The Post Game Podcast Ep. 22 - Brad Johnson: Following Your Own Advice, Investing in Yourself, "Jogging to Work"
Brad Johnson is a former college football player born and raised in Kansas, who began his career at Payless Shoe Source before moving into the Finance field. After a successful insurance career at Advisors Excel, he co-founded Triad Partners, where he is helping financial advisors with their businesses and improving the quality of their lives.
He is also the host of the Do Business Do Life Podcast , a weekly podcast dedicated to helping the independent financial advisor create unlimited growth and freedom in their business and life.
Brad's goal is to help advisors define or re-define what success truly means to them.
What You'll Learn About:
- Surrounding yourself with people learning, growing, and bettering themselves
- Don’t forget to send the elevator back down for others
- Using what worked in sports and applying it to your career
- Two way door decisions and one way door decisions
- Listen a lot less to your head and listen to your heart
- Investing back into yourself
- The reach of a podcast
- We’ve got one run at life – life too short to delay things
- Entrepreneurs want to build a business that benefits their life, not steals their life
- Hell of a lot easier to coach entrepreneurs than to be one
- Asking yourself: What does this make possible?
- Tomorrow is never guaranteed
- “Jogging to work”
Timestamps:
(0:00) – Intro to Brad Johnson
(4:30) – Trip out to Kansas to meet Brad
(7:30) – Brad’s early career journey
(14:15) – Transition from employee to starting his own business
(17:30) – Following your own advice
(19:30) – What he learned from his parents
(22:15) – Why he started his first podcast
(22:20) – The power of great coaches
(28:30) – If you’re going to build things, make sure you own them
(30:10) – Follow your passions
(33:15) – “Doing Business and Doing Life”
(40:15) – What is he most curious about right now?
(43:00) – Challenges with starting his own business
(48:50) – Future of the Financial Advisor industry
(54:00) – What does this make possible?
(56:10) – Advice to people early on in career / former athletes
(59:00) – Where to Find Brad
Instagram: @bradjohnson.dbdl