MATT DODGE | Cigars That Fund the Fight Against Child Sex Trafficking (Ep. 501)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome Matt Dodge to the show. He is the CEO and co-founder of Sigars.com, an online marketplace specializing in custom cigars. He is also a former NFL and UFC athlete agent based in Miami, FL. In this interview, we discuss what got him interested in becoming a sports agent, how difficult it is to break into the business, what larger firms do to crowd out the “little guy”, the differences between representing NFL players and UFC fighters, the dirty games that some fighters play against their opponents before a fight, how a UFC fighter convinced him to change careers, the process of creating a custom cigar, common mistakes novice cigar smokers make, why his company partners with brands that want to support specific charities, and much more. Let’s get into it… Order new Undaunted.Life cigars HERE Episode notes and links HERE. Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.
0:41.6	All right, guys, we've got a special guest on the podcast today. His name is Matt Dodge. So he is
0:45.3	the CEO and co-founder of cigars.com. That's cigars with an S at the beginning, S-I-G-A-R-S.com.
0:51.9	That is an online marketplace specializing in custom cigars. And he's also a former NFL and UFC
0:57.6	athlete agent based out of Miami, Florida. So the cool thing about him is how we got connected.
1:02.8	So Folds of Honor, which is an organization that helps pay for the schooling, the future
1:08.3	schooling, the higher education of fallen first responders and military members families.
1:13.3	They hooked me up with Matt because I was looking for some cigars for me, and Folds of
1:18.0	Honor did some cigars with them. And then after a short conversation with them, it's like, wait,
1:22.1	I think Undaunted Life should do a cigar. And I wanted to kind of go to help fund
1:26.4	anti-child trafficking organizations, ones that are really vetted into a really good job.
1:31.2	And so that ended up getting us in the door with the Tim Teebo Foundation. Again, shout out to
1:35.6	Joey Martin of the Church of 1122 for hooking us up with the Tim Teebo Foundation. And so we found
1:40.8	them and their rescue team and the stuff that they're doing. And so we partnered on doing a cigar.
1:45.1	So if you listened, however long ago, it was a few weeks ago or something like that, I announced
1:49.0	that we had that partnership. A lot of you guys have gotten on board and ordered these cigars.
1:53.3	We're so thankful to you guys because we kind of needed to prove the concept like, hey,
1:57.5	would guys that even don't smoke cigars would they pay for a three pack or a box of cigars,
2:02.7	you know, just because they know the money's going directly to preventing children from being,
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