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Success Freaks #136 – Hit Refresh

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Your Success Freaks are growing through a lot of changes lately.  With a new outlook, new priorities, and a new format, we are re-evaluating how we do things and are focusing on what is most important for us at this time.  This includes Rebooting, Rebuilding, and Recharging.  That right, it’s time to Hit Refresh and rediscover the importance of Recess in our business and personal lives.

Busy People, this episode is for you!  There is always work to be done.  Always something getting in the way of you recharging your creative batteries.  You need to learn to be okay with taking a Recess.  In this episode of Success Freaks, Mordant & McFall share why this is so important and how to go about taking enough of break to come back strong and swinging for the fences. [Read more…]

Success Freaks #135 – Abracadabra – The Magic of Connections

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Diving into February of 2014, Success Freaks is exploring various varieties of connections, partnerships, associations, and many other ranges of relationships.  This episode explores the Magic of Connections, beginning with the origins of the historically magical word Abracadabra, which, according to World Wide Words,  theoretically has its roots in the Aramaic phrase avra kehdabra: “I will create as I speak.”

This episode marks yet another milestone and new beginning for your Success Freaks.  Mordant & McFall are stretching themselves, growing into a new format that will level up the Level Up Guys beyond even their current not-so-humble radio-show plateau.  Not willing to rest on their laurels, Success Freaks girds it metaphorical loins, gearing up for bigger, better, badder, more shows and future syndication. [Read more…]

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…]

Importance of a Resting Period

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In this hustle-and-bustle-of-staying-connected-social-media life that is now such a large part of your existence, you need a resting period.  Remember those?  In kindergarten, it was nap time.  In elementary school, recess was the perfect time for you to relax your growing, soaking-it-all-in brains and recharge.  In college…it was your after-classes nap time—Life coming full circle.  What about today?

How do you reboot, rebuild, and recharge?

Do you even?

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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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The Pros of Patience and Being Selfish

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“Have patience with all things, but, first of all with yourself.”

~Saint Francis de Sales~

Sitting in an office chair in the backyard of my friend EJ’s house, and my thoughts turn trippingly towards Patience.   Not your run-of-the-mill, garden-variety, patience-is-a-virtue Patience either.  Nope.

Not for today.

Not for you.

For you I save the good stuff.  The stuff that runs a little deeper.  More personal.

I want to discuss having patience with yourself and your process.  Cutting yourself some slack as you begin or continue on your path towards self-actualization.  It’s easy to pinpoint what needs doing when you think about patience with everyone outside your personal bubble.  There are steps you can take to ease the pain of their annoying stimuli, no matter how much they are exasperating you at present.  If all else fails—the smiling, the prayer, the counting to 10—you can always up and walk away.  Any of these techniques are done simply enough and your world is set back in balance—if you put forth the effort it takes to keep everything flowing “merrily, merrily down the stream.”

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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…]