-: The thing I like most about working in sports
is every day is different.
You don't go into your office every day
and say, "Okay, I gotta get the spreadsheet out,
"I gotta punch the numbers."
It's every day is different.
So one day I can have a call from the Cleveland Cavaliers
saying they'd like to chat
and then the next day I can talk to a predominant
college athletic team on the East Coast
so every day is a conversation that
you may have it on your calendar,
so you may wake up and say,
"Okay, I know what I'm doing today."
And I've got it on my calendar.
But other days you have these conversations
that stem from a natural relationship
and you have these projects
that you're working on that can change.
And with my NFL clients it's like every day is different.
What are we gonna do today?
Are we gonna go try to get a car deal today?
Are we gonna go start a new campaign around
the relationship you have with your family
or your passion for a foundation?
So every day is different and juggling my time
is something that I have perfected.
I was a student athlete here at USC.
I was a track and field athlete.
So I've had to learn how to manage my time
and juggle a ton of different things,
whether it was undergrad, whether it was graduate school,
whether it was athletics,
working in sports information department,
having an internship,
all those things you have to juggle and time manage
and everybody says, "You have to be a good time manager."
But, you don't just get that by saying it.
You learn how to wear many hats.
I wear 10 different hats in a normal day.
And you have to learn how to take a hat on and take it off,
take it on, take it off, take...
You know, 'cause you could be working on a phone call
at 7 a.m. for a car deal for an NFL client
and at 8 a.m. you have a call
with a brand new college athletic team from Tagboard.
So you have to learn how to switch gears very quickly.
You have to learn how to follow up correctly.
So if you have 10 calls in a day and 10 meetings
you gotta learn how do I make sure that every meeting
I had today I followed up correctly
with what I said I was gonna follow up with?
And that's one of the most challenging parts of my job is
when you juggle, for instance,
in the mornings and the evenings
my focus is on my NFL clients.
During the day, your typical nine to five,
my focus is on Tagboard.
So in the middle of the day if my client calls me and says,
"Hey, my car broke down, I'm on the side of the road,
"I don't have AAA,"
I gotta take the Tagboard hat off for 20 minutes
and I gotta figure out that problem.
And so it's a lot of kind of taking the punches as they come
but also kind of figuring out how to manage your time
and figuring out how you allocate
certain time and certain days.