Life after pro sports comes with unexpected challenges — but it’s also full of opportunity. In this episode of Success Unleash’d, Zack Ellison and Shawne Merriman sit down with Jacob Turner, a former MLB top-10 draft pick turned founder of Moment Private Wealth. Jacob opens up about his rise to the big leagues, the emotional crash of being released, and how he turned that setback into a thriving career helping athletes and entrepreneurs build long-term wealth. The conversation dives into the financial pitfalls athletes face, the importance of starting wealth planning early, and why building relationships during your career can shape your future. Whether you’re an athlete or entrepreneur, this episode is packed with hard-won wisdom and practical tips for creating lasting success beyond your first chapter.

Success Unleash’d Principles From This Episode

1. Financial Literacy Is Key

Jacob emphasized that understanding finances is critical for long-term success, especially for athletes transitioning out of sports. Knowing how to manage money, invest wisely, and plan for the future can make the difference between fleeting wealth and lasting stability.

2. Relationships Shape Your Future

Building meaningful relationships during your career can open doors long after retirement. Jacob highlighted how connections with teammates, coaches, and mentors often lead to unexpected business opportunities and valuable partnerships.

3. Adversity Builds Resilience

Jacob shared how setbacks — like being released from a team — helped him develop the resilience he needed to succeed in his next chapter. Facing challenges head-on strengthens your mindset and prepares you for life beyond sports or business failures.

4. Start Wealth Planning Early

Waiting too long to plan your financial future can be costly. Jacob stressed the importance of starting wealth planning early, so athletes can maximize their earning years and build a strong foundation for life after the game.

5. Identity Beyond the Game

For many athletes, their identity is tied to their sport. Jacob explained how important it is to explore new interests and passions while still playing, so the transition out of professional sports feels less like a loss and more like a new beginning.

6.Emotional Side of Retirement

Retiring from a high-performance career can trigger feelings of loss and uncertainty. Jacob opened up about the emotional side of stepping away from the game — and why processing those emotions is essential for moving forward with purpose.

7. Diversify Your Income Streams

Relying on a single source of income is risky. Jacob encouraged athletes to explore multiple revenue streams, from smart investments to business ventures, to create long-term financial security and avoid post-career instability.

8. Trust the Right Advisors

Not all financial advice is created equal. Jacob stressed the importance of carefully choosing advisors who have your best interests at heart, understand your unique situation, and are committed to helping you grow and protect your wealth.

9. Mental Health Matters

Success isn’t just about money or career milestones — it’s also about well-being. Jacob highlighted the importance of mental health, explaining that taking care of your mind is just as important as taking care of your body for long-term fulfillment.

10. Success Is a Long Game

Success doesn’t happen overnight. Jacob reminded listeners that building wealth, finding purpose, and creating a meaningful life is a marathon, not a sprint. Staying patient, persistent, and focused on growth is the key to lasting achievement.

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The Reality of Life After Pro Sports: Money, Mindset, and Starting Over with Jacob Turner

We have with us Jacob Turner, a former top ten major league baseball draft pick and now the Founder of Moment Private Wealth. Jacob, thanks for joining.

Zack, appreciate you folks having me on. I’m looking forward to the conversation.

You’ve got a crazy story, and we were talking about it offline about how you were at the top of the mountain and then fell off the mountain then climbed back up the mountain. Let’s start from the beginning with your baseball career, and then what you’ve been doing since.

From Top Draft Pick To The Big Leagues: A Rapid Rise

The 92nd version of my story was drafted ninth overall in 2009 and got to the big leagues after about a year and a half. For context, for people that don’t follow professional baseball, it’s pretty rare. I got to the big leagues at twenty years old. Essentially, I thought, “I’m going to be here for the next ten plus years. I’m going to make $200 million doing this and maybe be in the hall of fame someday.” By 25, I was essentially hanging on by a thread. I went from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain to like, “This could be over at any moment.”

I was trying to figure out what baseball is going to look like and what the next stage of life was it going to potentially look like. I got done playing at 29 and started a business about six months after that. At Moment Private Wealth, we specifically help professional athletes and entrepreneurs build and protect wealth. It goes through a lot of the same financial complexities that I went through as a player and have been building that for a few years. It’s been a very humbling journey over the past years.

Jacob, when did that light bulb went off to get into the second part of your career? For me, it was my first big injury. Year 2008 blew my knee out. It was the first time I ever felt that I wasn’t invincible. I think a lot of us athletes we walked through and think we’re Superman until that thing happens to let us know that we’re also human. That was my time to look at my second part of my career. What was yours?

Overcoming Challenges: Preparing For Life Beyond Baseball

Shawne, to your point, I always tell guys that I’m talking to now, professional athletes. I’m like, “If they’re successful, you got a lot tougher than me because like I had so many trials and tribulations.” To your point, Shawne, I can remember getting released from AAA, which, again, context wise is about as low as I could feel. I got released not from the big league team but the AAA team.

I called my agent and I’m like, “I think I’m going to be done.” I ended up playing another two years after that, but that realization there was like, “I need to figure out what the next stage is going to potentially look like.” That’s one of the biggest mistakes I see athletes make. They don’t start thinking about what the next stage is going to look like until their careers all the way over. We can get into my thoughts on that as well.

Jacob, that’s a problem that a lot of people have in general, in the sense that a lot of people don’t look ahead far enough. It’s more obvious in athletes because they have shorter careers. They make a lot of money, and are highly visible. It’s easy to see that. Generally, do you find that’s an issue with a lot of other non-athletes or less famous, less wealthy people?

I think it is, but it is in a subtle way because a lot of people that are not athletes face this transition point in their life where they’re like, “I’m doing this role in this job or this function that like I don’t like, but I’m 30, or 35, or 40 years old. I’m making decent money. It’s all I’ve ever known.” They choose to stick with it. They do it for the next twenty years of their life, and they don’t love it. It’s not something that they’re passionate about. They’re not building towards anything versus the athletes.

We don’t have a choice. It’s like, “Your career is over. Move on and do something else.” The way I described it is like the jaws of life are staring you in the face and you got to make the decision on what move you’re going to make next. Versus, I think most people that aren’t in that sports space can continue on with “a subpar career” for as long as they want if they don’t want to face the music, so to speak and make a big change.

Jacob, we used to have this thing. I was also drafted at twenty years old. At the time, I was the youngest draft in the field player ever. We used to have these things called the rookie symposium. The rookie symposium will be a three-day seminar on what to do, what financial guys to go with, and who to stay away from. Things that just warn you but those three days just weren’t enough for me. At twenty years old, you have to learn how to grow up fast. How was that trying to, in a sense, be an adult and do adult things at twenty years old?

The Importance Of Financial Literacy For Young Athletes

I can speak to that, Shawne. We had a similar rookie symposium, and I cannot tell you anything that I remember from it because I wasn’t paying attention. They were talking about guys that are going to be done soon and that’s not going to be me. I think that’s how every rookie feels because they have the confidence and the self-belief in themselves.

The biggest thing I see looking back at it now, even with the clients that we work with, they go from the draft to, hopefully, the highest level of their sport. A lot of it starts with whatever their family background is, which is something that you don’t get the choice of. My mom had an accounting background and my dad owned a small business. I was at an incredible headstart from the numbers perspective to understand that if I signed for millions of dollars at eighteen, even if I don’t do anything crazy with this. I just don’t blow it up.

Compounding is real. It still took time for me to understand what was going on. I think the best thing that I did, though, in my own career was I just asked a lot of questions. I was always the guy asking questions. If I could go back and do it all over again, the one piece of advice I would give myself is to ask more questions. A lot of times, I didn’t want to feel stupid, like, “I should know this, but I don’t know this thing,” about whatever thing my financial guy at the time was talking about.

One of the things I’ve always thought about is this idea of beginning with the end in mind. You set your goal and you determine what do I want to achieve in a given timeframe, then you work backward. You think about all the milestones you need to reach to get to that end goal. With that in mind, how do you counsel and coach former athletes or current athletes to get them set up for success in the future? Is there a playbook that you run?

One, I love that terminology. It’s a line that I use with clients. We’ll start with the end in mind, “Every good decision I’ve made has been with the end in mind.” We can reverse engineer how we want to get there. I think a simple thing that anybody can do, athlete or otherwise, is to write down on a piece of paper what you want your ideal data to look like.

You wake up, and you could do whatever you want for the next ten hours. What would you do? Try to figure out, “If I cannot do all these things, whether I have other responsibilities or I have other constraints, how can I either remove those constraints in the future? I could remove those responsibilities in the future. Maybe that’s a financial thing. Maybe that’s a business thing. Whatever it may be.” Trying to get back to that perfect life. Even more from a tactical level, I think for athletes, it is helping them set expectations on if I signed for $5 million, $10 million, $20 million, or $30 million, what does it mean for me in my life?

What I try to show our guys is from the day they get drafted, what’s going to hit their bank account? What’s going to come out in taxes? Even a step further is if I stopped playing and I had X amount of dollars in my bank account. How much money could I live on a monthly basis? That number is always lower than every athlete realizes. That initial expectation setting is so critical as you go into your career.

I have a funny story. You are talking about that when you started, you had a head start. Your parents with an account background and they put you in the right track. I was the opposite case at all. We didn’t have anybody around me. I was trying to figure things out faster. In fact, my first signing bonus what I got was almost a little over $4 million. I remember I’m getting the check, and it said $2.8.

I called my agent and then said, “When are they sending the rest?” I didn’t know that taxes were going to be taken out and how much the tax is. You got to count that people around you, but you’re not ready for that. How do you talk to the guys that’s coming up who may not have that extra push or that support or that head start like you? How do you coach them up differently than a guy who started like yourself?

I think no matter where the guys start, the coaching is very similar. What I try to tell the guys is, “There’s a lot of information that we can learn along the way.” My goal is when these guys are 30 years old, I never want to have a guy in the locker room who’s answer to their financial guy is, “I got a guy,” and they know nothing else after that.

Shawne, we’ve both been in locker rooms where somebody says like, “I got a guy.” You’re like, “I don’t know what I’m paying in fees and taxes. I don’t know how my money’s invested.” Frankly, I don’t even know how much money I have. I’ve played with those guys, and they made hundreds of millions of dollars.

It all starts with just understanding each time that we have a conversation with a client, I’m trying to teach them one aspect. I’m not trying to teach them everything right off the bat. To your point about taxes, I can still remember when my first tax bill came. For my first deal, I signed for almost $7 million. The first check was $1.2 million. I want to say I got like $700,000 of that after taxes came out from payroll.

I’m like, “I knew what taxes were, but $500,000 came out of this check.” It’s a striking realization of like the numbers that we see on ESPN that these guys are signing for. They’re getting a fraction of that. You take out agent fees, and everything that it costs to be a professional athlete like training, travel, and all these other things. Money goes fast.

Jacob, when you’re dealing with guys that are still in the league and maybe they don’t yet have that mindset that you have and Shawne has now, in hindsight. How do you get them to come to grips with reality? How do we get them to stop going out and spending as much and pump the brakes before it’s too late?

The way I describe it to our guys is I’m the guide in this situation. Ultimately, it’s their money. It’s their choice on what they want to do. It’s my job to show them and to have real conversations with them about like, “The path we’re on is leading to a place that you’re not going to want to be at in a couple of years. It’s your money. If that’s the path you want to go on, you can go on that path. I’m not here to babysit you until you cannot spend that money.”

One of the biggest issues that athletes face is this. We all see the stories of the guy that got done playing, went broke and made a hundred million dollars. You can Google it. You can see ten famous names, Mike Tyson, Anton Walker, or whoever it may be. I think the bigger issue that I see is the guys that have what I call the 3 out of 10 outcome. They made a bunch of money, $20 million, $30 million, $40 million, or $50 million, whatever it may be.

They get done playing and they got this big lifestyle built up and cannot sustain the same lifestyle that they were living. Versus the ideal outcome for any athlete. When they get done playing, they’re either living the same lifestyle that they were living when they were playing or, hopefully, even a little bit better lifestyle. They have financial optionality to figure out what they want to do next. The only reason, in my opinion, that happens is athletes get around people who don’t want to shoot them straight. Their goal is to not get fired as opposed to having the hard conversation.

The Importance Of Personal Branding For Athletes In The Digital Age

I want to stick with that, what do next? For me, there was a point in time where I had injuries. I just wasn’t going to be the same player anymore. I made the decision to retire. I went straight into TV. I was at NFL Network for a couple of years, and I had a bunch of other things going on. When do you start talking to most of your athletes about lining that thing up? I tried to tell a lot of guys to start planting that seed.

You may not jump right into what you want to do but you got to start planting those seeds. Whether it’s during the off season, or you want to get into finance or you start wanting to be in show or media. When do you start having those tough conversations with guys? As athletes, we are the last ones to realize that we have to retire. We were the last ones. When do you start having that conversation with your athletes?

In the age of social media, a couple of things come to mind. The thing that I always preach to our guys, and this is a personal decision that they can make, but personal branding is more important now than ever before. My belief is that your personal brand is going to be more important than your resume in ten years. I think it already is in a lot of cases. The reason why I say that is as a professional athlete, you’re cool. You have an incredible way that you can build a huge personal brand that can go with you for the future.

I gave a presentation about it. I call it the Perfect Outcome. One of the ideas behind it is I used an example of two former major league baseball players. They both made a hundred million dollars. One guy, David Ortiz, everybody knows his name. The reason why, Shawne, to your point, he’s in TV. He’s everywhere. His personal brand is huge. Another guy also made a hundred million dollars and you wouldn’t even know his name if I told you. He’s an outstanding player.

The reality is that the time to start thinking about when your career is going to be over is when you’re starting. The second caveat to that I would add is I would always encourage guys to build relationships as you’re playing. Everybody will take the meeting with you when you’re a current athlete. When you’re a former athlete, it’s a lot harder to get that meeting.

You’re on the road, and you got a day off, like, “Reach out to somebody and you think maybe in the future, I want to do real estate.” I can guarantee you somebody that does real estate in that city who’s really big time, who has a busy schedule, will sit down and go to lunch with you and tell you everything that they know about real estate. What an incredible opportunity. The doors you have open as a current athlete are so great. It’s the biggest thing that I didn’t realize when I was playing.

I always call that out of sight, out of mind. Once you build these relationships while you’re playing, then they know who you are. It doesn’t matter that you’re not playing anymore. I tell a bunch of players this all the time, if you try to go and get some of those same meetings, you may not get it as fast because you are a former athlete of whatever team. You started to build those relationships while you were playing. Those are going to last longer than anything you could have done during your playing career.

I’m sure you saw this in your own career, Shawne. We always hit BP before the games. I always tell people, instead of shagging BP, what I should have been doing is going to the first row of seats and talking to all the people that were sitting in the first row. I think one of the issues that athletes face is we’re in our own little bubble. In the NFL, and Major League Baseball. All I knew was Major League Baseball. Everybody I know plays Major League Baseball. I know some coaches. I don’t know what happens outside of this bubble of people that I have. I think so many guys failed and missed the opportunity to expand their network when they had this incredible head start to do it.

Business Building For Former Athletes

Jacob, one of the things I wanted to ask you about was business building for former athletes. Do you help at all with that, or are you mostly just focused on pure investing?

We help the clients that we work with do it. I’ve got on the phone with a lot of former athletes. I’m sure Shawne can appreciate this, it’s a fraternity. If you’ve done something at the highest level, I will do anything in my power to try to help you if you’re willing to help yourself. I also think the reality of that, Zack, is one of the biggest struggles that athletes face is when they get done. We talked about this proverbial top of the mountain, you’re back to the bottom of the mountain again.

Only because you were a professional athlete, everybody in business wants to know what could you do for me now. I don’t care that you’ve made the pro bowl or you made the All-Star game. What can you do for me now? It takes a sense of humbling yourself and understanding that I’m starting over again and that’s okay.

It’s one of the conversations I have with a lot of former athletes. When you walk in that room, you more than likely are going to be able to get that meeting because they know who you are. When you get there, you have to sell, produce, and show it like everybody else. If you go to that meeting unprepared or you’re not ready, you don’t have your stuff together. You would get booted out of there faster than any other regular person you know. The upside of that is you’ll be able to get that a normal person won’t get again. As you said, you better humble yourself, and be prepared when you walk into pitch, sail, and roll your sleeves up. Whatever you did in your playing days, it doesn’t that matters.

Shawne, to your point, I would argue that you can get the meeting easier, but you can get kicked out of the meeting faster. The reason for that being is there’s a stigma. You’re a former professional athlete, like, “Does this guy want to work hard? Is he into this thing?” Even when I first got into this business, there were a lot of people that went on from professional sports into something around financial services.

The big stigma in the space is like, “Is he in this because he knows people in the industry, or is he in this because he wants to try to grow and be the best advisor that he can be?” I think you have to overcome a lot of stigma around being a professional athlete. Is he willing to work hard and roll his sleeves up to your point, Shawne?

Jacob, I’m going to ask some real quick on that because back when I was playing, especially before me, when I got drafted in 2005 and earlier guys. We were almost told to eat, sleep, play football, basketball, baseball, and whatever you did and go home. Now, the athlete is required to do so much more that the general public. They look at us a little bit differently now than they did back then because we’re forced, in a sense, to do much more than just play the game.

We have to be model citizens. We have to go out, and a lot of us are doing philanthropy work, and making investments. Some of these guys, the modern-day athletes, have the money and are investing in teams. Patrick Mahomes is part-owner of what two professional teams. Do you think that the outlook of the athlete is different now than it was back in the early days?

I think it is. All that to me is personal branding. How are you branding yourself both as an athlete and as a business entity off the field? The advice I give to every player is no matter what advice you get from coaches, the front office, your agent, etc. Remember, it’s your career and nobody’s going to care about your career as much as you do.

Your career is on the field and off the field. It’s everything that that entails. Understand that, at some point, it’s all going to be over. Now, you have an incredible head start. Financially, you have an incredible head start and personally, you have an incredible business world, but you still have to take advantage of that. It’s still your career.

Preparing For Career Transition: Lessons From A Successful Former Athlete

Shawne, I wanted to ask you because you’re one of the most successful former athletes who’s now successful in business as an entrepreneur and a business builder. I know your story well because we work together closely. For those that don’t know, talk a little bit about how you transitioned from a former player to now entrepreneur and now a successful business CEO?

Zack, it’s funny, back when I was 21 years old and I first got my chunk of money from the charges and I got drafted. I’ve been called Lights Out since I was sixteen years old. I was having a bit with a good friend of mine, Greg Wiseman, and we were having a drink. I said, “Greg, I want to own Lights Out. You how do I own my name?”

He’s put down the cup and looks at me. He says, “Shawne, do you know what I do for a living?” I said, “No, what?” He says he’s an IP attorney, trademark attorney. At that point, I wanted to go and purchase the rights and the trademarks for Lights Out. Even at the time, I didn’t exactly know what I wanted to do, but I had in my mind that I wanted ownership and I was going to put these trademarks to use.

Trademarks are a thing now, but when I did it in 2006, it was like, “What the hell was I doing?” It was frowned upon, and I was branding myself. I wasn’t thinking about football because then, as Jacob always talked about, back then I think the idea of the athlete was different. Now, that’s the only way to go about branding. Folks, looking at their personal brand far beyond them playing the sport. I did have it in my mind back then, and it’s normal.

Shawne, I wanted to ask you when did you determined that you wanted to build out Lights Out Xtreme Fighting. I know you doing a lot of MMA work in the offseason when you were still playing, but talk about that transition.

I fell in it. First of all, because I had a passion for the sport. I started to train with Randy Gator during the off-season. Randy got in there and kicked my butt. As an athlete, we’re very competitive. I wanted to get back into the next day, so I would have my off-season workouts. I had an 80% workout bonus with the charges. I had to go there 80% of the time. I would drive from San Diego back up to Los Angeles and train with Randy Gator a couple of days a week.

I did that every off-season and worked with some of the greats, Randy Gator, Chuck Liddell, Tito Ortiz, and Tyronne Williams when first started to come on the scene in mid to late 2000s. I started to get familiar with the landscape of combat sports, especially MMA, because it became the hot sport and started to overtake boxing. When I was talking to Jacob about working in network TV. I was in NFL networks, Fox Sports, ESPN, and WWE network when they launched. I realized how TV works.

You combine the two of loving the passion of combat sports and understanding now how TV, production, and who to work with in the business. For me, it was a match made in heaven. There’s not too many times, I could be honest, that you get an opportunity to do what you love, and that was football. I wanted to play football and be in the NFL since I was eleven years old but you transition over to this career and now to building something of your own.

I think one of the best days of Jacob Sand is the curiosity. I was always asking a lot of questions. I remember walking out there on Sunday night football, and I saw those cameras flying over my head over the zipline. I would follow it and go to the end. I would start to ask the producer or whoever that camera guy was in the corner, “What is this camera for? What does it do? How was he going to come around?” I was always asking questions, but that curiosity is everything. I always advise whenever I talk to players, don’t be afraid to ask questions because most of the time people are successful. They want to help you. They want to tell you. You have to ask those questions.

I think to compound on that too, Shawne, there’s probably a lot of people that see your success now, and they’re like, “That’s great. He did that after football.” The reality is, that was a decade in the making before football is still running and gunning. All of sudden, you’re thinking about this with the trademark and then it’s like, “I’m using my connections to be able to open doors that like would not be able to be open to me if I wasn’t a professional football player. Now, look what it’s led to.”

To tie up some of these thoughts for everybody, what I’m getting out of it is a couple of things. One is this idea of starting early and while you’re still a player, while you’re still most relevant, to start building what you want to do after your career. That’s one of the big takeaways. Shawne did that naturally, but other folks can be maybe more deliberate and saying, “I don’t know exactly what I want to do, but I can continue to educate myself in the off-season. Work for or with certain businesses that I might want to have a career with after.”

They’re all going to want to hire well-known athletes for the offseason if they’re available. I think that idea of starting early, gaining experience while you’re still relevant, and building the personal brand that you guys both have talked about is incredibly important. Leverage the access that you have is something that is probably the most valuable asset in general that pro athletes have. It’s this access to get in the room with anybody.

To Shawne’s point and Jacob’s point as well, be ready when you get there because you can get in the room but then are you going to stay there? Are you going to get the second meeting and the third meeting? Are you going to close the deal? To be honest, what Shawne does well and probably better than any ex-athlete and most business people I’ve ever met, quite frankly, is not only get the meeting but make things happen like get deals done, which is that’s where it’s at.

It’s not about getting in the room. You can get in the room, but what do you walk away with? What relationships and partnerships and deals do you get done? That’s something that I think the earlier you start learning, the better. We’re almost out of time. Jacob, I wanted to go through a lightning round with you to get your best advice on success and how people can leverage what you’ve learned. I’ll start with the first question and I know Shawne’s got some. Are there any habits, routines, or practices that you believe in that everybody could benefit from?

The two things I do are that I have a power list every day. The three biggest tasks that I need to get done that day. The second thing I do is I wake up early in the morning. I’ve never met somebody that tells me they wake up early in the morning that is not somewhat succeeding at life.

Shawne, you work Sundays as if they’re Mondays, which is one of my favorites, too.

That’s one of my biggest ones.

Jacob, how did you get over that stigma? It’s so important, especially for former athletes, that stigma that you talk about. How long did it take before somebody realized that you’re not a common athlete? What did you do to get over that?

One, I put my head down and started working to get better at my next skill set. The second thing I did was I showed what my skillset was. I didn’t just tell people that I was good at helping them manage their money. I produced a ton of content online. I’ve been doing that almost every single day for the last four years. For the first year, nobody looked at anything. It went nowhere. After that, it started to compound. The reality is as I showed. I didn’t only tell people.

The Value Of Surrounding Yourself With Like-Minded Individuals

Talk a little bit about the content you’re producing because I think that’s a great angle for anyone, especially people that have a national brand from being an athlete or entertainer.

It starts with the fact that as an athlete, I’ve been sold about everything under the sun, and you feel like everybody’s out to get you. When I got into this business, the last thing I wanted to do was try to be one of those people who felt like I was out to get an athlete. What I try to do is I try to show, educate, and bring people in that way by showing what my expertise is rather than trying to have this hard sell that I think a lot of people in our industry have.

That’s it on my end, Zack. It’s been awesome. Jacob, I appreciate it. Zack and I always say this all the time, but I wish I worked with only athletes sometimes because our mentality is different. For one, playing a team sport where I’m sure you didn’t like every teammate you always play with, but you all find a way to go out there and games, win games, practice together, and figure things out. It’s no different than when you get into the business world.

You’re not going to like everybody you work with, but everybody has the same common goal. Also, getting over adversity. People don’t understand that as an athlete, you don’t have a choice for opportunity to come out. I’ve had people say, “I got a headache or I’m feeling a little under the weather.” That doesn’t happen with us. I know we have to perform no matter what. I always wish that I could surround myself with more athletes because of the mentality. This has been great. Thank you.

I appreciate you folks having me on. The one I always use is there’s no performance improvement plan when professional sports is there. If you’re not performing, you’re out, and that’s the reality in professional sports. That brings a lot of success for athletes when they’re done playing because they’re willing to do things that other people aren’t willing to do to have success.

Jacob, thanks again for coming. It was great having you.

I appreciate you folks.

Take care.

Thank you.

Important Links

• Zack Ellison on LinkedIn
• Zack Ellison on Instagram
• The 7 in 7 Show with Zack Ellison (podcast)
• Applied Real Intelligence (A.R.I.) website
• Shawne Merriman on LinkedIn
• Shawne Merriman on Instagram
• Lights Out Sports TV website
• Lights Out Xtreme Fighting website
• Jacob Turner on LinkedIn
• Jacob Turner on X
• Moment Private Wealth

About Jacob Turner

I was the 9th overall pick in the 2009 MLB draft.

I played professional baseball for 11 years (experienced about every high and low along the way)

I started Moment Private Wealth to help athletes and entrepreneurs build and protect wealth.

That is what you see on the surface, but here is what you probably didn’t know…

I was convinced as a 20-year-old in the big leagues that I would still be playing today.

I saw my dad, a business owner for 20 years, get pennies on the dollar for his business due to subpar advice/planning.

I met my wife in high school and we have four kids together, they are everything to me.

I had a bottom 20% career outcome (top 10 MLB picks are supposed to make All-Star teams, I didn’t). I had a top 5% financial outcome (I made smart money decisions with every dollar I earned).

I have always loved talking about personal finance but have not always been a big fan of “financial advisors”. (So I figured I would become one, smart right)

I want to change an industry (financial services) so it is more focused on educating clients than telling clients.