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.
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.
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 develop his drive.
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.