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Action Academy | Replace The Job You Hate With A Life You Love

The Price of Playing Small: Lessons From A 9 Year NFL Vet Turned Business Owner w/ Devon Kennard

Action Academy | Replace The Job You Hate With A Life You Love

Brian Luebben

Corporate, Careers, Business, Financial Freedom, Small Business, Entrepreneurship, Biggerpockets, Investing, Millionaire, Real Estate, Passive Income, Alex Hormozi, Commercial Real Estate

5683 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Devon Kennard is a former NFL linebacker who dedicated nine years to the league, playing for teams like the New York Giants, Detroit Lions, and Arizona Cardinals. While excelling on the field, he simultaneously cultivated a passion for real estate, initiating his investment journey in 2014. Post-retirement, Devon channeled his focus entirely into business and real estate, establishing a holding company that strategically allocates capital across lending, real estate, and entrepreneurial ventu...

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0:00.0

So, Devon, you've made it to the top of the game in multiple different levels of your life, man.

0:04.3

You made it to the league.

0:05.6

You made it to being a really sophisticated real estate investor.

0:09.2

Now you made it to be in a really active business owner.

0:12.7

And this journey ain't easy, man.

0:15.0

And there's a process that you must follow to go through this journey.

0:18.9

You call it the storm.

0:20.4

You've got the story of the storm,

0:21.9

man. Want me through the story of the storm. Yeah, I firmly believe just about every person is

0:26.9

entering a storm in the middle of a storm or just got out of the storm in their life. And when you

0:31.5

understand that and you put that in perspective, one, the people who are having the ton of success,

0:36.1

it disarms you into thinking like, all right,

0:38.0

they're going through something, too, whether it's personally or professionally, they're in one

0:41.7

of those phases as well. And then when you know that you're either entering in the middle of or just

0:46.8

got out of, it prepares your mind to prepare for the storms in your life. And I didn't know that

0:53.2

growing up, but the biggest storm I faced to date was

0:56.5

when I was in college. Coming out of high school, I was top recruit in the nation, got scholarships

1:00.9

to go anywhere I wanted in the country, top five recruit, all of that. I go to USC and I faced

1:06.7

injury after injury, coaching changes, position changes. I tore my ACL.l i had hip surgery i tore the peck off my

1:13.5

bone off the bone lifting lifting weights and then coach carroll left to go to seattle and i deal with

1:20.0

coaching changes changing positions so i went from at the top like oh i got a clear path to the NFL

1:25.4

i know i'm going league to going through a time period

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