Pictures Out There!

We're back! Welcome to Season 4 and Chat #1 in the Pictures Out There podcast series! Community is such an important concept in shaping our pictures, our ideals, and our perspectives. What is the impact of the sports and games that we love on our own personal sense of community? Let's explore, and have some fun doing it! Please join us on Apple, Spotify, and at picturesoutthere.com !

Welcome to Season 3 and Chat #32 of the Pictures Out There podcast series! In our last podcast we talked about the joy of all the things that we don't know or aren't sure about. So in this life and world of ours, are there things that we absolutely do know? Sure there are! Let's explore!

After “I love you”, are the most beautiful three words in our language “I don't know” or “I'm not sure”? Maybe! What are questions where we can joyfully answer “I don't know” or "I'm not sure"? Let's explore!

Welcome to Season 3 and Chat #30 in the Pictures Out There podcast series! Today we revisit the Equality for All Movement, and talk about Cecilia Payne, America Ferrera, Amanda Gorman, as well as exploring a simple solution for reparations. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com !

Welcome to Season 3 and Chat #29 in the Pictures Out There podcast series! Staying true to your real and true self can be a challenge, but it's doable. Keeping a sense of humor in even the most difficult circumstances helps. We visit about that and also take a look at some important trends in education, with lifelong learning a key to discovering your real and true self, and then staying true to it! Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com

Welcome to Season 3 and Chat #28 in the Pictures Out There podcast series! If you want to think about change, or how to manage or lead change, then you've come to the right place. Today, Lee and Dave chat about how we can adroitly drive positive change in our daily life, our jobs, with our families and friends, and within ourselves. Expertly handling, managing, and leading change is important fuel toward really living our own dreams, Pictures, and Ideals! Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com

Welcome to Season 3 and Chat #27 in the Pictures Out There podcast series. We constantly coach others and are coached by others, in all sorts of settings and venues. There's coaching in our jobs… With our family or friends… Sometimes with people we've just met. Wanna do a little thinkin' about how best to coach or be coached? You've come to the right place, ‘cause we've got a few thoughts on that! Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com

Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series and Chat #26. The carbon footprint of the uber-wealthy, groundwater drying up in the U.S., Howard Zinn, Ursula LeGuin, and more… All receive mention and attention today! Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com

Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series and Chat #25! Humor! The power to make us laugh and to think about the future, our Pictures, and our Ideals… Steven Wright, George Carlin, Fredric Brown, and even a very satirical and amateur attempt at improvisation by Lee and Dave! Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com

Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series and Chat #24! Houston, homelessness, math, hope, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, opportunities for societal and personal Change, Marie Curie, and more…all receive mention and attention today! Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com

Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series and Chat #23! The Sporting KC Soccer team, sharing power, real leadership, humility, everyone matters, and more… All receive mention and attention today! Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com

Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series and Chat #22! Our Pictures and Ideals can guide us on how best to respond to even the most difficult public figures we encounter, while keeping our hope and optimism intact. Equality for All, Catch-22, Debbie Dingell, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and more receive mention and attention today, as hope lives on! Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com

Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series, and Chat #21! Curiosity, Listening, Question Asking, Storytelling, and Lifelong Learning... Erich Fromm, Plato, Rick Warren, Sam Gamgee, and more… all receive mention and attention today! Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com !

Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series, and Chat #20! Spirituality and creation… how small we are by ourselves… how big we are when we see our real connections… Carl Sagan, the James Webb Telescope, Kurt Vonnegut, the mud that stands up, and more… all receive mention and attention today! Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com !

Welcome to Chat #19 of Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series! Everybody present and future gather ‘round, aliens and AI life forms included, and listen to two more wonderful childhood stories from master storyteller Lee Stuart! Lee's stories will make you cry, make you laugh, and leave you with a lot to think about. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com !

Welcome to Chat #18 of Season 3 in the Pictures and Ideals Out There podcast series! In part two of a two-part podcast mini-series, we talk about Dave's new book Ideals Out There. We describe our simple model for creating your own most satisfying and happiest life by living your Ideals and acting toward your Pictures for the future, with the additional support of the Life Tools that we discuss in this podcast. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com !

Welcome to Chat #17 of Season 3 in the Pictures and Ideals Out There podcast series! In part one of a two-part podcast mini-series, we talk about Dave's new book Ideals Out There. We describe a simple model for figuring out, and then living out, our own most satisfying and happiest life. We can each get there by living our Ideals as we directly act toward our dreams and Pictures for our own desired future, as well as for the future of our world. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com !

Welcome to Chat #16 of Season 3, in the Pictures and Ideals Out There podcast series! We talk about the reasons we do these podcasts and books, a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Nobel Prize winner Claudia Goldin, the Equality for All Movement, the “Out There” Model, and more! We're optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures and Ideals Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com

Welcome to Chat #15 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Worryland, Free Will, the Church of the Nones, Malala Yousafzai, and more…all with special guest Terry Ecklund! We're optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com

Welcome to Chat #14 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! New news about how humans evolved, what's the matter with anti-matter, screaming plants, our connections to the whole universe, curiosity, humility, Marcus Aurelius, Maya Angelou, and more! We're optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com

Welcome to Chat #13 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series, with this episode dedicated to Rosalynn Carter. We talk about Narges Mohammadi, Toni Morrison, the guinea worm, Habitat for Humanity, Jimmy Carter, Madeleine Albright, and more! We're optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com

Welcome to Chat #12 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Tom Friedman and AI, an updated Golden Rule, Pandora's Box, just being there for someone, male loneliness, modern masculinity and feminism, Mark Twain, and more! We're optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com

Welcome to Chat #11 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Howard Stern, Alan Rickman, Ron DeSantis, the American Climate Corps, Unions, Taylor Swift, Mitt Romney, government dysfunction, Barbers Hill, Dalai Lama, Tony Blinken, Einstein, Confucius, special guest Krista Fogleman, and more! We're optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com

Welcome to Chat #10 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about False Equivalences, Rufus Sewell, Carl Sagan, Football fans, Mexican Female Politicians, Rolling Stone magazine, the Lord's Prayer, insurance companies, and more! We're optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com

Welcome to Chat #9 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Charlie Chaplin, Albert Einstein, the fear of equality, Stephen Stills, big tech, satire, Ted Cruz, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Solzhenitsyn, lollipop moments, Carl Sagan, and more! We're optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com

Welcome to Chat #8 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Success, Desperation, the Thai cave rescue, a Montana court decision on climate change, a fishing dispute in a Georgia neighborhood, a retirement home for American politicians, George Bernard Shaw, Franz Kafka, and more! We're optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com

Welcome to Chat #7 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Technology, Cancel Culture, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Dwight Eisenhower, Dalai Lama, the happiest man in the world, Martin Sheen, and more! We're optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com

Welcome to Chat #6 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Teddy Roosevelt, Kurt Vonnegut, creating the Second Amendment, life expectancy trends, the power of hope and taglines, and more! We're optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com

Welcome to Chat #5 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Paris Hilton, Sarah Silverman, Fake AI images, Judge Michael Luttig, Buckminster Fuller, Jerry Garcia, and more! We're optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify, and at picturesoutthere.com

Welcome to Chat #4 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about the quirks of people, The New Theatre, the African American Museum In Washington, D.C., the Florida Board of Education, Ezra Klein, Aristotle, tyranny, Albert Einstein, a simple act of kindness, and more! We're optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about past, current, and future topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com

Welcome to Season 3, Chat #3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Harry Potter, predictions, Kierkegaard, who we are, Gregg Popovich, violence, reverse trash talking, Larry Bird, John Cena, Hugh Jackman, Abraham, Martin, and John, and more! In our podcast chats this season, we're optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about past, current, and future topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com

Welcome to Season 3 , Chat #2, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! In our podcast chats this season, we'll be optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about a potpourri of current and future topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts.In this chat we talk about Barbie, Oppenheimer, Taylor Swift, 2001: A Space Odyssey, UFOs, Charlie Chaplin, Mother Earth, and more…all receive mention and attention! Please join us on Apple, Spotify, and at picturesoutthere.com

Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series, and our first Chat of the season! In our podcast chats, we'll be optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about a potpourri of current and future topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts.As for this chat, we have Franklin Roosevelt, Dave's dad, Microsoft, George Carlin, Gaming, and a lot more…all receive mention and attention today.Who's our target audience? Any human alive today or anytime in the future, all AI life forms, any aliens out there, and the cosmos. We're inclusive here! Please join us at Apple, Spotify and picturesoutthere.com

We close Season 2 of our Pictures Out There! podcast series with an episode that summarizes our first two seasons. In these two seasons, we have made an ambitious and humble attempt to describe our best high-level answers for humanity and our world to thrive in the future.We also describe how anyone else can determine their own best life answers for the future...for their unique place in the world and for their individual lives...and we then share tools to go live that best life accordingly.Life is often unnecessarily hard and complicated. Our best unique life is actually pretty simple to figure out, by using our own Ideals, our own Pictures, and some simple Life Tools as a guide for our best unique life journeys!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com , Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites, and stay tuned for Season 3 in September!

We may have unresolved issues from our Past and Present that erroneously suggest to us that we can't imagine and work toward our truest Future dreams, our Pictures, until we have fully resolved those Past and Present issues.But creating our Pictures of the Future now actually helps us identify those Past and Present issues, and then provides us with energy to resolve them!A simultaneous Triple Track…we're working on our Past, Present and Future in harmony!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com , Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.

We live in a world that tries to pull us in a thousand different directions. In order for us to create our Pictures and live by our Ideals, we need ways to ensure that we keep our life real, while we stay in close touch with our true and unique self.What are the ways we can do that?“Trust your instincts” and “Pay Attention” are a powerful start.And wait, there's even more! Let's explore…Please join us at picturesoutthere.com , Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.

We'll model conversations that should be frequent, fun, comfortable, and happen every day among people who care deeply about the world's future.We'll jump all over the place in this chit-chat to demonstrate all the wonderful thoughts that springboard from and connect to the Pictures Out There! model!Not a “deep” or “too serious” chat, just fun and spontaneous. So, kick back, relax and join the imagination party, please!Let's explore…Please join us at picturesoutthere.com , Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.

Do we make our Choices and Decisions by “what feels good”? Probably.But what is it that makes us really feel good, now and in the future?The answer may be a surprise!Is there a new way to think about Making Choices? Making Decisions?Is there a new Picture for Making Choices and Decisions?We think so!Let's explore…Please join us at picturesoutthere.com , Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.

Fears pop up constantly in our daily lives, and in endless forms.How do we recognize our Fears, old ones and new ones, and not let them run our lives?We have a Picture for that! It's about always moving from Fear to Courage to Love and our Ideals, as we make daily choices and decisions. And making that a Habit!We can move from Fear to Courage to Love...on big choices and decisions, and little choices and decisions. Every time!Let's explore!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com , Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.

Let's continue once again to expand our own thinking by hearing from more thought leaders on the future, who also care deeply about what happens with our world!This ongoing conversation and thought stream about our world's future helps us each consider how we can help move the world toward a better place through our own lives, Pictures, and actions!Let's explore!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com , Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.

Pictures Out There! concepts and approaches can bring out the best in companies, organizations, departments, and teams…any and all groups, of any size!Let's chat about three important topics related to groups and organizations…equality, guiding principles, and change.Explore time!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.

In addition to their use for individuals and for humanity as a whole, Pictures Out There! concepts and approaches are 100% applicable to companies, organizations, departments, and teams…any and all groups, of any size!The concepts are simple to understand and easy to use for a beautiful path forward for any group to act toward their best and most imaginative dreams and ambitions.Let's explore!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.

Each of us can make all the difference!It's just math, really simple math. The impact of what we each individually can do to make the world a better place is much bigger than we tend to think!The power of one…just us!...helps solve even the biggest problems in our world. Imagine the power of one multiplied by eight billion!Let's explore! And then let's act!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.

Let's continue once again to expand our own thinking by hearing from more thought leaders on the future, who also care deeply about what happens with our world!This ongoing conversation and thought stream about our world's future helps us each consider how we help move the world toward a better place through our own lives, Pictures, and actions!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.

This is the last of a five-episode mini-series that we call “Breakthrough Pictures”.In this episode, we continue painting our Picture of the topics we will use to educate our children and youth, and that we will reinforce through lifelong learning.It's a new era for humanity, and we're ready for a big education overhaul. We can do it! Here are our ideas…our Picture!What's yours? Let's explore!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify and other major podcast hosting sites.

Today's episode is the fourth in a five-episode mini-series that we call “Breakthrough Pictures”.We're at a beautiful tipping point. We are ready for a big overhaul on education topics for our children and youth…they are ready for it, and we can do it! The sheet of paper is blank…let's draw a Picture! What should education address in order to create our very best future world, along with life satisfaction and fulfillment for all?We've got a few ideas…come take a look at our Picture! Let's explore!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify and other major podcast hosting sites.

Today's episode is the third in a five-episode mini-series that we call “Breakthrough Pictures”.Humanity often does not thoughtfully and consistently deal with mistakes that people make, including crimes. Helping victims become as whole as possible and providing perpetrators with cleansing opportunities helps both parties heal and positively move forward in their lives.Can we breakthrough to a world of where we consistently use penance as a way to heal and move forward, energized by a new Picture? Absolutely! Let's explore!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify and other major podcast hosting sites.

Today's episode is the second in a five-episode mini-series that we call “Breakthrough Pictures”. Humanity has never created equality for all people, regardless of race, culture, gender, wealth, or social standing.We are at a pivotal moment in time, a tipping point…and so here comes our Picture…The Equalist Movement!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify and other major podcast hosting sites!

Welcome to the second half of Season 2 of our Pictures Out There! podcast series!Today's episode is the first in a five-episode mini-series that we call “Breakthrough Pictures”. Humanity has never solved for equality for all, with respect to race, culture, gender, wealth, or social standing. Racism, gender bias, wealth inequality , and other forms of inequality all still exist in our world.Can we breakthrough to a world of true equality, energized by a new Picture? Absolutely! Let's explore!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify and other major podcast hosting sites.

It's the Holidays! That time of year when we are most open to loving, to helping others, and to feeling connected to everyone around the globe…Gee, that sounds like our Pictures Out There Ideals! Hmm…Ideals that we could live by throughout the year…if we chose to.How about a podcast we call “A Holiday Love Song to Love and Our Ideals”?And our hope for joy, peace and love to everyone around the world, whatever your spirituality may be!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify and other major podcast hosting sites.

Here at picturesoutthere.com, we offer models and tools to help us “break the ice” for creating our Pictures of the future!We actually call one of those the ICE model. This simple tool allows us to assess how we think and feel about ourselves Individually, how our closest Community thinks and feels about us, and what the External world thinks and feels about us.We can then decide how we can improve the dynamic among those three elements for ourselves…Individual, Community and External…and then go ICE it up through our actions and plan!So, let's explore!Please join Lee and Dave at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.