From NBA Halftime to Business Owner with Sandy Slade

She spent 20 years spinning basketballs at NBA halftime shows. Then her body said stop, and she had to figure out what came next.

Sandy Spin Slade, author of "Basketball to Business," joins Jennifer Dawn to talk about following passion through reinvention, building Skillastics into a national brand, nearly losing everything in 2020, and why her biggest breakthrough came while she was flat on her back recovering from emergency surgery.

Chapters:

00:00 The moment she knew everything could fall apart

00:55 Welcome to the Happy Productive Podcast

02:56 If you'd have told me this would be my life...

04:33 Take us back to little Sandy

08:23 From 16-year-old to NBA halftime shows

17:58 From a bedsheet prototype to 25,000 schools

18:31 When COVID shut down every school she was in

22:38 The pivot that made 2020 her best financial year ever

27:05 The book behind the back surgery

35:03 Final thoughts: pivot, flexibility, and just keep going

37:01 The "receive door" most business owners keep closed

Links:

Basketball to Business by Sandy Spin Slade:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Basketball-Business-Entrepreneurs-Reinvention-Resilience/dp/0984024859

Skillastics website: https://www.skillastics.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skillastics/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandyslade/

X (Twitter): https://x.com/SandySpinSlade

Jennifer Dawn Coaching:

Website: jenniferdawncoaching.com

Email: podcast@jenniferdawncoaching.com

Socials:

https://www.facebook.com/JenniferDawn8

https://www.instagram.com/jenniferdawn.coaching/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferdawn

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