By Hot Coffee, Cold Beer
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The podcast currently has 34 episodes available.
Have you ever seen your local sports team advertise something like "Tomorrow's game is 'Dogs at the Park' night OR 'Indian American Heritage' night? Ever wondered who creates that
Imagine being responsible for 60+ of those events each year. The planning, the marketing, the back-end ticket registrations...and now imagine being the ONLY person for an entire department for a Major League Baseball team left responsible to do all this....well, Liz McCloskey is that woman.
Liz has spent her entire career with the Mariners, and also her entire career in the group events space of the sports industry. You'll learn about all that goes in to putting this nights of unity together and how to make decisions based on what DOESN'T feel like work.
Matt Stocker is an industry-leading talent acquisition professional in the sports industry leading employee recruitment for one of the most exciting brands in the world.
Don't know a lot about FC Cincinnati? That's okay...outside of the sports business industry, many don't. But inside the walls of sports jobs we widely recognize "FCC" as a growing, exciting, and ground-breaking brand in the industry. FC Cincinnati is playing the role of "innovator" and "disruptor" inside of how teams operate as a people-driven business.
Matt tells a wonderfully detailed story of how he left the world of sales for the NHL's Florida Panthers to work in the department of employee endeavors. After 4 years of grueling and hard-core sales for the Southern-most hockey team in the NHL, Matt converted from the Panthers sales team to human resources.
This is a fairly rare transition in the industry and shows the beautiful story of somebody BREAKING INTO the industry, then finding their best use of their skills in another department.
In early 2021, Matt made the move over to FC Cincinnati to play a larger role in their talent acquisition efforts, hiring over 400+ people as the brand expanded.
Episode Thirty Two: The NFL is BIG BUSINESS, and if you want a chance in with an NFL team out of college....Joey Meredith is your gatekeeper. Joey trains, hires and develops the future industry leaders of the world for the $2.3B that is the Tennessee Titans.
No relation to former NFL Wideout Cam Meredith.
Episode Thirty One: Welcome BACK to Season 2! We bring out the big brand to break back into the new season.
The bigger the brand, the more successful team...the harder to get the job! The Pittsburgh Penguins are no exception. Devin Beahm is on the Partnerships team for arguably the most prestigious brand in hockey! From championship rings to legacy brands, hear from one of the best to do it in our industry.
Episode 30: Season 1 Finale.
Over the past season of "Hot Coffee, Cold Beer" we've asked our guests to focus on how they built their sports careers and avoid the topic of Covid-19 altogether. This episode however, we address the elephant in the room as we sit for coffee or beer with one employee of each core-4 American sports to talk about exactly what unfolded in their offices. This is the peak behind all core-4 major American sports handling the hurricane of chaos this virus unfolded.
You'll hear from Chelsea Herman (NBA's Philadelphia 76ers), Stefan Driedger (NHL's Minnesota Wild), Tyler Starkey (MLB's Colorado Rockies) and Michael Lineman (NFL's Los Angeles Chargers).
Episode Twenty-Nine: The heart-breaking and heart-warming story of Joel Adams, Vice President of Premium Sales for the Los Angeles Clippers. In early 2021, Joel begins opening the Clippers new stadium: Inglewood Basketball & Entertainment Center. Opening "IBEC" is one of the most coveted upcoming roles in the sports industry.
Joel is a cancer survivor and previously worked for the San Diego Padres, Cleveland Cavaliers and Miami Dolphins and is now in his 3rd year with his hometown team.
Episode Twenty Eight: The NBA Salary Cap is more complicated than the American tax code or quantum physics, so we sit down for coffee with Eric Pincus, an NBA Salary Cap Expert. Eric had a 20+ year career as a Chief Information Officer at a wedding and events company while being an aspiring writer on the sidelines. He is now the Lead Writer for the Los Angeles Lakers on Bleacher Report and teaches classes on understanding the NBA's Salary Cap.
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Episode Twenty Seven: It's a 2020 NBA Finals re-match, as Miami HEAT Director of Corporate Partnerships Casey Dellapenna shares a coffee or beer with our host who sells Lakers Premium. Casey spent 14 years in New York City advertising before leaving the "Mad Men" life behind to work in South Florida Sports. Casey is a former Associate General Manager for the University of Miami before moving over to the HEAT.
Episode Twenty Six: Fresh off their trip to the 2020 World Series, Dan Newhart of the Tampa Bay Rays sits down for a beer chat about 13 years spent with one of the most employee-first organizations. Be ready to have your pre-conceived notions about the Rays and Tropicana Field challenged after this episode.
Dan is a sports business icon with legendary experience.
Episode Twenty Five: Everyone in the sports industry know about the Association of Luxury Suite Directors' once per-year conference where premium teams across all North American sports gather to present trends in the Premium operation of the sports business. We sit down for coffee or beer with the President of ALSD, Amanda Verhoff.
"Premium" refers to the high-end, luxury seating in sports often including private seats, front-row seating and "club seats". Amanda shares over exactly how the teams uses her conference to not only grow THEIR business, but all of our ours.
Amanda tells us about her sports life of working for a sports conference her entire professional career. Going from interning with the conference in college, to now serving as president.
ALSD corporate offices are based in Cincinnati, Ohio and the conference partakes in different cities each summer. You can learn more and apply for registration at ALSD.com
The podcast currently has 34 episodes available.