Court to Corporate | The Athlete’s Playbook in the Business World

Court to Corporate | The Athlete’s Playbook in the Business World

On this show, Kirby Porter, a Harvard Women’s Basketball alum and brand marketer, sits down with athletes to discuss their playbooks in the business world and how they have leveraged the game in their professional journeys. Learn more at kirbyporter.com

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July 10, 2020 23 mins

If you’ve been with Court to Corporate since day one, then odd ares that you’ve heard me talk about these two books I recommend for every current and former student-athlete.  Athletes Are Brands Too and Brands Win Championships are two books that I read immediately after wrapping up basketball, that have inspired the work I do today and  set the foundation for my career, so it’s an honor to share my conversation with the ...

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“If there was a basketball hall of fame for what you got from the game, I would argue that I would be the first ballot.”  

Since 2001, MLT has built a leadership pipeline for over 7,000+ students and professionals nationwide and John has been featured on CNN, the cover of Fortune, and named one of Forbes Top 30 Social Entrepreneurs.

In this episode John is sharing  with us how basketball has   shaped what exists...

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If you're a current or recently graduated student-athlete, it's time to build your playbook in business.   Attack Your Career Like Your Game is launching soon, join the list here to be the first to know when we're live! --

From overcoming a career ending injury, to helping NFL players reach their full potential beyond the game - Dior Ginyard joins us to share how he carved his path back to his passion for football.  ...

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If you're a current or recently graduated student-athlete, it's time to build your playbook in business.   Attack Your Career Like Your Game is launching soon, join the list here to be the first to know when we're live!

Jasmine Maietta  joins us today to share advice from her rise in the sports industry to VP of Brand Marketing at Peloton, similarities between athletics and growing as an effective leader in the workp...

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The day Jackson Patterson committed to play lacrosse at Colgate, was the same day doctors diagnosed him with cancer.

On this episode, Jackson joins us to share how he overcome cancer to become a 4 year starter and team Captain, and the lessons that have stuck with him in life and his career today.

  • How he decided consulting was the right career path & the importance of transferable skills
  • Why being a great freshman on a t...
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"Outside of shooting at the free throw line, you're only expected to succeed 40% if the time.  I take that ideology with me to career.  If I reach out to ten people and only hear back from 3, that's 3 new possibilities".

From Trinity Basketball, to ESPN, and now Facebook Brian Ford joins us to share insight on what it takes to grow in your career and how being an athlete prepares you for each step along the way (from deci...

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Whether it's creating his own internship path, writing 25 hand-written letters to coaches, or renting a car to get from Boston to Philly his senior year and introduce himself to Coach Jay Wright - one word defines Matt Fraschilla's journey from Harvard Basketball player to the Villanova Basketball coaching staff : drive.


As we walk through Matt's journey, he shares advice on:  

- How to find confidence in your process whe...

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When Sydney Anderson was in sixth grade, she knew she liked sports, wanted to play sports, and one day wants to become a player agent and own her own company.

Today as Founder & CEO of Legacy Sports Management, the Indiana Track & Field Alumni joins us to share how she checked all the boxes of her long term vision. 


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It’s all about the skill sets.

Princeton Men’s basketball alumn Ben Hazel joins us to share how he approached his time on Wall Street and built the right skill sets to launch his own financial management firm, Zenith Solutions.

We discuss:

  • The biggest communication skills he took away from his time as a student-athlete
  • Why it’s about the skill sets you develop vs. the industry you’re in
  • How to evaluate what oppor...
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Approaching any new internship, role, or industry can be frightening because it comes with uncertainty. Before Dani Feigin became a Manager of Corporate Partnerships at the Los Angeles Clippers – she spent the early stages of her career in the acting industry. She joins us today to discuss how she overcame the uncertainty in making a career switch and and how she’s approached building her career in the sports industry since. We dis...

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Toby Egbuna played basketball at UNC and is now a consultant, diversity strategist, and entrepreneur.  We start today's conversation with his time on the UNC Basketball team and why he decided to begin his career in consulting.  We then discuss how he he began to apply his passion for diversity & inclusion across different touchpoints and grew a blog into Dyversifi, the only company review platform designed for divers...

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How do you think about your career? How do you approach work and the value you want to get out of it? Dez Flemming played basketball at Cornell, and started with following the consulting and finance path with roles at Morgan Stanley and Deloitte. Today as a Strategist at Cadre and Entrepreneur, he encourages people to do one thing: reframe the concept of work, by thinking about your career as being paid to learn. We’re walking thro...
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It has officially been a YEAR of Court to Corporate! To kick off year 2, Kirby is diving into the behind the scenes of building Court to Corporate and discussing how being an athlete prepares you to unlock your potential in your “both” beyond the game.

Kirby walks through the 3 “Chapters” of building the platform and sharing the never before heard stories, strategies, and lessons in each step:


Contents:

7:24 -  How Kirby ...

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Isaac Serwanga is an Entrepreneur, TEDx Speaker, Best Selling Author, and Consultant and former 3-Sport Athlete at Princeton that teaches the art of networking. He joins us on the Court to Corporate podcast to discuss: Why your network is currency What your social capital is and how to act on it Isaac Serwanga’s Three Pillars of Networking and The Networking Tree How to apply your athlete mindset to grow your business and bran...
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Two-Time WNBA All-Star and ESPN NBA Analyst Chiney Ogwumike joins us on today's podcast to discuss how she is growing her career both on and off the court. In this conversation we discuss:  Her time on Stanford Women's Basketball Team, founding the viral sensation - Nerd City, and her transition to the WNBA How launched her media career at ESPN while playing in the WNBA and the mindset that drove  her growth from getting her foo...
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From Brown Football, the NFL, and now Emory Med School Dewey Jarvis is joining us today to share how he put himself in a position to chase both dreams. We're talking about how he managed his priorities as pre-med student and standout on the football team, how he decided between going to the NFL or going to med School, taking us behind the scenes of making the 53 Man Roster from a mid-major program, and his thought process in his re...

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 Today we walk through Solo Ceesay’s journey from two time Ivy league champion with University of Pennsylvania football to Senior Analyst at Citi and discuss:  

- How he is ACTIVE in building his career path and the mindset from Penn Football that shaped this mantra  

- Why he built a massive excel sheet of 200+ names to strategically grow his network and land his path in finance   

- How to differentiate y...

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From Tuft’s Women’s Basketball, to the New England Patriots, C-Space, and now MIT Sloan Business School, Maggie Riddle joins us to showcase how we can be intentional across our experiences and networking to build our path. We discuss: How she applied her leadership off the court within the athlete community and began to network her way into the sports industry How she used her love of psychology and sports as a guide to find alignm...
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Leaving something good for something better. That’s how Michael Nzei describes his decision to forego playing basketball professionally to behind his career on Wall Street. From Seton Hall Basketball standout to Wall Street Analyst, Michael joins us to share what led him to believe finance was what he was meant to do, how he balanced pressure in expectations as a high performing athlete, and how leading with curiosity can unlock re...
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Corie Bain joins us today to discuss  how athletes can apply their lessons in leadership to make an impact early on in their careers and share advice on seeking mentorship in the workplace.

We walk through her journey from Two-Time Harvard Volleyball Captain and Ivy League Champion, to product manager at Thrive Global and discuss:

  • The mentality she brought from captain to product manager that enables her to act as a lead...
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