Leaders Sport Business Podcast
At home with Leaders: Circe Wallace & Andrew McQuaid
The creative options for bringing live sport back | Athletes in isolation | An ecosystem built on quicksand.
Episode 79 of the Leaders Sport Business Podcast - brought to you in partnership with Onside Law - features conversations with Wasserman EVP Circe Wallace (discussion starts at 11:44) and Trinity Sports Management Director Andrew McQuaid (discussion starts at 28:48).
West Coast-based Wallace is one of the most influential action sports agents in the business. A former athlete herself, her client roster includes the likes of Torah Bright and Travis Rice, and she has become an increasingly prolific documentary producer.
London-based McQuaid runs Trinity Sports Management, an event management and talent representation agency. He represents the likes of Nicolas Roche and Owain Doull in cycling.
On the conversational agenda:
- How athletes are dealing with their own periods of isolation;
- The financial distress to come in cycling;
- The fate of the Tour de France this year;
- Full Catastrophe Living - the mindfulness stress reduction programme Wallace is using to mitigate the anxiety of the pandemic;
- How sports marketing will be different on the other side of the crisis;
- Why innovation will be stifled;
- Hot Nife - and how Wallace combines life as an agent with life as a California cannabis entrepreneur;
The importance of integrity, honesty and accountability in athlete representation.