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Lawrence Sidbury Jr., the former Atlanta Falcons star, discusses his transition to starting Clipper Logistics LLC trucking company and Zero Limitation Foundation, which focuses on uplifting the youth · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: made to transition athlete to entrepreneur. You hear so many
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  Speaker 1: hard stories about athlete. Not Lawrence Sidbury Junr. A former
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  Speaker 1: two thousand nine fourth round draft pick of the Atlanta Factors.
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  Speaker 1: He graduated from Richmond University in Richmond, Virginia, and was
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  Speaker 1: part of that famed two thousand and eight National Championship team.
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  Speaker 1: Lawrence is on, I think that team was undefeated. To
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  Speaker 1: Lawrence is on the show that they discussed the importance
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  Speaker 1: of preparing for life after the NFL. Please, welcome to
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  Speaker 1: money making Conversations. Lawrence Sidbury Junior. How you doing, my friend,
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing pretty good. Thanks for having me. Now, not Lawrence,
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  Speaker 1: that team that you want, the two thousand eight National
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  Speaker 1: Championship team. That team was undefeated, right? Did they have
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  Speaker 1: any losses? Uh? Not quite. We actually had a pretty
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  Speaker 1: trying season get into the championship game. We won a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of games in the beginning of the season and
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  Speaker 1: we hit a rough patch and with it was like
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  Speaker 1: three or four games in a row. We were kind
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  Speaker 1: of at a point well, you know, we actually called
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  Speaker 1: the players only meeting and we just we had to
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  Speaker 1: you know, galvanize everybody, and we had to win every game.
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  Speaker 1: You know, to the end of the season, pretty much
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  Speaker 1: every game was like a playoff game, and we just
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  Speaker 1: you know, we pulled it out game at the game,
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  Speaker 1: at the game gotten to the playoffs, and one of
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  Speaker 1: these games finally we won. We beat Montana and uh
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  Speaker 1: in Chattan Nouga. That's where the championship game was at
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  Speaker 1: that point, and I brought the first first championship home
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  Speaker 1: school history. Right now, I hear that a lot in sports,
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  Speaker 1: the team only meeting players on the players only meeting,
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  Speaker 1: right absolutely, without you know, giving away the names. I'm
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  Speaker 1: asking for names. What is the purpose of the players
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  Speaker 1: on their meeting and uh and what what what was
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  Speaker 1: accomplished out of that players only meeting that you guys
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  Speaker 1: did that led to the run for the national championship
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight. You know, sometimes you get
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  Speaker 1: to a point where a coach's voice can go still
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  Speaker 1: and they coaching that. They coaching me every day. They're
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  Speaker 1: telling you what you're doing along every day. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when you got a group of guys, at some point
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  Speaker 1: everyone has to hold each other accountable. It is really
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  Speaker 1: to the point where the coach doesn't even matter because
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  Speaker 1: we're truly playing for each other. Right. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't really I'm not really the vocal leader. I'm
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  Speaker 1: kind of a lead by action type person, but I
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  Speaker 1: was kind of vocal at that point. Plus and I
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  Speaker 1: had some aspirations after the season, so I kind of
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  Speaker 1: needed everybody. Yeah, I wanted to win, but I kind
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  Speaker 1: of needed to happen to keep going. So I get
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  Speaker 1: you know, get more film about that from Scott to Sea.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, we brought it together and kind of
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  Speaker 1: looked at each other and man and man and we
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  Speaker 1: just you know, we just banded together and decided, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we had a big ad mission and we wanted, you know, something,
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  Speaker 1: wanted to accomplish man, and we got it done. So
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  Speaker 1: that's absolutely true because you know, for a fact, the
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  Speaker 1: winning National championship two thousand and eight versus not winning it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a difference between being a forefround draft pick maybe
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  Speaker 1: a seventh round draft pick or being an undrafted free agent. Correct,
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  Speaker 1: especially especially at the level of which I played. We
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  Speaker 1: played at the FCS level, which is back then it
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  Speaker 1: was called the one double A level, So we kind
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  Speaker 1: of we had to prove ourselves. You know, there's a
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  Speaker 1: there's a question about level competition came to play against. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, from the bigger school, So you want to
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  Speaker 1: get as much film, as much tape out there as possible.
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  Speaker 1: And not only for myself, you know, us making that run,
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  Speaker 1: you know, gave other people on the team opportunities and
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  Speaker 1: to get seen that. We had guys who signed this
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  Speaker 1: free agents. Uh that played a few years in the
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  Speaker 1: league as well. So it just was it was big
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  Speaker 1: for everybody. Now that that's now, I'm just talking about
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  Speaker 1: college and two thousand they win the national championship. Is
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  Speaker 1: Richmond University of Talking to Lawrence Sidbury Jr. For a
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  Speaker 1: frown draft tick back then in two thousand and nine.
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  Speaker 1: So preparing for the draft, how did you prepare for
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  Speaker 1: the draft and then when you got drafted? How did
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  Speaker 1: that change your life financially? Uh? He got me going
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  Speaker 1: way back in the see, so come on down for
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  Speaker 1: the preparing for the draft was like it was a
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  Speaker 1: world win for me because you know, in college we
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  Speaker 1: actually played sixteen games with the regular season and the layoffs. Um.
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  Speaker 1: Then it was I played in two All Star games.
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  Speaker 1: So I played in the Trine Game and also played
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  Speaker 1: in the Senior Bowl, and I went. I did all that,
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  Speaker 1: and I went to New Jersey and Pure C Speed school.
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  Speaker 1: Uh I trained for the Combine. And uh I went
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  Speaker 1: to the Combine ran the fastest for they had all
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  Speaker 1: the defensive mends there. I really was kind of tired.
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  Speaker 1: My body never really got arrest. Um. And then after
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  Speaker 1: that this protoy workout was like what's going on right now?
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  Speaker 1: So it's the whole game of things that had to
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  Speaker 1: be done before April. Then once you get drafted, you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I got drafted the fourth round. It was considerable sign
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  Speaker 1: up onest, and then I see, you wake up, you
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  Speaker 1: wake up one day and don't have any money. You
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  Speaker 1: wake up the next day you do have some money.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it does change that Lauren. So so I I,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you have the first round, So did you
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  Speaker 1: have an idea through your agent round you may go.
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  Speaker 1: Uh I thought that it was a chance that I
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  Speaker 1: would go on the second, but we were predicting anywhere
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  Speaker 1: between kind of two to five, and I happened to
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  Speaker 1: be the facons in the foreth round. So you sitting
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  Speaker 1: there and I'm just going through the emotion because what
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  Speaker 1: happens is people in life have so many emotions. They
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  Speaker 1: have certain dreams and when they don't, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: you thinking about the second but now the second pass,
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  Speaker 1: third pass? Where were you aty emotionally? And then the
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  Speaker 1: people around you, where were they at emotionally prior to
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  Speaker 1: the selection? Um, you know, I didn't really have too
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  Speaker 1: many people there. Actually, what I did the first day
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  Speaker 1: because I thought it was a chance that will go
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  Speaker 1: in the second round, actually had coaches throughout my you know,
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  Speaker 1: my life that was influenial to me. Uh. They sat
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  Speaker 1: with me the first day they might be a chance
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  Speaker 1: that my name get called at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: second round. Um, And I did that because of appreciation, man,
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  Speaker 1: because I had a lot of people helped me along
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  Speaker 1: the way, right, and I didn't I didn't know how
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  Speaker 1: to probably do that with my family. So I broke
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  Speaker 1: it up in two days. So they sat with me
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  Speaker 1: the first night. I was a little dejected at first.
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  Speaker 1: Then the second day game, I didn't know what was
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  Speaker 1: gonna happen. I didn't have many people at the house. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And then once in the name got called, people start
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  Speaker 1: coming over and the cookout stuff because I know, because
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna air as we're leading up to the
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  Speaker 1: fame NFL Draft. So I wanted to I'm asking you
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  Speaker 1: some questions to understand that mindset and so people can
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  Speaker 1: understand that mindset because you know they fly in the
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  Speaker 1: first round draft picks. You know they will get to
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  Speaker 1: walk on stage. But really the workhouses of this league
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  Speaker 1: is the people who are not the first round draft picks.
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  Speaker 1: They undrafted the draft picks. And so you drafted, you
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  Speaker 1: come on the team and Atlanta Factors in the city
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  Speaker 1: of Atlanta, you still stand in the city of Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming correct. Atlanta brought you in and you have
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  Speaker 1: not left. This is where you do your business. So
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  Speaker 1: what what were the positives other than just having a
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  Speaker 1: plan for the Atlanta Falcons and what did they do
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  Speaker 1: to help you transition out of the NFL playing for
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  Speaker 1: the Atlanta Factons. You know, I started working on my
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  Speaker 1: transition while I was so active. So the the association
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  Speaker 1: in the LEADU they have, but you know, they have
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of programs that guys can take advantage of
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  Speaker 1: in the off season. They have business management, entrepreneurship programs,
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  Speaker 1: guys can go back and their degrees. UM, there's internships
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  Speaker 1: and externships you can do. So I tried to stay
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  Speaker 1: active UM as much as possible each off season. So
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  Speaker 1: even if I, you know, travel worked out, have fun,
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  Speaker 1: always made sure I did something to enrich myself. So
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  Speaker 1: I I did two business management UH programs, one awarding
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  Speaker 1: Business School and you can and wanted kell All Business
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  Speaker 1: School and Northwestern I did those. I did two internships UM,
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  Speaker 1: one with under Armour at one of the events DC
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  Speaker 1: and Washington d C. And then UH prior of too
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  Speaker 1: conclusion of my career as she started my NBA UH
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  Speaker 1: while I was still playing at University of Indiana Online
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  Speaker 1: and finished it as soon as I got done. So
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  Speaker 1: I just did a pretty good job of taking advantage
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  Speaker 1: of the resources that were there so that my transition
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  Speaker 1: would be a little bit easier. So I wouldn't get
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  Speaker 1: to the end and be like, Okay, I'm done, Now
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  Speaker 1: what do I do? Because there's always that startup pier well,
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  Speaker 1: that's always that period I'm sorry. We just have to
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  Speaker 1: kind of figure it out. So why not try to
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  Speaker 1: get it figured out a little bit earlier so you're
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  Speaker 1: not caught behind the eight ball. Wants some check stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But so many get caught behind the eight ball, so
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  Speaker 1: many don't see the incoming Is it is it? It's
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  Speaker 1: just just youth because you've seen their figured it out.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you played and you realize that, hey, there
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  Speaker 1: is a stopping point to this. Let me take this
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  Speaker 1: money and not spending on everything or every good party
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  Speaker 1: or every good car or every good house you want
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  Speaker 1: those things. What was it? Was it role models on
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  Speaker 1: the team or just you know, your your your parenting
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  Speaker 1: background that allowed you to be able to uh support
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  Speaker 1: these ideas and see things a lot clearer than the
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  Speaker 1: average person your age. I look a combination all of that.
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  Speaker 1: I did have both my parents were there, which is
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  Speaker 1: no today's world unfortunately not as common. So they did
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  Speaker 1: teach me a lot, kept me grounded. I did develop
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  Speaker 1: relationships within the locker room. You know, guys, you know
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  Speaker 1: that was a little bit smarter. You know that's that
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  Speaker 1: we're kind of moving, you know, outside of football, but
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  Speaker 1: not not really doing too much. You don't want to
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  Speaker 1: be seen as someone who just not focused on your craft.
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  Speaker 1: But the fact is there's there's gonna be him. There's
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  Speaker 1: only one player that's playing well into his sporties right now,
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  Speaker 1: and that's Tom Bray. Everyone else you know, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna retire. The game is gonna be done with
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  Speaker 1: you before you're done with it. Um. But there's also
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  Speaker 1: see your point, there's a guys are getta a lot smarter.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're seeing guys kind of walking away early.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to do don't want to damn with
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  Speaker 1: their bodies as much. This guy's taking advantage of some
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  Speaker 1: of these programs. Um, probably not as much, you know
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  Speaker 1: as when they get done. But they are all guys
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  Speaker 1: who focus on, you know, what's going on after they
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  Speaker 1: understand the business, like the business of the league is.
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  Speaker 1: You're telling you abody every day on TV. Guys using
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  Speaker 1: their job because of contract situations, capt room, not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: business now. You you grew up in your career group
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  Speaker 1: in the era of social media. You know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I I know when I was managed Steve Harvey. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: When social media we had like a big old fan
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  Speaker 1: club about me and people. We didn't give a hood
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  Speaker 1: about social media because we have fan club members. Now
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  Speaker 1: you did. I'm sure you use social media as a player,
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  Speaker 1: and now you as a as a businessman. You're a businessman,
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  Speaker 1: how do you use social media to grow your business
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  Speaker 1: or promote your business? I'm still still trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: there's really not much social media needed. And I'm saying
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  Speaker 1: that because I'm young in this game. I'm less than
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  Speaker 1: I can really leverage uh my social media page, um
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  Speaker 1: to my business unless I moved into the consultan area,
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  Speaker 1: which I am starting to do UM. But I will
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  Speaker 1: say I didn't take the advantage of social media as
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  Speaker 1: much as I should as a player that I've always
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  Speaker 1: been like a private person. I kind of didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to just do some much. But now that I'm done,
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  Speaker 1: I wish I would have done that a little a
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  Speaker 1: left with a million, I wish I would have used it.
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  Speaker 1: don't I know where it came from, because I started
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  Speaker 1: using problem it for anybody. So when I look at
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  Speaker 1: you and you said wherever Sean, you know, you know, uh,
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: you know, I don't know about promoting my company. I'm
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: not asking you to promote your company. I'm talking about you.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: And if we talk about you, your company gonna get promoted,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: and all your brands and all your tentacles of success
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: will get promoted. So as we go through this conversation
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: today and you hang up, I want you to hang
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: up and step off the call and go. You know
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: what he's saying. He's saying, it's all about me. It's
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: not about my foundation over there, it's not about my
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: my trucking business. It's about me. So if I focus
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: it's about me, then guess what everything makes sense. And
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm asking you to do when it comes
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: to your social media because you could have left with
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: social media followers from football, but guess what that have
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: been football social media followers. You are a businessman, and
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: I'm asking you, as a businessman to understand how much
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: value you're bringing to the table as a brand. Does
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: that make sense? Cool? Now, let's talk about these companies
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: I've been talking about. Do we want to go to
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: the foundation conversation first or or the trucking business first?
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Which one you want to do? Let go? Let's go.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Let's go to the UH Foundation. That's actually one of
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: most product that Well, I'm gon tell you something, Lawrence.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: I'm proud of everything you do. You made the transition
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: because I talk to you many, so you've done a
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: lot of mature things in your life. And also you
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: understand how you got here. And so you you you
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: self educated yourself. You could have you could have just
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: not self educated yourself. But you say, I want to
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: take advantage of the values, and you take advantage of
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: the coaching. You're taking advantage of the good parenting. And
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: then you got over here and you took advantage of
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: being drafted by the Atlanta Falcons. So you have a
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: you have a d n inside of you is that
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: if you give you an option, you're gonna use it
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: to be a positive. And so that's a quality inside
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: of you, man, that not many people have, and I
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: just want to point that out to you. Now let's
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: talk about now. Yeah, I want you to hear that, man,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: because a lot of people I get to talk to
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of people I get to uh, and I've
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: had a lot of layers of success in my life,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: and I've been successful with a lot of different people,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: actors and entrepreneurs and business owners and corporate leaders and
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: all that the quality that stands out to you. And
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: I was happy to get back on the go do
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: another interview with you, was to tell you that because
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: you're a grinder and a grinder and oftentimes doesn't appreciate
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: what they are accomplishing. And so you sail, I'm really
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: proud of the foundation. Brother, I'm proud of the foundation
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: because you've taken time to get back but all shoot,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: you're employing people, you're paying taxes, You've been a functional
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: person that this country often says about people of color
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: don't do. So proud of you, man, Thank you man.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Now, let's talk about this a found dation.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: How is this started? Why? Man, it's actually the foundation.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: That's something that I've been one to do for a
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: long time. When I when I played a battle with
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: starting my own foundational partner with somebody. So when I
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: was a player partner with Big Brothers, Big exists. But
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: now that I'm you know, I've done, um, I still
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: had that urge just to want to just empower people
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: to just know, man, you really can do anything you
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: set your mind to it. There's no limits. Hence the
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: name Zero Limitations Foundation. A lot of times people may
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: lack an example. It may not have to drive, and
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: you might can say or show somebody that one thing
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: that can spark them into greatness. And that's really that's
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: really what I believe. I tell my friends all the time.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I think I'm preaching out it, but I really
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: just true to believe you can do anything. You can
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: do anything set your mind to. But some sometimes people
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: just need they may need that one thing, a little
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: bit of help. So uh, you know, we we we
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: started with a food give way around the holiday time, um,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: you know because of COVID and people you know, just
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: you know, just food and security. But as we move forward,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: and we were really working towards programming, scholarships, mentorship programs,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: and just I'm really passing about this developing people. I
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: just I just feel like everyone could do their best
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: as a place for everybody this world to be successful with,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: contrary to probably believe. And with that being said, zero limitation,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: that's a problem. How did you come up with that?
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: You know? Actually I named it the large city very
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: ja I you need, you need something else, something catching.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: So it took me a few days to uh to
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: come up with it, right, And at first I was thinking, though,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: lives like man, you can't use that. He might come back.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: He will come after you. He will come back to you.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: He said, Master might come at you. So zero limitations foundation.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Once once I said it the first time, that was it,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: and uh, that was it. That's how I came up
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: with it. Okay, cool, Now that's awesome. Now how does
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: one become a part of it? Is in the age
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: group that you're dealing with, or is it the annual event?
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Is a summary event what exactly comes out of your foundation?
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Right now, we're gonna keep everybody updated on programming. So
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: right now, the first thing we have going on, we
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: partnered with a high school on what we're gonna actually be.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna be giving scholarships to uh some of
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: the students who perform well um and they aspirationally go
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: to college, and we're gonna help. We're gonna have quill
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: some of that financial needs. Eventually, one day I want
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: to get to the point where I can pay someone's
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: entire scholarship. But we're not there yet. We're working there,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: but we're gonna start with these scholars first, and we're
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: gonna start uh some mentor programs throughout the summer. So
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: just you can. You can visit us at a zero
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: limitations order and you can sign up and put your
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: email in. You can also donate there and we keep
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: everybody abreusts on the program that we have coming up. Okay,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: you know you're a planner and your goal setting, you
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: will get there. But I know that about you. Now
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: you're playing football, you're tackling people. You got that, you
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: got that little spin that you came up Will tell
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: us about that A little A little spin that you
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: came up with? Did you are you developing it? You
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: don't know what? You don't know what I actually I
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: have with us have a little football conversation. So like
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: my head coach at the time, Mike dunder Um, He's like, man,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: the scouts looking, they know you fast, and you know
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: you're trying to get around the edge. You need to
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: kind of moves. Like damn, I'm sitting there thinking what
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: can I work at the time. You know, one of
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: them two of my favorite rushers at the time. Actually
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I got to play with one of them, White Freenie
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: and Robert Out. Everyone knows if you watch any of that,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: this coach coming out guys had this. I was in
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: college at the time, so I was like, damn, maybe
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I can do that one day in practice. I just
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: I just tried and they work and after that, it
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: just that's that's the move I went to when I
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: was in school. Well, you know, you know, you make
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: me sick, Lauren. You you're so you don't you don't
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: tell the truth about how talent that you are. Well,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: you know, I was just just practice and that's really high.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: But you were the fastest defensive end and come back, okay,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: you know you you you you just can't do that.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking it's a whole lot of people wish they
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: could just do a spin move and go to a cornerback. Hey,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I'll stop running back. So you we're gonna, we're gonna,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: we're gonna have a relationship because what I'm gonna get
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: you just start doing. Man, is it's all right to
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: be prime time. It's all right. You know you know
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: what they know, they're saying church favor. I guess thank
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: God for that. So so so you got, you got
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the moves. You know, you're a man, you're a young man.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: And Atlanta, you know, Atlanta is a great capital, a
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: city for African American men and women. When did you
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: make the decision? Man? Like you said, you thought the process,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: you knew you weren't gonna play. But the business that
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: you're doing, now, how did that come about? Actually it
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: started in covid Um. You know, before I got out
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the league, I was already started an investments in real estate,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: actually living in some properties back in Maryland while where
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: I'm from, and uh, you know, I had a deal
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: go south. I was gonna do my first project here
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: in southwest Atlanta. And you know what, everything shut shut
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: down like nobody basically by the calendar year from from today.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: You know, the real estate market is doing well now,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: but everyone was not. Everyone was certain how things will
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: go about the banks pulling funder. The bank guy was
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: dealing with they pulled a fund and they put the
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: funding on the new construction project. I had, so what's that.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: I kind of had my back nest the wall, but
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I just knew it. I had to do something. Essentially,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: something catastrophic was to happen again, I'll be in in
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: a central industry and I can continue to make money.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: And prior to that, I had spoken to a college
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: teammate who would just jump into the transportation industry. Maybe
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: bout a year ago. I just met which is now
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: a good friend of mine. Uh, probably about a month before,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: and I took the information that they both gave me.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I put it together and I started Clipper Logistics, And man,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: it's been It's been probably the biggest blessing in my life.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Like I said, I've been able to employ people. I
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: just just grow to the point I just hired an assistant. Um,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: I've been able to give a black of people jobs. Man.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: I can't say enough. Man, just it's been the best
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: thing that happened to me. It's a scalable business and
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: still be able to provide opportunity. So it's just a
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: win win all the way around. Okay, I again, Clipper Logistics.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Where did that come from? Again? I always have coming
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: up with names. I just I didn't want to use
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: my name. It's like it's typical and I kind of
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: want to detach myself under business a little bit. But
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: the clippers Clippers is actually my high school mascot my hospital.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: We were the Ox and Hill Clippers. So I said
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Clipper Logistics, and it just it just went, so I
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: went with it. Always fall I always fall into the
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: names of the never you know you're about to get
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: beat up by masterp. Okay, then you went back to
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: your high school got and stole the clippers. Second generation.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: That's that's another one of your business, correct, Yeah, that's
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: that's the LC I run. Uh you know my real
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: estate projects too. That was pretty simple, right. My parents,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: uh you know, they probably the first people in our
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: family kind of start you know, owning properties, right, and
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: uh I came back to them. So second generation development,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: that one was. That was pretty easy. I knew the
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: name of that one before before I got started. I
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: shouldn't take there's truly the name about you because your
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: second generation. Right. I love it. I love it, Lawrence. Man.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: You uh, you're humble, You're absolutely correct about them. You're talented,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: you want don't want to admit that, you're very smart.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Somehow you don't want to admit that. And guess what,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: you're special and somehow you don't want admit that. But
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: all those things I just said, man, makes you in
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: an incredible brand. And please, man, start telling people about
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: that man in your social media post and let everybody
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: understand how you're shining in the pandemic times in African American. Man,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: there's a doing it and paying taxes out there and
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: making the difference in this country, not only for your life,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: for people that you don't know. And I think that's
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: the blessing that you are. I appreciate. I really do. Hey, brother,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: looking at it. Man. I had to get back on
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: with you, man, because you know, the thing about you,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Lawrence is that man. Um. You know, when I meet
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: people like you, Man, it's a blessing to me to
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: be even had this conversation. But the gifts that I have,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: the Guard gave me was to be able to motivate
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: people also tell the truth. And so when I talk
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: to you about your gifts and talk to you about
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: what you're doing. I'm just asking you to take one
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: more step, and the next step is about you and
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: when you tart telling your story. And that's what we're
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: doing today. Hey man, I'm going I'm in the way
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: back machine. You gotta be going way back to two
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: thousand and eight, because, man, you have a career that's
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: worth telling you. You've transitioned into a UH academia person
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: and an athlete. Now you're a businessman, you're philanthropist. That's
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: a lot of powerful titles. That's a lot of power
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: that you own. Oh And sometimes I really and I
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: gotta do better at this. I get caught up and
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: like you said, to grind and trying to build something
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: you know, you know, really to leave you know, after
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I'm gone, right, And sometimes I'm guilty of not cherishing
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the moment. Like I'm guilty. I know I've been told that,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: and I really, honestly, I'm just sitting back a couple
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: of days ago, reallything, having this exact same conversation UH
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: with a friend of mine, and sometimes just I just
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: I get so caught up. I just don't I gotta
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: do better. I really gotta do better. I know you appreciate.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I appreciative, give me uh the push push push, So
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: I always looky, Laard's call me your life coach. I mean, look,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: you had head coaches, assistant coaching. Rishan McDonald's your life coach.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: So you go him. I gotta called Mop part Roshan
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: and run this idea by him. I'm gonna tall you
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: go ahead and do it because anything you put your
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: mind to from brand, you're gonna be successful at it.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: And that's the part of your genius. And I'm gona
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: put the word genius on you because layers of success
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: are not accidental in your life. And but you know,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: you know it's interesting how some people who have less
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: will screamed like they got more. Well, you have more,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: and you don't say anything by how you're accomplishing that.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: And I want you to go to the front of
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: the line with that story. All Right, we're gonna get
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: it done. We're gonna're gonna rap Autter, we get finished.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: All right there, Look, your life coach, just foke to you. Okay.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I wanna thank you Lauren for coming on the show
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Man telling every about your life, talking about your your career,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: talking about being an athlete who made the transition from
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: college to the NFL, to a businessman to a philanthropy.
• 29:03
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• 29:06
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