The Circuit of Success Podcast with Brett Gilliland

Chip Wilson is the founder of Lululemon, Hold It All, and the Wilson 5 Foundation. He is a husband and father of 5 boys. Chip was a competitive swimmer and now likes salsa, reading, and doing the grouse grind. He was born in California, raised in Calgary (Alberta, Canada) and now he lives in Kitsilano, Vancouver. Chip is  committed to being a lifelong learner and over the past 60 years (23 thousand something days), he’s learned some things. He likes to think of how the world is changing, how retail is evolving, and how technical apparel is altering how we think about clothes. Chip always wanted a platform to share his learnings, thoughts, ideas, and creative expressions.

Howard Behar is a renowned business leader, author, speaker, and mentor who has influenced the lives of numerous men and women at all stages of their careers and at all levels and roles. Shaped by his experiences working in his parents Seattle market, schooled in operations and management in consumer-oriented retail business, and part of the leadership triumvirate that built the Starbucks brand, Behar is the ultimate “servant leader” who is known for such memorable lessons as “The Person Who Sweeps the Floor Should Choose the Broom” and “Only the Truth Sounds Like the Truth.”

For 21 years Behar led Starbuck’s domestic business as President of North America, and he became the founding President of Starbucks International opening the very first store outside of North America in Japan. During his tenure, he participated in the growth of the company from only 28 stores to over 15,000 stores spanning five continents. He served on the Starbucks Board of Directors for twelve years before retiring.

Howard now serves on the boards of several for-profit and non-profit organizations, including Education Element, iD Tech, The School of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University. He is on the advisory boards of Anthos Capital, University of Washington Foundation, and a Trustee for The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation.

Howard is committed to the development and education of our future leaders and has been a longtime advocate of the Servant Leadership Model. After the successful publication of his first book, It’s Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Leadership from a Life at Starbucks (Portfolio, 2008), Howard now travels the world speaking to leaders, corporations, and students. His motivational message inspires everyone to be servant leaders and to lead with their values first.

Behar lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife Lynn, and enjoys spending time with his children and five grandchildren. Boating is his favorite hobby, exploring the waterways from Seattle to Alaska.

Throughout a lifetime of filling his cup, Howard has sustained a work ethic and level of integrity which has had a profound impact on his own life the hundreds and even thousands of people who have been touched by his example.

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Tom Satterly is a highly decorated combat veteran, who along with his teammates, was portrayed in the Oscar Winning 2001 film: Black Hawk Down.

Tom served in the Army 25 years, 20 in the US Military’s most elite Tier One unit, Delta Force, and has been involved in and led some of our nations most important campaigns.

As a member of Delta Force, Tom has been deployed countless times, and led hundreds of missions. Beyond Tom’s proven experience of leadership and critical decision making in high-risk environments, Tom also has fought and is winning his own “silent war” off the battlefield, at one time coming close to taking his own life and becoming a statistic. His innate strengths of courage, perseverance, and “can do” attitude has saved his life countless times.

Knowing we all have our personal battles we fight, Tom chooses to share his story with others in order to help them overcome their personal obstacles. He takes an honest approach to sharing his unique life lessons both in his military career and personal life in order to connect with his audience on how they too can succeed despite any challenges they may encounter.
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Deon Thomas has earned his spot amongst the legends who have played basketball in the Big-Ten Conference.

The 1989 graduate of Neal F. Simeon High School, Thomas is one of the most decorated high school basketball players ever to play in the United States. After his senior season, Thomas was selected to participate in the McDonald’s High School All-American Game and was unanimously chosen as “Mr. Basketball” for the state of Illinois.  Thomas chose to attend the University of Illinois on a basketball scholarship, choosing the Fighting Illini from more than 150 schools that offered him a scholarship to play college basketball.

Thomas’ four-year career at Illinois can best be described as superb. Thomas left the Fighting Illini as the school’s all-time leading scorer with 2129 points and shot-blocker with 177. He is the only player to score more than 2000 points in school history.

While at Illinois, Thomas became one of the Fighting Illini’s best players in program history as he was named to the All-Century Team 20-man roster in 2004. Thomas earned All-Big Ten honors and team MVP laurels in 1992, 1993 and 1994, including honorable mention All-American status in his final season. Aside from being Illinois’ all-time leading scorer and shot blocker, Thomas ranks first in made field goals (803) and fourth in career rebounds (846). His career-high of 39 points was against University of Illinois-Chicago on Dec. 30, 1991, which ranks tied-for-seventh all-time in program history.

After his senior season, Thomas was the 28th selection in the 1994 NBA Draft by the Dallas Mavericks. Thomas eschewed the NBA and chose to play overseas. What a decision it turned out to be.

Thomas played 15 seasons in Europe and is regarded as one of the best American-born players ever to play overseas. He began his professional career in Spain where he played for four different teams over a four-year period. In 1998, Thomas was signed by Maccabi RiShon LeZion in Israel and then he competed with a team in the Grand Canary Islands from 1999-2001. After returning to Spain for a two-year stint and one season in Turkey, Thomas came back to Israel and played for Maccabi Tel Aviv from 2003-05, winning the Israel Cup and Championship and the Euroleague Title twice. Thomas then played in Greece and Bulgaria for consecutive seasons before returning to Israel for the final two years of his professional career.

After coming back to the United States, Thomas was head coach at Lewis & Clark Community College from 2009-13 and was an assistant coach at University of Illinois-Chicago from 2014-15.

In 2016, Thomas embarked on a new career path that will allow him to enlighten basketball fans with his knowledge of the game. Beginning with the 2016-17 season, Thomas began providing commentary on University of Illinois radio broadcasts and was hired to be an in-studio analyst for the Big-Ten Network, based in Chicago.

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