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Luke Lunkenheimer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2139 total appearances

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Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Bank Robber to Sales Success: Luke Lunkenheimer's Journey of Redemption and Resilience

We discovered in my senior year that I could throw the ball very well. So I became a quarterback. I got some looks from nothing crazy, a couple Division II schools, but enough to get my schooling paid for. Division II schools can't give an athletic scholarship, so the fact that I was a scholar-athlete and I was a good athlete, it was a good pairing.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Bank Robber to Sales Success: Luke Lunkenheimer's Journey of Redemption and Resilience

We discovered in my senior year that I could throw the ball very well. So I became a quarterback. I got some looks from nothing crazy, a couple Division II schools, but enough to get my schooling paid for. Division II schools can't give an athletic scholarship, so the fact that I was a scholar-athlete and I was a good athlete, it was a good pairing.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Bank Robber to Sales Success: Luke Lunkenheimer's Journey of Redemption and Resilience

We discovered in my senior year that I could throw the ball very well. So I became a quarterback. I got some looks from nothing crazy, a couple Division II schools, but enough to get my schooling paid for. Division II schools can't give an athletic scholarship, so the fact that I was a scholar-athlete and I was a good athlete, it was a good pairing.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Bank Robber to Sales Success: Luke Lunkenheimer's Journey of Redemption and Resilience

Very quickly, when I got injured, got my shoulder dislocated in a game, which was my throwing shoulder, very quickly learned that the politics of Division II athletics, you can very easily get an athletic-esque academic scholarship there, but you can just as easily lose that even though it's an academic scholarship.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Bank Robber to Sales Success: Luke Lunkenheimer's Journey of Redemption and Resilience

Very quickly, when I got injured, got my shoulder dislocated in a game, which was my throwing shoulder, very quickly learned that the politics of Division II athletics, you can very easily get an athletic-esque academic scholarship there, but you can just as easily lose that even though it's an academic scholarship.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Bank Robber to Sales Success: Luke Lunkenheimer's Journey of Redemption and Resilience

Very quickly, when I got injured, got my shoulder dislocated in a game, which was my throwing shoulder, very quickly learned that the politics of Division II athletics, you can very easily get an athletic-esque academic scholarship there, but you can just as easily lose that even though it's an academic scholarship.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Bank Robber to Sales Success: Luke Lunkenheimer's Journey of Redemption and Resilience

When you blow your shoulder apart. Oh, really? It's a tough phone call to their athletic director. Like, how can you take away my scholarship? Well, you know, geez, it's a combination. It's a constellation of things.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Bank Robber to Sales Success: Luke Lunkenheimer's Journey of Redemption and Resilience

When you blow your shoulder apart. Oh, really? It's a tough phone call to their athletic director. Like, how can you take away my scholarship? Well, you know, geez, it's a combination. It's a constellation of things.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Bank Robber to Sales Success: Luke Lunkenheimer's Journey of Redemption and Resilience

When you blow your shoulder apart. Oh, really? It's a tough phone call to their athletic director. Like, how can you take away my scholarship? Well, you know, geez, it's a combination. It's a constellation of things.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Bank Robber to Sales Success: Luke Lunkenheimer's Journey of Redemption and Resilience

So imagine you're this young kid who had his meal ticket, right, and you were going to get out, and you liked the school, and you were ready to go, and now all of a sudden it's just the rug's been pulled out from underneath you.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Bank Robber to Sales Success: Luke Lunkenheimer's Journey of Redemption and Resilience

So imagine you're this young kid who had his meal ticket, right, and you were going to get out, and you liked the school, and you were ready to go, and now all of a sudden it's just the rug's been pulled out from underneath you.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Bank Robber to Sales Success: Luke Lunkenheimer's Journey of Redemption and Resilience

So imagine you're this young kid who had his meal ticket, right, and you were going to get out, and you liked the school, and you were ready to go, and now all of a sudden it's just the rug's been pulled out from underneath you.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Bank Robber to Sales Success: Luke Lunkenheimer's Journey of Redemption and Resilience

This was how I was gonna get to college.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Bank Robber to Sales Success: Luke Lunkenheimer's Journey of Redemption and Resilience

This was how I was gonna get to college.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Bank Robber to Sales Success: Luke Lunkenheimer's Journey of Redemption and Resilience

This was how I was gonna get to college.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Bank Robber to Sales Success: Luke Lunkenheimer's Journey of Redemption and Resilience

And it was like my scholarship went for, it was like a $31,000 a year school. I had a 29.5 scholarship. I had to come up with like 1500 bucks. And it went to like a $6,000 scholarship. So directly out of reach.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Bank Robber to Sales Success: Luke Lunkenheimer's Journey of Redemption and Resilience

And it was like my scholarship went for, it was like a $31,000 a year school. I had a 29.5 scholarship. I had to come up with like 1500 bucks. And it went to like a $6,000 scholarship. So directly out of reach.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Bank Robber to Sales Success: Luke Lunkenheimer's Journey of Redemption and Resilience

And it was like my scholarship went for, it was like a $31,000 a year school. I had a 29.5 scholarship. I had to come up with like 1500 bucks. And it went to like a $6,000 scholarship. So directly out of reach.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Bank Robber to Sales Success: Luke Lunkenheimer's Journey of Redemption and Resilience

So at this point, you know, it's kind of like, you know, breaks and screeching halts and the record coming off the, or the pin coming off the record sound effects, just like this holy shit moment. So. I had to come up with a plan. The plan was I was going to go sell cars because that's what my family was known for, my family was good at. My father had experienced success doing that.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Bank Robber to Sales Success: Luke Lunkenheimer's Journey of Redemption and Resilience

So at this point, you know, it's kind of like, you know, breaks and screeching halts and the record coming off the, or the pin coming off the record sound effects, just like this holy shit moment. So. I had to come up with a plan. The plan was I was going to go sell cars because that's what my family was known for, my family was good at. My father had experienced success doing that.