Addicted to WINNING Jeff Brekken

EP 134 -  Shelly-Anne McKay, Nearly Working Yourself To Death
We definitely live in a hustle culture. Everyone seems to be talking about how you need to show up and do the work, but less popular is talking about how this concept can be taken to an extreme. An extreme than can be fatal, as it almost was for Shelly-Anne McKay.
Shelly-Anne McKay is a compassionate and intuitive Food Addiction Coach dedicated to guiding successful women towards holistic wellness and sustainable recovery. Shelly-Anne’s philosophy extends beyond conventional approaches, actively incorporating joy-centric strategies and fostering meaningful connections to add vibrancy to the recovery process.
Beyond coaching, Shelly-Anne is the Co-Founder of a Boutique Holistic Wellness agency specializing in planning bespoke health and wellness workshops and retreats for organizations and groups. She is inspired to support organizations proactively addressing addiction prevention for leaders and teams through a mental health approach. 
 
What You Will Learn 
How Shelly-Anne learned to get up, dust herself off, and try again and not give up
What Shelly-Anne is learning about life and relationships that is helping her find balance
The reasons Shelly-Anne makes sure to fill her own cup and not neglect herself
Why truly stepping into your authentic self can be extremely powerful and freeing
How Shelly-Anne nearly worked herself to death while working on two files simultaneously
How going to school to be a coach changed Shelly-Anne in a way she had not anticipated
The serendipitous way that Shelly-Anne met her mentor while swimming in the ocean
How talking about Soul Sisters United caused things to align in order to be manifested along with a whole heap of hard work
 
Favorite Quote: 
“Everyday I just try to do one thing better. One thing different. One thing new.”
- Shelly-Anne McCay 



CONNECT WITH SHELLY:
ShellyAnneMcKay.com
 
How To Get Involved:  
Addicted to Winning connects listeners through stories that prove why mindset matters. Jeff Brekken was working a 60-hour week on his family’s farm by the time he was 10. When he wasn’t helping with the harvest, he was at the hockey rink. Jeff’s early life experiences taught him he needs to be either all-in or all-out.

In 2000 he started a single-family home construction business and by 2008 he was looking for the next big thing. Jeff founded the Blue Sky Benefit Solutions & Rise Above HR/ Recruiting on top of a lifelong passion for helping people. Through this show, Jeff will take that passion one step further.


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EP 133 -  Zach Swartzendruber, You Don’t Fail Unless You Quit
There are a lot of opinions about what it means to fail. For some of us, failing means quitting, and anything short of that shouldn't be considered failure. If you keep going, you are winning. You only lose when you give up, so don’t quit!
Zach Swartzendruber is a founding member of Total Trucking Resource, a benefits and enrollment guru, as well as a marketing and branding geek and dreamer for Benefits For Trucking.
Benefits For Trucking is a 3rd Generation Benefits Services Agency that is hyper-focused on helping the Trucking Industry. Along with Swartzendruber Solutions, they can bring your company a unique and more engaging experience with employee benefits and your enrollment experience.
 
What You Will Learn 
How growing up in an entrepreneurial family made Zach want to head that direction himself
Why you can’t quit if you plan to get to win no matter what that means to you
The reality that industries can fluctuate and how you can weather the storm
How the rising cost of diesel fuel has affected the trucking industry thus affecting Zach’s business of dealing in benefits for truckers
Why outsourcing some of the more mundane tasks can help you focus and become more profitable using virtual assistants
Why Zach values his family and having experiences above all else and uses money as leverage to achieve those things
All of the different things that Zach can do to help those in the trucking industry
 
Favorite Quote: 
“Winning is not quitting, and you can’t win when you quit. That’s failure, you fail when you quit. It’s that simple.”
-Zach Swartzendruber  



CONNECT WITH ZACH:
BenefitsForTrucking.com
Zach@BenefitsForTrucking.com
 
How To Get Involved:  
Addicted to Winning connects listeners through stories that prove why mindset matters. Jeff Brekken was working a 60-hour week on his family’s farm by the time he was 10. When he wasn’t helping with the harvest, he was at the hockey rink. Jeff’s early life experiences taught him he needs to be either all-in or all-out.

In 2000 he started a single-family home construction business and by 2008 he was looking for the next big thing. Jeff founded the Blue Sky Benefit Solutions & Rise Above HR/ Recruiting on top of a lifelong passion for helping people. Through this show, Jeff will take that passion one step further.


If you enjoyed this episode, head over and visit us on Apple Podcasts - leave a review and let us know what you thought! Your feedback keeps us going. Thanks for helping. 
 
 

EP 132 - Benny Fisher, From Unemployable to Entrepreneur
Many of us find ourselves facing entrepreneurship because we’ve tried just about everything and found ourselves pretty much unemployable. At that point, there’s not a whole lot of other places to go, so we (hopefully) embrace it and start working towards it.
Benny Fisher is the Founder & Visionary of The Big Fish Contracting Company, and an experienced public speaker, business consultant, and marketer. 
Benny has a knack for networking among business owners, and capturing stories of business, entrepreneurial journeys, and overcoming adversity.
 
What You Will Learn 
What the Driven Genes are and how they have affected Benny’s life and upbringing
The effect ADHD has had on Benny’s life after being diagnosed at a young age
Why Benny is grateful for the way he was raised even though it would never fly in today’s society
How Benny learned to upsell as a young child while selling candy bars or his baseball team
Why did Benny quit going to college to sell cars and end up selling drugs and what he learn from that
How Benny fought through his self-doubts and the doubts of others to get himself out of the drug world and went legit
How Benny learned to be addicted to his business in a positive way at first and then later used pharmaceuticals to cope with the stress and later overdosed
 
Favorite Quote: 
“I was kind of forced into entrepreneurship because I had tried everything else, and I wasn’t employable.”
-Benny Fisher   



CONNECT WITH BENNY:
Benny Fisher is the embodiment of customer service & building connections. Early on in his career he found that the key to success was through delivering superb customer service no matter the task in front of him. In addition to his philosophical focus on service, Benny also saw the importance for building deep and lasting connections with anyone that crosses his path.
BennyFisher.com



How To Get Involved:  
Addicted to Winning connects listeners through stories that prove why mindset matters. Jeff Brekken was working a 60-hour week on his family’s farm by the time he was 10. When he wasn’t helping with the harvest, he was at the hockey rink. Jeff’s early life experiences taught him he needs to be either all-in or all-out.

In 2000 he started a single-family home construction business and by 2008 he was looking for the next big thing. Jeff founded the Blue Sky Benefit Solutions & Rise Above HR/ Recruiting on top of a lifelong passion for helping people. Through this show, Jeff will take that passion one step further.


If you enjoyed this episode, head over and visit us on Apple Podcasts - leave a review and let us know what you thought! Your feedback keeps us going. Thanks for helping. 
 

EP 131 - Jeff Brekken, Why Are We Not Asking Why?
Why are we not asking why more often? Are we afraid of the answers? Many times understanding our internal motives as well as the motives of others will help us find our way through the struggle we’re currently enduring. Oftentimes we know that but are afraid to go there. But what if we weren’t?
 
What You Will Learn 
How thinking about your motivations can help get down to your purpose and the reason that you and everything else matter
Why do we tend to ask why a lot less as we get older and more experienced
How asking yourself why you do things can help you get through sticky situations
How asking why in your relationships can help you understand your partner’s motives and what they are looking for from you
How studying your own motives can help you be more vulnerable and why that is a good thing
Asking why helps get you through the hard times and find a way out
How asking why will help you find what is truly in your heart.
 
Favorite Quote: 
“You can’t achieve absolute 100% of your dreams when you are not vulnerable and when you are not asking yourself why.”
-Jeff Brekken  
 
How To Get Involved:  
Addicted to Winning connects listeners through stories that prove why mindset matters. Jeff Brekken was working a 60-hour week on his family’s farm by the time he was 10. When he wasn’t helping with the harvest, he was at the hockey rink. Jeff’s early life experiences taught him he needs to be either all-in or all-out.

In 2000 he started a single-family home construction business and by 2008 he was looking for the next big thing. Jeff founded the Blue Sky Benefit Solutions & Rise Above HR/ Recruiting on top of a lifelong passion for helping people. Through this show, Jeff will take that passion one step further.


If you enjoyed this episode, head over and visit us on Apple Podcasts - leave a review and let us know what you thought! Your feedback keeps us going. Thanks for helping. 
 

EP 130 - Natalie Heckert, Be Willing to Do It Afraid
We often assume that people who are doing the things we fear are not afraid. Chances are they are just as scared as we are and are just feeling the fear and doing it anyway. If you wait until you are in the absence of fear, you will probably never strike. 
Natalie Heckert has been the  CEO of NATS (Nutrition & Aerobic Training Service) for 18 years, a Mrs. Minnesota finalist, a contestant on the Price is Right, auditioned for Oprah’s “Next Big Invention”, and worked with Tracey Yukich while she was on NBC’s “The Biggest Loser”.
Natalie has invented a variety of fitness products and has starred in numerous exercise videos. She designed, helped develop and implement a state-of-the-art wellness center for Tastefully Simple, an Inc. 500 organization. She also originated and helped develop a two-year Health & Fitness Specialist Degree program in partnership with the Alexandria Community & Technical College and adjunct instructor.
 
What You Will Learn 
How not wanting to lose drives Natalie to put in the work to do what it takes to win
What growing up on a farm taught Natalie about life and the effect it had on her work ethic
Why Natalie was motivated to move from small town in Minnesota to Los Angeles when she was only 18 years old
What Natalie had to go through to make it on her own in Los Angeles
How Natallie ended up working at Universal Studios training stars and celebrities
Why you need to speak to yourself like you love yourself
How Natalie was inspired to create Club E Fit by her lack of time for the gym when she was working at home while caring for her children
 
Favorite Quote: 
“How bad do you want it? Are you willing to risk? Are you willing to do it afraid?”
-Natalie Heckert     
 
CONNECT WITH NATALIE
Club E Fit Crew
Instagram
Facebook
 
How To Get Involved:  
Addicted to Winning connects listeners through stories that prove why mindset matters. Jeff Brekken was working a 60-hour week on his family’s farm by the time he was 10. When he wasn’t helping with the harvest, he was at the hockey rink. Jeff’s early life experiences taught him he needs to be either all-in or all-out.

In 2000 he started a single-family home construction business and by 2008 he was looking for the next big thing. Jeff founded the Blue Sky Benefit Solutions & Rise Above HR/ Recruiting on top of a lifelong passion for helping people. Through this show, Jeff will take that passion one step further.


If you enjoyed this episode, head over and visit us on Apple Podcasts - leave a review and let us know what you thought! Your feedback keeps us going. Thanks for helping. 
 

EP 129 - Jeff Brekken, You TRULY Need Help In Life
It’s absolutely true that no one can do it alone. There is NO WAY that you can be the best person that you can find for every single task in your business. There is more than likely a chance that you also can’t afford to hire for every position that needs to be filled, so what options are you left with?
 
What You Will Learn 
Why you can’t be a loner and you need to surround yourself with good people
Why you need friends who view your relationship as a two-way street and aren’t afraid to give  back when you need them
Why you should reach out instead of getting frustrated when you encounter the parts of your business that you are less skilled at
The benefits of outsourcing over hiring to do things internally in your business
How exercising gets the blood flowing and gets your brain going and the ideas can start coming
Why you need to build a team of experts around you to help you do the things that don’t require your special touch 
 
Favorite Quote: 
“You truly need help in life. Don’t be frustrated in areas you don’t know that much about. Get help for that.”
-Jeff Brekken     
 
How To Get Involved:  
Addicted to Winning connects listeners through stories that prove why mindset matters. Jeff Brekken was working a 60-hour week on his family’s farm by the time he was 10. When he wasn’t helping with the harvest, he was at the hockey rink. Jeff’s early life experiences taught him he needs to be either all-in or all-out.

In 2000 he started a single-family home construction business and by 2008 he was looking for the next big thing. Jeff founded the Blue Sky Benefit Solutions & Rise Above HR/ Recruiting on top of a lifelong passion for helping people. Through this show, Jeff will take that passion one step further.


If you enjoyed this episode, head over and visit us on Apple Podcasts - leave a review and let us know what you thought! Your feedback keeps us going. Thanks for helping.