Tag: Life Lessons

Kelli Stewart – It’s Time to L.E.A.D.

Kelli Stewart – It’s Time to L.E.A.D.

by | Jan 3, 2025 | , , , | 0 |

Today, Kelli, and her husband, C.J. Stewart, oversee two business ventures that they started together. Through Diamond Directors, they train and develop some of the country’s top amateur and professional baseball athletes; Jason Heyward (Los Angeles Dodgers), Dexter Fowler (Chicago Cubs, World Series Champion), Andruw Jones (former Atlanta Brave), Peter Alonso (NY Mets), Kyle Lewis (Arizona Diamondbacks), and Andrew McCutchen (Pittsburgh Pirates) are a few notable professional clients. Through L.E.A.D., they train and develop some of Atlanta’s hidden treasures in Atlanta Public Schools. L.E.A.D. provides inner city boys with the same opportunities to excel in life through baseball as the Stewarts’ Diamond Directors clients with the focus being accessing higher education and community leadership. To date, L.E.A.D. Ambassadors have achieved a 100% high school graduation rate and a 91% college enrollment and scholarship rate (academic and athletic).

Kelli and CJ have two beautiful daughters, Mackenzi (Southern University) and Mackenna (The Lovett School).

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Jon Sexton – From the Courts to the Screen with a few stops in Between

Jon Sexton – From the Courts to the Screen with a few stops in Between

by | Sep 27, 2024 | , , , , | 0 |

Jon and I talk about his entrepreneurial journey.  It started on the tennis and basketball courts and other athletic venues of Visalia, California and has now landed him as the host of the TV show, Selling Nashville.  Jon’s journey, like so many other entrepreneurs took a few twists and turns along the way.  He originally relocated to Nashville to pursue a career in music.  In order to not fall into the “starving artist” category, he used some of the leadership skills and life lessons that he learned from sports to get into the health club and gym industry.  What initially started as a way to simply help make ends meet while he pursued his music career, eventually turned into another passion and eventually ownership of his own health club and gym business.  While running his business, he started investing in real estate, which eventually led to him securing his real estate license and heading up his own team of agents.

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Dan Clouser – Making Adjustments – A Monologue

Dan Clouser – Making Adjustments – A Monologue

by | Sep 13, 2024 | , , | 0 |

When I was coaching baseball, one of the things that I stressed to my players all of the time is that it was a game of adjustments.  You always want to have a plan, but you also need to be able to make an adjustment to that plan if need be.

The game of baseball is a reflection of life, and the lessons tat the game can teach will often carry over into life as well.

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Antwaun Thompson – Teaching the Life Lessons within the Game

Antwaun Thompson – Teaching the Life Lessons within the Game

by | May 31, 2024 | , , , | 0 |

Coach T is the founder and executive Director of JLT Fieldhouse, a 501c3 nonprofit youth coaching and mentoring organization, dedicated to “Coaching and Mentoring the Leaders of Tomorrow”. This organization is named in honor of his late father, Sgt. Maj. Joe Lewis Thompson, USMC, who adopted Antwaun and his older brother after their mom and Joe were married.

He is also the CEO of Coach T’s Corner, an online mentoring academy that is designed to “Educate, Motivate and Support” our future leaders of tomorrow through personal growth and development and personal relationship development programs.

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Jerry Moyer – Time to Fly

Jerry Moyer – Time to Fly

by | Jan 19, 2024 | , , , | 0 |

Jerry is one of my friends from back in our old hometown of Berks County, Pennsylvania.  He is an author, former professional soccer player, college soccer coach, and current performance coach to top level athletes.

Jerry graduated from Penn State University where he majored in Business and later continued his studies in Sports Management at the University of Maryland.  He was a Starter on the PSU Men’s Soccer Team and was a Regional All-American, Captain, and MVP during his senior season.

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Vince Burruano – Coaching the Life Lessons

Vince Burruano – Coaching the Life Lessons

by | Jul 14, 2023 | , , , | 0 |

Vince is an avid reader and enjoys volunteering his time to his community.  He has served as a first responder and firefighter, a football and baseball coach, and as a board member for various professional associations and charitable organizations. He relishes his role as a father and grandfather, and lives in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina with wife, Elizabeth.

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Dave Houser – The Financial Nomad

Dave Houser – The Financial Nomad

by | Mar 24, 2023 | , , , | 0 |

Dave grew up with great parents and a loving home right outside of DC on the Maryland side.
From a child though he never wanted to fit in or be like everyone else.
He spent twenty years as a college coach helping people achieve things that were once thought to be impossible.
However, he neglected facing his financial situation and became overwhelmed with everything so he began learning as much as he could how to take back control over where his money was going.

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Nick Chroscinski – Applying the Games Lessons in Life

Nick Chroscinski – Applying the Games Lessons in Life

by | Feb 24, 2023 | , , , | 0 |

Nick is another one of my former players who Sandy and I were blessed to be able to get together with on our travels.  Now living and working in Dallas, we were able to get together with Nick in late January.  We had to reschedule our initial time to get together due to a freak ice storm in the Dallas area, but fortunately, we were able to get together with him to grab lunch a few days later.

In the past, I had made it a habit to do a podcast with the players that we got together with during our visit.  Recently, I rethought that philosophy because I felt that it took away from our time together.  As I have mentioned so many times in the past, I have really started to understand the importance of being in the moment and felt that carving out time to do a podcast during our visits was taking time away from that moment of just being present and catching up.

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Mike Latona – More Life Lessons in Action

Mike Latona – More Life Lessons in Action

by | May 20, 2022 | , , , | 0 |

Just like last week’s guest, Collin Fesi, we were able to reconnect with Mike in Maryland.  What a blessing that night was to not just see one of my former players, but two in the same night.  Mike and Collin played for our organization a few years apart, but it was neat to see how they connected immediately knowing that they had that Berkshire Baseball experience in common.  I hope that they stay in contact now that they know each other.

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Collin Fesi – Teamwork in Corporate America

Collin Fesi – Teamwork in Corporate America

by | May 13, 2022 | , , , | 0 |

Collin talks about how the game of baseball taught him how to be a good teammate with both his clients and co-workers in corporate America.  He also reflects on the fact that some of his best life lessons from the baseball field were taught to him most during the seasons in which he was part of a team that struggled.  Similar to life, our greatest growth moments come more so in the valleys as opposed to the mountains.

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The Power of One

The Power of One

by | Jan 13, 2022 | , | 0 |

We can’t change what other people are doing in the world, good or bad.  We can change how we approach the world and those that we interact with on a daily basis.  That’s where we can change the world for those around us.  Just by being kind, doing good, volunteering, surrounding yourself with others who are trying to make a positive difference in the world as well.  Just be out there planting seeds of goodness and grace everywhere that we go.

There are times that you may see the fruit of your labor instantly, but we just need to make sure that we’re always going out and planting those seeds.  Regardless of whether or not we get to see the harvest, we just need to keep planting the seeds of love and kindness.

Help other people in any small way that you can.

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Joe Barth – Teaching Life Lessons through the Game

Joe Barth – Teaching Life Lessons through the Game

by | Nov 19, 2021 | , , , | 0 |

Joe and I have known each other since the early 2000’s.  For over twenty years, we were competitors on the field and friends off of the field.  Joe and I share the same coaching philosophy of teaching life lessons through the game of baseball.

Joe coached MLB All-Star, Mike Trout from the time that he was 13 years old throughout his high school career.  He not only remembers the quality of player that Mike was and his incredible work ethic, but more importantly, he remembers the quality human beings that he and his family were.

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