What it Take to Be a Successful Sports Agent With Nicole Lynn: NFL Agent & President of Football Operations, Klutch Sports | #ThePlaybook 452

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🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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On this episode of #ThePlaybook, Nicole Lynn, NFL Agent & President of Football Operations for Klutch Sports, shares her thoughts on: [4:35] - How she works to deal with unconscious bias in an industry that is typically male-dominated [7:24] - The one thing that every aspiring sports agent needs to do in order to succeed [9:13] - Why she strives to “take up space” by being authentic [17:07] - The three qualities she looked for when hiring an agent of her own Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	on this episode of the playbook. I have the incredible Nicole in. She is an NFL agent
0:06.3	president of football operations for clutch sports and author of an unbelievable book, Agent U.
0:13.0	And we're going to talk about what it takes to be a sports agent. Join me for all this and more
0:20.0	on the playbook. This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook. For each week I bring you some of the
0:25.8	greatest athletes, celebrities and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional
0:31.9	playbook to success and what made them champions on the field and in the boardroom. I'm your host
0:38.7	David Meltzer. I have the new generational entrepreneur Nicole Lin. She's my new bestie as she just
0:45.3	said NFL agent president of football operations for clutch sports and she is a lawyer but we're not
0:52.0	going to hold that against her. Welcome to the playbook Nicole. Thank you for having me bestie.
0:57.4	All right on. I had to have you on the playbook. We've done a few things together and every time
1:02.9	that we do some sort of interview or fireside chat or TV show, I just literally say oh my gosh
1:10.1	more people need to know who Nicole Lin is and her journey and the lessons that she's learned.
1:15.3	You have written a book agent you which is show up do the work and succeed on your own terms.
1:22.4	Well that's easy to say you know and every time I talk it's real easy to say you know to the young
1:28.2	people hey you've got to show up and do it on your own terms but there is some give and take as we
1:33.8	learned in law school right some quid pro quo going on. How do you decide when you can bend
1:42.2	your own values and when there are non-negotiables? Yeah I mean I think early on in any situation
1:50.4	whether it's dating a guy or starting a new job you have your non-negotiables right like I tell my
1:54.8	friends I'm like when you're dating a new guy what's your non-negotiables and then what are your 80
1:57.9	20 right like as long as he's got 80% and 20% here even with a job you want to come up with that
2:04.2	early on you don't want to be in the situation where you're having to decide does this fall outside
2:09.3	my morals does this fall outside my mission you know you want to know going in and so it can be
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