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Steve Young

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“I'll get responses from people. But thank you for the gift of vulnerability and the gift of expressing kind of my story. I appreciate it.”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I will tell you, Tim, that you're really good at this because I don't know that I've ever had a conversation like this. I leave with that unsettling feeling like I've really shared, you know, like I'm like, you know, overshared possibly. And I'm like, oh, man. But I'm at a place in my life where I'm curious about that. It's like I'm not worried about it. I just like, but thank you for a chance to put into words. And like, I wish I already feel like I wish I could have said that differently or I could have, you know, because it was so raw in some ways. So I'm going to, I'll get better at that. But I really appreciate that for me, the depths of how you took me to places that I really appreciate. I will not listen to it because it's just too much, but I'll get.”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Let's just think about take the universal truth that I believe is universal because it's universal. Forget about all of that. Just take it as a lived experience. The rational transactional life that is in front of us and the results of it. Watch as you watch it politically. You watch what happens is over time you have to separate, right? Because and the transactional path is more fundamental. So what is happening politically today? More and more fundamental. both ways because there's nobody is looking for the law of love is not part of the calculus no one's curious no one's open so it's like forget about religion for a second just politically i've never seen a more divisive transactional time led by the most divisive transactional people it's not that complex”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Don't you think it's irrational? It's incredibly crazy, it's nuts, and so I look to me, take the anyone that's uncomfortable talking about religion or theology and put it aside for a second.”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's fine too. Which is fine. Totally, again, I'm curious. I have no, my dogma is very about. the human interaction right”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What I would put it because people could tell me you screw you, Steve. That's just ethereal, weird, crazy stuff. I know what I need to do to be happy. And I'm getting it right now. That's fine. What I'm describing is irrational to all of that. And I'm chewing on it. Tim, I am not an expert. I've been brought to it because of a quest, another Steve Cubby quest. And I'm just chewing on it, and I'm learning about it. And yeah, that's it.”
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“Better the life is the more accomplishments, right? That's how you show a great life. It's irrational to the world that we live in today. It's irrational. Yet I think it's the unlock.”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In that simple statement that's not about looking for anything, just I truly hope you have a great day in that element, I believe unlocks an irony of how you actually receive a great day, if that makes sense. And so you can't say, I hope you have a great day because then you're going to help me have a great, you can't make it about something. Then all of a sudden devolves. Even kids, kids feel pure love from a parent. Do you want to raise your kids in a transactional way? It works for a while. But to really love them in a way that they feel, they feel it. I'm loved and I'm a screw up and I'm going to make a bad decision. But I know I'm loved. And that changes people because it hits in a different place. And so the book is really around what I believe is the universal truth that is.”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The idea is that the full bounty of a relationship put a religion aside again. Just put it all aside. The full bounty of a relationship is actually ironic in an unfeigned love, care, concern, even a fairly well hello, you know, just something that says I am about your well-being. Hope you have a great day.”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And be curious about you and be curious about where you've been. There's an element that's pure in that, that you take in in a different way. If you and I have a transactional relationship, it's going to feel that way. And there's a lot of bounty in it, a lot of profit. There's a lot of money running around the world. There's a lot of fame. There's a lot of everything. There's a lot of goodness in many ways. But in the end, if it's purely transactional, if my marriage is purely transactional at some point, it's going to break. It has to in self-interest. And so if you ask me the intent or how do you live it? To me, the definition is important, right? Because otherwise you'd be like, screw that. I've been curious about people and I've been hurt and I'm done with that. And I'm tired of being left behind. And then the victimization shows up. We have themes, right? And all of a sudden it's like the world's against me. And now I'm going to, you know, so I'm going to take my part.”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Interested in it can't last if there are durable spirits inside of us that are more in perpetual, the law that leads us cannot be self-interested because it will rot. It will rot like everything around us is decaying. I look in the mirror today, Tim. It's not going good, bro. Like it's going the wrong direction. So in that way, the law of love is really about saying there is a law that is decreed from the origins of the universe that says if I can lose the transaction, if I can lose myself.”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Those around us learn and grow as well. We really are related. We were all together. We all chose to take a body. And so in that theology, there's this universality. And so if you talk about the law of love, it's really just a fulfillment of the relationship that's already true. So it's not like I have to go through all kinds of mental machinations to make myself see others as literal family. Like it's in the roots. It's in the dirt. You and I are related in that way. You're divine. We're both divine. So let's be about it. And so in that way, the intent of the law of love is says the full measure of what I can get out of this life cannot be a transaction. God cannot be Santa Claus. As much as Santa Claus is a cool idea. And that, like, if I'm super good, I get a gift at its root, it's self-”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“God, Mother and Father, we are durable spirits inside of us that are not from this place. We take a body for learning and growing, but then when we die, there's this physical entity of spirit that's durable and that it's divine, like so that every human is divine. So in that way, as you start to define things that are every day, how you relate with them, it's in the definition as how you actually act. And so if I see everyone as divine and like more eternal, like it's like it's not just like you see someone on the street and you say, oh, they're in a bad spot. I mean, that's terrible. They chose their way. What a bad life. What about? And it's like, no, let's back out and recognize that there's a broad, big spectrum of experience. And let's see and have the curiosity for how to help.”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I think what I was trying to say is that, again, it's an intent and it's really about recognizing and defining kind of the conditions of our life that I think God authored, like the whole, you know, it's a body, there's agency, choices to make, there's opposition everywhere. And so with that kind of as an ingredient, that's our laboratory. It goes back to learning and growing. That's the laboratory. So in that laboratory, as we define each other, how are we related? And so my theology is that”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Think that's where the theology really is important is how you see how you define the crazy world that we have. I mean, I just noticed a fiery orb that came through the sky again today. Amazing how it just comes in and makes Palo Alto 67 degrees and perfect. You know what I mean? The things that are going on, the miracles that happen, I mean, I can't, you know, I had breakfast, but I don't digest my food. I don't know vitamins and minerals that body needs. Like there's just this intelligence that's out there that”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All the way to just all elements of my marriage, my family, my relationships, it was all as I sought the higher ground, I guess you would call it, it just started to resonate. And I wanted to write about it. It was my journey led by my wife, who I just think I'm so much better rubbing up against her every day, you know, shoulder to shoulder. I always say she gets the barnacles off my boat. You know what I mean?”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, no, it was written for my LDS brothers and sisters like we're in a place where our roots are incredibly non-transactional and yet have allowed for the rational, I shouldn't say infection, but allowing for the transactional to actually lead in places that it needs to be kind of excised. And so that's the book is about, is that there's a law governing the universe, universal law for all humans that says to see the full measure of something, you have to lose the self-interest. And I was brought here by Bill Walsh, my coach and the 49ers who used to talk about every year he'd stand in front of the team and say, I don't care what play we call. I don't care what defense we run. We're going to win because we have shared common experiences amongst each other and an element of love for each other. And it was like, that's how we're going to win football games. And it was actually true.”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Always refining and spiritually kind of that light that I feel that I want to be around. And it doesn't necessarily, it comes from everywhere. I find my organized religion, it's not hoveled. It's not insular. It's not like it makes me more curious. Like I can't wait to hear when you tell me about something that you're doing. I'm like, tell me more about that, man, because that's informative to kind of where I'm sitting. And that's when I know it works is when you get away from Transactional insular hoveling, self-righteous judgment, like those are all transactional words. You asked me a question. I'm sorry to start riffing on it, but it's a really, I think, energizing place to be for me right now.”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Good things that come out of it, but the relationship can't last because it's transactional. It is self-interested at its core, and it can't make it. So I'm super energized by the roots that really kind of like, I don't know, I find myself every day enjoying as I chew on the ideals of my faith, like how it keeps resonating in a way that is talking about learning growing, right? Like I find myself”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Kind of go get a marriage, do the work. It's good work. It's not bad work. Go get a merit badge. Put it on your sash and then wear it around town so everyone knows what amazing Boy Scout you are. You know what I mean? Does that make sense? It does make sense. So that theology.”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“True faith can't be cultural, right? It has to be rooted in something actionable that is beyond you. And so I find myself more energized than ever around faith and around the potential of organized religion and its beauty, yet recognizing how devastatingly painful and difficult and all the other parts of it. ferreting through all that I find myself more energized than ever at how I feel around faith and connection and relationship. I learned somewhere in there that if you're not careful, you go back to what we talked about around entropy and rotting and transaction and like if you're not careful, religion becomes what I call Boy Scout theology.”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What I see as kind of the chaotic parts of a young organization. So in that way, I tell my wife, you know, she got me started on really questioning and challenging the culture as a cultural experience.”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not really. That doesn't make sense to Leviticus. Leviticus doesn't have a big smile on me. But actually, and I was able as a young kid to kind of ferret through the things that resonated and the stuff that didn't. And so my theology is really wrapped into what I would call, you know, being LDS is complex because it was a, you know, we claim this kind of restoration, so it was a restart. And in the restart, there's, I mean, you look back at the history in the last 200 years, it's pretty chaotic. And so for me, I don't have to carry all that. The things that resonate, the things that are beautiful, are really rooted in that event. So it's like to me, it's always resonated. It's always been something that, and I don't have to carry.”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Learn and grow, right? I mean, that's just as a young kid, you know, like it was formative, right? Like it gave you a sense that God's with you, cheering you. I always, as a kid, I always felt like, you know, even in the hardest times, like, no, God's cheering you on. Like, I never felt this wrathful. When I read the Old Testament, I'm like, eh”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I honestly and everyone around the firm knows this, I can't stand our name because HGGC is hard to say. So you stand up in a very formal setting and you're trying to express the values and this incredible partnership culture that you've built off of the back of my previous life in football and how you have to come together and Perry Pursue, we can rock arms, strategic vision, we can go and everyone here at HC, there's a lot of syllables. My great idea is to call it I used to play at Candlestick Park, so it was candlestick ventures or candlestick partners, but we've said we branded it. It's worldwide. It's everything. So now we're...”
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“Do we name ourselves, you know? Because we can't stay with that name There's a little panic again, existential crisis. Can we even race? Can we raise a fund? Let's melt it down so at least it's a reflection of something that was existing.”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because everything had gone crazy. And then what ended up happening is the contrasting did not get funded. They broke it. There was a huge lawsuit and billion dollar settlement. But the net of it was John Huntsman never was able to come over. So here we are raising money as Huntsman get a global battle. And we don't have John. And then Bob left for full-time church service three years later. And so then we go to fun two, and it's like we're Huntsman Gay Global Capital, no John, Huntsman, no Bob Gay. But yeah, Rich Lawson and Steve Young, what do you think? Let's go. I'm so glad I asked. So then we have a decision to make in 2012.”
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“Historically, it was Huntsman Gay, global capital. At the time, back in 2008, seven, Rich and I were the younger partners, founders, and the two older partners, John Huntsman and Bob Gay with Creg Benson. And John wanted his name on it. And Bob didn't want his name on it. But then John won. So it's Huntsman Gay Global Capital. But then John was selling his Huntsman chemical business, but in the 2008 credit crisis, you can read the story. It's amazing story where Leon Black at Apollo had bought it, signed it, but then didn't fund it.”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“After a couple weeks, man, I'm like, what have you done? You hung up helmets around that. They look stupid, you know? Because to me, as a”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's COVID. All the stuff I remember I told you about memobilia that I traffic in, they were in the corner in a big pile. Like it was just a pile of crap that just keeps getting cycled through. And during COVID, he couldn't take it. I got to clean this place up. That's me. That would be me. So he hung it. I walk in.”
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“We can do, you know, so it's just Henry Kravitz and George Roberts both I've had the pleasure and the honor of knowing and knowing them and that's one of the great partnerships of all time two cousins that have just and they're still humble gentlemen sincere I mean I just I'm inspired by both of them and so in that way I'm now getting old enough where we can talk about these generational relationships that are super cool We always had the same office. We never had separate offices. He's like, I'm Oscar, he's Felix, like, you know, the old couple around the room with all the helmets hanging up.”
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“Truly, and you could be out of business. And so it's a crazy world to now try to build continuity from fund to fund and a business that reflects the values that you want in the middle of the truth of it is like there's a referendum every few years. And it might go away. When you're getting started, like any startup, there are existential moments that feel, I look back and it probably wasn't truly existential, but it felt it. And that builds trust or scar tissue that, you mean, to me, the most interesting people in the world have lots of scars, right? And have found a bounty in it, the good in it. And so that's why I think that's how it's worked. And like we had our holiday party yesterday, last night, and there we are sitting together chopping it up, like amazing what's happened. But yet.”
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“Private equity, if you think about it, it's a really unique business because you go globally to find investors to believe that you can go now deploy capital in businesses to return significantly more over a period of time than the public equities or other bonds or anything else. And so private equity has got this fuse of capital that has to be great. And you have to be great in kind of 10 year increments so that as you go out and you raise the money and you go do it, every few years you're going to have another referendum on whether you're in business or not.”
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“First of all, I think that there was a clarity early on that the things that he's really good at, I really am not good at. And the things that I was really good at wasn't his strongest suit. So there's a yin and yang kind of feel to it. And then there's a trust that gets built that just works. Like it either does or doesn't. And it gets tested. I mean, the times that in 30 years, or you got to be kidding me, I remember sitting in the corner, there was a time, there were existential moments when it felt like, well, that was fun, you know? See you later.”
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“And he seemed like an operator. And really, the guys that formed this and the guys that did the algorithm and the, I'm the facilitator, right? Like I want to be in business. I'm energized by the... Human complex calculus in business. And so I was drawn to it. I still have imposter syndrome a little bit, right? Like back then, I've definitely felt like I'm kind of faking my way through it. And here's a guy that was classically trained at Harvard, went in business, you know, went to consulting. And then now is a big banker. And like, to me, he's like. He's an expert Right, it's fun. The yin and yang of it”
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“So it was like businesses were literally going from nothing to public in months. That were now being valued at a billion, like it was insane time. So you have to put yourself in there. So why would Rich turn and see this? Because I understand.”
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“We're going to get Why say yes, right? What was the pitch? I mean, I love the, I don't know how I try to explain stuff. It's always my dad goes like, or my wife is like, Steve, get to the point. But Industrial Revolution 100 years. Technology Revolution 20 years. It was happening. Right in front, like right with us”
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“Core because otherwise humans in entropy with gravity and our bodies are rotting like things are going to like it's just truth. We'll go along with that rationale and that is a transactional path that yeah you're right it's a rotten path and people we live it all the time”
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“Superiority to it. But even in the purity of it, going back to the truest truth of accountability, you can still try to fake that it wasn't you Even in the most true, clear, witnessed, 80,000 witnesses just watched it and you can listen to quarterbacks after the game, especially, you know, losing quarterbacks when they ask them what happened. Try to spin, what 80,000 people just witnessed, bro? Like, come on. And so in that way, it just tells me about human nature that if you try to spin what just happened on a football field, what are you going to try to spin in business or in your personal life? Or in your family, like, and that's what I say when people say, look, I really want to change. I really want to. Transition to something better. I want to learn and grow authentically, truly. You got to be about it. It has to be”
2026-01-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #847: Steve Young, from Super Bowl MVP to Managing Billions – Hall of Fame 49ers Quarterback on High Performance, Reinvention, Faith, and How to Blend Dreams and Plans · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It is unbelievable You know, I think there's a little bit of drug in it, right? Where the action, I talk about this with other quarterbacks that played a long time. What do you miss? And you miss the opportunity to pour yourself into something. Like, I always say there's physical athleticism that's part of it. There's emotional athleticism that's part of it. There's psychological. Like it's every part of you is necessary to be poured into even good at this if not great. And so that rigor even business can't provide that. It's nothing like it in front of 80,000 people with a score, you know, and officials and a clock and like that's just, it's a really crazy, cool environment because there's truth in it always.”
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“It happens to the high schooler who never leaves football. You were talking about there's dramatic moments that are clear, like the SEAL team, who's the elite member that resonates with everybody. Like, oh my gosh, that would be hard.”
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“But we're still trafficking in it because it funds the foundation and we have great golf tournaments and we make a lot of good things happen. So it's like a virtuous cycle that we got going.”
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“I think because of that energy around great mentors, I mean, I'm very, very lucky. I didn't have to do it raw. I didn't have to do it alone. That would be super difficult. I had all this mentorship, all this modeling, all this example from Roger, from everybody. So to me, it was just, can you just go enact what is obvious to go do? And I really appreciate it because the game never does leave you. I traffic in memorabilia for our golf tournaments for our young foundation. And so we need constant signatures from jerseys, from players and hockey players or Hollywood. And so I to this day, you can't imagine how many signatures that I do that as part of the memorability company and they pay me in stuff. So we can use it for the tournaments. You know what I mean? And if you told me in 2025, I'd still be sighted.”
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“funny so you lead to rich so as we built this business and i was still playing i was getting ready to run and i was already running away from it even before it was over i think there was a fear based which is not necessarily the best way to do this that if i didn't run really fast that it would somehow keep me from getting really clear of it all and so i just started you know we had that business we just running and so he was a banker at mergen stanley We took this idea that Warren and Larry had said, great. My buddy Jim Herm Herman. And he said, as we went to go get financing for this business, we ran into Rich, who was a very successful banker and Morgan Stanley, but Young, recognizing everything that's going on, I says, you need a CEO. And I'm like, yeah, you're right. We do. You got to be in the late 90s and technology. He's like, I'm walking out of Morgan Stanley. I'm going to be the CEO. And so we've been together ever since then.”
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“The Starbuck Company was a real estate business that was hugely successful. And I remember asking him towards the end of my career, Roger, what do I give me some tips? He goes, run. I'm like, run. Run where? He goes, just run away. That was his tip because he said, the game will never leave you, but you need to leave it. You need to move on. And I thought that was just simple but really important. And I tell people today, and I really want to write a book about transition because everybody is constantly transitioning, whether they like it or not, most of it forced. If there's an authentic, vulnerable way to transition and bury and mourn, you can wake up the next day, realize I was great at something, and now I'm not even good at anything else. But you know what? I'm going to...”
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“And what I've learned about transition at least to Rich Lawson, how I describe it, that everyone and even the high schooler, the last day they play and it has to be put away needs to recognize and treat it like a death. To mourn it and go through all the steps of mourning it and burying it and actually having it as a place that you can keep referring to as a almost like a grave site because otherwise you carry it around. You never transition. Transitioning is about actually moving from to, right? And so I'm really grateful Roger Stauback poster on my wall. I got to know him. Became a friend. Like, it's insane.”
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“Let's back up because what you're alluding to, I think, is what we've been talking about really for the whole time is transition. And the difficulties because I love football and I was very successful at it. I run into a lot of people who played in high school and loved it. The dream like they would give their arm to be able to or leg to be able to play in college and keep the dream going and always think about how when I left the game It wasn't necessarily force, but you do age out like it just sooner or later. Even Tom Brady aged out at 45. Like it's still as a, it's a young man's game. And I remember the day I retired, I was known for this thing that I had been able to do worldwide even. The next day, I remember waking up, and now that that's gone.”
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“Just said, Look, your EQ, and the way you look at the world, and I had graduated in finance, so it was like I knew enough to be dangerous, not even dangerous, but knew enough to know what it really was about. He said, you need to go help people build businesses. That's kind of how it switched.”
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“That's when Warren and Larry Sensini became a very close friend of mine and mentor, still is. I mean, really is, still is. I mean, he's just an amazing guy. He's like Steve, I'm a lawyer. You need to go do this. That's how it's switched.”
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“Was already here, like just sitting here. I actually watched the traffic get worse and worse. Like, where's all this traffic coming from? Like, I used to get to work in 10 minutes. Now I get working 30. And so it's like we made fun of the athletic brain. It's like, took a little while to kind of get it going. But in the end,”
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