Jason Romano is the host and producer of the Sports Spectrum podcast where he interviews athletes, coaches, and other personalities on the intersection of sports and faith. He is also a speaker, author, media consultant and church leader with 20 years of professional broadcasting experience on the regional and network level. For 17 years, Jason was a Senior Manager and Producer at ESPN. He has created and produced content for shows such as SportsCenter, Monday Night Football, Mike and Mike in the Morning, Sunday NFL Countdown, College Gameday, MLB’s All Star Game. During his time at ESPN, Jason produced content for ESPN Radio, helped lead and grow the talent booking department, building relationships with the biggest names in sports as well as creating and managing the NFL on ESPN’s social media channels, growing them to over 6 million followers on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Jason has spoken to thousands of people at conferences, colleges, companies and churches. He’s a big advocate of social media, having built up large followings both for ESPN’s social feeds as well as his own personal brand. Jason’s first book, “Live to Forgive” was published in January of 2018.
In today’s episode, we discuss:
- The amazing guests that he has had on his Sports Spectrum podcast
- Why it is so hard to forgive others and why we need to forgive
- Who is on Jason’s bucket list for future podcast guests
- His experiences and 17 years at ESPN
Glenn “Shemy” Schembechler serves as the President of GES Advisory Company. Shemy has spent the majority of his life and professional career in the football industry, growing up as the son of legendary coach Glenn E. “Bo” Schembechler. He has evaluated talent for such high-level programs as the University of Michigan, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Chicago Bears, the Washington Redskins, and the Seattle Seahawks. In addition to his father, Shemy has studied under accomplished coaches Gary Moeller, Lloyd Carr, Marty Schottenheimer, and Joe Gibbs. They have all had an indelible impact on his career, and his ability to scout and recommend prospects. Shemy has been a part of many championship and playoff teams, and has been able to evaluate or recommend players that have gone on to Pro Bowl careers (Charles Woodson, Ian Gold and Tom Brady, respectively), as well as inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame (Joe Montana, Marcus Allen, and Derrick Thomas, respectively).
Kelly Roach is the CEO and Founder of Kelly Roach Coaching, where she provides Business training, coaching, and consulting to Business Owners, Entrepreneurs and Executive Leaders to create rapid and dramatic sales, productivity and profitability improvements. She is the host of the top-rated podcast “Unstoppable Success Radio”. Kelly also is the author of the Internationally #1 Best-Selling Book Unstoppable: 9 Principles for Unlimited Success in Business and in Life.
“The greatest tragedy in life is wasted talent” (Robert DeNiro’s character in “A Bronx Tale”)
Athletes doing immature or stupid things give other athletes a bad name. The following athletes did things this week (originally published on July 31, 2012) that make you go hhhmmmm and shake your head. There are also lots of links to other articles about these topics to further entertain you. In honor of the huge event starting up this week – NFL Training Camp – we will highlight a trio of diva wide receivers. Oh, and for the other minor event starting up this week, we’ll lead off with an Olympian.