At home with Leaders: Circe Wallace & Andrew McQuaid

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Episode 79 of the Leaders Sport Business Podcast - brought to you in partnership with Onside Law - features conversations with Wasserman EVP Circe Wallace (discussion starts at 11:44) and Trinity Sports Management Director Andrew McQuaid (discussion starts at 28:48).

West Coast-based Wallace is one of the most influential action sports agents in the business. A former athlete herself, her client roster includes the likes of Torah Bright and Travis Rice, and she has become an increasingly prolific documentary producer.

London-based McQuaid runs Trinity Sports Management, an event management and talent representation agency. He represents the likes of Nicolas Roche and Owain Doull in cycling.

On the conversational agenda:

- How athletes are dealing with their own periods of isolation;

- The financial distress to come in cycling;

- The fate of the Tour de France this year;

- Full Catastrophe Living - the mindfulness stress reduction programme Wallace is using to mitigate the anxiety of the pandemic;

- How sports marketing will be different on the other side of the crisis;

- Why innovation will be stifled;

- Hot Nife - and how Wallace combines life as an agent with life as a California cannabis entrepreneur;

The importance of integrity, honesty and accountability in athlete representation.