In his first profession, Bennie Fowler was an NFL broad receiver who received the Tremendous Bowl with the Denver Broncos in 2016.
Now, on the outset of his second profession, he’s serving to lead the growth of markets for Caprock, a multi-family workplace RIA serving ultra-high-net-worth shoppers.
“My position at Caprock has rather a lot to do with my soccer background as a result of there’s an enormous component of technique to soccer and an emphasis on relationships,” Fowler, the agency’s new director of strategic growth, tells ThinkAdvisor in an interview.
After eight years within the NFL, Fowler retired in 2022 at age 30. Within the low season, he had been coaching to be an authorized govt management and life coach. He was licensed in 2021.
As a part of his coaching, he labored with greater than 150 entrepreneurs and small corporations.
Within the interview, Fowler — who additionally performed for the New York Giants and New Orleans Saints — explains his mission at Caprock, which has about $11 billion of property beneath advisement, and the significance of “understanding [clients’] wants and placing them first.”
Listed here are highlights of our dialog:
THINKADVISOR: What was it prefer to win the Tremendous Bowl?
BENNIE FOWLER: One of the unbelievable alternatives I’ve ever had. And to have my household there on the sector with me celebrating that second — it was unbelievable!
It looks as if your new job at Caprock is way afield from soccer. What you on the planet of enterprise and finance?
The position at Caprock has rather a lot to do with my soccer background as a result of there’s an enormous component of technique to soccer and an emphasis on relationships, and constructing camaraderie and rapport.
That’s precisely what I’m going to deliver to this position: Learn how to assist individuals perceive what we do at Caprock, how we construct considerate and significant partnerships and relationships with our shoppers, how we get out within the market to be a change for good and alternative.
My function in life is to assist individuals stay — and stay to their full potential.
What do you take into account probably the most difficult a part of your job?
There’s rather a lot to be discovered. Cash is likely one of the most intimate issues to take care of [when interacting] with individuals.
So it’s coming to them with a way of respect, being intentional with them, understanding their wants and placing them first — all that’s going to be necessary.
I’ll be leaning on my teammates rather a lot due to their expertise on this area.
You retired from the NFL simply two years in the past, once you have been 30. What prompted that?
I had a season-ending harm, although I nonetheless had a chance to play the next 12 months. However within the NFL, when you flip 30, the groups cease calling.
It’s important to retire once you flip 30 since you’re on the again finish of your years, particularly enjoying broad receiver. They will discover youthful and quicker individuals.
Why did you grow to be an authorized govt management and life coach by way of the Co-Lively Coaching Institute?
I needed to assist affect individuals’s lives. I acquired licensed in 2021 in the course of the pandemic. After I retired, I acquired into govt and management teaching.
I labored with over 150 corporations — all entrepreneurs and small companies — in loads of completely different industries.