Dave Mortensen

Oh, dude, this was really fantastic.

I appreciate you carving out the time for this conversation.

I mean, you may have just inadvertently written your next book and all the little anecdotes.

Thanks for taking the time and pouring into the audience here.

Deeply appreciate it.

Well, congrats on everything you're doing.

I'll look forward to listening to how this all comes together and appreciate you taking the time with me as well.

This is your host, Adam Outland.

And outside of this podcast, I'm also the leader for a division of our company, Southwestern Consulting, and our division is the Southwestern Student Coaching Program.

And that division, we started back in 2020 because the desire we had was to take all these skills that we've equipped executives with for

Over a decade, I've coached executives and managers and sales professionals on the skills, the habits, the motivation, and the systems to be successful in their job and in life.

And what we realized from working with 30, 40, 50 year olds was if we could have gotten to them when they were in ninth grade, in middle school, in high school, and equipped them with the same things we're teaching them now, the ripple effects would be huge.

And so back in 2020, we decided to formulate a coaching program for youth

equipping youth with the same types of skill development that we typically work on with adults.

We just apply it to their world.

And what that looks like is teaching them the study skills, the communication skills that they can use every day in the classroom and outside the classroom, coaching them on the mindset and the motivation of someone who's a top performer

And what does that mean?

It means helping a young teenager create and craft a vision for themselves.

Because without a vision, we perish.

But with a vision, we can be equipped with the motivation to dig into our study habits.