Growing a business & empowering minorities | Side Hustle E8

Bryan Fonseca sits down with award-nominated reporter and content creator Dexter Henry. Henry is the CEO and founder of Backpack Broadcasting, an independent media outlet that produces original content including podcasts, long-form journalism and other services. Henry also currently works as a national reporter at Accuweather. The two discuss how fatherhood has impacted Henry's career and life, the origins of Backpack Broadcasting and the importance of championing minorities in sports and media.

Bryan Fonseca sits down with Jamal Murphy, a lawyer who has taken on a career in sports media. Murphy tells the story of representing a famous comedian very early in his law career and talks about his past as a sports agent, all while discovering how to navigate through sports media. Along with his lawyer obligations, Murphy is a co-host and co-founder of the Bill Rhoden On Sports (BROS) Podcast, while having produced content at ESPN, CBS Sports, USA Today and other places. 

Bryan Fonseca sits down with Rob Lopez, who discusses wearing many different sports media hats while having used several different jobs to survive and make his dream work. Lopez is now a full-time podcast producer at The Athletic and Count The Dings, but formally worked at Def Pen and Fan Duel while balancing real-world obligations at different restaurants. He even a lonely toll booth in the middle of Pennsylvania, before uprooting to New York City and taking a chance with a start-up company. 

Bryan Fonseca sits down with Nicole Romero to discuss why it's crucial to put yourself on when no one else is bothering to, the importance of accumulating consistent work, and maintaining her career of choice with a part-time day job.   Romero is a New York City-based actress who has appeared in a number of short films -- which are featured throughout the show -- and has also screened at national and international film festivals.  

Bryan Fonseca sits down with Erika Fernandez to discuss balancing several temp jobs to sustain her livelihood while chasing a dream and stability in sports media. Fernandez is a bilingual editor and social media specialist at DAZN, while also covering sports at Black Sports Online. Some of the Fernandez’s temp jobs she opens up about include counseling heroin addicts, as well as working at T-Mobile, which lasted four days. 

Bryan Fonseca sits down with Jarod Hector to discuss leaving a lucrative tenure in Silicon Valley to pursue a sports media career late in his 30’s following a divorce. Hector has created content at BET, SNY, MSG, Black Sports Online and is a co-host and co-founder of the 7-Footers Podcast, with Jenna Lemoncelli of Hollywood Life. 

Bryan Fonseca sits down with Jillian DeCoursey, who is a full-time mental health counselor and an MMA fighter, who has fought at Invicta Fighting Championships, an all-women promotion based in the US. DeCoursey’s self-started mental health practice is called Create Your Balance Mental Health Counseling located in Little Neck, New York. As an MMA fighter, the jiu-jitsu brown belt competes at atomweight and is currently 2-2 as a professional after finishing 8-1 as a champion at the amateur level. 

To begin season one of Side Hustle, Bryan Fonseca sits down with Nick Pollack to discuss the growth of Pitcher List, the importance of paying writers even as a low budget startup, finding new ways to evolve baseball coverage into the next decade and much more.

Here's the second trailer for Side Hustle, which is about people juggling several different hats & sacrificing for a shot at fulfilling their aspirations. Episodes will be dropping on Friday's beginning in August of 2019.