Garrett Boorojian and James Miller discuss relationship building in a team environment.

At the time of this interview, James was the Associate Head Coach of New Mexico State University. Since then, James has been the Assistant Coach and Associate Head Coach of Mississippi State University, and currently as the Associate Head Coach of Oklahoma State University.

Garrett first met James and his New Mexico Junior College team when Garrett was the play-by-play broadcaster for the NJCAA Region V Tournament in Lubbock, Texas, in 2013. James has two decades of collegiate coaching experience and, as an associate head coach, demonstrates great leadership, team and relationship building skills to become one day a top NCAA Men's Basketball Division I head coach.

James Miller's Professional Background:

• Oklahoma State University as Associate Head Coach (2024-Present)
• Mississippi State University as Associate Head Coach (2023–2024)
• Mississippi State University as an Assistant Coach (2022–2023)

• New Mexico State University as Associate Head Coach (2019–2022)
• New Mexico State University as an Assistant Coach (2018–2019)
• University of North Texas as an Assistant Coach (2017–2018)
• Arkansas State University as an Assistant Coach (2016–2017)
• University of Nebraska at Omaha as an Assistant Coach (2015–2016)
• New Mexico Junior College as Head Coach (2012–2015)
  • NJCAA Region V Tournament Championship (2013)
    • 77–23 record; 2013, 2014 and 2015 postseason appearances; 21 of Coach Miller's NMJC players continued their collegiate basketball careers in NCAA Division I programs, including at top-tier universities such as North Carolina State University, Texas Christian University, Oklahoma State University, and Texas Tech University
• New Mexico Junior College as an Assistant Coach (2009–2012)
• Colorado State University Pueblo as an Assistant Coach (2005–2009)

Garrett Boorojian and Del Harris discuss relationship building in a team environment.

Del, the 1995 NBA Coach of the Year, is a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, as well as other halls of fame, and has won countless basketball games, awards, and championships.

Del Harris' Professional Background and Accolades:

• Earlham College Quakers Head Coach (Richmond, Indiana, 1965–1974)
• Superior League Head Coach (Vaqueros de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, 1969–1975)
• Iberia Superstars Head Coach (Barcelona, Spain, 1975)
• American Basketball Association Assistant Coach (Utah Stars, 1975–1976)
• National Basketball Association Assistant Coach (Houston Rockets, 1976–1979)
• National Basketball Association Head Coach (Houston Rockets, 1979–1983)
• National Basketball Association Assistant Coach (Milwaukee Bucks, 1986–1987)
• National Basketball Association Head Coach (Milwaukee Bucks, 1987–1991)
• National Basketball Association Head Coach (Los Angeles Lakers, 1994–1999)
• FIBA World (Assistant Coach, 1998)
• Summer Olympics (Head Coach, China Men's National Basketball Team, 2004)
• National Basketball Association Assistant Coach (Dallas Mavericks, 2000–2007)
• National Basketball Association Assistant Coach (Chicago Bulls, 2008–2009)
• National Basketball Association Assistant Coach (New Jersey Nets, 2009–2010)
• FIBA Americas (Assistant Coach, 2011)
• National Basketball Association G League Head Coach (Texas Legends, 2011–2012)
• Holds a combined NBA Head Coaching record of 556–457 at the Houston Rockets, Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers
• Coached Basketball Hall of Famers such as Moses Malone, Calvin Murphy, Rudy Tomjanovich, Sidney Moncrief, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, Dirk Nowitzki, and Steve Nash
• National Basketball Association Western Conference Champions (Head Coach, Houston Rockets, NBA Finals Appearance, 1981)
• National Basketball Association Western Conference Champions (Assistant Coach, Dallas Mavericks, NBA Finals Appearance, 2006)
• FIBA World Championship (Assistant Coach, Bronze Medalist, 1998)
• FIBA Americas Championship (Assistant Coach, Bronze Medalist, 2011)
• Won the NBA Coach of the Year Award in 1995
• Won the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020
• Won the John W. Bunn Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019
• Won the Coach Wooden "Keys to Life" Award in 2014
• Won the Jerry Colangelo Award for Leadership in 2010
• Won the Puerto Rican League Championships (1973, 1974 and 1975)
• Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
• Earlham College Hall of Fame
• National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame
• Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame
• Actor: Appeared in Space Jam, Over the Top, In the House, Diagnosis Murder, Linc's, and Sweet Sweet Summertime

Garrett Boorojian and Tim Kurkjian discuss relationship building in a team environment.

Tim, a fellow Armenian, is a world-renowned sports journalist and baseball analyst at ESPN, as well as a book author.

Tim Kurkjian's Professional Background:

• Was a journalist at the Washington Star, Baltimore News–American, The Dallas Morning News, The Baltimore Sun, Sports Illustrated, CNN–SI, and is currently a journalist at ESPN for the past 25 years.

At ESPN:

• Tim has been featured on SportsCenter, Baseball Tonight, Monday Night Baseball, Wednesday Night Baseball, the network's coverage of the Little League World Series, and in ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com.

In 2022:

• The Baseball Hall of Fame honored Tim with the Baseball Writers' Association of America Career Excellence Award. Tim and his fellow recipients are recognized "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing."

Tim's three books:

• America's Game; Is This a Great Game, or What; I'm Fascinated by Sacrifice Flies

Garrett Boorojian and Lou Holtz discuss relationship building in a team environment.

On the 2011 ESPN / ABC College Football Live team, Garrett and Lou worked together in-studio during that season's college football season at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut.

Lou is a legendary college football head coach and member of the College Football Hall of Fame.

Lou Holtz's Professional Background and Accolades:

• Was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2020
• Was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2008
• Won the 1988 NCAA Division I National Championship as the Head Coach at the University of Notre Dame – Fiesta Bowl
• Won the 1968 National Championship as an Assistant Coach at the Ohio State University – Rose Bowl
• Holds a combined NCAA Head Coaching record of 249–132–7 at College of William & Mary, North Carolina State University, University of Arkansas, University of Minnesota, University of Notre Dame, and University of South Carolina
• Won 12 College Football Bowl Games
• Coached the NFL's New York Jets in 1976
• Won the Southern Conference Championship in 1970
• Won the Atlantic Coast Championship in 1973
• Won the Southwest Conference Championship in 1979
• Awarded the Paul "Bear" Bryant Award in 1977 and 1988
• Awarded the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award in 1977 and 1988
• Awarded the Sporting News College Football Coach of the Year Award in 1977 and 1988
• Won the Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award in 1977
• Won the Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year Award in 1972
• Won the Southwest Conference Coach of the Year Award in 1979
• Won the Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year Award in 2000

Host, Garrett Boorojian, talked to his listeners about:

• His purpose behind choosing relationship building in a team environment as the main topic of his podcast.
• Why relationship building is the essence of humanity.
• The necessary elements of relationship building.
• Several of the renowned and accomplished guests (including hall of famers, champions, and award winners) he's interviewed on his podcast, as Garrett briefly highlights the influential figures who had specific circumstances that had major impacts on their lives from a relationship building standpoint.
• How he faced and overcame adversity throughout his years as a teenager, and how four early, specific, relationship building experiences in 2005 and 2006 changed Garretts' life forever.
• How his former high school history teacher, mentor and friend, Robert (Bob) Bradshaw, and Garrett's basketball idol, the greatest basketball player of all time, Michael Jordan, had positive impacts on Garrett's life.
• What he was writing on 3x5 note cards that exemplified Garrett's relationship building process at work.
• Leaving a legacy with two key parts that should be included when giving back to communities and the world as a whole.
• Final words of advice for his listeners about relationship building.

Garrett's College and Professional Career Highlights:

• Elected as Freshman Class President in the Student Government Association at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina)
• Reported for the student–run Carolina Week program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)

• Graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication, at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
• Received a Political Journalism Certificate, through The Fund for American Studies' Institute on Political Journalism, at Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia)
• Interned at WUSA–TV, the CBS-affiliated news station (Washington, District of Columbia)
• Interned on Capitol Hill for a U.S. Congressman, Brad Miller, who represented, at the time, the 13th District of North Carolina (Washington, District of Columbia)
• Worked as a Desk Assistant at NBCUniversal on site at the NBC News Bureau (Washington, District of Columbia)
• Worked as a Studio Project Production Assistant at ESPN headquarters (Bristol, Connecticut)
• Worked as a Research Assistant at LakePoint Sports (Emerson, Georgia)
• Broadcasted as an independent sports play-by-play broadcaster (U.S. states of Georgia and Texas)
• Hosted, briefly, an ESPN and CBS–affiliated sports radio show (Raleigh, North Carolina)
• Earned real estate brokerage licenses (U.S. states of North Carolina and South Carolina)
• Served on the Board of Directors (SouthPark Chapter) for the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, which is now called the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance (Charlotte, North Carolina)
• Worked as the Managing Partner and Chief Development Officer at WaveCapital Partners (Represented clients in 10-12 U.S. states, on average, a year)
• Updated List: Interviewed on, or featured in, many media outlets including:
  • ABC7 Chicago
  • American Banker
  • Bloomberg Radio
  • CNN
  • Forbes
  • Fox Business Network
  • Fox 2 Detroit
  • Fox 11 Los Angeles
  • Fox News Channel
  • Fox 5 New York
  • ReadWrite
  • SiriusXM Business Radio Channel 132
  • Yahoo Finance TV