BTS of running Barstool Sports with guest Erika Ayers Badan
Sunday Sports Club with Allison Kuch
Dear Media
4.8 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Erika Ayers Badan, former CEO of Barstool Sports, joins Allison to discuss what it takes to lead one of sports media's most notorious "frat house" companies. From navigating male-dominated workplaces to the explosion of women's sports fandom, Erika shares her unfiltered advice on career disasters, making your voice heard, and why "work-life balance" is overrated. Plus, they dive into the rise of female athletes, social media's impact on women's sports, and whether there's room for a Barstool designed specifically for women.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:03.0 | What's up, guys? |
| 0:03.8 | Welcome back to Sunday Sports Club podcast, a podcast all about sports and other things. |
| 0:10.1 | Also, just love to have on guests every now and then. |
| 0:13.6 | If you guys don't know, I'm your host, Alison Cooch. |
| 0:16.0 | And today we have on a very special guest. |
| 0:18.4 | We have on Erica Ayers Badan. Did I pronounce that name? |
| 0:22.9 | You got it. Okay, perfect. I'm like, my last name is Kucharzig because so I'm used to people, |
| 0:29.4 | yeah, mispronouncing my last name. But you are the host of the podcast work, CEO of Food 52, |
| 0:42.0 | former CEO of Barstool Sports and author of Nobody Cairs about your career. Did I summarize it pretty well? That is, that is it. That's me. |
| 0:51.6 | Well, welcome to Sunday Sports Club. |
| 0:57.8 | I have to ask, how did you get to where you're at today? |
| 1:03.6 | Oh, gosh, like a lot of mishaps and mess-ups is how I got here. |
| 1:06.4 | I really like to work. |
| 1:07.9 | I've always liked to work. |
| 1:13.7 | I like to work, you know, from when I was in high school and I figured out that I could buy whatever clothing I wanted if I had a job and could pay for it. |
| 1:17.1 | So, you know, I think everybody's kind of on a journey and going someplace. |
| 1:22.1 | And I think the place I've gotten to now is through luck and a lot of hard work and putting myself in uncomfortable |
| 1:30.4 | positions where I could learn a lot and do a lot and kind of being open to new opportunities |
| 1:35.6 | and being willing to fail in that process. And, you know, it's been interesting. Yes. I actually, |
| 1:42.8 | on a recent episode, I talked about how I've found the most |
| 1:46.6 | growth in myself when I'm extremely uncomfortable or when I'm taking risk that I don't necessarily |
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