{"id":24522,"date":"2021-04-06T12:28:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T19:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creatitive.com\/?p=24522"},"modified":"2023-03-22T20:50:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T20:50:48","slug":"amobi-okugo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creatitive.com\/amobi-okugo\/","title":{"rendered":"Brand Power Analysis: Amobi Okugo MLS Professional Athlete &#038; Entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Zachary Colman (00:06):<br>Welcome to another episode of brand power analysis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amobi Okugo (00:11):<br>Yeah, thank you for having me. It&#8217;s been a pleasure to finally connect and I&#8217;m looking forward to our conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zachary Colman (00:18):<br>Yeah. And today we&#8217;re going to be doing something a little bit different. We&#8217;re going to be having a joint podcast, between the both of us. So why don&#8217;t you tell everyone a little bit about your podcast?<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_fff089-e3, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_fff089-e3[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_fff089-e3\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_fff089-e3 mark, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_fff089-e3[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_fff089-e3\"] mark{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading_fff089-e3 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_fff089-e3\">Amobis Story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Amobi Okugo (00:28):<br>Yeah, so a frugal athlete podcast network is essentially a podcast where we talk about, you know, the financial playbooks of athletes, but not only athletes, the stakeholders that help athletes, make, manage and multiply their money, you know, off the court and off the field. So I&#8217;m excited to do this joint podcast with you, someone that has a lot of experience, you know, helping athletes, you know, create their, brand profiles and expand on what they do off the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zachary Colman (00:53):<br>Beautiful. Beautiful. So why don&#8217;t you tell everyone a little bit about yourself just to get started and kind of what you&#8217;re doing now and a little bit about your journey?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amobi Okugo (01:04):<br>Yeah, so a mobi, Kubo first-generation Nigerian American, has been playing soccer for the past 11 years. I went to UCLA, um, went pro after, my freshman year. And I&#8217;ve been playing pro, um, since bounced around Philadelphia, Orlando, Kansas City, Portland, and then now, currently in Austin. Um, but outside of that, I run a frugal athlete, and essentially it&#8217;s an online financial media platform that promotes prudent financial practices and smart Cura decisions amongst professional athletes and student-athletes. So our goal is to help athletes make, manage, and multiply money through financial education and athlete empowerment, and hopefully, by doing so, because athletes are natural trendsetters, we&#8217;ll get others to follow suit when it comes to, you know, following prudent financial practices. So, um, that kind of takes most of my time when I&#8217;m not on the field. Um, but it&#8217;s been giving me the lecture to connect with so many different people and learn a lot as, as I&#8217;m trying to build this thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zachary Colman (01:58):<br>Yeah, no, definitely. and we&#8217;ll, we&#8217;ll get into that a little bit more, throughout the episode, because like, because it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s one of the things that I look at with sports is just so connected. It&#8217;s, you&#8217;re so connected and that&#8217;s why I love it. It&#8217;s, it&#8217;s the best thing about, um, being in this industry is, and also what makes it so difficult because I have so many verticals I&#8217;m like, who do I talk to with this voice and that voice there, but first off, let&#8217;s talk about, let&#8217;s talk about a little bit about, your position. What position do you play?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amobi Okugo (02:30):<br>No, I say yes, I played center back. So, um, yeah, I started out as a center made, is basically like the quarterback of the point guard. You try to transition defense to offense, offense, the defense, and then sometimes I play center back. So center backs, you get blamed for all the goals, but you&#8217;re trying to stop them as well. usually stopper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zachary Colman (02:49):<br>That&#8217;s funny. Cause that was my, that was my position too. Well, I mean, I never went pro, but you know, I played, I played all the way through high school and I played through college and I got older here. I still play it. I was before the, everything happened last year, but I played, you know, on some rec teams and, and, but the stopper was always my thing. I hated sweeper. Cause I, you probably have the same thing I do is you just there&#8217;s this thing with it. And even though it&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/creatitive.com\/seo-tips-sports-websites\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">team sport<\/a>, whenever that goal goes through, you always blame yourself. You&#8217;re always like, Oh, I gotta stop that man. And in the last line of defense, you always get blamed, but yeah, yeah, yeah. It&#8217;s never, Oh, they didn&#8217;t score any goals, your offensive scoring, and goals, but now yeah. So, so how do you, how do you handle that kind of pressure? Like what do you kind of do to kind of help keep yourself, you know, from, um, you know, feeling that anxiety,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amobi Okugo (03:43):<br>Because as a defender you can play 90 minutes, you know, 89 minutes, like a perfect game. And then like that one minute, um, they score going, you know, you get blamed. So from, for me, from the mindset, my mindset is just like always next play, always, you know, try to improve on what you can do better. Um, have a short memory and just give it your all, you know, as a defender, you&#8217;re the last line of defense. So, you know, as proactive as you can be, whether it&#8217;s communicating to your teammates, whether it&#8217;s always staying alert, um, to give you the best chance to succeed, you know, in the game, but at the end of the day, you&#8217;re not going to be able to stop every goal. but you&#8217;re going to try to make it as difficult as possible for the opposing team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zachary Colman (04:22):<br>Yeah. We always played the diamond formation. So we always had the, you know, I always had the left and the right, and then we had the sweeper in the back. So I didn&#8217;t feel as bad when, you know, it would go through because it was cheaper. I was like, then you&#8217;re the last line. It depends not on me, but, but, I tended to have to play back and forth a lot between that because I&#8217;m huge into the training side. And so it was funny as I got older in your you&#8217;re probably like it, you know, now man, it&#8217;s when you&#8217;re out there, it&#8217;s 90 minutes seems so long and soccer is definitely the most intense, I would say out of any sport when it comes to how athletic you have to be, because, you know, I played indoor too, and it&#8217;s a little bit different because it&#8217;s more of the fast-paced faculty, no time outs or, or stoppage time, but you&#8217;re, you&#8217;re going the whole time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zachary Colman (05:16):<br>You know, you have to have those breaks, you know, you want those breaks every time you get your energy back, you know, especially if you&#8217;re, especially if you&#8217;re off offense, isn&#8217;t doing a good job and you&#8217;re, you&#8217;re, you know, don&#8217;t have that. Yeah. So I know you&#8217;re kind of, I know you&#8217;re kind of, still playing the game. And so I kind of asked you how, how your, your, your transitions have been, but let&#8217;s, let&#8217;s change it around a little bit and talk a little bit about your transitions from not your transitions from the game, but how you&#8217;re able to do both deals with your podcast and your journey is on with your business alongside you playing the sport. That&#8217;s a great question. I think<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amobi Okugo (05:58):<br>For me, it&#8217;s, you know, Google calendar has been my best friend, you know, Google calendar Calendly, and then time blocking. So not trying to overwhelm me. I know we talked offline how you said, you know, Mondays are strictly for podcasts. You&#8217;re not trying to do it on Tuesdays. Wednesdays, Thursdays, you know, and Monday are set aside for podcasts and I followed a similar approach. So for example, Mondays, I write newsletters. So I&#8217;m not doing it on Friday. I&#8217;m not doing it on these other days. So I&#8217;m kind of like prioritizing days and giving like certain days certain tasks. And it&#8217;s allowed me to kind of free up my time, um, with like the grooming schedules to travel and practices and games and stuff like that. So that&#8217;s helped me tremendously, um, you know, trying to be efficient. So like if I need like an hour to do this as I focus for an hour, um, and then I take my breaks and then I focus on another hour on the next task. And, um, you know, having like a, um, big on post-it notes. So like crossing it out, being able to cross something. Now it&#8217;s just like, that&#8217;s a good feeling as well. So, you know, that&#8217;s, that&#8217;s, what&#8217;s helped me be efficient, especially with my time and, any tricks that anyone has to recommend. I&#8217;m always looking for new ways to increase, my production line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zachary Colman (07:07):<br>It&#8217;s, it&#8217;s crazy. It&#8217;s crazy once, you know, like I was telling you earlier, how I&#8217;m kind of that next growth, that next growth phase in our business and it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s always growing, always learning, always containing the situation. Like I was the same way I, I have, I have that personality, Google hinders my life too. And I have my new W2 employee. I&#8217;ve been kind of really focusing him on, you know, one of him I&#8217;m really like, I use the Google calendar, I want to lock up your time and just so I could see it and you know, my time availability, you know, it&#8217;s still kind of, and, but it&#8217;s one of those situations where you realize that as you get older, that, and you start learning new things that not everyone knows that stuff, but you kind of have to use then learn the next thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zachary Colman (07:58):<br>What&#8217;s the next thing that helped me push to that next level? And it just never stops, but that&#8217;s why I love the business side, because if you&#8217;re a joy, the journey of it, you know, that&#8217;s, that is the business is the enjoying the journey of watching it go from this little baby up to this, this big thing that you can, you know, push forward with. Um, what kind of challenges that you had to during this, this, this, while you&#8217;re playing, what kind of, what kind of challenges, if you had to overcome, um, to kind of keep yourself engaged on both the planning and the, and the business side,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amobi Okugo (08:36):<br>Man, that&#8217;s a great question. I think first and foremost, you know, as a soccer player, as a professional, you got to keep the main thing, the main thing. So obviously with the business, it&#8217;s kind of had to take a back seat in the sense of like, I can&#8217;t always make that conference, so I can&#8217;t always do that speaking engagement, or I always can&#8217;t, I can&#8217;t always make that meeting. I might have to reschedule it. So there&#8217;s been times when, you know, I&#8217;ve had unique speaking engagement opportunities and I&#8217;ve had to pass them onto somebody else because I know I wouldn&#8217;t be able to go there. Um, so as a professional, especially because it&#8217;s my main source of income, um, I have to make sure to keep that in the main thing. So my performance has to be paramount. My performance has to make sure that, you know, the guy comes and tries to take my spot it doesn&#8217;t have the opportunity from a business standpoint, it&#8217;s been unique.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_fcda39-f8, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_fcda39-f8[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_fcda39-f8\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_fcda39-f8 mark, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_fcda39-f8[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_fcda39-f8\"] mark{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading_fcda39-f8 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_fcda39-f8\">Mindset Evolution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Amobi Okugo (09:19):<br>And, you know, you talked about evolving. I remember when I first started, I was going back and forth four or five emails just to schedule a meeting. So now it&#8217;s like just having that efficient, like, alright, perfect. Here&#8217;s your Calendly link. I know people at a higher level than me. I don&#8217;t even talk to him like initial intro CC my assistant. So I&#8217;m talking to their assistant. So like, that&#8217;s like, it&#8217;s always progression. I&#8217;m not there yet, but hopefully, um, you know, down the road, then I can get to that. So it&#8217;s all about, like you said, an evolving process, but, um, balancing soccer and, business is, you know, like I said before, it just being efficient. So when we have off days, um, that&#8217;s kinda when I&#8217;m doubled down, double down on, you know, content or meetings and stuff like that, a book-making book content. So instead of writing a blog every week, spend a day and try to write three to four blocks and then space them out over the course of the next month. Um, so that&#8217;s been, a game changer for me to doing content in bulk. Um, yeah. So those are like different tricks of the Tre that I&#8217;ve been able to learn as I&#8217;ve continued to grow in this space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zachary Colman (10:23):<br>It&#8217;s funny you say that I ended the same thing with my YouTube videos. I&#8217;ll I get all this, my content writers will write the scripts out, um, from stuff that we&#8217;ve discussed at the beginning of the month. And then when it comes down to Tuesdays, I keep the same thing. I bulk, I brought them all together. Um, and say, I&#8217;m just going to do four. I don&#8217;t do more than four because then I just like, I&#8217;ve seen my design beyond the campus, but, and that is, that is a good thing for people to realize you have to kind of manage your time, especially for athletes and when, when we, when you work with them. Um, and money&#8217;s probably very similar. Um, so why don&#8217;t you talk a little bit about, why you, why do you feel like you as an athlete with what you&#8217;re doing and actually, why don&#8217;t we go into talking just a little bit about, about the business? Why don&#8217;t you talk a little bit more about what you&#8217;re doing and what you&#8217;re trying to achieve?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amobi Okugo (11:13):<br>Yeah, so the business started because I saw the 30 for 30 broke documentaries, um, on ESPN. So if no one has seen it yet, or if you haven&#8217;t seen it yet, I highly suggest there was a great, um, documentary highlighting why athletes, um, tend to go broke. And for me, it was kind of like motivation because I wanted to look at athletes in a different light, um, you know, playing soccer in the States. We don&#8217;t make as much money as the NBA, you know, NFL baseball guys. Um, but we do make enough capital to help set us up for the next phase of whatever we may do long after our careers are over. So after I saw that documentary, I was like, all right, how can I find that I can use as roadmaps? And you know, what was available was like the LeBron James, the Tom Bradys, Colby, Ryan rest in peace, Serena Williams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amobi Okugo (12:01):<br>And you know, those are anomalies, not every athlete is going to have the luxury to be like that. So as I did more research, I can find the athletes that went bankrupt or athletes similar to the broke model. So that&#8217;s kind of how wildly started. I just wanted to create an ecosystem where you can come on the site, and find content around financial literacy, but using athletes to tell those stories. So if you want to learn about real estate, you have a whole database of content around athletes that got into real estate, um, in different matters. Or if you wanna learn about stock trading, if you want to learn about budgeting, all these different things. So when it comes to us as a business, we have courses, um, we do speaking engagements and workshops. We do small-time, financial coaching and consulting, um, which, leads into like revenue generation, revenue, generation, budget, templating, understanding different things around the behavior. We&#8217;re not advisors. So we&#8217;re not going to tell you to invest in GameStop or Tesla or anything like that. We&#8217;re just going to get you, the behavior around your finances straight. And then we do also do sponsored content based on our YouTube and podcast and, written content. And then we merged as well. So I&#8217;m rocking for where athletes sweatshirts, but that&#8217;s very minimal in comparison to the other four categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zachary Colman (13:18):<br>No, it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s kinda like you said about the playing career. Um, and how that&#8217;s your main focus right now in your business is kind of still your secondary, which is of course fine. You are still playing. Um, but even within the business, yes. They always say that the smart ones say you have to diversify, but I still look, I still say, Hey, you have to diversify, but you don&#8217;t want to have too many hands in the bucket. You know, you need to still focus on one. For instance, we have this huge, growth idea for about five to 10 years from now, which would be perfect. And I can&#8217;t really say too much about it now, but it would be perfect for right now with what&#8217;s going on with society and what&#8217;s going on with the growth of technology and stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zachary Colman (14:05):<br>And I started developing it, you know, about a year ago. And then I still have to step back a little bit. And I said, well, like I don&#8217;t have time to run two full-time businesses at the same time. Like, I will focus on that as a stage three or four down the road. So it was one of those things where, and, you know, it all kind of works together to, like you said, like, it&#8217;s great to have merged. It&#8217;s great to be able to give value in different ways, but to be able to really hone in on that one specific thing that you really care about and are passionate about is always, it&#8217;s always a plus. Um, so you don&#8217;t get burnt out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amobi Okugo (14:41):<br>Yeah. Preach that. Yeah. So you don&#8217;t get burned out. I think that&#8217;s, that&#8217;s like if there&#8217;s one takeaway, um, because we get overwhelmed, especially in our of work, when it comes to, you know, building brands and stuff like that, by the time you master one platform, they&#8217;re telling you, you need to get on another one. By the time you get to that one, there&#8217;s another one. Now you gotta be on all of them. So, um, it can get overwhelming. So like you said, you know, try to focus on one stream or one river, and then eventually as the river gets bigger then streams will start to form and you can build out those, you know, those new, those new lanes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zachary Colman (15:14):<br>Exactly. It&#8217;s, it&#8217;s very similar and I won&#8217;t get too much into the privacy situation going on with like Facebook right now, but it&#8217;s really, it&#8217;s very similar to Facebook and how they grew. And then they eventually, you know, said, Hey, let&#8217;s, let&#8217;s buy Instagram. And then now they have Instagram and it&#8217;s a whole different platform. If they were to develop and try to develop both of those at the same time, they probably won&#8217;t have enough capital to do so and could have gone bankrupt. I&#8217;m not saying they would have, but, um, but yeah, it&#8217;s a good example. And I agree with you. It&#8217;s very, it is, it&#8217;s, it definitely takes, it definitely takes a lot of hard work and a lot of, a lot of their sacrifice there, but it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s more so a lot of tedious knowing that things are going to get better as you keep going. Um, so what would you say make athletes, you as an athlete, would you say make athletes such great business owners?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amobi Okugo (16:11):<br>I think I feel like sports is like the game of life. There&#8217;s a lot of, there&#8217;s a lot of skillsets that we acquire playing sports. There are a lot of things based on our experiences that we use for business and life and relationships that we just don&#8217;t. Um, I don&#8217;t know if we just don&#8217;t know how to translate it. Um, but it&#8217;s all the qualities are there. So whether it&#8217;s, you know, the basic ones that everyone talks about, you know, working within a team setting, you know, communication, handling adversity, dealing with criticism, whether it&#8217;s constructive or negative and using that to turn it into results, goal setting, understanding the discipline it takes and the sacrifices that it takes to get something done, time, time management, priority management, energy management, you know, looking at something from a negative, like understanding your weakness and turning it into like a strength.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amobi Okugo (17:03):<br>These are all things that we learned from sports working with, you know, I said team setting, but especially in soccer, I&#8217;m working with players that only speak Spanish or only speak French. So being able to, understand different values and ultimately come to a common goal, um, that&#8217;s an invaluable experience that not a lot of people are fortunate enough to have, um, embracing different cultures. Um, these things are, you know, things that you acquire from sports, you know, it doesn&#8217;t matter if you play it to professional level, um, college level, youth level, they all translate, obviously the professional level you&#8217;re able to maximize it, but then it&#8217;s harder to translate it into, you know, the corporate space. So you just gotta figure out how to word it the right way. So instead of, you know, being able to say, yeah, I&#8217;m good with working in a team setting. It&#8217;s like, no, yeah, you are. But how do you craft it in a different way to kind of exude some of the qualities that you have?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zachary Colman (17:58):<br>And I think you said that beautifully because I kind of, one of the reasons I got into this was because I did see from a business perspective, you&#8217;ll probably have the same, the same aspect I have that you&#8217;re, you&#8217;re creating something that you&#8217;re passionate about and you love, and you love seeing it grow. And that that feeling that you get from getting over a boundary or getting over a struggle is pretty close to that same feeling you get when you stop a goal or you win a game, but the team or gets that same kind of drive that leads you to wanting to be the best and wanting to bring value to your fans or the people that you know are helping, you&#8217;re helping alongside your business. And that&#8217;s one of the reasons I got in this is to help translate that to athletes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zachary Colman (18:47):<br>And, and so with what you&#8217;re saying with the stuff that they learn, I think it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s very, it&#8217;s very common for athletes, especially when they get to a certain size that they still try to do everything themselves when it comes to growing their business. And, and as you are aware, like, Hey, you need someone to help you with your finances. You need someone to help you with. And I come in and I say, Hey, you need someone to help you with your marketing. Like you, you need, you could hire a whole team at this much, or you can hire our agency. It doesn&#8217;t put don&#8217;t time. Shouldn&#8217;t have to equal money for you. You should have money equal time for you. So, um, really focus on hiring a team to do that stuff that you&#8217;re not an expert in. And you focus on what good at exactly. Um, so, with that said, let&#8217;s say the opposite. So how do you feel about the struggles of athletes? What are some struggles? <\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_95305f-c9, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_95305f-c9[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_95305f-c9\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_95305f-c9 mark, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_95305f-c9[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_95305f-c9\"] mark{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading_95305f-c9 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_95305f-c9\">Some Struggles Beyond the Game<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Amobi Okugo (19:48):<br>So from a struggle standpoint, identity, you know, so how can you define yourself outside if you weren&#8217;t, if you weren&#8217;t able to say I&#8217;m a professional soccer player, if I&#8217;m a professional basketball player, how do you define yourself? I think that&#8217;s something that a lot of athletes struggle with. Um, just because, you know, you spend your whole life from five years old, ultimately, you know, trying to become the professional and then you make it there. And then what happens after you got your whole life to live, but because you were so focused on making as a professional, you didn&#8217;t even think of it, you know, longterm, um, sports is the only thing guaranteed to end in divorce. You know, you&#8217;re going to have to figure out your next game. So from an athlete standpoint, figuring out your identity, that&#8217;s one. Um, and then, because I don&#8217;t want to say that we&#8217;re spoiled, but we&#8217;re so used to having the schedule of, alright, we know when our practices, bless you, you try to hold it in the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amobi Okugo (20:42):<br>so we know our schedule, we know our practice, we know our games, we know, you know, our workout regimen. We know what we&#8217;re supposed to eat when that&#8217;s all done. All right. How do we figure out, how we become proactive in that sense? And then simply, um, I don&#8217;t want to say it&#8217;s like a confidence thing or like an insecurity thing, but how do we, um, define ourselves from the lessons and experiences and skillsets that we&#8217;ve acquired from sports and translate it into the corporate space, whether it&#8217;s entrepreneurship, business, education, whatever aspect of your next phases, because while we were spending our twenties, you know, building our careers, you know, our peers were in the, you know, corporate space or in the business space or whatever space, you know, learning the lessons that you need to learn. So we&#8217;re coming back into that space, whether it&#8217;s entry-level or, you know, not the same elite level that we&#8217;re used to, um, that can kind of have like, um, a negative effect on, on us as human beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zachary Colman (21:43):<br>Yeah. I mean, I&#8217;ve never had to deal with that myself, but I have heard it is that struggle. And I mean, when you&#8217;re in business, I think the hardest part, and we&#8217;ve talked about it earlier with the Google calendar. I mean, that&#8217;s just one aspect of it. I mean, I&#8217;m at the point where I&#8217;m managing, you know, nine, 10 employees. And so it&#8217;s like now I have to, I&#8217;m juggling most of my day, just making sure that I&#8217;m queuing stuff correctly, making sure things were correct. And I, man, I haven&#8217;t even eaten lunch yet. 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Because as an athlete, so many doors are open and available to you, if you take advantage of them. So how can you use your off time, your free time, um, to be curious, to be, you know, more interested than interesting and, you know, use, use your platform to learn more about those spaces and then from there be open and be authentic and how you go about sharing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amobi Okugo (26:26):<br>So, you know, when you&#8217;re trying to build a fan base or you&#8217;re trying to build a community, they want to see you outside of, you know, the political answers you give out after every game saying, you know, we thought it was a hard-fought game. You know, we won, we&#8217;re looking for it. Not like they can get that from anybody. They want to know, like, what&#8217;s your eating? Like, what are the desserts that you have when, you know, you have an off day, what are your favorite movies? You know, they want us to know all that. 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So we always recommend, Hey, let&#8217;s talk to your financial, your financial team and see what they think about you opening a business in this market, and let&#8217;s show them the direction that we&#8217;re planning on going with building this thing, to see if it would even work out or, um, working with investors as well, or telling them, Hey, like, why are you just opening a facility and investing in a commercial real estate?<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_e7706a-e4, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_e7706a-e4[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_e7706a-e4\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_e7706a-e4 mark, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading_e7706a-e4[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_e7706a-e4\"] mark{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading_e7706a-e4 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading_e7706a-e4\">Marketing Talk<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Zachary Colman (40:11):<br>If you had a business around that facility as well, and focused on local SEO or SEO and PPC and paid marketing, let&#8217;s really turn it into something that you&#8217;re passionate about and just let us be your team to focus on that. 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