The NFL Agent

04/13/20 • 58 min

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Have you ever had an entire room full of successful, upwardly mobile peers eating out of the palm of your hand as you described the blow-by-blow details of one of your recent job-related phone calls? Probably not. But our guest today has.
For our first ever interview, we sit down with Collin Roberts, an NFL Agent at REP 1 Sports to talk about his journey from lawyer to professional sports agent. We talk about his 40 yard dash time. We talk about what he’d be doing if he hadn’t landed his dream job (hint: it has something to do with cults), and we finally work up the nerve to ask the one question we’ve always wanted to ask him: can he get Jon Gruden to be a guest on our podcast? It’s a beautiful moment.
We really enjoyed recording this one and we hope you enjoy it as well. Be sure to stick around till the end to hear the unplanned (and unwelcome) cameo from Onnie’s 4 year-old.

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Dream Until Your Dreams Come True

In this, our second episode ever, we drop the generalities and get personal. There'll be plenty of time in future episodes for handwringing and hysterics around generational shortcomings, the dark side of LinkedIn, and whether or not robots are coming for your job. So definitely stay tuned for all of that.
But in this episode, we take a step back to talk about our own "dream jobs" - both as they exist today, and how we imagined they would look when we were younger. Which is to say: we mourn the death of our dreams of athletic superstardom and describe the decades-long pursuit of a replacement dream that we've been on ever since. Or something like that.
Join us for this last "preview episode" before we take off the training wheels and start inviting real guests into our sad little studio. #TheDreamJob

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The COVID Episode

When you have the gall to launch a podcast about “meaningful work” in the middle of a global catastrophe that will radically alter our lives for years to come (if not irrevocably), well...it feels like you should at least take a minute to acknowledge that, yes, you’ve seen the news. So that’s what we’re doing today.

We started working on this podcast in November 2019. In the months since then, we recorded interviews with more than a dozen people. All of this happened BEFORE the world stopped turning and we all got sent home with a doctor’s note. When we started talking to folks about their jobs and their dreams, the unemployment rate was at an all time low (around 3%). It is now at an all time high with +20 MILLION people filing for unemployment in the last month alone. When we started this podcast, we were riding the longest and most lucrative bull economy the nation had ever seen. We now appear to be headed toward one of the deepest recessions we’ve ever imagined.

These realities have forced us to ask ourselves some questions. Namely: is this podcast even relevant anymore? Isn’t any job better than “no job?” And - if so - what does this podcast have to say to the millions upon millions of Americans who have lost their livelihoods (not to mention dozens of thousands who have lost their lives) in the past six weeks? Is now even the right time to be having this conversation?

Not sure we arrive at clear answers to all of those questions. But we try our best. Back next week with our next interview. But for now... #BackToWork