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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 does it actually mean to coach or parent with emotional intelligence in competitive cheer? This week I sat down with... Read More

How to Outperform Every Other Gym

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Three Core Strategies to Outperform Every Gym Around You In this solo episode of the Cheer Biz Podcast, host Dan Cotton cuts through the noise and delivers three battle-tested principles that gym owners can... Read More

How Gym Owners Create Toxic Parents

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Episode 100: How Coaches and Owners Can Prevent and Mitigate Toxic Cheer Parents To mark 100 episodes, Danielle Johnston takes on one of the most challenging dynamics in competitive cheer — toxic parenting —... Read More

The Hidden Value of Summer Camps

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Why Every Gym Should Have a Summer Camp Dan Cotton shares why summer camps have been a cornerstone of his program for decades — and why they should be a cornerstone of yours too.... Read More

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 Podcast On a recent episode, Dan and Danielle talked about toxic coaching, but they are not the only ones in... Read More

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: Dan Cotton   Introduction I’ve been in the cheerleading industry for over 26 years. And I’m here to ask: why... Read More