How The F**k Did You Get That Job?

How the f**k did Malik Zaire go from a devastating injury to traveling across the country creating football content for all the top networks? Today, we are talking with the “Lucky Lefty” Malik Zaire. Malik originally gained national recognition starting at quarterback for the University of Notre Dame. Since then, he’s continued performing at a high level as an on-personality for the acclaimed spor...

How the f**k did Darius Fleming go from playing football in the NFL to creating special moments for fans all over the world through the company, Cameo? Today we are talking with Darius Fleming about football, transitions and how to best educate yourself about systemic racism and injustice right now. Darius grew up in Chicago, Illinois and graduated from Notre Dame University where he also played l...

How the f**k did Nik Conklin go from playing college soccer in Brooklyn to taking his skills to leading video production at Clemson University and :betr? Today we talk to Nik about his journey through design and content creation that took him up and down the East Coast moving in and out of the sports world. Nik played Division I soccer at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus where he earne...

How the f**k did Samuel Silverman go from flipping pizzas in Columbus, Ohio to becoming creative director for The Ohio State football team? Today we talk to Samuel about his graphic design career path starting in Ohio. Samuel spent his first years out of school as a graphic designer for a couple companies in Columbus before he rose through the design ranks at his alma mater, going from graphic des...

How the f**k did Eve Wulf start out as an intern for Sports Illustrated and end up working for ESPN, helping produce films and miniseries including “The Last Dance” just a year later? Today, we’re chatting with Eve Wulf about her background in sports (she comes from a huge sports family with her dad being ESPN Senior Writer Steve Wulf and her twin sister playing hockey at Middlebury college). We a...

How the f**k did Daron K. Roberts go from Harvard Law to volunteering and helping the special teams coach for the Kansas City Chiefs and moving up through the ranks from there? Today, we talk to Daron about his journey through law school and the NFL. Near his graduation from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was student body president, Daron was a U.S. Senate Aid to the Governmental Affa...

How the f**k did Blake Lawrence go from making negative $54 on his first business venture to owning and operating his own successful company, Opendorse? On today’s episode we talk about how Blake went from playing football at Nebraska to founding two successful companies: Hurrdat and Opendorse. Blake co founded the company, HurrDat with his buddy Adi, while they were still in school at the Univers...

How the f**k did Brittany Wagner go from not knowing what she wanted to do in her junior year of college, to working as the counselor at East Mississippi Community College in the hit Netflix show, “Last Chance U” and having her work highlighted in GQ? We are talking to our very special guest today about her journey into academic counseling which landed her the job in Scooba, Mississippi, helping t...

How the f**k did RJ Kaminski get a job at The Premier Lacrosse League in addition to helping create content for Shootout for Soldiers, a 24-hour lacrosse game that benefits American veterans? Today, we’re chatting with RJ about his impressive and wide-ranging resumé that had him working as a sports reporter and broadcaster, creating an entire content calendar and social media position for Meet the...

How the f**k did Jordan Schultz get a job at ESPN as an insider/analyst in addition to being a correspondent on The Boardroom AND co-hosting a podcast with CJ McCollum? Today we're talking with him about his long hours spent copy editing and blogging for free. We also talk about the influence voracious reading had on his life, as well as his family's mentality to help everyone and treat everyone w...

How the f**k did Max Browne go from outranking the likes of Jared Goff, Baker Mayfield and Mitch Trubisky in high school football rankings to heading up and managing the social team for Lewis Howes? On today’s episode, we talk with Max his college football years playing for USC and Pitt, and how he spent some time off the field practicing his play-by-play announcing skills calling out two-minute d...

How the f**k did Kate Mannion end up writing for Barstool Sports, co-hosting the podcast series “Zero Blog Thirty” and co-hosting the Chaps and Kate Show on Sirius XM? Today, we’re talking about calzones, cheese cups, and totally normal binders full of women with Kate. She served in the US Marine Corps, deploying twice to Afghanistan, before coming back to the U.S. and participating in a volunteer...

How the f**k did Bill Weir end up as CNN’s Chief Climate Correspondent after spending years as "that funny midwest sports guy"? Today’s guest started by sending hundreds of cassette tapes across the nation to get his foot in the door as a sports reporter. He wound up covering the Chicago Bulls during Michael Jordan’s reign (even making an appearance on the new ESPN docuseries, “The Last Dance”). T...

How the f**k did Shea Dawson draft up her own job description in order to transition out of the NBA and into Overtime? On today’s episode, we’re talking with Shea about how a clear life mission guided her through the teaching and sports worlds. Shea knew that her mission was to help athletes, especially those within the black community, leverage their platforms in sports for social and financial c...

How the f**k did Nicholas Stone go from playing professionally in the Australian Football League to founding his own chain of coffee shops? Today, we chat with Nicholas about earning a degree in business as a professional athlete, his investment banking career that included a pitch to the C-Suite of Apple, and starting his own coffee company. Nicholas grew up in Melbourne, Australia. He got recrui...

How the f**k did AJ Vaynerchuk know he was going to start a business with his brother as early as high school? Today AJ talks with us about how he co-founded VaynerMedia and blazed a trail in the social-first digital agency business. AJ went on sabbatical after years of hard work at Vayner (a real sabbatical, but we'll let him tell you what that means). When he got back from Martha’s Vineyard, whe...

How the f**k did Tom Weingarten go from hosting impromptu Union Square dunk competitions to managing a social media platform with over a billion impressions per month? Today we talk with Tom, a.k.a. Overtime Tom, about his journey through the sports world as he built up Overtime to what it is today. The trick to their success? iPhones. They’ve been dominating the social media game in the world of...

How the f**k did Kenny Bell go from connecting with fans at The Bar The Bar in Lincoln to connecting with brands like Bud Light looking to get involved with his Twitch streams? Today, we talk with Fairview High School's finest, Kenny Bell. After setting re-writing the record book as a wide receiver at the powerhouse University of Nebraska Lincoln football program, Kenny went on to play in the NFL...

How the f**k did West Wilson go from college football player to video producer at Bleacher Report? Today, we talked with West about his video producing skills which took him from going viral in Montana, to the top of a bus taking a shot out of a bowling ball in Buffalo, and to placing reckless and random parlays down in Vegas. West went to college in Bozeman, Montana where he played football at Mo...

How the f**k did Whitney Holtzman go from one of the biggest Bucs fans at age six to starting her own business acting as the CEO of Social Victories; CMO for NFL, MLB and NHL Athletes? In our very special two-part episode, we talked with Whitney about how she ended up back in New York after going home to Tampa for a total of six months (youngest snow bird ever). Back in the city, she went back to...

How the f**k did Whitney Holtzman go from one of the biggest Bucs fans at age six to starting her own business acting as the CEO of Social Victories; CMO for NFL, MLB and NHL Athletes? In our very special two-part episode, we talked with Whitney about her time at the University of Florida and asked her if Tim Tebow really is that perfect in real life (he is). We chatted about how she earned the 51...

How the f**k did Walter Powell go from the NFL to the tech startup world? In this episode, we talk to Walt about his company Politiscope which he started with his childhood friend Jackson White. Walt was a former NFL Wide Receiver playing for teams like the Arizona Cardinals, New York Jets, Buffalo Bills, and the Jacksonville Jaguars. When he wanted to enter into the business world, he took the en...

How the f**k did Hakeem Valles make it into the NFL? By selling the purple packs of Skittles to his classmates in middle school. In this episode, we talk to Hakeem about his work on and off the field not only earned him a spot in the NFL, but also the founder of Perspective Global Media, a real estate investor, and keynote speaker. From fixing I-Phones to playing multiple positions on the football...

How the f**k did Grant Thomas go from reporting on high school sports to designing for professional athletes and teams? In this episode, we talk to Grant about how he ended up as a graphic designer for the only LA football team that we actually care about, the LA Rams. His work earned him a spot designing for Penn State football, the Charlotte Hornets, VaynerSports, the NBA and the Washington Reds...

How the f**k did Mitchell Gross go from graduating with an economics degree to working on brand partnerships for a sports company? In this episode, we talk to Mitchell about how he was able to navigate the horrors of being a recent college grad and transition into his position in the sports world. They talk about his many internships, his years growing up in Ardsley, New York, and the importance o...