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Success Freaks #145 – Planting Hope in Other Gardens w/Special Guest Derrick Duplessy

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Often we run across those people who need a little help in their lives.  Whether they have merely stepped off the path to their dreams or gone the darker route of addiction, our first inclination is get in there and lend a helping hand.  Much to our surprise…and our chagrin – this often achieves the opposite effect of annoying them and pushing them even further off the path of hope.  How can we help those in need when what they need most is to want to help themselves?  Planting hope for them to grow later when they’re ready is the way to go, but difficult to master.

Derrick Duplessy and the Duplessy Foundation have accomplished just this thing and in this episode he talks with your Success-Freaky mentoring men about his personal path to helping those in Boston’s inner city and beyond.  Join Mordant & McFall as they chat with Derrick about the best way to lead people to their goals without pushing or forcing them to “drink your Kool-Aid.” [Read more…]

Success Freaks #144 – Did I Grow That!?

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We are always growing through life – sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally, and often on autopilot.  Messages are planted – through experiences, teachings, victories and defeats.  These messages become what we believe to be true about the world around us and ourselves.  Some grow stronger while others fade away.  The only difference between what sticks and what slides slimily down the wall is what we have, water and prune.  Basically, what we focus on.  People often find themselves surprised at the very weeds they have been focusing on growing about their feet.  Is this you?  Which Messages do you believe most about yourself?  Are they messages of victory or defeat? [Read more…]

Between The Lines Empowerment Network welcomes Success Freaks

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Between The Lines has opened the doors for persons or businesses interested in sharing air space to help educate and empower its audience to live the life they were meant to live, have the successful business they were meant to have and generate the visibility and credibility they were meant to achieve.

Many expressed an interest but few were chosen. One of them that I have the pleasure of introducing to you today is McFall and Mordant – their names sound like a dynamic duo; and that’s really what they are!

Online Business Radio at Blog Talk Radio with Between The Lines Network on BlogTalkRadio

Success Freaks #143 – Grow Your Garden

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Any who have ever planted in the hopes of watching something grow from the earth know there’s more to it than making a hole, setting some seeds in the ground, then walking away and forgetting about it until things come to fruition.  There’s the watering, the fertilizing, and other important “ings” to worry about.

The same can be said of most aspects of your life – your business, your relationships, your hopes and dreams.  All these need watering, fertilizing, and other “ings.”  Or, as they said on the “Gilligan’s Island” TV show, and I’m paraphrasing here, “…if that doesn’t work, try 1 part Sunshine, 2 parts Water, and 3 parts Prayer.” (“Gilligan’s Island” – “V” for Vitamins – S2E30) [Read more…]

Success Freaks #142 – Procrastination

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Procrastination is that word we use to express the art of putting things off.  But, it goes by many names.  Names like Avoidance Behavior, Resistance, and Taking a Break to name a few.  What is Procrastination and why do we embrace it with such reckless abandon?  Lord Chesterfield said “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today” about Procrastination.  Conversely, Mark Twain said “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.”

What is it that enables us to avoid the important “stuff” we should be doing?  Stuff which might take only moments to do, often with very little effort, and would instantly relieve the pressure building in our brain?  Why do we choose Stress over completing a task? [Read more…]

Success Freaks #141 – Temptations

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Temptation is the name of the game – and we all play it from time to time.  Whether tempted to cheat on a diet, taxes, or a commitment, we’ve all had that little voice in our head that says, “C’mon…try it…makes you cool and feels so good.  Everyone’s doing it.”

The truth is, if it’s detrimental in some fashion or another, it’s not that cool and it often doesn’t wind up feeling like you thought it would.  Just a few short moments of Whoopee and then “The Guilts” set it.  Nobody wants that…but we all go through it, don’t we?  Soooo…what can be done about these oh-so-common, often-too-much-fun-for-our-own-good situation? [Read more…]

Success Freaks #140 – Lessons Learned

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How many of you, in the midst of an important project, endeavor, or on a DATE have ever tripped over your own two feet?  Though you hated going through these rough and often embarrassing experiences, you find that the “Lessons Learned” made them necessary evils on the road to becoming a Bigger, Badder, Better, More and even more Awesome YOU! [Read more…]

Success Freaks #139 – Blowin’ In The Wind

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This month, March 2014, on Success Freaks, we’re talking about “Being Human” – how, though going for the gold, we often end up in the gutter.

 “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

~Oscar Wilde~

Episode #139 covers the difficulty some of us have with being blown every-which-way – off course in the Bermuda Triangle whilst trying to navigate the storms.  Tempests often brought on by our own actions and inactions.

Join Mordant & McFall as they discuss what it means to be unanchored and blown about with no direction and lacking the commitment to get you back on track.  Whose fault is it anyway, these storms that constantly blow us off our desired course – further out to sea, away from our goals and the safe shores of Ithaca?

Finally, coming out of hardship, how do we push through and survive the rough seas?  Listen in as your Success-Freaky men chat about Keeping the Faith, your Eyes on the Prize, and the remembering Winston Churchill’s famous quote “If you’re going through hell, keep on going.” [Read more…]

Success Freaks #138 – Your Business, Your Community

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Mordant & McFall have spent this month discussing various types of relationships – with yourself, with people who are different than you….  Now they turn things around a bit and chat about how You and your Business can give back to Your Community.

This episode of Success Freaks covers different communities from all over the world.  Mordant begins the conversation with his recent visit to Roatan, Honduras and the Made In Roatan shop he found there.

Listen in and discover what you and your business can do for your community, what your community can do for you, and how the Law of Reciprocity affects your business and you.

Episode Segments:

  1. Made in Roatan – giving back to your community

  2. What can your community do for your business?

  3. You and your community

  4. What hit home? [Read more…]

Success Freaks #137 – Modern Family

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With so many different lifestyles coming at us lately, what we consider family has changed from “Leave It to Beaver” into “Modern Family.”  Though caricatures of real life, these shows represent real-life relationships that are happening all around us.  This episode, Mordant & McFall discuss what it means to move from intolerance to indifference to tolerance all the way over to acceptance of people and lifestyles that are different than our own. 

Join your Success Freaks as they chat with stars from the upcoming web series “My Two Black Girlfriends.”  Together they discuss their experiences with intolerance, differing family dynamics in today’s society, and creating a web series that crosses some many lines & barriers.  For those of you still growing up in a “Brady Bunch” world – where even actor Robert Reed (aka Mike Brady) would not be welcome – this is yet another opportunity to broaden your horizons from the safety of your living room or wherever you might listen to “Fenómenos de Éxito” or “Success Freaks.”  Enjoy! [Read more…]