How have you been able to balance your work and your family
life?
I missed my girls growing up
because of football. I worked at HRJ because I wanted to be able to leave at
1:30 to see my boys’ football practice. One is a senior and one is a sophomore,
and they will be gone soon.What have you been able to take out of your experience in the NFL
that applies to your work at Modern Bank?
Patience and perseverance. You
go through rough times and ups and down, both in sports and in business. You
have cycles and have to fight through that. Team sports especially teach lessons
to kids early on in life. If a kid loses in a sport, the parents say it’s a tie.
Kids aren’t stupid. They can count. In sports, you don’t always have a good
day, but you always have to come back from a poor performance. The guy who ends
up winning is usually the guy who can adapt, whether it’s in the marketplace or
on the field, and move on to succeed.
What have been the most important lessons you have learned working
in the financial services business?
It’s not always easy. You get
going with an idea, and it’s fun. But you have to go out and perform and do it.
From the beginning, you’re a startup and you have to prove yourself. That’s
what we’re in the process of doing. People think that because you start a
business with a good, new idea, it’s easy. But that’s not true. Additional reporting by Matt Purdue.
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