How to manage top caliber athletes on and off the floor - Ep. 47
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2016
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Matt O'Keefe (@okeefmr), the owner of RedLine Gear is on the show. Matt has been an up-and-coming name in the CrossFit community doing a lot of work behind the scenes managing athletes and allowing them to do what they do best; win.
Before it all started, Matt was going through the motions as an Insurance salesman. Everything changed when he finally decided to start TEAM Group, a full service athlete management firm that now represents 14 athletes, including Mat Fraser and Brooke Ence. This episode is about taking risks, following your dreams, and loving what you do. Let Matt's story motivate you to overcome your fears and pursue your passion.
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Topics of discussion:
[2:05] Introduction – How Matt became an agent
[4:40] RedLine Gear & Mat Fraser
[6:38] The birth of TEAM Group
[8:05] Managing athletes
[17:50] Philosophy, Managing Competitions & Business, Challenges
[25:27] Loving what you do
[42:25] The "Fuck it" moment – starting RedLine
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys? This is Mike Cashew and you're listening to the Brute Strength podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | This week I've got an interesting guest, owner of Red Line Gear and Team Management Company, Matt O'Keefe. |
| 0:12.3 | Matt is the CrossFit agent. He's a pioneer in the industry. He represents Matt Frazier, Katrin Davis' daughter, Brooke |
| 0:23.7 | Inns, Sarah Sigmund's daughter, et cetera. Lots of the biggest athletes. And what he is doing |
| 0:30.8 | is he's allowing these people to become professionals. He's helping them get endorsements |
| 0:36.7 | and taking away all of the stress of managing |
| 0:40.6 | the business side and competitive side for these athletes so that they don't have to stress about it. |
| 0:47.7 | I know Matt personally, I've known him for a couple years now. He's a tremendous guy and what he's |
| 0:53.5 | doing is great. I think you guys will really |
| 0:55.4 | enjoy this show. If you would, please go to brute strength training.com backslash podcast, backslash |
| 1:02.6 | reviews and leave me a review real quick. Thanks. Matt O'Keefe, what's up, man? Mike, how you |
| 1:09.3 | doing, my man? Very good. |
| 1:12.0 | Great to hear from you. |
| 1:12.7 | I miss you, man. |
| 1:14.1 | I miss you too, brother. |
| 1:14.8 | Great to talk to you. |
| 1:15.3 | Absolutely. |
| 1:16.0 | Catching up. |
| 1:22.2 | I was sitting down a couple days ago. |
| 1:32.2 | I forget when we scheduled this, but I was just all of a sudden, just really excited, kind of about your story in general. |
| 1:38.8 | And I think it's just a really interesting one that a lot of people in the community have no idea is going on what you're doing. |
| 1:42.3 | And I just wanted to sit down and, you know, kind of pick your brain about everything that you've learned over the past couple years and gone through and stuff. |
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