YouTube: https://youtu.be/wYroyIxIKVM Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3G2Sum7tUqwhn6k3XXAXb9?si=iVx0pXXjTmuQXP5cx87pGw Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cheer-biz-podcast/id1596523298?i=1000774835037 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... Read More

YouTube: https://youtu.be/l7_FKnUdu_0 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3spE4cK6CocGdUmCIhnfi8?si=sF0TCrOyRfOAZisqPLtaIw Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cheer-biz-podcast/id1596523298?i=1000774464449 Stop Chasing New and Start Mastering What Already Works In this solo episode, host Dan Cotton delivers a candid wake-up call to cheer gym owners about the hidden dangers of entrepreneurial distraction—and why... Read More

YouTube: https://youtu.be/V17PpTN9vtc Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1U4Pu3UEO99RIiTvN8U4Iu?si=803Th58ET_K5Oap7KKKBJg Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fullout-cheer-podcast/id1763244914?i=1000774176562 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

YouTube: https://youtu.be/xpTk7jTjVE8 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1XvDYhTd5qWHoCkkD1K2A8?si=5xeTpHE6TUmvTxu-G40Xgg Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cheer-biz-podcast/id1596523298?i=1000773873210 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... Read More

YouTube: https://youtu.be/vnPKw_WM2GE Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/33vvDPhuH2Txd6vhRoyfEU?si=iBIBmD-zSKKrW91gYTdBBg Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cheer-biz-podcast/id1596523298?i=1000772950924 Three Things You Need to Focus on to Actually Grow Your Gym Many of you are wondering how you can grow your gym, but there are three things you’re probably not focusing on... 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

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

YouTube: https://youtu.be/9pd1AttqCoU Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5meockkVLq2dcw06qbhJel?si=OTgkn-C9RMCWDkPbDOY4pA Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cheer-biz-podcast/id1596523298?i=1000770318194 As your gym grows and you start to have more teams and more classes, the reality is that you can’t coach everything. And that’s why it becomes so important to build your coaching team. And these... Read More

Many gyms have social media policies in place for their athletes and staff. In fact, we all see stuff on the internet in our gym apparel and slowly close our eyes hoping no one else has seen it. After all... Read More

This is a follow up from the Cheer Biz Podcast, “Hiring a Director Won’t Solve Your Problems” published on Spotify and Apple podcasts, Dec. 17, 2024.   Last week on “The Cheer Biz Podcast,” Dan Cotton told you that a... Read More