From NFL Champion to Venture Visionary with Marques Colston

How do you pivot from a record-breaking NFL career to transforming the investment space?  Marques Colston shares his compelling story of grit, adaptation, and leading with purpose. In this episode of Mitlin Money Mindset®, Larry Sprung sits down with Marques Colston, a Super Bowl champion and founding partner of Champion Venture Partners. Marques reflects on his journey from being an overlooked draft pick to a trailblazer in democratizing sports investments, emphasizing resilience, operational excellence, and accessibility for all investors. Marques discusses: His transition from NFL athlete to entrepreneur and the pivotal role of self-awareness The vision behind Champion Venture Partners and its focus on accessibility in investments The parallels between sports and business, highlighting discipline and risk-taking How fractional ownership and emerging sports are reshaping the investment space The significance of education and empowering new investors for long-term impact And more! Resources: Mitlin Financial   The JOY and Productivity Journal by Lawrence Sprung  Download Your Free Copy of the Couple’s JOYful Money Guide Connect with Larry Sprung:  LinkedIn: Larry Sprung Instagram: Larry Sprung Facebook: Larry Sprung X (Twitter): Larry Sprung Connect with Marques Colston:  Website: Champion Venture Partners Website: Marques Colston LinkedIn: Marques Colston  Twitter: Marques Colston   Instagram: Marques Colston  LinkedIn: Champion Venture Partners  Instagram: Champion Venture Partners Facebook: Champion Venture Partners TikTok: Champion Venture Partners YouTube: Champion Venture Partners  About our Guest: A seasoned business leader, Marques’s business career is shaped by the perspectives and lived experiences gained from his journey to becoming an unlikely NFL standout. Marques’s journey from small school prospect through a decade-long NFL career taught him how success has to be earned everyday, and sustaining it at the highest level requires humility that allows you to be an active learner, curiosity to explore new ways to unlock value, and confidence built on preparation and repetition. This philosophy is the foundation of Marques’s post-football journey as an entrepreneur, educator, financial advisor, and executive coach and strategic consultant for dozens of companies – startups to Fortune 100.  His diverse path is connected by the vision to empower underserved and underestimated communities, helping them envision and achieve beyond their current limitations.  CVP represents an opportunity for Marques to leverage his passion, skills, influence, and access to build a firm with the potential to build a legacy of doing well and good, by creating access to wealth building opportunities to a more diverse group of investors. Disclosure: Guests on the Mitlin Money Mindset are not affiliated with CWM, LLC, and opinions expressed herein may not be representative of CWM, LLC. CWM, LLC is not responsible for the guest's content linked on this site.