173 - Charlie Hartley: How A Former Pro Cricketer Turned Frustration Into Fan-Tech Innovation
Description
Charlie Hartley was living the dream. A professional cricketer who’d taken out top international players. Then, just weeks later, he was released. No warning, no time to prepare. Just a crash course in letting go of the identity he had built his life around.
In this episode, Charlie opens up about the highs of pro sport, the brutal business behind the scenes, and how getting frustrated with systems turned him into an entrepreneur with a mission.
From building tech for underfunded sports teams to writing cricket books for teachers, Charlie’s story is less about reinvention and more about remembering who you are underneath the uniform.
What You’ll Hear:
- The emotional rollercoaster of being released at your peak
- Why some athletes are better off leaving sport early
- What sport taught him and why some of it did more harm than good
- How he built Moonrise Sports to level the playing field for underdog teams
- The link between frustration and innovation in Charlie’s entrepreneurial journey
- How sport inflates egos and delays emotional honesty
- Why not every athlete should become an entrepreneur and how to know if you should
- The one piece of advice he’d give anyone leaving a team: find what you love and double down on it
Want to Go Deeper?
This episode is for every athlete who’s been blindsided by a release, left wondering if they’re the problem, and for anyone who's quietly rebuilding something better from scratch.
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