This is the Cyclone Fanatic Built to Lead Podcast Series.

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Learn more at GrafiteGR..com. Now here's Chris Williams.

All right guys what is up?

Welcome to this month's built-to-lead podcast here on the Cyco and Fanatic

Podcast Network. Of course we are presented by our friends at Granite Construction

Group. The basis of this podcast is always to talk to leaders in their field. Obviously we want to have it close to Iowa State athletics.

No doubt about that. There are a lot of people people it's not just the head coaches stuff

like that right there are a ton of people behind the scenes and we want to talk

to leaders of all kinds on this podcast series.

And the guy who I'm going to bring to you today,

in my opinion, is one of the great leaders that Iowa State has to offer.

He's a behind the scenes guy, but he is, if you would ask, man I'd say if you

ask pretty much anybody around Iowa State, not just around basketball, they would say say mica buyers is one of the top

humans in the Iowa State Athletic Department he's a guy who I've learned a lot from

over the years we will talk about that in today's podcast. But really, if you look at the

last year, in terms of leading young men, the, these development and guys who are around the players all the time during COVID, man,

it's been, you've had to be able to work on the fly and adjust and I mean that's

really what leadership is right mica has been instrumental with that.

And we'll talk a little bit about that,

but not just, we also recorded this

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