Jedidiah Collins: Triple Your Chances of Scaling to Nine Figures With This One Mindset Shift | E11

Jedidiah Collins (0:00)

You're most likely not going to succeed as an entrepreneur. It's just too damn hard, just like athletes do. There's a 2.5% chance to get a college scholarship, a 1% chance of going pro. You gotta be comfortable with those odds.

Sammy Peterson (0:12)

My next guest went undrafted, was cut 13 times, and still became the starting fullback for the New Orleans Saints.

Jedidiah Collins (0:18)

One of my coaches used to call me Freddie Krueger, and he had just said, Jed, 13 times, man, you're a tough man to kill.

Sammy Peterson (0:23)

While still playing in the NFL, he earned his certified financial planner certification because he realized he had no idea what to do with his own paycheck.

Jedidiah Collins (0:31)

I grew up in Orange County, California, around a lot of money, and I looked in the locker room and I said, man, alive, if I have no idea what I'm doing with this paycheck, what's the likelihood these non-accounting majors have any idea?

Sammy Peterson (0:45)

Today, he's known as the fullback of finance, the founder of Money Vehicle, a best-selling author, and he's teaching thousands of athletes and students nationwide how to speak the language of money.

Jedidiah Collins (0:55)

I'm not an advisor, I have no clients, there's no account, I'm never going to ask you for your money. I'm here to just allow you to speak the language and start to fish on your own.

Sammy Peterson (1:05)

So you don't believe in work-life balance. Why should entrepreneurs stop chasing balance?

Jedidiah Collins (1:10)

Oh my gosh.

Sammy Peterson (1:14)

My next guess, when undrafted, was cut 13 times and still became the starting fullback for the New Orleans Saints. But what Jed Collins built after football might be even more impressive than what he survived on the field.

While still playing in the NFL, he earned his Certified Financial Planner Certification because he realized he had no idea what to do with his own paycheck. Today, he's known as the fullback of finance, the founder of Money Vehicle, a best-selling author, and he's teaching thousands of athletes and students nationwide how to speak the language of money.

Jedidiah Collins, welcome to Business MVP.

Jedidiah Collins (1:47)

Sammy, appreciate the opportunity. Obviously, a quote I love to live by is never delay gratitude. Thank you for the opportunity to share my message for the listeners. I'm just truly grateful for your time. I know we are competing with literally everything in the world, so hopefully this is going to bring some value to you today.

Sammy Peterson (2:05)

Agreed. Thank you. So Jed, you were cut 13 times in the NFL.

Most people here cut once and they're like, I'm out, right? Assume the dream is over. What made you keep showing up?

Jedidiah Collins (2:18)

Yes, a baker's dozen.

I attribute this back to my childhood. We were just talking before. You got three boys. So I grew up one of five children, but the middle three were all boys, and we had five and seven years. So there was a lot of kids running around, very close in age. In our backyard, my dad, despite my football background, I'm a basketball family. Both brothers actually ended up playing Division I college basketball, as well as my father playing college basketball. So we grew up in the backyard playing basketball, never even touching a football, never even considering it. And my dad created a game called King for a Day, where the three brothers would play one-on-one on one basketball, and the victor, the winner, would be King for that day, getting to boss the other two brothers around. I'm thirsty, go get me a drink. My dad would say, hey, somebody's got to take out the trash. The king would get to tell the two who was taking out the trash.

And I remember-

Sammy Peterson (3:15)

We're totally gonna do this.

Jedidiah Collins (3:16)

Yeah, this is, ah, there are pros and cons to it.

Sammy Peterson (3:19)

We can get into those.

Jedidiah Collins (3:22)

I remember very vividly of the hundreds, thousands of times we played King for a Day in our backyard, the two days I walked off as king, I was the youngest brother, I was a year and a half to two and a half years there senior, and they were just better growing up. They were physically more dominant, and I just was not winning.

I remember going out onto that court and looking and realizing, I'm not gonna win, like I'm not gonna be king. That's not because I wasn't good, it's just they were better than me. And realizing that my message to myself had to be, even if you're not king, Jed, did you get better? Did you get a steal? Did you get a rebound? Did you get another point? Did you score today?