Joy Taylor is as smart as they come in this business? Want just one reason why? Joy had television as one of her many career goals after graduating with a broadcasting degree.

She also found out very early on that radio would accentuate her great personality incredibly moreso than if she just jumped into TV off the bat. And that would open the television door wide open for her eventually.

Now with Fox Sports Radio and FS1, Joy talks about her journey as a music station intern in Miami, to producer, to must-listen-to talk host on the East Coast, to a radio and TV star on the West Coast in the episode of The PASR.

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Sometimes there are people that think they missed their chance to get into their dream of being a sports talker.

Of course, we've learned it's never too late.

And in the case of Chris Childers, it's never too early either.

Childers got himself his first break at 11 years old. Yes, 11.

He made the most of that opportunity, and the opportunities that arose after that. The now-SiriusXM host tells you about the one interview that the right person heard to get him his own show, his working relationship with former college football coach Rick Neuheisel and plenty more on this episode of The PASR.

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Danny Parkins got the highly-coveted broadcasting degree from Syracuse. You know, the same one that's supposed to get you right in the door at any station in the country that you so desire.

At least, that's what he thought.

Instead, Parkins had to find a way to make money in other ways to start. And those were fun too, for a time.

Eventually, Parkins really got rolling on the air. Currently an afternoon drive host at 610 Sports in Kansas City, Parkins has accomplished a lot more than many in the industry, and he's not even 30 years old.

Hear about his sports radio philosophy, how he almost got fired, how he once spent thousands of dollars at a strip club and a whole lot more on this episode of The PASR.

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Jonathan Zaslow is a lifer. Of course, he may not have known it

Zaslow, morning show host at 790 The Ticket in Miami and Miami

Here about the journey of Zaslow, and how LeBron has played a

Imagine latching onto a radio station, virtually right out of college, and sticking with that same radio station your entire career?

Maybe you crave an opportunity like that one. Ot, perhaps that sounds boring to you.

In Isaac Ropp's case, though, it was the best of both worlds. Isaac went to a radio broadcasting class in college, talked to a local sports radio pro and worked all the way up from asking a superior for feedback on a sports update demo to afternoon drive host in Portland.

And he's been at the same station for 15 years.

Hear more about Ropp's secrets behind those successes and more in this episode of the PASR.

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Most of us odd folk that work in sports radio (especially those that didn't come from the pro athlete background) were probably pretty opinionated about sports from a young age.

In Chris Mueller's case, he was "pontificating"--that's his word--so much about sports during his adolescence, that when a chance popped up to enter an American Idol-type contest for sports radio, it wasn't him who was itching to enter.

His family was pushing him to do it.

Turned out to be a great decision. Years later, Mueller is now neck-and-neck with the mainstays in Pittsburgh afternoon drive radio after just two years of his show with longtime sports columnist Joe Starkey.

Hear that story along with Mueller's philosophy on self-deprecation and much more in this edition of The PASR.

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Nick Cellini has been in sports radio longer than 95% of other on-air talent.

Emphasis on talent.

Why? Because he has been a memorable voice in morning drive in Atlanta on not one, but two stations.

And even with his self-admitted mistake of being the ringleader of a bit gone wrong (making fun of ALS-stricken former New Orleans Saint Steve Gleason), his humility in it's aftermath along with his aforementioned talent helped find himself back on morning drive in ATL, for 680 The Fan.

Hear how he got into the business, what his career lowpoint was, how he describes his morning show The Rude Awakening, and much more on this episode of The PASR.

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*NOTE: This is Part 2 of our interview with Amy Lawrence. If you haven't yet, go back and listen to Episode 056.

Amy Lawrence is used to the struggle.

As a female in a male-dominated industry, Lawrence has seen and heard her fair share of criticism, not just from the outside world--where social media is so prevalent--but also inside the industry as well.

The nightly CBS Sports Radio hosts opens up on why and how she has dealt with discrimination along with why she's better on the air when she's alone in Part 2 of our interview on The PASR.

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