Success is a Choice

Success is a Choice

Host Jamy Bechler is a speaker, leadership consultant, and author of 9 books. The former college basketball coach and high school athletic director helps high-level individuals, organizations, and teams maximize their potential in the areas of leadership, culture, and teamwork. The "Success is a Choice" podcasting network provides inspiring insights to help you grow your team, strengthen your culture, improve yourself, or add value to those around you. It features a variety of episodes (The Coachable Coach, Leaders Growing Leaders, 2-Minute Drill, Weekend Wisdom, Motivational Minute, Leadership Now) as well as conversations with guests ranging from professional sports coaches to actors to business executives to reality TV stars. To listen to all of the past daily episodes, please visit JamyBechler.com/Podcast ... or scroll to the oldest episodes (as they've been archived with 2016 dates) Some of the more popular guest episodes have included Michele Tafoya, Riley Gaines, the Babylon Bee's editor-in-chief Kyle Mann, Phil Hellmuth, Clark Kellogg, Rachel Cruze, and Shark Tank's Kevin Harrington. Subscribe and listen in as the best of the best share their stories to help inspire you as you choose to maximize your potential.

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April 30, 2025 1 min

In today's "Motivational Minute"leadership expert Jamy Bechler reminds us that Rich Strike won the 2022 Kentucky Derby as a 80-to-1 underdog, giving us hope today even if the odds seem stacked against us. 

The "Motivational Minute" is part of the Success is a Choice podcast network. It's a quick thought designed to help you inspire yourself and those around you. 

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In today's "Motivational Minute"leadership expert Jamy Bechler reminds us that we'll all fail today in some way or another but it's how we respond to that failure that matters most. 

The "Motivational Minute" is part of the Success is a Choice podcast network. It's a quick thought designed to help you inspire yourself and those around you. 

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April 25, 2025 1 min

In today's WEEKEND WISDOM episode, Jamy Bechler shares some ideas on strong bonds, tough love, and how we should be making regular deposits into a person’s emotional bank account.

The "Success is a Choice" podcast network publishes these WEEKEND WISDOM episodes to provide food for thought as we look to finish the week strong and make a difference in the world around us.

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In today's episode of the 2-Minute DrillSuccess is a Choice podcast host, Jamy Bechler recalls a story about when his college roommate died and he shared stories about him at the funeral.

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April 21, 2025 1 min

In today's "Motivational Minute"leadership expert Jamy Bechler talks Cortez burning his boats and how excuses never get us closer to our goals.

The "Motivational Minute" is part of the Success is a Choice podcast network. It is a quick thought designed to help you inspire yourself and those around you. 

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Please follow Jamy on Twitter @CoachBechler for positive insights and tips on leadership, success, culture, and teamwor...

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In today's "Motivational Minute"leadership expert Jamy Bechler encourages us today to remember our One Shining Moments and build upon those

The "Motivational Minute" is part of the Success is a Choice podcast network. It's a quick thought designed to help you inspire yourself and those around you. 

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Each week, the Success is a Choice podcasting network brings you leadership expert Jamy Bechler and guest experts who provid...

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March Madness is in full swing and the NCAA college basketball tournament has been great so far. We hope your bracket is still looking good. Clark Kellogg has been on your TV a lot lately if you're a college basketball fan so we thought this was a great time to re-release one of our most popular episodes. This is a replay of...
  • April 1, 2025 2 mins

    In today's episode of the 2-Minute DrillSuccess is a Choice podcast host, Jamy Bechler tells us how we can accomplish great things even though we are just one person. He utilizes the illustration of the wave at a sporting event to emphasize this point. 

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    February 27, 2025 32 mins

    Jason Romano (host of the popular Sports Spectrum podcast) is today's guest on the "Success is a Choice" podcast.  Jason talks with Jamy Bechler about a bunch of things including ...

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    January 24, 2025 31 mins

    This was one of our more popular episodes when we originally aired it, so we wanted to re-release it now that the softball season has officially begun. "Murph" is one of the most well-respected coaches in the business and this episode is worth listening to again. Get out your notepad and favorite pen and get ready to take a bunch of notes.

    Legendary Alabama softball coach Patrick Murphy appeared on the "Coachable Coach" series of t...

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    January 20, 2025 1 min

    In today's "Motivational Minute"leadership expert Jamy Bechler talks about MLK day and how we can best honor his legacy by living out the quotes we post. 

    The "Motivational Minute" is part of the Success is a Choice podcast network. It's a quick thought designed to help you inspire yourself and those around you. 

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    Each week, the Success is a Choice podcasting network brings you leadership expert Jamy Bechler and guest exp...

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    January 14, 2025 29 mins

    Michigan Softball Coaching Hall of Famer Michael K. Thompson appeared on the "Coachable Coach" series of the SUCCESS IS A CHOICE PODCAST NETWORK.

    Together with host Jamy Bechler, they discussed ... 

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    January 9, 2025 27 mins

    Scott Garvis is today's guest on the "Leaders Growing Leaders" series of the SUCCESS IS A CHOICE PODCAST NETWORK. 

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    Adam Johnson (aka "The Lectern Guy") is today's guest on the "Success is a Choice" podcast. Johnson is one of the more infamous individuals from the protests at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 when he was photographed carrying the Speaker of the House's lectern in the rotunda. We talk about a bunch of things from January 6th, including ...

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    December 19, 2024 25 mins
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    December 11, 2024 50 mins

    In today's episode, "Success is a Choice" podcast host Jamy Bechler talks with a panel of high school athletic administrators who all had a part in planning the 2024 National Athletic Director Conference being held in Austin, TX December 14-17. This conference is co-sponsored by the NIAAA and NFHS.

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    December 3, 2024 23 mins

    Josh Mathews (AD at Pope HS) is today's guest on the "Leaders Growing Leaders" series of the SUCCESS IS A CHOICE PODCAST NETWORK. He was The Leadership Playbook 2024 public school AD of the Year.

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    November 28, 2024 2 mins

    Happy Thanksgiving!

    Jamy shares some thoughts on what this day means, as well as our mentality every other day. He says that "It's not happy people who are thankful, but rather thankful people who are happy."

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    The Success is a Choice podcast network is made possible, in part, by TheLeadershipPlaybook.com. Great teams have great teammates and everyone can be a person of influence. Build a stronger culture today by helping at...

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    In this episode of the Success is a Choice podcast, our guest is Kathy Barnette, former U.S. Senate candidate and National Grassroots Director for Vivek Ramaswamy.  

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    September 11, 2024 2 mins

    In today's episode of the 2-Minute DrillSuccess is a Choice podcast host, Jamy Bechler talks about a couple of ways people have honored teammates that have died. These thoughts were inspired by the anniversary of 9/11.

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