As the head football of the Florida Gators from 2005 to 2010 and the Ohio State Buckeyes from 2012 to 2018, Urban Meyer won three national championships and established himself as one of only three coaches, along with Pop Warner and Nick Saban, to win a major college football national championship at two universities. But as he shared in this episode of Corporate Competitor Podcast with special guest host John C. Maxwell, when you build a strong, supportive culture, you attract people who want to be part of that culture so badly they will give up opportunities elsewhere to join your team.

When business entrepreneur Angela Ruggiero was 9 years old, she was cut from a boy’s hockey team, despite believing she was as good as the rest of the squad. She may have been cut, but she was determined to prove she had not been defeated.

Years later, the four-time Olympic medalist became the first female to play a non-goalie position on a men’s professional hockey team. Ruggiero played fearlessly on the ice, but she was anything but fearless, as she said in a recent episode of Corporate Competitor Podcast.