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Welcome to the final 2011 Season-1 episode of “The Other Side of LIVE!”  In this show Mordant & Charles discuss the highs, lows, growing pains, and tranformations that TOSOL has undergone over the course of the past year.

 

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Highlights:

***Intro this episode, “TOSOL Year 1

***Last episode review, Charles’ “Holiday Hang-ups,” & Christmas Nazis

***Mordant supports the Holiday Season with his new coffee mug he got in a Christmas gift exchange…and then get Christmas cheer all over his lap!

*** “No Mistakes, just Opportunities for a Segue”

***TOSOL’s beginnings—switching from “Mordant World Radio” to “The Other Side of LIVE!”

***Going from “pages of notes’ to a more organic, freeform format and watching the show evolve from there

***Charles was scared of Mordant’s Tortuga audience

***Paul Harvey references

***Gary Oldman’s character in “The Fifth Element”

*** “Miracle on 34^th Street”

***“Love Actually” is a great Christmas movie

***Happy Birthday to Mordant!

***TOSOL getting the nomination for the Podcast Awards

***Where the show has “fallen short” this past year—Charles wants to see more of Mordant, more of his personal stories

***Mordant talks about his feeling unsure with some episodes being a “good show” and why (i.e. “The Dating Show”)

***Mordant’s 2011 Last New Year’s Resolutions (Soda, Sweets, & Motivational Speaking)

***Writing a new book…and a new look for Mordant World Meet-ups

***Introducing a new segment to TOSOL in 2012

*** “Double Your Money Doing What You Love” ~Raymond Aaron~

Chapters:
Introduction: The End
Chapter 1: Have it now! The Instance Gratification Society
Chapter 2: Your Annual Love Letters
Chapter 3: Your Life Missions
Chapter 4: Special Talents
Chapter 5: Curing Procrastination Forever
Chapter 6: The Six Mainly Pathways of Life
Chapter 7: Achieve Your Goals For Sure
Chapter 8: Six Goal Recording Rules
Chapter 9: Recording Goals So They Achieve Themselves Automagically
Chapter 10: Annual Backwards Goals
Chapter 11: The Beginning

***Where to get worksheets: www.aaron.com/doubleyourincome

***More on Mordant’s Birthday

***More guests in future episodes…such as members of the Almost Homeless Comedy Tour

***London Broil’s “the DML podcast show”

***Our good friend Sharyn calls in with praise. She’s really quiet, but awesome.

***Charles & Mordant invite listeners to suggest TOSOL topics via mordant@mordantworld.com

***Here on TOSOL we share everything—“Living out loud, proud, and in front of a video screen”

***“Stormageddon” makes an appearance

***Mordant teases with hints about good things on the horizon for the TOSOL & Bear Crawling Nation in 2012

***Charles and Mordant thank Rockgirl, Sharyn Watson and everyone that helps out with TOSOL

***TOSOL now available on http://stitcher.com/

***Bug Charles and get the Bear Crawling Nation app at bearcrawling@gmail.com

***Closing out “The Other Side of LIVE!” 2011 Season #1

Honorable Mentions:

• mordant@mordantworld.com
• http://mixlr.com/bearcrawling
• http://www.facebook.com/MordantWorld
• http://mordantworld.com/
• https://twitter.com/#!/bcnlivenow
• http://bearcrawlingnation.com/

 

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Two weeks after Thanksgiving finds Mordant all snug and warm in New Orleans, LA while his co-host/producer, Charles McFall, is nestled in the Bear’s Den in Monticello, GA.  Tonight we talked about traditions surrounding the Holidays, different viewpoints on celebrating the good…the bad…and the “Ho Ho Ho” of the Season.

Highlights:

** Pimping out Charles & the “Bear Crawling Nation Live!” podcast

 

** Recap of “Date Free or Die”

 

** Charles has a hard time with the mentality of the Holidays

 

** Mordant loves being amongst Humanity around the Holidays.

 

** Total Money Makeover Episode #8 “Your Money or Your Life” w/guest star, Ronn Bauman of the Tortuga Twins

 

** Charles talks about his trip to Egypt for Rosh Hashannah

 

** Stone Mountain Christmas

 

** Charles is the Darker Side of Positive

 

** Mordant talks about what he is thankful for

 

** Charles explains his Holiday rituals

 

** Is it okay to be negative about the Holidays?

 

** Black Christmas Tree

 

** Addams Family Christmas

 

** Yin Yang

 

** Using Bear Crawling Nation.com Amazon search engine to shop

 

** Is there a proper way to greet people during the Holidays? (i.e. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Kwanzaa, Happy Holidays, etc.)

 

** Mordant has a Coexist bumper sticker on his truck

 

** How Charles & Mordant spent their Thanksgiving

 

** Black Friday

 

** Mordant talks about favorite Christmas memories growing up

 

** Rockgirl calls in and talks about Holiday traditions that change over the years.

 

** Charles FINALLY talks about what he is thankful for

 

** Mordant’s Holiday “Running with the Bulls”

 

** Woot.com

 

** Mick’s Irish Pub

 

** Munchkin

 

** “Geek & Gamer Girls”

 

** NPR radio

 

** What Mordant got out of our last show “Date Free or Die”

 

** Nil Desperandum Special Christmas Show on Sunday, December 18^th

 

** Bear Crawling Nation Android App

 

** December 22nd Bear Crawling Nation guest, Riki Robinson

 

** Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

 

 

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Honorable Mentions:

The Four Man Plan

www.bearcrawlingnation.com

www.facebook.com/mordantworld

www.youtube.com/mordantworld

www.mordantworld.com

TOSOL on iTunes

 

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In this episode of “The Other Side of LIVE!” we begin with “Dating Done Right” and a look at Cindy Lu’s book, “The Four Man Plan.”  Halfway through our interview with faithful Four Man Planner Paige, our topic takes a darker turn towards abusive relationships and how to move past them.  We hope you enjoy this fantastic show, now entitled “Date Free or Die!”

 

Highlights:

• ***Finally doing “Dating Done Right”

 

• ***Rush Start with Charles doing several things at once

 

• ***Charles has a Baby:  http://www.youtube.com/ckymnstr

 

• ***Stress Tank Talk

 

• ***Mordant’s Trifecta of Dating Books:  “He’s Just Not That Into You” by Greg Behrendt & Liz Tuccillo, “The Four Man Plan” by Cindy Lu, and “Become Your Own Matchmaker” by Patti Stanger

 

• ***An interview with Four Man Planner Paige

 

• ***“The Four Man Plan” Book Review

 

• ***Paige’s overview of  “The Four Man Plan”

 

• ***Mordant’s reasons for liking “He’s Just Not That Into You” and “The Four Man Plan”

 

• ***How does one “suck at love”?

 

• ***Paige’s experiences while using the 4MP (Four Man Plan)

• ……….Dating different men at once and inspiring their competitive spirit will…
• ……….Taking time to get to know each other before you have sex will…

 

•  ***“A man will treat you only as well as he has to to get you in bed the first time.”  ~Cindy Lu, “The Four Man Plan” (paraphrased)~

 

• ***Getting men to step up their dating game & the quality of their courtship

 

• ***Sex is great, but what are you two going to do with the other 23 hours & 45 minutes of your day?   😉

 

• ***You have to take responsibility for what is going on in your life and for how you are being treated in your dating relationship—you can’t just let it happen

 

• ***Collecting Quarter Men (sometimes you find a diamond in the ruff)

 

• ***Charles shares his story about how he met and began dating his wife

 

• ***Being in an Abusive Relationship—getting out while the getting’s good

 

• ***Being in an abusive relationship is not your fault, but it is your responsibility to get out of there

 

• ***Rebuilding your self-esteem & self-worth

 

•  ***Paige speaks as a Child of Abuse and about moving beyond that scenario

 

• ***Paige Parker’s “Dating Without Drama”

 

• ***Choose not to be a victim

 

• ***Phoenix Area Listener Linda Cochran Schimmel calls in:

• ……….Married into an abusive relationship
• ……….Daughter has married into a similar situation

 

• ***Mirror Neurons:  It’s what you do, not what you say, that has the most profound effect upon your children

 

• ***Charles shares about fighting & making up in front of the children

 

• ***Pointing someone in the right direction without stepping on their toes

 

• ***Sex and the 4MP

 

• ***We here at “The Other Side Of LIVE!” are in favor of SEX!

 

• ***Bug Charles and get the Bear Crawling Nation app at bearcrawling@gmail.com

 

• ***You can find Paige’s website at http://scentuallyyours.com/

 

 

Honorable Mentions:

• http://mixlr.com/bearcrawling
• http://www.facebook.com/MordantWorld
• http://mordantworld.com/
• https://twitter.com/#!/bcnlivenow
• http://bearcrawlingnation.com/

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Broadcasting live from the Bear Crawling Nation’s Bear’s Den in Monticello, Georgia, Mordant & Charles bring you the Podcast Awards nominated “The Other Side of LIVE!”

This episode covers everything from the Podcast Awards to Mordant’s high school reunion in Florida to Keeping Calm and Carrying On when the “bad stuff” happens in your life.

Highlights & Links:

• The Podcast Awards

 

• Recap of last show – “Living Happily Ever After”

 

• Shout out to other podcasts:
  • “Stuff You Missed in History”  – Weird stuff in history that you may not know
  • “Secretly Timid”  episode #79 – Lollipops and Armadillos

 

• Mordant talks about his recent 30-year Tarpon Springs High School Reunion:
  • Things that almost kept him for going and then deciding to just go.
  • Discussion about High School reunions in general
  • Discovering things about yourself – from reunions & your fellow classmates
  • Overcoming shyness

 

• Different things that Charles has been facing and what he does to get through it.

 

• Alex Autrey interview on “Art Howard at Night”

 

• “Keep Calm and Carry On”

 

• It’s all about Perception:
  • As humans we tend to focus on the negative
  • You can use life’s hiccups to learn something and level up your life
  • “Me Against the World”  ~Tupac Shakur~
  • You are responsible for your life experience
  • Blueflamingo01 (via the chatter box) said, “I don’t think we choose our destiny.  I think the choices we make lead us to that.”

 

• The “Time Wars” series

 

• Kalyne from North Carolina calls in to chat:
  • The Queer Politics of Television – her college reading material

 

• The Replacementswith Keanu Reeves and Gene Hackman:
  • “You’re playing and you think everything is going fine.  Then one thing goes wrong and then another and another.  You try to fight back and the harder you fight back, the deeper you sink until you can’t move, you can’t breathe because you’re in over your head like quicksand.”

 

• Blow-ups with family & friends

 

• Getting past when your Problem Pile-ups:
  • Baby-step through your problems
  • Emotions are your warning/guidance system

 

• Law of Attraction – What the BLEEP Do We Know?!

 

• The Success Principles – Jack Canfield
• Dave Ramsey

• Life lessons (not) the hard way:
  • Almost getting in a car accident means be present & pay attention

 

• Money – good with a little, good with a lot:
  • “How you do anything is how you do everything.”  ~T. Harv Eker~

 

• Craig Ferguson – “American On Purpose”

 

• Nick Vujucic – Australian Motivational Speaker

 

• The Positive of Negative Emotions

 

• SimpleEnlightenment.com  – John Davis:
  • Mordant has vlogs on his site now and they may be putting up podcasts too.

 

• Tao Garden in Thailand

 

• “Beyond the Box”– Faith-based Podcast

 

• November 8th show possibility – Dating Done Right:
  • He’s Just Not That Into You – Greg Behrendt & Liz Tuccilo
  • Millionaire Matchmaker – Patti Stanger
  • The Four Man Plan – Cindy Lu

 

Honorable Mentions:

• http://www.facebook.com/MordantWorld
• http://7throwcenter.com/
• http://bearcrawlingnation.com/

 

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Welcome to another episode of The Other Side of LIVE! where Mordant & Charles (and later Alex “Da Movie Guy” from 7th Row Center) chat about vacations, surgeries, and life as it happens.  Enjoy!

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Highlights:

·   Talk about Charles’s family vacation at Walt Disney World

·    Twitter.com/bcnlivenow – to be notified when any of the Bear Crawling Nation podcasts are going LIVE
·    Mixlr.com/bearcrawling

·    Christopher Buehlman – Those Across The River

·    Mordant chats about his recent surgery

·    9/11 – should it be a national holiday?

·    Asking about TOSOL going from a biweekly to a weekly show

·    Alex “Da Movie Guy” call-in – 7throwcenter.com

·    Fear of Success

·    The Podcast Awards – podcastawards.com

·    2011 MSP Mordant World Meet-up

·    The Musical Blades – http://www.musicalblades.com  also on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Musical-Blades/113437616190

·    Fear of Failure or Fear of Success?
o    10,000 Hours to become the Best of the Best:  Malcolm Gladwell – The Outliers
·    Big Ego is a good thing

·    World Traveler Jim – http://www.worldtravelerjim.com/ &

Honorable Mentions:
·    Burn Notice
·    Eddie Izzard – “Cake or Death?”
·    The Tick – “Spoon!”
·    Bay Area Renaissance Festival

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This time on The Other Side of LIVE!, Mordant & Charles continue last show’s theme with round two of How Bad Do You Want It?  Joining them is special guest, Julie Hysko, an Enrollment Advisor from Northcentral University in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Highlights:

·    Charles chats about moving forward as a Podcast Coach and seeking the aid of a potential mentor: schoolofpodcasting.com’s Dave Jackson
·    William the Conqueror

• ·    William R. Forstchen and the Rally Cry series
  
• ·    Mordant chats about moving forward as a Motivational Speaker
  
• ·    Julie Hysko CALLS IN:
  
  
  
  • o    In her role as an Enrollment Advisor, she accesses the motivation behind people seeking graduate training
    
  • o    With any endeavor to achieve lofty goals, Julie recommends:
    
    
    
    • §    Look at your Support Network (Positive Peeps)
      
    
    
  • ·    Do you have positive reinforcement & support ?
    §    Deal with your Self-limiting Beliefs
    ·    Replace the Negative Thinking with Positive
    o    Use Affirmations
    o    Coaches & Motivators
    o    Self-Motivators:  “Do It Now!”
    §    W. Clement Stone an associate of Napoleon Hill
    ·    Napoleon Hill’s Keys To Positive Thinking:  learning Positive Mental Attitude
    o    Fake it till you make it
    §    Do the action and the feelings will follow
    ·    Find a Coach, Counselor, Mentor
    o    Peer 2 Peer Mentoring program
    ·    Whole being is devoted to achieving your goal (how bad do you want it?)
    o    The Master Drowning the Would-be Monk story:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRfoFGGyRvU
    ·    Nora Roberts:  “Ass in the chair”
    ·    You have to care more about what you want to accomplish than you do about your “distractions”
    ·    Charles talks about his journey to podcasting and some of the struggles he faced to get here
    ·    Josh Shipp
    ·    Tony Robbins
    ·    No TOSOL in two weeks.  Mordant is in New York, Charles in Disney world
    o    Instead making the GA 2011 Mordant World Meetup available for download
    ·    Christopher Buehlman – Those Across The River

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Once again, thank you to everyone who tuned in to The Other Side of LIVE! for what was a very fun & fabulous show. Mordant & Charles began by welcoming everyone, including listeners from China! The last episode of TOSOL found the boyz interviewing the musical-comedy troupe Bocca Musica. Check out the video of that interview via the Mordant World Stickam channel.

The theme for this latest podcast (TOSOL #16) asks the question, How Bad Do You Want It?! We discuss what your dream is worth to you and what you’re willing to give up in order to make it there.

Hightlights:
• Aerial Angels producer/performer Allison Williams calls in from the http://fringetheatreadventures.ca/.  Her Highlights:
o How HARD do you want it
o The amount of work that goes into a “Dream Job” ahead of time
o Ronn/Scaramouche’s advice column and his take on being an entertainer
o Tim Ferriss and his book, The 4-Hour Work Week
§ Retirement is not the goal
o Define your mission – so you know what you’re sacrificing for

• Malcolm Gladwell in The Outliers
o Berlin study: Reach the Expert Success Level at 10,000 hours
§ Kara Beasley = brain surgeon
§ Tortuga 10k hours – reinventing myself & moving towards 10k hours for Mordant World

• Not feeling it

• Charles & Mordant’s hours-earlier, way-deep phone conversation
o It’s all about Timing
o My comment “I’m just a Tortuga”
o What kind of comment is I’m Just…?!

• CountryBoy CALL IN
o Give yourself time to have fun
o Feed the Inner Child
o We do it because it feels good
o Muggsy Ded Bob loves to fish
§ Just Fishin’ ~Trace Adkins~

• Back to Charles & Mordant’s earlier phone conversation
o Self-Limiting beliefs are the death of your dreams

• DennysDimples CALL IN
o What about when “you’re not feeling it”?
§ Establish your beacon
§ Affirmations
§ Put your head down and push through it
o The Blahs TOSOL#14 podcast
o Fried Green Tomatoes
o Thelma & Louise
o Kick in the ass (Nursing School vs Print Shop)
§ Find a Nursing School
§ Look into classes
§ Talk to a guidance counselor
o There will never be enough time…

• Obvious to You.  Amazing to Others by Derek Sivers,
from the book Anything You Want

• Public speaking & performing

• Kathy Jancarole CALL IN
o Shameless Self Promotion & Links fan page
o Kathy’s page

• Alex “Da Movie Guy” CALL IN
o 7th Row Center
o Facebook.com/7thRowCenter

• Even more CALL INS

• “I’m just a Tortuga Twin” continued

• Nil Desperandum
o Mordant is featured, doing a short story reading as Riki
Robinson for Memories of Childhood (#16)

• Other Links:
o BearCrawlingNation.com

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