{"id":44744,"date":"2014-06-30T16:33:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T16:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=44744"},"modified":"2024-09-24T18:49:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T18:49:17","slug":"tyler-phillips-12-chasing-dreams-innovative-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2014\/06\/30\/tyler-phillips-12-chasing-dreams-innovative-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Phillips &#8217;12 &#8211; Chasing Dreams with Innovative Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/06\/Tyler-Phillips-12-Totally-Committed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-44746\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/06\/Tyler-Phillips-12-Totally-Committed-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Tyler Phillips '12 - Totally Committed\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>In April of 2014, while playing professional football for the Frankfurt Universe of the German Football League, Augsburg College alumnus Tyler Phillips &#8217;12 was profiled by Timothy Miscovich.<\/p>\n<p>The article focused on Phillips&#8217; recent start-up, TOTALLY COMMITTED,\u00a0&#8220;an inspirational\/motivational company that encourages everyone to follow their dreams.&#8221; Phillips states in the article that &#8220;<em>Football is a huge part of my life, but I have always had the mind of an entrepreneur.\u00a0\u00a0I excelled in all of my business courses in college because it is a true interest of mine.\u00a0\u00a0I credit my well-rounded education to my advanced knowledge of business concepts.&#8221; <\/em>and provides a bit of advice for current Auggies:<em>\u00a0&#8220;My advice to any student would be to study something you\u2019re interested in!<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April of 2014, while playing professional football for the Frankfurt Universe of the German Football League, Augsburg College alumnus &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44744"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51836,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44744\/revisions\/51836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}