Hot Coffee, Cold Beer - Career Growth and Sports Stories Podcast.

Episode Fourteen: Brock shares a mystery beverage with Taylor Lagace, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Kynship, an athlete and brand marketing agency. Taylor was a UCLA Football team captain who noticed a problem for former division-one athletes after leaving college and started a company to give athletes an opportunity to use their name as micro-influencers for positive momentum in life post-sports. Kynship serves as a modern-day solution house to reoccurring problems for athletes and player agencies, and created Taylor’s different kind of sports life.

Episode Thirteen: Brock shares a beer with the pride and joy of the Cleveland Indians, Anna Powell. Anna is a shining star of the sports industry and the perfect example of blending work-life balance in an industry where it feels impossible to have both. She shares with us the stories behind the next days of Progressive Field after the heartbreak of the 2016 World Series loss, how chasing a ring in sports lead her to different ring and the most fulfilling event of her career…There are a lot of family ties and pride in Anna’s story that go beyond a life of sports sales.

Anna lives in the Cleveland suburb of Chadron with her fiancé Jess and their two dogs: Koda and Remy.

UPDATE: In July of 2021 the franchise has since rebranded to the Cleveland Guardians. 

Episode Twelve: Brock sits down to explore the world of sports gifting with the founder of Craftom Sports Gifting and the industry-famous “Musser Box”. Caleb made a name for himself in the sports industry working in North Carolina for NASCAR’s Leavine Family Racing where he created his own way to get in front of high-level decision makers. Little did Caleb know, he was accidently stumbling into his own career that would go on to help over 50+ teams and brands across North American sports. In the act of becoming elite at his two best skills, Caleb parlayed a sports sales job into an incredibly rare sports business.

 You can find more information on Craftom and the Musser Box on https://craftom.io/

Episode Eleven: Brock shares a Chargers-themed beer with one of the top producers with the Chargers at SoFi Stadium. New stadiums will often use a company called “Legends” who specialize in NFL openings, and Legends employs William to sell the Chargers seat licenses at the team’s new joint-stadium with the Los Angeles Rams. William worked in Vegas nightclub sales before happening into a sports career. 

Episode Ten: Brock shares a California-local beer with the Chief Product Officer of OneTeam Partners for an exploration of the world of sports gaming. OneTeam Partners is an innovative and cutting-edge sports licensing company with a niche in the world of gaming.

This episode contains a reference to being “team Sarah”, Brock’s ex-girlfriend who never believed in him and a hail mary to a different sports podcast, Bronx Pinstripes.

Episode Nine: Brock shares a coffee with his once-boss, Nick Mann. Nick is formerly of the STAPLES Center, San Antonio Spurs, Los Angeles Galaxy and Chivas USA Soccer. You'll hear a brutally honest conversation of the mistakes and lessons from coaching a young-Brock Hendricks who started his premium career with 100+ meetings before negotiating his first deal.

Nick is now the Associate Vice President for the Kraft Group in Foxborough, Massachusetts, who own the New England Patriots (NFL), the New England Revolution (MLS) and multiple other entities. Nick is known as a leading-expert in the industry on the topic of business-to-business sports sales. Beyond selling to the average fan, Nick has found a niche in the sports world as a contemporary of cutting edge business negotiations.

Episode Eight: Brock shares a coffee or beer with the founder of Sports Business Solutions, Bob Hamer. Sports Business Solutions is an athletics consulting company that helps over 140 professional sports team across North America with through training and development, new business implementation, hiring and recruiting, and more. You’ll hear about the added layers of difficulty within sports entrepreneurship from Bob’s story of leaving a Vice President role with the Phoenix Suns organization for an uncharted path.

Bob now resides in Phoenix, Arizona, is a proud University of Arizona alumni and one of the industry leaders in mental health awareness.

Episode Seven: Brock shares a COLD coffee with a woman with 4+ sports jobs at once, Alicia Jessop. Alicia is a Sports Law Professor for Pepperdine University, a writer for The Athletic and Washington Post, and founder of her own sports consulting company "Ruiling Sports". The rest of her positions include a seat on the Board of Directors for a half-dozen charities including the Sport and Recreation Law Association and NFL Star Melvin Gordon's “Beyond the Flash Foundation”. 

Episode Six: Brock sits down with Sean Reilly, creator of the popular Instagram sports page “Pick.6”. What if posting on your Instagram became your full-time sports job? You can find more about Sean’s page and career in sports podcasting at Thepick6.com or @Pick.6 on Instagram. 

Brock and Sean dig into a different element of sports: Professional graphic design and social media account management. You'll get a peak behind the curtains of what it's really like to run a popular sports Instagram page. Sean tells the story of manufacturing your own career by taking advantage of your best personal skills. They’ll discuss the origins of sports fanhood, and the lessons learned along the way of creating your own opportunities to find a unique sports job.

Episode Five: Brock sits down for coffee or beer with Matt Thome of the Sacramento Kings Premium and Event Sales team. Matt is recognized as an industry leader & influence in the sales system referred to as “Social Selling” which allows him to be one of the most creative sellers in the country.

Matt has previously worked in Minor League Baseball with the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers and Boston Red Sox spring training facility before moving to Sacramento. He is a proud Carthage College alumni and is currently pursuing his Professional Masters of Sports Administration from Ohio University.