Ep 40: Paul Walker on COVID and Its Effect on Youth Sports

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcome to 2021! To kick off this new year, I have my first return guest on the podcast ever, Paul Walker. If you haven’t listened to Episode 4, go back and take a listen.</span> <a href= "https://link.chtbl.com/paulwalker"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://link.chtbl.com/paulwalker</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You will hear all about how he made the choice to sell his successful business of 20 years solely to run a youth soccer organization that helps underprivileged kids. The reason I invited him back is to get his insights on how COVID has impacted not only youth sports but young adults in general.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is appropriate that the title to his previous episode was “Win or Lose, You Always Have to Come Back” as Paul is a fighter. He is able to get through challenging times as he has done in the past with his organization Total Futbol Academy. With COVID and this very challenging time that we have all been going through, it is helpful to hear his perspective of how he is getting through it and what that means to his organization and the kids and young adults he is impacting.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Notable Quotes:</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Find solutions. Don’t sit around complaining and don’t shut down and don’t fall apart. Find solutions because there are solutions if you just sit down and get creative.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“When I’m feeling stressed out, I know the only way to alleviate that is to come up with solutions, then it puts your mind at ease a bit.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There’s always a way to fight through, whatever it is, whatever the adversity is. And this is a great lesson for all these kids.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, you will hear:</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- The major changes and effects COVID has had on his futbol academy</span></p> <p><span