Becoming your optimal self (with Steve Mellor)

In this episode of Shift, I chat with Steve Mellor - a born competitor, Steve has been helping others achieve their goals at the highest of levels for 15 years. Having guided Olympic gold medalists, C-Suite executives, first-time business owners, and leaders across all levels, Steve help individuals facilitate change and optimize performance in their careers and lives.  We had a great chat around performance and how each of us can light the competitive fire within to optimize performance. Tune in to learn more!    About Steve: A native of England, Steve has spent most of the 2000's in the US as a collegiate swimmer and swim coach. He spent 4 years as a student-athlete at North Carolina State, and coached 2 years there also. He then moved into coaching full time and spent almost a decade as the Associate Head Coach with the Louisiana State University Swim Team. During his swim coaching career he guided athletes to the heights of NCAA and SEC Swimming, and was able to guide LSU's first ever American swimmer to an Olympic team in Brooks Curry who went on to win an Olympic Gold Medal.   In October of 2021, Steve turned his passion for optimizing individual performance into founding his company, Career Competitor LLC. where he serves as a Performance Coach & Culture Consultant. The company was built off a four-year old podcast also titled Career Competitor where former athletes discuss how they optimize performance in a specific field by utilizing competitive and athlete-minded characteristics.    With a Bachelors of Arts in Communications, a Master's of Science in Management from NC State, Steve brings both his educational background and years of elite coaching into his work today. Driven by the intention to best serve the unique needs of each client, Steve's mission is to facilitate the personal growth of those he works with to help reveal and commit to their optimal self.   The website: https://careercompetitor.com/ The podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/career-competitor/id1406082163  About your host:  Elena Agaragimova is the co-founder of Bessern (https://www.bessern.co/) 👉 We help people in corporations 🧑‍💼 to be more resilient and equipped with the skills that matters to thrive and be at their best at work.  Bloom Youth (https://www.bessern.co/bloom-youth) 👉 We help students 🧑‍🎓 to get prepared for the future of work through our Bloom Youth Bootcamps - Bloom Youth is the first MENA Future of Education platform made for students to accelerate their talents.   Learn more about Elena: https://linktr.ee/ElenaAgar   Connect with Elena on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elenaagaragimova/   Twitter: https://twitter.com/elenaagaragi  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elenaagaragimova/   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elenaagaragimova   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX-tUIvseCy5SKgzkZuXv7Q?view_as=subscriber