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How To Build A Marriage-Centered Home

Do you have a kid-centric or marriage-centered home? Are you sacrificing your dreams due to the cultural pressure of trying to make your kids as comfortable as possible?

Our kids watch us and learn how to live as adults.  They get ideas from our actions – or inactions. Are we pursuing our dreams and taking risks?  Or are we staying too comfortable and pressured by societal norms? 

Listen as we explore in this episode:

• Biblical hierarchy of values as husband and wife leading
• The dog-walk analogy
• Who is really leading your family?
• Putting focus back on husband and wife
• How marriage has been degraded in our society
• Cultural pressure and how to go against the grain
• Questions to ask yourself and spouse together to get on the same page leading your family

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Everyone homeschools. Our kids can be sponges for learning. However you choose to educate your child, how are you being intentional with them at least from 3pm-bedtime?

Listen as we explore how learning has evolved (or not) over time and how our kids maybe aren’t getting what they need to succeed in life.  Public, private, homeschool, worldschool or unschool – how are you approaching your children’s learning abilities and setting them up for personal success?

• Is regular education good enough?
• Seth Godin’s view on schooling and its history
• Busting some homeschool myths
• Kids and “socialization”
• But I’m not qualified to teach!
• What life lessons do you want your child to learn?

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How To Overcome Your Fear of Starting a Business

If you ever felt like you may be ready to start a business but just weren’t sure where and when to start then this episode is for you.

Listen in as we explore:

• I can’t start until…
• Why Version 1.0 is better than None.0
• Our own stories of attempting to start our businesses
• Does starting a business have to be expensive?
• What to start doing now
• Busting myths that are commonly spread about starting businesses
• Find a problem, solve a problem – then you’re in business!

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Men can be posers: We want respect, we want to be liked, we want other men to see us as strong and successful. Things get really weird when we feel insecure. We pretend, we cling to the things we feel confident in and hide the rest. We withdraw and hide or we try to overcompensate and it is in no way helpful.

Posing gets in the way of true relationship and connection. It gets in the way of growth. Ironically it holds us back from getting all the things we long for as men. When you try to hold yourself together, you alienate yourself from others.

Listen as we delve into:

• Middle school & high school memories that gave the glimpse of how we pose
• Neil Armstrong’s surprising struggle
• How the most respected people are usually the most authentic
• How having men in your life to be real and challenge you in all areas helps
• Truly resting in God’s love and grace – letting that fill us and guide us
• Looking outside yourself and serving others
• ThinkUp app usage

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Are you waiting for the golden years to come?  Seeking that ideal retirement life?  We’re here to say: don’t wait to live the life you want now!

Hear as we jump into discussing:

• If you could design your ideal life, what would it look like?
• Take a step to live part of that life NOW
• What 5% could you do now that would yield great satisfaction?
• Identify what’s holding you back from living your dreams
• Money, time, income & age paradox
• What’s your calling and your name?

Listen to the new McCluskey Mentor Moment and learn about our new mentor’s involvement in EFM.

Join our private, invite-only Facebook group: EFMLife.com

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Ever feel like working from home isn’t for you?  What kind of margin and time freedom could you get from working from home a bit more – and how could you free up time to bless your wife and kids even more?

In this episode, we tackle this topic and bring up a paradigm shift. If you’re looking for the EFM life you’re signing up for a completely different lifestyle.

One where you can find ways to help your wife, enjoy more family time and have more capacity to thrive in each of your roles.

Listen as we address:

• Major paradigm shift needed for the EFM Life
• Opportunities to be more strategic while home
• How to set the stage to get on the same page
• Questions to ask your wife
• Expectations vs. hopes
• Anticipate busy seasons- calendar important time blocks

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Is your ideal life a moving target? How do you define the road to success and what happens when you arrive?

With progress and growth, your life’s journey is ever-changing.  Creating an ideal lifestyle and striving for “success” may look different for a lot of people – and at different stages of life.

Ben Stein says, “The indispensable first step to getting what you want in life is this: decide what you want.”

Listen as we dig into:

• Our own winding paths and journey to success
• A mindset of destination versus a journey
• Debunking the myth of “find your passion and the money will follow”
• Contentment and complacency
• Continue pushing yourself to be better
• Taking the EFM assessment to guage your areas of Enterprise, Marriage and Family

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Integrity and character matter – perhaps more than any other characteristic or skill in life. From your integrity flows your strength, purpose and leadership.

Listen as we discuss our own journey with integrity and how it’s affected our behaviors, habits and decision-making.

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” – John Wooden

What area of your life are you tricking yourself to believe the wrong way or the easier way?

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How to Be Light – Practical Ways to Speak Life & Be Kind Always

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle you know nothing about.”

People need hope. Look for even small opportunities to make a lasting impact in someone’s life.

Get over yourself. It might be awkward at first, but encouraging others – even strangers – is important.

Hear the backstory on Speak Life (the song) and ways we three have taken steps to be bolder and make a difference.

Look around you – open your eyes, ears and heart. Take a risk this week to speak life and do something kind. Your light matters!

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Let’s peel back the onion and learn who we are at our core.

Aligning your life around your core values will bring peace and success. When you know what makes you come alive all else will flow freely.

So what do we know about ourselves that will never change? Is it fun, adventure, structure, flexibility, spontaneity?  How do these core values align with your existing life – are you living out your core values?

Discover how our own personal values were formed, identified and aligned with how we live our lives.

What makes you come alive and what do you need to adjust?