Episode 6 with Sean Totsch: Louisville's All-Time Appearance Leader

Welcome to the very first episode of the Energy Exchange with host Alane Paulley. And for the debut, she brings in someone who has made Louisville City FC his home in every sense of the word: Sean Totsch, the club's all-time appearance leader.Sean grew up playing soccer against his whole class at recess with just his brother and a neighbor, got suspended from playing for a week in third grade for breaking a classmate's leg with a shot, and never once thought about quitting. He was never the nationally recognized kid, never the one the big academies came looking for. The Chicago Fire rejected him twice. A coach once told him he wasn't strong enough to play defense and didn't have the vision to play midfield. Four weeks later he signed with another club, won the entire league, and started the final at center mid.That story is the thread that runs through the whole conversation: what it actually takes to build a career when no one's handing it to you. Sean talks about how his parents gave him opportunity without pressure, what it means to earn your cleats rather than just receive them, and why he thinks the harder path is the one that builds roots strong enough to hold.He and Alane also get into the habits that have kept him performing at a high level as one of the older players in the league, including his rigid sleep schedule, his pregame routine, and his monthly pedicure tradition with his mom that he has kept going all season. He shares the story behind his tucked-in, locked-in identity, how it started as a random choice before a preseason game and became the thing people now expect of him everywhere he goes.The conversation covers how he proposed to his wife on the field during COVID, why he approaches relationships with the same single-minded focus he brings to sport, what advice he would give to a kid in eighth grade right now who wants to go pro, and why he believes the no's and the doubt are not obstacles, they're the fuel.It closes with a lightning round, a conspiracy theory about the pyramids, and a promise to revisit that topic in a future episode.