033: Erik Rydholm – How To Become ESPN’s Most Powerful Producer

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🗓️ 2 July 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Episode 033: Erik Rydholm – How To Become ESPN’s Most Powerful Producer

I am always fascinated to learn about how something great gets created… In addition to that, I love to learn about the day to day process on how that same thing continues to be great and improve on a daily basis. Erik Rydholm shares the details behind how three great TV shows were created and the work it takes on a daily basis in order to continually improve. This is an incredible episode of The Learning Leader Show. Erik is extremely intelligent, engaging, and giving. I love this episode.

Erik Rydholm is Executive Producer of Pardon The Interruption (With Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon), Around The Horn, Dan LeBatard is Highly Questionable. Erik has pioneered the growth of PTI as the program has increased ratings and viewership each year since its inception, and it earned the 2009 Emmy for Outstanding Studio Show.

Episode 033: Erik Rydholm – How To Become ESPN’s Most Powerful Producer

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Some Questions I Ask:

What is one characteristic all successful people share?
What is it like to work with two legends? Tony Kornheiser and Mike Wilbon?
Will type of disruption is Netflix causing in the television world?
Walk us through a pre-show meeting… What’s the process for creating a show?
What are the most impressive aspects of Bill Simmons that we don’t already know?
What are some things about you and your work that would surprise us?
Which individual leader has had the most influence on you?

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

Why curiosity is so vitally important in successful leaders
About the 10 laugh out loud moments a day he has with Tony Kornheiser and Mike Wilbon
Erik’s thoughts on Steve Jobs’ leadership and how he’s different
The tools Erik and his team use to create the show and share ideas
The importance of a leader setting the foundation
The elements that define a quality life

“Leadership is a decision making job”

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Read This Article by Richard Deitsch about Erik: Erik Rydholm
Follow Erik on Twitter: @ErikRydholm

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0:00.0	All anyone is trying to do in business is reward people's investment.
0:06.0	There are some businesses where they ask for your cash, that is one form of currency
0:11.0	that a customer would have.
0:12.0	In this business, we are asking for the customer. one form of currency that a customer would have.
0:13.0	In this business, we are asking for the customers time.
0:16.4	So when you made the distinction, you said viewers,
0:19.0	there's also customers.
0:20.3	I look at our viewers as customers.
0:22.3	And what they have is they have a wallet full
0:24.3	time and I want them to spend that time with us so we have to make it worthwhile
0:29.8	for them every single day and provide a great return on that investment of time so that they
0:33.7	say I want to spend more time on that show tomorrow.
0:37.8	Our leaders born or are they made.
0:40.2	Our host Ryan Hawk believes that leaders can be made through determined, focused work on learning the art and science behind the makeup of other successful leaders.
0:49.0	Now it's time to inhale knowledge and exhale success.
0:52.8	You're listening to the Learning Leader Show I am Ryan Hawk. Incredible
1:15.2	guest tonight, really intelligent, deep thinker, really smart guy. It's Emmy
1:20.3	Award winning executive producer Eric Rideholm.
1:24.4	He executive produces three shows that all air on E-SPN that's part in the interruption,
1:30.2	around the horn, and highly questionable.
1:33.0	He's an incredibly smart, deep thinker, very, very curious guy.
1:37.8	I loved the back and forth we had on this conversation tonight.
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