Ep. 47 Coach David Stephens On How To Keep a Swim Team Thriving During a Pandemic

David Stephens, owner of Chicago's premier youth swim team CWAC
Swimming (https://www.teamunify.com/Home.jsp?team=iscwac) saw a big
gap in the Chicago youth sports market. Coming from one of the
country's number one swim states, Georgia, the city of Chicago had
no elite swim teams, and no one seemed to be thinking of starting
one. Chicago IS known for its championship basketball, football,
baseball and hockey teams. And as cold as it is in Chicago, there
hasn't been a focus on teaching young people anything but
"learn-to-swim." David shares his story about how he left his
career as a successful lawyer and built a thriving family business
around his love of swimming as sport. And, he describes how he is
the first swim team in the State of Illinois that strategically
focuses on diversity and inclusion in a global sport that has a
history of extreme racism and discrimination. Guiding question: How
are you surviving being a business owner during the pandemic? 
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