Today’s guest, like most of us, is a hyphen in the industry. Logan Beerman does work both as a freelance replay operator as well as a creative shooter and editor.  One of Logan’s recurring gigs is with the US Soccer Federation, where he’s had the privilege of traveling the world, including to the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France.  While being embedded with the US Women’s National Team during their World Cup run is the biggest highlight of his career so far, Logan is caught in a crossroads between creative production and live broadcast production. He’s drawn to the team aspect of a live broadcast and the feeling as “your adrenaline gets going just like it would before you play a big game.” In addition to his freelance gigs, he recently completed his first passion project with his production company, Bazooka Entertainment.

By using what was available to him in college, he now has had a very successful career and explains how he chose his career path, along with the struggles that came with it. In this episode, Logan speaks about the learning opportunities that led him to where he is today.  A theme throughout this episode is to always keep working at getting better in every aspect of life, but also focusing on what you’re good at while working towards a career.  Logan definitely takes an athlete’s approach to sports video production, and offers great insight for other sports creatives who grew up competing in the games they loved. 

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• All the different responsibilities Logan currently balances (2:56)
• How Logan got into sports (5:47)
• The moment Logan realized he wanted to work in the sports industry (6:38)
• All the different things Logan got to experience at his ESPN internship (8:43)
• What gave Logan motivation to be so involved in school (12:30)
• Logan’s experience working with the US Soccer(15:04)
• What does the size of a creative team look like for US Soccer games (18:30)
• How is it working for a national sports teams (22:00)
• What Logan and his team were shooting on at the US Women’s Nationals game (23:05)
• Favorite moments from US Soccer (25:20)
• Logan’s work other that US Soccer(30:30)
• Resources that works for Logan (36:00)
• Logan’s current passion projects (40:04)
• Some of Logan’s career aspirations (44:37)
• What are some characteristics to have that will make people want to work with you (47:00)
• What advice do you have for people who are trying to be in your position (50:00)
• What Logan thinks his job will look like in 10 years (52:30)

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