Sep 8, 2026 · 53 min · 11 segments
Why do you keep hitting roadblocks in your personal, financial, and business growth when you have the skills and paycheck you theoretically need to succeed? In this episode, NFL veteran and…
Jedidiah CollinsGuestSammy PetersonHostSo you went from undrafted to the starting fullback for the New Orleans Saints, sharing a locker room with Drew Brees, you just mentioned-
So what did competing at that level build in you that translated directly to business?

So I actually was rated the number one fullback, making me the best in the world.

... 13 times to that level, w- what it introduces you to is that quote I already said is, "Greatness is lonely." If you want to be a successful business, you're gonna have to do things most people aren't willing to do.

As a 17-year-old business athlete, as a 22-year-old in college, or a 27-year-old, you realize that as an athlete, I have to make, we don't call them sacrifices, we a- we call them priorities.

My priority is I gotta get up in the morning and work out, so I'm not going to that party.

What it allowed me to do was to go into my entrepreneurial journey and, A, accept that I'm gonna fail every day.

You have to be crazy first." Entrepreneurs see something nobody else thinks is really there.

If you see something that nobody else sees, that makes you a crazy person.

Make it come to fruition and you become a genius, but you were crazy until that reality set in.

So the ability that I could see myself as a starting li- fullback in the NFL before anyone, anyone could see that- That was the quality that you need to start as an entrepreneur.

But then you go sit next to a Drew Brees for four years, and you realize this guy is anything if he's a habit.
So you went from undrafted to the starting fullback for the New Orleans Saints, sharing a locker room with Drew Brees, you just mentioned-
So what did competing at that level build in you that translated directly to business?

So I actually was rated the number one fullback, making me the best in the world.

... 13 times to that level, w- what it introduces you to is that quote I already said is, "Greatness is lonely." If you want to be a successful business, you're gonna have to do things most people aren't willing to do.

As a 17-year-old business athlete, as a 22-year-old in college, or a 27-year-old, you realize that as an athlete, I have to make, we don't call them sacrifices, we a- we call them priorities.

My priority is I gotta get up in the morning and work out, so I'm not going to that party.

What it allowed me to do was to go into my entrepreneurial journey and, A, accept that I'm gonna fail every day.

You have to be crazy first." Entrepreneurs see something nobody else thinks is really there.

If you see something that nobody else sees, that makes you a crazy person.

Make it come to fruition and you become a genius, but you were crazy until that reality set in.

So the ability that I could see myself as a starting li- fullback in the NFL before anyone, anyone could see that- That was the quality that you need to start as an entrepreneur.

But then you go sit next to a Drew Brees for four years, and you realize this guy is anything if he's a habit.
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