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Success Freaks #129 – Success Freaks Holiday Special

December 25, 2013 by Success Freaks

“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…]

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Success Freaks #126 – Family First

December 3, 2013 by Success Freaks

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…]

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TOSOL #71 – Family Matters w/Guest Host LaLa Zigfreid

November 23, 2012 by Success Freaks

TOSOL-071 – 2012.11.20 – Family Matters – with Guest Host LaLa Zigfreid – PIC

This is the time of year when families gather to celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s or whatever holiday you customarily honor. How do you handle the stress of the holidays? Do you spend your entire holiday season rushing around to different family-member’s houses just to appease everyone? If you don’t go, does your family send you on endless guilt trips by trying to make you feel like you don’t care about them? Have you ever wondered how you could find a middle ground so you could stay at home and celebrate with your own family and, for once, enjoy your holiday time without alienating other family members or feeling pressured?

Mordant takes a night off as McFall, with his Guest Host, LaLa Zigfreid, discuss the trials and tribulations of “Family Matters” as Thanksgiving rapidly approaches.

Tonight Charles (McFall) shares his situation of dutifully suffering for years with demands from his family – eventually blowing up over the stress, the two years of silence that followed, and finally calling a truce that everyone seems to be able to successfully live with. Guest Host LaLa Zigfreid offers up her own experiences as an adopted child where she never felt a part of the family. LaLa goes on to share how she’s turning all her negatives into positives and getting so much more from her holidays than she once did.