442: The Journey from NFL Athlete to Life After Retirement with Mike Golic Sr.
Retire With Purpose - The Retirement Podcast
Casey Weade
4.7 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Today, I'm speaking with Mike Golic Sr. Mike's career in the NFL began when he was drafted in the 10th round as a defensive lineman in the 1985 NFL draft. He has since gone on to have tremendous success in sports media as the cohost of Mike & Mike on ESPN and currently cohosts Gojo and Golic with his son, Mike Jr., at DraftKings.
He coauthored Mike and Mike's Rules for Sports and Life with Mike Greenberg and had millions of fans tuning into their sports-talk radio show on ESPN. You'll hear he transitioned from the playing field to land his first gig calling college games for ESPN and earning less money than his first year in the NFL and the support he had from his wife to pursue his new passion.
In our conversation, we explore how to navigate those transitions with grace, the unique challenges professional athletes (and entrepreneurs) face after their careers come to an often sudden end, and the lessons he learned from his parents to "find a way and figure it out" which stuck with him as he ventured into new territory after his playing career.
In this podcast interview, you'll learn:
- How Mike's parents, the challenges of sports, and the rigors of academia helped teach him the value of hard work and make him the person he is today.
- Why our definition of success has to change as we age–and how it changed for Mike as he left the NFL and ESPN to enjoy life as a parent and grandparent.
- How NFL players are forced into retirement by the NFL and how changed his focus to providing for his family in the new arena of sports media.
- The impact that career transitions have had on Mike's relationship with his wife of almost 40 years–and his advice for staying in sync as you move on to the next step.
- Why Mike's family is at the heart of his purpose.
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| 0:00.0 | The best thing about when I retired was I had something to do right away to fill my time. |
| 0:06.2 | And I can speak about athletes when you don't, when all of a sudden, offseason, you're not |
| 0:11.7 | working out anymore. |
| 0:13.0 | Mini camp, you don't have a mini camp to go to anymore. |
| 0:15.5 | Training camp, you're not going to training camp anymore. |
| 0:17.8 | And you don't have something filling your time. |
| 0:21.8 | You're just sitting there going, I could still be doing that, I should still be doing that. |
| 0:25.0 | Then you start to, what was me? |
| 0:26.6 | One of the biggest things I tell players now help us accomplish that. |
| 0:55.0 | If you're new to the show, I want you to know what to expect. |
| 0:57.8 | We get together with you week in and week out. |
| 1:00.1 | We talk about financial topics, non-financial topics, all designed to elevate your life in |
| 1:05.1 | retirement. |
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