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The Faceoff Podcast | Youth Sports Business
The Faceoff Podcast is the center of The Coach's Board, the community building youth sports. Host Paul Variano sits down with the founders and operators doing the building: club directors, facility owners, tournament operators, coaches, and the people making the software and products they run on. On the record about what they got wrong before they got it right, and what an operator should do with it straight away.
Every guest gets the same last question: it's Monday morning and a club director…
Episodes
The Faceoff Podcast | Youth Sports BusinessEpisode 8: Diyana Georgieva & CUGGO — Sweet Smart, Not Anti-Sugar
A mom of two with a background in hospitality, and a son who wouldn't drink water. Diyana Georgieva read the labels in the kids' drink aisle, found a white…
The Faceoff Podcast | Youth Sports BusinessEpisode 7: Nick D'Errico & PointShot — Not a Goalie Shortage, a Coaching Shortage
Fifteen years coaching goalies, from Learn to Play through NCAA and professional hockey. Nick D'Errico owns D'Crease Goaltending, coaches the goalies for…
The Faceoff Podcast | Youth Sports BusinessEpisode 6: Alex Laird & Sporting Founders — Five Stakeholders, Five Conversations
Alex Laird is based in London and spent the last year building his own company in sport. A university accelerator and a grant took him to conferences in New…
The Faceoff Podcast | Youth Sports BusinessEpisode 5: Chris Hayes, John Rosen & 6Tool — The Sixth Tool
He walked on at Northwestern, pitched the better part of a decade in pro ball with a fastball in the seventies, and taught himself to write code from the…
The Faceoff Podcast | Youth Sports BusinessEpisode 4: James Kelly & LitZone — Broccoli on the Pizza
He grew up in Brooklyn, taught middle school in Brownsville, and watched eighth graders check out at "mitochondria" — not because the science was hard, but…
The Faceoff Podcast | Youth Sports BusinessEpisode 3: Skye Eddy & The Sideline Project — Level-Headed and Sometimes Stressed
A youth All-American out of Reston, Virginia. Four years in goal at UMass and a fifth at George Mason, where she was Defensive MVP of the 1993 NCAA Final Four…
The Faceoff Podcast | Youth Sports BusinessEpisode 2: Rob Thompson & GamePlanU — The Third Wave
An All-American on the offensive line at the University of New Haven. A season of pro ball in England. Then the NFL, where Rob Thompson managed NFL Youth…
The Faceoff Podcast | Youth Sports BusinessEpisode 1: Gayle Jones & FuelBoxx— Everything But Nutrition
Four Emmys. Twenty-five years producing the NBA on TNT, multiple Olympic Games, the NFL and HBO Sports. Six years running brand video at JPMorgan Chase. And…
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Episode 0: Start Here
No guest. Just me — who I am, why this show exists, what you're going to get, and who you're going to hear from. Then I get out of the way. I coach youth…