GrowthReady Podcast

A competitor across all chapters of her career to date joins us to discuss how best to utilize the competitor within to capitalize on career growth and performance. Maritza McClendon is the Director of Talent Development & Corporate Communications with Carters Inc. and is best known for being the first African American woman to represent the USA in swimming at an Olympic Games (Athens, 2004). Like what you heard on this episode? Be sure to rate the show and reach out to Steve Mellor at Steve@ca...

On this episode we welcome Danielle Mills Walden who is on a mission to help people achieve their full potential by showing them how to achieve a Champion's Mindset. Considering what we are about as a podcast, this was always going to be a harmonious conversation between 2 competitors with similar mindsets. Interested in how you can reach optimal levels of performance? Reach out to Steve Mellor at Steve@careercompetitor.com to set up a free 30-minute consultation today Danielle is a former inte...

With a unique and niche theme to this episode we welcome in journaling coach and founder of Good things come to those who Journal, Amanda Stern to get us all up to speed on the power that journaling can have to give you a competitive advantage within your career. Interested in how you can close the gap between your current expectations and your optimal potential? Reach out to Steve@careercompetitor.com to schedule your 30-minute free consultation Amanda tells the story of how her passion for jo...

The new owner and CEO of IDEA Health & Fitness, Amy Boone Thompson rejoins the show to tell us all about her recent career successes and the role that speaking things into existence has played in realizing these goals of hers. Head to Careercompetitor.com to learn all about Performance Coaching and what it could do for your career! A proven competitor within the health and fitness world, Amy has been working with great intention since her last appearance on the show 2 years ago (listen to that ...

A former Career Competitor guest joins us today to dive into the topic of prioritizing the souls of coaches in relation to how they are supported and cared for. Emotional and Leadership Coach Lee Povey rejoins the show to talk to us about his new venture, Coaches Soul (Coachesoul.com) that he co-founded with Myriam Glez of Athletes Soul. Take the time to reach out to Coach Steve at Steve@careercompetitor.com to set up your free 30-minute consultation and discover how he can facilitate the pursu...

We welcome Career Competitor Daniel Felt to the show who is the CEO of Kura Home (kurahome.com) and proven example of what it means to go beyond the role you have. **Learn more about our Performance Coaching & Culture Consulting services at Careercompetitor.com** Daniel came from a family of go-getters and witnessed examples growing up of how to consider being of greater use to another person or situation. Having learned the importance of finishing what you start through his life in sports, Dan...

On this episode we welcome a competitor of the sports and self-empowerment world in that of coach Eric Stefanski. Having built a career as a collegiate swim coach, Eric grew tired of applying a band aid to the same problems with his athletes and made a career shift to do something about it. 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! Eric shares his strategies to ...

A short episode uder 10 minutes where Steve shares a sentiment with listeners to create a competitive edge within their career. Be sure to take the time to reach out to Steve at Steve@careercompetitor.com to share with him your thoughts on how you relate to this message. Send a text Support the show Connect with Steve Mellor Stay connected and keep growing with Steve: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-mellor-cc/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/coachstevemellor Book Steve to ...

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 t...

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 ...

A Career Competitor across multiple fields already before he has even reached his 30th birthday, Aaron Golub joins us to explain how he made adversity happen for him as an athlete, as a financial professional, and today as an entrepreneur and keynote speaker. 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! Considered legally blind, Aaron attended Tulane university and...

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 y...

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 tr...

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...

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 entrepreneuria...

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, Bet...

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@careerco...

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 with...

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 m...

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. Interes...

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 champion...

A competitive call to set you up to avoid wasting time, negative talk, and overwhelm! When we can acknowledge a problem at hand and rectify it we are becoming a force of productivity that will undoubtedly steer us towards our optimal selves. That said, too many of us are guilty of losing sight of problems though negative talk and conversations that become less and less about the initial problem, to the point where the conversation itself is now the problem! Steve is here to make you more cons...

First interview of 2022 arrives with our guest, Lee Povey who provides insight into some of the key tools and perspectives in his coaching methods. This episode is about equipping you with the conscious tools required to bring your best self to your career daily and give yourself the opportunity to compete at the highest levels. Heralding from the UK and a former coaching career as an international cycling performance coach, Lee has now spent most of the last 2 years establishing himself as a l...

Welcome to a competitive call to start out 2022 as I present the notion of how we have been sold on being good enough throughout our lives. Whether we are willing to accept it or not a great deal of our upbringing was based around satisfying standards and doing enough. This mindset got us through school and into our careers, but when I look back on my passions as a child and look at the passions I pursue today, they were born out of an exposure to an elite mindset and standard. So what came fi...