Molly Fletcher: ...you can have it all, but can't have it all at once

Nobody Told Me!

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Our guest, Molly Fletcher, was one of the first female sports agents who represented hundreds of the biggest names in sports. She’s now a full-time speaker and author who focuses her work on helping leaders, teams, and organizations re-imagine their potential and up their game every day. She’s written several books including, "The Energy Clock" and "Fearless at Work". Her website is mollyfletcher.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black. Laura Owens is off on this episode. I'm excited to talk with our guest, Molly Fletcher, because she's done a lot of amazing things and has a tremendous
0:21.7	amount of wisdom to offer. Molly was one of the first female sports agents who represented
0:26.5	hundreds of the biggest names in sports. In fact, she's been called the female Jerry McGuire.
0:32.5	Molly's clients included Hall of Fame pitcher John Smoltz, broadcaster Aaron Andrews, and championship coach,
0:39.1	Doc Rivers. She's now a full-time speaker and author who focuses her work on helping leaders,
0:44.9	teams, and organizations reimagine their potential and up their game every day. She's written
0:50.9	several books, including The Energy Clock and Fearless at Work.
0:55.3	Molly, thank you so much for joining us.
0:57.4	Absolutely.
0:58.0	It's great to be with you.
0:59.2	How did you become one of the first female sports agents?
1:03.2	I mean, that's a tough field.
1:06.3	Well, I was a student athlete in college.
1:08.3	I played tennis at Michigan State.
1:10.6	And after I graduated, I wanted to stay in the business of sports. And so I moved from Lansing, Michigan, where I grew up to Atlanta to try to find a job in sports. The Super Bowl was coming to Atlanta, the Olympics. There was a bunch of sports teams, pro teams. So I thought, I'm going to move down there and see if I can figure this out.
1:28.9	And, you know, without boring you with all the details, I negotiated a deal to teach tennis at an
1:33.2	apartment complex in exchange for my rent, which gave me a little bit more bandwidth because I only
1:39.2	had about $2,000 when I got down there, down to Atlanta. But So through some odds and in jobs and different things,
1:46.6	I got an opportunity with a small agency. And we had a few clients, a couple NBA guys and a
1:52.5	baseball player. And after the Olympics finished and I had sort of wrapped that up, I thought,
2:00.0	boy, we got to get more clients.
2:01.7	I mean, that's how we're going to grow.
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