Strange beasts we are.
Both as humans and as wholesalers.
When the odds are stacked against us, when our world gets uncomfortably stirred, we often dig deep and work our butts off to avoid unenviable consequences.
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Are you the wholesaling reincarnation of the flightless, now extinct, DoDo Bird?
Reminders that I have been in our business for a very long time have hit me recently.
In a conversation with a coaching client who is under 30, and well on his way to killing it in his first external gig, I referenced two things that evoked crickets.

The days of the lone wolf wholesaler are dead.
That’s right, the wholesalers that profess the credo of “I just want to be left alone to do my job” are become extinct as quickly as the Antillean Giant Rice Rat.
Welcome to the age of the franchise player.
Franchise players (FP’s) are wholesalers who:

The startling news was dropped during a Private Coaching call with “Hal” (not his real name), who was a new(er) external wholesaler.
Hal worked at a firm that has had multiple senior-level management shake-ups, along with dubious local management support.
As we got past the niceties and into the purpose of the coaching session, Hal took a sharp left turn and explained that he had received a call from the home office – and he was no longer employed with the firm.