For the Love of Sports with Michael Rasile

Trevor Farnes joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss being the CEO of MNT OPS and how he's created a community around a product that works!

MTN OPS is a nutrition, performance, and supplement business that caters to outdoorsmen and women. Trevor had already created great products that improved many aspects of their customers' lives, they just needed a community to get it to. Realizing that the hunting and outdoor community was underserved, they decided to bring the product to them due to the opportunity and the fact that many of these users would align with their core values.

Through thoughtful community building, MTN OPS has been able to connect with a vast number of people to become a part of their lives daily.

Trevor has also helped install Operation Conquer Hunger, a way to give back to those who do not get the necessary amount of food to live a healthy life.

Learn more about Trevor's story around Operation Conquer Hunger: https://youtu.be/1nOupN5KxFY

Learn more about MTN OPS!

https://mtnops.com/

Operation Conquer Hunger:

https://mtnops.com/pages/conquer-hunger

Check out the awesome content MTN OPS is putting up!

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Anthony Dittmann joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss Omegaball, the sport he created, and how he's helping spread the word!

We first chat about his time at ESPN where he helped, and eventually directed, live events. Understanding what people want from an in-person event and how that will look to a TV audience is a balancing act that he's been able to use ever since.

We then jump into what Omegaball is, how he came up with it, and what he is doing to get more people to fall in love with his sports!

Omegaball is essentially soccer played on a round field that consists of 3 teams, 3 goals, and 1 ball. This allows for different rules, like no offsides, and constant action during the shorter game time.

Learn more about OmegaBall below!

Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqSxBkeeAEB3lk4MHzK2AtA

Website

www.omegaball.com

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/omegaball/

Facebook

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TikTok that hit 1M views

https://www.tiktok.com/@omegaball_/video/7179619153463020842

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Aswand Cruickshank joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss how football helped shape his life in many different facets.

Having the dream of playing D1, Aswand eventually got the opportunity when he committed to Stoney Brook University after an injury at his D2 school. While out with this injury he learned about the opportunities around him that had nothing to do with the sport, but could see ways to use these lessons to work for the NFL. Aswand worked for a gym while he watched others there create 6 figure incomes through sales of the gyms memberships and training programs.

Once back at school, he took a very entrepreneurial approach to the game..meaning he didn't want to be put into a box and told there was only one way to do something.

After his career was over, he went and worked back at these gyms selling memberships while working on a side hustle, Gym44. This eventually made Aswand broke and he had to build himself back up.

Through networking and trial/error, he was able to find out that he's a great speaker and motivator of others through his story and entrepreneurial spirit.

Aswand has 4 books that help different subsects of kids, a podcast that allows people to learn more about him and his thoughts, he works for a youth center to understand how he can greater help children, and crushes it on the speaking circuit!

https://makeyamove.com/

https://www.instagram.com/swift_ly44/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aswand-cruickshank-3a4415b6/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkrNlvLLQe5DzCG9G2OVqRg

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John Fieldly, CEO of Celsius Fitness Drinks, joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss how Celsius has become a mainstay in the fitness drink space.

Celsius has risen to fame recently through the ability of the product to help athletes and fitness enthusiasts before and during their workouts. Initially looked at as a pre-workout beverage, Celcius is now being looked at closer as an energy drink with way better ingredients and flavors.

John helps break down how the product has been able to scale so efficiently, how they define their target market, and what they look for in a brand partner.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-fieldly-3969a86/

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Timmy Gallagher joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his career in mental fitness, leadership, & performance coaching as well as his experience with Ironman races.

You could safely assume Timmy uses much of what he learns on the mental fitness side to help him perform at his highest level within the Ironman races.

We discussed how he started his mental fitness journey, the simple things each of us could start doing to get mentally tougher, and he was able to turn all of this into a career!

Connect with Timmy on Linkedin! https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothygallagherevolute/

Learn more about his business, eVOLUTe! http://evoluteperformance.com/

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Dustin Gouker joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his career in journalism, marketing, and sports betting.

Dustin first started in the sports journalism space reporting on the news of the local teams in his area. Through his love of sports and all things around it, he found himself reporting on daily fantasy sports at LegalSportsReport.com.

This then quickly started to evolve as the expectation of sports betting became a reality, where LegalSportsReport.com was set up to become one of the biggest news sources and affiliate marketers in the space, eventually finding itself under the Catena Media brand.

Dustin and I discuss his career, what the evolution of the space has looked like, and why iGaming is much further behind sports betting.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustin-gouker-876857b5/

Check out Dustin's newsletter! https://closingline.substack.com/

Check out the LSR Podcast! https://www.legalsportsreport.com/category/podcast/

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Steve Hiegel joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his career in the sports content creation space. 

Steve currently runs three websites where he discusses College Football, College Basketball, and US Soccer. All three are passions for him so he wanted to let some of it out through his opinions and ideas.

While keeping fans up to date on what's going on within each of these sports, he also has a mission to visit as many of the stadiums and arenas as he can to give fans an idea of what they'll be getting into when they show up for the games! He also dives deep into the analytics of each sport and some of the business topics happening around them

Steve is also working on an awesome sports viewing app that will tie in his proprietary analytics and sports betting!

https://justcollegefootball.net/

https://justcollegebasketball.net/

https://justussoccer.net/

https://twitter.com/SteveHiegel

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Dan Taren joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his company Scrimmage and all the iterations to the idea and the product.

The original idea for a sports betting company came as a sports betting hedge fund where Dan and his team would take investors' money and place bets with it. Placing a multitude of bets, they believe this would reduce the inherent risk and allow them to make real money doing it. They found this to be possible, but the amount of effort and energy that went into a day's work ended up not being worth it in their eyes.

This allowed them to take the technology they built to be successful in betting and bring it to the people as a consumer-facing app. Little did they know, the competition was already ramping up in this space and they needed to pivot.

Scrimmage is now a retention tool for sportsbooks where each user receives a character within the game and by placing bets on your favorite sportsbooks, you receive tokens to upgrade your character, or even cash out for Amazon gift cards and prizes!

Check out Scrimmage! https://scrimmage.co/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-taren-997240192/

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https://twitter.com/Scrimsports

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Jason Dennen joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his love of the outdoors and how that nearly ended his life.

Jason has always been active and even loves to push himself to the brink. He has finished multiple Ironman races and understands the discipline that goes into running these races.

He has also loved all things outdoors and was out skydiving one day when a gust of wind hit him at the worst possible time, throwing him right through a fence and an airplane hangar. This technically should have ended Jason's life due to the severity of the injuries and how it all happened, but thankfully it did not.

Jason then spent the next year recovering, rehabbing, and eventually ran a triathlon 364 days after his horrific accident, even after the doctors said he may never run again. Through this experience, Jason realized that he had more to give to society, and while speaking about his accident and how it changed his life, writing a book could potentially reach more people! He wrote "8 Days Till Sunrise" about how he was able to overcome all of the obstacles that were in his way and how life is a series of small things that add up to the biggest things possible!

Go buy Jason's book! https://www.jasondennen.com/product/8-days-till-sunrise/

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Tyler Webb joins Michael Rasile on For the Love of Sports to discuss his career in marketing and content creation. Tyler got started in the social media game in high school where he was able to help grow a content-curation Twitter account that passed 150,000 followers.

During college he realized there was more opportunity for him to help businesses, so he started a freelance career of it. It eventually got to the point of starting a full-fledged business with his co-founder which became Uncle Charlie Marketing where they are currently helping Independent Baseball leagues with their social media and marketing. 

Tyler gives us a masterclass on how social media works, how to grow accounts, and what makes good content. We also discuss the nuances of Independent baseball, what makes it so great, and the Savannah Bananas!

https://unclecharlie.co/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylermwebb/

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