Brandon Bennett

Count money, man.

Money, man.

Stacked riches.

I'm trying to told him I'm a beast, but...

What's up, gang?

Welcome back to another episode of The Grindcast.

Get ready.

It's a new day and we have a special guest in the house.

We have my man Bennett in the house.

You know, when I was young coming up, I don't know if they did this to you guys, a new

castle, but they would say, my name's Bennett and I ain't in it.

Well, his name is Bennett and he is all up in it.

He is the number one producer from 2022 in our whole organization last year.

He was hired in November of 2021 and he broke our all-time record last year in production.

So welcome, Bennett, in the house, $361,000 a net AOP last year.

And first off, let's give people a little bit of background about you.

Tell us, you know, how old are you?

What you're up bringing was like where you're from all that.

Yes, sir.

Well, first thank you for having me on this.

But some originally from Newcastle, PA.

I went to Schneggle High School, so township school in Newcastle.

My parents went to Newcastle, so they sent me to the township school.

But love, did it work out for me?

Basketball was my thing in high school and that golf, I was a golfer too.

But I think my upbringing...

I heard you were a good basketball player too.

I heard you were pretty good.

Short guy.

Yeah, just like you.

One time for the short people.

But I think sports come into this business a lot.

So my upbringing was, yeah, I have really good parents, so I thank them a lot.

Great parents.

Great people had an opportunity to meet them.

So they really...

It was just, I knew whatever I did in life, I wanted to own my own business.

So there's a good story behind it.

Bird on the run, is it...

You know, chicken joint in Pittsburgh?

No.

So it's this chicken place in Shadyside, or at the Chatham.

Is it good?

Yeah, it's good.

Because we're giving them some free publicity here.

True good.

So, okay, so it's good.

Yeah.

Okay, Shadyside.

Yeah, and they go on the run.

Chicken wings?

Yeah.

Chicken tenders, chicken sandwiches all that stuff.

Okay.

I'm gonna have to go down there.

Yeah, I like Shadyside.

I was in contact with the owner.

I wanted to open my own...

I wanted to franchise something, right?

Okay.

But I didn't know, like, I was just trying to own my own something.

Yes.

I wanted to own my own boss.

I hated having...

I always told my parents, I don't want a boss.

You know what I'm saying?

I'm my own boss.

But with my dad going in contact with him, and then...

We just kind of...

I was in school.

We were going back and forth, and...

I just started working here.

I was in school when I started working here.

That's kind of like...

So you were in college?

Yes.

Okay.

And then I know some of the story, but why don't you tell us how do we meet you?

How do you meet us?

Where do we find you?

Some about smoking a cigarette, I don't know.

Yeah.

So, Joey, Cruevelli, we're from the same hometown.

It's crazy.

We both had a good friend who kind of referred me in kind of, got me in touch with Joey

and like two days later, I ended up seeing Joey on a North Shore at Pittsburgh, at Tequila.

Tequila Cowboy.

So, we're down there.

And...

So Tequila Cowboys for...

Because not all our listeners are in Pittsburgh.

So you weren't seeing Joey drinking Tequila.

You were at Tequila Cowboys.

It's like a bar in Pittsburgh.

Yeah.

Okay, got you.

So, it's summer.

Yeah, it's like...

End of summer.

So, just got back to school.

I'm there with like 20 of my friends from Newcastle, right?

Just having a good time.

I went out a lot, three days a week, two days a week, did whatever.

But we're out on that...

40% of the week?

Yeah, yeah.

That's to get on the weekends.

But there's an outdoor patio, so we're always outside.

Okay, you could smoke, drink, do whatever out there.

So...

I see...

There's a McLaren out there, right?

I see it early in the night.

And then I end up seeing Joey.

And later now I know the story.

Joey's telling Brody like, we gotta go over there.

I know a bunch of cats over there.

So Joey ends up coming over there.

I start talking to Joey.

We start talking about the business.

And then I watch Joey get into the McLaren.

And I'm like, the hell?

He's from Newcastle.

How's he in that?

But that's how...

Were you smoking a cigarette?

I was, yeah, yeah.

What, do you remember what kind of cigarette it was?

It had to be a mental.

Okay.

I didn't like the other ones.

Okay.

That's always what I did.

See, I bet you see now, we're not saying everybody should be smoking cigarettes.

You don't smoke cigarettes anymore, right?

But imagine people say, you shouldn't be smoking cigarettes.

If you wasn't outside smoking that cigarette, we might not be having this podcast with you

right now.

Glad you quit.

But see that?

See that?

My mom's a smoke of cigarettes.

That's the one time for the smokers for you.

All right.

So that's how so you met Joey.

There, Joey got into McLaren.

He said, how the hell is this cat getting into McLaren?

Was it the orange McLaren?

Yeah, bro.

Okay.

And he's from Newcastle.

All right, then what happened?

It was like a week later, her night, all evening, a week, a couple days later, Joey hit

me up to come into the office.

I was like, all right, I'll come to the office.

How were you?

I was 22.

22, okay.

Yep.

He told me come in the office and then I enrolled into the course.

Now here's the thing.

The course took me a while.

I used to play games a lot.

Like it was too busy to, I used to tell my mom, it was too busy to go to work.

But I've changed a lot.

Just crazy.

You're going to hear some crazy stuff.

But it was just like, we hit it off since then.

It wasn't like it took us a while.

I was talking to him and then, Joey, how long did it take you to get through the classes?

A month and a half.

Wow.

So, we got to be patient with people.

Took you a month and a half.

I was in school.

So you were BS in a lot.

In school, partying, playing games, stuff like that.

The fingerprints, you know, we scheduled to get our fingerprints.

I missed my appointment with some over the next day.

I knew you were going to say that.

11 a, it was 11 or noon.

Thank you.

I was sleeping.

Joey, you know, I missed my fingerprints.

He's probably thinking this dude can't make it.

But yeah, that's one of the good stories I got.

That's why I am patient with people with the pre-licensing stuff to come to work here.

Because we help change the folks' lives.

So you had a lot of success.

I want to talk about how you've developed personally because obviously that's not how

you are anymore.

So how did you transition into the business?

How did you do it?

What do you say?

How were you able to transition into the business?

How fast and also how fast did it take you to get good?

I think I was already ready.

I think I just needed something to do it for me.

I was at the point where I quit.

I didn't play college basketball in my senior year.

And I think I was ready for something like this.

So it was ASAP for me.

Soon as I got in here, you know, you had to memorize the script.

Evan got the script done.

Evan Pinkerton got it done in like a week or two.

And then my first full month, I did 15K.

Hey, LP, 15K net.

So you got good quick.

Yeah.

It was December of 2021.

Yeah.

That's what it was then.

Yep.

December 21.

Yep.

But yeah, I had the mindset of everything.

So your first month, you would have made 8 grand.

I did.

Yeah, yeah.

First month.

Yep.

And then you had to do it in Pinkerton.

Sports, man, I haven't hated each other.

Okay.

Hated each other.

So was he already here?

No, it was like the same exact timing.

Same time, but you didn't introduce him to the company.

He was already coming.

Yeah, right.

And you hated each other.

Well, in high school, we didn't hate each other after high school.

Like high school sports rivals.

I thought they were, he was a dirty player, grabbing my shirt.

I could see Pink being a dirty player, grabbing somebody shirt too.

But they were, he was a real good athlete.

And then the school was pink at Union.

Okay.

Hem and Joey, same like school.

Okay.

Yeah.

I heard Joey can make some threes.

He can.

Okay.

I don't know if he can.

Yeah.

But he could.

He can't do more.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He went all in on the business.

Yeah.

But I know back in the day, he was supposed to be a clip from behind the arc.

He was good.

Okay.

So you got good quick.

Why do you think you got good quick?

Why do you think you caught on quick?

I'm a highly motivated individual.

So I think, you know, I wanted to run my own business.

You know, I was willing to bet on myself.

So I think that had a lot to do with it.

I had like a point to prove.

And honestly, I was looking for money.

Like, I was money motivated when I first came in here.

Like, I used to gamble a lot.

So like, I knew I called people money.

Nothing crazy.

Yeah.

It was like five, six hundred, seven hundred dollars.

But they were like my friends.

They, you know, I'm saying, I could have waited a year.

They would have, they would have took the head for me.

But it's just like, when I seen like what you can actually make here,

like, I was like, this shit, is it?

How the hell is this real for four grand a week?

He's 20.

So like, I had the same experience.

Yeah.

It was like, what is actually possible?

Like, when I first came in, I was like, I seen Braden Cameron and Demetri Pendro.

They were GAs when I came in.

And I was like, how the hell am I ever going to make it to one of them?

Or they might have been essays even.

Don't matter.

They were in management.

I was like, how, how do you even get there?

You know what I'm saying?

And then I constantly had Joey on my ass about writing business,

doing this, coaching me hard, yelling, screaming, making sure I'm doing the right stuff.

There's a real good story about that.

When I first started, I had some business falling off.

So it was late one night.

I don't know what day it was, but it was like my first or second month here.

He took me in Brody's office to talk to me.

And Sam Marzole was in there, right?

So I, he wanted me to have good retention, good writing, good business,

making sure people can afford it.

Yelling and screaming about writing good business.

The whole office was hearing it.

Going up to Brody's window.

Everything good in there.

And now I look back on that.

And it's just like, that's what I needed.

That's the coaching I need to be good.

But I always thank him for it.

What, what did it take to break the all-time record?

Like what, what, what is that?

If somebody's listening in and they're like, man, I admire that.

I admire you.

I'd like to break the record one day.

That's a huge number.

Yeah.

How did you go about it?

What, what, what did you do?

What would you tell them it requires?

What did it take?

What sacrifices?

It definitely required, required a lot.

But here's the thing about it.

I didn't start thinking about that until like September.

Like late in the year.

Yeah, like I had no like knowledge.

I was even good at like I had a chance to break the record.

What never came through my mind until the end of September.

We were mapping out October.

And I was like, you know, I'm hopefully going to write 60K in October.

And then we are looking because the second chance qualification for 2022 to go to Vegas.

I finished number one out of like however many people.

I was at like the first quarter.

So basically for the second chance qualification for people that don't know what they did as they said for the first quarter of the year.

Yeah.

For our company convention.

If you didn't make it last year, we have some open spots and they ran a contest for it for new people.

Like yourself because you couldn't qualify.

You were only here for a month.

Right.

Or people that were here and they had a couple spots open for them if they did good.

Okay. So you resumed in on making it to convention.

Yeah. So that was a big thing when I first started.

And then I finished number one.

I was like 120 K net after the first quarter.

Which January February March.

And then I didn't really think about breaking the record.

It really came to mind in October.

And then I was like, well, I got to break it.

I don't have a choice.

I'll do anything to.

So.

I skipped two vacations.

I did a Brody's trip.

We had a trip to Utah.

What the team with the team.

Yep.

I ended up skipping that.

Because I figured listen, I always build a go to Utah, but I might never get a chance to break the record.

So I skipped that qualified to go to Calbo.

I had to miss that because that was in November.

So that was really crunch time.

And I knew I probably could have did vote.

So that was our agency contest, right?

Yep.

So both of those vacations were agency contest.

The one Brody ran in Utah, which I heard that place was sick.

It was unbelievable.

And then the Cabo contest.

That was also an agency contest.

So you were winning those.

So you won the trips.

And then skip the trips to go break the record.

That's savage.

Yeah.

But it was how much money did you make last year?

$311,000.

In real money.

Real money.

It came into your account.

Yep.

Check cash and all that.

Crazy, bro.

Yeah.

It's crazy.

How old?

23?

23.

23 years old, bro.

Just turn 23 now.

Unbelievable.

Yeah.

Unbelievable.

More than me.

Your own pace, brother.

Your own pace.

You will.

Just keep the work ethic up.

Yeah.

So, key traits, man.

What key traits would you say for people coming into our business now that you've had?

What do you got now?

You got about a year and a half, not quite?

Yeah.

14, 15 months.

What traits would you say, really just a little bit over a year then?

So what traits would you say have you noticed in people that do well in our business,

or if there's people listening and saying, well, what would it take for me to be good?

What type of person is good at what we do?

Yeah.

I would, we use those three traits all the time.

Hardworking, coachable, disciplined.

It breaks down into a lot more than just that because you have your day-to-day stuff,

the macro stuff, to where, like, this job really is hard.

Like, I tell all my new people.

But wasn't a little bit hard, you can't make three-

111,000 at 23.

But ain't that hard.

That's, well, I always tell my new people, if it was easy,

everyone would do it.

Right.

Because who want them like to make that money at 23?

Right.

It would be great.

Everybody wants to.

Right.

But, you know, I cut a lot of, I didn't really cut my friends off.

I just had to distance myself.

Like one out three days a week.

It was more so I had the traits when I came here.

It was just separating yourself.

But I've always been a hard worker with sports.

That's what leveled me up into this business of just grinding my ass off constantly.

Um, so if they're hard working, discipline, coachable, you think they have a good chance

of being successful.

That's facts.

Pretty much it.

It's you don't, I was honestly dumb in high school college.

Now you graduated from college, right?

Yeah.

And you graduated from college while you were working here, right?

That didn't you already start working here and then you still finished school?

Yes.

How did you pull that off and you broke the record?

Yeah.

So whenever second semester rolled around of 20, it'd be 2022.

So January of 2022.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Right.

I emailed all my professors.

I was like, you know, I live, I live in my grandparents, right?

I don't live in my grandparents, but, um, I'm going to be virtual.

I can't come in and rest, live with my grandparents.

So I got them.

I was like the only one on zoom, right?

And I'm already, I already sit in there knowing like this is risky for three years of college,

three and a half years of college down and my mom was on my ass.

Oh, I can imagine like, do you better graduate this and that?

And I'm like, I got it.

Don't worry.

I can't miss out on not being a work, especially in March of last year, during March,

March madness.

I was, I would be in class making phone calls.

Like Brody would run me.

How much money you think you made, March, March 22.

I made like 35 grand while you were in college, 35 grand while you were in college,

more than the professors, that's stuff they wrap about.

That's what it was tough, sitting there listening to a professor,

knowing how much money I was making, being humble about it.

And just, just, I honestly graduated from my parents.

I do admire that about you.

I'm glad you graduated.

You came that far, you got to finish.

But I do admire that about you, man.

And a lot of people that would have that level of success, you know, at 23 years old,

you give somebody $311,000.

You know, there was a quote, I forget who was, was bi.

I don't want to miss quote who it was from.

It might have been Abraham Lincoln.

I might have been quoting it from somebody else.

But I do know the quote was, nearly all men can handle some type of adversity.

But if you really want to test a man's character, give him success.

And for you to have that level of success at 23 years old,

$300,000 and nobody in our office would describe you as cocky or arrogant man.

Everybody would say the exact opposite.

You know, I think you're a great, great young man and a great role model for people

to look up to.

And if I didn't know anything about you, you know, I would say, man, whoever raised you

or put, you know, time into you, whether it was grandparents or parents,

somebody did a really good job, you know, with you.

I think you exemplify everything that we would want somebody to look up to in a young person,

you know, starting here other than a couple of days a week where I get you to make sure

you ain't late to the gym other than that.

You're the perfect example of success, humility, my body spirit, taking care of yourself,

being a good friend, being a good son, everything that we would want.

And you got recently got promoted to being an MGA.

When people get scared of doing this, you know, there has to be a little fear.

I don't know if you ever had that, you know, fear coming in at all or nervousness,

but a lot of people have that fear or nervousness because you get paid on your performance,

you know, how well that you do.

Did you ever have that fear or how do you think other people can get through that fear?

I never did.

No.

I was just like, I'm hopping in here and I'm going to make as much money as I possibly can.

That's the mindset I had.

I didn't know what it was.

How to do it?

I was just like, I'm going to go do it.

I didn't think about nothing.

Just full force, full force straight face straight ahead.

Nothing will learn me all in.

But like, that's how sports was for me.

Like I really, during COVID, I was dribbling in my basement.

Like there was nowhere to go.

Couldn't go to a gym.

I was dribbling in my basement.

Yeah.

You know, sliding.

There was dust down there.

You know, I had a big basement, but still like, I couldn't shoot just making

a dry was dribbling, keeping up on my skills, but yeah, pretty much.

What do you think other people could do that have that fear of like, man, I want to do it.

But I'm nervous about, you know, betting on myself a little bit.

I would say the thing to really be worried about is working a nine to five until you're 65.

That's something you should really worry about because $100,000 in a lot of money anymore for a family

with kids, husband, wife, like you can struggle throughout your lifetime.

If you don't use your money in the right places, I was fortunate enough to have parents

who were good with their money and put it back into me and my brother a lot.

So very fortunate.

And blessed, you know, we were spoiled as kids.

Now, say, I'm not scared to say I was spoiled, but that's what you should really be scared

about is letting your future family down.

Like,

well, if you were spoiled, how'd you get the work ethic?

That's a good question because you got a great work.

Yeah. Yeah.

So where to come from?

Probably my, my mom, now my dad's a great worker too, but my mom's a hustler.

She's 50, 58 right now.

She runs a bakery.

Okay.

Two five guys in an oven and a new castle.

Okay.

But can you take me one day?

Absolutely.

Huh?

Absolutely.

Okay.

But let's get it on the schedule.

Yeah.

I want you to take me.

Yeah.

All right.

I'll save up a cheat day for that.

Yeah.

I'll do legs that day.

Oh, it's good.

We just, she just moved into a bigger place about a two months ago.

Two fat guys in an oven and another.

And who are the fat guys?

So it's, I think the original owners are from board men or youngstown.

Okay.

Somewhere in Ohio, were they fat?

I think so.

Okay.

That was a while ago.

And then they might have lost some weight now.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And they sold it.

So there's no fat to fat guys not right there right now.

Just the oven.

Just the oven, I guess.

Just me and you walking into the door to gonna be fat.

Eat all the okay.

I got you.

Yeah.

I think the names of the best parts.

I like it a lot.

Her work.

She, I mean, she was a nurse for 30 years.

Okay.

So in RN, she retired and opened the bakery.

I mean, she works more now than ever.

And she's 58 years old.

Yeah.

You know, how are you going to let my mom out work you?

Right.

She, the other day, when you say she works more than ever, like what?

What do you mean?

Hours.

Just she was there.

The other day, how many hours?

Yeah.

The other day she texted me.

It was like eight at night.

Don't call me.

I'll be sleeping.

Gotta get up at four up at four.

She got to make the bread out grinding the young grinders.

I like it.

She got to make the bread literally.

Yeah.

Okay.

Literally and physically.

Yeah.

But yeah, it's just because that bakery, you got to start the bread at four.

So your work ethic came from watching your mom.

Yeah.

I was in a lot from your mom.

My mom and dad being able to provide for us.

We played travel baseball.

That that stuff ain't in a cheap.

Yep.

Very expensive.

Yep.

And they weren't we weren't rich by any means.

So I think from both of them, what do you think other people could do to get over

their fear of coming into the deal?

I would say bet on yourself.

That's the biggest thing you can do in your life.

Bet on yourself.

At some point in your life, you're going to have to do it.

Gotta do it.

At some point, what things did you have to stop doing?

You know, you mentioned like

it over some people I had to distance myself.

Yeah.

You know, I always tell, you know, I tell people, you know, what I notice is

you're going to outgrow people when you start doing what's best for you.

You'll outgrow people when you start doing what's best for you.

What did you have to stop doing?

What types of things did you have to give up that way in order to be successful?

So there's, there's just one thing I seen on Instagram.

It's like when a rocket goes up, they got a drop stuff because it gets to the

altitude where they got to drop that stuff.

So that's one of my favorite things of like the things I stopped doing.

I mean, I stopped going out like I shut shit off completely.

Mentals gave up the mentals.

All right.

I spoke that much.

It was just a dollar.

Can you drink a little bit?

All right.

But I cut it off completely.

It wasn't like a slow play.

Like it was completely off my friend.

Like nothing against my friends, but they're like, you're different.

You're changing.

I'm like, yeah, for the better.

You know, I'm saying, um, but it was like, I think a lot of people struggle with that.

Oh, you know, young people coming up, hearing that you're changing.

I think people struggle with hearing that you're changing.

Are you've changed?

Yep.

And I think people have to get comfortable with the fact of hearing.

Yeah.

And embrace.

I have changed.

Yeah.

I, that's the point of it all.

We're supposed to change.

We're supposed to grow.

Yeah.

I have to change.

Yes.

Okay.

So that Joey helped me through that.

Okay.

A lot, but like, I didn't really lose any friends.

You know, I still have friends where I'll hit up.

It's just like we left off.

Right.

And no, no faking.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

But you know, some fall off.

It's just this distance in yourself.

That's life.

You know, I don't hate anyone.

I'll never hate anyone.

But that's just so you basically just gave up part in going out.

Yeah.

Sporking and smoking sports.

I used to golf every day in the summer.

Golf gave up the golf.

One time last year.

Okay.

I love golf.

Yeah.

Gamblin and golf loved it.

If I could do that for rest of my life,

and we didn't have to make money for nothing,

or help other people, I would golf every day.

But I gave up at all.

I came to work every day with my head down,

ready to build a business and ready to help other people

and train and develop them.

Love it.

That was my mindset.

Love it.

So I think you got your wish, you know,

of opening up a business because you do on your own business.

That's what you do.

And there's no renewals on wings.

Residuals.

Yeah.

Right.

Just need a couple of people to come in here and eat them,

checking wings over and over again.

But this you continue to get residual income off all that business you wrote.

Yeah.

You're going to keep getting paid on it now.

This year over and over and over and over and over and over again.

Did you get any good renewal check, yet?

This month it was 5200.

Excuse me?

5200.

$5,200.

It was in January, yeah.

Last week we got.

After one year.

Yep.

13 months of work.

$5,000 in residual income,

which is paid off of work that you've already done

because people are making their payments every month without working.

So basically if you wrote no business,

none for the whole month,

yep.

You would have got paid $5,200.

There's your salary for that knowing yourself.

That was the week.

My biggest paycheck ever was last week.

I made a hundred bucks under 20 grand.

So 20,000 dollars last week.

Yep.

24 years old.

23.

I'm jealous.

Yeah.

I'm jealous.

You try to get me here.

20,000 dollars at 23 years old, bro.

Now we need 23,000 in a week for 20.

Yeah.

And I got a feeling you're going to do it this up.

This upcoming week.

Yeah.

What advice do you have for other young people in general that are listening?

You know, not everybody's in our business that listens.

We have a broad audience.

So young, young folks out there looking for success,

looking for greatness.

What advice would you give?

Yeah, young old, it don't matter.

I think I keep saying it bet on yourself.

Like be the change.

You have to change something to get something.

So you have to give up to grow up.

Is that what it is?

Yeah.

Give up to go up.

To give up to go up.

Give up to go up.

Grow up to go up.

Yeah.

We got to do all of it.

We got to get up to go up.

Yeah.

But I think changing your lifestyle, mind, body, spirit, I'm big on.

Eating food, you should think of it as it's fueling your body, not because you like

it.

Like, just if you start to think like that, I feel like everything in your life to

change.

Like, everything you do is specific reason.

You know, not just like we eat to get, you know, fill our body, we fuel our body,

not just because we're hungry.

We drive to get to work to go make money.

We don't just drive the work to go sit there.

Like if you start thinking small like that, what's the purpose of everything that I'm

doing that's going to better me?

And I like that.

And just changing.

There's always room for change.

Not even big change.

Like fixing small stuff, getting up earlier, going to the gym.

That's something.

My body and spirit.

So your mind, what I mean by that is like developing your mind, making sure you're reading,

your body, the gym, making sure you're eating healthy and then spirit, God, whatever you

believe in, nobody judges here.

But that's one thing, you know, we're all big on developing yourself, developing other

people, pouring what you learn into other people.

So stuff like that.

Throw your curve ball before we get out.

What things, what, what, what maybe negative connotations or things that people confuse

that you want to debunk about what it is that you do or what it is that we do?

So I would say the biggest thing is like this up here, Mitch, a lot of people come up

with that.

Here's a good thing.

I always explain like this.

And a pyramid scheme, you can't make more money than a person above you, right?

So now this is nothing against the meat repent, but last year I made more money than him

every single week.

And he was my manager.

There was even weeks I made more than Joey, but like when I made 20.

last week I made more than Joey he's an RGA in the business like that's pretty much top of the line

you know management but I would say that they can't get it confused with that because that just hurts

people that this this opportunity and what goes on here listen ask my man Brian Herbie Sturdy

there ain't no he'll still tell you straight to your face there's no better place he's done sales

but just hearing it from him because he's been in been in the field of sales like he's seen what it is

and I agree with them they're in no better place I haven't even been anywhere else but me neither

yeah me neither but I've looked around over over the 17 years man and and uh this is it we got married

you know to me say I do stay stay loyal and faithful I remember my mentor uh in the beginning you

know Marcus telling me you know when I was I'm like man is this too good to be true you know

is everything and he's like man he's like look if you're everything that you tell me that you are

and you're willing to do what you say you're willing to do hard work and coach ball that stuff

he said this will be everything that I tell you that it is and then some yeah what you're experiencing

is the and then some I got a funny story real quick when I came in here my mom and dad right I was

gonna have a college degree my mom was telling my dad because my dad sold insurance in like the 80s

I think when they they went to collect the check the premium you know collect the premium yes he did

it for like a month she was like what the hell is he doing selling insurance that's not you got to

do some about him crying and stuff crying yeah the next month I'm making four two three four K a week

and that's what it was you know but yes that's the funny story like they were think that they were

worried yes yeah they think it's like the old school kind of like insurance we got we play ping pong and

cornhole you know and and it's not you know that that's one you know people that's not a professional

it's super professional but but we but we like to have fun you know people if you look at the hours

people go to work sometimes they're more they work they're more at the office than they are at their

own house so you don't want it to be miserable so we try to make it a fun comfortable atmosphere

trap house out here getting save all that money don't be gambling all that money now all right

all right proud of you got to gamble it on yourself yes sir and you want right keep keep betting on

yourself so hey Bennett thank you for thank you for being a role model man for for so many people

when in the in the organization you know my mentor and like a father to me you know Jim Tressel you

know he always used to tell me about when he when his team's got special he said if if you're

superstars on the team work hard and they become good role models for people you got a chance to

be special because those are the people that people end up looking up to and so I think we're

we're our culture is a beneficiary of people like you that give our people something to strive towards

being like because of the example that you lead would not only your work ethic but the way that you

carry yourself you know also there could be worse young people you know that are out there

making the money that you're making that they could be looking up to and I'm grateful for that not

everybody has the opportunity to coach people like that and partner with people like that and work

with people like that and help to build a business like that together so all I know is I'm grateful

for you and I'm going to be even more grateful when you take me to two fat man and the other so

we're going to get it on we're going to get it on the books all right we will appreciate you man

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