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Overcome and Perform with Jim Harshaw

Scott Mulvaney — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:00:00 +0000

Embrace Failure, Overcome Your Internal Speak, and Reach a High Performance Mindset:

Jim Harshaw, a TEDx speaker and performance coach, discusses with Scott, the importance of failure in achieving success. He emphasized internalizing failure and learning from it, sharing his own experiences in wrestling and business. Harshaw highlighted the need for a clear vision, aligned goals, and an environment of excellence. He also stressed the importance of balancing professional and personal life, drawing parallels to his journey from wrestling to business and back. Harshaw’s legacy focuses on impacting people through coaching and community involvement. This conversation underscores the value of resilience, continuous growth, and the power of a supportive network.

Quote: “We all need an unreasonable person in our lives who holds us to a standard higher than we believe we can attain.” ~ Jim Harshaw Jr.

Your Co-Host Today:

Jim Harshaw Jr. is an NCAA Division I All-American wrestler, former NCAA Division I head coach, internationally recognized TEDx speaker, personal performance coach, and host of the Success for the Athletic-Minded Man podcast. While he grew up the son of a construction worker and secretary, he had the unique experience of spending significant time with Olympians and millionaires, and he discovered their systems and frameworks for world-class performance. As president of The Harshaw Group, a performance coaching, and leadership development firm, he has impacted hundreds of thousands of lives across the world by helping clients and audiences increase resilience, maximize potential, and build high-performing teams. His clients include CEOs, entrepreneurs, and leaders from Fortune 500 companies as well as current and former athletes from the NFL, UFC, NCAA, and Olympics.

Today’s Top 3 Takeaways:

The importance of failure and our internal speak.
The journey to success thanks to overcoming failure.
The role of our mindset with performance coaching.

Today’s Guest Co-Host Links:

Website: JimHarshawJr.com
TED Talk: JimHarshawJr.com/TED/
Twitter (personal): http://Twitter.com/JimHarshaw/
Twitter (podcast): http://Twitter.com/SxsThruFailure/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jimharshawjr/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jimharshawjr/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimharshaw/

Mentioned Influencers:

Michael Easter author of The Comfort Crisis – https://eastermichael.com/book/

Watch us on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/6Ig3Y8dtX2A

Timestamped Show Notes:

28:55 – So I interviewed Michael Easter, author of The Comfort Crisis on my podcast, and great book for listeners, very good. And he had this concept of you’re familiar with called the misogi. And it’s this idea, it’s this Japanese term that relates, that references sort of cleansing, and it’s evolved to mean sort of doing something very hard, where you come out the other side cleansed as a new person. And so this Misogi, there’s two rules of the misogyny. The first rule is, there has to be a 50% chance of success, and the second rule is, don’t die.

58:30 – Final Words

Our Final Words of the Show:

My legacy is about people by people who I impact. It’s about my kids. It’s about my wife. It’s about my my siblings. It’s about my community. It’s about f3 nation. It’s about serving people. And you know, there, there are few, few roles in life better than a teacher or a coach in terms of leaving a legacy. That’s why I love what I get to do, I get to impact people. So my legacy is about people. It’s about pouring into people. It’s about loving people. It’s about lifting people up, whether that’s my clients or the coaches that work with us, whether it’s my staff, that’s it’s about people.

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160: Taekwondo, Transparency, Authenticity with Stephanie Scheller

Scott Mulvaney — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Today’s Authenticity Co-Host, Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Coach, Black Belt, and Trainer:

Stephanie Scheller may be young but she is an accomplished speaker and has worked with more than 600 businesses and thousands of individuals on their sales, marketing, and systems in the past five years! She is a TEDx speaker, a Forbes 30 under 30 nominee, a two-time best-selling author, an entrepreneur, a coach and a trainer and dedicated to teaching the same skills that allowed her to build a business from scratch and walk away from her job in less than five months. Please join me in a warm welcome for Ms. Stephanie Scheller!

On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”00:30″] Introduction
[spp-timestamp time=”01:10″] Geeking out on microphone technology.
[spp-timestamp time=”01:05:50″] Final Words

Whatever you do, do it with passion! – Quoted by Stephanie Scheller

[spp-tweet tweet=”Passion Creates Action & Action Creates Results! @SuccessSteph “]

Watch On YouTube:

Links and Resources:

People Mentioned:

Isagenix

Final Words:

The difference was the passion. She was passionate about what she was doing with small business owners. She cared about helping them out.

Whatever you do, do it with passion!

Passion Creates Action & Action Creates Results!

Action Steps:

Please Subscribe and Submit an iTunes Show Rating & Review. The more reviews, the more people can find us. We love 5 Stars too!
Join our private Facebook Group community called THE FUEL TANK.
Visit our Resources page and a reminder to LIVE-THE-FUEL my friends!

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071: Diversity Speaker Tayo Rockson from TEDx and MAPCON

Scott Mulvaney — Mon, 01 May 2017 14:00:00 +0000

Diversity Speaker and Social Justice Co-Host:

Tayo Rockson and I catch up on his mission to improve the cross-cultural relations in the business world. We catch up on his diversity talks, his recent TEDx public speaking achievement and reconnect since our meeting at the Mid-Atlantic Podcast Conference in 2016. Tayo is a podcaster, keynote speaker, and diversity entrepreneur ready to rock the mics with us!

On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”04:00″] Tay hits us with his backstory with our mutual friend Joe Pardo and being a keynote speaker at MAPCON 2016.
[spp-timestamp time=”04:40″] Connecting across cultures is important to Tayo.
[spp-timestamp time=”05:20″] Developing social skills, networking, Diplo-brats.
[spp-timestamp time=”06:55″] Tayo gets out of college and has 85+ rejections, he’s a foreigner in our country, so he really needed to find a job to sponsor his Work VISA.
[spp-timestamp time=”7:55″] His missing energy and the story of his car accident, swerving out of control in the rain and hitting multiple cars and guardrails. His thoughts of “I haven’t done anything I wanted to do and I’m about to die.
[spp-timestamp time=”08:30″] Tayo starts his blog to share his diversity stories and his messaging to develop his own brand.
[spp-timestamp time=”09:30″] He’s been broke, everyone has to put in the work. If we aren’t stepping out of our comfort zones, we aren’t living our life.
[spp-timestamp time=”12:43″] What led Tayo to speak at his recent TEDx event.
[spp-timestamp time=”13:20″] He decided to become an influencer and to help others connect across cultures. His focus on Diversity Inclusion and now his podcast starts to rise.
[spp-timestamp time=”16:00″] One thing he’s always learned is to “Be Grateful for the Now.”
[spp-timestamp time=”17:30″] MAPCON, the Mid-Atlantic Podcast Conference with Joe Pardo.
[spp-timestamp time=”18:30″] It’s like the monkey bars, having one hand forward and one hand holding you back. It’s about the two hands being free, about being in that moment. Experience for Tayo is the best teacher.
[spp-timestamp time=”19:20″] Live Life to the Fullest from Ernest Hemmingway which helped inspire the creation of LIVETHEFUEL. LIVETHEFUEL stands for Live The Fired Up Epic Life.

Live Life To The Fullest – Ernest Hemmingway

[spp-timestamp time=”20:15″] College does not teach you to be an entrepreneur.
[spp-timestamp time=”22:30″] Scott applied to over 200 jobs while living in Colorado after the firefighting years.
[spp-timestamp time=”23:25″] If you live a life so cautiously, that you don’t fail, then you’ve not lived a life worth living.
[spp-timestamp time=”25:55″] Apply for that job, date that person, buy that plane ticket, move to that city, do all the things that scare you because they’re worth it.

Apply for that job, date that person, buy that plane ticket, move to that city, do all the things that scare you because they’re worth it! – Unknown

[spp-timestamp time=”27:45″] His first TEDx talk was on “How to be an Inclusive Leader”. His first few years of his life, Tayo lived in a military dictatorship in Nigeria. He saw exactly what it was like to have your civil liberties taken away from you.
[spp-timestamp time=”28:10″] His second TEDx talk was on “The Art of Diplomacy”. Don’t be reactive, become proactive. Seek mastery.
[spp-timestamp time=”29:40″] Tayo calls out Scott on him not having applied to speak at the local TEDx Lehigh River here in Pennsylvania.
[spp-timestamp time=”32:10″] THRIVE: Make Money Matter event and Jack Canfield having spoken at this event in 2016.
[spp-timestamp time=”36:40″] Tayo started doing things that scared him the most, like agreeing to perform the keynote speaking at MAPCON.
[spp-timestamp time=”40:15″] Sometimes it takes a little jealousy, confusion, or intrigue to inspire people to think outside the box.
[spp-timestamp time=”42:00″] Tayo gets so nervous right before the stage.
[spp-timestamp time=”43:40″] If you say something with enough conviction, people believe it.
[spp-timestamp time=”46:00″] Shoutout to our evangelist supporters, like LIVETHEFUEL’s Brian Strauser.
[spp-timestamp time=”49:46″] Tayo has a rule he likes to live by: Put a smile on five people’s faces a day.
[spp-timestamp time=”53:30″] Open a door for someone, this doesn’t have to be rocket science to make people smile.
[spp-timestamp time=”54:19″] Chivalry is dead… It’s only dead if we allow it to be dead. Treat human beings like human beings.
[spp-timestamp time=”55:25″] What Tayo is up to next here in 2017.
[spp-timestamp time=”55:50″] When it’s all said and done, a marriage between Oprah Winfrey and Nelson Mandela. They are Tayo’s suto parents in his mind.
[spp-timestamp time=”56:00″] Tayo’s Diversity Mission Statement: “Use Your Difference to Make a Difference!”

“Use Your Difference to Make a Difference!” – Tayo Rockson

[spp-timestamp time=”59:35″] What are we doing with our voice?
[spp-timestamp time=”01:01:40″] Final Words

Be Grateful for the Now – Tayo Rockson

[spp-tweet tweet=”Put a smile on five people’s faces a day. @tayorockson @LIVETHEFUEL “]

[spp-tweet tweet=”Use Your Difference to Make a Difference! @tayorockson @LIVETHEFUEL “]

Links and Resources:

People Mentioned:

Final Words:

Take risks in your life. If you win you can lead if you lose you can guide.
People are not what they say but what they do. So judge them not for their words but from their actions.
Take whatever you can from life because when life starts taking from you, it takes even your last breath.

Action Steps:

Please Submit an iTunes Show Rating & Review, we need more reviews to increase our ranking and appearance. We love 5 Stars!
Join THE FUEL TANK our community on Facebook! – “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” ~ Quote by Jim Rohn
Be sure to check out our Resources and a reminder to “Keep Living The Fired Up Epic Life everyone!” #livethefuel

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048: Paying Yourself Profit First with Mike Michalowicz

Scott Mulvaney — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 17:45:00 +0000

Profit First Accounting and Paying Yourself:

This episode is about stepping out of your comfort zone and flipping your finances and accounting on its head. In business we have been following the same formula for generations, Sales-Expenses=Profit. This means profit comes last, which ultimately means you come last. It is time to flip that formula and enjoy your profit now with today’s co-host. Mike Michalowicz is the author of the book Profit First, a book that I have mentioned many times on LIVETHEFUEL. Mike has launched three multi-million dollar businesses and sold the second to a Fortune 500 company. Mike is also the author of three other great books, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, The Pumpkin Plan and the most resent Surge. This is a great episode for anyone who wants to have a little more financial freedom in their life/business.

On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”03:45″] What book should I be reading now? The answer, what is your biggest challenge right now? You will then find the right book to read.
[spp-timestamp time=”05:23″] Where the book, Profit First came from. Mike had start a lot of different businesses and lost a lot of money. Building those companies was not profitable, he was surviving check by check. He sold two companies and one to a fortune 500 company. He thought this was the way to make money and became an angel investor to try and repeat the process but he lost money fast. This was the necessary wake up call he needed. The mentality of being profitable one day in the future is wrong. The classic accounting formula of Sales – Expenses = Profit, which means your profit comes last, is archaic.
[spp-timestamp time=”11:46″] Afraid of change. Mike has literally flipped the accounting formula and put Profit First. It’s the pay yourself first system for your business.
[spp-timestamp time=”15:07″] Parkinson’s Law: As the supply of the availability increases, our demand for it increases, but as it decreases we become more frugal, innovative and use less of it. Mike uses a cookie to describe Parkinson’s Law. When we force ourselves to use less money in our business our behavior changes.
[spp-timestamp time=”21:35″] “Money to brains ratio” and “Keeping up with the Jones’s”. The 401K. When you first adapt to Profit First, it can be painful to begin with. Very quickly, when you see those profits stacking up, it makes it all worth while.
[spp-timestamp time=”25:24″] Dividing up your income into different accounts.
[spp-timestamp time=”32:46″] If you don’t know what you are doing, get help. There is no shame in asking. Scott is visiting Profit First HQ.
[spp-timestamp time=”35:38″] Profit First Professionals: Experts that maximize companies profits permanently.
[spp-timestamp time=”37:01″] Profit First Professionals launched 2 years ago. Profit First Professionals came from people who had read the book but wanted help implementing it and someone to hold them accountable for it. Now they have 160+ bookkeepers and accountants supporting it.
[spp-timestamp time=”38:11″] 99% of Accountants that have come across Profit First have converted to the philosophy. The ones that don’t are the ones that are not willing to change the way they do things. Profit First accountants apply logic and overlay that with behaviors. A lot of accountants just can not make that leap.
[spp-timestamp time=”40:08″] Some people want to go all in when they read Profit First and set aside huge percentages but that’s like putting a frozen mug into a hot oven, eventually it will shatter. One of the important steps of Profit First is to take small steps.
[spp-timestamp time=”42:42″] Taking small incremental steps and relating accounting to the fitness world. Profit First is a Dial not a Switch.
[spp-timestamp time=”45:18″] Quarterly Distributions.
[spp-timestamp time=”47:02″] When the profit comes out, it is for you to experience financial freedom. This is not to be used to reinvest in your business, that’s a whole different envelope aka account. If you are putting it back into the business you are defeating the system. If you cannot pay your expenses, you cannot afford your expenses, so you have to find a better way.
[spp-timestamp time=”48:43″] Final Words

[spp-tweet tweet=”Get comfortable with being uncomfortable with #ProfitFirst @MikeMichalowicz on @LIVETHEFUEL #Podcast, #author #Speaker”]

Profit First Links and Resources

People Mentioned

Final Words

Mike’s life purpose is to eradicate Entrepreneurial poverty, that’s why he does what he does. It’s about stepping into the un-comfort zone. Progress is made when people do something new when something has impeded their progress, what impedes progress is doing what is familiar. Get comfortable with being uncomfortable. That is where growth is. That is where the opportunity is.

Action Steps

Please Submit an iTunes Show Rating & Review, we need more reviews to increase our ranking and appearance. We love 5 Stars!
Join THE FUEL TANK our community on Facebook! – “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” ~ Quote by Jim Rohn
Be sure to check out our Resources and a reminder to “Keep Living The Fired Up Epic Life everyone!” #livethefuel

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003: Rock Out Strong Marketing with Chris Mulvaney

Scott Mulvaney — Sun, 04 Sep 2016 19:00:00 +0000

All right Ladies and Gents, welcome to our third episode of the LIVETHEFUEL show. Part of my goal is for us to be truthful and transparency while we balance health, business, and lifestyle. Please note that a couple of F-Bomb explicit’s do appear during this episode. I’m doing my best to keep this clean, but will not edit out real life passion that arises. So today my co-host is the man, the myth, the strong legend himself, Chris Mulvaney.

This is a great insightful conversation, packed with great ideas you can translate into your life to FUEL your internal fire on fitness, rock and roll, and/or marketing. So tune in and enjoy your dose of LIVETHEFUEL today.

Todays Strong Co-host

Chris Mulvaney is a strong business developer, community activist, entrepreneur, and an award-winning creative marketing strategist. He also studied music at Monmouth University and has rocked out in some big band life along the way. More importantly he chooses balance through staying fit with CrossFit and Olympic Weightlifting.

He is the founder and CEO of CMDS; a NJ-based marketing and design agency that provides integrated marketing strategies and tactics. CMDS has been around the integrated marketing block by helping businesses. They realize the power of the internet as a tool for building brands, engaging customers, and driving revenue. Some of the services that CMDS offers include Brand Strategy, Logo Design, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Website Development, Social Media Marketing and Paid Search Marketing.

Chris is also the founder and CEO of Post Café; a company that helps individuals and businesses to build an ongoing conversation with their clients that extends beyond the sale. They post strategically written, on-trend content on various social media platforms. This content helps businesses stay top of mind for repeat business and qualified referrals.

Besides CMDS and Post Café, Chris is also the founder of ProTasker. This is a project management software that helps individuals and businesses that need to keep an eye on production, quality control, and your bottom line. This software was redeveloped in 2011 for distribution to the public and has had astonishing success.

His extensive professional background includes working with some of the world’s leading brands. Personally dedicated to helping clients refine their corporate vision and generate the kind of eye-popping, strong revenue that many companies dream about. Chris also serves on the boards for several local businesses and charities, lending a creative and strategic eye to marketing and operational best practices.

In this show, Chris reveals how he has managed to balance his health, business, and lifestyle.

In this episode you’ll hear

[01: 02] Everything you need to know about Chris Mulvaney. What he is doing and how we both came to know each other.

[03: 11] What does CMDS do. Who are the company’s clients?

[04: 15] When did CMDS start?

[10: 11] Working hours at CMDS is only four days a week. Is this a lifestyle goal?

[14: 35] We are personally and collectively accountable for results.

[10: 11] Does having a bigger foosball table trigger smaller productivity?

[15: 00] What is CMDS’s business lifestyle like?

[19: 00] The importance of networking

[21: 50] If you are not willing to take risks and risk the power of failure you are not going to learn.

And Much, Much More

I ran into Chris a few months ago now. We are both are in the CrossFit world, and he came up for an Olympic Weightlifting competition at our facility in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. At our first meeting he had only just started his focus on getting strong through weightlifting in the past 7 months. Chris is still into Olympic Weightlifting training six days a week. Lifting is like his hobby and stress release from all the other stuff that he is involved in from his businesses, to family, to the charity work and more.

Chris explains that CMDS is a creative marketing agency. The company’s clients range from a smaller $10 million dollar kind of entities up to a Fortune 500 company. He helps them establish a presence in their marketplace from helping them determine the voices for their brand. They’ll also help them define the vision of their company by building out the creative piece and the identity of that company.

Thanks to doubling their income success in 2015 they’ve achieved the Inc 5000 award! Inc. magazine ranked CMDS, a leading NJ full service marketing and web design agency. They are weighing in at number 1989 on its 35th annual Inc. 5000. This is an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy: America’s independent entrepreneurs. Companies such as Yelp, Pandora, Dell, LinkedIn, Zillow and many others gained early exposure as members of the Inc. 5000.

Chris reveals that they work from Monday through Thursday from 8 to 6. So what does this mean? This is kind of cool because they are starting to see a few more companies that do that nowadays too. Smart CEO’s take on this supposedly risky expense by investing in ensuring their employees have better vacations and life balance. Chris is always trying to find ways to make his team strong and moree productive. This is the exact reason they officially have only four days required in the office.

Giving his employees three days off in a week; is it a lifestyle goal? He replies, a definite YES. Chris says that he is trying to figure out how his companies can attract and retain employees for life. He is looking for ways to keep employees happy. He says that clients can come and go over a few year period, but top talent employees are tough to find. So it’s important to build ways to retain their value.

We also discussed the importance of accountability. One thing you have to keep in mind is a quote I learned years ago: “We are personally and collectively accountable for our results.” It’s important to be personally responsible for what you’re doing but also think about it from a collective capacity for the greater good of the company.

Chris continued to reveal more about the strong CMDS business lifestyle. He says they’ve paid to have chiropractors on site in the past and they are planning to bring in a yoga instructor to give his teams more healthy options. This is a great practice to consider whether it be for the physical and/or the mental benefits. This will definitely FUEL their health, business and lifestyle success!

We talked about the importance of networking to ensure long term growth through connectivity. This goes for personal or professional network growth. You never know what’s going to happen down the road in your life or business for that matter. Keeping in mind that we truly are the product of the five people we spend the most time with. If you want to grow, you must be ready to increase your network and your circle of influence.

We also discussed the value of taking risks in whatever you do in life. If you are not willing to take risks, you are missing out on the powerful learning’s that come from failure. Failure leads to eventual succeed. You didn’t just start walking from child birth. Each of us crawled and failed at walking a few times along the way. Now who is the strong one?!

Links and resources

Connect with Chris Mulvaney on LinkedIn
Connect with Chris Mulvaney on Facebook
Connect with Chris Mulvaney on Twitter
Chris’ CMDS business
Connect with CMDS on LinkedIn
Connect with CMDS on Facebook
Connect with CMDS on Twitter
Chris’ Post Café business
Chris’ task management software proTasker.com
Chris favorite book: Psycho-Cybernetics
Inc 5000 companies include Yelp, Pandora, Dell, LinkedIn, Zillow

People Mentioned:

John G. Giacalone (MobilityDoc.com)
Karyn Marshall (Karyn Marshall on Team USA)
Gary Vaynerchuk (AskGaryVee)

Finally, I have a small request:

Since this is my brand new show, I’ve got zero clout in the world right now. It takes a lot of work to bring something like this to fruition. Currently, my biggest asset is reviews and ratings on iTunes. When iTunes sees that this show is getting good reviews and ratings, it moves us up in importance to the “New & Noteworthy” section. A brand new show can get lots of traction from this!

So, if you wouldn’t mind, I will welcome positive reviews and ratings from you guys, love the 5 stars! Also, if you think it’s valuable; kindly share this page on Facebook or Twitter. It would mean a ton of gratitude to me as well.

If you want to be part of the growing community, please join the The FUEL Tank group on Facebook where we Fuel Your Health, Business and Lifestyle as a community.

Thanks so much, and I’m looking forward to hearing your comments about this show below.

Scott

LIVETHEFUEL is an online audio podcast hosted by myself of course. Part of my goal(s) is to help share the stories, lessons, and knowledge attained from the struggles and life successes of my co-hosts aka guests. These are highly active people from all walks of life, including the people from the fitness profession like coaches and gym owners. We’ll also be focusing on startups, entrepreneurs, Internet marketers, along with all of our diverse health professionals and some fellow adrenaline junkies along the way. These people not only standout in their professions, they also have the confidence to live life with more adventure and take the necessary risks with rewards to build an epic lifestyle!

The primary goal of these episodes is to FUEL your internal fire while helping you realize that LIFE IS SHORT! I also share practical steps and tools, including strategies, smartphone apps, audiobooks, websites, stories and training courses that will support you in every step you make to improve your life. So go after your dreams and conquer that next, supposedly, unattainable goal!

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