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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2021 12:21

When is the last time a conversation didn’t go well between you and someone especially important to you? Or, when was the last time you avoided a conversation that you knew you needed to have--only to have it turn into a bigger and more intense conversation later when the proverbial shit hit the fan? If you’re anything like me and most of the other humans inhabiting Planet Earth, you don’t have to go back very far in your mental files to recall that conversation that went badly or the one you avoided that came back around to haunt you. Some of the deepest regrets people experience in their last days or after losing someone they love come from wishing they’d never said that one thing or had been brave enough to say that other thing. We ARE going to die. But we’re not dead yet. Let’s take a look at how we can improve our conversations with those we love and cherish most while we still have the chance. Relationships = Conversations In my line of work, the relationship between my client and someone else important to them--like a spouse, partner, parent, or child--comes up frequently as a matter of concern, hurt, stress, or disappointment. And more often than not, in those situations the quality of the capitol-C Conversation in their relationship is suffering. In fact, our most important relationships are like one big capitol-C Conversation made up of thousands and thousands of smaller conversations over the years. That capitol-C Conversation is of course made up of the words we do say. But it’s also made up of the words we decide NOT to say and the little conversations we avoid because they’re too inconvenient or uncomfortable in the moment. What we say matters, and what we don’t say matters, too. Sometimes, there are way too many words, and sometimes there are way too few. Making It Personal Pause for a moment: Look back right now on the capitol-C Conversation you’ve had over the years with someone close to you. What’s it been like, overall? Full of honesty--sometimes to the point of doing harm? Contentious? Riddled with suspicion and one-ups-manship? Maybe it’s been playful and adventurous but sometimes lacked the gravity that it needed in order to navigate challenging seasons. Maybe one person in the relationship always “wins” and the other one always “loses.” Maybe you can honestly say that even though there have been lapses, overall the conversation has been maturing through the years. Whatever it’s been like, though, I think we can all acknowledge that there is room for growth somewhere. We’re not in pursuit of perfection. But we are in pursuit of even more substance and meaning and joy and satisfaction in the conversations that matter most, in the relationships that matter most. So that when either they or we breathe our last, we can say with conviction that we gave it everything we had. Barriers to Improving the Conversation Let’s look first at common barriers to improving the Conversation in the relationships that matter most to us. Then, we’ll explore a few ways to begin improving those conversations right away. Alright, here are two of the most common barriers to improving the Conversation that I’ve observed: Our Own Stuff: Obviously, this is a big one. Maybe we dislike conflict and just expect that any attempt to approve the capital-C Conversation will create conflict. Maybe we don’t assign enough value to what we see, think, want, or need. Or maybe we’re overwhelmed by our sense of how much time and energy it will take to turn things in a better direction. We might doubt that anything we do will make much of a difference, so why try? Past attempts to improve the conversation haven’t yielded much, so what’s the point? Those are just a few of the ways in which our own stuff can stand in the way, but there are many more, and we each have our favorite flavors. The Status Quo: We get so accustomed to relating to each other in a certain way that it’s simply easier day-to-day to just stay on the well-worn path that we know--even though that well-worn path often doesn’t lead to good destinations in your relationship. And over time, it becomes a deeply rutted path with steep sides that make getting out of it seem even more challenging. Ladies and gents, the status quo is not benign. The status quo can be a mortal enemy standing between us and the best things in life. We’ll touch on this more when we get to how to improve the conversation. Introducing The Growth Moment, with Amy K. Musson But first, I’m really excited to share something with you that has impacted me in a big way because I think it can impact you, too. And that “something” is a new podcast that MY coach, Amy Musson, has just released, called The Growth Moment. Amy is a spectacular coach with a wealth of gifting and experience, and my partnership with her has been transformational. The Growth Moment is a new way for more of us to benefit from Amy’s gifts and experience because her show literally lets us sit in on coaching conversations that she records with volunteer participants. Amy adds context and commentary to help us understand what’s happening in the coaching conversation and apply what we’re hearing to our own lives. Recently, I tuned in to The Growth Moment for the first time, and for some serendipitous reason I picked episode 3, Forget the Rules! Do it Your Way, featuring a soon-to-be-college grad named Benen. In just 30 minutes, Amy’s coaching helped Benen become more willing to trust himself and create the first steps in his post-college life. As I listened, I gradually became aware of a deep sadness within myself. And a few minutes later, I was completely surprised to find myself weeping as I shared with my wife what I’d become aware of in the course of listening to the episode. Now, I’m not a very emotional guy--not outwardly, at least. And I’ve wept like this maybe twice in the past 15 or so years. So this was NOT normal. In fact, I had connected with a deep source of grief in my own life that I wasn’t even aware existed or needed to be addressed. This episode brought the grief to light and allowed me to begin processing it. Wow. I’m SO thankful for this new awareness, because where there’s unresolved grief, there’s stuckness that’s getting in the way of becoming the person I’m made to be and living the life I’m made to live. Now obviously, as they say on commercials for medications and diet plans, “results may vary.” You might not connect with grief like I did. But I’m confident that The Growth Moment will impact you in some valuable way because in a very real sense, other people’s stories are also OUR stories. And Amy is a skilled guide helping her guests and we as the listener have fresh, actionable insights that lead to transformation. Check out The Growth Moment at thegrowthmoment.com or wherever you like to listen to podcasts. And if it makes a difference in your life, share The Growth Moment with at least one other person. HOW to Improve the Conversation Alright, so we’ve touched on two of the most common barriers to improving the capital-C Conversation with the most important people in our lives--our own stuff and the power of the Status Quo. Now, let’s turn our attention to how to improve the Conversation--things we can do starting today. This won’t be a comprehensive list, but I think the following things are high bang-for-buck and can get us all a lot further down the road. First, take responsibility for your own stuff. Do your own work. And get help if you need it. We usually lack sufficient objectivity on our own stuff to see it clearly enough to do much about it. A mentor, a therapist, a coach, or a trusted friend can help you get clearer on what’s preventing you from taking the next step in improving the Conversation and find ways to address it. Next, motivate yourself. This is critical if we’re going to shrug off the smothering influence of the status quo and create a new way forward. Envision the good things on the other side of the awkwardness and challenge of improving the Conversation. Also, allow yourself to feel the pain and regret you’d experience if you didn’t do your part to improve the Conversation when you still had the chance. And revisit the reality and inevitability of your Mortality to give you that last bit of resolve to get moving in a new direction. Then, have the little conversation now. We can pay a little now--in awkwardness, difficult emotions, etc.--or a lot later. It may feel easier to skip it for now, but that bill will come due eventually, with compounded interest. For example, maybe you feel like your spouse doesn’t communicate family calendar items to you very well. Since you’re working harder now to first take responsibility for your own stuff, you realize you’re feeling increasingly resentful about this because it can create a lot of inconvenience for you. You’re also taking new responsibility for the fact that you’ve never actually brought it up. So, the next time it happens, you break free of the Status Quo and risk having a little conversation about it in the moment instead of letting it slide by unaddressed again. Lunch & Learn One way that my wife and I have the little conversations now before they become big, hairy conversations is by having lunch together once a week. Sometimes one of us has something specific to discuss. But often, there’s no specific agenda other than creating a regular time for the little conversations to occur as needed. When we’re in this habit, the quality of our capital-C Conversation is usually much better. When we fall out of this habit, the quality typically declines, slowly but surely. Experiment with what works for you. But whatever you do, don’t put off having the little conversation now before you’re forced to have the big, hairy conversation later. Creating a capital-C Conversation with those closest to us that we’ll be proud of in hindsight is the ongoing work of a lifetime. This work compounds over time, so the investment we make in it today matters. To Sum Up... Let’s recap the key points we’ve covered. We first discussed two of the most common barriers to improving the Conversation, namely, our own stuff and the Status Quo. Then, we turned our attention to how to improve the Conversation--things we can do starting today. First, we take responsibility for our own stuff that’s getting in the way of a better conversation. Next, we motivate ourselves so we can shrug off the smothering influence of the status quo and create a new way forward. Then, we resolve to have the little conversation now. What to Expect New conversations bring new results. Sometimes, those new results are immediate and amazing. But they’re not always super enjoyable, especially at the beginning, as the other person adjusts to the new conversation, too. That’s ok. Be patient, and extend grace and the benefit of the doubt to yourself and the other person. And sometimes, it’s useful to have a professional help the two of you learn how to have the conversation more productively. That’s a smart move if you’re not finding a good way forward on your own, despite your best efforts. The goal, BTW, is not to manipulate or change the other person. The goal is to do our part to create a higher-quality, healthier, more honest, and more enjoyable capital-C Conversation overall. That Conversation is made of thousands of other little conversations over the years. And you can begin to improve it today. So resolve today to give a mighty heave and shrug off the smothering influence of the status quo, choose courage in the face of fear, doubts, and uncertainty, and resolve to do just one thing differently today. What will that one thing be for you? Remember, you ARE going to die. But you’re not dead yet. So get after it! I Can Help Helping my clients have better conversations with the most important people in their lives is a big part of what I do. I can help you do that. Connect with me on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, visit my website, or email me. Connect with Amy K. Musson Email | Facebook | LinkedIn | Website Follow Andrew Petty is Dying & Leave a Review Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Stitcher If You Liked This Episode, I Think These Will be Helpful, Too Ep. 001 | You're Dying: How to Make the Most of It Ep. 004 | Do It Now Before It's Too Late: A Raw and Unfiltered Conversation With Husband, Father, Chef, and Cancer Warrior, Patrick Ayres Ep. 012 | How to Harness the Winds of Discomfort to Get Where You Want to Go: Becoming a Seasoned Sailor on the Seas of Life Ep. 016 | The Question That Changes Everything: The Go-to Tool for Living the Life You Were Made to Live Ep. 027 | Breaking the Stuckness Stalemate: A Path to Transformation

From Fit to Well

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2021 59:37

Are you healthy? How do you know? In this episode, my guest Penney Megginson helps us redefine health and wholeness--from the inside out. Introducing Penney Megginson I met Penney when she invited me to be on her podcast, Penney for Your Thoughts, a show about how your thoughts and mindset affect your health, happiness, and performance. Preliminary conversations and my own cyber-sleuthing quickly piqued my curiosity about Penney's story. It was clear that an unwelcome and unexpected encounter with Mortality had profoundly altered her relationship to health, happiness, and performance. That in fact it had profoundly altered her relationship to Life itself. And I wanted to know more. So, I was thrilled when Penney accepted my invitation to be a guest on this show. Her story gives us insight into how we can be more aware, proactive, and meaningfully involved in the lives of those we love today--before it's too late. Penney's story also shows just how powerfully our Stories influence the way we live out our purpose in the world. In fact, as I've said many times before, I believe that our Stories and our unique purpose in the world are inseparable. Penney is an American living in Switzerland with her husband and two kids. Early in career, she focused on exercise physiology, but then began adding other specialties to her toolbag to help others achieve their peak mind and body performance--including physiotherapy, pilates, yoga, integrative nutrition health coaching, EFT, and NLP. Her encounter with Mortality further focused and accelerated her development. And this intense evolutionary energy has made her an impressively well-rounded practitioner supporting whole-person health and wellness for her clients. Today, her Story, her innate gifting, and her accumulated expertise have converged to produce the Megginson Method, a mind-training system designed to help you overcome the core reasons behind your bad habits, cravings, and self-sabotaging behaviour. Two Chapters, One Story We built our conversation on the scaffolding of two statements I found in Penney’s bio online, each of which served as entry points into pivotal moments in her Story. The first statement was this: “That was the moment that I realised that it isn’t enough to just be content. It’s really about a balance of your inner state and physical well-being.” I asked Penney to share what was going on in her life that led to that moment. And Penney shared the story of her dad’s untimely death from a heart attack--doubly sad because he died just before the birth of Penney’s first child. Key bits of this part of the conversation include: Penney’s awareness that she “should” (her word) have done more to help her dad pursue better health. For a time it was a genuine regret. We chewed on what she might have done differently and what the rest of us can do today who realize that either we or someone we love could benefit from improving our health. This experience greatly expanded Penney’s definition of “health” and led her to begin working from the inside-out with clients. Penney riffed on the nature of “stuckness” and how the key is first to take full responsibility for it and for ourselves. (I didn’t plan for all of these recent episodes to hit on the stuckness idea this much, I swear! But I’m trusting that there’s a good purpose behind it.) We compared the American and European mindsets about “exercise”--acknowledging that Europeans embrace more of a “culture of movement” while Americans “work out.” Americans get in the car to sit in traffic on the way to the gym, where we’ll run on a treadmill. Europeans find that ironic and would rather walk into town or go for a bike ride. The lines are much blurrier for Europeans between exercise and the rest of life because movement is simply more a part of their lives. I found this part especially interesting and a good wake-up call for we Americans--to slow our roll, so to speak, and break down the rigid walls between “exercise” and the rest of life. Whatever you're wanting from the other person in a relationship, give it to them 10x, because whatever you're giving to them is going to bounce back to you. Often, we throw ourselves into exercise in an attempt to avoid being alone with our thoughts and reflecting on how we’re really doing. That discussion gobbled up most of the conversation. But we hit on the second statement from her bio briefly before landing the plane: “It was then that I finally understood why so many people never achieve their goals and simply settle.” Penney explained that in the midst of training hard for a big ski touring race, she tore her ACL one day while skiing. She was so discouraged, and was tempted to throw in the towel. But she rallied, rehabbed the knee, and came back to compete in the race a couple years later. Key bits of this part of the conversation include: Deeper empathy gained for her clients, who often come to her feeling desperate and somewhat hopeless that they’ll be able to make the changes that they want and need to make. She knows better now how big of an “ask” it can be of people who have a big health hill to climb. The power of choice in those moments of discouragement and defeat. The power of a compelling “why” to find the will to move forward. This part of her story further focused and fueled the way she lives out her purpose in the world today. Today, Penney focuses less on “fitness” and much more on whole health and wellness with her clients--creating plans specific to each person’s needs and objectives and built to be do-able and sustainable. What About You? The good news about other people's stories it that the same story can mean something different to each person that hears it. Maybe Penney's story helped you gain a little bit different perspective on your own health and wellness journey. Maybe it motivated you to get even more meaningfully involved in the life of someone you love before it's too late. Maybe, it even helped you see how your own Story is pointing you to your unique purpose in the world. Any of those takeaways would be be a huge win. No matter what insights you had, though, they'll never fulfill their potential to create transformation in your life if you don't apply Action to them. What can you do today to insure that you're not the guy or gal who has an inspirational moment...only to realize a few weeks from now that that's ALL it was? All it takes is the commitment to do ONE THING TODAY. Don't wait to take that first step. Call the person who came to mind. Contact Penney to start upgrading your own mindset to achieve a greater level of whole-person health and wellness. Instead of banging out a few more emails, close the laptop and go for a walk with your significant other. Whatever you do, don't do nothing. Your life and the lives of those you love are simply too valuable and too important. By doing just one thing today, you become a little bit more of the person you were made to be and get a little closer to living the life you were uniquely made to live. Remember, you ARE going to die. But you're not dead yet. So get after it! Let’s Connect If this episode helped you, I'd love to know. Find me on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, visit my website, or email me. Connect with Penney Email | Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn | Website Follow Andrew Petty is Dying & Leave a Review Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Stitcher If You Liked This Episode, I Think You’ll Like These, Too Ep. 012 | How to Harness the Winds of Discomfort to Get Where You Want to Go: Becoming a Seasoned Sailor on the Seas of Life Ep. 016 | The Question That Changes Everything: The Go-to Tool for Living the Life You Were Made to Live Ep. 019 | The Cockpit is Yours: From Passenger to Pilot Ep. 027 | Breaking the Stuckness Stalemate: A Path to Transformation Ep. 028 | Breaking the Stuckness Stalemate (Part 2): The 5 Ingredients in the Recipe for Using Stuckness to Our Benefit, with Chad James Ep. 029 | Dragon Slayer: One Man's Tale of Heroic Life Renovation

Dragon Slayer

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2021 54:27

Scaly, fire-breathing dragons don’t roam the earth anymore. (Wait, did they ever? I, for one, like to think that maybe, just maybe, they did.) But dragons tromp around in our lives nevertheless. These dragons are harder to see but arguably just as deadly. In this episode, Scott Larson shares how he slayed a dragon he discovered lurking in his own life, stealthily and with life-suppressing intent. The whole tale looks commonplace enough from the outside, but Scott knows what it really took to deal the death blow to his personal dragon. Few things instruct and inspire us as well as another person’s Story. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then one person’s Story might be worth a million. So I was thrilled when Scott agreed to share an excerpt from his Story for our benefit. From Scott’s story, we learn how to slay our own dragons. How This Episode Came to Be Scott and I recently concluded a six-month coaching partnership. As our partnership progressed, it began to dawn on me that Scott’s Story exemplifies literally all of the concepts that I’ve shared in the short-form topical episodes of this podcast: especially becoming the boss of your fear, harnessing discomfort to get where you want to go, daring to dream again, moving from the cabin to the cockpit, hearing and heeding your Inner Voice, the contentment conundrum, and breaking the stuckness stalemate. And it also dawned on me that in addition to hearing me talk about those concepts and how they’ve worked in my life, it might be good to hear how they’ve played out in someone else’s life--and in Scott’s case, over a really short period of time, with transformational effect. Which is less of a testament to my effectiveness as a coach and more of a testament to the power of the concepts themselves when applied with the kind of honest self-examination and Courage that Scott has consistently employed. Meet Scott Larson Scott is a devoted husband and father, gifted marketing professional, and avid outdoorsman. He, his wife, and their two kids live here in Steamboat Springs--we’re neighbors, in fact--and it’s a pleasure to present a chapter from Scott’s Story to help you “see” even more clearly what I’ve been attempting to say all along. A Dream Realized...A Dream Jeopardized Scott and his family arrived in Steamboat in February 2020--chasing a dream of life in a small mountain town with the great outdoors at their doorstep. A dream that put quality of life above climbing the corporate ladder in a city they had no interest of living in. Dream realized! Sweet! Then, just a few months after arriving, Scott lost his job. Oh, and a pandemic was beginning to wreak havoc around the globe. Crap. Suddenly, the Steamboat Dream was jeopardized. Now Scott began to consider that maybe he was incapable as a man, husband, father, and professional. This was their fourth move in 5 years for work, yet another in a pattern of jobs gained and jobs lost or left. Was there something more deeply wrong with him as a person? What a tough thing to begin wondering about yourself. What a heavy accusation to level at yourself! Insight + Action = Transformation It was about that time that Scott and I began our coaching partnership to help him navigate this new and unwelcome transition. In the full episode, Scott recounts how new insights led to new actions that ultimately led to transformation. Two assessments, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the Highlands Ability Battery (HAB) “put a vocabulary to the things that I already knew, but it helped to solidify and synthesize it for me so it was something I could speak to and relate to more readily. It brought it more to the forefront of my thinking as well.” A values exercise also helped him evaluate how well his actual life aligned with his most deeply-held values. And reconsideration of how he defines success led to a major overhaul of his definition of success. Tune into the full episode to hear more. Creating an Owner’s Manual As the coaching partnership progressed, Scott began assembling a personal owner’s manual. A guide to the kind of human he is, his ideal operating conditions, and his adverse operating conditions. Three basic categories of content were populated: nature, nurture, and now. “Nature” were Scott’s default settings, and MBTI and HAB were the two primary tools used to populate that category. “Nurture” were those things Scott acquired along the way in life, intentionally or otherwise--like after-market modifications. The most important of those were acquired beliefs, like the definition of success that he decided to upgrade upon realizing that it wasn’t actually his definition of success. And finally the “Now” category: values, interests, opportunities, obligations, etc. that became key determinants in how he applies Nature and Nurture. Inner Voice + Courage = Action Then, new and improved owner’s manual in hand, Scott was faced with a moment of truth: a job offer...in a situation similar to his past gigs. But the owner’s manual wasn’t enough on its own. On the one hand, it still felt like maybe the only responsible thing to do was take the job. But he paused to tune into his inner voice with new focus and resolve to heed what he heard. And the message he heard was clear. But Courage was needed to act on what he heard, so Scott chose Courage in that moment, bet on himself, and didn’t take the job. As Scott discovered, Courage isn’t something that you have to go out and find. It’s something you choose. It’s simple on one level. But it definitely isn’t easy. And Courage is the secret sauce in Scott’s whole story. “I bet on myself, and I didn’t take the job.” This is the pivotal moment in this whole story--the moment of crisis, the moment of resolute action in a new direction. If this was a fairy tale, this would be the moment when the hero slays the dragon. It’s that big a deal. It’s THE moment when Scott moved from drafting an outline for a new chapter in his story and actually began to write it. This is THE moment when Scott went from considering taking a new path and actually began to walk down that new path. This is THE moment when Scott placed one of the best bets that any of us can ever make by betting on himself. It’s the moment when Scott quit just cutting bait and actually started fishing. What’s maybe even more significant about this moment, though, is that it was not just one big step down a new path for Scott, it was an evolutionary leap in life overall. Scott created within himself an exponentially greater capacity for change and growth and learning in this moment. Many moments and much toil and trepidation led up to this moment. Then Scott converted all of many difficult moments into powerful, positive forward momentum. This is the way, folks--not just for Scott, but for all of us. Insight + Action = Transformation, and Courage is the activating agent. What Now? Having slayed a personal dragon and begun to travel down a new path, Scott’s next challenge was to figure out what to do professionally if he wasn’t going to return to the path he’d been on before. The answers weren’t automatic, but Scott was now free to pursue them with new clarity about the kind of human he is, his ideal operating conditions, his adverse operating conditions, his true definition of success, and his most deeply-held values. Eventually, Scott decided to hang his shingle as an independent marketing consultant. And it wasn’t long after that that he secured his first client--a client that he still partners with today. Other, Less-Obvious But Incredibly Powerful Forces at Work Scott and I paused to acknowledge several other things that helped Scott successfully slay a personal dragon to access the path marked “Scott Larson’s Way.” Scott achieved a new degree of self-permission--that privilege of adulthood that many of us have a hard time grasping. When he began to give himself more permission to look at things his own way and do what he wanted to do, he started becoming even more of the man he’s made to be and living the life that he’s uniquely made to live more fully. I think more of us doing that is a very good thing--not only for our own personal enjoyment, fulfillment, and productivity, but also because a more fulfilled Scott, for example, leads to a happier husband, an even more engaged and thoughtful Dad, a more active member of the community Scott also risked a new level of self-trust--a new willingness to tune into his inner voice, hear and heed what it whispered to him about the truth of his existence, and bet on himself. And Scott assumed even more self-responsibility--putting himself more firmly in the driver’s seat of his life than ever before and accepting all of the consequences. Tune in for the Full Effect These shownotes can’t do justice to the whole conversation and the value of Scott’s story to all of us. I hope you’ll tune in to the full episode for the full effect! Also, as I mentioned at the beginning, Scott’s story exemplifies literally all of the concepts I’ve shared in the short-form topical episodes of this podcast. Tune in to those episodes for a deeper dive: Ep. 005 | How to Become the Boss of Your Fear: Bravery-building to Live With More Guts and Gusto Ep. 012 | How to Harness the Winds of Discomfort to Get Where You Want to Go: Becoming a Seasoned Sailor on the Seas of Life Ep. 014 | Dare to Dream Again: The Antidote to a Mediocre Life Ep. 016 | The Question that Changes Everything: The Go-to Tool for Living the Life You Were Made to Live Ep. 017 | Busting the “Balance” Myth: A Better Way Ep. 019 | The Cockpit is Yours: From Passenger to Pilot Ep. 022 | Tune Out to Tune In: Hearing and Heeding Your Inner Voice in a World Full of Noise Ep. 024 | My Top 5 Takeaways from 2020: How Conversations with My Guests Changes Me Ep. 027 | Breaking the Stuckness Stalemate: A Path to Transformation Ep. 028 | Breaking the Stuckness Stalemate (Part 2): The 5 Ingredients in the Recipe for Using Stuckness to Our Benefit, with Chad James Bringing It Home What part of Scott’s story could you identify with most? What part of Scott’s story inspired you the most or provoked a bit of envy? Maybe Scott’s story has stirred within you fresh resolve to take action to improve your situation in some way or pursue a dream that you’ve pushed aside for too long. Courage is the secret sauce. Courage is the catalyst that moves you from Insight to Action so you can achieve Transformation. And Courage isn’t “out there” waiting for you to find it. It’s right here, right now--waiting for you to CHOOSE it. And if you need a little extra nudge, fill your sails with the pressure of your Mortality. You really ARE going to die, and there’s no way of knowing when that day will come. But if you’re waiting for tomorrow to get moving, ladies and gents, it’s time to get honest and acknowledge that the elusive “tomorrow” never comes. There is only “today.” Take one NEW step TODAY and become even more of the person you were made to be and live even more of the life you were made to live--with guts, gusto, and abandon. Let’s Connect I hope today’s episode has been helpful and enlightening! It’d be a pleasure to connect with you. Find me on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, visit my website, or email me. Go here to learn about Graveyard Group masterminds----where we make time each week to invest in your life's most important work. Remember, you ARE going to die. But you’re not dead yet. So get after it! Follow Andrew Petty is Dying & Leave a Review Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Stitcher

Breaking the Stuckness Stalemate (Part 2)

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2021 85:07

This episode is a first for this podcast--a “part two” continuation of a previous episode. It features a fellow coach and my good friend, Chad James, and together we unpack the 5 ingredients in the recipe for using stuckness to our benefit that I shared in Ep. 027, Breaking the Stuckness Stalemate: A Path to Transformation. When I released that episode, I was vaguely aware that it felt unfinished somehow, but I couldn’t put my finger on why. Then I got unsolicited feedback from my wife and Chad that although they really liked the episode, it felt unfinished to them, too. And Chad mentioned that the five basic ingredients in the recipe for using stuckness to our benefit was the part he wanted to hear more about. That connected the dots for me on what felt unfinished and what needed to be done about it. And since I’ve been wanting to have Chad on the podcast for a while anyway, I decided to strike while the iron was hot, as it were, and kill two birds with one stone by asking Chad to join me to help land this plane that was left circling the airfield. If you haven’t already tuned in to Ep. 027, you can still listen to this one first because I summarize the big idea from that episode at the beginning of this one. But for full benefit, I do recommend listening to Ep. 027, too. It’s short and easy to digest at just 15 mins--and in it I pull back the curtain on one of my own recent episodes of stuckness on the way to making the point. Introducing Chad James Chad James is a veteran business coach with 20+ years of experience. His own experience in business and his intuitive gifting for discerning core issues, coupled with empathy, compassion,and a vast resource of tools and strategies for optimizing business and life, make Chad a highly-sought-after, highly-trusted, and valuable partner for “succeeding faster, living better, and creating the life you’ve always imagined.” He’s led an amazingly diverse and adventurous life, and he’s often picking up some new pursuit for the sake of stretching and challenging himself and embracing the “beginner’s mind” again. He has a huge heart. He brings all of who he is to his work as a coach. Chad’s also a good friend of mine and a mentor in life and business, too. In fact, he was catalytic in my development of The Graveyard Group masterminds--of which he is a founding member--and has helped me climb numerous professional learning curves more quickly than I would have on my own. The original concept out of which I developed this 2-part podcast series, “If you’re stuck, get moving,” was formulated in preparation for an event at which Chad invited me to speak. To say that he’s been influential in my life would be a huge understatement. Something New from Chad--and a Special Deal for You Chad has just launched a brand new project that I’m really excited about and I hope you’ll check out, called Mavericks--a membership-based group coaching experience that makes Chad’s wealth of wisdom, tools, and strategies available to many more than ever before, in the context of a group of others playing full-out in the game of life. I’m pumped to share that Chad’s offering Andrew Petty is Dying listeners 25% off of their first-month’s membership. Just visit carrynobrand.com, and enter the code “Andrew” at checkout. Membership is super reasonably priced at less than $100 a month, and it gives you exclusive access to Chad and his treasure trove of resources. First, a Refresher: Ep. 027 Summary If you haven’t yet tuned into part 1 of this 2-part series on breaking the stuckness stalemate, go here to tune in or read the shownotes, or read this brief summary of the main points, below: The Big Idea: If you’re stuck, get moving. Even more specifically, get moving with and through the stuckness. Other Important Stuff Supporting the Big Idea Stuck is never fun--in fact, it can actually be really painful--but stuckness is a normal and necessary part of life as a human on planet Earth. It alerts us to the fact that there’s a gap between where we are and where we want to be. And something unconscious and unknown is in our way. Stuckness is a chance to make the unconscious conscious--to generate fresh insight to which we can then apply action and achieve some sort of transformation. Because Insight + Action = Transformation. The stuckness is always there for a reason. With practice, we can learn to see the stuckness as an indicator that we’re on the brink of a new opportunity to grow and evolve. But moving through stuckness to the good stuff beyond is less like the caterpillar emerging from a caterpillar than it is like a snake shedding its skin. It takes effort and intention and time--and it’s uncomfortable. The accompanying psychological pain of stuckness is essential, though. Our desire for relief from it motivates us to do the work to get unstuck. The discomfort is necessary to produce the insights that lead to action that result in some kind of transformation. Stuckness is a guide appointed by our hearts and minds to show us the way to something even better. We have choices, of course, when stuckness shows up. Broadly speaking, we can retreat from it, stall out in the face of it, or advance through it. Neither retreating nor stalling out will produce a good result. Only advancing through it will. Here are five basic ingredients in the recipe for using stuckness to our benefit: Become familiar with your own tell-tale signs of stuckness. In my experience, some of the typical signs include irritability, distractedness, restless energy, a lack of focus, and loss of a sense of humor. Acknowledge that you’re stuck, and invite the stuckness to teach you. This acceptance will create the openness of heart and mind that allows the unconscious to be made conscious. Don’t fight it or try to muscle your way past it. Resistance or avoidance or sheer force of will makes the stuckness an enemy rather than a useful mentor. Take 100% responsibility for your stuckness. It’s your problem--no one else’s. Request help from others--friends, experts, a therapist, whomever or whatever seems appropriate to the situation--but retain full ownership of the problem and the solution. Tap into the negative energy--frustration, anger, etc.--to fuel positive forward movement through the stuckness. Finally, get moving--with and through the stuckness. So, if you’re stuck, get moving. Even more specifically, get moving through the stuckness so it can teach us what it’s there for. The more skillful we become at leveraging life’s many encounters with stuckness, the more we will milk out of this life, the more we will bring into it for our own fulfillment and others’ benefit, and the fewer deathbed regrets we’ll have. Now, Part 2! Now, without further ado, let’s jump into the meat of this episode--part 2 of Breaking the Stuckness Stalemate: The 5 Ingredients in the Recipe for Using Stuckness to Our Benefit, with Chad James! Since this part 2 episode focuses on unpacking the 5 ingredients in much greater depth and detail, I’ll organize what follows under subheadings for each ingredient. I won’t come close to capturing all of the great stuff, so tune in to the full episode for more. Ingredient 1: Get Acquainted With It Become familiar with the tell-tale signs of stuckness. In my experience, some of the typical signs include irritability, distractedness, restless energy, a lack of focus, and loss of a sense of humor. Some key points from this part of the discussion: It’s important to recognize the primary emotion you’re experiencing. Sometimes, somatic (physical) indicators appear first in times of mental (psychological) stuckness--even before we’re aware of the specific emotion. So training ourselves to become more aware of our specific “psychosomatic” early warning signs is an important part of using stuckness to our benefit. For Chad, common psychosomatic indicators are sensations in the center of his chest and tightness in his neck. This helps us avoid the instinctive “fight or flight” response to discomfort and unpleasant emotions--and move with and through the stuckness instead. We brought Steven Pressfield’s concept of Resistance--a form of stuckness--into the conversation, from his fantastic book, The War of Art. (To get the essence of this Resistance idea (and a whole lot more) w/out first reading the whole book, tune into Tim Ferriss’ recent interview with Steven Pressfield.) Chad had this to say, “I think that one of the very important concepts in taking things to the next level is understanding--not just understanding but accepting and maybe even celebrating--that Resistance is part of that journey. So as we see that Resistance, that could be an exciting moment, it could be an awesome moment, it could be an area where we go, "Oh wait, something cool's about to happen!" When we change our relationship with Stuckness / Resistance, we can learn the lesson it’s there to teach us and achieve the transformation available on the other side. The hard way--through the stuckness, for example--is often the best way. And more... Ingredient 2: Acknowledge It Acknowledge that you’re stuck, and invite the stuckness to teach you. This acceptance will create the openness of heart and mind that allows the unconscious to be made conscious. Don’t fight it or try to muscle your way past it. Resistance or avoidance or sheer force of will makes the stuckness an enemy rather than a useful mentor. Some key points from this part of the discussion: “The faster we energetically acknowledge that something is wrong...the faster we can begin to take action toward fixing it. And often that action...just has to do with moving toward it.” -Chad If I fail to acknowledge it, I start living my life in avoidance of it. So it’s still calling the shots. It’s better to just acknowledge it, deal with it, and move on. Ingredient 3: Own It Take 100% responsibility for your stuckness. It’s your problem--no one else’s. Request help from others--friends, experts, a therapist, whomever or whatever seems appropriate to the situation--but retain full ownership of the problem and the solution. Some key points from this part of the discussion: Nobody’s coming to save you--as Chad’s Air Force Colonel dad reminded him as a kid. As adults, it’s our job to self-rescue. If we expect or demand that others will fix our stuckness, we’ll get into victim territory and create unnecessary collateral damage. So I hear...not that I have any recent personal experience with this… Take responsibility first. Then enroll others to help you. Your spouse / significant other is not your therapist. Ingredient 4: Harness It Tap into the negative energy--frustration, anger, etc.--to fuel positive forward movement through the stuckness. Some key points from this part of the discussion: “Be with” the discomfort of stuckness. If we’re constantly fighting it, we can’t act our way out of it. If we didn't have some of the pain associated with these moments of stuckness, we'd lack the motivation to grow. Cognitive dissonance pulls us forward. Slow down. If we're inclined to believe that we can't slow down for an episode of stuckness, then we’re going to revisit it again later. The stuckness will recur and build until you HAVE to pay attention to it--often at a much higher cost. If we slow down, be with it, and rely on the fact that we've been here before--then we tend to put ourselves in a better place for action. And a plethora (cue The Three Amigos clip…) of metaphors to help us “see” what we’re saying--from dirtbike racing to soccer and mountain biking and flying a plane. As in these things, so in life! Ingredient 5: Take Action Finally, get moving--with and through the stuckness. Some key points from this part of the discussion: If nothing else, simply be sure to take some action, to move in some way. If you’re stuck, get moving. Good action is never wishing the problem would go away. Good action starts from the point of stuckness and moves forward from there. Action with intention toward our stuckness always solves our problem better. It’s important to act on the insights we gain from slowing down to learn what the stuckness is there for. Take action on what you learn so the insight can produce transformation. Insight + Action = Transformation. There are things we simply can’t know without taking action. You can’t pre-solve stuckness. You can’t think your way out of stuckness. You have to act your way out of stuckness. That’s It In a Nutshell. Now It’s Your Turn. With Chad’s help and over two episodes, I’ve done what I can to help us understand stuckness, upgrade our relationship with it, and use it to our benefit. Now it’s your turn. What are one or two insights you’ve gained on this topic than you can put to work in your own life right now? Break the Stuckness Stalemate in Your Own Life I hope this episode has helped you evolve your relationship with stuckness--our challenging but normal and necessary companion in life. A big part of what I do as a coach is help others move through their stuckness to achieve the transformation that’s available on the other side. I can help YOU do that. Connect with me on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, visit my website, or email me. Go here to learn about Graveyard Group masterminds----where we make time each week to invest in your life's most important work. Remember, you ARE going to die. But you’re not dead yet. So get after it! Subscribe to Andrew Petty is Dying & Leave a Review! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Stitcher Resources mentioned in this episode: The War of Art (Steven Pressfield). To get the essence of the Resistance idea discussed in this episode (and a whole lot more good stuff from Steven Pressfield) w/out first reading the whole book, tune into Tim Ferriss’ recent interview with Steven Pressfield. The Obstacle is the Way (Ryan Holiday) Connect with Chad Email | Website | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn I hope you’ll check out Mavericks, Chad’s new group coaching program! He’s offering all APiD listeners 25% off of your first month’s membership--already a great deal at less than $100/month. Go here to learn more and join, and enter code “Andrew” at checkout. If You Liked This Episode, I Think You’ll Like These, Too Ep. 005 | How to Become the Boss of Your Fear: Bravery-building to Live With More Guts and Gusto Ep. 012 | How to Harness the Winds of Discomfort to Get Where You Want to Go: Becoming a Seasoned Sailor on the Seas of Life Ep. 016 | The Question That Changes Everything: The Go-to Tool for Living the Life You Were Made to Live Ep. 017 | Busting the "Balance" Myth: A Better Way Ep. 018 | Life's 3 Big Questions: A Conversation with the Coroner Ep. 019 | The Cockpit is Yours: From Passenger to Pilot Ep. 021 | Sometimes, the Grass IS Greener: How a Familiar Bit of Conventional Wisdom Could be Holding You Back from the Life You Were Made to Live Ep. 022 | Tune Out to Tune In: Hearing & Heeding Your Inner Voice in a World Full of Noise See you next time on Andrew Petty is Dying!

Trance is Life EP 003 - Concept & Mellosun Live (05.12.2020)

Concept

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2020 120:26

Trance is Life EP 003 - Concept & Mellosun Live (05.12.2020) Podcast: https://www.mixcloud.com/Concept_DJ/trance-is-life-ep-003-concept-mellosun-live-05122020/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tracks ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Concept 01. Alexander Popov - Poem (Extended Mix) 02. Prox - Equilibrium (Extended Mix) 03. i_o - Castles In The Sky (Extended Mix) 04. Markus Schulz feat. HALIENE - Tidal Wave (Extended Mix) 05. MaRLo & HALIENE - Say Hello (Darren Porter Remix) 06. Ronski Speed & Dj T.H Pres. Sun Decade with Cari - Better Part Of Me (Extended Mix) 07. Scott Mac - Damager 02 (Binary Finary Extended Remix) 08. Giuseppe Ottaviani - Explorer (Extended Mix) 09. A.R.D.I. - Undercover (Extended Mix) 10. Will Atkinson - Rush (Extended Mix) 11. Cloudriver - After The Rain (Extended Mix) 12. Asteroid - Catharsis (Original Mix) Mellosun 01. Dalmoori - Monochrome (Intro Edit) 02. Philippe El Sisi - The Phoenix (FSOE 650 Anthem) (Extended Mix) 03. Billy Gillies - Closed Eyes (Extended Mix) 04. Super8 and Tab and Christina Novelli - Rooftops (Maarten de Jong Extended Remix) 05. Kyau and Albert - Kiksu (Extended Mix) 06. Roger Shah vs George Jema - Mountain Wave (Extended Mix) 07. Syntouch - Ray of Hope (Extended Mix) 08. Etasonic - Sunshine (Original Mix) 09. Ahmed Romel and Amir Hussain - Serenita (Hiroki Nagamine Remix) 10. Andrew GG - Glitter and Gold (Original Mix) 11. Christina Novelli - I'm ok (Allen Watts Extended Remix) 12. Miroslav Vrlik - Promised (Original Mix) Support: https://www.facebook.com/conceptdj33 Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/Concept_DJ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/concept-br

Sometimes, the Grass IS Greener

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2020 44:37

“The grass is always greener on the other side." So, don't fool yourself into thinking there's anything better out there for you. Right? Welllll… A lot of conventional wisdom--for all of its potential value--has very real limits and misuses. Are you falling prey to the limits and misuses of this particular bit of conventional wisdom? And paying a high price in fulfillment, purpose, and impact as a result? In this episode, I bring in my favorite person in the world--my wife, Charis--to unpack how the past eight years of our life have shown us how sometimes, the grass really is greener on the other side. And what it takes to KEEP it green. Does greener grass await you? This episode will help you figure out your answer to that important question. Introducing the One, the Only--My Wife--Charis Petty Charis Petty is one heck of a woman. She's fiercely loyal to those she loves. She's outrageously thoughtful and generous. She's a creative and passionate gift-giver who genuinely enjoys making the lives of those around better and brighter. She's an attentive, fun, and courageous mother of our two boys. She's a gifted real estate professional, and she's got a rocket engine for a brain. She’s REALLY wise. In fact, she's my favorite coach. She hits me between the eyes regularly with exactly what I need to hear. I've learned to defer to her far superior engineering abilities, and her situational awareness is astounding to me (who, admittedly, lacks it almost entirely, sometimes). And thank goodness, this woman is my wife, my lifelong partner-in-crime, the woman with whom I've created a family and embarked on a journey of becoming the people we were made to be and living the lives we were made to live. Oh, and did I mention that, in addition to everything I've already said about her, she's smokin' hot?? Lucky, lucky me. The Lies Behind the Truth I think there’s a fair amount of useful truth in most bits of conventional wisdom. “Bloom where you’re planted.” “Wherever you go, there you are.” “A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.” And so on. Those time-honored adages have real value in some situations. But in my opinion, and in our family’s experience over the past eight years, we can fall prey to the lies behind the truth, so to speak, if we aren’t able to see and push past the unnecessarily confining limits of these adages. For example, we can believe that just because it can be good to “bloom where you’re planted,” it’s therefore never good to plant yourself elsewhere. Or that just because “wherever I go, there I am,” it’s never a good idea to take myself somewhere else. Or just because “a bird in hand CAN be worth two in the bush,” it’s never wise to go for the two in the bush. It’s these lies that lurk behind the truths inherent in these adages that can keep us from pushing forward into a more fuller expression and experience of the life we were made to live. “If Things are Still This Way Five Years from Now…” About eight years ago, it had become abundantly clear that no amount of toil, perseverance, or grit was going to yield “green grass” for me and my family in the “yard” we were tending. I had done everything I knew to do to adapt myself to the yard--to become the kind of groundskeeper, so to speak, that could coax green grass out of that soil. I’d picked up and tried every tool I could think of to do my part. We were genuinely thankful for the life that we did have. And still, it was painfully obvious that the grass was barely sprouting, much less displaying any shade of green. Sometimes, toil over time produces good things in a person. For me though, that effort over the course of almost 14 years with very little green grass to show for it--in the ways that were most important to us--was breaking me down, not making me better and stronger. In the full episode, Charis shares what evidence she saw in me that supported this conclusion and other indicators, too. Suffice it to say, I was LESS of the man she married after years of trying to bloom where we were planted. And it was becoming unpleasant enough for our family that eventually she acknowledged to herself that if things were still this way in five years, “we” were going to have a big problem. It was during this time that adages like “the grass is always greener” and “bloom where you’re planted” haunted me. If that conventional wisdom was so full of real wisdom, then why was I so miserable? We Found Greener Grass. So Can You. Thankfully, we found a new way forward before that looming five-year mark! Eventually, with Charis’ support, the support of my first-ever coach, and the discovery that courage is a choice, I began giving myself permission to acknowledge that where we were planted was never going to produce green grass for us. We needed a change. Ep. 003, How to Become the Boss of Your Fear: Bravery-building to Live With More Guts and Gusto, tells more of that story and the single defining moment that kicked us out of the yard we were in to search for greener grass. And guess what? We found it. And so can you. With this one caveat. You too can find greener grass...if, in fact, greener grass awaits and you’re not simply trying to escape the discomfort of tending the soil and doing the work to produce greener grass right where you are. Because sometimes, remember, the old adage is right-on, and we can succumb to the lie that if I just had the yard next door, all would be well. Then you move into that yard, and guess what--the next yard over looks just a bit better than yours. And so on. That’s a recipe for chronic dissatisfaction, instability, and making only a fraction of your potential contribution in the world. I don’t think there’s really such a thing as a “geographic fix” or a “job fix” or any other “fix” we might pursue as a silver bullet for the discomforts and challenges of life. This is what the common understanding of “the grass is always greener” warns us against seeking. But I DO think, in many cases, there are such things as significant geographic “improvements” or job “improvements.” In our case, greener grass really did await. And it’s been a BIG improvement. Now the Grass Stays Effortlessly Green and Lush! Uhhh... Wouldn’t that be nice? Ain’t so. In the full episode, Charis and I unpack just how hard it has been to keep our new grass green. In fact, there are ways in which we’ve worked harder and been pushed to greater extremes in this new patch of grass than ever before. Some of our scariest moments as a family have happened in this new yard. This is one way in which the common usage of the old adage again proves true--namely, that green grass doesn’t just magically appear and stay green. But we have never--not for one nano-second--looked back with regret that we came in search of this greener grass. Because in this soil, our toil actually produces green grass. And, we’ve found, green grass yields more green grass. Both my and Charis’ professional lives have blossomed. We are both making a bigger difference in the world in ways that are clear and measurable and immensely rewarding. We’ve both found untapped potential within ourselves, learned to tolerate failure better, and become more willing to take risks. Our boys are thriving. Every day is a battle of one sort or another. But it’s a battle we’re glad to fight because we see day by day it's advancing us further into the lives we were uniquely made to live. As we’ve walked farther and farther out on the proverbial limb, step by scary step, we’ve found that the limb holds. Ha. I’ll stop there on that point--before I mix in too many other metaphors! So Was the Old Yard a Waste of 14 Years? Quite the opposite. I learned SO much in that period. The pressures from within and without provided the heat necessary to teach me some critical lessons about myself, life, and the way the world works. Absolutely invaluable lessons. I share a couple of those in the full episode. It’s another example of how our Story and our Purpose are inseparable. I don’t know that we’d be in the green grass we now enjoy--personally and professionally--if we hadn’t first tried to produce green grass in our old yard. But What About You? How’s Your Grass? If this episode is speaking to you--if something in you is stirring because you know deep down that there is greener grass for you--then Seize. This. Moment. Do SOMETHING today--even just one thing--that will get you moving in the direction of that greener grass. It’s not just for your benefit, BTW, as important as that is. When you move courageously toward your greener grass, you begin a transformation from one version of you to an even fuller expression of the person you were made to be. And that’s good for EVERYONE. Cultivate Your Greener Grass More Quickly, Together My purpose as a coach is to help you live the life you know you were made to live. I can help you find YOUR greener grass. Connect with me on Facebook, email me, or visit my website for more options. Go here to learn about Graveyard Group masterminds--where we make time each week to invest in your life's most important work. If You Liked This Episode, Check These Out, Too Ep. 003 | How to Turn Your Imperfections Into Superpowers: The Key to Unlocking Your Unique Purpose Ep. 005 | How to Become the Boss of Your Fear: Bravery-building to Live With More Guts and Gusto Ep. 012 | How to Harness the Winds of Discomfort to Get Where You Want to Go: Becoming a Seasoned Sailor on the Seas of Life Ep. 014 | Dare to Dream Again: The Antidote to a Mediocre Life Ep. 016 | The Question That Changes Everything: The Go-to Tool for Living the Life You Were Made to Live Ep. 019 | The Cockpit is Yours: From Passenger to Pilot Connect with Charis Email | Instagram | Website Remember, you are going to die. But you’re NOT DEAD YET. So get after it! Subscribe to Andrew Petty is Dying & Leave a Review! Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Stitcher

The Holy Spirit and the Christian’s Life [Ep. 200]

The Hero of the Story

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2020 25:01

Do we need the Holy Spirit's help? That's the question we're addressing on this episode of The Hero of the Story. Listen in as we discuss: The different ways Scripture tells us the Holy Spirit is at work in our livesWhy we need to properly recognize the Holy Spirit as God in the way the Bible... The post The Holy Spirit and the Christian's Life [Ep. 200] appeared first on The Gospel Project.

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There's Love Beneath the Waves

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2020 82:21

What does seven years of suffering reveal to a man about life and what matters most? This episode is a firsthand report from the front lines of intense suffering. My guest, Matt Wilks, invites us into some of the darkest moments--including his own dark night of the soul--the triumphant moments, and much more in between. Matt’s story is, of course, uniquely his. In a way, though, his story is also OUR story--the story of humans sharing the same "blue marble" of a planet for a brief span of time in the vast timeline of humanity--with all its painful lows and thrilling highs. And in Matt’s modern-day story, we find ancient wisdom for living our most fulfilling and meaningful lives as humans on planet earth. Introducing Matt Wilks Matt Wilks is a physical therapist by trade who today serves as VP and Chief Rehabilitation Officer for Sheltering Arms Institute --a cutting edge inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Richmond, VA. Matt and I met in college many moons ago, and we’ve reconnected in the past several years through a mutual friend. His wife, Amy Caroline, and their three kids live in the Richmond, VA area. And he is one high quality human being, in my book! Tune into the full episode to get to know Matt better; I think you’ll agree that he’s one high-quality human being. A Staggering Timeline of Suffering The Wilks’ family’s timeline of suffering began seven years ago, when Matt’s wife, Amy Caroline was diagnosed with melanoma. Then, his son, Hayes, was diagnosed with bone cancer and began a fierce fight for his life. Next, Matt began experiencing debilitating physical and neurological symptoms. His body was shutting down, and the possibility of ALS hung in the air. Then, almost unbelievably, Amy Caroline had another bout with melanoma, surgery to remove a benign thyroid tumor, and was diagnosed with breast cancer. Then, Matt’s dad (70) and one of Amy Caroline’s closest family members (54) received alzheimer’s diagnoses. Let that sink in. I still can’t quite wrap my brain around it. I do know, though, that this unfathomable degree of suffering brings (in my mind, at least) an immense amount of credibility to all of the lessons for living that Matt shares in this episode. Tune in to the full episode to hear Matt fill in the finer brush strokes that bring that timeline to life in human terms. Connecting Some Dots of Love and Mercy In the course of recounting Hayes’ cancer battle--which Matt identifies as the central struggle for his family during the past seven years--Matt reminded me that he, Amy Caroline, and Hayes crossed paths with my sister and brother-in-law in the very earliest days of Hayes’ cancer battle and in the midst of my brother-in-law’s own cancer battle. Holly and Brian visited with Matt, Amy Caroline, and Hayes in NYC closely following one of Brian’s major cancer-removal and orthopedic reconstructive surgeries. The comfort and encouragement that Holly and Brian shared were so deeply meaningful for Matt and his family in that moment and helped them know that they weren’t alone. Matt shares that this experience of receiving comfort from others who were suffering was repeated many times over in the course of Hayes’ cancer battle. My brother-in-law’s cancer battle had a HUGE impact on my life, too. In fact, this podcast is a direct result of how his struggle shaped me. Tune in to episode 001, You’re Dying: How to Make the Most of It for the rest of that story. There’s Love Beneath the Waves One of the most moving parts of this episode for me is Matt’s description of one of the darkest moments he experienced during Hayes’ cancer battle. He calls the experience his own “dark night of the soul”--lying in bed in the middle of the night, alone with his fears that Hayes’ cancer had come back. And in those hours, Matt searched for something--anything--that was solid and he could cling onto. He found nothing, and eventually all he could do was lie there and breathe--and “that, only barely,” he recounts. Then, he began to be aware of a presence with him, steady and unwavering, and enabling him to keep drawing breath. He found “Love beneath the waves.” The discovery of this “Love beneath the waves” has given Matt the ability to live and love with greater guts, gusto, and abandon than ever before--no matter how choppy and storm-tossed the seas are on the surface. The Beauty of Simple Moments In the midst of all the suffering, Matt has developed the habit of lying in his hammock in a certain spot in his yard, with a good book and a favorite cocktail as his companions, the breeze on his face, and the dappled sunlight filtering through the tree above him. The suffering, Matt says, has helped him to truly relish life’s good things, life’s sweet moments. In a way, even as the suffering has deepened Matt’s spiritual experience of life, it has also paradoxically amplified his appreciation for the material world. Ancient Wisdom This juxtaposition of the spiritual and the material in his own experience has made the book of Ecclesiastes one of Matt’s favorite sources for wisdom. He recognizes in its ancient lines the lessons he’s learned in his modern-day story of suffering. Other Takeaways from Matt’s Story Who am I, and whose am I? For Matt, the answers to these questions determine if we have a “rich” life or a “poor” life much more than our own interpretation of “rich” and “poor.” Receive each moment as it comes to you and for what it is--no less and no more. Don’t cling to the moments or demand that good moments last forever. Our individual stories are hid within a much larger and longer story. Our suffering connects us with the billions of humans that have suffered before us. These are some of the nuggets of ancient wisdom that bubble up for me from this modern-day tale. Tune in to the full episode to see what bubbles up for you. All is Well I’m glad to report that Amy Caroline, Matt, and Hayes are all doing much better these days. Amy Caroline’s breast cancer treatment has gone well. Matt’s symptoms have dramatically improved. And Hayes has almost reached the 5-year mark since beginning treatment, a major milestone related to his longer-term outlook. What About You? If you’re above ground and breathing, you’ve already suffered in one way or another. Maybe you’re suffering right now. You are not alone. If you’re not suffering in a particular way right now, let me be the bearer of difficult news: Suffering will come again in one form or another, sooner or later. And then there’s Death--and as Coroner Rob Ryg reminded us in episode 018, it never comes when we’re expecting it. Life isn’t all suffering and death, but as Matt mentioned in this episode, our Western “developed” cultures don’t equip us to suffer or related to Death very well. Which is one reason why here on Andrew Petty is Dying, we intentionally embrace our Mortality to find motivation to become the people we were made to be and live the lives we were made to live. If you’re suffering now, how can Matt’s story help you persevere in your suffering and find the love beneath the waves? If you’re not suffering right now, how can Matt’s story motivate you to live with more guts, gusto, and abandon now? Let’s add a little more heat: If you knew with 100% certainty that you would die 5 years from today, what would you start doing differently today? Whatever it is, DO. THAT. THING. A Powerful Partnership for Your Journey My purpose as a coach is to help you live the life you know you were made to live. I can help you leave it all out on the field of life. Connect with me on Facebook, email me, or visit my website to learn more. Check out Graveyard Group masterminds--where we make time each week to invest in your life's most important work. If You Liked This Episode, I Think You’ll Like These, Too Ep. 005 | How to Become the Boss of Your Fear: Bravery-building to Live With More Guts, Gusto, and Abandon Ep. 012 | How to Harness the Winds of Discomfort to Get Where You Want to Go: Becoming a Seasoned Sailor on the Seas of Life Ep. 014 | Dare to Dream Again: The Antidote to a Mediocre Life Subscribe to Andrew Petty is Dying on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, & Stitcher, and leave a review!

How Witches Move Forward into a New Chapter of Life Ep. 105

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2020 4:32

How Witches Move Forward into a New Chapter of Life Ep. 105

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Trance is Life EP 002 - Concept & Mellosun Live (07.11.2020)

Concept

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2020 118:35

Trance is Life EP 002 - Concept & Mellosun Live (07.11.2020) Podcast: https://www.mixcloud.com/Concept_DJ/trance-is-life-ep-002-concept-mellosun-live-07112020/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tracks ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Concept 01. Protoculture - Go (Extended Mix) 02. DIM3NSION - Outstanding (Extended Mix) 03. Eco & Mike Saint-Jules - Azure 2020 (Extended Mix) 04. Above & Beyond - Diving Out Of Love (Extended Mix) 05. Super8 & Tab ft Colin Smith - Hurricane Love (Extended Mix) 06. Alex Sonata & TheRio ft Gid Sedgwick - Awakening (Extended Mix) 07. Ahmed Helmy - The Space ID (Extended Mix) 08. Stoneface & Terminal - Consoon (Extended Mix) 09. Radion6 - Venus (Extended Mix) 10. Somna & LTN - Heatwave (Extended Mix) 11. Claus Backslash - Mental Flow (Extended Mix) 12. Armin van Buuren - Sail (HamzeH Extended Remix) 13. Darkness Falls - Manticore (Extended Mix) Mellosun 01. Black - Locomotive (Intro Mix) 02. Shogun ft. Emma Lock - Save Me (Ilya Soloviev Remix) 03. Elles de Graaf - Mind of The Wonderful 2018 (Sunset Remix) 04. Zenfire - Violet Horizon (Original Mix) 05. Poolside - Which Way To Paradise 06. Med vs Neil Ramford - Last Stand (Arctic Moon Remix) 07. Veracocha - Carte Blanche (Jay Flynn Remix) 08. Andy Elliass & Arczi - End Of Story (DreamLife Remix) 09. Matthias Bishop - Sunbeam (Tycoos Extended Remix) 10. Van Der Karsten & Stereo Amp Surfer - Arcade (Extended Mix) 11. NyTiGen & Ruslan Borisov - Culmination Support: https://www.facebook.com/conceptdj33 Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/Concept_DJ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/concept-br

The Cockpit is Yours

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2020 12:23

On the flight path of your life, what keeps you from reaching your desired destination most often? There’s one culprit that all of us can relate to in one way or another at one time or another. And it’s time to deal with it. A Story to Set the Stage I plopped down in my aisle seat and breathed a sigh of relief. It was a tight connection between flights, and the sweat beading on my brow was evidence that I had hustled to make this one. I even had to pass up Chick-Fil-A in the food court to make it. I HATE missing a chance to eat Chick-Fil-A. But, I acknowledged very maturely, that’s a first-world problem, and my podcast IS about avoiding deathbed regrets and living my best life now. Missing Chick-Fil-A once surely won’t make the list of things I regret when the grim reaper comes to collect my bones. Again, I congratulated myself--very mature and reasonable of you. I’m really practicing what I preach! As the cabin crew conducted their final checks before departure, I glanced around like most of us do to get the lay of the land, people-wise. Any toddlers likely to vomit without warning, scream inconsolably, or kick the back of my seat for the whole flight? Nope. Nice. Any unrepentant extraverts just waiting for me to unwittingly meet their gaze so they could engage me in hours of uninterrupted, stream-of-consciousness small talk? Hmm, none that I can detect. But keep your guard up, I told myself--they’re growing stealthier every day. (Apologies to all the extraverts out there, BTW. No offense meant. Just the honest internal dialog of an introvert desperate seeking some sweet, sweet “I” time, as my extraverted wife and I call it.) As my own pre-flight people check continued, my gaze landed on the occupant of the aisle seat just opposite me. Her attire instantly identified her as a member of the flight crew--or at least a member of a flight crew. Another few seconds of quick--and hopefully not too creepy--peripheral scanning of her attire told me that she was, in fact, a pilot. She had just started casually browsing through a People magazine--the kind of brainless reading that a lot of us indulge in when traveling by air. Just something light and amusing to pass the time, we tell ourselves. This was one of those moments when my introversion masquerades as extraversion--my curiosity compelling me to create a conversation that I ordinarily wouldn’t if nothing about the person had stood out to me. But I’ve always felt like a starry-eyed kid in the presence of pilots and soldiers and firefighters--people who do things on a daily basis that, from my perspective require unusual skill and courage and whose actions have huge life-and-death consequences on a routine basis. “Are you deadlegging?” I asked, leaning into the aisle a bit and converting my mildly creepy peripheral scanning into an intentional attempt to engage. I also secretly hoped that “deadlegging” was the right term--one I thought I’d heard used before by flight crews referring to catching a ride as a passenger on one flight to make it to another flight when they would be on duty. “You mean deadheading?” she corrected. “Oh, heh,” I chuckled. “Yeah, that’s it.” Damn it, Petty, I thought, that’s what you get for trying to borrow another profession’s lingo like it was your own. “No,” she replied. “I’m working this flight.” My confusion must have been obvious, because she followed up with, “Why do you ask?” “Well,” I started, “I thought your uniform meant you’re a pilot, but I guess I was wrong. Are you an instructor or evaluator or something?” “Nope, I’m the pilot.” “Wait. The plane can fly itself? With you sitting back here?” I asked, wavering between disbelief, confusion, and amazement. “Oh no,” she replied. “Technology’s amazing these days, but this aircraft still needs me to get us all where we’re going.” “Soooo…Ok, I’m super confused,” I confessed. “You’re the pilot. The plane can’t fly itself to our destination, but you’re sitting here in the cabin with the rest of us. What am I missing?” “Huh,” the pilot responded. “Weird. I guess when you put it that way, it does seem kind of strange. Maybe I’d better go check on things in the cockpit.” With that, and a bit of a startled look in her eye, she got up and began to make her way to the cockpit. An Identity Crisis Ok, full disclosure, if it’s not already obvious: The story I just told you never actually happened. But it sets the stage for the question I want us all to consider today. And here it is: Are you sitting in the cabin when you should be in the cockpit? Because here’s the thing: Each of us IS in fact the pilot of our own lives, whether we’re more often found seated in the cabin or in the cockpit. By definition, no one else CAN be the pilot of our lives. Maybe like me, you believe that a Higher Power is making your flight possible in the first place, intervening at critical junctures, and orchestrating your flight path from start to finish--like cosmic Air Traffic Control. Even so--even if you appeal to and depend upon a cosmic Air Traffic Control--only you can throttle up the engines of your life, point your plane in the direction you want to go, and take off. But many of us spend way too much time sitting in the cabin with the passengers--ignoring or hiding from our pilot’s duties. And when our “flight” is delayed or lands at the wrong airport or hits unexpected turbulence, we point the finger at everyone but ourselves. Do you see yourself in your pilot’s uniform when you look in the mirror? Or have you demoted yourself to passenger and left the cockpit empty? It’s time to promote yourself, and move from the cabin to the cockpit--where you really belong. MY Identity Crisis It takes one to know one, as they say. I spent many years unaware that I was wearing a pilot’s uniform and had full access to the cockpit. I spent a lot of time looking for OTHER pilots to fly my plane--my parents, mentors, friends, therapists--all the while failing to realize that the pilot I was looking for was me. That pattern persisted well into adulthood. It was flying under the radar in my life--undetected, but wreaking havoc on my flight plan all the same. There are a lot of factors that led to me adopting that MO in life. Things from my childhood, some of the ways that I’m hardwired, my lifelong coexistence with Anxiety, etc. None of those are excuses, though--just factors that I allowed to shape me into more of a passenger than the pilot of my own life. And it’s less important that I understand all of the factors than that I take the steps necessary to promote myself to my proper position as Pilot. Bonus Thought / Quick Rabbit Trail Quick sidenote: I love the title of Tony Robbins’ autobiographical documentary--I’m Not Your Guru, because I think, implied, is this subtitle: Be Your Own Guru. That’s what I’ve discovered--my search for someone to play a guru role in my life got in the way of finding and following my unique flight path in this life. It’s great to seek counsel--to consult a navigator, a co-pilot, to communicate with Air Traffic Control--but in the end, only I can actually fly the plane. Ancient Origins My personal take on the origins of this passenger / Pilot problem also includes an observation about human nature that is at least as old as the biblical story of Adam and Eve. Regardless of how you relate to that story--as historically accurate, just a useful moral teaching, pure myth, or something else--I think it’s super enlightening that when God first confronted Adam and Eve for their violation of His commands, Adam’s immediate response was that Eve made him do it. “Hey look,” he’s claiming, “this lady--that YOU made, BTW, God--this lady is the pilot of the crazy plane that got us in this spot in the first place. She’s the one to blame! I was just a passenger!” “Oh really?” I can hear God thinking, amused. “So you’re just a poor little passenger on a crazy plane flown by a crazy pilot that you didn’t even ask for in the first place, huh? Poor little helpless Adam!” Then Eve takes picks up the “poor me” baton and continues with the nonsense: “The serpent tricked me, God! ME! Poor little trusting Eve! That vile serpent--that YOU created, BTW, God--IT told me it would be ok.” It’s easy to look at that story and go, “C’mon Adam and Eve, you knew what you were doing. Stop trying to shift the blame.” It’s easy to see through this same blame-shifting strategy when one of my boys blames his brother for why he hasn’t yet brushed his own teeth. It’s a little harder to see it in ourselves, though. Because OTHER people may do that--and come to think of it, I see it all the time--but I certainly don’t play that game. Ha. Really? I’m not looking for a debate on the origin and validity and value of the story of Adam and Eve. I AM asking you to look at the world around you and to peer deeply into yourself and see if you don’t bump into the same blame-shifting, self-demoting, self-protective impulses at work. Keeping you and others you know from fully assuming their proper role as Pilot of their own lives. And folks, this passenger mindset keeps us from flying the one and only life we’ve got as beautifully, as creatively, as far, and as high as we can. Man, I think that’s a tragedy. My Promotion from Passenger to Pilot A turning point for me came when I encountered a psychological framework called Transactional Analysis. This framework landed on my mental runway at just the right time--thank you, Air Traffic Control. I’m not a psychologist or a son of a psychologist, but the quick and dirty description of Transactional Analysis is a way of understanding social interactions between people and evolving toward healthier patterns of relating. A specific application of Transactional Analysis, though, called the Drama Triangle, was the proverbial mirror that allowed me to see myself for the first time as a Pilot masquerading as a passenger. And wow--it was a shock. After the initial shock wore off--think weeks, not minutes, hours, or days, merely--I began to take some of my first intentional steps up the aisle of the cabin toward the cockpit. Today, I’m more fully situated as Pilot in the cockpit of my life. And the view and the ride are WAY better up here. I’ll admit it can be a bit more nerve-wracking up here, too. We don’t get to sit in the Pilot’s seat without also seeing the instruments that report systems’ status and the distant flash of lightning in our flight path. Unlike the passengers, though, as Pilot, we have the freedom and the power to respond to instrument warnings and storms on the horizon. Passengers can only hang on for the ride. Are You a Passenger or the Pilot? Do you need to promote yourself from passenger to Pilot? You can take that first step today by simply acknowledging that fact. That’s your first step up the aisle toward the cockpit. Don’t stop until you get there. And once you get there, fly the plane of your life with all the skill, guts, gusto, and abandon that you can muster. The Flight Path from Here I HIGHLY recommend checking out the Drama Triangle--for your own evolution and the wellbeing of your most cherished relationships. It rocked my world in the best possible way. Here’s a good place to start. If you have realized that you need to promote yourself from passenger to Pilot, first of all, know that you’re not alone! And, I can help you. I’ve made the transition myself, and I work on it with my clients every week as they become the people they were made to be and live the lives they were made to live. Email me, message me on Facebook or Instagram, or visit my website for more options. If This Episode Helped You, Listen to These, Too Ep. 005 | How to Become the Boss of Your Fear: Bravery-building to Live With More Guts and Gusto Ep. 012 | How to Harness the Winds of Discomfort to Get Where You Want to Go: Becoming a Seasoned Sailor on the Seas of Life Ep. 014 | Dare to Dream Again: The Antidote to a Mediocre Life Remember, you ARE going to die. But you’re not dead yet. So get after it! Subscribe to Andrew Petty is Dying on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, & Stitcher and leave a review!

Trance is Life EP 001 - Concept & Mellosun Live (03.10.2020)

Concept

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2020 122:14

Trance is Life EP 001 - Concept & Mellosun Live (03.10.2020) Podcast: https://www.mixcloud.com/Concept_DJ/trance-is-life-ep-001-concept-mellosun-live-03102020/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tracks ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Concept 01. Armin van Buuren feat. Sharon Den Adel - In And Out Of Love (ilan Bluestone & Maor Levi Extended Remix) 02. Dennis Sheperd - Hamsa (Extended Mix) 03. Sander van Doorn - I Dream (Extended Mix) 04. Stratos Kokotas - Komorebi (Original Mix) 05. DJ T.H. - Leonie (Beatsole Extended Remix) 06. Dan Thompson - Amnesia (Original Mix) 07. David Gravell & Corti Organ - Bliss (Extended Mix) 08. System F - Out Of The Blue (Ilan Bluestone Extended Remix) 09. Will Atkinson - Last Night in Ibiza (Extended Mix) 10. Dan Thompson, Arjans - Stratosphere (Extended Mix) 11. Andy Elliass, Artra & Holland, ARCZI - Confession (Extended Mix) 12. MarLo x Triode x HALIENE - Castles In The Sky (Extended Mix) 13. 4 Strings - Take Me Away (Into The Night) (Original Vocal Mix) [2001] Mellosun 01. Katrik & Sandro Mireno - Amore Mio (Intro Mix) 02. Roger Shah prs. Leilani - Eternal Time (Extended Uplifting Mix) 03. Hasso Christoph - Mirage Island (Original Mix) 04. Paul Steiner - Only With You (Original Mix) 05. Andy Elliass - Way to Paradise 06. Martin Rogowsky - Mystical Night (Tranceye Remix) 07. Med vs Neil Bamford - Last Stand (Arctic Moon Remix) 08. Zenfire - Violet Horizon 09. Volmax - I Need You (R3dub mix) 10. Raphael Bennett - Solicitude (Dave Cold Remix) 11. Eric Senn - Together as One (Emotional Mix) Support: https://www.facebook.com/conceptdj33 Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/Concept_DJ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/concept-br

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How Goddess Teaches Us to Flow with Life Ep. 90

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2020 4:40

How Goddess Teaches Us to Flow with Life Ep. 90

A Brief Meditation: Goddess Help Me Find My Next Chapter of Life Ep. 79

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2020 6:00

A Brief Meditation: Goddess Help Me Find My Next Chapter of Life Ep. 79

10pm Startup Talks | An Entrepreneur's Journey of Entrepreneurship & Life

YOU are the most most important person of your LIFE | Ep.1 Personality Development

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2020 13:02

YOU are the most most important person of your LIFE | Ep.1 Personality Development --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/balajirao/message

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Widovski - Closer To Oneness [feeder sound open call]

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2019 58:57

Listen to the applications received in the feeder sound OPEN CALL for DJs and producers & VOTE on https://www.feeder.ro/2019/08/25/vote-sound-open-call/ Widovski – Closer to Oneness Set description: "This is not a set, this is a journey we're taking into a stormy night, set in the midst of summer. It begins slowly, through the woods, with a melancholic and calming atmosphere, emerging roughly in the windy part of the night. As we move along, the wind starts to lose control, becoming chaotic and fearful only to find that the storm becomes unexpectedly quiet and chilly, slowly pushing the moon aside, just to bring it to its rightful place. In the end, it turns out to be a blissful morning filled with sunshine, drifting you into the rays of sun with your special person." About Widovski Widovski is a name that was built in time, slowly but surely. It's an entity, an idea that I want to express through music (and soon through other different art forms). I started creating and expanding more thoroughly about 4 years ago when everything around didn't quite have a sense of reality and decided that my purpose as an artist was to change that. My goal is to bring a sense of something to everyone, It might not be needed now, but it will surely be needed tomorrow. Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/widovski Current city: Timișoara, România

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Why Consistency Beats Intensity in Business and in Life | EP 554

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2019 6:56

In this episode, David and Tim talk about Why Consistency Beats Intensity in Business and in Life The post Why Consistency Beats Intensity in Business and in Life | EP 554 appeared first on WP Gears.

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EP. 53: TANNER SMITH

COFFEE + PEOPLE Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2019 59:28

Tanner Smith is a Worship Leader and the School of Ministry Director at Calvary Church in Houston, Texas. I drove down to Houston and met up with Tanner in his office at Calvary Church. We drank coffee from Pearland Coffee Roasters and had a conversation about why church is important to him. We talked about his EP Death and Life and the whole process of writing and recording music. Tanner is so encouraging and genuine and really cares for people. He is a husband and father and a surfer. He does everything. @TANNERDALTONSMITH Death and Life EP: https://open.spotify.com/album/66tpfFdSsmVtnX4c1BeWyt?si=fcyWj5zJQwWhQff82GKa7Q TRADE COFFEE http://trdcfe.me/ketchsmith CODE: ketchsmith 50% OFF COFFEE + PEOPLE MERCH: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=ketch+smith RATE, REVIEW, and SUBSCRIBE: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/coffee-people-podcast/id1335201813?mt=2 Music: Drifter by Hippie Sabotage

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Downsize your Home and your Life: Ep. 157

Rock Your Retirement Show

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2018 34:36

Do you need to downsize your home? What about downsizing your life? Why are these things beneficial as we retire? We are re-releasing our episode about downsizing. Our guest is Kathy Gottberg, a published author of six books along with numerous magazine articles. On her blog, SMARTliving365.com, Kathy explores ideas and experiences to help create […] The post Downsize your Home and your Life: Ep. 157 appeared first on Rock Your Retirement.

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How to Strengthen Yourself and Withstand the Storms of Life Ep. 14

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2018 5:44

How to Strengthen Yourself and Withstand the Storms of Life Ep. 14

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An Antidote to Activist Burnout

Bossed Up

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2018 5:25

When working on behalf of the causes you care about most, the highs are sky-high, and the lows are devastating. How do you keep your soul intact? Today’s episode is all about that. Read a full transcript of today’s show here Course: Bossed Up for Life Ep 29: How to Make Work-Life Balance the Norm Listen to Another Round here Got a career conundrum you want me to cover on the podcast? Or a #bossmove of the week to share? Call and leave me a voicemail NOW at 910-668-BOSS(2677).

90: LIFE | Electric Scooters, Highs/Lows of Being a Father, the Upcoming Logan Paul Fight & MORE

Box 'N Life Podcast - Life In & Out Of The Boxing Gym

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2018 33:47

• The “booming” electric scooter business…genius or a lawsuit waiting to happen? (2:31) • Tony’s Recommendation of the Week: Four Sigmatic. (7:47) • The emotional highs/lows of being a father and his experience taking daughter to birthday party on Rodeo Drive. (10:12) • When you die, what would you do with your body? (13:20) • Tony shares his new obsession, The Staircase. (14:55) • The Box N’ Burn Academy is heading to Australia! Tony opens up about the growth of the business, being in control and what gets him excited about the future. (15:47) • Tony recaps their course in San Jose, the importance of building relationships and their Korean Spa experience. (19:40) • Would you be down to see Tony train Logan Paul for his upcoming fight??!! The importance of not being shy and “If you don’t ask, you will never get anything.” (23:45) • Why you need to brand yourself as a business and ALWAYS be professional on social media. (26:56) • Come see Tony at the RISE: Fitness Business Conference in San Jose, CA. (29:07) • Question of the Week: What should Tony do with his stock money? (31:29) Related Links/Products Mentioned • Box N’ Burn Academy - https://boxnburnacademy.com/ **Code “BoxNBurn2018” save $100 at checkout** • Bird - https://www.bird.co/ • Lime - https://www.limebike.com/ • Bird scooters are ruining Venice - http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-jackson-bird-scooter-20180515-story.html • Santa Monica tells scooter companies: OK, you can stay — but there are new rules - https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2018/06/18/santa-monica-tells-scooter-companies-ok-you-can-stay-but-there-are-new-rules/ • Four Sigmatic | Shroom Room - https://us.foursigmatic.com/pages/shroom-room • Box N’ Life Ep 75 – Tero Isokauppila - https://www.boxnlifepodcast.com/podcast • The Staircase | Netflix Official Site - https://www.netflix.com/title/80233441 • Logan Paul & KSI Square Off Face To Face At Their Boxing Match Press Conference 6.16.18 - https://youtu.be/M5e6AmGBkks • RISE: Fitness Business Conference - https://www.attendrise.com/ • Acorns - Invest Your Spare Change - https://www.acorns.com/ People Mentioned • Tero Isokauppila (@iamtero) • Instagram • Ben Greenfield (@bengreenfieldfitness) • Instagram • Logan Paul (@loganpaul) • Instagram

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Yah & The Dabbers - The Concious Chillcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2017 14:59

EP:14/ Much Love Peace and Unity • EP:15/ Awareness of Life • EP:16/ Ganja Talk (GreenThumbDabbers Potcast)