Welcome to the Inspired To Greatness podcast, where we share insights and inspiration for entrepreneurs, business owners, and salespeople to be their best selves. In today's episode, we'll talk about accountability, a crucial component of success in business and life. As an entrepreneur, you have to take responsibility for your actions and the outcomes they produce. Being accountable means acknowledging your mistakes, taking corrective action, and holding yourself and others accountable for achi...
Mar 06, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 46
Welcome to Inspired to Greatness... the show all about spreading inspiration, motivation, and being great., I am your host, I hope you are having an amazing day, my friends! Today we are talking about Kindness! “You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson “Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” —Princess Diana "Always be a little kinder th...
Feb 25, 2023•42 min•Ep. 45
Welcome to Inspired To Greatness, where we empower entrepreneurs on their journey to greatness. In this episode, we delve into the essential ingredient of success - self-confidence. Join us as we explore the power of self-belief and how it can help you overcome obstacles, reach your goals and ultimately achieve success in all areas of your life. So sit back, relax, and get ready to be inspired to be your best self. *** SHOW NOTE *** About 22 mintues into this show the power went down to my whole...
Feb 16, 2023•36 min•Ep. 44
Welcome to today's episode of the Inspired To Greatness podcast. Today we're going to be talking about taking chances and embracing the unknown. We often hear the saying, "I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done," and this quote perfectly captures the spirit of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs are known for their willingness to take risks, to venture into uncharted territory, and to forge their own path in the face of uncertainty. But what drives this boldness...
Feb 07, 2023•26 min•Ep. 43
Welcome to Inspired to Greatness... the show all about spreading inspiration, motivation, and being great., I am your host, I hope you are having an amazing day, my friends! Today we are talking about Having a happy life! "You do not find the happy life. You make it." — Camilla Eyring Kimball “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” —Marcus Aurelius Antoninus “If someone bases his/her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amount...
Feb 02, 2023•35 min•Ep. 42
Welcome to Inspired to Greatness... the show all about spreading inspiration, motivation, and being great., I am your host, I hope you are having an amazing day, my friends! Today we are talking about Owning Your LIFE! "There is nothing impossible to they who will try." — Alexander the Great "Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you." — Walt Whitman "The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." — Michael Altshuler Tool to Try: Headway app - e...
Jan 23, 2023•33 min•Ep. 41
Welcome to Inspired to Greatness... the show all about spreading inspiration, motivation, and being great., I am your host Matt Freakin Blake, I hope you are having an amazing day, my friends! Today we are talking about settling! Never settle for less! Less n your self, less in your business, less than you are capable of… never settle!! If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.” – Vince Lombardi “Don’t settle for less just...
Jun 20, 2022•33 min
Hello everyone, welcome to Inspired To Greatness… Today we are talking about, JEDI MIND TRICKS… sort of, we are talking about first impressions and setting expectations. FIRST IMPRESSIONS: You never get a second chance to make a first impression. - Will Rogers A good first impression can work wonders - J. K. Rowling “If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That’s the ‘halo effect.’ Your first impression of a thing sets up your su...
Jun 13, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Welcome to Inspired to Greatness... the show all about spreading inspiration, motivation, and being great., I am your host, I hope you are having an amazing day, my friends! Today we are talking about Entrepreneurship & Business! We are going to discuss a little about how we run our businesses, how owning and growing a business works into our life, and give some tips about how we succeed at the whole thing. "Selling is not a pushy, winner-takes-all, macho act. It is an empathy-led, process-d...
Oct 14, 2021•1 hr 23 min
Hello Everyone... Welcome to Inspired to Greatness... the show all about spreading inspiration, motivation, and being great. I hope you are having an amazing day, my friends! Today is a special show… it’s kind of a random hodge lodge of topics and questions from the PodDecks! “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” — Michael Altshuler "If you can't explain it simply, you don't know it well enough." - Albert Einstein “If you can't fly then run. If you can't run, then walk...
Oct 08, 2021•46 min
Welcome to Inspired to Greatness... the show all about spreading inspiration, motivation, and being great., I am your host, I hope you are having an amazing day, my friends! It has been quite a while since we've done a show... but today we are talking about priorities! To change your life, you need to change your priorities.” Mark Twain “There is no one busy in this world, it’s always about priorities. You will always find time for the things you feel important.” Nishan Panwar “If it’s a priorit...
Oct 01, 2021•1 hr 6 min
This show is LIT!!! Oh my gosh yall!!! Matt got fired up and brought the BOOM!! Please enjoy and spread this show around!! JOIN OUR EXCLUSIVE TEXT COMMUNITY... Just Text PODCAST to 817-318-6383! You'll have access to us via Text, anytime, and get special updates about the show and ways you can participate in the show and win prizes! Hello everyone, welcome to Inspired To Greatness!! Today we are talking about finishing the year strong! How to keep moving forward, don't give up the momentum, set ...
Dec 07, 2020•55 min
JOIN OUR EXCLUSIVE TEXT COMMUNITY... Just Text PODCAST to 817-318-6383! You'll have access to us via Text, anytime, and get special updates about the show and ways you can participate in the show and win prizes! Welcome to Inspired to Greatness... the show all about spreading inspiration, motivation, and being great., I am your host, I hope you are having an amazing day, my friends! Today we are talking about Thankfulness & Gratitude! "Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping...
Nov 23, 2020•49 min
Nov 02, 2020•49 min
Hello everyone, welcome to Inspired To Greatness… Today we are talking about Seeking Truth! JOIN OUR EXCLUSIVE TEXT COMMUNITY... Just Text PODCAST to 817-318-6383! You'll have access to us via Text, anytime, and get special updates about the show and ways you can participate in the show and win prizes! A cliché, or cliche, is an expression, idea, or element of an artistic work that has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even to the point of being trite or irri...
Oct 26, 2020•50 min
JOIN OUR EXCLUSIVE TEXT COMMUNITY... Just Text PODCAST to 817-318-6383! You'll have access to us via Text, anytime, and get special updates about the show and ways you can participate in the show and win prizes! Hello everyone, welcome to Inspired To Greatness, today we are talking about OVERCOMING FAILURE... this is a HUGE key to becoming successful in whatever you do in life! Learning from failures and finding ways to press on will ensure that you have the best chance to reach your full potent...
Oct 12, 2020•43 min
JOIN OUR EXCLUSIVE TEXT COMMUNITY... Just Text PODCAST to 817-318-6383! You'll have access to us via Text, anytime, and get special updates about the show and ways you can participate in the show and win prizes! Hello everyone, welcome to Inspired To Greatness... today we are discussing several topics related to collected Wisdom and what to do with it! "You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one." -- Henry David Thoreau “How noble and good everyone could b...
Oct 05, 2020•49 min
JOIN OUR EXCLUSIVE TEXT COMMUNITY... Just Text PODCAST to 817-318-6383! You'll have access to us via Text, anytime, and get special updates about the show and ways you can participate in the show and win prizes! “When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Also, anger is transient, whereas inspiration sometimes has a life-long ...
Sep 22, 2020•52 min
JOIN OUR EXCLUSIVE TEXT COMMUNITY... Just Text PODCAST to 817-318-6383! You'll have access to us via Text, anytime, and get special updates about the show and ways you can participate in the show and win prizes! Hello everyone, welcome to Inspired To Greatness, today we are talking about EMPATHY, the 4th pillar of Emotional Intelligence! True empathy requires that you step outside your own emotions to view things entirely from the perspective of the other person. “One doesn’t have to operate wit...
Sep 15, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Welcome to Inspired to Greatness... the show all about spreading inspiration, motivation, and being great., I am your host, I hope you are having an amazing day, my friends! Today we are talking about MOTIVATION Self-motivation includes our personal drive to improve and achieve, commitment to our goals, initiative, or readiness to act on opportunities, and optimism and resilience. Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart. Roy T. Bennett “Wanting someth...
Sep 08, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Welcome to Inspired to Greatness... the show all about spreading inspiration, motivation, and being great., I am your host, I hope you are having an amazing day, my friends! Continuing our series on Emotional Intelligence: Today we are talking about Self-Regulation…! Self-regulation is concerned with how you control and manage yourself and your emotions, inner resources, and abilities. It also includes your ability to manage your impulses. Gratitude is a divine attitude in the wisdom traditions....
Sep 01, 2020•1 hr 19 min
Hello everyone, welcome to Inspired To Greatness. Today we are talking about Self-Awareness! Self-awareness is the ability to see yourself clearly and objectively through reflection and introspection. “Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?” – Marcus Aurelius “Self awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong,...
Aug 26, 2020•47 min
Hello everyone, welcome to Inspired To Greatness… Today we are talking about how to recognize Emotional Intelligence!! we go over ways you can recognize Emotional Intelligence in yourself and others. "When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion." -Dale Carnegie "Experience is not what happens to you--it's how you interpret what happens to you." -Aldous Huxley "Remember that failure is an event, not a person." -Zig Ziglar How to Re...
Aug 18, 2020•1 hr 7 min
Hello everyone, welcome to Inspired To Greatness… "Compounding Success through continual action!" - Matt Blake Today we are talking about some general aspects of business and how you can be more than average! We are going to look at some quotes that may seem cliche, but we’ll talk about the truths you can find inside these simple ideas and how you can use those to thrive. “Every problem is a gift—without problems we would not grow.” – Anthony Robbins “There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, wha...
Aug 11, 2020•1 hr 12 min
We are excited that the show is back... we have the new studio built, we are moved in and prepped... stay tuned for new weekly shows! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/inspired-to-greatness--2988572/support .
Jul 29, 2020•6 min
Hello everyone, welcome to Inspired To Greatness… Today we are talking about POSITIVE THINKING and MINDSET! Having a positive mindset is one of the best things you can do to ensure your success and, more importantly, your level of happiness and contentment with your life. “A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” ― Roy T. Bennett “Once you replace negative thoughts wi...
Jun 01, 2020•40 min
Hello everyone, welcome to Inspired To Greatness… Today we have a great show all about Time Management, and we are joined by wonderful folks, Dana and David Hagstrom. They tell us their story and we chat about how they are helping online businesses, how to plan for retirement, and what a spider taco might be like! If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got. Lee Iacocca Time is money. Benjamin Franklin -It’s interesting to m...
May 25, 2020•51 min
Hey Everyone, I am VERY excited about this episode; which is the start of a 6 episode series. But FIRST: I want to apologize for a few little audio issues in the show, we are recording remotely, due to Covid-19, and the internet was not holding up its end of things today... it's not much, and it's only a few little spots, but I do apologize for the issues. Emotional Intelligence: the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one's emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judicious...
May 11, 2020•56 min
Welcome to Inspired to Greatness, we are all about Inspiration, Motivation, and being Great! Today we are talking about KNOWING YOUR WORTH!  “If you want to improve your self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.” – Tim Fargo Guest Info: Amber Rogers - Title Resources: https://www.facebook.com/TitleResourcesSouthlake/ Business Tip: Don’t be married to your business plan. Flexibility is key to growth, look at today for an example! ---- Book to Read: None of your Business - Shawn Dill &...
May 04, 2020•50 min
Welcome to Inspired to Greatness, we are all about Inspiration, Motivation, and being Great! Today we are talking about HARD WORK! "I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." ~ Thomas Jefferson, former President of the United States Guest Info: Chad & Josh from Deluxe Roofing https://www.deluxeroofingdfw.com/ Business Tip: Make a top 5 list: Make a list of 5 things that you WILL do every day. 5 things that will make you a better person, a better busin...
Apr 27, 2020•1 hr 7 min
