Start Listening and Stop Imposing | Soccer Unplugged with Mark Pulisic

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Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 18.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

What's up podcast listeners? On this episode Mark Pulisic Host of Soccer Unplugged stopped by. We talked contemporary parenting, what it's like raising a professional athlete, and share our takes on the infamous College Athletics Admission scandal. This is a fun episode I'm excited for you to listen. Tweet me @garyvee with your thoughts and comments on this episode, would love to hear what you think. Also, for soccer highlights and news, check out One37pms very own @properfootball on instagram and give us a follow if you like what you see :)

To learn more about Mark Pulisic, Host of Soccer Unplugged Podcast, and father of Cristian Pulisic, winger and attacking midfielder who plays for Chelsea FC:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/soccer-unplugged-with-mark-pulisic/id1441593010

www.markpulisic.com

Twitter @markpulisic

TIMESTAMPS:

:53 - Starting a youth sports business

2:10 - What’s the secret formula

2:51 - Eliminating Friction … at scale

5:47 - Kids are treated as corporate executives

6:58 - College Admissions Scandals

18:20 - Pay for Play

19:33 - The Solution is Communication

26:10 - Excuses and Complaining

29:35 - This is how you’re going to make it

32:00 - Accountability vs Ridicule

32:30 - Your Actions Have Consequences

35:25 - Quantifying Distractions

38:00 - Your kid is showing you they aren’t committed

38:55 - Start listening and stop imposing

39:30 - What is the balance

40:10 - The merit of consequences

44:00 - It’s all about judgment

Transcript

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0:00.0	You want to address everything that's on a tip of the tongue of everybody in society?
0:03.5	Let's get to parenting right now.
0:05.4	My friends, if you're listening right now, if you want to get to the five things that
0:08.6	all of us are talking about, gun control, drugs, suicide, let's get to the way we're
0:13.3	fucking parenting kids in this country, which has gotten way, way, way out of hand around
0:19.2	the insecurities of parents who use children.
0:22.8	Go different than they use a fucking Mercedes-Benz, a home with five extra rooms, their vacations
0:28.6	on Instagram, stop using our children like products.
0:32.0	This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.
0:36.2	Hello, thank you.
0:38.0	Thank you, thank you for that intro.
0:40.2	I appreciate it.
0:41.2	And the subject matter that you guys are tackling is something that I'm unbelievably passionate
0:47.4	about because literally the other day, my friend said, if you had to start a business
0:53.3	all over again, right now, like completely new around something that you are doing
0:57.9	nothing with, what would you do?
1:00.3	And I said, I would start a youth sports business.
1:03.5	And he said, why?
1:04.8	And I said, because the delusion at the parent level around where they think their kid is
1:11.4	going to end up in professional sports is so ludicrous that there's an obnoxious amount
1:17.8	of money to be made.
1:19.4	Yeah.
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