Michael Strahan wears many hats. Hes one half of ABCs Strahan and Sara, a Super Bowl champion and a Pro Football Hall of Famer, an entrepreneur, a producer, a former Army brat and a dad, just to name a few.

Its second nature for the world to unfairly put a label on black athletes. Strahan rejects that. Literally and metaphorically, you cant put this 6-foot-5 Renaissance man in a box. His friends tried when they made fun of his weight as a kid. Then he got drafted into the NFL. Then, fellow businessmen and executives tried to tell him he was just a trophy pundit when he retired. Now hes one of TVs most infectious morning show hosts.

I stopped waiting for people to change their perception about me. I had to change it for them, Strahan told HuffPost.

For We Built This , Strahan discusses his rise from athlete to host, activism in the NFL and being a representation of limitlessness for black kids.

The name of this project is We Built This. What have you built?

I built four great kids with some help. Thats the first thing. On the other side of it, I think I, surprisingly in some ways, and I say surprisingly because I didnt necessarily wake up and say this was a plan, but Ive been able to build a broadcasting business from sports to news to entertainment television to hosting game shows to producing game shows.

Also, the production business, building that, Nickelodeon Kids Choice Sports Awards, amongst a lot of other things, Jokers Wild with Snoop Dogg. From there, also management, managing Wiz Khalifa and Deion Sanders and Tony Gonzalez. So, just a little bit of jack-of-all-trades, and then creating businesses with Religion of Sports with Tom Brady and Gotham Chopra, to my clothing line, Collection by Michael Strahan and MSX, which is an athleisure brand, to luggage and everything.

It really amazes me when I look back and think what has been built. Its so much stuff, but I feel like its still in its infancy even though its been successful. I love it. I think theres just so much room to grow, and so much more to learn and so many people to meet. Its exciting. I wake up every day excited.