I'm going to be speaking with my guest, Oscar winning coach Bill Courtney. Coach Courtney,

thank you for coming on the show. Thanks for having me. So, Bill, you've got an amazing personal

story. I want everyone to get into the upshot at this point because I think it's a really good

point, not to be a turkey person, which is to say, don't just be the kind of person who, you know,

hands the bum a dollar looking in the other direction and runs away as quickly as possible.

You know, don't just do your charity in a selfish way or in a grudging way, but really, you know,

recognize people's humanity and really

fully give of yourself. I love that whole idea. But just before we even get into not being a

turkey person, could you just tell our creme de la crime audience here a little bit about your personal

story? I grew up in Memphis. Dad left him when I was four. Mom did the best you could,

worked hard, but was a bad chooser of mates. I had five fathers. My fourth one shot up me down

a hallway. I had to dive out of window one night to save myself. And I grew up in apartments

in kind of a lower socioeconomic environment. And that's kind of where I came from. I got

married, had four kids, took $17,000 and started a business. I now have 150 employees an $80 million

business that does business in 42 different countries. The good men in my life were football

coaches. And so when I graduated Ole Miss, I coached football for a living, had those four kids, couldn't afford

it anymore, but in the state of Tennessee, if you go through a bunch of classes, you can

continue to coach as what's called a non-faculty, certified non-faculty coach.

And so I've coached for 33 years.

So I've had this parallel life as a business owner and as a coach.

When I started my business, I found out about this school called Manassas, only about a mile

from where my property was.

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