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Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Jake Kelfer | A Man Who Has Helped 70+ NBA Draft Prospects Sign Their First Contract Shares How to Build an Epic Career

Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Clay Clark

Business, Entrepreneur, Thrivetime, Businessschool, Smallbusiness, Entrepreneurship

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Jake Kelfer explains how he has helped 70+ NBA Draft prospects to sign their first pro contract and the importance of being coachable if you want to take your career to the NEXT level.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Dr.

0:03.0

Zellner, how old were you when you first had the thought

0:06.0

that you wanted to become self-employed

0:08.0

or that you wanted to become an optometrist?

0:10.0

Oh, I thought you could ask me when I first saw Star Wars.

0:12.0

How old were you when I first saw Star Wars.

0:13.0

How old were you when you first saw Star Wars?

0:14.0

12.

0:15.0

And how old were you when you decided to become an optometrist?

0:18.0

At the same age?

0:20.0

Not an optometrist.

0:21.0

Did the movie Star Wars make you want to be coming up?

0:23.0

I mean, I could see the screen.

0:25.0

I thought I could kill the death star myself.

0:28.0

I thought with those kind of goals, why wouldn't I want to have my own business?

0:32.0

I just want to ask you, seriously, when did you have the idea to have my own business? I just want to ask you

0:33.2

seriously when did you have the idea to open your own company? I mean at a young age

0:37.2

13, 10, 12, 13 and somewhere in there I thought you know I want to work for the man and

0:41.6

why did you want to become an optometrist?

0:43.9

Well, because it was a perfect mix of like doctrine

0:46.6

in a nice way, fluffy wage.

0:48.3

You're not like, you know,

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