Lucas Ballasy is a writer, musician, and Partner / Chief Experience Officer (CXO) at Barrel, an e-commerce agency working with brands to grow their businesses through website design, development, and optimization. Joining Barrel as a designer nearly a decade ago, Lucas has helped shape the agency’s structure and service offering while continually seeking innovative ways to collaborate with clients and help them succeed. Lucas has written over 300+ posts about his journey leading an agency team, personal growth, and other life experiences on his blog, lucasballasy.com. For over two years, he has also sent a weekly newsletter called Borrowed, Learned, & Thought (or BL&T) where he explores insights, ideas, and lessons learned.
In this episode we discuss how to turn great company culture brainstorm ideas into actual action; what from Lucas' grocery store job stuck with him into this agency career; Chris and Novus' training with Barrel evolved into Lucas getting one-on-one coaching from Chris--him wanting to becoming a better manager, and more.
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.