Description

In this episode, James speaks to Robbie Simpson, the founder and managing director of LAPS (Life After Professional Sport). LAPS is a career resource platform helping sports stars smoothly transition after their competition days come to an end. Robbie is a professional footballer who has played in the four divisions below the Premier League and graced stadiums such as Old Trafford, Wembley, and Anfield. Away from playing, Robbie is co-founder of a players’ agency and an active alumni of Loughborough University’s Sports Science & Maths degree.

LAPS is the ultimate careers resource platform offering advice, networking, and job opportunities for future, current, and former elite athletes. The player's agency can help you decide what career will suit you best after sport, give you support and advice, prepare your CV and interview technique, and put you directly in touch with employers specifically looking to recruit former sports professionals.

In a nutshell, Robbie and James talk about:

• Robbie's competitive childhood and schooling experience
• His experience in YTS
• The time Robbie's started to ponder about his life beyond football
• Their funding and business model and how it has grown over the years
• The kind of membership profile and numbers the agency is at
• What they are looking at three to five years from now
• Whom do the agency service, the wider public, or just x and x players
• The challenges he faces and his daily routine to stay on top form

…and so much more!

Connect with Simpson

LinkedIn: Robbie Simpson

Twitter: @RobbieSimmo

Check out LAPS

Website:https:// www.laps.careers 

LinkedIn: LAPS: Life After Professional Sports

Instagram: @laps.careers

Connect with James

Instagram: @james_ventures

Facebook: Coordinate Sports FB Page

LinkedIn: James Moore

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