Elevate Springfield

Robert Ferriell

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Springfield momentum, one practical conversation at a time.

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Elevate Springfield mixes neighborly interviews with practical coaching around work, health, family, and civic energy. Its center of gravity is downtown Springfield, where local businesses, nonprofits, sports events, music benefits, and personal discipline all share the same table.

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About Elevate Springfield

Elevate Springfield is a Springfield-centered show about personal discipline, local enterprise, and the people trying to make the community more active. It has a coaching backbone. Robert Farrell repeatedly frames the show around action, follow-through, and 10X-style goal setting, but the episodes are not only pep talks. Much of the substance comes from local conversations. Guests and segment topics point toward downtown events, small businesses, nonprofit work, health habits, youth perspective, music benefits, and summer baseball programming. The show likes specifics. It pays attention to places like Robin Roberts Stadium and Boondocks, recurring Springfield gatherings, local sponsors, drone shows, fireworks, farmers markets, and concerts tied to causes. That gives the show a grounded feel, even when the language turns motivational. Separation Saturdays focus on separating from average effort and moving toward massive action. Weekly Battle Plan segments center on controlling time, creating time, and planning the week with intention. The Wellness Upgrade brings in health conversations, including cortisol, stress, testosterone, blood pressure, and hormone balance. Communities Grow Together looks at nonprofits, associations, and community support, with Rock for Mental Health as one example. NextGen adds a father-daughter rhythm through Ellie and Robert, using teen life, school, pressure, and theme park strategy as entry points into time management. The tone is warm and familiar. It sounds close to the ground, more interested in participation than polish. Listeners hear a lot about getting out, showing up, supporting local organizations, and making Springfield feel less sleepy. The show is especially useful for people who want business motivation that stays tied to actual local relationships. It is not detached self-improvement. It is Springfield self-improvement, with names, venues, sponsors, and calendar items still attached.

Made for: For Springfield-area listeners who care about local business, civic events, wellness, youth development, and practical goal setting. It also fits entrepreneurs and community volunteers who prefer encouragement tied to real places and people.

What sets it apart: The show blends 10X-style coaching with concrete Springfield community coverage. Instead of staying in abstract motivation, it keeps returning to local events, organizations, venues, and next steps.

In their own words

Discussing actionable strategies to help you elevate your life, your business, and our community.Actionable Strategies + Discipline = Results

As heard by us

Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Elevate Springfield makes local growth concrete by tracing the decisions, logistics, and relationships behind community projects, businesses, events, and personal development.

Elevate Springfield turns civic life into an operating conversation, with Robert Farrell moving among local business, community organizations, personal development, and health.

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a Disney park tip you could actually use when the fireworks crowd gathers
Springfield fundraiser talk with ticket details as well as enthusiasm

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Springfield local businessdowntown events10X coachingweekly planninghealth and hormonesnonprofit fundraisersyouth and time managementlocal sports and concerts

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The Wellness Upgrade on Elevate Springfield featuring Dr. Bryne Willey: Elevating Through the Power of Hormones Part 1Apr 17, 2026

A direct look at stress, hormones, and blood pressure tradeoffs.

This episode stays focused on the way stress and hormones compete for attention in the body, with cortisol getting first claim before sex hormones or aldosterone.

Elevate Springfield featuring Jamie Toole: Elevating Through the Power of Purpose and CommunityApr 16, 2026

A brisk Springfield call to show up, spend locally, and fill the summer calendar.

Springfield comes through here as a town trying to talk itself into showing up. Robert Farrell, speaking from downtown Springfield in the Big Dog Construction Studio, keeps the message simple: back local businesses, support nonprofits, and turn out for the city.

Communities Grow Together on Elevate Springfield featuring Brandon Damm and Rock for Mental HealthApr 15, 2026

A benefit night that shows how local causes become real when the logistics are right.

Communities Grow Together stays close to the practical side of local momentum: the people, the coordination, and the partnerships behind a benefit night.

NextGen on Elevate Springfield with Ellie Ferriell: Controlling Time at DisneyApr 14, 2026

A Disney day becomes a useful lesson in timing, crowd sense, and making the most of limited hours.

This episode turns a Disney trip into a plainspoken lesson about timing, patience, and reading the crowds. Ellie and her dad, Robert, talk through fireworks, the castle show at Magic Kingdom, and late-night ride windows, and the point lands because it stays close to the…

The Wellness Upgrade on Elevate Springfield featuring Designing and Building Mid-Illinois: Elevating Through the Power of Health starting at HomeApr 10, 2026

A practical wellness segment that connects home design choices with health and comfort.

The episode treats wellness as something built into the home itself, linking health to lighting, airflow, and how a space feels and works. Its most grounded stretch stays on practical ground: circadian rhythm, natural light, harsh artificial lighting, and the reminder that a…

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Your Weekly Battle Plan on Elevate Springfield

Separation Saturdays on Elevate Springfield

The Wellness Upgrade on Elevate Springfield featuring Dr. Kelly Neumann