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After Hurricane Helene’s floodwaters nearly destroyed his small North Carolina town in 2024, a pastor noticed an inspiring pattern. As he struggled to answer the persistent question, “What do you need?” donations kept showing up exactly when he needed them. Phone chargers? Out of the blue, a man drove up with a generator, creating a charging station at the church. Drinking water? Suddenly, pallets of water bottles arrived. Coincidence? The Bible points us to God, not mere happenstance. “My God will meet all your needs according to the riches of His glory in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19). The promise might seem empty to a town nearly demolished by a thirty-foot wall of raging water. But Paul, who was in prison when he offered this encouragement, was no stranger to hardship. Paul was writing to the church in Philippi to thank them for badly needed financial gifts. Except for them, he’d been neglected (v. 15). But God used them to meet his needs. So, His words shined a bright light on God who provided the “riches of His glory” found in Christ Jesus our Savior, in whom we have “every spiritual blessing” (Ephesians 1:3). Joy, peace, truth, salvation are among the needs He richly provides. In kindness as well, He’ll provide a drink of water too, if that’s what we need. What a loving, generous God.

Our friend Richard Hatem is taking his Paranormal Bookshelf on the road! The Light in the Dark Tour 2026 is an all new live show playing six cities in seven days, September 13th through 19th, and it winds up at the Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Richard and Susan Lambert will be at the festival both days selling Mothman and podcast merch, and on Saturday night, September 19th, he's performing an episode of the podcast picked especially for Point Pleasant.Hear Scott and Rich talk about the tour in his most recent post on the RHPB feed:SpotifyApple PodcastsTour Dates and TicketsSunday, September 13: Storm Crow Manor, Toronto, ONMonday, September 14: Padraigs Brewing, Minneapolis, MNTuesday, September 15: The Red Lion Pub, Chicago, ILWednesday, September 16: B Side Lounge, Cleveland Heights, OHThursday, September 17: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (FREE SHOW!)Saturday, September 19: Trinity UMC Community Center, Point Pleasant, WV (The Mothman Festival)More from RichardAll Tour Dates and TicketsRichard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf on Apple PodcastsRichard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf on SpotifyParanormal Bookshelf MerchThe Mothman FestivalTickets for every show but Carnegie Mellon (which MAY not require them, TBD)  are at richardhatemsparanormalbookshelf.com/events, or search Richard Hatem on Eventbrite. Come out and see Richard do his thing!

Covino & Rich bring the laughter & great sports topics! They have another really fun week for you... here are some of the best moments! Enjoy your sports & Netflix weekend! Make sure to join the C&R Show LIVE on Monday, PM Drive @ 5pm EST, on FOX Sports Radio! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

C&R have a fun Friday for you, starting their Wild experience trying to watch Niners/Raiders last night! Rich does his very best to defend all the negative noise surrounding the Niners this preseason! He also gets carried away banging on the Seahawks upcoming schedule. The crew is not buying it! The guys talk some MLB, & the NFL Pro Bowl; what else in sports & life needs to die? Plus, 'BRAINWAVE' brings the laughter, & 'WEEKEND HOBNOBBING' gets your streams set!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Covino & Rich talk some crazy MLB facts, & the NFL Pro Bowl! What else in sports & life needs to die? Plus, 'BRAINWAVE' brings the laughter, & 'WEEKEND HOBNOBBING' gets your streams set!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

C&R have a fun Friday for you, starting their Wild experience trying to watch Niners/Raiders last night! Rich does his very best to defend all the negative noise surrounding the Niners this preseason! Plus, he gets carried away banging on the Seahawks upcoming schedule. The crew is not buying it! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, Dan, and MBD discuss the Democrat's denouncement of Hasan Piker, Meta's $18 billion settlement, and the Flock camera controversy. Editor's Picks: Rich: John Puri's piece, “Data Centers Use Little Water, So Where Does It All Go?” Charlie: Ross Douthat's Farewell column, “Reflecting on 20 Years as NR's Film Critic” Dan: The Editors' most recent about the Iran War, “Is Trump Prepared to Dig In on Economic War Against Iran?” MBD: Charlie's piece, “Spare America from the ‘Noblesse Oblige' of This DSA Duchess” Light Items: Rich: Attended a Marlins game in South Florida Charlie: Rewatching the show, Foyle's War Dan: Listening to a Star Trek podcast MBD: Kids are getting into the sport, hurling Sponsors: VaerCatholic CharitiesProfit from the Profit by David L. Bahnsen This podcast was edited and produced by Lauren Veldhuizen. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

#745: A friend once asked Sahil Bloom how often he saw his parents. About once a year, Sahil said. How old are they? Mid-60s. His friend did the math out loud. If they live to 80, you'll see them 15 more times. Sahil was 30, living in California and making great money at a venture fund. Within 45 days of that conversation, he quit his job, sold his house and moved across the country to be near family. He's now managing partner of SRB Ventures, an early-stage fund backing more than 60 startups, and he writes The Curiosity Chronicle, a newsletter read by millions. His book, "The 5 Types of Wealth," is a New York Times bestseller. His framework starts with a scoring problem. Financial wealth gets measured every day. Time, social, mental and physical wealth run in the background, unmeasured, until something forces you to look. You'll get exercises for each. Build an energy calendar that tracks which activities charge you up and which drain you. Map your relationships by how healthy and how frequent they are. Ask what your family and your community need from you. Define what "enough" means in dollars, then write the number down. Sahil also walks through anti-goals — the things you refuse to sacrifice on the way to a goal — and Memento Mori, the Roman habit of keeping your own death in view. Two questions run underneath all of it. Think about how you spent yesterday. Would your 10-year-old self be impressed? Would your 90-year-old self? You don't experience all four seasons in a single day. Sahil argues your life runs on seasons too. Some stretches call for financial growth. Others call for family. Find Sahil at the5typesofwealth.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Radio host Rich Davis & actor Doug Budin join Jeff & Shane to talk about Doug's double date and a colleague's resting b*tch face. Plus, Rich thinks Jeff & Doug's relationship bears a striking resemblance to a popular cartoon duo.  • • •  Want more Jeff Lewis? Click here to sign up for 3 free months of SiriusXM and listen weekdays to "Jeff Lewis Live" from 12-2pE/9-11aP on Radio Andy Channel 102. Plus, tune into The Jeff Lewis Channel for even more Jeff content streaming exclusively on the SiriusXM app channel 789. • • •  Host - Jeff Lewis Guests -  Rich Davis, Doug Budin, & Shane Douglas Vice President - Tim Johnson Senior Directors - Lisa Mantineo & Alyssa Heimrich Senior Producer - Jamison Scala Associate Producer & Editor – Oscar Beltran Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The dynasty offseason never really slows down. Rich Dotson and Garret Price answer listener questions covering rookie risers, roster construction, future draft classes, and how contenders should attack the running back market. Listen to This Episode:

WHAT IS WRONG WITH RICH BERRA?! The update you didn't know you needed BUT FIRST What happens when you encounter a WOLF? Also, I KNEW IT WAS OVER WHEN... & SOMETHING TERRIBLE HAPPENED BUT YA MADE OUT ANYWAY! Plus. Lexy speaks Spanish and her Boyfriend's HISPANIC FAMILY DOES NOT KNOW! Not to mention we have NEW MUSIC FRIDAY! All of this and MUCH MORE INCLUDING REMEMBER THE TIME & HOW PAYTON WAS THROWN OFF HER ROUTINE DUE TO JESUS (her turtle) HAPPY FRIDAY!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rich and Jim sit down with Nashville drummer, producer, and drum tech Jeff Brown (Shrug Sound Studio) for a deep dive into a working musician's reality: from opening for Rush and Van Halen to teching the Taylor Swift Eras Tour, tuning for stadiums, building a home studio career, and navigating divorce, burnout, and late-bloomer success.Jeff shares stories from early days in Anaheim clubs, cruise ship gigs at 18, Nashville's legendary 12th & Porter era, and playing with artists like Phil Vassar, Thomas Rhett, Steel Magnolia, Tom Kiefer, and more. He also breaks down hybrid drumming on massive pop tours, practical tuning approaches, remote session workflows, and why drum techs are part mechanic, part therapist.Timed highlights:00:00 The porta-potty on stage, bar hangs, and touring creature comforts06:20 Foreigner at the Ryman: Kelly Hanson's retirement and Luis stepping up to sing14:30 Meeting Jeff Brown: Anaheim roots, moving to Nashville in '93, and the 12th & Porter scene21:40 Dreaming in English: publishing deals, opening for Rush, Weezer, and Van Halen30:10 Studio work and Shrug Sound Studio: home recording since 2010 and mic choices36:45 Simple drum recording setups and the Yamaha EAD10 for social content44:00 Cruise ship gigs at 18: long sets, bad charts, and learning to memorize51:30 From player to drum tech: Tom Kiefer, Kevin Murphy, and landing the Taylor Swift Eras Tour1:02:00 High-pressure teching: triggers, MainStage, redundancy, and that one snare mistake1:11:20 Tuning philosophy: coated vs clear heads, tom intervals, and consistency on tour1:19:00 Influences: Rush, Stewart Copeland, Herb Alexander, Jimmy Chamberlin1:27:10 Making people feel it: driving the band, backbeats, and keeping songs fresh1:36:30 Drum tech as psychologist: honest feedback, compliment sandwiches, and road life1:45:00 Managers, rates, and word-of-mouth: the business of remote sessions and mixing1:54:00 Mixing, producing, and Andrew Scheps: falling in love with the mix process2:01:30 AI, samples, and the future of music work2:08:00 Writing with his dad, getting humbled, and grieving the “band” dream2:15:30 Late bloomers, ergonomics, posture, and playing pain-free into your 50s2:23:00 Social media, tech tips, and why documenting the studio process matters2:30:00 New goals: sync music, instrumental releases, Shrug snare samples, and upcoming toursLinks:The Rich Redmond Show:www.therichredmondshow.transistor.fmPodcast Filmed and Produced by:https://itsyourshow.coRich's intensive:https://drumtensive.comJeff Brown – drums, studio, and merch:https://jeffbrowndrums.comShrug Sound Studiohttps://shrugsoundstudio.com

Rich Aurilia joins the show to discuss the biggest things the Giants should be looking for down the stretch of this 2026 season. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's episode of One Nation Radio, Rich and James discuss: - The Starlight Kid vs Rina 5 Star Grand Prix Final. (6:37) - AEW All In preview. (30:51) Links: Rich's 81 Over 83 Freestyle = https://youtu.be/xfJsC4ppzdY?si=_e_DlsK86ZiHvKz1 RLPW youtube channel = https://www.youtube.com/@RichLattaProWrestling 2025 FOH Draft = https://payhip.com/b/qAdbZ One Nation Radio's solo feed = https://feeds.redcircle.com/a62af968-f870-4e29-b2f5-3d3543382475ONR Live Twitch = https://www.twitch.tv/richlatta #STARDOM #AEW GET OFFICIAL SOCIAL SUPLEX PODCAST NETWORK GEAR FROM PRO WRESTLING TEES! Check out Social Suplex's columns, and the network's podcasts: One Nation Radio / Keepin' It Strong Style / All Things Elite / Imp's WWE Adventure / Wrestling Art with Chris Things / Tunnel Talk / The Trish and Sarah Wrestling Podcast / AEW Match Guide / Joshi'ing around, available wherever you find podcasts. Follow us on Twitter/X: @RichLatta32, @JamesBoyd87, @SocialSuplex, @OneNationRadio Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SocialSuplex/Visit our website for news, columns, and podcasts: https://socialsuplex.com/Join the Social Suplex Discord Server: https://discord.gg/RBYFrPetFt/Join the Social Suplex community Facebook Group: The Wrestling (Squared) CircleAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Pregnancy loss is more common than many realize, yet countless families continue to grieve in silence. In this deeply personal conversation, Kaitlyn Hogancamp explains why every loss matters and how compassionate support can help families carry hope alongside their grief.Kaitlyn, a mother and committee member with the Sea of Hope Foundation, shares the heartbreak of experiencing two pregnancy losses, including one she discovered while it was happening. She discusses the guilt and self-blame she carried, the fear that followed her into another pregnancy, and the unforgettable moment she finally heard her rainbow baby cry.Christina O'Mara also explains how the Sea of Hope Foundation supports families affected by pregnancy, infancy, and early toddler loss.In this episode: Why miscarriage and pregnancy loss should not remain taboo  How innocent questions about having children can cause hidden pain  What pregnancy after loss can feel like emotionally  Why grief has no deadline or expiration date  How the Sea of Hope Foundation helps parents and siblings Learn more, request assistance, view support-group information, or make a donation at Sea of Hope Foundation.This episode is sponsored by Harford's Heart Magazine.If this conversation reminds you of someone who may be suffering quietly, please share it with them. Subscribe to Conversations with Rich Bennett, leave a review, and join the conversation by sharing your thoughts or contacting Rich directly.Send us Fan MailRide For Life Healing Arts & Music FestivalHarford's Heart MagazineKEEP IT LOCAL WITH HARFORD'S HEART maryland's lifestyle magazine for harford county!Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showRate & Review on Apple Podcasts Follow the Conversations with Rich Bennett podcast on Social Media:Facebook – Conversations with Rich Bennett Facebook Group (Join the conversation) – Conversations with Rich Bennett podcast group | FacebookTwitter – Conversations with Rich Bennett Instagram – @conversationswithrichbennettTikTok – CWRB (@conversationsrichbennett) | TikTokSponsors, Affiliates, and ways we pay the bills:Hosted on BuzzsproutSquadCastSubscribe by Email

2026 Fantasy Football Running Back Rankings: Top 12 Debate The top of the running back board looks loaded, but agreement disappears quickly once the Dynasty Nerds crew gets past the biggest names. Rich Dotson, Matt O'Hara, and Garret Price break down their top 12 running backs for 2026 and debate which stars have a real path to finishing as the overall RB1. Listen to This Episode:

Today on the Show, WHERE IS RICH BERRA? What happened? But first PAYTONS HOOHAH! We only said it... you guessed it... 16 TIMES! Also, an ALL NEW WAR OF THE ROSES where the binding of marriage means nothing to Courtney apparently. Plus, POP 10, A DIY...NOT SO DIY STORY and MORE!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Covino & Rich have fun with 'OLD-SCHOOL WHEN 50 HITS!' It's a fun conversation about family sports arguments! Plus, today is a special day for Records & they laugh about things you were weirdly good at as a kid!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

C&R dive into a very important Week 3 preseason game for Tua! He's visiting his old Dolphins team tomorrow & is in jeopardy of losing his new job with the Falcons. How much is Miami still paying him this year? They get into a topic about "over-staying your welcome!" 'OLD-SCHOOL WHEN 50 HITS' is a fun conversation about family sports arguments! Plus, today is a special day for Records & they laugh about things you were weirdly good at as a kid!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two weeks out from kickoff and the news won't cooperate. Disney and the NFL teamed up on the Champions Collection, so Covino and Rich go through every one of the 32 team characters, from the Bills getting the Beast to the Colts getting Horace Horsecollar, and argue about whether a grown man without kids can actually wear this stuff in public. Then it gets uglier. Jed York, the owner of the 49ers, got picked up in a prostitution sting outside a trailer park in East Palestine, Ohio, with $140 and a Yankees shirt. Rich defends him, and the argument is sharper than it sounds: if the culture celebrates sex work on one hand, it doesn't get to torch the customer on the other. Covino isn't fully sold. Harvey Levin gets dragged into it. The one word doing all the work is consensual. And a second grade teacher in Atlanta gave the guys their new favorite idea. She built a Fart Corner in her classroom so kids could pass gas without leaving class. Covino heard it differently, decided it should be a punishment, and now Overpromised has a weekly segment. Caleb Williams, Jed York, Deshaun Watson and Enes Kanter are the first four in. Overpromised is the weekly uncensored bonus pod from Covino & Rich. The daily show runs weekdays 5-7 PM ET on Fox Sports Radio, and everything lives at youtube.com/@CovinoAndRichFSR #FSR #CRSHOW #OverpromisedSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Covino & Rich finish their thoughts on women in men's sports & Rich has a challenge! 'MIKE WHO RUNS THIS TAKE' is back from vacation, & that's where his mind is. 'MID WEAK MAJOR' gets the phone ringing, & wings/football will be here tomorrow! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

C&R can't stop laughing about the viral Caleb Williams pose! What picture from the past are you most embarrassed by? There's a girl dominating in Boy's Little League & getting national attention. They debate a pro sport that a woman could break through in the men's ranks! 'MIKE WHO RUNS THIS TAKE' is back from vacation, & that's where his mind is. 'MID WEAK MAJOR' gets the phone ringing, & wings/football will be here tomorrow! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

True security and satisfaction are found not in what we possess but in trusting God with all we have.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As we chase wealth, we often forget that we are rich.

Two weeks out from kickoff and the news won't cooperate. Disney and the NFL teamed up on the Champions Collection, so Covino and Rich go through every one of the 32 team characters, from the Bills getting the Beast to the Colts getting Horace Horsecollar, and argue about whether a grown man without kids can actually wear this stuff in public. Then it gets uglier. Jed York, the owner of the 49ers, got picked up in a prostitution sting outside a trailer park in East Palestine, Ohio, with $140 and a Yankees shirt. Rich defends him, and the argument is sharper than it sounds: if the culture celebrates sex work on one hand, it doesn't get to torch the customer on the other. Covino isn't fully sold. Harvey Levin gets dragged into it. The one word doing all the work is consensual. And a second grade teacher in Atlanta gave the guys their new favorite idea. She built a Fart Corner in her classroom so kids could pass gas without leaving class. Covino heard it differently, decided it should be a punishment, and now Overpromised has a weekly segment. Caleb Williams, Jed York, Deshaun Watson and Enes Kanter are the first four in. Overpromised is the weekly uncensored bonus pod from Covino & Rich. The daily show runs weekdays 5-7 PM ET on Fox Sports Radio, and everything lives at youtube.com/@CovinoAndRichFSR #FSR #CRSHOW #OverpromisedSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Most churches don’t start thinking about leadership development until a key person resigns. By then, the only real option is to post the role and hope someone qualified applies. In this special compilation episode, we’ve pulled together four conversations with leaders who have built the habit of developing people long before the seat opens up. The churches growing fastest right now are rarely the ones with the best job postings. They’re the ones who already know who’s next. Don’t miss the four critical lessons every church should consider as they head into fall hiring and budget planning. From the leadership model that quietly keeps benches empty to a mindset shift about where leaders actually come from to a challenge you could give your team on Monday to the structure that produces people you can genuinely put on payroll, each conversation offers a practical step forward. The Model Nobody Names Out Loud Tim Foot explains what he calls hero-driven leadership: the habit of relying too heavily on standout individuals to carry the mission. It produces short-term results, but it creates burnout, unrealistic hiring expectations, and fragile systems. What makes it so hard to escape is that it feels good. It feels productive to be the person who solves the problems and holds the answers. Foot also names the “shiny object trap,” where churches chase talent from larger organizations only to discover that the leader arrives with a playbook that doesn’t fit and no systems to support them. Key Takeaway // Hero dependence is a staffing strategy, whether or not anyone chose it on purpose. Healthy teams are built when leaders get comfortable saying they don’t know what to do next, because that’s what opens the room for collaboration. Listen to the Full Episode // Hero Dependence Is a Terrible Growth Strategy with Tim Foot (June 18, 2026) The Leaders Are Already in Your Building Spence Shelton draws a parallel most church leaders have never made. We all agree that growing a church by reaching lost people beats growing it by transfer from other churches. Then, when it comes to leaders, we reverse the logic and look for someone who’s already trained elsewhere. Shelton makes the case for the shoulder tap: intentionally asking someone whether God might be calling them into ministry. At Mercy Church, both executive pastors and two of three campus pastors came out of the marketplace, from banking, plant management, and physical therapy. None of them would have applied. Somebody had to ask. Key Takeaway // Many future ministry leaders never consider vocational ministry because no one ever raised the possibility with them. Developing from within takes longer than hiring from outside, and it produces leaders shaped by your church’s culture rather than someone else’s. Listen to the Full Episode // Stop Plucking Talent, Start Developing It with Spence Shelton (August 6, 2026) The Challenge That Costs Nothing Chris Vaught faced the constraint every growing church knows well. Connection Point was growing fast, but budget always arrives last, and southeastern Missouri isn’t a place people relocate to for a ministry position. So the church started looking at its own congregation and treating volunteers as unpaid staff with real roles and responsibilities. The starting point was a single challenge to every staff member: go find your Timothy. One person you invest in deeply enough that if you were out on a Sunday, the ministry would still run. Key Takeaway // A leadership pipeline doesn’t have to begin with a budget line. It can begin with one question asked of every staff member about who could carry their ministry if they weren’t there next weekend. Listen to the Full Episode // From 300 to 2,500: Building a Leadership Pipeline That Fuels Growth with Chris Vaught (September 25, 2025) Training Is Not Development Dave Miller draws a distinction that reframes what most churches call leadership development. Churches are excellent at training: the sermon, the class, the book of the month, the small group discussion. All of it is content delivery, and content has never been more available. Development is something else. Miller’s team identifies seven ingredients: training, spiritual formation, soft skills, ownership, mental wellness, and developmental conversations. He also challenges leaders on where accountability sits. When a sports team wins, we talk about the players. When it loses, we replace the manager. Church leaders should apply the same standard to the people they’re developing. Key Takeaway // If content were the key ingredient, leadership development would already be solved. What emerging leaders need is proximity, ownership, and someone willing to slow down and have the conversation. Listen to the Full Episode // Who’s the Next You? Building a Gen Z Residency Pipeline with Dave Miller (September 11, 2025) These four conversations form a ladder, and you don’t have to start at the top. Most churches never start at all because they assume the only real option is a residency program they can’t yet afford. Tim named the model keeping your bench empty. Spence gave the mindset shift and the shoulder tap. Chris gave the first move that costs nothing. Dave gave the structure that produces people you can hire. As you head into this fall, the question worth bringing to your next staff meeting is simple: who on our team has never been tapped on the shoulder, and what would it take to have that conversation this month? Thank You for Tuning In! There are a lot of podcasts you could be tuning into today, but you chose unSeminary, and I'm grateful for that. If you enjoyed today's show, please share it by using the social media buttons you see at the left hand side of this page. Also, kindly consider taking the 60-seconds it takes to leave an honest review and rating for the podcast on iTunes, they're extremely helpful when it comes to the ranking of the show and you can bet that I read every single one of them personally! Thank You to This Episode’s Sponsor: TouchPoint As your church reaches more people, one of the biggest challenges is making sure no one slips through the cracks along the way.TouchPoint Church Management Software is an all-in-one ecosystem built for churches that want to elevate discipleship by providing clear data, strong engagement tools, and dependable workflows that scale as you grow. TouchPoint is trusted by some of the fastest-growing and largest churches in the country because it helps teams stay aligned, understand who they're reaching, and make confident ministry decisions week after week. If you've been wondering whether your current system can carry your next season of growth, it may be time to explore what TouchPoint can do for you. You can evaluate TouchPoint during a free, no-pressure one-hour demo at TouchPointSoftware.com/demo. Episode Transcript Rich Birch — At the beginning of 2026, we surveyed executive pastors like you and nearly one in four named that staff health and structure, how we get our teams to work together was your top fear going into 2026. You know and I know it, you probably have an open role at your church that you’re trying to fill, or you’re maybe about to have an open role. When a key person leaves your team and your instinct is just to post it, what can we do?Rich Birch — Finding, releasing, equipping leadership is critically important. Welcome to the last compilation episode of summer 2026 here on the unSeminary podcast. Super excited about today’s conversation, all about developing leaders within our organizations.Rich Birch — I know that in many churches, we think of this as a season where new staff are hiring or we’re hiring them into new roles. We’re working on budget planning for next year. There’s all the fall ramp up.Rich Birch — All four of these conversations are going to be helpful for you. The first one, we’ve got Tim Foot. He is the CEO of Slingshot, has nearly 30 years in ministry leadership, and his team has literally worked with thousands of churches on staffing.Rich Birch — Listen to this kickoff to today’s conversation, really setting up the tension that we find ourselves in. He names the leadership model that most of us have absorbed without anyone talking about it out loud, and it could be derailing your church and my church. Let’s listen in to what Tim has to say about developing leaders. [Clip 1 Begins]Tim Foot — Yeah, I mean, the model we see is hero-driven leadership. It’s when we rely too much on individuals to actually carry the mission. And I think the cracks have happened.Tim Foot — I mean, we’ve seen it, Rich. You and I are similar ages. I think the cracks are happening generationally.Tim Foot — The builders and boomers were wired differently for a different time and culture. And us Gen Xers, we can code switch. I mean, we see that happening all the time.Tim Foot — And as we stepped into leadership, the cracks started to appear. I mean, we see it every week, another leader burning out, doing stupid things because of too much pressure. Then Millennials and Gen Z are now leading in a new way that we need to embrace.Tim Foot — And so I think we’re seeing those cracks around that hero dependence, and we’re starting to see the need more than ever to have a team awareness, a holistic approach, or we’re just going to have leaders continue to burn out. And we see it around unrealistic hiring expectations, lack of support for great leaders when they’re hired, a lack of development. Hero dependence is a terrible staffing and growth strategy and becomes a massive trap when it comes to a number of the key focus areas or patterns we’ve seen that healthy teams focus on a move mission forward.Rich Birch — Yeah, see, this is the thing when you I heard you say that once and it literally I sat up and I was like, oh, man, I’ve seen that in my own, you know, my own hiring. I’ve seen that in the way I’ve talked with, you know, I see the leaders around me. You see these people who they’ve kind of built the entire ministry around themselves and they’ve built it’s like it doesn’t work if they don’t. It’s like they’re such a unique individual. They have to lift it all. Rich Birch — Like, why do we keep coming back to that? Why? Even if we know like intellectually in our heads, yeah, that’s not a good idea.Rich Birch — But what makes that model so sticky? It feels like we just keep coming back to this same thing time. In fact, we actually reward it. We’ll be like, wow, isn’t that great? This person’s amazing. And we just kind of keep moving on. Why is that?Tim Foot — It’s the shiny object trap. I mean, the shiny object, aka the talented leader that we think is going to catapult the ministry. Often we see it in hiring conversations when a particular organization wants to go after somebody that’s been in a much bigger organization than them.Tim Foot — And often that person, if they can attract them, will come in with a playbook that isn’t uniquely suited to the organization they’re stepping into. Or there aren’t systems to support that new leader and the growth that’s going to happen. And burnout happens at every level.Tim Foot — But we both know, Rich, busy work makes us feel productive. But is it the right work? And we know that we can be ourselves the shiny object. It feels good to be the hero. It feels good to be the one that’s solving problems. It feels good to be the one that has all the answers.Tim Foot — And I think that’s one of the biggest threats in healthy leadership today, is feeling like you have to have all the answers. Because I think one of the most powerful statements from healthy leaders and healthy teams is, Hey, we don’t know what to do next. Because it actually opens up the room for new thought. It opens up the room for collaboration. And it opens up the room for teamwork. Tim Foot — But it’s easier to move quick. It’s easier to move quick and be surrounded by people who agree and play it safe. And then down the road, we realize that we weren’t growing in every sense of that word. And the mission was stalled out.Tim Foot — We know we often have to slow down, re-strategize, look at who’s around the table, work out how we work together to move faster in the long term. We have to be vulnerable to make a team work. And sometimes it requires us to actually help others win than focus on heroes.Tim Foot — I mean, you think about a winning sports team. It’s not about just one person out there doing all the work. We’ve got to work together as a team.Tim Foot — You know, it’s how do we work together and have less dependence on that shiny object, those standout leaders or those heroes. [Clip 1 Ends]Rich Birch — Oh, so good. You know, Tim named something there. Man, it feels good to be the person with all the answers.Rich Birch — Can I have a little confessional time with you, friends? Earlier parts of my ministry career, I have really struggled with that. I wanted to be the person who had all the answers, but it’s a trap. And most of us find ourselves in it. Rich Birch — We’ve got to move beyond hero dependence, either wanting to be the hero or to find heroes. It’s not a character flaw. It’s a system that ultimately rewards the wrong thing. Rich Birch — So the question that I have is what is the alternative? Where do we go if we’re not just trying to hire the next shiny object?Rich Birch — The thing that will, the person that will, you know, plug in like a thing, where do leaders actually come from? I love this conversation coming up with Spence Shelton as the lead pastor of Mercy Church in Charlotte, planted in 2015, now three campuses online, plus launching a family of churches. I want you to listen for a few things.Rich Birch — First of all, Spence parallels, makes a parallel that I really have not heard many people say between how we think about reaching people who are far from God and how we think about finding leaders and how these two are connected. Listen carefully for the shoulder tap that he talks about. You know, oftentimes one of the things I find most revealing about podcast interviews is people say things just in the sides that really do under that, that give you a sense of what’s actually going on under the hood and pay attention to where his executive pastor campus pastors come from.Rich Birch — Let’s listen in to what Spence Shelton has to say. [Clip 2 Begins]Spence Shelton — I think that mentality starts all the way down to the idea of reaching people that don’t know Christ versus just sheep swapping from one church to the other church, right? So you can grow your church by transfer growth, which I actually am one who, hey man, if somebody’s on the sideline in one church and then they plug into your church, I’m all for it. And if the same thing happens with Mercy, all for it.Spence Shelton — But our aim, what we all know as pastors and ministry leaders is our aim is, man, let’s reach lost people and then disciple them, right? The same thing I think should be true with leadership development. For some reason, when it comes then to developing leaders, we tend to go a different direction and think, well, let’s just go find where some leaders are and get them to plug in.Spence Shelton — It’s like, we don’t do that even with discipleship. Why are we switching our mindset? And so I want to just kind of, I have to, I was convicted and wanted to call our church and I would call others to the same mindset that you have with discipleship.Spence Shelton — Let that carry over into your leadership and your leadership development as well. And I think that’s how we’re going to grow, just as how we’re going to grow the kingdom by reaching lost people, how we’re going to grow the leaders in the kingdom, the number of leaders we have, it’s going to be developing them in our church. And I just, I don’t know that we’re even thinking that way and asking the question, is the guy who’s a 27-year-old physical therapist in my church, has anybody ever bothered to tap him on the shoulder and ask, Hey man, could God be calling you into ministry because I watch you?Spence Shelton — And no, we’re not doing the shoulder tap, man. And so, um, our right now, I just, I love it. I’m just a little bit of the story of our church. Our exec, both of our executive pastors and two of our three campus pastors were all in the marketplace. Spence Shelton — One of our executive pastors was in banking. Another was a plant manager. We have two campus pastors who were both, I use physical therapists cause they’re both former physical therapists. And you know, we’re sitting there having these conversations. You know, what makes a great pastor is someone who has sat with person after person, told them, Hey, you should do this to feel better.Spence Shelton — And then they come back to you later and say, Hey, I don’t feel better. And you say, did you do the thing I told you to do? And they say, no. And you say, well, you should have done that. Spence Shelton — And a patient long suffering physical therapist turns out to be a great pastor, but somebody has got to tap him on the shoulder and say, Hey man, I think God might be calling you into this. Spence Shelton — And so my, my encouragement to anybody who’s in ministry right now, kind of in that leadership development role. And you’re like, I don’t know, we’re going to have to go outside to find some talent. I promise it’s going to take longer the way I’m talking about. But if you will seek the Lord, ask the Lord, and then start shoulder tapping and giving some opportunities for guys to lead for men and women to lead there in your ministry and whatever the leadership roles might be. I think there might be more people in there than you realize, because I believe that God provides for the church that he’s growing, that he’s called you to lead. And so I think that’s true with leaders as well. [Clip 2 Ends]Rich Birch — Hey, friends, 9 out of 10 campus pastors, they do come from within. So if you are launching new locations in the future, man, we got to start developing campus pastors today. Rich Birch — But I know some of you are saying, listen, listen, listen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That all sounds good. Shoulder tapping. Great, great, great. Rich Birch — But how, how do I do it? How do I train my team to do it? How do we motivate, stay focused on this? Rich Birch — The gap that my, what I have found, it’s not desire. It’s not even understand that people don’t understand that that’s how we do it. It’s not a resistance to those things. It’s none of that. It’s just that nobody owns it because you see development is everyone’s job, which means that it’s nobody’s job.Rich Birch — It’s easy for this to fall through the cracks. Aren’t we all supposed to be developing leaders? So if we’re all developing leaders, my experience has been that means that really none of us are or we’re not doing it in a systematic way.Rich Birch — Super excited to have Chris Vaught with us. He is the lead pastor of Connection Point Church in Missouri. Listen, it grew from 300 people in 2011 to 2,500 today across multiple campuses.Rich Birch — And he outlines one challenge that Chris gave every staff member. And I really want you to listen carefully for this, because to be honest, this is pure unSeminary magic. This is like what I love about our podcast.Rich Birch — You could take this out of this interview today and put it into your next team meeting on Monday. Apply it to your church. Let’s listen in for what Chris wants to say to you about how we train people to shoulder tap, find leaders and release them. [Clip 3 Begins]Chris Vaught — You can only hire out so much, right? Because even though our church has grown fast, budget always comes up last. But you have to look at other avenues other than just, oh, I’ll hire another position.Chris Vaught — So we started looking at congregation. We began to develop our own leadership pathway or pipeline to develop not only volunteers, but our future staff. We knew we grew really fast. We need to hire from within, but we still couldn’t hire every position. Chris Vaught — So we started looking at our volunteers as almost as non-paid staff positions. And so we have an atmosphere of expectation of roles and responsibilities and also the value of what they’re doing.Chris Vaught — That the kingdom is dependent upon all of us using our gifts and talents. And so we started this pathway. And at first it was simply a challenge to every staff member. You go find your Timothy. You go find one other person that you can invest yourself into, a volunteer. Chris Vaught — So that if on Saturday night, and here was kind of the criteria for us: if on Saturday night, something were to happen and you catch COVID. Okay. We’re at that time. Could this ministry run the next day because of the person you have personally equipped… Rich Birch — I love that clarity. Chris Vaught — …to hold the ministry.Rich Birch — Yeah, that’s so good.Rich Birch — We began to put those pieces together. That’s right. You go ahead. I cut you off there. Chris Vaught — No, no. I was just saying that’s what we began. We began this pipeline and that was really the basic level at first. Every staff member finding that one Timothy, if you will, if you want to use that terminology, that could run that ministry if you were out. [Clip 3 Ends]Rich Birch — See what I told you? The Saturday night test is literally the cheapest leadership development tool in this entire episode. If you do nothing else out of today’s episode, do that.Rich Birch — But I know, listen, there can be a gap on that, a ceiling. Finding your Timothy fills gaps, but it does not produce people necessarily kind of week-in, week-out that you could put on print a payroll. You need to also do some development. You need to have some intentional leadership development.Rich Birch — Most churches, again, think that they’re developing leaders, but they’re really just handing out books or running a monthly team meeting, that sort of thing. I want to introduce you, reintroduce you to my friend Dave Miller. He’s a former worship and creative arts pastor in Las Vegas, in Kentucky, in Michigan, and he and his team have worked with over 150 churches and over 160 residents.Rich Birch — What do we mean by residents? These are people that are in the pipeline for thinking clearly in their lives about joining your staff team or staff teams of another church somewhere across the country. He defines seven ingredients.Rich Birch — Listen, I had the honor of writing the foreword to Dave’s book, Who’s the Next You? I would highly recommend you pick up a copy of that and think through that. But let’s listen in a little bit of what Dave has to say today. [Clip 4 Begins]Dave Miller — Well, we would say there’s seven ingredients. There’s a chapter in the book, seven ingredients. You can get it on our website right now.Dave Miller — Seven ingredients of what we would say is leadership development. So what you’re talking about, really, a sermon is training, if you think about it, like in a, in a market sense, I’m going to talk at you for 35 minutes. There’s four points. It’s very good. It’s inspired. It’s like Ted, Ted, long Ted Talk every 52 times a year, plus Christmas Eve and whatever.Dave Miller — And I would just say, we call that training. Churches for a long time have done really, really well with training, right? It’s either it’s the sermon or it’s Sunday school. It’s even the AI delivered small group questions I get from my men’s group, right? Dave Miller — It is staff. When I say, do y’all do leadership development? Yeah. Tell me about that.Dave Miller — And they start talking about your book or Carey's book or Craig Groeschel's book. It’s a book of the month. It’s conversation. Even now, now we’ve taken training and we’re still delivering the content, but we’re discussing it and we’re filling in blanks. Right. And we do that. Dave Miller — And, or spiritual formation. I had a well-known keynote kind of person. We just need to disciple these kids and get out of their way. And I was like, Oh, neat. Actually we don’t. Dave Miller — We did that once. It’s called the Jesus movement. I think that was the Jesus movement or the Jesus people in the early seventies, which kind of mirrors what’s going on on college campuses, you think. Dave Miller — We don’t need to just disciple them and get… We got to go with them. So, so training, spiritual formation, soft skills, which is the pain point of all the bosses, the emotional lack of intelligence of things. Those would be the three core ones.Dave Miller — And then we have to provide best practices. We have to, we have to provide ownership, which is a big thing for us in our small business, small church world at the 12 month mark. When we’re saying, well, she just doesn’t get it. She didn’t get, Oh, what doesn’t she get? Dave Miller — He just doesn’t understand what… We talk about our downline people as if they’re executive leaders with 20 years of experience. It would be totally fine for someone to accuse me of something like that.Dave Miller — But like when we think of sports, we don’t talk about individual players. We talk about the coaches. When the team’s losing, whose fault is it? As a lifetime Cincinnati Reds fan we change the manager. We don’t talk about number 78 and 14. Dave Miller — When the team’s doing amazing, it’s about the player.He’s killing it. She’s killing it. He’s killing it. When the team is losing, we have to own it similarly.Dave Miller — This is on us. Rich Birch — Wow. Wow. Dave Miller — Mental wellness. One of the seven things, mental wellness. If you can’t prove to me that you know, I’m not, I’m not here giving you even a theological construct. Cause we work with all sorts of churches that believe all sorts of things, right? But mental health, if you can’t prove to me that you have a plan, at least, or you’ve thought about it, that’s gonna be a problem. We’re checking it on. Dave Miller — And then finally developmental conversations. This is not delivered only through training to your point. [Clip 4 Ends]Rich Birch — What a fantastic group of conversations. Just a thin slice of so many of the conversations we’ve had over the last year in this whole area. Rich Birch — Tim, he named the model that can keep your and my bench empty. Spence gave us the mindset shift and the shoulder tap. Chris gave us the simplest form of the really first move that costs you absolutely nothing. And Dave finally gave you the formal structure that produces people you could hire, put on your team long-term.Rich Birch — Listen, you do not need to start at the top. Most churches never start at all because they only think the real option is just going out and hiring people externally. Listen, really the question I want to leave you with is where Tim started us at the beginning.Rich Birch — Maybe dear listener, you are listening in today and you have the hero mindset. Maybe you need to start with you and figure out what you can do in your area to pass it all along. Listen, we’ve got links for all these four episodes in the show notes here at unSeminary.Rich Birch — We’re on a mission to help 100 churches grow by a thousand people. We do that through these free podcasts, courses, coaching, cohorts. We do a lot to try to get in your corner.Rich Birch — We’ve got so much coming up this fall. Stay tuned. Some great stuff coming your way to see your church be more effective.Rich Birch — Thanks so much, friends. Take care.

With closing arguments on the horizon in the Lindsay Clancy trial, Roberts examines Clancy's successful innocence fraud campaign and explains why Clancy shouldn't get off easy from murderering her three children but may get off with a slap on the wrists. Lindsay Clancy is on trial for the murder of her three children- Cora (age 5), Dawson (age 3) and Callan (age eight months). The prosecution alleges Clancy planned and murdered her children in a methodical and calculated manner. The defense alleges Clancy murdered her children during a postpartum psychosis or bipolar episode.Show Notes:Court TV “Devastating Moment Patrick Clancy Found the Kids Dead” - https://youtu.be/XCbH9A3MyA4?is=a68rdPk0BDnmzpAEUS News “Lindsay Clancy is Not Safe” - https://youtu.be/ZkEPwAzKeEo?is=h3KsiF5WyiQqU5wB Court TV “Lindsay Clancy Lawyer..” - https://youtu.be/Q0yBhs3d9uk?is=N5YnVhUNZ2a_ElHd WCVB “Karen Read Supporters..” - https://youtube.com/shorts/j7J8UgyIrb0?is=CmyPKmCAQ5hk4RaUTrue Crimes Podcast “Lindsay Clancy Trial Unpopular Opinions” - https://youtu.be/KVCSQIe_-BY?is=ndckOgUKEnbgMZshRead the court documents here- https://htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/files/clancy-search-warrant-applications-6538020282ac9.pdfLindsay Clancy Arraignment- https://youtu.be/3ueFBcu-uW8?is=H9WuPSDc_iB7YNMoInnocence Fraud Watch “Why Did Kevin Reddington Choose to Kiss Butt of Aidan Kearney..” - https://theerrorsthatplaguethemiscarriageofjusticemovement.home.blog/2024/08/10/killer-karen-read-retrial-why-did-lawyer-kevin-reddington-praise-aidan-turtleboy-kearney-on-his-rolling-rally-witness-intimidation-stunt-which-targetted-his-then-client-jennifer-m/True Crimes Podcasts "13 Reasons Why the Lindsay Clancy Trial Seems Suspicious" -https://youtu.be/l89et2IOGR4?si=5xtpN8dr_limhuEuTrue Crimes Podcasts "Commonwealth 911 Call" -https://youtu.be/l89et2IOGR4?si=GiEy4tQv_OlhfEK3Get access to exclusive content & support the podcast by a Patron today! https://patreon.com/robertaglasstruecrimereportThrow a tip in the tip jar! https://buymeacoffee.com/robertaglassSupport Roberta by sending a donation via Venmo. https://venmo.com/robertaglassBecome a chanel member for custom Emojis, first looks and exclusive streams here: https://youtube.com/@robertaglass/joinThank you Patrons!Beth, Shelley Safford, Carol Mumumeci, Therese Tunks, JC, Lizzy D, Elizabeth Drake, Texas Mimi, Barb, Deborah Shults, Ratliff, Stephanie Lamberson, Maryellen Sudol, Mona, Karen Pacini, Jen Buell, Marie Horton, ER, Rosie Grace, B. Rabbit, Sally Merrick, Amanda D, Mary B, Mrs Jones, Amy Gill, Eileen, Wesley Loves Octoberfest, Erin (Kitties1993), Anna Quint, Cici Guteriez, Sandra Loves GatsbyHannna, Christy, Jen Buell, Elle Solari, Carol Cardella, Jennifer Harmon, DoxieMama65, Carol Holderman, Joan Mahon, Marcie Denton, Rosanne Aponte, Johnny Jay, Jude Barnes, JenTheRN, Victoria Devenish, Jeri Falk, Kimberly Lovelace, Penni Miller, Jil, Janet Gardner, Jayne Wallace (JaynesWhirled), Pat Brooks, Jennifer Klearman, Judy Brown, Linda Lazzaro, Suzanne Kniffin, Susan Hicks, Jeff Meadors, D Samlam, Pat Brooks, Cythnia, Bonnie Schoeneman-Dilley, Diane Larsen, Mary, Kimberly Philipson, Cat Stewart, Cindy Pochesci, Kevin Crecy, Renee Chavez, Melba Pourteau, Julie K Thomas, Mia Wallace, Stark Stuff, Kayce Taylor, Alice, Dean, GiGi5, Jennifer Crum, Dana Natale, Bewildered Beauty, Pepper, Joan Chakonas, Blythe, Pat Dell, Lorraine Reid, T.B., Melissa, Victoria Gray Bross, Toni Woodland, Danbrit and Toni Natalie.

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JJ and Rich open the show with a discussion about average draft position risers and fallers before Mark Garcia of One Week Season and StatRankings joins the show. Mark explains why he’s not bailing on Zero RB this year, breaks down the Ashton Jeanty situation from Sunday, and much more. ---------- All DraftKings Customers enter a lineup into the Best Ball $20 million Headliner Contest and receive a bonus ticket for a 2nd entry! Download the DraftKings app and sign up using https://bit.ly/LateRound2026 or promo code LATEROUND! The Crown is Yours! Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY). Help is available for problem gambling. Call (888) 789-7777 or visit ccpg.org (CT). 18+ in most eligible states, but age varies by jurisdiction. Eligibility restrictions apply. Void where prohibited. 1 per customer. Must enter a lineup into the NFL Best Ball $20M Headliner Contest. $25 entry fee. Bonus issued as 1 ticket to NFL Best Ball $20M Headliner Contest. Ticket reward is site credit valid for use only on NFL Best Ball $20M Headliner Contest. Ticket reward is single-use and expires at contest lock on 9/9/26. See terms at https://www.draftkings.com/promotions. Ends 9/9/26 at contest lock. Sponsored by DraftKings. #DKPartnerSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The season is nearly here, and this one is not about dynasty value. On this episode of the Dynasty Nerds Podcast, Rich Dotson, Matt O'Hara, and Garret Price reveal their top 12 quarterbacks for 2026, the guys they think actually carry teams to a championship.

Covino is in Toronto filming History Channel, so Rich & the crew bring the laughs! They react to the legend, Dolly Parton passing away at the age of 80. There's another woman in the news; she lit up the Padres new ownership group press conference! Plus, 'A RICH MOMENT IN SPORTS HISTORY' tries not to make you sleepy! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rich reveals his ‘Top 5' list of NFL players who could have the biggest surprise impact on their teams including Cardinals QB Jacoby Brissett, Seahawks RB Jadarian Price and others. Comedian Adam Ray joins Rich in-studio to promote his new weekly Netflix show, shares the best jokes he used when roasting his beloved Seahawks during training camp visit that was captured by HBO's ‘Hard Knocks,' and lays out the best-case-scenario for the defending Super Bowl champions this season.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rich and the guys wonder when Aaron Donald will finally make a decision about coming back to the Rams or staying retired, and Brockman plays the ‘NFL Win-Loss Game' for his defending AFC champion New England Patriots. The guys react to the injury scares suffered by Bengals All-Pro WR Ja'Marr Chase and Raiders RB Ashton Jeanty, and in a special Wednesday edition of ‘What's More Likely' Rich weighs in on the Rams, Chargers, Seahawks, Chiefs, Bills, Steelers, Commanders, Ravens, Texans, Jaguars, Panthers, Buccaneers, Falcons, Dolphins, Bengals and Eagles. Rich plays the ‘NFL Win-Loss Game' with a New York Jets fan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rich weighs in on the SEC voting to ban former professional players from returning to play college sports in the conference. NBC Sports' Bob Costas and Rich discuss the chaotic state of college sports in the NIL era, what Tarik Skubal will mean for the Dodgers' (and Brewers') playoffs outlook, how he would change the baseball's postseason, if Shohei Ohtani or Pete Crow-Armstrong will win the NL MVP Award, the Yankees' chance to reach the World Series, and the reasons behind a possible MLB work stoppage that interrupts the 2027 season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rich sits down with indie dev James Wragg from Lovely Hellplace to discuss the development and early access of their game Entropy. Video games: Entropy early access, Mortal Shell 2, Sovereign Tower, and Rogue Eclipse. To contact us, email call@gamerswithjobs.com! Send us your thoughts on the show, pressing issues you want to talk about, or whatever else is on your mind. Links & Show Notes.

RHLSTP #624 - Cake of Shame - Rich is chatting to the man who has been on RHLSTP more than anyone but Rich, John Robins. They talk about acting in a sexy film with no sexy bits for you, Taskmaster (maybe we did talk about this before, even though Rich says we didn't), bad financial advice, their Wordle based schism, comedy geniuses Ian Cognito and Phil Kay, Rich chastising his parents for buying the wrong stereo and why no one should be allowed more than 10 million dollars and running the Marathon and who is best at it.See RHLSTP in London http://richardherring.com/rhlstpSUPPORT THE SHOW!See details of the RHLSTP LIVE DATES Watch our TWITCH CHANNELBecome a badger and see extra content at our WEBSITE Buy DVDs and books from GO FASTER STRIPEAudio mix by Ben Evans (NTO)Recorded at the Podcast RoomThanks to Chris Evans (NTO) and Ben Walker Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aaron invites Rich Balot to share his remarkable entrepreneurial journey—from starting a DJ business as a teenager with a $3,000 title loan to building a nationwide wireless retail empire, navigating a $13 million loss, rebuilding through mentorship and leadership, and eventually buying his company back for more than $1 billion. The conversation goes beyond business success, exploring resilience, calculated risk, leadership, philanthropy, and the importance of creating a meaningful legacy. Rich shares the five critical responsibilities of a CEO, explains why entrepreneurs must push through setbacks, and reveals how mentors and peer networks transformed his approach to business. His story offers powerful lessons for entrepreneurs at every stage of growth, especially those facing their first major roadblock. Most importantly, Rich makes it clear that success isn't ultimately measured by awards or wealth, but by the people you help, the value you create, and the legacy you leave behind. Key Takeaways:• How a $3,000 loan from his father became the starting point for Rich Balot's entrepreneurial journey.• How Rich transitioned from running a DJ business to launching ABC Phones and building a nationwide wireless retail operation.• What losing $13 million taught him about resilience, leadership, debt, and the importance of learning from failure.• The five essential responsibilities of a CEO—including building the right team, managing key relationships, setting the mission and vision, continuing education, and understanding cash flow.• How acquisitions and strategic growth helped Rich expand the company from dozens of stores into a national operation.Key Timestamps:(00:00) – Growing Up And Discovering An Entrepreneurial Mindset(06:30) – Building A Successful DJ Business As A Teenager(10:00) – Launching ABC Phones With Just $3,000(13:30) – From Beepers To A Nationwide Wireless Empire(17:00) – Losing $13 Million And Facing Business Collapse(20:30) – Finding Mentors And Transforming Leadership(24:00) – The Five Essential Responsibilities Of A CEO(27:30) – Scaling From 32 Stores To Over 100 Locations(31:00) – Selling The Business And Entering Private Equity(38:00) – Buying Back The Company For Over $1 Billion(43:00) – Defining Success Through Family And Legacy Key Topics Discussed:Commercial Real Estate Podcast, Private Equity Podcast, Franchising Podcast, Commercial Real Estate Investing, Real Estate Private Equity, Franchise Ownership, Real Estate Syndication, Capital Raising for Real Estate, Private Equity Fund Structure, Commercial Real Estate Development, Multifamily Investing, Alternative Investments, Breaking Into Commercial Real Estate, Private Equity Career Path, Franchise Growth Strategy, Investment Firm Leadership, Wealth Building Through Real Estate, Real Estate Asset Management, Institutional Real Estate Investing, CEO Interview Podcast, Limitless, Aaron ZuckerMentions:Rich's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richbalot/?isSelfProfile=false Web: https://www.victra.com/ More of Limitless:Web: zuckerinvestmentgroup.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-zucker-zig/IG: @zuckerinvestmentgroupX: @ZIG_CRE

SUMMARY: Brandon speaks with Rich Ziade, co-founder and CEO of Aboard, about why enterprise AI projects fail without real discovery, why "agents" have been oversold as a headcount play, and why organizational urgency, not new tooling, is what actually makes digital transformation succeed.SHOW: 1057SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Enterprise AI Show #1057 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/RMgycbmuXGsSHOW SPONSORS:Nasuni - Activate your data for AI and request a demoSHOW LINKS:https://www.aboard.com/https://aboard.com/podcast/Topic 1 - From lawyer to digital transformation CEO: Rich's path through Postlight (with co-founder Paul Ford), the sale in 2021, and how Aboard was already incubating inside Postlight Labs before AI "landed like a spaceship."Topic 1a - The six months after ChatGPT arrived: why Aboard resisted rushing a prompt-based fix into messy, political, human organizations, and why "vibe coding" convinced them to hang back rather than parachute AI into a company.Topic 2 - The doctor/patient analogy: executives walk in asking for a specific AI "medicine" instead of describing the underlying pain, and why real engagements start with tests and diagnosis, not the prescription the client thinks they want.Topic 2a - Why discovery hasn't fundamentally changed in the AI era — still in-person interviews and observation, with AI mainly useful for note-taking and summarizing documentation, not for skipping the hard thinking.Topic 3 - The agent hype cycle: why Rich thinks the "millions of agents" narrative (including Anthropic's Boris Cherny running swarms of planning/implementation agents) reflects an engineering-execution worldview rather than a product or organizational one — and why he sees the agent narrative cooling off.Topic 3a - The "spreadsheet problem" vs. targeted AI: most of Aboard's actual delivery work (90%+) isn't agents — it's modernizing spreadsheet-run processes and building narrow RAG/vector tools so people can query their own data in plain English.Topic 4 - "Forward deployed" as the new name for an old idea — going on-site, listening, and understanding a client's world before proposing a solution.Topic 5 - Why no successful digital transformation starts without a real, externally imposed deadline or crisis — and why "innovation labs" without urgency rarely ship anything.Topic 6 - Lightning round: Is AI a bubble? Should GPUs be securitized assets? Three things to do in NYC in one day.FEEDBACK?Email: show @ the enterprise ai show dot comeBluesky: @TheEntAIShow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @TheEntAIShowInstagram: @TheEntAIShow

Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, Noah, and Jim discuss economic warfare on Iran, Trump's renewed trade war on Canada, and the woke politics of the WNBA.  Editor's Picks:  Rich: John Puri's piece, "Beef Tariffs Are Still Doing What They're Supposed to Do"  Charlie: Rich's most recent column, “What If Factories Had Gotten the Data-Center Treatment?” Noah: Charlie's piece, “The New York Times Helps to Launder Karen Attiah's Lie” Jim: Also Rich's piece Light Items:  Rich: Attended the Indiana Fever vs. New York Liberty WNBA game Charlie: Went to the Jaguars pre-season game  Noah: Discovered the NeeDoh squish toys Jim: Dropped off his oldest kid at college this past week Sponsors:Made InVaerThe Institute for Governance and Civics at Florida State University   This podcast was edited and produced by Lauren Veldhuizen.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Rich Hernandez can do 5,000 push-ups without ever touching his knees — and he's chasing a world record that hasn't been broken since 1980. But as he tells me here, it was never really about the push-ups. This time we're in person, right after a morning workout together, digging into how an MIT engineer with a Yale MBA walked away from the aerospace world to preach the gospel of hard work — and why the same process that took him from 40 push-ups to 5,000 (and a 7-minute plank to a 4-hour one) applies just as much to your business, your parenting, and anything else you're trying to get better at. Presented by Star brite — clean and protect your boat: https://bit.ly/4o80cws ▶ Rich's first time on the show (EP 974: Record-Breaking Conquest): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wL-YJXbbZM CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome + Star brite (live and in person) 01:00 The push-up guy: 5,000 reps and chasing the world record 02:00 Receipts: livestreams and 12,345 push-ups in a day 04:00 From MIT and Northrop Grumman to a Yale MBA 05:00 The gospel of hard work: 333,000 push-ups in a year 06:00 What the family business taught him 08:00 How getting better at one thing spills into everything 10:00 Veronica, "Life Is Good," and the power of agency 12:00 The push-up progression: 40 to 5,000 14:00 Atomic Habits, 1% better, and the hockey stick 15:00 The planking journey: 7 minutes to 4 hours 17:00 Why the first five months are the hardest 18:00 Consistency, accuracy, intensity 19:00 The traveling salesman problem 21:00 Where to follow Rich FOLLOW RICH — Do Hard Things 365 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Dohardthings365 Instagram: @dohardthings365 SUBSCRIBE TO THE TOM ROWLAND PODCAST Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tom-rowland-podcast/id1353574678 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5dMqjMPfvEYSte837YNunX Free fishing knot guide: https://bit.ly/3UnAeIP

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Today is a special Wizard of Oz day, Rich explains & asks what popular things in life you just don't understand. Plus, 3 new entries into the Big Guy Hall of fame!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Covino is in Toronto filming History Channel, so Rich & the crew bring the laughs! They react to the legend, Dolly Parton passing away at the age of 80. There's another woman in the news; she lit up the Padres new ownership group press conference! 'A RICH MOMENT IN SPORTS HISTORY' tries not to make you sleepy! Today is a special Wizard of Oz day, Rich explains & asks what popular things in life you just don't understand. Plus, 3 new entries into the Big Guy Hall of fame!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rich sounds off on Brockman's no-time-limit fantasy football draft, and power ranks the top ten NFL players in fantasy football this season. (4:25) Pro Football Hall of Famer/NFL Network Analyst Joe Thomas and Rich break down the Browns naming Deshaun Watson their starting QB over Shedeur Sanders, what new HC Todd Monken is doing right in Cleveland so far, and more. (21:02) Rich previews the San Francisco 49ers‘ season with the top 4 questions facing the Niners heading into the 2026 NFL campaign. (35:58) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rich and Cowboys fan TJ say why they're fully buying the hype surrounding Dallas heading into the new NFL season. In ‘Overreaction Tuesday' Rich weighs in on Aaron Donald's possible Rams return, what Vikings WR Justin Jefferson is out to prove this season, Cowboys backup QB Joe Milton' impressive preseason, if a skinny Luka Doncic bodes well for the Lakers' season, and Manchester City's Erling Haaland's disappointing new haircut.  (2:18)  Actor Will Forte joins Rich in-studio to promote his new ‘Coyote vs Acme' semi-animated comedy based on the Looney Tunes ‘The Roadrunner' cartoon, reveals if he, born in Oakland, severed his Raiders fandom when the team moved to Las Vegas, and shares some great stories about ‘MacGruber,' Val Kilmer and ‘The Amazing Race,' his ‘Nebraska' co-star Bruce Dern and more in a round of ‘Celebrity True or False.'  (21:07)  Rich plays the ‘NFL Win-Loss Game' with a New York Giants fan. (39:52)  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rich weighs in on the trend of players who spent time on NFL rosters this offseason returning to college like TE Dae'Quan Wright going from the Cleveland Browns to LSU. (2:30)  ESPN's Chase Daniel tells Rich why he was stunned the Browns named Deshaun Watson their starting quarterback over Shedeur Sanders, if Commanders QB Jayden Daniels can return to form after an injury-plagued 2025 season, what to expect from Jalen Hurts under new Eagles' OC Sean Mannion, where Bo Nix must improve to take his game (and the Broncos) to the next level, and how long Kirk Cousins and stave off rookie Fernando Mendoza as the Raiders' QB1, and how far Dak Prescott and the Cowboys' offense can take Dallas this season. (19:48)   Rich plays the ‘NFL Win-Loss Game' with a San Diego/Los Angeles Chargers fan. (40:00) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Fr. Mike focuses on the concept of being rich in love instead of rich in wealth today, as we read about the heart of a mother and father in our verse from Proverbs. He also emphasizes the presence of sacrificial love in the vocation of marriage and family through God's decision to keep Jeremiah single, saving him from more suffering. Today's readings are Jeremiah 16-17, Ezekiel 45-46, and Proverbs 15:17-20. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. Please note: The Bible contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.