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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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Garbage got all over, me THAT i would never make,
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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