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Have more conversations with potential clients
Curt Mercadante
  • Jan 19
  • 1 min

Have more conversations with potential clients

Business owners, do you spend your day doing everything but having conversations with potential clients? I'm sure you have good "reasons"...
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You are creative
Curt Mercadante
  • Jan 14
  • 1 min

You are creative

The greatest power each of his possesses... Is that of our creative flow... It certainly ain't our "brawn"... That's led us to survive...
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The Wrong Way to Deal with Uncertainty
Curt Mercadante
  • Oct 15, 2021
  • 9 min

The Wrong Way to Deal with Uncertainty

You can listen to this episode on Apple, Spotify, or the following audio player: Today's episode is a follow up to Curt's recent...
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Apply Your Greatest Weapon — Creative Thinking
Curt Mercadante
  • Sep 3, 2021
  • 2 min

Apply Your Greatest Weapon — Creative Thinking

I was honored to be on the "My Worst Investment Ever" podcast with host Andrew Stotz. We discuss why buying homes has been "my worst...
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Are you programmed for scarcity or abundance?
Curt Mercadante
  • Jun 27, 2021
  • 1 min

Are you programmed for scarcity or abundance?

Are you programmed for scarcity, or programmed for abundance? Each of us is programmed in some way. It's starts when we're young...
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Fear, Love, & Creativity
Curt Mercadante
  • Jun 18, 2021
  • 1 min

Fear, Love, & Creativity

Do you best unleash your creative flow from a place of fear — or love? ​ Follow our new podcast series — Fear, Love, & Creativity — in...
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Back Porch Session LIVE — 6.13.21
Curt Mercadante
  • Jun 13, 2021
  • 1 min

Back Porch Session LIVE — 6.13.21

Check out the replay of my Back Porch Session LIVE from earlier today. In this session, we discuss: The Tao of Abundance How to avoid...
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Embrace the Chaos
Curt Mercadante
  • May 31, 2021
  • 2 min

Embrace the Chaos

Cold showers have become a part of my days during the past few years. There are a variety of physical, mental, and spiritual reasons why...
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Fight Conformity with Compassion
Curt Mercadante
  • Apr 27, 2021
  • 1 min

Fight Conformity with Compassion

"When you show that you're not a conformist, that you're an individual, and other people see that and say... "'Wait, there's nothing...
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Emotion vs. Facts
Curt Mercadante
  • Apr 19, 2021
  • 2 min

Emotion vs. Facts

I've been posting a lot here lately about making decisions based on fear vs. making them based on love. But here's the deal: They both...
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Show your children love
Curt Mercadante
  • Apr 12, 2021
  • 2 min

Show your children love

Many assholes are assholes because they were raised by assholes. Of course, this is just my theory, but it has seemed to hold up over...
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Fear and Expanding Your Comfort Zone
Curt Mercadante
  • Apr 11, 2021
  • 1 min

Fear and Expanding Your Comfort Zone

In May of 2018, my wife and kids were vacationing in Italy and visited the Isle of Capri. High up on the Isle is the village of Anacapri,...
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A work culture based on fear
Curt Mercadante
  • Apr 8, 2021
  • 2 min

A work culture based on fear

“This is an unmitigated disaster!” That exclamation was a common one from the head of an organization I served through my former agency....
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How fear zaps your creativity
Curt Mercadante
  • Apr 6, 2021
  • 3 min

How fear zaps your creativity

You're all alone, walking down a dark alley. Suddenly, a masked person jumps out from behind a garbage dumpster. Do you take time to...
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Our goal? FUN.
Curt Mercadante
  • Apr 5, 2021
  • 3 min

Our goal? FUN.

Some people understandably can't grasp why my wife and I decided last year to sell our home and most of our possessions and take our four...
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Making Decisions from a State of Fear vs. a State of Love
Curt Mercadante
  • Apr 4, 2021
  • 1 min

Making Decisions from a State of Fear vs. a State of Love

"If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also." — Jesus of Nazareth "Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will...
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When we dam the flow of creative energy
Curt Mercadante
  • Apr 3, 2021
  • 2 min

When we dam the flow of creative energy

Sometimes it feels like the noise in my head is overwhelming. Thoughts coming at a thousand miles per hour. When I try to read a book,...
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What did one rock say to the other rock?
Curt Mercadante
  • Apr 1, 2021
  • 1 min

What did one rock say to the other rock?

The punchline... Wait for it... "I want to go on the ROCKing chair with you." My seven-year-old son tonight made up that joke on the fly...
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A scarcity mindset is the enemy of creativity
Curt Mercadante
  • Mar 29, 2021
  • 3 min

A scarcity mindset is the enemy of creativity

Have you heard the old Soviet-era joke about the two neighboring farmers? Both farmers were of the same age. Their land was similar in...
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The creative power of "Yes, and..."
Curt Mercadante
  • Mar 24, 2021
  • 5 min

The creative power of "Yes, and..."

This morning, my three sons came downstairs, sat on the couch, and engaged in their commonplace routine of telling absurd stories. It's...
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