Influencer and podcaster Ellie Schnitt is providing new perception into her temporary tenure at Barstool Sports activities — together with working alongside former besties Alex Cooper and Sofia Franklyn.
“We had been employed, really, on the identical time,” Schnitt, 29, stated 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 woman, actually, [and] was all the time good to me.”
Schnitt began working at Barstool throughout the heyday of the “Name Her Daddy” podcast, when it was cohosted by each Cooper, 30, and Franklyn, 33. The present ultimately sparked a serious 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 line with Schnitt, Franklyn was all the time “so type” every time they crossed paths within the Barstool workplace.
“It feels actually good when individuals I’ve met and had actually optimistic experiences with are doing rather 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 in the event you deserve what you have got.’”
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 faculty.
“I’d by no means been an individual who thought very a lot about my profession,” Schnitt stated on Friday. “I by no means did [have a life plan]. A part of it, in fact, was understanding that in some unspecified time in the future I used to be going to need to 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 may do that. I’m good at this.’ I didn’t actually cease to contemplate, and, in fact, you don’t whenever you’re 22, [whether] I like this. Is that this what is going to longterm make me completely happy or is that this simply what I’m doing at 22? In that second, you’re, like, ‘After all that is going to make me completely happy ceaselessly,’ however then you definitely study a variety of priceless abilities, and I realized rather a lot concerning the trade and I realized about myself.”
In line with Schnitt, working at Barstool was, usually, a “good first job to have.”
“It’s, like, you’re thrown into a fireplace and you need to determine stuff out,” she stated.
Schnitt finally 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.”
