March 26, 2025

How To Thrive In The Eye Of The Storm

How To Thrive In The Eye Of The Storm

Marques Ogden uses his story to inspire audiences to face their challenges & adversities head on by developing & sustaining an unbreakable mindset, to achieve what their heart desires! Marques shares his story & gives you action steps on...

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Marques Ogden uses his story to inspire audiences to face their challenges & adversities head on by developing & sustaining an unbreakable mindset, to achieve what their heart desires! Marques shares his story & gives you action steps on how to face your challenges, so you can come out on the other side, more successful and fulfilled! The audience will be inspired & have action steps they can implement right away to be more successful in their personal and professional lives!

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Welcome to to Ask Good Questions Podcasts, broadcasting live every Wednesday,

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six pm Eastern Time on W four CY Radio at

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w fourcy dot com. This week and every week, we

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will reach for a higher purpose in money and life,

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as well as a focus on health and wellment. Now

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let's join your hosts, Banita bell Anderson, as together we

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start with Asking Good Questions.

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Welcome to the Ask Good Questions podcast. My name is

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Benita Bell Anderson, and we have an awesome podcast today.

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I have a very special guest in Marcus Ogden, who

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is a former NFL athlete, and if I would like

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to invite him onto the podcast stage. Now, there he is.

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Hi'm Marcus, Hi Benita. How are you?

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I am good? I understand you're at your baby girl's game.

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Yes, softball practice. So she starts softball. She played basketball,

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she's played soccer, she's played volleyball. She is really enjoying

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basketball and softball. So she had practice this weekend and

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her mom usually takes her, but I had to run

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an errand for her mom.

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So I'm at practice.

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This is her third practice now and she's really excelling us.

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He's really enjoying it.

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How old is she?

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She's ten?

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Oh, that's perfect age.

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Yep.

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I have a twenty one year old daughter who's a

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junior NYU on a full scholarship for nursing, and I

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have a ten year old. My twenty one year old

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is Ava and my ten year old is Farah.

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Oh, well you're a busy guy. Yeah. Let me tell

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you about Let me tell everyone about you a little bit.

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We'll read a little bit about your background. Marcus Ogden

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is a former NFL athlete and is now an inspirational

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keynote speaker. He's also the founder and CEO of Ogden Ventures.

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He is a five time best selling author. He's a

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business coach and a consultant in the podcast Hope of

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Get Authentic with Marcus Ogden. Although his journey didn't come

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easy or even without unrelenting adversity, we're going to hear

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more about that. After retiring from football, he pursued a

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career in construction and contracting. At the ripe old age

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of twenty seven, he founded a construction company with fast growth,

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but eventually went bankrupt, losing almost three million dollars on

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one projection ninety days. That must have been hard. He

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pulled himself together during his darkest hours and put a

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and did a part time job as a custodian. Marcus

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rose to the top again with hard work and determination,

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using his struggles as inspiration to blaze his own trail forward.

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Now he shares his powerful story to help others learn

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how to fail forward and achieve success in their lives.

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His story and insights as a thought leader have been

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featured in top publications such as USA Today, Forbes, Cheddar News,

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and Authority Magazine. As a speaker, he's landed jobs with

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over seventy five Fortune five hundred companies in over twenty

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Fortune one hundred companies like Amazon, Goldman Sachs, Intel, JP, Morgan, Chase, Cisco,

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New York Life, Medlife, Equitable Home Depot, and many others.

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As a podcast host, he's interviewed iconic guests such as

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Michael Strahan, Joe Namath, and Willie Parker Junior. He hopes

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to continue reaching new levels in his professional career and

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positively impacting as many people's lives as possible through doing

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what he loves, speaking on stage, and sharing his experiences

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and knowledge with others. Well, I think we'll have a

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little bit to talk about today. Let's start out with

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the tell me a little bit more about your background.

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Yeah, I'm from Washington, d C.

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I now live in Fuquay Verena, North Carolina. It's about

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half hour outside of Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Our state capital.

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I am a kino speaker, business coach, corporate consultant, five

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time bestselling author, podcaster. I'm also a former NFL athlete.

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I was raised by a single dad. My older brother, Johnson,

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who's also an NFL athlete. He's actually in the NFL

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Hall of Fame first ballot in twenty thirteen. We were

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raised by our father Sheryl Philip Ogden, and he did

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a phenomenal job in raising two boys, and we grew

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up learning three things, respect women, respect ourselves, and education

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over sports. So really grew up with a great father figure,

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great great maternal grandparents like they were in our lives constantly,

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just great people.

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Eight examples.

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I learned how to be a man by watching my

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father and my grandfather, and those two did a phenomenal

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job making me who I am today.

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Well, I'm sure there's gonna be inquiring mindset. Want to

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know who you played for.

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I was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars and then played

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for the Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo Bills, and I finished off

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with the Tennessee Titans. I was drafted out of Howard University.

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I'm still the first and the only offensive lineman drafted

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into the National Football League from Howard University. And I

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went into house after the call of Fame in twenty

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twenty two, and my dad went into the Hall of

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Fame for Howard in twenty nineteen. He went in for

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shotput and I went in for football.

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Oh, how awesome is that shotput?

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Wow?

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Well, tell me a little bit more about the time

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in the NFL. How many years was it? And how

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what led you down that road?

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So I played almost six years and I started football late.

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I played as a freshman in high school. Had a

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solid career. You know, I didn't grow to be all.

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I'm almost six foot six six' five and a half six,

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six AND i didn't grow UNTIL i graduated from high

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school to be about that.

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Height SO i was.

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About four, marcus SO i would see a pipsqueak compared to.

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You SO i ended up growing AND i was so

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excited about trying to play football after high.

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School BUT i didn't get a lot of, attention a.

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Lot of, offers and Then Howard university came to the

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table near the very end and offered me a full

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scholarship to play football for The.

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Bison so went To, howard was.

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Only beneath about fifteen twenty minutes away from WHERE i grew.

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UP i went to all of my entire education elementary,

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school middle, school high, school and college all in Northwest, WASHINGTON,

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dc all and SO i. STAYED i went To Stevens,

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elementary Then Saint john's for middle school and high, school

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and went To higher. University so had a phenomenal career At,

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howard four year starter offensive line right, tackle left, tackle

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and center throughout my career AND i got drafted into

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The National Football league by The Jacksonville jaguars and my

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rookie head Coach jack Del. Rio THE nfl taught me

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a lot about a lot of, things but, resilience, perseverance bouncing,

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back those are the key, attributes the key you, know

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things THAT i.

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LEARNED i called them like the, willpower, grint, resilience.

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Determination all that came as a result of my time

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in THE. Nfl SO i tell you all the, time

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THE nfl gave me a lot of things THAT i

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needed to succeed Where i'm at today in my.

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Life well did you what was it an injury that

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took you out of that or did you just, say,

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HEY i want to be moving, on or what happened TO.

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I had a back, injury and you know when we.

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Lose you, know my father died the year, before SO

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i played that, season it wasn't really the. Same and

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THEN i just didn't really recover, mentally and then my

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body started to break down physically AND i just wasn't

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as good AS i needed to be to play at

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that high of a level against the best of the,

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best and you, KNOW i had to shut it.

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Down and in life we have to face those.

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Storms AND i tell people to thrive in the eye

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of the.

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Storm it takes two. Things consistency and.

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You you are the magic, factor you are the it,

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Factor but you have to face the. Music you can't

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run from. Problems you can't hide because, problems no matter

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what you try to, do run high, different they will

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find and catch up with. You SO i just had

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to shut it down because my body and also my

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mental state was not in the right frame of mind

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to continue playing in The National Football.

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League, well it helped make you who you are. Today.

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Oh, Absolutely THE nfl gave me a.

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Lot yeah so you so you made a pivot really

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at a pretty young. Age what was it twenty, seven.

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Twenty, seven almost twenty eight years. OLD i Started Cayden Premier.

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Enterprises for about six months AFTER i retired from THE.

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NFL i struggled immensely.

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With, alcohol, gambling, nightlife, women, partying all these, things AND

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i finally got my act together AND i Started Caden

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Premier enterprises and we became the Largest African american owned

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sub contractor in the city Of baltimore and the state

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Of maryland for two.

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Years but, Unfortunately, benita my.

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Ego caught up with me AND i ended up losing my,

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home all my, money my, cars my, possessions everything stripped

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taken away from me because my ego was just bigger

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Than King.

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Kong, wow, well tell me more about what went. WRONG i,

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MEAN i think that the biggest thing is not what actually,

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happens but what you make of it and what you

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learn from it and how you moved. On because that

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sounded like it was a pretty pretty hefty lessons to.

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Learn so WHAT i learned is that in, business you

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have to trust the people that you.

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Hire you have to listen to the people that you.

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Hire, Otherwise, banita you're wasting. Payroll and my top, Estimator Colin,

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snow tried to warn me that we were heading down

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a path of destruction in our business because the jobs

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that we were on we were bleeding and hemorrhaging money.

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Resources instead of listening to, HIM i shunned.

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HIM i pushed him.

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AWAY i made him like an, outcast, saying you know

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what you're talking, About you're, Wrong i'm.

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Right that was on A. Friday he came in on

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that Following.

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Monday he handed me his two week resignation papers and

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he left at about ninety. Days after he, LEFT i

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lost everything AND i had to start completely over from rock.

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Bottom so the LESSON i learned is embraced dynamics, subordination

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which means when you don't have the expertise to lead

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in an, area WHICH i had at zero.

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Expertise you, KNOW i was THE ceo Of.

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CADEN i didn't know the numbers Like, kylin and BECAUSE

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i didn't listen to, him AND i shunned him and

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made him feel a certain.

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Way poof he, left and after he, left.

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It was just from there a constant downs, hit downward

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spiral UNTIL i lost everything and was forced to Leave

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baltimore like a thief in the, night AND i moved

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To raleigh in twenty thirteen Except.

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April, wow, well.

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Hitting rock bottom basically helped you, pivot, then wouldn't you?

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Say my favorite quote by one of my favorite, PEOPLE. Jk,

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rollins the only billionaire author in the, world the only

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billionaire author in the, world says Rock, Bottom it's the

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moment THAT i rebuilt my.

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Life and she Wrote.

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Harry potter in her, car In, starbucks anywhere she could

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just get Some internet and Everybody benita told her she was,

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crazy just like everybody told me after my rock bottom

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moment as a custodian with somebody's.

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Trash rotten, me nasty.

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it THAT i wouldn't, succeed THAT i was crazy for

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trying to get it become a. Speaker what expertise do you?

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Have why would you do? That who's gonna hire? You

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you're a football, Guy stay in your. LANE i heard it.

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All so that's my favorite, quote and that was the

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beginning of me starting to speak after my rock bottom

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moment In september twenty.

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Thirteen, wow so here you are twelve years, later totally totally.

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Different so what'd you? Say you have A you have

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a your twenty one year? Old so You so she

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was just a little.

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Girl so my twenty one year. OLD i met her

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when she was. Eight because it's my. Stepdaughter i've married her.

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Mom her mom AND i are now, divorced But ava

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has been my baby and always will be because her

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dad he paid child, support very you, know good, guy

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but he lived In. Taiwan so BASICALLY i was full

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time dad To, ava and you, know that's what it.

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Was and so that's WHERE i, was and that was

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everything for, me and that's, exactly you know what it,

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was and you know it was.

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Met, Her so when we started to have the trouble

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with going, BANKRUPT i just met her in twenty, twelve

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and in two thousand team we had to move and

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we had to get down To, Raleigh so she was

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basically she had just turned nine when we were going

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through the, hardship And farah wasn't born till the next

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year in twenty, fourteen so she didn't see all the

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bankruptc see all. That ava remembers it to some, degree not,

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everything but she remembers coming To, baltimore then going down

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To raleigh and the hardship and the cars being taken

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away all that kind of.

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Wow so how do you recover from something like? THAT

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i mean a lot of people would just stay wallowing

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in all the, muck and you, KNOW i, mean like for,

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ME i had a moment like twenty five years, ago

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after a big divorce and a change of life WHERE

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i basically Said i'm not going to let this destroy

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me AND i started and it was at that moment

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THAT I i started rebuilding my. Life so here you.

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Are when when did? YOU i, mean did you just

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completely Say i'm gonna reinvent my? Life what did you?

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Do so WHEN i hit rock bottom In september twenty,

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THIRTEEN i made the decision to try to help people

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not go through WHAT i was going. Through AND i

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didn't know what that. Was AND i heard an audio

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book or an AUDIO.

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I heard podcast that's, it And Tony.

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Robbins was the individual on the podcast being. Interviewed he

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was a guy that had, hardship was a. Custodian at

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the TIME i was a. CUSTODIAN i, said, well If

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Tony robbins could do it and then become this guy

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in movies and be, SUCCESSFUL i can do. It but,

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unfortunately WHEN i started Write, BENITA i had the wrong.

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INTENTIONS i was all about trying to get results with no,

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purpose which is WHY i struggle for the first two

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and a half.

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Years, now ONCE i have that purpose, First.

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ONCE i found the purpose and had the, value the

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results started to.

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Come SO i made that decision after hitting rock.

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BOTTOM i was going to help others succeed in their

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lives by sharing my.

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Story and helping them overcome their.

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Fears their challenges to get to where they want to

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get to in their.

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Life, well the interesting thing, is and the people That

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i've helped in my life that that have become, Clients

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several people have been there because they knew THAT i

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would be, Empathetic they knew THAT i would be able to.

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Understand AND i think that's probably one of the things

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that you probably see is people.

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Know that you'll.

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Understand and another thing about you IS i believe you

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took one hundred percent responsibility for your.

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Life.

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Exactly if you want to get your life back on,

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track understand, this, good bad or, Indifferent you're the one

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that put yourself. There, good bet are. Indifferent you're the

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one that put yourself. There and for, me it took

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me that rock bottom, moment that, trash that rotten. Me

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it took all that for me to REALIZE i put myself.

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There ONCE i realized, that ONCE i own, that THEN

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i started to climb and claw and dig my way

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out of the hole THAT i created that put myself.

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In, Wow.

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So were you just reading? Books tell me more about?

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IT i, MEAN i, MEAN i think the biggest thing

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is for people to find the way to rebuild their.

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Life and you know a lot of people that have

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been successful have, crazy you, know terrible stories Behind you

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know that just you know they kept on. Going but

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do you think there's a common thread between people who

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have to restart? That what is it that that gave

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you the grit to start?

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OVER i FOUND i finally found my.

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Purpose my purpose was to help others not end up

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LIKE i ended. Up and ONCE i realized, THAT i

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put myself on that curve as a custodian struggling to

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pay my bills because of my ego and my. Bravado

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ONCE i got through all the bs and, said you

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are the Culprit.

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Marcus you put yourself.

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Here that's when things got better because THEN i could

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at least start to own my own crap and get

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out of my own. Way so individuals who are successful

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at climbing out of a hard, SITUATION i, feel own

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their purpose or find their purpose through owning their story

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and making changes in that.

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Regard, Right SO i think you probably you found some, Humility.

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Yes one hundred.

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PERCENT i TAKED i was, HUMBLE i took, accountability and

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those are the things THAT i started to really get

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going and move forward in my? Life were those key? Attributes? Absolutely?

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So was it at that point that you Started Ogden?

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VENTURES i Started Ogden ventures In september twenty thirteen after

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my rock bottom, moment started speaking at that. Time didn't

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get my first paid job Until april twenty, sixteen and

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then in twenty eighteen got coached developed myself and then

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from then our career started to skyrocket at that, time

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but it took time and through building in that, regard.

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Did you go did you go someplace for? Coaching?

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YEP i went to the NAPS up Program National Athletic

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Professional Success. Academy it was put on By Brad mitchell

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and it was At Penn. State it was run through

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THE Nfl Player Care foundation And RETIRE Nfl Players. Association

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that five day training helped to change my life for

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the better in so many. Ways it helped me to

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understand how to relate my football lingo and my football

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knowledge to the business world SO i could communicate and

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talk to people in a way they could understand business.

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Wise ONCE i could do, that at that, moment our

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career started to skyrocket for the.

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Better so you started speaking, first and then where did

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you dream? Up the, Idea, OH i Think i'm going

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to write a.

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Book SO i wrote my first book in two thousand and.

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Fourteen it got published in twenty, Fifteen Sleepless nights THE,

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NFL A business and A. FAMILY i wrote that to

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tell my story and actually my first book helped me

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to actually book my first page speaking. Job and THEN

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i wrote my second book in twenty, Twenty The Success

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Cycle Three keys To Create success in your, Life, Ambition,

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driving hard. Work and then after THAT i started to

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co author or can be a contributing author three other.

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Books but it really was about the first book kind

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of told my, story the Second boe gave you kind

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of the secrets get my life back on.

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Track and then.

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The last three BOOKS i kind of was like a

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contributing author to kind of help other people that were,

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writing help them to sell their, books to help me

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to kind of get my brand out, there our brand

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out there in a bigger in a bigger.

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Way.

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Right so when you're saying our, brand does that mean

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like your family or are you talking about a? Partner

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who are you talking?

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About just our?

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Team you, know our our team of people that are

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with And i've got about twenty people that are on our.

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Team So i'm all about our team has helped me

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to get Where i'm at.

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Today SO i say our.

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Because it's a it's a it's a team as a,

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team as a team way of doing things.

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Awesome so so where's the leap TO i, mean, like

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that's a that's a pretty big thing to be getting

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speaking engagements At fortune five hundred. Companies was it because

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of connections with THE nfl that that started?

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Happening absolutely. Not it was BECAUSE i started.

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COACH i Was i've been coaching kids in football private

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lessons in twenty thirteen WHEN i moved To raleigh to

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make a few.

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Dollars AS i.

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Think, that AND i was a janitor for a, WHILE

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i start to tell my clients that was one to

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be a. SPEAKER i remember telling my, client Mister dave Nis,

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fisky who was one of my first ever coaching. CLIENTS

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i coached both his sons in, Football alix And. Aiden

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he worked for Net, app A fortune five hundred, Company

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and WHEN i told HIM i wanted to speak AND

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i didn't care about getting paid more.

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For exposure and all, that he hired me to.

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SPEAK i did a job for them In, chicago AND

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i bombed.

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It it was, horrible.

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He, Said, marcus great, energy great, passion wrong. Topic brought

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me back six months, LATER i nailed, it gave me

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my first testimonial letter from A fortune five hundred, client

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and it was off to the.

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Races so from THERE i went to other clients.

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Network so Every fortune five hundred job that we've had

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has been a relationship driven and that's where people get it.

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Misconstrued you have to.

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Build a relationship with somebody before they hire.

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You you just have.

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To, well that kind of is leading me into another question.

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Here the reason that you AND i have met is,

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because WELL i originally seen your name on this radio

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talk show. List but you have something called The Inner Game,

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community which is all about. Relationships so when did that?

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Start so that's with my, Partner Victor.

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Garcia we've known that for about three years, now and

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The Inner Game community was started to help people, connect

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network and build the connections the relationships they wanted to

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build for themselves in an environment without all the, noise

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without all the stuff Of facebook or all the, ads

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all the stuff that's going to kind of pull you.

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Away and that's why we started it and it's been.

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Sensational it's all about helping people to rise to the

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next level through, networking, connecting and adding value into people's.

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Lives, Right, Yeah i've really enjoyed. It it's Been i've

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had several great connections because of that. Community AND i don't,

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know there's SOMETHING i don't. KNOW i guess the best

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word to say is is, like there's something authentic about

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it That i'm liking and just connecting with the people

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that are there.

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And, see we have an.

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Offer you can spend ninety seven or one to seven

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a month to be in our scale room to get

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don't this network doing your. Own we want our people

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in that to have. Options, Right do you want to scale?

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Faster you can be part of the scale. Them if

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you want this network and stay where you're at your own,

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pace stay in there in. Network it's up to, you,

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Right so we don't force anything on. Anybody that's why

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people like yourself like it because we're not trying to sell.

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You if you see the value and growing and going

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up to the scale, room come and join. Us if

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you don't stay where you're at and just network for.

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Free that's all it's, about.

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Right, well one of the things that we do on

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the podcast IS i have some bonus downloads and after

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we're done here, today THEN i will be putting something

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about you and your company and that. Community and so

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we'll have a place where you can where we can

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direct people and where to go if they want to

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go check it.

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Out that sounds. Fantastic so what's.

473
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Your new company doing? Now what is ahead of you

474
00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:45.240
for the.

475
00:28:45.319 --> 00:28:51.400
Future just continue to elevate through our intergame, community are speaking,

476
00:28:52.119 --> 00:28:56.880
consulting and just continue to grow our, podcast get more guests,

477
00:28:56.960 --> 00:29:02.880
on have them share their, authentic real created stories that they've,

478
00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:06.599
lived help people to push through, challenges overcome.

479
00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:09.599
Adversity that's what we're all about in our.

480
00:29:09.480 --> 00:29:13.559
Community Right so tell me about the Podcast.

481
00:29:13.720 --> 00:29:15.680
Get authentic With Marcus.

482
00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:19.960
Ogden we're in the top half percent most popular podcasts.

483
00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:25.319
Worldwide we just interview authentic people with authentic stories that

484
00:29:25.359 --> 00:29:28.799
want to share and help our listeners elevate to the next.

485
00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:34.599
Level we've interviewed all kinds of, people, athletes, celebrities, musicians rock,

486
00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:41.519
stars business, leaders finance, podcasts, speakers you name it as

487
00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:44.200
don't you're authentic and you want to be. Real you

488
00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:47.400
have a place to be interviewed on our, podcast.

489
00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:49.519
Right, Yeah Actually i'm going to be interviewed by. You

490
00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:52.920
i'm going to be, there, yeah a couple of weeks

491
00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:56.400
because it was twenty twenty WHEN i wrote a financial

492
00:29:56.400 --> 00:30:00.359
book for professional, athletes the ones that are of you,

493
00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:03.720
know gone haywire with the money that they. Get.

494
00:30:03.960 --> 00:30:06.160
Yep and a lot of times what happens is people

495
00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:09.680
don't have direction or they don't know how to have

496
00:30:09.720 --> 00:30:12.640
a plan or. Purpose and if you don't have to

497
00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:14.480
have a lot of money in your on your, hands

498
00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:16.279
a lot of time it could be.

499
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Bad And i've been.

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There right, right, Yeah well it's it's what? Else what

501
00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:25.119
do you? Think what else are you thinking that you

502
00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:28.599
want to share with? People what Like like when you

503
00:30:28.640 --> 00:30:33.160
do a, keynote what basically is how long is the

504
00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:37.119
keynote speech that you will do and what's your usual?

505
00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:42.559
Topic it's an hour and mindset people are buying right.

506
00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:45.000
Now thriving through the eye of the.

507
00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:48.640
Storm the bison is the only animal that goes into

508
00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:52.319
the eye of the, storm and we talk about how

509
00:30:52.359 --> 00:30:54.599
to go into the, storm how to come out on

510
00:30:54.599 --> 00:30:58.319
the other, side you, know less, scathed less harm because

511
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you face it head, on and.

512
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So one to all people to.

513
00:31:01.960 --> 00:31:04.119
Know the last Thing i'll say about WHO i, Am

514
00:31:04.880 --> 00:31:09.920
i'm about helping people to achieve their. Dreams what we

515
00:31:10.119 --> 00:31:16.000
offer is self confidence and self belief enhancement through our,

516
00:31:16.119 --> 00:31:20.039
podcast through our, speaking through our, coaching through our.

517
00:31:20.160 --> 00:31:21.559
Networking what we do.

518
00:31:21.880 --> 00:31:27.359
So we really love helping people to Become, banita the

519
00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:30.640
best version of, themselves to live the life that they

520
00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:31.400
want to live for.

521
00:31:31.480 --> 00:31:34.720
Themselves that's who we are and that's what we.

522
00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:37.799
Offer, yeah it's all about, purpose isn't.

523
00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:41.480
It if you have no, purpose anything and everything else

524
00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:42.440
you try to do means.

525
00:31:42.519 --> 00:31:42.839
Nothing.

526
00:31:43.319 --> 00:31:48.039
Yeah, yeah those are things THAT i talk. About transforming

527
00:31:48.119 --> 00:31:52.839
your relationship with money and, really you know, it when

528
00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:55.720
it comes to things that are, financial it's not really

529
00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:57.960
about the. Money it's about what's your purpose for your.

530
00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:02.480
Life and if you have no purpose in, life you

531
00:32:02.599 --> 00:32:03.599
will never be.

532
00:32:03.759 --> 00:32:06.440
Successful you might have a little bit of quick you,

533
00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:08.640
know wins here or they make a little bit of,

534
00:32:08.680 --> 00:32:12.319
Money da da da, da but being successful will never.

535
00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:16.599
Happen, Right so where do you think you want to

536
00:32:16.640 --> 00:32:17.799
find yourself in five?

537
00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:22.759
Years just continue to grow our, brand continue to, elevate

538
00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:26.880
having our intergame, community continue to help, people and just

539
00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:30.319
continue to add die to people to help them scale

540
00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:34.039
their business or have the better, mindset or grow their

541
00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:36.039
brand in any, way shape or.

542
00:32:36.079 --> 00:32:39.000
Form so we're all about really adding value.

543
00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:42.279
To our, clients into people through our different services and

544
00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:44.480
to help them scale to the next.

545
00:32:44.599 --> 00:32:46.359
Level that's what we're all about At.

546
00:32:46.359 --> 00:32:51.799
Ogadventures what what would be the biggest thing that you

547
00:32:51.880 --> 00:32:57.680
would want to leave with the podcasts our podcast guests

548
00:32:58.359 --> 00:33:01.359
that would be most important for them as they go

549
00:33:01.480 --> 00:33:03.519
into this next month and this next.

550
00:33:03.599 --> 00:33:08.519
Year in tons of extreme, darkness focus on the. Light

551
00:33:09.279 --> 00:33:14.200
be the, lighthouse not the. Tugboat be an individual that

552
00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:17.839
people can see from afar that you can help them

553
00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:21.519
get to their destination and help them in times of,

554
00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:27.519
struggle hardship or you, know or desperation or just hard.

555
00:33:27.640 --> 00:33:33.279
Times so, again be an individual that's the, lighthouse not the.

556
00:33:33.319 --> 00:33:38.000
Tugboat and in tons of extreme, darkness focus.

557
00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:40.079
On the, light which means you that are.

558
00:33:40.119 --> 00:33:44.599
Listening be the light to lead others to whatever they

559
00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:45.839
want to get done in their.

560
00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:50.319
Life, RIGHT i think your little girl's got a great

561
00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:55.400
daddy to help her as SHE i, mean you're going

562
00:33:55.480 --> 00:33:58.000
to have another teenager here before.

563
00:33:58.079 --> 00:34:01.920
LONG i, KNOW i. Know don't remind.

564
00:34:01.960 --> 00:34:09.360
Me, Well you've come from good, stock you had a

565
00:34:09.400 --> 00:34:14.760
great role model in your, dad and you, know for,

566
00:34:14.840 --> 00:34:17.280
ME i think that what you need to do is

567
00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:19.639
you need to get out of. YOURSELF i think that

568
00:34:20.559 --> 00:34:24.920
being of service to other people is always going to

569
00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:29.000
be what lifts, you don't you, Think.

570
00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:33.800
Yes when you serve, others you're always helping someone to

571
00:34:33.920 --> 00:34:37.639
achieve their, goals their. Dreams if you do it, correctly

572
00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:42.760
you'll achieve yours as. Well put others first before, yourself

573
00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:45.159
and that will get you to where you want to

574
00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:46.000
go in the long.

575
00:34:46.079 --> 00:34:47.679
Run AND i had to learn that the hard.

576
00:34:47.719 --> 00:34:51.840
Way but the old saying it's better late than, never right.

577
00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:55.920
Right, well you got a lot of good years ahead of.

578
00:34:55.960 --> 00:34:59.199
YOU i appreciate the ask to you continue to move,

579
00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:01.480
forward AND i think excited to see you grow and

580
00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:02.039
have you in our.

581
00:35:02.039 --> 00:35:04.199
Community and we thank you for having me.

582
00:35:04.280 --> 00:35:10.159
On, absolutely we are so happy that we got to

583
00:35:10.199 --> 00:35:12.679
have this conversation. TODAY i look forward to being on

584
00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:17.000
your podcast in a few, weeks, yes, ma'am and so

585
00:35:17.239 --> 00:35:22.360
we will have your information about where people can find

586
00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:25.119
you and our bonus downloads on our podcast.

587
00:35:25.119 --> 00:35:28.039
Website look forward to. It, well thanks for having me.

588
00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:29.440
ON i Appreciate, Benita.

589
00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:32.320
Thank you so, Much, marcus and thank you for.

590
00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:39.159
Coming today's episode is, over but we did ask good questions,

591
00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:43.199
again Didn't we don't miss out as we broadcast live Every,

592
00:35:43.239 --> 00:35:47.159
wednesday six Pm Eastern time ON w FOUR Cy radio

593
00:35:47.320 --> 00:35:51.199
at w four cy dot. Com Joined Banina Bell anderson

594
00:35:51.320 --> 00:35:56.039
next week for more conversations with experts on, finances, retirement

595
00:35:56.159 --> 00:36:00.639
behavioral finance, issues health and, wellness and. More until, then

596
00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:03.000
remember to ask good.

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00:36:03.280 --> 00:36:07.480
Questions m