187. More than an Olympic athlete: Kerri Walsh Jennings breaks away from the label, reveals the shocking numbers behind her volleyball career, and following her curiosity
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🗓️ 29 July 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Teaming up with Misty May-Treanor to win three olympic gold medals and three world titles and go undefeated for a remarkable 112 games. On returning to the Olympic stage at Rio in 2016 with new partner April Ross, she brought in a bronze medal at the age of 37. In recent years, Kerri has expanded her professional skillset by co-funding a non-profit organization to unite, empower, and inspire the sport of beach volleyball in communities around the country.
Kerri dives into her take on the business landscape on beach volleyball at the collegiate level, the different approaches to being excellent in your sport as a kid, how she handles the outside noise, how to utilize and breakaway from the label, the monetization behind beach volleyball, how a domestic contract changed their world, and what funds olympic dreams. Kerri also reveals how USA athletes differentiate from other countries, how she wants to improve the ADP for beach volleyball, realistically what the pay is like, being humbled by indoor volleyball, the business behind San Diego Mojo. What were her first big deals? What do the athletes pay for?
Kerri reveals all that and so much more in another episode you can’t afford to miss!
Host: Jason Tartick
Co-Host: David Arduin
Audio: John Gurney
Guest: Kerri Walsh Jennings
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Trading Secrets. This one is one you can't |
| 0:17.2 | afford to miss. The Olympics are underway and we have one of the most |
| 0:21.6 | decorated USA, Olympians, Carrie Walsh, the Sand Volleyball hero on today's episode. |
| 0:29.6 | You are going to hear so much information of what it's like to be an athlete in the |
| 0:35.0 | summer Olympics. How much do they get paid per medal? What costs are they |
| 0:38.8 | responsible for? I'm telling you we do a lot of cool interviews on this podcast but there is nothing quite like this one and I got to say shout out to Carrie Walsh. |
| 0:49.8 | We have some guests that come on and it's very tough to get information. |
| 0:54.2 | Carrie was an open book and not only will you be completely intrigued by her |
| 0:59.9 | information, you will be inspired by her take. Now a quick little take on just the |
| 1:05.6 | overall market of the Olympics, the economics. Stay tuned to the recap because we |
| 1:10.0 | talk a lot about it. But what you need to know is most countries |
| 1:14.8 | that take on the Olympics actually lose money. |
| 1:18.3 | That's all discussed in the recap. |
| 1:20.4 | But the Paris Organizing Committee |
| 1:22.4 | has a budget of $.4 billion dollars but when other costs like infrastructure were included the total is close to 9 billion dollars according to the data from Statista. So there's so much that happens |
| 1:36.3 | beyond what our eyeballs see in the Olympics and hopefully in this episode you'll |
| 1:41.3 | get just a little taste of that. Now an update for my personal life I am in |
| 1:45.7 | Tampa this week I have had the absolute honor and privilege of spending this weekend with |
| 1:52.1 | Kat, John, and Alex for dear friends. It has been so much fun. But you |
| 1:57.0 | know what? The Olympics are underway. The medals are being tallied up and there is so much you are going to learn from Carrie Walsh. |
| 2:05.6 | So let's ring in the main segment with the one and only, Carrie Walsh. |
| 2:10.9 | Welcome back to another episode of Trading Secrets. Today we are joined by three-time |
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