Success Champions

Success Champions

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Success Champions episodes

  • Derrick Furlow Jr: Adversity... Crutch or Catapult?
    Derrick was just another kid who wanted a better life and saw sports, football in particular as an vehicle that could provide it. During his football journey to and through The University of Tennessee were he completed his bachelors and masters degree in 4 years. Derrick realized that football was just a temporary stage for his permanent purpose. The adversity he endured and challenges he faced shifted his perspective; putting him in alignment with his true assignment. Now today he shares his story and the principals he learned to Impact, Inspire & Empower people; while putting them in position to transition!
    59 min
  • Natalie Oliverio: One Decision Away From Changing The Rest Of Your Life

    Natalie spent the past 12 years perfecting the recruitment process.

    She tells me, "It's pretty simple when you break it all down. Treat people well, and put the best interest of others first. Now I'm the Founder + CEO of Military Talent Partners, a boutique talent consulting firm specializing in the career placement of Veterans and Military Spouses. 

    While I've hired countless military-talented individuals personally, I am most proud of the relationships I've created with them. I have hired more than 300 Secret and Top Secret, SCI cleared technical professionals over the past year as well as negotiated successful offers of more than 100 C-level Executives. 

    Focusing on the right match between potential and opportunity has earned Military Talent Partners a 96% placement rate in candidates submitted to our partner companies. My work satisfaction comes from empowering the potential in others so that they can have a meaningful career. So much so that I built my company around it.

    I use my life experiences, military transition journey, and recruitment expertise to mentor service-members, veterans, and spouses. It's through the power of mentorship that I realized my own potential and executed plans to make my dream career happen. Military Talent Partners offers free mentorship and coaching to every service-member, veteran, military spouse, and gold-star family member."

    37 min
  • Niajae Wallace: #AbundantAF
    Niajae is an influencer and entrepreneur. She is a visionary. She adds art and creativity in her business approach which is one of the many things that contributes to her unique style.
    Her goal is to help people identify their true desires and build the confidence and sharpen their skills to go after the life they’ve always dreamed of. She is a master strategist and sales funnel expert.
    Niajae creates motivational videos focused on mindset and manifestation. She believes you can have it all with the right strategy and implementation. She loves holding people accountable.
    She’s fiery, she’s fashionable, she’ll make you laugh but also light that fire under your ass to get it done. There’s no question she’s unique and embodies the phrase, ‘When art meets entrepreneurship.’
    With her unquestionable energy and spark, Niajae is dedicated to seeing as many people THRIVE as possible. She is living that purpose through the launch of her new podcast Abundance Hack and release of her new book #AbundantAF.
    57 min
  • Jon Gordon: Talk To Yourself Instead Of Listening To Yourself
    Jon Gordon's best-selling books and talks have inspired readers and audiences around the world. His principles have been put to the test by numerous Fortune 500 companies, professional and college sports teams, school districts, hospitals, and non-profits. He is the author of 18 books including multiple best-sellers: The Energy Bus, The Carpenter, Training Camp, You Win in the Locker Room First, The Power of Positive Leadership and The Power of a Positive Team. His latest book is The Coffee Bean: A Simple Lesson to Create Positive Change. Jon and his tips have been featured on The Today Show, CNN, CNBC, The Golf Channel, Fox and Friends and in numerous magazines and newspapers. His clients include The Los Angeles Dodgers, The Atlanta Falcons, Campbell Soup, Dell, Publix, Southwest Airlines, LA Clippers, Miami Heat, Pittsburgh Pirates, BB&T Bank, Clemson Football, Northwestern Mutual, West Point Academy and more.
    Jon is a graduate of Cornell University and holds a Masters in Teaching from Emory University. He and his training/consulting company are passionate about developing positive leaders, organizations and teams
    38 min
  • Roger Nierenberg: Symphony of Construction
    Maestro Roger Nierenberg enjoyed long, successful tenures as Music Director of both the Stamford Symphony in Connecticut and the Jacksonville Symphony in Florida. Guest conducting invitations came from the National Symphony, the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, the Detroit Symphony, the Saint Louis Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, the San Diego Symphony, and many other great American orchestras. Abroad he has recorded with the London Philharmonic and conducted at both the Prague Spring Festival and the Beijing Festival. He has collaborated with many of the most renowned solo artists and composers of our time.
    During his tenure with the Jacksonville Symphony, the seeds were planted that would lead Maestro Nierenberg to a startling departure from the conventional, through the unparalleled creation of The Music Paradigm. Through his experiences engaging with community businesses and civic leaders, he became curious about the challenges and opportunities faced by organizations in times of rapid change. He quickly realized how crucial issues of organizational development could be powerfully brought to life within an orchestra. Thus was born The Music Paradigm, which has taken Mr. Nierenberg to the podium of over ninety different orchestras, before hundreds of different organizations in twenty-three different countries. Many of the lessons learned on this journey are presented in his book Maestro: A Surprising Story About Leading by Listening which was honored in 2009 as the Best Leadership Book from 800-CEO-READ.
    54 min
  • Five Tips for Achieving Work Life Balance
    Time management was not something that came naturally to me. I was always the wing it guy and then see what happens. This worked for me in sales because other people kept their processes and kept all my stuff moving.
    Get the workbook here http://successchampion.live/WorkLifeBalance
    But when it came to my schedule I was all over the map.
    When I launched my business I took that same mindset along for the ride. Guess what; it didn’t work and I had to evolve to the mindset of a business owner. I had to become something more. Through a lot of hard work, discipline and pure tenacity, I figured out some processes that worked for me and my business.
    I hope this helps you step into the business owner mindset and get you to that dream faster.
    - Donnie Boivin
    53 min
  • Lorianne Vaughan Speaks: Be You and Shine Through
    Lorianne Speaks is an expert in the area of Speaker/Author support. She amplifies
    the visibility of Authors/Speakers/Messengers while they do what they love -
    SPEAK! Lorianne has helped spearhead multiple best-selling book campaigns -
    editing, proofing, through to launch and social media marketing to help authors
    create buzz and momentum throughout the social media platforms and
    increasing their message World-Wide. Lorianne and her team have made it
    their mission to empower speakers to deliver their message by handling the rest
    of the business details!
    Prior to starting her own Virtual Assistance (VA) company, Lorianne had over 15
    years of professional experience supporting Top 100 Thought Leaders as they
    built their businesses.
    54 min
  • Bob Sager: Start Where You Are, Use What You Have, Do What You Can
    The founder of SpearPoint Solutions, LLC, Bob’s professional background includes experience in financial planning and residential real estate. He is a Consultant and Trainer on Personal Achievement and Practical Innovative Thinking. Among other accomplishments, Bob is the inventor of the innovative/creative ideas game What's the BIG Idea?™, Author of the personal achievement book, Discovering Your Greatness : A Higher Level Thinking and Action Guide and the forthcoming book, 101 Freaking Brilliant Business Ideas: And Ten Ways YOU Can Create Your Own.
    56 min
  • Charles Strange, Freedom is Not Free the Story of His Son Michael Strange

    Donnie B.: All right, guys. So I want you to strap it in today. So we're going to get pretty deep and heavy on this one. This is a hell of a story from a hell of a guy and my buddy, Patrick Mudge said, “Donnie, you got to sit down with Charlie and let him tell you his story and everything they're doing.” So just strap it in, guys. It’s going to be a really good episode.

    So I'm Donnie Boivin. This is Donnie’s Success Champions. Charlie Strange. Welcome to the show, my friend. Please, tell us your story.
    [Music]
    Donnie B.: Hey, before the show starts, I wanted to jump in here and let you guys know that I could not do this show without the support of Point Blank Safety Services. Stacey and Michael McGovern over there have been a huge asset for the show, the Success Champions Family and everything we do and it's because of their support, we're able to bring you such awesome guests and such awesome stories.
    So do me a favor. Go check them out. Man, if you're in Texas and you need security officers or you need active-duty police officers on off-duty hours, protecting your sites, construction, security sites, commercial offices, whatever, go check out Point Blank Safety Services. You'll be glad you did.
    Now, guys, I'm not kidding. Strap it in today. This is a hell of a story. Here comes Charlie Strange.
    Charles S.: Thank you, Don. My name is Charles Strange. I'm the gold star father of Michael Strange. Michael was killed in action in August 6, 2011 along with 38 other men and 29 Americans and Bart, The Warrior Dog. It was the biggest single loss of life in Iraq and Afghan War and it was the biggest loss of life in the history of America. 22 men from DEVGRU, Navy Special Warfare. And it was the worst day of my life.
    Michael is my oldest son from Philadelphia. He grew up in Philadelphia. Not too far for your audience. From the Rocky Steps, the famous Rocky Steps. Michael ran the Rocky Steps before he went in.
    “Adrian!”
    We're Philly and cheesesteaks and Michael joined the military right out of high school and he took off. He took off from there and went to the Great Lakes. I flew out, seen him graduate boot camp. From there, he went to Pensacola, Florida. And from there, he finished first in his class for cryptology. Michael was a code breaker.
    They actually gave Michael the National Intelligence Medal of Valor. Only 17 have ever been given out in the history of America since World War II and the windtalkers. Given that at the NSA with Admiral Alexander under about five floors underground. But he went to Hawaii because he was a crypto and Admiral McRaven was there and he loved it. We flew out to Hawaii, spent 15 days with Michael in Hawaii and he became a surfer and he got really into the intel there and he started getting deployed on different missions.
    His buddy, I also don't want to forget about, who died with him, John Douangdara was there. John was the dog handler for the Gold Team DEVGRU. And from Hawaii, he spent a little over three years in Hawaii and then they put him on DEVGRU in Virginia Beach where he had to buy a home and he was with SEAL Team Six, the Gold Squad. His call sign was GY4, Gold Yankee 4 and I said, “Michael! How are you affording a $300,000-house here, Michael? You're 21 years old.” And he loved it and he had to be by the secret base and we still take the train down, drive down.
    He drived back to Philly because he missed his family, his friends and I'll tell you what, like yesterday was the day we killed Bin Laden and a lot of memories going by one night and Michael called me before that, before the Bin Laden raid. Two weeks prior, he said, “Dad, everything's getting shut off.”
    I'm like, “What?”
    He said, “I'm not going to be able to talk to you, Dad.”
    And I tried to get information out of him and me and Michael had a little code. Even if it was January, he’d ask me, “Are the Phillies winning?” That means, “Don't ask

    50 min
  • Brad Milford From Building Stadiums to UNleashed and UNlimited
    Brad Milford is a business strategist, mental mastery expert and entrepreneurial product developer. U.S. Navy veteran and world traveler, he has built seven corporations and led, managed and grown more than a dozen businesses from 0-7 figures and beyond. He is best known for his campaign Brilliance to Billions, is the founder of the movement UNleashed and UNlimited and his online community Entrepreneur Escalation. Author and podcaster, his global impact continues to expand. He is proud to serve you today as a world-class master speaker, trainer, and coach.
    48 min

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We are all on a journey. Everything we do, our wins-losses, successes, and failures are all part of the adventure. These are the life lessons the shape us into who we become as we teach the world through our stories.