Other Than Sports: Recent Episodes
Joe Lubanski, Chris Piwinski, David Toups
Anyone who played a college sports remembers the famous NCAA commercials – ”Education is important. There are more than 460,000 NCAA student-athletes, and most of them will go pro in something other than sports.” But nobody told us the “other than sports” options.
We went to school knowing our purpose and following our passion. We were part of the 6% who earned the opportunity to continue playing our sport of choice after high school. But, when the end of the road became clear, we typically followed older teammates or school career fairs to fall into our careers.
We took the same attitude to our careers as we took to our sports, and we excelled. But along the way we started to ask ourselves, “Is this my passion or purpose? Is there something more out there? What are the pros and cons of my career choice?” This podcast will explore these questions with ex-athletes who have excelled in their careers while also dealing with challenges of imposter syndrome, questioning their career path, and establishing work/life balance.
Tim Schofield had a passion for technology growing up and became a YouTube early adopter. For over 10 years, he has made a career out of reviewing the latest technology and sharing his thoughts and experiences with his audience, which currently totals over 800k subscribers.
In this episode, Tim joins Other Than Sports where we explore his journey, how he got started on YouTube, building a channel and a following, his tips for aspiring creators, and also discuss the future of technology.
You can check out Tim’s channel at https://www.youtube.com/@qbking77/featured
Sebastian Little is a mental performance and leadership coach and the founder of SLP. Building his business from the ground up has been a personal and professional growth journey, one that has brought Seb joy and has unlocked his passions. The Yale University graduate and former football player (Class of 2016) brings his magnetic energy and sits down with Other Than Sports to talk living inside and outside life’s boxes, developing your internal compass and personal iOS, when and how to “go for growth” in your career, and more.
Catherine Shih found joy in architecture, but had to trust the process as she followed a creative path seldom taken by her fellow athletes. The Yale University grad & former Pole Vaulter (Class of 2015) sits down with Other Than Sports to talk about following one’s inspiration, the parallels between architecture and the athlete identity, designing at an international architecture firm, and more.
Chris Piwinski has spent nearly a decade in tech, but his journey hasn't always been linear. The former Yale Baseball Captain (Class of 2013) and co-host of Other Than Sports gets interviewed, walks through his journey, explains product marketing, talks about doing things we're not qualified for and what it was like to quit his job at LinkedIn and travel the world, along with much more.
In this inaugural episode, the team introduces themselves to the Professional Athlete community!
Chris, David, and Joe were all teammates at Yale University. Since their time together, they have each branched out on their own career paths. Each path has been unique to the individual. They discuss the difficulties that student-athletes face in regard to their post-collegiate playing careers. This episode is only the beginning. The guys plan to explore a number of topics that affect the student-athlete community, along with bringing in interesting guests in future episodes to discuss their experiences (both positive and negative!).
The intent of this podcast and community is to help both current and former student-athletes (high school and college) understand how to best position themselves for life (professional and even personal) after sports.
Welcome and enjoy!