Ep 88 - Find Your Voice with Kirk Herbstreit

What's Next with Eric Wood

Eric Wood

Sports

5 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Kirk Herbstreit is an analyst for ESPN's College Gameday and a color commentator for college football games on ESPN and ABC. He has won five Sports Emmy Awards in various categories and is known around the world for his work.

Today on the show, Kirk and Eric talk about their love of the game of football, behind the scenes of the TV set, and many more topics including:

(1:55-8:30) - Kirk growing up playing sports, his time playing football at Ohio State

(8:30-12:20) - Breaking into broadcasting, falling in love with talk radio

(12:20-18:39) - Working with athletes in broadcasting, why do some succeed and others fail?

(18:39-26:00) - Find Your Voice, Feedback on Eric's broadcasting journey

(26:00-28:30) - The traits of a leader

(28:30-37:45) - NIL's impact on college sports and the NFL

(37:45-41:00) - Kirk's kids playing at the University of Clemson

(41:00-44:00) - Kirk and Eric in the horse racing world

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I've never in my life ever had a hard time trying to keep in perspective who I am.
0:21.6	Like, I don't care what I achieve or what I don't achieve.
0:24.6	I'm just Kirk.
0:26.6	You know, I'm just this guy.
0:28.6	Trying to do the best I can, you know, as a friend, is his son, as a dad, as a husband.
0:34.6	And that's, I think that's where I try to just stay in that lane the best I can.
0:47.3	Welcome to What's Next with Eric Wood, where we will prepare you to make your what's next in life
0:52.9	your best yet by learning from high performers
0:55.6	in a variety of industries. Our next guest on the show is Kirk Herb Street. Kirk is an analyst
1:01.9	on college game day and does color commentary for football games on ESPN and ABC. In my mind,
1:08.3	Kirk is the best in the world at what he does. He also is as genuine of a guy that I have
1:14.4	ever met and that will shine through in this podcast. We talk about his career, current sports,
1:21.7	horse racing, and more, and all of it will surely inspire and entertain you. There are over 100,000 new podcasts being released each week,
1:30.7	so it means the world to me that you spent your time tuning into this episode.
1:35.6	Do me a favor and rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast so that we can continue to make an impact.
1:42.7	Enjoy.
1:45.4	Kirk, welcome to show, brother. Hey, great to make an impact. Enjoy. Kirk, welcome to the show, brother.
1:47.1	Hey, great to be with you.
1:48.4	Yeah, I've been looking forward to this one.
1:50.1	Glad we got to connect.
1:51.2	And let's start off, like, all the guests do.
1:54.2	Tell me about where you're from and what sports did you play.
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