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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 media and digital content while working for Ripken Baseball and the Tampa Bay Rays in media relations roles before helping Clemson Athletics become a nationally recognized leader in social and digital content.

"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 Optimist Creed while striving to inspire, educate and develop outstanding student-athletes through a culture of excellence, prestigious liberal arts, and sciences education, and nationally competitive athletics programs.

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 success in multiple ways.

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.