Ep 183 - Take Advantage with Austin Ekeler
What's Next with Eric Wood
Eric Wood
5 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Austin Ekeler is the starting running back for the Los Angeles Chargers and one of the best young stars in the NFL today. The fantasy football monster signed with the Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 2017 after his CFB career at Western Colorado from 2013-2016.
Off the field, Austin is a motivated entrepreneur and is looking to make an impact in many other ways. Today on the show, the guys get into some of Austin's off the field ambitions, the grind of a NFL season and much more. Other topics include:
(3:10-6:30) - Transition from D-II football to NFL
(6:30-10:30) - Development of Austin's work ethic
(10:30-13:40) - Taking Advantage of Right Now
(13:40-20:50) - Austin's passion for entrepreneurship
(20:50-23:45) - Normal day eating
(23:45-30:45) - Current NFL talk
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Look, I don't know how far or how good I can be, but that's not what pushes me. |
| 0:11.4 | What pushes me is the principles that got me here and they stay with me today, is continue |
| 0:15.4 | to just grind as much as you can to try to milk as much of this opportunity out that you can get. |
| 0:20.4 | I don't know how far I'll go. |
| 0:21.4 | I don't know Pro Bowl, Hall of Fame, and even next year. You know, it's like, let's take advantage |
| 0:25.6 | of right now, put everything into that, and then we can deal with the options and, you know, |
| 0:29.4 | try to take advantage of those when those present themselves. |
| 0:35.4 | Welcome to What's Next with Eric Wood, where we will prepare you to make your what's next in life your best yet. |
| 0:41.0 | Our next guest is Austin Echler, and Austin is the running back for the Los Angeles Chargers. |
| 0:46.3 | And since entering the NFL in 2017, he has been one of the best backs in all the NFL in an absolute stud in fantasy football based on how he produces |
| 0:55.2 | every week he's out there. In addition to being a beast on the field, he's an entrepreneur |
| 1:00.8 | in making a big impact outside of the game, which we will get into. This is going to be a fun |
| 1:06.3 | conversation that will without a doubt have an impact on all of us. If you haven't already, please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast wherever you |
| 1:14.2 | tune in weekly. |
| 1:15.2 | And also, if you haven't already, go to Amazon and order my book and make a great gift |
| 1:19.9 | this holiday season. |
| 1:21.3 | It's called Tackle What's Next. |
| 1:22.6 | And the link to that is in the show notes. |
| 1:24.5 | Thanks and enjoy. |
| 1:31.4 | Awesome. Welcome to the podcast, brother. Hey, I appreciate that intro. Good to be here. Man, looking forward to this. Yeah, me too. I've been a fan of yours from |
| 1:36.1 | afar. So I'm really excited to dig into this. I've heard you on other platforms. I'm going to try |
| 1:41.7 | to avoid having you regurgitate stories you've told |
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