Seven Reasons Personal Branding Saved My Pro Career

I wouldn't have won a national championship without building a personal brand. Actually might've retired two years earlier. Building a YouTube channel while playing pro made me a better player. Not just off the pitch, on it too. Better communication with coaches, way more film study than my teammates, emotional balance when shit went sideways. The Flower City signing that led to the championship literally wouldn't have happened without my channel. A player at the club knew who I was, DM'd me three weeks after I got cut from Michigan Stars. That's it. No brand, no DM, no championship. Also made more money some years from the brand than my pro salary. Now as an amateur triathlete getting sponsors for content, not results. If you're thinking about this, here's why it actually matters. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Background 0:40 - Reason 1 1:48 - Reason 2 3:18 - Reason 3 5:59 - Reason 4 7:21 - Reason 5 10:08 - Reason 6 10:54 - Reason 7 #personalbranding #athletecareer #professionalfootball ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I'm Noah Cavanaugh, ex-professional footballer turned triathlete and founder of Brace. This channel is the unfiltered look at building a business, triathlon training, and navigating the mental side of transitions. On this channel, you'll find: → Behind-the-scenes of building Brace and working with athlete clients → Triathlon training and the mindset shifts that come with it → Weekly Reps: lessons from the week → Real conversations with athletes about identity, transitions, and mental performance → The honest reality of life after professional sport If you're an athlete thinking about who you are beyond your sport, this channel is for you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 Want structured frameworks and systems? Subscribe to the Brace channel: @BraceAthletes 🔥 Join the FREE Brace Community: https://skool.com/brace 📩 Weekly newsletter: https://noahcavanaugh.com/newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 CONNECT WITH ME: → Instagram: @noah.cavanaugh → Brace Instagram: @BraceAthletes → LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/noah-cavanaugh → Website: https://noahcavanaugh.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Music I use: https://share.epidemicsound.com/2yesys 💼 My recommended tools & products: https://noahcavanaugh.com/noahs-picks As an Amazon Affiliate, I may earn commissions from purchases through these links. Thanks for supporting the channel!