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The Mike Muldoon Podcast: Bite-Sized Coaching Sessions Empowering Transformation in Small Doses
Unlike those who’ve already reached their goals and now tell you how to get there, The Mike Muldoon Podcast isn’t about preaching from the finish line. We’re (yes, me too) on this journey together. I’m walking it with you—growing, learning, and striving side by side. This is about elevating our lives, building a stronger, more empowered mindset, and unlocking our full potential with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
The Mike Muldoon Podcast: Bite-Sized Coaching Sessions Empowering Transformation in Small Doses
Life's Not About Existing—It's About Taking the Leap
Have you ever noticed how fear shows up right before you're about to do something significant? That nagging voice of doubt appears precisely when you're on the edge of growth—and that's exactly where I find myself today.
Between moving house, setting up a new office, and launching a coffee and bagel shop (something completely outside my wheelhouse), I've been running on excitement, stress, adrenaline, and way too much coffee. The exhaustion is real, but so is the opportunity for growth. Despite having virtually no experience in hospitality—unless you count my brief stint as a terrible teenage waiter—I'm diving headfirst into this new venture.
What's fascinating is how predictably fear appears when we step beyond our comfort zones. Today, while working at our future shop, an elderly woman stopped by to inquire about the space. When I explained my new business plans and confessed my inexperience, she smiled and offered the perfect words: "Fortune favors the bold." This serendipitous moment reminded me why embracing discomfort matters.
Fear isn't a warning to retreat—it's confirmation you're moving toward something meaningful. The bold ones who push forward despite the doubt are those who find fortune. I'm sharing this not as someone who has it all figured out, but as a fellow traveler on this journey of growth with you. Life isn't about merely existing; it's about living fully and pursuing what brings you joy.
So if you're standing on the edge of something new and fear is tapping you on the shoulder, recognize it as a good sign. Push forward, keep building, stay bold—and know that when fear is present, you're heading in exactly the right direction. What bold move are you contemplating today? Share your story, and let's embrace the journey together.
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Hey everyone, welcome to this week's episode of the Mike Muldoon Podcast. Thank you so much for being here. I'm late. I know I'm late. It's not. It's Friday afternoon here.
Speaker 1:Oh, it has been crazy couple of weeks. I know I've been talking about it and if I sound tired or fatigued, boy am I tired and fatigued. I didn't even realize it was Friday. There is so much going on. I mean, this past week has been one for the books. I'm moving house, which means I'm also in my new office right now, so I hope the sound quality is just as good as it's been in the past. So someone will have to let me know. If not, I'm sure I'll double check it as well.
Speaker 1:We're also opening a business I think I mentioned I don't know if I actually talked about what this business is something completely outside my wheelhouse. We're opening up a coffee and bagel shop. And no, I have never worked in hospitality before, unless you count the times when I did a little catering back in the day, when I was in early entertainment days in between gigs and when I was 17 years old, I think I got fired from a restaurant. I was just a really bad waiter, but that's it. I have nothing else in this world. So this whole adventure is new. It's nerve wracking, but here's the thing I've been putting in the work I've been researching, meeting with vendors, I've had to handle with electricians and plumbers and painters, and I guess you say dusting off the money it takes to make it happen and laying the groundwork so we can be set up for success. I have been spending months and really looking in this and running numbers and crunching things and I'm excited. But also, while all this is happening, I'm tired. I am really tired. That kind of tiredness comes when you're running on excitement, stress, adrenaline and about three cups of coffee.
Speaker 1:But even when everything going on, something else has been creeping in, and it's that one thing that I always talk about that wants to stop us. It wants us hold us back. But I want to talk a little bit about how it's been doing it to me and what I've been doing to handle it, and that is that big F word fear. So so, as I've often talked about fear, it always seems to show up right before you're about to do something right, Doesn't it? I mean, it's right there. But the important part is for me, is I'm aware of it? So when fear creeps in. It doesn't just startle me like it used to. I see it for what it is. It's just a signal that I'm stepping into something new, something challenging, something worth doing. See, fear shows up because we're moving outside of our comfort zone, and that is exactly where the good stuff lives.
Speaker 1:So today, while I was working at the new shop you know, in between again finishing up our move, unpacking things my wife loves to send the flat pack stuff and all of a sudden that has to get assembled but while I was at the shop today getting a couple of things done, this lovely old lady she just happens to stop by like everybody else. You know what's going on, what's this place going to be, and she was asking about the building. I told her you know it's going to be a coffee and bagel shop and she lit up. You know excitement, genuinely happy for me and happy for this business.
Speaker 1:And as I was explaining, you know this is a new venture for me. You know it's completely outside my comfort zone. It's something we've never really done before. Even my wife my wife's a lawyer, so it's not like something she's done before. She just looks at me, she smiles and it's almost serendipitously she says you know well, fortune always favors the bull, and I and this little moment felt again so serendipitous. It was just a reminder, right when I needed it most.
Speaker 1:Because that's the truth, isn't it? It's always the way. I mean, fear is natural. Exhaustion is part of the journey. Doubt will whisper, but the bold, the ones who move forward, anyway, they're the ones who find the fortune. So if you're standing on the edge of something new and fear is tapping you on that shoulder, good, it means you're about to do something that matters.
Speaker 1:So all I can tell you is, again, as I've often talked about in my podcast, I don't come from a place of look how successful I am. Now I want you to tell you how I got there. You are with this journey, with me. If you've been following me for years, you've heard a lot of my journey, from international moves to job changes, to risk taken, to lost all this stuff. I'm right here with you, but I want you to know if you're about to do something that matters, push forward, keep building, stay bold, because fortune always favors that bold.
Speaker 1:And, as I've said many times, countless times, life is about living. It's not about existing, and living is not about I'm just walking around, I'm breathing. It is about just doing something that every day, you just feel like. You know, I'm happy. I'm happy for today, I'm happy, Just not existing, waking up and going through the motions. Okay, Push forward, keep building, stay bold and, when fear is present, know you are heading in the right direction. All right, oh gosh Again. Sorry I'm late on this. Can't even believe. I didn't realize it was Friday. As always, we're going into the weekend. Be safe, have fun, and I got nothing but love for you. We'll see you next time.
