April 3, 2025 • 36 mins
David Scully, President of Duncan Williams Asset Management, joins Trent and Patrick on “At Home with Roby”. David shares stories from his short-lived track career at the University of Georgia, his many years of serving as a volunteer coach for his daughters’ sports teams, and how the generosity of Mr. Duncan Williams allowed him and his wife to expand their family. David also shares how AI helped him curate a personalized list of books to meet his “read more” resolution for 2025. Tune in to hear a few of the titles he’s diving into.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to a Home with Ruby. I'm Patrick mcaac from
Ruby Commercial in Services on with Trent Hoason from the
Ruby family of companies. This is our podcast and we're
we are your host. That's it, that's what I think.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
You think.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Well, we're too late now, there's no there's no back
of our Kelvin's got the light turned up on us.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Goodness, gracious, let there be light. Let there be light.
What do you think we look sleepy? We might know.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
There's a good chance that we do. You look better,
look better? Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
My forehead might be shining well lit. I know this,
not yet. This morning I usually get up first and
get out of bed and go in the bathroom and
shut a door and do whatever I'm gonna do. Read,
maybe maybe read a little better, look, you know, ketch
up on the news. And this morning I realized that it.
I got up, woke up, got out of bed, and
(00:52):
I realized I didn't have to be as so promptual
because Ford couldn't go to school today. I usually take
Ford to school, So I said, I'll go read in bed.
So I cut on my little light beside above my
bed and knocks. Who is now five. He turned five
between our last show. Uh, he did a little wig
out in his sleep. He's so, but I justified it,
(01:17):
Reagan or I will read at night and the other
one will go to sleep. So he needs his elite
I lives need to get a little thicker. Is where
I'm going with this too much? Like, Yeah, I woke him,
you know, I woke him up in his sleep.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Thought he was getting abducted by aliens. A little joker,
poor guy. I don't think he did so.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
He just turned five. So Reagan told me earlier that
he wet the bed again. He did not wet the
bed for for several months and was out of that
whole stage. Uh And and he's had two times in
about the last seven or eight nights.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Man, we were gonna like earmark this show in eighteen,
let's call it twenty years. When when when my man
Knox is ready to you know, find somebody to tie
the knut with, we're gonna bust out this show man
that I don't I don't find uh satisfaction and embarrassing
making fun of people for something they have no knowledge
or control over. That's just me, Patrick, I don't know
(02:19):
how you operate in the macaaic world. But I think
that h But I will tell you said, Knox is
our fifth I was asking Reagan and she said, eh,
they're all different, which all kids, all personalities. They can
grow up in the same box house, whatever family, and
they're all going to turn out different. That's a fact.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
But I recollect that our female female female potty trained
sooner and potty trained more accurately than Ford and Knox. Uh.
It just they go in and out a little a
little erratically on the deal. I mean he is potty
(03:02):
trained one hundred percent and except two nights. I mean, hey,
and I guess sometimes we all make mistakes, right when
you try to say down, I don't know. I'm over
the forty five hunks. So it starts things start happening again.
I don't know. That's really why I started on the subject,
because I have just to get off my chest. I
(03:26):
got a diaper on. No, I don't. But Knox did
turn five, Happy birthday. Not that's cool. I can't believe that.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And we always talk about this whenever you bring up
his age. When we were doing the radio show before
he had we were doing this podcast, we introduced Knox.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
To the world. You bring this up a lot. I
think it's cool. It was.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I mean just kind of like thinking back on those times,
what we were thinking of, what we were going through.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Me it was day to day, dude. We didn't know
what the next day was going to bring. Yeah, So
Knox was more than five years ago. So March the
twenty fourth of twenty twenty, which is the heart of
the start of COVID, Take everybody back. And I did.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
The radio show a day or two later from the
hospital in the hospital room, and Knox was letting the
world know who he was.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Rowdy.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
He had them hasting lungs. Man, there's pipes. He was
getting after it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
So he is our fifth child, and the crazy thing
is him and Piper went for their annual checkup. So
it's Piper's fourteenth yep birthday and Knox's fifth. And they're
my two big kids. So Piper is five foot nine
and a little over five nine. She's my height. She
keeps saying she's taking me over. So she is ninety
(04:41):
ninth percentile for her age on heights and like seventy
fifth on weight and h and Knox is like ninety
seven on height and weight. My other three children. Tatum
and Ford are like forty to fifty percent of those
categories worries, and then Rowan's in a little kind of
(05:02):
in between. So she's crazy how how how people are
created and by God and how they're different and made
made from the same two people and all that stuff. So, uh,
it's pretty cool to see. But Reagan told me that
Piper's been talking junk she's a junk talker for the
(05:23):
last couple of months, about how she's gonna pass me
in height, which which I will say.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
This on the air.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
That would be cool, but I'm not letting her know that.
So I said, well, what did doctor say and and
she said, well, she's been trying to My wife said, well,
she's been trying to beat her dad. Doctor said, well
have you Are you ahead of him? And she said
not yet, we don't think. He said, oh, I said,
he asked that because she's done ahead on I don't know.
(05:56):
We'll keep y'all at tuned. This is uh this, we're
recording these the podcast in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Well, maybe not ahead by hype, but leaps and bounds
in intelligence.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
She's definitely smart. Yeah, pretty good soccer player and just
a good person. I'll give her kudos to that. All
my kids, God Bless, seem to be pretty dagg on
good people. That's what we're shooting for in this world,
you know. Yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
So.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Have we been back from spring break recording this show?
I don't think so. Yeah, we did a show. We
recorded a couple of shows since, uh, since spring break,
my spring break. You haven't had spring break yet?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Not yet.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
It's crazy. I find it really weird. Schools within the
same geographical vicinity take spring break, whether they're in a
private school program, public school, Magnet school did the spring break.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
It's not even close four to five weeks apart. That's crazy,
isn't it? And so like it does make it you're
your timing when your school and your kids school Gaston
Christian does their spring break is a lot more conducive
to multiple opportunities for family vacations where you know, you
get towards the middle of April, you know you got
(07:19):
sort of what happens then, Patrick, Well, you definitely are
not going to go with to be a cold destination
and probably have a great experience, but you.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Can at oh you are you're a snow ski mountain.
Spring breaker right, Oh, like a cold breaker. That's what
you are. You are a cold You're a cold hearted
snake chili breaker, Paul, looking into your eyes.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Oh oh yeah, we got ice skating so scared. I
don't know what by Georgia Butt's thinking you are. You
are an ice skating family. We are, we are well.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
The girls are in full soccer swing. Got a soccer
game tonight. Yeah, so we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Well, dude, I don't know if I told you this,
but scar my daughter took up track for the first time.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Uh I don't think you have.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
And uh so she's doing hurdles and I think she
tried the high jump. I don't know how that's gonna
work out. I think we're gonna go more long jump.
But have you ever been to like a kid's track meet.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I've been around. It is fun.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I mean these kids, they I mean they go, they
go full out at everything everything.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I mean hundred miles an hour. I mean everybody's cheering.
These kids can run one hundred miles an hour. It's fun. Yeah,
they're pretty quick. These goodness, they didn't give me that juice. Man,
It is cool. It is a lot of fun. Well,
that's good. That's a good lead. In h our guest
is David Scully. He hangs hells from Memphis, Tennessee. He
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can run one hundred miles an hour. He is fast
as lightning, grease lightning. But but he's a fellow yp
O friend of mine. We got to know each other
a couple of years ago and being growing together. But
he has a couple of kids. I think he likes
the coach them and all that stuff. Maybe he coaches
track and field. We will find out. Let's do it
when we return. You're listening to At Home with Roby.
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Check us out. We all on podcast. iHeartRadio Triby. Got
David Scully in the house, your buddy from YPO. Yeah,
it looks like he was born and raised in Memphis.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I think he's an hour behind. We're recording this at
two am, so it was one am the early morning
bird there, Han David. He's got some catching ups, right.
How you doing, man, doing great?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Appreciate you guys having me on.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I don't know if I've ever told you this, but uh,
we had a guy. He was my friend. He worked
at the Andrew Roby, the Roby family. He was a
roofing expert about twenty years ago. And his name was
Tim Sculley. And I don't know where old Tim is
at today. If you listen to this show, look me up.
(10:19):
But he was a he was a good old He
was a good old fella and your name obviously reminds
me of him. I don't know if you know what
Timothy Scully from the Carolinas, I don't like.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I think we're that like so myself, my wife or
two daughters, and my parents. I think we're the only
Scullies in Memphis. My dad came down from Chicago for
college and stayed, and so you got a big group
of Chicago Catholics. But they came over from Ireland, you know,
about four generations ago, and that's where they must mistalk.
(10:53):
But yeah, no, I heard you guys talking before the
break and you're probably choking. But I actually was really
fast double double a C L s now But so
I'm not fast anymore. But uh, but I went to
Georgia for college and was an uninvited walk on.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
The track teams really did he didn't. Yeah, isn't that crazy?
No clue about that? And uh, the one time, I mean,
we've done the five hundred of these shows, the one
time we start talking about track, we got the track star.
(11:31):
So what did you was track star? Would you tell you?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
It's so in high school I was a good sprinter
and a good pull vulture. I was I was not
good enough to run S C C track, but I
tried to anyway, right, So uninvited walk on was like, look,
I won't cause you trumple. I'm gonna make good grades.
They're like, all right, we'll let you do it. But
I wasn't good enough to do sprinting or pull vaulting alone.
(11:55):
They're like, we're gonna push in multi events. So I
technically ran to Catalon. Everybody's like, oh wow, like the
capline Georgia before before you get impressed, I will I'll
ask you guys go over seeing the movie Rudy. Yeah,
so I was like Rudy, but only with a quarter
of the heart and so h you know, they love
(12:15):
me kind of exercise with the team for for two
seasons and at the end, they're like, you know what
we've got, it's got to get in here. We want
to talk to about an opportunity. I was like, all right, yes, sir,
what are we talking about? So you know, we'd like
for you to think about being like an equipment manager
or a trainer or something like you know, you're gonna
have to get to practice early and do some stuff
and hang out afterward to do some stuff, but you
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know you're still like technically part of the program. Like
all right, maybe you know is that does that come
with like a stipend or a scholarship? It's not like
an hourly wage, Like oh no, there's there's no money.
I was like, oh, you guys are just kicking me
off the team like that. We just we wanted to
see and that was a that was the end of
the career now, But they really they let me have
it on the way out. So like I'd taken all
my pictures with the team and stuff earlier the season
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and when the program came out, I had declined the
role of equipment manager. But that's what they labeled be
in the programs.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Oh you oh no, you're gonna tell us that they
carried you off the track.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Feel at the end, you declined the offer and that's
all you got into pro in the your book.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I've got yeah, I've got I've got my old like
sweatshirts and stuff. But that's it.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
That's pretty good, man. Yeah, that's I mean, that's no.
Just to say you're on the team is pretty pretty special.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Oh right, Like I would have been a really nice
uh athlete that you know, like Delta State or you know, yeah,
Christian Brothers University Roads or something. Sawanee, we're done well there.
But uh at Georgia, like all the sprinters were from
the Islands, all the distance guys were from Cottonental, Africa,
like the like and so actually, so I was at
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school like two thousand and one, the two thousand and five,
and we had all the old Olympic equipment, like the
ninety six Atlanta stuff. Yeah, like okay, cobalt deet and
the crossbars, all the rings arms awesome. But if you
guys remember back in the day, Like the home depot
would advertise for for all the Olympic stuff, and they
(14:14):
talk about the number of athletes stating point and so
it's true, like the guy that threw javelin for US,
through the javelin for Canada, the guy through the hammer
for US, through the hammer for Russia. And these guys
would they would go to home depot before practice, punch
their time card, go to practice, go to like eat,
go to do whatever, and then they'd punch out later.
So but we didn't have all these like Olympic athletes
that we're on the.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Same that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
And I l before and I did you hear.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
That they would go the home depot, punch in, then
go practice.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I got it. So, David, I grew up in Atlanta
during that time and spent a lot of time in Athens.
I was from two thousand to two thousand and four.
But man, that that when the Olympics came such a
big deal for the city, you don't even think about
all of this stuff that happens afterwards, like you're talking
about that's really cool, I mean, especially being to hang
out with Olympians. I mean, I'm sure these guys are
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cut from a different cloth.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Oh yeah, I mean they were you know, they were
nice guys, but they would look at me and be like, uh, brother,
you're you're the wrong team.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Go get me a hurdle. What up? What made you
go to Why did you want to go to Georgia
from Memphis? Did you have some family there?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
No? No, no family. I mean, like, the short story
is my high school girlfriend was also going there. The
longer story so, like my dad was working at a
university and memph a small school at Christianos University. And
so when I was a senior, high school made me
apply to like every school that he considered to be
one of cbu's competitors, which Georgia is not. But the
point is I had to send out like twenty different
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applications and so we got all the different schools. Like
personality wise, I want I want a big school with
like fifty thousand plus people, like I was gonna like
small school wasn't going to be a personality fit, like
close enough to him to get home driving. You know,
I'm for the Saturday and the fall experience for sure.
And then uh, I got accepted the honors program in Georgia,
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which you know it's uh, maybe it's not quite Vanderbilt
or or even Virginia North Carolina, at least back in
those days, but it was prestigious enough where I was, like,
you know, like walking on the track team and the
Ponnors program, high school. Girlfriend's going here. That's uh, that's
that's about some boxes.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Right. I'll tell you this from from my viewpoint. Uh, Georgia.
Georgia's got it going on, so I for sure. Now, well,
I mean.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Like twenty five years ago and it was like it
was it was on the up right, like the Hope
Scholarship was already in play.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
But h but now it's uh that think's been cranking
where like I don't know if i'd get in now,
like you need like a four or five g p
A and a thirty three A c T. I mean,
it's it's wild man.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Sounds like you pastor yeah right, yeah right.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I went to Clemson. Uh yeah, well we'll go there. No,
but you're right, the Hope Scholship really changed the University
of Georgia. I remember growing up, you know, Georgia was
kind of like the school that people would punk on for.
You know, it's where the kids that weren't that smart
would go the time about like early nineties, maybe a
little bit before that. And then they introduced a Hope
(17:15):
Scholarship in Georgia where if he had a three point
oh GPA, you could go to Georgia for free. In fact,
some of these kids up that I grew up, we
got paid to go a little bit of money to
go to school. And so I had friends that were
turning down Ivy League offers to go to Georgia to
be in the honors program for that reason. It was
one hundred percent free. Wow, that is an asset for
(17:35):
a state. Yeah, it really really built the school system up.
It wasn't just Georgia. Kind of like everybody. Everybody kind
of took a step for.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
State schools, right, Yeah, in state Georgia schools well.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
And so like Tennessee is copying off Georgia's paper now
because Tennessee has their own version of the Hope Scholarship.
And so we're seeing a lot of well of Tennessee
kids that normally would have, you know, maybe ended up
at Arkansas or Old miss or Raven Vanderbilt or you
know somewhere in the Northeast that are choosing UT and
yeah to a lesser extend ut chat and Middle Tennessee
(18:07):
State in Memphis on the state schools are becoming really
competitive because of the scholarship associated with the state lottery.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
So you grew up in Memphis and your dad, you said,
work for a university. Tell us a little bit about
what you upbringing and how it led you through Georgia
to where you're at today.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Sure, So I got a great dad. He moved down
to Like, we're Catholic, so he went from Catholic high
school to Catholic college here in Memphis. My mom at
school and they just stayed and so right out of school,
my dad took a job at a local elementary school.
Actually this was K through twelve, then teacher and a
coach for about twenty years, and then when I got
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to first grade, that's when he left. It was about
twenty years since after I was in first grade, he
took a job back at the university he graduated from.
It was there for about twenty years. What was awesome
for me and for both my younger brothers was that
my dad coached all the way through. So he was
when he was at this Gray Saint Luke's, the smaller school.
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He was coaching soccer and basketball and football and track
and cross country. Basically, you know, they didn't have a
ton of coaches. And so he was coaching the varsity
girls basketball team and the eighth grade boys football team
and just you know, kind of whatever team needed to coach.
And so by the time I'm in first grade, he
started coaching May coach Man a couple of different sports.
And then my younger brother, and then my even younger brother,
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and so I started like, I've got a brother this
eleven years younger than Man. So I started helping to
coach his little first second grade teams. When I was
in high school. Yeah, and then I got down to Georgia,
and you know the spoiler, the high school girlfriend didn't last.
And so but anytime I was dating girl on a sorority,
I would coach their flag football team and the basketball team.
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What I just enjoyed it. So I graduated from Georgia
and get back to Memphis right away. By this time,
my brother he's like he's eleven, I'm twenty two. It's
all them coaching his middle school baseball teams and football
teams and all that. Well, not long after that, I
started just volunteer coaching where I didn't have any family
members at the same school, and I hired my dad
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as my assistant coach. And so now we're we're like
you mentioned, I'm coaching my own kids, and I hired
my dad as my assistant coach. And so this past
season was my dad's fifty fifth consecutive year to coach
a basketball team. Now I'm about twenty five years in
and I've got my daughters on the two different teams,
and man, we're rocking. These teams are these teams are good.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I did not know I was going we were going
to go down this pipeline. Your dad has coached a
basketball team fifty five years consecutively, and you, dude, you
get that. I'm a dad guy. I mean, I lost
my dad ten years ago. You get to spend this
time with your father. How cool is that?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Oh, it's great. We got a million good picks. Actually,
I talked to them this morning because we got we
have to set the line up and the substitution pattern
for a game. We got six o'clock tonight for our
first grade girl.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Substitution lineup for the first grade day.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah, like I've got like I've got Larry Brown sitting
next to me that doesn't cheat, and like he's seen it.
He knows that like somebody tries to run like a
new zone or a junk defense, we call time out,
make adjustment on the fly, and.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Just them dang shot at your chapel hill. Get How
cool is that he did take a chapel hill shot.
I see where he went with that. His dad must
be handsome. Do you and him get out there and
play any with the with the kids?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Yeah, yes, I mean scrimmage stuff kind of demonstration like
we're not you know, we're not run up and down
with them, but but yeah, we're you know, move around ball,
I'm saying for sure.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
So what all do you coach? You coach basketball? What else?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
All right? Well, because like I'm gonna it's just actual,
it's gonna sound like Brad all right. So for my
fifth grader, once we once you get to fifth grade
at Saint Agnes where they go to school, like they
don't let the parents coach anymore. So my fifth grader
up until last year, a coacher in t ball, then
coach pitch, then softball, and a coacher soccer all the
way through and a coacher in basketball, and so for
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basketball from like JK to fourth grade, Like as soon
as we started like keeping score, they went like sixty five.
And oh and our last three or four years, we
didn't win a game by less than fifteen. We're smoking
folks soccer similar Like I sound nuts, but I just
I love it, and so my dad and our whole
(22:39):
thingly does we like we lost. The last time I
lost a game, we lost a game where my dad
and I were coaching one of our daughters, was when
my fifth grader was in first grade. So the fall
of twenty twenty one, I think we lost our first
soccer game in the season. We had lost since in
any sport. I mean, it's so fun.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
You don't, I promise you do not sound like you're braggadocious.
We know that some of them.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Keep yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
To launch an investigation on this to you, now I
know Michelle, No, don't know, Michelle, so so sweet to you.
Uh there's such a stud of a coach and and
you were a d one athlete at this in the
SEC powerhouse of judgabulldogs. So uh go ahead, well.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I'll tell you so so like I'm reading a lot, right.
I had New Year's resolution, I want to read a
bunch of books whatever. And I'm actually reading a book
now that is Books Strong Father, Strong Daughters. You were like,
I'm sure you know the Montgomery Scott.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Yeah, so war Again.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Wrote this book and she wrote like twenty years ago
and it's still like pops off million copies, soil whatever.
And it talks about how is the father of daughters,
like you know, how your role is in their life
and something you're supposed to be doing whatever. And I
got the chapter like three in the title of the
chapter is humility.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I was like, that is so funny. Oh man, that
is hilarious. I need to read that book. I'm gonna
have to go back and get that. I'm I'm I'm
a big reader. I have tailed off in my reading.
I used to make everybody read and give them books
and buy them books. But I am I'm doing I'm
(24:29):
doing a study with some guys, a Bible study, and
I'm reading about about David. I told my daughters, I'm like,
I'm ninety two pages. Dad, He's read read ninety two
pages in last last month or so.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
So, uh, we're pretty proud of that. You can get
it from anywhere. I mean, you don't have to necessarily read.
You can listen to it and all kinds of things
these days to make it easier on yourself.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
That's not how Scully does I know. That's not I'm
just saying you can't.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Well, so like you guys will appreciate this. So like I,
you know, every year, I'm not like a huge New
Year's resolution guy, but I jumped in with two feet
this year. I got like seven New Year's resolutions, and
one of them was to read fifty books this year.
And so to get my reading list, I actually jumped
on AI. I wanted to chat GBT. I said, look,
here's here's all my New Year's resolutions. I want to
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weigh one hundred and seventy five pounds. I want to
break ninety in golf, and I want the company to
get to this level of profitability. I want to be
a better husband, a better father. It's just like all
this stuff, right, yeah, I said, go and the chat.
GBT has then popped out a fifty book long book
list for me to read or April, and I've read
about twelve books, twelve thirteen books, like I'm on pace.
(25:34):
But like as I finish a book, the AI will
say what do you think would you like? Would you
recommend it? And I get feedback and then it updates
what it thinks I ought to be reading next. So
it's it's all like self healthy, right, It's not. It's
no fiction here. Some of its business and some of
it's you know, parenting, and some of its health or whatever.
But it's been been an interesting way to get the
book list.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah, and that is that is that's really little a.
I said, you're a unicorn. Get out of my face.
What are you trying to do here? You must have
you must be undefeated in the last five years in
child sports. So I will say when we met a
couple of years ago, we hit it off personality wise.
(26:16):
If y'all can't tell this, if you listen to this
show any that we get along and Michelle so cool
and her and Reign get along really well. But you're
the president of Duncan Williams Asset Management over in Memphis,
And when I first joined YPO Young President's Organization thirteen
(26:37):
fourteen years ago, Duncan Williams was a regular little senior
to me, and I think even some of his family
maybe his father was a YPO or so tell us
a little bit about that and how you got there.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Yeah. No, So it's actually a big day for Duncan
Williams Asset Management. But like the Duncan Williams family, So
Duncan's parents, actually their wedding anniversary is April first, and
they founded Duncan Williams, Inc. The company we spun out
of fifty seven years ago on April first, And we
(27:12):
spun Duncan Williams Asset Management out of Duncan Williams Inc.
Ten years ago on April first, twenty so we're like
April first. It's like it's kind of funny April Fool's Day,
but it's you know, it's a big important date in
the history of the Williams Stanway. So for me and
I like this could be a long term trying to
keep it relatively brief. So after graduated from Georgia, came
(27:35):
back to Memphis working in a company called Morgan Keegan
just economics, sturious investment from whatever. And so my career
was progressing, and then I got a couple opportunities at
the same time to get promoted either internally in Memphis
or to take a kind of a diagonal promotion to
go to Atlanta still with Morgan Keegan, and like having
gone to Georgia, Atlanta was easy. So that's what we did.
(27:55):
I was engaged in Michelle at the time. We got
married in Memphis, but while we lived in the Atlanta
spent another year in Atlanta, and then started thinking about
having kids. And the shells from Memphis too, and so
having grandparents down the street instead of a couple hundred
miles away appealed to us. And so I started looking
to get back to Memphis. And so I applied to
you know, three four or five different companies, and the
one that was my for the best fit was Duncan Williams.
(28:18):
Because in Memphis at that time we were coming out
of financial crisis, so this would have been like twenty twelve,
and so all the companies that maybe two anyway, all
the regional banks had been required to take TARP money.
It was time to pay it back, and so Region's
Bank was one of them. Regions owned Morgan Keegan, and
Regions didn't have the cash and the balance sheet to
(28:40):
just stroke a check, and so they're gonna have to
sell something that was going to be Morgan Keek, which
was a big deal in Memphis because this has been
a local firm that had been investing in the community
for a long time. It depended on who the buyer
is that might change. And so Duncan and his team
of advisors thought, well, that might create a void in
Memphis for a full service and message an advisory firm
that's local, that's invested in this community. Maybe that should
(29:00):
be us. In fact, we think that should be us.
Let's go ahead and do that. And so they took
what was a broker dealer and added the RIA to it.
And so at first for three years we were the
private client group inside of Duncan Williams, Inc. And then
once we got to twenty fifteen, we spawned out. We
tore the RI apart from the broker dealer. But it
(29:21):
was a particularly interesting opportunity for me because we were
starting something new. I wasn' getting hired by a company
that had been doing it for twenty years and said, hey,
here's our list of funds. You know, looking over and
let us know what tweaks you make. They're saying, we
don't have a list of funds. Build it same with
like we you know, portfolio model. So like my backgrounds,
I'm president now, but my background's an investment analytics so
(29:42):
research analysts doing investment research whatever. And so I got
hired as the chief investment officer of the Private Client
group to help build something totally new with a lot
of autonomy and freedom to kind of cractic the way
I wanted to. And so that was hugely appealing to me. Well,
I found out later, not much later, but a little
bit later. So we, uh, Michelle and I ended up
(30:05):
trying I think I've told you this before. So Michelle
and I ended up with so fertility issues. I want
to have kids, and so we end up we gotta
go to the IVF pro album and so we do it.
We actually went to Reproductive Biology Associations in Atlanta. Like
early on, we're pretty private about this. There's only one
place in Memphis, you guys, said, the lobbyings everybody you know, Oh,
you guys have a patility problems too. But then so
(30:29):
we're going to Atlanta. We do the first round, like
they harvest eggs and do the science, and we get
went up with four embryos and we put the first
one in and bang, we got Ruth Great, We'll just
have four kids. This is easy. Wow. The next next
one didn't work, and then the one after that worked
for a little while and then miscarried, and the one
after that. You know, there's just kind of a series
(30:50):
of just like didn't work and so and this is
like a year's long process because what it takes to
get the woman's body ready and all the medicines and stuff,
it's just so it takes a long time. And so,
you know, we had gotten to a point where like
the last ymbria didn't work and we're out of Duncan
Williams event. We sponsored this lot at the Garden concert series,
(31:11):
the Tanned Garden Task, Right, but we're at the concert,
you know, maybe a week or two after last Umbreo failed,
and Duncan's back in our section where like we have
this big, you know, hundred ticket section where we entertained
and we got a bar and food and popsicles, all
kind of stuff, and Duncan's just kind of checking, hey,
how's it going, how's it going.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
How's it going?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
And checked with Michelle and she said that's you know,
it's gounfi. So no, what's like, what are you talking about?
What's wrong. She's like, you know, Duncan, we're just here
to have a good time. You know, it's a concert, Like,
don't worry. It's like, no, I am worried, Like what's
going on with you? And she said, well, you know
you've asked three times. I'm gonna tell you, like we've
used our last embryo and it's expensive, and you know
(31:56):
we're getting older and we don't really have time or
money and we're just you know, I take the might
be it. We can't afford to ivy IF again, and Duncan,
so don't worry about the money. And and so he
he paid for us to the second round IVF and
so we got three embryos. First one doesn't work, second
one doesn't work. Actually put him in an order of quality.
So you put your A plus and then you put
your A bodises and you put your ended up. We
(32:17):
had like we had to B minus left like look,
I guess we got to do it. And so it
ended up that's make hardroom. And so it worked, and
we wouldn't have a second child if not for the
generosity and the carring. Right, And I didn't go ask
him for this, it's his perception. He he's got a
real relationship with our family, and so working for the
type of person that not only has the ability to it,
(32:38):
but wants to is something where like I'll work at
Duncan Williams till I die or till they tell me
they don't want me here anymore.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
That is that's amazing. That's a testament to uh with
without knowing him obviously the way you know him, but
being young and be joining this organization, eyes wide open,
looking up a big, a big, huge mountain of fear. Uh.
He was always that he resembled that kindness to me
(33:05):
as well. I will say, so that is such a
good story and such a great place for y'all to work.
Happy tenth year anniversary. I'm gonna put you on the
spot here, Scully. I mean, what a great show. Yeah, dude,
we didn't even know which direction this was going. Uh.
And people, can they look up the firm Duncan Williams
(33:28):
Asset Management.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Duncan Williams Asset Management. Yeah, our email address is dw
asset mg M T dot com. It's supposed to be short.
It's not bachelor. It's a little bit short for Duncan
Williams Asset Management, the the company was spun out of
as duncanw dot com. I'm fighting with him try and
get it, but right now it's dw asset mg m.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
T dot com e w asset m g m T
dot com. All right, David, what is one thing? Family
and business? David Scully, you hang your hat on. This
is not planned, so you're probably going to take a
minute to start answering.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Sure. So, one thing that I try really hard to
be is intentional. And it's really like and almost everything
I do, whether it's business or Brooklyn, the family, my
relationship with my parents, I think, you know, not letting
things just happen the way that happened, like figuring out
on the front end what you want and being intentional
(34:30):
about going to get that. And so like I've got
a million examples of this. But like you talked about,
you know, you're not having a dad this around anymore.
I've got a lot of friends that are in the
same boat with their parents, and so every month I
have a one on one launch schedule with each one
of my parents separate because I got a lot of
people that say they wish they would be able to
do that most of the time I spend with my
family or my parents outside of that is with my
(34:53):
entire family. So we got kids and you know, people
and just you know, live going on. I don't really
get to talk that one on one time without my
parents and us. I have intentionality about meeting with them.
I got intentionality about what like I talked about some
of the goals we got the company, and so I
got intentionality about what I'd like for us to do
this year, and I know what what I think it
will take to get there, and we're trying to pursue
those things on purpose, you know, like I want to
(35:15):
spend time with my kids, and so I sign up
to coach their teams and so you know, if I can,
if I can hang my hat on one word, it's
it's intentionality, Like do the things that you want to
do on purpose.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Dude, I love it. You were talking about your New
Year's resolutions. We did some goal goal setting stuff with
UH with some of our management team, and that I
think that was one of the most resounding words that
came out of it, was I just want to be
more intentional. Definitely was for me, and it was amazing
that it's sort of almost unanimous across the board that
that intentionality so very good.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
That's cool. Well, you know the cool thing is I
asked that to most all of our guests. I put
them on the spot. I mean, if you listen to
the show, you might know what's coming, but you hear
different things, and some some are what was talked about
it in the show. I mean, you talked about a
lot of intentionality in the show, but the word wasn't used.
So man, God, bless you. Thank you so much for sharing.
(36:08):
I learned so much about you can't wait. You can't
wait to uh maybe we're Sarah Soda in in Nashville
here in a couple of weeks. I'm looking forward to that. Yes,
Sir Lee Brice, we're excited about that. And David Scully
hanging from Memphis. Go do the Golden rule, treat others
the way you want to be treated, and carry a
(36:30):
smile around on your face. Thank you for listening to
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Welcome to a Home with Ruby. I'm Patrick mcaac from
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Ruby family of companies. This is our podcast and we're
we are your host. That's it, that's what I think.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
You think.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Well, we're too late now, there's no there's no back
of our Kelvin's got the light turned up on us.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Goodness, gracious, let there be light. Let there be light.
What do you think we look sleepy? We might know.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
There's a good chance that we do. You look better,
look better? Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
My forehead might be shining well lit. I know this,
not yet. This morning I usually get up first and
get out of bed and go in the bathroom and
shut a door and do whatever I'm gonna do. Read,
maybe maybe read a little better, look, you know, ketch
up on the news. And this morning I realized that it.
I got up, woke up, got out of bed, and
(00:52):
I realized I didn't have to be as so promptual
because Ford couldn't go to school today. I usually take
Ford to school, So I said, I'll go read in bed.
So I cut on my little light beside above my
bed and knocks. Who is now five. He turned five
between our last show. Uh, he did a little wig
out in his sleep. He's so, but I justified it,
(01:17):
Reagan or I will read at night and the other
one will go to sleep. So he needs his elite
I lives need to get a little thicker. Is where
I'm going with this too much? Like, Yeah, I woke him,
you know, I woke him up in his sleep.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Thought he was getting abducted by aliens. A little joker,
poor guy. I don't think he did so.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
He just turned five. So Reagan told me earlier that
he wet the bed again. He did not wet the
bed for for several months and was out of that
whole stage. Uh And and he's had two times in
about the last seven or eight nights.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Man, we were gonna like earmark this show in eighteen,
let's call it twenty years. When when when my man
Knox is ready to you know, find somebody to tie
the knut with, we're gonna bust out this show man
that I don't I don't find uh satisfaction and embarrassing
making fun of people for something they have no knowledge
or control over. That's just me, Patrick, I don't know
(02:19):
how you operate in the macaaic world. But I think
that h But I will tell you said, Knox is
our fifth I was asking Reagan and she said, eh,
they're all different, which all kids, all personalities. They can
grow up in the same box house, whatever family, and
they're all going to turn out different. That's a fact.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
But I recollect that our female female female potty trained
sooner and potty trained more accurately than Ford and Knox. Uh.
It just they go in and out a little a
little erratically on the deal. I mean he is potty
(03:02):
trained one hundred percent and except two nights. I mean, hey,
and I guess sometimes we all make mistakes, right when
you try to say down, I don't know. I'm over
the forty five hunks. So it starts things start happening again.
I don't know. That's really why I started on the subject,
because I have just to get off my chest. I
(03:26):
got a diaper on. No, I don't. But Knox did
turn five, Happy birthday. Not that's cool. I can't believe that.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And we always talk about this whenever you bring up
his age. When we were doing the radio show before
he had we were doing this podcast, we introduced Knox.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
To the world. You bring this up a lot. I
think it's cool. It was.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I mean just kind of like thinking back on those times,
what we were thinking of, what we were going through.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Me it was day to day, dude. We didn't know
what the next day was going to bring. Yeah, So
Knox was more than five years ago. So March the
twenty fourth of twenty twenty, which is the heart of
the start of COVID, Take everybody back. And I did.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
The radio show a day or two later from the
hospital in the hospital room, and Knox was letting the
world know who he was.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Rowdy.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
He had them hasting lungs. Man, there's pipes. He was
getting after it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
So he is our fifth child, and the crazy thing
is him and Piper went for their annual checkup. So
it's Piper's fourteenth yep birthday and Knox's fifth. And they're
my two big kids. So Piper is five foot nine
and a little over five nine. She's my height. She
keeps saying she's taking me over. So she is ninety
(04:41):
ninth percentile for her age on heights and like seventy
fifth on weight and h and Knox is like ninety
seven on height and weight. My other three children. Tatum
and Ford are like forty to fifty percent of those
categories worries, and then Rowan's in a little kind of
(05:02):
in between. So she's crazy how how how people are
created and by God and how they're different and made
made from the same two people and all that stuff. So, uh,
it's pretty cool to see. But Reagan told me that
Piper's been talking junk she's a junk talker for the
(05:23):
last couple of months, about how she's gonna pass me
in height, which which I will say.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
This on the air.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
That would be cool, but I'm not letting her know that.
So I said, well, what did doctor say and and
she said, well, she's been trying to My wife said, well,
she's been trying to beat her dad. Doctor said, well
have you Are you ahead of him? And she said
not yet, we don't think. He said, oh, I said,
he asked that because she's done ahead on I don't know.
(05:56):
We'll keep y'all at tuned. This is uh this, we're
recording these the podcast in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Well, maybe not ahead by hype, but leaps and bounds
in intelligence.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
She's definitely smart. Yeah, pretty good soccer player and just
a good person. I'll give her kudos to that. All
my kids, God Bless, seem to be pretty dagg on
good people. That's what we're shooting for in this world,
you know. Yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
So.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Have we been back from spring break recording this show?
I don't think so. Yeah, we did a show. We
recorded a couple of shows since, uh, since spring break,
my spring break. You haven't had spring break yet?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Not yet.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
It's crazy. I find it really weird. Schools within the
same geographical vicinity take spring break, whether they're in a
private school program, public school, Magnet school did the spring break.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
It's not even close four to five weeks apart. That's crazy,
isn't it? And so like it does make it you're
your timing when your school and your kids school Gaston
Christian does their spring break is a lot more conducive
to multiple opportunities for family vacations where you know, you
get towards the middle of April, you know you got
(07:19):
sort of what happens then, Patrick, Well, you definitely are
not going to go with to be a cold destination
and probably have a great experience, but you.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Can at oh you are you're a snow ski mountain.
Spring breaker right, Oh, like a cold breaker. That's what
you are. You are a cold You're a cold hearted
snake chili breaker, Paul, looking into your eyes.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Oh oh yeah, we got ice skating so scared. I
don't know what by Georgia Butt's thinking you are. You
are an ice skating family. We are, we are well.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
The girls are in full soccer swing. Got a soccer
game tonight. Yeah, so we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Well, dude, I don't know if I told you this,
but scar my daughter took up track for the first time.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Uh I don't think you have.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
And uh so she's doing hurdles and I think she
tried the high jump. I don't know how that's gonna
work out. I think we're gonna go more long jump.
But have you ever been to like a kid's track meet.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I've been around. It is fun.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I mean these kids, they I mean they go, they
go full out at everything everything.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I mean hundred miles an hour. I mean everybody's cheering.
These kids can run one hundred miles an hour. It's fun. Yeah,
they're pretty quick. These goodness, they didn't give me that juice. Man,
It is cool. It is a lot of fun. Well,
that's good. That's a good lead. In h our guest
is David Scully. He hangs hells from Memphis, Tennessee. He
(08:49):
can run one hundred miles an hour. He is fast
as lightning, grease lightning. But but he's a fellow yp
O friend of mine. We got to know each other
a couple of years ago and being growing together. But
he has a couple of kids. I think he likes
the coach them and all that stuff. Maybe he coaches
track and field. We will find out. Let's do it
when we return. You're listening to At Home with Roby.
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(09:33):
Check us out. We all on podcast. iHeartRadio Triby. Got
David Scully in the house, your buddy from YPO. Yeah,
it looks like he was born and raised in Memphis.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I think he's an hour behind. We're recording this at
two am, so it was one am the early morning
bird there, Han David. He's got some catching ups, right.
How you doing, man, doing great?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Appreciate you guys having me on.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I don't know if I've ever told you this, but uh,
we had a guy. He was my friend. He worked
at the Andrew Roby, the Roby family. He was a
roofing expert about twenty years ago. And his name was
Tim Sculley. And I don't know where old Tim is
at today. If you listen to this show, look me up.
(10:19):
But he was a he was a good old He
was a good old fella and your name obviously reminds
me of him. I don't know if you know what
Timothy Scully from the Carolinas, I don't like.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I think we're that like so myself, my wife or
two daughters, and my parents. I think we're the only
Scullies in Memphis. My dad came down from Chicago for
college and stayed, and so you got a big group
of Chicago Catholics. But they came over from Ireland, you know,
about four generations ago, and that's where they must mistalk.
(10:53):
But yeah, no, I heard you guys talking before the
break and you're probably choking. But I actually was really
fast double double a C L s now But so
I'm not fast anymore. But uh, but I went to
Georgia for college and was an uninvited walk on.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
The track teams really did he didn't. Yeah, isn't that crazy?
No clue about that? And uh, the one time, I mean,
we've done the five hundred of these shows, the one
time we start talking about track, we got the track star.
(11:31):
So what did you was track star? Would you tell you?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
It's so in high school I was a good sprinter
and a good pull vulture. I was I was not
good enough to run S C C track, but I
tried to anyway, right, So uninvited walk on was like, look,
I won't cause you trumple. I'm gonna make good grades.
They're like, all right, we'll let you do it. But
I wasn't good enough to do sprinting or pull vaulting alone.
(11:55):
They're like, we're gonna push in multi events. So I
technically ran to Catalon. Everybody's like, oh wow, like the
capline Georgia before before you get impressed, I will I'll
ask you guys go over seeing the movie Rudy. Yeah,
so I was like Rudy, but only with a quarter
of the heart and so h you know, they love
(12:15):
me kind of exercise with the team for for two
seasons and at the end, they're like, you know what
we've got, it's got to get in here. We want
to talk to about an opportunity. I was like, all right, yes, sir,
what are we talking about? So you know, we'd like
for you to think about being like an equipment manager
or a trainer or something like you know, you're gonna
have to get to practice early and do some stuff
and hang out afterward to do some stuff, but you
(12:37):
know you're still like technically part of the program. Like
all right, maybe you know is that does that come
with like a stipend or a scholarship? It's not like
an hourly wage, Like oh no, there's there's no money.
I was like, oh, you guys are just kicking me
off the team like that. We just we wanted to
see and that was a that was the end of
the career now, But they really they let me have
it on the way out. So like I'd taken all
my pictures with the team and stuff earlier the season
(12:59):
and when the program came out, I had declined the
role of equipment manager. But that's what they labeled be
in the programs.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Oh you oh no, you're gonna tell us that they
carried you off the track.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Feel at the end, you declined the offer and that's
all you got into pro in the your book.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I've got yeah, I've got I've got my old like
sweatshirts and stuff. But that's it.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
That's pretty good, man. Yeah, that's I mean, that's no.
Just to say you're on the team is pretty pretty special.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Oh right, Like I would have been a really nice
uh athlete that you know, like Delta State or you know, yeah,
Christian Brothers University Roads or something. Sawanee, we're done well there.
But uh at Georgia, like all the sprinters were from
the Islands, all the distance guys were from Cottonental, Africa,
like the like and so actually, so I was at
(13:52):
school like two thousand and one, the two thousand and five,
and we had all the old Olympic equipment, like the
ninety six Atlanta stuff. Yeah, like okay, cobalt deet and
the crossbars, all the rings arms awesome. But if you
guys remember back in the day, Like the home depot
would advertise for for all the Olympic stuff, and they
(14:14):
talk about the number of athletes stating point and so
it's true, like the guy that threw javelin for US,
through the javelin for Canada, the guy through the hammer
for US, through the hammer for Russia. And these guys
would they would go to home depot before practice, punch
their time card, go to practice, go to like eat,
go to do whatever, and then they'd punch out later.
So but we didn't have all these like Olympic athletes
that we're on the.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Same that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
And I l before and I did you hear.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
That they would go the home depot, punch in, then
go practice.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I got it. So, David, I grew up in Atlanta
during that time and spent a lot of time in Athens.
I was from two thousand to two thousand and four.
But man, that that when the Olympics came such a
big deal for the city, you don't even think about
all of this stuff that happens afterwards, like you're talking
about that's really cool, I mean, especially being to hang
out with Olympians. I mean, I'm sure these guys are
(15:03):
cut from a different cloth.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Oh yeah, I mean they were you know, they were
nice guys, but they would look at me and be like, uh, brother,
you're you're the wrong team.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Go get me a hurdle. What up? What made you
go to Why did you want to go to Georgia
from Memphis? Did you have some family there?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
No? No, no family. I mean, like, the short story
is my high school girlfriend was also going there. The
longer story so, like my dad was working at a
university and memph a small school at Christianos University. And
so when I was a senior, high school made me
apply to like every school that he considered to be
one of cbu's competitors, which Georgia is not. But the
point is I had to send out like twenty different
(15:44):
applications and so we got all the different schools. Like
personality wise, I want I want a big school with
like fifty thousand plus people, like I was gonna like
small school wasn't going to be a personality fit, like
close enough to him to get home driving. You know,
I'm for the Saturday and the fall experience for sure.
And then uh, I got accepted the honors program in Georgia,
(16:07):
which you know it's uh, maybe it's not quite Vanderbilt
or or even Virginia North Carolina, at least back in
those days, but it was prestigious enough where I was, like,
you know, like walking on the track team and the
Ponnors program, high school. Girlfriend's going here. That's uh, that's
that's about some boxes.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Right. I'll tell you this from from my viewpoint. Uh, Georgia.
Georgia's got it going on, so I for sure. Now, well,
I mean.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Like twenty five years ago and it was like it
was it was on the up right, like the Hope
Scholarship was already in play.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
But h but now it's uh that think's been cranking
where like I don't know if i'd get in now,
like you need like a four or five g p
A and a thirty three A c T. I mean,
it's it's wild man.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Sounds like you pastor yeah right, yeah right.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I went to Clemson. Uh yeah, well we'll go there. No,
but you're right, the Hope Scholship really changed the University
of Georgia. I remember growing up, you know, Georgia was
kind of like the school that people would punk on for.
You know, it's where the kids that weren't that smart
would go the time about like early nineties, maybe a
little bit before that. And then they introduced a Hope
(17:15):
Scholarship in Georgia where if he had a three point
oh GPA, you could go to Georgia for free. In fact,
some of these kids up that I grew up, we
got paid to go a little bit of money to
go to school. And so I had friends that were
turning down Ivy League offers to go to Georgia to
be in the honors program for that reason. It was
one hundred percent free. Wow, that is an asset for
(17:35):
a state. Yeah, it really really built the school system up.
It wasn't just Georgia. Kind of like everybody. Everybody kind
of took a step for.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
State schools, right, Yeah, in state Georgia schools well.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
And so like Tennessee is copying off Georgia's paper now
because Tennessee has their own version of the Hope Scholarship.
And so we're seeing a lot of well of Tennessee
kids that normally would have, you know, maybe ended up
at Arkansas or Old miss or Raven Vanderbilt or you
know somewhere in the Northeast that are choosing UT and
yeah to a lesser extend ut chat and Middle Tennessee
(18:07):
State in Memphis on the state schools are becoming really
competitive because of the scholarship associated with the state lottery.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
So you grew up in Memphis and your dad, you said,
work for a university. Tell us a little bit about
what you upbringing and how it led you through Georgia
to where you're at today.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Sure, So I got a great dad. He moved down
to Like, we're Catholic, so he went from Catholic high
school to Catholic college here in Memphis. My mom at
school and they just stayed and so right out of school,
my dad took a job at a local elementary school.
Actually this was K through twelve, then teacher and a
coach for about twenty years, and then when I got
(18:47):
to first grade, that's when he left. It was about
twenty years since after I was in first grade, he
took a job back at the university he graduated from.
It was there for about twenty years. What was awesome
for me and for both my younger brothers was that
my dad coached all the way through. So he was
when he was at this Gray Saint Luke's, the smaller school.
(19:08):
He was coaching soccer and basketball and football and track
and cross country. Basically, you know, they didn't have a
ton of coaches. And so he was coaching the varsity
girls basketball team and the eighth grade boys football team
and just you know, kind of whatever team needed to coach.
And so by the time I'm in first grade, he
started coaching May coach Man a couple of different sports.
And then my younger brother, and then my even younger brother,
(19:28):
and so I started like, I've got a brother this
eleven years younger than Man. So I started helping to
coach his little first second grade teams. When I was
in high school. Yeah, and then I got down to Georgia,
and you know the spoiler, the high school girlfriend didn't last.
And so but anytime I was dating girl on a sorority,
I would coach their flag football team and the basketball team.
(19:49):
What I just enjoyed it. So I graduated from Georgia
and get back to Memphis right away. By this time,
my brother he's like he's eleven, I'm twenty two. It's
all them coaching his middle school baseball teams and football
teams and all that. Well, not long after that, I
started just volunteer coaching where I didn't have any family
members at the same school, and I hired my dad
(20:10):
as my assistant coach. And so now we're we're like
you mentioned, I'm coaching my own kids, and I hired
my dad as my assistant coach. And so this past
season was my dad's fifty fifth consecutive year to coach
a basketball team. Now I'm about twenty five years in
and I've got my daughters on the two different teams,
and man, we're rocking. These teams are these teams are good.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I did not know I was going we were going
to go down this pipeline. Your dad has coached a
basketball team fifty five years consecutively, and you, dude, you
get that. I'm a dad guy. I mean, I lost
my dad ten years ago. You get to spend this
time with your father. How cool is that?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Oh, it's great. We got a million good picks. Actually,
I talked to them this morning because we got we
have to set the line up and the substitution pattern
for a game. We got six o'clock tonight for our
first grade girl.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Substitution lineup for the first grade day.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah, like I've got like I've got Larry Brown sitting
next to me that doesn't cheat, and like he's seen it.
He knows that like somebody tries to run like a
new zone or a junk defense, we call time out,
make adjustment on the fly, and.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Just them dang shot at your chapel hill. Get How
cool is that he did take a chapel hill shot.
I see where he went with that. His dad must
be handsome. Do you and him get out there and
play any with the with the kids?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Yeah, yes, I mean scrimmage stuff kind of demonstration like
we're not you know, we're not run up and down
with them, but but yeah, we're you know, move around ball,
I'm saying for sure.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
So what all do you coach? You coach basketball? What else?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
All right? Well, because like I'm gonna it's just actual,
it's gonna sound like Brad all right. So for my
fifth grader, once we once you get to fifth grade
at Saint Agnes where they go to school, like they
don't let the parents coach anymore. So my fifth grader
up until last year, a coacher in t ball, then
coach pitch, then softball, and a coacher soccer all the
way through and a coacher in basketball, and so for
(22:17):
basketball from like JK to fourth grade, Like as soon
as we started like keeping score, they went like sixty five.
And oh and our last three or four years, we
didn't win a game by less than fifteen. We're smoking
folks soccer similar Like I sound nuts, but I just
I love it, and so my dad and our whole
(22:39):
thingly does we like we lost. The last time I
lost a game, we lost a game where my dad
and I were coaching one of our daughters, was when
my fifth grader was in first grade. So the fall
of twenty twenty one, I think we lost our first
soccer game in the season. We had lost since in
any sport. I mean, it's so fun.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
You don't, I promise you do not sound like you're braggadocious.
We know that some of them.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Keep yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
To launch an investigation on this to you, now I
know Michelle, No, don't know, Michelle, so so sweet to you.
Uh there's such a stud of a coach and and
you were a d one athlete at this in the
SEC powerhouse of judgabulldogs. So uh go ahead, well.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I'll tell you so so like I'm reading a lot, right.
I had New Year's resolution, I want to read a
bunch of books whatever. And I'm actually reading a book
now that is Books Strong Father, Strong Daughters. You were like,
I'm sure you know the Montgomery Scott.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Yeah, so war Again.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Wrote this book and she wrote like twenty years ago
and it's still like pops off million copies, soil whatever.
And it talks about how is the father of daughters,
like you know, how your role is in their life
and something you're supposed to be doing whatever. And I
got the chapter like three in the title of the
chapter is humility.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I was like, that is so funny. Oh man, that
is hilarious. I need to read that book. I'm gonna
have to go back and get that. I'm I'm I'm
a big reader. I have tailed off in my reading.
I used to make everybody read and give them books
and buy them books. But I am I'm doing I'm
(24:29):
doing a study with some guys, a Bible study, and
I'm reading about about David. I told my daughters, I'm like,
I'm ninety two pages. Dad, He's read read ninety two
pages in last last month or so.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
So, uh, we're pretty proud of that. You can get
it from anywhere. I mean, you don't have to necessarily read.
You can listen to it and all kinds of things
these days to make it easier on yourself.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
That's not how Scully does I know. That's not I'm
just saying you can't.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Well, so like you guys will appreciate this. So like I,
you know, every year, I'm not like a huge New
Year's resolution guy, but I jumped in with two feet
this year. I got like seven New Year's resolutions, and
one of them was to read fifty books this year.
And so to get my reading list, I actually jumped
on AI. I wanted to chat GBT. I said, look,
here's here's all my New Year's resolutions. I want to
(25:12):
weigh one hundred and seventy five pounds. I want to
break ninety in golf, and I want the company to
get to this level of profitability. I want to be
a better husband, a better father. It's just like all
this stuff, right, yeah, I said, go and the chat.
GBT has then popped out a fifty book long book
list for me to read or April, and I've read
about twelve books, twelve thirteen books, like I'm on pace.
(25:34):
But like as I finish a book, the AI will
say what do you think would you like? Would you
recommend it? And I get feedback and then it updates
what it thinks I ought to be reading next. So
it's it's all like self healthy, right, It's not. It's
no fiction here. Some of its business and some of
it's you know, parenting, and some of its health or whatever.
But it's been been an interesting way to get the
book list.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah, and that is that is that's really little a.
I said, you're a unicorn. Get out of my face.
What are you trying to do here? You must have
you must be undefeated in the last five years in
child sports. So I will say when we met a
couple of years ago, we hit it off personality wise.
(26:16):
If y'all can't tell this, if you listen to this
show any that we get along and Michelle so cool
and her and Reign get along really well. But you're
the president of Duncan Williams Asset Management over in Memphis,
And when I first joined YPO Young President's Organization thirteen
(26:37):
fourteen years ago, Duncan Williams was a regular little senior
to me, and I think even some of his family
maybe his father was a YPO or so tell us
a little bit about that and how you got there.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Yeah. No, So it's actually a big day for Duncan
Williams Asset Management. But like the Duncan Williams family, So
Duncan's parents, actually their wedding anniversary is April first, and
they founded Duncan Williams, Inc. The company we spun out
of fifty seven years ago on April first, And we
(27:12):
spun Duncan Williams Asset Management out of Duncan Williams Inc.
Ten years ago on April first, twenty so we're like
April first. It's like it's kind of funny April Fool's Day,
but it's you know, it's a big important date in
the history of the Williams Stanway. So for me and
I like this could be a long term trying to
keep it relatively brief. So after graduated from Georgia, came
(27:35):
back to Memphis working in a company called Morgan Keegan
just economics, sturious investment from whatever. And so my career
was progressing, and then I got a couple opportunities at
the same time to get promoted either internally in Memphis
or to take a kind of a diagonal promotion to
go to Atlanta still with Morgan Keegan, and like having
gone to Georgia, Atlanta was easy. So that's what we did.
(27:55):
I was engaged in Michelle at the time. We got
married in Memphis, but while we lived in the Atlanta
spent another year in Atlanta, and then started thinking about
having kids. And the shells from Memphis too, and so
having grandparents down the street instead of a couple hundred
miles away appealed to us. And so I started looking
to get back to Memphis. And so I applied to
you know, three four or five different companies, and the
one that was my for the best fit was Duncan Williams.
(28:18):
Because in Memphis at that time we were coming out
of financial crisis, so this would have been like twenty twelve,
and so all the companies that maybe two anyway, all
the regional banks had been required to take TARP money.
It was time to pay it back, and so Region's
Bank was one of them. Regions owned Morgan Keegan, and
Regions didn't have the cash and the balance sheet to
(28:40):
just stroke a check, and so they're gonna have to
sell something that was going to be Morgan Keek, which
was a big deal in Memphis because this has been
a local firm that had been investing in the community
for a long time. It depended on who the buyer
is that might change. And so Duncan and his team
of advisors thought, well, that might create a void in
Memphis for a full service and message an advisory firm
that's local, that's invested in this community. Maybe that should
(29:00):
be us. In fact, we think that should be us.
Let's go ahead and do that. And so they took
what was a broker dealer and added the RIA to it.
And so at first for three years we were the
private client group inside of Duncan Williams, Inc. And then
once we got to twenty fifteen, we spawned out. We
tore the RI apart from the broker dealer. But it
(29:21):
was a particularly interesting opportunity for me because we were
starting something new. I wasn' getting hired by a company
that had been doing it for twenty years and said, hey,
here's our list of funds. You know, looking over and
let us know what tweaks you make. They're saying, we
don't have a list of funds. Build it same with
like we you know, portfolio model. So like my backgrounds,
I'm president now, but my background's an investment analytics so
(29:42):
research analysts doing investment research whatever. And so I got
hired as the chief investment officer of the Private Client
group to help build something totally new with a lot
of autonomy and freedom to kind of cractic the way
I wanted to. And so that was hugely appealing to me. Well,
I found out later, not much later, but a little
bit later. So we, uh, Michelle and I ended up
(30:05):
trying I think I've told you this before. So Michelle
and I ended up with so fertility issues. I want
to have kids, and so we end up we gotta
go to the IVF pro album and so we do it.
We actually went to Reproductive Biology Associations in Atlanta. Like
early on, we're pretty private about this. There's only one
place in Memphis, you guys, said, the lobbyings everybody you know, Oh,
you guys have a patility problems too. But then so
(30:29):
we're going to Atlanta. We do the first round, like
they harvest eggs and do the science, and we get
went up with four embryos and we put the first
one in and bang, we got Ruth Great, We'll just
have four kids. This is easy. Wow. The next next
one didn't work, and then the one after that worked
for a little while and then miscarried, and the one
after that. You know, there's just kind of a series
(30:50):
of just like didn't work and so and this is
like a year's long process because what it takes to
get the woman's body ready and all the medicines and stuff,
it's just so it takes a long time. And so,
you know, we had gotten to a point where like
the last ymbria didn't work and we're out of Duncan
Williams event. We sponsored this lot at the Garden concert series,
(31:11):
the Tanned Garden Task, Right, but we're at the concert,
you know, maybe a week or two after last Umbreo failed,
and Duncan's back in our section where like we have
this big, you know, hundred ticket section where we entertained
and we got a bar and food and popsicles, all
kind of stuff, and Duncan's just kind of checking, hey,
how's it going, how's it going.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
How's it going?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
And checked with Michelle and she said that's you know,
it's gounfi. So no, what's like, what are you talking about?
What's wrong. She's like, you know, Duncan, we're just here
to have a good time. You know, it's a concert, Like,
don't worry. It's like, no, I am worried, Like what's
going on with you? And she said, well, you know
you've asked three times. I'm gonna tell you, like we've
used our last embryo and it's expensive, and you know
(31:56):
we're getting older and we don't really have time or
money and we're just you know, I take the might
be it. We can't afford to ivy IF again, and Duncan,
so don't worry about the money. And and so he
he paid for us to the second round IVF and
so we got three embryos. First one doesn't work, second
one doesn't work. Actually put him in an order of quality.
So you put your A plus and then you put
your A bodises and you put your ended up. We
(32:17):
had like we had to B minus left like look,
I guess we got to do it. And so it
ended up that's make hardroom. And so it worked, and
we wouldn't have a second child if not for the
generosity and the carring. Right, And I didn't go ask
him for this, it's his perception. He he's got a
real relationship with our family, and so working for the
type of person that not only has the ability to it,
(32:38):
but wants to is something where like I'll work at
Duncan Williams till I die or till they tell me
they don't want me here anymore.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
That is that's amazing. That's a testament to uh with
without knowing him obviously the way you know him, but
being young and be joining this organization, eyes wide open,
looking up a big, a big, huge mountain of fear. Uh.
He was always that he resembled that kindness to me
(33:05):
as well. I will say, so that is such a
good story and such a great place for y'all to work.
Happy tenth year anniversary. I'm gonna put you on the
spot here, Scully. I mean, what a great show. Yeah, dude,
we didn't even know which direction this was going. Uh.
And people, can they look up the firm Duncan Williams
(33:28):
Asset Management.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Duncan Williams Asset Management. Yeah, our email address is dw
asset mg M T dot com. It's supposed to be short.
It's not bachelor. It's a little bit short for Duncan
Williams Asset Management, the the company was spun out of
as duncanw dot com. I'm fighting with him try and
get it, but right now it's dw asset mg m.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
T dot com e w asset m g m T
dot com. All right, David, what is one thing? Family
and business? David Scully, you hang your hat on. This
is not planned, so you're probably going to take a
minute to start answering.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Sure. So, one thing that I try really hard to
be is intentional. And it's really like and almost everything
I do, whether it's business or Brooklyn, the family, my
relationship with my parents, I think, you know, not letting
things just happen the way that happened, like figuring out
on the front end what you want and being intentional
(34:30):
about going to get that. And so like I've got
a million examples of this. But like you talked about,
you know, you're not having a dad this around anymore.
I've got a lot of friends that are in the
same boat with their parents, and so every month I
have a one on one launch schedule with each one
of my parents separate because I got a lot of
people that say they wish they would be able to
do that most of the time I spend with my
family or my parents outside of that is with my
(34:53):
entire family. So we got kids and you know, people
and just you know, live going on. I don't really
get to talk that one on one time without my
parents and us. I have intentionality about meeting with them.
I got intentionality about what like I talked about some
of the goals we got the company, and so I
got intentionality about what I'd like for us to do
this year, and I know what what I think it
will take to get there, and we're trying to pursue
those things on purpose, you know, like I want to
(35:15):
spend time with my kids, and so I sign up
to coach their teams and so you know, if I can,
if I can hang my hat on one word, it's
it's intentionality, Like do the things that you want to
do on purpose.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Dude, I love it. You were talking about your New
Year's resolutions. We did some goal goal setting stuff with
UH with some of our management team, and that I
think that was one of the most resounding words that
came out of it, was I just want to be
more intentional. Definitely was for me, and it was amazing
that it's sort of almost unanimous across the board that
that intentionality so very good.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
That's cool. Well, you know the cool thing is I
asked that to most all of our guests. I put
them on the spot. I mean, if you listen to
the show, you might know what's coming, but you hear
different things, and some some are what was talked about
it in the show. I mean, you talked about a
lot of intentionality in the show, but the word wasn't used.
So man, God, bless you. Thank you so much for sharing.
(36:08):
I learned so much about you can't wait. You can't
wait to uh maybe we're Sarah Soda in in Nashville
here in a couple of weeks. I'm looking forward to that. Yes,
Sir Lee Brice, we're excited about that. And David Scully
hanging from Memphis. Go do the Golden rule, treat others
the way you want to be treated, and carry a
(36:30):
smile around on your face. Thank you for listening to
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