Hot Coffee, Cold Beer - Career Growth and Sports Stories Podcast‪.‬ Hot Coffee, Cold Beer

Have you ever seen your local sports team advertise something like "Tomorrow's game is 'Dogs at the Park' night OR 'Indian American Heritage' night? Ever wondered who creates that

Imagine being responsible for 60+ of those events each year. The planning, the marketing, the back-end ticket registrations...and now imagine being the ONLY person for an entire department for a Major League Baseball team left responsible to do all this....well, Liz McCloskey is that woman.

Liz has spent her entire career with the Mariners, and also her entire career in the group events space of the sports industry. You'll learn about all that goes in to putting this nights of unity together and how to make decisions based on what DOESN'T feel like work.

Matt Stocker is an industry-leading talent acquisition professional in the sports industry leading employee  recruitment for one of the most exciting brands in the world.

Don't know a lot about FC Cincinnati? That's okay...outside of the sports business industry, many don't. But inside the walls of sports jobs we widely recognize "FCC" as a growing, exciting, and ground-breaking brand in the industry. FC Cincinnati is playing the role of "innovator" and "disruptor" inside of how teams operate as a people-driven business.

Matt tells a wonderfully detailed story of how he left the world of sales for the NHL's Florida Panthers to work in the department of employee endeavors. After 4 years of grueling and hard-core sales for the Southern-most hockey team in the NHL, Matt converted from the Panthers sales team to human resources.

This is a fairly rare transition in the industry and shows the beautiful story of somebody BREAKING INTO the industry, then finding their best use of their skills in another department.

In early 2021, Matt made the move over to FC Cincinnati to play a larger role in their talent acquisition efforts, hiring over 400+ people as the brand expanded.

Episode Thirty Two: The NFL is BIG BUSINESS, and if you want a chance in with an NFL team out of college....Joey Meredith is your gatekeeper. Joey trains, hires and develops the future industry leaders of the world for the $2.3B that is the Tennessee Titans.

No relation to former NFL Wideout Cam Meredith.

Episode Thirty One: Welcome BACK to Season 2! We bring out the big brand to break back into the new season. 

The bigger the brand, the more successful team...the harder to get the job! The Pittsburgh Penguins are no exception. Devin Beahm is on the Partnerships team for arguably the most prestigious brand in hockey! From championship rings to legacy brands, hear from one of the best to do it in our industry. 

Episode 30: Season 1 Finale.

Over the past season of "Hot Coffee, Cold Beer" we've asked our guests to focus on how they built their sports careers and avoid the topic of Covid-19 altogether. This episode however, we address the elephant in the room as we sit for coffee or beer with one employee of each core-4 American sports to talk about exactly what unfolded in their offices. This is the peak behind all core-4 major American sports handling the hurricane of chaos this virus unfolded. 

You'll hear from Chelsea Herman (NBA's Philadelphia 76ers), Stefan Driedger (NHL's Minnesota Wild), Tyler Starkey (MLB's Colorado Rockies) and Michael Lineman (NFL's Los Angeles Chargers). 

Episode Twenty-Nine: The heart-breaking and heart-warming story of Joel Adams, Vice President of Premium Sales for the Los Angeles Clippers. In early 2021, Joel begins opening the Clippers new stadium: Inglewood Basketball & Entertainment Center. Opening "IBEC" is one of the most coveted upcoming roles in the sports industry.

Joel is a cancer survivor and previously worked for the San Diego Padres, Cleveland Cavaliers and Miami Dolphins and is now in his 3rd year with his hometown team.