Thrive After Sports w/ Taj Dashaun

Darryll Stinson is a former Division I athlete, dynamic motivational speaker and Founder of Second Chance Athletes. He’s been featured on FOX, ABC, NCAA, TEDx and some of the top podcasts in the United States. After going from suicidal to successful, Darryll uses his experience to help athletes and entrepreneurs shed their past stories, and create a massive impact that aligns with their highest pu...

Graham Betchart is one of the world’s leading mental performance coaches.  He’s worked with some of the NBA’s best athletes including Aaron Gordon, Ben Simmons, Karl Anthony-Towns, and Andrew Wiggins (just to name a few) Graham creates mental training programs, and online courses to help athletes, coaches, parents, entrepreneurs, and working professionals take their mental game to the next le...

Joe Hawley played Offensive Line in the NFL for 8 seasons with both the Atlanta Falcons and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In 2017, after realizing his heart, and body, just weren't in it anymore, he decided to walk away. This decision left him feeling a wide array of emotions, leaving the sport he spent his entire life playing, everything from loneliness to excitement, and without really knowing what to d...

Author. Speaker. Mental Health Therapist. Life Coach. Jay Barnett is on a mission to empower, inspire, and ignite fire into the minds of men and women across the globe, helping them become their best selves. Former professional football player-turned-marriage & family therapist, Jay has more than 10 years of experience as an acclaimed youth mentor, author, and motivational speaker. He’s transl...

Gregory Charlop, MD, is an award-winning physician, author, speaker, and aging expert. Known as the anesthesiologist to the stars, Dr. Charlop is one of the most sought-after physicians in California (and now Texas). After training at Stanford and UCLA, Dr. Charlop built a career attending to some of the most complex patients in the San Francisco area. He's spent years on the front lines of health...

Misty Buck, author of the "Athlete Mental Health Playbook," is a certified Professional Life Coach (CPC), Spiritual Life Coach (CSC), and the owner of a marketing agency.  Growing up as the coach’s daughter and a cheerleader, Misty spent countless hours in the world of sports and around athletes where she learned that your value was largely determined by your ability to be tough in any and ev...

Christos Papadimitriou is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a left back for FC Mauerwerk. He also joined Athletes Soul as a Transition Coach Trainee in 2020. I'm honored that the Athletes Soul team invited me to share my story and give advice to athletes about life after the game! Check out the full video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/HM_JRBtHKR0 Learn more about Athletes Soul at ht...

It’s no secret that athletes make great entrepreneurs. The skills we acquired during our years of competition prepared us for the intense level of discipline, personal development, and follow-through that it takes to win in entrepreneurship. "Athlete to Entrepreneur" is an online event for athletes to come together and share their entrepreneurial journeys with the world. The goal is to e...

Eugene D. Holloman is a former 2x all-conference running back at James Madison University. Growing up he had aspirations of playing professional football after college, but after two significant knee surgeries before his senior year, his plans were derailed. After graduating with a degree and pursuing a major simple enough to keep him eligible but that honestly disinterested him, Eugene quickly re...

Yael Saint-Armand is the founder and creator of the initiative and concept Watch The Gap. Watch The Gap was born from a desire to actualize and discover his purpose and eventually grew into an attempt to secure a foothold in the ever-growing and emerging wellness industry. Watch The Gap aims to become a platform for individuals and ideas in the field of well-being. Drawing upon the 8 dimensions of...

Sivonnia DeBarros is a first-generation lawyer and law business owner, woman in business and a former track and field Division-I College athlete. Her practice areas are Business, Employment, Sports, and Entertainment. She is extremely passionate about helping athletes, women, and first-generation business owners because she understands the peculiar struggle many have faced by n...

In this episode, we have a talk with former Stony Brook University football player Taj Dashaun. Taj is an author, speaker, and founder of 'Thrive After Sports' an organization who helps athletes transition out of their sport and into their new competition. As an athlete transition coach, Taj shared some of his big takeaways on why athletes struggle after their playing days. He gives us tips to bec...

Taj Dashaun, Vice President of Self Publish N 30 Days, is a former Division-1 college football player for Stony Brook University. Once his football career ended, Taj struggled heavily with depression. Because he was focused on the game, he never fully developed a clear vision for his life.  After several years of stumbling around in the emotional darkness of uncertainty, Taj began to take his...

Myles received his Bachelor’s degree in Public Relations from the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University. At Hofstra, Myles played on the varsity baseball team serving as a team captain his senior year. Graduating in the middle of the pandemic in 2020, a series of events brought Myles into an opportunity with the United States Conference of Mayors. Myles Mensah recently joi...

It’s no secret that athletes make great entrepreneurs.  The skills we acquired during our years of competition prepared us for the intense level of discipline, personal development, and follow-through that it takes to win in entrepreneurship.  "Athlete to Entrepreneur" is an online event for athletes to come together and share their entrepreneurial journeys with the world.  The goal is t...

Harris is a Leadership & Mental Performance Coach in the Washington, DC area. Harris grew up in the DC area and graduated from Winston Churchill High School in 2010. Baseball has always played a huge role in his life, and he was drafted by the Washington Nationals as a LHP/1B in the summer of 2010, but instead decided to continue his baseball career at Lehigh University. While at Lehigh University...

Prince Daniels, Jr. is a former NFL running back turned practitioner of mindfulness and meditation, author and entrepreneur who lives by the mantra: “Nothing is impossible unless you truly believe it is.” His personal story is one of determination and a true-to-life testimony that anything is possible. His football career began as a walk-on for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets but eventually suffer...

Emmanuel is an experienced founder with 16+ years of entrepreneurship and management experience who loves working on community-building experiences and projects. He is the Founder & CEO of socialaim.co, and the ultimate superfan of his wife, and children. His mission is to be an example of talent & creativity put to use and passion intensely pursued while helping others do the same. Learn more at...

While Aswand was both playing football & working towards a college degree, he spent time working at a fitness center. He saw a genuine connection between athletic programs & fitness franchises. Upon graduation, he worked as a college scout, a high school football coach, and a fitness consultant. Teaching became his passion. He built an online feature that allows coaches of any level or any sport t...

Jonas Rousseau is a visionary high school football coach and nonprofit owner adamant about changing his community. Raised in an underserved community, Jonas became aware at a young age of the role resources played in a child’s development. Jonas founded Elevated Expectations in 2013 as a way to empower young people in his native Brownsville community with resources and skills needed to make inform...

Q is a former D-1 athlete in Football and Baseball, receiving his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from Northwestern University. His passion for supporting ex-athletes comes from his storied experience with the concussion crisis in sport and finding purpose, mindset, and community post-sport. Q battled Post-Concussion Syndrome for 6 years after an undiagnosed and untreated concussion in 2012. The p...

Darryll Stinson, founder of Second Chance Athletes, is a former Division 1 athlete, TEDx speaker, author, and suicide survivor. He helps athletes and entrepreneurs shed their past stories and create multiple streams of income that align with their highest purpose - so that they can impact more lives and build a lasting legacy.  Watch the full video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/MbN544g2Ot8 Con...

Marlene “Marley” Holmes is a former Division 1 volleyball player who is now a Social Worker and Entrepreneur. She  has mastered the art of utilizing her athletic training to adapt and contribute to social work and athletics  successfully. While attending Bethune-Cookman University, she earned her Bachelor's degree in  Sociology with a Social Work minor and completed her Master's degree at the Univ...

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It’s no secret that athletes make great entrepreneurs.   The skills we acquired during our years of competition prepared us for the intense level of discipline, personal development, and follow-through that it takes to win in entrepreneurship.   "Athlete to Entrepreneur" is an online event for athletes to come together and share their entrepreneurial journeys with the world.&nb...