Grand Slam Journey

About Grand Slam Journey

Grand Slam Journey explores how lessons from competitive sports shape life, career, and business transitions. I host conversations with athletes, business leaders, and tech innovators, uncovering purposeful mindsets and tangible strategies — from leadership and trust to decision-making frameworks and emerging technologies, such as AI. Each episode offers actionable insights for thriving physically, mentally, and professionally, helping you navigate transitions and unlock your full human potential. Available in audio and video on YouTube.

Publisher

Klara Jagosova

Category

business · sports · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Nov 2020

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

102 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026

   97. Marlan Macklin | From Army Brat to the Pentagon: 6G, AI & America’s Wireless Future

   Host Klara Jagosova interviews Marlan Macklin, Deputy Principal Director for FutureG, about America's wireless future, exploring 6G and AI advancements.

2. 

   6 Sept 2026

   96. Susan Brennan | From Plant Floor to CEO: Leadership, Resilience & Still Standing

   In this episode, Klara Jagosova speaks with Susan Seilheimer Brennan, executive, operator, and author who has spent nearly four decades leading organizations through growth, transformation, and scale across automotive manufacturing, clean energy, and advanced materials. Susan's journey spans growing up in a working-class steel town in Illinois, building her career from a plant floor in rural Iowa to VP Manufacturing at Nissan where she drove the first Nissan LEAF off the production line, to C...

3. 

   23 Aug 2026

   95. Katie Calhoun | From Forbes to Getty Images to Founder: AI, Bias & Human Connection

   In this episode, Klara Jagosova speaks with Katie Calhoun, Founder and CEO of Two-Bridge Growth Insights and Managing Partner at ResonateLab, where she helps organizations use generative AI to facilitate human connections rather than replace them. Katie's journey begins not in a boardroom but behind a camera lens. With a BFA from Cornell, she started as a photo editor and writer, worked her way up at Forbes, then deliberately walked away to learn the one discipline she hadn't yet mastered, sa...

Who has been a guest on Grand Slam Journey

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Marlan Macklin
• Abby Davisson
• Maciek Szczesniak

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

184,304

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

28 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 75 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

73

Social presence

97

YouTube

93

Engagement

51

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Guest appearances

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