What's the story behind your vision?
The story is anyone that feels like they are an outsider and they want to get better.
Look, you want to get better. They're outside.
They're always on the outside looking in, but they want to get better.
And they want to they want to find a way to find a place in this world.
This cliche is that may actually sound all right.
So again, myself, I was a football guy,
former football player who was felt the acceptance when I put the pads on.
But as soon as I took the pads off, there was a level of always on the outside
looking in, there wasn't any real groups of friends.
And when it comes to why I do what I do when it comes to plus L.Y.
constantly lifting yourself, constantly teaching people how to get better
every single day.
The story of a young man or a woman that has goals and has aspirations
is just as good as everybody else.
But it is never going to feel never going to feel supported by a group of peers,
nor do you need to feel supported by a group of peers because it's you.
You have the ability to go out and create things on your own.
This is why the colors are blue, yellow and red,
because you can make whatever color it is you want with those three colors.
So regardless of the quote unquote support that you get from whatever,
whoever may be your peers, there's opportunities for you to constantly improve.
And again, as cliche as it actually may sound, but I do believe it.
Find your place.
Find exactly where it is you're supposed to be, where you're supposed to be,
what you're supposed to be doing, how you're supposed to be doing,
how frequently you're supposed to be doing all that stuff.
So the story is just, again, figuring out how to be the outside looking.
If you feel like the outside looking outside person outside looking in,
then you will you'll find a place in this world.
Thank you for showing that you mentioned about constantly improving,
constantly going and constantly making changes.
How do you keep that up? How do you keep that going?
It's mindset. First of all, it's an actual mindset.
It's an actual conditioning of your head to know where you've been.
To know the consequences.
You know how detrimental the actual laws, detrimental the consequences can be
when you stop. All right.
The consequences of you stopping and not treating every single day
like it's an opportunity.
That is the worst thing that you could possibly do.
Regardless of how good of a day you had, a bad day.
Again, you're talking to someone that has spent time sleeping out of a car.
You spend time actually losing everything, a car that eventually got repossessed,
lost absolutely everything.
And it was because I stopped kind of grinding.
I decided, look, I got so tired of this job, I wanted to go do my own thing.
And eventually that that element burnt me when it came to the thing that I wanted
to the results that I wanted to get.
So when you ask me how you keep going, it's genuinely coming from a place
genuinely where you've seen the consequences of not doing it and you don't want those
consequences anymore.
You don't want you don't want to live in that place that you were where when you
stop going, this is guaranteed going to happen.
Thank you for sharing that.
You mentioned is that your main motivator?
Because you have seen the consequences of not doing it until you don't want to be
in that position again.
That's why you keep doing what you do.
It is OK.
So if the main motivator was one A and one B, one A would be because of what I'm
building and one B would be because of how detrimental the consequences were.
So you throw up, throw one up in the air, which I know what lands first.
That would be the main motivator.
But you take what you've been through and then you mix it with the potential of
what it is I want to actually be doing and the vision I have.
The vision I have for my life, the vision I have for my business and what I'm
doing.
You mix those two and you get a very, very powerful, powerful force that drives me
every single day to go and create something every single day.
If I were to ask you where and when did you find that exact why that you're
talking about?
You know what I mean?
Can you pinpoint the cage?
Oh, my gosh, this is my wife.
Like or or I want to use this to build this because I felt this.
What was that moment if you could pinpoint?
There's been several, but the one that comes off the top of my head is my
sophomore year in high school.
There was a lot of there's a lot of things going on.
That year I was in a culture shock.
I was one of the few black kids that attended the school and the majority of
the black kids that attended that school were there to play for the football team.
You know, that's the way we were labeled.
And my freshman year, I didn't actually play for the freshman team.
I play.
I continue to play for my youth league team.
So I was really out of touch, man, like there you're a black kid here.
You're great suck and you don't play any sports to the knowledge of my peers.
So I was you talk about social misfit.
I mean, that was the definition of a social misfit.
Right.
So that happened year one in high school.
I come back the fall, go off for a JV team and my teammates vote me captain.
Captain of the football team after just spending a previous few months being
this completely social misfit kid.
I mean, it changed my world.
It gave me the confidence to know your life can change in literally one moment
if you have it in your head.
So I've carried that feeling for my entire life.
You know that that I then I tell former teammates that all the time.
I talk about that all the time.
That actually saved my life.
It really did.
Just knowing that me of all people, I spent a whole year being this social misfit kid.
I had to go to summer school to become eligible to play that year.
And I get to be the captain of this team that went undefeated and won every single game.
Man, you don't get better than that.
I'll always be grateful for that that year and that moment.
That's the pin point.
That's the why.
Thank you for sharing that.
If I were to ask you, where are you going with your vision?
Mm hmm.
The ultimate North Star, the ultimate goal and where I'll be.
I never want to use the word content, but definitely where I'll be able to say
this is exactly what it is I want to build is when I have the vision.
I have my own school of sports marketing.
I want to call it the Move Swiftly School of Sports Marketing.
Seeing that as my first job out of college, where I was kind of the agent type guy,
I would go and find high school athletes and try to shop into college coaches.
I was sort of being the agent before NIL existed.
For me to build a school in which I could train other people who want to become agents,
but also maybe offer some insurance, offer life insurance, health insurance,
medical, automobile, just everything that you want an agent to do, even if it's real estate.
Having a school of sports marketing that leads with, all right,
you're going to become a sports agent, but also you can sell other things as well.
And being able to teach people that want to be like,
or have an entrepreneurial mindset, but still want the structure of a solid company
and a solid backing.
If I could build that school to service my audience,
to service the people that are just like me, grow up in the sports world,
and want to come out and make some major things happen,
that would be the ultimate.
That's why I'm taking the vision.
That's exactly where I'm going with it.
So I'm speaking it into existence.
That's happening, regardless.
All right.
So every day making sure that that specific school gets built.
Thank you for sharing that, Aswan.
Not to expect, but to aspire.
What would your aspiration be?
Like, when do you see that?
When do you aspire to have that set up and how far into the future do you see it?
That would be something that is like a five to 10 year plan.
So I just turned 35 this year.
So going into maybe my 40s, not maybe going into my 40s,
there's serious like space build, even if it's something that can just start out online,
start out, it's just a massive community.
Maybe we could rent out the university to use their classes.
Maybe to use their classrooms, whatever.
That's something that's doable today to make it so we can do something to take that vision
that I just said of having former athletes come in, teaching them how to be agents.
And so we can start doing that within the next five years via online and then just keep
expanding, expanding, expanding when we see the results.
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