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Positive Blatherings Podcast

Positive Blatherings Podcast

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Scott "Fitz" is a radio host in Rochester, NY and a filmmaker who has battled depression and celebrates sobriety. His podcast is his attempt to surround himself with positive successful people and to just have an organic conversation. Join him as he takes an organic approach to the standard interview. No preparation, no script. Letting the conversation have a mind of its own: a Blathering.Copyright ROC Vox Podcast Network Spiritualità
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  • Coach Jim Johnson | Why Relationships Win You Championships

    Coach Jim Johnson | Why Relationships Win You Championships
    Jun 9 2026
    (00:00:00) Welcome to ROC Vox — Introducing Coach Jim Johnson
    (00:01:03) Getting Cut and Getting Fired — A Humbling Start to Coaching
    (00:02:45) Becoming a Leadership Junkie — Zig Ziglar Jim Rohn and the Personal Growth Pivot
    (00:06:06) The One-Hit Wonder Problem — Staying at the Top Is Harder Than Getting There
    (00:07:03) Lead by Respect Not Fear — The Wrong Way to Lead
    (00:08:36) Relationships Relationships Relationships — The Three Rs of Leadership
    (00:10:06) The Intentional Trust Plan Most Leaders Have Never Built
    (00:11:24) Always On Stage — Leading by Example and the Tie Story
    (00:17:48) Advice for New Coaches — Are You In It for the Right Reasons?
    (00:21:06) How Coaching Young People Has Changed in 35 Years
    (00:23:51) Purpose Self-Reflection and Personal Mission Statements
    (00:25:21) The J-Mac Story — February 15 2006 and the Speech Career It Started
    (00:27:04) Become the Chief Storyteller — Warnings Examples and Reading the Room
    (00:34:42) Staying Fresh — Intentional Personal Growth and Servant Leadership
    (00:43:15) What's Next — Books Podcast and How to Find Coach Jim Johnson

    Coach Jim Johnson spent 35 years coaching high school basketball in Rochester with 428 wins, three programs turned around, and one game on February 15, 2006 that landed him in the Oval Office. In this episode, he gets into what it actually looks like to build trust on purpose, why the leaders who sustain success are doing something most teams never think about, and how the lessons from a gym floor translate directly into any room where someone's trying to lead people.

    CONNECT

    Coach Jim Johnson → https://coachjimjohnson.com
    ROC Vox → https://rocvox.com

    New episodes every Tuesday.

    Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production in Bushnell's Basin, NY. Learn more at https://rocvox.com.
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    48 min
  • Debra Ross | Mobilizing for Totality: How an Eclipse Built a Community

    Debra Ross | Mobilizing for Totality: How an Eclipse Built a Community
    Jun 2 2026
    (00:00:00) Cold Open: What is the Eclipse Effect?
    (00:00:45) Welcome Back and the Non-Conformist Oath
    (00:03:47) Ella's Five-Year Plan and the 2017 Missouri Eclipse
    (00:06:00) Building Rochester's Eclipse Task force: 750 Volunteers, No Budget
    (00:12:00) Co-Chairing the National Eclipse Task Force
    (00:14:27) The Dreadful Lack of Agency and What To Do About It
    (00:17:21) Bonding vs. Bridging: The Two Kinds of Social Capital
    (00:21:09) The Network Graph: Making Invisible Connections Visible
    (00:28:51) Stories From the National Eclipse Effort
    (00:39:09) On Failure, Grade, and Raising Kids Outside the System

    Deborah Ross watched the 2017 solar eclipse from a field in Kimmswick, Missouri and came home convinced of two things: Rochester needed to be ready for 2024, and it was going to be her job to make that happen. What she built with 750 volunteers, no budget, and six years of monthly meetings became both a defining moment for this region and the foundation of a book.

    In this episode, she breaks down how an eclipse becomes a community organizing tool, what servant leadership actually looks like when you're asking hundreds of people to work for free, and why the principles behind The Eclipse Effect apply to any catalyst, a natural disaster, a federal funding cut, or the Olympics coming to your town.

    CONNECT
    The Eclipse Effect → https://theeclipseeffect.com
    Kids Out and About → https://kidsoutandabout.com
    ROC Vox → https://rocvox.com

    New episodes every Tuesday.

    Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production in Pittsford, NY. Learn more at https://rocvox.com
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    45 min
  • Melissa Suchodolski | Firing Bad Clients and Building Great People

    Melissa Suchodolski | Firing Bad Clients and Building Great People
    May 19 2026
    Melissa Suchodolski told someone once that getting into construction was "absurd." That was 25 years ago. Today, she runs USC Builds, a 140-person Rochester contracting firm, and a workforce development nonprofit that Governor Hochul wants to replicate across New York State.


    In this episode, she gets into what it actually looks like to build a company culture most firms won't even try, what it cost to fire a client who represented a third of her annual revenue, and why the construction industry's labor crisis is a competitive advantage for anyone who started this work early.


    CHAPTERS
    00:12 Welcome and the Non-Conformist Oath
    01:09 How Fitz and Melissa Met at the Jewish Home of Rochester
    11:25 Why More Americans Should Travel Abroad
    12:23 Meet USC Builds: 25 Years Building People Through Construction
    13:31 From History Major to Construction President
    16:26 Why a Skilled Trade Can Never Be Taken Away
    19:33 What a Trauma-Informed Workplace Looks Like in Construction
    27:43 Why She Fired Her Second-Biggest Client Over Racism on the Job Site
    30:42 The Construction Labor Crisis and Who's Already Positioned to Win
    34:39 Ascend Workforce Solutions and the Governor's Attention
    41:20 Trauma as a Superpower
    42:51 This or That


    CONNECT
    USC Builds → https://uscbuilds.com
    ROC Vox → https://rocvox.com


    New episodes every Tuesday.


    Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production in Pittsford, NY. Learn more at https://rocvox.com.
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    51 min
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