Today’s FUEL Up Friday Podcast Hits on Healthy Gratitude, Skiing Lifestyle, and Lung Health Recovery:

Top 3 Hot Point Takeaways:

1. Gratitude for a Healthy Lifestyle
2. Appreciation to keep skiing at high altitudes
3. Lung Health Recovery from a Spontaneous Pneumothorax

Timestamped Show Notes:

00:30: Introduction

05:00: Because jackasses like me will probably want to haul ass down it and try and be a professional ski racer because I like to go fast. Well, let me tell you, you don’t want to go fast on this one.

10:00: There are all kinds of health impacts on your eyes and staring at a computer screen too long is a negative one. I’ve got three screens right here. I rock blue blocker glasses in the evening but luckily it’s still daylight outside right now.

15:00: I hinted about lung health, right, like getting outside and breathing the air. I realized, oh my god, this is the one year anniversary this week of my collapsed lung adventure.

20:00: Then in 2019 we were busy launching FUEL Foundations, my new nonprofit that the book will also benefit. It’s like all of these things are just happening and we’ve got to roll with it. But you also have to pause and slow down and appreciate it while sharing the gratitude message.

24:00: Final Words

Our Final Words of the Show:

Summing this whole piece of the podcast up, which is the gratitude, right, having the connections and the ability to reconnect with people and get back on the snow or on a bike or whatever, and just enjoy quality time with people. You know, besides the fact again, over all of this, we got to spend time with my wife’s parents, who are also retired and had that house out in Colorado, and it gives us a less cost reduction on our vacation planning.

Action Steps:

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Today’s FUELUP Friday Podcast is about the importance of Keeping Your Situational Awareness Up aka Alert!

“Keep Your SA Up! – Quoted Scott W. Mulvaney

Top 3 Hot Point Takeaways:

1. Staying alert and ready.
2. Don’t freak out and stay calm.
3. Keep Your SA Up aka Keeping Your Situational Awareness Up.

Timestamped Show Notes:

00:30: Introduction

04:00: Overviewing the highway incident of flying scrap trash that almost went through Scott’s windshield this week. Establishing why it’s so important to keep your Situational Awareness up and alert.

11:40: Back to the point of Situational Awareness. The point of this episode is to help you align this topic into your Health, Business, and Lifestyle.

14:00: Your situational awareness actually improves as you’ve made mistakes or as you succeed too. Hopefully, you pause long enough to be aware of these things and to assess what happened in that situation.

16:30: Keeping your SA up is important when somebody decides to take a bottle to your head. Yeah, that happened to me. Not really that enjoyable. Plus, you know it took me down. I am six foot four inches and back then I was a good 200-205 lbs. So that’s all it takes sometimes to take a bouncer of my size down by simply swinging a Rolling Rock glass bottle. You can’t always plan on some dumbass and like two or three of his bros that are all hammered, you know, trying to surround you and distract you and then boom! I totally failed here back then on my situational awareness for sure!

23:00: I want to tie all of these examples back to the base of the story here which is using situation awareness across our lives. I had this emphasized when I was firefighting, I got to learn the true purpose of “Keeping Your SA Up.”

28:00: Final Words

Our Final Words of the Show:

If you’re trying to reach me from January 20 to January 27, 2020, Good Luck, Ha! You can follow me on Instagram and Facebook because I’ll probably be posting a lot of fun content while we’re skiing in Vail, Colorado. That’s right we’re heading back to go hang with the in-laws at their house in Edwards, Colorado. If you are a regular friend of mine who listens to the show and you want to catch up, dude, let’s make some turns together!

Action Steps:

Support our 501c-3 non-profit and visit http://fuelfoundations.org

Help us reach more people with 5 Star Reviews, visit iTunes and Submit a Review

Join our private Facebook community The FUEL Tank, at https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheFUELTank/

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The Importance of Communication Skills, Verbal, Written, Electronic, and Otherwise:

On today’s new #FUELUP Friday I share a brief New Years Eve daytime phone call that inspired an important reminder on positive communications. We reflect on the importance of great verbal, written, and electronic communication skills to help you succeed in business and in life. We also drop a fun and random slang term for rude people, known as Douche Nozzle’s, ha!

Douche Nozzle = (vulgar, slang, derogatory) A rude, obnoxious, or contemptible person.

Top 3 Hot Point Takeaways:

1. Treat others as you wish to be treated.
2. Positive Verbal communication.
3. Proof your written and electronic communication.
4. BONUS: Don’t forget to pause, take a deep breath.

Today’s Resource Links from the Podcast:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/douche_nozzle

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=douche%20nozzle

Timestamped Show Notes:

00:30: Introduction

05:00: I’ve always worked through the local onsite land manager where we do trail building. Mostly we just try and keep the trails clear, you know, keep people happy. I’m a huge mountain biker, and I have no problem putting in some sweat equity. There are not many people who do this and I want to know that when I get down there, I could ride my bike and not have to worry about running into a blown down tree or storm damage. I bought all the toys, I got the chainsaws, I got the tools, I got the gear, so why not help out?!

10:00: Today’s show is really about improving communication skills. So I decided that with #FUELUP Fridays, depending on where I’m at in my mental state. As you can tell, I might have been a little frustrated by that douche nozzle. I just don’t respect people who don’t respect me. You know, I truly believe in an age-old statement that you know you should do unto others, you know, and expect the same in return. Treat people like you want to be treated.

15:00: Take a little risk and let other people in. But so many of us have this wall up preventing this. Over three and a half years now going on four years of podcasting, I can actually thank this platform for helping drop that off and break those barriers down. That’s why I want to kind of share this for today’s FUEL UP Friday.

20:00: Now the book is coming. I tried to talk about too much because but I do it because I kicked myself in the ass and we are working on it later tonight. I gotta get the editing done.

28:00: Final Words

Our Final Words of the Show:

So our final words for today a summary of the importance of verbal communication, written communication, electronic communication. Don’t forget to pause, take a deep breath, think about it, proofread it, and then move on.

Action Steps:

Support our 501c-3 non-profit and visit http://fuelfoundations.org

Help us reach more people with 5 Star Reviews, visit iTunes and Submit a Review

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Today we launch our new #FUELUP Friday short format theme:

Scott Mulvaney has a higher purpose to inspire you to LIVETHEFUEL! His Podcast Show is to help “FUEL Your Health, Business, Lifestyle!” He’s acquired 20+ years of Fired Up Success in Sales, Coaching, and Marketing, along with Epic Failures along the way. He’s even a former USFS Hotshot Wildland Firefighter.

Scott‘s 20+ professional years include conquering roles in sales, marketing, coaching, training, and leadership development. He has balanced his professional business career growth while flexing 15+ years across the fitness industry too. He is a “Scott of All Trade’s” with an adrenaline junkie passion for self-development and lifestyle transformation.

Live The Fired Up Epic Life! – Scott W. Mulvaney

Scott Mulvaney has a limitless mindset for growth. Current focuses are on growing in the public speaking, social media branding, and online marketing sectors. His conquered roles included successes with major companies including ADP Corporation, T-Mobile USA, and KGB formerly InfoNXX.

Scott embodies the limitless energy necessary for personal and professional success. This is FUEL is thanks to his years in the health and fitness coaching space. His Lifestyle Freedoms include balancing CrossFit, Skiing, Cycling, Skydiving, and Travel. Scott balances professional pursuits with philanthropic activities, having served as a board member(s) and investing countless volunteerism hours with multiple 501(c)(3) organizations.

Scott’s most extreme background experience stems from serving in public service as a Hotshot Wildland Firefighter with the US Forest Service as well.

Scott Mulvaney competes in all types of action and endurance sports. Accolades include completing the Marine Corp People’s Marathon, Ragnar Del Sol Race, multiple OCR Races i.e. Tough Mudder, Spartan Races as well as GORUCK. He is an avid mountain biker competing in endurance races plus multiple 100+ mile road cycling events benefiting National MS Society, American Diabetes Association and other non-profits.

Top 3 Hot Point Takeaways:

1. Forget New Years Resolutions
2. #FUELUP every Friday now
3. Setting Sustainable Goals

Our Mentioned Influencers:

David Steele aka The Blind Poet

Follow David on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Steele75

Past episode 223: Stand By Me RP aka Retinitis Pigmentosa with The Blind Poet

https://livethefuel.com/episodes/223-stand-by-me-rp-aka-retinitis-pigmentosa-with-the-blind-poet/

Timestamped Show Notes:

00:30: Introduction

06:15: A quick shoutout to Dave Steele. That’s right, Dave, I see you’re commenting on the live feed. I think he’s still touring here in this country for his book release. This guy’s epic! A true pioneer and person who’s looking to inspire others in the vision-impaired lifestyles out there.

09:50: Over a year ago, I started my book project. I wanted this book to be done by now, I wanted it out there. The book, So you want to be a Hotshot, will be coming out in 2020!

14:45: A wedding, collapsing a lung, attempting my first ultra mountain biking race. Attempting the 100-mile mountain biking race called the wilderness 101, after I recovered from the lung surgery after the heli-skiing wedding. Fast forward to June 2019…

17:30: FUEL Brands are growing! FUEL Enterprises, my FUEL Marketing aka FUEL Agency, the 2019 launch of FUEL Foundations, and more!

18:30: Final Words

Our Final Words of the Show:

Somebody has to take accountability and pull themselves up with me, along with our audience, right? That’s the point of surrounding yourself with the right podcasts, the right audiobooks, the right conferences, the right inspirational people you follow on social media, etc.

If you’re constantly watching drama TV, listening to the negative news networks, standing around the water cooler if you’re at the job and listen to that person bitch and moan every single day about how their life sucks, or their wife sucks or their boyfriend sucks, etc, etc, etc. That is all, negative flow man, that’s negative energy, so cut that crap out!

Maybe you’re not ready to go to the gym yet, even though you set that goal on New Year’s Eve, right? Oh man, I said I would go New Year’s Eve. Oh well get over it. Try again tomorrow! Give yourself a break. Take a deep breath, make your lists, check them twice, and all that fun stuff.

Action Steps:

Support our 501c-3 non-profit and visit http://fuelfoundations.org

Help us reach more people with 5 Star Reviews, visit iTunes and Submit a Review

Join our private Facebook community The FUEL Tank, at https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheFUELTank/

Watch us on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/AjMUBely3wk

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UPDATES FOR HOTSHOTS BOOK EDITING, FUEL FOUNDATIONS LAUNCHES, AND JORDAN CREEK SINGLETRACK:

Scott Mulvaney is your host and founder of the LIVETHEFUEL Podcast Show as well as a former member of the Hotshots world. This show launched in September 2016. He’s your CEO aka Chief intrEpid Officer of the LIVETHEFUEL lifestyle brand and FUEL Marketing solutions. We’ve also now founded the new 501c-3, FUEL Foundations as our non-profit arm to create more positive change!

Today’s podcast is a welcomed return since we’ve taken at least 6 weeks off of airing a new show. I promised I dig deep into our non-profit projects, mostly the Hotshots book editing but also to ensure the new FUEL Foundations was getting off strong. So enjoy the updates and stay tuned for new upcoming guest cohosts to come in the following weeks!

“You too can LIVE THE FUEL!” – Quoted: Scott Mulvaney

Top 3 Hot Point Takeaways:

1. Give Back
2. Dare To Change
3. Keep Going

Today’s Resource Links from the Podcast:

• Today’s Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/npyd29aH_jk
• Visit our new FUEL Foundations: http://fuelfoundations.org

Our Mentioned Influencers:

• Brian Strauser of The Strauser Project

You Too Can LIVETHEFUEL! @livethefuel

Timestamped Show Notes:

• 00:30 Introduction
• 11:24 I have got the Hotshots book that’s going to benefit my new FUEL Foundations. I’ve got the annual fallen firefighters workout that we do in the F13 Performance, and more. All of this is now benefiting the foundation and then obviously the foundation will be able to give back as we see fit. I now even moved our Jordan Creek Singletrack projects under that because I’ve been paying out of my pocket forever and I still will. However, we need a foundation to build support and positive charitable growth.
• 10:30 I’m not taking any profit. Let’s be real here, one thing I’ve learned in this self-publishing school mastermind group and learn from other authors, is that you’re not going to become rich. It’s just a passion project to give back.
• 20:00 My wife calls me on my shit and loves to quote Joe Rogan.
• 23:28 As we continue to grow and succeed, you will attract the haters along with the lovers. You have got to sort through the mess, keep rolling with it, keep punching through it, and keep taking that imperfect action.
• 28:30 Final Words

Our Final Words of the Show:

You have got to figure out your day. You have got to figure out what fires you up. Maybe you have a side hustle in you. Maybe you have a business in you that you’ve always wanted to kind of play around with.

You know what, life is short. If you don’t like your job, or your career, CHANGE IT! It might not happen in six months or two years, but at least you will have something going on that helps you feel free. Find that free time that fires you up. If anything, I find too many things to fire me up these days.

Action Steps:

• Support our 501c-3 non-profit and visit http://fuelfoundations.org
• Help us reach more people with 5 Star Reviews, visit iTunes and Submit a Review
• Join our private Facebook community The FUEL Tank, at https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheFUELTank/

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Celebrating 300 podcasts over 3 years and taking a Hotshots Sabbatical for the new book:

Please enjoy our 300th podcast after 3 years of podcasting as of September 2019. We launched the first week of September 2016! Many lessons learned, many domains clarified focusing on our primary domains to “FUEL Your Health, Business, and Lifestyle!” However also some great added focuses along the way including the power of Mindset in all ways.

Please catch up with me here on our 300th episode as we’ll be taking a hiatus for at least month as I take a Hotshots Sabbatical allowing me to complete this long-awaited book launch to honor our fallen Hotshot Wildland Firefighters. That’s right the new book is coming, “So You Wanna Be a Hotshot” will be completed and will be self-published! So please be patient and continue to share our shows!

Top 3 Hot Points:

1. 3 Years of Podcasting Gratitude
2. 300 Show to Share and Review
3. Hotshots Book Sabbatical

Resources:

• Learn more at Hotshots19.com
• Learn more at FUELFoundations.org
• Watch this podcast on YouTube – https://youtu.be/DI8qYUv4bwc

300 Podcasts over 3 Years Celebration! You Too Can LIVETHEFUEL! @livethefuel

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On This Episode You Will Hear:

• [00:30] Introduction
• [10:00] I served on that Horseshoe Fire alongside the Granite Mountain Hotshots and the Pleasant Valley Hotshots, my crew.
• [14:00] I realized, wait a minute, it’s about the power of community. I’ve been on countless charities, I’ve been on boards, I’ve done fundraising events, I’ve done countless charity bike rides. So clearly, I love charity work and I love giving back. I love volunteerism, but I can only do so much by myself. So that’s what inspired me to write the book but also to create the foundation.
• [20:00] I can’t outsource writing my book. I’m not going to outsource this voice on this microphone because I am your host and I am Living The Fuel. So I just need a little bit of time freedom. I need you guys to be patient with me, so thank you in advance. I know I’m not really asking permission because it is my show. However, please feel free to get back to me, email me, message me, I’m open for feedback. In the meantime, keep sharing the show. I want to see if the show actually grows over the next month without new shows coming out. I’ve never done this is kind of break aka retreat, so it will be interesting to see the results.
• [22:00] The firefighting world deserves them along with our fans of firefighters. So I want to make sure people can buy them. The proceeds are going to help get FUEL Foundations off the ground. More importantly, I have to get this done, the charity must get established.
• [26:00] Final Words

Final Words:

Again, feel free to reach out to me during the sabbatical, I’m not going anywhere. We are committed to get this book done guys. We’re getting it out there, so stay tuned!

Thanks for listening. Thanks for helping us celebrate our 300th show with me. Thank you for letting me go solo in your ears, and be honest, be transparent, be vulnerable. I hope this impacts you and maybe another friend, a colleague, a family member in a positive way too.

Please share, let me know. Your voice matters. Thanks for tuning in. Remember, we’re here to “FUEL Your Health, your Business and your Lifestyle. Yes, you too can definitely LIVE THE FUEL!

Influencers Mentioned:

• Brian Strauser of the Strauser Project
• Super Joe Pardo of Independent Podcast Conference, formerly MAPCON
• Raf of SRVD.vet
• Nick of Dependent Independent Podcast

Watch On YouTube:

Action Steps:

• Submit an iTunes Review. More 5 Stars reaches more people!
• Visit our Resources page and a reminder to LIVE-THE-FUEL my friends!
• Join my private Facebook community THE FUEL TANK!

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