Make The Cut - Get Hired In Sports
On "Make The Cut" our goal is to bring you the conversations that you need to hear to get hired in professional sports. We deconstruct the career paths, work lessons, and practical advice of the people who have built successful careers on the business side of pro sports teams. From the NHL to the NBA. From football to soccer. These are the stories of the people who make it happen off the field, off the ice and off the court. Our goal is for you to leave with a better knowledge of what it's like to work in the world of pro sports, different jobs that you didn't know existed and actionable steps on how to get your next job in sports. We want to be that edge that helps you make the cut and get hired in sports.
Episodes
14 episodes
14: Alexis Demmery - Partnerships at Vancouver Canucks
Alexis Demmery is a former partnerships manager with the Vancouver Canucks. She worked her way up from a tour guide to lead partnership clients with the team. She hunted new partners, built partnership marketing programs and (more importantly) ...
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59:59
13: Zach Feldman - Premier Lacrosse League
Zach Feldman is the SVP of Partnerships & Revenue at the Premier Lacrosse League (PLL) - a three year old pro sports startup league. We talk about the evolution of his career, from a young kid who watched Jerry McGuire a couple ...
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46:02
12: Lindsay Barenz - Washington Spirit | NWSL
Lindsay Barenz is the President of the Washington Spirit - a pro women's soccer club in the NWSL. She was formerly of the NWSL and Real Salt Lake after building her career in the White House, as a lawyer and as an entrepreneur starting her own ...
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48:37
11: Justin Kingsley - CF Montreal
Justin Kingsley is the co-creative director of CF Montreal in the MLS. He is an author and filmmaker, as well as a creative director and strategist who helps global brands and world champions tell stories. He has written two Bestselling...
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58:29
10: Jason Takefman - Vancouver Canucks & UFC
Jason Takefman is the former GM of Canada's Only Minor League Baseball Team, the Vancouver Canadians. He also worked as Content Marketing Manager with the UFC and as a Director of Corporate Partnership with the Vancouver Canucks.He is no...
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9: Teeka Cookson - Commercial Strategy at MLSE Digital Labs
Teeka is Manager of Commercial Strategy for MLSE, sitting within MLSE Digital Labs - their digital and innovation group. She leads the development of Digital Labs' B2B strategy, creating new business models for the innovative digital prod...
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51:30
8: Jennifer Reynolds - Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Manager at MLSE
Jennifer Reynolds is a Manager, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at the Toronto Maple Leafs and Toronto Raptors. Jennifer stepped into a newly-created role to develop an integrated approach to promote inclusion and engagement for the com...
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51:18
7: Anthony Ruggiero - Art Director at MLSE
Anthony Ruggiero is an art director at Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment - the company that owns the Toronto Maple Leafs and Raptors. Ten years ago he was selling Leafs and Raptors jerseys in the team store at the Air Canada Center . He wor...
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6: Barb Sarmiento - CRM at MLSE
Barb Sarmiento leads CRM team and agency relationships at Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment. That's over half a billion dollars in ticket sales. CRM is an excellent "back door" into sports. It's something that most people ...
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52:39
5: Astrid Moulin - Real Sports Team Store
Astrid Moulin moved to Toronto from France and was able to parlay her side project as a blogger into a full time gig for Real Sports Apparrel - the team store for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors and Toronto FC. We talk to h...
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50:25
4: Dustin Rideout - MLSE
Dustin Rideout was the Head of Brand & Fan Experience for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors and Toronto FC at Maple Leaf Sport & Entertainment. He was also a partner and head of strategy at Sid Lee in Toronto, Canada.We ta...
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3: Russell Kovshoff - Saskatchewan Roughriders
Russell Kovshoff was most recently the Director of Game Presentation and Entertainment at the Saskatchewan Roughriders. He's one of those guys who has such a positive attitude and infectious work ethic that he really elevates the team around hi...
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1:12:22
2: Sasky Stewart - Toronto Maple Leafs
Sasky Stewart has been the online voice and communications chief for brands including the Toronto Maple Leafs, the NHL and the Canadian Women’s Hockey League.Now she balances her legal and marketing education with a decade of communicati...
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59:28
1: Bradley Getty - New Jersey Devils
Bradley Getty is a creative director, author and advertising creative who found himself as the Executive Creative Director of the NHL's New Jersey Devils for two years. His mission was to rebuild the brand to relevance in culture while properly...
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