What's up everyone, welcome to an all new and final episode of Sooting Up Season 3, presented by public.com and OutSystems. I'm your host Paul Raeble.

First of all, shout out to all of you who have listened to this season. We've had so much support pour in from our team here at HQ to the interviewees and their respective teams, but most importantly your critical listening and feedback, it only makes us better.

More on the season and the recap in the outro because I don't want to hog any more time from our final guest. One who was a top presidential candidate this past year, though more importantly, he would add most certainly is the public service work he's done so far in his young career.

Let's start with the relevance to the show. Senator Cory Booker was a nationally ranked top high school football player out of the state of New Jersey.

He was recruited by the best institutions in the land, one being the great Lou Holtz out of Notre Dame, though he elected to attend Stanford to play and study and we share a story about a moment on the gridiron where he made a dash towards touchdown Jesus in South Bend.

Tied to sports in each of our careers though sometimes it doesn't go as planned. And while Cory had dreams of playing in the NFL, he mainly struggled in his career at Stanford and was eventually released from the team his senior year.

It was a devastating moment he talks about with us on the show yet he turned it into a life changing positive.

Cory has always quote saw the light with academia, meaning if you're a parent with a student athlete right now who's getting recruited to play top ball in college, you also know the benefits of getting through the college admissions process, which is highly competitive into a top institution and that disproportionate value placed to a college degree.

While most of us athletes like Cory are focused on playing for a championship and eventually making it into the pros, you parents see the light.

What we also don't realize though is how difficult balancing division one two and three ball year round practice times games in the season film study morning runs and lifts.

I can recall it like it was yesterday met with those high demands of schoolwork exams and ideally ideally a cultivated social life, which is also really rare for a student athlete in college.

The senator uniquely saw that opportunity early on and he worked 20 hour days between his practice and game schedule to his schoolwork and then volunteering.

So why is all this background relevant senator Cory Booker has been championing the college athletes bill of rights in Congress, understanding personally how the NCAA has billion year business has been ignoring the true sense of capitalism in a way that leaves many players without compensatory rights to their name, image and likeness without important care like health insurance.

And in many cases even unable to exercise their freedom of choice to transfer schools without penalty, all things many of their undergrad peers get and most certainly their coaches.

We also talk on you sports, the barriers to energy to cost of equipment and registration fees, we give some recommendations on how to lower those barriers and finally his current role in government emphasized by the importance of working together.

He truly characterizes such efforts and has been often criticized by members of his party for keeping relationships with members of the other.

He's known for his lunches and meetings with former governor Chris Christie, the currently senator Whitaker of Iowa, Senator Moran of Kansas and Senator Tim Scott.

I only hope I can get more time with leaders like Senator Booker and many of our other guests from this season each conversation is packed with so much wisdom and utility.

So here is episode 15, the final one of the season featuring former Stanford football player turned mayor of New Jersey.

Now it's Senator Cory Booker.

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