10 Mar Owning What You Buy With Ryan Harris | A Frugal Athlete
Ryan Joined 'a frugal Athlete podcast' to talk about how financial literacy impacted his career on and off the field. Press play!...
31 Mar Who Do You Work With? How You Can Change the World
Posted at 12:27h in Communication & People Skills
As I opened the door to Altitude Sports Radio one morning, our mail lady stood up. She was in tears. I was worried that I had maybe missed a phone call or something else, until she started speaking. "Ryan," she said, "I want you to be...
20 Mar 3 Leadership Traits of the Best NFL Coaches
Posted at 12:47h in Building Leaders
How does a great leader help you? Are you working with a bad leader? Whether you are a leader or aspire to be a leader, you need to understand the traits that define great leaders. I was fortunate to have associated with some of the...
03 Mar So, You Have Reached Your Goal. Now What?
Posted at 11:43h in Uncategorized
Two weeks after winning Super Bowl 50, I knew I had to get off the couch. But I literally had no reason to move. I had nothing to prove, no one to impress, and that was the problem. I was woefully unprepared for achieving my...
25 Feb How NFL Teams Hold Others Accountable
One of my most memorable introductions to how the NFL holds its players accountable came during training camp in my fourth year in the NFL. A player began screaming at the head coach about how he was doing things right, and the coach was wrong....
18 Feb 3 Negotiating Tips I Learned From The NFL
Posted at 12:11h in Business of You
One thing people forget about the NFL is that it is a $12 to $16 billion entertainment industry. Critical negotiations take place every day in life and business. We all are in constant negotiations between teams, advertisers, family, workplace, media, players, and coaches. Because of this...
05 Feb Three Ways To Increase Engagement From the NFL
Posted at 10:38h in Optimizing Team Dynamics
One thing that I experienced on every team that I played for in the NFL, was engagement. And one of the things I see lacking in many of the companies that I speak to, or broadcast with, is engagement. We rarely practice engaging one another when...
28 Jan Inherited Beliefs About Money
Posted at 09:26h in Financial Literacy
I recently sat down with someone to help them start investing. I began as I always do by asking what companies they already know. We were watching a football game at the time, so I asked when this person thought ESPN was going to stop...
17 Jan What Dr. Martin Luther King Taught Me About Financial Literacy
Posted at 09:04h in Financial Literacy
Let us go beyond peace as Dr. Martin Luther King wanted us to. Let’s talk about money. Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. King provided a vision of peace, unity, and equality in his famous I Have a Dream speech. Many of us...
14 Jan How NFL Champions View Failure
Posted at 10:39h in NFL
I had two different types of coaches throughout my NFL career. One coach would consistently discuss all the ways in which we could fail before going into a game. The other type would focus on how our strengths would be utilized to win a game,...