"Figure out what your gift is so you can give it away."
What Is Your Gift?
Molly Fletcher is a trailblazer in every sense of the word-- a rare talent of business wisdom, relationship brilliance and unwavering optimism. A popular keynote speaker, she shares the unconventional techniques that helped her thrive as one of the first female sports agents in the high stakes, big ego world of professional sports and now a successful entrepreneur.
Formerly, as president of client representation for sports and entertainment agency CSE, Molly spent two decades as one of the world’s only female sports agents. She was hailed as the “female Jerry Maguire” by CNN as she recruited and represented hundreds of sport’s biggest names, including Hall of Fame pitcher John Smoltz, PGA TOUR golfer Matt Kuchar, broadcaster Erin Andrews, and basketball championship coaches Tom Izzo and Doc Rivers.
As she successfully negotiated over $500 million in contracts and built lasting
relationships, she also observed and adopted the traits of those at the top of their game. Molly shares her proven approach to negotiating in her company’s Game Changer Negotiation Training workshops, teaching people how to close more deals faster, while strengthening the relationship.
Molly has been featured in ESPN, Fast Company, Forbes and Sports Illustrated. A sought after motivational speaker, she delivers game changing messages to top companies, trade associations, and teams worldwide.
Molly is the author of four books: Fearless At Work; A Winner’s Guide to Negotiating; The Business of Being the Best; and The 5 Best Tools to Find Your Dream Career.
Molly currently serves on the board of directors for the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) and the national advisory board for the Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA).
Molly earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from Michigan State University while captaining the women’s tennis team. Molly’s energy and passion for life shines through everything she does. She finds her greatest joy at home in Atlanta with her husband Fred and their three daughters.
In this episode, Nick and Camala talk with Molly about unleashing your potential, finding your gift and embracing the ability to evolve.
Learn all about Molly and what it truly means to find your gift so that you can give it to others.'
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"It's not about how long you live. It's about how you choose to live your life."
Living Everyday With Intention and Meaning
Ben Newman is a highly regarded Performance Coach, International Keynote Speaker and Best-Selling Author, whose clients include Fortune 500 companies around the world, business executives, sales organizations and professional athletes in the NFL, PGA, NBA, MLB, UFC and NCAA.
Ben serves as a Special Consultant for the 17-time National Champion Alabama Football Program. In addition, he is the Performance Coach for the record setting 5-straight Division I National Football Champion North Dakota State Bison and Ben was recently named by Influencive.com as a TOP 10 Motivator in Sports.
In this episode, Nick and Camala talk with Ben about connecting to the process not the results, what it is that makes a champion and living a life of purpose.
Learn all about Ben and how you can live a life full of intention and meaning.
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"It really doesn't matter what you're trying to do as long as you keep trying to be a better person."
The Goal Must Always Be To Be A Better Person
In 2010 Shane Finn ran his first marathon. Since then he has ran 12 marathons in 12 days, 24 marathons in 24 days, cycled and ran across the US in 36 days, along with completing numerous other races all over the world. Shane's cousin Mary who suffers with Spina Bifida is his inspiration behind all that he does.
In this episode, Nick and Camala talk with Shane about his journey of running and cycling across the U.S. in 36 days, pushing yourself through hardships and having an inspiration behind what you do.
Learn all about Shane and how we can all aspire to different goals but at the end of the day the ultimate goal is to become a better person while doing it.
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"Success is an endurance race."
Want to have Success?
JJ Birden is an engaging communicator and a leading expert at helping individuals seize their opportunities in life.
Born and raised in Portland Oregon, JJ went to the University of Oregon where he was a two-sport star in Football and Track and Field. A 5'10", 157-pound wide receiver, JJ was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the 1988 NFL Draft and played nine seasons (Cleveland Browns, Dallas Cowboys, Kansas City Chiefs, and Atlanta Falcons). To play nine years in a profession where the average players career last an average of 3.2 years is something special. Two of those nine years was with Hall of Fame Quarterback Joe Montana. He certainly was not the biggest, strongest, or fastest guy on the field, but he knew how to seize his once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and maximize his success through dedication and hard work.
In his presentations, JJ shares lessons from his experience as a small man in a big man's game. JJ's time in the NFL helped shape the message that he now delivers to audiences around the world. After seeing the successes and failures of others at the highest level, he developed a set of principles that others could follow to achieve greatness, no matter how they defined it or what they're pursuing.
In this episode, Nick and Camala talk with JJ about seizing opportunities, finding your passion, and dealing with self doubt.
Learn all about JJ and how you can seize opportunities to maximize your potential.
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"Figure out who you want to be and make decisions in alignment with that."
Making Decisions For Your Future Self
Alan Stein, Jr. is a keynote speaker and author who spent 15+ years as a performance coach working with the highest-performing basketball players on the planet. He now teaches audiences how to utilize the same strategies in business that elite athletes use to perform at a world-class level.
Alan specializes in improving individual and organizational leadership, performance and accountability. He inspires and empowers everyone he works with to take immediate action and improve mindset, habits and productivity which is what makes him one of the top motivational speakers you’ll ever hear.
In this episode, Nick and Camala talk with Alan about pursuing what you love, being the best version of yourself and mastering the unseen hours.
Learn all about Alan and how you can be a person that makes decisions that benefit your future.
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"We all need motivation to keep doing what we love to do."
Look, Feel and Perform Your Best
Maggie Berghoff is a nurse practitioner-turned-health entrepreneur who has worked with founders, celebrities and leaders to help them develop a healthy lifestyle from the inside out. Maggie is specialized in functional medicine, which corrects imbalances in the body, to develop peak performance.
At 22, Maggie had suddenly put on an extra 50lbs in a few months, amongst many other symptoms. Which led to a mini stroke. Maggie was discharged with a host of diagnoses and medications she was going to have to take. The doctor’s told Maggie she was going to be on IV Therapy the rest of her life. Yet, Maggie wasn’t going to let them decide how she was going to live her life. Within 6 months after turning to functional medicine, Maggie was able to heal her body from head to toe.
In this episode, Nick and Camala talk with Maggie about how she healed her body, how you can maximize your health and staying motivated to do what we love.
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"There's no such thing as getting ready, you have to be ready for anything and everything."
Staying Ready For Your Opportunity
Marcus Peterson is a young man that resides from Inglewood, California. While growing up, some peers and his teachers told him that he'd probably never graduate middle, high school nor leave Los Angeles.
Peterson continues to prove them wrong by growing up to becoming a world traveler and professional NFL player. He even received his MBA degree in global business finance, in England.
Peterson is more interested in helping other people now by getting involved in humanitarian work. His passion project has started by helping feed, cloth, and educate the homeless throughout Spain, Los Angeles, Miami, United Kingdom , France, and the Middle East.
In this episode, Nick and Camala talk with Marcus about being persistent, staying ready for your moment and building a personal brand.
Learn all about Marcus, his story and where it's led him to today.
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"You can drink all the green smoothies but if you haven't mastered your mind you're only half way there."
Master Your Mind to Achieve Overall Health
Melissa Ambrosini is the bestselling author of Mastering Your Mean Girl and Open Wide, host of number one podcast 'The Melissa Ambrosini Show', a motivational speaker and self-love teacher. Named a 'self-help guru' by Elle Magazine, her message — that love is sexy, healthy is liberating, and wealthy isn’t a dirty word — has inspired women across the globe to activate their dreams and live life on their own terms.
In this episode, Nick and Camala talk with Melissa about turning your life around, mastering your mind and accomplishing your dreams.
Learn all about Melissa and how to master your mind to live an overall healthy life.
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"The goal must always be to be happy. If you're happy, you're successful."
With Happiness Comes Success
Alex Kline is High School Basketball Manager/Waterboy turned National High School Basketball Recruiting Analyst turned NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans Front Office member. Also notably at the age of 19 Alex was on the Forbes Top 30 Under 30 list which also included Lebron James, Kevin Durant and Usain Bolt .
At age 15 Alex founded The Recruit Scoop, an exposure platform giving high school basketball players exposure to college coaches and fans around the world. He also runs the Mary Kline Sports and Business Symposium, in honor of his mother, Mary Kline.
The Mary Kline Sports and Business Symposium connects those in the sports industry to those looking to get involved. Since 2000, the event has raised more than $150,000 for cancer awareness and research at Thomas Jefferson University and the National Brain Tumor Society.
In this episode, Nick and Camala talk with Alex Kline about how his traumatic childhood led him to starting a foundation in his mother's name, building success at a young age and the importance of happiness.
Learn all about Alex and why happiness is the key to success.
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"What you're learning at barre3 is to honor your truth and move in a way that's honest for what you need in that moment."
Staying True To Your Mission
Sadie Lincoln is the co-founder and CEO of barre3, a fitness company focused on teaching people to be balanced in body and empowered from within. Starting in 2008 with the flagship studio in Portland, Oregon, barre3 has grown to include more than 150 franchise studios powered by female entrepreneurs, plus an online-workout streaming-subscriber base in 98+ countries. What started as a workout has blossomed into a full-blown movement made up of millions of people focused on body positivity, being empowered, and redefining what success in fitness means.
Sadie is on Inc.'s Female Founders 100 list, has been featured on NPR's How I Built This, and speaks regularly on the topics of mindful leadership, the power of body wisdom, and the movement to redefine what success in fitness means. Beyond running her company and being a global spokesperson, Sadie still enjoys teaching barre3 classes to many of her founding clients in her hometown of Portland, Oregon.
In this episode, Nick and Camala talk with Sadie Lincoln about starting the empowering workout classes known as barre3, staying true to your mission, and the importance of being present.
Learn all about Sadie and how she started the empire barre3.
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"My life changes every 6 months, therefore my routine changes, my schedule changes, and then I have to change my workouts."
Adapting To Change
For 10 years Brianne Theisen-Eaton dedicated her life to winning an Olympic medal. After graduating from the University of Oregon, Brianne went pro signing a contract with Nike and winning a Bronze medal in the Heptathlon in the 2016 Olympics.
During her professional career she became very passionate about food and healthy eating as it had a huge impact on her performance. After working with a number of world-renowned scientists and sports physiologists she began to read books, educate myself on nutrition, and create healthy recipes for herself and her husband, Ashton, who was also a professional track and field athlete and a 2-time Olympic gold medalist in the decathlon.
After stepping away from the sport in 2016 Brianne went back to school to become a Functional Medicine Specialist and is working on her Board Certification in Holistic Nutrition. Today, she helps people address the underlying causes of their health concerns (instead of just treating the symptoms and “bandaiding” them) so that they can get well and stay well without unnecessary drugs or surgery. She uses diagnostic tools (lab work, food sensitivity testing, stool testing) to find the root causes and get a whole picture of what’s actually going on in your body.
She lives in San Francisco, California with her husband Ash, and their dog, Zora.
In this episode, Nick and Camala talk with Brianne Theisen-Eaton, 2x Olympian and 2016 Olympic Bronze Medalist in the heptathlon, about adjusting to a well-balanced life after retiring from her professional track & field career.
Learn all about Brianne and what she's up to today.
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"You've gotta have the humility to take direction...but that doesn't mean you don't get to lead."
Leadership Starts With Being Able To Lead Yourself
Kevin wrote a best-selling book on, “Leadership Interrupted.” He founded Fieldhouse Media to help college athletes, coaches and administrators be better on social media, and he’s helping leaders and teams create championship culture with Culture Wins, a division of GiANT Worldwide. He has presented and spoken on more than 180 college campuses and national conventions over the past 8 years. He’s been quoted by places like ESPN, The New York Times and USA Today. Kevin is fueled by coffee, reads a lot of books and runs a lot of miles. He lives in OKC with his incredible wife Megan, and three boys Gabe, Noah and Asher.
In this episode, Nick and Camala talk with Kevin DeShazo, founder of Fieldhouse Media, about guiding college athletes and coaches to be intentional when building their personal brand on social media, and how leadership always starts with being able to lead yourself.
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"Technology is a great servant but bad master."
Why Eliminating Distractions Will Lead To Happiness
Gretchen Rubin is one of today’s most influential and thought-provoking observers of happiness and human nature. She’s known for her ability to distill and convey complex ideas with humor and clarity, in a way that’s accessible to a wide audience.
She’s the author of many books, including the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers Outer Order, Inner Calm, The Four Tendencies, Better Than Before, and The Happiness Project. She has an enormous readership, both in print and online, and her books have sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide, in more than thirty languages. (The Happiness Project spent two years on the bestseller list.)
On her top-ranking, award-winning podcast “Happier with Gretchen Rubin,” she discusses happiness and good habits with her sister Elizabeth Craft.
She’s been interviewed by Oprah, eaten dinner with Daniel Kahneman, walked arm-in-arm with the Dalai Lama, had her work written up in a medical journal, and been an answer on the game show Jeopardy!
In her work, she draws from cutting-edge science, the wisdom of the ages, lessons from popular culture, and her own experiences to explore how we can make our lives happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative.
Gretchen Rubin started her career in law and was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor when she realized she wanted to be a writer. Raised in Kansas City, she lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.
In this episode, Nick and Camala talk with Gretchen eliminating the distractions, taking control of our time and being mindful of happiness.
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