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Sports lessons for work and life.
Rounding The Bases With Joel Goldberg is a warm, interview-led business show built around people who have carried lessons from sports, work, failure, and change into the next stage of life. Its conversations favor preparation, trust, culture, and the hard personal turns behind public success.
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Rounding The Bases With Joel Goldberg is a long-form leadership and entrepreneurship show shaped by sports, relationships, and the lived experience behind success. It uses the language of baseball and work to get at bigger questions: how people recover, how teams hold together, how careers change, and how preparation carries someone through pressure. The conversations are measured and relational. They rarely treat a guest as a simple success story. Instead, the show lingers on the turning point, the obstacle, the mentor, the setback, or the choice that made the next chapter possible. Recent episodes show that range clearly. Chris Clinard’s work with Books for Guys becomes a conversation about reading, men, personal growth, and finding the right book at the right moment. Ken Davidoff’s baseball writing opens into lessons about failure, clubhouses, resilience, and what a player’s response to a bad day can reveal. Bridget Howard’s arrival on a Royals broadcast team becomes a story about preparation, live television, opportunity, and earning calm through repeated work. Clarissa Knighten’s episode moves into healing, depression, support systems, and the signs people learn to recognize in themselves. Barb Allen’s career in construction brings the focus to industry norms, women in construction, and the long climb from the job site to public speaking. Viveka von Rosen’s work with women in later career stages pushes the show toward reinvention, technology, legacy, and the expectations facing different generations. Shawn Burcham and Larry Levine bring the business side forward through risk, employee empowerment, authenticity, sales, and trust. Across those subjects, the show keeps returning to people and culture. It is not a tactics-only business podcast. It is more interested in how work forms people, how people form teams, and how a life changes when someone is willing to keep learning. The tone is warm, reflective, and practical, with enough sports texture to make abstract leadership ideas feel concrete.
Made for: For listeners drawn to leadership, entrepreneurship, sports culture, career reinvention, and emotionally grounded interviews. It especially fits people who like business conversations with personal context and practical life lessons.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its sportscaster frame: business ideas are tested against clubhouses, broadcast booths, job sites, sales teams, and lived setbacks. It connects achievement to relationships and culture rather than treating success as a solo performance.
In depth interviews with successful entrepreneurs and leaders that compare the winning traits of sports to business. A long time television sportscaster looks for similarities in teamwork, championship culture, diversity and relationships needed in between and outside the lines.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Joel Goldberg turns career stories and baseball experience into practical conversations about leadership, workplace culture, resilience, and professional reinvention.
Rounding The Bases With Joel Goldberg uses one-on-one interviews to examine how people prepare, recover from setbacks, lead teams, and redirect their careers.
The clubhouse looks suspiciously like your office once Joel Goldberg starts talking about its cliques.
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A warm case for reading as a practical habit of growth, leadership, and timing.
Books for Guys frames the episode around reading as a form of leadership and self-investment. Chris Kleinert is presented through an initiative built on a simple belief: the right book, met at the right moment, can change a life.
A baseball career story that doubles as a workplace lesson.
Ken Davidoff and Joel Goldberg turn a 30-year baseball writing career into a clear look at work, identity, and what baseball can still teach after the daily grind changes.
A reflective career story about preparation, timing, and the first woman on the Royals broadcast team.
Bridget Howard's conversation with Joel Goldberg builds around a clear career milestone: her arrival as the first woman on the Royals television broadcast crew, where she works pre- and post-game shows and sideline reporting.
A CEO connects wearable art, depression, and the support systems that make asking for help possible.
Rounding the Bases follows Clarissa Knighton through the purpose behind Risa's Artistic Design and into a candid account of depression, linking wearable art with the private signals she recognizes as a "quiet place." Knighton is framed as the company's visionary CEO, someone…
A warm, practical conversation about career reinvention, generational change, and the LinkedIn work behind renewed momentum.
Rounding The Bases turns Vivica Von Rosen's work in career reinvention into a focused look at what can come next for accomplished women who are done settling.
A grounded baseball conversation about resilience, clubhouse culture, and staying effective through professional setbacks.
Ken Davidoff frames a baseball career as a study in how people hold up inside demanding workplaces. On Rounding the Bases, the retired New York Post journalist connects 101 Lessons from the Dugout to failure, resilience, and the routines that help professionals recover after a…
A grounded leadership conversation about goals, financial literacy, grit, and the daily work of building culture.
Leadership lands here as a practical matter: how people keep working with purpose when engagement is not automatic. The guest ties that challenge to shared company goals, personal goal setting, and financial literacy, then gives grit a clear working shape through goals,…
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
SaaS operators on scaling, pricing and AI, metrics included.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Joel Goldberg opens with Ken Davidoff's move from a 30-year childhood dream in baseball into a new chapter after the grind of sports writing.
This episode features an interview with media personality Michael Mackie, discussing his career as a renowned interviewer, TV and radio host, and author.
This episode features Drew Eanes discussing his role in community development and leadership, with a focus on representation and honoring Black History Month through diverse perspectives.
Joel Goldberg and Shawn talk through leadership, culture, and the work that keeps going once baseball season ends.
Bret Saberhagen tells Joel Goldberg that Candace's third breast cancer diagnosis, plus about $22,000 a month for medication, prompted Sabes Wings.
A book can show up late.
Joel Goldberg opens in baseball season and welcomes Ken Davidoff, a retired New York Post journalist who spent 30 years covering Major League Baseball.
Joel Goldberg opens by welcoming Bridget Howard to Rounding the Bases.
This episode features an interview with Clarissa Knighten, CEO of Rissa's Artistic Design, discussing how her wearable art serves as a tool for healing and empowerment.
This episode features an interview with Barb Allen, a former carpenter and construction executive who discusses her 30-year career challenging industry norms and now empowers other women as a keynote speaker.
Joel Goldberg speaks with Viveka von Rosen, founder of Beyond the Dream Board, about women over 50, LinkedIn, and career reinvention in Loveland, Colorado.
Host Joel Goldberg introduces Shawn Burcham, founder and CEO of PFS Brands, to discuss leadership, risk-taking, and business insights in a baseball-themed podcast.
This episode features an interview with Larry Levine, a best-selling author and co-founder of Selling From the Heart, discussing how to stand out in sales through authenticity and building genuine relationships.
This episode features an interview with Christian Anderaos and Dulcinea Herrera, a Kansas City power couple who discuss their entrepreneurial ventures in coffee and soccer, and their impact on the local community.