YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts What Happens When You Lose a Key Employee: 5 Lessons Every Gym Owner Needs to Know In the last couple of months, I’ve worked with four different Next Gen Academy gym owners who lost... Read More

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Building an AI Workforce: Inside Dan Cotton’s Daily Workflow In this episode of the Cheer Biz Podcast, host Dan Cotton explains how he ran four different AI-powered projects at once during a single workout,... Read More

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Why Cheer Gym Owners Are Burning Out Right Now In this solo episode of the Cheer Biz Podcast, host Dan Cotton breaks down why gym owner burnout is on the rise across the cheer industry,... Read More

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

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Redefining “Toxic”: What Cheer Parents and Coaches Really Owe Each Other A while back on the podcast, I sat down with Jeff Benson of Mind Body Cheer, a sports performance consultant who spends his... Read More

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Why Hit Zero Is Quietly Hurting Cheerleading In this solo episode of the Cheer Biz Podcast, host Dan Cotton makes the case that the sport’s obsession with hitting zero deductions is doing more harm... Read More

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Five Ways Cheer Gym Owners Accidentally Drive Staff Away In this solo episode of the Cheer Biz Podcast, host Dan Cotton flips the usual advice on its head, walking through five management habits that... Read More

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

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fullout-cheer-podcast/id1763244914?i=1000771122031 https://open.spotify.com/episode/5UBVj00nFi0wrN8DxYQXTW?si=QXrETaI6Ttya30hrkvtUHQ https://youtu.be/_aUS9mVdz3w The Hard Truth About Accountability Parents want gym owners and coaches to keep athletes and their parents accountable. Everybody wants kids who are gonna show up to practice in their practice wear on time. But what happens... Read More

YouTube: https://youtu.be/-gScJ0XCHDU Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4e7zutNYmMVxVVHu360GkE?si=7rz9OR5tRaODaLYyLyi8VA Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cheer-biz-podcast/id1596523298?i=1000770756982 I am super fired up right now because I have been talking to gym owners almost non-stop and there are some consistent issues that keep coming up. So we are going to dive into three things... Read More