Ep. 12- Langston Hughes, Dancing in the Rain and Silver Bells

The world is a hard and sometimes unforgiving place. When things feel especially tense, like now, it is easy to only focus on the problems, the hardships and the most immediate fire. While this is good and we must focus on the work at hand, we cannot forget the beauty that surrounds us. There is magic all around and we must be just as disciplined in finding and discovering it as we are pushing against and solving the ills of the world. We cannot merely survive, we have to be people who thrive, people of beauty, poetry and song. This episode is about just those things.

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Ep. 11- The Sky’s on Fire and the World is Ours

The world is crazy. Literally it is crazy right now. Many people of faith have felt like the past 8 years have been a time of hope, progress, inspiration and change. Yet, now, we seem to be in a time of regress, fear, uncertainty and confusion. The sky looks as if it is on fire. But that is when we as people of faith were made to shine. When we go through our history and even back to our founding as a faith we find that the one of our core identities as a movement is a movement of resistance. So, when the sky is one fire, the world is ours....

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Ep. 10-Innovation, Possibility and a Life Worth Living

Are you afraid of change? Does anxiety and fear well up inside of you when you hear the word innovation? What if you could see change, a changing world, a changing life in a whole different way? What if you saw the world through the lens of possibility and what if instead of it creating anxiety and fear it gave your live a whole new meaning? Check out today's podcast for some thoughts on how you can do just that!

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Ep. 09- Rearview Mirrors, Dragons and Runaway Horses

We all live in an emotionally turbulent world. There is so much anxiety, fear and ambiguity in the air that it is palpable. Most of us let that emotion drive us, toss us around and effect us in such ways that it becomes the primary influencer for what we do and how we ourselves act and react. There is a better way. Today on the podcast I discuss this, tell a couple of fun stories and give you the tools to live a life that is vibrant, exciting and that ultimately lives into a broader more beautiful narrative.

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Ep. 08- Reluctant Kings, Pebbles and Permission Slips

So many of us are feeling a tug like never before that there is something to be done in our world, something important, something big. At the exact same time many are nervous, fearful, overwhelmed with the magnitude of the task before us. Today I explore what it means to start, to take the next right step and give 3 ways to actually begin making a difference in your world!

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In the photo a beach in Zanzibar at sunset where there is an inscription on the sand "Breathe Deeeply".

Ep. 07 End Before the Ending

We all have endings in our lives. We end relationships, jobs, and even our own lives each have an ending. Most people wait until the end to do the things they really want to do, to live how they want to live and reflect their ideals in their priorities and decisions. On todays podcast I talk about what it means to take each moment and choose to actually live instead of just existing. I give you three ways to reorder your life so that when it is time to end something, you can do so with no regrets.

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