WBD458 - Bitcoin & Personal Proof of Work with Sean Culkin

Location: Los Angeles
Date: Wednesday 2nd February
Company/project: TBA
Role: Retired Tight End


Sean Culkin has lived the dream. An all-round sportsman, he was
identified as an American football talent at high school gaining
national acclaim in his senior year. There then followed a
prodigious college career playing for the Missouri Tigers, which
lead to him securing a much sort after professional contract with
the LA Chargers.


Professional football careers are unnaturally short: injury and
commercial pressures mean most players are lucky to experience
more than 2 and a half seasons. Sean Culkin had 4 seasons at
three teams, albeit his career was effectively curtailed after he
tore his Achilles early into his 3rd season.


Sean didn’t walk for 5 months, and there then followed the harsh
realities of having to seek opportunities away from LA to prove
himself again in practice and reserve squads. Then, in May of
last year, Sean was released, and he decided to make the fateful
decision to retire.


The thing is, the dream only manifests as a result of hard work,
discipline and sacrifice. Nobody prepares for fate to cruelly cut
short a sports career. Then there’s the compounding effect of
having to not only find a new path but to replace a life that had
been dictated up to that point by routine and teamwork. And do
this largely on your own.


Sean, by his own admission, struggled with this transition. He
went off-grid, and faced some demons. The measure of a person is
how they deal with adversity. And Sean has shown that he has
fortitude: he’s turned his life around by developing a Proof of
Work mindset.


In this interview, I talk to the former American football player
and aspiring entrepreneur Sean Culkin. We discuss sacrifice and
hard work, the rigours and harsh realities of American football,
the trap of the fiat lifestyle, learning to live in the present,
and the next steps.