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From Professional Baseball to Inspiring Young Minds | Cole Freeman
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Became a Master of the Close: https://masteroftheclose.com Join us for an engaging episode with Cole Freeman, a former LSU baseball star whose career took an unexpected turn during the COVID-19 pandemic. Connect with Cole Freeman: Website: https://www.hearthasnolimitfoundation.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coledrank/ Sponsors: Get a FREE trial of unlimited access and an additional 20% discount on Shortform through my special link: https://shortform.com/ryanhanley Take your podcasting journey to new heights. Get booked on high-influence podcasts with That 1 Agency: https://bit.ly/that1podcasttour Episodes You Might Enjoy: From $2 Million Loss to World-Class Entrepreneur: https://lnk.to/delk From One Man Shop to $200M in Revenue: https://lnk.to/tommymello Is Psilocybin the Gateway to Self-Mastery? https://lnk.to/80upZ9 Get in Touch: https://linktr.ee/ryan_hanley Instead of succumbing to setbacks, Cole channeled his energy into founding the Heart Has No Limit Foundation, a nonprofit aimed at empowering youth to overcome challenges and achieve their dreams. Through personal anecdotes and lessons learned on and off the field, Cole shares his insights on mental resilience, positivity, and faith as foundational elements in shaping one’s journey to success. Cole opens up about his faith-driven upbringing and the profound impact it had on his personal development and life choices. His story reveals a moving journey from a simple tattoo to a motivational symbol that sparked the creation of his nonprofit. Navigating the complexities of establishing the Heart Has No Limit Foundation, Cole discusses obtaining 501c3 status and the ways his personal experiences have inspired him to make a positive impact through faith, family, and entrepreneurial pursuits. The episode also explores an innovative educational initiative aimed at inspiring resilience and self-belief in today's youth. Collaborating with experts, Cole is developing a curriculum that highlights the traits of historical figures who have overcome fear and failure. Designed for kids aged 10 to 16, the program is set to pilot with organizations like the Boys and Girls Club. As the conversation unfolds, we underscore the importance of optimism, trust, and faith in helping young people navigate their unique challenges, ultimately building a brighter future for all. Episodes You Might Enjoy:From $2 Million Loss to World-Class Entrepreneur: https://lnk.to/delkFrom One Man Shop to $200M in Revenue: https://lnk.to/tommymelloIs Psilocybin the Gateway to Self-Mastery? https://lnk.to/80upZ9
Chapter 1: Who is Cole Freeman and what inspired his journey?
Hello everyone and welcome back to the show. Today we have a tremendous conversation for you with Cole Freeman. Cole is a former LSU baseball star turned professional player who made it all the way to AAA before COVID derailed his career. Unlike many who would become bitter, regretful,
Maybe shame, doubt associated with having their dream torn away from them because of an external force that they couldn't control. Cole refocused his energy on a not-for-profit called Heart Has No Limit. It is the Heart Has No Limit Foundation where he is going into youth communities and
and helping them understand what it takes to be successful, how to overcome the challenges that we're presented with as young individuals, young adults in this world, and how we can put ourselves on a path to success regardless of where we start. This is an awesome conversation.
And Cole really digs into some details about his life and how he sets and resets his mindset to be positive, be focused, be energized, be determined, and ultimately reach some incredible goals. You're going to love this conversation. And if you are enjoying this podcast, if you want to support what we do here, friends, Subscribe to the show. Tell a friend about the show.
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In a crude laboratory in the basement of his home.
Cole, it's great to have you on the show, man. Appreciate you taking the time.
I appreciate you working with me, too. Sorry about last week, too, having to reschedule like that.
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Chapter 2: What challenges did Cole face in his baseball career?
And that was one thing, obviously, as I was matured, you know, I see people go to church or doing this and I'm like, are they, Do they have a better belief than me? Like, am I not doing the right things? But in my mind, every good, bad scenario that happens is because of God. God already knows what I'm doing. He's given me a path. I've got a thousand different ways I can go with it.
And it's just my choice, which I'm going to pick. But he knows which way it's going every single time. And so I started like struggling with that. I'm like, do I need to be better? And I'm like, I started talking to actually one of my partners, Brendan Hitzman, actually our curriculum writer, Luke.
And I tell them how I was struggling with that, and I'm like, but I feel like my faith is as strong as anything. Like, I talk to God in my head throughout the day. Bad things happen, and it could have been worse. Thank God. God was watching out for me.
Like, and as of the last, like, eight months to a year, I've really, I guess if you want to call it confidence in it, you know, I know I am good with God. I know a fact. I know he's watching over me. The only thing I ever pray upon is that my family has health. Everything else is lanyard. Yeah, I want, I want, I want. We all want.
But I don't need anything but my family, and that's the one thing that I need to make sure is good. So yeah, God is a massive, massive factor, and he always will be.
I appreciate you sharing that part. I took some of that from how you were describing your experience as what what we achieved. And I think that is a very unique way. I mean, I've interviewed thousands of people. I don't I haven't heard too many people talk through their achievements in terms of the role they played. in the larger scheme of the family.
And I think going all the way back to my initial question around gratefulness versus bitterness, to me, if you're living a faith-based life and you're focused on your family, it's very easy to be grateful. So that's a wonderful thing. No doubt. So you get done with your career. Did you start the organization before your career was over or after?
So the brand itself was started in 2017. It was right after we lost to Florida in the national championship. They didn't have NIL at that point. That would have been nice. But the brand started then. It was just me and my mom just kind of figuring it out. And it literally just kind of fell in my lap. We won't get too far into it right now. We can run back into it, but it was just a tattoo.
They ended up getting on my ribs and article came out. Kids were making shirts and I'm like, wow, I can do something with this. Started getting a bunch of responses back from kids saying you motivated me to go do this. And I'm like, what is going on? Like, this is just, this was just a tattoo for me and now it's blown up into something. So we started that.
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Chapter 3: How did Cole transition from baseball to philanthropy?
I think, especially in today's day and age where you see women cutting their hair off and refusing to have sex because Donald Trump won the presidency, which to me is religious fervor, right? My belief is all this crazy, you know, take the super right wing and super left wing. These are people with a God sized hole in their heart that are dying for
for a relationship with a higher power and they grab onto these causes because they have nothing else to grab onto, right? If you're an atheist or a nihilist, you have nothing to grab onto. So you grab onto these causes. Okay. So my, my point saying, I've said this three times now, but I'm trying to wrap my head around how I want to finish is I think it is our job as believers to believe that
and then accept everyone else for exactly the way they come. And the thing that drives me nuts about specifically Christians is their, this desire to put their faith on other people, right? Like your faith is yours, mine is mine. I don't even care if you're not a believer, right? It doesn't matter to me because I believe. And that's supposed to be enough.
And I think that when we can bring people into faith in general, right? Maybe they're introduced to Christianity, but then they want to become a Jew or maybe Islam is the right player, wherever they want to go, right? But I think bringing them in in a way where you accept them
you, you are open about who you are and what you believe, but completely accepting them in the state in which you receive them is, is how we bring people back to the faith versus this finger pointing. If you don't do it the way I do it, then you're wrong or you don't understand.
And like, no one wants that shit that just turns everybody off and is in my way and my belief structure, not how God intended us to spread the faith. So I love that. I love your take, especially getting in front of kids that probably, you know, a lot of kids that come from either inner cities or there's a lot of rural, a lot of white, rural downtrodden communities where I'm from.
So it's a really weird area. We have these. very old, dense urban areas, small city urban areas that are a lot of African American and Latino poor. And then 15 miles down the road, you have the same experience, but in a trailer park or in some sort of mountain community or whatever happening as well. And it's like, how do you speak to these groups? Oftentimes, like you said, they're so...
they're so caught up in like, I don't want to get beat by my dad or in a fight with the gang that's running through my street or my trailer park or whatever, right? Like the idea of some sort of peace and even giving the idea of God a second thought is like, you know, I'm trying to survive.
They don't have time for it.
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Chapter 4: What is the Heart Has No Limit Foundation?
Make them wonder, okay, what is it that that dude has or that girl has? What is it? Let them start questioning. That's a great spot. That is the foundation of everything. They're brainstorming. What is this? What is this feeling? Why haven't I not seen that? Can I get that? What do I have to do to get that? All these are questions that are perfect.
Those are the questions that I want to start popping up in their heads. Because like you said, they probably weren't even thinking of that stuff before. They're trying to just fight for their next meal or not get shot here, do this and that. I want them to start brainstorming. I want them to start dreaming. Some of these kids haven't even dreamt.
I dreamt my whole life because I had a roof over my head. I got the greatest parents in the world. I never had to worry about a thing besides dreaming. Very easy for me. Not for them. I want them to feel that. I want them to think of stuff they've never even remotely thought of. And we're going to get there. I promise you that.
I do. I believe it. And I love that you're starting to the idea of starting with trust, not just in you as a facilitator, but but in themselves, I think is where you have to be. I grew up with I had a buddy growing up and his dad used to beat the living shit out of him. And, you know, you look at the way his life played out.
Chapter 5: How is Cole's curriculum designed to inspire youth?
He's got himself straightened out now, but man, he was just trying to survive. And survival oftentimes was not being in his house, And hanging out with kids that are five years older than him because they got a flop house and are selling drugs. And all he knows is if I go there and deal with their bullshit, I don't get beat by my dad at home, right? Right.
You know, and he had a lot of, he had to deal with a lot of nonsense in his life that, you know, some of which he brought on himself.
But, like, when you're coming from that place of, like, I just need something to eat or I don't want to get the crap beat out of me or I don't want to watch my mom get the crap beat out of me or whatever, you can't, like you said, you can't, you don't have time for dreams. You don't have time to slow down. And I've watched buddies go through it growing up where I grew up. I grew up in a...
I grew up in a town of 900 in the middle of nowhere where we used to say you could leave your doors open because the criminals lived in our town. They didn't rob in our town. So, like, they had to go rob people and then they'd come back. No, that's a joke. But it was a pretty little town.
But my point in saying all that is I think where you're coming from, this idea of starting with trust, not just in you or your organization or the facilitator that you've paired them up with, but in helping them start to trust themselves and their own ability to make decisions. You can see it even in sports, obviously this is a more shallow example, but if you're coaching a team,
you know, they can trust you and that's great. And they'll work hard for you, but they don't become elite until they believe that they can do it themselves. And that's what every coach is trying to get to is how do I turn this kid from trusting the process to trusting him or herself? And, um, that's where the real change happens.
So, um, where do you see like, okay, so you're, you're, you're building it out. It sounds like, uh, uh, West coast, uh, Southwest Louisiana, some deep South. Like, um, I heard you mentioned Scottsdale, uh,
If someone's listening to this and they're like, I'm interested in this program, either as a supporter or maybe a partnership or something, where do you see this growing and in what areas of the country are you able to do these type of programs today?
So we're really, as of today...
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