In this solo episode of the Growth Over Goals podcast, host Jordan Montgomery lays out the keys to effective public communication. Regardless of your role, if you want to lead effectively, you need to communicate effectively, and this episode will lay out 3 simple steps to help you do just that. Be sure to check out this brief, but compelling episode if you want to start communicating more effectively today!

Today on the Growth Over Goals podcast, we have the honor of sitting down with Fran McCaffery - head coach of the University of Iowa’s Men’s Basketball team.

McCaffery is just 10 wins away from becoming the winningest coach in Iowa Men’s Basketball history, and today, he gives us advice that can help us all be winners in whatever field we are in. Join us for a game-changing conversation about leadership and basketball, as we discuss loyalty, dealing with adversity and challenge, how to keep it real, identifying opportunity, and the logistics of building and coaching a phenomenal team.

Today on the Growth Over Goals podcast, we are blessed to sit down with writer, actor, best-selling author, mother and wife – Kathryn Gordon – to discuss Relationship GRIT.

G.R.I.T = God, Resolve, Invest, Together – and it’s together indeed that we dissect this acronym with Kathryn and how it can help create a deeper, long-lasting relationship with your spouse or significant other. Kathryn shares with us the importance of working through the valleys, and reminds us; the grass isn’t greener on the other side, it’s greener where you water it.

For anyone navigating marriage and relationships, this podcast is for you!

Check out the Gordon’s book, co-authored by Jon and Kathryn, here: Relationship Grit.

Today on the Growth Over Goals podcast, we have former quarterback for the Missouri Tigers, author, speaker, and hope dealer – Alex Demczak.

In his career as a football player, Alex went through an incredible valley season, experiencing some of the lowest lows. During this season, Alex learned the hard lessons of humility, but he also learned something valuable – leadership requires no title; it simply requires showing up and being excellent in what you do every day, regardless of where you are on the organizational chart. In this incredible opportunity for growth, Alex embraced and embodied the principle we share on almost every episode of this podcast: bloom where you are planted!

Today, Alex shares with our emerging leaders how to cultivate humility and stewardship in order to grow in integrity and character. We discuss the slow fade, the small rationalizations we build up over time that lead to the big crumble, and how to reverse engineer the life you want, beginning with the end in mind.

Be sure to check out Alex’s must-read book - The Sale – available on Amazon.com

If you would like to reach out to Alex, find him at alexspeaking.com, or for help writing YOUR book, https://writemybooks.com/

Today on the Growth Over Goals podcast we are blessed to have the Mr. Rogers of personal development with us – Mike Foster.

Mike has been featured on Good Morning America, Fox News, and The NY Times, and is a world-class speaker and bestselling author. Mike’s genuine, authentic, transparent energy draws people to him in a way that is unmatched, especially as he is always modeling healthy vulnerability.

Today you will benefit from a deep conversation with Mike as we discuss his newest book – The 7 Primal Questions – dedicated to helping people be clear on their hidden programming and the things that drive their lives that aren’t serving them well. Each of us has an imprinted primal question that we constantly seek an answer to. Whether it is “Am I Wanted?” “Am I Safe?” or “Do I Have Purpose?” each of us has our own question that a “yes” answer to allows us to be our best self, and a “no” answer to sends us into a panicky scramble.

Learn more about how you can find out your primal question and how to honor your question, and the questions of those around you, to craft loving, deep, powerful relationships.

Take the assessment at primalquestion.com, and to contact Mike, reach out to him at mikefoster.tv. You can also follow Mike (and we suggest you do!) on Instagram @mikefoster2000.

Today is a very special day for the Growth Over Goals podcast as we celebrate our 100th episode! It is with hearts full of gratitude that we invite you to listen to this recording of Jordan interviewing with host Ryan Leak on the Followership podcast!

In this episode, Jordan shares how he built his business, and some of his unique strategies for helping people bring out their best for the world. We discuss what differentiates Montgomery Companies from your typical coaching company, and how to add value beyond coaching work. Jordan tells his story of how God brought success out of failure, and strategies to overcome some of the biggest hurdles in life and business. At the center of it all is faith, and Jordan and Ryan talk about how their faith has played the most important role in their personal and professional development.

We want to thank everyone who has played a role in the production of these first 100 episodes, and we look forward to sharing the next 100 episodes with you, dear listeners!

Today on the Growth Over Goals podcast we have a guest on the Mount Rushmore of sports personalities – Jim Rome. In the sports radio world, Jim is an incredible force. He is the host of the Jim Rome show and founder of the Reinvention Project, and in 2019, Jim was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame.

At a very early age, Jim was able to ask himself – and answer – the questions of who am I, who do I want to be, and how am I going to get there? Yet, decades later, Jim is still constantly growing and reinventing himself, and far from slowing down, he firmly believes the next 25 years of his life should be the best.

Join us as we discuss the importance of reinvention, embracing the grind, how to deal with haters, and how preparation can be an absolute game changer. Jim firmly believes it is never too late to start, or re-start, so regardless of where you are in life, if you want to take things to the next level, this is an incredible episode for you!

Today on the Growth Over Goals podcast, we are blessed to be able to sit at the table with two-time author, speaker, entrepreneur, and founder of Headbands of Hope – Jess Ekstrom.

Jess’s path to her destiny started with an impactful conversation with her entrepreneurial father when she was in her early teens that lead to the beginning of her “inspiration from frustration” life motto. After an extremely difficult life event - in which her family lost all of their money - pulled the rug out from under Jess’s feet, she was faced with the incredible realization that we only have one life, and we need to live it. This transformative experience shifted Jess into the role of an achiever – a role which eventually lead her to found Headbands of Hope, a charity that provides headbands to kids with cancer. Lessons learned while running her charity formed Jess into an incredible public speaker who turned her life experience into a lesson plan in her Mic Drop Workshop for other women who wanted to find their place in the professional speaking world.

Jess has ultimately learned one of the greatest skills of life: how to fail well. Today, she shares her wisdom with you, dear listener, and helps us understand how failure can feel better than regret. We all have the ability to build a brighter future, and this podcast will certainly inspire you to do that today!

Regardless of what your life has looked like to this point, if you are a person with an idea this podcast episode is for you!

Find out more about Jess on her website: https://jessekstrom.com/ or learn about her Mic Drop Workshop at https://micdropworkshop.com/

In today’s episode of the Growth Over Goals podcast, we are living the dream sitting down with US Olympic gold medal and two-times NBA world champion coach – Brendan Suhr. Brendan has coached some of the top athletes on the planet, and today he’s moved from the courts to the boardroom where he coaches some of the world’s greatest leaders.

A world-class relationship builder, we are privileged to discuss with Brendan the importance of humility, communication, and credibility in creating relationships, and why relationships are the key to success in today’s world. Brendan walks us through an incredible story of how something as simple being on time demonstrated the ultimate show of respect and united a whole team of world-class players.

Basketball fans will love getting to nerd out with Brendan’s dream team stories, and those of you who aren’t so inclined will still benefit massively from the knowledge that parallels from the courts to the boardroom. Whether you are an athlete or an executive, you win because of the leadership of your team, and today’s episode will inspire top leadership from every generation.

Today in the Growth Over Goals podcast, we sit down with international speaker, NBA world champion, and coach to NBA all-stars – Kevin Eastman – in what we can call our “Truth Episode.”

Together, we discuss the characteristics, habits and mindsets that set the best apart. The reality – whether you are on the courts or in the board room – is that average players want to be left alone, good players want to be coached, and great players want to know the truth. So, if you want to excel, you have to be able to hear the truth. Failure often stops us from trying, and that’s a shame; there is more inside each of us - are we willing and ready to commit to what it takes to pull that out? The single most important word in all of success is truth – and the best of the best demand to hear it.

Truth: learn from Kevin the keys to learning to live it, tell it, and take it, and how the next-level truth can take you to where you want to go.

Check out Kevin’s book: Why the Best Are the Best - 25 Powerful Words That Impact, Inspire, And Define Champions.