GrowthReady Podcast with Steve Mellor

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Lead to a Space of Optimal Growth - COMPETITIVE CALL Apr 25, 2022

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Let's start the work week off right by getting competitively charged to lead people around towards their optimal self. As an aspiring leader, one of the greatest things you can do for both your career and the career of those around you is to facilitate optimal growth. As competitors we want to believe we are important enough to always be needed and available to make an impact, yet the greatest leaders provide skillset for others to thrive in their absence. This competitive call will provide you with the perspective of what it means to truly make an impact as a leader, and we look to the first tales of leadership ever told to do so.

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Evan Burk - Finding Intangibles to Drive Elite Performance Apr 14, 2022

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It's a coaching episode today as I welcome fellow coach, Evan Burk to the show. A keynote speaker and leadership coach, Evan sheds light on the competitive qualities that, first, paved his career as a football coach, before then establishing his own business.

Interested in enhancing your career through coaching? Be sure to email Steve Mellor at Steve@careercompetitor.com to request your free 30 minute competitive consultation today!

With his focus on uncovering the hidden traits required to drive elite performance for his clients, Evan's career journey is filled with examples of relying on competitive characteristics over talent. Within our discussion, Evan and Steve cover the topics of

Signature strengths of his that allowed him to advance
The misguided perception of talent over character
How elite performers handle feedback and strive to improve
Using reverse engineering to reveal intangibles you need to succeed

Be sure to head to https://www.coachevanburk.com to learn more about Evan's story and services, and don't forget to leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts!

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Seeing the Present through the Lens of the Past - COMPETITIVE CALL Apr 12, 2022

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A competitive call today that should challenge you to becoming a more present competitor within your career by letting go of your past. In order to facilitate the greatest performances within all aspects of our lives, it is paramount to not allow preconceived notions, judgments, or past experiences to shift how we process what we are experiencing in the now.

Steve dives into this journey of thought having watched Will Smith assault Chris Rock at the recent Oscars and could not help but be drawn into examining why Will Smith went to such extreme measures to react to an inappropriate joke. We all have situations each day where we can choose to interpret what we see before reacting, or we might over react because of what our past has influenced us to.

How canyon deliver your optimal self daily? How can you make sure you are able to compete within the present in order to optimize your career? Let Steve know your thoughts at Steve@careercompetitor.com

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Jack Karavich - Bringing an Idea to Life Apr 08, 2022

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Jack Karavich, Founder of Tigeraire joins the show to discuss his journey of having ideas, seeing many fail, but bringing a unique one to life. It only takes one, and this Career Competitor understands what it means to take a punch and get back up and keep fighting.

Interested in enhancing your performance through coaching? Be sure to email Steve Mellor at Steve@careercompetitor.com to request your free 30 minute consultation today!

Within our discussion we get to the core of the entrepreneurial mind and how it is driven by grit, perseverance, and a down right refusal to quit. Furthermore, through his lessons from the world of Tech and Corporate America, and most recently in his growth with Tigeraire, Jack has been able to learn what it means to recognize the value of an idea, and the path of bringing it to life!

This is an awesome episode for entrepreneurs but there is plenty of content for any competitor out there looking to optimize what it is they do on a daily basis. Be sure to head to Tigeraire.com to learn more about Jack and his company.

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Betsy Cerulo - What is Perspective without taking Action Apr 01, 2022

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We welcome in a life long entrepreneur and the CEO of Adnet/Accountnet, Betsy Cerulo to the show to tell us about her work experiences of resolving issues and representing those without a voice within a workplace culture.

Interested in enhancing your performance through coaching? Be sure to email Steve Mellor at Steve@careercompetitor.com to request your free 30 minute consultation today!

A recent author to the book, Shake it off Leadership; Achieving success through the eyes of our labels, Betsy has served minorities in the workplace for over 3 decades and is here to share with us the importance of taking action when we see things need to change

Steve and Betsy discuss a number of powerful topics including

Fighting to be heard for long enough to get people to listen
Ensuring the best people are hired no matter the demographic they represent or associate with
Responding to adversity with a leadership approach
Embodying empathy by striving to put yourself in the place of others

You can access her book by clicking on the title above and be sure to share this episode with anyone you feel could be impacted by its message.

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Q Williams: Serving your Core Identity and the Team's mission Mar 25, 2022

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On this episode Q Williams joins the show to offer insight on how we can best balance what we require from ourselves and what the team requires from us. Our career can pull us out of focusing on what is best for us as we become loyal to the cause and focus on expectations of others. Q is here to educate us on how we can serve our core identity and still be available as an optimal teammate!

Interested in enhancing your performance through coaching? Be sure to email Steve Mellor at Steve@careercompetitor.com to request your free 30 minute consultation today!

We open our discussion on the work Q has been doing throughout his life pertaining to encouraging men to be their truest self and embracing the importance of discussing hardships. The conversation moves towards how we become guilty of suppressing our greatest wants in order to do what is expected of us, and the long-term issues that can arise from that. The act of surrendering to the difficult situations we are in is something Q dives into and it can remove us from a place of feeling stuck.

So much of what we talk about on this episode can be summarized by the importance of slowing down, allowing ourselves to recognize we are struggling and might be lost, but that we can resolve things through creating purpose in where we can be of most use to ourselves and those around us.

For more on Q and his work be sure to head to https://www.q-williams.com/ and if you liked the episode be sure to leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts.

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The Right Intention can Define the Day - COMPETITIVE CALL Mar 22, 2022

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Steve Mellor introduces his COMPETITIVE CALL to challenge you to think about how the right act of intent can set you up to define the standard you go about your work day.

Interested in enhancing your performance through coaching? Be sure to email Steve Mellor at Steve@careercompetitor.com to request your free 30 minute consultation today!

Steve recently took up the act of writing from 5:30 - 6:30am over the past 2+ weeks now and it has revolutionized the clarity and presence of mind he has within his day. Even after years of working out and coaching before sun rise, it is this hour long act that has shifted his perspective on what it means to wake up with intention to fuel the rest of the day.

What does intention look like within your day? How can you wake up to an act of intent that redefines how you go about your work.?

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Benjamin Alexander - The Sequel to this legendary tale Mar 16, 2022

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We welcome back to the show the recently crowned Olympian, Benjamin Alexander who, last we spoke, was gearing up for his final attempts at qualifying for the Water Olympics for his country of Jamaica.

Interested in enhancing your performance through coaching? Be sure to email Steve Mellor at Steve@careercompetitor.com to request your free 30 minute consultation today!

It is fair to say that Benjamin is an incredible example of what it looks like to go all in on a goal in life, to do so with a massively supportive network, and to see the journey through to the very end.

Benjamin offers some inside information on the days up to his final attempts to qualify, presenting the concept of simply showing up some days in order to stay true to the mission at hand, and he offers his perspective on what he has in store now that the journey has come to an end.

You can find everything you need about Benjamin at Benji.ski on Instagram and be sure to give us a follow while you're there at career_competitor

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David McKnight: Prioritize Image when Planning for Success Mar 11, 2022

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We welcome in David McKnight, founder of McKnight Image Lab to discuss how those striving for success must consider some key principles in relation to their image. David is also the author to the book The Zen of Executive Presence; Build your business success through strategic image management and he offers some key takeaways from the book within the interview. Above all, this episode emphasizes how investing in your image can provide the competitive edge required to set yourself apart.

Interested in enhancing your performance through coaching? Be sure to email Steve Mellor at Steve@careercompetitor.com to request your free 30 minute consultation today!

Within the episode David presents his story of how he discovered this niche passion of his to help clients optimize their image, he talks about the investments he made in himself through education and qualifications to justify the quality of his service, and Dave and Steve quickly discover their shared interest in "encouraging people to act on intention."

Key insight to listen out for include

Consciousness towards your image awareness
Respecting the power of perception
Acknowledge and control the narrative
Understanding what to invest towards your goals

Be sure to go learn more about David's services at mcknightimagelab.com and be sure to order yourself a copy of his book while you are there.

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Bennie Brazell: The Mindset of a Champion Feb 25, 2022

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Competitiveness is within us all, but history shows that only a select few get to make a career of achieving the greatest goals of being a champion at what they do. Bennie Brazell has climbed the mountain of becoming a champion across numerous areas of his athletic career, both as an athlete and as a coach, and this competitor is highly driven to keep on doing this for a long time.

This episode is specifically about the traits and habits required, in Bennie's expert opinion, to deliver championship level results which can be intimidating to some of us. But the content provided will force anyone listening to ask themselves what are they willing to do, to sacrifice, and to embrace to reach their highest of goals.

Bennie Brazell is a Track & Field Assistant Coach at Louisiana State University. He joins the show to discuss his storied career of winning, firstly, as an athlete, and then, as a coach. As a student-athlete he was a 5-time NCAA Champion in Track and National Champion in football both at LSU in the early 2000's. He then returned to his Alma Mater in 2011 and has coached numerous individuals to NCAA Championships over the last decade and was a part of the staff that led the LSU Men's team to an NCAA outdoor championship in 2021.

Bennie provides insight into his upbringing and how it shaped his "don't back down" personality that embraced challenges thrown his way. In college, Bennie was a member of winning cultures created by Hall of Fame coaches in both Football and Track & Field and we get to learn all about his main takeaways from those. Finally, Bennie discusses his coaching approach that has provided consistently elite levels of performance.

Reach out to host, Steve Mellor at Steve@careercompetitor.com with your thoughts on the episode, leave a 5-star rating if you are listening on iTunes or Spotify, and also reach out to Steve if you are interested in a free 30-minute consultation for performance coaching.

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