Host, Garrett Boorojian, talked to his listeners about:
- His purpose behind choosing relationship building in a team environment as the main topic of his podcast.
- Why relationship building is the essence of humanity.
- The necessary elements of relationship building.
- Several of the renowned and accomplished guests (including hall of famers, champions, and award winners) he’s interviewed on his podcast, as Garrett briefly highlights the influential figures who had specific circumstances that had major impacts on their lives from a relationship building standpoint.
- How he faced and overcame adversity throughout his years as a teenager, and how four early, specific, relationship building experiences in 2005 and 2006 changed Garretts’ life forever.
- How his former high school history teacher, mentor and friend, Robert (Bob) Bradshaw, and Garrett’s basketball idol, the greatest basketball player of all time, Michael Jordan, had positive impacts on Garrett’s life.
- What he was writing on 3×5 note cards that exemplified Garrett’s relationship building process at work.
- Leaving a legacy with two key parts that should be included when giving back to communities and the world as a whole.
- Final words of advice for his listeners about relationship building.
Garrett’s College and Professional Career Highlights:
- Elected as Freshman Class President in the Student Government Association at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina)
- Reported for the student–run Carolina Week program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
- Graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication, at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
- Received a Political Journalism Certificate, through The Fund for American Studies’ Institute on Political Journalism, at Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia)
- Interned at WUSA–TV, the CBS-affiliated news station (Washington, District of Columbia)
- Interned on Capitol Hill for a U.S. Congressman, Brad Miller, who represented, at the time, the 13th District of North Carolina (Washington, District of Columbia)
- Worked as a Desk Assistant at NBCUniversal on site at the NBC News Bureau (Washington, District of Columbia)
- Worked as a Studio Project Production Assistant at ESPN headquarters (Bristol, Connecticut)
- Worked as a Research Assistant at LakePoint Sports (Emerson, Georgia)
- Broadcasted as an independent sports play-by-play broadcaster (U.S. states of Georgia and Texas)
- Hosted, briefly, an ESPN and CBS–affiliated sports radio show (Raleigh, North Carolina)
- Earned real estate brokerage licenses (U.S. states of North Carolina and South Carolina)
- Served on the Board of Directors (SouthPark Chapter) for the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, which is now called the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance (Charlotte, North Carolina)
- Worked as the Managing Partner and Chief Development Officer at WaveCapital Partners (Represented clients in 10-12 U.S. states, on average, a year)
- Updated List: Interviewed on, or featured in, many media outlets including:
- ABC7 Chicago
- American Banker
- Bloomberg Radio
- CNN
- Forbes
- Fox Business Network
- Fox 2 Detroit
- Fox 11 Los Angeles
- Fox News Channel
- Fox 5 New York
- ReadWrite
- SiriusXM Business Radio Channel 132
- Yahoo Finance TV