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Akbar Gbajabiamila

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
887 total appearances

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We're Out of Time
From NFL to TV Stardom: Akbar Gbajabiamila on Identity, Addiction & Resilience

And I knew that I didn't have a big enough name like some of the big Hall of Famers and playoff guys or like my brother.

We're Out of Time
From NFL to TV Stardom: Akbar Gbajabiamila on Identity, Addiction & Resilience

So I had to figure out what I call the backdoor approach.

We're Out of Time
From NFL to TV Stardom: Akbar Gbajabiamila on Identity, Addiction & Resilience

And I needed to create some sort of internship for myself.

We're Out of Time
From NFL to TV Stardom: Akbar Gbajabiamila on Identity, Addiction & Resilience

So I did that.

We're Out of Time
From NFL to TV Stardom: Akbar Gbajabiamila on Identity, Addiction & Resilience

And in that process, they let me do it because I was doing it for free.

We're Out of Time
From NFL to TV Stardom: Akbar Gbajabiamila on Identity, Addiction & Resilience

That's great.

We're Out of Time
From NFL to TV Stardom: Akbar Gbajabiamila on Identity, Addiction & Resilience

Yeah.

We're Out of Time
From NFL to TV Stardom: Akbar Gbajabiamila on Identity, Addiction & Resilience

I had a little bit of money that I had saved up to where I'm like, all right, I'll just bet on myself.

We're Out of Time
From NFL to TV Stardom: Akbar Gbajabiamila on Identity, Addiction & Resilience

And so I then started to really kind of invest myself in growing there.

We're Out of Time
From NFL to TV Stardom: Akbar Gbajabiamila on Identity, Addiction & Resilience

It's suffocated the pain a little bit because I was busy and I wasn't occupied with what what I was going to do next.

We're Out of Time
From NFL to TV Stardom: Akbar Gbajabiamila on Identity, Addiction & Resilience

But that was a real part.

We're Out of Time
From NFL to TV Stardom: Akbar Gbajabiamila on Identity, Addiction & Resilience

And that that time took about you.

We're Out of Time
From NFL to TV Stardom: Akbar Gbajabiamila on Identity, Addiction & Resilience

But it took me about a year.

We're Out of Time
From NFL to TV Stardom: Akbar Gbajabiamila on Identity, Addiction & Resilience

until they started paying you oh no no it took me I did two years for free I worked for free for two years and then my first job out of that was calling college football games I was making like $26,000 hold on yeah best thing ever yeah because my buddy was going to work for Steve Jobs he was supposed to be the CEO of the iPod and

We're Out of Time
From NFL to TV Stardom: Akbar Gbajabiamila on Identity, Addiction & Resilience

And he told him no.

We're Out of Time
From NFL to TV Stardom: Akbar Gbajabiamila on Identity, Addiction & Resilience

And I said, why?

We're Out of Time
From NFL to TV Stardom: Akbar Gbajabiamila on Identity, Addiction & Resilience

And he said, because Steve Jobs is an asshole.

We're Out of Time
From NFL to TV Stardom: Akbar Gbajabiamila on Identity, Addiction & Resilience

And I said, get out of my car.

We're Out of Time
From NFL to TV Stardom: Akbar Gbajabiamila on Identity, Addiction & Resilience

I literally told him to get out of my car.

We're Out of Time
From NFL to TV Stardom: Akbar Gbajabiamila on Identity, Addiction & Resilience

He told Steve Jobs to get out of his car?