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Sep 2024
1h 10m

123. The Truth About Why I Left My Dream...

Brayden Figueroa, Kostas Garcia, Chase Uttley
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The day has finally come, Brayden has officially quit the Lakers. Today, he goes into what his tenure filming for the Lakers was like, and why he ultimately decided to leave his dream job.


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Timestamps:

0:00 - Trailer

1:13 - Dream Client Accelerator

3:26 - One Handed Crack

4:07 - Brayden Quit the Lakers

5:13 - What this means for Lebron’s Legacy

6:55 - Would Brayden do it again?

8:15 - What Advice Brayden would give himself five years ago

11:30 - What Brayden learned about how to run a company from the Lakers

14:24 - Where Brayden found his fit with the Lakers

16:44 - Artlist

17:41 - What Brayden learned from LeBron

21:58 - Brayden’s favorite moments

26:00 - The night LeBron broke the scoring record

27:59 - Flying with the team

29:14 - Staying at the nicest hotels

29:47 - Being in the elevator with Lebron, Melo, Russ, and AD

31:48 - Our NYC trip

32:55 - Anticipating moments during the game

36:01 - Advice to young sports filmmakers

39:27 - If you are going to shoot sports, you have to LOVE it

43:20 - How to take your sports filmmaking to the next level

52:15 - Why Brayden decided to quit

58:23 - Taking the pod to the moon

1:00:26 - Prioritize yourself

1:04:11 - What brayden needed to do before he quit

1:06:05 - Invest in yourself


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