Latest / Earn Your Leisure / Study Hall: Ray Lewis on Why He Stopped Endorsing Products: "I Needed Ownership!"

Transcript

Study Hall: Ray Lewis on Why He Stopped Endorsing Products: "I Needed Ownership!" · Earn Your Leisure

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy nom the United States
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: are here illegally, your next you will be fined nearly
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned, and deported. You will
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws,
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: border and families will.
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: Be protected sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
• 1:00
  Speaker 3: But you said endorsements aren't the way, and so it
• 1:02
  Speaker 3: makes me wonder at that point you're getting the salaries
• 1:05
  Speaker 3: from the NFL, but you're not doing endorsements. We all
• 1:08
  Speaker 3: you know we preach having one income, it's too close
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: to none. What other type of alternatives that you seek
• 1:14
  Speaker 3: to find a way to make money off the field?
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: Partnerships? Okay, partnerships.
• 1:21
  Speaker 4: Right, everybody wants to shake your hand and they want
• 1:23
  Speaker 4: to they want to make you the greatest thing ever. Right,
• 1:26
  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, come do this, Come speak here, come
• 1:28
  Speaker 4: do that.
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: I will. If I own part of that.
• 1:33
  Speaker 4: Because of my own part of that, then I got
• 1:35
  Speaker 4: ownership in that. And if I got ownership and that,
• 1:38
  Speaker 4: then I speak about it a little more boldly, right,
• 1:41
  Speaker 4: little more fascinating. I have a little more energy of
• 1:43
  Speaker 4: getting up every morning to come do what you want
• 1:46
  Speaker 4: me to do. No matter how much you own, right,
• 1:49
  Speaker 4: think about owning undred percent of nothing, that's nothing. But
• 1:54
  Speaker 4: if you got your hands and enough things that I
• 1:56
  Speaker 4: got my hands in, Man, I got percentage in this.
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: Eight thirty thirty plus companies.
• 2:03
  Speaker 4: Man that my hands is in that I own or partner,
• 2:08
  Speaker 4: which means I have a relationship with them. If I
• 2:12
  Speaker 4: can teach my kids stop with endorsements. That's a check.
• 2:18
  Speaker 4: And if somebody is able to write you that check,
• 2:20
  Speaker 4: well then I don't want to check. I give an example.
• 2:23
  Speaker 4: I signed my third contract. I'm sitting in the room
• 2:28
  Speaker 4: and the owner walks in and he says, listen, we're
• 2:32
  Speaker 4: gonna make him the highest paid player in the game.
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: So they give me fifty million dollars.
• 2:37
  Speaker 4: Right, they give me twenty up front, and my agent
• 2:42
  Speaker 4: looked at me and I got up and walked out
• 2:45
  Speaker 4: of the room, and he was like, what's wrong. Why
• 2:49
  Speaker 4: are you walking out of the room. I said, because
• 2:53
  Speaker 4: it finally cleared. Player money no longer impresses me. I
• 2:58
  Speaker 4: want to know what he does because if he can
• 3:02
  Speaker 4: pay me this much, then I need to learn that business. Right,
• 3:08
  Speaker 4: So athletes think about this. Athletes are never introduced to
• 3:14
  Speaker 4: the owner concept until you make enough money because they
• 3:20
  Speaker 4: tell you I'll put you in the next slot.
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: Right, every athlete is slotted.
• 3:25
  Speaker 4: So whether you think an agent is relevant or not,
• 3:27
  Speaker 4: every athlete the number is already marked.
• 3:30
  Speaker 2: So when you come to that.
• 3:32
  Speaker 3: This episode is brought to you by P and C Bank.
• 3:35
  Speaker 3: A lot of people think podcasts about work are boring,
• 3:37
  Speaker 3: and sure they definitely can be. But understanding a professionals
• 3:41
  Speaker 3: routine shows us how they achieve their success little by little,
• 3:45
  Speaker 3: day after day. It's like banking with P and C Bank.
• 3:49
  Speaker 3: It might seem boring to save, plan and make calculated
• 3:52
  Speaker 3: decisions with your bank, but keeping your money boring is
• 3:55
  Speaker 3: what helps you live or more happily fulfilled life. P
• 3:59
  Speaker 3: and C Bank Brilliantly Boring since eighteen sixty five. Brilliantly
• 4:03
  Speaker 3: Boring since eighteen sixty five is a service mark of
• 4:06
  Speaker 3: the PNC Financial Service Group, Inc. P and C Bank
• 4:10
  Speaker 3: National Association member FDIC Erners What's up? You ever walk
• 4:16
  Speaker 3: into a small business and everything just works like the
• 4:20
  Speaker 3: checkout is fast, the receipts are digital, tipping is a breeze,
• 4:24
  Speaker 3: and you're out the door before the line even builds
• 4:26
  Speaker 3: Odds are they're using Square. We love supporting businesses that
• 4:31
  Speaker 3: run on Square because it just feels seamless. Whether it's
• 4:33
  Speaker 3: a local coffee shop, a vendor at a pop up market,
• 4:37
  Speaker 3: or even one of our merch partners. Square makes it
• 4:40
  Speaker 3: easy for them to take payments, manage inventory, and run
• 4:43
  Speaker 3: their business with confidence, all from one simple system. If
• 4:47
  Speaker 3: you're a business owner or even just thinking about launching
• 4:50
  Speaker 3: something soon, Square is hands down one of the best
• 4:53
  Speaker 3: tools out there to help you start, run and grow.
• 4:56
  Speaker 3: It's not just about payments, it's about giving you time
• 5:00
  Speaker 3: so you can focus on what matters most Ready. To
• 5:03
  Speaker 3: see how Square can transform your business, visit Square dot
• 5:06
  Speaker 3: com backslash go backslash eyl to learn more that Square
• 5:11
  Speaker 3: dot com backslash, go backslash eyl. Don't wait, don't hesitate.
• 5:16
  Speaker 3: Let's Square handle the back end so you can keep
• 5:19
  Speaker 3: pushing your vision forward.
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy nom the United States
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: were here illegally, your next you will be fine nearly
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day. Imprisoned and deported, you will
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: Do what's right leave Now. Under President Trump, America's laws,
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: border and families.
• 6:19
  Speaker 2: Will be protected sponsored by the United States Department of
• 6:22
  Speaker 2: Homeland Security.
• 6:22
  Speaker 4: And number you're like, ah, I want a few more million,
• 6:25
  Speaker 4: I want a few hundred thousand more maybe, but you're slotted.
• 6:29
  Speaker 4: So they always make us think about the player. And
• 6:33
  Speaker 4: then I wanted to know what an owner thinks like.
• 6:36
  Speaker 4: So then I started sitting myself around owners and I
• 6:40
  Speaker 4: thoughted to say, Wow, that's a different conversation than I
• 6:43
  Speaker 4: have in a locker room full of players. They don't
• 6:45
  Speaker 4: even think about ownership. They don't even think about owning
• 6:49
  Speaker 4: their ID at all. The only thing they think about
• 6:53
  Speaker 4: is their next check. When you become a boss, you
• 6:57
  Speaker 4: don't think about your next check.
• 6:58
  Speaker 2: You write the checks. That's the difference.
• 7:02
  Speaker 5: Absolutely, that's the bar so ownership. Staying on the ownership
• 7:07
  Speaker 5: tam the NFL. I think it's like maybe sixty five
• 7:11
  Speaker 5: percent of black players make up the NFL. Seventy three
• 7:14
  Speaker 5: seventy three, Okay, no black ownership. So there's the Rooney
• 7:20
  Speaker 5: rule to try to, you know, have more black head coaches,
• 7:24
  Speaker 5: which a lot of people think that that's flawed, or
• 7:27
  Speaker 5: at least they have something in place. What are your
• 7:29
  Speaker 5: thoughts on having the majority of the league be black players,
• 7:34
  Speaker 5: have no black ownership, and how can we get it
• 7:37
  Speaker 5: to the point where there is representation in the owner's box.
• 7:41
  Speaker 4: We own, we control sports, right, Blacks dominate that from
• 7:48
  Speaker 4: an NFL level. But you're not changing that unless you're
• 7:53
  Speaker 4: sitting in the ownership rooms. So we can argue all
• 7:57
  Speaker 4: we want to about not having black coaches, but until
• 8:00
  Speaker 4: we get a black owner in that office or two,
• 8:06
  Speaker 4: then that ain't changing.
• 8:08
  Speaker 2: No matter what rule you want to talk about.
• 8:10
  Speaker 4: This is what I'm saying, like, we only look for
• 8:13
  Speaker 4: the check, We only look for the position that's given.
• 8:17
  Speaker 4: In today's time, it's time for us to take that.
• 8:21
  Speaker 4: That's what partnerships and ownership is, right. My goal is simple.
• 8:25
  Speaker 4: My goal has never changed. I'm forty seven years old.
• 8:27
  Speaker 4: In the next five to seven years, my goal is
• 8:29
  Speaker 4: to put myself in the right position to possibly become
• 8:33
  Speaker 4: the first black minority owner in the National Football League.
• 8:36
  Speaker 4: Why because I want to change the narrative. Right If
• 8:42
  Speaker 4: we don't do that. If we don't do that, then
• 8:44
  Speaker 4: no conversation changes.
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: in Massachusetts an MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy nom the United States
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: are here illegally, your next you will be fine nearly
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned, and deported. You will
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws,
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: border and families will be protected.
• 9:51
  Speaker 2: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security,