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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Legendary LSU gymnastics coach D-D Breaux and her daughter, former LSU soccer player and businesswoman Sara Pollock Dickson, join the TLW Podcast for a conversation about leadership, perseverance, family, and building a legacy that lasts.

D D shares lessons from her historic 43 year career at LSU, including the challenges of helping pioneer the growth of women’s athletics, the importance of relationships and networking, and what it took to build a championship culture. Sara shares how growing up around LSU athletics shaped her own approach to business, motherhood, discipline, failure, and serving others.

Together, they unpack what it means to value people, embrace adversity, work with purpose, and use the opportunities you have been given to impact the next generation.

At 63 years old, Sherry Mockler is not slowing down. She is training for the National Senior Games, lifting heavy, coaching others, and proving that strength has no age limit.

In this episode of the TLW Podcast, Sherry shares why adults must train for strength, power, balance, mobility, and longevity before they begin losing them. She explains the truth about women lifting heavy, how to prevent falls and injuries as you age, and why your training today determines how you will move 10, 20, or even 30 years from now.

Sherry also opens up about rebuilding her life after divorce, beginning a new career after 18 years as a stay at home mother, growing Sherry Mockler Strong, and relying on prayer, gratitude, courage, and connection through some of life’s hardest seasons.

This conversation is about more than fitness. It is about refusing to let fear, age, or adversity determine the rest of your story.

Learn more about Sherry and her online training programs at SherryMocklerStrong.com.

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In this episode of the TLW Podcast, Sean Owens and Coach Pixley sit down with Trey Willard, founder and CEO of The W Group, to talk about what it really takes to become a high performer in business, leadership, and life.

Trey shares how discipline, belief, culture, accountability, and consistent daily action helped him grow from DJ Trizzy into the leader of one of Louisiana’s top real estate teams.

This conversation is especially valuable for business owners, executives, athletes, and leaders who want to raise their standard, build stronger habits, improve their mindset, and lead people more effectively.

At TLW, these are the same principles we help our clients develop every day: discipline, leadership, confidence, accountability, and personal growth that translates into real life results.

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In this episode of the TLW Podcast, Jonathan Pixley and Dr. Sean Owens sit down with Thad Rispone, President of ISC Constructors, to talk about leadership, legacy, mentorship, family, faith, and what it means to build success the right way.

Thad shares his journey from working in the warehouse of his father’s company to helping lead one of the most respected construction companies in the country. Throughout the conversation, he unpacks the importance of earning trust, staying curious, investing in people, leading with integrity, and keeping faith and family at the center.

This episode is filled with wisdom for leaders, business owners, coaches, parents, and anyone striving to build a life of purpose.

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In this episode of the TLW Podcast, Jonathan Pixley and Dr. Sean Owens sit down with attorney and sports law specialist David Fleshman for one of the most honest conversations we’ve had yet.

David shares his journey from standout high school athlete to LSU basketball walk on, and how a major knee injury reshaped his path early on. But this episode goes much deeper than sports. David opens up about walking through the devastating loss of his father to suicide while in college, the long road of grief that followed, and what it looks like to keep moving forward when life changes forever.

This conversation is about resilience, faith, leadership, family, and the power of simply showing up for people in their darkest moments. It is a powerful reminder that pain may change you, but it does not have to define you.

In this episode, we cover:

• Overcoming a major injury and shifting goals
• Lessons learned as an LSU basketball walk on
• Losing a parent to suicide and processing grief
• The importance of faith and community in hard seasons
• Leadership, service, and building a meaningful life

This is a deep one. If you have ever walked through loss, carried pain, or needed the reminder to keep going, this episode is for you.

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