June 2, 2022 • 24 mins
In this episode of the PlayBooked Podcast, Chloe touches J'Marick’s experience as a football player at both U of M and Duke, his experience as a new puppy father, while continuing his entrepreneurial journey as a man who passionately supports his hometown community.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Playbooked is a production of I Heart Radio and the
College Athletes Network. Hey everybody, welcome to the Playbook podcast.
I'm your host, Kloevie Mitchell, and you were listening on
the College Athletes Network on I Heart Radio. Make sure
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you subscribe so you don't miss an episode because this
podcast is different, it's new, and it's exciting. We talked
to college athletes across the country who are cashing in
on the fact that they are now able to make
money off their name, image and likeness. And why I'm
the host is because I was the first athlete to
do that. I learned how to do it at the
n AI level and I started a company. I've been
getting thousands of athletes across the country paid since. The
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special guest and athlete promoter we have today is named
Jamric Woods. Jameric paid football at the University of Michigan
for three years before transferring to Duke. He's an accomplished
athlete as well as an incredible businessman, and he started
que six Sports, which is where he goes out into
his hometown community and teach his kids about football. Let's
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talk to him and get to know him a little
bit more. JA America. My first question to you would
be how are you. I'm great. I'm great. You know,
it's a beautiful day. I'm down here in Florida right now.
The sun is out, the ways are going, and I'm
just enjoying life. Man. So i'd love to hear it.
I'd love to hear Are you from Florida? No, I'm
not from Florida. I'm actually from Alabama, a little small
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town Alabama. But I'm just down here on a vacation
right now, so with my girlfriend and her parents. So awesome.
How long have you been dating her? We've been dating
for a little over a year now. I met her
back at Duke. She see State and I with a Duke,
so I met her up there, So we've been named
for a little over a year. Awesome. What's her name? Madison?
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Madison Mort Does she play sport in college as well? Uh? No,
she was just a regular student, but she she played
across back in high school. So athletic genes in here? Nice? Nice,
gonna gonna get married or and makes Olympian babies. Do
you um? Are you liking how the season is going
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thus far or how it just went like the football season? Yes, sir.
Oh yeah, Well, for for us personally, it didn't go
as well as I thought it was gonna go. You know,
had a rough year. But as far as you know,
overall college football, I think it's great just to see
that a lot of different teams are competing for different spots,
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you know, somebody, you know, when a different different team
in national championship days like that, and you know, I
feel like it's very very competitive right now, so, of course,
which is always a good thing. Iron sharp AND's iron right,
exactly exactly right. Where were you when you first found
out that N I L was now legal? Yeah, so
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I was. I was Duce campus when I found out
that we were able to profit off her name, image
and likeness, And honestly, I thought it was like a hoax,
just because you know, this is something that college athletes
we wanted for a long time, just be able to
make money off our names, you know, not even just
playing on football field, but just offer names off the field.
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And uh, just having that opportunity was very shocking, and
I thought it was fake honestly, so I didn't want
to believe it. But I started seeing some people sign
these deals and I'm like, Okay, it's real now, so
totally totally. Were you feeling like positive towards it. Were
you scared about what was going to happen. We're waiting
for it to happen for a long time, or were
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you kind of clue us right? So, honestly, I was
one of those that was like, you know, I'm just
gonna sit back and let it happen. I'm not gonna
go out to be proactive about it, you know, just
let my you know, just do what I need to
do on the field, and all the rest have come.
But that was a mistake just because now I see
a lot of people, you know that took advantage of it.
They got their hair start, and there's really you know,
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eating off of it right now. So I was very
reserved about it at first. Right, And what is a
piece of advice that you wish you could have told
your past self now that you have all this experience
for our listeners. J America has been a veteran at
playbooks and doing deals with us. Jamerica, you were like
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famous in the office. We all love you, we all
reference your posts, um, and yeah, you've just been killing it.
So now with all of this experience you have as
an athlete preneurs. Looking back, what would you tell to
America this summer when the monetization was allowed. Yeah, first,
I just want to say thank you all for you know,
the opportunity to work with you guys and things like that.
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You know, y'all like a family to me and things
a lot. And uh, I would just tell my younger
self to take that thirty maybe our out of your
day just to do a couple of do things that
you already do, you know, be yourself, Just make a
couple of or post, take a couple more pictures where
y'all doing things. Just be authentic and and actually just
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take that time because it's not a lot of time,
you know that you have to really put in to
make a post, because we do it all the day,
all the time. We don't even realize it. So I
would just say, take that little time and actually use
it instead of trying to just gonna happen, you know,
take advantage of it. Of course. Yeah, that is great advice,
especially because to some people and to outsiders, especially when
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I wasn't in the influencer. I hate that word. It
seems it seems quite difficult and it seems a little
daunting at first, But my biggest thing that I like
try to preach to athletes is it is not that
hard to get in front of the camera and be
yourself and promote products that you genuinely like. You know,
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it's a staying true to yourself and true to your brand.
It can be really fun and you get to make
some good money too. Exactly is that that nobody will
complain when that that change in your pockets? Right right exactly?
In speaking of changing your pocket, how do you like
and you can be completely honest with me, although I'm
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a little biased being the founder of playbooks, how do
you feel about the process and why didn't you choose
to go through someone like open Doors or Influence or
why playbook? Yeah, Playbook is just it's so much more
convenient just because like they seen you the deals, they
get it done. You know, you have your profile page,
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you upload the things to your profile all the like
your accolades and kind of who you are a little bit,
these brands can see and say, hey, I want to
work with that guy. You literally sit back and once
you get that notification, you just do the video, you know,
do the post and boom you're paid, so totally, very
very convenient for student athletes. Yeah, that that word is
exactly what we're going for when designing the interface. Convenience,
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you know easy. As athletes, we are busy, We have
a lot on our play. We don't have time to
need fifty seven briefs talk to an agent three times
a day and then negotiate how much we're gonna make. Right,
we want to be a one stop shop rats to
get paidmeric what would you say your dream brand is?
To collaborate with my dream brand? Wow, that's a loaded question.
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I probably have a few of them. You know, I'm
a big outdoors person and I like doing outside and
you know, fishing, you know, hunting, and I got a
dog now and things like that. I saw that so cute.
Oh my goodness. Yeah, he's actually over sleep right now.
This is great because he would be barking in the back.
But my dream collab, Oh, that's hard. I would just
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say one of those big like retail stores like you know,
maybe like Cabella's or like that. Just one of those
big sporting good stories where you collaborate with them, you know,
get some discounts, get paid off that as well. So yeah, totally.
I can already see a full size cutout with you
in basketpar shop asking casting a fishing pool. Okay, well
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I love that answer. That's awesome, man, I didn't I
didn't know that you were an O Jersey person. That's
really cool almost so like you know, I'm from from
the North Alabama. But whenever we're not playing football and
I feel like we're out facing our hands. So that's
just one of the things we do. That's awesome. Well,
we're gonna head into our first break. I am Cloevie Mitchell,
your host. You're listening to the Playbooks podcast on the
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College Athletes Network. We will be back in a quick second. Okay, everybody,
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we are back. I'm here with your America Woods. I
am your host, Chloe Vie Mitchell, and you are listening
to the Playboo podcast on the College Athletes Network, where
you can find our podcast on the I Heart Radio apps,
so you don't miss an episode. Jamerica. We were just
talking about your puppy before we went into the break.
Tell me his name. Yeah, his name is Mac. He's
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a Yellow lab and he's actually classified as a Dudley
Lab just because he has that pigmentation in his nose
and his eyes. Most your yellow labs have that black
nose and black eyes. He actually has a pink nose
and his eyes were blue, but they're turning a little
green now, so he's a little different. But he's my buddy.
I love him. I got him from a lady with
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a farm up in Virginia, and uh, you know, I
love remember since so that's so cute. I I love
it and I want a dog so bad. But I
also think you're a little crazy being in college athlete
now a literal child. So how is managing your baby
sports school and work on the side bend? Yeah, so
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right now, you know, managing him isn't too difficult, just
because he's a puppy. So I take him out, he
run around for like thirty minutes and then he'll just
pass out the rest of the day. So that twice
a day. And uh, you know, I also have my
girlfriend helped me, so she helped take care of him
as well as far as like everything else, you know,
managing that. I've just always been a great time like
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great manager of time management, just because of being a
student athlete. You have to you have to keep up
with your books, you have to keep up with your athletics,
and you know, any other thing that you do outside
like hobbies and stuff like that. So it's not difficult
at all. And just with then I unless it's something
else that I just built into my schedule honestly, like
I said, just thirty minute time here blocked off. You know,
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later on the day when I'm just relaxing, do a
couple of videos, take a couple of photos, make a
couple of posts. So think good for you, man, I
really like how you have your head on the straight
and you're able to manage your time. Well, how long
did it take for you to get to that point? Yeah,
I would say realistically, probably a year in college earlier
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road as well. So I started when I was seventeen
in Michigan, so I was by the time that I
was about eighteen then, Uh, I really had a pretty
much downpacked as far as like having a good schedule
and building great habits, because I think that's another key word,
just habits that you have us carry over into your
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daily life. So great habits and everything else would just
kind of followed. So, yeah, that's great advice. My you're
like my dad. He got um, you know, his scholarship
to you Have Them to play football when he was
seventeen as well, and he just was a baby going
into college and he would always tell me about how
daunting it is, but how it's the next step. And
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he always talks about how jealous that he is of
us because we're not able to make money. He actually
won a car to America. I think this is interesting
as well as our listeners. My dad as a football
player You have Them, won a car on the prices
right when they were in California for the Rose Bowl. Wow,
that is great, easy, yes, But he couldn't put the
car in his name because he lose eligibility, right because right,
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you can't take um it would be considered a bribe, right,
So he ended up putting it in his brother's name
and he got to take it back to Michigan. Isn't
that crazy? That is crazy? A car like age, like,
you can't even have it in your name. That's great,
And that was kind of how this whole idea of
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playbooks and you know, finally Neil legislation passing. That's how
it was conceived. And the fact that my dad was like,
I just want a car and because I am playing
a sport in college, I can't take it home. That
doesn't seem fair. But that was just a little fun fact. Um.
So tell me about the transfer portal for listeners. Um,
tell him about how you played UVM and how now
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you're dude. Give him a little background insight. Yeah, so
I was at you and them you have him for
three years. I played there from twice seventeen and graduated
twenty nine a team. Like I said, I was just
earlier doing everything. So uh, once I got done and
was on my way to graduation, you know, I just
figured that, you know, I wanted something different, a little
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switch up. And you know, I love Michigan. I love
the time there. I love coach Hardball, all the family
that I met up there with my teammates and things
like that. But at the end of the day, you
have to do what's best for you. So I entered
my name in the transfer portal with the new rules.
You know, I always graduated and things like that's alwaysn't
have to sit out anyway. And then Coachudcliffe and Coach
g and all them, uh, coach Jones, they recruited me
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to do and it was a great opportunity just for myself,
like on the field and off the field. So I
would say to anybody that you know has a negative
thought about the transfer protal, just think about how many
you know, whether it's coaches or even just in the
real business world, how many people leave jobs and leave
corporations for a big opportunity. Like That's how I look
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at it, you know. And I don't also agree with
you know, making a rush to leave the transfer portal,
but for the right reason. I believe that everybody's had
an opportunity, and I'm glad that the rules have changed
to make people to let people have the opportunity. Yeah,
me too. And I know that the transfer portal can
be a tricky and daunting process, and you kept in
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mind that they are bigger and better opportunities. Did you
find that it was a smooth process? And do you
like how everything played out? And are you happy now? Yeah? Well,
I'm definitely happy, just because I set myself up for
a pretty good life after football and things like that.
I met a lot of great people. I got to
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play in two big conferences, you know, a CDC Big ten,
gotta play for two legendary coaches, coach Cliff, I gotta
do a lot of things that a kid from Alabama, Florence,
Alabama never thought he could do. So, you know, I'm
blessed to be in this position. And I think that
at first, it's anything that's new to a lot of
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people is uncomfortable. But I feel like you gotta be
uncomfortable to grow. So it was very unccordable at first.
It's transferring, jumping into a school and like you know,
people's are people already established there. You're just a new face,
older face and things like that. So it's a little
a little uncomfortable, but it also made me better than
end of the day, and like, I'm just glad that
I went through that process. So that's awesome. That's so cool. Uh,
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now that you are at Duke and you were talking
about opportunities after college and what you're going to you know,
proceed to thrive in doing, tell me about that. What's
your plan? Yeah, so right now, you know, my plan was,
so you know, try the NFL and things like that,
but just with a couple of injuries, you know, shoulder
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injuries and injury things like that, I decided that for
my physical well being and like the well being of
my life going forward that I might should just uh
you know, just a focus on different things like building
my brand and you know, being part of the Playbook
family and different things like that. And I feel like
that Duke and Michigan definitely send me up for that
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for the best best off the field, and I'm grateful
for all the memories of football gave me, uh you know.
So it's it's just a thing that my coach always
told me, you better get all you can get out
of football. It's gonna be all I can get out
of you. So so yeah, that's awesome. Well, we're heading
into our next break, and before our listeners say, oh no,
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there's another break, I don't want to listen to it.
I want to leave him on a cliffhanger. We're gonna
be talking about Jamerica's incredible program called Q six Sports,
and we're gonna talk about the name, what he's doing,
and just again, how awesome of a person j America is. Okay,
So I am Chloe view Mitchell, your host. You're listening
to the Playbook Podcast on the College Athletes Network. Wait,
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will be right back. Okay, everybody, We're back with Jamerica Woods,
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a former UVM football player who now plays at Duke
and is doing amazing, incredible things. I'm your host. Clif
you Mitchel, you're listening to the Playbook podcast on the
College Athletes Network. Again, reminder get the I Heart app
and make sure to subscribe to this podcast so you
don't miss an episode. Jamerica, let's talk about Q six sports.
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And before you tell our listeners what it is, tell
me why you named it Q six sports. Q six sports.
So a lot of people, if you're not from the
two fives six, you wouldn't get it. But the two
fives six that's the area co where I'm from, So
we call it the quarter six. So that's where the
que comes from for quarter then six just you know
the end of it. So the Q six sports, the
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two pop six sports basically at Yeah, I actually got
a tattoo, only two of it. So where's it is
on your Yeah, that's on the back of my arm.
How cool? Wow? Okay, so now what you tell our
listeners and kill them in about what you're doing. Yeah.
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So when I was when I first got the U
of M, I just always thought of a way to
give back to my community, just because I always one
of the reasons I went to you of them from Florence,
Alabama's because I wanted to be a trailblazer. So I
thought of a way to host the camp. And this
is before and I yell and everything like that, and
then you know, so I to get it, like through
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compliance and things like that. The way to host a
free comp in my hometown. Uh name the Q six Sports.
So basically what it is is it's a camp that
a lot of college athletes from the area comes back
and they they're like camp counselors and things like that,
and we basically have a three hour four hour time
block on the Saturday. We take kids through fundamental drills,
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you know, skill drills and competition drills. And at the end,
my biggest part is that I wanted to have a
heart to heart with them. So we have that heart
to heart session where they can ask us any question.
We just kind of tell them about our experience in
college and how we got there, the things that we
had to do and things like that, just to be
that inspiration to a lot of them, just because I
know growing up it takes a village to raise a kid,
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you know, so I know a lot of people to
help me out, a lot of athletes before me that
I've spoken to and things like that. So I just
want to be that have that platform for those kids,
just to help them, you know, keep keep dreaming and
keep working and if any questions, just have them answered.
So oh my gosh, I I got chills. You just
have such an amazing heart and doing that for your
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community is just one super thoughtful and too. I feel
like you are being the man and the mentor that
you wanted while you were growing up. That's a beautiful
thing to see growth when you do these camps and
when you schedule them, when you do sign ups, tell
our listener how freak when they are. And now that
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you're able to make money, how much uh normal camper
would cost? Yeah? So um, I haven't gotten to all
the logistics yet, but I do want to expand, so
I'm going to continue to have my free count. You know,
that would be something I always want to do just
for a community. I don't want to, you know, you know,
trying to get anything out of that, you know, except
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for just uh inspiration to other youth like me and
things like that. But I also want to expand into
around where you know, I might charge just for you know,
more instruction, or even make a travel seven on seven
team or something like that, make a seven on seven
league and the the area or something like that. So
I got a lot of things working. I'm trying to
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branch out not only to football, to other sports as well,
so I can touch on like I'm trying to touch
every kid in the quarter of six, So I really
want to expand to that, whether it's cheerleading or softball
or base all the basketball, all that. So I'm just
I'm in the works with a lot of people, talk
to a lot of people right now. And you know,
I wouldn't try to charge the arm and to live
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for it, but I feel like that, you know, I
would make it where it's worth it, you know. And
you have an insane amount of experience, And you just
said yourself, you played for two legendary coaches. So although
you have a you know, like I said, a great heart,
you want to make it for free. There's definitely a
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way in which you can capitalize off that in the future.
And I've seen your skills not only you know, on
social media, but also off of social media, and what
my team has told me about how cool you are,
and dude, you, if you ever need a job, you
should come work for us and playbook work with us.
Yeah yeah, bring your bring your cute little girlfriend along
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and come back to Michigan and we can do some
sports camps here. But my final question to you would
be if you could change and anything about your last
four years as a college athlete, what would it be
and why this can do. This could involve football, it
can involve personal life, It can also involve being an athlete. Premneure. Yeah,
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I would definitely say my biggest mistake that I made
was and I don't want to sound like it's a
bad thing because it's not, but it's almost like I
put too much time and like I didn't I didn't
make enough time for hobbies, you know, I didn't do
extra things. I didn't go out and go to different
like through the events and joins, through the organizations and
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network that way. I feel like that's one thing that
I regret that I didn't do earlier on in my career,
which I started doing it later in the latter part,
But I would just go out and network more and
do more things, meet more people and just kind of
have a life outside of football in school, because I
know it kind of gets bogged down because just like
you're on the same schedule. You go to football, then
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got class all day, the football stymore in the afternoon.
You just feel like the day's just gone. But now
just that I could just have more time where I
can you know, work on my brand, you know, do
things I enjoy and and just meet new people. So
what a great piece of advice. I mean, we're student athletes,
and when you really think about it, that's all we
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have time for being a student and an athlete. But
in reality, you found a way to be an athlete,
preneur of puppy father, and now an incredible business man. Well,
j America, I appreciate your time more than you know,
and I know our listeners are going to love this
podcast and how genuine you are in your incredible advice.
I'll make sure to include all of your socials and
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if you have any final words, this is your time
to sameh final words. I don't have many, but go
blue and go do That's it. So I love it.
I love it, man, you heard it here first people
Go blue and go Duke. I love this guy and
he's an absolutely incredible businessman as well as a friend
and calm foot on. America is such an incredible heart.
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I know he's going to go far in life, but
despite all of that, he is being smart. He's cashing
in now. He's taking advantage of the fact that he
is an entrepreneurial athlete, and that is what we talk
about here at Playbooks. I hope our listeners are able
to learn something. Make sure to check out the description
to find j America on all of his socials. As
you don't want to miss with this guy's up to
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Playbooked is a production of I Heart Radio and the
College Athletes Network. Hey everybody, welcome to the Playbook podcast.
I'm your host, Kloevie Mitchell, and you were listening on
the College Athletes Network on I Heart Radio. Make sure
(00:20):
you subscribe so you don't miss an episode because this
podcast is different, it's new, and it's exciting. We talked
to college athletes across the country who are cashing in
on the fact that they are now able to make
money off their name, image and likeness. And why I'm
the host is because I was the first athlete to
do that. I learned how to do it at the
n AI level and I started a company. I've been
getting thousands of athletes across the country paid since. The
(00:43):
special guest and athlete promoter we have today is named
Jamric Woods. Jameric paid football at the University of Michigan
for three years before transferring to Duke. He's an accomplished
athlete as well as an incredible businessman, and he started
que six Sports, which is where he goes out into
his hometown community and teach his kids about football. Let's
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talk to him and get to know him a little
bit more. JA America. My first question to you would
be how are you. I'm great. I'm great. You know,
it's a beautiful day. I'm down here in Florida right now.
The sun is out, the ways are going, and I'm
just enjoying life. Man. So i'd love to hear it.
I'd love to hear Are you from Florida? No, I'm
not from Florida. I'm actually from Alabama, a little small
(01:28):
town Alabama. But I'm just down here on a vacation
right now, so with my girlfriend and her parents. So awesome.
How long have you been dating her? We've been dating
for a little over a year now. I met her
back at Duke. She see State and I with a Duke,
so I met her up there, So we've been named
for a little over a year. Awesome. What's her name? Madison?
(01:50):
Madison Mort Does she play sport in college as well? Uh? No,
she was just a regular student, but she she played
across back in high school. So athletic genes in here? Nice? Nice,
gonna gonna get married or and makes Olympian babies. Do
you um? Are you liking how the season is going
(02:13):
thus far or how it just went like the football season? Yes, sir.
Oh yeah, Well, for for us personally, it didn't go
as well as I thought it was gonna go. You know,
had a rough year. But as far as you know,
overall college football, I think it's great just to see
that a lot of different teams are competing for different spots,
(02:33):
you know, somebody, you know, when a different different team
in national championship days like that, and you know, I
feel like it's very very competitive right now, so, of course,
which is always a good thing. Iron sharp AND's iron right,
exactly exactly right. Where were you when you first found
out that N I L was now legal? Yeah, so
(02:58):
I was. I was Duce campus when I found out
that we were able to profit off her name, image
and likeness, And honestly, I thought it was like a hoax,
just because you know, this is something that college athletes
we wanted for a long time, just be able to
make money off our names, you know, not even just
playing on football field, but just offer names off the field.
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And uh, just having that opportunity was very shocking, and
I thought it was fake honestly, so I didn't want
to believe it. But I started seeing some people sign
these deals and I'm like, Okay, it's real now, so
totally totally. Were you feeling like positive towards it. Were
you scared about what was going to happen. We're waiting
for it to happen for a long time, or were
(03:40):
you kind of clue us right? So, honestly, I was
one of those that was like, you know, I'm just
gonna sit back and let it happen. I'm not gonna
go out to be proactive about it, you know, just
let my you know, just do what I need to
do on the field, and all the rest have come.
But that was a mistake just because now I see
a lot of people, you know that took advantage of it.
They got their hair start, and there's really you know,
(04:02):
eating off of it right now. So I was very
reserved about it at first. Right, And what is a
piece of advice that you wish you could have told
your past self now that you have all this experience
for our listeners. J America has been a veteran at
playbooks and doing deals with us. Jamerica, you were like
(04:23):
famous in the office. We all love you, we all
reference your posts, um, and yeah, you've just been killing it.
So now with all of this experience you have as
an athlete preneurs. Looking back, what would you tell to
America this summer when the monetization was allowed. Yeah, first,
I just want to say thank you all for you know,
the opportunity to work with you guys and things like that.
(04:44):
You know, y'all like a family to me and things
a lot. And uh, I would just tell my younger
self to take that thirty maybe our out of your
day just to do a couple of do things that
you already do, you know, be yourself, Just make a
couple of or post, take a couple more pictures where
y'all doing things. Just be authentic and and actually just
(05:05):
take that time because it's not a lot of time,
you know that you have to really put in to
make a post, because we do it all the day,
all the time. We don't even realize it. So I
would just say, take that little time and actually use
it instead of trying to just gonna happen, you know,
take advantage of it. Of course. Yeah, that is great advice,
especially because to some people and to outsiders, especially when
(05:26):
I wasn't in the influencer. I hate that word. It
seems it seems quite difficult and it seems a little
daunting at first, But my biggest thing that I like
try to preach to athletes is it is not that
hard to get in front of the camera and be
yourself and promote products that you genuinely like. You know,
(05:46):
it's a staying true to yourself and true to your brand.
It can be really fun and you get to make
some good money too. Exactly is that that nobody will
complain when that that change in your pockets? Right right exactly?
In speaking of changing your pocket, how do you like
and you can be completely honest with me, although I'm
(06:07):
a little biased being the founder of playbooks, how do
you feel about the process and why didn't you choose
to go through someone like open Doors or Influence or
why playbook? Yeah, Playbook is just it's so much more
convenient just because like they seen you the deals, they
get it done. You know, you have your profile page,
(06:30):
you upload the things to your profile all the like
your accolades and kind of who you are a little bit,
these brands can see and say, hey, I want to
work with that guy. You literally sit back and once
you get that notification, you just do the video, you know,
do the post and boom you're paid, so totally, very
very convenient for student athletes. Yeah, that that word is
exactly what we're going for when designing the interface. Convenience,
(06:54):
you know easy. As athletes, we are busy, We have
a lot on our play. We don't have time to
need fifty seven briefs talk to an agent three times
a day and then negotiate how much we're gonna make. Right,
we want to be a one stop shop rats to
get paidmeric what would you say your dream brand is?
To collaborate with my dream brand? Wow, that's a loaded question.
(07:20):
I probably have a few of them. You know, I'm
a big outdoors person and I like doing outside and
you know, fishing, you know, hunting, and I got a
dog now and things like that. I saw that so cute.
Oh my goodness. Yeah, he's actually over sleep right now.
This is great because he would be barking in the back.
But my dream collab, Oh, that's hard. I would just
(07:42):
say one of those big like retail stores like you know,
maybe like Cabella's or like that. Just one of those
big sporting good stories where you collaborate with them, you know,
get some discounts, get paid off that as well. So yeah, totally.
I can already see a full size cutout with you
in basketpar shop asking casting a fishing pool. Okay, well
(08:05):
I love that answer. That's awesome, man, I didn't I
didn't know that you were an O Jersey person. That's
really cool almost so like you know, I'm from from
the North Alabama. But whenever we're not playing football and
I feel like we're out facing our hands. So that's
just one of the things we do. That's awesome. Well,
we're gonna head into our first break. I am Cloevie Mitchell,
your host. You're listening to the Playbooks podcast on the
(08:27):
College Athletes Network. We will be back in a quick second. Okay, everybody,
(08:54):
we are back. I'm here with your America Woods. I
am your host, Chloe Vie Mitchell, and you are listening
to the Playboo podcast on the College Athletes Network, where
you can find our podcast on the I Heart Radio apps,
so you don't miss an episode. Jamerica. We were just
talking about your puppy before we went into the break.
Tell me his name. Yeah, his name is Mac. He's
(09:15):
a Yellow lab and he's actually classified as a Dudley
Lab just because he has that pigmentation in his nose
and his eyes. Most your yellow labs have that black
nose and black eyes. He actually has a pink nose
and his eyes were blue, but they're turning a little
green now, so he's a little different. But he's my buddy.
I love him. I got him from a lady with
(09:37):
a farm up in Virginia, and uh, you know, I
love remember since so that's so cute. I I love
it and I want a dog so bad. But I
also think you're a little crazy being in college athlete
now a literal child. So how is managing your baby
sports school and work on the side bend? Yeah, so
(09:58):
right now, you know, managing him isn't too difficult, just
because he's a puppy. So I take him out, he
run around for like thirty minutes and then he'll just
pass out the rest of the day. So that twice
a day. And uh, you know, I also have my
girlfriend helped me, so she helped take care of him
as well as far as like everything else, you know,
managing that. I've just always been a great time like
(10:18):
great manager of time management, just because of being a
student athlete. You have to you have to keep up
with your books, you have to keep up with your athletics,
and you know, any other thing that you do outside
like hobbies and stuff like that. So it's not difficult
at all. And just with then I unless it's something
else that I just built into my schedule honestly, like
I said, just thirty minute time here blocked off. You know,
(10:39):
later on the day when I'm just relaxing, do a
couple of videos, take a couple of photos, make a
couple of posts. So think good for you, man, I
really like how you have your head on the straight
and you're able to manage your time. Well, how long
did it take for you to get to that point? Yeah,
I would say realistically, probably a year in college earlier
(11:01):
road as well. So I started when I was seventeen
in Michigan, so I was by the time that I
was about eighteen then, Uh, I really had a pretty
much downpacked as far as like having a good schedule
and building great habits, because I think that's another key word,
just habits that you have us carry over into your
(11:21):
daily life. So great habits and everything else would just
kind of followed. So, yeah, that's great advice. My you're
like my dad. He got um, you know, his scholarship
to you Have Them to play football when he was
seventeen as well, and he just was a baby going
into college and he would always tell me about how
daunting it is, but how it's the next step. And
(11:42):
he always talks about how jealous that he is of
us because we're not able to make money. He actually
won a car to America. I think this is interesting
as well as our listeners. My dad as a football
player You have Them, won a car on the prices
right when they were in California for the Rose Bowl. Wow,
that is great, easy, yes, But he couldn't put the
car in his name because he lose eligibility, right because right,
(12:06):
you can't take um it would be considered a bribe, right,
So he ended up putting it in his brother's name
and he got to take it back to Michigan. Isn't
that crazy? That is crazy? A car like age, like,
you can't even have it in your name. That's great,
And that was kind of how this whole idea of
(12:28):
playbooks and you know, finally Neil legislation passing. That's how
it was conceived. And the fact that my dad was like,
I just want a car and because I am playing
a sport in college, I can't take it home. That
doesn't seem fair. But that was just a little fun fact. Um.
So tell me about the transfer portal for listeners. Um,
tell him about how you played UVM and how now
(12:49):
you're dude. Give him a little background insight. Yeah, so
I was at you and them you have him for
three years. I played there from twice seventeen and graduated
twenty nine a team. Like I said, I was just
earlier doing everything. So uh, once I got done and
was on my way to graduation, you know, I just
figured that, you know, I wanted something different, a little
(13:09):
switch up. And you know, I love Michigan. I love
the time there. I love coach Hardball, all the family
that I met up there with my teammates and things
like that. But at the end of the day, you
have to do what's best for you. So I entered
my name in the transfer portal with the new rules.
You know, I always graduated and things like that's alwaysn't
have to sit out anyway. And then Coachudcliffe and Coach
g and all them, uh, coach Jones, they recruited me
(13:31):
to do and it was a great opportunity just for myself,
like on the field and off the field. So I
would say to anybody that you know has a negative
thought about the transfer protal, just think about how many
you know, whether it's coaches or even just in the
real business world, how many people leave jobs and leave
corporations for a big opportunity. Like That's how I look
(13:52):
at it, you know. And I don't also agree with
you know, making a rush to leave the transfer portal,
but for the right reason. I believe that everybody's had
an opportunity, and I'm glad that the rules have changed
to make people to let people have the opportunity. Yeah,
me too. And I know that the transfer portal can
be a tricky and daunting process, and you kept in
(14:14):
mind that they are bigger and better opportunities. Did you
find that it was a smooth process? And do you
like how everything played out? And are you happy now? Yeah? Well,
I'm definitely happy, just because I set myself up for
a pretty good life after football and things like that.
I met a lot of great people. I got to
(14:35):
play in two big conferences, you know, a CDC Big ten,
gotta play for two legendary coaches, coach Cliff, I gotta
do a lot of things that a kid from Alabama, Florence,
Alabama never thought he could do. So, you know, I'm
blessed to be in this position. And I think that
at first, it's anything that's new to a lot of
(14:56):
people is uncomfortable. But I feel like you gotta be
uncomfortable to grow. So it was very unccordable at first.
It's transferring, jumping into a school and like you know,
people's are people already established there. You're just a new face,
older face and things like that. So it's a little
a little uncomfortable, but it also made me better than
end of the day, and like, I'm just glad that
I went through that process. So that's awesome. That's so cool. Uh,
(15:19):
now that you are at Duke and you were talking
about opportunities after college and what you're going to you know,
proceed to thrive in doing, tell me about that. What's
your plan? Yeah, so right now, you know, my plan was,
so you know, try the NFL and things like that,
but just with a couple of injuries, you know, shoulder
(15:39):
injuries and injury things like that, I decided that for
my physical well being and like the well being of
my life going forward that I might should just uh
you know, just a focus on different things like building
my brand and you know, being part of the Playbook
family and different things like that. And I feel like
that Duke and Michigan definitely send me up for that
(16:00):
for the best best off the field, and I'm grateful
for all the memories of football gave me, uh you know.
So it's it's just a thing that my coach always
told me, you better get all you can get out
of football. It's gonna be all I can get out
of you. So so yeah, that's awesome. Well, we're heading
into our next break, and before our listeners say, oh no,
(16:22):
there's another break, I don't want to listen to it.
I want to leave him on a cliffhanger. We're gonna
be talking about Jamerica's incredible program called Q six Sports,
and we're gonna talk about the name, what he's doing,
and just again, how awesome of a person j America is. Okay,
So I am Chloe view Mitchell, your host. You're listening
to the Playbook Podcast on the College Athletes Network. Wait,
(16:43):
will be right back. Okay, everybody, We're back with Jamerica Woods,
(17:08):
a former UVM football player who now plays at Duke
and is doing amazing, incredible things. I'm your host. Clif
you Mitchel, you're listening to the Playbook podcast on the
College Athletes Network. Again, reminder get the I Heart app
and make sure to subscribe to this podcast so you
don't miss an episode. Jamerica, let's talk about Q six sports.
(17:29):
And before you tell our listeners what it is, tell
me why you named it Q six sports. Q six sports.
So a lot of people, if you're not from the
two fives six, you wouldn't get it. But the two
fives six that's the area co where I'm from, So
we call it the quarter six. So that's where the
que comes from for quarter then six just you know
the end of it. So the Q six sports, the
(17:51):
two pop six sports basically at Yeah, I actually got
a tattoo, only two of it. So where's it is
on your Yeah, that's on the back of my arm.
How cool? Wow? Okay, so now what you tell our
listeners and kill them in about what you're doing. Yeah.
(18:12):
So when I was when I first got the U
of M, I just always thought of a way to
give back to my community, just because I always one
of the reasons I went to you of them from Florence,
Alabama's because I wanted to be a trailblazer. So I
thought of a way to host the camp. And this
is before and I yell and everything like that, and
then you know, so I to get it, like through
(18:34):
compliance and things like that. The way to host a
free comp in my hometown. Uh name the Q six Sports.
So basically what it is is it's a camp that
a lot of college athletes from the area comes back
and they they're like camp counselors and things like that,
and we basically have a three hour four hour time
block on the Saturday. We take kids through fundamental drills,
(18:55):
you know, skill drills and competition drills. And at the end,
my biggest part is that I wanted to have a
heart to heart with them. So we have that heart
to heart session where they can ask us any question.
We just kind of tell them about our experience in
college and how we got there, the things that we
had to do and things like that, just to be
that inspiration to a lot of them, just because I
know growing up it takes a village to raise a kid,
(19:18):
you know, so I know a lot of people to
help me out, a lot of athletes before me that
I've spoken to and things like that. So I just
want to be that have that platform for those kids,
just to help them, you know, keep keep dreaming and
keep working and if any questions, just have them answered.
So oh my gosh, I I got chills. You just
have such an amazing heart and doing that for your
(19:41):
community is just one super thoughtful and too. I feel
like you are being the man and the mentor that
you wanted while you were growing up. That's a beautiful
thing to see growth when you do these camps and
when you schedule them, when you do sign ups, tell
our listener how freak when they are. And now that
(20:02):
you're able to make money, how much uh normal camper
would cost? Yeah? So um, I haven't gotten to all
the logistics yet, but I do want to expand, so
I'm going to continue to have my free count. You know,
that would be something I always want to do just
for a community. I don't want to, you know, you know,
trying to get anything out of that, you know, except
(20:24):
for just uh inspiration to other youth like me and
things like that. But I also want to expand into
around where you know, I might charge just for you know,
more instruction, or even make a travel seven on seven
team or something like that, make a seven on seven
league and the the area or something like that. So
I got a lot of things working. I'm trying to
(20:45):
branch out not only to football, to other sports as well,
so I can touch on like I'm trying to touch
every kid in the quarter of six, So I really
want to expand to that, whether it's cheerleading or softball
or base all the basketball, all that. So I'm just
I'm in the works with a lot of people, talk
to a lot of people right now. And you know,
I wouldn't try to charge the arm and to live
(21:06):
for it, but I feel like that, you know, I
would make it where it's worth it, you know. And
you have an insane amount of experience, And you just
said yourself, you played for two legendary coaches. So although
you have a you know, like I said, a great heart,
you want to make it for free. There's definitely a
(21:26):
way in which you can capitalize off that in the future.
And I've seen your skills not only you know, on
social media, but also off of social media, and what
my team has told me about how cool you are,
and dude, you, if you ever need a job, you
should come work for us and playbook work with us.
Yeah yeah, bring your bring your cute little girlfriend along
(21:48):
and come back to Michigan and we can do some
sports camps here. But my final question to you would
be if you could change and anything about your last
four years as a college athlete, what would it be
and why this can do. This could involve football, it
can involve personal life, It can also involve being an athlete. Premneure. Yeah,
(22:14):
I would definitely say my biggest mistake that I made
was and I don't want to sound like it's a
bad thing because it's not, but it's almost like I
put too much time and like I didn't I didn't
make enough time for hobbies, you know, I didn't do
extra things. I didn't go out and go to different
like through the events and joins, through the organizations and
(22:36):
network that way. I feel like that's one thing that
I regret that I didn't do earlier on in my career,
which I started doing it later in the latter part,
But I would just go out and network more and
do more things, meet more people and just kind of
have a life outside of football in school, because I
know it kind of gets bogged down because just like
you're on the same schedule. You go to football, then
(22:58):
got class all day, the football stymore in the afternoon.
You just feel like the day's just gone. But now
just that I could just have more time where I
can you know, work on my brand, you know, do
things I enjoy and and just meet new people. So
what a great piece of advice. I mean, we're student athletes,
and when you really think about it, that's all we
(23:19):
have time for being a student and an athlete. But
in reality, you found a way to be an athlete,
preneur of puppy father, and now an incredible business man. Well,
j America, I appreciate your time more than you know,
and I know our listeners are going to love this
podcast and how genuine you are in your incredible advice.
I'll make sure to include all of your socials and
(23:40):
if you have any final words, this is your time
to sameh final words. I don't have many, but go
blue and go do That's it. So I love it.
I love it, man, you heard it here first people
Go blue and go Duke. I love this guy and
he's an absolutely incredible businessman as well as a friend
and calm foot on. America is such an incredible heart.
(24:02):
I know he's going to go far in life, but
despite all of that, he is being smart. He's cashing
in now. He's taking advantage of the fact that he
is an entrepreneurial athlete, and that is what we talk
about here at Playbooks. I hope our listeners are able
to learn something. Make sure to check out the description
to find j America on all of his socials. As
you don't want to miss with this guy's up to
(24:22):
make sure to tune in next week and be sure
to subscribe to the Playbook podcast on the I heart
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