by Marc Mawhinney | Dec 31, 2021 | Blog
Every day I get a number of private messages from strangers hitting my social media inboxes, and most are barely-disguised pitches to sell me something. There’s the good ol’ “Hey I was checking out your profile and was wondering what you do?”...
by Marc Mawhinney | Dec 30, 2021 | Blog
I once read a book where the author told a scary story. His name is Sean Webb (he was a guest on my podcast a few years back), and when he was a teenager he was involved in a car accident late one night on a dark and unfamiliar road in Indiana. One minute he was...
by Marc Mawhinney | Dec 30, 2021 | Blog
When you start creating content, it can be a little stressful. During a recent group coaching call, I told my clients that it’s like in the movies when a person is running next to a train in motion, and trying to jump into the train car to escape whoever...
by Marc Mawhinney | Dec 29, 2021 | Blog
I was once out of town at a popular sports bar that’s known for having great wings. When we got our menus, there must have been hundreds of choices for wing sauce. The menu was thicker than The Bible! My friends took a long time combing through the pages and...
by Marc Mawhinney | Dec 29, 2021 | Blog
I have a weird habit whenever I get a shower: I keep a notepad and a pen by the sink. Why? Because I get some of my best ideas for content while I’m in the shower, and I want to get them down on paper before they float away and are gone forever. Before I started...
by Marc Mawhinney | Dec 28, 2021 | Blog
Unsubscribes used to, in the words of Peter Griffin, really “grind my gears”. Now I don’t care. Of course I want people to like me, but I’ve been around long enough to know that it’s not a realistic goal. I think back to an email that I...