Welcome to GrowthReady Podcast!

High Performance & Coaching Episodes

Episodes centered on performance systems and growth through guidance, habits, routines, mental conditioning, accountability, and skill-building that translate into consistent execution. Includes coaching frameworks, mentorship, self-awareness practices, and tools that help individuals and teams perform at a higher level.
June 21, 2023

COACHES CORNER - Becoming Emotionally Intelligent

Arguably the most sort after leadership quality across global business today is Emotional Intelligence. But if a leader were to be considered lacking in EQ, what steps can ensure they boost their intelligence over time? Welco...

Listen to the Episode

April 11, 2023

COACHES CORNER - Discover Your Discipline

Discipline is a global currency that we need to be spending daily across all walks of life. If it has worked in one area, it can certainly work for you in another. Welcome to a concise and impactful episode with Steve offerin...

Listen to the Episode

March 22, 2023

COACHES CORNER: When Quitting Is The Right Choice

Welcome to a concise and impactful episode with Steve offering a coaching insight to assist you with your pursuit of optimal performance Steve presents a short 8-minute insight on why quitting can sometimes be the right choic...

Listen to the Episode

Feb. 15, 2023

Becoming Part of the Top 1% - Tiffany Cheng

Competing to reach the top 1% in your industry is an ambitious approach to your career, but one our guest today is all too familiar with Tiffany Cheng is the founder of INSPIRE MY DAY where she serves as a career and leaders...

Listen to the Episode

Feb. 8, 2023

COACHES CORNER: A Rebuild Can Prevent Quitting

Welcome to a concise and impactful episode with Steve offering a coaching insight to assist you with your pursuit of optimal performance. Steve presents a short 9-minute insight on the way you can approach the issue of quitti...

Listen to the Episode

Feb. 1, 2023

Committing to True Genius - Jessica Yarbrough

To compete at the highest level of business, our guest today presents the reasons for knowing what you excel at , before making the commitment to providing this "genius" you possess as your career. Jessica Yarbrough joins Ca...

Listen to the Episode

Jan. 25, 2023

COACHES CORNER: The Normalcy of Disengagement

Welcome in to a concise and impactful episode with Steve offering a coaching insight to assist you with your pursuit of optimal performance. Steve presents a short 8-minute insight on the way you can approach the issue of bec...

Listen to the Episode

Nov. 19, 2022

The Passion Drives the Work Ethic

When you have a career driven competitor with a creative side, it would be easy to assume they would have to choose one part of themselves over the other. But if you are passionate about fulfilling both your career and your c...

Listen to the Episode

Nov. 6, 2022

The Competitive Advantage to Personal Investment - Michael Cohen

To invest in personal and cultural development as an organization is to invest in creating a competitive advantage, and yet it still remains an under utilized approach for so many. On this episode we welcome Michael Cohen who...

Listen to the Episode

Oct. 13, 2022

Understanding Constraints in Order to Grow - Luke DePron

Considering growth can sometimes seem intimidating as we anticipate the costs and potential demand that can come with it. We welcome to the show Luke DePron who is an online weight loss coach for entrepreneurs and business pe...

Listen to the Episode

Oct. 6, 2022

The Formula for Talent Development - Elena Agaragimova

The world of talent acquisition has never been more competitive, so the need to invest in and develop the talent you have is even more of a priority now than ever before. On this episode we welcome a competitior within the sp...

Listen to the Episode

Aug. 11, 2022

Attending to Individual Goals - Matt Cross

As the Head of National Development within his role as a swim coach with Plymouth Leander in the UK, Matt Cross is all too familiar with the competitive world of helping others realize their goals. A great coach will find way...

Listen to the Episode

July 7, 2022

The Competitor Never Goes Away - Maritza McClendon

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 & Co...

Listen to the Episode

June 23, 2022

Coaching the Championship Mindset - Danielle Mills-Walden

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...

Listen to the Episode

June 3, 2022

Prioritizing A Coaches Soul - Lee Povey

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 tal...

Listen to the Episode

May 17, 2022

COMPETITIVE CALL - When does helpful become hurtful?

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 yo...

Listen to the Episode

April 25, 2022

Lead to a Space of Optimal Growth - COMPETITIVE CALL

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 pro…

Listen to the Episode

April 14, 2022

Evan Burk - Finding Intangibles to Drive Elite Performance

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...

Listen to the Episode

April 11, 2022

Seeing the Present through the Lens of the Past - COMPETITIVE CALL

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 p...

Listen to the Episode

March 21, 2022

The Right Intention can Define the Day - COMPETITIVE CALL

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 coach...

Listen to the Episode

Feb. 24, 2022

Bennie Brazell: The Mindset of a Champion

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 champi...

Listen to the Episode

Feb. 15, 2022

COMPETITIVE CALL - Present the Problem

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...

Listen to the Episode

Feb. 3, 2022

Lee Povey, Leadership & Executive Coach

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 brin...

Listen to the Episode

Jan. 18, 2022

Competitive Call - Eliminating the "Good Enough" Mindset

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 a...

Listen to the Episode