About the Mahon

“TOSOL” Talk-Radio Host, Globetrotting Renaissance Man…Actor, Author, Entrepreneur…Universal Healing Tao Instructor, Quantum Manifestations Motivational Coach…Mordant World Media Mahon…Tortuga Twin.

Motivational coach, talk radio host, and self-help author R. Mordant Mahon spent 20 years as a comedian with a 100,000-plus fan base across North America before certifying as a Universal Healing Tao Instructor and co-writing Why Real Women Drink Straight Tequila—The Tao of Intimacy with Sarina Stone. Through social media, Mordant has created inspiration and support for listeners, coaching participants, and sojourners in his “Mordant World.”

Mordant’s UHT training with Grandmaster Mantak Chia at Tao Garden in Chiang Mai, Thailand and his work helping people chasing and catching their dreams led him to create Quantum Manifestations.  Mordant’s unique combination of comedy, self-help coaching, and motivational speaking leads individuals and groups to deeply connect with their passions and transform aspirations into accomplishments.

Mordant’s love of travel and connection came early.  Born in Karachi, Pakistan to a future British flamenco dancer and a Greek merchant marine, and adopted at birth by an American family in the U.S. State Department, he was a true globetrotter by the age of 8. Comfortable in many cultures, he tours internationally and around the USA to share his wit and wisdom with those ready to take steps towards the Positive.

WELCOME 2 MY MORDANT WORLD

Welcome to MordantWorld.com—gateway to all things Possible.

Whether your journey takes you Beyond the Horizon or just Outside your Comfort Zone, these pages will put you in touch with getting out of your own way and moving forward in your life.

Here I give you an open window into my world…of dealing with the day-to-day & my own idiosyncrasies while Leveling Up My Life.   Drama can be your friend as long as it’s Positive Drama.  Grab a gander at the variety of ways & means I have uncovered that take “the secret” out of becoming Bigger, Badder, Better, More.

For a though-provoking looksee at what all this means, check out the different hallways, avenues & dimensions to my Quantum Manifested Life.  While here, see what’s up and explore what’s new.

Welcome to my Mordant World—may it Rock Your Reality as it has mine.

Call Me Mordant

(A candid look at the many names, and hats, of R. Mordant Mahon)

There’s been some confusion of late, as to what you should call me. You’ve seen or heard me throw out the names “Mordant,” and “Raphael,”and “Riki”—and perhaps a couple others tossed here and there into the mix. What’s up with that?! What should you call me and where do all these names come from anyway? I’m a little public for the Witness Protection Program, so it’s not that. Probably. Perhaps I’m just eccentric (read: weird), and like the thought of a ton of pseudonyms. You know…having so many people in my head that I don’t ever feel alone. But, that would be just a little too whack-a-doodle, don’t you think? The voices in my head agree with me, so it must be true.

I was adopted at birth and given the name Ronald Richard Robinson. My family goes by their middle names, and that’s where Riki comes in—from Richard. (Much better than the other nickname I could have gotten from Richard, believe you me.) It’s always been Riki and it’s always been spelled the way it is. In my teens, I tried to shorten it to Rik, but my mother said, “No! You’re name’s Riki.” And so, Riki it is.

Until I became a Tortuga Twin.

In 1987, I co-founded a comedy troupe. Known mostly as a trio (there are currently six of us on the roster), but back then we were a duo. We were portraying twin gypsy brothers looking for their lost princess—a brilliant way to meet girls according to our twenty-something minds. We needed a catchy name that sounded ethnic. The Tortuga Twins fit all that.

At the time there was an independent comic book known as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (you might have heard of it). Tortuga means turtle in Spanish. As a play on words, and to pay homage to our geekdom, Jef took the name Donatello (he later changed it to D’Angelo), while I took Raphael. Besides, it began withan “R.” I have a fondness for “Rs.” Go figure.

To mix things up even more, if you ever happen to find a lost cellphone of mine, you’ll see the name Riki Tortuga on it. That’s how I’m known by most on the renaissance festival circuit. Again, go figure.

What does all this have to do with Mordant?

Don’t worry; that’s next.

In late 2003, I reconnected with my birth mother, Mary Mahon (her maiden name). While spending time with her—first in Florida, then in Spain—I asked her what name she would have given me. Being British of Irish descent, it would have been a doosie. John Edward Antony Noel Mordant Mahon, after her late brother. Wow.

As I was the only of her children that she had contact with—there is another that I know of—she asked that I do something to carry on the family name. Thus R. Mordant Mahon was born. I especially like it because “Mordant” is a reagent used on color in the dyeing process (“it makes things stick” as a friend of mine recently pointed out). Also, in literature mordant is “a biting reply.” Not too shabby for a writer if I do say so myself.

There you have it. Call me Mordant. Some because I really like the name even if it doesn’t begin with an “R.” Some because as I brand it into the public consciousness, that’s how they’ll know me. But mostly, and honestly, because it pleases me dear mum.

Okay…to avoid FURTHER confusion – call me Mordant HERE. And when I’m out doing Mordanty things. It is my author name, but should not become a stumbling block for my old friends. The “R” in R. Mordant Mahon stands for Riki after all.  =)