Unstoppable Spirit: World Series to World Traveler with Jeremy Guthrie
Mick Unplugged
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4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Jeremy Guthrie is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who commanded the mound for over a decade with the Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles, Colorado Rockies, and Kansas City Royals. A Stanford graduate and former BYU standout, Jeremy was an American League Rookie of the Year candidate in 2007, represented Team USA in the 2009 World Baseball Classic, and started Games 3 and 7 of the 2014 World Series before earning a World Series ring in 2015. Off the field, Jeremy serves as an MLB Commissioner’s Ambassador, traveling to over 60 countries across six continents to grow the game globally. He is also the owner of Custom Cleats, the pioneering company that converts any sneaker into a high-performance cleat for athletes of all ages and sports. A man of deep faith, Jeremy’s two-year mission in Spain at age 19 laid the foundation for a life built on service, resilience, and redefining what success truly means.
Takeaways:
- Redefine Success Before It Defines You: Jeremy learned on the streets of Spain what most people never figure out in a lifetime — success isn’t about the scoreboard. It’s about the effort you pour into becoming the best version of yourself. John Wooden said it, Jeremy lived it, and it carried him through a decade in the big leagues when the stats didn’t always cooperate. If you’re measuring your worth by outcomes you can’t control, you’re playing a losing game. Control your effort, your focus, your resilience — and let the results take care of themselves.
- Forget Yourself and Find Your Purpose: At 19, Jeremy walked away from a professional baseball contract to spend two years serving others in Spain. No fastball. No spotlight. Just service. And what he found was the foundation of everything that followed — a deeper understanding of who he was and what he was capable of becoming. When you stop chasing what the world says you should want and start pouring into other people, that’s when the real breakthroughs happen. Lose yourself in service and watch your purpose reveal itself.
- Every Day You Have a Platform, Use It: Jeremy’s teammate Kevin Millar said it best — every day you’re in the big leagues, you have a chance to touch somebody’s life. Jeremy took that to heart and ran with it across 60 countries and six continents. But here’s the thing — you don’t need a Major League roster spot to have a platform. You have one right now. The question is, are you using it? Whether it’s a kind word, a signed autograph, or showing up for your community, your platform is your opportunity to leave people better than you found them.
Sound Bytes:
“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of the self-satisfaction that you have in making the best effort you can to become the best you’re capable of becoming.”
“Every day you’re in the big leagues, you have a chance to touch somebody’s life.”
“I learned the joy of forgetting yourself, of losing yourself, and yet finding yourself through that.”
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of Mick Unplugged, and today I am joined by a Titan, a legend, who commanded the mound in Major League Baseball for over a decade, a World Series competitor, and a global ambassador whose impact transcends the game itself. |
| 0:14.9 | He's building bridges through sports from Peru to China. |
| 0:18.2 | He's a former Eagle Scout, a Stanford mind, and more importantly, |
| 0:22.0 | one of the greatest human beings I know. Please join me in welcoming, the inspiring, the visionary, |
| 0:26.8 | the incomparable, Mr. Jay Guts himself, Jeremy Guthrie. You're listening to Mick Unplugged, |
| 0:33.7 | hosted by the one and only Mick Hunt. This is where purpose meets power and stories spark transformation. |
| 0:40.4 | Mick takes you beyond the motivation and into meaning, |
| 0:43.5 | helping you discover your because and becoming unstoppable. |
| 0:47.2 | I'm Rudy Rush, and trust me, you're in the right place. |
| 0:50.8 | Let's get unplugged. |
| 1:11.0 | Jeremy, how you doing? You are very kind, Mick. That is a very kind introduction. Well beyond what I deserve. But thank you. It's a pleasure to be with you. Well, you know, I can talk trash to you now. You probably don't deserve it because you went to Stanford and I went to UNC and now somehow we're rivals. I don't understand how East Coast, West Coast, |
| 1:15.3 | I don't know if we're like 90s hip hop beef now, but I guess we got something that we got to talk about, right? I tell you what, it's one of the greatest rivalries in the history of college |
| 1:19.9 | sports to have that. I mean, it's amazing. Three years now running and it just, the roots are |
| 1:25.1 | deep in this rivalry. |
| 1:36.3 | I can't even imagine these West Coast teams traveling all up and down the Atlantic coast to play conference matchups. |
| 1:38.3 | It's college athletics is in a very unique and I would say a broken spot. |
| 1:44.3 | I'm not a super well-versed and professional person to say that, but as a fan, it's very |
| 1:49.5 | broken as a fan. |
| 1:51.0 | So it's awful. |
| 1:52.5 | And for you, like, you played baseball. |
| 1:54.2 | So you understand truly. |
| 1:56.4 | Like, I think obviously football is what controlled all of this. |
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