The Branding Genius Behind the Biggest Names in Sports & Entertainment w/ Constance Schwartz-Morini

What separates the good from the legendary? In this conversation, I sit down with my longtime friend and one of the most influential forces in sports, entertainment, and culture—Constance Schwartz-Morini. She’s the mastermind behind some of the biggest names in the game—Michael Strahan, Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, Coach Prime, Erin Andrews, and the Bella Twins. And today, she’s pulling back the curtain on what it really takes to build a brand, create opportunities, and dominate multiple industries. Constance is a visionary. She doesn’t just manage talent—she sees limitless potential in people before they even see it in themselves. She’s the reason Michael Strahan went from NFL legend to media powerhouse. She encouraged Coach Prime to step into the head coaching role when no one else believed he could. And she’s built SMAC Entertainment into more than a talent management company—it’s a business incubator that helps people win big. In this episode, she shares the mindset, strategy, and work ethic required to turn ideas into reality. If you’ve ever doubted your ability to build something great—this episode will change that. Constance talks about her journey from being an assistant at the NFL to becoming a power player in multiple industries. She reveals how she negotiates deals at the highest level, the brutal truth about building a business, and why the best brands aren’t built on hype—they’re built on authenticity. You’ll also hear the untold stories behind the brands you know—how Erin Andrews turned a simple frustration into a multimillion-dollar apparel company, how Taylor Swift wearing her jacket changed everything, and why the best entrepreneurs never stop evolving. Key Takeaways:Why certainty is the key to influence—and how to use it to win. This one’s packed with insights that will change the way you think about business, branding, and success. Don’t just listen—apply it. Max out! 🔥 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00Ed Mylett?

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• 2:04Speaker 01

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• 2:38Ed Mylett?

  This is the Ed Miliband Show.

• 2:42Ed Mylett?

  All right, welcome back to the show, everybody. So today, you are going to hear from one of the most influential human beings on spinning earth right now. She would never admit to it, but she is. She's influencing entertainment, sports, culture, and she's behind the scenes type person for the most part. So she's probably the most influential person many of you don't know yet because she likes it that way. And so just think about people like prime Deion Sanders. Think about Michael Strahan. Think about Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa. It's a kind of a collective group. Myself, by the way. This show doesn't exist without her either, the way that it exists today.

• 3:25Ed Mylett?

  She is the CEO and founding partner of Smack Entertainment. It's a talent management agency, but it's way more than that. It's a business incubator. She's got an Emmy nominated production company and just about anybody who's got any heat on planet earth today, somehow behind the scenes, this lady is touching their lives and their brand and their businesses. So Constance Schwartz-Morini, welcome to the show finally.

• 3:50Speaker 02

  Thank you, Ed, and thank you for that great introduction. I'm sitting here like probably red as a beet because you know me very well. And so. When I got the text from you about coming on, I literally like if I could do a backflip, I would have done it, but I mentally did one and called Mike Morini right away, my husband. I was like, guess whose podcast I'm going on. So thank you. Seriously, thank you.

• 4:09Ed Mylett?

  Well, I want to start out by saying that I don't, I'm going to get emotional. I don't do this on the show very often. But I just really want to thank you for being such a believer in me. And, you know, most people don't know this, but a lot of the good things you've seen happen in my life are because of this woman right here. And especially my business life. And so I'm grateful for you in my life. So thank you so much.

• 4:30Speaker 02

  I'm grateful for you and you're giving me way too much credit because you were a force when we met. And we might've just maybe redirected you a little bit, but that's about it.

• 4:39Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, that ain't true, but thank you. Okay, so you guys, I just want you to know, she started at the NFL. And then she's built this company. Her business partner is Michael Strahan in SMAC. S M A C is the name of their agency and or their company, rather. And they've touched everything. Hundred thousand dollar pyramid, Fox Sports, most of the people on there, you name it. But different apparel brands, etc. So we're going to go all over the place today. Let me ask you a question first, Khan. When you guys founded SMAC, did you know it would turn into all of these other things? Because you came out of the NFL, right? Like I met you, I met the after you where you were already balling. But you and Michael founded this together. What did you intend it to be? And then what has it become?

• 5:22Speaker 02

  I love when people act like this was exactly, you know, executed my vision. I had no idea. I just knew that there was nothing like this business. And it was almost, I was forced into it because I got fired. And when I went to interview at other companies, they were putting me in a box. They said, okay, you're a talent manager, you're a sports person, you can do endorsements, you're, you know, non scripted producer. I was like, you guys don't get it. Like, I just want to take the last 20 years of my career and I'm going to build this. And I started it from the kitchen table, had no idea what it would become. Started out more management and talent, sports and small. I mean, it was Michael,

• 6:02Speaker 02

  Coach Prime, who was, you know, Deion Sanders, just, you know, recently, we're not recent, almost retired four years, three years at that point. My old boss from the NFL was at the NHL and brought us on to help him on some entertainment pieces of business as they were expanding. And that was it, you know? So here we are 14, 15 years later and. Wow, that's all I can say, but everything that you've seen from that point till now, it came from just knowing that there's a piece of business here that could be bigger and better and extended. Same thing that we do with the people, right? It's like you keep the main thing. The main thing is Coach Prime says, use your main platform to build around it. And that's what we're still doing. I feel like we're just getting started.

• 6:46Ed Mylett?

  Well, let me, let's take Coach Prime first. Let's just pick one, okay? So first off, you guys, right now is Coach Prime, season three on Amazon streaming. I watched the whole season in a day. It's that good. It was, I was sick one day. I watched all the episodes. It's outstanding, but something's happened with Coach Prime the last four or five years. He was, he's the greatest cornerback of all time, one of the greatest football players of all time. But then like this brand went bananas, right? You're the behind the scenes on that. She's also on the show. She's in the cover of Sports Illustrated with them, you guys. Like, I, first thing I got, I got the cover. I'm like, there's Khan. She's right on the cover. But what happened? Like, obviously this is move more. If the world's become sort of brand oriented, everything's brand now, right?

• 7:28Ed Mylett?

  So did you guys consciously take Coach Prime and go, okay, we're gonna do this? You're gonna post on social or did, or is this all sort of organic what's taking place? Let's just start with like him.

• 7:40Speaker 02

  It was organic, but with direction. Like you, he's one of the smartest people in my life. It's, it's remarkable. And I knew when he did your pod last year, you guys were going to hit it off. And I'm so glad you did.

• 7:51Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 7:51Speaker 02

  Cause you got to see what I get to see every day. So when we first started working together, we reconnected because I had helped Snoop Dogg start the Snoop Youth Football League. Dion had the Truth League, which was his youth league in Dallas. Every year at the Super Bowl, their teams would meet up and play in the Snoopers Bowl. And so one year I get a call from Dion and he said, hey, who handles Snoop's marketing? Who handles Snoop's this, this and this? And I said, well, I oversee the whole operation. Like there's a team of us, but you know, I'm in the middle of it. What's up? And he said, I need to pivot and I need a new team on my marketing side. Can you suggest someone? I was like, well, me. And he was like, okay. And that's literally how we started working together. So when we first started working together, he didn't have a lot of brand partnerships.

• 8:36Speaker 02

  Like he was hot when he was playing and then there was a dip. He was on CBS, um, Sunday Football.

• 8:43Speaker 02

  And then he pivoted to the NFL Network and that was it. So when we started working together, I had to help sort of re-craft and rebuild his brand, which nobody has been better than himself. And, and that's one of the beautiful things about not just him, but the SMAT clients is they know that we're in it for the right reasons because I said, I don't care if you're not going to make a dollar on this first big commercial. We do, if it's the right creative and the right brand, we're going for it. And, and that's what started our journey together. So at that point, like I said, he was on the networks, NFL Network, Thursday Night Football. Many opportunities started coming his way, but they weren't going to be in Dallas. He would not leave Dallas because he was coached all

• 9:27Speaker 02

  of his kids. That was the most important thing to him was staying local. He could leave on Sundays or Thursdays, but had to be there for football, basketball, baseball, et cetera. So right when Shador was graduating high school and figuring out where he would be going to college, coach called me and he said, this is one of his famous things. I'm baking an idea, but it hasn't been ready for me to take it out of the oven for you. I was like, all right, what have we got? And I popped in and see me up in B L A. And he said, I reached out to my old A D, I mean, to the A D at my old school, and I want to go help them recruit. And I just didn't think twice about it. And I said, why would you go and help somebody recruit? You should go for it and be a college head coach. And he looked at me and I said, I know it's not the norm. I get it. You don't go from youth to high school

• 10:11Speaker 02

  right into college, but you're far from the norm. And if anybody can do it, it's you. And that was how that all started. So.

• 10:19Ed Mylett?

  Wait a minute, you were actually the person that encouraged him to coach instead of just recruit? Are you being serious?

• 10:25Ed Mylett?

  Oh my gosh, Khan, that's crazy.

• 10:27Speaker 02

  I know.

• 10:27Ed Mylett?

  Yeah. Let's talk about branding for a second. I want to stay on that topic. You guys, we could go, this could be with Constance, like a nine hour episode, but I want it to be relevant for all of you. When you hear like Aaron Andrews, the Bellas, Snoop, Coach Prime, Michael Strahan, it would be easy for you to think, well, they're sort of already at this level, but then you could actually take me.

• 10:53Ed Mylett?

  And Khan did this with me as well. And so let's talk about branding first of all, because I don't know if you remember this or not, but something really profound you said to me when we met, and it was many years ago, and I've, I've tried to stay true to this since. So I don't care if you have eight followers right now, everybody, just listen to this. I meet another person, a great friend of ours named Kristen Proudey introduced us, who was sort of believed in me. And I met Khan, and she was a little bit skeptical of me, I think, because she had seen my content, Ferraris and jets and all this stuff. And so we're about halfway through our lunch. And you went, oh, I like you. And you're nothing like your brand. And you gotta cut this crap out. Quit posting your jet and your car. And you're really a good guy. You really care about

• 11:36Ed Mylett?

  people. But the, the point that I'm making was, my brand took off when my brand was really me. In other words, I didn't have to create anything. What I, now that I met Coach Prime, Coach Prime is his brand, right? Michael is this just super kind guy who you think he's your best friend with everybody that he meets. So if you were to give someone advice on their brand, they're not Coach Prime, they're not some famous rapper right now, would that be your advice? Like, start posting things that are just true, organic to you? Or is there some flavor in there you gotta mix in as well to get any traction?

• 12:14Speaker 02

  I wasn't skeptical of you.

• 12:18Speaker 02

  I knew how great you were and how smart you were. But it just was, like you said, the jets and the Ferraris, you just expect this, you know, different person than who you are and all the messaging and the help that you provide people. So where I'm always coming from is this place, just because you do have 5 million followers, that doesn't mean you're connecting to your audience and to your people. I don't have a lot of followers, but the, I guess, what's the word? Like, the insights or the clicks or just the interactions I have with the people that do follow go far, because I am who I am, and I don't apologize for it. And I think that's where a lot of young people today are so caught up in putting out there what they think they need

• 13:00Speaker 02

  to, because they see the world of plastic surgery, or they see, you know, people Spending more money on their cars than their homes, like things that are really should be your basic necessities. Who really cares, right? Like, it's truly about the messaging. It's truly what you're you're working on or giving back. It's the same thing that I tell so many of my friends who are freaking out about what college their kid's going to. I went to Sunny Esuego, right? I did okay. Like, I have no issues what college someone goes to. And I even have no issues hiring somebody that doesn't go to college, as long as they have great work ethic, if they're giving back to society or to their community, that's

• 13:42Speaker 02

  way more important to me. And that's what I mean by a brand. And like you nailed it. Coach Prime, though, is known for creating the Primetime brand in in college, in his dorm room. But he's still two different brands, almost. And he lives both of them. When he's not working, when that camera's not on, or the whistle's not on, he's sitting at Country Prime in the flats of Texas somewhere, on his boat, fishing. That's really who he is. But when he has to be on, he's on. So just going back to what we're saying about your brand, really, in order for it to work, it has to be who you are, not who you think you are. And in a sense, that's the disconnect. So many people, I think, have a problem with

• 14:25Speaker 02

  it. And once you can find that, it just goes. Like, it really goes. It's the same thing when people say, you know, I'm so unhappy with myself. Well, then how do you expect people to be happy with you? Or how do you expect someone to have confidence in you if you don't have the confidence in yourself? And yes, this is a lot of self-work and help and things of that nature. But this is what's worked for me and for our clients and continues to go down that path. Just shoot it straight. No one knows what to do with you when you tell the truth these days. It's the craziest thing.

• 14:54Ed Mylett?

  It is. And that's one of your strengths, too, which in a minute, you guys, we're gonna do is I'm gonna make Constance not be humble and tell you what her sort of superpowers are. But I also

• 15:06Ed Mylett?

  So hey guys, I want to jump in here for a second and talk about change and growth. And you know, by the way, it's no secret how people get ahead in life or how they grow. And also taking a look at the future, if you want to change your future, you got to change the things you're doing. If you continue to do the same things, you're probably going to produce the same results. But if you get into a new environment where you're learning new things and you're around other people that are growth oriented, you're much more likely to do that yourself. And that's why I love Growth Day. Write this down for a second. GrowthDay.com/Ed. My friend Brendon Burchard has created the most incredible personal development and business app that I've ever seen in my life. Everything from goal setting software to personal accountability, journaling, courses, thousands of dollars worth of courses in there as well. I create content in there on Mondays where I contribute, as do a whole bunch of other influencers,

• 15:51Ed Mylett?

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• 18:11Ed Mylett?

  You know, what she's really good at doing too is like finding like a vertical attached to what you already do that you can also monetize. It's something she's really good at doing. So I'll give you an example and then I want you to talk about both these things because also it just shows you branding and how ballistic brands are now. So let's go to Erin Andrews for a second, which is another person that Khan represents and helps. And Erin, you and you decide, I want you, I want you to tell me why you did this. You created like an apparel line for Erin, as I understand it. Okay. And I want you to talk about why you did that, like why her, why would that be the right product for her? Because I think a lot of people listening to you are like, I don't even know what my niche would be as an entrepreneur.

• 18:53Ed Mylett?

  So Erin Andrews, if you don't know, everybody is a tremendously successful woman in the sports broadcast space primarily. So that's not every day that someone then goes, I have a clothing line, right? Like, how's that correlated? And then tell them the Taylor Swift story so that everybody kind of understands the real power of a brand and how ballistic. Because it's not who you know anymore in business, it's who knows you.

• 19:18Speaker 02

  Well, I like that. I'm going to have to use that ad. This all started at Super Bowl in San Francisco, which I believe was seven years ago. Erin was doing something for the NFL with some fashion and the clothes they had wanted her to wear. She had to get a stylist and judge them a little bit because back then it was really trinket and pinket or bedazzles or big logos, which there's a huge market for. But there's also a huge market for sports fans like Erin and I, whose husband was playing for the Los Angeles Kings at the time. Two times Stanley Cup winner, she couldn't find anything to wear that she was comfortable in. So one night at dinner, Erin with Jose Diaz and Carol Chen from our team were literally just talking about women's licensed apparel and how there was weight space for it.

• 20:02Speaker 02

  And they came up with this idea and said, we need to go for it because you want to be able to show your, you know, team spirit and wear your colors, but not have to be advertising it. So we said, what is the audience? What's the demo for people like us? Like, what is it that we can go buy? And it was very, very limited. And that's how it sparked. And that was on a Friday or Saturday. And Monday Erin called me, she's like, okay, who are we calling? I said, Erin, the Super Bowl was yesterday. Now they go to a trade show preparing for the next year. And then we need to give people a week off, like, let's get our act together. We'll come up with our, our plan and then we'll go for it. And that's where the name came from, which is Wear by Erin Andrews, because everywhere, anywhere, like that was what it was all about.

• 20:45Speaker 02

  And we do have items for everybody, some of the big logos and, you know, some things that are a little flashier. But for the most part, it's clothes that you can wear to the office, that you can wear to the bar. You can wear, working out and still feel really good about yourself and have a nice fashion flair. And we're six years into this and, you know, talk about the perfect storm of things going wrong. We launched and the pandemic happens. So what, what shuts down? Retail. So we took a hit, but here we are, um, you know, still going strong. And then tying it back to the Taylor Swift phenomenon. Erin and I, you know, obviously send the line out to all of our friends and, you know, influencers and just true sports fans, you know, whether it's their publicists or managers

• 21:29Speaker 02

  or in some instances to the talent directly. So Erin, who's a huge Swiftie even before all this, I have to clarify, sent Taylor a box. And sure enough, when Taylor went to her first Chiefs game, she was wearing our jacket. And we freaked out like if there was the decibels of screams that were going on because we were all over the country and we didn't know Taylor was going to wear it to that game. One of our execs was on a plane that they thought she was having a medical emergency because she was screaming so loud. So we had this group text like, she wore her jacket, she wore her jacket. And it's amazing, the Taylor effect, it really is. And then we were lucky enough for her to wear some jewelry. We have a partnership with Bubble Bar.

• 22:11Speaker 02

  And then Super Bowl was obviously the holy ground. She wore a jacket there again. So, and it just kept going because it's not just about the Chiefs gear. It was like, oh, this is my team. I want to get the jacket that she had on. And then just from that, look who else has launched lines. I mean, you know, Kristen's got a line now with her. And it's just so great because we feel so honored and lucky that we were one of the first to do it in this sense for a fashion and forward audience. And it's just, it's a light bulb went off. Wow, women are sports fans. Really?

• 22:46Ed Mylett?

  They are. What if someone like Taylor Swift, I'm just curious, I don't know, someone like Taylor Swift wears your jacket, let's just say, what happens?

• 22:56Speaker 02

  You sell out.

• 22:57Ed Mylett?

  Literally.

• 22:58Speaker 02

  Literally sold out. We had to get our manufacturer had to get going so quickly to try to restock because it was early in the season. And you know, when you manufacture overseas, you're a year out. So now we had to just get the blanks and do everything domestically. It was wild.

• 23:14Ed Mylett?

  You know, there's so many things about you that kind of blow my mind, but I want everyone to step back. It's, you know, sometimes you just have to start a business and, and then let the doors open as they go, everybody. So if you're sitting there going, I don't even know exactly what I'm going to do, or you're in one stage of your business. Constance was mainly, as I get it, in the media part, like NFL stuff, right? Did you know anything about apparel at that time? When you, Michael starts smack, were you an apparel person? Because was that part of the NFL that you dealt with? So is that part of why you kind of knew you could build a lane into that business with? Because Michael has his line? Is that why you went that direction? Did you have to learn that business?

• 23:55Speaker 02

  A lot of it I learned as I go, but I started at the NFL as an assistant. So I wanted to be very clear for people that are listening to your podcast. I was not an executive. I was out of college and started. And back in the 90s, you were a secretary, which there's nothing wrong with. But I was, you know, knew I wanted to just go, go, go. And I was in corporate sponsorship first and then went to events and live events. But on any slow time or a weekend, I would go volunteer and just go to the other departments and just learn from them, just beg for knowledge and for, you know, just anything. So I could fully wrap my arms around what the whole business is. So when people say, oh, you must have gotten a master's. I'm like, nope, the NFL was my masters.

• 24:37Speaker 02

  I was there for 10 seasons, best 10 seasons, learned so much, pivoted, moved to Hollywood. I worked to work for a company called The Firm, which that's where I ended up learning talent management. But while we were there, Jeff Quanis and his team acquired Pony, which was a dormant brand, which we brought back to life. And we're using, you know, the clients of the firm, you know, and just everything going on in pop culture. TRL was so big back then, 106 and Park. And you just dress people and go on. And so I just learned so much there. And then when we launched Stray Hand Suit Collection, that was just taking an opportunity that was in front of us and putting it on the rocket ship.

• 25:18Speaker 02

  And what I mean by that is when he got the Regis job working with Kelly Ripa. You have now for Fox, his suits were all taken care of. You know, it's one day a week half the year, but now he's on a daily talk show. So that's five suits a week.

• 25:34Ed Mylett?

  Hmm.

• 25:34Speaker 02

  That's a lot of suits and you didn't have a big, you know, clothing budget. So I just started calling all my friends and somebody was like, can you get me ties? And another person said, hey, give these guys at Peerless a call. They manufacture some of the most beautiful suits. Um, they love sports. I'm sure, you know, you guys can get a good deal with them. And that's how that literally started was they were helping us out making Michael some suits. And they had a relationship at JCPenney and they called us, said, hey, you know, we're thinking about, um, going to JCPenney's and launching a new men's line. And we think Michael's perfect with, you know, the, the role that he has now and the access and just, you know, being on TV six days a week, sometimes seven with hundred thousand dollar pyramid. And we just said, let's go. So a lot of learning as I go still, I'm really good at what I know.

• 26:18Speaker 02

  Ed, I'm better knowing what I don't know and asking smarter people what to do. That's such a basic lesson that if more and more people would, would just subscribe to that, it's okay to say, I don't know. Let me ask somebody who does. And that's, I'd say probably one of my superpowers.

• 26:34Ed Mylett?

  I'm glad you just said that because I want to ask you what, if I know you won't tell me. So let's, uh, let's say I asked Michael. So Michael Strahan is her partner in smack. Cause I, I want you to brag and the only way I can think that gets you to do it, tell me the truth is to pretend someone else is saying it for you. So guys, I just want you to picture this because I didn't even know that Constance, she's an assistant, young lady at the NFL. And now truly you guys, I mean, truly she's in, she has her hands on culture, not just apparel or media, like it's now culture. She's got, you know, prime season three out right now. She's got these brands. She's touching people that are in really every industry in the world.

• 27:16Ed Mylett?

  My industry, myself, the Bella, uh, twins, the sisters. I mean, we could go on and on. And by the way, and it's not thousands of people. She's very strategic too, with who she works with, but almost all of them make waves in what they do. Right? And obviously Michael's career, I mean, it's just, it's unreal from football to sports, to talk shows, to game shows, like to apparel, to entrepreneurship, to now smack, like you built this iconic reach.

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• 29:18Ed Mylett?

  I feel great and I bring energy to the entire day. Go to im8health.com/ed10 right now or click the link in the description and use code ED10 for a free welcome kit, five free travel sachets, plus 10% off your order. That's code ED10 at im8health.com/ed10. Code ED10 at im8health.com/ed10. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. What if I asked Michael, other than the two of you are so close and I think he ministered your wedding and you know, you're super close. But if I said, Michael, what is Constance's

• 30:01Ed Mylett?

  real talent and superpower? What would he tell me about you?

• 30:06Speaker 02

  I don't see limitations in people. That would probably be it because when the Regis opportunity came up, it wasn't, it started out, he was filling in. Actually, it really started when he won the Super Bowl and Eli had to go to Disney. And so Eli couldn't go be the guest. So Michael went on with Regis and Kelly and had a great time. Fast forward a couple of years later, get the call, hey, Regis is on vacation. Would Michael want to fill in? Like, absolutely, you're going to go fill in. And while he was out there on set, I'm in his dressing room. And when he came back in, I just looked at him. I said, this is what you're going to do. And he's like, what are you talking about? I said, you're going to be a talk show host. He's like, I don't, I'm not, didn't, you know, prepare for this. I'm not this, this, and this. I was like, I don't care. This is what

• 30:51Speaker 02

  you're going to do. So that's probably what everybody would say, from Aaron to Dion to Tony Gonzalez. If I see it, then I know they can do it, which makes them think that they can also do it. I get motivated by Dion, right? Like, he's one of the great, like you, like, one of the greatest motivators are always thirsting for their daily messages and anything like that. But the trust that he has in what my vision is for him, I never take for granted or take it lightly. And I would say that's the way it is for all the clients, because I don't see the limitations, and I also don't soft sell anything. You know, if Tony has an audition for a movie, I'm not telling you've got this, this, and

• 31:33Speaker 02

  this. I just tell him, don't F it up. And he's like, I got it, I got it. But that's what your other reps or family members are for. You know, when anyone comes into the smack family, they're told, if you don't want Constance's opinion, don't ask for it. Like, I just, it's just the way, I don't know, way I was raised, or Just never have, I was like, I don't have anything to lose, but I have everything to gain.

• 31:57Ed Mylett?

  What I see in you, by the way, what you said about the limitations, I bet is absolutely true. It's cousin, in terms of your gift, kind of like a cousin talent. I think that it's your level of certainty, once you believe something. In every exchange with everybody, the more certain person almost always influences the less certain person. Right? Like, if you're more certain than I am, you're eventually probably going to persuade me. And I think, once you believe in something or someone, your ability to generate enough certainty within yourself, con, in that person or the idea overwhelms the obstacles. That's what I see in you. Do you agree with that, by the way, once you, your certainty level, like telling Michael in the dressing room, no, this is what you're gonna do. Like, just complete certainty, right?

• 32:40Ed Mylett?

  And he's like, I don't know, you were more certain than him that he could be doing that. Thus, it ends up happening. Now, he's the one who did the work and the reps and was great on camera. But behind the scenes, it's the certainty level that you have in people or an idea. That's what I think is at least one of your 50 superpowers.

• 32:59Speaker 02

  That's a good description. I'm gonna use that one, too.

• 33:03Ed Mylett?

  It's a million percent true about you. What is a, um, how do you know you're not gonna work with someone?

• 33:10Speaker 02

  There's a couple of things. We can't want it more than they want it. And you can usually tell when you're in a meeting with, with somebody, if, if they're sort of looking to you.

• 33:22Speaker 02

  I don't wanna say get them there, because that's what we're here for, but we can't want their success more than they want their success. And you, you can usually pick up on that. And the other thing, honestly, is I'm in my back nine. Life's too short to work with assholes. So if somebody comes in, just like, they've got that sort of edge, not a good edge, you know, like, just the angle edge. I'm like, I'm good. And I tell the next generation, if you guys wanna go after this one, go for it, but I'm, I'm tapping out, so.

• 33:50Ed Mylett?

  You will. Help me walk into a room. I was just watching something with, um, I think it was on another podcast. President Obama was on and, um, he was, he made a comment. I just want your feedback. I think a lot of people listen to be like, what's it like to be in rooms that Khan is in? So if she's got to get, you know, she's trying to get a game show sold, or she's doing something with the Emmys or whatever, Fox Sports or an apparel line, or negotiating a deal with Amazon, or a deal for me with Sirius XM, or whatever the heck it is, right? So you're in there with some high level players. And so Obama said in this interview, he's like, you know, I used to think when you'd walk in a room with these people, like they're gonna be like brilliant,

• 34:33Ed Mylett?

  and all of them are amazing and intimidating. And he's like, you know, I don't know if you saw that clip. He's like, nah, not so much. What's it like for you when you walk into these rooms and you're gonna go, take everybody that someday wants to be in these rooms? What's it really like to be in those rooms with those people? Is it more intimidating? Are they more brilliant than you would think? Is it a mixed bag? Is it meh? Like Obama said, like, what would you say?

• 34:57Speaker 02

  It's a mixed bag. And look, I have the same insecurities that your listeners do. You know, it's like that imposter syndrome or fake it till you make it. But when I'm negotiating for somebody else, I'm unstoppable. If I'm negotiating for myself, I'll get walked all over. But if it's when I'm negotiating for a client, even a friend or a family member, I will take you down to get what I need to get for the person I'm negotiating on behalf of. But right before I go into those rooms, usually I have to run and pee because I'm like, oh my gosh, I gotta like just clear my head, clear my head. If I'm driving somewhere, I like to listen to Lose Yourself by Eminem. That's sort of like my, you know, that, that beat in the thing gets my confidence up.

• 35:38Speaker 02

  And then once I'm in there, it's, you know, out of the gate who you're up against. I can tell if somebody is misogynistic, which yes, it still exists today. I can tell if they've done their research. And the one thing that I have learned, which I wish I learned at a younger age, is God gave us two eyes, two ears and one mouth. Listen and look. It's okay not to have to be the first one to speak. It's okay to take it all in. And that's really what changed for me probably in my 40s was realizing. I don't have anything to prove. I need to listen to what they have to say to get my negotiating tactics together. And that's how I'll like read the room and then go for it. There's some rooms that I'm in awe.

• 36:23Speaker 02

  I will say I've been fortunate enough to be around Jeff Bezos and truly not only is he brilliant, one of the nicest people I've been lucky enough to be around. You know, Michael Strahan went up in his rocket. And so we got to stand, you know, there and it's just some of the most basic principles. When you hear coming from him, you're just like, oh, my gosh, like, wow. And, you know, same with there's certain athletes that just, yes, they're amazing on field, but they're just as amazing off field. I've been lucky enough to go to the White House and that was, you know, and I went with a girlfriend under Clinton's presidency, which was really cool.

• 37:03Speaker 02

  But once you're there and you do realize Obama's, President Obama's right, like, it's true, like, there are going to be certain rooms that there are people smarter than you and some that you know you're smarter than them. And I just like to take it all in. And I always learn from a situation. Like, I would say it's not a failure if you can learn from it. Like, I went to work in the music industry for a little under a year. I knew the first second day wasn't for me, but if I didn't take that job, I wouldn't have understood and learned the music business, which then takes me to the firm where I end up being Snoop Dogg's manager. So for me, in the time, I didn't love it, but then I learned so much in that short period that I was able to apply to future space.

• 37:44Speaker 02

  So that that's helped me, even like I said, getting fired, like, I was always the teacher's pet. And that this happening, I mean, it took me to my knees and I couldn't believe it. But at the same time, if that didn't happen, I wouldn't have had, you know, basically not even confidence, but I wouldn't have had to start my own company.

• 38:01Ed Mylett?

  Gosh, I'm just thinking about everybody you work with and how diverse the group is too. Like, what, this is going to be the, this is the all time question. What does Michael Strahan, Snoop?

• 38:19Ed Mylett?

  Wiz, Coach Prime, Aaron Andrews and the Bellas. Let's just take that collection of some of them. What do they have in common? Like, what's the through line? Because they're all immensely successful at what they do, right? Like, now, that's the hardest question in the history of podcasts to answer. But if anybody's qualified to answer it, and by the way, and you. What's the through line on this group that might surprise us? That they all actually have in common?

• 38:47Speaker 02

  Multi hyphenate. And what that means is they're great at the main thing. You know, Aaron for broadcasting, Nikki and Bree were wrestlers. You know, Michael had this great on field, Deion great on field. But everything that they learned, they can now take that to go after what's next for them. And it's, it's the word I use is a multi hyphenate. Because there are some people that are one dimensional and they're fantastic at it. Whether they're winning an Oscar or Nobel Peace Prize. And they're very content in that sort of one vertical. But everyone that you named were not satisfied in being the best in that one vertical. They wanted to keep going. And that goes back to what I said earlier, which is I can't want it more than them. And these people are never satisfied.

• 39:32Speaker 02

  And I'm never satisfied. This is something we're all trying to get better at. We never stop and celebrate the win. We get the win and we're like, okay, what's next? What's next? A guy named Coach Ray Forsett, he's part of Coach Prime's team. Like, is right up there with, with, you know, the role I play. He's more on field. And we've been together, you know, doing this for years and years and years. He worked with Coach back from truth and high school. And when we were in New York after Travis won the Heisman, Travis Hunter won the Heisman. And we were at this awesome party we threw at the Long Club. We flew in coaches and his teammates and boosters, donors, and everyone's there. And we leave the Heisman ceremony, we get there.

• 40:13Speaker 02

  And Ray and I finally just grabbed each other and just had like, it was like, no, it was like a scene out of a movie. No one else was in the room. It was just, you know, Coach Ray and I, we just said, holy, you know, look what happened. Cause we were Travis in high school when, you know, he was gonna come, you know, play for Coach at Jackson State. Like, he left going to a power five because he believed in the vision that we all had for him, which was to be able to play both sides of the ball. And even though, you know, you didn't think you were gonna get nationally televised games, and this is before NIL was, NIL was a thing. But he believed in the vision that we all had for him.

• 40:55Speaker 02

  And that was one of the few times that we all stopped to just say, okay, let's take one minute and just be in awe of what, you know, we've all created together. And the other thing, I'll go back to, what do they all have in common? They're teammates. They're team oriented. Everybody at SMAC is team oriented, not just people that work here, but the clients. Like, if I called Erin and said, hey, would you do a post for Coach Prime Season Three? She's like, yeah, just tell me what you need me to say. If I call her, I mean, if, um, if Michael needs Deion to come on the show, Deion will come on Good Morning America. It's, it just, it works. You know, and even if you think about Strahan, he's on Good Morning America on ABC, and then he's on NFL on Fox.

• 41:40Speaker 02

  And how we can get those guys to work together, and it's been like this, I don't know how long Michael's even been in the ABC family now. I think it's 12 or 13, 14 years, something like that. And the fact that Michael's covering the Super Bowl this year, ABC wants to use one of the interviews from the Super Bowl. Everybody works together. And I would say that probably starts at the top. And that's how Michael and I always wanted it to be. And if you look at Coach Prime, now one of the greatest coaches of our generation, if not, you know, more, like, it's, it's same principles and same work ethic. It's about, you know, teammates and helping each other out.

• 42:16Ed Mylett?

  This is so good, by the way. This is not a conversation that many people can have with someone like you, right?

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• 42:55Ed Mylett?

  I want to talk about your motives. I know what it's not because I've dealt with you. Actually, it makes me, I don't know why, just, that was weird. It's got emotion.

• 43:06Ed Mylett?

  I just think it's, I, uh, it's not money with you. It's not. And so I think most people become entrepreneurs for money. And, and I don't think, it's okay, but it's a really hard motive to keep you going when there's a lack of it for so long, if that's your main jam. And for you, I just know through different things we've done together. It's just not even in the top. It's not anywhere near the top. I don't even, I don't, I wouldn't even let you tell me it was because I know it's not. So like, do you think that's an important quality that money's not first? And then what is it for you? Like, what do you love about this? Like, what's your motivation? Like what, or inspiration?

• 43:51Ed Mylett?

  Like, why do you do this? Because I know it ain't money.

• 43:55Speaker 02

  I know it ain't money either. I'd have that plane right next to you.

• 44:01Speaker 02

  Someone once told me, I can't remember who it is, because I was up to give them credit. If you do good work, the money comes. And when you grow up not having money, it just, we made it, right? Like, my mom figured it out. She was a single mom. Um, she owned a flower shop. My dad worked for the transit authority and then he was out of the picture for a while. So, you know, we just figured it out. And I didn't know what we didn't have because my mom just never complained about it. It was just, we figured it out and. That's, I think, a big motivator for me is I'm always going to figure it out. And I'm not going to want to have to depend on somebody to do it. And that's because how I was raised, good or bad.

• 44:43Speaker 02

  And big motivator for me, everybody that tells me I can't do something. That's my, okay, watch me. Like, because that's been my whole career and it is still to this day. And not even just me personally, or your client will never be able to do that. Like when Michael was up for the research job, they're never going to put, you know, a D lineman that played in the NFL next to Kelly Ripa. I'm like, okay, watch, you know, and just even with Good Morning America. Like, he sits next to Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos, two of the most well-respected journalists. And he won a Peabody, like, from a story that he reported on. So anytime people tell us we can't do something, and we're living that every day,

• 45:25Speaker 02

  not just with Coach Prime, but with Travis, with Shador Sanders, with Shalala Sanders, like all, everybody, like, whether you like Coach or don't like Coach, you have to respect what he's built and the fact that he's turned two college programs around in the last four years, and we're sending a few kids to the NFL draft this year. That's another great motivator for me. Like, when, I mean, there's always a cycle of just, you know, the media, there's hatred that comes for him. And I get calls from amazing friends in the business, like, and I mean, very successful fans, he's saying, do you need help? Like, this, the media is killing him. I'm like, nope, like, we've seen this before. We're going to ignore it because it's going to turn, because I know he's going to win. And they're like, how do you know?

• 46:09Speaker 02

  I go, I don't know, I just do, whether it's faith, blind faith, you know, whatever you believe in. But this is going to turn around. And I think it worked out.

• 46:17Ed Mylett?

  It worked out really good. She's a, she's an incredible, uh, just because when people are on that I know you guys, I want to also brag on them a little bit, if I know something to brag on them about. The certainty thing I said earlier is true, and she's just a massive advocate for other people. And when you're that person, good things happen to you. By the way, on Coach Prime, you're not speaking for him. I'm just asking your opinion. He has turned around two college football programs. Do you think at some point in his life, he may turn around an NFL football program? Or do you think that he would not? Just, just your opinion?

• 46:52Speaker 02

  My opinion is he's very happy where he is right now, and I can't imagine him coaching at the professional level against his children. So rather stay in, in, in college at Colorado to do that.

• 47:10Ed Mylett?

  Gotcha. Okay, fair enough. I had to ask that because if I don't ask that, I'm going to get killed for not asking that question in the interview. You know, I think one of your best things is you're a connector of people. And you can bring a lot to the table. You know, people, you have value in life with what your ideas are. You have value in life with what your talents and skills are, but you also have value in life if you can connect people together. You have really good relationships, people. And by the way, they're respect based. I remember the first time, not name dropping, it just happened. First time I mentioned Alex Rodriguez about you, and he's like, ooh, Khan. Okay, yeah, dude. She's a serious lady. She's awesome. But you do not want

• 47:51Ed Mylett?

  to mess with. I just want to say this because you're meeting this very sweet, nice person here today. Everyone in the industry also knows this. You better not cross one of Khan's clients, because you're going to get the wrath of Khan if that ends up happening. This is a tough woman as well. But how have you, do you have an intentional way, or is it just like your gift at building relationships with people? You said something earlier about sending the, all the influencer friends, you know, packages. Now, obviously, that's, maybe they'll share it, maybe they'll wear it. But you, you're real high touch on relationships as well. Is that an intentional thing? And how do you do it?

• 48:27Speaker 02

  I'm an only child and didn't come from a big family. Like, any of my cousins were older than me. So I just... It's not like I realized this as I was doing it, but I had, I still probably have like five different groups of friends, but I could bring them all together and they all get along because they all have, you know, just the same sort of commonality, which is they're good, fun people that would take that 3 a.m. phone call. And that's how it all kind of started, which the networking or whatever it is. And I also, my very first boss at the NFL, a woman named Maureen Rosen, to this day, one of my closest friends, but she was so instrumental in teaching me how to be a good business person. And so much of that was networking. And to this day,

• 49:10Speaker 02

  I could pick up the phone and call somebody from 30 years ago and say, hey, I know we haven't talked, but would you be interested in this? Or would you know that person? And I get the same phone calls. I got a text today from somebody I worked with at the NFL in the mid 90s that they were inquiring about a potential client coming in. And I love that. Like, that's so important. And, you know, I always tell, whether it's, you know, the people I mentor or the team here, don't burn a bridge. You can stand up for yourself, all the things, but don't burn a bridge. And there's a few people that have burned bridges with me, unfortunately, and those are phone calls I won't take. Like, I can forgive, but I don't forget. My mom, on the other hand, sees the good in everybody, loves everybody. I did not get that gene from her.

• 49:56Ed Mylett?

  Mom just had a big birthday. Tell them, tell them that. What was mom's birthday? Just happened, right?

• 50:00Speaker 02

  99.

• 50:01Ed Mylett?

  99.

• 50:03Speaker 02

  God bless her. We're going to Vegas for her ring dance.

• 50:06Ed Mylett?

  That's awesome. Mom is awesome. Um, okay. We only get a few more questions to ask you. By the way, welcome, everybody. You're inside the mind and the ideas of one of the most, you know, influential people I know, but actually probably the most influential person that I know. So you mentioned earlier, the misogynistic thing. I just want to ask you about that because a higher percentage of women listen to the show now than men, although I'm grateful that there's millions of people that listen and watch of, you know, both genders. But having said that, is there any advice you would give to a woman in business or entrepreneur or entrepreneur or just an executive in business that is unique to women when they walk in a room or are doing a deal or trying to get a meeting with somebody? Is there something

• 50:52Ed Mylett?

  I wouldn't know that you know, that you would share with them?

• 50:55Speaker 02

  My first thing, and this isn't always a popular opinion, just because you don't get the meeting doesn't mean you're not getting it because you're a woman. Like, you have to learn to separate that maybe I just wasn't good enough, you know, in the room, or, you know, didn't present a good enough, you know, document, or whatever it is. So you have to make sure you're going into it with an open mind and objectivity of yourself. Because I'm the first to say that had nothing to do with it. Like, someone just texted me something like, "They're not calling me back because I'm a woman." I'm like, "No, you just aren't the right person for the job." Like, that has nothing to do with it. So that's tough, because that means you have to look in the mirror and look inside and say, you know, was I the right person, you know, to get this meeting? Then it's take the emotion out of it.

• 51:38Speaker 02

  How can I go into this room knowing that they are going to be misogynistic, I'm going to pick up on it, but I can't let it impact my head or my game? And I have to just look at this, you know, for what it is? And then flip them. Like, just force them to know that it doesn't matter what gender the person is sitting across from you, I'm the best person to be in this room right now. And I'm human. Don't get me wrong. I'll walk out of a room, just be so mad and all the things, but at the same time, the one thing you can control is your emotions and your destiny. And I will just decide, you know what, that might have been a great opportunity, but I don't want to be in business with that person. Like, we were taking some meetings in the private equity world,

• 52:22Speaker 02

  and I'd be in a room, and I could pick it up immediately, and I'd walk out, and I'd say, "Not the right team." And they'd be like, "We get it." Like, the first time they didn't, like, the guys that were representing us, and then after that, they were trying to look at it through my lens, and they were like, "You were right." Like, no worries. Like, let's keep it going. So that's a big thing. And then, you know, there's so many of these magazines or awards that they say, you know, "The best female in this," or this, this. And I said, "At some point, we just have to be the best." Because there's no awards or any of that, that "He's the best man in this field." Like, he's just the best. So I know I can start my path to retirement when people are just being identified as the best, not the best female.

• 53:04Ed Mylett?

  So good. You, you guys hear the certainty thing now that I said it? How there's this, she's got this real thing of certainty when she's, when she influences. It's super deep. Okay. I'm running out of time and this sucks because by the way, we should do this like way more often because there really is like nine hours. I, I have not even got to like 30 of the things I wanted to ask you.

• 53:28Speaker 02

  I'm in.

• 53:28Ed Mylett?

  It would, okay, good. I'm glad to hear that. It would be, it wouldn't be a full interview. I didn't ask you about your partnership and relationship with Strahan, with Michael. It is, it is a really special dynamic and a lot of people have a difficult time with their business partner. Right? Like when I coach entrepreneurs, usually not in the beginning, but usually middle or late stage businesses, almost always it's like my partner's not as motivated as they used to be. They're not carrying their weight. We can't agree on the direction or one of us wants to exit. One of us doesn't. And it seems, at least my experience of being involved and then watching you over the years, that this has really been a very effective partnership.

• 54:12Ed Mylett?

  I'm sure there's been stuff behind the scenes. So why has this worked with you and Michael? It seems like there's sort of one person in front, one's mainly behind the scenes. Does it, did you each know your lane and your role? Like what is it about this relationship? And then just describe your relationship overall with Michael in your life.

• 54:32Speaker 02

  It's, it's always evolving and we're so lucky and we're so blessed because yeah, of course. Do you have your, you know, little spats here and there, but it's more of a brother sister. We were both raised with the same work ethics, you know, his dad would say, when, not if. My mom would say, go clean it if you think it's yours. So different verbiage, but same messaging to us. And both work so hard, all of our families, you know, all the things. And we met when I was working at the NFL. So when I left the NFL, I made an assumption that a lot of these guys that I couldn't help anymore, I wouldn't be friends with. And to his credit and Tony Gonzalez's credit.

• 55:12Speaker 02

  Those were real friends. And so when Stray retired, he was calling me for advice. And I just said, listen, why wouldn't I just manage you at this point? Like, I don't mind giving you advice, but you don't have a talent manager. I said, you have Snoop. He said, I'm not as big as Snoop. I said, you're not today, but you're going to be. And he was like, really? I'm like, yeah. And that's how that started. And then it was a year after that, that he was always in the office, like just trying to learn or ask me to go to meetings. And I said, you know what? Control your destiny. Look at what Jay-Z did with Roc Nation or Jon Bon Jovi with his management company Throwdown and just become another partner here. And he did it. And this was before he had the Regis job. So he was obviously on NFL on Fox,

• 55:57Speaker 02

  but we were in development, we're producing, you know, we're trying to build and create things. So it wasn't a defined lane per se, because he would take meetings that, you know, I couldn't be in, et cetera. And as this all sort of evolved, we just, it was almost unspoken, like, obviously, he's the on camera guy. I'm not being on camera person. And so it was easy in that sense. But when we have pitches, you know, for our scripted or unscripted or, you know, documentaries, if he's on, I'm not on. Like, it's rare if we're both on. So he does, you know, do what he can do from a timing perspective, but we just truly want what's best for each other.

• 56:36Speaker 02

  We really just believe in each other. If I'm having a down day, he'll pick up on it and call you like, what's up, boss? We may not agree in the beginning, but we always get to the same answer. And sometimes I think he does that just to mess with me, just so I know he's paying attention. Like, why are you torturing me? Like, I have enough trouble. And even though Coach Prime's, you know, not technically like a partner in this company, he's done more for us and for me personally and putting me out front over the last few years. Like, I can't thank him enough. Like, everyone says it's the Smack family, and it really is. We're really lucky. And if you believe in fate or a higher power or previous lives, like, I definitely have come across these spirits somewhere else.

• 57:19Ed Mylett?

  No, I believe that. And it really is, guys, because I've just been around it enough myself. Like, it really is a family-feeling company. And that's a great lesson for those of you that are building an environment, because Smack's a big company, but it's not in the sense that there's not a ton of people they manage, but their influence is global and massive.

• 57:38Ed Mylett?

  Yet you feel like you're dealing with like kind of a mother and father or brother and sister and Michael and Constance and then like cousins and sons and daughters work there. And in some cases, it literally is family, but I think you got to build that family environment in your business, you guys. I just, I think that's one of the keys. And then the two of you are just great friends.

• 57:59Speaker 02

  Know your culture, you know, SMAC stands for sports media and culture and we will not change the culture here. If someone comes in and I can tell they're easily, you know, offended or overly sensitive, look, we're not the right place. And that's okay. Like, there's nothing wrong with that. But in entertainment and sports, it's 24/7, year round. And we don't have, you know, for just the slowness or whatever. It's like, and that's and there's nothing wrong with it. It's just, you've got to have a certain, you know, mentality to, to be in this field.

• 58:27Ed Mylett?

  It's bananas. You just said that because that was my last question. I want people to know. No, I want people to know the work part. And so you, we've got a lot of thoughts and ideas and ideology and philosophy today and some behind the scenes. Then there's the work. And man, everybody would love to be Emmy nominated. Everybody would love to be able to drop the names you do or be in the rooms you're in. Not everybody would work the hours. And so just for real stuff, like real entrepreneur talk for a second, what does work look like for you? And I mean, be serious here, Con, like, how many days a week? I mean, days a month, hours a day, percentage of your life, however you want to describe it, would you say goes towards everything we're discussing today?

• 59:12Speaker 02

  Oh, a thousand percent, you know, and I'm sure with all the entrepreneurs you've had on your show and you being one of the best that I know, you've probably seen this poster or even invented it. It's, it's shows an iceberg, right? And it shows that. So there's the iceberg and then there's the ocean. And everyone talks about, you know, success. Everyone talks about this glacier, this iceberg that you see on top of the ocean. But an entrepreneur is everything that's below that's taken thousands or millions of years for this glacier to form. It's not overnight by any means. So it is seven days a week and I do try to take vacations and the team does their best to have me, you know, not, you know, be on calls or this and this. But when you own the business and you're in the business of people, you can't

• 59:57Speaker 02

  always turn it off. So if I do get my downtime. I'll check emails in the morning and at night, but I'll say, let me not do my calls, things like that. That's all I ever want is just a day without a Zoom. Like, I'm good. I can be on my emails all day. I just don't want to be on these Zooms all day because it's, it's so much. But again, I've always worked this hard, even as an assistant, and I love it. Like, I thrive on it. And that's not for everybody, and that's okay. But if you are going to own your own business, it never closes. And I didn't know I was an entrepreneur in my twenties. I had no idea, just like, I didn't know what Cal was, right? Like, I mean, it wasn't the word in the nineties that was thrown around the way it is today. But if I identified the talent

• 1:00:42Speaker 02

  at SMAC, and I don't mean the clients, they each have an entrepreneurial spirit. I can put somebody that's on the talent side, on the creative and development side for production. I took someone that was on the talent side and moved them over to licensing, and they've soared, Cora L. Chan, like overseeing the brands there. And I said it earlier, I know what I'm good at, but I better know what I'm not good at. And I brought a COO in April grid on three years ago, who literally has changed how I operate, the trajectory of this business, because I was just like, let's go, let's go, let's go. We have business managers, but there was nobody doing the quarterly updates and putting goals and, and just things that are so basic. But when you're the creative, you don't always have time to focus on that. So I just keep

• 1:01:26Speaker 02

  trying to find the right talent to surround myself to keep building this business. So I can take a vacation.

• 1:01:31Ed Mylett?

  It's, you have to schedule her vacations. People ask me who Khan is. Last time I saw Khan, we had dinner, and I walked out, and I won't say who it was, but a very well-known person knew who you were, but couldn't quite remember. You couldn't figure it out. I was in the parking lot getting my car. And they, who is, who's that? Is Schwartz? I said, I said, and they asked me about you. They said jokingly, I said, there's no Illuminati, but if there was an Illuminati, she would be one of the founding members. She'd be, she'd be one of the organizers. It's just a fact. So I love you. And this was like world-class today, like world-class conversations. So, so good. Thank you for being here, by the way.

• 1:02:14Speaker 02

  Thank you. I was so nervous. And all the people you have on here, I was like, gosh, I hope I don't disappoint and embarrass myself for you.

• 1:02:21Ed Mylett?

  Stop it. That was unbelievable. You guys, this is Constance Schwartz-Morini, SMAC Entertainment, S-M-A-C, is who you guys can go check out. But she really wants you to go check out season three of Coach Prime on Amazon right now. And I'm telling you, it's the best of the three seasons, and all three have been incredible. And she's on it. You're actually going to see Constance on it. So it's worth tuning in just for that alone. Thanks, Con.

• 1:02:45Speaker 02

  Thanks, Dad. I appreciate you.

• 1:02:46Ed Mylett?

  All right. God bless you, everybody. Max out. Share this episode.

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