This is the flavor I have a special guest. It's a flashback to the past. The leader in my industry,

the CEO and founder of Paradise Sports, Auditor, welcome to the playbook. Thanks Dave,

appreciate you having me. I appreciate you being here and your patients because that was like

the eighth take of my introduction and he's sitting here patiently going Dave. How can you screw up

my position at Paradise when I'm a legend? Anyway, you also get an award, Auditor, for being the

best dressed person I've had here at SoFi. Everyone thinks because it's a stadium that you don't have

to dress up. Man, you look like a million dollars. I figured you were going to have VIP status and

indoor air conditioning. So I took the chance. And you were right. Thank goodness. That's for sure. Well,

you know, everyone always wonders how you get to be the notable sports agent, the notable agent in

general. It's a dream for every frustrated athlete, even the ones that played Division 1 football.

Once the game is ended for you, it's like, what can I do to stay in the game? And I think sports

agentry becomes the first choice of so many frustrated athletes whose dreams have died. Was that

the case for you? I think I always saw myself as an advocate. You know, even when I was a player,

I was an advocate from not just myself, but from my teammates and at home, I was an advocate.

So I think it just was almost programmed in my psyche and the way I operated. So when

my opportunities to continue to play at the next level didn't materialize as I wanted them to,

I went to the next best thing. It's like, how do I stay in sports? How do I continue to give back

to something that's given me so much from a college education to a life and network?

And so advocacy was where my true start got going, if you will, within the agent world.

And then it just continued to evolve. Because one of the things I was very fortunate to have

an immigrant father who came here, $300 in his pocket, the immigrant story, and ended up

being an engineer and an inventor. So he was always instilling entrepreneurship, creativity,

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