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Dec 30 2022

STAR Financial’s Kristin Marcuccilli

 

Kristin Marcuccilli, the President of STAR Financial Group joined us on the “Success is a Choice” podcast. Kristin and host Jamy Bechler talked about …

  • Playing high school football
  • Working for Notre Dame football
  • Hiring the right team members
  • Leading team members from different departments
  • Overseeing a company that has more than $3 billion in assets

STAR Financial Group, Inc. is the parent company of STAR Financial Bank, an Indiana-based community bank known for its culture of delivering quality service, personalized banking solutions and innovative use of technology. In addition, STAR Wealth Management offers licensed professional services in financial planning, trust and asset management. STAR Financial Group has grown to $3.11 billion in assets with 36 locations in central and northeast Indiana.

The “Success is a Choice” podcast provides positive insights, interesting interviews, and timely inspiration so that you can make an impact on the world around you. The podcast offers a variety of guests and different types of daily episodes. See the entire menu of episodes and guests at SuccessIsAChoicePodcast.com

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Personal Growth, Podcast Episodes, Sports, Teams & Organizations · Tagged: Banking, Brandon Barrett, Building a Team, Business, Charity, Corporate Culture, Erik Barnes, Executive Coaching, Female Executive, Financial Industry, High School Football, Marion Giants, Marion HS, Mark Fauser, Military, Notre Dame, Organizational Culture, Star Financial

Dec 12 2022

Tackling Fuel

“It is never too late to be who you might have been.” (George Elliot)

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Some of my favorite films are those with Adam Sandler starring in them.

Sometimes I can even latch onto something inspirational amidst the comedy.

One of those is in the movie “The Waterboy” in which Sandler’s character Bobby Boucher plays a manager turned football player.

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Personal Growth, Sports · Tagged: Adam Sandler, Bobby Boucher, Football Manager, Football Movie, Football player, Handling Adversity, Motivational Minute, Overcoming Challenges, Rags to Riches, Rich Ohrnberger, Self-Motivation, Tackling Fuel, Team Manager, The Waterboy

Dec 02 2022

Opinion vs. Truth

The right to an opinion doesn’t make our opinion right. 

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Leonardo da Vinci once said, “The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”

We see this all the time whether it’s watching TV, scrolling through social media, gathering around the water cooler, or hanging out with family and friends.

Just because we have an opinion on something doesn’t mean we are right.

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Personal Growth · Tagged: Facts, Gandhi, Honesty, Love, MLK, Opinion, Perspective, Point of View, Truth, Understanding, Weekend Wisdom

Nov 30 2022

Episode 185: National Fastpitch Coaches Association Executive Director

Carol Bruggeman was a long-time Division I coach at Michigan, Purdue, and Louisville. In fact, she was tasked with starting the Purdue softball program from scratch when she was just 28 years old. She’s been the Executive Director of the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) since February 2016 and has done great things to grow the game of softball. In addition to her role with the NFCA, Carol is also a TV analyst.

Click here to see more about Carol

In today’s episode, we discuss:
  • Team-building ideas
  • How to grow the game
  • Mistakes coaches make
  • Qualities of a good coach
  • Advice for younger coaches
  • NFCA Educational Initiatives
  • National Convention in San Antonio on Dec. 7-10
  • … and much more!!!

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Personal Growth, Podcast Episodes, Sports, Teams & Organizations · Tagged: Carol Bruggeman, Coaching, College Coaches, Joanne McCallie, NFCA, paige tonz, Positive leadership, Softball, Softball Coaching, Sue Enquist

Nov 22 2022

Episode 179: Former Duke Basketball Coach Talks Mental Health

Joanne P. McCallie (“Coach P”) is one of the most highly decorated coaches from her time as a college basketball coach. In her 28 years as a head coach at Maine, Michigan State, and Duke, she won more than 70% of her games, had three National Championship game appearances, and won National Coach of the Year honors in 2005. Coach P also was the only women’s coach to lead two different programs to 30-win seasons, as well as the only women’s coach to work alongside both Coach K and Tom Izzo. She battled mental health issues while coaching, which led her to write the great book, Secret Warrior. 

Click here to see more about Coach P.

In today’s episode, we discuss:
  • Working with Tom Izzo and Coach K
  • Becoming a Division I head coach at age 26
  • The reality of mental health issues
  • Using phrases like “mental toughness”
  • Balancing responsibility to team but also the individual
  • … and much more!!!

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Personal Growth, Podcast Episodes, Sports, Teams & Organizations · Tagged: Basketball Coaches, Basketball Coaching, Brian Stanchak, Clark Kellogg, Coach K, Coach P, Coaching, Duke, Duke University, Joanne McCallie, Maine, Mental Health, Mental Issues, mental toughness, Michigan State, Tom Izzo, Women's Basketball

Nov 16 2022

Our Daily Commute

“All battles are first won or lost in the mind.” (Joan of Arc)

🔊 Click here to listen to the 2-minute audio of today’s email about our daily commute.

The American commute is getting longer and longer. 

According to a Washington Post article, the average American spends a total of 52 minutes commuting to and from work each day. 

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Personal Growth · Tagged: Attitude, commute, commuting, driving, family, green lights, John Brubaker, Perspective, podcasts, Preparation, red lights, stuck in traffic, Success is a choice podcast, traffic lights, washington post

Nov 14 2022

Motivational Minute: Good Enough

“The beautiful thing about today is that you get the choice to make it better than yesterday.” (Robin Sharma)
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Good enough is sometimes not good enough.

Today, we should be aware of times when we accept mediocrity . . . when we accept less than our best.

Sometimes we take the easy way out.

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Personal Growth, Podcast Episodes · Tagged: Charles Swindoll, Fail Forward, Good attitude, Habits, Little Things, Make your bed, Monday, Monday Motivation, Motivation, Motivational Minute, Overcoming Adversity, Positive leadership, positivity, Success is a Choice, Win the Day, Yogi Berra

Nov 12 2022

People Notice Integrity

 

“Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching you.” (C.S. Lewis)

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Have you (or someone that you’ve known) ever said something to the effect of ‘It doesn’t matter if I do what’s right.  Nobody notices anyway.’ or ‘Nice guys finish last’. 

Well, I have a little story that I always think of when it comes to integrity and character.

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Personal Growth · Tagged: Anderson University, C.S. Lewis, Character, character development, Donald Trump, elections, Integrity, Lani Czarniecki, Leadership, mayor, Mike Pence, Oprah Winfrey, political campaign, politics, vice president

Nov 07 2022

Motivational Minute: Thoughts Into Action

 

Sir Isaac Newton had three laws of motion and the first law essentially said that every object will remain at rest until acted upon by an outside force.

🔊 Please click here to listen to the 1-minute audio version of this article from the Success is a Choice podcast network.

Things don’t change by themselves.

This is an important concept to remember today.

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Personal Growth, Podcast Episodes · Tagged: Charles Swindoll, Cherokee Indian, Fail Forward, Feed the dog, Feed the good wolf, Good attitude, Habits, Life Lesson, Little Things, Make your bed, Monday, Monday Motivation, Motivation, Motivational Minute, Overcoming Adversity, Positive leadership, positivity, Success is a Choice, Win the Day, wolves, Yogi Berra

Nov 01 2022

Meeting with the Coach

“A life isn’t significant except for its impact on other lives.” (Jackie Robinson)
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My senior research project was to examine whether John Wooden’s coaching style could work in the current landscape of college men’s basketball. I made appointments to meet six different head coaches at their office for a 30-minute interview.

Every coach gave me some great insights and I received an “A” on the project.

Other than Coach Wooden calling me on my dorm room phone (but that’s another story for another day), the thing that stands out to me the most about the project was one particular coach and how he treated me.

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Written by Jamy Bechler · Categorized: Leadership, Personal Growth, Sports, Teams & Organizations · Tagged: Be Kind, Coach wooden, College Basketball, Communications, Communications Major, Dan Peters, Head Coaches, Hiram College, Jackie Robinson, John Wooden, Kindness, men's basketball, Motivation, NCAA, Research Project, Significance, Value of a person, Youngstown, Youngstown State

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