Ep. 1: How Business Reflects Sports - a podcast by Camden and Otis

In the inaugural episode of the Cam & Otis Show, we explore the similarities between sports and business.  How can you apply all those years of playing sports to your career?  How can you apply your experience in the business world to sports’ free agency?  Our hosts draw connections from personal experience in business and sports as well as teaching/coaching doctrines from the two subjects.

Show we are father son team that are going through life and business looking for the best path as we explore subjects ranging from getting your startup going to running a multi billion dollar business to scientific research and living healthy join us on our journey. Now. Here's Cam and Otis with the show. And today we're going to we're going to talk to you a little bit about how business and sports relate now, and I think this is important, because now we're both sports fans, lot of America loves sports, and ain't even the world when you step it out, you know, just outside of our our culture, really loves sports. And sports is a great analogy for life. You know, one of my favorite philosophers of all time is Yogi Berra,
you know, and
so many times in his books and his talks, he talks about how life reflects baseball. And you know, that's all tongue in cheek with a yogi. But it's great stuff. And there's great analysis there in a and, you know, even even this morning, just talking with one of my coaching clients, about performance, and now we look at high level athletes, but us in the business world, also have to perform and what we can do to increase our performance and how we can, how we can be a better performer, better sales man, better leader, and have a better vision for what we're trying to do and what we're trying to be successful at.
I think that he talked about sports reflecting life, there's no more pure form of emotion out there, then sports that I've ever seen. The story I heard a while back, they're talking about being in a locker room after a big game. Where else can you go and you see 35 grown men in tears hugging each other? And no shame or anything about that. Where else is that culturally Okay, except for in the football locker room after a game or after the match. And that that pure emotional, that pure, you know, the meritocracy of it of you know, you did everything you can, it's all about you working hard and getting that pure form of competition. And, you know, life isn't always as pure like that. But that's why we like sports, because it takes something a lot Messier, and makes it more pure, add some more rules to it.
Oh, that's that's very, very true. And it's a it's a unique aspect of sports. Because now, and in the real world in business, and I hate saying real world, people used to say that to me in the military. And if this was real, we do it this way. But that's no, no, that's BS. If it was really you do it the right way, every time, right? Yes, sir. Train, we're going to train for how we're going to do this all the time, and not real world stuff, if you saw my fingers doing the air quotes. But when we do these things, when we when we look at where we're going to go, and how we're going to grow our business, it's a day in and day out. So the game, and its really follows that similarity. And I'll come back to the team aspect I was talking about just a minute ago, but it follows that similarity of, of how you prepare each and every day, on in sports, on the practice field, in business, in the office, and in your meetings and things like that, for that opportunity. When that opportunity arises, are you going to be ready. And sports is very finite, right? sports, we have that opportunity. We know our game schedule, we know when the tournament's coming around, and we can put those marks on our wall and our calendar and move forward that way. But in business, the the win isn't as as clear, there's no one, one or zero, there's no win or loss on anything in the business world,

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