{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F15d9ac9e-19d4-4f29-9667-7de9e545978f","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Dior Ginyard: Senior Player Manager, NFLPA \u2013 Work in Sports podcast","description":"Dior Ginyard, NFLPA Senior Player Manager joins the Work in Sports podcast!\u00a0Hi everybody, I\u2019m Brian Clapp Director of Content for WorkinSports.com and this is the Work in Sports podcast.Imagine for a second you had complete clarity in your life at let\u2019s say 12 years old.You knew what you wanted, you wanted to be a veterinarian. You studied, took classes, interned \u2013 worked and worked and worked to refine your craft.It became a big part of you, it defined you.While in high school your friends knew you wanted to be a veterinarian, your teachers knew and helped push you further into your goals.Guidance counselors helped steer you toward the best veterinary schools and you were accepted \u2013 because you were focused, dedicated, knew what you wanted and were driven to succeed.You could see how your future was going to play out.But then in a blink things changed. You were in a car accident and lost the use of your right hand, your dominant hand.You wouldn\u2019t be able to perform surgical procedures, examine animals, diagnose issues. It was gone. Your dream of being a veterinarian \u2013 poof - all gone.What would you do? Everything you had pushed for, the dominant focus of your life was now physically unachievable.Would you wallow? Get depressed? Question your future?Probably all of those things \u2013 I know I would. Recalibrating would be hard. You\u2019d be forced to change in an instant, after spending nearly a decade working toward something that felt like your purpose.How unfair \u2013 right? Easy to blame, get angry, lose focus and fall into a trap. Very easy.This week\u2019s guest Dior Ginyard didn\u2019t want to be a veterinarian, he had a very different dream and it was taken from him tragically.He had to change his focus, figure out a new purpose and drive forward with the same intensity he had reserved for his now unattainable dream.Now years later, Dior Ginyard is a Player Manager for the NFLPA and a 2018 Forbes Magazine 30 under 30 award recipient. He took tragedy and turned it into a new, unexpected chapter\u2026 but let\u2019s hear the rest from the man himself \u2013 here\u2019s Dior Ginyard Player Manager for the NFLPA \u2013 ","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/1af90970-933b-4dc9-b9e3-f020f7a11527/wispod-cover.png"}