Welcome to episode 2 of the Grower and I podcast. This is really cool because we only have 98 episodes to go until we're at 100.

So I really hope that you're not tired of my voice yet because we got a long journey ahead of us.

Dude, episode 2 is juicy.

First, I talk about the true life of sponsorship.

What does it actually entail?

What is a real sponsorship?

I'm going to expose all of the fake sponsorships out there, which is 99% of people who claim to be a sponsored athlete.

What does my sponsorship with Revive look like? We dive into it, we take a look at it, and it might get a little bit thick in there.

We talk about Steve Cook, how does Steve Cook get to the top?

Do not sell out.

And finally, my recommendations to help you become a sponsored athlete, to help you reach your vision and to help you get to that end goal. So I hope you guys enjoy. Buckle up.

We're live. Everybody want to be a mother-fucking sponsored athlete until they realize the sponsorship's nothing more than an ambassador program, an affiliate program, they're being utilized.

Against their will sometimes. It's not what they thought it was.

We are going to talk about the true life of sponsorship, what it takes to be sponsored.

What is an actual sponsorship?

Hint, it is not your

discount code that the company doesn't even know exists. They just generated one through an automated hub spot email.

It is me, your host, Justin Mahalie, with my co-host Scott Simmons and man we're gonna get into some juicy stuff

when I talk about the real life the true life it took me a long long long time before I had my first real sponsorship.

My first real sponsorship was with Revive.

I had been with a company before Revive.

But what's a real sponsorship first and foremost? Let's lay that out. A real sponsorship, you get paid by that company to promote the company, to post about the company, to be a part of the company, you get

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