Your life expands with every act of courage. 

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

We’re not talking about the kind of courage that looks heroic or loud. We’re talking about the kind that shows up in unseen moments. The courage to tell the truth. To make a hard change. To say “I love you” first. 

We’ll explore:

 * Why courage requires fear—and why that's exactly the point
 * How your most courageous acts might never be visible to anyone but you
 * What it means to live with your heart on the line, and why it’s the only way to feel fully alive
 * How a single moment of truth can shift the entire trajectory of your life
 * Why real growth always invites you into the unknown, not away from it

This episode is for anyone who’s been hiding in safety while craving aliveness. For those ready to stop performing and start participating in life with their whole being.

Because every time you choose courage over comfort, life expands.

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Where Courage Lives, Life Awakens — Beneath The Surface

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

You’ll hear about:

 * Why awareness is the beginning of every habit, relationship, pattern, and belief shift
 * The difference between mental recognition and embodied awareness
 * How unconscious emotional loops control your life until you illuminate them

This isn’t an episode of answers. It’s an invitation to stop running, pause, and see.

Because you cannot change what you cannot see. But once you do see it… You can never unsee it. And from that moment on, your life begins to shift.

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Awareness: The Beginning of Everything — Beneath The Surface

The question hit me at a funeral:

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

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

 * How are you measuring your life?
 * Are you chasing a scoreboard someone else created?
 * Or are you living in alignment with what your soul knows to be true?

You’ll hear reflections from the Stoics, wisdom from David Brooks and James Hollis, the ache behind Rumi’s poetry, and the quiet clarity of your own heart. I walk with you through the dangerous gap between what society tells us to want… and what actually makes life feel worth living.

This is not about chasing more. It’s about choosing better and following what truly matters.

So I’ll leave you with three questions—ones worth returning to again and again:

 * How will I measure my life?
 * Who am I working to become?
 * What is the life I’m truly trying to create?

Connect with Sean:

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How Are You Measuring Your Life? — Beneath The Surface

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

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

👉 You don’t train joy by training stress. 👉 You don’t arrive at peace by living in tension. 👉 The nervous system doesn’t wait for success to feel safe — it adapts to what you repeat.

So if you're constantly grinding now, hoping for joy “someday,” your system is only learning one thing: how to live in stress. And that becomes your baseline — even when you reach your goals.

This isn’t about abandoning ambition. It’s about refusing to abandon yourself in pursuit of it.

Through insights from neuroscience, performance psychology, spiritual teachers, and real-world examples, we unpack the hidden cost of over-efforting — and why that cost is often your very identity.

This is an episode for high-performers, creators, athletes, and anyone who’s ever felt like success is costing them their presence.

Connect with Sean:

👉 Explore Sean’s writing, books, and executive coaching at whatgotyouthere.com [https://www.whatgotyouthere.com/] 📩 Drop a message, share your thoughts, or connect directly Info@whatgotyouthere.com  📤 Love the episode? Send it to a friend who needs it or share it on social 

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You Can’t Grind Your Way Into Joy — Beneath The Surface

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

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

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

In this episode, I unpack the hidden cost of tying your worth to outcomes, approval, and perfection… and explore what becomes possible when we finally come home to ourselves.

This is not a self-help checklist. It’s an invitation to slow down, to examine the identity you’ve built, and to consider who you might be without the need to earn your value.

We’ll explore:

 * Why your peace can’t depend on performance
 * Why freedom doesn’t live in conditional mindsets
 * How self-trust changes everything
 * The real difference between love and approval
 * What opens up when you’re rooted in presence and open to possibility

Connect with Sean:

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The Hidden Cost of Trying to Be Enough — Beneath The Surface

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

In this episode of Beneath The Surface, Sean DeLaney [https://www.seandelaneycoaching.com/] explores what he calls The Unobstructed Way—a path where your essence, your expression, and your environment come into full alignment. This isn’t self-help fluff. It’s a wake-up call. A return to truth. A mirror that reflects the cost of living out of sync with who you are and the immense power of reclaiming it.

You’ll discover:

 * Why most people don’t fail from lack of ability, but from inner obstruction
 * The hidden friction that blocks flow, creativity, and performance
 * Why authenticity isn’t soft—it’s your greatest edge
 * The difference between imitation and embodiment
 * The top regret of the dying—and how to avoid it by living more fully, now
 * A 3-part framework to help you find and live your own Unobstructed Way: → Essence – who you are at your core → Expression – how your truth moves in the world → Environment – the conditions where you thrive

This episode is an invitation to drop the mask, dismantle the noise, and step fully into your Unobstructed Way. Because when you stop holding back who you are… You don’t just perform better. You live better.

Connect with Sean:

👉 Explore Sean’s writing, books, and executive coaching at whatgotyouthere.com [https://www.whatgotyouthere.com/] 📩 Drop a message, share your thoughts, or connect directly Info@whatgotyouthere.com  📤 Love the episode? Send it to a friend who needs it or share it on social 

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The Unobstructed Way: Why Being Fully Yourself Is Your Greatest Advantage — Beneath The Surface

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

In this episode, Sean DeLaney [https://www.seandelaneycoaching.com/] unpacks one of the most powerful, paradoxical truths about performance: 

You don’t perform at your best by gripping harder. You perform at your best when you’re free.

This isn’t about throwing out discipline or abandoning your goals. It’s about releasing the identities, fears, and outcome attachments that block your presence — and returning to the state where your highest self actually lives.

We’ll explore:

 * The hidden trap of identity and the performance persona
 * What happens when you stop performing for approval
 * How to work toward meaningful goals without being held hostage by outcomes
 * Why the present moment is the only place your genius lives

If you’re tired of achieving but not feeling fully alive… If you want to reclaim presence without losing ambition… This one’s for you.

🎧 Listen now and start living from the version of you that flows — not the one that’s forcing it.

Stay Connected with Sean

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When Do You Perform & Live at Your Best? — Beneath The Surface

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

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

These episodes aren’t about adding more to your to-do list. They’re about going deeper into what it means to live, lead, and create from a place of truth.

In this short trailer, I’ll share:

 * What this series is (and isn’t)

 * The kinds of questions we’ll explore

 * Why I believe high performance and aliveness belong in the same sentence

If you’re someone who’s driven but craving more depth, If you’ve been successful on the outside but wondering what’s next inside, You’re in the right place.

Beneath the Surface is where we return to what’s real.

💬 Stay Connected with Sean

🌐 Explore more at WhatGotYouThere.com [https://whatgotyouthere.com] 📚 Get my latest books, tools & coaching SeanDeLaneyCoaching.com [https://www.seandelaneycoaching.com/] 📩 Reach out or connect with me directly Info@whatgotyouthere.com 

If this resonates, share it with a friend who’s walking a similar path.

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Trailer: Welcome to Beneath the Surface

I just released my latest book, When Life Begins to Whisper: A Journey Beyond Answers [https://amzn.to/4glvMSw]! 🎉 

To celebrate, I’m doing a massive giveaway! You’ll have the chance to win:

 * A personalized autographed copy of When Life Begins to Whisper [https://amzn.to/4glvMSw].
 * And a 60-minute Zoom call with me to talk about anything—your journey, the book, or whatever’s on your mind.

Here’s how to enter: From now until December 19th, post something on social media about any of my books—whether it’s When Life Begins to Whisper or Masterpiece in Progress: A Daily Guide to a Life Well Crafted [https://amzn.to/3Dg1Skm]—and make sure to tag me. That’s it!

About The Book: I wrote this book for the seekers, the wonderers, and those who feel deeply. It’s not for those looking to skim the surface of life. It’s for those seeking the depths!

This isn’t a book about quick fixes or life hacks—It is an exploration of those edges where life strips us bare and forces us to confront what truly matters.

It’s a journey through pain, awakening, awareness, and love—four forces that shape us, break us, and rebuild us.

I took When Life Begins to Whisper and plugged it into Google’s new AI, NotebookLM. It generated an incredible podcast-style conversation about the book that I think you’ll love and I'm sharing it on this episode as well!

Are you a high performer ready to take your work and life to the next level? Discover how my executive performance coaching can help you achieve your goals. Learn more at www.SeanDeLaneyCoaching.com. [https://seandelaneycoaching.com/]

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The Story Behind My New Book, When Life Begins to Whisper: A Journey Through Pain, Awakening, and Love + A Massive Giveaway!

Brian Dawkins is an NFL Hall-of-Famer who played 16 seasons in the National Football League, primarily with the Philadelphia Eagles. Brian is regarded as one of the greatest safeties of all time and during his illustrious career was named to nine Pro Bowls and five All-Pro first teams. Brian was the heart and soul of the Eagles defense and on this episode he discusses what it takes to become great, that challenges he faced that lead to his growth and what each of us can do to uncover and unleash more of our potential [https://whatgotyouthere.com/coaching]!

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Brian’s Book Blessed by the Best: My Journey to Canton and Beyond - https://amzn.to/3GkdgcB

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I am Sean DeLaney [https://whatgotyouthere.com/about/], the executive performance coach with over a decade of experience working with CEOs, executives, and leadership teams, guiding them beyond traditional definitions of success.

Interested in working together? https://seandelaneycoaching.com

I exclusively work with high-achieving CEOs, executives, and professional athletes who, even at the height of their careers, continue to explore deeper avenues of potential. While these driven individuals aspire for elevated professional heights, they equally crave profound personal fulfillment and a distinct path to infuse their lives with more clarity, direction and purpose.

My Books

Masterpiece In Progress: A Daily Guide to a Life Well Crafted [http://masterpieceinprogressbook.com/] & Insights of the Ages: Quotes for a Life Well Crafted [https://amzn.to/48dXzR4]!

Checkout what people are saying about the book: “Intensely positive and upbeat, Sean DeLaney crafts a master class in personal development. This book is about the art of AMPing up your life.” – Frank Slootman, CEO, Snowflake and author of Amp It Up

“The brilliance of Masterpiece in Progress is its ability to impact us all and in all aspects of our lives, whether you’re an athlete, entrepreneur, author, aspiring executive, parent, friend, coach or mentor. Sean’s insights light your path as he delves deep, providing not just inspiration but tangible tools to help you craft the life you envision. A masterclass in self-growth and a must read.” – Scott O’Neil, CEO, Merlin Entertainments and former CEO of Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils

“Operating in some of the world’s most challenging environments, I’ve seen firsthand the importance of grit, resilience, and relentless pursuit of excellence. Masterpiece in Progress embodies these principles, offering a roadmap to all who aim to conquer their personal and professional battles.”— Michael Burns, US Navy SEAL (Retired), Bronze Star Medal with Valor

“Sean’s beautiful, thoughtful writing reminds you what’s important and calls your attention to a perspective that lifts your spirit each day. Highly recommended.” – Derek Sivers, author, sive.rs

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Brian Dawkins: Philadelphia Eagles Legend on Growing Through Adversity - Classics Series

What Got You There is a weekly podcast hosted by Sean DeLaney and is all about diving deep and hearing the journey behind some of the worlds most accomplished influencers. Guests include professional athletes, authors, professors, creatives and everyone in between. Find out more at www.whatgotyouthere.com

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