
Beyond High Performance
The Beyond High Performance Podcast is brought to you by the coaches and friends of the executive coaching firm, Novus Global, and the Meta Performance Institute for Coaching. Join us for intentional, vulnerable, thought provoking conversations that illustrate the life-shifting power of coaching. In order to adequately share the breadth and depth of the firm’s insights, this podcast consists of three unique shows. The Meta Performance Show, will bring you unflinching interviews with top industry leaders on their paths to success. Next, we explore with the show called On Coaching, which pulls back the curtain on the intricacies of life as a Novus Global Coach. And finally, Your Finest Hour, which explores the unique dynamics between a coach and their client by bringing both on the show to unpack their coaching experience together. This podcast was crafted to help you grow as a coach, leader, employee, and human being, inspiring you to go beyond high performance and explore what you are capable of. Note that this podcast is not for those who are committed to mediocrity.
Latest episodes

Aug 17, 2021 • 56min
Naming Your Limiting Beliefs to Create Scalable Results, with Chantelle Little
YOUR FINEST HOUR | Tiller Digital Founder and CEO, Chantelle Little, shares the salient impact being coached had on both her and her company, not the least of which was doubling her company’s size in one year. Dan Leffelaar interviews Chantelle and her coach, Janet Breitenbach, and discuss the power that writing out her limiting beliefs, focusing on company culture, and testing specifically for growth and ownership in the hiring process had on Chantelle’s business. Chantelle shares the one question that Janet asked her often that had the greatest impact on her growth.Novus Global is a tribe of elite executive coaches who work with Fortune 500 Companies, Professional Athletes, World Renowned Artists and Business Leaders to create lives, teams and companies that go beyond high-performance.Book a free consultation with a Novus Global coach here: http://novus.global/now/ This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Jeremy Davidson as Editor and Audio engineer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co

Aug 10, 2021 • 1h 10min
How These Former Teachers Went from the Classroom to Six-Figure Coaching Businesses
ON COACHING | Where do teaching and coaching overlap and how do they differ? Which skills transfer? Many of our team members were educators for years before they decided to become executive coaches. Former teachers/current Novus Global coaches Amanda Jaggard, Laura Leffelaar, Randy Poon, and Joseph Thompson discuss the venn diagram of teaching students and coaching adults. While the disposition required of great coaches and teachers is similar--an unconditional belief in their clients or students--the approach is not the same. The group discusses artificial limits, inquiry-based coaching, and how the ability to impart knowledge effectively in a classroom is a different art than the ability to ask the right open-ended questions to "unleash the genius" in a client. Novus Global is a tribe of elite executive coaches who work with Fortune 500 Companies, Professional Athletes, World Renowned Artists and Business Leaders to create lives, teams and companies that go beyond high-performance.Book a free consultation with a Novus Global coach here: http://novus.global/now/ This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Jeremy Davidson as Editor and Audio engineer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co

Aug 3, 2021 • 23min
Bonus Episode: 5 Questions Shaping the Trajectory of Your Life, with Jason Jaggard
Bonus Episode: Jason Jaggard takes us back to the main stage at the 2017 STORY Conference in Nashville, TN. Jason outlines five important questions you might ask that will shape your trajectory and how the answers might have a profound impact on your perceived view of yourself and your capabilities.REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE STORY GatheringsNovus Global is a tribe of elite executive coaches who work with Fortune 500 Companies, Professional Athletes, World Renowned Artists and Business Leaders to create lives, teams and companies that go beyond high-performance.Book a free consultation with a Novus Global coach here: http://novus.global/now/ This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Jeremy Davidson as Editor and Audio engineer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co

Jul 27, 2021 • 57min
Curiosity, Play + Post-Traumatic Growth, with Kevin Carroll
META PERFORMANCE SHOW | World-renowned author, speaker, coach and “instigator of inspiration” Kevin Carroll joins Jason Jaggard in discussing how to attract mentors, cultivate curiosity, and harness the power of play to enhance innovation, creativity, abstract thinking and problem-solving. With a palpable generosity of spirit, Kevin shares the specific outcomes of post-traumatic growth, aiming for asymmetrical risk, what it was like to tell Phil Knight he was quitting Nike, and how a llama on a Zoom call can serve as a telling litmus test. This episode will leave you feeling energized and inspired! Connect with Kevin: www.kckatalyst.com | www.playworks.org | National Institute for Play | Instagram/Twitter: @KCKatalyst REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE ·Wonderland: How Play Made The Modern World by Steven JohnsonNovus Global is a tribe of elite executive coaches who work with Fortune 500 Companies, Professional Athletes, World Renowned Artists and Business Leaders to create lives, teams and companies that go beyond high-performance.Book a free consultation with a Novus Global coach here: http://novus.global/now/ This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Jeremy Davidson as Editor and Audio engineer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co

Jul 20, 2021 • 47min
Prioritizing BOTH Ambitious Career Goals + Parenthood, with Kara Grasso
YOUR FINEST HOUR | Already a star employee or high performer? Coaching helps achievers take things to the next level. "Every leader needs a coach to guide them," says episode guest and business exec Kara Grasso. Kara didn't seek out coaching; she fell into it when her former company gave her the opportunity to work with Novus Global coach, Jon Roberts. Three years later, she's still a client and she and Jon are celebrating her ambitious 3-Year Plan coming to fruition. In this episode of Your Finest Hour with interviewer Amanda Jaggard, Kara tells us what paved the way for achieving the impossible and illustrates the transformation in her career, motherhood, and life as a result of ongoing conversations with Jon. Join us for this powerful conversation about integrity, vulnerability, values alignment, uncomfortable missions, and the courage to know when it’s time to close one beautiful chapter and open another.Novus Global is a tribe of elite executive coaches who work with Fortune 500 Companies, Professional Athletes, World Renowned Artists and Business Leaders to create lives, teams and companies that go beyond high-performance.Book a free consultation with a Novus Global coach here: http://novus.global/now/ This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Jeremy Davidson as Editor and Audio engineer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co

Jul 13, 2021 • 41min
Team Environments + Aligned Visions
ON COACHING | We join Dan Leffelaar, Amanda Jaggard, Jon Roberts, and Chris North to discuss the work that we do at Novus Global while coaching teams in a corporate setting. We’ll dive into conflict resolution and how to lead individuals and ourselves from a place of disconnection and frustration to a place of service within our teams. We believe that coaching teams towards an aligned vision will result in connection, productivity, and ultimately an increased satisfaction in the workplace and beyond.Novus Global is a tribe of elite executive coaches who work with Fortune 500 Companies, Professional Athletes, World Renowned Artists and Business Leaders to create lives, teams and companies that go beyond high-performance.Book a free consultation with a Novus Global coach here: http://novus.global/now/ This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Jeremy Davidson as Editor and Audio engineer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co

Jul 6, 2021 • 22min
Bonus Episode: Embrace Growth, with Jason Jaggard
Jason Jaggard takes us back to the main stage at the 2018 STORY Conference in Nashville, TN. His talk explores the surprising missing piece that keeps most of us from growing our integrity. Jason gives insight around how a lack of humility and dismissing cliches can keep us from some of the biggest moments of growth in our professional and personal lives.REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODESTORY GatheringsNovus Global is a tribe of elite executive coaches who work with Fortune 500 Companies, Professional Athletes, World Renowned Artists and Business Leaders to create lives, teams and companies that go beyond high-performance.Book a free consultation with a Novus Global coach here: http://novus.global/now/ This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Jeremy Davidson as Editor and Audio engineer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co

Jun 29, 2021 • 58min
The Paradox of Mastery + MLB Pitching, with R.A. Dickey
META PERFORMANCE SHOW | Baseball legend R.A. Dickey. R.A. shares his climb from the minor league to the major league, back down to the minors, and back up to the majors again – a decades-long journey that taught him new levels of aptitude, worth ethic, surrender and perseverance as a pitcher and human being. This powerful conversation, facilitated by Jason Jaggard and Dan Leffelaar, illuminates the path of reinventing yourself, the grief and relief that comes with it, the importance of who you surround yourself with, and the paradox of mastery.Novus Global is a tribe of elite executive coaches who work with Fortune 500 Companies, Professional Athletes, World Renowned Artists and Business Leaders to create lives, teams and companies that go beyond high-performance.Book a free consultation with a Novus Global coach here: http://novus.global/now/ This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Jeremy Davidson as Editor and Audio engineer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co

Jun 22, 2021 • 40min
Coaching Impact on all Facets of Life + Being a Stanley Cup Champion, with Andrew Ladd
YOUR FINEST HOUR | Andrew Ladd, a Stanley Cup champion and player for the New York Islanders joins us for this conversation with Jason Jaggard and Novus Global Sport Director and Andrew's coach, Dan Leffelaar. Dan and Andrew share what made them choose to work together as coach and client, their journey of flipping self-talk to your advantage, and fostering a genuine client-coach relationship. Andrew shares how coaching helped him fall back in love with hockey, dream big with the Ladd Foundation, and infuse energy into himself and his family.RESOURCESIG and Twitter: @aladd16Laddfoundation.org 1616.orgNovus Global is a tribe of elite executive coaches who work with Fortune 500 Companies, Professional Athletes, World Renowned Artists and Business Leaders to create lives, teams and companies that go beyond high-performance.Book a free consultation with a Novus Global coach here: http://novus.global/now/ This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Jeremy Davidson as Editor and Audio engineer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co

Jun 21, 2021 • 1h 2min
Choosing Growth Over Comfort
ON COACHING | David Gerber, Dan Leffelaar, Janet Breitenbach and Johan Martinez-Khalilian lead a powerful conversation on growth. Drawing from personal examples, they share the impact of their own radical commitment to growth as coaches, and illustrate the fortitude, courage, and discipline required to avoid the allure of complacency. Each coach discusses their hypothesis for why it’s rare to find communities truly committed to growth over comfort. Spoken in the same tone of love and fierce advocacy with which they color their life and serve their clients, you will hear how growth is the best—and possibly only—way to create meaning and fulfillment in your life.Novus Global is a tribe of elite executive coaches who work with Fortune 500 Companies, Professional Athletes, World Renowned Artists and Business Leaders to create lives, teams and companies that go beyond high-performance.Book a free consultation with a Novus Global coach here: http://novus.global/now/ This podcast is produced by Rainbow Creative with Matthew Jones as Senior Producer and Jeremy Davidson as Editor and Audio engineer. Find out more about how to create a podcast for you or your business at rainbowcreative.co