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Carl LandauGary Saunders: Sports Exec becomes "HoDad" Radio Personality and Minor League Baseball Sound Machine!

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What a great way to kick off the baseball season with a super fun episode about a guy who’s whole career was inside the world of sports. Gary Saunders had an exciting career in management and marketing/sales working the minor league baseball circuit. He traveled around the country working for about a dozen different organizations and capped it all with a big time sports exec job at University of Mississippi.

You don’t need to a sports fan to love this episode. Gary retired to Florida with his wife Eileen. He started what he thought would be a dream Retirement and just become a beach bum. Gary who always was a busy guy, soon found himself bored out of his mind and has put together a combination of part-time jobs that as he says, “puts a smile on his face everyday.”

He went back to his roots and got his dream job being the music/sound guy for the Pittsburgh Pirates Spring Training team and during the summer works for their minor league affiliate. He’s a popular radio DJ with the very cool handle of “HoDad” on the Longboat Luau show. What’s a “HoDad”? You’ll need to listen to the episode.

And get this — he’s also a resident butler at the fancy St. Regis hotel. Plus, a whole lot more. Most importantly he’s build a really cool community of friends through each of his part-time jobs. This episode is 100% fun and inspiration! You’ll dig it all…

• More about Gary Saunders: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-saunders-4391635/ 

• Feature about Gary Saunders: https://www.yourobserver.com/news/2023/feb/22/longboat-luau-is-a-labor-of-love-on-wslr/ 

• Episode Content: https://pickleballmediahq.com/blog/Gary-Saunders-Interview-Sports-Exec-becomes-HoDad-Radio-Personality-and-Minor-League-Baseball-Sound-Machine 

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Carl Landau Author, Podcaster

Carl Landau is co-author of the new book, Pickleball for dummies. He has been an entrepreneur since the age of 26 and now in (un)Retirement is founder of Pickleball Media. He has started and sold three successful media companies, published five magazines (software development, winemaking and craft brewing industries). He currently hosts the popular podcast I Used to be Somebody, inspiring 50-plus-year-olds how to build their (un)retirement good life, including, of course, a little bit about the virtues of the game he loves — pickleball.