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June 11, 2023
The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Suck It Up Cupcake: Stop Screwing Yourself and Get the Life You Want by Dennis McCurdy
Suck It Up Cupcake: Stop Screwing Yourself and Get the Life You Want by Dennis McCurdy
A better life awaits…
…if you could only get out of your own way.
Are you your own worst enemy?
This is a book about fear, determination, self-defeating mindsets, and how to overcome every obstacle that life puts in your way.
Dennis was not an overachiever. Finishing high school eighth from the bottom of his class, he went off to Vietnam to fight for his country. When he returned, at age 24, he sold hot dogs and donuts. Broke and depressed, wasn’t how he wanted to spend his life.
He had two things going for him.
Dennis wasn’t afraid to work hard and learn (and teach himself) what he needed.
In twelve years, he built several (real estate and other) businesses and was worth over (1) one million dollars.
Designing the life you want is about learning to problem solve in ways most people never consider. This book will give you insights into yourself and what you need to succeed.
You’ll learn how to:
Stop waiting and start
Pay Attention, learn to know yourself
The Compound Effect will move you forward step by step- will show you that every action moves you (Powerful concept)
The potential of the Law of Association
Master the power of Deliberate Practice
And much more
This book is about solutions.
You’ll love this personal development book, because Dennis speaks from the heart, isn’t afraid of the truth, and shows you the path.
About the Author
A self-employed businessman since the age of 23; Dennis understands what it takes to be successful; his company, McCurdy Group, was awarded the prestigious 5 Star Designation in 2003. Dennis has started 10 businesses, and has owned millions of dollar in real estate.
As president of Adam Beck Institute, he speaks frequently about personal development and growth. His 5-week workshop, Find A Way, was developed for individuals who want to invigorate their life, reach for their dreams, and learn new ways to achieve… Those who have attended his presentations agree–Dennis is a practical and down-to-earth coach/guide. No frills just lots of meat and potatoes.
Dennis is the author of; Find, A Way, A Guide to Getting The Most From Life, and 52 Ways To Find A Way and he is currently working on his third book, “Suck it Up Cupcake, How to Stop Screwing Yourself and Get the Life You Want”
June 10, 2023
The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Darren Tessitore, CEO of Thrive Review, How to Build Better SEO Rankings With Reviews
Darren Tessitore, CEO of Thrive Review, How to Build Better SEO Rankings With Reviews
June 9, 2023
The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Who’s Your Founding Father?: One Man’s Epic Quest to Uncover the First, True Declaration of Independence by David Fleming
Who’s Your Founding Father?: One Man’s Epic Quest to Uncover the First, True Declaration of Independence by David Fleming
A centuries-old secret document might unravel the origin story of America and reveal the intellectual crime of the millennia in this epic dive into our country’s history to discover the first, true Declaration of Independence.
In 1819 John Adams came across a stunning story in his hometown Essex Register that he breathlessly described to his political frenemy Thomas Jefferson as “one of the greatest curiosities and one of the deepest mysteries that ever occurred to me…entitled the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. The genuine sense of America at that moment was never so well expressed before, nor since.” The story claimed that a full 14 months before Jefferson crafted his own Declaration of Independence, a misfit band of zealous Scots-Irish patriots, whiskey-loving Princeton scholars and a fanatical frontier preacher in a remote corner of North Carolina had become the first Americans to formally declare themselves “free and independent” from England.
Composed during a clandestine all-night session inside the Charlotte courthouse, the Mecklenburg Declaration was signed on May 20, 1775—a date that’s still featured on the state flag of North Carolina. A year later, in 1776, Jefferson is believed to have plagiarized the MecDec while composing his own, slightly more famous Declaration and then, as he was wont to do, covered the whole thing up. Which is exactly why Adams always insisted the MecDec needed to be “thoroughly investigated” and “more universally made known to the present and future generation.” Eleven U.S. Presidents and many of today’s most respected historical scholars agree.
Now, with Who’s Your Founding Father?, David Fleming picks up where Adams left off, leaving no archive, no cemetery, no bizarre clue or wild character (and definitely no Dunkin’ Donuts) unexplored while traveling the globe to bring to life one of the most fantastic, important—and controversial—stories in American history.In 1819 John Adams came across a stunning story in his hometown Essex Register. He breathlessly described it to his political frenemy Thomas Jefferson as “one of the greatest curiosities and one of the deepest mysteries that ever occurred to me…entitled the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. The genuine sense of America at that moment was never so well expressed before, nor since.” The story claimed that a full 14 months before Jefferson crafted his own Declaration of Independence, a misfit band of zealous Scots-Irish patriots, whiskey-loving Princeton scholars, and a fanatical frontier preacher had joined forces in a remote corner of North Carolina to become the first Americans to formally declare themselves “free and independent” from England.
Composed during a clandestine all-night session inside the Charlotte courthouse, the Mecklenburg Declaration, aka the MecDec, was signed on May 20, 1775—a date that’s still featured on the state flag of North Carolina. About a year later, in 1776, Jefferson is believed to have plagiarized the MecDec while composing his own, slightly more famous Declaration, and then, as he was wont to do, covered the whole thing up. Which is why Adams always insisted the MecDec needed to be “thoroughly investigated” and “more universally made known to the present and future generation.” Eleven U.S. Presidents and many of today’s most respected historical scholars agree. Now, with Who’s Your Founding Father?, David Fleming picks up where Adams’ investigation left off. Fleming leaves no archive, cemetery, bizarre clue, conspiracy theory, or wild character unexplored as he travels the globe and shines new light on one of the most fantastic, important—and controversial—stories in American history.
About the Author
David Fleming is a senior writer at ESPN. During the last three decades at Sports Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine and ESPN he has been one of the industry’s most prolific, versatile, and imaginative longform writers, traveling the globe while penning more than 35 cover stories and numerous groundbreaking pieces on everything from the Super Bowl and Steph Curry to the Musical Chairs World Championship, hockey dentists and the NFL’s obsession with glutes.
June 8, 2023
The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Ken Paskins, Founder of GCE Strategic Consulting and The Shift Spot
Ken Paskins, Founder of GCE Strategic Consulting and The Shift Spot
June 6, 2023
The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Michael Pink, CEO of SmartPM Automated Project Controls™ and Schedule Analytics Software Interview
Michael Pink, CEO of SmartPM Automated Project Controls
and Schedule Analytics Software Interview
Founded in 2016 by industry analytics experts, SmartPM Technologies Inc. is the leading construction project analytics provider headquartered in Atlanta. SmartPM launched its cloud based software in 2019 and is the only schedule analytics solution designed specifically for the construction industry by industry experts.
SmartPM drives project management with essential data from the construction schedule and then analyzes it via proprietary Schedule Intelligence Technology, automating time-consuming project and schedule reviews while extracting meaningful insights to reduce delays and overruns. By detecting problems before they arise, SmartPM keeps projects on time, on budget and out of court.
June 5, 2023
The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Divine Turbulence: Navigating the Amorphous Winds of Life by Gary Lee Price, Bridget Cook-Burch
In Divine Turbulence, little six-year-old Gary loses his mother and stepfather to murder-suicide on a U.S. Army base in Germany. Shipped back to the States, he’s launched from the frying pan into a fiery den of torture, abuse, and enslavement.
Can Gary, a victim of unthinkable evil, become better instead of bitter? The answer places the rising artist and sculptor on a miraculous quest to fulfill Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl’s dream with a symbol of responsibility at a time when the world seems to need it most.
Gary Lee Price’s memoir proves that even amid tragedy and terror, choices upon choices shape our destinies. A greater call resides within each of us. The only question . . . will we answer it?
Written with New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author Bridget Cook-Burch, this unforgettable story reveals how remarkably the past shapes the present but does not have to dictate the future of any life . . . or that of the planet.
June 3, 2023
The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Crow Mary: A Novel by Kathleen Grissom
Crow Mary: A Novel by Kathleen Grissom
The New York Times bestselling author of the “touching” (The Boston Globe) book club classics The Kitchen House and the “emotionally rewarding” (Booklist) Glory Over Everything returns with a sweeping saga inspired by the true story of Crow Mary—an indigenous woman torn between two worlds in 19th-century North America.
In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in a Métis named Jeannie; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwell’s past, falls in love with her husband.
The winter trading season passes peacefully. Then, on the eve of their return to Montana, a group of drunken whiskey traders slaughters forty Nakota—despite Farwell’s efforts to stop them. Mary, hiding from the hail of bullets, sees the murderers, including Stiller, take five Nakota women back to their fort. She begs Farwell to save them, and when he refuses, Mary takes two guns, creeps into the fort, and saves the women from certain death. Thus, she sets off a whirlwind of colliding cultures that brings out the worst and best in the cast of unforgettable characters and pushes the love between Farwell and Crow Mary to the breaking point.
From an author with a “stirring and uplifting” (David R. Gillham, New York Times bestselling author) voice, Crow Mary sweeps across decades and the landscape of the upper West and Canada, showcasing the beauty of the natural world, while at the same time probing the intimacies of a marriage and one woman’s heart.
The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Unlimiting Your Beliefs: 7 Keys to Greater Success in Your Personal and Professional Life; Told Through My Journey to the Toughest Race in the World by Karen Brown
Unlimiting Your Beliefs: 7 Keys to Greater Success in Your Personal and Professional Life; Told Through My Journey to the Toughest Race in the World by Karen Brown
Unlimiting Your Beliefs: 7 Keys to Greater Success in Your Personal and Professional Life
Reviewed by Brian Tracy, Author of Eat that Frog! “This fast-moving, enjoyable book shows you how to overcome every obstacle and achieve any goal you can set for yourself.” Karen Brown is an expert on transforming beliefs to achieve goals and dreams. She identified the 7 keys of achievement, through the process of accomplishing her own goal – finishing the toughest race in the world, the IRONMAN World Championship and overcoming her own limiting beliefs. Karen is CEO of a business psychology coaching company, a best-selling author, keynote speaker and ultra-athlete.Synopsis:What fears and limiting beliefs keep you from achieving the life you want? Everyone suffers inaction from limiting beliefs: “I can’t possibly do that” or “I don’t have enough (money, time, ability) to do that.” Unlimiting Your Beliefs is the key to conquering those negative voices you’re holding onto.
Karen Brown, business psychology coach, speaker and ultra-athlete, shares proven strategies to transform your limiting beliefs and achieve any goal or dream. Unlimiting Your Beliefs is a success manual that puts the 7 powerful keys to achievement right at your fingertips so you can make any dream possible for yourself. You already possess the power to achieve anything you desire; unlimit your beliefs to tap into it.
After struggling with her own limiting beliefs and fears, Karen discovered her true potential by finishing the most difficult race in the world, the IRONMAN World Championship, accomplishing a goal she’d held for 28 years.
June 2, 2023
The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Tom Clancy Flash Point (A Jack Ryan Jr. Novel) by Don Bentley
Tom Clancy Flash Point (A Jack Ryan Jr. Novel) by Don Bentley
https://amzn.to/3IXek8LIf there’s one thing Jack Ryan, Jr’s father taught him, it’s that freedom isn’t free, but nothing can prepare Jack for the price he must pay in the latest electrifying entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
Jack Ryan Jr. is in a world of trouble. When a benign surveillance operation takes a deadly turn, Jack finds himself locked in a struggle with an unseen enemy bent on destroying the Campus. The chase leads Jack to the South China Sea where a midair collision between aircraft from rival nations threatens to serve as a flash point for the entire region. As Jack frantically tries to put the pieces of the conspiracy together, the Campus is hit with a crippling attack. When the dust settles, Jack is one of the few operators still standing and the Campus’s de facto leader. But the fight is just beginning.
As tensions escalate, Jack’s mysterious adversary executes a brilliant campaign to paralyze the American government even as China inches closer to invading Taiwan. With the odds stacked against him and no help in sight, Jack and his shattered team must stop the world’s two remaining super powers from stumbling into war even as the noose around the Campus grows ever tighter.
Every operation has a cost.
This time the bill might just be too much to pay.
About the Author
Don Bentley is the NYT bestselling author of FORGOTTEN WAR, Tom Clancy FLASH POINT, and Vince Flynn’s MITCH RAPP series (2024). Don is a former FBI Special Agent, SWAT Team member, and Army Apache helicopter pilot.
