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Staff

The Fastest Way to Lose Great Staff

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

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

Consistency Beats Creativity

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 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 doubling... Read More

How Gym Owners Create Toxic Parents

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 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

The Hidden Value of Summer Camps

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 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 too.... Read More

Why Your Cheer Gym Isn’t Growing

YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 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 that... Read More

Why We Keep Making the Same Mistakes

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

3 Things Gym Owners Must Stop Doing

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

Stop Hiring the Wrong Coaches

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

The Digital Dilemma: Do Cheer Gyms Need Social Media Policies?

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