YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts How to Deliver Bad News in Your Cheer Gym Without Losing Trust The Weight of Delivering Bad News I’ve been in business for 15 years, and in that time I’ve had to deliver bad... Read More

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts What I Learned From Spending a Day Inside Another Cheer Gym Hey guys, and welcome to this episode of the Full Out Cheer Podcast. I’m Danielle, and I’m excited to be here with you... Read More

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Jason Larkins on Fixing Choreography, Beating Complacency, and Cheer Gym Culture Dan Cotton welcomes back Jason Larkins, all-star gym owner and host of the Let’s Talk Cheer podcast, to answer real questions from Cheer... Read More

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