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Speaker 1: Are you guys doing.

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Speaker 2: This is Steven Tuller, eleven year NFL veteran founder of

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Speaker 2: Circles's Coffee entrepreneur. This is NFL Second Ass Podcast.

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Speaker 3: this is the NFL Player's Second Acts Podcast. Uh well, yeah, man,

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Number one.

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Speaker 3: Let's go.

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Speaker 4: Peanut, I'm really excited about this. This next guest, he's

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Speaker 4: an entrepreneur, done so many great things, great football player

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Speaker 4: really want to and what he's drinking right now is

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Speaker 4: absolutely amazing.

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Speaker 3: I'm mindploying. I'm gonna let you read the bio. Do

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Speaker 3: you want to read the bio?

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Speaker 1: You know?

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Speaker 3: I just resume? Okay, all right, I got it because

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Speaker 3: you read everything else, all right, so shake it. This

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Speaker 3: gentleman played eleven years in the NFL for the Titans,

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Speaker 3: the Lions, and the Eagles. In twenty twelve and thirteen,

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Speaker 3: he made the NFL Top one Hunter List. He received

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Speaker 3: the Walter Peate Man in the Year nomination Community Service

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Speaker 3: Award four times during his career. Now he's a philanthropist, author,

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Speaker 3: and entrepreneur. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Steven Tullock to

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Speaker 3: the show.

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Speaker 1: Thank you again. I want to irriterate man.

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Speaker 2: How proud I am of you guys. Has transitioned very

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Speaker 2: well into your podcast? Phenomenal follow very well. I wish

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Speaker 2: you guys much success. Did you guys keep going on

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Speaker 2: your journey? So don''t get that out there.

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Speaker 3: For you know what, man, let me just check this out.

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Speaker 4: Let me just say the first Christian cuss word of

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Speaker 4: the podcast.

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Speaker 3: Damn right. Appreciate that. Thank you for that. Appreciate thank you,

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Speaker 3: Thank you all right. Man. So you turned thirty nine January,

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Speaker 3: the first number one. What is that like? Bringing it?

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Speaker 3: I was thirty nine? Treating you all right?

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Speaker 4: P Nut is much older than that. He's older than that.

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Speaker 4: How is that treating you? How's it all going? I

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Speaker 4: think it's a blessing, man.

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Speaker 1: I mean to be born New Year's Day, Yes.

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Speaker 2: To start the year off for the new birthday, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think it's you know, it's a good feeling. Obviously, Capricorns,

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Speaker 2: we work hard. We're hard working with go get us.

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Speaker 2: So New Year's Day is a blessing to be born

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Speaker 2: in that day and to be able to start the

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Speaker 2: year off from the right track.

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Speaker 4: All right, what are you looking forward to in forty, Like,

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Speaker 4: it's forty going to be different for you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Man, I think forty for me number one, you know,

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Speaker 2: settling down, family, kids, the whole nine. But uh, I

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 2: I've retired about six seven years now, so to be

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Speaker 2: You know how it is when you leave the game,

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Speaker 2: takes a while to kind of get your feet under you.

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Speaker 2: But it feels good now to be a mentor to

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Speaker 2: I take on that role. I pride myself in that role,

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Speaker 2: leading by example, So just being more of a leader. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: For Suah So at thirty nine, are you happy with

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Speaker 2: You know, as a fourth round draft pick to play

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Speaker 2: just going to these entrepreneurship courses during the course of

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Speaker 3: So we were talking, we were talking to the commissioner

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Speaker 3: and since you talked about the entrepreneurship like, what are

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Speaker 2: I'll say in two thousand and six and I got drafted,

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Speaker 2: I came from from the Colts over It was a

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Speaker 2: the field, to take care of my body, and talk

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Speaker 2: to me about entrepreneurship program NFL provides. So I went

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Speaker 2: Those people helped me propel my mindset to understand that

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Speaker 2: having that mentorship really prepared me for life after football.

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Speaker 2: And I just thank David a lot that's for pulling

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Speaker 4: I love the fact that you know, most of us

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Speaker 4: But you literally took advantage.

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Speaker 3: Of all these opportunities that the offered.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely and you've taken that and you put into into

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Speaker 4: your everyday life. So because you maybe talk to us

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Speaker 2: Think it's important, man, just to have the opportunity to

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Speaker 2: and he's really guiding me out throughout the course of

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Speaker 2: I said, going to these entrepreneurship courses really helped my

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Speaker 4: Yeah, all the all the correct words mitigating risks and

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Speaker 4: the smartest guy in the room continue to have people

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Speaker 4: find my blind spots. There's all great business minded thoughts

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Speaker 4: and directions. So great job on you talking about overachieving

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Speaker 4: or accomplishing certain things. What about your beloved Detroit lines

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Speaker 4: this year? Could we maybe talk about them?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Okay, all right, we're probably a couple of weeks away

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Speaker 1: You were there for.

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Speaker 4: In Ford Field the night of the playoffs once again.

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Speaker 4: I saw it on Instagram. Yeah, and so you look

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Speaker 4: like you're having a great time throwing T shirts with

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Speaker 4: golden and what was it like in the building that day?

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Speaker 4: Understand that you've been to the playoffs a couple of

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Speaker 4: times yourself personally with Detroit. They actually won this game

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Speaker 2: I mean, you guys know man Owen sixteen, the worst

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Speaker 2: he brought me over here in free agency, and uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, we talked about changing the culture in Detroit,

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Speaker 2: has some kind of relevancy. Yeah, you know and that

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Speaker 3: I was rooting for him though I was rooting for Detroit.

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Speaker 3: I promise you I was. I was rooting for him

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Speaker 2: I think well Number one, call Well to me is

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Speaker 2: So I think you could tell the way these guys

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Speaker 1: Keep my playoffs.

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Speaker 2: So you could tell when the team believes in the coaching,

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Speaker 2: You know, obviously we would like that outening to be

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Speaker 2: talking about a little bit different, but the lines being

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Speaker 2: the super Bowl. But nevertheless, I think they had a

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Speaker 2: great season and they definitely have something to build on going.

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Speaker 3: All right, tell me this, So should he kick the

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Speaker 2: To be quite honest with you, Uh, I think we.

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Speaker 1: All agree maybe he should have. I think it's a science.

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Speaker 2: But he's been a gambler all season, you know, so

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Speaker 2: it worked, It's worked for him, so unfortunately it kind

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Speaker 2: of backfired on him. But I think for the most part,

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Speaker 2: you know, you know, you got to live by you

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Speaker 2: that mentally, you know, now and next year has to

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Speaker 2: be that that next step.

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Speaker 4: And you know, since we're talking about the playoffs, let's uh,

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Speaker 4: let's let's maybe rehash this wound for you. I believe

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Speaker 4: you guys went to the playoffs in two thousand and

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Speaker 4: twelve and played against the New Orleans Saints.

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Speaker 3: I think you guys lost pretty bad. Yeah, we did.

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Speaker 1: That was a tough loss.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 2: We went to your hometown, went to your city. It

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Speaker 2: was a great game, Drew Brees. We had you guys

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Coach Caldwell calls you a man's man, a man's man.

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Speaker 4: All right, that's beautiful. I would not have anticipated that.

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Speaker 4: That was always something I took wholeheartedly.

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Speaker 3: I think I just played too much. I was yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: But you made a lot of players. You know, watch

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Speaker 4: He's right, he cannot be a captain because he plays

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Speaker 3: He's always I'm serious field can't say something and not

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Speaker 4: He has to say it. We were in a very

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Speaker 3: I did, yeah, and so yes, that was that.

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Speaker 4: I think it's interesting. This probably happens four to five

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Speaker 3: You know, somebody gets hurt. Yeah, while celebrating.

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Speaker 2: And what's crazy is right, I've started one hundred and

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Speaker 1: Right? You know?

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Speaker 2: Green Bay has always been a little brother us for

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Speaker 2: but crazy freak freak freak situation. Right, jumped up, came down,

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Speaker 2: and it's just, you know, unbelievable. Man, It's something. It's

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Speaker 3: But uh yeah he did his in Detroit.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, one of those things that first time I

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Speaker 4: So are you the guy now? That's like, Hey, celebrate

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Speaker 1: I think. I think at the end of the day, man,

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Speaker 2: Man, how much work goes in from chiropractice and massage, therapist, acupuncture,

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, in my situation.

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Speaker 3: I got what thirteen? You got what the eleven? Eleven?

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Speaker 2: My entire eleven year is one word, I'll say, uh, resilient.

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Speaker 3: And what year was that?

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Speaker 2: And for me, man, you know, that moment was like

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Speaker 4: And so I want to give you your flowers now

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Speaker 2: mindset and be ready to you to prepare like I

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Speaker 2: was going to play. And like you said, man, I

443
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Speaker 2: did special teams and it was a starter until I

444
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Speaker 2: became a third three down player and then you know,

445
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Speaker 2: I kind of get out special teams. But I think

446
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Speaker 2: any guy that comes in late rounds, you got to

447
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Speaker 2: have your mind right understanding. Either you were the guy

448
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Speaker 2: in college, but you got to humble yourself. And when

449
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Speaker 2: coach we had that meeting, you know how it is

450
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Speaker 2: on Wednesday, and we watched everybody's in that room watching

451
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Speaker 2: special team. They want to see who that doll's want

452
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Speaker 2: to be. You know they're watching. Okay, Coach, we got

453
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Speaker 2: to put him in. Coach, he's playing on special teams.

454
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Speaker 2: Now you're vouching for you guy. You see what he

455
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Speaker 2: can do, and you want to see him doing. That's

456
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Speaker 2: kind of how it was for me. A lot of

457
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Speaker 2: guys wanted to see me play. It's an opportunity present himself.

458
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Speaker 1: I was ready.

459
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Speaker 3: But I don't think people realize that a special teams player,

460
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Speaker 3: you're still a star in the National Football League A

461
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Speaker 3: Like it's not offensive defense, but you are still a starter.

462
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Speaker 3: If you're a kick return kick you're for it, Like, yeah,

463
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Speaker 3: you are a starter in the league. I don't think

464
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Speaker 3: people realize that value. I didn't value well, I didn't

465
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Speaker 3: think like that at first.

466
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Speaker 1: I fel like he was just like God, yeah, but

467
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Speaker 1: I didn't.

468
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Speaker 3: I didn't think like that until the coach said, and

469
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Speaker 3: I was like, well, dang, he you can. You can

470
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Speaker 3: get paid, you can pay double digit years, you can

471
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Speaker 3: go to Pro Bowls, you can you know, like yeah,

472
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Speaker 3: this you can eat off of the sposal team's gig, right.

473
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Speaker 3: I was. I started all thirteen of my years I was,

474
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Speaker 3: I was thirty. I started all thirteen years old sposal

475
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Speaker 3: teams and on defense like I.

476
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Speaker 4: Was, you know, it was like a specialist. He was like,

477
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Speaker 4: that's like what he did. Oh yeah out there.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, bro, how do.

479
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Speaker 1: You do this? Because we were in the corner.

480
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm like, how do you do this?

481
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Speaker 4: Because I was never a special teams guy. And for

482
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Speaker 4: those that don't know, if you're not a special teams guy,

483
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Speaker 4: you don't get to become a special teams guy.

484
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Speaker 3: Like you're eight nine, you have to leave.

485
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Speaker 2: You you the start, but you can't go back.

486
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Speaker 4: You don't go back.

487
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Speaker 1: You're trying to steal. He's like, I'm away, still be one,

488
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Speaker 1: gonna be a mentor. You don't get it back kicking

489
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Speaker 1: back like a guard positions.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a problem. People don't understand. That is really

491
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Speaker 3: so because I never did it. Like I'm looking at

492
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Speaker 3: I don't understand.

493
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Speaker 1: You're the guy came in after trying to start the

494
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Speaker 1: guy you watch it.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, Peter, how you do this?

496
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Speaker 2: Though?

497
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Speaker 3: It's like how I never came off. I've just been doing.

498
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Speaker 2: You know, back in the days they have player performance, right,

499
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Speaker 2: so now I was an extra snap.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, that's my fourth round guy. Right. You

501
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Speaker 3: know what I'm saying that money, that money matters. We'll

502
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Speaker 3: be back in a minute.

503
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Speaker 4: Let's talk about this transition period and like, yes, and

504
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Speaker 4: the whole thing we do with this whole podcast talk

505
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Speaker 4: about our second act and yours has been successful, and

506
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Speaker 4: so let's talk about the period of like, okay, you

507
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Speaker 4: talked about following your mentor the Thornton guy and said, okay,

508
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Speaker 4: second year, I go and do.

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Speaker 1: What entrepreneurial on Stanford University.

510
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Speaker 4: Stanford University, and the reasoning behind it was prepare.

511
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Speaker 2: I mean all the fourth throne draft pick. I wasn't

512
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Speaker 2: starting at the times right before I became a starter,

513
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Speaker 2: and he talked him sis. He told it, man, you

514
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Speaker 2: know you got a little signing bonus. She made just

515
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Speaker 2: hundred million dollars. He said, start preparing. Understand how money works, right,

516
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Speaker 2: I understand taxes, understand your family's going to ask you

517
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Speaker 2: for stuff. Understand this all now, so when you hopefully

518
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Speaker 2: one day you do get the money, you understand how

519
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Speaker 2: it works. And so, man, I really thank him a

520
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Speaker 2: lot for because I didn't have financial literacy going up.

521
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Speaker 2: This person never make money in my family, you know.

522
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Speaker 2: So I'm teaching my family how finances work and say

523
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Speaker 2: we can't just give it because you think I have it.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's.

525
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Speaker 2: About longevity and growth and reinvesting and keep it so happen,

526
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Speaker 2: you know. So this teaching that financial literacy in my

527
00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:16,360
Speaker 2: family was very important. To go on to Stanford University

528
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Speaker 2: and understanding how money works and networking and being in

529
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Speaker 2: position really helped me understand that, you know what their's

530
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Speaker 2: life at the football and paid for now. And so

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Speaker 2: just going through those courses, I'm telling you, man, like

532
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Speaker 2: without those courses, I don't know what I would be

533
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Speaker 2: where I would be at now, just from a financial standpoint.

534
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Speaker 2: As a guy that's retired, I know so many guys

535
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Speaker 2: that have left the game and just in disarray, right,

536
00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:38,359
Speaker 2: you know who's made tens of millions more than me,

537
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Speaker 2: who they ain't really doing good? Suicidal thoughts, depression, anxiety.

538
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Speaker 2: So I work with the company called Pro Athletes Community

539
00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:49,080
Speaker 2: Caleb throwing hills with the Spurs, but we help players transition,

540
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Speaker 2: work with the Mammi Dolphins in the offseason and just

541
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Speaker 2: currenting former players during the off scene as well, just

542
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Speaker 2: so you know they come to the coffee shop. We

543
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Speaker 2: talk about life, about transitioning, how to be a pro

544
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Speaker 2: on and off the field, of paying for now. So

545
00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:03,760
Speaker 2: when it hits you, you know you're not want to completely,

546
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,600
Speaker 2: You're not doing the headlights. So I think men for us,

547
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Speaker 2: my entrepreneurship is football. It teaches you consistency, discipline, accountability.

548
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Speaker 2: Right when you keep those three things in your mind,

549
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Speaker 2: you live that every day you're going to be successful.

550
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Speaker 2: You don't know yourself accountable. So I think just for

551
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Speaker 2: guys that are leaving the game or playing the game,

552
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Speaker 2: understanding that you have to prepare non for life after

553
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Speaker 2: football because you just never know what's gonna end. Just

554
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Speaker 2: being that voice for them is it's important for me.

555
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Speaker 3: So I see you, you got a little little drinking

556
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Speaker 3: drink and yeah, can you list all of the ventures

557
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Speaker 3: that you're currently doing right now?

558
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean.

559
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Speaker 2: It's pretty straightforward. I got into commercial real estate. Well,

560
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Speaker 2: my foundation number one is kind of what I love

561
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Speaker 2: to do, giving back, helping people.

562
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Speaker 3: You foundation, Steven.

563
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Speaker 2: Tullick Foundation, helping what do they do so we up

564
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Speaker 2: under previous kids, a woman with breast cancer, foster care kids,

565
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Speaker 2: kids with the adverse situations. I've been doing that since

566
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Speaker 2: I was in college NC State the Community Service a

567
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Speaker 2: Year award. Like I just I grew up in a

568
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Speaker 2: nursing home. My mom was a private nurse. So growing

569
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Speaker 2: up as a kid, I used to push patients around

570
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Speaker 2: to bingo and to get the hair done and you know,

571
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Speaker 2: always serving people.

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Speaker 1: My mom was serve bingo all five.

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Speaker 3: In there.

574
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Speaker 2: But just having an opportunity to have a mom to

575
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Speaker 2: understand that we didn't have much growing up. But giving

576
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Speaker 2: is more than receiving, and so having a platform them

577
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Speaker 2: NFL shield Prepared propelled me to understand that, you know,

578
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Speaker 2: I'm in a situation where I can bring awareness a

579
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Speaker 2: lot of things. So having that foundation for me was huge.

580
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Speaker 2: So my foundation number one is key. I started into

581
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Speaker 2: commercial real estate twenty seventeen. I started buying property and

582
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Speaker 2: fall out of their Florida about some building, some land,

583
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Speaker 2: and I came to put this idea of opening up

584
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Speaker 2: a coffee shop and drive through, which is the first

585
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Speaker 2: one in downtown for Lauderdale. I went to coffee school

586
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Speaker 2: in Seattle. Seattle breaks the Academy on Seattle, learned coffee.

587
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Speaker 2: I hired the teacher as my consultant. I flew back

588
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Speaker 2: to Fort Lauderdale. I'll fire him every two weeks from

589
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Speaker 2: Seattle on Southwest to stay at my house. And I

590
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Speaker 2: created this brand called Circle House Coffee. I want to

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Speaker 2: go Daddy dot com for hundred and seven dollars about

592
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Speaker 2: the name Circle House Coffee for one hundred and seven,

593
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Speaker 2: went to Instagram, LinkedIn. Twitter took the handlers for it,

594
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Speaker 2: and then I went ahead and you know a trademark

595
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Speaker 2: and got my lawyers involved and created the logo in

596
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Speaker 2: the brand and we created the brand twenty nineteen, so

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Speaker 2: it be five years. March ninth, it'll be five years

598
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Speaker 2: in business. But since then, you know, we've just been growing,

599
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Speaker 2: you know, work with NFL teams like the Unami Dolphins,

600
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Speaker 2: Detroit Lions were working on the NFL some other teams

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Speaker 2: that were working on just kind of you know, distribute

602
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Speaker 2: our coffee. So this is our first uh you know

603
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Speaker 2: coffee in it can it's our natural cobrew put that.

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Speaker 3: Put that on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's our natural col brew. Something that I've always

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Speaker 2: envisioned having. It talks about our mission, our story, thanking

607
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Speaker 2: the fans and the community for being a part of our

608
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Speaker 2: mission to help give back one sip at a time.

609
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Speaker 2: So everything that we do when we sell these cans,

610
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Speaker 2: we take a part of the portions and get them

611
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Speaker 2: my foundation, which we give at the community. So it's

612
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Speaker 2: not just about coffee just having a great coffee. It's

613
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Speaker 2: about the brand behind and the impact that we're making

614
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Speaker 2: behind coffee. And so I think that's that's our mission,

615
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Speaker 2: is to be able to keep impacting the world. I

616
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 2: was able to build a school on my mom's hometown

617
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Speaker 2: in Jamaica in twenty seventeen through my foundation for one

618
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Speaker 2: hundred and eighty kids and my mom's home town named

619
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Speaker 2: after my mom, Mercedes be Teller Infant School. So just

620
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Speaker 2: giving back as much as I can, Man, because like

621
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Speaker 2: you said, it's all about our legacy what we leave.

622
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Speaker 2: You're never Denzel watching the set at most, Man, you'll

623
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Speaker 2: never see a U haul behind hers, you know what

624
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Speaker 2: I'm saying. So to be able to give more than

625
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Speaker 2: you receive pluses come in so many forms, and I live.

626
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Speaker 1: By that every day.

627
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Speaker 2: So Circle House Coffees as my as my brand that

628
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Speaker 2: I'm really true to. And in commercial real estate.

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Speaker 3: Now why why coffee?

630
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Speaker 1: Though?

631
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Speaker 3: Like have you been drinking coffee?

632
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Speaker 1: As you know?

633
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Speaker 2: And you know football, man, you get that facility, it's

634
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,640
Speaker 2: it's early morning. Yeah, means means right, So you try

635
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Speaker 2: to stay awake, right, So you go in that cafe,

636
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 2: pour some coffee, you eat them something. See, you're just

637
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Speaker 2: trying to stay glued to the screen.

638
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Speaker 3: Everybody, coffee?

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Speaker 1: That was that ingredents?

640
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Speaker 4: Right?

641
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Speaker 1: You have one of your poisons.

642
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Speaker 2: Everybody, I think it's coffee. I'm like, damn, you know what, man,

643
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Speaker 2: it's crazy. I want to be inclusive. You know, I

644
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 2: don't really see a lot of minority coffee shops. I'm like,

645
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:03,439
Speaker 2: you know what, man, I'm gonna make a staple on it.

646
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,680
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. I'm gonna getting the coffee industry.

647
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Speaker 2: You know, I'm an learning number one. I'm gona invest

648
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Speaker 2: my money and I'm on my real estate because I

649
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 2: know I can grow equity in my real estate. So the

650
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Speaker 2: worst caase there if my coffee venture doesn't work. I

651
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 2: still w my real estate. I can lease it out

652
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 2: and make money and be a landlord, right, so I

653
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:18,679
Speaker 2: own all my properties and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: So I did that. The brand worked out. We're five

655
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Speaker 1: years in.

656
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Speaker 2: We're expanding and hopefully you see this in your in

657
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Speaker 2: North Carolina and the Chicago in your convenience stores here.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, so working working at people buy right now.

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Speaker 2: So right now you can go to Circle House Coffee

660
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Speaker 2: dot com. You can order launch on our website. Like

661
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 2: I said, we're gonna be disputing this is. This is

662
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 2: our launch for Super Bowl. We're just launching the cans now.

663
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,199
Speaker 2: But circleuse Coffee dot com. You can find it. We

664
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 2: sell whole beans, grind beans five pounds twelve ounces, our

665
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 2: cobrew nitro. We're gonna do some CBD infused THC infused coffee.

666
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 2: So we had a lot of things in the work.

667
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:56,400
Speaker 2: But I love Circle House Coffee. Man, it's a phenomenal.

668
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 2: You guys should try with lease some stuff for you

669
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Speaker 2: before you leave.

670
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Speaker 3: I appreciate that. Appreciate that.

671
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 4: I definitely get on that. Two questions for you. Number one,

672
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,159
Speaker 4: I want to go back. You said you went to

673
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 4: coffee school. Yeah, right, let's indulge in that for me,

674
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 4: just tell me, explain to me for those that don't know,

675
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 4: like myself, because I'm in coffee.

676
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think before getting anything, whatever it is

677
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 2: you want to invest your money in as an individual,

678
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 2: you never want to count on somebody else's understanding. You

679
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 2: want to know where you're putting your money at and

680
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 2: understand how things move, what it does, how it makes

681
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,639
Speaker 2: the process of it. So, being that I wanted to

682
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 2: start a coffee shop, I went to coffee school to

683
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,160
Speaker 2: understand what is coffee? You know, what are the beans?

684
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 2: You know, how do you roast it? You know, how

685
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 2: do you temper it? Like what temperature does it have

686
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,159
Speaker 2: to be at? How do you steam your milk and foement?

687
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:42,639
Speaker 2: You know, I want to understand the logistics of coffee.

688
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:44,880
Speaker 2: Coffee is one of the largest commodities in the world.

689
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 2: You know, it costs a couple of cents to make,

690
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 2: but yet five six dollars to sell. I mean, the

691
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 2: returns on coffee is crazy, right, And so to be

692
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 2: able to get into that game and now really seeing

693
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 2: and how it works and the money behind it, it's

694
00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 2: just it's unbelievable. It's like modern day you know, do

695
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:03,360
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying? This is one of those

696
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 2: things that people are addicted to, but I love it.

697
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 2: And so going to coffee school helped me understand that

698
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 2: what coffee was, how it works. But then hiring the

699
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:14,639
Speaker 2: teacher I never forget. I asked the guys, said, can

700
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,439
Speaker 2: I get your phone NOOM an email address? I'd love

701
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 2: to talk to you when I get back to Florida.

702
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:18,879
Speaker 1: So I called him.

703
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 2: I said, look, man, I don't know much about coffee.

704
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,399
Speaker 2: I recorded, uh the the class while I was there,

705
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:25,479
Speaker 2: but would love to free to be a consultant. At

706
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 2: that time, he was a league guy for University of

707
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 2: Washington's coffee program. Says, I love to be a consultant.

708
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 2: I said, look, I'll pay x y X y Z.

709
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 2: You can fly in town. I'll fly you in Southwest

710
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 2: red Eyes. When you fly home, you can go straight

711
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 2: to the campus, off to university and work and just

712
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 2: help me build it out man, And he became my

713
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 2: general manager. After that, We've been, you know, been building

714
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 2: the brand and it's just been an amazing ride. Aside

715
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 2: from that, I do a lot of commercial real estate.

716
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 2: I do triple net leases with national brands. Charlie Chiese, Steaks, Performance,

717
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 2: NAPA do mixed use buildings, and I'm in residential, so

718
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 2: I do a lot more passive income stuff just because

719
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:00,240
Speaker 2: you know, all my money working for me different treets

720
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 2: of income coming in at one time. So coffee's one

721
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 2: in my real estate and my ten year leases or others,

722
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 2: and just kind of keep building my portfolio.

723
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 3: I love that.

724
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 4: And my other question was was after the coffee thing,

725
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 4: the dang, Where's I about to go with that?

726
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 3: That? It was literally good, We'll stay on coffee. How

727
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 3: did you get the opportunity to work with the Miami Dolphins?

728
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 3: That's what I wanted to go with. Oh yeah, I

729
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 3: got you boom, thank you. So how did you get

730
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 3: them to have the opportunity to have them be your

731
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 3: coffee brand?

732
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 1: So I'll start back here.

733
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 2: So it's about relationships, yeah, right, It's all about how

734
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 2: you handle yourself as a pro right when you're in

735
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 2: the game, how you conduct yourself right becau. It's all

736
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 2: about relationships. Everyone knows everyone in this fraternity, right, so

737
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 2: when they vouch for you, you know this guy is a

738
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 2: great person, He's been consistent. You can trust them x

739
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 2: y Z. So I worked with like I mentioned before,

740
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 2: I work with the Mammi Dolphins for the Business Entrepreneurship

741
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 2: program every year February, so they have about forty or

742
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 2: so other players come to my coffee shop. We'll sit

743
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 2: down and have my financial advisor or my CPA or

744
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 2: not soliciting anything. We're just talking about taxes, understanding diversification,

745
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 2: understanding how to handle your money, and understanding entrepreneurship. So

746
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 2: we do that for about two three days every year.

747
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 2: We have like five different groups that come in. So

748
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 2: over time the Mammy Dolphins knew that I was bringing

749
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 2: in players. Caleb Thornhill reached out to the Dolphins said,

750
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 2: you know, Stephen Teller has his coffee brand. They brought

751
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 2: me in there. Said absolutely, Caleb, you know we respect you.

752
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 2: We see what he's doing. All of our staff they

753
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 2: go to Circle House Coffee. We'll love to have it

754
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 2: in the building. And so from there it just propelled

755
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 2: and obviously paying for the lines, have an opportunity to

756
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 2: be at Walters Paytman in the year there and do

757
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff in the community. They open the

758
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 2: doors for me.

759
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 1: Are ready.

760
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 2: So I tell guys, out of sight, out of mind,

761
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 2: it's all about the relationships you have while you play,

762
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 2: don't burn your bridges, and because you never know if

763
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 2: you're going to have to reach back, and so by

764
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 2: doing so, I was able to reach back to them. Obviously,

765
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 2: Tracy is everyone who have a performed a relationship throughout

766
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 2: my career, and those doors open up for you because

767
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 2: they know your character, knew how you handle yourself and

768
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 2: how you go about your business day to day. So

769
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 2: having those relationships help open the door for me. But

770
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 2: obviously he's still performing and providing excellence along that journey.

771
00:30:58,360 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 4: I just think it's cool because that's what I was

772
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 4: doing to go to is that. I mean, you guys

773
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 4: got it. You got it on tap, like they got

774
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 4: coffee on tap in Miami facility, Like it looks like

775
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 4: a beer tap.

776
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: They just been delivery today. So like I said, man,

777
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: just growing.

778
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 2: You know, my vision is to get more teams, which

779
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 2: we will get the NFL, which we will.

780
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 3: So they're all cold? Are they hot? Like?

781
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: So we do both. So we do col brew, we

782
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: do nitro, and we do drip coffee. It's your favorite.

783
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 2: I'm really loving this new Colbrew that we have. I

784
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 2: really really love it. But I'm more of a latte guy. Yeah,

785
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 2: I'm more of like a turnative milk, plant based Macadamian milk.

786
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,160
Speaker 2: I don't drink whole milk. Double shot of express, so

787
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 2: a little bit of vanilla and I'm good to go.

788
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 2: But uh, our coffee is the best coffee. Circle House Coffee, Cirhouse.

789
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 3: Now, why how did you come over with the name?

790
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 2: So Circle House giving back one a better time. So

791
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 2: if you look at the logo, it's a house and

792
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 2: it's raised coming out of it. So this house is

793
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 2: inclusive everybody, straight, gay and different. You know, it's about

794
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 2: coming together for one mission that's helping people involve. So

795
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 2: we have different charity that we raise awareness for every

796
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 2: month or so that we try to raise initiative for.

797
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 2: So everybody coming into one house. One mission's to help people.

798
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 2: So that raise that come out of that cup or

799
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 2: raise of just giving back. So Circle House Coffee getting

800
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 2: back once set at a time. So so circle and

801
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 2: just come revolving circle of giving back, coming in, giving back,

802
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 2: coming in.

803
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 1: So that's what Circle House Coffee is about.

804
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 3: You are extremely busy and you do a lot from

805
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 3: the coffee, the foundation, commercial real estate, residential real estate.

806
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 3: What's next?

807
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 2: What are you gonna do next, I don't know. I

808
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 2: think just keep growing in my portfolio. To be quite

809
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 2: honest with you, just that the opportunity to be first generation,

810
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 2: to even open up doors financially, I think is the

811
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 2: biggest thing for me.

812
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 1: You know.

813
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 2: Obviously growing up as a kid, I think we all

814
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 2: can attest it is that our goal was to get

815
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 2: to play football, take care of our family.

816
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: Right.

817
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 2: But now you're in a different situation where now you

818
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 2: have some monetary gains. You've read the benefits of playing

819
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 2: the NFL. Now you can teach your kids a different

820
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 2: way that football is not the only answer. You could

821
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 2: teach them financial literacy, things that you didn't know, what

822
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 2: we didn't know growing up. You could teach you, you know,

823
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 2: how to reinvest money, how dividends work, how to diversify

824
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 2: your portfolio, how to how to you know seventy percent.

825
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 1: How to really you know, you know do that.

826
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 2: So I think for me, it's just keep growing, you know,

827
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 2: the portfolio, Keep being a mentor to a lot of

828
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 2: these young guys, be mentored to my future kids, and

829
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 2: to have a foundation so when I leave, when I

830
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 2: leave this earth, you know, they could be you know,

831
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 2: my dad you know, you know, my dad made me proud,

832
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? You know, you know he

833
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:24,959
Speaker 2: less something behind for us.

834
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Speaker 3: Uh.

835
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Speaker 2: He wasn't just a football player. He's more than an athlete,

836
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 2: and he took advantage of his opportunities.

837
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 3: Man, that's well said as well.

838
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 4: I'd like to know a little bit more about your

839
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 4: foundation side and what you're calling the Operation fifty five.

840
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 4: Did you maybe share with us?

841
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: So yeah, Operation fifty five.

842
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give a shout out to Sherry, and you know,

843
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 2: she helped me create Operation fifty five first of the

844
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 2: Steven Tully Foundation. But when I got to Detroit as

845
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:52,959
Speaker 2: a free agent in twenty eleven, I think it's August

846
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 2: I met Sherry and she's like, look, I got a

847
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 2: great idea. What she call it Operation fifty five. Right,

848
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 2: We're gonna take fifty five kids with cancer to every

849
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 2: home game. So we reached out to the line. The

850
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 2: line said, absolutely, we get your tickets to every home

851
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 2: game for fifty five kids dealing with cancer. We'll provide

852
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 2: them food beverages to every home game. So we'd get

853
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 2: t shirts for them with fifty five in the back.

854
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 2: The foundation. If it was Kids Cancer Month, it was yellow.

855
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 2: If it was breast cancer month, it was pink, right,

856
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,399
Speaker 2: And so every game, every home game, we had kids

857
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 2: sold out with my whole time and I was there

858
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 2: in Detroit. It took fifty five public schools in Detroit.

859
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,800
Speaker 2: We raised money through all of our resources, our sponsors,

860
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 2: you know, the network that I made. We will provide

861
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 2: school materials to all Detroit public schools, laptops, tablets, books.

862
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 2: I mean, Detroit public school is very rough, and when

863
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 2: you walking out that public school, you'll go to the

864
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 2: metal detectors that we provide fifty five schools with essentials

865
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 2: for them to be able to take take care of

866
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:46,320
Speaker 2: their business, and just just different things, athletes adopting families,

867
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 2: Angels of Hope, breast cancer in October, I mean fifty five.

868
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 2: Operation fifty five was just a whole nother level. Like

869
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 2: I didn't you know, I got. I can't take all

870
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 2: the credit on that when it was it was brought

871
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:57,359
Speaker 2: to me through Sherr, But you know, we just really

872
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 2: really made big, big efforts in Detroit. And now we

873
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 2: propel that to life after football with this coffee shop.

874
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 2: So now we keep that legacy going, or keep that

875
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 2: mindset going of being but you know, everything we do

876
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 2: is in fifty five fifty five cent donations. You know,

877
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,919
Speaker 2: fifty five cents forever you can that we sell. Every

878
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,359
Speaker 2: bag that we sell goes to the foundation, and that's

879
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 2: what keeps the foundation going to be able to give

880
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:21,320
Speaker 2: back and help places like Cuba, Peru, Jamaica, Haiti, the

881
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 2: place that we do.

882
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 1: Work in.

883
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,919
Speaker 3: That you are the most interesting man in the world.

884
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: I believe me that I like it. I like it.

885
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 3: We'll be right back after a quick break. So I

886
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 3: got a children's book I wrote. I wrote, me and

887
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,399
Speaker 3: a guy, we we call our to this children's book.

888
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:48,359
Speaker 3: And I'm not going to say it was hard because

889
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 3: I didn't do all the writing. I just kind of

890
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,799
Speaker 3: gave the interview Pard and just kind of said, hey,

891
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 3: maybe we add this, maybe we take this out. But

892
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 3: he's a he's a journalist, he's a scholar, he's an

893
00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 3: English guy. So you have a book, little linebackers, A

894
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:06,320
Speaker 3: story of determination. Yeah, I apologize, a story of determination.

895
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 3: What was harder writing this book or tackling Adrian Peterson man.

896
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 1: A different name.

897
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 2: We played twice a year, but we already knew. You

898
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 2: knew when you play in Minnesota. What your mind set

899
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 2: had to be you know what I'm saying. I ain't

900
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 2: gonna lie, but it ain't no running back in the

901
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 2: game that I played outside of maybe Marshawn or maybe

902
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 2: reached those juws fred Fred Tinamoy was twice a year

903
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 2: that you had to have your mind right going into

904
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 2: that game because you just never know either run through

905
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:36,840
Speaker 2: you or he will run around you, you know what

906
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 2: I'm saying. So you can't stop your feet. You got

907
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 2: to shoot, and everybody has to rally. Literally, everybody has

908
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 2: to rally, like I might shoot, I miss, but I

909
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 2: need you to clean up for me. Ain't no guarantee

910
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:48,919
Speaker 2: i'mna get him down, you know what I'm saying.

911
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 3: I always thought that was the best thing about playing

912
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 3: against Ap.

913
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 1: You have to shoot.

914
00:36:52,719 --> 00:37:00,120
Speaker 4: It was like he was easier because like because he

915
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 4: was powerful, he was fast and was shifty, but the

916
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 4: best way to tackle him was just go shooting.

917
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: Had to shoot. It was okay because somebody behind you,

918
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:11,360
Speaker 1: but everybody.

919
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,439
Speaker 3: So I think what to me was easier with Ap.

920
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 3: The only guy that ran away from me.

921
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 1: He's unbelievab He's he was like a creative player.

922
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, the only guy just twice in one game, just you.

923
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: Knew on one one hit, he's gone.

924
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, but I'll say a p

925
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 2: but I will say making that book was amazing, A

926
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,800
Speaker 2: little linebacker story of determination. Talked about my life just

927
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 2: basically as underdog underside people tell him I was too small,

928
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 2: wasn't big enough, I'll never make it. Just to have

929
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 2: that mindset understand that doesn't matter what people limitate, the

930
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:50,720
Speaker 2: people put on you. You know, you have the ultimate

931
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 2: you know, last say, and so just going through adversity

932
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 2: of being undersized player at my position, not being picked

933
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 2: first as a kid because they said I was too small,

934
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 2: just the mindset, man, my heart was bigger than my

935
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 2: body and nobody could. I'll work my mindset and so

936
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 2: just to be able to get to lead and to

937
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 2: be an inspiration to the younger kids out there who

938
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 2: say that too small and not big enough, just let

939
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 2: us know that it's all about your mindset. You know,

940
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 2: you don't put the limitation on yourself. It's it was

941
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 2: important for me to make that book, and we're coming

942
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:21,359
Speaker 2: out with a new one here pretty soon that we're

943
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 2: working on Life after Football and Transition Kids book. Just

944
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 2: to kind of just like I said, be an inspiration, man.

945
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 2: Just use our platform and to be able to give

946
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 2: back and health your younger kids because as you know,

947
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:33,919
Speaker 2: growing up as kids, we didn't have any people coming

948
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,280
Speaker 2: back talking to us about you know, you know, success

949
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 2: and what it looks like and how to get there.

950
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,359
Speaker 2: So having these podcasts what you're doing, man, I can

951
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 2: tell you. I can contest to her. There's kids back

952
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 2: at home that watch you guys and see you guys

953
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 2: as role models. So like I can't reiterate, man like,

954
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 2: y'all keep doing what you're doing because you're making an

955
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:51,839
Speaker 2: impact on a lot of people, you know what I'm saying.

956
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 2: So that's that's that's what it's about.

957
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 3: I appreciate that.

958
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 4: I don't take those words lightly people that I hope

959
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 4: you receive that words words matter that big thing for me.

960
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:03,839
Speaker 4: I also went and checked out your book last night

961
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:05,840
Speaker 4: on Amazon. I don't know who's selling it. It was

962
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 4: for four hundred dollars.

963
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 3: So I was like, I was thinking about buying one.

964
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 2: But I'm a four hundred We will get you right,

965
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 2: you know, I got four little ones so we to

966
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 2: write people.

967
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: Get that right, Okay.

968
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 3: I appreciate that. Just gonna let you know.

969
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, research twelve dollars. Yeah, that's what we'll

970
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:27,360
Speaker 1: get it. We'll get it, Okay, personal mail you one.

971
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:29,879
Speaker 3: Limited edition?

972
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:34,399
Speaker 2: Good you actually order order a Circle House Coffee dot com.

973
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 2: You go to the shop session the kids books and

974
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 2: this you go with it there as well.

975
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 4: Everything at circle house dot com. All right, I can't

976
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 4: wait to hear this. And this is a question I

977
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 4: usually reserved for Peanut, but I'll do it this time.

978
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 4: So we always talk about our levels of influence, people

979
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 4: that have really mattered to us the most and really

980
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,879
Speaker 4: poured into us or helped make us who we are.

981
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:00,920
Speaker 4: So we talk about our own personal Mount Rushmore on

982
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 4: this show, right, and so we would like to know

983
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 4: who is your on your Mount Rushmore of personal influence?

984
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 1: How the people do I get? I'll give you a couple.

985
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:18,240
Speaker 2: My mom number one, just who she is as a person,

986
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 2: what she's able to do for coming from Jamaica that

987
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 2: day in her early twenties, to be able to lay

988
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 2: a foundation for me, and understanding that hard work pays off.

989
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:28,760
Speaker 1: My mom was everything.

990
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 4: And shout out to Steven here, who also I saw

991
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:33,919
Speaker 4: on Instagram paid off his mom's house.

992
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:37,400
Speaker 3: So congratulations doing such a great thing. Her lot of.

993
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 4: Sons are not able to do. You doing that for

994
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 4: your mom is beautiful as well, So shout out to

995
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 4: her and what you're growing.

996
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 1: Up as a kid.

997
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 2: Always the bills are always a conversation, her having to

998
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 2: borrow money for people to keep the lights on. So

999
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 2: when I got drafted, I finally got paid. I went

1000
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:53,439
Speaker 2: in ahead and wrote that six figure check and paid

1001
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 2: off her house. And so to me, that was probably

1002
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,279
Speaker 2: one of the greatest moments of my life. You saw

1003
00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 2: the video men, you know what I mean, and her

1004
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 2: struggle to pay those bills and knowing she didn't have

1005
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 2: to worry about that anymore. It was one of the

1006
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 2: greatest accomplishes they had. But my mom Number one. It's

1007
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 2: a guy named Jay Lot, my mom's boss, a Jewish

1008
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,840
Speaker 2: guy passed away now my mom. My mom worked in

1009
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:13,839
Speaker 2: a nursing home for a lady named Rachel, and Jay

1010
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 2: was the son. But he took, he took, He took

1011
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:17,879
Speaker 2: a liking to me. He saw me at the nursing

1012
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:20,839
Speaker 2: home every day, pushing his mom around with my mom,

1013
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,240
Speaker 2: see me in the lobby when my mom worked overnight,

1014
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 2: having to get up, take a shower and the old

1015
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 2: folks shower before they woke up, the walk across the

1016
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:29,760
Speaker 2: street to school, and he's seen me about my first computer,

1017
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 2: my first bicycle, put me into tutoring. He really believed

1018
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,799
Speaker 2: in me when I got drafted. He's helped me pick

1019
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 2: my agents with Neil Schwartz and Drew Rosenhouse financial advisor,

1020
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 2: got me with the right financial advisors, talking about checks

1021
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 2: and balances. Not having the same financial advisor, just CPS.

1022
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:46,879
Speaker 2: They should know each other every month, meeting with both

1023
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:48,799
Speaker 2: of them. Checks and balances, make sure you have you're

1024
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 2: ride off. Like he taught me financial literacy.

1025
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: But he believed in me.

1026
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 2: At the age of seven years old all the way

1027
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:55,799
Speaker 2: to the age of twenty two before he passed away.

1028
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:57,880
Speaker 2: I don't think without him I'd have the same mindset

1029
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 2: that I have now, just from that mon to your

1030
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 2: mindset just being a man. So I'll put him at

1031
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 2: number two, number three my mentor uh just being a pro.

1032
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 2: Uh what I'd say would be David right just taking

1033
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 2: on a twenty one year old kid, leaving college earlier

1034
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 2: as a junior, geting to the NFL and walking in

1035
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 2: that locker room for the first time and seeing all

1036
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 2: these guys that big chains on, big drip, big cars,

1037
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 2: and said, guy, he said, don't follow these guys. Just

1038
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 2: what they don't do that that was to fall.

1039
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:31,439
Speaker 3: Don't do that, jewelry, don't fall.

1040
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: Hell, he will be around a long time.

1041
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 2: But just teaching me to understand how to be a

1042
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 2: pro on and off the field, help propel my career

1043
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 2: to hold another whole nother trajectory. And uh, you know

1044
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 2: there's there's a bunch of other people team on and

1045
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:48,399
Speaker 2: and uh you know family, you know, just friends. I'd say,

1046
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 2: the right friends that I have in my circle now

1047
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 2: really keep me humble. They believe in everything that I do. Uh,

1048
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:58,359
Speaker 2: they stick behind me. They give me one hundred percent

1049
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 2: of them. I give one hundred percent to them as well.

1050
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 2: So I put my friends category as a fourth because

1051
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 2: I have real solid friends in my life who tell

1052
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 2: me when I'm wrong, who I take constructive criticism from.

1053
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 2: That's the thing about football is it teaches you how

1054
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 2: to have thick skin. I think a lot of people

1055
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:15,399
Speaker 2: are sensitive nowadays. When you talk to them about certain things,

1056
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 2: they get in there feeling how can you talk to

1057
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 2: me that way? Said, No, I'm not coming at you.

1058
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 2: I'm trying to mentor you and give you positivity so

1059
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 2: you don't make these bad mistakes. I'm in your corner.

1060
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:25,840
Speaker 2: I want to see you win. I'm more excited to

1061
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 2: see people win than I am. I'm more excited to

1062
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 2: see people win than I'm win because I know what

1063
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:32,240
Speaker 2: winning feels like. We've all been part of winning teams,

1064
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 2: right with Super Bowls and made money and then you know,

1065
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 2: we understand what.

1066
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:36,800
Speaker 1: That side looks like.

1067
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 2: So we see people in your peer group that are

1068
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 2: getting to that level, you're excited for them because you

1069
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 2: know the feeling of it. That's how I am so

1070
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 2: having friends like that, but I can talk to and encourage.

1071
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 2: I think for me is I put my friends group

1072
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 2: of friends in that for slot on the Mount Rushmore.

1073
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:53,839
Speaker 2: My mom missed Lodge Bitch and Harry Thomas and those

1074
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:54,399
Speaker 2: guys for sure.

1075
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 3: Hey man, that was good. We appreciate you coming on

1076
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 3: the show. That's awesome. Excited about sorter House Coffee Superhousecoffee

1077
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 3: dot Com. Absolutely, I'll be going on there checking out

1078
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,280
Speaker 3: the coffee, the night Trow, the cold night Troll, appreciate

1079
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 3: the beans, the whatever. I'm a buy a book. I

1080
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 3: got full little ones, I got full minis at the

1081
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 3: crib that No, man, thanks for blessing us. I'm excited

1082
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 3: about what twenty twenty four holes for you and your business,

1083
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 3: and thank you all the ventures you're doing. Man, and

1084
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:22,840
Speaker 3: I wish you nothing but the best.

1085
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:24,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wish you guys but the best as well.

1086
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 2: Best keep doing what you're doing. Man, Thank you for

1087
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:29,879
Speaker 2: having me and taking the time, and I'll be back soon.

1088
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 4: No, man, I appreciate it, but I can't. I can't

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Speaker 4: wait till you turn freaking forty one or forty two,

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Speaker 4: like you're gonna be done taking to me about forty three.

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Speaker 3: I am forty one, forty one, okay, till everybody fifty

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Speaker 3: and then they think I mean fifty. I look good,

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Speaker 3: and that's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Good, y'all are great man.

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Speaker 3: Forty one, yeah, peanuts older than me. All right, we're

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Speaker 3: gonna get it out of here. Y'all ready, let's get

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Speaker 3: up out of here.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Thank you guys for always tuning in, watching or listening

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Speaker 4: wherever you listen or pick up your podcast where this

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Speaker 4: Apple podcast. iHeartRadio. Make sure you give us a five

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Speaker 4: star rating. Tell a friend to tell a friend to

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Speaker 4: do we there we go and appreciate it, give us

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Speaker 4: a review, click that follow button. We'll hall let y'all later.

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Speaker 4: Man Steven Tellick, thanks as always for listening to The

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Speaker 4: NFL Player's Second Act podcast.

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Speaker 3: It's