Michael Stone
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827 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2011
last heard Nov 2015
Michael Stone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So what we want to do is we want to do the job of focusing on it
and
connect to the league so that they can use us as a resource to send athletes through our curriculum.
I would say my most surprising discovery is how detailed of an instruction manual that you actually have.
You know, it's not often that, you know, as an entrepreneur, you know, somebody says, here, you can have my idea.
I just want a piece of it as you make money with it.
And, you know, coming out of sports, you know, I was an entrepreneur of sorts.
I owned a few stores, clothing stores.
And I look back and I look at all of the work I had to do to learn, you know, HR, operations, creating different structures within the organization.
I had
all.
And as I looked at franchising, I was like, wow, this is impressive how much is actually there for you as a resource.
And I think, you know, all that's really asked of you is to execute.
I'm meeting a lot of athletes in the franchise industry now, so that's another thing I'm shocked about, how many athletes are involved in the industry.
And the story is the same with all of them.
They enjoy the fact that it's very similar to existence as an athlete.
You have your playbook in front of you.
A lot of the guys that I know I wouldn't say are superstars.
And I think, to be honest, I think the best franchisees may not be the superstars, but the best franchisees may be the guys that
that made a good bit of money, that are disciplined, that are in their franchise every day and are present and have worked their franchise.
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