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Leadership & Relationships Episodes

Episodes focused on leading people well, building trust, communicating with clarity, navigating conflict, strengthening teams, and influencing without losing your values. Includes leadership under pressure, culture, collaboration, feedback conversations, and relationship dynamics at work and at home.
The Endless Layers of Leadership - Sarah Miller
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May 12, 2022

The Endless Layers of Leadership - Sarah Miller

On this unique episode of the show, Career Competitor meets The Media Mavens Podcast as Steve welcomes in CEO of Axis Entertainment and host of The Media Mavens Podcast, Sarah Miller. 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! As the CEO of Axis Entertainment, Sarah has built a an award-winning experiential agency that drives leadership, influence and authority th...
Utilizing Unique Traits to Affect Change - Shannon Russo
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May 5, 2022

Utilizing Unique Traits to Affect Change - Shannon Russo

A competitor who has not only forged an incredible career for herself but who has built a company that affects change in the career of so many more. Shannon Russo is the CEO and Founder of Kinetix and joins us to shed light on how a persons unique traits can advance their career. 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! In addition to the great insight Shannon p...
Q Williams: Serving your Core Identity and the Team's mission
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March 24, 2022

Q Williams: Serving your Core Identity and the Team's mission

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@careercom...
IBM Diversity & Inclusion Specialist - Devoreaux Walton
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Nov. 4, 2021

IBM Diversity & Inclusion Specialist - Devoreaux Walton

Today we welcome in Devoreaux Walton to the show and Devoreaux is here to tell us all about her role as the Diversity & Inclusion Learning Portfolio Manager for IBM. A professional that is clearly passionate about the work she does and thrives upon the potential to impact as many as she can, Devoreaux offers education to 340,000 employees across the globe within IBM. Furthermore, a more specific way to explain the work she does is through "behavioral change" as Devoreaux looks for collaborative ...
Sports Radio Host - Zach Bye
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May 20, 2021

Sports Radio Host - Zach Bye

On this episode we welcome in a true competitor of the media world in radio personality, Zach Bye as he shares his story of grinding his way to his dream role of hosting an afternoon sports radio show in the large market of Denver, Colorado. Along with former NFL & Denver Bronco star, Brendon Stokley, Zach is the host of Denver's biggest sports radio show "Stokley & Zach" and has built a career on the ideals of hard work, initiative, and resilience, with many other key attributes sprinkled in al...
COMPETITIVE CALL - "Competitive Community"
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Jan. 17, 2021

COMPETITIVE CALL - "Competitive Community"

Happy Monday to you all and here is a slice of what I hope to be accountability for you to start the week as I empower you all to analyze closely the community within which you compete daily. To those of you that are well-established success stories, now is not the time to rest on your laurels, now is the time to actually analyze new ways to compete by figuring out what sort of things you no longer need within your community. Let's not wait for things to go wrong, lets proactively compete even h...
Associate Commissioner at Conference USA - Tre Stallings
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Oct. 7, 2020

Associate Commissioner at Conference USA - Tre Stallings

The Associate Commissioner at Conference USA, Tre Stallings join us for this episode as we hear from this former Offensive Lineman at Ole Miss in College who was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the NFL, before heading into a career in sports administration. A man whose entire career was built upon taking pride in work ethic and details, Tre offers insight into the power of relationships, the need for us to listen better, and to find opportunities to “get our reps in” when it comes to buildi...
Manager for Player Engagement & player programs at the NFL, Darrel Young
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Sept. 29, 2020

Manager for Player Engagement & player programs at the NFL, Darrel Young

We welcome the Manager for Player Engagement and player programs with the NFL, Darrel Young to the show today who has a story of inspiration to share with us. A competitor that has experienced the best and most difficult parts of the professional game, Darrel was a football player within the NFL for many years before heading to the league office to a pursue a career he has been preparing for his entire life Darrel is a natural leader who is incredibly comfortable in his vision for the role he ca...