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Parents

Don’t Take the Bait: How Great Leaders Stay Calm

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Don’t Take the Bait: How Gym Owners Can Handle Angry Parents and Staff Without Losing Their Cool I know you’ve probably had a parent or staff member really freak out on you at some... Read More

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 of the Cheer Biz Podcast, breaks down the three most common lies gym owners tell themselves about being too busy,... Read More

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 of travel, camps, and choreography work, Cheer Biz Podcast host Dan Cotton returns to the studio with ten unfiltered opinions... Read More

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 back Jason Larkins, all-star gym owner and host of the Let’s Talk Cheer podcast, to answer real questions from Cheer... Read More

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 ever set a boundary in your gym, only to have a parent in an unusual circumstance push right past it?... Read More

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 Podcast Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of the Full Out Cheer Podcast! This week I sat down with... Read More

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

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 on the podcast, I sat down with Jeff Benson of Mind Body Cheer, a sports performance consultant who spends his... Read More

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 Biz Podcast, host Dan Cotton makes the case that the sport’s obsession with hitting zero deductions is doing more harm... 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