Colin Cowherd Podcast - Erika Ayers on Barstool & Dave Portnoy, Career Advice, Sports Podcasts
May 31, 2024
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Former Barstool Sports CEO Erika Ayers shares insights on career success, starting a business, sports betting, and podcasting. They discuss challenges in entrepreneurship, the importance of growth, handling failures, and knowing when to pivot. The conversation delves into personal development, financial decisions, and the value of work experience. They also touch on parenting styles, hiring strategies, consumer spending trends, and business lessons learned.
Focus on doing what makes you happy in your career, ignore others' opinions.
Address organizational challenges like clarity on employees and financial management for company success.
Importance of willingness to grow, challenge oneself, and know when to bail on an idea.
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Former Barstool Sports CEO shares insights on career and management
Former CEO of Barstool Sports offers insights on career management and the importance of focusing on doing what makes you happy rather than worrying about others' opinions. During her tenure, addressing organizational challenges like clarity on employees and financial management played a crucial role in reshaping the company's direction.
Colin is joined by Erika Ayers Badan, former CEO of Barstool Sports and author of the new book ‘Nobody Cares About Your Career’.
They start by diving into the reasons nobody cares about your career (3:00) and the first changes Erika made when she first arrived at Barstool (5:00). They get into the reasons why starting a business isn’t pretty (9:00) and she gives her definition of success (12:00).
Next, they debate the state of sports betting and the podcasting business (18:00) and talk about why it’s so important to be willing to grow (21:30). They discuss the problems with young people not being challenged enough (26:30) and how long you should commit to an enterprise before it returns a profit (33:00).
They weigh the downsides of “getting the bag” (36:00) and share their feelings on the state of the economy (40:00) and stories of big swings they took that missed (45:00). They wrap up the discussion by stressing the importance of knowing what your company is paying you to do (50:00) and knowing when to bail on an idea (53:30).
Finally, Colin gives his take on Donald Trump being found guilty on 34 felony counts and why the process wasn’t “rigged” (55:00).
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