot of you you the luck because you're on your own since you were 13. That doesn't happen by accident. You're still here.

Unknown Speaker (11:02): Man. Really? But, yeah, I'm here. And Stephanie

Unknown Speaker (11:10): Wilson says, hey. What's up, Sean?

Unknown Speaker (11:16): Everybody's coming in.

Sean Archer (11:18): Yeah. They're joining. That's awesome. Hello, everybody. I love you all.

Sean Archer (11:22): Thank you for being here.

Brichelle (11:25): And Faith Haney, 7 6790 says, blessed that he chose you, big brother. He didn't choose wrong. You know, I'm really glad to have all these people validating, Sean, because I've been emotional, about knowing we were gonna have this show, hearing your story, and knowing what you've been through, and understanding what you feel and and your experiences, do you find that when you meet other people and you get to talk to them, that it is easier for them to feel safe and at peace conversating with you because you understand so damn deeply what somebody may have been through before?

Sean Archer (12:09): I think that's the reason why, when everybody says, you know, you're here for a reason, you've been through all this, and you can help people. I think that's the exact reason why I'm still here is because I was able to survive and can relate to those that are going through trauma. And every single dark tunnel I've been in in my life, there's always been the the darkest moments. And then at the end of it, it's like something great. Whether it's, you know, I I accomplished something, I meet somebody like Mike or Linda or, you know, I I get a good person in my life or my wife's little sister has a baby and it's, oh, wow.

Sean Archer (12:46): Look. Another addition. It's just something great after the darkest moments of our life, and I'm still waiting for those greatnesses.

Brichelle (12:55): Yeah. They're coming. And Stacy Kramer also says Sean has changed lives and done amazing things for others without even knowing it. He's a blessing without trying, and oh my god, Stacy, do I agree with you?

Kevin (13:09): And at the same time, Sean, I I gotta ask you. When when Stacy says something like that and she says, Sean has changed lives and done amazing things. What's the first thing that runs through your head?

Sean Archer (13:28): Is that I need to do more. I need to help more people. I need to reach people in New York. I need to reach people in California. I need to get that that kid that's struggling, maybe being abused by a step parent or something, and I need him to see that he can do better.

Sean Archer (13:45): He's not gonna be there forever. It's a dark tunnel, a long tunnel, and it's full of a lot of scary things that are gonna attack him. And then if he just keeps walking forward, he will get to the light. He, she, all of them, and I need to reach him so that I know that in my life, I've done something to change the world.

Brichelle (14:06): You're asking for it, Sean. So I hope you're ready.

Unknown Speaker (14:10): Definitely. And

Kevin (14:14): that is that is that is so cool. And by the way, even though in your early life, you went through a storm. I want to play this for you because this is indicative of the man that you are and are becoming. Here's another point to ponder by Positive Talk Radio. A sailor in a storm once battled waves so fierce, they nearly sank his ship.

Kevin (14:43): He discovered storms, they don't last forever, but strong sailors do. Life will shake you, test you, and even try to break you. But if you hold steady and keep moving forward, the skies will clear. And when they do, you will see how powerful you have become. You are listening to Positive Talk Radio, where stories of hope come alive.

Unknown Speaker (15:07): And

Kevin (15:11): welcome, to Positive Talk Radio. My name is Kevin. Brichelle's right there, and go to Sean Archer's website, which Brichelle is

Brichelle (15:19): Which is seanarcherlives.com. And, Sean, you've got everything on there between surviving solitary confinement and a massive brain injury and rebuilt your mind mentioning the MBA from Keller School. I had a question, but it is completely gone, and my brain went in a different direction. So, Kevin, do you wanna take it over so I can put my brain back together?

Sean Archer (15:47): So think of that question, put that brain together. Yep. That's okay. It's like yeah. Okay.

Unknown Speaker (15:51): We're

Brichelle (15:52): not the only one, Sean. Same. No.

Kevin (15:54): You'll you'll it'll come back to you. So, Sean, I I I have to

Unknown Speaker (16:00): tell you

Kevin (16:00): that that there are people that we interview and we've interviewed a lot. I've interviewed 4,000 people in in my time doing doing this show and and other shows, and you are a special human being. And I really want you and the friends and people that have joined you on this on this radio show. I really want them and you to understand just how special you are and the contributions. You're still a young guy by the way.

Kevin (16:33): You and so, in the next twenty years, you're gonna do amazing things because your heart is in the right place.

Sean Archer (16:46): Mhmm. Definitely. I hope so. I'm a as I told you, I wanna just impact people. I don't wanna live and die, work a nine to five, go to school, and say, okay.

Sean Archer (16:57): He did good. Let's bury him and put some flowers on his grave. I wanna be able to pass away knowing that I've changed generational curses. I've changed patterns. I've helped people out of situations where they know they'll never ever fail again or they'll never stay failed.

Sean Archer (17:15): We all fail. We all fall. We all forget questions like Michelle. But we always get back on that horse, and we always keep going no matter what.

Kevin (17:25): That's half the fun. That's what makes life a magical journey that we all get to be on. And Rochelle, Stephanie has a comment.

Brichelle (17:34): Yes. Stephanie says, Sean, you and Jade are amazing people. Dave and I truly love you guys. You are a very strong couple, and that is powerful. I remember when we met you and then you said, you know, I've been through all these things, but my wife has been my rock.

Brichelle (17:50): We don't hear that much these days, and I think that's very powerful that you guys have that relationship and have each other because she chose a warrior of her own, and she knows how to handle it, it seems.

Unknown Speaker (18:05): Sometimes.

Unknown Speaker (18:06): At the best. At the best she can. Right? Yes.

Unknown Speaker (18:10): We all do the best. Risks.

Unknown Speaker (18:12): Yes. And

Unknown Speaker (18:13): and Stacy has something to say, Rochelle.

Unknown Speaker (18:16): Yes. Stacy says Sean has a

Brichelle (18:17): lot of love to give. He wants to share his knowledge and create freedom, breaking curses and giving hope. Nothing wrong with wanting more and doing more. All it takes is one. And that's exactly what I was thinking.

Brichelle (18:28): Thank you so much for saying that, Stacy. Because Sean, I was just thinking, you know, that when I first came onto this show with Kevin and I realized some of the things that we were talking about and so many places in the world where things were happening, and I just wanted to I just wanna solve the problem. And for you, I could only imagine that's men's job is to solve the problem. Right? And more than anything, I think the power is within you and you already hold the answers because of your willingness to create the finding of that answer.

Brichelle (19:01): When you help that one person, that domino effect throughout their life is what creates curses of generational traumas that you're breaking you may not even realize. So what do you think about that too?

Sean Archer (19:15): I think you're right. I think that every person that I can help will help two or three more, and so on and so forth. It's that, like you said, the domino effect. And I think that's real. I think we all like, you guys, I can't even count the amount of people you guys have helped just by making their day.

Sean Archer (19:31): Maybe somebody was close to walking off a bridge, and, you know, Tom, Kevin, and Brachelle, whoever, you guys just made this guy smile. And now he's gonna look at the bridge and say, no. I'm not walking off. So you guys could have done a lot of things that you don't even know. And I know you guys made me smile when I talked to you a while back and said, man, I'm a little nervous to be on the show, a little intimidated by who you guys are, and I feel now like, oh my god.

Sean Archer (19:58): You guys are just great people.

Unknown Speaker (20:00): You are one of us, Sean. Kevin, tell him.

Kevin (20:04): You're you're you're one we I like to say this, Sean. You're one of us because you you you can see how important your heart is to you and how you lead with it, and how you are interested in helping other people not have to go through. I mean, let's face it, your life, your early life was particularly harrowing and and you went through all of that and look at you now. You have to you have to look at your life as a in total. And in total, you are a a raving success.

Kevin (20:45): Do you under do you get that? Right?

Sean Archer (20:48): I get it, but I don't agree with the raving success yet. I'm comfortable, and I I don't like being comfortable.

Brichelle (20:59): Well But it's already there. You just aren't in that frequency yet.

Unknown Speaker (21:04): Yeah.

Kevin (21:05): Yes. Well, well said, Michelle, because it it's it's like you have to have if you have a little bit of faith in yourself, you know it's coming because you've proven it. You went from a ninth grade dropout to getting an MBA. You've written a book, you've done some amazing things. You're on this show and you're uplifting a lot of people because of who you are as a human being.

Kevin (21:34): And so we really appreciate you being here. By the way, go to his website again, Brichelle, which is?

Brichelle (21:43): Seanarcherlives.com is where you can go. Faith is here to say beyond success, and thank you for that because I'm going to expand on that. Sean, I'm gonna tell you something, and then I'm gonna ask you a question. And let's I see if this heard something that said, you are not rich by the things that are tangible, but by the things you take with you when you lie in your first or your last breath. Therefore, do you think that you are rich?

Sean Archer (22:16): Oh. I will be. Will be. I'm getting there. I think I will be when I pass.

Sean Archer (22:23): I think that I will be able to rest in peace and know that I've done everything I could. I think Les Brown or Jim Rome, they said, all you can do is all you can do, and all you can do is enough. So I think that I'm doing as much as I can to touch everybody's life, to put my book out there, to get people help, to spread the word of love and patience and joy and hoping that I give inspiration to people. And if I'm doing the most I can do, there's nothing else I can do but that. So, yes, I do feel that by the time I I'm done, I can say that I ran my race with all my speed.

Brichelle (23:08): You know, I think you'll get there a lot sooner than you think because those little things like the sunrise or not stepping on an ant or not picking a flower to let it live and those kind of little things, it's like how you see those little things that you've done. Those are the biggest things to somebody else. The impact is already there. It's already started. Writing that book, you went through the hardest part of having to create that tangibly, put it into words, go through the process, get the message out there, and then you released it.

Brichelle (23:41): That was the hardest part. Now that's this is where all Kevin, tell me you agree. This is where I believe that all the breadcrumbs start to fall because you're asking for what you are wanting. Right, Kevin?

Unknown Speaker (23:55): Exactly. Exactly. And by the way, we have mentioned the book several times. Yes. The title of the book, Porfavore.

Sean Archer (24:04): It's called the Invisible Leash the Invisible Leash, a memoir. It's basically just a memoir of my life because there's another book called the invisible leash that's about, I think, a dog or something. It's a children's book. So you have to make sure you put the invisible leash memoir. But it's just about my life.

Sean Archer (24:26): My it's different. I've been shot in both legs. Been shot in my lower back, my upper back, my neck, my head. The last one of my head, the bullet came in my back, bounced off the back of my skull, and came out of my mouth. So most people don't live from that.

Sean Archer (24:40): So I think that's a pretty big deal. I had to really learn how to walk, really learn how to talk. I had no voice for almost a year. For about nine, ten months, I couldn't talk. The doctor said my vocal cords were paralyzed and that I wouldn't probably never be able to speak and that I'd have a meningitis of a five year old.

Sean Archer (25:01): So I think now I'm probably 13 or 14.

Unknown Speaker (25:04): I think

Unknown Speaker (25:05): I beat them by a little bit.

Unknown Speaker (25:06): Me too.

Unknown Speaker (25:07): Just a little.

Unknown Speaker (25:09): Well, and and not only did you did you I can't I can't I I no. I've never been shot. I can't imagine. But to get shot, that number of times, that had to hurt like a son of a gun, didn't it?

Sean Archer (25:23): The worst was the back and the legs. The head, I was in a coma for three weeks. So it didn't hurt until I woke up out of my coma. And the process of trying to relearn how to walk at 23 years old, that was the most painful part, trying to get a walker and just try to step and balance, and I couldn't. And I remember being in the hospital, and some old guy on a cane had to be like 150 years old, just grazed right past me.

Sean Archer (25:58): And I was so frustrated that I threw my walker on the floor and just gave up. And then the doctor and the nurse called me. And I think that was the most difficult part was being I was able to do backflips and do all these things physically and to not be able to put one foot in front of the other. That was the most difficult part of that. Like, getting shot, I didn't know I got shot until I woke up in the hospital.

Sean Archer (26:26): I thought the guy hit me in the back of the head with a gun. I didn't know that he actually shot me. I chased him for about a half a block, and then I saw the blood coming out of my mouth. I'm like, oh, I think I better stop chasing this guy. So I walked back, and I remember laying on the floor, and I was just sitting there with the blood coming out of my mouth like a garden hose.

Sean Archer (26:47): And I thought to myself, like, okay. This piece of crap just killed me. I wasn't scared of of dying. It was weird. I was very calm.

Sean Archer (26:58): And I said, can't believe this little bastard just killed me. And that was going through my mind, and I was just like, well, I'm gonna die. And I hate this phrase. I don't know why I use it, but I said I'm gonna die like a man. So I sat there, blood just coming out of my mouth.

Sean Archer (27:16): The sky was perfectly blue. It was broad daylight, 12:00 in the afternoon, but it was all red because there was so much blood in my eyes. And the last thing I saw was a friend of mine step up over me and ask me, are you okay? And they grabbed my arm to pick me up and I knocked out and I woke up a month later.

Kevin (27:37): Well, I'm glad actually that you went to sleep for a month because that would have been that would have been really a painful thing. But and at the same time, you were also peaceful because you weren't scared of what the future held for you. But the future turns out that the future had a lot more. The universe had a lot more for you than you were willing to even admit yourself. And by the way, as as Rochelle, Stacy has a comment.

Brichelle (28:10): Yes. She said, you will never fully do everything you want to do. Preach it, girl. We are wired to do more after we feel happiness of something. You have to teach take each thing for what it is right now, good intentions and good trying.

Brichelle (28:25): And, you know, I think, Sean, I mean, maybe I'm just young and gullible, but you can tell me if I'm wrong. I think that you've got it all a little bit backwards because you are a living, breathing, blown beyond again and again beyond success as Faith says. You are

Unknown Speaker (28:47): a

Brichelle (28:47): living testimony to the the importance of life. You've been through all of these things unexplainably, like so many things that maybe some people don't even experience once. And all I'm hearing you say is I wanna help other people. If you think that you weren't put here with one of the most broad purposes and biggest blessings of all time, like, I think you're already achieving all those things. When you when you wake up and you take another breath, you're that person for your wife.

Brichelle (29:23): You're that person for faith and for Stacy and for all these people commenting in. When you sit there and you think I need to do more, I need to be more this and the as you are is exactly as you need to be. But I do love and I do understand so much the motivation and the I don't give a shit to just keep pushing forward because if that's what keeps you going, I hope you hold on to that absolutely forever because you've already changed lives and you've already had an impact that is unexplainable, and I can't wait to see where it takes you. Kevin, can you?

Kevin (30:00): I'm excited to know because you've you're a young man. You've got lots and lots of time to continue to make the impression you have. But I would encourage you to be happy with the man that you are because the man that you are is pretty special. You don't need to have anything else other than the man that you are. And and to appreciate yourself.

Kevin (30:29): Because you deserve to be appreciative. You've you've been in a solitary confinement. You were you're in a coma for a month. You've had all kinds of you got beaten as a child. You you've you and now you are on the other side of all that and all of that happen and now, you can benefit from it.

Kevin (30:52): The book's going to do great. It's going to it's going to impact somebody's life and you are, when are you going to start speaking by the way?

Sean Archer (31:00): Yeah. I'm I'm already looking into doing a TEDx and Gary. It's not far from my house.

Unknown Speaker (31:08): Hold on.

Unknown Speaker (31:09): Smaller thing. I don't know if I made it.

Unknown Speaker (31:14): So glad you said that. Anyway, sorry. Continue.

Sean Archer (31:18): I don't know if I made the the deadline for the the request to be a speaker, but I I put it in anyways, and we'll see what happens. Okay. My goal is to be on a actual TED Talks, which, you know, starting off small TEDx is the next best step. But my goal is to be on TED Talks. My goal is to speak in jails, in prisons, in churches, and to speak where people are going to listen.

Sean Archer (31:46): And if I can do that, I think I'll be a happy man. Well, I don't know if you heard a speech from Matthew McConaughey, whatever, the actor. Mhmm. He said that he never is happy with who he is because who he wants to be is ten years down the line. And then when he gets there, he's gonna realize that he's still not the person he wants to be.

Sean Archer (32:04): It's another ten years down the line. And I think I'm stuck in that cycle of no matter how much I do or no matter how much I've accomplished, I'm nowhere near where I wanna be. And it's it's like you said, it's it's a good thing to be happy, and I'm happy. I love my people. I love my close friends and family.

Sean Archer (32:23): But I just wanna keep doing more, and that lack of of complacency just gives me more motivation to get up at 03:00 in the morning and just get reach more people.

Unknown Speaker (32:36): You get up at 03:00 in the morning on purpose?

Sean Archer (32:39): I try to get up at 03:30. Yes. But sometimes I get up early.

Unknown Speaker (32:43): I would die in your house, Sean. I you'd find me crawled up underneath the dog somewhere.

Sean Archer (32:49): Everybody says that. I've been doing it for, god, since nineteen ninety ninety nine.

Unknown Speaker (32:59): That's the year I was born.

Unknown Speaker (33:01): Yep. Oh my. That feels like it was, like, fifteen, twenty years ago.

Unknown Speaker (33:07): Me too. I couldn't agree with that. Yes.

Unknown Speaker (33:11): It was twin that was twenty seven years ago, young man. But but Sean, I want I want you to look at this perspective and that is this, you are a special human being. Do you admit that? Yes?

Sean Archer (33:25): Yes. I'm definitely special.

Unknown Speaker (33:29): Special in a good way.

Unknown Speaker (33:30): Pause. Yes.

Unknown Speaker (33:33): Not not having to take the short bus, but you're special in a good way.

Unknown Speaker (33:36): Hey. They put some good flavor on those windows on those short buses,

Unknown Speaker (33:40): didn't they? They do. And I could see out

Unknown Speaker (33:42): of them because I was tall enough.

Unknown Speaker (33:43): I know. They like some good flavored gum under the seats. I like those buses.

Unknown Speaker (33:50): Oh. The snacks in the crack at the back of the bus. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (33:54): The way that we understand is crime. And, Sean,

Brichelle (33:59): I have to ask you. Think you have a blessing that you may not know, so I wanna see if you know. What's that? You know how you have always gotten used to your brain, of course, is consistently protecting you because god knows what the hell is coming next. But this, you can imagine everything at its worst.

Unknown Speaker (34:18): Right? You imagine all of the same things at its best? And what does that look like? Do you even know?

Sean Archer (34:28): Winning the lottery. Okay.

Unknown Speaker (34:32): Well, then you can use all that money to go help all those people. That that would that would save? I

Sean Archer (34:39): would have the money and start a foundation for kids We then go play ping pong, volleyball, basketball. We'll have mentors. And not just the troubled kids, but the ones that are not really sure what they're gonna do. I have an exchange student, and he's a lovely, lovely young boy. And he's like, I don't know what I wanna do with my life.

Unknown Speaker (34:59): I don't know if I wanna be an engineer. Do this. Do that. I'm like, well, I do my best to help him.

Unknown Speaker (35:05): Yeah. I bet you help so many.

Kevin (35:08): And have you ever thought that somebody would say this about you?

Unknown Speaker (35:14): Rain says the most special I've ever met, and I don't think she's lying.

Kevin (35:21): No? Well and by the way and I just want you to know something, Sean. What's We do, we do a lot of shows. We ask our guests to invite people to be part of the show and to comment in. You are rarefied air because we've had a bunch of all these people and it's not one guy.

Kevin (35:46): It's a bunch of different people that are commenting in because they're all invested in the man that you are and I want you to own it. And and I want your friends to comment in and say, Sean, own it. Because you are that special. Does that that make sense, Michelle?

Brichelle (36:06): Yeah. I mean, not only has everybody stayed here for the entire time, but the commenting and the engaging. Sean, you know, I think that maybe you don't see Kevin said this to me. It's hard to see how many you have following you when it feels like you're their support. You know what I mean?

Brichelle (36:28): So when you feel like you're the person who's kinda underneath everyone, like, well, I don't have the support that I'm giving everybody else type of thing. You are the foundation for probably so many different people and things. Like, they they probably have those thoughts in my head. Like, I after Kevin had told me that same perspective of I want you to see yourself for the person you love most, and that was kinda frustrating at first Because you don't even know what the hell you know what I mean? All those things went through my brain, but

Unknown Speaker (36:59): Of course.

Brichelle (37:00): Your motivation to wake up at 03:30 in the morning, I think probably keeps a lot of other people going too because I've had people say if Bershell can do it, then I can do it. No. If Sean can do it, Bershell can do it. Kevin can do it. Faith can do it.

Brichelle (37:18): Of us You can do are I know it doesn't feel good to be that person because I've been told that and that's how I related to you so well. And Faith says, own it big brother. You tell him. And Alma says, Sean, own it. We love you so much.

Brichelle (37:33): You have changed so many lives and don't realize it. I think what's really cool is you are in the process of becoming who you know is your best self. So it's not about, you know, the change you're having happen, but you know what is possible within yourself, and you don't ever back down from that. Is would that be fair to say?

Sean Archer (37:57): I definitely don't back down. I take a lot of risks, which can bite me in the butt sometimes. But you're absolutely right. I do see everything that I've done, and I do see that people will say what you just said, like, well, you don't understand when you're trying to carry everybody, and you you got all this weight on your shoulder. You don't see what you're doing.

Unknown Speaker (38:18): Yeah.

Sean Archer (38:19): And I see what I'm doing. I see what I'm trying to do, and I'm grateful for it. I love everybody that's watching, everybody that's on there commenting, their friends and family. And I love that. It's trying not to make me emotional to know that I have that support.

Unknown Speaker (38:35): I don't blame you.

Unknown Speaker (38:37): It's Oh.

Unknown Speaker (38:38): Me emotional.

Kevin (38:39): Sean, be emotional. It's okay. You are the man that these people recognize who you really are. And if we accomplish anything during the course of this show, I want you to recognize the man that you really are. Do you know you had an impact on my team?

Unknown Speaker (39:01): Yes, you did.

Unknown Speaker (39:02): I did? How was that? Because

Kevin (39:05): of your story and the man that you are and how you approached my people with kindness, love, and acceptance and everything, they love you. They haven't even met you yet. They're in The Philippines, but they love you because of the man that you are. That is the kind of impact you are already having. It's not the future, it's not someday if I work real hard enough, it'll happen, it's happening now and it's not because of the the Herculean effort you're putting forth because you don't need to.

Kevin (39:45): You just need to be the man that you are And those things will naturally come to you because of your heart and everything that's within it. Rochelle, do you agree with that?

Brichelle (39:57): Yeah. I mean, what you ask for, you might receive. Right?

Unknown Speaker (40:03): Yes.

Brichelle (40:03): And big risk, big wins. Holy shit. You know, I'm thinking, Sean, you took those risks and you created that win. When that couldn't have even been possible and I didn't get around to this, Rain says, Sean, own it. You have changed so many lives already, including mine.

Brichelle (40:19): Remember what you have done. It is special and important. And Kevin, as you were saying that, what what we were just saying was last thing you said I was thinking of something, and I'm not forgetting this time.

Unknown Speaker (40:30): What is the last

Unknown Speaker (40:31): thing God bless you.

Kevin (40:33): I I own it or or or believe it because it's already happening. It's not it's not, you know, someday in the distance. It's because of how you show up in the world and how your heart is every moment, every interaction. I'm willing to bet, and I don't know this about you because I've never been to the grocery store with you, but I'm willing to bet that when you talk to the cashier, you have a smile on your face and you're genuinely interested in what they are going through that particular day because that's the type of kindness that a real man brings. Yeah.

Kevin (41:07): And you are that.

Sean Archer (41:09): Oddly enough, I tip the bag boy when I when I go to a grocery store.

Unknown Speaker (41:13): Oh. I'm

Unknown Speaker (41:15): leave my face so bad.

Unknown Speaker (41:18): I'm joking.

Unknown Speaker (41:19): This is what I'm gonna

Brichelle (41:20): mention for anybody listening to this. I want you to know how he has impacted our team and and run with what Kevin said because, Sean, you are the only person who is coming to our world, having the story in the background and all these things, and you said, how can I donate? When you donated to our team, we had Mother's Day coming up, and we paid them to be in The Philippines. We got a little extra because we had had somebody donate so that we could have some extras for Mother's Day and some things to provide for our team and a little less stress. That itself went a really, really long way.

Brichelle (41:56): And we were all very, very, very thankful for that. So I want you to know from my mouth to your ears that that little bit of what you gave meant so much more than you could possibly imagine.

Sean Archer (42:09): That's awesome. I'm so grateful, and I I enjoy and it might seem selfish. I enjoy helping people. I enjoy

Unknown Speaker (42:17): Good.

Sean Archer (42:17): Given that, bad boy stuff, $5 tip or something. Or when you got a kid in a store and they're crying because they want a a toy, and their mom's telling them, no. We can't get that toy. And I walk up and pay for the toy if it's okay with the mother. And that's just the best feeling in the world to be able to do that.

Unknown Speaker (42:37): I think that's where we we lose ourselves.

Unknown Speaker (42:39): You realize that. Right?

Unknown Speaker (42:42): Selfish.

Unknown Speaker (42:43): No. I'm gonna be this into your heart.

Brichelle (42:48): You are the most selfless man I have come yet to possibly know on the show. And Gabriel says, I love you, big dad. You are teaching me so much in a short time. I am proud of you and of having met you in my life. I will always keep your advice in mind for the rest of my life.

Sean Archer (43:07): That is my foreign exchange student from Italy.

Unknown Speaker (43:10): Well, thank you for being here, Gabriel. So cool. And I must say, yes, he is. Just turned

Sean Archer (43:20): 18 in January. He's been here since last year.

Brichelle (43:23): Wow. Your people love you. I'm telling you. We've never had this many comments. I'm loving it.

Brichelle (43:28): Stacy says, I am one of the people who lives with him and Jade have changed. Given an opportunity in one of the worst times of my life, changing the lives of five kids as well. We will always be grateful. That's amazing.

Unknown Speaker (43:44): And this person, you don't even know.

Unknown Speaker (43:47): Yes. And this is my mama. Hey, Heather. Oh my

Brichelle (43:51): goodness. Heather Howard says good stuff. You are amazing. Lots of wonderful energy. Hands yellow, heart red.

Unknown Speaker (43:59): The hell are you talking about, mama? That is beautiful.

Unknown Speaker (44:02): She's over here twin

Unknown Speaker (44:03): I love how she asked her mama. What the hell is that is so funny.

Unknown Speaker (44:09): I can't believe she said that. That's, the most beautiful thing, and it's so random. We'll have to look that up.

Unknown Speaker (44:17): That is amazing.

Unknown Speaker (44:19): Mom, you're so

Unknown Speaker (44:19): cute. I love that. And our Kevin, you try that one. The name.

Unknown Speaker (44:28): You want it? You're the linguist. Don't ask me to help.

Unknown Speaker (44:32): Our Jocca magic man 213.

Unknown Speaker (44:35): It's RJ a k a magic man twenty three.

Unknown Speaker (44:39): Oh, gotcha. We we dab. You keep splitting people's names.

Unknown Speaker (44:44): Thank you for being here, RJ to come in and support.

Unknown Speaker (44:49): And and, of course, Stacy says lives, not just alive. Not lives, I mean lives. Lives. Lives. Lives.

Kevin (45:01): Something. And and which is but but and I I just have to I have to tell you that this is I am having so much fun talking to you because you are a wonderful man and I gotta play this because this is who you really are. What am I gonna play, Rochelle?

Unknown Speaker (45:24): Just do it. Sean, this one's for you.

Kevin (45:27): We often think of courage as a shield, a thick wall to prove that we are untouchable. We believe that to be strong is to be invulnerable, hiding our doubts and our soft edges behind a mask of certainty. But true courage isn't found in the armor. It's found in the willingness to take it off. Vulnerability is the act of showing up and being seen exactly as you are even when you cannot control the outcome.

Kevin (45:54): It's the bravery to say, I'm hurting. I don't know, or I need help. When we hide our struggles, we also hide our humanity. It's only when we are vulnerable can we truly connect, truly learn, and truly heal. Armor can protect you, but only vulnerability can transform you.

Kevin (46:15): And because you're vulnerable and by the way, I have to mention this. The the stock boy that you gave $5 to, he went home and he said, somebody gave me $5. That's amazing to me. So the ripple effect was instantaneous and it was really heartfelt. But vulnerability, you it takes a great deal of courage to be vulnerable and let your feelings show through and to be the man that you are.

Kevin (46:42): So, I'm I'm I'm not gonna let you get a put up with this stuff about you not putting not validating yourself because you should validate yourself every day. Your friends do, we do, and and so you must because you are a special human being. We knew that. We knew that when you came here.

Brichelle (47:01): Have to shout you out, Sean. I'll tell you one thing. Most men, and I'm saying men, not boys, but who go through this and they get into their adult life, they use this as their reason to be selfish, to have ego, to be the prideful person in the room that's hurting other people's. You are one of the best examples for a broken boy to look at as a man to be vulnerable, to be empathic. You can feel for other people.

Brichelle (47:30): You care about other people's emotions. To to be that guide that sits there and says, don't give up. Don't quit because that's when you actually fail. Right?

Sean Archer (47:43): Yes. I like the way, somebody put it. He says, if you're in a fight and you get hit in the mouth, bleed a little bit. But when you're done bleeding, get back in the fight. You can get hit.

Sean Archer (47:54): You can stay down. You can do whatever you want. But when you're done licking your wounds, you get back up and get back in that fight. And that's what I've always done is got back in the fight. It doesn't matter how many times I've been shot, how many times I've been sitting in a cell.

Sean Archer (48:10): I remember being on house arrest, and it makes me think about what you said earlier. And some guy was begging me for change. And I'm like, dude, you can get a job. You're healthy. And he's like, no.

Sean Archer (48:22): I'm you know, I've been to prison. I've been this and I had a house arrest house arrest bracelet on my ankle because I was on parole from just spending six years in prison. And this guy was like, how did you get a job? I said, worked for it. I I I studied.

Sean Archer (48:37): I I showed them what I can do. And he's like, well, that's not gonna work for me. And everybody at the bus stop thought we were gonna start fighting. And I actually ended up giving him my number and helped him get a job, and he stopped begging for change.

Unknown Speaker (48:52): Oh my god. That's one of the best success stories I've ever heard, you know, because I say this there's a guy down in my house. He has a sign that says my life sucks. That's it. That's what his life says.

Unknown Speaker (49:02): Oh my goodness.

Brichelle (49:03): Talk about full acceptance, though. Right? I mean but that's not what they thought was thinking about that. When when you went into the courtroom and were talking to the judges and they're looking at all these things and who they saw standing before them was different than the person they were seeing on the paper. I could only imagine.

Brichelle (49:22): And Alma says, when the world says give up, hope says keep trying. I agree with that. And Kendall says that's who he is with a smile. And that's even more powerful. You sit here every time we meet with you, and you're just thankful to be here.

Brichelle (49:40): And that's kinda what this whole show is about helping people feel. So thank you for bringing that to the table.

Unknown Speaker (49:47): I hope so. Of course.

Kevin (49:49): And and by the way, this this show is gonna be heard by a whole bunch of folks and seen by a whole bunch of folks because this is reality at its finest. You, your life wasn't cup cakes and cherries most of your life. You got shot. You were in I in in prison. Solace, thank you.

Unknown Speaker (50:19): He he couldn't get that out. I saw it.

Unknown Speaker (50:21): Yeah. He he was it was it was working.

Unknown Speaker (50:24): When you go there, you probably remember the word a

Speaker 3 (50:26): lot. Yeah.

Kevin (50:30): Solitary confinement and then you got your your MBA and you are helping people. You gave the stock boy $5. All these things are adding up. You you realize. Yes.

Kevin (50:43): And that is and by the way, the true definition of redemption. I is, you know, you you are the you are that guy and you are gonna be able to help people and you're helping people now. Look at the folks that are here that are here talking about you. I I gotta tell you, you are and I'm I'm proud and I think I can speak for Rochelle. We're proud to know you and we're proud that you chose to be on our show.

Unknown Speaker (51:16): Yes.

Sean Archer (51:17): Thank you. It's an honor to me, and I'm very, very humbled to be on here. I'm very humbled. I'm very proud, and I'm very happy that you guys accepted me as a guest on your show. And and I don't know if I could thank you enough.

Sean Archer (51:33): Now, two, three years from now, whatever it is, I'm gonna just forever be grateful that you guys brought me on here to share my story, to have my family on here, my friends. And when I say family, I don't know if I told you guys, I have no blood relatives. Every person in my life, the ones on here, the ones that I deal with on a daily basis that I I I spend my time with, Thanksgiving, Christmas, holidays, Mother's Day, everything. They're all people that I've met in the past ten years.

Unknown Speaker (52:08): What does that have to say to you?

Sean Archer (52:13): That life is great.

Unknown Speaker (52:16): And And

Brichelle (52:18): people love Sean. Yes, Sean. You are our family. We will open you with, welcome you in with open arms, anybody in your world. I am so excited that you decided to put your foot down and keep going to come on here to be your be here to share your message and your story because this possibly could just be the break of everything you've been asking for after you have this show with us.

Brichelle (52:42): I'm really excited to see all the people who hear your message and start blowing you up with all these different opportunities. Are you kinda looking forward to that, or is that nerve racking?

Sean Archer (52:55): I'm a little anxious. I'm a little curious as to how far will it lead. I do wanna help people. I do want people to link with. Did a show not too long ago called Prison Bosses.

Sean Archer (53:09): It's another podcast, and speaking with him off camera, there's a lot of organizations that I kinda linked with that I can now help. And that's my goal is to get as many spider webs into my network that I can touch as many people and help kinda just give hope. Like you said, not many people has been through this much, but even just losing a job. Some people might be working, and they lose their job at the grocery store, and their life is just miserable, and they're thinking about what am I gonna do with my life. But once again, for every negative action, there's a positive outcome in the end.

Kevin (53:48): Absolutely. And rain eighteen ninety eight says this, Prashell.

Brichelle (53:54): He saved my life. I will always be grateful to have him in my life. Soon, the rest of the world will stay the same. I love you, Sean. And that is powerful.

Brichelle (54:04): Gaudi is here to also say, God bless on your journey. Thank you, dad, for being here to support Sean. And Sean, thank you for just continuing to go on. If somebody wanted to get in touch with you and offer either ways for you to be able to engage with them, opportunity wise, or somebody that just maybe wants to talk to you, how can they do that?

Sean Archer (54:26): I have my website. They can fill out the information, seanarcherlibbs.com. It'll go directly to my personal email once they put their name in there. It'll say, hey. This person wants to reach you.

Sean Archer (54:39): They could get the free chapter, first chapter of my book or my memoir, and just let me know how it goes from there. Whatever they need, I'm here. Even if they just need some sort of ear to listen to and say, hey. This is what's going on in my life. What do I do?

Sean Archer (54:54): I'm not an expert at all. I'm just a guy that kept pushing forward. Now I love the way he looks at me. I'm just You're you're a you're a freaking expert

Unknown Speaker (55:04): of life. That that's where you are.

Unknown Speaker (55:06): You're an expert of life. Yes.

Unknown Speaker (55:11): And and the only thing you could have done differently is duck next time. No.

Unknown Speaker (55:16): I'm kidding.

Unknown Speaker (55:17): Yeah. Or jump. Yeah. I thought he hit me. Yeah.

Sean Archer (55:21): Duck or jump. Well, the first time I got shot, I was actually standing on the sidewalk flirting with two girls. And it was two girls walking by. I stopped talking to them, hey. What's your name?

Sean Archer (55:34): Whatever. And then all of a sudden, I just felt my legs go pow. And I look, and there's some guys hanging out the side of a passenger side of a van just shooting at me. And the girls ran off. I didn't get their number, unfortunately.

Unknown Speaker (55:48): Or maybe fortunately.

Unknown Speaker (55:50): You're like, come on. It wasn't

Unknown Speaker (55:51): even worth it.

Sean Archer (55:51): Right. And I remember I like, I'm just trying to duck back and forth. And when they finally drove off, I walked up to my friend's car. And I'm like, hey. I think you got taken to the hospital.

Sean Archer (56:03): I got shot at my legs. And he just looked at me and saw the blood going down my legs. And I remember he took his sweater off and put on his back seat so he didn't get blood on his seat of his car. And just thinking about that, like, it's just so nonchalant.

Unknown Speaker (56:20): Yeah. That's very calm.

Kevin (56:22): And and by the way, Sean, are you a music lover?

Sean Archer (56:26): I love music. Yes. All music.

Kevin (56:28): Do you know a group? It's a small little itty bitty teeny weeny group called Metallica.

Unknown Speaker (56:37): Of course, I love Metallica.

Unknown Speaker (56:40): Good.

Kevin (56:41): Good. There's a song that I want you to own. It's called nothing else matters.

Sean Archer (56:48): You know that song? Definitely. By heart.

Brichelle (56:51): Forever trust in who you are and nothing else matters. I've listened to that since I was three. I didn't under understand the impact to it, but Kevin and I have songs that speak to us. Do you have your songs like that?

Sean Archer (57:06): A little different. I don't know if heard of Dax. He talks about, like, the struggles of a man and stuff like that and, like, just very, very religious songs, I think.

Speaker 3 (57:19): Mhmm.

Sean Archer (57:19): But I think he he understands the struggles that we go through internally, and we don't verbalize them. We might be crying inside and just smile and shake everybody's hand. It's like inside, we're we're just destroyed. I love that. I love the strength he gives me.

Sean Archer (57:36): I love Hopson, which is a little

Unknown Speaker (57:38): different. Hopson.

Sean Archer (57:41): So those are just songs that kinda motivate me.

Unknown Speaker (57:44): Awesome. Kevin, I'll have to I think I'm

Unknown Speaker (57:47): gonna play Hopson vibe for Kevin and see what he thinks.

Unknown Speaker (57:50): One day.

Unknown Speaker (57:52): Know. I'm sure it's it's gonna be wonderful. That's I'm sure

Unknown Speaker (57:56): that I have.

Unknown Speaker (57:58): If you listen to

Unknown Speaker (57:59): the words, it's pretty good, Kevin.

Unknown Speaker (58:01): The it's all

Unknown Speaker (58:02): good. Words. Yeah.

Sean Archer (58:03): The music's a little different, but the words tell a story.

Unknown Speaker (58:07): Yes. Yes.

Unknown Speaker (58:08): I love that you know that, Rochelle. That's awesome.

Unknown Speaker (58:10): Of course. And Stacy says he

Brichelle (58:12): is my life coach and a mentor to my kids, always and forever grateful.

Sean Archer (58:17): That's too easy. Her kids are amazing. She has some of the most amazing kids. Like, they were raised by angels. They're so good that you can't you don't have to work hard at helping those kids.

Sean Archer (58:29): They're just amazing. And one of them, her daughter, Miley, is going to the military in August. So we're grateful for her service.

Brichelle (58:39): Absolutely. Very grateful. And congratulations, Stacy, for being such an amazing mama and having Sean to help your kiddos. Rain says losing my life falling in reverse. That's his favorite.

Brichelle (58:52): That's her

Unknown Speaker (58:52): really good one too. Yes. Yes.

Sean Archer (58:55): I love that song. It tells, like, not a redemption story. It basically says, it doesn't matter what I've been through. I'm gonna push. I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna be the best.

Unknown Speaker (59:06): Yeah. Without starting you know, I think of that song riot. And without starting a riot, you've decided to go about your way of living. So, Kevin, is there a word for it? I don't think that we're gonna make a word for you, Sean.

Kevin (59:25): Resilience would be would be one how about how about super supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?

Unknown Speaker (59:37): Asperidosis.

Unknown Speaker (59:39): Yep. Yep. That's the one.

Sean Archer (59:41): That's the word. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Did I say that right?

Unknown Speaker (59:45): Yes. Perfectly. Yes.

Kevin (59:47): Yes. And and also, you can be Mary Poppins too. You're practically perfect in every way. And which I know that you're a human being and we all have got issues and from time to time. And also keep in mind that when you, she likes that one.

Kevin (1:00:05): I love

Unknown Speaker (1:00:09): having everybody here. We have

Unknown Speaker (1:00:11): to do this again, Sean. You promise Definitely. You'll come back.

Unknown Speaker (1:00:14): Definitely. Definitely will.

Unknown Speaker (1:00:16): Now now you're not nervous anymore. Right?

Sean Archer (1:00:20): Not really. I'm just moved by the love, the support, by just I mean, you think about the things I've been through and the things I'm trying to do, and it's like, I think I see the silver lining. I see the light in this very small narrow tunnel. I can see that little flicker of light just once I break through that wall, it's it's gonna blow up. It's gonna be great.

Sean Archer (1:00:46): My book's gonna touch many people. Everyone that's read it that's close to me, and that's what I I don't like is everyone that's read it that's close to me, they're just they they call me crying, and they call me said, oh my god, and this and that. I'm like, that's not my intention, but I get it.

Kevin (1:01:02): Yeah. And, Sean, then before the next time we meet, I want you to work on a couple of things for me.

Unknown Speaker (1:01:10): Of course.

Kevin (1:01:11): So you say homework for you. First of all, I want you to get rid of, I'm going to, and I will, and someday, and I want you to eliminate those things from your vocabulary and I am. Yes. I am. I am grateful for who I am and how impactful I am to the world today and in the future because that's who you are.

Kevin (1:01:47): At your core. And it's not a matter of it's not coming. It ain't it's here. It's here, baby. So You

Unknown Speaker (1:01:55): got the team riled up. You can't stop now.

Sean Archer (1:01:58): Never. Never. I got my team and they're they are my backbone. They are my strength, and I love them all. And I'm gonna make them proud.

Unknown Speaker (1:02:07): I will make them

Unknown Speaker (1:02:08): proud. You have made them proud.

Sean Archer (1:02:11): I was just wanted to see if you caught that.

Unknown Speaker (1:02:13): He'll give you he'll get you.

Unknown Speaker (1:02:16): I know.

Kevin (1:02:18): It's it's all and it's all part of who you are and and how and and words matter. They they are what dictates for you the future. And the future is now, baby. It's happening now. The book's coming out, the book's selling, the book is powerful.

Kevin (1:02:45): Everything is everything is great. New words for Sean. I am.

Unknown Speaker (1:02:54): We're going to be scurrying

Unknown Speaker (1:02:56): at you.

Kevin (1:03:00): You are. And and remember the gospel according to Yoda. Do or do not. There is no try. And you do.

Kevin (1:03:08): Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (1:03:09): You really do. He's doing. Are. Yeah. I am.

Kevin (1:03:20): And and Sean, I've been looking forward to this since the first time we talked. You are, you are sensational. You are wonderful. You are a wonderful shining light of what humanity can be if we chose to. You have already chosen to so you are that person already.

Unknown Speaker (1:03:41): Own it. Love it.

Unknown Speaker (1:03:43): I will. Because. I am. I do. I do.

Unknown Speaker (1:03:45): Okay. Because every every

Kevin (1:03:48): you should you should see how many comments we've everybody loves you. And they're here for you. They support you, and you are that for them already.

Brichelle (1:04:00): Yep. And for all of us and for yourself. Sean, you know, we spend a lot of time learning how to take care of each other, and you've taught us how to do that. But we're here to help you take care of yourself too, because we all need each other, and that's what help is for. Thank you so much for spending this time with us and being the person that you truly are.

Brichelle (1:04:20): I cannot wait to see where your future takes us takes you, and I'm so glad that you're in our world to be able to follow alongside and move the world together. Right?

Sean Archer (1:04:33): Thank you. It's a pleasure. I can't wait to do this again. Thank you so much.

Kevin (1:04:39): Well, remember you said that because you're stuck

Unknown Speaker (1:04:42): now. So Yes.

Sean Archer (1:04:44): Definitely. I'm part of the Positive Talk Radio alumni.

Unknown Speaker (1:04:49): Yes. Part of the family.

Unknown Speaker (1:04:52): Yes. Yes. We're all a family here.

Kevin (1:04:55): And thank you everybody. Brichelle, thank you. You're beautiful as always. And Sean, go to his website, which again, Sean Archer, which is Brichelle?

Brichelle (1:05:06): Seanarcherlives.com. And, Sean, do you have one last nugget on your mind you'd like to leave us with?

Sean Archer (1:05:14): Always do the right thing, and you'll never have to do the wrong thing.

Brichelle (1:05:19): Amen. And Alma's here to say family. Thank you everybody so much for joining us in to show the purpose and the passion and the love with Sean. Alma says we love you, and we'll be back again to scream more from the roof tops and follow you along this journey. Kendall says big family.

Unknown Speaker (1:05:39): And, yeah, as you said, Sean, that you what was the last thing you said? Say it again.

Unknown Speaker (1:05:46): Always do the right thing, and you'll never have to worry about doing something wrong.

Unknown Speaker (1:05:51): Amen. That is beautiful. I

Kevin (1:05:53): should have played integrity. Oh, well, next time. So thank you. Thank you, Sean. And

Unknown Speaker (1:05:58): Thank you.

Kevin (1:05:59): Have great day, everybody. And thank you, everybody, for participating with us. This has been a beautiful experience for everybody, and I thank you all. Have a great day, everybody. Thank you for being part of Positive Talk with Kevin McConnell, where stories inspire and voices remind us of what truly matters.

Kevin (1:06:17): May today's conversation give you hope, courage, and a reason to keep moving forward. And just remember, till next time, be kind to one another because each other's all we've got.

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