The Way You Can Get Whatever You Want As An Athlete

If you've ever been afraid to network, reach out to coaches, or pitch yourself to brands, this video is for you. Today I'm taking you through my day while breaking down the different levels of networking fear that I experienced as an athlete, from club to college to pro and now building a business. Level 0 is the basic fear of rejection. Level 1 is the fear of failure when you actually reach out. Level 2 is the real one: imposter syndrome when someone says yes and you're terrified they'll find out you don't know what you're doing. I'm currently in the middle of pitching Maple Roo on a brand partnership for Brace, and I'm experiencing Level 2 in real time as I film this. The fear of being exposed as a "fraud" is real, but I walk through how I'm managing it and why trial by fire beats waiting until you feel ready. This is a full day: track session, pool workout, meetings, and honest conversations about the mental side of networking and building a business as an athlete. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Track session and intro to networking fear 01:35 - Why I struggled with networking early in my career 04:20 - Trial by fire vs learning first (Ready Fire Aim) 07:13 - The different levels of networking fear 08:35 - Level 0: Fear of judgement/rejection 11:35 - Level 1: Fear of failure 14:08 - Level 2: Insane imposter syndrome (experienced in real time) 18:00 - Pool session, final meetings & wrap up #athleteentrepreneur #impostersyndrome #networking ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I'm Noah Cavanaugh, ex-professional footballer turned triathlete and brand strategist. This channel is the unfiltered look at what I'm building, how I'm training, and the mindset behind it all. On this channel, you'll find: → Behind-the-scenes of building Brace and working with clients → Triathlon training as a former team sport athlete → The honest reality of career transitions after sport → Lessons on personal branding (that I'm learning in real-time) If you're an athlete thinking about what's next, or already in the middle of figuring it out, this channel is for you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 Want structured personal branding education? 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 → 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!