Eric Wood

Eric, thank you so much for being here today.

All right, Eric, so digging into your background, and I'm always blown away by this, and I don't know why.

I'm 48 years old.

I should not be surprised by this.

I see someone as successful as you are, you know, the top .001% of men in the world that can make it to the NFL at the level that you were playing at.

And I just think you must have been born successful.

This incredible athlete that came out from day one and everyone knew you were going to be this pro choice.

But when I dug into your background, it seemed like at least in high school, it didn't appear like you were going to be the all-star that you ended up being.

Was that the case?

It's so true.

The struggle ends up being the gift, although it doesn't seem like that in the moment, for sure.

So tell me for you mentally, what was it like going from high school where you weren't this shoo-in to now you're playing at the collegiate level?

And how were you able to get yourself to that next level so quickly?

were you that person that was saying to yourself years before that happened?

I know this is going to happen.

I know I'm going to make it.

Or were you that person that was surprised by it happening?

So do you call that manifestation?

What do you call that?

So that became one of your strategies to continue to create more success was to really focus on a visual?