Life After Football. What Happens When The Game Ends?

The Career Changers

Our guest is Ryan Gonsalves, former professional footballer, turned global banker, and now CEO & entrepreneur. Together we are going to discuss the challenges faced by sports people at the end of their careers, and how to overcome them to make a successful career transition.
Find inspiration in three quotes:

• When I was about 13 years old, I stopped playing with my older brother's team and moved to my own age group, and at that time. Suddenly I became faster, stronger and I found I was really good at it, and so it was probably from around that age that I started to find the love for the game of football and want to become a professional player.
• I could say that my transition was wonderful and seamless, from sport and to coaching and studying through into the corporate world and to where I am today. But instead it was full of challenges and still, to this day, there are challenges. For me, probably the biggest ones that really came through was this sort of a lack of confidence or sense of really imposter syndrome, so feeling like, hey, I don't know if I really belong here, I don't know if I've got the skills to actually do that.
• To my younger self I would probably say be brave enough to find a mentor who sees the world bigger than you do, who sees it, who knows what the opportunities are out there, who perhaps knows some of the pitfalls are, and who is still enabling you to experience and learn.
  

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1. Transitioning From Football Player to Coach (00:00:00)

2. Career Transitions in the Sporting Industry (00:10:43)

3. Career Transition for Athlete (00:19:24)