The Athletics of Business

Aaron Bare's mission in life is to create One-Million Exponential Leaders. He's a Wall Street Journal and USA Today's Best Selling Author of Exponential Theory: The Power of Thinking Big  and the creator of the XMBA (eXponential Mindsets, Beliefs, and Attitudes Group Coaching Program), and the "XX Podcast; Two Exponentials in a Flat World." Beyond traveling to over 90 countries and all 50 States,...

How does a poor kid from the housing projects make it to the corporate boardroom? For Steve White, it's the result of an uncompromising attitude and work ethic. President of Comcast's West Division for eleven years, Steve launched his career in 1996 as Regional Vice President. A commitment to his why and the influence of mentors enabled him to demonstrate consistent growth for his teams and divisi...

Guest Bio Scott MacGregor leads one of the fastest growing and most successful recruiting agencies in the US. He's revolutionizing how companies hire and onboard new talent.  Scott founded SomethingNew, LLC in 2015. SomethingNew isn't pwjust another recruiting agency. They find perfect matches for their clients faster and cheaper because of their unique network and proprietary screening tools. Sat...

Andrew is the CEO and Co-Founder of Work Better Now, a virtual assistant company that is revolutionizing the talent recruiting industry. Before launching Work Better Now, he was a business advisor for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program. Andrew and his partner, Rob Levin, saw a gap in the virtual assistant market in 2018. They knew that every business could have an assistant that deliv...

Joe Allen comes from a background of athletics, he played a very unique position that demanded a lot of character and selflessness as an offensive alignment. At a young age, he developed a solid work ethic and a passion to build people as a leader.  Joe graduated from the University of Notre Dame and one year after, in a not-so-great job market for graduates, he started his first job at CCC Intell...

Will Kloefkorn joins Ed Molitor to discuss building a more positive student and athlete experience through connection, psychological safety, structure, skill development, communication, and challenges.  Will has been in the sales industry his entire career. He served as a sales manager with the EcSell Institute team since the company's inception. As VP of Sales, Will is responsible for leading EcS...

Ed Molitor discusses the importance of psychological safety and how cultivating a positive team climate will help you succeed as a better coach and business leader. In the last 26 years, Ed Molitor has developed his leadership skills in athletics and business. From working as an NCAA Basketball coach at Texas A&M to becoming the Vice President of a national recruiting firm, Ed has taught countless...

Mike Michalowicz joins Ed to discuss his career as an author and entrepreneurship advocate. He shares his journey through business ownership, the hard lessons he learned, how he got into writing, and what his work offers present and younger generations. Mike is the creator of Profit First, which is used by hundreds of thousands of companies across the globe to drive profit, and Clockwork, a powerf...

Guest Bio: A National Merit Scholar and engineering major at Iowa State University, Paul Shirley played for 17 professional basketball teams in a nine-year career, including stops in Spain, Greece, Russia, and three teams in the NBA.  He's the author of three nonfiction works: Can I Keep My Jersey?, Stories I Tell On Dates, and The Process is the Product. His first novel, Ball Boy, came out in Feb...

Guest Bio: Larry Levine is the best-selling author of "Selling from the Heart" and the Selling from the Heart Podcast co-host. With 30 years of in-the-field sales experience within the B2B technology space, he knows what it takes to be a successful sales professional. In a post-trust sales world, Larry Levine helps sales teams leverage the power of authenticity to grow revenue, grow themselves and...

In the last 26 years, Ed Molitor has developed his leadership skills in both athletics and business. From working as an NCAA Basketball coach at Texas A&M to becoming the Vice President of a national recruiting firm, Ed has taught countless athletes, coaches, and business leaders how to THINK, ACT, and EXECUTE at an elite level. Ed has a unique set of skills to deliver leaders across the country a...

Erin Diehl is a Business Improv Edutainer, Failfluencer, and Professional Zoombie. Through a series of unrelated ventures, Erin created improve it!, a unique professional development company that pushes others to laugh, learn, play, and grow. She is a graduate from Clemson University, and a former experiential marketing and recruiting professional and veteran improviser from the top improvisationa...

Todd Becker has done everything from successful basketball coach, sales representative, and nonprofit warrior. Currently the Managing Director of Clubfoot Solutions- a nonprofit to free the world of untreated clubfoot deformity. Before that, he was in charge of Zimmers- one of the world's leading orthopedic device services where he successfully managed sales, marketing, distribution, and warehousi...

In the last 26 years, Ed Molitor has developed his leadership skills in both athletics and business. From working as an NCAA Basketball coach at Texas A&M to becoming the Vice President of a national recruiting firm, Ed has taught countless athletes, coaches, and business leaders how to THINK, ACT, and EXECUTE at an elite level. Ed has a unique set of skills to deliver leaders across the country a...

Phil Wall is an award-winning filmmaker who has written, produced, directed, filmed, and edited three feature documentaries, and is currently in post-production on his fourth. A coach's son, Wall played for his dad at Roanoke Catholic High School and traces his filmmaking journey back to creating highlight videos for his team's championship seasons. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he works on inde...

Phil Wall is an award-winning filmmaker. He has written, produced, directed, filmed, and edited three feature documentaries, and is currently in post-production on his fourth. His documentary feature, THE STANDARD, debuted at #4 on the iTunes documentary chart in September of 2020. It's currently available on Hulu in the US, and will have its international rollout in late-2021--most notably on Dis...

Charlie has over 14 years of direct recruiting experience within the Logistics, Transportation and Supply Chain space and started CS Recruiting from the ground up over a decade ago. Today, she leads a team of over 25 and manages a multi-million dollar organization. As the President and Founder of CS Recruiting, she focuses on making meaningful connections to empower others to discover their full p...

On Sept 7, 2018, Dr. John Alverdy and The University of Chicago founded Covira Surgical – a biotech company focused on novel therapeutic alternatives to prevent postoperative (surgical) infections. In Feb of 2020, Peter Farmakis joined Covira as the Chief Executive Officer, during a time when our work to prevent infections has never been more important. Peter is an accomplished executive with dive...

Brian Barone is in his third season as the SIUE's men's basketball coach after taking over the position in March 2019. Barone had been an assistant coach for the Cougars the previous two seasons. The highlight of Barone's first season came with a historic 79-69 win on the road at Belmont. It was the program's first-ever win over Belmont and came among five Ohio Valley Conference victories. The Cou...

Dr. John Byrne has been delivering high quality, engaging speeches to audiences for more than 15 years across the globe on principles essential to achieving professional and personal success.  In addition, John has been a Business Professor for 30 years at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, IA. He currently teaches courses in Marketing & Sales and previously served as the Dean of the College of...

In every facet of his life, Mark Pattison scales personal and professional summits. Mark is a former NFL Player, philanthropist, podcaster and successful entrepreneur & currently an executive at Sports Illustrated and now has climbed all Seven Summits having completed this feat by scaling the death-defying Mt. Everest in the spring of 2021. Mark dedicated his climb to his daughter Emilia who is ov...

Gabe Bock has worked in media and has covered the Aggies for nearly 2 decades and has been with TexAgs full-time since August 2008. After spending 10 years as lead host of TexAgs Radio, Gabe decided to step down in the Summer of '21 and has taken on a new content creator role within the organization while also diving into the Real Estate world in partnership with his wife, Megan Bock. The couple h...

Mike Rabil is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Premier Lacrosse League (PLL). Founded in October 2018, PLL is now wrapping up its third season, with the semifinals in Philadelphia on September 5th and the Championship in D.C. on September 19th. The PLL was named Sports Breakthrough of the Year in 2020 by the Sports Business Journal. In December 2020, the PLL and Major League Lacro...

Rob Verhelst, otherwise known as Fireman Rob, has established himself as an inspiring voice for following and defining your passion, then putting it to action. He lives and speaks on the principle of Action Based Living through Engaged Passion. His life experiences range from performing 8 days of search and recovery after the September 11th attacks to being a 15 year career firefighter in Madison,...

Scott O'Neil is the formerChief Executive Officer of Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, an organization with the mission of building passionate, high-performing teams that inspire people to enhance the communities where its teams live, work, play and win. With more than 20 years of experience in the NBA, NHL and NFL, O'Neil has earned a reputation as a leader of leaders and is one of the most...