Episodes

Welcome to the Jim Fannin Show. In this week’s episode, I discuss the #1 fear most people have…giving a speech or presentation in front of an audience. You’ll find concrete tips and tools for presenting and speaking in the Zone and more importantly, you’ll get the audience in the Zone where your products, services or ideas will be positively received and acted upon. Here are a few tips I have learned over the years from presenting 2,500+ professional keynote speeches, seminars and clinics to au...

Welcome to the Jim Fannin Show! Happy Halloween. What a fun time of year! This week’s episode is NOT about trick-or-treat. But it is about the mindset of children and what we can learn from the little ones we love. This is a gamechanger! Why did you learn more from birth to five years old than the rest of your life combined? What prompted this super learning? My research from 1974-1984 with over 250,000 children ages 3-8 years old revealed that as a child you experienced the following: Your im...

Welcome to the Jim Fannin Show! This week’s episode is about the Teeter Totter Effect and how to reset your 2019 performance to a championship level. His putting was amazing. Everything that he rolled found the cup. If he could only have more opportunities, but his iron play was off. He either pulled it or pushed it and his accuracy was inconsistent and unpredictable. Fast forward one week…“My iron play has come around,” he gloated. I’m striping it! I just wish I could buy a putt.” The Teeter-T...

Welcome to the Jim Fannin Show! Today’s episode is all about hope. Hope: the feeling of wanting something to happen and thinking that it could happen: a feeling that something good will happen or be true. Do you want a better life? Of course, you do! Do you have hope? Is your hope relentlessly consistent? Does it fluctuate, depending on the day? It may be time to migrate to a different mindset. Today, tens of thousands of refugees from various countries are fleeing the negatives of their situ...

Welcome to the Jim Fannin Show. Most of us are very good or even great in one aspect of our lives. It is this primary arena that most of us tend to place all our happy eggs. We are all in with our career. When it goes right, our relationships flourish and our other life arenas fall in line. But when things go wrong, all of your life arenas can be negatively impacted. In this week’s episode, you learn how some of my clients are positively transitioning from one aspect of their lives to another. ...

Welcome to the Jim Fannin Show! It’s officially October and we are underway into the 4th quarter. As you peruse your remaining visions and goals, check if they have been set too high or too low. In on-boarding clients over the last 40+ years, I’ve had to bump each person’s vision and goals at least 25%, especially where it pertains to money. I even had an NCAA golf champion look me in the eye and tell me that he didn’t think the world’s #1 title and even the top #10 on the PGA Tour were possible...

Welcome to the Jim Fannin Show. With the 4th quarter of 2019 here, are you prepared and ready to close your greatest year ever? Are you a champion closer? With two minutes to go in the game, the quarterback narrows his focus and executes a perfect pass to his receiver cutting across the middle. Touchdown! The basketball game is tied in a tough, seesaw battle of wills. The star of the team wants the ball. With the tension thick and the clock winding down in the 4th quarter, she maneuvers to an ...

Welcome to the Jim Fannin Show! What an amazing week! The Zone is where simplicity, balance and excellence reside and it definitely found me. I had dinner with good friend Jim Malone, the Pittsburgh Pirates Strength and Conditioning Coach and the 2019 National Masters Weightlifting Champion. Congrats Jim! Meeting Medal of Honor recipient (Vietnam) Al Lynch at the Lockport World War II Re-enactment was amazing. Thank you for your service and heroics. Al was confident, sure and humbled by the pu...

Welcome to the Jim Fannin Show! This episode is about how dreams come true. It’s about mentally dress rehearsing each day before it happens. By adding a simple, nightly routine to your life, you will now be able to chip away at your long-term, lofty goals, visions and dreams. In this week’s show, we discuss: How 19-year old professional tennis player Bianca Andreescu defeated the greatest of all-time (Serena Williams) to win the U.S. Open last weekend. The 52-year old secret routine to having...

Welcome to this week’s episode of the Jim Fannin Show. This show is about being your genuine, authentic best self. However, life has many rainfalls, storms, tornadoes, a few tsunamis, and hurricanes. Harsh conditions have confronted us and will continue to confront us. Some are weather related and some are people related. Hurricanes like Cat 5 Dorian that pummeled the Bahamas was devastating. What about mental hurricanes? They have similarities. Each has their unique adversity that arrives uni...

Welcome to this week’s episode of the Jim Fannin Show. Can you be a tough and ferocious competitor and yet be kind when you leave the office, field, court or course? America, we need more kindness! Yes, we can compete on the world stage at the highest level. We can be locked-in the Zone mindset where excellence resides. We can also be kind when not competing. This week we discuss: How difficult it is to retire from pro sports. See what retired athletes Andrew Luck, Carlos Delgado, and Rob Gro...

Hello Champion! How was your week? Have you been decisive in the last seven days? That was your assignment from last week. If you missed it, download last week’s Jim Fannin Show…Be Decisive! In this week’s episode, it’s about Aftermath Visualization. Visualize your personal success then visualize what’s to be done after it’s achieved. Discover what a young female, college student athlete is visualizing for 2024…Think summer….Think Paris on the Seine River. Jim Thorpe became the first Native A...

During last week’s Jim Fannin Show, I mentioned National Influence Optimism Week. How did you do? You were to bolster confidence, belief and expectancy with everyone you met. Let them know they were appreciated and an integral part of something greater than themselves. Were you decisive in sending out your positive vibes? Decisiveness is missing in America. We fluctuate. We vacillate. We waver. We hem and haw (from the late 1400s). We flip-flop. We procrastinate. We drag it out. We put it off. ...

How are you? How was your week? Did you have more positive thoughts than negative thoughts? Which of the following five intangibles need improvement? Self-discipline? Concentration? Optimism? Relaxation? Enjoyment? Was last week 1/52 toward reaching your annual vision and goals? Did you have a Zone week? Is your family in the Zone? How about your business, department or division? Are you and your significant other in a Zone relationship of extreme positivity and solidarity? In this episode of ...

It’s the first of August. How are you? How have you been? How was your July? This week on the Jim Fannin Show, we prepare for our greatest month ever (like we do every month). Do you have a blueprint for your next 31 days? In this episode, we discuss the following: Evaluate July. Find out how you performed in the last 31 days with a swift, non-emotional evaluation. What happens on August 12, 2020? Who are the Key People in your life? How are they impacting your overall performances? What make...

In this week’s Jim Fannin Show, we take a deep dive into containing your positive and or negative thoughts within each facet of your life. From personal finance, career and parenting to your sibling, significant other and wellness arenas, your success directly depends on how you think. With a simple blueprint you will be more efficient in managing your thoughts while influencing other key people’s thoughts as you maneuver through your life’s challenges and potential pitfalls. We discuss the fol...

In this week’s Jim Fannin Show, I reveal a bad habit check list that when eliminated will make it easier to reach your 2019 visions and goals. Knowing why we do what we do can unlock your full potential. Do you have bad habits that hold you back from success? From procrastination and tardiness to self-sabotage, sarcasm or indecision, your bad habits need to be eliminated. You can and will clear your pathway to success once bad habits are replaced with good. Listen to find out if your bad habits ...

In this week’s Jim Fannin Show, we get your personal and business life organized. Self-discipline is the show theme. Ready? What is your 2019 vision and its corresponding goals? We have less than six months to make it happen. Even if you choose a vision and goals that are realistic with stringent timelines, negative “See-Ables” will decrease your odds of achievement. What is a See-Able? See-ables are reflections of your overall self-discipline. You will learn the list of See-Ables that when you...

Happy 4th of July everybody! In this episode of the Jim Fannin Show, I discuss independence and the pursuit of happiness within your daily life, business or sport. What is happiness? Learn what it is and how you can achieve it every day. See who was happy and in the Zone last week. University of Illinois alum Steve Stricker wins the US Senior Open Champion Client Zack Collins called up to major leagues hitting his first HR ever S. Women’s National Soccer Team reaches World Cup Finals Coco ...

This week’s Jim Fannin Show is about the world’s most influential symbol. You can impact every arena of your life with this symbol. It will ensure more positive thinking, action and results. If you want to be the MVP in your life, this symbol will lead the way. Find out how to wield its power and influence in EVERY life arena. This episode we also discuss the following: The Zone (my favorite subject) and its myriad of nicknames such as Zoning, treeing, on fire, locked in, raking, blazing, on a...

In this week’s Jim Fannin Show, it’s all about intuition. Intuition is a psychological tool that we all have access to use. However, many of us never wield its power and often dismiss its warnings and unsolicited advice. This is unfortunate. Intuition possesses real-time information that your conscious mind does not possess. In this episode, I recollect my Mother’s uncanny intuition and how she acted on it to raise an only child…me. “How did you know, Mom?” I asked. “A little bird told me,” wa...

I’m baaaack! It great to be back on air with new podcasts and Zone tools and techniques for being your genuine, authentic best self. This week’s Jim Fannin Show is all about Dads! What life lessons did your Father (Father’s Day is June 16th) provide that made a difference in your development as an adult? My Father laid stepping-stones in front of me that I’m just starting to realize. Here’s a few examples from this week’s podcast: Risk & Reward: My Dad used this phrase on me from grade school...

The year 2018 has come and gone. The calendar officially reads “2019.” The treadmills are packed at gyms across America. Ambitions and inspirational notes are scrolled on sticky notes attached to bathroom mirrors, computer monitors and car dashboards. But for all the energy expended in January, the research shows 80% of people will fail at their 2019 goals by February 1st. The gung-ho attitude of January quickly fades into an “oh well, I tried” excuse within 30 days. It doesn’t have to be this...

As we approach New Year’s Eve many people fall into two traps when setting goals for the next 365 days. The first is to aim too low and make the goal too vague. You’d be amazed at the number of pro sports teams I’ve interacted with that don’t have a stated vision with corresponding goals for the season. The second pitfall is confusing a tactic and a goal. “Stop swearing” is not a goal. It’s a tactic that’s part of a larger goal of “better communication.” In this episode of The Jim Fannin Show, ...