The daughter of a high school football coach growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, Victoria Carmen has only known that sports and family are synonymous which is one of the reasons she wanted to pursue a career in sports. Her journey as a sports reporter and anchor has taken her to Wyoming, Ohio, Florida, upstate NY and now she continues that journey in Greenville, SC as the news anchor for Fox Carolina News where sports continues to be one of her loves.

Live moves so fast that most of us only focus on what's next but once Roy Philpott truly understood the importance of being great where you are in life he began to see how this would guide him on his path to follow his passion becoming a play-by-play broadcaster. Now he's living that dream as an ESPN play-by-play broadcaster and you can even find him on SiriusXM as a sports talk radio host as well.

ESPN Senior Writer Andrea Adelson has been able to flourish in a male-dominated industry because of her belief that strength is power and the importance of setting goals which include even having incremental goals. After telling her dad as a kid that she wanted to be a sports writer, Andrea would attend the University of Florida before she would embark on her career with various stops ultimately landing with ESPN where you can find her covering colleges sports with an ACC emphasis.

Sports talk radio host and play-by-by broadcaster William Qualkinbush understands that in life there will be times that we must choose a side but he also believes that sometimes the answer to which side you choose can simply be yes. Currently, you can find him co-hosting "Out of Bounds" from 12-3 PM each weekday with Kelly Gramlich heard on 105.5 & 97.5 The Roar while he also serves as the radio play-by-play voice for Clemson baseball and women’s basketball.

Jonathan Gantt has experienced the power of paying it forward throughout his life from his mentors which is why it's so meaningful for him to do the same in his Associate AD/Creative Solutions role at Clemson University where he's been helping lead the digital transformation for Clemson Athletics beginning in 2013. His team’s work has helped the Tigers earn recognition from Forbes, Sports Business Journal, Sports Illustrated, and others. He would begin understanding the power of social...

"What drives you?" is a question that Jason Donnelly not only has asked himself but also uses this question to help understand what motivates others throughout his basketball coaching career in high school and college where he served as an integral part of the 2 National Championships in 2016 and 2018 for Villanova University and Hall of Fame Coach Jay Wright. Since 2019, Jason has served as the Director of Athletics for Furman University in Greenville, SC where he continues to focus on the...

As a highly recruited 4-star Linebacker, Bryton Constantin future on the football field looked bright after signing with Clemson University and Head Coach Dabo Swinney as part of the 2019 recruiting class, however, three ACL surgeries in less than 3 years would force Bryton to make the difficult decision to leave the game that he loved but it only reinforced his belief of having a long-term vision mindset where he knows his future is still bright even if he's not on the football field.

The Junkyard, a HIIT studio in upstate South Carolina, continues to be an example for Co-founder Marcus Brown of how you can find success by doing what you enjoy. After playing football at Newberry College, Marcus and co-founder Ben Boulware would begin their entrepreneurial quest in 2018 opening their first Junkyard location in Anderson, SC with bigger plans beyond the second location in Greenville, SC which opened in 2020 as Marcus shares how sports helped him understand that you can define...

Growing up in the sports-crazed city of Chicago, Sarah Spain was able to find her place through sports which became a place that she could fit in even at an early age and where she continues to utilize all of her skills and passions in a sports career with ESPN that she didn't necessarily envision as she shares part of that journey in our 150th episode.

It was first on the football field that Brian Kight felt freedom and also discovered the power of sports by requiring you to understand yourself in relation to the people around you and he soon began to recognize the importance of employing simple systems which would enable you to be disciplined in all walks of life which he continues to use as an entrepreneur, speaker, executive coach and author of dailydiscipline.com.

Sentenced to 65 years in prison, Damon West would hear the simple but transformative message about a coffee bean that would help reclaim his life after going from a Division I college football quarterback to being addicted to methamphetamine and leading an organized crime ring of burglaries. Paroled in 2016, he eventually teamed up with best-selling author Jon Gordon to write the book "The Coffee Bean: A simple lesson to create positive change" and he continues sharing this positive message...

Alystia Moore is motivated to be the best version of herself through doing better in life by always learning and through her competitive spirit and inner drive she is continuously striving to be a helpful person as she continues her role as a Programming and Acquisitions Manager with ESPN and also serving on the advisory committee for The Winning Edge Leadership Academy co-founded by Maria Taylor and Corinne Milien.

The quest for perfection continues to drive Dr. Kent Ellington an orthopaedic foot and ankle surgeon with OrthoCarolina in Charlotte, NC as he tries to also harness the competitiveness within himself. Through that competitiveness, he's always looking for opportunities whether as a surgeon, pilot, or entrepreneur to push down that pathway of progress and knows that it's the people in his life that helped make him the man that he is today.

Opportunities through sports and the ecosystem of sports is something that Kelly has experienced firsthand within his own family and this led to his passion of now wanting to help facilitate those opportunities for others from having the opportunity to meet Bear Bryant as a kid to his days as an assistant college basketball coach and now through The Brooks Element, The Winning Edge Leadership Academy, Forward Progress Athletics Consulting and Renaissance Search and Consulting.

How you choose to live your life is something Ben Newman learned early in his life from his mom as he watched her battle a rare and debilitating disease that would take her life but her lasting legacy continues to fuel Ben today as a performance coach and keynote speaker working with sales organizations and athletes in the NFL, PGA, NBA, Major League Baseball, UFC and the NCAA as Ben shares why it's so important for him to continue sharing the legacy of his mom and how sports also helped...

Steffi Sorensen has always had a different level of determination and drive that was enhanced through sports which allowed her to believe in herself in all aspects of life even in good times and bad times as she continues her unexpected career in sports broadcasting as a college basketball analyst for ESPN and CBS.

Born to Haitian immigrants, servant leadership is a way of life for Corinne Milien and with a purpose-driven mindset, she continues that today as the Executive Director of The Winning Edge Leadership Academy that she co-founded with Maria Taylor with hopes of empowering the next generation of ethnic minorities and women in the sports and entertainment industry.

Ebony E. McCue, Esq. continues to be motivated by educating and empowering the next generation of leaders because she truly understands how powerful both can be now as the Chief Legal Officer and sports attorney at the OMBI Group as she continues her passion of sports combined with her love for advocacy.

After helping lead Clemson to the national championship in the 2016-2017 football season, Ben Boulware continues to lead others on their quest for not only a fit body but a healthy mind as the co-founder of The Junkyard in Anderson and Greenville, SC where his goal is to build a gym with a unique culture and community as he shares who helped shaped him as a leader and the value of sports in his life.

Being persistent in life for E. Courtney Scott has helped him in more than just reaching his goal of working in sports, it has created opportunities throughout his life and helped him found Kontent Incubator as he now tries to pass that knowledge to others through The Winning Edge Leadership Academy.

From small-town Alabama, Vince Thompson has never been afraid to take his shot in life and with a passion for sports, he's built one of the most successful sports and entertainment marketing agencies in the country through a mindset of being the underdog and understanding that failure is only failure to try and continues to evolve MELT while establishing MELTU to provide career development opportunities for college students.

Kelsey Riggs tries not to compare herself to others understanding that comparisons steal your joy and never let you get to enjoy your journey as she continues her dream of a sports broadcasting career after playing soccer at Charleston Southern then helping launch the ACC Network in 2019 where she can now be seen as an in-studio host and sideline reporter.

As a coach's son, Tom Luginbill understands that winning teams have a culture that is built by people and sports allowed him to see this first hand at an early age and even later into his playing career while winning a JUCO National Championship at Palomar Junior College in 1993 as the starting quarterback before earning the staring role at Georgia Tech and after transferring to Eastern Kentucky. He now continues to see up close some of the best college football programs in the nation and the...

Maria Taylor wants to bring the 'Mamba Mentality' to her broadcasting career and everything else she does in life as she's always striving to do more than the past generation because it's those people in the past that helped pave the way for her and why she's so focused now on leaving a legacy for the next generation helping co-found 'The Winning Edge Leadership Academy' and it's sports that prepared her for the adversity and failures you will face in life.