What if losing your job was actually the best thing that ever happened to your career?

After more than 35 years in advertising, marketing, and business leadership, David Day has experienced incredible success, unexpected setbacks, and everything in between.

In this episode of the TLW Podcast, hosts Jonathan Pixley and Dr. Sean Owens sit down with David Day, entrepreneur, executive coach, and author of The Marketing Gap, to unpack the lessons he’s learned about business, leadership, faith, and personal growth.

From building his own advertising agency to unexpectedly losing his executive position, David shares how some of his greatest challenges became the very opportunities that transformed his life.

In this conversation, we discuss:

• Why getting fired became one of David’s greatest blessings

• The difference between leadership and management

• Why traditional leadership is failing younger generations

• How to overcome imposter syndrome and get out of your own way

• The importance of mentorship, coaching, and accountability

• Why curiosity might be the most underrated skill in business

• How faith can change the way you approach failure and adversity

• Why putting people before profit creates lasting success

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, business leader, or someone trying to navigate your next chapter, this conversation is a reminder that your greatest setbacks can become your greatest opportunities.

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David Day is an entrepreneur, executive coach, speaker, and author with more than 35 years of experience in advertising and marketing. Through his work and his book, The Marketing Gap, David helps businesses bridge generational divides, strengthen leadership, and navigate change.

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What can sports teach you about succeeding in business, leadership, and life?

In this episode of the TLW Podcast, Jonathan Pixley and Dr. Sean Owens sit down with longtime LSU broadcaster, former LSU football player, and business leader Gordy Rush for a conversation about the lessons that have shaped his career.

Gordy shares how his experiences in football taught him to move on from mistakes, stay emotionally neutral under pressure, build meaningful relationships, and develop the discipline required to perform consistently. He also breaks down how those same principles have carried into decades of leadership and business.

The conversation explores the power of the LSU network, knowing your strengths and weaknesses, surrounding yourself with the right people, protecting your most productive hours, using AI to become more efficient, and learning to say no as your responsibilities grow.

But some of Gordy’s most important lessons have nothing to do with business. He shares his perspective on fatherhood, being present for his children, balancing ambition with family, and why relationships and integrity ultimately matter more than accomplishments.

If you’re an athlete, coach, entrepreneur, parent, or leader looking to perform at a higher level without losing sight of what matters most, this conversation is for you.

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Jennifer Maggio’s story is one of extraordinary pain, perseverance, faith, and purpose.

After losing her mother as a toddler, enduring years of abuse, becoming a teenage mother, experiencing homelessness, and reaching a point where she questioned whether she could keep going, Jennifer’s life began to change when she found hope through her faith and the local church.

In this episode of the TLW Podcast, Jonathan Pixley and Dr. Sean Owens sit down with Jennifer to unpack her journey from a struggling young single mother to the founder and CEO of an organization that has served more than one million women.

Jennifer shares how three women gathered in her living room eventually became a national ministry, why Life of a Single Mom became Unstuck Ministries, and what it means to move from simply believing to truly living “free indeed.”

They also discuss leadership, obedience, identity, integrity, enduring difficult seasons, hearing from God, building something with eternal impact, and the advice Jennifer would give her 17 year old self today.

This conversation is a powerful reminder that your circumstances do not have to determine your future, and that some of the most painful parts of your story can ultimately become part of your purpose.

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