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After The Game by Jay Dixon. Bridging the Gap from Winning Athlete to Thriving Entrepreneur

Business Book Summaries for CEOs and Founders, ApolloSkills · 2025-03-31 · 7 min

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Discover a powerful guide for athletes transitioning from sports to entrepreneurship. It provides a playbook for reinventing identity, building businesses, and creating a lasting legacy. Enrol for Free Course: Summary Jay Dixon’s After The Game is a practical and heartfelt manual for navigating the emotional and strategic challenges of starting over. It focuses on athletes who are retiring from the sports world, but the insights are widely applicable to anyone experiencing a career pivot or identity shift. The book begins with emotional acknowledgment. Dixon coined the term “Athlete Identity Displacement” to describe the deep sense of loss many feel once the structure and validation of performance life disappear. Dixon does not minimize this grief. Instead, he encourages readers to honor it as a launching pad for transformation. As the book unfolds, Dixon urges readers to retrain their thinking through the “Mental Gym.” Like physical performance, mental resilience requires conditioning, discipline, and repetitions.

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