A Champion's Mindset: Failure Is Not an Option
Brandon Copeland: What's up, everybody? This is Brandon Copeland, AKA Professor Cope, and you're now locked into another episode of Cope'ing With Money.
Brandon Copeland: Today, I have the wonderful opportunity to sit down with Ms. Renee Montgomery: NCAA champion, two-time WNBA champion, Sixth Woman of the Year, WNBA All-Star, owner ... team owner. I'm sitting down with an owner right now! And also the first athlete to decide to opt out in 2020 in order to fight the bigger fight for us all, with this social justice push.
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I'm extremely honored to sit down with Renee to get into that mindset that makes her different than most people. Because hey, let's face it: In order for us all to reach our individual financial goals, we gotta act differently than most people. So let's lock in real quickly and hear what Renee has to say.
Brandon Copeland's Interview With Renee Montgomery
Brandon Copeland: Super, super excited to have Renee Montgomery. It's only right that we have a living legend on. So, Renee, I'm extremely honored. Our paths crossed for the first time last year. I was trying to plan my charity celebrity basketball game and I didn't want to be the best person out there on the court. I didn't want to have all of the NBA teams trying to get after me, so I was like, "Let me go ahead and find me some real talent and link up." It's that weird phenomenon when you finally learn about something or someone, and then now you just always see them. They're just always accomplishing things, tackling things, just exuding greatness from their soul.
Brandon Copeland: And so it's been an honor to just have the opportunity to be in the locker room and be like, "Hey, I know her. I know her. Hey, she's leading the charge."
Renee Montgomery: Shouts to my VP for connecting us, Paul. That's what's up.
Brandon Copeland: Yeah, it's amazing. So the first question is, how did you become you? I know that that's a big general question. But you have a mindset that is different than a lot of people, and people have ideas out there, but they don't have the gumption and the audacity to go ahead and execute on those ideas. Clearly you do. So where did that come from? Is that something you where born with, blessed with, where'd that come from?
I mean, probably a little bit of both. I was blessed with it, but also I have a family that, I mean, you could call them supporters or enablers, however you see it. Because anything that I wanted to do, you weren't going to be able to tell them that I couldn't do it. I think that starting young, it was just, I really believed that I could do anything, legit, because my family just was pumping that into me. So as I got older, whatever I was trying to tackle, I knew that I had that battery pack
