Josh Booty is a Shreveport Louisiana Native with a long family blood line of athletic greatness which includes his father who was a football high school All-American and two out of his three brothers (John David "JD", Abram & Jack) played in the NFL. Josh was the 1993 High School National Football player of the year and shared many prestigous National player of the year awards with Peyton Manning. He was also a 4 time All-State Shortstop and an all-American shortstop as a senior where he played on the Junior National Team and won a silver metal. After being heavily recruited in both football and baseball by LSU and other power house programs, Josh was chosen in the first round/5th pick of the 1994 major league draft by the Florida Marlins and opted to sign a record breaking $1.6M signing bonus. Josh quickly worked his way up through the minor league system and made his big league debut with the Marlins. In 1999, after 5 years of professional baseball Josh’s passion for football won out and he signed to play for Nick Saban at Louisiana State University (LSU)/ Booty had a stellar career at LSU and was named to the first team all SEC after a successful season which concluded with defeating #15 Georgia Tech in the Peach Bowl. He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks and played 5 years in the NFL with the Seahawks, Cleveland Browns and Oakland Raiders before hanging up the spikes and pursuing a business career. Early in his athletic career Josh knew that no matter how successful his professional sports career would be he would need to prepare for a life after sports. He always networked and treated people well a long his journey and it paid off handsomely as a lot of his former classmates and friends have become business partners and assocaites. This is a crucial lesson about social netowrking and social equity for young athletes at every major university. Most young athletes do not realize they have the most amount of social equity and influeunce during the short 6 year window of high school and college sports where they should be building deep realtionships with classmates and the community around them which will set them up for a life and career after sports. Today Josh is a serial entrepreneur and does business development and consulting for many corporations in tech, healthcare, media and other industries. The time management skill set and work ethic he honed during his athletic career have transferred well as Josh is continuously wearing a lot of hats and juggling multiple projects for the various companies he is working with . He also keeps his eyes on SEC football and hosts an awesom football podcast SECQB on the Bleav Podcast Network which gives you an up close and personall insiders look at SEC football.

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