#61: Today we have Damon West on the show. Damon is a best selling author, keynote speaker, and college professor. He travels all over speaking to teams, many of which you’ve heard of, such as Alabama & Clemson football, the Dallas Cowboys, businesses, schools, and many other organizations all over the country. But what is really amazing is his story before he started doing all of this. Damon was sentenced to 65 years in prison. 

Damon grew up in a great home with loving and supportive parents, however early on he got into substance abuse and addiction. This compounded by the time his was the starting QB at the University of North Texas. After a serious injury sidelined him from playing he turned to addiction, which ultimately led to him being arrested and sentenced to life in prison. 

I know his story will resonate and inspire you to be a coffee bean and a change agent in your own life. 

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Today we have Will Karstetter on the show. Will is the Co-Founder of Spark Equity Group. Over the last few years Will has quickly scaled his company and well on his way to surpassing over 100 million in real estate holdings. And Will is still only in his 20’s.

What I am really excited about on this show is his story of focus, discipline, and action. Everything Will does filters through those principles and because of that he gets big results. 

You will get a chance to hear about his entrepreneurial spirit, being willing to fail, creating financial freedom not just for himself, but others on his team, building a great culture, and much more. 

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#59: Nik Rule is the athletic director at William Penn University. Under his leadership William Penn has become one of the top programs in the country. In this episode you will see why. 

Nik has a great story and the principles he talks about will definitely shape and improve your own life, leadership, and legacy. 

He talks about growing up in Idaho, leaving to go play college athletics at William Penn basically sight unseen, making wise decisions and trusting your intuition, always being curious and adopting a constant explorer mentality, leading through crisis, and much more.

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#58: Today we have Matt Reynolds. Matt is currently a major league baseball player with the Cincinnati Reds.

Matt grew up in Tulsa, OK. He excelled at baseball, basketball, and football. After a great high school career he attended the University of Arkansas on a baseball scholarship. He then was drafted in the 2nd round of the 2012 MLB draft by the New York Mets. He has been playing professionally ever since, with stops at the New York Mets, Washington Nationals, Kansas City Royals, Chicago White Sox, and currently the Cincinnati Reds. 

On the show Matt discusses the support and encouragement from his parents, hard work, building confidence, focusing on the process instead of goals, being a good teammate, never giving up, a commitment to excellence, and much more!

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#57: Jared is the cofounder of Sixthday Properties, a extremely successful home building and developing firm based out of Tulsa, OK. 

Jared grew up with an entrepreneurial spirit mowing lawns and helping remodel houses. He eventually turned his love for real estate into a full time job when he and his partner Dave started Sixth-day. 

I love Jared’s perspective on life, work, and living by principles not pressure. So many of us live by reacting to the daily demands of life, yet Jared has a great perspective and actions steps on changing that and being intuitional about everything you do.  

He elaborates on what it takes to build a successful business, live with purpose, have an abundance mentality, create systems, and much more.

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#56: Today we have David Nurse. David is a top 50 world wide keynote speaker, best selling author of his books Pivot & Go & Breakthrough, host of The Art of podcast, and NBA life optimization coach. He has helped over 150 plus NBA players with their personal and professional development.

David dives into his own story growing up in Pella Iowa, his journey to becoming a professional basketball player and eventually the shooting coach for the Brooklyn Nets. He touches on how and why he got to doing what he is currently doing today and shares the concepts from his new book Breakthrough, which is a sure fire guide to realizing your potential, pushing through limitations, and achieving things you didn’t know were possible!

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#55: Kevin Landreville is the Founder of Kevin Landreville Collaborative Coaching. Kevin has been a coach for 20 years and worked alongside some of the best coaches in the NHL, NCAA, NBA, and more. He has been a Physical & Health Education educator for 14 years and Department Head of Physical & Health Education in St. John’s-Ravenscourt School. Leadership, character development, team development through coaching and teaching are his professional passions. 

His research and presentations on Coaching Culture, Cultivating Connections, and Creating a Winners Mindset have received international recognition. He is a Lead Coach Facilitator and Mentor within Hockey Canada’s High Performance program. He’s developed a curriculum in sports high performance training. A former personal trainer, Kevin has always prided himself in living an active healthy lifestyle. It’s through his love for life, love for competition, and love for creating connections that he has created a positive learning environment for athletes, coaches, and educators to thrive as they pursue personal and professional goals. 

Be sure to check out his newsletter:
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#54: Sarah Young is the Director of college women's golf ministry with Global Golf.  Sarah grew up in New Zealand and moved to Stillwater, OK on a college golf scholarship at Oklahoma State University. She was a standout student athlete and excelled in her freshman year earning all Big 12 freshman team honors. One day before she was supposed to return back to Stillwater she and her father were involved in a severe head on car collision. It took paramedics over 2 hours to get her out of what was left of the car and she suffered a traumatic brain injury and memory loss. 

In the show she talks about her journey from being a person whose identity was based in athletics and golf, as well as overcoming what many would tell her was never possible, which was to play the sport she loved again. Through many individuals support and encouragement and her own discipline and determination she trained and was able to get back to playing. 

Sarah’s story is a great encouragement to never let anyone tell you you can’t do something. Her faith story is incredible and she is making a huge impact on so many!

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#53: Howard Behar is the former Presidents of Starbucks Coffee. During his time at Starbucks he helped the company grow from 28 stores to over 15,000 stores all over the world. Not only does he share some great stories and principles from his time at Starbucks, but also from his early years growing up around the retail business.

Howard currently travels around the world speaking to leaders, corporations, and students. His message is focused on inspiring everyone to be servant leaders and to lead with their values first.
 
For more information on Howard check out his website at howardbehar.com. Also, be sure to check out Howard's books, It's Not About The Coffee: Lessons on Leadership from a Life at Starbucks, and The Magic Cup. 

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#52: Dave Kraft is a best selling author, speaker, life & leadership coach. He has coached hundreds of leaders from business to faith all over the world. Dave also travels each year conducting seminars on two of his books, Leaders Who Last, and Mistakes Leaders Make, which can all be purchased on amazon. 

He is one of the most passionate, upbeat, and enthusiastic leaders you will ever meet. He has more energy than men half his age and is a committed life long learner. He blogs several times each week sharing his leadership content. He has been married to his wife for over 50 plus years. Together they have four children and seven grandchildren. 

For more information on all of Dave's content check out his website at davekraft.org

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