The Decision Hour
Welcome to The Decision Hour, the podcast where we explore the tough decisions that people from all walks of life have made and the impact those choices had on their lives. Each episode, we sit down with a different guest who shares their personal story of a time when they found themselves at a crossroads, with their feet on the line, and they had to make THAT decision. Our guests come from all different backgrounds, from business leaders and entrepreneurs to athletes, artists, and everyday heroes. Through these candid conversations, we delve into the thought process and emotions behind each decision, exploring the challenges and obstacles that our guests faced, as well as the lessons they learned along the way. Whether you’re facing a tough decision in your own life or just looking for inspiration and motivation, The Decision Hour is the podcast for you. So join us each week as we explore the tough choices that shape our lives and help us become the best versions of ourselves.
Episodes
Episodes
Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
Ep: 286 - The Ride to Freedom with Judy Mark
Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
This week we are talking with Serial Entrepreneur Judy Mark. We start the show off learning about Judy as she shares how she became an entrepreneur at the age of 19 and where that journey has taken her. Then we fast-forward to the present and discuss the Freedom Riders and the Freedom Convoy that took place in Canada, why it happened, how it started and why. Judy takes us to the front of it all and shares her experience of riding with the Freedom Riders and bringing awareness and updates as to what went on during her time with the Freedom Convoy. She many days doing updates and went LIVE on social media to share what she was seeing first hand.
You can follow Judy on social media here:
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Friday Feb 18, 2022
Ep: 285 - A Recipe for Success with Charlynda Scales
Friday Feb 18, 2022
Friday Feb 18, 2022
You all better buckle up and turn the volume up because you don’t want to miss this one! This week’s guest is my friend, Air Force Veteran, Mother, and serial entrepreneur, Charlynda Scales. Tune in and find out how this “Country girl from Tennessee” took a family recipe from 1956 and turned it into a business. Charlynda is making America taste better one bite at a time. Just wait to you hear her Decision Hour, pay close attention to what was going on in her life at the time and the people she was talking to. - “the decision to either shut things down, or to flip my entire business model.” ~ Charlynda Scales ~
Charlynda Scales is a serial entrepreneur and serves as founder and CEO of Mutt's Sauce LLC and OH Taste LLC, Director of OH Taste (501c3), as well as the creator of The Empower Collection.
Charlynda is a sought-after speaker and coach for small businesses and women empowerment. She is a TEDx alumnus. Her gift is cultivating influential people by meeting them where they are in life and in business. She is an Air Force veteran and currently serves as a Reservist at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
Charlynda and the story of Mutt's Sauce has been featured in Yahoo! Finance, NPR, Forbes.com, QVC, Men's Journal, CBS News, NBCUniversal, Black Enterprise Magazine, and Military.com. In 2020, Charlynda was also featured in FUBU Founder and Shark Tank investor Daymond John's bestselling book, POWERSHIFT.
She is a Clemson University graduate, with a degree in Aerospace Science and Business Management. She also holds an MBA in Strategic Leadership. She started the company Mutt’s Sauce, LLC while she was still serving on active duty in the military. She is a graduate of the following distinguished courses:
Tuck School of Executive Leadership at Dartmouth
The Empower Program, by Dayton Chamber of Commerce
The Course for Presidents, by Aileron
Charlynda currently sits on the board of Bunker Labs, Veterans for Political Innovation, and Dayton Convention and Visitors Bureau. Charlynda is a Gold Award Winner and has a Lifetime Membership to Girl Scouts of the USA.
Her son, David, is, in her opinion, her finest achievement.
Mutt's Sauce website: www.muttssauce.com
Charlynda Scales website: www.charlyndajean.com
Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
Ep: 284 - Accelerate and Multiply with Daniel Tolson
Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
This was such a great time talking with Daniel Tolson. We start the show off with Daniel sharing a funny story about his time working in the family Pawn Business.
When then go back in time and listen his story from growing up with a learning disability, to realizing at a young age that he wanted to help people, which lead into coaching people how to wakeboard, that would eventually lead to him traveling the world teaching locals how to wakeboard. We then dive into how he got into what he is doing now! (https://danieltolson.com)
“No goals, no future. Goal setting is about your future. And I don't know if you know this, but you're going to spend the rest of your life in your future.” ~ Daniel Tolson ~
We wrap up the show with Daniel sharing powerful Decision Hour message.
“Fear. The fear comes up and the fee is going to come up for between four and 30 seconds. And before you have an emotional hijacking. You got to get clarity of your mind. You got to take control of those emotions and you've got to get back to an emotionally clear state. And only once you're in that emotionally clear state, should you decide what is right or wrong for you. And if you've got to make a decision, always move towards your biggest fear. You're a military man, you always move towards the biggest enemy. That's what you do.”
Daniel Tolson has served as a consultant to more than 15,000 companies and individuals throughout Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Italy, Great Britain, Ireland, and both North and South America.
As a business influencer, he impacts millions of people each year. He has studied, researched, written, and spoken for 20 years on the topics of time management, goal setting, strategic planning, sales iQ, business model innovation and emotional intelligence. Daniel is considered the world’s Number One business coach specializing in Emotional Intelligence, with over 5,500 case studies into emotional intelligence in the past three years alone. He has written and produced more than 250 audio and video learning programs, which have influenced business owners all around the world, including: Mental Detox, Total Emotional Mastery, and Win Sales Now!
Daniel speaks to corporate and public audiences on the subjects of Emotional and Social Intelligence, including the executives and staff of many of Australia’s largest corporations. His interactive talks and seminars on Selling with Emotional Intelligence, Business Model Innovation, Time Management and The Psychology of Success bring about immediate improvements in productivity, performance and output. Prior to founding his company, The Tolson Institute, Daniel was a leader of 17,000 cabin crew for Emirates Airlines. He has had successful careers in real estate sales and marketing, Pawnbroking, Second Hand Dealing, a former Australian Champion Wakeboarder and eXtreme Games Competitor.
He has conducted high-level consulting assignments with many billion-dollar plus corporations in emotional intelligence and business model innovation. Daniel has traveled and worked in over 100 countries on six continents and lives in both Taiwan and Australia.
He is happily married with two children.
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
Ep: 283 - The Wall Between Two Lives
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
Get ready for this episode as you will hear from U.S. Army Veteran, Author and Busines owner Annette Whittenberger. Listen to her story as she shares the why for writing her book “The Wall Between Two Lives” and hear how a car accident made her make a “decision” that would forever impact her life and the lives of others.
“So I'll tell you, when you guys get the book, you're worried a little bit about my car accident. And I was at home and I was in recovery. And I had to make a decision on whether I was going to choose to live with what my struggles were, or if I was going to suffer from them. And that was a huge decision because I always was the victim and everything and even with a car seat and it was like boohoo me I have to use a wheelchair, I have to use a cane, I have to do all these things. I had to make a decision on how I was going to spend the rest of my life whether it was you know, limping all the time, or whatever the case was on how I recovered from it. And I chose to say, Okay, let's is it I have this, and I'm going to own it and not be afraid to talk about it anymore” ~Annette Whittenberger
Saturday Dec 11, 2021
The Importance of Mindset
Saturday Dec 11, 2021
Saturday Dec 11, 2021
We are forced to make Decisions in our lives every day. We are faced with situations that we have no control over, however we can control our reactions to those situations. Before you can do that, you must be in the right mindset. Mindset is a conscious decision that requires a choice: positive or negative.
In this episode, I was lucky enough to sit down with the guys from Not Your Average Operator, (https://bit.ly/3IEsIB9) a podcast that dives into some of life’s hardest questions, challenges, and situations as they open up their lives and personal experiences and dissect them in a way that can bring out the best version of ourselves, and help leave the negative in the rearview mirror.
After some much-needed banter and some really good laughs, we dive into the topic of mindset.
We discuss the importance of mindset and provide some examples of our own personal experiences regarding positivity, being grateful, asking for help and how to turn a bad situation around.
We had a lot fun recording this episode as you will hear. That said, this is a topic we don’t take lightly, we understand the importance, we have all been there. We hope that you enjoy this episode. Should you find yourself letting your mindset wonder into places it doesn’t need to be, call on us… We are here to help.
Email:Adam@Heroesmediagrp.comPaul “Melon” McFadden
NotYourAveragePaul@gmail.com
Raf “Tio” Espinosa
NotYourAverageRaf@gmail.com
Mike
NotYourAverageMike77@gmail.com
Monday Nov 01, 2021
Ep: 281 - Being Civil
Monday Nov 01, 2021
Monday Nov 01, 2021
Being Civil. Seem easy enough, right? Than why do so many people have trouble doing it?
We are wrapping up on the series of “Let’s have a conversation” with this week’s episode called “Being Civil”. Adam and John recap the series and the overall goal of bring people together to have to conversations all while being civil to each other. Remember, you don’t have to agree with someone’s belief’s or way of thinking, but you can always remain civil.
So, what does it take to be civil? Take a listen.
Saturday Oct 23, 2021
Ep: 280 - Free Speech
Saturday Oct 23, 2021
Saturday Oct 23, 2021
We are talking about free speech with a bit of a twist. When we talk say, free speech, is it, people can say what they want to say… right? In this episode, we also discuss when free speech isn’t free. We use a few examples such as the Lieutenant Colonel of the Marine Corps that called out senior leaders not being held accountable. We also mention a former Fox reporter who was fired for calling out Fox corporation for muzzling her. Now, some will read that and say, he was Military, or she worked for a company and certain policies might be set in place, and that maybe true, however we also discuss free speech from a standpoint of being on social media or out in a public setting.
This was an interesting topic to cover. What are your thoughts about how free speech is looked at in today’s world.
NOTE: Since this recording there have been updates on the Lieutenant Colonel of the Marine Corps, find more information on that case here: https://bit.ly/3b1aRok
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
Ep: 279 - Goodbye Freedom
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
How many of you think that we are on the verge of losing all of our God given freedoms?
We expand this series of “Let’s have a Conversation” with the topic this week of “Goodbye Freedom”, Why you ask? LOOK! Your GOD given freedoms are being taking from you. You no longer have the freedom to say what you can put in your body, you no longer have the freedom of religion, you no longer have the freedom of speech You no longer have… Freedom.
Are we to far gone that we can’t be saved? We think not. So take a listen as the guys discuss Goodbye Freedom what it means, where it’s going and how YOU can fix it.
Ask yourself, is your freedom important to you? Then take a listen.
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
Ep: 278 - Are You Being Conditioned
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
We are continuing the series called let's have a conversation and this week’s topic is "Are you being conditioned".
What are you watching, reading or listening to everyday, right now, in your life? Does any of it cause an emotional reaction? Ask yourself are we being slowly conditioned to become used to more government control, less freedom, more intrusion on our basic rights? Perhaps we are living in some giant psychological experiment.
Tune in as Adam and John talk about how one could easily think that we are being conditioned, how it’s happening and examples of past and present events that lead to their conclusions. Here’s another question they ask you the listener… Do Americans still believe in freedom?
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
Ep: 277- Ideology
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
What type of Ideology do we see most in the world today?
There are different types of ideology, and its certainly a word that has been thrown around a lot as of late. Take a listen as we talk about what ideology is running most of the world right now, we even ask the question, is the “woke” ideology the same as what we are seeing in Afghanistan with the Taliban?
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