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From NFL to Business: Lessons in Leadership & Growth | Bronson & Corbin DSH #1228
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From pro football fields to business boardrooms, this episode of the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly is packed with valuable insights on leadership, resilience, and growth. 🏈📈 Join Bronson and Corbin as they share their incredible journey from the NFL to building successful ventures in real estate, investing, and mentorship. 🚀 Discover how lessons from the locker room—like being a great teammate and overcoming adversity—translate into thriving in business. 💼 Whether it's navigating financial literacy, empowering athletes, or making smart investments, these brothers are on a mission to redefine life after sports. 🙌 Hear stories about their time in the league, transitioning careers, and their insights on the evolving NIL landscape. Don’t miss out on their candid advice and inspiring journey. Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets! 📺💡 Hit that subscribe button and join the conversation today! 🔥 CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:27 - Growing Up 05:59 - Transitioning from Sports to Business 07:12 - Financial Literacy for Athletes 10:29 - Building Mental Resilience 12:21 - Qualities of a Good Teammate 15:18 - Riley's Entry into Investment 18:18 - Riley and Corbin's Slap Fight 20:04 - NBA Trade Insights 22:40 - Football Players at 40 24:10 - Drew Brees Career Highlights 25:10 - Rise of Esports 27:10 - Impact of Social Media on Sports 28:23 - NLI Deals Explained 30:25 - Importance of Trustworthy Relationships 32:04 - Changing Dynamics for Athletes 33:29 - Finding Athletes in Today's Market APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Bronson & Corbin https://www.instagram.com/bkaufusi90/ https://www.instagram.com/corbin_jk/ LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ #investingforathletes #athletetransitiontobusiness #athletecareertransition #businesstransitionathletes #athleteinvestmentstrategies
Chapter 1: Who are Bronson and Corbin and what is their background?
All right. We got Bronson and Corbin here today. A little tight fit, but we made it happen. Oh, yeah. We're good. We're brothers. Yeah.
You said you used to sleep in the same bed, right? Yeah. Now we're, what? You're 6'10". He's taller than me. I'm the older brother. Yeah, it's true. When did you guys stop growing? He was earlier than me. I was the late bloomer. Really? Yeah. Like I grew into my twenties a few inches, but you probably, he came into high school at like six, five. He was the man child. Yeah.
Six, five in high school is no joke. Yeah. It was probably like when I grew there two inches the next year. So I like when I was a sophomore in high school. Yeah. It's about when I was done growing. Okay. Yeah. So a little early, right? A little early. I grew a little in college too. Okay. Yeah.
Were you guys playing, you guys were playing football, basketball, anything else in high school? Uh, some tracking failed. Oh, you did track?
Yeah. Let's go throw for fun. Like we're like javelin throwing looks cool. Let's go do it after practice. I did an actual event though. That's true. And I'm not gonna lie. It wasn't my only event, but shots, shots fired at javelin throwers. I loved it. Yeah.
throwing is no joke though oh it's so different like it made me realize how unathletic i wasn't man i watched the shot put every olympics the krauser guy or whatever his name is oh yeah that dude's a beast oh it's wild people don't know how hard that is spinning like a top two on the uh shot put but i thought you were talking about the shot put guy
Yeah. No, he is a shot put guy. He is a shot put guy. He might do discus too, though. Okay. Okay. I'm not sure if he does both, but he definitely does shot put. Big guys spinning that fast. I'm surprised they don't like dig into the ground. Because they swim so fast. I know. It's nuts. Crazy. Yeah. Track and field. Shout out. Those guys don't get respect, you know?
Oh, absolutely not. And they're great lifters too. Yeah. All those dudes are just unbelievably strong. Were you guys way better at football than basketball? Is that why you picked NFL? What do you think?
Oh, exactly. I'd say it's different for each of us. Okay, I was I grew up watching him play more basketball. He was an AAU circuit. Yes, like the little brother going to all the tournaments. And so I always thought he'd be more of a basketball player. But then it's weird, like our bodies kind of changed and just football kind of fit in some ways better. Our dad's a football coach.
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Chapter 2: How did Bronson and Corbin transition from sports to business?
It was actually... It was awesome. Okay. Yeah. Did the teammates hate you guys because he favored you guys? It was the opposite. Oh, really?
They felt bad for us. They felt bad for us. Why does your dad got to say that to you? I know. Why does he have to make you do more than everyone else? But we got, I mean, I already knew, like, I knew I was going to do more. I was going to, you know, stay longer. I was going to. Yeah. And it was kind of expected because he, you know, coming from Tonga, like, It's very warrior culture, I would say.
And so everything was earned. So we had to go above and beyond that just so that the other players knew that he wasn't, you know, there wasn't any favoritism going on. Well, it ended up working. You both made the league, right? It did work. Yeah, it did work. We made it. What year did you guys go? I was 2016. I got drafted. My last year was 2015 in college. Okay. Did you do all four years?
Yeah, I did four seasons, three and a half years in college. Nice. So, yeah. What round?
Chapter 3: What challenges do athletes face with financial literacy?
I was the third round. Let's go. So, yeah. That's big, right? There's so many rounds in the NFL. I don't even know how many there are, but...
third sounds really good yeah it was solid and it was cool experience let's go what about you i was i was the undrafted free agent okay and so definitely different paths but i loved it it was an experience for sure that's a hard path right trying this and everything i had three surgeries after my senior year holy crap before getting to spring training like i was just recovering the whole time and
yeah it was it was the ringer but learned so much yeah yeah and now you guys have transitioned into business what was that transition like from sports to business you know what for me i i just was watching you know a lot of my teammates in the locker room we're always talking business investing and um i just felt like man i grew up in a place where i had great mentors yeah like here in utah there's a lot of great business people and entrepreneurs and founders and all these different things and so
I decided, okay, I need to really lean on that. I'm going to go out. I'll buy in pretty much and invest. And if I can learn how to do it, then I'll bring great people. Because that's what I noticed people were struggling with in the locker room, you know, the players. They were just getting involved with the wrong people. And a lot of it was just because, you know, and we were the same.
We didn't grow up even saying the word investing. So when someone says investing, we're like, which person's word? Yeah, we don't want to say that. But it was awesome, though, because... We did find the right people, fortunately, and they were able to teach us how to do that and do it at a high level. And I think that's what really changed it for us.
So yeah, started in real estate and then went from there. That's awesome because you shared a crazy statistic with me. 78% of NFL athletes have financial trouble after they retire, right? Yeah, three to five years. Holy crap.
So it's really intense. And so after living it, and seeing it right there happen. And then now that we're done playing and seeing it happen, that's the mission is we want to take that stat to zero.
I assume it's high in other leagues because you're dedicating such a large portion of your life to sports. You can't focus on investing and other business stuff. So as soon as you're done, you're like, what do I do, right? Oh, yeah. Total identity crisis. It's crazy to see. I feel like every athlete has an identity crisis once they're done playing the sport at whatever level.
Yeah. Even if you're aware of it, I feel like it still happens, right? Oh, yeah. Even being aware, you still have to navigate it because you're like, oh, shoot, this actually came. Now what do I do? You thought about what you might do, but it's actually here. And it's really hard to match that money, I think, outside of sports.
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Chapter 4: What are the qualities of a good teammate according to Bronson and Corbin?
Oh, I... Can I ask, where was it usually the point for you where you're like, your body wants to shut and it's like all mentality for you?
It's the last 100 usually. I actually tore my glute in the last 50 of one of them. And I was going to make the state finals if I finished. I was in second place and I tore it and I didn't make it. Oh my gosh. It's like mental trauma from that. Oh, absolutely. I was in a wheelchair for a week. No way. Yeah, your glute, man. You're in such a full state too. Like to have that just zoom, cut. Yeah.
You guys probably dealt with some nasty injuries too playing football. That's inevitable.
There are some bad ones. But first, I'm going to talk about Corbin's because people still talk about Corbin's injuries this senior year. So BYU's rival is Utah. And the week before, it's Corbin. He already had a torn tendon in his pinky. Jeez. Your tricep was already torn. Yeah. And then he tore a bunch of ligaments in his ankle. Holy crap. And he still played in the game. What?
And played at a high level. But that's football. Yeah. Like every single week a football game is on TV and anyone is watching. Oh, everyone's flying hurt. Wow. Everyone's flying hurt. Everyone's battling something. And like, and so, but that, I mean, having those three injuries, like I remember watching them and I'm like, how's he doing this right now? Like he's making plays out there still.
Holy crap. With all of this, like. I went down. I didn't make it to the end of the game. Hey, you went out there and put it on the line. But we tried. That's impressive, man. So your mental resilience is just next level.
It's just, well, I feel like you know how it is with, as an athlete, you just keep going, you know, like. what adrenaline team or like, it's almost like this feeling of completionism or it's like, okay, until I feel like I'm literally can't play to just keep going to that point. Yeah, you don't want to let your teammates down almost. Oh, exactly. Yeah, it's a responsibility type of thing.
It's taught me how to work with people. Sports, I was playing basketball, soccer. So that's really valuable in business. That camaraderie. Being a great teammate. Because, man, when you go to work every day, I mean, in football, you see your teammates more than you see your family during the season. You're with them all the time. And so it's like, if I can be a good teammate...
i mean i can pretty much do anything like i believe that because you know you're you're handling adversity personally but you have teammates who are handling adversity you have so yet from this individual level to an even bigger level you know it all starts with you being a good teammate and so i felt like we were fortunate to like be around incredible examples of that because in sports it's it's what's passed down
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Chapter 5: How did Bronson and Corbin get involved in investment and the fund space?
Damn. Yeah. Or is he 40? I don't know. Not a lot of people make it to 40 in professional sports. And then I just think of football. I'm just like, oh. That's probably the hardest one to make it to 40. So freaky. Football and track. Yeah. Like I see any guy in the NFL that's like a 10-year vet. It's... It's just crazy in my mind. It's hard to fathom that kind of physical prowess.
They've seen some stuff, right? Did you guys have some vet mentors when you got in? Yeah, for sure. We got really good ones, too. He went to the Saints. Oh, nice. Was that with Drew Brees? Yeah, it was his last year. I remember he was the first person I met in the locker room. Oh, wow.
my brothers I was like hey be the first one there you know you gotta set the tone especially you undrafted guys I was like okay facts that's good advice like 4 30 and there's only one dude in there and all the lights were off but he was in the hot tub reading his bible and it was Drew Brees wow and at first I didn't think it was a player because it goes a small dude I thought it was like oh is this like one of the janitors getting hot tub or I was like oh that's Drew Brees
I was like, holy cow. What was your line, your opening line to him? I didn't say anything to him. I just was like, I'm going to play it cool and just sit here in the corner. I'm the rookie. But then literally in the shower, he's like, hey, don't you have a brother that plays up in Baltimore? And I was like, yeah, I do, actually.
It was really neat, though, for I was like, I'm this unknown, undrafted. I didn't even stay there for season. I got off to the Jets. But for him to make that comment to me, I was like, wow, what a great man. That's cool. He'd regularly come sit with us rookies at breakfast if we weren't sitting with anyone. Wow. I feel like that's pretty rare. Oh, super rare, yeah. Kobe Bryant would not do that.
Like, I really was hats off to him. And then even, like, Cam Jordan. I don't know if you knew. I don't know him. He's a defensive end over there. Oh, gosh.
He was awesome. First time I went into a locker room, he's sitting there playing Super Smash with some of the guys on the team. And he's like, hey, man, do you play? We need a fourth. And I was like, sure. And just from then on, just so nice. He didn't know Corbin takes, like – three people on at once. Oh, yeah. He's nice. I was like, this is my time to shine. He's over here. It's me.
Now it's like me, my wife plays Smash 2 and, you know, our other brother and it's like us three versus him. Damn. He's not good. He's still winning. Who's your main?
i i'm weird like if i want to secure the victory it's ness okay because i play 64 yeah he's op on 64 but then i actually love using link because i'm just a zelda nerd link is fun and his boomerang is the most annoying thing but i can get people with it i literally watch the smash like finals esports finals on youtube every year yeah i'm into that shit i love esports i love that too yeah you guys still game at all or no
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