The Post Game Podcast Ep. 19 - Taj Dashaun: Thrive After Sports, Drafting Mentors, and Eliminating Victimhood
Taj Dashaun is a former College Football player at Stony Brook University.
He is the Founder of Thrive After Sports, a holistic 1-on-1 program for retired athletes who are struggling to adapt to life after the game.
Taj helps former athletes land jobs, start businesses, and find fulfillment in every area of their lives.
He is also the author of several books: Athlete to Entrepeneur, Thrive After Sports: How to Dominate the Game of Life, and The Six-Figure Athlete.
Check out his Podcast - Thrive After Sports w/ Taj Dashaun.
What You'll Learn About:
- Why do you want to go down a certain career path?
- What do you want your life to look like?
- Asking the question “How are you doing?” and listening to the answer
- How to find people living the type of life you want
- Cheat Codes of Mentorship and Apprenticeship
- The Who, What, How exercise to figure out what you want
Timestamps:
(0:00) – Intro to Taj
(3:30) - Taj Dashaun Johnson
(5:25) – First jobs after graduating college
(7:45) – Passion for getting people from Point A to Point B
(9:10) – Where people are when they reach out to Taj
(12:25) – Meeting people where they’re at
(14:50) – Learning from other people’s experience
(17:35) – Eliminating Victim mentality
(19:35) – Drafting mentors
(21:45) – What you might not know about Taj
(25:00) – Putting your work into the world that will help people
(27:15) – Learning something from everyone you come across
(30:25) – Cold Outreach helping you get to where you want to go
(32:20) – The Who, What, How exercise
(35:20) – A Highschool (Love) Football Story
(39:00) – What’s Next for Thrive After Sports?
(43:20) – Where to Find Taj
Links for Taj: