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Join us as Mark Schreiber, President of the St. Louis Sports Commission, shares insights into the sports landscape in St. Louis. Discussing upcoming events, bidding for championships, and the vibrant college sports scene, Schreiber provides a glimpse into the efforts to position St. Louis as a top sports destination.

Kevin Thompson is the Co-Founder of the Thompson Burton Law Firm in Franklin and Nashville, Tennessee. Kevin graduated from the University of Tennessee with a BA in Political Science and then earned his Juris Doctorate from the Tennessee School of Law. While at UT, Kevin was a track athlete and earned All-American honors in the Decathlon, and participated on two SEC and NCAA National Championship Teams. Kevin is a serial entrepreneur and is passionate about redefining the art of law.   

Show Notes:

• Kevin shares his family origin story and his grandfather coming to the United States from Italy and how it created a family legacy that impacts him to this day.
• Kevin's grandfather participated on three National Championship Football teams and the Notre Dame. ('44, '45, and '47)
• What did athletics teach Kevin? Failure is part of the success process. 
• (11:00) "I am trying to teach young lawyers that success compounds over time. Young people do not like the period of embarrassment where they are bad and they don't hang in there long enough for compounding to work for them."
• Our generation's greatest investor is Warren Buffett and 99% of the wealth he has today was generated after the age of 65. This is not an example of "it is never too late to start" but rather he started at age 14 and allowed compounding to work in his favor over time!
• (14:00) What are the dangers of helicopter parents? How can you stunt your children's success by being TOO involved? Give them space to grow and learn.
• (16:00) The origin story of Thompson Burton Law firm.
• Taking risk is critical for success.
• "More is caught than taught. Everything changed for me when my son Luke was born. I knew I had to model the right behaviors."
• (26:00) How do you make a stand? Dive deep into an issue and get to understand every aspect of the issue and take a position on it.
• "The cleaner the space and the more well-defined the rules the less opportunity there is. The messier the space that is less defined has great opportunity."
• (30:00) How will AI impact the legal profession? Why AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ChatGPT is a meteor heading for the legal profession.
• "The value a great lawyer brings is years of experience and judgment."
• ***Key Principle of Success*** "Be a person worthy of a partnership!" Partnerships are not 50/50...don't look at the world that way. Always be looking for ways to give and serve more than the other party.
• (40:00) Walt and Kevin laid a foundation of compensation that was very different from other professional firms. Comp was objective and transparent and it has brought the best entrepreneurial attorneys to their firm because it of the business model.
• Charlie Munger, "When in doubt, focus on the incentives of an organization."
• What does Kevin look for in employees and partners?
• "Invest on the trend line, not the dot!"
• (57:00) "If I was starting over at 25, this is one thing I would do to be successful..."
• "Try to find ways to create value!" 
• (1:00:00) "What are you optimizing your life for?"
• (1:08:00) Thoughts on the economy for 2023 and blockchain and cryptocurrencies...
• (1:17:00) What would Kevin say if he was given the opportunity to give a state of the union address to the American people?
• Book Recommendations
  • Range: Why Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World by David Epstein
  • Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor
  • The End of the World is Just the Begining by Peter Zeihan

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We talk with sub-4 miler and senior care reformer Bryan Lindsay about his running career and how he’s building a model for senior care that works.

Bryan’s Running Career
- Some thoughts on camaraderie between competitors and what the “right” approach is to associating with other athletes at competitions
- His friendships he created with the other top runners and how that eventually led them to all compete together at BYU
- The motivation he got from trying to figure out what the top teams in his region were doing and his subscription to Track and Field News
- How he read a book about Olympic athletes who shared his faith and that also contributed to his belief he could achieve his goals
- His focus on achieving his potential and finding his personal limits
- How he was already planning out his path to the Olympics at age 26 when he was a sophomore in high school, and the importance of engaging and and studying your craft
- His experience serving a mission for his church in Portugal, and how that affected his overall career
- How he went six years without a personal best due to his mission and repeated injuries
- His experience breaking the four-minute barrier with Jon at the Rafer Johnson/Jackie Joyner-Kersee Invitational in 2005 (and experiencing Diddy Riese cookies)
- Finishing second at the NCAA Championships for 1500m and the opportunity that created to run professionally with New Balance
- How he’s transitioned to doing triathlons now, and setting his Masters PRs

Restoracy and Transforming Senior Care
- Going back to school and getting a Master’s in Health Administration
- Working in health care and for large institutional nursing homes
- His startup long-term healthcare facility called The Restoracy, which centers around making the nursing home experience feel more like a real home
- How he took one big idea from his running: have big goals and go after them knowing there are risks, so do it with the best plan you can create
- The initial feedback he is receiving and why he believes his company is a better model for long-term care in the future
- And finally, what Go Be More, means to Bryan

If you liked this episode, check out our interviews with coach/trainer Ben Auerbach and Olympian Khadevis Robinson.

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Recorded September 2, 2020.

References:

The Restoracy - website

1999 NCAA Championships 1500m Final - YouTube

2005 Rafer Johnson/Jackie Joyner-Kersee Invitational Mile - YouTube

2005 NCAA Championships 1500m Final - YouTube

Diddy Riese cookies - website

Guest:

Bryan Lindsay - @BYUMiler_Bryan, 

Hosts:

Bryan Green - @sendaibry, Go Be More Blog

Jon Rankin - @chasejonrankin, Go Be More

Links:

Go Be More website

Go Be More YouTube Channel

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