Stay Ready: The Podcast
Rob Harvell Talks About His Start With NASCAR, Working With The Mannings, Dana White, Shaq, And Searching For Big Foot
On this episode of Stay Ready: The Podcast, Matt and Scott sit down with critically acclaimed producer Rob Harvell. Rob a Laurinburg, N.C. native picked up his ABC’s thanks to Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News and Stock Car Racing magazines. Rob begin his career producing Wendell Scott: A Race Story, and went on to produce other projects, including the entire first season of ESPN’s “SEC Storied,” which included Herschel (Herschel Walker), 40 Minutes of Hell (Nolan Richardson), The Play That Changed College Football (1992 SEC Championship Football Game), and Lolo (Lolo Jones). Rob would add to his production portfolio with an array of other SEC Storied films. Among them were Miracle 3, The Book of Manning (Manning football family), Tigers United (Michael Sam), Dominique Belongs to Us (Dominique Wilkins), Thunder and Lightning (Will Clark, Rafael Palmeiro), Wuerffel’s Way (Danny Wuerffel), Miracles on the Plains (2013 Auburn Football), The Bo You Don’t Know (Bo Rein), Before They Were Cowboys (Jimmy Johnson, Jerry Jones, Barry Switzer), Stacy’s Gift (Stacy Lewis), The Walkoff, and No Experience Required (Texas A&M 12th Man Kickoff Team).
The guys open up the episode getting to know Rob's backstory, upbringing and what got him involved in producing and how he got his break into the business. Rob goes into detail about his all time love of sports that started when he was a small child and how one of his teachers told his parents he was watching too much television for his age. This leads the guys to talk about how that affected him and what happened because of that. After this discussion they transition to the topic of college and how he randomly chose his major (communications) while at Appalachian State because he felt it would be easy and would "get him on tv one day."
Next, they get into the story about him getting his first Internship at Nascar after his guidance counselor told him he would not qualify due to his low GPA. He decided to reach out to the company himself and went in for an interview and crushed it resulting in him being hired.
After interning there for a bit, he is given the opportunity to produce his first documentary. This documentary is really what gets everything going for Rob. He instantly falls in love with the idea of producing.
From there, he leaves NASCAR and goes on to produce The Book of Manning about Peyton and his family, a Bigfoot documentary, several shows for Dana White and the UFC and much more.
The guys continue the conversation learning more about all the documentaries Rob has produced/ been a part of, some of his other interests, what he's hoping to do in the future with producing and so much more.
We hope y'all find this episode of Stay Ready: The Podcast interesting and informative! See you next week!
On this episode of Stay Ready: The Podcast, Matt and Scott sit down with critically acclaimed producer Rob Harvell. Rob a Laurinburg, N.C. native picked up his ABC’s thanks to Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News and Stock Car Racing magazines. Rob begin his career producing Wendell Scott: A Race Story, and went on to produce other projects, including the entire first season of ESPN’s “SEC Storied,” which included Herschel (Herschel Walker), 40 Minutes of Hell (Nolan Richardson), The Play That Changed College Football (1992 SEC Championship Football Game), and Lolo (Lolo Jones). Rob would add to his production portfolio with an array of other SEC Storied films. Among them were Miracle 3, The Book of Manning (Manning football family), Tigers United (Michael Sam), Dominique Belongs to Us (Dominique Wilkins), Thunder and Lightning (Will Clark, Rafael Palmeiro), Wuerffel’s Way (Danny Wuerffel), Miracles on the Plains (2013 Auburn Football), The Bo You Don’t Know (Bo Rein), Before They Were Cowboys (Jimmy Johnson, Jerry Jones, Barry Switzer), Stacy’s Gift (Stacy Lewis), The Walkoff, and No Experience Required (Texas A&M 12th Man Kickoff Team).
The guys open up the episode getting to know Rob's backstory, upbringing and what got him involved in producing and how he got his break into the business. Rob goes into detail about his all time love of sports that started when he was a small child and how one of his teachers told his parents he was watching too much television for his age. This leads the guys to talk about how that affected him and what happened because of that. After this discussion they transition to the topic of college and how he randomly chose his major (communications) while at Appalachian State because he felt it would be easy and would "get him on tv one day."
Next, they get into the story about him getting his first Internship at Nascar after his guidance counselor told him he would not qualify due to his low GPA. He decided to reach out to the company himself and went in for an interview and crushed it resulting in him being hired.
After interning there for a bit, he is given the opportunity to produce his first documentary. This documentary is really what gets everything going for Rob. He instantly falls in love with the idea of producing.
From there, he leaves NASCAR and goes on to produce The Book of Manning about Peyton and his family, a Bigfoot documentary, several shows for Dana White and the UFC and much more.
The guys continue the conversation learning more about all the documentaries Rob has produced/ been a part of, some of his other interests, what he's hoping to do in the future with producing and so much more.
We hope y'all find this episode of Stay Ready: The Podcast interesting and informative! See you next week!