Forgiveness
Posted On February 29, 2024
On this week’s Keepin’ It Real, Cam shares a story he’s kept quiet for fourteen years. It’s time to get it off his chest. —– I’ve just boarded my flight. I’m headed home. Sitting here, a memory has resurfaced. Many years ago, deplaning in Chicago, I took a call from a young man. He’d studied my work and asked me to mentor him. He wanted to travel and give speeches. He wanted me to refer him when I was too busy, and he’d pay me a commission. He loved my topic and said he could represent me well. I was… Read More
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Trying to prepare for a life in football
Posted On February 27, 2024
Every football player’s dream is to play in the NFL one day. But what does it take to get there? Timaje Porter and Chancellor Moody hope to find out. Porter and Moody, our guests in a recent episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston,” are at different points in their football careers. Moody is just starting his collegiate journey as a walk-on at the University of South Alabama. Porter, meanwhile, has finished up at Delta State University and is preparing for a shot at the pros. After several years of playing defensive line on the college level, he’s already got… Read More
Categories: Blog, What's Working with Cam MarstonCatherine Arensberg Decided to Enjoy Landscape Design. She’s Built a Successful Business and Uses Social Media Like a Champ
Posted On February 26, 2024
After a degree from LSU in landscape design, Catherine Arensberg wondered if that career was her calling. She evaluated her options, tried a few things, then doubled down on the parts of landscape designe she enjoyed the most. At the same time she developed a social media profile and grew it relentlesly. Today she’s as busy as she wants to be with her high-end clients and has an online following eagerly awaiting her next post. Instagram: @catherinearensberg Web: https://www.catherinearensberg.com Show Sponsors: Mason Hills Farms – True Farm to Table Meats E3 Termite & Pest Control Roy Lewis Construction Trey Langus… Read More
Categories: LibsynSqueezed
Posted On February 23, 2024
Cam’s phone has been ringing. It’s a lot of his small business friends and they’re experiencing similar things. They’re feeling pressure. They’re feeling squeezed. —– When an orange is squeezed, orange juice comes out. We know this. We know that sun and good soil and water and maybe some fertilizer help that orange develop that juice. We know the ingredients, we somewhat control the ingredients, and we know the goodness that comes from a squeezed orange. What happens, though, when you and I are squeezed? What happens when life puts pressure on you and me? What ingredients are we drawing… Read More
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Remote work and hybrid schedules are here to stay
Posted On February 19, 2024
If you want to know about work-from-home trends, Nick Bloom is the guy to ask. The William Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University, Bloom has been studying those trends for about 20 years. And Bloom says the hybrid work model is here to stay. Bloom, our guest in a recent episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston,” recently shared the reasons for this in a guest essay in the New York Times entitled: “The five-day office week is dead.” After the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic subsided, people started returning to the office. But the return-to-office numbers leveled off… Read More
Categories: Blog, What's Working with Cam Marston, Work, WorkplaceChancellor Moody and Timaje Porter are Going for the NFL. Hear What They’re Doing to get Ready.
Posted On February 19, 2024
The NFL attracts elite athletes. Chancellor Moody and Timaje Porter think they have what it takes. Timaje is preparing for NFL Day where scouts will look him over. Chancellor is preparing to join a college football team where he expects his skills to shine. They both have lots of support in their corner, they’re doing the work to ready themselves for the tests they’ll soon get, and their attitudes point to success. And, for what it’s worth, they can now count on me being in their corner, too. But…it’s a long, narrow road ahead. Show Sponsors: Mason Hills Farms –… Read More
Categories: LibsynLent
Posted On February 16, 2024
Mardi Gras ended Tuesday for Cam. Immediately following Mardi Gras is the beginning of Lent and Cam struggles with what sacrifices he should make. —– Lent. I struggle with Lent every year. How much suffering is enough to prepare my soul for the Easter arrival of the Lord? Is there enough? Who knows. There’s always someone suffering more; someone taking it to the next level. As a child it was ice cream. I gave up ice cream every year and dutifully reported it to my religion teacher as the assignment instructed. I love ice cream, vanilla especially. In fact, I’ve… Read More
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Minding your mental strength
Posted On February 14, 2024
Working on her mental strength helped Amy Morin get through the unexpected loss of her mother and husband. Now she’s helping others work on it too. Our guest in a recent episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston,” Morin is the successful author of several books on mental strength – all centered on the premise of 13 things mentally strong people don’t do. A therapist by trade, her book series started as a blog post she wrote after losing her mother to an aneurysm and husband to a heart attack at age 26. “It was really my own journey… Read More
Categories: Blog, What's Working with Cam MarstonNick Bloom is the THE Guy Across the World When it Comes to Work from Home Trends and Its Impact on the Workplace
Posted On February 12, 2024
Nick Bloom is an economist at Stanford. He began studing work from home trends long before they became a thing with Covid. Nick gives me the final word on whether work from home is profitable for companies, how it impacts creativity, and what most organizations are doing now that employees are insisting on a work from home environment. He also shares that NOT commuting to work saves a ton of time for all workers and an addiitonal 18 minutes for women. Why? Gotta listen… Show Sponsors: Mason Hills Farms – True Farm to Table Meats E3 Termite & Pest Control… Read More
Categories: LibsynDry January
Posted On February 8, 2024
On this week’s Keepin’ it Real, Cam Marston has thoughts about this upcoming weekend. Mardi Gras is on us down here in Mobile, and that leads to some tough decisions. —– Dry January ended last week. Dry January followed soaking wet, sodden to the bone December. I’ve never done Dry January before and after sodden December, I needed to give it a try. Aside from one small drink to celebrate my daughter’s twenty-first birthday, I drank no alcohol for thirty-one days. I’m not sure I’ve done that since I was a teen. The net result? I lost nine pounds. I… Read More
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