Changing the Rules

Ray talks with Terri Webb about her experience of celebrating her life, in her own words. Get advice on creating your own Living Celebration.

The Joel Burcat Story: Perseverance and adapting to challenges. Transitioning from an environmental lawyer to a writer. Joel discusses how he began writing and the support he received from the writing community. Then, facing a significant challenge caused by losing vision in both eyes due to a rare condition and despite becoming legally blind, Burcat shares how he adapted and continued his writing career, inspired by others who overcame physical limitations.

A Luckiest Girl in the World Adventure: We interviewed June several weeks ago about her 5000-plus-mile journey alone in a fifteen-year-old car. June has taken what she learned and created a second journey to build on what she learned about herself. PS. I found myself getting jealous during the interview.

This year, Nurses Day falls on May 8. During the weeks before, I had the privilege of interviewing ten nurses. This podcast is the story of two of them, Gail Miller and Marjorie Heschberger. Both Gail and Marjorie had diverse nursing careers and some amazing stories. Make sure to listen to: The Post-mortem Viagra Incident, Christmas in the ER, the Church Group, the miracle in Seattle, and more.

College sports today, paying players, the portal. Integrity in sports. Helping high school students succeed.

Dawn makes her life work for her. Listen as she talks about: The Global Village in Cambodia, Scuba - underwater with no phones, no interruptions The Philadelphia - Key West Connection

Dennis Royer, an author, has found a unique medium to publish his dozen or so novels. WATTPAD.com offers a free platform that exposes him to 90 million readers. Yes, that's correct. He keeps total ownership, republishing rights, and the opportunity to receive offers to get paid for his work.

The Great Journey Inward is a story about stepping out into the world and putting yourself at risk to learn who you are. Junelyse Simpson, age 19, drove 5,000 miles by herself, sleeping in her car, with limited funds. Listen further to learn about the "Unfortunate Event" and "the Beauty of the Wilds" and how they all created Juneyse's self-learning experience.

If what you said is not what I heard, we have a problem. Is it a physical problem, a concentration problem, or more?

What happens when a life event gets in the way of living your life? And, more important, how do you get back on track? Host Ray Loewe & Guest The Reverend Garritt Fleming discuss four valuable concepts that work: The Rope of Hope, The Power of Faith, The Power of Community, and The Importance of having Accountability to someone.

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Guest Host, Don Helin, talks with Marian Caroselli, who searches out her Italian lineage. It turns into an adventure, a comedy, and a whole new family. If you want to be "Lucky" extend yourself. Go in search of your legacy stories. Please share them with friends and family. You'll be amazed at what can happen.

Guest Host: Dale Johnson Marian Yoder has spent her life forging her own path, redefining expectations to create the life she truly wanted. Raised in a conservative Mennonite community on a dairy farm in Lancaster County, she remained deeply committed to her faith while grappling with the cultural constraints of her upbringing. Her choice to separate faith from tradition led her on an extraordinary journey—one that diverged from the conventional path she was expected to follow as she entered adulthood.

Rebecca Hoffman, owner of Good Egg Concepts, a Chicago-based marketing firm, is singularly responsible for my Storytelling Adventures. About 10 years I hired Rebecca to help package several photos I'd taken on my world travels that I could use in my business. Not only were these stories successful, but they've stayed with me, and I still use them today. In today's podcast, Rebecca & I discuss how pivotal relationships like this one evolve. They certainly are not random. They aren't planned either. They seem to come from a process that the "Luckiest People in the World "use. Is "80% of success just showing up?" Listen, then you be the judge.

Nancy talks about the project she undertook for herself. She discovered treasures in her attic and took the time to explore, organize, and write about them. Her goal was to be a good steward of the materials she found. She shared these stories with her family members, which not only brought her joy but also inspired them to share their own stories, enhancing the overall experience of her project. What treasures do you have in your attic? project she created for herself. She finds treasures in her attic and explores, organizes, and writes about them because she wants to be a good steward of the material she finds. She shared these stories with other family members and not only had fun but gathered other new stories and increased the joy she received from the project. What's in your attic?

Joan McWilliams wife, divorcee, attorney, mediator, grandparent, and now developer of the concept "Grandfluence." During her journey, she discovered what grandparents can do to save the world.

In these divided times, it really helps to jump back into what we cherish as Americans. That is our sense of creativity and fun. Margaret believes that if you travel and have that as your mantra, it will help us get through these divided times and come back into a more unified America.

Erika is currently employed at the Samaritan Center in Lancaster, PA.  She can be reached by email at esnitzer@samaritantlancaster.org.

What do you do when barriers get in the way of living your life to the fullest? According to Sarah Brown, executive coach and author of "The Book of You," you need a toolbox that lets you re-explore your uniqueness and helps you regain the three "C's," Clarity, Confidence, and Commitment. You will then be back on your way to rediscovering your purpose and using it to help others and rejuvenate your life.

This week, Ray was joined by Staci Banta. Staci, a woman working in a man's world, often finds herself the only woman in the room, yet she not only copes but flourishes. Also, we explore how ballroom dancing had an amazing effect on her career and how she found COVID-19 to be her friend.

We avoid conversation these days. Especially if the topic is controversial. Often, we purposely avoid these specifically controversial topics to keep people from getting mad or walking out. Yet these topics are often about what's going on in the world. They are topics we should be discussing. So, how do we move forward in this seeming cache 22?

Ted has had a fascinating career, from attorney to prosecutor to judge to mediator. A career he absolutely loved. Mandatory retirement caused Ted to evaluate options that would allow him to use his skills and knowledge to continue to add value to people's lives. He discusses how he may have found it: an organization called Braver Angels, which helps people understand each other through a unique discussion process.

The episode runs long but the story is too dramatic to break into pieces - 35 minCanisuius Book - "Unlimited"

There are many new tools available to help evaluate and better understand content. We took 12 of our podcasts from last year and asked NotebookLM to evaluate them for us. You'll find the results fascinating, and Google turned them into a podcast for us. Please take a listen.

Ray discusses the Positive Focus and the Gratitude Focus and how they help the Luckiest People in the World get back on track. These two tools help you get back on track when your not feeling lucky.

On a trip to Europe many years ago to attend a conference of musicians Jane discovered that language, initially a problem could be overcome by music and of all things puppets. From that point on, puppets became part of Jane's life, helping her communicate with people from the age of 2 through adulthood.

Even the "Luckiest People in the World" must continually refocus because things constantly change. Reviewing your unique strengths, re-evaluating what fascinates and motivates you, and evaluating your impact on your community can revitalize you. You can use your toolbox, especially the Community Profiler and the Battery Tracker. Perhaps even step into a new project.

Deborah began her career as a designer in New York City. She worked for iconic luxury brands including Ralph Lauren Fragrances and Parfum Givenchy. Her move back to Lancaster allowed her to use her expertise and talents to make positive change in her hometown through the creation of Fig—an enthusiast's guide to living and loving local.

As Curator of the Division of Culture and the Arts at the National Museum of American History, Dwight hobnobbed with many of the world's, most famous, entertainment stars. Escorting the ruby slippers to London in their own first-class plane seat was just one of Dwight's dream job duties.

Derek and Julie are brother and sister. Hear how challenges in their lives, big challenges, have helped them discover true happiness and learn to spread it to others. Julie has Down's Syndrome, and Derek is paralyzed in half of his body, yet they travel the world to inspire others to "Live Simply and Love Wastefully."

Anna shares her journey from Boston to Sotheby's to Paris, healing to rebirthing to weddings to Maine, and writing.

In this episode, Ray talks with two of the Luckiest People in the World about politics, in a non-political way. There is a lot of noise in everything we hear today on the news. So we Don and Greg what the real issues they think are important to them, independent of what the candidates are addressing.

Between 1850 - 1923 two religious organizations, one Catholic, and one Protestant noted that many orphans in the big eastern cities had no homes. The two organizations arranged for homes in the mid-west on farms and farther west with parents seeking children. So the orphan trains moved children westward for better homes and maybe not for better homes. Judye Ruffo joins us. Her mother was one of the orphans sent westward.

Personal banking relationships can be a resource to help you counteract fraud. To ensure your bank accounts are protected by FDIC insurance and yet still meet your estate plan goals. When you find a relationship hang on to it, even if you have to follow the relationship from bank to bank.

The Luckiest People in the World practice retirement. Rather than stop working cold turkey and restarting in their next phase of life, they tend to look ahead while working and test what they want to do later.

Sarah Brown created of the "Book of You" to help mid-level executives get a clear vision of what they want out of life. Her latest project, "Book and Ted" helps these same executives write a book that expresses what they do and where they are going. It then puts it into a Ted Talk to help clarify their mission.

Danie Harris one of The Luckiest People in the World, gets to produce movies for a living. Join us as we discuss the making of a movie, Silver Linings, and what it takes to make a documentary.

"The luckiest people in the world often find themselves involved in projects that have a lasting impact on society." Carol was at the right place at the right time. Carol MacAllister was a social worker in 1978 for the State of New Mexico Mental Health Bureau when a new law "The Sexual Crimes Prevention and Treatment Act" was passed. Carol was assigned as a project manager to implement parts of the act that eventually led to the creation of a modern rape kit. That same rape kit is being used to this day.

Ray Loewe talks with Charles Napier with LegacyStories.org about the importance of saving your stories for future generations and how to easily do it.

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Dr. Terry Webb and Dr. Greg Carry feel democracy is deteriorating in the United States. There are things we can do about it. This appears to be an international problem, reflecting itself in Poland, Hungary, & Italy to name a few. It seems that this is a problem that manifests itself periodically in history, we experienced this problem at the end of WWII and we seemed to have survived it. Is this just the same old problem or is this something new?

In the journey of life finding clarity can be a challenging task. During times of profound difficulty, we sometimes find ourselves grappling with questions of meaning and purpose. It's within this context that understanding our life purpose emerges.

At age 48 Sally transformed her life and built a new career on excitement and passion. That career has continued to grow since our last podcast. Recently, Sally earned the title of Ms. Senior America and began Sally's Iron Mustangs, a 65-year-old plus women's power weightlifting group...the movie will be released shortly.

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Carol has a unique experience set that we want to capture in this podcast. First, she has been a podcast host. Second, a podcast guest. And third, a unique storytelling experience from a previous work life. After recording a podcast about her forest rangering experience, she received intriguing feedback from some of her family who didn't know she had done this. her hosting experience has helped her meet new people and satisfy her curiosity about a number of her own interesting topics. She is reflecting on how her storytelling experience and podcast hosting experience will help us with our legacy project.

Don Helin and I have been working on a project for several months. The project involves telling stories about our lives, the times we lived in, or messages we want to send to our future heirs. We have been using a private podcast format to make it easy. The project keeps morphing based on things we learn. Get an update on why you need to tell your story to your heirs and what we've learned about how to make it easier and more effective.