When Good Plans Go Bad
Learn why a team's broken promise was the ticket to success and how to quit swimming in an stress-pool.
Jan 31, 2024•15 min•Season 2Ep. 3
The No Bow Tie Show
Conquer emptiness and frustration, discover your uniqueness, and live with unrelenting joy!
Join author and musician, John "No Bow Tie" Svoboda, on the journey to self-actualization and sustained happiness. Be transformed by powerful stories, motivation, and practical tools to become the person you were always meant to be.
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Episodes
Your Ideas Set You Free
After you hear this message you will no longer procrastinate working your best ideas into your life. Your life is going to become your BEST ideas. You are about to hear stories of people, like YOU, who went from wanting to actually having the life they want to live, and you can, too!
Jan 24, 2024•14 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Conquering a Bad day
Learn to turn discouragement into a satisfying experience; when a homeless lady gave me the best tip ever; and what is better than a wedding day!
Jan 17, 2024•9 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Gain Power Over Your Emptiness
Get ready to side step the pain in your life and at the same time create a better future. You are about to learn how a brain injury victim, Franklin Roosevelt, and a pig rescue mission all filled a void in their life having victory over circumstance.
Jan 17, 2024•15 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Break Free from the Past
Live a life of joy by breaking free from your past, plus the story of how a folk musician walked on stage wearing black leather, and changed music forever!
Jan 11, 2024•12 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Is it too Late?
Learn the question that brings silence to a conversation; How security was one man's weakness; and why I am rightfully accused of theft from a famous classical composer.
Dec 26, 2023•13 min•Season 1Ep. 32
A Different Look at Gratitude
How a small hunting cabin made me the happiest man alive; what a beggars cardboard sign really said; and the best holiday message ever spoken.
Dec 19, 2023•10 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Why You Should Gain Control
Learn how a man was stripped of his living yet gained control of his life; plus the temper tantrum that ruined a marriage; and my own story of slaying the dragon!
Dec 12, 2023•15 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Myths of Living Without Purpose
Learn the commonality between Mother Teresa and Muhammad Ali; the cornerstone that gives you direction; and the solution to an overworked and stagnant life.
Dec 05, 2023•13 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Why it Makes You Crazy!
Learn about student I caught cheating through all four years of college; why birds don't necessarily flock together; and how your habits are causing your habits!
Nov 28, 2023•13 min
When Motivation Doesn't Work
Learn about the handy-man who mastered creation; the one word that contains the most wisdom; and why Beethoven could have been in a reggae band.
Nov 21, 2023•11 min•Season 1Ep. 28
3 Ways to Escape a Rut
Learn the ways one man's brain surgery is effecting your life; how your hobbies can be more important than your career; and why forty years of music lessons was just good start.
Nov 14, 2023•10 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Stop Holding Yourself Back
Learn how the smell of music will open your mind; why I'll never tell you that the sunset is beautiful; and how the sounds of a train and church bells resuscitated my life!
Nov 07, 2023•14 min•Season 1Ep. 23
How to Get Out of a Funk!
Learn why it's better to be a student than a CEO; why World War II was just a major rut; and explore the answer to life's biggest problem!
Oct 31, 2023•18 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Easiest Solutions to Better Life
Learn the three steps to succeed in anything; why a brain surgery motivated a deadline; and how to get your own finger off the self-destruct button.
Oct 24, 2023•11 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Why You Should Break Rules
Learn how terrible technique resulted in $75 million; a bug that proved scientists wrong; and why I am overjoyed that my album release received complaints!
Oct 17, 2023•8 min•Season 1Ep. 30
The Answer to Mental Freedom
Learn how Alex the addict finds a cure; the only way to control your mind; and the the magic quintet for happiness!
Oct 10, 2023•15 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Sure Cure for Negative Thinking
Learn how a man's wife no longer knows him but has complete control of his mind; why that road-rage maniac can lose every time, and explore a type of dwelling that is beyond bullet proof!
Oct 03, 2023•14 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Make Love When This Happens
Learn why my philosophy teacher loves all Yankees fans; an ability that Jesus and Hitler had in common; and explore the potential you have to light up the world!
Sep 26, 2023•10 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Fear of Change Made Easy
Learn how a man's greatest fear landed him a career; why being selfish is the answer to a great life; and how the band KISS and Phantom of the Opera shared the same stage!
Sep 19, 2023•13 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Redefining Exercise to Live Better
Why limiting your exercise will control bad habits; excellent advice for moving a buck; and how to ignite a better plan for all of your tomorrows!
Sep 12, 2023•8 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Life's Not About Reaching Goals
Never put this one thing on a to-do list; how double tasking could be the next Olympic sport; and why Kim feels the need to be God.
Sep 05, 2023•12 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Multi-Millionaire Asks for Advice
Learn how chicken soup gave a man more happiness than private jet, a mansion, and a million dollars!
Aug 29, 2023•9 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Getting What You Really Want
Learn about the ultimate motivational source; how you have received a letter from God and set it aside; and how choosing to pick up a coffee cup got a young student on a famous talk show.
Aug 22, 2023•13 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Why You Think That Way
Discover what is better than the fountain of youth; the source of why you are always right; and how superiority is just a myth.
Aug 15, 2023•11 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Best Answers to Life's Challenges
Explore the only "to do" list that is the answer; learn about 250 disabled racers who all came in first; and twelve ways to find heaven on earth!
Aug 08, 2023•12 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Conquer What Controls You!
Learn why the town called her a crazy lady; why a cashier cautioned me once the coast was clear; and how a man named Tom saw through my disguise!
Aug 01, 2023•11 min•Season 1Ep. 12
You'll Find a New Freedom
Three words that will bring you success; how to enjoy failure; and the only thing you cannot put off until tomorrow.
Jul 25, 2023•8 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Control This and Flourish!
Get motivated anytime, anywhere; gain control over your bad mood, and the acronym that is guaranteed to give you a better life!
Jul 18, 2023•8 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Don't Just Live - Thrive!
Get ready to learn the only thing that matters in creating a better day and a better life!
Jul 11, 2023•5 min•Season 1Ep. 9
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