When I think about money, I think that when you don't know or you don't have an understanding

or confidence in your just financial game plan, when you don't have that, I think that

leads to stress, that leads to anxiety, that leads to you treating people around you negatively.

This is the flavor.

I am Brandon Copeland. He is the CEO of Cascade Advisory Group.

And most of you know him as a linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons, of course,

will throw that in there. Welcome to the Playbook Brandon.

Thanks David. Thanks for having me, man. I'm excited.

Well, I'm excited because it's rare that I find a current player. You know, I'm the King of

Legacy, ran a big sports agency. I'm old. So all my friends are old. They're Hall of Famers.

All of your heroes are my friend. But I went through your bio, man. You got a lot going on

outside the field. In fact, you were given back to the community with Mr. Blank this morning.

You seem as if you have a well-balanced agenda routine that allows you not only to be an

extraordinary football player on the field, but be an extraordinary entrepreneur and philanthropist.

I'm going to start with time management. You know, at such a young age, how have you been

able to manage your time so effectively where other athletes don't seem to have enough time

just to prepare for the game? You're able to do all these different things in order to help

provide value to so many people. Yeah, I think first when I when I was with the Detroit Lions

2015 and 2017, we had a coach named Jim Cal Wells, one of my favorite coaches ever,

and he always emphasized compartmentalization, compartmentalization, compartmentalization.

And that's when I really started actually practicing and focusing on it. At that time,

I wasn't able to flip the switch and be thinking about real estate,

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