Business Leadership Series

Business Leadership Series

Our audience is comprised of business owners, leaders, and entrepreneurs who desire to learn from our guests’ knowledge, advice, and experience for personal and professional growth. We interview pro athletes, rock and roll hall of famers, best selling authors, and other leaders with an inspiring story. We are also a syndicated show regionally on ESPN radio.

Episodes

August 16, 2026 25 mins

Derek Champagne talks with Kyle Austin Young.

Kyle Austin Young is an award-winning strategy consultant for high achievers, entrepreneurs, and leaders in
a wide range of fields. This work has allowed him to develop and refine a powerful system for accomplishing
big, meaningful goals that focuses on understanding and changing your odds of success. Kyle is a popular
writer for Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Th...

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Derek Champagne talks with Rohit Agarwal, CEO of The Weather Company.

Rohit Agarwal is the CEO of The Weather Company, the world’s most accurate forecaster. In this role, Rohit is responsible for setting the strategic vision that spans the company’s digital consumer properties, including The Weather Channel app and weather.com, as well as its enterprise business across media,

advertising, aviation, defense, and a ...

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August 2, 2026 23 mins

In this interview, Derek talks with John and Ana Mann about their new book "The Go-Giver Marriage". John and Ana share the "why" behind writing this new book, their process for collaboration, and highlight some of the secrets to lasting love. Learn more at https://gogivermarriage.com 

John David Mann is coauthor of more than 30 books, including four New York Times bestsellers and five national bestsellers. His classic 2008 para...

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Derek Champagne talks with former NFL player Rennie Curran. Rennie shares stories from his unique upbringing, leadership lessons learned along the way, and more about his new venture: Formr

Formrapp.com - The professional platform where former athletes build what's next, fans connect for life, and businesses find the most competitive people on earth.

Free leadership resources from Rennie Curran: https://rennie...

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Derek Champagne interview USA Today best selling author Dave Garrison.

Dave Garrison is a nationally recognized business strategist and co-founder of Garrison Growth, a leadership development and executive consulting firm. As Chief Navigation Officer of Garrison Growth, Dave helps CEOs
and senior leaders generate meaningful buy-in and drive results across their organizations.
With more than 30 years of leadership expe...

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In this episode Derek Champagne talks with Larry Kasanoff. 

Larry Kasanoff, Chairman/CEO of Threshold Entertainment, as a studio head or producer, makes movies, animated movies and location based entertainment/theme park attractions.

He is the Producer or Executive Producer of MORTAL KOMBAT, including three Number One films, a television series, an animated series, platinum selling soundtracks, direct to dvd, and a live ...

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In this episode Derek Champagne, CEO of The Artist Evolution, interviews Beau Oyler.

Beau talks with Derek about his experience on Shark Tank, building a successful company, and some valuable lessons he has learned along the way.

Having founded Enlisted Design and Urbio, he has created rich product and brand experiences for fortune 500's and small startups. He pioneered the design cooperative movement and has a unique...

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June 28, 2026 25 mins

Listen to this powerful interview with Dr. David Fajgenbaum who has an incredible new memoir, "Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope into Action". David’s story is truly unique; it’s a tale of learning to live, while dying: a universally relatable story about getting up and fighting back after life knocks you down.

A former Georgetown quarterback nicknamed "The Beast," David Fajgenbaum was also a force in...

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Derek Champagne talks with Rohit Agarwal, CEO of The Weather Company.

Rohit Agarwal is the CEO of The Weather Company, the world’s most accurate forecaster. In this role, Rohit is responsible for setting the strategic vision that spans the company’s digital consumer properties, including The Weather Channel app and weather.com, as well as its enterprise business across media,
advertising, aviation, defense...

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In this episode Derek Champagne talks with NY Times best selling author Liane Davey. 

Liane has spent more than 25 years researching and advising teams on how to perform at their best. Known as the “teamwork doctor,” she works with teams from the frontlines to the boardroom, across industries and around the world, from Boston to Bangkok. Through her work with hundreds of teams, including 26 Global Fortune 50...

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Derek talks with 93' Chicago Bulls NBA Champion Trent Tucker. Trent talks with Derek about leadership skills necessary to build a championship team, how to manage egos, having Phil Jackson as a coach, the Trent Tucker Rule, and what it was like playing with his friends Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen. Derek also talks with Trent about his 9 years playing with the NY Knicks. 

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Derek Champagne talks with George Barrios, former co-president of WWE, about the deal he made to reshape the global company, his public firing by Vince McMahon, the future of the sports industry, and his approach to leadership (and coping with public failure).

Barrios tells his story in his new book Sometimes Wrong but Never in Doubt

ABOUT SOMETIMES WRONG BUT NEVER IN DOUBT

At a time when leadership is under scrutiny and indust...

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Derek Champagne talks with Mark Rampolla, Founder of ZICO Coconut Water. Mark is also the author of the book High-Hanging Fruit and new USA Today bestseller:An Entrepreneur's Guide to Freedom

Mark built ZICO Coconut Water from nothing, sold it to Coca-Cola for over $200 million, then made a decision most people thought was insane. He bought it back and now he’s scaling it toward a billion-dollar brand.

The hardest leader...

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Derek Champagne chats with Eddie Yoon. Eddie is a growth strategy expert for the last 20 years as a Partner with The Cambridge Group. In the last 5 years, he has helped double numerous businesses-cable media company, food brand, beverage company, pet food brand, consumer robotics, standby generators-from several hundred million to close to a billion dollars.

Eddie is the author of the acclaimed book, Superconsumers: A Simple...

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May 10, 2026 36 mins

Derek Champagne talks with Dr. Scott Hutcheson, author of Biohacking Leadership. 

Scott Hutcheson, PhD is a biosocial scientist and senior lecturer at Purdue University, where his teaching, research, and professional practice centers on leadership, team, and organizational performance through the lens of the biology of behavior. His work in biosocial sciences explores how biological systems interact with social behavior...

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Derek Champagne talks with former British Military Officer, Jimmy Burroughes. 

Jimmy’s story is one of resilience, reinvention, and purpose. He began his career as a British Military Officer, leading soldiers across Europe and the Middle East. It was there he learned, sometimes in life-or-death situations, the true meaning of intentional leadership: how to inspire trust, keep people motivated under extreme pressur...

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April 26, 2026 33 mins

Derek Champagne talks with Chris Robinson. Chris is a founding partner of the Maxwell Leadership Certified Team and as the Executive Vice President of the Maxwell Entrepreneur Solutions, he a product of the product leading a global team of over 40,000 speakers, coaches, and trainers. He is an international speaker who has enthralled crowds as large as 4500 and trained small groups inside of companies weekly before taking on his cur...

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April 19, 2026 43 mins

Derek Champagne talks with Jason Ferguson. 

Jason Ferguson wasn’t supposed to make it—not out of his neighborhood, not into a Division I locker

room, and definitely not to a tech IPO. But he’s never followed the script. A former University of Hawai‘i football player, Jason is now a Sales Leader, speaker, coach, and author of Nobody’s Legend, a self-help memoir

rooted in truth, pain, and resil...

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April 12, 2026 41 mins

NYT bestselling author Shaka Senghor talks with Derek Champagne about his personal story and his powerful new book, How to Be Free: A Proven Guide to Escaping Life’s Hidden Prisons.

"I love this book—because it teaches you how to manifest freedom in your own life and how that work allows you to rise to your greatest glory." —Oprah Winfrey, The Oprah Podcast

After 19 years in prison—7 of them in solitar...

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April 5, 2026 30 mins

Derek Champagne talks with Terry Healey, author of The Resilience Mindset: How Adversity Can Strengthen, Individuals, Teams, & Leaders.

A survivor of a permanent facial difference and life-threatening cancer, Terry Healey is an
author, keynote speaker, and business strategist. Healey challenges audiences to face their
adversities and apply his framework of four key principles to gain confidence, build resilience,

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