GrowthReady Podcast with Steve Mellor

This is the first "Spin Off" episode of Career Competitor where I present Coaches Corner! On my first of these episodes I welcome long time Swim Coach, Michael Piper who has just released his own website - The Online Swim Coach - and he discusses that plus his 3 decades of coaching within the sport of Swimming. 

Michael offers incredible insight into the art of simplicity within coaching, the importance of adapting to the evolution of a sport, and the in's and out's of communicating with your athletes. 

Coaches Corner will be something I provide on occasion in affiliation with Career Competitor to tie in the world of sport with that of establishing a career. 

The final episode in my 3 part series speaking with women early on in their careers. I welcome Amber Siggins to the show, who is an Account Executive in Sales for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 

Following her swimming career, Amber tried coaching before moving into Sales where she has now been in for 18 months. Along the way she picked up lessons in retaining true to yourself, no comparing yourself to others, and the mental toughness she still uses today that was instilled in her during her swimming career.

This episode I speak with Auburn Weisensale, Director of Nutrition at University of Pittsburgh. Following a career in Field Hockey, she has established her career in the past 5 years following graduation to where she is now overseeing most sports and supervises 30 volunteers within her Nutrition department. 

We discuss valuable lessons in finding your passion, good ways to work through disappointment, and a great perspective on the importance of adapting to all environments so you may overcome anything!

On this episode of Career Competitor I interview Candace Cooper in the first of 3 episodes discussing the transition for women into finding their career of choice. Candace is a former standout swimmer from The University of North Carolina and is now the Assistant for Blue Devil Premium Services at Duke University. 

We discuss her journey from leaving the sport of swimming, trying out life in a "typical 9-5", returning to swimming, before finding her feet in the world of event management.

I sit down with former LSU Baseball, standout pitcher, Alden Cartwright who won SEC titles in both 2014 & 2015 and also made the College World Series in 2015 as well. 

Now, as a the Director of Business Development at Edelberg & Associates, Alden is applying the lessons he learned from his Baseball career such as knowing your role, being a good teammate, and the vulnerability that can come with learning how to grow throughout this process.

On this episode I speak with Taylor Brown, a former Ice Hockey player now turned freelance Music producer who is the singer/songwriter behind the music of 'Slip'. 

The UCLA grad discusses the lessons he picked up through a team oriented hockey career that is now allowing him to achieve success in the independent industry of music production

We also get to listen in on his most recent musical release - 'The Patient - which is available to download and listen to now!

On this episode I speak with Silas Dejean, a former LSU swimmer who recently graduated and has now moved into the family business as the District Sales Manager for Grocery Accounts in the Houston, TX market for Tony’s Chachere’s Creole Seasoning.

Even though becoming a part of a family business can sometimes be perceived as an easy route to take, Silas provides great insight as to why he is doing this for the passion, pride, and pursuit of taking the business to even higher levels.

Today we sit down with Dr. Jaime Wright who is a Former collegiate swimmer within the SEC between 2005 - 2009 at LSU. Jaime now works as a Physician in the Emergency Room at Our Lady of the Lake hospital in Baton Rouge.

Jaime got to where she is today based off her commitment to the process of becoming a doctor and there are very clear similarities to that of pursuing success within sport. Jaime has clearly learned through her education and now career that it all comes back to trusting the process!

In the first episode of Career Competitor I speak with Raymond De Padua who is a former collegiate swimmer turned entrepreneur. Ray is not working within E-commerce in association with Seller Systems who are teaching people how to sell on Amazon!

Raymond provides a great insight into the importance of finding something you are truly passionate about to do for a career, but as he explains, this is not necessarily an easy thing to establish!