Jamy Bechler

Providing Insights on Leadership and Success. Coach Bechler is a John Maxwell Leadership Team Member.

Episode 015: Giant Worldwide Founder Jeremie Kubicek

Jeremie Kubicek is the co-founder of the GiANT companies (GiANT Worldwide, GiANT Partners, GiANT Capital, GiANT Impact).  Jeremie’s first book, Making Your Leadership Come Alive, became a Wall Street Journal best seller. In 2015, he and Steve Cockrum co-wrote the hit books, 5 Gears and the 5 Voices. Jeremie is also the former CEO over the brands, Leadercast, Catalyst and the John Maxwell training companies. He speaks regularly in organizations of all sizes in the US and Europe.

In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • How to get along with people even if they have a different personality
  • Communicating more effectively with others
  • Jeremie’s rise to lead one of the top leadership companies in the world
  • Who you should surround yourself with to build the best team

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Episode 033: Blogging Your Passion’s Jonathan Milligan

Jonathan Milligan is an author, blogger, speaker and career coach. He has spent the last decade counseling, guiding, and directing career professionals on how to pursue meaningful work. Since 2009, Jonathan has been building a portable, lifestyle business through blogging. Today, he teaches others the roadmap to doing the same. His flagship program is “Blogging Your Passion”. Jonathan is also active in his local church, serving as a Deacon and leader of the hospitality ministry. He resides in Jacksonville, Florida with his wife and two kids.

In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • What a blog is and why you might want to have one yourself
  • What a full-time blogger does
  • Different income streams that Jonathan has in his full-time “blogging” business
  • Why an email address is still the lifeblood for businesses

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Episode 030: True North Sports Founder Celia Slater

Celia Slater is the founder of True North Sports, an organization whose purpose is to challenge coaches to find their True North and coach from “that” place—the most authentic place—that lies within. As part of this endeavor, Celia also runs Camp Elevate, which is a professional development conference for coaches unlike any other. Through True North Sports, Celia also launched the Assistant Coach Immersion Program (ACIP). The ACIP is a unique educational experience that will bring men and women coaches from all sports together. The vision of this program is to develop the next generation of head coaches who will coach from a strong sense of purpose or their authentic True North.

Prior to starting True North, Celia was a head women’s college basketball coach. As a player, she earned MVP honors during her senior year at Florida State University. True North isn’t the first organization that she has founded. She served as the co-founder and Executive Director of both the NCAA Women Coaches Academy (WCA) and The Alliance of Women Coaches (The Alliance). The WCA started as a professional development program and, due largely to Celia’s efforts, soon exploded into a network of women coaches with an ever-growing grant to aid in expansion.

Celia is on the current board of Girls Place Inc., a non-profit that serves girls ages 5-18 through after-school programs, athletics, and summer day camp. She is also a graduate of the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators (NACWAA) Institute for Administrative Advancement, a certified Change Cycle Trainer and a certified facilitator for the Pursuing Victory with Honor Sports Ethics Program. In addition, she is a graduate of the Good Life Project Immersion Program. A Toastmasters International fanatic, Celia has also been involved with the organization for several years and earned her Competent Toastmaster Credential (CTM).

In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • Why Camp Elevate is a MUST-ATTEND event if you are a coach
  • How coaches can improve their effectiveness (as well as their results)
  • Ways that administrators can help their coaches improve
  • What administrators can do to help make their student-athletes better

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Episode 027: Rusty Kennedy

Rusty Kennedy arrived at Midway University as the Athletic Director in January 2016.  Kennedy has been responsible for overseeing the dramatic changes that have taken place within the athletic department.  Within the span of a mere three months the university went from single gender to co-educational as well as adding six new sports, four of those the first male sports in school history, while growing the number of athletes from 92 in the Spring of 2016 and 260 to the Fall of 2016 to 340 in the Fall of 2017.  For his efforts his peers voted him 2016-2017 River States Conference Athletic Director of the Year.  The Fall of 2017 has also seen the addition of three more sports which has brought the total number to 17.  Rusty came to Midway with 18 years of experience as a Coach, Instructor and Athletic Administer at the NAIA, NCAA, and NJCAA levels.  Most recently he was the Head Women’s Basketball Coach at NCAA Division II member Western New Mexico University in Silver City, NM.  Kennedy has also held various positions at Oklahoma Wesleyan University, Central Baptist College, Bacone College, Clarendon College, North Arkansas College and Our Lady of the Lake University.

In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • His buying a house on a credit card
  • Transitioning Midway University to a Coed athletic department
  • Earning the 2017 River States Conference Athletic Director of the Year Award
  • When he did his best coaching job despite having one of his worst win-loss seasons of his career

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Episode 011: CoachTube Founder Wade Floyd

Wade Floyd is the founder of CoachTube.com, which is the world’s #1 marketplace for online sports education.  CoachTube empowers coaches to create courses online by providing tools, technical support and guidance, so they can quickly and easily get their content online. There are thousands of online courses at CoachTube.com for all sports. Both coaches and athletes can benefit from these on-demand online videos.

In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • Ideas for starting a business and being an entrepreneur
  • Why CoachTube fills a strong need that coaches and athletes have
  • How to better build your business

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