027: Lessons in Leadership and Perseverance Through Sports with Nathan Bell

By Aline Wealth Management on April 27, 2021

The pandemic robbed us of many things in 2020. In our communities, the COVID restrictions forced several shutdowns including that of sports programs. This was the experience of Nathan Bell, Founder and Executive Director of Park Slope United Soccer Club. To overcome this challenge and keep his business alive, he leaned on the lessons in leadership and perseverance he developed as an athlete and coach.

Nathan is a USSF licensed professional coach with more than a decade of experience coaching youth soccer. He was the lead assistant at Division I LIU-Brooklyn where he recruited and coached National team players. Nathan spent six months living at the Dinamo Zagreb academy in Croatia. While living in Europe, he played for the NK Maksimir, a professional team in the 3rd division in Croatia. Nathan has a master’s degree in Sport Psychology and has provided sports psychology consulting to numerous college athletics programs and individuals and taught a sport psychology class at LIU-Brooklyn.

Today, Nathan joins the podcast to share the valuable insights he has acquired over the course of his life in sports. How do these same lessons translate into the world of business?

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • Learn how living overseas in Europe was so integral to shaping Nathan’s perspectives.
  • Athletes and coaches are all too familiar with failure. It is inevitable. Nathan shares the failures he has overcome over the course of his career.
  • The pandemic shut down Nathan’s business. Discover how he pivoted to survive the shutdown.
  • What are some lessons in leadership for fellow entrepreneurs and business owners?

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