Phil Williams

Phil was an NFL agent for almost three decades after starring as a wide receiver at national powerhouse Florida State University, where he was twice named Academic All-American. He also received the first ever NCAA Post Graduate Scholarship awarded to a Seminole football player. He then thumbed his nose at the NFL after they made some snide comments about him being too little and slow, instead immersing himself in the financial services industry, first with an international CPA firm and then for himself.

Phil’s years as an agent began meagerly as he quickly found that honesty and integrity were not prerequisites for success, but were, in fact, inhibitors. He determined to go it the hard way. Hence, by the time he offered his hand in marriage to Meg it was akin to asking help bailing water out of his sinking boat. She must have been smitten ( or perhaps duped?) as she agreed, and they set out sailing and flailing and bailing as furiously as possible. It wasn’t long before he somehow snagged a couple of quality clients and the holes in the boat were plugged.

Over the next twenty years or so Phil represented players drafted in each round of the NFL Draft, as well as numerous players who won Super Bowls, including Brad Johnson, who quarterbacked the Tampa Bay Bucs to their only Super Bowl victory, and Martin Mayhew, who started for the Washington Redskins at cornerback when they won the Super Bowl and later became General Manager of the Detroit Lions. Shortly after his first child, Hannah, was born, he decided to work from home because he found that he loved being around his daughter so much. He continued on this path throughout his agent career, choosing to spend as much time with his kids as possible (there were four in all).

Phil writes from a heart that is passionate about all things real, and because he enjoys presenting a different picture to readers than they might normally receive. He has endured what many consider the most painful reality that one can experience while upon this earth, the death of his precious Hannah, and much of what he writes about traces its way back to the legacy she left behind. He holds no punches when writing, choosing to lay it all out there with the same fearlessness as he displayed while playing football at Florida State.

Of course, it helps a bit to write from the sultry beaches of Costa Rica where he now resides, and where his most dangerous activity might be trying to make sure he is not hit on the head by a falling coconut.