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Success Freaks #134 – Living The Dream w/Guest Host Tracy O’Brien

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What happens if you’re two years in to your five year plan for success and you realize that you’re not where you thought you’d be by this time?  You get discouraged.  You begin to lose sight of the big picture.  You question yourself about this path you’ve chosen and feel, perhaps, you’re not headed in the right direction after all.  You may even be thinking about throwing in the towel and admitting defeat.

Rest assured…you’re not alone.

How do you handle this downward spiral and pull yourself up and out of the dream crushing slump that you’re in?

  • Step back and remember why you started this journey in the first place.
  • Take a breath and exhale all the negativity and doubt that’s been building up inside you. [Read more…]

Success Freaks #133 – Stretching Beyond Your Limits w/Special Guest Corine La Font

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As we begin our journey into 2014, what steps are YOU taking to stretch beyond your comfort zone – beyond what you believe is even possible?  We have a tendency to choose goals that move us toward something we want to achieve…  But, how many of these would actually STRETCH YOU & CHANGE YOU as a person, helping you grow into the person you need to become to accomplish such lofty aspirations?

We often want to better our lives, but are you willing to jump in a big pool of Being Uncomfortable and swim around in it long enough to make a REAL change in your life and who you are?  “Stretching Beyond Your Limits” means pursuing those goals that scare you, if even a little bit.  Join Mordant & McFall and guest Corine La Font – helpdeskja.com’s virtual author assistant/event specialist and soon-to-be radio network mogul – as they laugh, chat, and tackle their way through what it means to stretch yourself enough to Level Up Your Life. [Read more…]

Success Freaks #132 – Firing The Cannon

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Hot off their weekend in Las Vegas at the New Media Expo, Mordant & McFall share some of their exploits and a bit of what they learned while in attendance.  Your Success-Freaky men open this episode with their intent to run their show a little differently than they have in the past.  Along with their usual theme of comedic motivation they wish to be more intentional with their teaching – including a list of takeaways/tips relating to the episode.

Listen in as they guide you through their shortlist of just a few of the epiphanies they experienced together during their amazing weekend at NMX.

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Success Freaks #131 – Bigger, Badder, Better, MORE!

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Mordant & McFall welcome you to New Media Expo 2014 and the glory that is the Podcast Pavilion.  As they did at last years event, your comedic-motivational men introduce a cavalcade of new friends and ideas in their own Success-Freaky fashion.  Listen in for almost a hour and a half of laughter & learnin’ with a wide variety of NMX attendees.  The fun begins with Patricia Fripp and winds its way through the likes of George Hrab, Mignon Fogarty, Gary Leland, Catharine Bramkamp, Rob Cesternino, Kirsten of ItsKeerstin, Corey Fineran, David H. Lawrence XVII, Brian Rodda, and New Media Expo’s own Megan Enloe. [Read more…]

Success Freaks #130 – Remembering 2013

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Broadcast live, Monday (not Tuesday) night on New Year’s Eve Eve, this final Success Freaks episode of 2013 takes a wistful look back on a very growth-orientated year for the whole Success Freaks team.  Kirsten from “ItsKeerstin” and later Rocker Life Coach Tim Gillette join Mordant & McFall on camera for an evening of reminiscing about the past, considering the future, and goofing around in the present.  The conversation ebbed and flowed, covering everything from New Media Expo, the SF conference, the Dream Hunters home group, body acceptance, the SF book and a variety of other success-freaky highlights.  Along with those attending on-screen were pre-recorded well wishing from Catharine Bramkamp from the “Newbie Writers” podcast and SF guest host LaLa Zigfreid. [Read more…]

Success Freaks #129 – Success Freaks Holiday Special

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“God bless us, every one!”

Happy Holidays, everyone! Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Kwanzaa, Happy Pancha Ganapati, Io Saturnalia, Have a Cool Yule, and a Festivus for the Rest of Us!

This “Success Freaks” episode, broadcast live on Christmas Eve, floats hither and yon like Santa delivering presents in the suburbs. The topics range everywhere from gift wrapping (which Mordant was actually doing during the show) and family talk to what your Success Freaky men are doing this holiday season and even the joys of Christmases past. It is a lighthearted episode, spending and hour of Christmas Eve together with casual conversation, laughter, and high holiday spirits. If you enjoy a candid look into the Mordant & McFall dynamic and would like to discover their, and perhaps your own, “reason for the season,” then this is the show for you.

From all the ever-busy Success Freaks Elves and our families to yours, we wish you a very Happy Holiday Season and a Merry New Year. [Read more…]

Success Freaks #128 – Beyond Nuclear – Family in the 21st Century

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Welcome to the new millenium!  We may not have flying cars, interstellar space travel, or a healthcare system everyone can agree upon….  We do, however, in this day and age, have a family unit that stretches on beyond the “boundaries” of what was once considered the “Nuclear Family.”  What once began as a One-Stop Mom & Pop Shop has now has now stretched beyond the “norm” to make room for not only single moms and single dads, but also double moms, double dads, grandparents & siblings taking on the role of traditional parents, and even – in some rare cases – the chillins a-raisin’ they’selves.  What’s this world coming to?  Is this a sign of the “End Times” as talked about in the movie Ghostbusters!?  “Mass hysteria!  Dogs & cats living together…!”

Join Mordant & McFall as they show you around the big top of this multi-ring family circus.  In an age where “the norm” is no longer normal, it’s time to rethink our concept of the Nuclear Family and reshape it into what it truly is.  Family is Family.  As long as there is love and nurturing and a parental unit willing and able to teach a kid to throw a fastball, children raised in those homes will grow up healthy, happy and as well-adjusted as the rest of us “normal” people.  Perhaps, even enjoying a better life than we dreamed possible. [Read more…]

Success Freaks #127 – Broken Home Survival Guide w/Special Guest Our Very Own SF Kim Glowacki

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Sometimes life deals you a bum hand. The family life you are born into does not match the rich experiences as the ones you see on television. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Including you. What do you do when the dust settles and you are shuffled back and forth from one broken, bitter post-divorce home to another? Is it all your fault? Wasn’t there something you could have done to keep your family from winding up just another broken statistic? And, what about the homes that are broken without breaking apart? How can anyone, let alone a child, survive these domestic warzones? PTSD anyone?

In this episode, Mordant & McFall are joined by fellow SF teammate Success Freaks Kim. Together they suss through the lows and highs of living in and living beyond a broken home. Even sharing some of their own experiences from both sides of the glass houses they have lived in. Listen, laugh, and learn a little somethin’-somethin’ about surviving a broken home. [Read more…]

Success Freaks #126 – Family First

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The month of December heralds a time of holiday get-togethers with friends and family alike. It is a time of joy, holiday cheer, and smiles across the table… But, not always, right? Sometimes “bad blood” and hurts long buried rise from the grave like Christmas zombies to gnaw the flesh off what should be a happier time.

In this episode of “Success Freaks,” Mordant & McFall wax candid about their family upbringings, holiday experiences, and the reality of their “obligations.” Delving into how these “family affairs” helped mold them into the men they are today, they explore what it means to grow from their original nuclear family to create ones of their own. As well as, how the “ghosts of holiday experiences past” are affecting them in the present and into future. [Read more…]

Success Freaks #125 – Living Gratitude

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Are you “Living Grateful”? Maintaining an Attitude of Gratitude every single day? What about the bad days? Keeping your thoughts on the sunny side of life is not easy when you’re stuck in a rut and hip deep in doggie doo. What can you do to keep smiling when the ice is forming beneath your feet and freezing rain is drizzling down your back?

Join Mordant & McFall as they share some of their recent ruff-n-tumble moments and how they rolled with the punches to come up Grinnin’ & Grateful for the experience. “Success Freaks” #125 – “Living Gratitude” is all about maintaining your happiness and having a richer life experience. Listen and learn how to keep smiling like a Success Freak as both your highs & lows grow higher and higher and higher. [Read more…]