growing up I was very quiet very introverted and lived in
a lot of fear but I reached a point where I realized I needed
to flip a switch I reached a moment of decision where I just
said you know what I'm done I'm done living in
fear
why would I put on this Earth what am I supposed to be doing
with my life. 17 years later
I'm Kellie Masters I am the founder and president of kmm
sports I am in NFL certified agent and an attorney I was
certified by the NFL players Association in 2005 and that
means I represent a place as they leave College athletics
and
enter the NFL draft so I guide them through the entire draft
process as the Region's as their manager there turn either
publicist whatever I need to do whatever had I need to wear for
them and I got them through the draft process and then
throughout their
entire NFL career and even into retirement and second career
when I first became an agent I was told and I was even told to
my face while women can't handle this where women are too
emotional there they're not Tough Enough I would say no
everything that you're looking at it as a weakness is actually
strange women are Fighters we are protective of the people
that we believe in and the people that we genuinely care
about we are going to go to battle for them and also be
nurturing at the same time and that's I think we're seeing
more and more
of a need for that and and at least acknowledging you know
I need someone and not just not just a face for me but I care
about me as a human being I believe that everything that
people thought made me weak or a lesser ages actually
makes me a better agent I am and gives me that gives me that
strength that that comes from from honesty being a woman and
in a man's world
the Baltimore in 2010 I signed my first big clients and that's
when I became the first woman to represent it's 5:30 and
I have been told for years it would never be that there would
not be a woman represent a first-rounder as
certainly not a woman like me on my own with my own company
that I went into it not even realizing I was making history
or breaking any sort of glass ceiling I just realize I was
finally accomplished their goal I've represented fires and
every drafts and
and I've had multiple players drafted become starters make
the Pro Bowl going on to do many veteran contract fell
through the free agency process we have about 35 athletes total
on our roster and it's now it's not just football
I'm so thankful for the journey that I had the things that
I learned by honestly failing so much in the beginning and then
truly making it about not really making the Journey about
myself but making the Journey about how can I help more
people how can
I pour into the young men that I represent their families
the other young agents that are coming up after me not only
the women but the people who really desire to do things the same
way to do things with Excellence with integrity
one of my mentors says experience is a great teacher
but other people's experiences it even better teacher because
then you don't have to go through what they went through
the hopefully I'm providing that to my my people that
I meant or now people that I pour
into now that I'm pouring some of the the wisdom experience
that I've gained so they don't have to go through what I went
through I reached a point in my career where I can do that and
I can it's not just about me and it's not
just about what what I can build it's about who else I can help