The Undecided State Podcast: Recent Episodes
James Dring
In the second installment of Ordinary Wisdom I interview Adam Oldfield, the founder of FPM3 Marketing & Design and other companies. Adam is a man who had it all, lost it, and has built it back from the ground up.
In addition to being a successful businessman, he teaches college students the finer points of sales and marketing, helping prepare them for entry into the workplace.
In this episode Adam talks about the lessons he’s learned that will be valuable to anyone who's thinking about starting their own business. The wins, the loses and how to overcome the odds.
I tried something new in this episode and went unscripted, using just a few bucket points. The result was some decent content on the importance of your mindset and while I’m 100% pleased with the audio I think the message is worthwhile.
In this first interview for Ordinary Wisdom, we meet Rob Bursey a man who decided to change careers in 2012 and attack his dream of being a firefighter. After 5 long years of applying and not getting an interview, he finally got his shot at age 42 and achieved his dream. Rob shares the lessons he's learned, the qualities of greatness he admires and words of wisdom for anyone who's chasing a dream.
When you’re going through the process of redefining yourself, you often need a great reason to not only start, but stay consistent. If the reasons you have are not good enough, realizing your dream will become very difficult to accomplish. In today’s episode I talk about my top ten reasons to take action today and start redefining your tomorrow.
It might be common wisdom, but so many people forget that failure is part of growth and instead of embracing it, they shy away from it out of fear. In this episode I discuss this foundational mindset behaviour that is essential to anyone who is just starting out and wants to avoid the pitfalls ahead or for those who are in the process of redefining themselves and need a reminder to stay on the path despite the possibility of failure.
After a few weeks off it was great to get back on the mic again and talk not only about an important issue -dealing with the Dragons in your life, but also introduce this subject as the first foundational skill of The Phoenix Doctrine -a step by step year-long process that I am developing to help anyone who is starting out or undergoing the long process of redefining who they are.