Jamy Bechler

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

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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Episode 009: Voice America Radio Host Rick A. Morris

Rick A. Morris is the President of RSquared Consulting and a Radio Host on Voice America Talk Radio. He is also a John Maxwell certified leadership trainer, speaker, and coach. Rick is an ITIL Practitioner, consultant, author, mentor, and evangelist for project management. Rick is an accomplished project manager and public speaker. His appetite for knowledge and passion for the profession makes him an internationally sought-after speaker delivering keynote presentations for large conferences and PMI events around the world. He holds the PMP, MPM, PMI-ACP, CSAM, Six Sigma Green Belt, MCITP, MCTS, MCSE, TQM, ATM-S, ITIL, and ISO certifications.

In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • Favorite interviews he has done on his live radio show
  • Common traits that successful people share
  • Why he joined the John Maxwell Team
  • His experiences with the John Maxwell Team and his trip to the most recent conference
  • The difference between an entrepreneur or a freelancer
  • Who would he love to get on his radio show

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Episode 014: Grace College Athletic Director Chad Briscoe

Chad Briscoe is the athletic director at Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana.  He earned the 2017 Crossroads League Athletic Director of the Year award.  He also won the award in 2010.  At the NAIA level, he has helped initiate several “Champions of Character” initiatives, starting various sportsmanship summits for the league and local high school conferences. He currently is the league’s representative on the NAIA National Administrative Council and is the vice chair of the Championship Committee on the NAIA-NAC.  Briscoe’s energetic vision of the future has guided Grace Athletics to unparalled success across the school’s varsity programs. His desire to pursue Christ-like excellence through the realm of athletics has led many of Grace’s teams to some of their best seasons ever. In addition to being a collegiate athletic director, Briscoe has also been a professional basketball player in Sweden, a minor league baseball general manager, and a college basketball coach.

In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • Mistakes leaders make
  • Traits that successful leaders have
  • How he develops his coaches and student-athletes
  • The importance of having a positive culture

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Episode 008: Tao of Sports Host Troy Kirby

Troy Kirby is the host of the very popular Tao of Sports podcast. He has done more than 800 episodes with some of the top people in the sports business world.  He has worked in the sports industry for more than 15 years, at three different university athletic departments, and one professional soccer team. Kirby is a much sought after sports business consultant and keynote speaker. He is the president of The National Association of Athletic Ticket Sales & Operations.

In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • What are common traits among successful people he has interviewed
  • How to build your brand, especially on social media
  • His new fiction novel about body building
  • After 800+ interviews, who he would still want on his show
  • What mistakes leaders make the most

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Episode 000: Welcome to the Success is a Choice Podcast

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Transcript of Episode

Welcome to the “Success is a Choice” podcast.  In fact, welcome to the first-ever episode of the “Success is a Choice” podcast. We are very excited that this has become a reality. The goal of the podcast is to help you maximize your potential for success. Each week we will have some top-notch guests from all walks of life. We’ll have an actor one episode. We’ll have people worth hundreds of millions of dollars. We’ll have professional sports personalities. We’ll have educators. We’ll have people that you have heard of and people that might be new to you. However, the one thing each episode and each guest will have in common is the desire to add value to you, the listener.

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National Motivational Speaker Visits George Fox University

Motivational speaker Jamy Bechler traveled in late February from his Atlanta headquarters to spend the day with student-athletes and coaches at George Fox University in Oregon.

He is a John Maxwell Leadership Team Member.  John Maxwell, who has written more than 100 books, is generally considered the top leadership expert in the world.

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Bechler Speaks to Mississippi High School Athletic Directors

Leadership speaker and coach Jamy Bechler was a keynote speaker at the Mississippi Association of Athletics Administration conference held on January 10-13 at the IP Casino and Resort in Biloxi, Mississippi.  Bechler spoke to coaches, athletic administrators, principals and superintendents about the qualities that it takes to be a successful leader.  As a longtime college basketball coach and high school athletic director, Bechler provided the audience with positive strategies to develop leadership among their staffs and student-athletes.

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Bechler Joins The Guidestone Group

One of the nation’s premier leadership companies has announced the addition of a certified leadership coach, trainer and speaker to their team.

Jamy Bechler will be joining The Guidestone Group as the Senior Director of Leader Engagement.  He will head up their leadership development programs, motivational speaking division, as well as helping develop team experiences for their executive retreat center.

Click here to read Jamy’s complete biography before joining the Guidestone Group.

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Back on the Field

The following article appeared in the March 2016 issue of Athletic Management.  It highlights Marion High School’s Giant Challenge Alumni Weekend and athletic director Jamy Bechler.
 
Caitlin Hayes is an Assistant Editor at Athletic Management. She can be reached at: ch@MomentumMedia.com.

Keep Athletic Departments Accountable

This editorial appeared in the Chronicle-Tribune on May 21, 2015

We are both grateful and concerned about the effort to plan spending for the Marion High School athletic department. Last week Athletic Director Jamy Bechler came to the school board and said he has been working in the past year to clean up the spending of funds that fall outside of the overall school budget.

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