Compete Every Day with Jake Thompson | A Show for Driven Leaders

The Right Frame of Mind When Ed Molitor published an article about competing every day, it immediately caught my attention. I was impressed with him and his business and I’m excited to have him on the show. Ed is the Founder of the Molitor Group , a leadership development and personal growth organization. Ed’s leadership skills, traits and behaviors are the reasons he has realized such great succe...

Shama Hyder is a thought leader and one of the leading individuals in the online space. She is a web and TV personality, a bestselling author, and the award-winning CEO of The Marketing Zen Group – a global online marketing and digital PR company. I met Shama at Social Media Marketing World and I was impressed by how she built both her business and her brand. Shama has not let any factor in her li...

LOVE WHAT YOU DO Christine Reppa is the longest standing team member at Compete Every Day. She’s one of the first people who really joined in and ran with the message and I’m excited to have her here. It’s been great to see Christine grow on the team and as an entrepreneur in her own journey. We talk about how she’s been able to start and grow a yoga-focused brand while working at Compete Every Da...

Be All In Web Smith is the Director of eCommerce at Gear Patrol. He runs an awesome eCommerce newsletter called 2 PM Links that I wholeheartedly recommend. If you do anything in eCommerce, marketing, branding Web is the guy for you. Prior to joining Gear Patrol, Web spent time at Uncrate, Rogue Fitness, and was the co-founding CMO at Mizzen + Main. He has a wealth of experience in his professional...

Gut and Execution Wayne McCullough and I have had the opportunity to know each other for a few years now through different relationships. He’s been a great resource and mentor for me. Wayne is the President and Managing Partner at Benchmark Private Wealth Management where he helps clients work through difficult financial situations and take care of their money. The conversations we get into today...

“No regrets.” I get to welcome Keith Yackey on the show today. We connected in an entrepreneurship group that we both belong to and I’m thrilled to introduce him to you. I love this guy’s passion to help people find their passion. I was blown away at Keith’s live event, Amplify Live Experience, in Las Vegas. It was an incredible event from speakers you know to the individuals he called up on stage...

Embrace the Edge Matt served for over 25 years as an Infantryman in the U.S. army. He is a really awesome guy I’ve had the pleasure of knowing over the past months. I think you’ll get a lot out of his story transitioning from a career in the military to civilian life and how he’s been able to bring that approach and that discipline to his everyday life. When Matt was struggling to find who he was,...

Balancing Family and LifeAID I’m excited to welcome Aaron Hinde of LifeAID Beverage Co. on the Better Than Yesterday podcast. You may be familiar with his brands which include FitAID, GolferAID, and PartyAID. This company has exploded over years and it’s been thrilling to watch. Aaron and I talk about the success of LifeAID, what’s made them successful, and how he balances an exploding company wit...

Competing for Longer Lives Today I’m sitting down with the Founders and Board of the Be The Difference Foundation based in Dallas. The organization was formed by four ovarian cancer survivors in different phases of survivorship, but they all have passion for life and ending the fight against ovarian cancer. More than half of the women diagnosed with ovarian cancer pass away within five years of th...

Do It in Excellence and Obedience In this episode I’m joined by Jeremy Thiel. In 2005, Jeremy was introduced to CrossFit. Immediately, he knew he had discovered the path he’d been seeking since he first started training. This was not just a game he was going to play, but something he was going take part in that would effect positive change on a large scale. Naturally he dove in head first. Jeremy...

Age is a Number, Not a Limit I’m joined this week by Robert McDaniel, a certified Spartan training coach. Bob isn’t your ordinary Spartan racer. He didn’t actually start running until his 40s. Bob has finished multiple events in first place in his division, and now trains a number of inspiring Spartan racers in the DFW. Bob’s journey is incredible. He shares that in just one year he ran 15 maratho...

Heart of a Champion Our special guest today is part of the Compete community. Karen lives in Austin, TX and has competed in the Crossfit Games. She’s done amazing things in her life, including kicking cancer’s ass. In this episode, we talk about what it was like for a woman in her 30s and athlete in a rising sport to battle cervical cancer. Karen shares what she went through to even get a diagnosi...

Success is a Mixture of Hard Work, Preparation, and Luck. Alicia and I have known each other for years through Twitter and I know you’ll enjoy getting to know more about her. Alicia is a lawyer, professor, and blogger who built an incredible career in the sport’s industry. In July 2011, Alicia founded RulingSports.com, a website dedicated to analyzing legal issues in the world of sports. Launching...

Transformation Shifts Your DNA Salt Freedom and I connected this summer in Las Vegas at Amplify. As soon as I met her, I knew I needed to get her on the show and introduce her to the Compete community. After winning her own 13 year battle with an eating disorder, SALT combined her insider knowledge and her training in holistic health to create SALT ED FREEDOM - a radically empowering and holistic...

What is Your Pathway to Success? We’ve got the one and only Julian Placino on Better than Yesterday. As host of the Pathways to Success Podcast, Julian has had over 100 interviews with successful individuals to uncover the common thread of success. What is success? What does success look like? We dive deep into these topics and how you can become successful yourself by learning from the things tha...

Sharpen Your Wintality We’re welcoming in Baylor Barbee to Better Than Yesterday. Baylor is a successful motivational speaker, author, and tri-athlete. He’s the world's biggest triathlete and his goals for 2017 are going to blow you away. His book Wintality teaches the keys to unlocking the success in your DNA. In this conversation, we go into the ‘wintality’ mindset and how you can use that to wi...

Fried chicken – and fitness? Dallas fitness blogger & founder of both Deep Fried Fit blog & the Dallas Fitness Ambassadors joins the Better Than Yesterday Podcast this week. At the time we recorded this, Mai Lyn had just left her corporate job to focus on her blog. Mai Lyn shares her journey from being a part-time blogger about food & fitness, to a full-time one running a successful re...

Don’t fall for the movie trailers. I love movies. I love actually going to the movies. The fresh popcorn, the brand-new trailers, and the fact that I can just escape for two hours. But you know the one thing about movie trailers that gets me – the actual trailer. It always gets me to the movie. And think about it, how many bad movie trailers have you seen? Probably none. Maybe one in your lifetime...

How important is it to have a positive mental image of ourselves? CrossFit. Olympic Weightlifting. Body image issues, what? That’s the story Salt Lake City CrossFit athlete Cassidy Duffield shares in this week’s episode. Growing up as a gymnast, Cassidy has always been a more muscular woman. That led to special attention when she was younger, including being called “manly” as a teen. She spent yea...

This is Going to Be a Raw Conversation That’s the warning Kyle Cermak gave me when we talked about sharing his story on the podcast. Kyle struggled with alcoholism for years before one fateful night changed his life – and almost destroyed it. We dive into his story, what led to his alcoholism, and how he has maintained sobriety for over seven years and restored his family. Kyle’s story has somethi...

How does one build mental toughness? That's the question I dive into this week with Dawn Fletcher, owner of Fletcher Fitness & MentalityWOD.com . Dawn is physical & mental performance coach that works with athletes in a number of sports to help them get the results they want. Dawn was named “1 of the Top 30 Most Influential Health Bloggers" and has been a great member of the Compete c...

What does it mean to be Better Than Yesterday? Show host, and Chief Encouragement Officer at Compete Every Day, Jake Thompson shares his heart behind this podcast series & what you can expect from the upcoming first season. Our goal is to help you compete and be better than yesterday in all of your pursuits.