Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general. Let's get to it.

In this episode, Joshua Glessing shares the unique path that has landed him the role of VP of

Strategy at the Haslam Group, which is the parent company for the Cleveland Browns, Columbus

Crew, and other sport-affiliated businesses.

We learned how a late pivot during his college days was a life-altering decision,

how he transitioned from a public finance role to an advisory role at Goldman Sachs,

as well as the one piece of advice he has for younger folks trying to find their way.

Enjoy.

Hello. their way. Enjoy. Josh, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Absolutely. Thanks for having me on.

So it would be great if you could just give the listeners a quick summary of your bio.

Sure. So, you know, really high level,

originally from Wisconsin, went to Indiana University. At the onset of my time in Bloomington,

I thought I was going to ultimately go to law school, pivoted my junior year, didn't totally

know what I wanted to do, but knew that I didn't want to be a lawyer.

So I had degrees in public affairs in sociology and, you know, ultimately leveraged the public

affairs with the focus on public finance to a job at a company called PFm group, which is the largest advisor to states and

local governments for large-scale capital projects.

And did that for a few years in Charlotte, North Carolina, and then they moved me to L.A.

And by chance worked on a couple of stadium and arena projects for local and state government

and sort of learned how municipalities contributed dollars to private sports stadiums.

Then Goldman Sachs ultimately asked me if I wanted to send the other side of the table.

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