YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Dan Cotton Steps Back From DreamCamps to Scale to $10 Million After eleven years running nearly every piece of DreamCamps himself, Cheer Biz Podcast host Dan Cotton shares how a midsummer round of internal... Read More

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

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 Five Mistakes Coaches Make Studying Winning Cheer Routines In this solo episode of the Cheer Biz Podcast, host Dan Cotton shares the recurring mistakes he sees gym owners and coaches make when they study... 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