Sean Kelly

And I made a contract.

It felt weird for me to ask for money.

I felt like I was asking for money.

But a guy, a mentor of mine –

kind of put in perspective that like that contract was my product that's what i was like selling to these companies you know just like you have sponsors attention yeah you know yeah i didn't think of it that way as an athlete or what i was doing and i did that and it worked and i was like holy shit i'm actually gonna be able to like like be a pro skimboarder right now and then um

Previous genocides.

got a manager eventually read who I met that, that year.

And he was just kind of helping me like kind of be a middleman for companies I was trying to leverage.

And he was just kind of helping me for a couple of years.

And eventually things started doing better and better.

And, uh, he had long story short, he had other people ask him to kind of manage him.

And I was like, dude, you need to quit your job and do your own thing.

He's so valuable, you know?

And, uh,

So sought after for like just just a relationship guy, you know, and so, yeah, just leverage that.

And, you know, my original goal back in Georgia was just to make a living, do what I love to do, you know, escape that box that I lived in.

You know, I lived in this like.

It just kind of felt like a dead end.

I grew up very religious.

I grew up around blue collar, just kind of grow up doing the same thing everybody else is doing.