In episode 36 of Everything is Up, Tammera Hollerich interviews Steven Nutt, a banker from Corsicana, Texas. They discuss the importance of living life with intention and purpose. Steven, a mental performance coach, emphasizes the significance of being intentional and purposeful in various areas, including work, sports, and faith.
Tune in to learn more about mental performance and positivity in achieving success.
TIMESTAMPS
[00:01:49] Avid Baseball Fan and Broadcaster.
[00:07:56] Community Banking and Relationships.
[00:10:39] Purpose and Intentional Living.
[00:14:29] Social Media Pressures.
[00:22:09] Faith, Family, Banking, and Baseball.
In this episode, Tammera Hollerich and Steven Nutt beautifully highlight the significance of living life with intention and purpose in various aspects, such as work, sports, and faith. They share a belief that a positive attitude is a competitive advantage. They also emphasize the importance of mental performance and positivity, viewing a positive attitude as a key factor in achieving success.
In addition, Steven explains that his purpose on earth is to glorify God and share his faith with others. This belief is deeply rooted in his faith and influences his actions and decisions. Furthermore, Steven mentions that he applies these principles when coaching little kids in baseball. He emphasizes the importance of having a purpose behind every drill and practice session, as this mindset extends beyond the baseball field and into his overall approach to life.
QUOTES
“So trying to make a positive influence anywhere I can. But that's one reason it kind of ties back to community banking, because as a community banker, we're involved in our communities. It's more than the job. It's more than banking. It's really about being a part of our community.” - Steven Nutt
“It's all about relationships and influencing people through relationships. ” - Steven Nutt
“But I fear that more of it(social media) is being used the opposite direction than what it could be used for. Just because, you know, negativity is sensationalized.” - Tammera Hollerich
"And I've always been a person about ‘wanting to make an impact’. And have a purpose for what I'm doing." - Steven Nutt
"It's so, it's so hard to be negative all the time. It's like so energy draining." - Tammera Hollerich
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Intro/Outro00:01 - 00:17
Welcome to Everything Is Up, a podcast about the real-life stories of people who have created extraordinary levels of success. These are conversations with people who are constantly striving to take things to the next level. And now, here's your host,
Tammera Hollerich00:21 - 00:34
All right, everyone. Welcome to Everything is Up with Tammera. I am really excited this morning. Joining me is Steven Nutt. Steven, you are out of Corsicana, Texas.
Steven Nutt00:34 - 00:37
That's correct. Just south of Dallas.
Tammera Hollerich00:37 - 01:06
Yes, south of Dallas. So you're in the banking industry, but that's not really, I mean, yes, we can talk about banking, but it's ever so That's just a lovely topic. But you have got a background that intrigued me to no end. And I know our audience is going to be thrilled because you are probably a nut. You're not originally from Texas, are you?
Steven Nutt01:06 - 01:09
Correct. I'm from Georgia originally.
Tammera Hollerich01:09 - 02:06
OK, so that explains the love of the Atlanta Braves. Exactly. OK, so you're this avid baseball fan, yes? That's exactly right. You play, you coach, you, if I am correct, you do broadcasting in Corsicana for the high school baseball team. I do. You're in teach or coaching at the YMCA, so you're embedded into the youth organizations there in Corsicana. I was like, ah! So one of my favorite all-time trips that my husband and I took, we went to Cooperstown. Now, you know where I'm going with this. All right, so give us a little bit of background about who Steven Nutt is.
Steven Nutt02:06 - 04:10
All right, well, you did kind of mention the banking side. That is a big part of my life. I've done that for almost 30 years now, or a little over 30 years total. But that's really not who all I am. So I don't know. I read a lot. And one of my favorite books that I've read is by an author named Jeff Henderson, who is called What Are You Known For? And basically, he talks a lot about your passions and really going after that. So baseball is one of my passions, obviously. Banking has become that over my career. And then my faith and my family are another big part of it. So those four things I try to generalize, generally do things that relate to those things. So that's one reason why baseball really plugged into the community here, been able to coach Little League this fall, which has been a lot of fun. But I also play baseball. And as you mentioned, my son played in high school here at Corsicana High School baseball. And my boss actually was the play-by-play voice of the Corsicana Tigers for football, baseball, and basketball. And so he knew I loved baseball. And when my son was playing, I kind of got pulled into helping him out. So now for the last seven years, been on the team. And so we cover all of their games. And that's a whole lot of fun, too, because I get to stay involved with the high school team and the coaches and just the program in general. So trying to make a positive influence anywhere I can. But that's that's one reason it kind of ties back to community banking, because as a community banker, we're involved in our communities. It's more than the job. It's more than banking. It's really about being a part of our community. And so anything that goes on in Corsicana, our bank is sponsoring it or, you know, involved in it. And so I've really joined in that since I've been here in Texas.
Tammera Hollerich04:11 - 06:05
you know I when I think about community banking my brain automatically goes back to like 1920 when you you know if you were a business owner you had a relationship at the country club with the banker in town because you never know if you're gonna need money and You know, there, I feel very blessed because I have a relationship like that with my banker, but it was intentional. I did it on purpose because my brain kind of goes back to that relationship having to have it. So I'm really glad that you brought that up because in this overly disconnected, crazy world that we live in right now. Having that community, I think that's what drew me to your profile when I was looking for guests for the podcast, because I was like, he gets it, he understands it, right? And then of course, my husband is a huge baseball fan too, like Roberto Clemente, he was born and raised in Pittsburgh, so Roberto Clemente like hangs in my house. So, but, you know, so that was the other side of it. But that was the thing that I thought that was really cool. You know, you, I think I read somewhere that Faith Family, I think you put it, Faith Family Banking and Baseball, were like, if we were going to describe Steven Nutt, that's who we would describe. And community, as a banker, How has that helped you personally in your just kind of life journey, taking on that relationship with your community?
Steven Nutt06:05 - 08:05
You know, it really, so I, like you mentioned, I'm from, originally from Atlanta, Georgia, or in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. And I was in community banking there for a lot of years. And while it was in the metro area, It was community because we were a small bank. It really wasn't because we were plugged into the community, because you're really hard to do that in metro areas. When I moved to Texas about 10 years ago, one of the big draws for me was I could see when I interviewed and was working through that process, how involved they were in the community. And I've always been a person about wanting to make an impact. And have a purpose for what I'm doing. And so that really drew me to being able to be at a spot where it wasn't just a bank. It was really. a part of the community. And we feel that small businesses run the United States. I mean, it's the backbone of the United States. And small businesses bank with community banks. And they have to. A few years ago during COVID, we had the PPP program. It was small banks really that really bought into that and rolled that out and allowed a lot of businesses to stay afloat. It did that locally, we did about 128Million dollars worth of loans just through the PPP program. And the reason was, we're helping our, our friends and family. I mean, that's the, we want our community to thrive and it was a bad, obviously a bad time for everybody. And so that's what we do. I mean, you mentioned that relationships. That that's really, you know, from a Christian background to me, it's all about relationships and influencing people through relationships. And so that's how we see it. And we want to be friends and a good community person. So I think that's really how it all ties kind of back together and what drew me.
Tammera Hollerich08:06 - 08:44
Out here, nice on your email signature you have on purpose with purpose as part of your signature line in your emails and I was like oh I love that. Tell us, because I've read it in my research and my stalking you, as I tell my guests, I stalk you before you get here. You have very definitive on what on purpose means and with purpose. So share with us how you explain that.
Steven Nutt08:44 - 10:38
Okay, so I get that because I'm big into mental performance, positivity. I think a positive attitude is a competitive advantage, all of that. One of the guys I listen to a lot is Brian Kane. He's a mental performance coach. And so one of the things he talks about is being intentional. And this was a few years ago. I heard him on a podcast talk about how, in general, We live our lives about 20% intentional and on purpose and about 80%. go with the flow. Fly by the seat of your pants. Fly by the seat of your pants, go whatever happens. I'm not on purpose. And so he challenged us, he challenged you to flip that. He said, you can't do 100%. That's not reasonable. But try to flip that to where it's 80% on purpose and 20% go with the flow. So that kind of drove me to that because I feel like I've always wanted to be doing something on purpose and for a purpose. And so when I coach little kids in baseball, one of the things I talk about to them is when we go out to practice, if we're doing a drill, there's a purpose behind that drill. It's not just going out to waste some time. So if you're going to go do something, do it on purpose and have a purpose. And so that's kind of what drove the on-purpose side. And then the with-purpose side speaks to my faith, because I feel like my purpose on earth is to glorify God and to share that with other people. And so I want that to always be backed up, what my on-purpose is for. So that's kind of how I came up with on-purpose, with-purpose. So that's, I decided to put that as my sign-off.
Tammera Hollerich10:38 - 12:19
I loved it. I mean, when I saw it, I was like, oh, that is brilliant. But it speaks to your character, right? I told you when even before we came on air, I was like, there are so much about you. I mean, I was just like, I have to have this guy. So you guys get this guy for me. I want to have him because I do think our society as a whole, is flying by the seat of their pants. They are, you know, spending hours upon hours. You know, they go to work to earn a paycheck. They get home and they sit on the couch and they surf Facebook until they go to bed. And it's like your life is so much more than that. Your life is, you know, especially because, you know, and I dearly adore my father. My mom passed away five years ago, as our audience knows, and Here lately, it's, he believes everything on Facebook and I'm like, okay, we have got to get him out of the house. We have got, he's going to have to go find friends, like, because... That is such a facade, and yet it wastes time, you get sucked in, and there's so much more that you were put on this earth to do, to be, to serve your communities, to serve your family, that when I saw it on yours, I was just like, oh, we could probably talk for hours on end. Speaking of, you know, faith, family, banking and baseball, you are married, right, Suzanne, your lovely bride. How long have you guys been married?
Steven Nutt12:19 - 14:05
So we've just celebrated our sixth anniversary. Nice. And between us, we have six kids. So they're all from 29 down to 18, my youngest is just graduated last year and is at Texas A&M as a freshman and so we've got, we run the gamut with them and we're real proud of them because they're They're doing great. And the ones that are out are doing good at their jobs. And then the others in school are doing well. So it's been kind of, we call it the Brady Bunch because it's kind of like the old Brady Bunch show. We got married and both have three kids. So now there's eight of us. It's kind of funny that you bring up the social media thing, because that's kind of where the Faith Family Banking and Baseball came up. A few years ago, my daughter, Avery, was giving me a hard time about my Facebook pages. She said, Dad, all you ever post on there is pictures of us talking about the kids or something about your faith or something about baseball or your job. And I said, well, that's pretty much all I I do. That's my focus. So they're just kind of really brought in to focus what my passions are. And that's all, you know, you're right. So many people use social media for all kinds of crazy stuff. And you can argue about everything in the world out there. And who knows? what's right and what's true and what's false on there. So I try to keep it and kind of the on purpose with purpose. If I'm going to be on it, I want it to be serving a purpose and it's going to serve a purpose that meets my four passions.
Tammera Hollerich14:05 - 16:43
Nice. Yeah, that's, it's really crazy. I, you know, we're young obviously we're a little bit older and when we were you know when we were in high school or when we were in college you didn't have the social media pressures that these younger individuals have. I mean anybody pretty much born after 2000 really that they don't know anything else that they don't unfortunately and I've got a couple of ladies that are in my office and they've got teenagers and you know one of the one of the young girls is a freshman in high school she's the first varsity cheerleader ever at that high school to be a freshman and it's the mean girl syndrome and it's the and it's all it's like feet and you know i was like if you could just erase it for them and have them not have to deal with, you know, every time they're having a bad day, somebody snaps a picture and puts, you know, the RBF on, you know, the Facebook about this girl. And I was like, it's really sad because there's so much more out there, as you have said, right? There's, you've got communities, you've got, and you don't have to be absorbed by it. But there's adults in this world that are absorbed by it. So it's not just the, you know, the teenagers or the young adults that are taxed with this social problem, as I call it, because I do think it's a social problem that we have. Could it be used for good? Yes. But I fear that more of it is being used the opposite direction than what it could be used for. Just because, you know, negativity is sensationalized. And I hate it because like you, it's, I get, I literally get called Susie Sunshine, like on a regular basis and the perpetual optimist all the time. But, It's so, it's so hard to be negative all the time. It's like so energy draining. I was like, yeah. So like when I really your faith, family, you know, six kids and teenagers at that, like, oh, wow. Yeah, that's a hard road, especially newly married, too, because you guys would have had teenagers newly married.
Steven Nutt16:45 - 17:19
Yeah, it was a big, big deal because, you know, basically a lot of them are very close in age. So there's a lot of dynamics with that. We're lucky they do all get along. Four of them are girls and they had one of the things during COVID, we were all stuck in a house together. So they got to be, you know, it was really a good first time they'd really spent a ton of time together. And so, they've become best of friends. So that's been a blessing for sure.
Tammera Hollerich17:19 - 18:30
Yeah, that's exciting. I mean, talk about a test to a marriage. Like if you guys could have, you guys handled that like, you know, 50 years is in your future because that right out of the chute would have been just like, I like you, but I don't know if I like you this much, right? Especially and then dump COVID right on top of it. Like you just you get the almond for that to being a lot of fun. So I'm huge Atlanta Braves fan. And okay, so before we kind of cut out today, I thought, you know, I like to do something fun with my guests. And I thought, my favorite thing to do is Are you smarter than a fifth grader? And I thought it would be a lot of fun to do Are you smarter than a fifth grader about the Atlanta Braves. Are you game for that? Okay, so. You might embarrass me here. Oh no, not at all. So I'll make the first ones easy for you before we get into the hard ones. Probably none of these are going to be hard for you, but here we go. Okay, so question number one. What is the official mascot of the Atlanta Braves?
Steven Nutt18:30 - 18:42
The official mascot of the Atlanta Braves is, well, when I was growing up it was Chief Nakahoma. which was the Indian that represented the Cherokee Indians.
Tammera Hollerich18:42 - 18:50
Nice. OK, so that was one answer I found. So that was the official answer. The unofficial answer is Blooper, the blue fuzzy guy.
Steven Nutt18:50 - 19:01
He's become a famous, he's kind of like the Philly fanatic. He's become famous taunting other, you know, kind of the fun, fun character. of these days that we put as mascots.
Tammera Hollerich19:01 - 20:01
Yeah, it was a lot of fun. I was like, blooper. I'm like, blooper. I'm like, what's a blooper? And then I saw a big picture. I was like, oh, blooper. Okay, Philadelphia guy. Okay, crazy blue guy. So I thought that was pretty fun. Okay, so in 2021, the Atlanta Braves won the World Series. Who did they defeat to secure their victory? Houston Astros. Of course, yeah. So I was like, it had to be a Texas team, right? And of course, I'm a huge Rangers fan. My husband, a huge baseball fan. And of course, he was like, you know, if if the Pirates go to the World Series, then I was like, but it's going to be the Rangers. And he's like, no, it's not. And I'm like, it is now. It's like all his poor little pirates. Or pirates. Yeah, in both Texas teams. I know, that's exciting. It's very exciting. So exciting. Okay, so which Braves player led the team in home runs during the 2020, the COVID season as I call it, in 2020?
Steven Nutt20:01 - 20:06
That would probably be Freddie Freeman.
Tammera Hollerich20:07 - 20:09
Actually, it was Marcel Ozuna.
Steven Nutt20:09 - 20:13
Ozuna? Really? Okay. Yeah, so he actually... That was hard. That was the hardest.
Tammera Hollerich20:13 - 20:30
Yeah, it was hard because everything was so weird and I thought, okay, let's see if he's got it down. Okay, so, all right, so another 2020 question. Let's see if we can get this one. It says, who won the Golden Glove Award as the Braves Outstanding Defensive Player in 2020?
Steven Nutt20:31 - 20:38
that did it have a position player or because going glove is given to different positions.
Tammera Hollerich20:38 - 20:53
Yeah, it didn't really say it just said Max fried the picture is a pitcher pitching gold glove that year. Yeah, he did. But he won it for exceptional fielding, which is so odd. Yes, I thought that was that was a really good one.
Steven Nutt20:53 - 21:03
Back in my day, in the 90s, when the Braves were really good, Greg Maddox won that award several years in a row as a pitcher, the pitching award.
Tammera Hollerich21:03 - 21:13
So here's a 95 question for you. So which Braves player won the Cy Young Award in 95, after a remarkable season?
Steven Nutt21:14 - 21:15
That would be Greg Maddox.
Tammera Hollerich21:15 - 21:41
Yeah, it was. And so when you said his name, I'm like, oh, he knows this one. Give him this one. This is a win. Ding, ding, ding. Yay, we got it. OK, so the other one, I have one more for you. And it is, which Braves player known as the Crime Dog was the prolific home run hitter during the 1990s?
Steven Nutt21:43 - 21:44
That's Fred McGriff.
Tammera Hollerich21:44 - 21:45
Yeah.
Steven Nutt21:45 - 21:47
Yeah. He just got inducted to the Hall of Fame.
Tammera Hollerich21:47 - 22:09
He did. And I was like, yeah. So that was a congratulations, Fred, by the way, on your induction into the Hall of Fame. You know what? You have been so much fun, Steven. Thank you so much for joining us today and sharing your passion of, you know, What did we say your passion is one more time?
Steven Nutt22:09 - 22:12
It is... Faith, family, banking, and baseball.
Tammera Hollerich22:12 - 22:25
Faith, family, banking, and baseball. And you've been so much fun. Thank you so much for joining me today. You can reach Steven through LinkedIn. Do you want to tell us how else we can get in touch with you?
Steven Nutt22:25 - 23:02
Yeah, you can on LinkedIn. I'm on Facebook, so you can do that too. But LinkedIn is probably the best place. I try to That one's a little more business oriented, so we try to stay there. I am on Twitter as well, so you can search up for me there. But yeah, and Community National Bank, we're an hour south of Dallas, so we can, you know, banking now, you can pretty much bank anywhere with anybody. So we'd always love to have, you know, people reach out to us, especially in Texas.
Tammera Hollerich23:02 - 23:35
Nice. So Community National Bank out of Corsicana, you'll find Steven Nutt on LinkedIn and Facebook. Again, thank you so much, Steven. Faith, family, banking, and baseball. I appreciate your time this morning. All right, everybody, this is Tammera with Everything Is Up. Make sure you like, share, share, share, share. We want to grow the podcast as much as possible, and we appreciate our loyal followers. All right, everybody, have a great week. Thanks, Steven. Thank you. You bet.
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