Lauren Johnson’s Adventure: College Soccer, Sports Psychology, Mental Performance Coach (E.016)
In this episode, you get to meet Lauren Johnson. I met Lauren at the Brand You Live event in Denver, Colorado in April 2022 through Mike Kim.
Lauren thought she would get into Physical Therapy coming out of high school. Still, when a career-ending soccer injury happened, gaining her fifth concussion, she discovered that the body is not the only thing that needs therapy after an injury. The mental health challenges around athletic injuries can be challenging for athletes to recover from.
She prided herself on executing the right things as a player and takes that mentality into her profession. The characteristics that made her a good soccer player: work ethic, attention to detail, and ability to learn at a high level translate very well to the real world.
Those traits took her to the New York Yankees as a mental performance coach before she launched into leading her own company.
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Bari Richter’s Adventure: Casino Management, Sign Business Owner and an Ultimate Connector (E.015)
In this episode, I get to introduce you to someone who has been key in expanding the network of people I know, Bari Richter. Bari had aspirations for vet school but found that the academic path wasn’t for her, but on her way to finding her sweet spot in helping business owners, she studied psychology and business.
In that Career Adventure, she found the traits she looked for in hiring people was an overall good attitude, but they needed to be willing to learn, contribute and be a team player. If that was the case, they would be successful under her leadership.
We learn about her path into the Casino business and out of it, that is when she found where she is supposed to be, and it includes networking for others, not just for herself.
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Tara McFarland’s Adventure: Civil Engineer, Geological Engineering, Dam Engineer
In this episode, we talk to a former engineer now turned coach, that found her way to helping others now after having some great experiences in a very technical profession. However, she learned that technical skills do not prepare you for leadership roles as you climb the company ladder.
We will listen to Tara’s account of how others had plans and ideas for her life that she followed. From being told to be an engineer because she was good at math and the path that took.
She did find purpose in her work overseeing many Dams in the western part of the US, but she wondered if she was an imposter or fraud when she was placed in some roles. She had to act qualified to do them, not for others, but for herself.
A feeling that many of us tend to have in our professions.
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Alvin Cowan’s Adventure: Ivy League QB, Actor, Writer, Producer
Meet Alvin Cowan is the guest on this episode, and it was great to meet him through a mutual connection and to hear his Career Adventure from being a quarterback at Yale and not wanting to follow the “usual’ path of those alumni to work on Wall Street or for a U.S. Senator. He still had NFL aspirations, but that didn’t pan out for him.
That took him to Romania and Eastern Europe where he discovered an interest in show producing through some questionable business practices that sent him to California to pursue acting, although he had no previous experience.
Once he was able to take off the “armor” his acting coach told him he had, he found some traction in that work and even shot a scene in the Clint Eastwood movie American Sniper with Bradley Cooper.
As with football, he found acting was a passion he had, but he found a real purpose in the work behind the camera in the writer's room.
He has had recent success with his podcast American...
From Come Rain or Shine Podcast: Preparing Youth for the Future
On this episode of Come Rain or Shine, Nate Clayberg, Founder of Career Adventure Academy, joins the show to discuss his role as a student mentor and career coach.
An economic developer at heart, Nate unpacks his path to education and why he loves advising youth on career possibilities beyond graduation. With many assessment tools in existence, Nate’s goal is simple: To help students discover their giftings and envision their future for a purposeful life.
Granted, Nate admits college can be a time for trial and error. However, by providing his resources, Nate hopes to inspire clarity for the next generation of leaders at a younger age.
To discover more about his Discovery Course or subscribe to his podcast, check out his website below.
Resources:
Website – https://www.nateclayberg.com/
Connect with Dan:
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/dancockerell/
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Amanda Lynch’s Adventure: Collegiate Swimmer, Personal Trainer, Senior Advocate
Many of my guests I met while they were in their careers. In this episode, you get to meet Amanda Lynch, a family friend that I knew as a teenager and followed her life after high school to collegiate swimming at the University of Northern Iowa, and then see her make a choice to move on from the pool to discover life in exercise science and into a world that has helped many seniors live healthier lives through the Fortified Life with the Western Home Communities.
We talk about mental health, making tough choices, and taking advantage of opportunities that don’t always happen as soon as you want them to.
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Bill Jordan’s Adventure: Radio Show Host, Boomer, Author
This is a treat for me, as I get to bring one of my career mentors in broadcasting, Bill Jordan, on the podcast. I met bill in 1996 when I interned for Bill & Sheri in the Morning on Mix 101.5 in Raleigh, North Carolina. That experience took me away from Iowa to face reality on my own. Not only did I learn a tremendous amount of things about radio, but I also met Duke Coach Mike K and Darius Rucker from Hootie and the Blowfish.
Today, Bill has retired from the radio business but keeps busy still announcing (you will hear him at the open and close of this podcast), being a grandfather, and started a movement with ‘Embrace the Boom’ that created coffee mugs, YouTube videos and now it has made him an author. - GET THE BOOK
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Matt Kroeger’s Adventure: College Admissions, Micro Scholarships, Bone Marrow Register Advocate
In this episode, I get to introduce you to Matt Kroeger, a former college admissions leader, then a part of a start-up micro-scholarship company, and now recruits college students to register themselves to be donors to the National Bone Marrow Program through Be the Match.
Matt says it’s never too late to try something new.
The links to reference from this episode:
- Matt on Linkedin
- Matt on Twitter
- Be the Match on Instagram
- Be the Match - National Bone Marrow Donor
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Ben Killoy's Adventure: Marine, Engineer, Dad Coach
In this episode, we meet Ben Killoy and get to learn how a bouncy house took him to the Marine Corp. Then how the Marine Corp took him on a journey of learning a trade, which then has led him to a revelation on how electricity is energy and how people are energy too.
This led him to find a new life with his family after being let go from his job as an engineer. Now he is helping Dad’s everywhere do better.
The links to reference from this episode:
- Ben on Linkedin
- Ben on Twitter
- Ben on Instagram
- Ben’s Podcast
- Ben Killoy - The Business of Fatherhood (Get his FREE Guide)
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TaJ? 008. Debby (Krusz) Kruszewski's Adventure: Corporate Operations, Dream Pollinator
In this episode, from a dream of being a dancer, Debby's life then moved forward to business school.
She found that business operations was the path for her, and spent many years working the late shift for a printing company. She knew that life didn't sit right for her, but she thought that a role in management will make her more engaged, even after getting a master's degree. But her work experience didn't get any better, especially when you have to cut budgets and cut workers loose.
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