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

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts The Real Reasons Some Cheer Gyms Thrive While Others Stall Dan Cotton, host of the Cheer Biz Podcast and owner of Oregon Dream Teams, cuts through the excuses gym owners lean on and lays... Read More

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

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 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