Tag: networking
First Meeting? 5 Reasons It’s OK to Ask for Coffee on YOUR Corner
During my NFL career, I received many requests to go to lunch or coffee—as if I didn’t have practice, or a job, or a life. In retirement I’ve noticed there are varying levels of meeting people, some more casual and some more serious. Meeting for a happy hour is pretty casual. Meeting for dinner or…
5 Tips for Using Your Digital Presence to Rocket into the Next Phase of Your Life
As an NFL player, your career will be short. Guaranteed. And the one place that I constantly see my peers fail to transition is in creating their new identity as a former athlete. Establishing your identity online can be a long road with many turns. Before the end of my career I built my digital…
5 Steps to Crushing the One-Day Business Trip
In the NFL, every road trip had one goal: to win the game. Even when the game was in your hometown, winning was the goal. We would get in the day before and leave a couple hours afterwards, or the next morning. A true one-day event.