Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general.

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In this episode, member kindred. Sol shares his journey from a walk-on at his undergrad D1 football program all the way to the NFL.

Learn why he left professional football after only three years,

why it was at the worst possible time, how he broke into investment banking, and the struggles

he's had to overcome at his bulge bracket bank to get promoted. Enjoy. All right, Kindred.

Thank you so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

No problem. Thanks for having me.

So it would be great if you could just give the listeners a quick summary of your background.

You can be as vague as you want, so keep your anonymity.

Yeah, so originally from the Midwest came out to the West Coast to do my underbred.

And as we mentioned, played football, bounced around the NFL for a little bit.

And then the great recession fell upon us.

And I happened to be transitioning from the NFL trying to figure out what was next.

And obviously not a very good time to be trying to to make a career

change especially without the background but I had an interest in finance and fortunately I had

some alumni folks that were in my network that were in the financial services industry,

and they got the chance to pick their brain a little bit about some of the things that they were doing,

some of the interests that I had, some of the deals that were kind of coming my way.

And, you know, as we had that conversation with them,

the fact that I was interested in in financial services,

private equity or venture capital,

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