Category: Podcast

Episode 238 – What Do You Do When Life Changes Your Plan?

My Aunt Josie laughed at me when I tried to tell her about my five year plan.  She told me that nothing ever happens the way we plan.  She was right, life always changes your […]

Episode 237 – Onboarding

Starting at a new job is always stressful.  One of the reasons why it’s so stressful is that organizatiosn don’t do onboarding well as a rule.  Sometimes this is incompetence, and somtimes, sadly, it’s by […]

Episode 236 – Top 5 of 2023

Here it is, our annual “Top 5” episode where we highlight five really amazing stories from the prior year.  If you like these articles, check out the rest from 2023 and other years.   – Also […]

Episode 235 – Platform Stories: The Challenge of Getting Away From Platform Media

Often, some major negative event will become the only news story you see everywhere and every media oulet jumps on board.  Trying to get away from this negativity can be next to impossible.  How can […]

Episode 234 – Semi-Retirement

Retirement used to mean flipping a switch to go from working to being completely financially independent, even if modestly, and not working at all.  Today there is an intermediate step to this process, it’s Semi-Retirement.  […]

Episode 233 – Should You Take Part In The Community System ?

The Community System includes elected positions, non-profits, businesses and every other type of organization that helps a community thrive.  Taking part today is very different than years past in that the risk is much greater.  […]

Episode 232 – How Do You Know Where You Are?

It’s hard to get an unbiased sense of where we stand compared to others.  This show goes into one technique my brother used as child and one technique I use today.  In both cases, they […]

Episode 231 – The Law of Convenience Redux: Convenience Always Wins

The Law of Convenience is almost akin to a law of physics or nature that you can almost never get around.  Here is another example of how I ultimately walked away from something important to […]

Episode 230 – How Can You Come To Terms That You Aren’t A Good Fit For Your Job?

Some people spend a large part of their lives working in a job that their personality simply isn’t a good fit for.  Yet, emotions like fear or career inertia keep them in that same type […]

Episode 229 – Never Enough Time: So Start Now

There are so many things in life we can do, and sadly, life is finite.  So we can’t get it all done, but we can certainly do a bunch.  The key is to turn “someday” […]