On July 1st, student applications and profit off name, image, and lightning.

Welcome back, everyone, to the Real Deal podcast.

I'm so excited that you're here, and let me tell you all, this week has been one crazy but incredible week because we

have Nick and Dave from META with us on campus and I am so incredibly excited that they've

been here educating our student athletes this week. So naturally had to take some time to bring them on

the podcast. So Nick, Dave, welcome to South Stadium Productions Podcast Studio. So excited y'all are here.

We'll just go ahead and let each of you introduce yourselves and tell our listeners where y'all are from,

how you got to where you are, and your roles at Meta. Awesome. Yeah, thank you, Taylor. Thank you for

rolling out the purple and gold carpet, if you will. This trip has been second to none, and one I'll

personally remember for years to come. So my name is Nick Marquez. I'm on the meta sports

partnerships team. We help leading our efforts with student athletes and sports creators. And what that

means is, you know, being intentional about how we educate student athletes across the country on

topics like building your brand,

monetizing your brand, keeping yourself safe. And I feel really fortunate to have a team and

teammates that live and breathe college athletics. We're kind of unique in that we're the only

team in social that is focused on college athletics or student athletes at this level. I've been at the company for a long time.

My previous role, I was helping teams do much of the same, right?

So how to college athletic programs like LSU build their brand, drive their brand,

monetize their brand, and I feel really fortunate.

It keeps me young to come back and focus on student athletics and student athletes.

And yeah, go Tigers.

Go Tigers.

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