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Welcome to Season 5 Episode 23 Featuring- Wayne Smith

We sit down with Oaklawn Casino and Racing GM Wayne Smith to trace an unlikely path from one college accounting class to a global hospitality career, Vegas casinos, and leading a premier racing casino resort. Along the way we talk work ethic, mentors, family, music, sports, and what legacy really means.

• growing up in Rhode Island and learning discipline at military school
• discovering accounting and gaining range through Northeastern’s co‑op
• saying yes to a headhunter and auditing hotels worldwide
• breaking into Vegas casinos and learning operations on the floor
• moving from finance to GM with help from mentors
• what a casino resort GM actually does day to day
• leadership rules of thumb like inspect what you expect
• family balance, marriage as partnership, and setting shared goals
• music tastes from Prince to Pink Floyd and DJ stories
• sports fandom, the 90s Cowboys, and Yankees memories
• career advice on happiness, choices, and staying open
• defining legacy through honesty, work, and lifting others

"I'm not the smartest person in the room, but i'll out work anyone"

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