Jamy Bechler

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

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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Episode 183: Pro Golfer Erik Barnes

Today’s guest is Erik Barnes, a professional golfer on the Korn Ferry Tour. At the time of this interview in April 2022, he was ranked 13th and had four top-10 finishes in his last eight events. He gained fame during the pandemic when he took a full-time job working at a Publix grocery store near his home in Bradenton, Florida. He is originally from Marion, Indiana, and attended college at Austin Peay State University.

Click here to see Erik’s official PGA webpage.

From Publix to the PGA Tour? (Forbes Article)

In today’s episode, we discuss:

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Piles of Mail

“First get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats, and then they can figure out where to drive it.” (Jim Collins, Good to Great)

During the summer of my first year as an AD, we hired a brand new secretary. On her first day, she put all the mail that had been piling up for the last month into a big black trash bag and threw it in the dumpster.

In all fairness, it looked like a big pile of trash with all of the catalogs from equipment, award, and apparel businesses. But there were a few letters and other important stuff mixed in.

Obviously, I was not happy. However, she was just trying to help out and we were in the midst of redecoration and redesign of the athletic department so she thought this was right in line with what we were trying to do.

Regardless, I went dumpster diving and also learned a great lesson.

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Episode 106: Greg Tonagel, Indiana Wesleyan University Basketball Coach

Greg Tonagel is the head men’s basketball coach at Indiana Wesleyan University. Tonagel and the Wildcats have won three NAIA Division II National Championships in a five year spans with titles in 2014, 2016, and 2018. Since Tonagel took over the program in 2005, he has become the winningest coach in program history both in total wins and winning percentage. Prior to coming to IWU, Tonagel served as Director of Basketball Operations at Valparaiso University, where he also played for legendary Homer Drew and appeared in four NCAA Tournaments as the starting point guard. He also led his LaPorte High School team to the last single class state finals in 1997. Much of the unprecedented success of the Wildcats can be attributed to the culture Tonagel built at IWU.  The IWU culture is built around two Biblically transforming principles; I am Third and Fearless. This has helped the influence of IWU basketball to extend far beyond the court. Tonagel and his staff have been committed to using basketball as a platform for discipleship.

In today’s episode, we discuss:
  • What any coach can do to create a better culture
  • Why IWU is so good year in and year out
  • How he convinces great players (including DI transfers from IU and Kansas) to come to IWU
  • … and so much more!!!

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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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Marion Student-Athletes Learning Leadership Skills

(originally published on January 25, 2015)

Some Marion High School student-athletes are learning how to be better leaders in order to help their teams on the field of competition and improve the world around them.

About 25 student-athletes from various teams at Marion met weekly this past semester before school to learn about different leadership concepts.

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