The SportsGrad Podcast

Reuben Williams

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Booking Overview

The SportsGrad Podcast helps candidates break into sports careers by unpacking how working professionals built their paths. It’s especially useful for PR pros because it consistently features people with real-world sport-industry expertise and career-to-role narratives.

Metrics

Episodes: 388

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: Australia

Instagram: 6.7k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Reuben Williams - Ex-Cricket Australia. Host and founder of SportsGrad, sharing a structured approach to getting hired in sport and interviewing people about their career journeys. Mentions he landed a job at Cricke...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Sports-industry professionals (often freelancers/consultants) with demonstrable experience across teams, leagues, major events, or high-profile brands—e.g., marketing/partnerships/fan experience leaders, photographers, content/media professionals, and founders/co-founders with relevant sport collaborations.
Required Achievements:  
Worked with major sports organizations and events, Held roles spanning partnerships/fan experience or sports media/photo/video, Collaborated with high-profile brands and leagues, Built a freelance or consultancy career in sport, Founded or co-founded a related brand/label/project

Recent Guest Discussions

Hayley Conway - Building A Freelance Career In Sport; Transitioning From Corporate/agency To Sport; Contracting/network Building; Work Across Major Sporting Leagues And Events; Principal The Label Origin And Design Process; Future Vision.

Aleksandar Jason - Freelance Sports Photography Career Building; Nightlife-to-sport Transition; The Value Of Starting Before Having A Plan; Learning To Say No; Working Across Genres; Behind-the-scenes With Socceroos At The World Cup; Preparation For Tournaments; Mentors; Mistakes And Lessons; Social Justice Angle In Sport.

Recent Topics

Sports, Career, Recruitment, Marketing, Photography

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The SportsGrad Podcast
:

#360: From Corporate to F1 - How to Build a Freelance Career in Sport with Hayley Conway

July 05, 2026

Meet Hayley Conway, marketing, partnerships and fan experience consultant, and the co-founder of Principal the Label.Hayley's career began on the agency side, spending five years in media, buying TV ads for household brands (yes, including Red Rooster during the footy), before making the jump to client work, where recruiters kept telling her the skills weren't transferable. So she went contract-to-contract for two years, a self-imposed MBA in events, brand activation and PR and built the exac...

The Method: Why "Just Staying in Touch" Won't Get You a Job in Sport

June 30, 2026

Want to land a job in sport? Apply for The SportsGrad Method: www.sportsgrad.com.au/programSo you want to work in sport.You are not alone, and that is exactly the problem.Sport is one of the most competitive industries in the world. Everyone is passionate. Everyone has a degree. Everyone is willing to work hard. And yet most people spend years on the outside looking in, never quite understanding why.It is not a capability problem. It is a method problem.I am Reuben Williams, founder of Sports...

#359: How to Build a Freelance Career in Sports Photography with Aleks Jason (Melbourne City & Socceroos)

June 28, 2026

Meet Aleksandar Jason, a freelance sports and lifestyle photographer who shot the Socceroos from inside their camp at the 2022 World Cup and is back on the road capturing the World Game on its biggest stage.But he didn't start there. Aleks cut his teeth in Melbourne's underground club and music scene, photographing for Vice, Sony Music and the Tumblr-era nightlife label he co-founded, before a single phone call, taken while at Bondi Beach, landed him at Melbourne City, where he's now shot for...

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