The Failure Guy podcast
Success comes not to the first out off the line, or the fastest start, but to those who keep running.
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Jody Webb interview (opens the original)
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My conversation with Jody has got to be at once the most inspiring, insightful, uplifting and heart-breaking - all at once. Never has an episode of TFG left me so humbled, so shaken, so moved to my core as this one. Jody describes himself as a "world-class problem solver". His life has been full of ironies: in what he describes as a "Freaky Friday experience", he was working for the Arkansas state auditor and fully intended to pursue a career in politics. He was in the state capitol the day Bill
Shawna Lynne interview (opens the original)
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"Frequency Matching" Teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Certified fitness instructor. Health strategist. Psychotherapist. Posessor of a Masters Degree who is currently pursuing a PhD in sexology. Folks - Shawna Lynne has got to be the most intriguing guest of all the amazing guests we've had here on "The Failure Guy". Like Jaymie Pottinger last season, Shawna was such a striking, vibrant presence, I had to immediately to approach her and ask her to join me on the podcast. In addition, Shaw
Ralph Watkins interview – part 02 (opens the original)
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Once again, I have an amazing conversation with my first guest to discover TFG "in the wild", Ralph Watkins. We pick up where we left off last episode, getting "up the creek" if you will: discussing the collapse of Ralph's mortgage business during the subprime mortgage crisis, his initial resistance to applying for unemployment. Ralph goes deep, revealing how his stigma to even consider applying for government assistance was the result of internalized negative self‑talk - trauma-triggered flinch
Ralph Watkins interview – part 01 (opens the original)
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"Up the Creek" This is a milestone episode: Ralph is the first guest on The Failure Guy podcast to encounter us "in the wild". Prior to his reaching out to me via my LinkedIn profile, we had no contact on- or offline, and he was not referred by any personal or professional friend or colleague. In many ways, that's makes our little TFG a "real podcast", like Pinnochio becomes a real boy in the end of the story. And what a story Ralph has to share with us. So deep, so rich, that before this part o
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