Building Excellence

#110: Kevin Hambly is the Head Coach and Director of Women’s Volleyball at Stanford University. Under his leadership over the last 6 seasons, Stanford has won 2 National Championships, 4 Pac 12 Championships, and he has been named Pac 12 Coach of the Year multiple times.

Kevin played Volleyball at BYU and was a first team All American and eventually played professionally after college. After playing he decided to get into coaching. He started coaching club and eventually became an assistant coach at UNLV. Coach Hambly then went and served as an assistant with the USA national volleyball team. From there he went to Illinois where he helped establish the Illini program into one of the best in the country. In 2011 he was named Volleyball Magazine National Coach of the Year and lead the team to the national semifinals for the first time in 23 years before advancing to the NCAA title match for the first time in program history. 

On the show he shares his story, playing and coaching volleyball, building a championship culture, separating who you are and what you do, growth, failure, and much more. 

Enjoy the show! 

#109: John Ballenger recently retired from serving as a Marine One Pilot, which is the helicopter responsible for flying the President of the United States around. 

Today John is an entrepreneur, Co-Owner of Aspire Development Group, and an Executive Consultant with his company 8:28 Ventures.

John grow up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and attended Oral Roberts University for college. Towards the end of his college career he felt a pull to leave the pursuit of business after school to become a military pilot. It wasn’t easy, but John persisted and eventually decided to fly helicopters in the Marine Corps. With over 20 years of flying experience John shares some of the most invaluable lessons he learned from training, flying, and serving as a Marine One pilot for both the Trump and Biden Administrations. 

On the show he also shares lessons such as the value of time, overcoming failure, taking the risk and trying, humility and being prepared, trust, brilliance in the basics, and much more. 

For more information on John check out the show notes. 

Be sure to get a pen ready and enjoy the show!


Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-ballenger53/

https://aspiredevgroup.com

#108: Darleen Santore “Coach Dar” is a Board Certified Occupational Therapist, business executive, author and highly sought after motivational speaker. She is passionate about helping people break through barriers to achieve their goals.

She is also the former Phoenix Suns mental skills coach and a leadership and mental edge coach to many professional athletes, CEO’s, and business leaders around the world.

Coach Dar shares The Art of Bouncing Back, which is the title to her new book. 

On the show she also shares her story of playing sports, experience as a business executive, how everything is on the other side of hard, just trying, leadership, overcoming setbacks, and how her faith is like Red Bull. 

Reframing is a key concept Coach Dar uses. She has had to overcome multiple strokes and an even crazier story of finding out at a young age that she was told she couldn’t have children later to be told she could. I couldn’t think of a better person to tell her story, the art of bouncing back, and how you can as well.

Enjoy the show! 

#107: Chris Powers is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Fort Capital and the host of The FORT podcast. Chris is a serial entrepreneur with more than 18 years of real estate development and investment experience. Since founding Fort Capital, the company has invested over $2.1B in Class B industrial, commercial, multifamily, student housing, and residential and land development projects throughout Texas and the sunbelt.

As host of, The FORT, he has published over 267 episodes to date, where he talks with some of the most fascinating minds in business and discusses important topics in the worlds of real estate, entrepreneurship, and investing. It is hands down one of my favorite podcasts to listen to.

On the show Chris dives into his story, going to Texas Christian University, entrepreneurship, optimizing for freedom, finding mentors, taking risks, faith, forgiveness, building a business and culture, and what matters most.

Like I mentioned before Chris’s podcast is one of my favorites and I am always learning something new.

Be sure to check out his podcast, The FORT on all major platforms. Also, if you are looking to invest, check out FortCapitallp.com

Enjoy the show!

#106: Jamion Christian is a highly accomplished American college basketball coach, formerly as the Head Men’s Basketball Coach at George Washington University. 

At 29 years old, Jamion became the Head Basketball Coach at Mt. Saint Mary’s where he was one of the youngest coaches, if not the youngest, in all of college basketball. As a young coach, Jamion learned from some of the best coaches in the country. While working as an assistant at Emory & Henry, Bucknell, William & Mary, and VCU, the head coaches that he worked with collectively accumulated over 2,000 career wins. While Head Coach at Mt. Saint Mary’s he led the Mountaineers to two NCAA tournament appearances and a Northeast Conference Coach of the Year Award. Because of his success at Mt. Saint Mary’s he was highly sought after to become the head coach at Siena and then George Washington University. 

Jamion currently is the Chief Content Officer for Speakeasy Sports. Jamion is responsible for new media and content strategy for the brand. He currently hosts, Winning in the Margins & Last Call with Jamion Christian, which are available on all major platforms and host some fantastic conversations with many great guests. 

On the show Coach Christian tells his story of growing up, playing basketball, reframing, becoming a coach, building culture, routine, finding your why & purpose, making decisions, different layers of love, creating a personal mission statement, and leaving things better than you found it. 

Enjoy the show!

#105: Justin Donald is the #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Lifestyle Investor book and has been called the “Warren Buffett of Lifestyle Investing” by Entrepreneur Magazine.

He is a master of low-risk cash flow investing, specializing in simplifying complex financial strategies, structuring deals, and disciplined investment systems that consistently produce profitable results. Not only does he show you how to create financial freedom through cash flow investing, but also what it means to personally create and build the life you imagine.

On the show Justin dives into his story growing up, overcoming rejection, growth, seeking out mentors, curiosity, sales, competing against yourself, investing, calculated risk, financial freedom, and family.

If you want to learn more bout Justin be sure to check out his website at LifestiyleInvestor.com. From there you can order his book, The Lifestyle Investor: The 10 Commandments of Cash Flow Investing For Passive Income & Financial Freedom, as well as his podcast, masterclasses, blog, courses, coaching, mastermind, and much more.

Also, be sure to checkout lifestyleinvestor.com/strategy/ for a free strategy call! 

Enjoy the show! 

#104: Jade Gordon is a keynote speaker and certified workshop facilitator with the Jon Gordon Companies. 

She is a graduate of Clemson University with a degree in communications and also worked with the Clemson football program. After college she moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting while working at Nobu Malibu, a world famous restaurant. She learned the art of great customer service by loving and caring about the people she encountered daily.

Jade has a passion and mission to develop positive leaders and build great teams. Today she works with teams, businesses, and organizations to help them implement the Power of Positive Leadership

On the show Jade dives into her story, growing up, playing lacrosse, leadership, serving, confidence, identify, fear, faith, honor, and much more. 

Be sure to take notes and enjoy the show! 

#103: Ryan Folmar is the head baseball coach at Oral Roberts University. 

He is in his 11th year as the head coach of the Golden Eagles. During his time as head coach he has earned the Summit League Coach of the Year Award 5 times, taken ORU to 7 NCAA post season appearances, and coached numerous professional players. Even greater than that, as you will see on the show, he has helped his players become better men. 

Ryan grew up in Pennsylvania and earned a baseball scholarship to Oklahoma State. While at Oklahoma State he played on some of the most successful teams going to the college world series in 1996. He was then drafted by the Colorado Rockies. After his professional career, he started coaching at Oklahoma State. He then spent 10 years as an assistant coach at ORU before becoming the head coach in 2013. 

On the show he dives into his story, playing baseball, coaching, leadership, culture, hard work, resilience, buy-in, faith, family, and a lot more. This is a masterclass on leadership and building a culture from one of the best coaches out there so be sure to take notes. 

Enjoy the show!

#102: Mike Hearne is the host of the This Is Oklahoma Podcast, where he interviews Oklahomans and those who have made Oklahoma home. On the show he dives into their businesses and why they love Oklahoma and more. 

Mike grew up in Wales and then earned a golf scholarship at Southern Nazarene University. After graduating he got into the real estate and eventually started his podcast. He has interviewed some of the most well known Oklahoman’s and shared their stories to help others learn and grow. 

On the show Mike dives into his own story, playing golf, persistence, real estate, his podcast, how to start a podcast, branding, repetition, focus, business, and much more.

Be sure and check out his podcast, This is Oklahoma, on all platforms.

Enjoy the show!

#101: Stu Grazier is a retired Navy pilot & Co-founder of Storehouse 310.

As a retired Naval Officer with 20 years of military experience, Stu spent time flying the MH-60 Sierra Knighthawk helicopter and later the C-40. He also spent time in leadership overseeing hundreds of people.

Throughout his time in the military Stu started his own entrepreneurship journey through investing in real estate. This ultimately led him and his Co-founder David, to start Storehouse 3:10 Ventures, Capital, Partners, and Mastermind.

On the show Stu dives into his story of growing up, playing baseball at the Naval Academy, graduating flight school as number one in his class, service, real estate, learning from others, real estate, accountability, pivoting, purpose, leadership, failure, faith, family, and much more.

For more on Stu and Storehouse 3:10 check out storehouse310.com 

Enjoy the show!

Connect with Stu:
Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/filling-the-storehouse/id1505081414
Website - https://storehouse310.com
Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartgrazier/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/militaryinvestor/?hl=en