Brock Johnson

I feel very lucky that a lot of people had to convince their parents that they could pursue this entrepreneurship thing and not go to college or drop out of college or not do the traditional nine-to-five route.

My parents from day one were like, hey, don't go to college unless you have to.

Don't do the nine-to-five route.

Don't work corporate.

Start your own business.

But growing up, it was very monkey see, monkey do.

So my parents have

owned dozens of businesses throughout my life and in a wide variety of verticals, fitness businesses, certification businesses, apparel businesses.

And so growing up, we weren't sitting around the dinner table talking about KPIs and revenue goals, but we were able to watch.

My sister and I were both able to just soak up a lot of

lessons from my parents and see the pros and the cons of what it's like to own your own business.

But yeah, my mom's like an OG in the business influencer space.

She had hundreds of thousands of Instagram followers before anyone knew what an Instagram influencer even was.

And so it was definitely a unique way to grow up with a mom who was in the spotlight and who was on social media and who owned these businesses.

But I'm so lucky because I was able to learn through her and through watching her and just so much growing up in the family that I did.

That was the goal, yeah.

Yeah, this is such a great question.

And I appreciate how much research you've done.

It was my goal.

It was my dream to play in the NFL.