College Student Gains Financial Independence and Professional Networking Through Sales Mentorship

Speaker 0: K. Cool. I'm Brady Rockwell. I go to school in Kearney, Nebraska where I'm currently living. Yeah. So is that what you wanted or no? Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I'm Brady Rockwell. I'm from Kearney, Nebraska. That's all you want? Okay. Cool. K. Alright. I'm Brady Rockwell. I'm from Kearney, Nebraska. Yeah. So my opera I didn't work the first two years of college, and I found Vector my sophomore year of college. But before that, I roofed, then I mowed lawns for a little bit in high school. I was playing football when I found Vector, so I wasn't really working, doing anything like that. I was focusing on school and football. I saved up enough money throughout high school, so I didn't really need to work. But then I randomly found out about the job from this kid at, this little event we went to on on campus. He told me about it. He quit a week in the job, but it's probably the best thing he's ever done for me. So, yeah, that's kinda how I found out about it, my whole situation there. My financial situation wasn't good, by the way. Either when I first found Vector, it was kinda terrible. So I really, like, needed to pick me up. But yeah. Mhmm. Yeah. We kinda like it was, like, mutual. I don't really even know how it happened. We just started talking, and then he was like, I have this really cool job. I told him I needed a job and then looked into it, ended up doing it. So yeah. Yeah. I did, but not from my parents. My mom so I was the skeptical one coming in. I did my own research. And, obviously, when you look it up, you know what comes up, like, all the stuff. But my mom told me to do it. It's probably the best thing that I've ever listened to my mom to tell me to do. And it was actually my friends who gave me negativity. It wasn't like negativity, like, I don't like your job. It was more like, you're selling knives. Who does that? Blah blah blah. So it wasn't really from, like, the family aspect. My family's always been supportive. It's mainly just my friends making fun of me for selling knives. So Okay. So what made me say, like, okay. Let's give it a try. It wasn't necessarily, like, going through the interview or anything. When I went into the interview, Tyler had, like, two buttons undone. That's my manager. So I was still a little skeptical. Like, nobody shows up to an interview like that. But I tried decided to go through it then anyway. I got into training. They incentivized Cabo. So my the the first plan was win the Cabo trip, quit the job, make a lot of money, and then just quit. But then I went to Cabo, had a one on one with Tyler and kind of the importance and we kinda goal shared on what I wanted for my life. And that was I was like, oh, okay. I can actually learn a lot here. This is a great commitment, great network, and it's definitely the biggest opportunity I've ever had. So Okay. So my best customer story was probably back in s c two or okay. I have two. So my first sale was, to my family friend. She bought the Homemaker. It was pretty cool. I didn't expect her to. She actually bought knives, like, a week before that. But then she, like, hyped up Cutco. Now she really loves them. But the second one was probably an s c two, when I sold one knife to this one customer a while back, and they lost it. And that was a whole ordeal because they got mad at me because we wouldn't replace it, things like that. But then they came back out to me and I kinda, like, apologized, things like that. I ended up selling them a set, hooked them up with some free stuff, and then now they actually, like, marketed for me to, like, other customers and things like that. And then, actually, in my s c two push, that actually helped me win, like, two other sets. And now I didn't even show demos to those people just from one customer that originally like Cutco and hated it and then loved it again. So, yeah, that was pretty cool. Mhmm. So the the marketing and stuff didn't really surprise me a lot because I knew what Cutco was a little bit coming in. I knew it was a good product, things like that. The biggest thing for me is probably, like, this job for me. I classify classify it it as as a a job, job, but also a mentorship. The amount of like life skills, like if I want to learn about real estate, I can go learn about real estate. If I want to learn about life insurance, I can learn about life insurance. There's people that have tons of different experience. And those people you meet, the connections you make, they can hook you up with other people down the line too. That's kinda what surprised me the most was how big the network was, and how big of, like, an opportunity this actually is, how much I can actually learn from just, like, the job title selling knives, essentially. So yeah. For sure. So, yeah, definitely the flexibility is probably the biggest thing. Like, I never was a person. I I I like I used to work a lot of blue collar. I hated clocking in at nine to five and being told what to do. So definitely being your own boss is the best thing ever. I can make my own schedule. And if I don't wanna work one week, then I don't have to. I usually do. But, like, if I need to go to concerts or I need to make time for family and the important things in my life, it allows me to still be responsible financially and make enough money to support myself and the things I wanna do. But it also allows me to give time to the people that are most important in my life. So I think that's probably the biggest advantage for working for. So Definitely. So crucial conversations for sure. Communication for me coming to college was terrible. I didn't have a network of people. I had friends that I've made. That was just from going out with other friends, like the people I've met in my dorm room. I never really, like, networked for myself. And then having, like, crucial conversations with people. So the conversations nobody really wants to have, but you kinda have to have them anyway. I used to, like, be afraid of those. I would avoid them, things like that. But then this job has kinda taught me with, like, Dan Espergard and all those guys. They're teaching me all this stuff. It kinda taught me, like, how to approach those situations and be more comfortable just being myself in those situations and actually being able to, like, relay the message I want. So that's definitely a big skill I think I've learned for sure. Yeah. So the biggest thing for me is I'm a big, like, look into the future type of person. And my biggest my family hasn't really come from a whole lot. So that's a big thing for me is, like, obviously, the financial opportunity. It's not just for me. It's for everybody else in the family. Like, I wanna be the person that creates the generational wealth for my family. I feel like Cutco's a good spot to at least start that. But also just, like, the values and the lessons I can learn, I'll be able to relay that to my kids and other people that really need it along the line. So obvious I'm, like, growing every day I'm here. Until I stop growing with Vector, I don't see a reason to leave, basically. So Mhmm. What I say to them is just like, why not? Why wouldn't you go try it? Because they see I get a lot of questions. I they see me, like, post on Instagram and stuff about, like, going to Minneapolis, going to Cabo, going to Chicago, Wisconsin, all these different places. As a 21 year old, that's unheard of. You never travel for business, anything like that. And people that are still skeptical of it, whether it's for a financial reason, whether it's for I don't know if this is real or not, why not just try it, see if you're good at it. And the worst thing that can happen in this job is somebody just tells you no. Like, in other fields, like nurses, doctors, things like that, a bad day if somebody is, like, not living anymore. So, like, why not just try it? If this can turn into something that could absolutely change your life, then why would you turn this down, essentially? So yep. Are you is it just like, are you making it in, like, a video and then posting it on social media, things like that? Mhmm. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That's fine. I was just, like, wondering what the different things were. I don't care if they post it wherever they wanna post it. So it's yeah. Okay. Yeah. For sure. That'd be awesome how you're doing. So Okay. Okay. Cool. Cool. Cool. And if there's, if there's anything, like, I need to redo, we can