On this episode of the playbook, I have the extraordinary running back from the Los Angeles

Chargers Austin Eccler. And we're going to talk about great iron gaming group and his foundation

and the importance of consistent, persistent pursuit of your potential. Join me for all this

and more on the playbook. This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook. For each week, I bring you some of the

greatest athletes, celebrities and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional

playbook to success and what made them champions on the field and in the board. I'm your host

David Meltzer. I have a surprise entrepreneur. I'm a homer. So Austin Eccler running back superstar

for the Los Angeles Chargers. Welcome to the playbook. Hey, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me on

looking forward to it. You know, this is so exciting for me, not just because obviously I'm always

partial to my Los Angeles Chargers, but more importantly, you and I share so many similar

interests off the field. Number one, I'm going to start with what's most important to me

is philanthropy. When I ran Lee Steinberg, the big sports agency, every athlete of ours had to

have a charitable purpose or cause or we won't even represent them. So I'm always amazed when there's

not a requirement when a young athlete really has a bigger vision of their life than just, you know,

being an incredible running back or incredible NFL star, you know, on starting that foundation,

you have so many things that you were dealing with. It's not like you were the number one pick out

of the draft. You had all of these question marks in your future, but yet you somehow saw the

importance of building the Austin Eccler foundation. What for you was the motivation or inspiration

between starting your foundation? Yeah, you know, David, I think I think it's just because I never

lost, lost touch with that kid that I used to be growing up kind of looking up and thinking, wow,

this is bigger than me. Just my dreams were huge. It seemed like it was out of reach and I think I

never lost touch with that. And now that I'm in it, you know, I've made those goals, made those

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