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Entrepreneur: A Super Bowl Champion and former 1st Round Draft Pick is now flipping and renovating homes, Dominique Easley. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: ignore ignorance. I'm afraid staying ahead of the ignorance. And
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  Speaker 1: more their stupidity, no more. But we're gonna get this
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  Speaker 1: I think why I'm doing this show, but also why
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  Speaker 1: I'm not doing this show because I have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of great guests come on this show. And I'm about
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  Speaker 1: to introduce my next guest. He is a Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: champion and former first round draft pick of the New
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  Speaker 1: England Patriots. He's retired now and flipping and renovating homes.
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  Speaker 1: I need this brother in my life. Please work with
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  Speaker 1: the money making conversation masterclass, Dominique easily. How you doing, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, how you doing? Man?
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  Speaker 3: How's everything pretty good?
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  Speaker 1: Dominique? You know, a first round draft pick? Man?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I appreciate that. It was a blessing. It
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  Speaker 2: was a blessing.
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  Speaker 1: No, Dominique. You know, we just came off the big draft. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you walked across one of them stages like that.
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  Speaker 2: Man, Nah, I didn't. So I'm from New York, so
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  Speaker 2: I decided not to go, yeah and just enjoy it
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  Speaker 2: with my family.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Now, years later, do you regret not doing walking
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  Speaker 1: across that stage?
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  Speaker 2: Honestly?
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  Speaker 3: Nah?
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  Speaker 2: Because it was kind of it was better hanging out
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  Speaker 2: with my family. Okay, because I come from a small town,
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  Speaker 2: not the where. Yes, a lot of us don't go nowhere. Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 2: good to be with him.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome. Well, congratulations man, the congratulations being the Super Bowl champ.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations on being the first round draft pick. But let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about you before we get into what you're doing. Now.
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  Speaker 1: You know what college did you go to? University of Florida,
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  Speaker 1: University down there?
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  Speaker 2: There was it, Gators, right, Yep, yep, that was a Gator.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Any any famous players that you played with that
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  Speaker 1: I would know about when you.
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  Speaker 2: Was in school, I don't know. I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you know Sharif Floyd, Uh, Malcolm I'm uh.
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  Speaker 3: Matt Elam, Yes, sir, yes, Sir Jenkins, Oh, absolutely, John
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  Speaker 3: John Bostic, Mac Brown, Matt Jones play with a couple.
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  Speaker 1: Of you down that doing your thing.
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  Speaker 3: Because Matt Jones was the quarterback, right, No, no, Matt Jones,
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  Speaker 3: he was the running back.
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  Speaker 2: I know what you talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Not that one, okay, cool, I apologize for that mistake.
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  Speaker 1: Now we talked about a football career. Okay, your first
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  Speaker 1: round draft pick in the NFL. They're gonna throw a
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  Speaker 1: big contract on you, which is great. But when you
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  Speaker 1: got in the league, what was your thought process? Were
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  Speaker 1: you thinking about playing five years, ten years, or were
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  Speaker 1: you thinking about just playing? And what even thinking about
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  Speaker 1: what you're gonna do with your money. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: that because that's a lot of time because I read
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  Speaker 1: a lot of articles how athletes in general get the
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  Speaker 1: money and they kind of mess up with the money.
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  Speaker 1: And so how to tell us your journey when you
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  Speaker 1: got into the league?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was it was ain't a lot.
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  Speaker 1: It was.
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  Speaker 2: It was different. It was it was new. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I was, what twenty one coming some money? I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't really know what I wanted to do outside
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  Speaker 2: of playing football. So it was all a new experience
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  Speaker 2: for me. But my first purchase. I always told myself
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna buy either a house or call for
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  Speaker 2: my mom, and I was fortunate enough to do both.
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  Speaker 1: And when you were fortunately do both? How many years
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  Speaker 1: did you play in the league?
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  Speaker 2: Wow?
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  Speaker 1: Five years? Was it an injury that took you out
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  Speaker 1: or you just decided to retire? What? Who it took
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  Speaker 1: you out of the league.
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  Speaker 2: I could say it was injuries, but it was also
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  Speaker 2: I got five kids, three boys, two girls. Uh huh,
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  Speaker 2: So I wanted to be at the age of forty,
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to be able to run around with them,
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  Speaker 2: you know, still be able to play football, to still
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  Speaker 2: be able to play basketball, and take them through the
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  Speaker 2: type of trainings that I went through, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean, to be able to give them that type
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  Speaker 2: of energy, in that type of heart, to be able
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  Speaker 2: to play with their opponents.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, just is an example, like I see
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  Speaker 1: Joel and Bee's like he plays for the seventy six ers.
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  Speaker 1: You know he's still out there playing. He got this
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  Speaker 1: giant ice pack on his knee. I have to believe
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  Speaker 1: that he's going to pay a price for that when
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  Speaker 1: he gets older. Am I correctness saying that based on
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you said, Rashan, I wanted to be
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  Speaker 1: able to play with my kids when I was forty.
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  Speaker 1: I want to run around. Would I want to get
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  Speaker 1: on the ground to be able to get up. I
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  Speaker 1: want to be able to kneel down and not have
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  Speaker 1: to lean on a piece of furniture to get back up.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you're talking.
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  Speaker 2: About, right, Yeah, what I did because I was I
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  Speaker 2: had sixteen surgeries in three acls.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hm.
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  Speaker 2: You know, so I know I'm gonna be feeling the
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  Speaker 2: pain a little bit sooner. Than I'm supposed to write.
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  Speaker 2: So I wanted to be able to, you know, get
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  Speaker 2: my health back right right, you know, hopefully hopefully with
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  Speaker 2: what I'm doing, how I'm taking care of myself, I
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  Speaker 2: won't feel that pain because I'm not beating up my
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  Speaker 2: body no more.
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  Speaker 1: Because you understand your body now, because that's that's the key. Now,
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  Speaker 1: just talking I have on this show also have a
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  Speaker 1: fitness person coming on and interviewing them later. What do
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  Speaker 1: you do? You know, you you play it at a
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  Speaker 1: high level athletic level, when you lead the game, what
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  Speaker 1: do you do physically and mentally? Do you just like
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  Speaker 1: just let your body go? You tied up there the routine?
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  Speaker 1: How do you and then how do you how do you?
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  Speaker 1: I guess transition, it's I.
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  Speaker 2: Ain't a lot. It's hard, Like when I first got out.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you stay working out because you just want to.
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  Speaker 2: You want to you want to be able to stay
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  Speaker 2: in shape. But it's not the same environment that you
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  Speaker 2: used to working out and you know, like we're used
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  Speaker 2: to working out at not at regular gyms. So it's
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  Speaker 2: it's hard, you know. So it's right now, I say
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  Speaker 2: I lost a bunch of weight, So I lost about
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  Speaker 2: forty pounds after I started playing because I ate, I
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  Speaker 2: started eating differently. I became a prescotarian. But I'm back
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  Speaker 2: eating regularly. But it's it's definitely much harder to stay
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  Speaker 2: as active as you was. I gotta still play basketball,
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  Speaker 2: you know from New York.
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  Speaker 1: I just because you're New York man, that don't mean
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  Speaker 1: you can play basketball. Come on, now, you're talking like
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  Speaker 1: Steven A. Smith.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you you're right about that, don't mean that, but
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  Speaker 2: look I can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: Well good, good, Well, you know, I just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: like get started on you. Let everybody know because when
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  Speaker 1: we come back, we're going to talk about what you're
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  Speaker 1: doing now. Because if i'm if I'm correctly your contractor,
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  Speaker 1: you're out there doing remodeling. You're flipping homes and you're
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  Speaker 1: changing people's lives, putting smiles on their face with your
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  Speaker 1: new skill, not your football skill, but your contracting skills.
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  Speaker 2: Is that correctly, yes, sir? Yeah, I've been blessed to
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  Speaker 2: get into something that I love to do.
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  Speaker 3: Again, well good, When we.
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  Speaker 1: Would come back, we're gonna talk to mus Dominic easily
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  Speaker 1: and his contracting skills. The Super Bowl champion. See, we
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  Speaker 1: have a super Bowl champion out there changing people's lives,
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  Speaker 1: rebuilding homes. Now he will knocking people overnight, knocking out walls.
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  Speaker 1: He's a former first round draft of the New England Patriots.
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  Speaker 1: He's a Super Bowl champion. If you are watching that
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  Speaker 1: game where Russell Wilson threw that touchdown and in his
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  Speaker 1: own when they should have gave it the ball to
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  Speaker 1: the beast he was playing in that game, he went
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  Speaker 1: from like holy macro to we are champions all in
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  Speaker 1: one play. That that was a feeling. I'm sure it was.
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  Speaker 1: You still live to this day. That's a moment in
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  Speaker 1: your life. You will never forget, right, Dominique.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because we all in the world never expected that
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  Speaker 2: to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Tell the truth, to tell the truth now absolutely. Now
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about you, my friend transitioning. Okay, first round
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  Speaker 1: draft pick, played five years is Rashwan. Sixteen surgeries, three
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  Speaker 1: a cl injuries. Is enough? Is enough? I want to
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  Speaker 1: have a life with my kids, you know, I want
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  Speaker 1: to You know, this star power, I can probably get
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  Speaker 1: back out there one more time. But well, what does
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  Speaker 1: the future look like? When did that who and your
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  Speaker 1: life started to get into your head making you believe
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  Speaker 1: it was time to transition.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was just my body for I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: even say it was somebody. It was just a feeling
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  Speaker 2: in my body. After that last injury, I just knew
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  Speaker 2: it was gonna be that time for me to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: put them up and really start focusing on finding myself
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  Speaker 2: and who I wanted to be after this life.
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  Speaker 1: How did you find yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Just really trying everything. I'm not gonna lie like I tried.
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  Speaker 2: I was fortunate enough to try a bunch of different things.
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  Speaker 2: I went into fintech, edguitech, created a financial literacy with
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  Speaker 2: the mother of my kids. I started flying planes. I
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  Speaker 2: got thirteen hours in the air. I tried to play guitar.
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  Speaker 2: I also have I recently won my cannabis license, my
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  Speaker 2: cannabis cultivation license up in New Jersey, so simpler than that,
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  Speaker 2: And then got married came to Georgia and I always
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: love real estate, always heard about it, but never really
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: you know, had the the trust in myself to do it,
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: I want to say in other people, but in myself
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: as far as the knowledge to be able to do it.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: So came to Georgia, got my real estate license, and
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: now hooked up with somebody who was doing real good
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: as far as the contractor invested into that. And now
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: we got a construction company and doing flick fix and flip.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Now you see, you make that sound so smooth. You
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: see that sounds so smooth. That sounds so easy, Dominique.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: You know, I did a little fintech, you know, we shine.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: I got me a cannabis license up there in the
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: New Jersey area. Then I got me a real estate
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: license and that brother, look at I'm knocking down walls.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: I'm doing it. But it's not that easy. If there's
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: some there are some setbacks emotionally for you along the
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: way that make you believe that this is not the path.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: That's why I was talking to people about paths, because,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: like you said, you did the fintech you did, the
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: cannabis is still an option, because that's a that's a
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: money making venture. Word. First of all, getting the license loan,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: it's a tough task. Now that you have it, that's
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: a I always tell people about multiple streams of income,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: that's what that is. But the real estate license, when
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: did that get into your head? Real estate?
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Really? I mean, like I said, real estate has always
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: been a love of mine. But I love like so me.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: I loved the game of monopolies. I always loved real estate,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: but just never really trusted my knowledge to actually get
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: into real estate. So that's why when I came to Georgia,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: I had to I had to build my knowledge. That's
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: when I decided to get my real estate license. I
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: took a ten week class. It took every day for
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: the next ten days, and just study study, took the
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: class and took the test, passed it once, and then
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: took the state testing and passed it and then really
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: just dove all into it.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Now, Now, what is what's what? What's what's your measurement?
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: So you like it was six what and how many powers?
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: I was six to one about we're talking about right now?
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: No that when you were taking the real estate liights,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: cause I want I won't to see everybody takes much.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Why are you are you selling homes?
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: No? I was, yeah, no, everybody everybody was really was
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: really surprised, right right.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Right because you know, because you know what, I love
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: that because everybody stereotypes what somebody should look like. So
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: you six, one, two, fifty people looking at you, going
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: you selling homes to who? And that's and so you
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: had to break through that. Now you did that. But
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: when did the like you said, the love you found
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: your love, man, football was a love. Then this whole
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: contract and became a love. Talk about how you win?
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Did it went it to that lane?
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: So really really it became a love once. I once
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: I actually went through a full I guess term property,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: meaning from the beginning to the end, and then seeing
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: somebody go inside and actually keep it functional because you
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: also do commercial as well. So being able to see
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: those immediate results and then see the longevity of the
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: results really just like made me love it, just like football,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: because that's the same thing with football. When we practice,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: we see immedia results and we see media failures, so
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: we're able to correct those results. That's in the same
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: thing when it comes to construction, the actual I guess
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: process of construction. You know you can see other people's work,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: you can see how good you are. So those are
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: to me, those are those are great ways to you know,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: I guess, value yourself and see how you're doing.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: You know, that's really great that you're saying that. And
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: I want to bring that back up because I always
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: tell people by goals and short term goals and long
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: term goals, and like I would tell people get frustrated
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: by college education because that can be a long term goal.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: You know, four years. You can't see the end, you know.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: And so but what I like about you is that
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: you said, Rashan, look football practice, play a game on
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: the weekend. You find out want to lose the results.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Then you got into construction, the same principles came in
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: the way. It might be a week, it might be
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: two weeks, it might be a month, but you saw
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: the results. When you start seeing the results, the consistency
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: is what made you realize this is delay that I
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: could be happy in correct.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Yep, exactly exactly. And that's and I would say the
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: results in the failure because me, I'm more of like
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: a failure kind of guy. I love motivation off of
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: failing because now I'm able to see where I can
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: be and then after I complete that failure. Now, now
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: you're gonna hear me. You're gonna hear me based on
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: my hard work, to give us.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: An example of that. Can you share an example of that, Dominic,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: you said failure motivates me. You're not saying, You're not
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: trying to put you on the spot, But I want
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: to show an example because I believe that. I believe
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: that failure is important.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'll give you an example. Right. So, when
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: I first got into the league, I had opportunities, specifically
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: when I played for the Patriots, the conflict that I
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: moved into. I knew the I knew the developer. The
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: developer wanted to work with me. But I was one young.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: I wasn't I didn't have the mindset that I do now,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: So I wasn't able to see the opportunities that I
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: was that I had in front of me. Right, So,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: for me, that's failing at being open minded, that's feeling
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: that trying new things, that are feeling that not being
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: able to capture that opportunity when it was given to you.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: So now now that opportunity has come back in my
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: face a different way with the partner that I'm working
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: with in the construction. Now I'm able to see that
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: and you know, just go for it. And now that
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: has worked out to the point where now we own
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: a construction company, you know, So that that's more of
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: like long term failure when you're talking about immediate failure.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Me just I talk you about just the other week, right,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: I was taking out quarter arounds doing something, and the
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: construction was taking out quart around but I forgot to
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: cut the quarter around.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: So I pulled off what's the quarter around? What is that?
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: What is that quarter arounds? That piece of it can
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: either be wood or plastic at the end, at the
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: end of your baseball, at the bottom of your baseboard.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: So when I was pulling it off, I pulled off
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: a bunch of tape. I pulled off a bunch of pink.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: The customer complained, realized I did it wrong. Now I
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: seem completely fail I've seen my failure right then and there. Right,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: I was able to face that. And then next week
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I had to do the same thing. Now I knew
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: not to do that. I made sure I cut every
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: single piece, you know, So I like that type of stuff.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Now when the customer Caup complained, how did you handle that?
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Because it's important people need to understand that, you know
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: those values, the customer is always right. How did you
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: handle that situation?
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, with that, I mean the next day, because it
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: was at the end of the day. Next day, I
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: was there at eight o'clock in the morning and she
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: told us to be that eight. I was there at
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: seven forty. Made sure she understood that. You know, I'm
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: taking the I'm taking my mistake. I'm taking accountability for
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: who are for what I've done. And I like that
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: because I, like I said, I like to correct myself
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: and just let her know it was my fault, you know,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: and I make sure it will never happen again. But
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: it's not going to be a problem because there's other
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: steps behind that that's going to make.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Sure that's fixed. Cool. Now, your company, you have an
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: electrical you have a plumbing, roofing, HVAC, flooring, custom carpentry
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: work and drywall.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Everything.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: So tell us how you're television structure of your company.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Do you do you have employees or do you bringing
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: people contracting for certain certain jobs that you have? No?
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: So, so we have we have on I guess salary guards.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: We have about eleven eleven employees that work every day,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: but we also have seventy five selbs. We do like
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: I said, we do full and model full renovation. We
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: have actually three three companies, which is UH Renovation Construction company,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: also mold Water Remediation Company, and then also a glass
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: company where we do showers, mirrors, glass mirror, glass showers
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: and stuff like that. So we do like I said,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: we do everything from we do new construction, new builds,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: also commercial.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Now let me ask you this. Now we talk about marketing.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: How do you get the word out about who you are?
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Do you do social media? Word of moll from your quality,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the work that you do with other clients. How do
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: you grow your brand? How do you grow your company?
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: It's honestly been marked word of mouth, like for the
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: last for the last couple of years, he's he's been
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: straight word of mouth. I mean, we went to a
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: home show this last year for the first time, but
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: there's been nothing but word of mouth. You know, we
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: got investors, we're more so investigates, but we also do retail.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Right right right now, let's go to the other level.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Being a Super Bowl champion, does it help you can
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: you repeat that one talking being a super Bowl champion?
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Does that help you in your line of business? Doubt?
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: I definitely, I definitely market that.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: You know, uh huh, Well, you know when you got
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the number one sports on TV and you are Super
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Bowl champion, the most watched game in television history, and
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: you participated in it, I think that'll be an asset
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: to that. But the number one thing that I wanted
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: to bring you on the show to discuss was really
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: that transition and and you being honest about you know,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: the injuries, because I remember you, because I remember when
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: you retired. I went, wow, he didn't have a long career.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: But I didn't know. But I don't know you. All
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I know is you retired, and I know you was
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the first round draft pick. So did it did it
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: lead to any disappointment for you? Or did you feel
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: that you needed to you? Did you did you feel
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: that you failed people when you had to retire? So
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: so y'all no, No.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Honestly, I mean I feel like I felt myself. I'm
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: not gonna lie like I knew, I knew my talent,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: I knew where I could have been in the NFL.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: I know what I could have done yes, but you know,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: injuries got the whole got the best of me. And
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: you know that is what I gotta live with. And
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: that's not I'm not going to say it, say like
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: I'm upset it with myself that I knew. I fought through.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: I fought through everything that I could, but it was just,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: you know, I just had to live with what it was.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: For Dominique.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: I can't use my body, but now I can use
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: my mind.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: For Dominique on my show, here's an opportunity to tell
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: people how they can reach out to you or your
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: website or your social media so we can continue to
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: grow this company and get you more than eleven full
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: time which is the seventy five subs. You got three companies.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you need my help, but guess
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: what you don't money, make compensations, masterclass. Tell everybody how
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: they can get in touch with you.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Thank you man, I appreciate it. So my social media
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: handle on Instagrams at easy ninety one. You can look
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: up Shed Construction LLC one located in Cartersville, White, Georgia alone.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: What you know you can honestly, you can give out
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: my number six zero nine three five four two four
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: five zero. If you need any type of remodeling, reconstruction,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: you want to make your house look add more value
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: to it, give me a call.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Well that's six zero or nine. That's a Philadelphia area
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: and thew But I know that I know that he
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: ain't lying about that that New Jersey, New York arey. Hey, Dominique, man,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: next time, man, I want to get the full interview.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I know some things happen and you couldn't get on
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the call up front, but man, you're a great interview man.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: You're inspiring and you're honest. And that's what I love
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: about my interview is share honest stories. So when people
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: get on the show, people hear the show, they can
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: realize that it's authentic and wishing you much success. And again,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I want to bring you and your partner all next
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: time together so we can invite you in studio to
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: chop it up that way too, if you don't mind, no.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Yeah. My partner is Thomas Hunter and
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: you'll you'll be finding him as well. And I appreciate you,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: you know working with.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Me, My man, Stay strong and we talk soon. That's
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: dominic easily former first round draft pick of the New
• 29:01
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• 29:04
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• 29:06
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