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Real Results or Slick Sales? How to Spot a Shady Coach, Consultant, or Advisor

In the rap game, there’s nothing worse than Fake MCs. Weak beats and weaker lyrics hiding behind rhinestone bling, illegal samples, and irritating hooks; distracting from the Real MCs and real talent with the smoke and mirrors of big budgets and booty. The entrepreneurship game is no different (well, less booty). Thanks to the low […]

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May 2017: Advice to My Younger Self

1 Comment / Life, Strategy / Ciara

It’s college decision day for high school seniors, and graduation month for both high school and college students. Early milestones that seem like a really big deal… because they are. Decisions made now about the next step in life will shape everything else to come. Being ten years older than my youngest brother, at his

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My Real Angel Investors: Reframing Startup Funding to Accelerate Your Wealth

Business, Strategy, Work / Ciara

When I opened the Pregame Clubhouse last year, it was the biggest financial risk I’ve taken to date. It was self-funded, and rather than spend my time looking for investors, I chose to kick it old school and put all my focus into driving real revenue and creating a winning product. Like every entrepreneur I

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Semicolon; The Angry Wolf and Me

Life / Mindy Kay Smith

I spend most of my days so exhausted it is literally difficult to breathe. It’s getting hard to turn my head. The tension is so bad I’m just in pain all the time. Last year at this time I was training for a half-marathon and eating with intention to fuel my body. But I haven’t

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When Wellness is a Dirty Word

Strategy / Natalia Petrzela

First came the anthropologist of Arctic poverty who found me on Instagram and confided that she was a Jazzercise fanatic. Then the intellectual historian who eloquently introduced herself as an expert on a similarly Serious Topic but rapidly and with sparkling eyes, before any of our fellow conferees entered the elevator, effused that it was

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The New Resistance: Dispatches from the Women’s March

Life / Pregame HQ

After witnessing the historic gatherings worldwide in support of women and equality last month, I invited people who attended the Women’s March in different cities to share their stories. Thank you to everyone who marched and to those who actively support equality. – Ciara Kerri Sauer: Atlanta Over the course of 2016, I saw the election bring

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Staying Sane in a Sh*t Show

Life / Josh Korda

In the latest podcast from Dharma Punx NYC, Josh Korda, Buddhist teacher and lifelong activist, shares practical approaches for staying sane while politically engaged. In the 2,500 year old tradition I teach entirely by dana: scraping by entirely on the generous donations of those who listen and get something from the teaching. Please check out

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