Brian McMahon » Brian McMahon http://brianmcm.com Cancer Caregiver. Patient Advocate. Writer. Speaker. Tue, 07 Jan 2014 14:13:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 Back to Basics http://brianmcm.com/back-to-basics/ http://brianmcm.com/back-to-basics/#comments Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:01:58 +0000 http://brianmcm.com/?p=3513 The year was 1978. The Pittsburgh Steelers had just come off of a sloppy win against the Cincinnati Bengals. With less than 130 total yards, their offense was virtually nonexistent and in the post-game interview, head coach Chuck Noll spoke about the importance of re-practicing and re-preaching the fundamentals. We’re going back to training camp. […]

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]]> http://brianmcm.com/back-to-basics/feed/ 0 We Are 300,000 Strong http://brianmcm.com/we-are-300000-strong/ http://brianmcm.com/we-are-300000-strong/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:00:48 +0000 http://brianmcm.com/?p=3445 Everyone knows that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer. Few realize that it took three years, 22,000 volunteers, and 188,000 study participants to prove it. — Meghan Murphy That’s a quote by Meghan Murphy about one of the first large, long-term studies every undertaken by The American Cancer Society. It blew my mind when I first […]

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]]> http://brianmcm.com/we-are-300000-strong/feed/ 0 Start Your Climb! http://brianmcm.com/start-your-climb/ http://brianmcm.com/start-your-climb/#comments Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:47:56 +0000 http://brianmcm.com/?p=3439 Dr. Ivan Jirak was an Explorer at a time when that title truly meant something. He traveled the world studying indigenous tribes and head shrinking natives; making first ascents on mountains; and charting previously uncharted territories. All without the aid of a GPS or the latest GoreTex gear. On a 1966 expedition to scale El […]

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]]> http://brianmcm.com/start-your-climb/feed/ 3 What If Money Was No Object? http://brianmcm.com/what-if-money-was-no-object/ http://brianmcm.com/what-if-money-was-no-object/#comments Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:12:14 +0000 http://brianmcm.com/?p=3431 What do you desire? What makes you itch? What sort of a situation would you like? Let’s suppose, I do this often in vocational guidance of students, they come to me and say, well, we’re getting out of college and we have the faintest idea what we want to do. So I always ask the […]

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]]> http://brianmcm.com/isnt-this-exciting/feed/ 2 A Pep Talk: “It’s Time To Do Something!” http://brianmcm.com/a-pep-talk-its-time-to-do-something/ http://brianmcm.com/a-pep-talk-its-time-to-do-something/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:24:05 +0000 http://brianmcm.com/?p=3401 Comment or share A Pep Talk: “It’s Time To Do Something!” at Brian McMahon.

]]> http://brianmcm.com/a-pep-talk-its-time-to-do-something/feed/ 2 The Gift of Adversity http://brianmcm.com/the-gift-of-adversity/ http://brianmcm.com/the-gift-of-adversity/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:00:04 +0000 http://brianmcm.com/?p=3345 It was early February – a few years ago – and I was driving to visit my mother who was in the hospital for another round of chemotherapy. The roads were still a bit icy from a snowstorm earlier that day as my girlfriend and I sat waiting at an intersection. As the light turned […]

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]]> http://brianmcm.com/the-gift-of-adversity/feed/ 3 I Get Knocked Down, But I Get Up Again… http://brianmcm.com/i-get-knocked-down-but-i-get-up-again/ http://brianmcm.com/i-get-knocked-down-but-i-get-up-again/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:19:51 +0000 http://s161889.gridserver.com/?p=3100 I don’t know where or how it all began, but the Chumbawamba song that this title refers to became the rallying anthem at The American Entrepreneur as our primary host and founder, Ron Morris, entered the last few months of his life. And boy did he get knocked down. He got knocked down when he […]

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]]> http://brianmcm.com/i-get-knocked-down-but-i-get-up-again/feed/ 1 Pittsburgh’s Entrepreneurial Spirit Dims with Passing of Ron Morris http://brianmcm.com/pittsburghs-entrepreneurial-spirit-dims-with-passing-of-ron-morris/ http://brianmcm.com/pittsburghs-entrepreneurial-spirit-dims-with-passing-of-ron-morris/#comments Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:00:47 +0000 http://brianmcm.com/?p=3329 The presence of the entrepreneurial spirit in the Pittsburgh region has dimmed with the June 6 passing of Ron Morris, a life-long entrepreneur, host of The American Entrepreneur Radio Program and Founding Director of Duquesne’s Entrepreneurial Studies Program. “Sometimes people listen to you and they succeed,” said Morris in a 2011 interview when he received […]

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]]> http://brianmcm.com/pittsburghs-entrepreneurial-spirit-dims-with-passing-of-ron-morris/feed/ 0 Playbill Acquires BoffoBox.com http://brianmcm.com/playbill-acquires-boffobox/ http://brianmcm.com/playbill-acquires-boffobox/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:00:13 +0000 http://brianmcm.com/?p=3323 Playbill has announced the acquisition of the online professional theatre index Boffo Box (www.boffobox.com), which will serve as the foundation for a new subscription-based service aimed at theatre professionals known as Playbill Professional (www.playbillpro.com). Boffo Box’s wealth of information, including up-to-date and accurate information about thousands of productions, producers, directors, casting agents, press agents, advertising […]

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