Aug 26, 2026 · 28 min · 11 segments
In this episode, host Nate Moore is joined by Alissa Kacar, who shares her inspiring journey from prep school teaching in New Jersey to becoming an influential media personality and host representing…
Alissa KacarGuest
Nate MooreHost
So your initial community of followers, it seems like were, were clearly very invested in your personal golf journey in a way that I would say probably is not really the norm.
You know, people don't watch necessarily Grant Corrad or The Bryan Bros or, or even Bob Does Sports because they care about them becoming better at golf.
How do you explain or understand what first led to some of that early success for you on social, and what was it about your journey you think that, that drew people to, to care?
So I had people start following me that were maybe brand new to golf or in the early stages, and then I had people who had been golfing for a long time.
It was almost like they were the ones there to support me and be like, "It gets better.
We know." And then the new golfers were like, "Oh, good, like somebody else kind of at, at the same level that I'm at." So I think just with golf in general, no matter how long you've been playing, it's one of those sports that you always end up doing something out there on the course where you're like, "How did I just m- do that? Like, uh, that's a new shot in the bag." You know, like that.
So I think the people who had been golfing for a really long time were there to be, like, cheering me on and be, like, really good cheerleaders, to be like, "Don't worry, just keep going." And then the newer golfers were like, "Oh, somebody like us." So I think it was just, uh, really relatable across the board.
Well, something, again, kind of honestly unrelatable to a lot of these other people I've spoken to is it sounds like some of these opportunities came your way really early in the process, right? So you mentioned, I think 2020 was your first Farmers Insurance, uh, Open and kind of working with them.
How far along in the journey were you? I mean, did you have, like, 5, 10, 15,000 followers? What, what was that-
Like, it was literally within the first year, they had reached out, um, the first year of me picking up a golf club.
Uh, so I was like, "Oh, this is interesting." You know, and I- the se- so somebody from the Century Club of San Diego had reached out to me, which is the nonprofit organization, like, the host organization of the former Farmers.
So your initial community of followers, it seems like were, were clearly very invested in your personal golf journey in a way that I would say probably is not really the norm.
You know, people don't watch necessarily Grant Corrad or The Bryan Bros or, or even Bob Does Sports because they care about them becoming better at golf.
How do you explain or understand what first led to some of that early success for you on social, and what was it about your journey you think that, that drew people to, to care?
So I had people start following me that were maybe brand new to golf or in the early stages, and then I had people who had been golfing for a long time.
It was almost like they were the ones there to support me and be like, "It gets better.
We know." And then the new golfers were like, "Oh, good, like somebody else kind of at, at the same level that I'm at." So I think just with golf in general, no matter how long you've been playing, it's one of those sports that you always end up doing something out there on the course where you're like, "How did I just m- do that? Like, uh, that's a new shot in the bag." You know, like that.
So I think the people who had been golfing for a really long time were there to be, like, cheering me on and be, like, really good cheerleaders, to be like, "Don't worry, just keep going." And then the newer golfers were like, "Oh, somebody like us." So I think it was just, uh, really relatable across the board.
Well, something, again, kind of honestly unrelatable to a lot of these other people I've spoken to is it sounds like some of these opportunities came your way really early in the process, right? So you mentioned, I think 2020 was your first Farmers Insurance, uh, Open and kind of working with them.
How far along in the journey were you? I mean, did you have, like, 5, 10, 15,000 followers? What, what was that-
Like, it was literally within the first year, they had reached out, um, the first year of me picking up a golf club.
Uh, so I was like, "Oh, this is interesting." You know, and I- the se- so somebody from the Century Club of San Diego had reached out to me, which is the nonprofit organization, like, the host organization of the former Farmers.
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