Dhani Jones: NFL Linebacker, TV Star and Entrepreneur

Suiting Up with Paul Rabil

Paul Rabil

Sports, Business

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2017

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

"This is why, how, or what I need to do to be successful, and personally why I relate a lot of business back to the nuances of professional football." This week's Suiting Up Podcast guest is a former NFL linebacker who played 11 seasons professionally, making 2 Super Bowl appearances, college football for the Michigan Wolverines, winning a National Championship, and earned All-Big 10 honors for 3 straight seasons. He's a stud. In addition to his football career, Dhani's had a massively successful television career, which he's supplemented with a career operating companies (he's owned and operated a coffee shop, ad agency, and staffing business), and more recently, investing in them. One of my all-time favorite Dhani shows was his Travel Channel series, "Dhani Tackles the Glove", as well as his VH1 show, "Ton of Cash". Today, Dhani's mirroring the success of "Shark Tank" with his own investor hosting national series hit, "Adventure Capitalists", which is regularly programmed on CNBC. I’m your host Paul Rabil and welcome to “Suiting Up Podcast,” a show where I delve into the stories of some of today’s leading athletes, entrepreneurs, and entertainers, interviewing them and unpacking the psychology of their success. Enjoy the show.

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0:00.0	Just like entrepreneurship.
0:03.0	The first company you start, you're probably going to fail.
0:06.0	The second company, you might win, but you're probably going to fail that one too.
0:10.0	And then the third one, I get it. This is why or how or what I need to do in order to be successful.
0:17.8	So I personally relate a lot of things back in my life to the game of football and all the
0:21.8	little nuances that it taught me.
0:24.0	What's up everyone? I'm your host Paul Rabel and welcome back to an all new episode of
0:28.4	Student Up Podcast, a show where I delve into the stories of some of today's leading athletes,
0:33.0	entrepreneurs and entertainers, interviewing them and unpacking the psychology of
0:37.8	their success.
0:39.6	And this week's guest, he is the OG of athletes who leverage media and entrepreneurship while they
0:44.8	currently played. He's also a good friend of mine. We met five years ago in New
0:48.8	Orleans at the Super Bowl where he was multitasking on site as an NFL network analyst and founder of his nonprofit
0:54.8	Bow Thai cause where he was on vendor road teaching people about their cause and how they can
0:59.4	participate.
1:00.5	I remember thinking to myself, here we have a star 11 year NFL linebacker
1:05.4	one who won a national championship at Michigan with Charles Woodson and Tom Brady
1:09.8	he played in two Super Bowls was the mentee of Michael Strahan.
1:14.0	He hosted his own TV show, which I loved watching when it debuted.
1:18.0	It was called Dehani Tackles the Globe.
1:20.0	He's also an entrepreneur, but here's a key.
1:22.0	Not just an athlete who invests or is a co-founder without labor.
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