Andy Neary teaches advisors how to get attention, but as a fat kid he did everything to avoid it. He wanted to be a baseball player, wore baggy clothes, and dreaded the Presidential Fitness Test in school.
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When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
All right, if anybody is so kind.
To share that image is in your head. What was your childhood dream? Go ahead and just share it.
Pilot. Pilot. Love that. What else?
IndyCar driver.
Nice.
I always look for the most unique one here. How about over here? Anybody got a childhood dream? Pro baseball. I love you, man. Pro baseball.
Singer.
You got something you could cut for us right now?
All right, you could open your eyes.
But what I am curious about is.
You closed your eyes, guys, and burned.
That vision of your childhood dream in your head. How many of you at 8 or 9 said, I cannot wait to become an insurance broker.
Most of us didn't get in this business by design, right? I know. It found me, guys. When I was a kid, my childhood.
Dream was not to sell health insurance. No, no. My childhood dream was to become a professional baseball player.
However, I had one small problem.
Does that physique scream pro athlete?
As a kid, I hated attention.
And just look at that photo and.
I think you can tell why.
I was a chunky kid. And when you're a chunky kid, you avoid attention because most of it's negative. Kids pick on you.
Girls are definitely not attracted to you.
And as a child of the 80s.
Before mental health was a mainstream issue.
Companies like Levi's made it clear they made a gene for you. They called it size husky.
Where are my husky wearing men? In the room. Feel you guys. It's a brotherhood. By the way, guys, those glasses were thick enough that if you put them under the sun, they would burn ants.
And I was the only basketball player in seventh grade to make the A team with B cups.
As a kid, confidence and consistency were.
Not in my vocabulary. I had no self worth, and I was on discipline.
My enemy in grade school, by the way, was not the big bully on the playground. No, no, no. My enemy.
Was the annual Presidential Fitness Test.
Who remembers that thing?
You know, I think they created that for two reasons. Number one, okay, they wanted to assess the health of the youth in America. Every year, I'll give them that.
