Influencer and podcaster Ellie Schnitt is providing new perception into her transient tenure at Barstool Sports activities — together with working alongside former besties Alex Cooper and Sofia Franklyn.
“We have been employed, truly, on the similar time,” Schnitt, 29, mentioned on the Friday, August 15, episode of the “Taylor Taylor Taylor Present” podcast, hinting that she selected allegiances amid the feud fallout. “Sure, I did. … Sofia is so good. She’s such a pleasant lady, actually, [and] was at all times good to me.”
Schnitt began working at Barstool through the heyday of the “Name Her Daddy” podcast, when it was cohosted by each Cooper, 30, and Franklyn, 33. The present finally sparked a significant rift between the 2 hosts after Cooper left Barstool on her personal for a million-dollar payout. (Each Cooper and Franklyn now host their very own solo podcasts, with “Name Her Daddy” working underneath Cooper’s Unwell Community.)
In accordance with Schnitt, Franklyn was at all times “so sort” at any time when they crossed paths within the Barstool workplace.
Gary Gershoff/Getty Photos; Stephane Cardinale/Getty Photos Alex Cooper isn’t holding again relating to detailing her whirlwind success within the upcoming Name Her Alex docuseries. Cooper, 30, launched the “Name Her Daddy” podcast in 2018 underneath the Barstool Sports activities umbrella. After some main drama (extra on that in a second), Cooper parted methods with […]
“It feels actually good when individuals I’ve met and had actually constructive experiences with are doing very well,” Schnitt defined. “Like, I met Hannah Berner in 2018 [and] she’s a grinder and a tough employee. Watching her put in that work and see success out of it, it simply feels actually good as a result of there are individuals the place I’m like, ‘I don’t know should you deserve what you might have.’”
Ellie Schnitt. Courtesy of Ellie Schnitt/ Instagram
Schnitt, who now hosts her personal “Late Evening Drive” podcast, was employed to work at Barstool Sports activities, the media firm based by Dave Portnoy, shortly after she graduated from school.
“I’d by no means been an individual who thought very a lot about my profession,” Schnitt mentioned on Friday. “I by no means did [have a life plan]. A part of it, in fact, was figuring out that sooner or later I used to be going to must take six months off as a result of I [would need] a kidney transplant.”
She added, “I took it, after which [there] was a second the place I used to be like, ‘OK, I might do that. I’m good at this.’ I didn’t actually cease to contemplate, and, in fact, you don’t once you’re 22, [whether] I like this. Is that this what is going to longterm make me pleased or is that this simply what I’m doing at 22? In that second, you’re, like, ‘In fact that is going to make me pleased ceaselessly,’ however then you definitely study a whole lot of priceless expertise, and I discovered loads in regards to the trade and I discovered about myself.”
In accordance with Schnitt, working at Barstool was, typically, a “good first job to have.”
“It’s, like, you’re thrown into a fireplace and it’s a must to determine stuff out,” she mentioned.
Schnitt in the end left the media firm in September 2020.
“I’m pleased with the work I did and grateful to the coworkers who helped me develop during the last two years, however now I’m actually for a brand new problem,” she wrote in a social media assertion. “Thanks a lot to everybody who listened to ‘Schnitt Discuss’ and particularly thanks to Alanna for all of the work you probably did to make the present a enjoyable success.”
