Stay ConnectedWhat do most Fortune 500 executives have in common? They learned important lessons on the fields and courts of their high school and collegiate sports teams. This is true for both men and women. Ernst & Young found that a whopping 94% of women holding a C-suite position, played sports.
Join 13-time New York Times Best-Selling Author Don Yaeger on his journey to sit with some of the brightest executives in the world as we discuss how sports shaped their professional trajectory in life.
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Ep. 86: Mari rose to Senior Vice President as Intuit grew from 30 to 3,000 employees and went from $7 million to $700 million in revenue. She has fashioned a 20+ year career in which she has held CEO, President, and SVP positions in startups and Fortune 50 companies and built some of the world's most successful consumer brands, including Quicken (Intuit, Inc.), BabyCenter (Johnson & Johnson), and Diner Dash (PlayFirst Mobile Games).
As a three-sport athlete in high school, Mari opted not to try out for Stanford's track team and satisfy her competitive drive playing intramurals, eventually helping her team win the Intramural Co-Ed Flag Football championship. "Winning that championship was nothing to sneeze at," Mari said.
Neither is the passion, experience, and perspective Mari brought to every endeavor, including board roles, advising CEOs, mentoring entrepreneurs, and advancing women in leadership.
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Special thanks to Florida State's Savannah Hill for making this episode possible.
Ep. 85: With 1M TikTok followers — tripple any Major League Baseball team — the minor league baseball team in Savannah, Georgia creates raving fans. In this episode, the team's owner Jesse Cole helps you design the ultimate customer experience through tools that identify friction points in your current processes. Visit https://donyaeger.com/corporate-competitor-podcast/episode-85/ for a free gift and today's show notes!
You Will Learn:
(5:00) How to use "Idea Paloozas" to grow good ideas from the seeds of bad ideas.
(10:00) The "secret shopper" method Jesse uses to learn how fans really feel.
(15:30) Why customer experience trumps sales and revenue metrics every day.
(17:00) How to identify points of friction in your company. (Hint: NOT surveys!)
(26:30) How to have more fun at work.
(30:00) How to recharge through an "energy audit" of your calendar.
(36:00) How to create a vision like Walt Disney.
Special thanks to Florida State's Lauren Hafner for making this episode possible.
Ep. 84: Tennessee Basketball shaped the first woman to dunk in a nationally televised basketball game. At six-foot-five inches tall, the Pensacola native commands a sweeping view of the impact sports can have on business leadership. "As you progress in your life, you'll only be alone if you don't bring someone along with you," she observed. Michelle has been mentored by some of the best and she constantly reaches back to make sure that she is bringing others along.
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Episode breakdown:
Special thanks to Florida State's Brian Schnorr for making this episode possible.
Ep. 83: When Chris became the first person with Down syndrome to complete an IRONMAN Triathlon, he etched his name in the Guinness Book of World Records and received the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance from Tim Tebow at the ESPYS. The process that got Chris over the finish line was a self-improvement model they developed called 1% Better. Today, they share this model with organizations teaching that while you may never be "the best," you can be 1% better when you stop imposing self-limitations and begin the journey to reach your goals.
You will learn:
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Ep. 82: Dr. Rice was the first woman on the College Football Playoff Committee and one of the first two women to be invited to join the previously all-male Augusta National Golf Course. You may know her as Secretary of State, National Security Advisor, and Director of Stanford's Hoover Institution, but in this episode, you will learn her background as a figure skater, tennis player, and a football savant. Her football coach father taught her so much about the game, she could break down defenses at just six years old!
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Ep. 81: Football and basketball shaped Don Yaeger! This episode caps off a month of podcasts featuring John C. Maxwell's League of Extraordinary Leaders: Joel Manby, Valorie Burton, Tim Elmore, and Jeff Henderson. In this episode, you will learn:
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Ep. 80: Basketball shaped this leader who Chick-Fil-A CEO Dan Cathy called "one of the five greatest people ever to work at Chick-Fil-A." Jeff has founded a new company called The For Company, which helps individuals and organizations achieve excellence by answering two key questions: "What are we known for? And what do we want to be known for?"
The leader's job is to engage his or her team in answering these questions and then, in the role of servant-leader, work to align each team member's dreams, goals, and special talents with the mission of "shrinking the gap" between what you are known for now and what you want to be known for.
You will learn:
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Ep. 79: Track shaped this author of 37 books. Tim Elmore has helped sports powerhouses like Ohio State and LSU, and corporate juggernauts like Home Depot and Chick-fil-A, improve team performance by visualizing excellence while learning to embrace ideas that may seem contradictory at first but can lead to great insight.
You will learn:
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Ep. 78: Valorie has been featured on the Today Show, Dr. Oz, and now she is joining four other distinguished writers and motivational speakers as part of John C. Maxwell's League of Extraordinary Leaders. She grew up participating in track and gymnastics until she reached high school, at which point she discovered two life-changing activities: cheerleading and leadership! An only child and daughter of a career military man, Burton took naturally to leadership on the first real "team" she ever joined. Although she recalls being a bit too "Patton-like" as a young leader, she took away lessons that served her well as the author of 13 books and founder of Coaching and Positive Psychology Institute (CaPP), headquartered in Atlanta.
Lessons include: The 3:1 principle of good to bad news and the ratio is critical to building strong teams, and how to begin meetings with a "win or a grin" moment.
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+Connect with Valorie: ValorieBurton.com and CaPPInstitute.com,
Ep. 77: Albion College baseball shaped this business icon. When Joel Manby took over as CEO of SeaWorld, the company was smack in the middle of national controversy following the 2013 release of the documentary Blackfish. Learn how he led with love and came to an agreement with the Humane Society through dialogue, not monologue, in this episode. You will learn:
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