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The Comeback Chronicles Podcast
Terry L. Fossum
48 episodes
2 months ago
Send us a text The final obstacle holding many back from success is waiting for the "right time" to pursue their dreams. By exploring personal stories of loss and unexpected achievements, Terry Fossum reveals why taking immediate action—even imperfectly—leads to far greater progress than perpetual planning. • The hardest step in any journey is the first one out your front door • "Someday" often never comes, as illustrated by Terry's parents who postponed their travel dreams • Analysis paraly...
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Send us a text The final obstacle holding many back from success is waiting for the "right time" to pursue their dreams. By exploring personal stories of loss and unexpected achievements, Terry Fossum reveals why taking immediate action—even imperfectly—leads to far greater progress than perpetual planning. • The hardest step in any journey is the first one out your front door • "Someday" often never comes, as illustrated by Terry's parents who postponed their travel dreams • Analysis paraly...
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Management
Personal Journals,
Education,
Business,
Society & Culture,
Self-Improvement
Episodes (20/48)
The Comeback Chronicles Podcast
Breaking the Final Bolt #8: Overcoming the "Perfect Time" Myth
Send us a text The final obstacle holding many back from success is waiting for the "right time" to pursue their dreams. By exploring personal stories of loss and unexpected achievements, Terry Fossum reveals why taking immediate action—even imperfectly—leads to far greater progress than perpetual planning. • The hardest step in any journey is the first one out your front door • "Someday" often never comes, as illustrated by Terry's parents who postponed their travel dreams • Analysis paraly...
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2 months ago
24 minutes

The Comeback Chronicles Podcast
Second Chances: How Syreta Toson Rebuilt Her Life After Incarceration
Send us a text Syreta Toson shares her extraordinary journey from prison to purpose after serving 14 years for second-degree murder in a case stemming from an abusive relationship. Released in 2022, she's now creating an app to help formerly incarcerated people find housing and jobs while becoming a TEDx speaker. • Growing up in poverty after parents' divorce led to exposure to drugs and alcohol at a young age • Started working in adult entertainment at 19 to support her son • Became trapped...
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2 months ago
30 minutes

The Comeback Chronicles Podcast
Bolt #7: Your Past Doesn't Define Your Future: Overcoming Self-Limiting Beliefs
Send us a text Self-limiting beliefs and self-doubt can hold us back from reaching our full potential, but understanding how they form and learning strategies to overcome them can transform our lives and prospects for success. • Self-doubt stems from being our own worst critic and knowing our shortcomings better than anyone else • We often focus on past failures, trauma, or negative circumstances that make us feel inadequate • Many wildly successful people faced extreme challenges: Sam Walto...
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2 months ago
24 minutes

The Comeback Chronicles Podcast
Escaping Domestic Violence: One Woman's Journey to Freedom with Gemma Serenity Gorokhoff
Send us a text Gemma Serenity Gorokhoff shares her powerful journey from surviving 15 years of domestic violence to becoming a multi-award winning entrepreneur helping others rebuild their lives after abuse. She reveals how imagination, a spiritual awakening, and the revolutionary idea that happiness is a duty led to her escape and transformation. • Trapped in abusive relationships by believing "outside was hell" and fearing the unknown • Using imagination to envision healthy relationships w...
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3 months ago
37 minutes

The Comeback Chronicles Podcast
Beyond Rock Bottom to Seven-Figure Success with Steven Pemberton
Send us a text Steven Pemberton shares his inspiring journey from rock bottom to building multiple seven-figure businesses despite early failures and setbacks. His story demonstrates how persistence, hard work, and the willingness to learn can transform even the most challenging circumstances into extraordinary success. • At 20, Steven launched a business, got married, became a father, and then lost everything • Lived in his brother-in-law's basement feeling like a complete failure and conte...
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3 months ago
34 minutes

The Comeback Chronicles Podcast
Breaking Every Limitation: Sascha Gorokhoff Story
Send us a text Sascha Gorokhoff defies medical impossibility, transforming from a child given no chance of survival to an internationally recognized executive with prestigious academic credentials. His story demonstrates how rejecting others' limitations and choosing your own path can lead to extraordinary accomplishments despite overwhelming odds. • Born with rare medical conditions including spina bifida, doctors predicted paralysis, cognitive impairment, and death by age seven • Dev...
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3 months ago
37 minutes

The Comeback Chronicles Podcast
Bolt #6: Defeating Time Wasters
Send us a text We blow the doors off the belief that we don't have enough time to do important things in life and provide practical methods to better use our time and focus on what truly matters. • Americans spend an average of 38 hours per week (over 5 hours daily) on their phones • Online content creators use clickbait and algorithms to manipulate us into wasting more time • Never confuse activity with accomplishment - recognize what actions truly move you forward • The "big rocks" analogy...
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3 months ago
20 minutes

The Comeback Chronicles Podcast
Bolt #5: Harnessing Motivation That Lasts
Send us a text We explore the "fifth bolt" that holds people back from success: lack of motivation to stick with goals over time. Traditional goal-setting methods often fail because they rely on single-factor motivation rather than harnessing both positive desire and fear of negative consequences. • The famous "Harvard goal-setting study" that's repeatedly cited in motivational literature never actually happened • Visualization and dream boards alone aren't enough to create sustained motivat...
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4 months ago
32 minutes

The Comeback Chronicles Podcast
Bolt #4: Breaking Free from Bad Attitudes
Send us a text Attitude is the single most important factor in survival situations and in everyday life success. Your mental approach determines your outcomes far more than education, background, or even physical resources. • Protecting your attitude like your life depends on it is essential because it truly does • Attitude reserves function like a gas tank that needs regular filling to keep you going through challenges • Negative people ("Eeyores") can drain your attitude reserves by consis...
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4 months ago
41 minutes

The Comeback Chronicles Podcast
Bolt #3: Fail Forward: How Embracing Setbacks Leads to Greatness
Send us a text Failure isn't the opposite of success - lack of failure is. Understanding this distinction can be the key to unlocking your greatest potential and achievements. • Failure ingredients like disappointment, letdown, and catastrophe are actually critical components of success • Thomas J Watson's formula for success: double your rate of failure • Failure is temporary only if you decide it is • Stories of famous "failures" like Bill Gates, Abraham Lincoln, and Henry Ford who became ...
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4 months ago
33 minutes

The Comeback Chronicles Podcast
Bolt #2: Breaking the Chains of Excuses
Send us a text Excuses are masters at convincing us that something untrue is true, acting as a form of brainwashing that keeps us from reaching our goals. Success doesn't care what your excuse is—there are only two things: results or excuses. • Growing up in McAllen, Texas, America's poorest city, with traumatic experiences including staring down the barrel of an assault rifle at age 14 • Losing his father in a plane crash during high school and being told he would never amount to anything •...
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4 months ago
33 minutes

The Comeback Chronicles Podcast
Bolt #1: Breaking Through Fear
Send us a text Breaking through fear isn't about facing it head-on but looking past it to focus completely on your goals. Fears lose their power when we recognize them as False Experiences Appearing Real, giving us the courage to achieve what once seemed impossible. • Fear is not the problem - letting fear stop you is • Admiral Farragut's "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" mentality shows how to rise above chaos • Fears are often "deer pretending to be wolves" - rarely as dangerous as we...
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4 months ago
38 minutes

The Comeback Chronicles Podcast
The Eight Bolts Holding You Back: How to Launch Your Full Potential
Send us a text We explore the eight crucial factors that hold people back from achieving their goals and how to break free from these restraints. Using the space shuttle launch as a powerful metaphor, this episode reveals how even with tremendous potential, small obstacles can prevent us from soaring to our full potential. • Powerful space shuttle metaphor: 16 million horsepower held back by just eight relatively small bolts • Terry's background growing up in America's poorest city and overc...
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5 months ago
10 minutes

The Comeback Chronicles Podcast
Shatter Your Public Speaking Fears Forever
Send us a text Terry shares powerful strategies for overcoming the fear of public speaking by shifting focus from yourself to your message and the impact it can make on others. He reveals how accessing your most powerful emotional states and connecting deeply to your cause creates confident, influential speaking experiences. • Public speaking is a critical skill for career success, helping Terry rise through military ranks and achieve business success • The fear of public speaking stems from...
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5 months ago
33 minutes

The Comeback Chronicles Podcast
From Data Scientist to AI Entrepreneur: Nathaniel Mahowald's Remarkable Journey
Send us a text Nathaniel Mahowald, founder of Pickaxe, shares his remarkable journey from living in a van for over two years while pursuing entrepreneurship to building an AI company serving over a million monthly users. • Transforming from data scientist intern to CEO in just six years • Living in a van to save money while college friends took jobs at Google • Starting multiple failed companies before finding success • Getting laid off during COVID and working without pay for five months at...
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6 months ago
25 minutes

The Comeback Chronicles Podcast
Breaking Down Anxiety and Building Confidence: Bradley Rausch's Story
Send us a text Bradley Rausch shares his journey from debilitating anxiety to helping entrepreneurs build million-dollar businesses through personal branding and referral systems, revealing powerful frameworks for overcoming mental health challenges and building resilience. • The CRAFT method: a framework for accomplishing things when you don't yet have proof you can succeed • How to break down seemingly impossible goals into manageable steps while building evidence of your capabilities • Wh...
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6 months ago
47 minutes

The Comeback Chronicles Podcast
When Wild Ideas Become Global Hits: Hollywood's Larry Kasanoff on Creative Risk-Taking
Send us a text Larry Kasanoff, legendary Hollywood producer behind Mortal Kombat, True Lies, and Terminator 2, reveals why the best innovations require "a touch of madness" and how stepping outside conventional thinking leads to breakthrough success. • Embracing "a touch of madness" as essential for innovation and success • Fighting against the current that pulls everyone toward mediocrity and conventionality • Taking a career-defining risk on Platoon despite it being completely different fr...
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6 months ago
31 minutes

The Comeback Chronicles Podcast
Beyond the North Face: Lessons in Entrepreneurial Resilience with Hap Klopp
Send us a text Hap Klopp, visionary founder of The North Face, shares his remarkable journey transforming a small retail operation into a $4 billion global brand while navigating significant business setbacks along the way. His insights on brand building, crisis management, and learning from failure offer a masterclass in entrepreneurial resilience that applies to business challenges in any era. • Building The North Face from 14 people into a global brand focused on value rather than price •...
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6 months ago
39 minutes

The Comeback Chronicles Podcast
How Terry got on a Survival Reality Show - against his will...!
Send us a text In this fun but impactful episode of the Comeback Chronicles, Terry tells the story behind the story of getting on a Survival Reality Show - representing all of Boy Scouts of America! Riddled with absolute gold nuggets, this episode will entertain and inspire, and leave you with a feeling of hope. You're here for a reason! Support the show
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7 months ago
24 minutes

The Comeback Chronicles Podcast
From Maroon 5 Drummer to Mental Health Advocate with Ryan Dusick
Send us a text Ryan Dusick shares his transformative journey from founding drummer of Maroon 5 to licensed therapist and mental health advocate after losing his music career at the height of the band's success. • Started Maroon 5 (originally Cars Flowers) at age 16 with high school friends including Adam Levine • Signed their first record deal at 18, experienced initial failure before finding their authentic sound • Spent a decade developing before Songs About Jane became a multi-platinum su...
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7 months ago
40 minutes

The Comeback Chronicles Podcast
Send us a text The final obstacle holding many back from success is waiting for the "right time" to pursue their dreams. By exploring personal stories of loss and unexpected achievements, Terry Fossum reveals why taking immediate action—even imperfectly—leads to far greater progress than perpetual planning. • The hardest step in any journey is the first one out your front door • "Someday" often never comes, as illustrated by Terry's parents who postponed their travel dreams • Analysis paraly...