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3 Lies Cheer Gym Owners Need to Stop Telling Themselves

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Three Lies Cheer Gym Owners Tell Themselves And How To Stop Dan Cotton, host...

Don’t Send the Email! How to Deliver Difficult News Effectively

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts How to Deliver Bad News in Your Cheer Gym Without Losing Trust The Weight...

I Was the One Holding My Business Back

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Dan Cotton Steps Back From DreamCamps to Scale to $10 Million After eleven years...

10 Unfiltered Opinions About the Cheer Industry Right Now

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Dan Cotton’s 10 Hot Takes on Running a Cheer Gym Fresh off a summer...

5 Things You Can Only Learn Inside Another Gym

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts What I Learned From Spending a Day Inside Another Cheer Gym Hey guys, and...

Throwback: Jason Larkins Answers Gym Owners’ Toughest Questions

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Jason Larkins on Fixing Choreography, Beating Complacency, and Cheer Gym Culture Dan Cotton welcomes...

Why Reputation Matters as a Cheer Gym Owner

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Why Your Reputation as a Gym Owner Matters Most In this solo episode of...

What Happens When You Don’t Make Mat

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts From Worlds Champion to Weber State Standout and Coach In this episode of the...

The Hardest Parent Conversation I’ve Had in 15 Years

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Compassion and Boundaries: Lessons From My Hardest Parent Conversation in 15 Years Have you...

When a Key Employee Quits: 5 Lessons Every Gym Owner Needs to Know

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts What Happens When You Lose a Key Employee: 5 Lessons Every Gym Owner Needs...

The Biggest Business Shift Is Already Here

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Building an AI Workforce: Inside Dan Cotton’s Daily Workflow In this episode of the...

Stop Running Your Cheer Gym on Instinct

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts The Four Numbers Every Cheer Gym Owner Must Track In this solo episode of...

Why Some Dads Never Support Cheer… and How to Change That

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Cheer Dads Belong Here Too: A Conversation With Alex Russell of the Cheer Dad...

The Secret Formula Behind Winning Routines

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Five Mistakes Coaches Make Studying Winning Cheer Routines In this solo episode of the...

The Real Reason Gym Owners Burn Out

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Why Cheer Gym Owners Are Burning Out Right Now In this solo episode of the...

How Good Coaches Cause Emotional Damage with Jeff Benson

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts The Emotional Stoplight: What Every Cheer Coach and Cheer Parent Needs to Know What...

Why Some Athletes Never Build Resilience with Jeff Benson

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Redefining “Toxic”: What Cheer Parents and Coaches Really Owe Each Other A while back...

Is Hit Zero Ruining All Star Cheer?

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Why Hit Zero Is Quietly Hurting Cheerleading In this solo episode of the Cheer...

The Fastest Way to Lose Great Staff

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Five Ways Cheer Gym Owners Accidentally Drive Staff Away In this solo episode of...

How to Outperform Every Other Gym

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Three Core Strategies to Outperform Every Gym Around You In this solo episode of...

Consistency Beats Creativity

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Stop Chasing New and Start Mastering What Already Works In this solo episode, host...

How Gym Owners Create Toxic Parents

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Episode 100: How Coaches and Owners Can Prevent and Mitigate Toxic Cheer Parents To...

The Hidden Value of Summer Camps

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Why Every Gym Should Have a Summer Camp Dan Cotton shares why summer camps...

From Startup to Industry Leader

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Rhinestone Leaders: How Glitter Stars Is Redefining the Cheerleading Uniform Industry From rhinestone transfers...

Toxic Parents: How They Start (And How to Stop Them)

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Toxic Parents in the Gym: A Conversation with Kristen Wheeler of the Cheer Mom...

Your Gym Lost Its Edge

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Getting Back to Your Roots: Why Small, Personal Moments Still Matter I am all...

Why Your Cheer Gym Isn’t Growing

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Three Things You Need to Focus on to Actually Grow Your Gym Many of...

Surviving Team Placement Season

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Why I Hate Tryout and Team Placement Season Hello, everyone, and welcome to another...

Why We Keep Making the Same Mistakes

YouTube: https://youtu.be/DwmXyvU0HIg Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6A2Pa7KxrTLnIAS7HDQ9mt?si=OoDEyeROQc6GcaEKkU_oHA Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cheer-biz-podcast/id1596523298?i=1000771852645 Why Do We Keep Making the Same Mistakes as an Industry? Cheer Biz Podcast | Host:...

The Dangerous Assumption Coaches Make

YouTube: https://youtu.be/q5kUnE3xi6c Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1GaYkTzvaEjF1d6Uh3Z2rB?si=enB9ZUr6ShGP2uQJAAVbeQ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cheer-biz-podcast/id1596523298?i=1000771442373 Dangerous Assumptions: Stop Putting Your Athletes in a Box The Cheer Biz Podcast | Hosted by...