Allen Williams
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
Allen is one of the most brilliant, intelligent people that you will ever meet in life. You know, both of my parents, man, my dad, man, was a success in Orangeburg. I gained all my accolades from him. They had the Junior Olympic team. They had a bunch of athletes, man, like such as like the Terry Guesses, Henry Guesses, William Graham's.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
So that's like the main thing I see like in society today. Too much information. I don't know where to go. But you got certain people that either been there, done that, or know somebody who did this, done that. And they can guide you to say, hey, do this person. And maybe that person knows this person, that person. And that can connect all your blocks.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
Because now you're trying to get this person, but you got a person that, where are they? I talk to him every day. I talk to her every day.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
Oh, man, with that intro, I am great. Man, I love it, brother. I love it.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
First of all, you know, yeah, you know, I could have been one of those persons that come back to Florida and don't have to work. But, you know, I kind of wanted to give back, especially the kids that's coming in the military or just anybody else that's in. Because I know, you know, what type of company Lockheed is. You know, our major customers are the military.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
So me being from the customer and being... in those seats before. I wanted to just pretty much give back. And, you know, I was thankful for Lockheed for hiring me and put me in things that I can accomplish and give back to the military. So things, you know, that I usually do is You know, I was on a program.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
I just recently got moved to a new program, but I was on the program and they needed me for a certain expertise. So they hired me on and my job was to learn the program and then basically travel to different sites. teach the operators the program and get them up to speed and make sure they're trained properly, which, you know, that program was good, but I moved to another program now.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
And the thing about Lockheed, you know, they don't care. I like this company because
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
they'll take a risk they don't care you got the experience and they know that you came from the customer they want your point of view because you know what i say it's a lot of engineers and you know the language barrier is totally different and some stuff i'm just still trying to learn but you know military we simple uh make it short simple and sweet less powerpoints more hands-on that's
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
Tell her what it is. Tell us how to do it. Give us the basics. And if you got like a thick PowerPoint or if you got like a document for the product, Hey, make sure we can access it and we'll go back and look at it if we have problems in certain cells, right? So, you know, a lot of engineers, they're lucky, you know, they're readers.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
They want to explain everything, but I told them, look, you can't explain everything. Explain the basics, divide the positions, right? Whatever this position do, you explain this. Whatever this position do, you explain that. Eventually, they're going to have time to get together and learn each other's positions. Right.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
So that's the kind of like I kind of bring to the table to just, hey, approach it like this. Don't say it like that. Like learn that translation technique.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
from engineering to human and uh i just i like it you know they they took a chance on me and i'm i'm grateful a lot of the guys there you know and you know like the whole company man is very diverse you know top one of the top leaders miss stephanie hill she you know african-american woman this is a lot of diversity in the company but the way the company is going by
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
You know, getting retired military, I think, you know, you know, they got a lot of people that was prior. Right. But the time they got out, man, the military has changed so much. So if you haven't been in, you know, in a minute, you probably ain't going to know, like, what's going on or what's these changes and stuff like that.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
So, but you get somebody who kind of just got out and they did, they did it 20 years or whatever, or 20 plus or 30 plus, you know, I think that's the route to go to break the barrier of them and the customer understanding why when they interact, everything is like now, now, now, go, go, go. And they want something to be done for the mission.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
If it ain't everything, but something that can lead, that can work. And then we give them that. And then all of a sudden now we can work in the background. OK, we're going to add this, add that, add that. But give them something that's going to make it work right then and there. Right. And then as they're doing that, we add on.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
So, you know, a lot of people is picking that up now and realizing that. And yeah, it's not just building just to build because you got this cool product and it does this, it does that. But knowing your customers and knowing the mission and knowing what they need it for. I have a machine to do everything. But guess what?
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
If it don't fit the mission, it ain't going to work or make it fit the mission. And then you go hand out these. So, yeah, it was a good thing. You know, they're trying to go towards that direction. But, you know, it's just got to, you know, get that language barrier, get that translation.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
And that's, you know, where I come in and other folks that come in that, you know, has the same background as I am. And to be called an engineer, you know what I'm saying, which is good.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
Exactly. And that's the thing that it comes back to too much information. You know, if you smother the brain with someone, you know, they're not going to retain it. So like I told him, like, you know, a lot of the guys we're training and stuff like that, or a lot of guys who's going to touch these equipment is not going to be Guys that's, you know, high in rank or whatever.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
It's going to be guys that's coming probably straight out of high school, 18, 19, 20 years old. And I said, you know, I said a lot of people join the military because they don't want to go to school. I'm just going to be real. They don't want to go to school. Right. And then once they get in the military, they develop a little discipline about themselves. Right. The mindset a little changed.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
The child mentality is gone now. Then I got broken down in boot camp, brung back up. And now, you know, they realize like, wow, you know, we got post 9-11, you know, GI Bill. Oh, I got TA I can use now so I can actually go to school. I got this. CLEP courses, I can tell you, like they fly instructors on deployment while we're here. You know what I'm saying?
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
Oh, man. South Carolina, I guess. We are both South Carolinians. South Carolinians. I know you easily, I'm from Orangeburg, so it's not too far. But yeah, man, grew up in Orangeburg, South Carolina. You know, both of my parents, man, my dad, man, was a success in Orangeburg, you know, with the police force, but also with the help in the community, you know.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
To CLEP a course, CLEP a math, CLEP a science. So, yeah, it's just now they find out these avenues and ways, all these search you can get. So they got all these avenues that they probably haven't even seen. You get what I'm saying? Now they're exposed to it. So now they'll take advantage, you know, while they're in, go to school or, you know, they're off of sea duty or whatever, deployment.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
So they're on the shore duty now. A little easy, a little laid back. So they can go to school and get their associates or they have enough schools within the military. They got their associates already. So now they need a couple of credits for a bachelor. So you get seen all these things now. And you're taking on responsibility. You're taking on challenges.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
You're getting put in unusual situations. And then you got to adapt and you got to overcome. So, yeah, you know, I tell them all the time, like, look, keep it short, brief. Make the PowerPoints just basic, you know what I'm saying, information. If you have a manual, if you have a big PowerPoint that describes the whole system. Have it there where they can access it.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
You know, they know we know table of contents. We can look it up and say, OK, well, we don't know this. OK, we look at the table of contents. OK, here. So it's got to be under here. Look it up. OK, because eventually they're going to train each other on each thing. I'm telling you, it's like it's like the norm. Right. You know, we're going to have to know a little bit about everybody else position.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
So it's going to happen. But I always tell them it's not the us that try to give them everything. Teach them to give them the raw, the basics. Let's do this hands-on training. Let's show them what it does. And then after that, you know, hey, here's a book. Here's PowerPoint. Goes by each thing. And then that's it.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
My favorite college football team. Yeah. South Carolina Gamecocks. They don't play football there. So who's your favorite?
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
I know you're, yeah, oh my God, yeah. And don't even talk about them, you know?
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
It's not North. Let me try that. This is not North Carolina. Hey, listen. My college basketball team is the Gamecocks, man. The Gamecocks.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
She was legit. I remember seeing her. We used to play for the Charlotte Stings, man. I was right there. Sitting right behind her mom, God bless her soul.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
And she just running. Oh, man, she was something else, man. But her mentality is barred to none, man. She just... You get what I'm saying? Like, she's a people's person, first of all. She's a player's coach. You know what I mean? Like, she gonna coach you and she gonna guide you in the right direction and give you this and that, but... You know, players coach.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
I gained all my accolades from him as me being by him as he was doing the Junior Olympic team with the late, great Orangeburg chef Papa Johnson. They had the Junior Olympic team. They had a bunch of athletes, man, like such as like the Terry guesses, Henry guesses, William Graham's. Who else?
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
You know, if you got a coach, they can approach you for anything. And I believe them girls can approach her with anything. I mean, any problems, like personal problems. And Dawn, she'll just... Answer it or find the answer or, you know, it's just a good culture there, you know, and we need that in South Carolina. We definitely needed that.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
And I hope I get I'm thinking is gravitating towards the men's basketball team, too, because they had a pretty good season. They're growing young coach, too. So they're growing.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
Don't let me trip. You remember BJ Mackey. He used to whip up on, you know, Terrell McIntyre and all them. So let me try or matter of fact, I'm not a Clemson guy. Oh yeah. But matter of fact, yeah. where Antoine Jamison and all them boys just whip up on y'all. So I'm gonna be true.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
Listen. That ain't happening. We just whip up on them boys, you know? And you know what? I'm gonna say that other teams up north. I remember a player with one of my good friends, Harold Jamison, they beat you Tar Heels. I remember. I got the clip. I sure do. I should play it. I should play it over here.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
Oh, my God.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
So the two things you should be doing daily is learning something new every day. And it's investing in something. In something. I don't care if you don't know it. Find somebody. That knows it. But investing in something because, you know, savings, great. That could be an emergency fund.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
But, you know, the way the economy and stuff is right now, you want to just invest in something that pay yourself. How about that?
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
Yeah.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
Yeah, right.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
I know I'm missing a lot, but just a few of the names, man, that ran on that track team went all over the United States, competed, broke records. So, you know, me seeing that and him coaching football for Brookdale B team and seeing all the athletes that came from there, him just helping in the community. For example, Shelton Benjamin, you know, he helped him a lot, you know, in his accolades.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
Exactly.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
Most definitely, you know, and shout out to Prince Dice, man. When I got here to Colorado, you know, checked in and everything and everybody was like, yeah, man, it's this guy, man.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
I said, uh, I wonder who this guy is. So checking in and I'm coming in. I was like, I saw a guy walk down here and say, Hey, what's going on, man? How you doing? How you doing? And start asking people questions just randomly. He's just come on and asked me this question. So what did Jerome Powell say to them? What do you think entry rates are? What do you think this guy's going to do?
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
And I'm looking, I said, he said, Oh yeah, man, you're a new guy. He said, yeah, man, I'm Prince. I said,
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
I said, oh, man. I said, I can relate to you. And then ever since then, ever since then, Mesh, you know, every time he'll come, hey. You need to watch this. And then you come back tomorrow, you tell me what you think. You know, he just come in with random questions. He had to do it. You know?
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
And, you know, some people, they look at him like he was like, huh, like, and laugh like he didn't know nothing or whatever. But he was humble. He acted like he knew it all. He just asked questions. And now, look at him. You see what I'm saying? That man is doing everything in the book. Now, you talk about a networker. That's a networker.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
And he always picked at me and told me, he called me, like, out a promoter or out a networker. But, you know, he has a lot of network. You know what I mean? He be around a lot of great folks. So being in that circle now today, you know, I always tell him, hey, man, appreciate it. You know, like, because, you know, anything that I can bring to the table, I bring it.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
And then he put me in the same circle, like, hey, look, you need to come here. you know what I'm saying, introduce yourself. You know, like I think the first, man, I did a podcast, man. I was so like nervous and so this anxiety acting, you know, this, I wouldn't like in a picture, I wouldn't smile. I always had to look like this tough. You know, I wouldn't even smile or anything.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
I wouldn't, or brother, I wouldn't even talk to people like that. You know what I'm saying? But being around him and I always had these resources, but it's being around him, man. You know, seeing him just talk, going into a crowd, speaking, just networking, man. Yeah, he taught me a lot of stuff, you know what I'm saying? So big shout out to him.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
You know, he don't know that he kind of like gravitate me towards this, but yeah, he did because, you know, I seen somebody that I can relate to that is learning the same thing, learning, learning, investing. I mean, got his MBA while I was in the military, got his, you know, all his accolades. to do these type of stuff. So yeah, shout out to him, man.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
You know, he gave me the confidence of like, hey, networking, introducing, just doing this and doing that. Always had it. And I used it sometimes, but not as much as I'm doing it now, so.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
through his childhood, and Sheldon had to talk highly about, you know, my dad and stuff like that. I think he did a documentary with WWE at one point, and my dad was on it. I didn't realize it. Yo, young, young guy, had hair still. But yeah, just following his steps, you know, him helping kids and stuff like that.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
We didn't talk about some of the advice you give. We did. We did. But I want to ask you one question. Let's go. Because, you know, I always ask people this. So how is your mental?
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
Exactly. And that's why I call people, check on people who are just – Out of the blue, you know what I'm saying? Like, I know they're busy, but I just like call their phone. If I see a message come back, say, hey, I'm in a meeting. Okay, they're good. Or I'm doing this. Okay, they're fine.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
You know, just to make sure they're good, you know, because mental is very important, especially in anything that you do. You got to use the mental aspect to make rash decisions, you know, and to make important decisions. So, yeah, man, I just had to ask that because I always just ask that, man. I just want to make sure everything is great. I know the podcast is doing great. I love the content.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
I love what you're doing. And like I told you, man, anybody, I'm bringing them because you started from down. Now you're on the rise and you're right there. So, man, commend you. Proud of you. especially a fellow Sakhalinian, showing kids and residents in Sakhalin that, you know, people can come from small towns or, you know, situations and it's turned into magic. So, appreciate it.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
If you want to find me on Instagram, I'm Alan. A-L-E-N underscore Williams, W-I-L-L-I-A-M-S, 45. I have my LinkedIn profile, Alan Williams. Also my Facebook, Alan Williams. And also a shout out to the Global Children's Financial Literacy Foundation. You can Google them. Please donate if you can. Those books, those proceeds go to children. We give them a...
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
first-time shareholders of the S&P 500 index fund. Also, shout out to my boy Ricky Sapp, the Ricky Sapp Foundation. You can Google that as well. He's doing big things. I know he's trying to do a trunk-a-treat coming up and then giving away turkeys. He's doing it different this year. I think he's going to give away turkeys that's Families that are in need.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
So, you know, did sports, played at Edisto High, played Little League football in Orangeburg as well. You know, all a bunch of Little League teams there. From there, you know, after football, you know, I decided I wanted to, you know, get out. You know, I wanted to see something else. So, you know, the Navy guys came to the high school and they were talking this good old deal.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
And then also that money goes towards, you know, his children's book. Also, it goes towards, you know, his football camps and things that he does around the community. He loves giving back. Yeah. So those two foundations, man, Global Children's Financial Leadership Foundation and the Ricky South Foundation. Go ahead and... You know, give a little something, donate. Nonprofits, both of them.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
And doing things in the community. And if you Google them, you can see what they do. You can see what they achieve.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
Like, yeah, we went here. So I was like, try this Navy thing, give it a shot. So joined the Navy in 2001. Matter of fact, it was the week after September 11th happened. So it was crazy. Yeah. So 2001, did my boot camp. I graduated, went to A school in November in Virginia Beach, graduated from there. And I flew straight to deployment, man. I think I had like 10 days home to come home.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
Yeah, 10 days. And then I flew straight to deployment. So I flew into the action. which was very interesting. Landed in Bahrain, then took a card onto a carrier, which was a first-time experience. But yeah, man, after that, man, I traveled all over the world, lived in three different countries.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
And then my last cent decided me that I could play pro football over there, so I did that for three years while I was serving. Met a lot of great people over there. And then I came here to Colorado, retired, had like a two months hiatus, just a little break. And then Lockheed Martin hired me on as a scene and test engineer and interrogator. So I was blessed with that and I'm continuing to do that.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
First of all, discipline, growing up early, taking responsibility early. Second thing is adaptation because we learned to adapt to anything. What's the two things you should be doing daily? Learning something new every day and just investing in something, in something.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
But I also continue to like help around the community here in Denver, the Denver Broncos Boys and Girls Club, Global Literacy Foundation, which kind of ambassador on that. One of my good friends, Prince Dice and co-founder Chad, Chadwick Davis founded a nonprofit, which we give kids first time shareholders of the S&P 500 index fund. So he has four book series.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
The kids has to read the books, do an essay. And he reads every essay and coordinate, you know, the funds we have for donation. It could be one kid or two kids, maybe three kids. So me being a part of that, I love it. Giving back, I love helping the kids. I feel, you know, they're a model and what we need to do is kids need to have like something
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
in their accounts when they graduate high school but you know the hardest thing is is making the parents believe because you know a lot of parents don't understand you know investing and stuff like that so um they're looking for hey 520 something dollars or where's the cash but they don't know that hey we just gave your kid the top 500 companies in the united states so yes sir they can make
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
money as they go in the years if you keep adding on, if you keep putting in, you know, stuff like that. So that's the hard part. But other than that, it's fun. I'm having a good time doing it with my job currently with Lockheed, having a great time, great company, very diverse company. Yeah. So that's a little bit about me.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
The guys, the recruiters coming in, you know, they were honest. I didn't have a recruiter that was, none of the recruiters was like telling me this, telling me that, just trying to get me in, but they were just honest. And I go to other recruiting offices such as, you know, Army, Marines and other, you know, I can tell like, okay, this is, this don't sound right, but
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
You know, the Navy was, like, very honest. Like, hey, man, you're going to have some hard days. You're going to have some deployments. You're going to work some hard hours. But I guarantee you this, man, it's going to get you out. You can see the world. You can have an education. Or you can get an education. You're getting paid every two weeks. The average...
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
kid don't get paid especially in college but you can still go to college and still get paid you know we have ta assistance and all that stuff so they were like just break it down in their gritty and he was like hey look if i were you pick a job you know what i'm saying like uh if you really don't know then you want to go on designated but i'm telling you like this here like you know undesignated you know you'll be in a deck a deck department you probably be doing a little bit of everything
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
probably gonna be hard work but you don't want to do that so you want to come in here have a job so you want to do as good as on your ass valve as possible i know because you know back then we all sit in the auditorium you had to take an ass valve but i retook mine you know i mean so he was like yo just get the best score pick a job try to get a job with a clearance if you can and then
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
And when I told him what I want to do, he was like, hey, well, this right here does a little bit of everything. But, you know, he's telling me what I don't qualify for and stuff like that. So I was like, cool. So they were honest. But, you know, looking inside, like, you know, they do more traveling.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
They got me out, you know, to see something different, you know, instead of just staying back at home, but to see something different, man. So I'm, you know, I signed myself up, you know, because I turned 18 and, you know, my mom, she was like, I'm not going to do it. So I was like, look, I'm signing myself up. Now my mom today is like, man, that's the best decision you ever made, man.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
She's like, so proud of you. Best decision. Yeah.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
Yeah. Don't get me wrong. I took the dinners from the other branches. Don't get me wrong. I wasn't that naive. You know, everybody made dinner. I took it. There you go.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
Oh, man. First of all, discipline, because soon you go to boot camp in the Navy, so they don't break you down and stuff. So all mental discipline. So a lot of mental and just knowing yourself, growing up, growing up early, taking responsibility early. You know, when you get certain ranks and stuff like that, you get to get your own apartment.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
So, you know, own stuff, own, you know, whatever you're going to do. So it teaches you how to... Maintain and be by yourself, hold your ground, and just be a man or a woman. Take on responsibilities, important responsibilities on your job. Because a lot of those guys, man, we either monitor or we either operate on million-dollar equipment, so... You know, it teaches you, you know, that aspect.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
Second thing is I want to say adaptation because we learn to adapt to anything that is put in front of us. So we get put in the fire, but we just got to figure it out. I know a lot of people, you know, it's a lot of bookworms that's in the military, too. Or they come in as bookworms. But at the end of the day, you know, they got to learn how to think, think on the school, think fast and execute.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
So that's one thing like this adapting, you know, change the transition, this change of scenery. change of learning a new thing, a new equipment. So that's the main thing, you know, that I'm grateful for. And I'm going to add a third one, networking, because I travel around. So we've met a lot of people everywhere I go, every country or whatever, or state, you know, networking.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
And military is very tight knit. You know, it's a different community. A lot of people don't realize that, you know, you can tell like in the civilian sector, you know, but vice the military sector, like we're just very close knit. You know, somebody back at your first duty station, they're here visiting or they're just here on vacation. You find out they're here.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
Hey, you know, you just, hey man, you know, and then it's like, like back to square one again. hey, man, come over here, man. Let's go get lunch. Come to the house, you know? Very close-knit.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
Yeah.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
You know, so why? The question, why did I do that? Because, you know, everybody, you know, needs... you know, helping hand. So I always been that person. Like if I don't withhold information, cause you know, information has been withhold for, for a long time, you know? So if I, if I know it or if I could find out about it, I'm trying to make it happen.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
If I can't make it happen, then I'll let you know. Hey, look, I tried this, I tried that, tried all my avenues, but it just couldn't happen, you know? The reason why it's important is because people just be selfish a lot, you know, in this society today.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
So me and my good friend Prince, we always say this, back when we was growing up, me and you, Mick, Prince, at that era, the world had less information, right? So if you didn't go and find out or if you didn't know about it,
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
just didn't know the world today has too much information so it can smother the brain but you have to know which is what right so there's so much information throwing at people so if you got a person like myself or anybody else who's a networker that can guide you to say hey look go this route or hey know this person or know that person because you got all the information just fluttering in.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
Now, you don't know which way to gravitate. You'd be like, okay, should I go here? Should I go here? Or should I go here? But you have a person that knows this area or just know this person and knowing that, hey, look, what you're doing could help you. Yeah. You got to have those people. You get what I'm saying? And a lot of these kids today, they got to have those people.
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Allen Williams | Allen Williams Journey: Financial Wisdom, Mentorship, Sports, and Military Insights
They got to find the right people to be in their circle, the right people that's growing with them or the right people that's guiding them in the right direction. Because so much information pouring in today. Right. So you got to have that. Hey, go here. Go here. I guarantee you. Go here. Yeah. This guy is knocking at your door. But look, I know this guy. Go here.