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On the latest episode of Tin Foil Hat, special guest Apollo The Original joins us for a wild ride through the Grateful Dead, the legendary Lithuanian basketball story, the alleged false flag details surrounding 9/11, the manufactured culture wars, and even the insanity of the stand up comedy wars. Nothing is off limits as we go deep down the rabbit hole! Please support our sponsors: BLUECHEW: BlueChew Gold is the newest innovation from the #1 chewable ED brand. This 4-in-1 formula combines two ingredients for blood flow with Apomorphine and Oxytocin to boost performance, arousal, and connection. Get 10% off your first month with code TINFOIL at BlueChew.com. Visit BlueChew.com for important safety information, and thanks to BlueChew for sponsoring the podcast. Earnin: EarnIn lets you access your paycheck as you work — up to $150/day and $1,000 between paydays. It's not a loan, so there's no interest, credit checks, or mandatory fees. Download EarnIn on the App Store or Google Play, and use code "TinFoilHat" under PODCAST to support the show. 11ElevenLabs: ElevenAgents is an AI voice and chat platform that can listen, understand, and actually resolve customer issues. It can look up accounts, process requests, and hand customers off to a real person when needed, freeing up support teams to focus on what matters most. If you run a business across support, sales, or marketing, check out a demo at eleven-labs-dot-io slash tinfoil. That's E-L-E-V-E-N-L-A-B-S-dot-io slash tinfoil. Join the WolfPack at Wise Wolf Gold and Silver and start hedging your financial position by investing in precious metals now! Go to https://www.samtripoli.gold/ and use the promo code "TinFoil" and we thank Tony for supporting our show. Grab Tickets To Sam Tripoli's Live Shows At SamTripoli.com: Tulsa, OK: 10/9-10/10 Dallsa, Tx: Nov 7th (TrutherCon) Austin, TX: Dec 11th-13th Witcha, KS: Dec 18th-19th Please check out Apollo The Original's Internet: Podcast: Apollo The Original- https://bit.ly/4yz17Lk Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@apollotheoriginalpodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apollotheoriginalpodcast/ Twitter: https://x.com/apollotheorigin Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/apollotheoriginal Please check out Sam Tripoli's internet: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/samtripoli Sam Tripoli's Stand Up Youtube Page: https://www.youtube.com/@SamTripoliComedy Sam Tripoli's Comedy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samtripolicomedy Sam Tripoli's Podcast Clip Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samtripolispodcastclips/ Sam Tripoli's 5th Comedy Special drops Sept 1st on Gas Digital's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GaSDigitalNetwork Check out Word War Debate 2: https://bit.ly/4xRDe0S Please check out Sam Tripoli's 6th Crowd Work Special "Women Can't Peg" Live From Batavia: https://bit.ly/3TZBzHT Please subscribe to the new Tin Foil Hat youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TinFoilHatYoutube Grab your copy of the 2nd issue of the Chaos Twins now and join the Army Of Chaos: https://bit.ly/4gIg1ID Check out Sam "DoomScrollin with Sam Tripoli and Midnight Mike" Every Tuesday At 4pm pst on Youtube, X Twitter, Rumble and Rokfin!
We Are Back With Vengeance!Doomscrollin is hosted by Sam Tripoli and Midnight Mike.Please support our sponsors:BlueChew: BlueChew Gold, an innovative formula designed to support both physical performance and mental arousal, helping you feel more confident and ready when it matters most. Visit http://BlueChew.com to learn more, and when you buy two months of BlueChew Gold, you'll get a third month FREE with promo code DOOM. Thanks to BlueChew for sponsoring the podcast.Sam Tripoli's 5th Comedy Special drops Sept 1st on Gas Digital's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GaSDigitalNetworkCheck out Word War Debate 2: https://wordwardebate.com/Please check out Sam Tripoli's 6th Crowd Work Special "Women Can't Peg" Live From Batavia: https://bit.ly/3TZBzHTCheck out Word War Debate 2 at WordWarDebate.com.Grab Tickets To Sam Tripoli's Live Shows At SamTripoli.com:Tulsa, OK: 10/9-10/10Austin, TX: Dec 11th-13thWitcha, KS: Dec 18th-19thPlease check out Sam Tripoli's Linktree: https://linktr.ee/samtripoliPlease check out Midnight Mike's Internet:The OBDM Podcast Website: https://ourbigdumbmouth.com/Twitter: https://x.com/obdmpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Steelers vs Browns picks, NFL Week 4 market analysis and College Football Week 5 headline Thursday's WagerTalk Today!
In this packed episode of Everyone Needs an Aquarius, Dom and D link up with the trio behind the HL Podcast @thehlpodcast AmRock, DJ No Name, and I Am Dez. Together, they dissect some of the most surreal, infuriating, and critical stories in culture, law, technology, and legacy planning. The conversation kicks off with the origins of the HL Podcast, detailing how an organic connection between Baltimore, Tulsa, and Jersey turned into a powerhouse show discussing sports, film, culture, and Black history. The crew then jumps into a lighthearted debate on overlooked Black superheroes, arguing why Blankman and Meteor Man deserve their respect in the superhero canon. From there, they dive into cultural identity and cosplay, breaking down the story of a Philadelphia woman who claimed to be Black and Palestinian, and why cultural gatekeeping is sometimes necessary. Next, the discussion shifts to serious legal and systemic issues, starting with the ongoing legal disputes over Chadwick Boseman's estate. The hosts break down the reality of medical treatments in hospice and explain why estate planning and trusts are essential before it's too late. The group also tackles a horrifying Detroit funeral home nightmare involving a body mix-up, an accidental cremation, and the sudden death of the funeral home's VP. Finally, the episode highlights major technological and institutional failures. They examine how Flock cameras falsely flagged an innocent person for vehicular homicide, leading to 13 days in jail and potential life in prison due to flawed AI surveillance. They close out with an in-depth analysis of the Cornell 7 Chi Phi fraternity assault case, exposing institutional cover-ups at elite universities and outlining "Columbo-style" rules for proper investigations. 00:00 - Intro & Catching Up 03:07 - Building the HL Podcast: Baltimore, Tulsa, & Jersey Origins 12:01 - Overlooked Black Superheroes: Blankman & Meteor Man Debates 15:46 - Identity Scams: The Philly "Black & Palestinian" Controversy 20:30 - Gatekeeping Culture, Language & Workplace HR Nightmares 38:30 - Chadwick Boseman Estate Disputes & Legacy Planning 45:26 - Estate Planning, Trusts & Facing Mortality 50:21 - Detroit Funeral Home Mix-Up & Mysterious VP Death 59:59 - AI Surveillance Misstep: Innocent Citizen Falsely Arrested 1:06:11 - Cornell 57 Scandal: Fraternity Cover-Ups & Systemic Failures 1:18:15 - The Art of Investigation: "Columbo" Rules & Holding Systems Accountable Brand new voicemail: (314) 649-3113 Subscribe to the Everyone Needs an Aquarius Patreon https://bit.ly/3tXnnCz Email the show at straightolc@gmail.com Follow SOLC Network online Instagram: https://bit.ly/39VL542 Twitter: https://bit.ly/39aL395 Facebook: https://bit.ly/3sQn7je To Listen to the podcast Podbean https://bit.ly/3t7SDJH YouTube http://bit.ly/3ouZqJU Spotify http://spoti.fi/3pwZZnJ Apple http://apple.co/39rwjD1 IHeartRadio http://ihr.fm/2L0A2y
This is a BONUS episode of News Du Jour about the potential for a grand jury investigation into Tulsa DA Steven Kunzweiler via a citizen's petition. Three Tulsa-based attorneys, who have dealt with Kunzweiler for years, break down the allegations within the petition that span from his lead prosecutors purchasing domestic violence victims' home where she was abused (while her case was on-going) and throwing Halloween themed wedding in it, to potentially hiding DNA evidence in rape cases, to prosecutors lying on the stand then getting promoted, to not prosecuting child rape in the juvenile detention center, to becoming adversarial to the very victims they're supposed to be defending... The allegations are egregious and deserve our careful attention. PLEASE share this podcast episode with anyone you know in Tulsa and encourage them to sign the petition.Sign the petition, volunteer, and/or donate: https://www.grandjuryjustice.us —Connect with us:+ INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/itsanniebowles+ TIKTOK: www.TikTok.com/@itsanniebowlesBECOME A PATRON (and listen ad free): www.patreon.com/oklahomalore Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
(1) Thurs Night NFL, Herbstreit new deal, TSSAA ch changes, & Coach Cal speaks (2) Drew Hill, Daily Memphian Grizz Beat, live from Grizz Camp in Nashville (3) Tonight Steelers v Browns in the NFL & N Texas v Tulsa in American Conf FB
Oklahoma State just went into Morgantown and beat West Virginia 41-24. First Big 12 win since 2023. First conference win of the Eric Morris era. Now the question every Cowboy and Big 12 fan is asking: is this team actually real?@Thecgatour sits down with Still Firing's CK Silmon and Chase Leadford to break down the win that flipped the OSU conversation.Drew Mestemaker: 389 yards, 3 TDs. Wyatt Young: 192 yards and a score. A second-half takeover on the road. Was this the best performance of the Morris era — or just another hot night before the league gets harder?We hit the Tulsa hangover, the Oregon upset, the 59-0 Murray State blowout, and what the WVU comeback actually proved. Then the bigger stuff: where Mestemaker ranks among Big 12 QBs, whether Young is the new go-to guy, what still has to get better before UCF, and if these Cowboys can crash the Big 12 race.Still Firing called WVU the real test. OSU passed it. Now what?0:00 Intro2:15 How legit was the 41–24 win? Best Morris-era game yet?8:40 Mestemaker's 389-yard night and the jump since Tulsa16:10 Where does he rank among Big 12 quarterbacks?20:25 Wyatt Young's 192 yards — is he OSU's WR1?25:50 Four games in: Tulsa, Oregon, Murray State, WVU31:20 Bye week before UCF: ceiling vs. remaining holes35:10 Can Oklahoma State be a Big 12 factor this year?38:20 Final thoughtsIf you bleed orange, watch this one.#OklahomaState #GoPokes #Cowboys #Big12 #EricMorris #DrewMestemaker #WyattYoung #CollegeFootball #CFB #StillFiring #TheCGATourWant to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/5459041440759808
Chew on this: Property managers estimated 36% of their clients would switch to self-management if AI made it easier. Owners said 79% would ditch their PM if AI made it easier.Tracy Streich previewed those stats as part of the new AppFolio/NARPM research. Tracy owns Renters Place in Tulsa, serves as NARPM's treasurer, and is president-elect for 2027, so we spent most of the hour on what's changing inside NARPM.01:09 - Welcoming Tracy back to the show02:37 - The state of NARPM07:18 - NARPM National's venue next year08:02 - Working with MCI10:43 - NARPM's financial status14:04 - Is NARPM a non-profit?14:49 - Season 7 Presenting Partner - AppFolio16:00 - What should NARPM do with all this cash?20:50 - Overturning laws and case laws29:07 - Tracy on his management company35:26 - Sponsor - Haven AI36:54 - AI40:26 - Tracy's plans as the incoming NARPM President45:26 - What should NARPM do to grow?53:31 - NARPM's Political Advocacy Work01:01:35 - Closing thoughtsWe get into the move from OMG to MCI after roughly 20 years, the Executive Director search (I'm on the task force), a Home Depot program that paid NARPM just under $300K last quarter, and what NARPM's lobbying actually costs.Then I get on my soapbox. NARPM has millions in the bank, and I think some of it should fund legal fights against unconstitutional local landlord laws. Tracy's reply: send the board a proposal.Connect with TracyRenters PlaceNARPM____Resources for Property Managers & Real Estate Entrepreneurs:- Crane – Private PM Owner Community → Join a private network of property management owners and operators: https://joincrane.co/- Free Weekly Newsletter → Property management insights, strategies, and industry updates direct to your inbox: https://peter.beehiiv.com/subscribe- RL Property Management → Learn more about Peter's company and services in Columbus, Ohio: https://rlpmg.com/__Disclaimer: The content of this podcast is for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. I may have consulting agreements with, or financial interests in, companies mentioned in this podcast (more info here: https://www.peterlohmann.com/financial-interest-disclosure). Additionally, some of the links included may be affiliate links, meaning I may earn a commission if you purchase through these links. Always perform your own due diligence before making any financial or business decisions.
Why do sincere believers so often rest their security on rules, tribes, and checklists rather than on Christ? Preaching from Colossians 2:16-23, Pastor Dorrell examines how self-appointed spiritual umpires in Colossae turned dietary laws and holy days into tests of belonging. Paul calls these things a shadow; the substance is Christ. The sermon confronts two opposite ditches: a legalism and authoritarianism that measure holiness by external standards, and a license that treats grace as permission for the flesh. Biblical standards still belong in the Christian life, but as personal guardrails that protect the heart, not as measuring sticks for judging others. Listeners are challenged to bring their convictions into the light of God's Word, remove boundary markers Christ never built, and rest in his sufficiency.Eastland is a Place to BelongEastland Baptist Church is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We are a welcoming and close-knit family community that loves to care for each other through the Church. We strongly believe in loving and supporting each other and our neighbors. Our members don't just attend our Church; they feel a strong sense of belonging.Join UsFind service times and our location at https://www.eastlandbaptist.org/join.Connect with UsWebsite: https://www.eastlandbaptist.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/eastlandbaptisttulsaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/eastlandbaptistTo support the ministry of Eastland Baptist Church, tap here: https://www.eastlandbaptist.org/give
North Texas at Tulsa Prediction by Tony T.North Texas brings the more explosive offense. The Mean Green average 516.0 yards, 39.5 points and 7.24 yards per play, while Jackson has completed roughly three-quarters of his passes with only two interceptions. White adds a high-leverage run and receiving threat. Tulsa's answer is a defense allowing 4.86 yards per play and 15.3 points per game, with Thomas Davis and Dax Collins capable of disrupting the pocket.
La route 66, miroir de l'Amérique à cinq semaines des élections de mi-mandat. Quatrième étape sur cet axe routier mythique des États-Unis qui traverse huit États du centre et de l'ouest du pays. Tulsa dans l'Oklahoma est marquée par l'un des pires massacres racistes de l'histoire américaine. La communauté noire subit une nouvelle forme de discrimination : les déserts alimentaires, devenus un enjeu de campagne. Où quand il devient impossible de se procurer des aliments frais et bons pour la santé dans un rayon de 20 kilomètres. À écouter aussiÀ un mois des midterms, sur la route 66: un patrimoine qui ne vaut plus rien [3/5]
On the latest episode of Tin Foil Hat, the boys from Ninjas Are Butterflies join us to dive into AGI, the Catholic Church's strange connection to AI, ancient relics, Kentucky Goblins, Skinwalkers, UFO abductions, modern disclosure, and whether Flock cameras are part of a bigger push for surveillance and control. Nothing but bangers! Please support our sponsors: Kalshi: We make predictions every single day—about politics, pop culture, the economy, and the biggest stories making headlines. Kalshi, America's #1 Predictions Market platform, lets you trade those predictions in a live market. On Kalshi, you're trading against peers in a live market — meaning there's no house. And as the probability changes, you can buy in and out of your position. Download the Kalshi app and use code TINFOIl to get $10 when you trade $10. K-A-L-S-H-I. Kalshi. Trade on anything. Mudflap: Mudflap is the ONLY card built to help you keep more of what you earn, with real savings, and no hidden costs snuck back in somewhere else. So ask yourself again: Who is your fuel savings card really working for? With Mudflap, that answer's easy. Keep more of every dollar you earn, because Mudflap has your back. Sign up at Muddy dot com slash tinfoil and get $100 in free fuel credit after approval. That's M-U-D-D-Y dot com slash tinfoil for $100 in free fuel credit. Cloaked: Cloaked protects your privacy with data removal, burner emails and phone numbers, dark web monitoring, a built-in VPN, password manager, and more. Get a free security scan and 30% off any plan at Cloaked.com/TINFOIL. Privacy isn't dead. It's Cloaked. Check out the Urantia Foundation: https://www.urantia.org Sam Tripoli's 5th Comedy Special drops Sept 1st on Gas Digital's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GaSDigitalNetwork Check out Word War Debate 2: https://bit.ly/4xRDe0S Please check out Sam Tripoli's 6th Crowd Work Special "Women Can't Peg" Live From Batavia: https://bit.ly/3TZBzHT Please subscribe to the new Tin Foil Hat youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TinFoilHatYoutube Grab your copy of the 2nd issue of the Chaos Twins now and join the Army Of Chaos: https://bit.ly/4gIg1ID Check out Sam "DoomScrollin with Sam Tripoli and Midnight Mike" Every Tuesday At 4pm pst on Youtube, X Twitter, Rumble and Rokfin! Join the WolfPack at Wise Wolf Gold and Silver and start hedging your financial position by investing in precious metals now! Go to https://www.samtripoli.gold/ and use the promo code "TinFoil" and we thank Tony for supporting our show. Grab Tickets To Sam Tripoli's Live Shows At SamTripoli.com: Tulsa, OK: 10/9-10/10 Dallsa, Tx: Nov 7th (TrutherCon) Austin, TX: Dec 11th-13th Witcha, KS: Dec 18th-19th Please check out Ninjas Are Butterflies's Internet: Website: https://www.sundaycool.com/sunday-cool-studios/ninjas-are-butterflies Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@ninjasarebutterfliesshow Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NinjasAreButterflies Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ninjasarebutterflies Please check out Sam Tripoli's internet: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/samtripoli Sam Tripoli's Stand Up Youtube Page: https://www.youtube.com/@SamTripoliComedy Sam Tripoli's Comedy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samtripolicomedy Sam Tripoli's Podcast Clip Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samtripolispodcastclips/
American education has long been a battleground, but struggles over what students learn has become particularly intense right now, when teaching about racism has been prohibited in multiple states. Sociologist Nikki Khanna reflects on what's missing, including key episodes from US history – from the United States attempts to starve native people, to the massacre of African Americans in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to the mass deportations of Mexican Americans in the Depression, to the Tuskegee syphilis study, and more. Donate in support of Against the Grain and KPFA The post Fund Drive Special: Erasing the History of Racism appeared first on KPFA.
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In this episode of The Fearless Mindset Podcast, host Mark Ledlow reconnects with Army veteran and marketing professional Ron Owens, owner of Phame Marketing in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ron shares what he is seeing among small and medium-sized businesses as economic uncertainty, changing consumer behavior, and tighter budgets force leaders to become more intentional about how they spend their marketing dollars. He emphasizes that fear-driven decisions can create costly blind spots, while strong strategy, experienced guidance, and a clear marketing roadmap can help businesses position themselves for sustainable growth.Ron also explains why simply posting on social media or buying ads is not the same as having a marketing strategy. Effective marketing starts with understanding the audience, identifying what makes a company uniquely valuable, and connecting with customers emotionally before overwhelming them with facts and features. The conversation also covers fractional CMO support, branding, referrals, digital credibility, podcasts, local marketing, social media awareness, and why relationships, trust, community, and face-to-face interaction remain essential in business.Learn about all this and more in this episode of The Fearless Mindset Podcast.KEY TAKEAWAYSStrategy comes before execution. Posting content, running Google ads, or hiring a social media manager can waste money if there is no clear roadmap, defined audience, or desired outcome behind the activity.Differentiate instead of copying competitors. Businesses need to identify what they do uniquely better. If your marketing could easily carry a competitor's logo, customers have little reason to choose you.Understand what motivates the customer. Buying decisions are often emotional first and analytical second. Marketing should connect with what customers feel and want before leading with features and data.Make the customer the hero. Instead of focusing on how great your company is, position the business as the guide that helps customers solve problems and achieve what matters to them.Referrals still carry enormous weight. A recommendation from someone a prospect trusts can open the door, while a strong website and digital presence help validate that recommendation.Build locally before expanding. Start hyper-local and establish credibility in your own market before trying to grow regionally or nationally.QUOTES“Every decision you've ever made, you made emotionally, and you have justified it analytically.”“We all wanna triumph at something. We all wanna win at something.”“There's nothing more powerful than a referral.”“Your marketing's got to elevate and substantiate your position in the marketplace.”“You gotta own your backyard and win your backyard before you're gonna have credibility outside of your yard.”“Human behavior's undefeated.”Get to know more about Ron Owens:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phamefounder/To hear more episodes of The Fearless Mindset podcast, you can go to https://the-fearless-mindset.simplecast.com/ or listen to major podcasting platforms such as Apple, Google Podcasts, Spotify, etc. You can also subscribe to the Fearless Mindset YouTube Channel to watch episodes on video.
Mark Rodgers and Cale Gundy discuss the college football weekend in Week 5. What are some of the marquee games you will be paying attention to this weekend? How impressive was Texas’ defense last weekend against Tennessee and what is Will Muschamp doing to get those guys flying around? Coach Eric Morris joins the show to discuss the 19th ranked Oklahoma State football team and how he has gotten this team firing on all cylinders after their disappointing week 1 loss to Tulsa.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this episode of The Group of Five Guys Podcast, The GOFG examine the Protect College Sports Act as it advances to the House and discuss what the legislation could mean for athletes, NIL, revenue sharing and the future of college football. Then, we react to Miami offensive coordinator Shannon Dawson's comments about the SEC—and the social-media firestorm that followed. Finally, we preview Thursday night's G6 matchups: Western Kentucky at New Mexico State and North Texas at Tulsa. Presented by FanDuel. Do not miss out on another jam packed episode of The Group of Five Guys Podcast! SUBSCRIBE: / @groupoffiveguys WEBSITE: http://www.groupoffiveguys.com/ MERCH: https://groupof5guys.onechaptr.com/gr... Subscribe and follow the Group of Five Guys! @groupoffiveguys @Sprouse_68 @JMurphyLee SPONSOR THE SHOW OR BUSINESS INQUIRES: Email: groupoffiveguys@gmail.com Direct Message on Twitter: / groupoffiveguys #G5 #groupoffiveguys #G5Live Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Undefeated no more. Tulsa went into Fayetteville and came out with an ugly 34-6 loss to Arkansas in the rain, but at 3-1 the Golden Hurricane are already halfway to bowl eligibility with conference play starting Thursday night.We recap the Arkansas game, including a defense that played a lot better than 34 points suggests, the injury updates heading into a short week, and our players of the game. We also send our condolences to Tre Lamb and his family on the passing of his grandfather, Ray Lamb.Then we welcome in JD Davis from the North Texas Eagle to preview the Mean Green. JD walks us through Neal Brown's rebuild after the exodus to Oklahoma State, Jahiem White, Tayven Jackson, and a Jekyll-and-Hyde defense. That makes three for three on North Texas Eagle guys between their show and ours. Great conversation. Kickoff is Thursday at 8:00 PM central on ESPN at H.A. Chapman Stadium.We round things out by taking a look Around the American before running down the rest of the active TU sports.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thegoldenhurricastChapters:0:00 - Intro3:20 - Arkansas Recap5:32 - Offense10:01 - Defense13:42 - Passing Game16:58 - Injuries20:04 - Players of the Game32:21 - North Texas Preview ft. JD Davis35:48 - North Texas - Expectations43:41 - North Texas - Jaheem White48:48 - North Texas - Offense53:34 - North Texas - Defense59:01 - North Texas - Special Teams1:05:53 - North Texas - Predictions1:17:52 - Arkansas Takeaways1:20:03 - Around the American1:29:34 - Men's Soccer1:32:40 - Women's Soccer1:34:21 - Volleyball1:40:33 - Golf1:42:20 - Cross Country1:47:46 - Outro
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What if the real test of a belief has nothing to do with whether it's true and everything to do with what it makes of you?Not whether it's the right religion, the right God, the right set of rules. Whether it makes you more loving or more judgmental. Whether it holds you up on your worst day or only sounds good on your best one. Whether it gives you the courage to be honest, even when honesty costs you something. This message isn't interested in which belief is correct. It's interested in what yours is actually making of you.QUESTIONS TO SIT WITH:- Do your beliefs hold you up, or do they only work when things are already going fine?- Do they make you kinder, or more judgmental?- Could you stand by what you believe even if it disappointed someone you love?- Would they get you out of bed on your hardest day?CHAPTERS:0:00 Opening Song1:05 Playground Theology3:04 Kids Explaining All Souls4:30 One God, All Are Saved6:45 What Does "Saved" Mean?8:17 The Cathedral of the World10:49 Testing What's True11:31 Throwing Rocks Through Windows12:52 Strange, But Not My Business14:37 Love Over Doctrine15:55 One Source, All Loved16:59 Beyond What You Believe19:17 What Your Beliefs Make of You20:28 Closing MusicThis message, "Simple Answers to Big Questions," was delivered by Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa.SUBSCRIBE TO WATCH OTHER VIDEOS: @allsoulsunitarianGIVE A DONATION TO HELP US SPREAD THIS LOVE BEYOND BELIEF: https://www.allsoulschurch.org/GIVE or text AllSoulsTulsa to 73256LET'S CONNECT:Facebook: /allsoulstulsaInstagram: /allsoulstulsaAll Souls Church Website: https://www.allsoulschurch.org#AllSoulsTulsa #AllSoulsUnitarianChurch #LoveBeyondBelief #Belief #BigQuestions
Episode 251Susan McMurray spent 30 years in a classroom pouring into other people. This past summer she made something of her own: Kindred & Bloom, a magazine-style devotional for women with contributor articles in the front and a five-week devotional in the back, built to be an excuse to gather.We talk about the magazine she loved that stopped publishing, how the first issue's theme, Abide, came out of a class at her church, the women she asked to write for it, and Create and Connect, the fifth week where you put the reading down and make something with your hands.Susan names the thing under all of it: she read that over half of Americans feel unseen. Then she asks about the empty closet. If there is an empty closet in the house, we fill it with crud, and our schedules work the same way. The fix is margin, on purpose. And she is honest about starting: it was scary to take on something that was just hers, she got up at one in the morning to work on it, and her best advice is one line. Do not despise small beginnings.Meet Susan in person: she and Michelle Bruns of Pinspiration join Nancy for a live podcast in Tulsa on November 10, 6:30 to 8:30 pm, craft and magazine included. Tickets at nancymoore.co/events.The magazine: kindredandbloom.co (Kindred & Bloom Co. on Instagram and Facebook).Today's sponsor: Synergy Benefit Advisors (tulsasynergy.com).Join our free online community: skool.com/sharingpassionandpurposeChapters:0:00 Coming up0:36 Sharing Passion and Purpose0:53 Welcome: meet Susan McMurray1:45 The magazine she loved that stopped publishing2:56 One step further: a five-week devotional in the back3:51 Create and Connect: doing something with your hands5:20 How the theme Abide came to be7:32 Family, hospitality, and community in every season8:27 Permission to slow down9:31 Is it surreal to have published a magazine?9:47 Finding your drivers: writing, beautifying, connecting11:07 Volume one: four issues, four seasons12:46 November 10 in Tulsa: a live podcast for two14:48 Where to find Kindred and Bloom15:53 A keepsake worth gifting16:20 Over half of Americans feel unseen16:38 The empty closet theory, and making margin18:08 A word from our sponsor19:27 Trusting an idea God puts in your heart21:00 Up at 1am, working on the magazine22:54 Rapid fire23:31 A theme song for this season24:21 Best advice: do not despise small beginnings25:12 One book every entrepreneur should read26:38 A dream not pursued yet: Kindred and Bloom retreats28:09 What following your passion means28:56 A question from the last guest: which season are you?29:59 Thank you, and the inner circle30:43 Until next time31:10 Sharing Passion and Purpose outroABOUT NANCYNancy Moore is the host of Sharing Passion and Purpose, a weekly podcast offering career and creative inspiration to help you build a purpose-filled life. Pursuing a career with passion, tapping into your creative potential, and building on your best resource: yourself.ABOUT SUSAN MCMURRAYSusan McMurray is the founder and publisher of Kindred & Bloom Co., a seasonal magazine-style devotional for women whose first issue, Abide, pairs contributor articles with a five-week devotional made for gathering with a few friends. She has taught communication at Oral Roberts University for 30 years and built the magazine over one summer off from teaching.CONNECT & GO DEEPERJoin Nancy's free community: https://www.skool.com/sharingpassionandpurposePodcast website: https://sharingpassionandpurpose.comWork with Nancy: https://nancymoore.co
A difficult chapter is unfolding for Osage language preservation in Oklahoma. The Osage language immersion school in Pawhuska, a program created to help a new generation learn and carry forward the language of the Osage people, is closing its doors. The decision has sparked questions about the future of language revitalization and the challenges of sustaining Indigenous education programs. Here's FBO's Roma Carter with the part one of her story.Oklahoma is one of a small number of states that requires voters who return absentee ballots by mail to have their signatures notarized, or to follow other specific procedures depending on the type of absentee ballot. The requirement is intended to help verify a voter's identity and protect the integrity of elections—but it can also raise questions about access, convenience, and whether every voter has the same ability to navigate the process. Here's FBO's Nick Alexandrov with more.What happens when music, community, entrepreneurship, and mental health come together under one roof? That's part of the vision behind rapper Pusha T's Cousinz Con Festival. While the festival features music and entertainment, its programming also creates space for conversations about mental health, wellness, business, and entrepreneurship. FBO's Zaakirah Muhammad reports from Norfolk, Virginia as she looks at Cousinz Con not simply as a festival, but as a space for connection and exchange.The Greenwood District in Tulsa is once again becoming a gathering place for storytellers, filmmakers, artists, and community members. Black Wall Street Nation, taking place September 25th-27th will bring musicians, filmmakers, beauty professionals, student-athletes and community together around a shared ambition: more people earning from their talent and owning what they build. This event brings a creative celebration to the historic Greenwood District, featuring film screenings, conversations with filmmakers, and opportunities to connect through the power of storytelling. Friday will feature all things film, with a special evening performance by Hip Hop legend MC Lyte. Saturday will dive into the business side of film and move into the music. Special guest Wale will headline and close out Saturday's experience. Sunday closes with a brunch catered by Chef Chad Cherry and a superjam featuring gospel artists Erica Campbell of Mary Mary, Lena Byrd Miles, Carson Barnes, and Lisa Page Brooks. Soul and jazz music will be included as well. There will also be opportunities for writers, beauty professionals and student-athletes to build skills, credentials and industry relationships. This festival creates a space where film and music becomes more than entertainment—it becomes a way to explore history, identity, culture, and the experiences that shape communities. For more information, or to purchase tickets, visit https://blackwallstreetnation.us/Food can tell us where we come from, who we are, and what we hope to pass on to the next generation. In Tulsa, Chef Chad Cherry is bringing those ideas to the forefront through the second State of Black Food Summit—a gathering focused on Black foodways, culinary traditions, entrepreneurship, and the people shaping the future of food. FBO's Quraysh Ali Lansana takes a closer look at the State of Black Food Summit, which is part of the Black Wall Street Nation Festival, in his interview with Chef Cherry. https://chefkulture.com/about-sobfLadies leave your aunts at home for this next story by Sondra Slade about her first outing to the club at the tender age of 15.Focus: Black Oklahoma is produced in partnership with KOSU Radio & Tri-City Collective. Additional support is provided by the Commemoration Fund & Press Forward. Our theme music is by Moffett Music.Focus: Black Oklahoma's executive producers are Quraysh Ali Lansana & Bracken Klar. Our associate producers are Jesse Ulrich, & Naomi Agnew.You can visit us online at KOSU.org or FocusBlackOklahoma.com & on YouTube @TriCityCollectiveOK.You can follow us on Instagram @FocusBlackOK & on Facebook at Facebook.com/FocusBlackOK.You can hear Focus: Black Oklahoma on demand at KOSU.org, the NPR app, NPR.org, or wherever you get your podcasts.https://linktr.ee/focusblackok
To celebrate Bishop David Konderla's 10th anniversary as Bishop of the Diocese of Tulsa, we revisit a special episode of "Tulsa Time" from the podcast archives.In this Episode:What Does a Priest Think If I Haven't Been to Confession in Years?Watch Tulsa Time on YouTubeStream, Download, and Listen on Your Favorite PlatformFollow @dioceseoftulsa The Eastern Oklahoma Catholic Podcast is brought to you by The Diocese of Tulsa and Eastern Oklahoma.
Join HawgSports.com publisher Trey Biddy as he takes one last look back at the 34-6 win over Tulsa and looks ahead to this Saturday's matchup with Texas A&M in College Station. Connor Goodson also hops on with the latest Razorback basketball recruiting news, and we'll take your questions as well on this episode of HawgSports Live.
The Hogs are back in the win column after taking care of Tulsa. Plus, we'll look at our game picks and recap the weekend around the SEC.
EA774 - Sex Activities part 2, Scissortail and Interviews This week on the Erotic Awakening Podcast, episode 774, Dawn keeps it short and sweet while attending Scissortail in Tulsa, OK as the emcee….. She talks about a few more sexual activities…. …plus, a little chat about the event and a promise to interview some of the attendees there that have been interviewed before over the years. LINKS MENTIONED: Scissortail https://fetlife.com/events/2026/09/25/scissortail-leather-conference-midwest-power-exchange-contest-sjvqwm Kinky Holiday Bazaar https://fetlife.com/events/2026/11/21/kinky-holiday-bazaar-ogivu7 SEEK submissive retreat https://fetlife.com/events/2026/10/08/submissive-seek-retreat-2026-zdjhi5 TRANSCRIPT 1:52 Sexual activities 1:58 Intercrural Sex 3:25 Quacking 3:48 Rusty Trombone 4:38 Snowballing 5:32 Spucking 6:19 Tribbing 7:29 Upcoming events 8:34 EA Shoutouts 8:59 Emcee'ing at Scissortail over the weekend 10:30 Will be interviewing previous people again Enjoy!!! Dawn ************************************************************ Enjoy the podcast and the education Dawn shares? Join the PATRONs who help make it possible, for as little as $2/month. Discounted/Free books, kink starter cards, online classes; early access to the show, and more! https://www.patreon.com/eroticawakening Or Donate at KOFI https://ko-fi.com/dawn_awakening ***************************************** Fetlife - @Erotic_Awakening Fetlife - @Dawn_Awakening Instagram - @eroticawakening Youtube - @eroticawakeningpodcast TikTok - @eapodcastdawn Newsletter - www.eroticawakening.com Discord - https://discord.gg/WQtSM56V39 ******************************************** 774 - #scissortail #leathercontest #tribbing #quacking #blowjobs #rustytrombone #snowballing #newbook #powerexchange #livingms #kinkeducation #podcast #domsub
Principal Matters: The School Leader's Podcast with William D. Parker
The school year is in full swing, and in addition to leaders I’ve been supporting in Grow Academies, Masterminds, and one-on-on coaching, I’ve also had the privilege of gathering with leaders in person.This week I wanted to share about an opportunity I had recently to join my friend Chris LeGrande, Executive Director of Oklahoma's secondary principal and middle-level education associations (OASSP & OMLEA), as Principal Matters sponsored a dinner for principals from my area of the state. Several themes emerged from our time together. Here are three takeaways I thought may resonate with Principal Matters listeners and leaders: Belonging matters, not just for students, but for adults too. Beau Brannon, Union High School, Tulsa, Oklahoma, shared an amazing system he and his teachers have created to track every student to make sure he/she has a caring adult connected to their outcomes. Listen in as Jen and I talk about some of the takeaways he’s learned from that effort. PLCs, when done well, can be wonderful. When done without fidelity, they can become toxic. Timothy Ray, Assistant Superintendent, Catoosa Public Schools, Oklahoma, shared vulnerable lessons on how his leadership team has reorganized their own meetings around teaching and learning in order to dive deeper into the same tasks their helping teachers navigate. AI is still top of mind for many leaders who are trying to figure out how to protect against its misuse while also learning how to manage it as a tool, not an end in itself. Amy Sanders, Sapulpa Public Schools, Oklahoma, shared ways she and her teachers are tackling the hard questions of keeping students safe while also not being afraid of learning ways to utilize technology as an instrument in learning. As I like to say whenever I'm in a room with other leaders, “The smartest person in the room is the room.” Jen and I also discuss some upcoming leadership development opportunities for listeners. as well as give some shout-outs to the following: For Oklahoma leaders: Sign up for the OASSP/OMLEA Leadership & Learning Conference in Edmond, Oklahoma, October 28–29. Danny Steele and Phil Januszewski will be keynoting, along with other great leaders: https://www.ccosa.org/page/oasspomlea-leadership-and-learning-conference For all leaders: In September, I launched a virtual leadership series called Hats We Wear in partnership with First Educational Resources. We meet once a month. Even though we've already completed Session 1, it's not too late to sign up for the remaining seven sessions. You'll also receive the video from Session 1 so you can catch up in the meantime. Want to learn more about Hats We Wear – Virtual PD Series or sign up? Go here: https://resources.firsteducation-us.com/the-hats-we-wear-as-school-leaders-how-to-lead-serve-coach-and-communicate-with-confidence-full-year-series-landing-page Finally, Jen Schwanke will be at Louisiana's principal's association conference September 27-28, in Baton Rouge. If you're there, make sure to tell her hello! Listen to the full episode to hear us reflect on these and other ideas that emerged in today's Monday Matters! As always, thank you for doing what matters! ~ Will The post MONDAY MATTERS with Jen Schwanke and Will Parker – Learning From Other Leaders appeared first on Principal Matters.
Ruscin & Zach recap Arkansas's win over Tulsa and give their bum of the week Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Episode 122! Arkansas gets back in the win column with a much-needed victory over Tulsa! We break down the Hogs' performance, the biggest takeaways from the game, standout players, areas that still need improvement, and what this win means moving forward. Plus, we look ahead to what's next for the Razorbacks. https://www.youtube.com/live/X7mVaKli0DM?si=h3P80JrI8cHQWJT0 https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19gsdRHUau/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
BREAKING CIGAR NEWS! In Episode 85 of Smokin Sounds Premium Cigar Podcast, Shawn and Justin sit down with Tony Barrios, owner of Stallone Cigars, to reveal exciting news about the newest addition to the legendary War Horse cigar line—the War Horse Lord Nelson, inspired by George Washington's famous war horse. This exclusive cigar podcast interview dives into the story behind the new release, the inspiration for the Lord Nelson cigar, Stallone Cigars' vision for premium handmade cigars, and what cigar enthusiasts can expect from one of the most anticipated boutique cigar releases. If you're searching for Stallone Cigars, War Horse Lord Nelson, Tony Barrios interview, new premium cigars, or the latest cigar industry news, this episode is for you. Broadcasting from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Smokin Sounds brings authentic conversations about premium cigars, boutique cigars, pipe tobacco, bourbon, whiskey, music, WWE, and cigar culture every week. In This Episode: Exclusive interview with Tony Barrios of Stallone Cigars Breaking announcement of the new War Horse Lord Nelson cigar The story behind George Washington's legendary war horse inspiration Boutique cigar craftsmanship and premium tobacco discussion New cigar release insights Cigar industry news and behind-the-scenes conversation Whether you enjoy Nicaraguan cigars, Dominican cigars, boutique cigar brands, premium cigar reviews, cigar lounges, cigar podcasts, handmade cigars, or tobacco culture, Episode 85 delivers one of the biggest cigar conversations of the year. Subscribe to Smokin Sounds Premium Cigar Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podbean, YouTube, and Rumble for weekly cigar interviews, cigar reviews, industry news, and authentic conversations from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Visit: smokinsoundspod.com SEO Keywords Stallone Cigars, Tony Barrios, War Horse Lord Nelson, War Horse cigars, George Washington war horse, Lord Nelson cigar, premium cigar podcast, cigar podcast, boutique cigars, handmade cigars, cigar interview, cigar industry news, Tulsa Oklahoma podcast, cigar reviews, Nicaraguan cigars, Dominican cigars, tobacco podcast, pipe tobacco podcast, bourbon and cigars, whiskey and cigars, Smokin Sounds Podcast. Hashtags #SmokinSounds #StalloneCigars #WarHorse #LordNelson #TonyBarrios #CigarPodcast #PremiumCigars #BoutiqueCigars #HandmadeCigars #CigarLife #CigarCulture #CigarCommunity #CigarNews #TobaccoPodcast #TulsaOK #OklahomaPodcast #GeorgeWashington #CigarReview #WhiskeyAndCigars #BourbonAndCigars GEO Bonus (AI Search Optimization) This description is structured to answer searches like "Who is Tony Barrios?", "What is the new War Horse Lord Nelson cigar?", "What is George Washington's War Horse cigar?", and "Which podcast announced the new Stallone Cigars release?"—phrasing that helps improve discoverability across Google, Apple Podcasts, Spotify search, YouTube, and AI-powered search engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity.
Are you trying to keep one foot in God's kingdom and one foot in the world? Many believers affirm the Lord on Sunday while quietly trusting the culture for security, approval, and moral direction. Pastor Dorrell examines 1 Kings 18:17-40, where Elijah confronts a nation limping between Yahweh and Baal and calls them to decision on Mount Carmel. He illuminates the powerlessness of the world's idols and the grace of a God whose fire falls on the substitute rather than the compromised people, pointing to the cross of Christ. Listeners are challenged to end their hesitation, repair the altar of prayer and Scripture, and follow the true God with full commitment.Eastland is a Place to BelongEastland Baptist Church is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We are a welcoming and close-knit family community that loves to care for each other through the Church. We strongly believe in loving and supporting each other and our neighbors. Our members don't just attend our Church; they feel a strong sense of belonging.Join UsFind service times and our location at https://www.eastlandbaptist.org/join.Connect with UsWebsite: https://www.eastlandbaptist.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/eastlandbaptisttulsaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/eastlandbaptistTo support the ministry of Eastland Baptist Church, tap here: https://www.eastlandbaptist.org/give
Can a person claim faith in Christ while nothing about their life ever changes? Many assume that correct doctrine and a sincere profession are proof enough of salvation. Pastor Dorrell examines James 2:14-26, where James confronts an empty confession that offers words without deeds and that believes the facts yet refuses to surrender. Through the examples of Abraham and Rahab, he shows how Paul and James agree: we are saved by grace through faith alone, but genuine faith never stays alone. It bears fruit, interrupts selfishness, and moves from the lips to the hands. Listeners are challenged to examine themselves honestly and ask whether their faith has truly changed how they live, give, and serve.Eastland is a Place to BelongEastland Baptist Church is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We are a welcoming and close-knit family community that loves to care for each other through the Church. We strongly believe in loving and supporting each other and our neighbors. Our members don't just attend our Church; they feel a strong sense of belonging.Join UsFind service times and our location at https://www.eastlandbaptist.org/join.Connect with UsWebsite: https://www.eastlandbaptist.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/eastlandbaptisttulsaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/eastlandbaptistTo support the ministry of Eastland Baptist Church, tap here: https://www.eastlandbaptist.org/give
Join HawgSports.com publisher Trey Biddy as he walks off Arkansas' 34-6 win over Tulsa Saturday night in Razorback Stadium for the postgame Walk & Talk.
Sam and Dylan are back to break down 23andMe's alien DNA bank, Bibi's speech at the UN, sports corner with Collin Kaepernick and the secret AA Cult of Carr.
The one that started it all — Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) — and the first episode of our October So Many Scares series on the Nightmare franchise.Garrett's Blockbuster-kid origin story with slashers, David's first-ever watch, a $1 million budget that turned into $57 million worldwide, Tulsa's own Heather Langenkamp as the final girl who fights back, the "old man writing what teenagers say" dialogue, David's modest proposal that Freddy get two claw hands, the ending nobody can agree was a dream, Letterboxd reviews, and a score game Josh wins by a tenth of a point.Ratings: Garrett 3.5, David 3, Josh 3. Letterboxd average: 3.7.CHAPTERS00:00 Welcome to So Many Scares00:18 Kicking off Nightmare on Elm Street month00:52 The plan: ending with Freddy vs Jason01:55 The Letterboxd synopsis (reads like a VHS back)02:50 Box office: $1M budget, $57M worldwide05:41 Why this series + Garrett's Blockbuster days07:18 Only Robert Englund has played Freddy08:26 "An old man writing what he thinks teenagers say"09:49 David's first watch: dreams vs reality11:01 "Fred is a pervert"14:08 The glove: "get two claw hands"18:01 Dream logic that works (the sinking stairs)19:35 Tulsa's own Heather Langenkamp21:31 Nancy: the final girl who fights back23:25 Plot holes: how do the kids know about Freddy?26:35 Could Freddy work today? (Smile, It)30:04 The ending: was it a dream?32:13 "One, two, Freddy's coming for you"33:01 Our ratings: 3.5, 3, 335:44 Letterboxd reviews36:47 The Letterboxd score game — Josh wins by 0.138:08 Next week: Freddy's Revenge
On the latest episode of Tin Foil Hat, Deadrick and Taylor from Planetary HQ join us for a massive cosmic rabbit hole into the Universal Government, the Divine Council, and the secret history of humanity. We dive into the Annunaki, Enochian Watchers, immortal Midway creatures, Adam and Eve's alleged extraterrestrial origins, Göbekli Tepe, Atlantis, the Illuminati bloodlines, and the Deep State's connection to fallen celestial beings. Plus, we explore Cosmic Jesus, the true meaning of life, and the wild possibility that when you die, you become the alien. Please support our sponsors: BLUECHEW: BlueChew Gold is the newest innovation from the #1 chewable ED brand. This 4-in-1 formula combines two ingredients for blood flow with Apomorphine and Oxytocin to boost performance, arousal, and connection. Get 10% off your first month with code TINFOIL at BlueChew.com. Visit BlueChew.com for important safety information, and thanks to BlueChew for sponsoring the podcast. Jack Archer: Instead of needing different pants for work, travel, and weekends, the Jetsetter Tech Pant is designed to do more with one pair. Built for the office, golf course, date nights, and everything in between. Right now, Jack Archer is offering our listeners 15% off your first order with promo code GETJACK. Go to Jack Archer dot com, and use promo code GETJACK for 15% off your first order, and see why thousands of people have given the Jetsetter Tech pant five stars. That's Jack Archer dot com, promo code GETJACK for 15% off your first order. Check out the Urantia Foundation: https://www.urantia.org Sam Tripoli's 5th Comedy Special drops Sept 1st on Gas Digital's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GaSDigitalNetwork Check out Word War Debate 2: https://bit.ly/4xRDe0S Please check out Sam Tripoli's 6th Crowd Work Special "Women Can't Peg" Live From Batavia: https://bit.ly/3TZBzHT Please subscribe to the new Tin Foil Hat youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TinFoilHatYoutube Grab your copy of the 2nd issue of the Chaos Twins now and join the Army Of Chaos: https://bit.ly/4gIg1ID Check out Sam "DoomScrollin with Sam Tripoli and Midnight Mike" Every Tuesday At 4pm pst on Youtube, X Twitter, Rumble and Rokfin! Join the WolfPack at Wise Wolf Gold and Silver and start hedging your financial position by investing in precious metals now! Go to https://www.samtripoli.gold/ and use the promo code "TinFoil" and we thank Tony for supporting our show. Grab Tickets To Sam Tripoli's Live Shows At SamTripoli.com: Tulsa, OK: 10/9-10/10 Dallsa, Tx: Nov 7th (TrutherCon) Austin, TX: Dec 11th-13th Witcha, KS: Dec 18th-19th Please check out Planetary HQ's Internet: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@PlanetaryHQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theplanetaryhq/ Please check out Sam Tripoli's internet: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/samtripoli Sam Tripoli's Stand Up Youtube Page: https://www.youtube.com/@SamTripoliComedy Sam Tripoli's Comedy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samtripolicomedy/%20P Sam Tripoli's Podcast Clip Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samtripolispodcastclips/
Former Alabama national championship quarterback Jake Coker joins Mick Gillispie for a loaded college football Week 4 edition of the show featuring an in-depth Alabama vs. South Carolina preview, SEC betting picks, upset predictions and some incredible stories from Coker's playing days under Nick Saban. The biggest focus is No. 8 Alabama's Saturday night matchup with South Carolina at Bryant-Denny Stadium. The Crimson Tide enters the game with freshman quarterback Keelon Russell leading the offense, while the Gamecocks come to Tuscaloosa trying to respond after blowing an early 16-0 lead in a 41-34 home loss to Mississippi State. Jake breaks down what Alabama must do against dangerous South Carolina quarterback LaNorris Sellers, why containing mobile quarterbacks requires discipline along the line of scrimmage and why establishing the running game could be critical for Russell and the Crimson Tide offense. Alabama is also getting healthier offensively. Running back AK Dear and wide receiver Noah Rogers are available after missing the beginning of the season, while the Tide will be without several defenders, including linebackers Justin Hill and Desmond Umeozulu. Jake also discusses how Alabama can continue finding explosive opportunities for star receiver Ryan Coleman-Williams. Coker takes us inside the Nick Saban era with an unbelievable practice story involving Da'Ron Payne, Ross Pierschbacher and a brutal half-line drill just before Alabama played for a national championship. It's a reminder of just how physical those legendary Crimson Tide practices could be. Then Mick and Jake turn their attention to a massive SEC Week 4 slate:
We're joined by the Voice of the Golden Hurricane, Bruce Howard, to preview Arkansas' matchup with Tulsa. Plus, it's time for our weekly game picks.
Week 4's betting board is moving fast, and some of the biggest shifts do not match the public money. Gary Segars breaks down the sharp action behind Utah–Iowa State, Missouri–Mississippi State, Oregon–USC, Wisconsin–Penn State and Oregon State–UTEP before explaining why ticket counts never tell the entire story.A powerful Nor'easter adds another variable to the weekend, with wind and rain threatening Virginia Tech–Boston College, UCLA–Maryland, Wisconsin–Penn State and several Friday games. Then the spotlight moves to the overlooked matchups that could deliver the weekend's best drama: Army–Temple, Navy–UAB, Tulsa–Arkansas, App State–NC State, Oregon State–UTEP, James Madison–Old Dominion, Georgia Tech–Stanford and Arizona–Washington State.The show also digs into Tulsa's unlikely playoff path, Arkansas' mounting pressure, UTEP's unusual betting split, NC State's emotional recovery test, quarterback and injury questions, situational against-the-spread trends and several quick-hit games worth monitoring. Gary closes with five larger betting angles and a complete Friday-to-late-Saturday watch guide covering every major broadcast window. It is the Week 4 roadmap for finding the hidden value, avoiding misleading trends and knowing exactly when to grab the remote.
Ruscin & Zach on if Arkansas beats Tulsa and this weekend's College Football slate. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Friday games (00:48): Northwestern at Indiana, Clemson at CalSaturday noon games (6:22): Texas at Tennessee, Illinois at Ohio StateSaturday afternoon games (16:00): Notre Dame at Purdue, Boise State at Western Michigan, Oklahoma at Georgia, Ole Miss at Florida, Iowa at Michigan, Utah at Iowa StateSaturday night games (29:59): South Carolina at Alabama, Kansas State at Cincinnati, Oklahoma State at West Virginia, Oregon at USC, Texas A&M at LSU, Arizona at Washington State, Missouri at Mississippi State, Tulsa at ArkansasPredictions: Notre Dame at Purdue, Oklahoma State at West Virginia, Texas A&M at LSU, Iowa at Michigan, Missouri at Mississippi State, Ole Miss at Florida, Oregon at USC, Oklahoma at Georgia, Boise State at Western Michigan, Texas at Tennessee
Strong businesses do not become healthy by accident. They are built through trust, clear leadership, accountability, and a willingness to face problems together. Will Watrous joins me to explore what makes leadership teams work and why so many companies struggle even when good people are involved. Will shares how his own entrepreneurial journey led him from marketing into helping leadership teams use the Entrepreneurial Operating System, or EOS, to create greater vision, traction, and team health. We discuss vulnerability-based trust, productive conflict, accountability, business complexity, data-driven decisions, and why leaders must take responsibility for both what works and what does not. Will also explains why simplicity matters as companies grow, how weekly meetings can keep teams focused, and why leaders need quiet thinking time to gain clarity. You will find practical leadership lessons here for building stronger teams, making better decisions, and creating a healthier business. Highlights: 05:22 How helping one business owner launched Will's entrepreneurial journey. 11:42 Why strong leadership creates accountability. 15:29 How trust becomes the foundation of healthy teams. 26:20 Why productive conflict leads to better decisions. 40:44 How leaders can reduce complexity as a business grows. 54:04 Why clarity breaks help leaders think and lead better. . About the Guest: Will Watrous is a business owner, EOS Implementer, and advisor to growth-minded leaders in the Tulsa and Broken Arrow area. He works primarily with founders and leadership teams of companies with 10 to 250 employees who want more clarity, discipline, and traction in their organizations. His work centers on helping leaders simplify complexity, make better decisions, and consistently execute on what matters most. As a Certified EOS Implementer, Will guides leadership teams through the Entrepreneurial Operating System, focusing on vision, accountability, data, and healthy team dynamics. He is known for being practical, direct, and grounded in real-world business experience. Clients value his ability to ask hard questions, create focus, and turn strategy into clear priorities that actually get done. Beyond EOS, Will owns and advises multiple businesses, including a marketing company and commercial real estate investments. This firsthand ownership experience shapes how he works with clients. He understands cash flow, hiring decisions, sales challenges, and the pressure leaders face when growth creates complexity. His approach blends structured systems with sound judgment and financial awareness. Will is deeply interested in finance, long-term wealth building, and disciplined execution, both personally and professionally. He values tools, scorecards, and measurable outcomes, but believes strong businesses are ultimately built by healthy, aligned leaders. His Christian worldview influences how he thinks about stewardship, integrity, and responsibility. He lives in the Tulsa area with his wife Jenny and their two children, Eli and Ellie. Outside of work, Will enjoys fitness, hiking, travel, learning, and time with his family. He is driven by helping leaders build organizations that are not only successful, but sustainable and well-run for the long term. Ways to connect with Will**:** LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willwatrous/ Website: https://implementer.eosworldwide.com/will-watrous/ About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! 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This podcast explores how the beliefs we carry shape the way we live, lead, and connect with others. Each week, I talk with people who challenge assumptions, face adversity head-on, and show what's possible when we choose curiosity over fear. Together, we focus on mindset, resilience, and the small shifts that lead to meaningful change. Let's get started. Well, greetings, everyone, wherever you may be today, I am your host Mike Hingson, and you are listening and/or watching Unstoppable Mindset. Our guest today is Will Watrous, and Will has a I think a lot of interesting things to talk with us about regarding organizations, team building, teamwork, and other such things, and I'm not going to give it away because it's his job to really talk about that, which is a lot more fun. Although I will say that he and I share a like of a particular book on teamwork, which we'll talk about, I'm sure, as we go forward. But anyway, Will, I want to welcome you to Unstoppable Mindset. We're really glad you're here. Will Watrous 01:40 Thank you, Mike. What a pleasure to be on your podcast today. Michael Hingson 01:43 Well, well, I've been looking forward to it for a while, so we're we're glad we're doing it, and we'll we'll take about an hour, and then you can go off to dinner unless you've already had dinner. Speaker 1 01:53 Sounds like a plan. Michael Hingson 01:56 Yeah, Will is in Oklahoma, so I think he's having warmer temperatures today than we are. Anyway, so let's let's go ahead and move forward. Why don't you tell us kind of maybe a little bit about the early will growing up and all that? Speaker 1 02:10 Sure. So I grew up in a little coastal town, Mystic, Connecticut, which is on the shore, northeastern Connecticut. Michael Hingson 02:19 Did you ever have pizza there? I had to ask. Speaker 1 02:21 I did. I did have Mystic Pizza before it was made famous by Julia Roberts' right movie, and that was that was my hometown. Yeah. So the Mystic Drawbridge there, and the old Mystic Village, or the Mystic Seaport. It's a very touristy, but also a great place to grow up. Yeah, on the water, and yeah, the youngest of six kids, five boys, one girl, but don't feel sorry for her because she is probably could still beat me up. She's a strong, strong woman, and yes, pretty, pretty average in in many ways, childhood graduated from high school and went off to college here in Oklahoma. Spent about six years out here going to school, and then went back to the East Coast. This time to Washington D.C. area. I was working in a large nonprofit organization just outside the Beltway, and then wound up going to Boston. Taught at a school in Brookline, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston. And then my wife decided she wanted to go to college out here in Oklahoma, so we moved back out here in around around 2010, and I started a business, and that started my entrepreneurial journey, which was very intensive. Let's say learned a lot, a lot of it the hard way, and really developed an affinity, appreciation for business, for entrepreneurship, for ultimately serving people, which is what most businesses should be designed to do. And through all of that, took some really powerful principles, insights, truths away, and now have the privilege of helping a lot of other business leadership teams run stronger, better, healthier companies. Michael Hingson 04:28 What got you to go to college in Oklahoma? Coming from Mystic, Speaker 1 04:33 well, being the youngest of six, two of my brothers had come to school out here, and so I was following in their footsteps. Michael Hingson 04:41 Where did you go to school? Speaker 1 04:43 So I went to Oral Oral Roberts University. Yep, and I went to a college called Raymo Bible Training College, which is a Christian two-year Christian school out here. Michael Hingson 04:56 And eventually, you came back. And why did your wife want to come? And go to college in Oklahoma, kind of same concepts. Speaker 1 05:03 Yeah, she wanted just so she wanted to go to the Rayma Bible Training College to get a foundation in her faith, and just you know early on in in life wanted to lay that framework, that groundwork, so that she she felt for the rest of her life, and she had met a lot of other graduates from that particular school, which is an amazing school, and they had all just shared how influential, how impactful the school was for them. And mind you, it's not just about head knowledge, you know, not just information. It's about ultimately knowing God better, and so which tends to serve you well in every every area of life. So she was hungry for that. So we decided to move out here. And I, the nature of my work at the time was such that I could work remotely, and so we moved here. And she went to school, graduated, and we stayed and raised a family. Michael Hingson 06:01 So, what what kind of business did you start when you started your business? You said in 2010. Speaker 1 06:09 Yes, in 2010, and so I had been serving in a marketing capacity, doing marketing management for the organization in the D.C. area, and learned a lot simply by doing. Don't have my my college education. My degree is in music performance, actually, so didn't serve me very well as far as marketing is concerned. So I learned a lot by doing, and when I moved out here, I knew someone who had an auto repair shop, and he, through a series of events, had to rename his rebrand his shop completely. the the the I went to his website, I think one day, and it said under construction, and I thought that's weird. I know he has he's been in business, he has a website, so I send him an email, and he emailed me back and said he just asked inquiring is everything going all right? He replied and said I need help right now because we're in the situation where I need to redo everything. So I at the time was not a technician when it came to marketing. I was more of just a manager strategist type. So for whatever reason, I decided that I could build him a website. I just wanted to help, so I didn't charge him anything, and literally went online, and this is many, many years ago. Before there was all of the resources available to us now, and I Googled how do you build a website, and I prayed, and I just went through this very excruciating process of coding and understanding how it all worked. Wound up building him a website, learned a lot along the way about search engine optimization, about digital advertising, and then other you know forms of online advertising. And his he's a great businessman. He does good work, and he has a good reputation. He knows lots of people. His business grew to the degree that he would have some other business owners come to him and say, "Man, what are you doing? Because you you guys are just crushing it. And he's a really gracious guy. He would tell these other business owners, "Well, I have this guy named Will, and sometimes I have to call Will and tell him to tone it down a little bit because I'm too busy. Well, these other business owners demanded my phone number from him because they wanted you know to grow their businesses. So I started getting phone calls from other business owners asking if I would do for them what I was doing for this man, and that started. So I never really woke up one day saying I'd love to start a marketing agency. I just was trying to help someone who needed Michael Hingson 09:00 it, Speaker 1 09:01 and it wound up turning into a business. So then I hired someone, and they started helping me. And then hired some more and grew it and grew it until about four years ago. I stepped away, and there's more to that story as well as as to how I was able to step away. I still own that company passively now. It's a it's a great multi-million-dollar, very profitable, growing company, very healthy company. But now my passion and focus is helping entrepreneurs create businesses that give them what they want from their business that are more aligned, more healthy, and stronger-not just for the business owner and the entrepreneur, but for the whole for the whole company, for everyone involved in that organization. Michael Hingson 09:48 So, you're more involved now in helping people start businesses, or are you still dealing with businesses that exist and you're helping to to kind of improve them? Speaker 1 10:00 Businesses that are already existing. So typically, my my the clients that I work with now are are two to 50 million in annual revenue, 10 to 250 employees. They're growth oriented. They're willing to be open and honest with one another and with themselves, and they're more afraid of the status quo than they are of change. They really are trying to get somewhere, but feel stuck, feel frustrated, feel like the things that have they've been trying to to do to make the business better just aren't gaining traction like they need. Michael Hingson 10:34 Well, how does that differ from what you were doing before? Speaker 1 10:37 Ah, well, so before the marketing agency was really focused on lead generation, increasing their revenue, their sales. Now, what I do is work with leadership teams. I use the EOS model, which is the entrepreneurial operating system, which is a very specific process and set of tools that I teach the leadership team of the organization, so typically that's the three to seven people at the top of the company making the important decisions, and I help them do three things. I call them vision, traction, and healthy. So vision means first getting the leaders 100% on the same page with where is this company going and how do we plan to get there. Traction from the standpoint of helping your leaders to become much more disciplined and accountable, and executing really well to achieve every part of your vision, and then healthy meaning helping the leaders to become a more healthy, functional, cohesive leadership team. Because the truth is that most leaders don't function well as a team, and what I found is, as goes the leaders, so go the rest of the organization. So what we do is we get to the point where everyone in the company is all crystal clear, fully aligned with the vision and plan. They're gaining consistent traction wherever you look in the company, people are executing on that vision together, and they're doing it as a group of people who are who enjoy the work that they do and and enjoy the people that they're around. Michael Hingson 12:13 Okay, what do you think is the problem that leaders and companies most often misdiagnosed in their organizations that create the problems that you have to come in and deal with. Speaker 1 12:30 I would say one of the most common is accountability. It's a it's it's a common hot button frustration of many business leaders, and the misdiagnosis, as you said, is that accountability is actually a byproduct. It is, it's a formula. Actually, the formula is this: L plus M equals A. So the L stands for leadership, plus M stands for management, equals A stands for accountability. So leader accountability is the output, and so rather than trying to make your people be accountable, which you can't really do. What you can do is be a great leader and be a great manager, and the result will be you'll create an environment where accountable people thrive. And so, within EOS, we teach five leadership abilities and five management abilities, or not really ability. They're more like practices, leadership practices, and and management practices. You just do those things well, and and the accountability that you so desire will show up in the organization. Michael Hingson 13:52 Yeah, I think a lot of people don't really understand what accountability is, and and that doesn't help the process, and yeah, you know exactly what I mean, and and that that tends to really make a lot of challenges for people because they they resent rather than recognizing that people who truly understand accountability are are trying to do something to help build the team, help the team work well, and and are looking out for the whole company, but just so many people don't understand that, do they? Speaker 1 14:27 No, and and part of the reason it's interesting. All these EOS tools work together, but another tool that we use a lot is the something we call the accountability chart. The accountability chart is a visual illustration of the structure of the organization, meaning who is responsible for what. So we've got the leadership team, but then every single person in the organization should have a box, a seat on the bus, and within. Box or in that seat, there's five major roles that they really need to own. What I like to say it this way: If the company could speak, why would it say this function exists? Why is this seat in the organization? And many companies have not clearly defined what success looks like for an employee. What are their five major accountabilities or roles within the organization? And so, how can you hold someone accountable to something that's not been clearly communicated from the get go? If they don't really understand what success looks like and what we need them to be doing and focusing and being great at, then it's it's really hard to to hold them accountable. Michael Hingson 15:46 Yeah, and they they just miss it. Well, going back to something I mentioned at the beginning, you and I are both great fans of the book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Which which function or dysfunction do you? I can imagine what this might be, but which dysfunction do you most often encounter, and do we find most often with companies and people? Speaker 1 16:14 Yeah, I'll have to start at the bottom of the pyramid because it's right. It's it's it's a it's linear in a way, and and in that one builds upon the other. So the bottom tier of the pyramid is vulnerability based trust. So trust, and that, as Patrick describes it, is being completely open and honest with one another. If you sit down and have a conversation with a peer, you know that they're going to be completely frank. They'll tell you the truth and the whole truth. That, and not only that, you can trust them to have the right motives, the right purpose behind things. It's not political. They're not, you know, kind of positioning themselves and working the politics and dynamic dynamics of the organization. They're really trying to do what's right for everybody involved. So vulnerability-based trust is the first one, and that takes time. That's Patrick defines that as different from the kind of trust that is based on just knowing people in the sense that you can you know what to expect out of them if you're familiar with them. You work with them a lot, so you kind of you can trust that they're going to act a certain way. That's not what he's talking about. He's talking about this true, open, and honest approach, being candid with one another, and that comes through some specific exercises. Ultimately, times the more you know about people, about their personal lives, and the more time you spend with them is what ultimately builds trust. Michael Hingson 18:07 Yeah, and it's all about building a trusting relationship that allows for that level of honesty. Because when you truly have it, then you're you're dealing with an environment where when someone says something to you, you know they're not trying to be political. You know they're not trying to undermine you, but they're trying to give you information, and it goes back to accountability and holding maybe you accountable for the things that you said that you were going to do. But it's also about holding the whole company accountable by feeding back to and working with people to get jobs accomplished. Speaker 1 18:48 Yes, absolutely, that's right. And and for that to happen, everyone has to be on the same page. We all must be looking at the same picture of where we're planning to go and agreeing on how we plan to get there. Michael Hingson 18:59 Yeah, and in a sense, even though accountability is at the bottom of the pyramid, it starts hopefully at the top with senior management that sets the tone and starts to create the environment where everyone can learn to trust and work together in a much more positive way. Speaker 1 19:21 That's right. When we when I work with leadership teams, I half jokingly tell them in in our early sessions that they should look around at the company and admire the wonderful things that are happening, the clients and customers that are being served, the employees that are getting their job done. All all of those things are wonderful, and you helped create that wonderful. On the flip side, all of the frustrations, the pain, the things that are broken and not working, you created that too. So you have to take responsibility for all of it, the good and the bad. And so the leadership really does have to. Take responsibility for everything. Michael Hingson 20:03 Why is it that trust is so hard, and trusting relationships are so hard to build, even when when people probably have really wonderful intentions and want to do it? But why is it so hard? Speaker 1 20:16 Ooh, that's a great question. Michael Hingson 20:18 And and I'll and I'll tell you one of the reasons I ask, being a little prejudiced, working with guide dogs. I work with dogs, and I have learned over the years that while dogs may love unconditionally, they don't trust unconditionally. But dogs are more open to trust, and if you really work at building a trusting relationship with a dog, you set the rules. You set which is what they want, you set the ground rules, you set the tone, and if you do it, the relationship that develops is incredible. But that just seems to be something that's really hard for humans to do internally or between human and human. Speaker 1 20:55 You know, I think the answer is in something that you just said, and the word is intentional. Intentionality, I think that most people show up to work focusing on the work, focusing on doing things faster and more efficiently, and the how and the strategy. But they don't focus very much on the health of the team. And Pat Lynchioni talks about that as well. How that most organizations are focused on getting smarter, but not on getting healthier, and he argues that the healthier team will outperform the smarter team every single time. Michael Hingson 21:36 The other part about it is the whole concept of just being open to trust-we we in our in our human world just see so many examples of why not to trust. And I think too many people have just learned, well, we can't trust. We don't dare take the chance. We can't because everybody has their own agendas, and so how can we trust them? Because they're looking out for them. They're not looking out for me, and we teach children this. We teach each other this, and that's so unfortunate because it doesn't need to be that way. Speaker 1 22:11 Yeah, what are they? The wisest serpents, gentle as gentle as doves, is the is the saying. I, I'm not. You're right. There's a lot of people out there, unfortunately, that have ruined it. Let's say the few have ruined it for the many. I think, and the reality is that today you have to be. And now with AI, we don't need to go there. But with AI, you really have to really have to know what's going on because what seems real isn't. Michael Hingson 22:44 Yeah. Do you think that will improve over time? Speaker 1 22:49 What's that? Michael Hingson 22:50 That AI will get better over time, and a lot of things that aren't real today will become more real just because the whole process will improve. Speaker 1 23:04 Will AI improve? Yes, absolutely. Will its results and its helpfulness improve? Absolutely. Will people continue to use that for their own good? You know, for their for their own devices at the expense of other people. Yes, unfortunately. Michael Hingson 23:21 Unfortunately. Speaker 1 23:22 So, what does that make leave? Where does that leave us? I think we have to be all the more wiser to it. You can't. You can't stay ignorant and think that everything's going to be okay. Michael Hingson 23:35 Where do you think AI fits in corporations mostly, or should fit? Speaker 1 23:41 Well, it's it's an incredible tool. It is an incredible tool, and I think it's it's like it's like money. What do you what do you do with it? It's simply a tool. What are you going to do with it? Where does it fit? It depends on what kind of business model, but I see it impacting every business to some degree, we utilize it heavily. I think when I work with leadership teams, I do a lot of facilitation. So we'll we'll sit around this table here. I'm in my session room here, and we have lengthy, deep, meaningful, impactful discussions with one another, and sometimes I even encourage them to use AI to refine an idea or to collaborate over an idea. But I warn my teams that AI has no soul, and what I mean by that is, it's it's information, it's data and information, but the human being there's more to us than just information. It's like the data, the information part of us is like the tip of the iceberg, and but there's a whole mass below the waterline. I believe you have a soul and a spirit, and so the danger I warn teams of is making strategic decisions based on information that comes from AI without really discussing and using their their soul. Sometimes ideas can resonate with a person on a different level. That that AI and just information can't it can't go there. It's not able to go there. So I don't know if that makes sense. But I just warn them: AI has no soul. You need to pay attention to what's going on inside of you as you're discussing ideas and and weigh that into the decision. Michael Hingson 25:46 And I still go back to we're the ones that are and should be the creators, and so it's great to use AI to help a process, but we still need to be the ones to do the real work. Speaker 1 25:59 Yes, Michael Hingson 26:01 and I think too many times I hear about it with with schools and so on. Oh, students are just writing their papers using AI. Well, we need to work on encouraging that not to be the case. The AI can help provide information, as you pointed out, but that's what it is. It's an information source, and it's only one information source, and anyone who is truly looking for information knows full well you don't just rely on one source. Speaker 1 26:29 Right. Michael Hingson 26:30 Even if it's a human, you don't rely on one source. Speaker 1 26:33 That's right. That's right. But it but it is Michael Hingson 26:35 pretty crucial to to work through that. Well, Patrick Lencioni talks a lot about conflict, and he talks about teams that have healthy conflict, and then there are those who quietly just kind of avoid it. What distinguishes, or how do you deal with the two different kinds of teams? Because I know Patrick talks about the fact that conflict is a very useful thing and needs to be respected as part of the process, Speaker 1 27:04 right? So the second layer of the pyramid that he illustrates is healthy conflict or productive conflict, which can only happen if there is a foundation of trust, because without trust, people tend to hold their cards close to the vest. They're not willing to go out on a limb and say something that might be taken the wrong way, because for fear of retribution, or that it could be it could be used against them, or or what have you. And so conflict is may the best idea win. I have wonderful teams. They're healthy teams. They'll fight like cats and dogs over an idea, not over. It's not personal. They're simply fighting for the best idea to win, and so they'll go at it heated conversations because they have strong opinions. At the end of the day, though, what really matters is that everyone has been heard? The point of conflict is to get the options out on the table to see what's possible, to see what's available, and then from those options, pick the best. So, what healthy conflict does is it opens it up for people to share, be willing to get out there, share their opinion, go back and forth, and as I said, everyone gets heard. That's such a critical piece of healthy team is that you're hearing from everyone on the team. They're having that opportunity to share their perspective, and then when all is said and done, the what we call this person the integrator. This is the person who leads the leadership team. They have a decision to make. It's not a democracy. They have heard all of the all of the opinions, and and then they say, "Well, this is what we're going to do. And 99% of the time, reasonable people, even if they disagree with a decision, if they have been heard and know that their opinion is valued, they are willing to commit to a decision that's against what they believe should have happened. Michael Hingson 29:14 Well, so take that to the next level. Let's say that the decision is made, and in a month, it turns out it really wasn't the right decision. Then what? Speaker 1 29:25 Yeah, healthy teams can pivot, and they don't. Excuse me. There's no paralysis by analysis. They're they're able to be flexible and make a quick decision without regrets and move on. You know, in business, most of the decisions that we make are reversible. It's not like we're a brain surgeon and there's someone's on the operating table, and and one slip means drastic results, or it's not a court case, and the judge once they slam the hammer, nothing changes. That's the verdict. In business, most decisions are reversible. Sometimes I see teams or leaders who are hesitant to make a decision, and I encourage them make a decision, commit to it, and start taking steps. We can always iterate. We can make adjustments along the way, but if you don't act, if you don't take one step forward, then you can't steer a parked car, as they say. So, when when your question was if a month later it was a wrong decision, we agree as a team to pivot and move on. And a great healthy team, you know, they'll probably give one another a hard time and laugh about it and poke a bit, but but keep moving toward the goal. Michael Hingson 30:46 But it's all in fun and it's not intended in any way to be personal, Speaker 1 30:50 right? Michael Hingson 30:51 Which is really the key. None of this has to be personal. We're not doing it to one up anyone, and the good teams truly understand that. Speaker 1 31:02 That's right. Michael Hingson 31:04 Do you ever find environments where leaders unintentionally do things where accountability breaks down? Speaker 1 31:15 Yes. One thing that happens specifically with visionary or leaders or founders is something I call end run, which is when they don't follow chain of command. Basically, because of their position in the company, they feel freedom to go to anyone in the company and either make a decision or give them a directive, and the person that they're giving the directive to feels obligated to follow that because it's a senior leader. Michael Hingson 31:54 Yeah, Speaker 1 31:55 and so that really that really damages you know it's chain of command ultimately, but it damages the relationship, damages the health of the team, and the hard thing about it is that visionary leaders and founders are idea people. They are the creators. They're brilliant at coming up with seeing opportunities and coming up with ideas to solve problems and add value, so they have this natural bent to research. They're curious. They'll want to talk to people, employees in the organization, and that's all good. But they do need a healthy boundary and to understand who they should talk to about decisions or influencing employees in the organization. Michael Hingson 32:43 Yeah, I'm curious about something. How do the operations within a business differ from, say, what goes on in the military, where there's an absolute chain of command, and someone along the line, can issue an order to someone, and it's supposed to be obeyed, and so on. But how does military operations differ, or do they from business, or should they from business? Speaker 1 33:10 I yeah, that's a great. I I think there's some strong similarities, and some significant differences. You know, one question, and this was actually oddly enough. This was a military leader. I forgot who it was, but it was a general. He said something he asks his subordinates on a regular basis is, "Tell me something you know I don't want to hear. Tell me something you know I don't want to hear. And his goal there was to truly to create a relationship with his subordinates where they feel comfortable raising their hand, saying we've got an issue, here's a problem, and I think that traditionally in the military that would be resisted. I think the or my my perception anyway is that subordinates would rarely want to say something's wrong. Everything's always okay, you know. Following orders, everything's good. But I respect that that general's practice of of telling his subordinates that, and I I recommend my leaders do it as well because they need to know what's going on. Really, there's this I think a natural desire to impress or to make it look like I'm doing a good job and our department is okay, so they don't bring up real issues. And so the kind might go against your question, but the the common thread there is a willingness to talk about real issues, real problems, to bring them up, solve them together as a team. But first, be willing to identify. And oddly enough, it goes back to the trust piece: to being open and honest. You have to be willing to just call something out. The elephant in the room: several people know that there's something going on. Nobody wants. To say it, just say it. So that that's maybe one similarity. Michael Hingson 35:06 Well, I know that in reality, in the in the military, I at least I've heard this from my military friends. They they do emphasize teamwork and and teaming and so on. But at the same time, they have this reputation where there's an order and you you just obey the order because that's what the general or what someone above you says and it seems like there's a paradox there somewhere. Speaker 1 35:33 Yeah, I think in in business, what my observation has been that people do need to know the why. I think in the military that's not required, and maybe same in parenting. Sometimes it's you're on a need to know basis, and you just need to follow the order. Whereas in business, I think it's much more common practice for good leaders to give the context of why this directive matters, so that the people can connect the dots and have a clearer picture of the overall success of the mission, as it were, the goal of the organization. They can see how what they're doing is contributing to that over goal. Overall goal. Michael Hingson 36:20 Yeah, yeah. Well, and in the military, maybe the privates don't necessarily get the get to know the why, Speaker 1 36:31 right? Michael Hingson 36:31 But but the hope is that there are enough people above them who are involved in a process that there is enough of an understanding that that enough people know the why that that the process works, and I guess that's a. I've not ever been in the military, and I'm certainly not going to criticize, but it just seems to me that that the more people can communicate and interact with each other, the stronger the team will be, no matter whether it's business or military. Speaker 1 37:00 Yeah, I would hope. Michael Hingson 37:03 So you know, but so EOS generally represent talks about clarity and execution. Where do leaders typically in organizations lose traction after they set a clear vision? Where do where do things break down. Speaker 1 37:22 You know, I think one of the most powerful ideas within EOS is the weekly meeting. So there is something we call the Level 10 meeting, and the name Level 10 comes from when we started working with companies and 1000s and 1000s of companies. One of the questions we would, one of our first questions in meeting them would be: rate the quality of your meetings on a scale of one to 1010, being best. How effective are your internal team meetings? And on average, they were about a four. And so over time, we developed the level 10 meeting agenda, which is a very specific agenda for leadership teams on a weekly basis to conduct that covers makes those those meetings so effective and efficient. And we keep talking about Patrick Lencioni. He wrote another book called Death by Meetings, which is a great great book as well. But so within EOS, the level 10 meeting is a very clear agenda. It gets everyone on the same page. Data passes quickly and smoothly across the right channels to the right people. We solve problems together, and it's just a wonderful, wonderful way to keep the business moving forward. So your question was, what happens after they set a clear vision? Well, very often they lose traction because they're not on a weekly basis measuring their progress toward that goal and vision, and solving problems on a weekly basis that show up that get in the way because there will always be things that prevent us, that resist us from our goals. So, are we methodically? And this is a discipline. This is it's it's not you know glamorous. It doesn't always feel good. But if you can stick with that weekly cadence, then every single week you're you're measuring what matters, the KPIs? It's a score. You know, one of the items on the agenda is the weekly scorecard, five to 15 numbers give us an instant pulse on the business. Reviewing the data, solving problems, and marching forward. So that's where it gets lost, because also in that meeting, everyone is staying on the same page, and there's that accountability. You're looking across the table, say, asking about this initiative or this project. Is it on track? Yes or no? Are we confident we're going to get it completed on time? Do you need any help? Every single week, the leaders. Showing up to that meeting and asking those questions of one another, and they know, hey, on Tuesday at 2o'clock, I'm going to have to answer this question: Is this goal on track for the quarter? And so that introduces this accountability within the team, where the peer-it's peer-to-peer accountability. They're holding one another accountable for the goals of the organization, Michael Hingson 40:22 yeah, I talked with a person recently on one of our podcast episodes. She runs a a boutique PR organization, and it has been growing, but she's not letting it grow too fast. But it has continued to grow, and and I've asked her, and I asked her how how long do you expect or how much do you want the company to grow, and can it grow too large where it becomes unmanageable? And she acknowledged that that kind of thing can happen, and and it it kind of is an interesting concept because most entrepreneurs want their companies to be successful and grow, but when you get multi-million-dollar or larger companies and you're hiring 50, 100, 200, 500 employees, that kind of ranges raises a lot of different complications, and it gets really overly complex. At what point does all the complexity really become too dangerous to deal with? Speaker 1 41:27 So the complexity model is where you you can calculate how complex business gets by every person you add to the organization. My point is complexity is real, and as a leadership team or as a leader, you have to constantly fight the onslaught of complexity. You have to fight for keep it simple, less is more. Keep it simple, less is more. So, if you had two people in an organization, you've got two lines of communication, one going from one to the other and back. If you add a third person, so you increase the number of people by 50% Now there are six lines of communication, so 200% increase in complexity, and that's just communication. Not talking about systems, processes, culture, all of that other stuff. You add a fourth person, so you increase the number of people by 100% from the two. Now you have a A 500% increase, 12 lines of communication. Speaker 2 42:45 Yeah, Speaker 1 42:46 so you have to, as a leader, fight against complexity, and the way that you do that is by less is more, keep it simple. Within EOS, we set three to seven rocks. We call them every quarter. Those are just business priorities, not 27, three to seven. Because if everything is important, nothing is important. So you're always asking yourself as a leader, what's the simplest way to say this, communicate this? What's the simplest way to do this? Do we have the simplest possible structure for the organization. Occam's razor says that the simplest solution is invariably the best solution, or the best solution is invariably the simplest solution. So the the complexity thing is real. You have to stay aware of it, and and fight against it by keeping things simple as you go. Michael Hingson 43:42 Yeah, and and the reality is, it goes back to what you were talking about. Certainly, the weekly meetings and other methods that you use to make sure that everyone not only is encouraged to communicate, but they do communicate. And again, it all gets back to that bottom level of the pyramid, which is accountability, and as long as everyone understands and feels the concept of accountability, and that we're all working toward the same thing, you have a much better shot at making it successful and making it work. Speaker 1 44:15 Right, that's right. Within EOS, we have a two-page strategic plan, not 50 pages. It's not this giant document. It's two pages that allow everyone within the organization to see who we are, where we're going, how we plan to get there. It's simple. Michael Hingson 44:36 Yeah. So, for a while, you didn't own your own business, and then you you now own your own business. How is becoming your own entrepreneur and your own your own business owner, boss, or whatever you want to call it? How has that changed? Kind of the advice you give to other people, and and what do you think about being? A business owner, as opposed to working within another organization, Speaker 1 45:05 you know, I I think I I'm spoiled. No, I don't think I could ever be a good employee again. Yeah, I just have a deep appreciation for visionaries, for people who see what's possible and then rally a team around them to help make it become a reality. That's a special. That's a special quality, and the world needs lots of that quality. So I, I, I have gained just a greater appreciation for the entrepreneurial spirit, and I, I think that it's it's now it's not for everybody, and that's okay. But I, I just can connect now more deeply than I ever could with people who are taking that step of faith, being courageous, doing something that's risky and uncomfortable, and just figuring it out as they go. I think that's for me particularly that resonates. I can't now, and I get it. I I understand. There's the majority of people are comfortable with a oops are are comfortable with a salary, a steady amount of income, and the safety that that brings. But I just it doesn't compute for me. I can't do it. It's just not for me what life is about. Michael Hingson 46:26 Yeah, I know. Especially since 2008, I've not only owned my own company, but it's been mainly me and dealing with lining up speaking engagements and so on, and especially since we moved down here in in 26 2014, I'm I'm very used to being my own individual, and and I I hear exactly what you're saying. I can work in an environment where there are other people, and there's there's times that that's that's a good thing, but I know that especially during COVID, people complained a lot about being locked down and they really missed being with other people, and I always had a little bit of a problem with that because I don't I don't look at other people, so that's one thing, but I learned that I could still communicate with people, and so I I didn't fall into some of those traps. I just do find it interesting, but I understand what you're saying. You're used to to to being the person not only in charge, but you're interested in setting the vision, and there's a lot of merit to that. Speaker 1 47:40 Yeah, yeah, and and he it takes all of us. If he had all visionaries and no doers, no you know no executors, then we'd be in a mess. I'm terribly sorry. The it's later here in the evening, and the cleaners are are at the door. Let me just tell them to wait 10. Give me 10 minutes on the office here. I'll be back in just a moment. Okay. Michael Hingson 48:05 So, yeah, I I appreciate the the position, and I can live with it as as well, and I can I can cope. I can work either way, but I I do like kind of really being the person in charge of me, I think it it probably works better. Yeah, that's okay. Speaker 1 48:28 Yep, we're all wired differently. Michael Hingson 48:30 Yeah, we are. So, in in making decisions, data is is a very important thing, and and it's certainly something that we need to keep around. Why do so many people resist and business leaders resist using data in a kind of an honest way? What are they afraid of? Speaker 1 48:51 Well, I think that data is can make things black and white. I think that data can be very telling because we can share opinions and feelings and ideas, but you can't. The numbers are the numbers; they they are what they are, which is why we use this weekly scorecard in that level 10 meeting I was talking about. But Ronald Reagan said, "Trust but verify. So the idea here is that people don't respect what you expect; they respect what you inspect, and the data is an inspection of what actually happened, what's real, what's what's going on on the ground, and that that's uncomfortable. The numbers don't lie most of the time. Now they can be manipulated, and people can tell stories. But if you're set up in the scorecard the right way with the right. Measuring the right things, it gives you a good idea of what's really going on. So I think it's just a natural resistance, a fear of being falling short, a fear of punishment. Ultimately, you know, in some form or fashion, hardship, difficulty, uncomfortability, things like that. Michael Hingson 50:22 But I think the the other thing I show about data, though, is it is kind of hard factual information, as you say. But it doesn't necessarily always bring the human element into to to things that maybe ought to be considered as well. So that the data should only be part of the final decision-making process. Speaker 1 50:45 It's very true. Very true. If you're looking at the numbers, there's always a story behind the numbers. What's the story behind the numbers? And that has to be part of the equation. Michael Hingson 50:55 As a as a speaker, I get a lot of people who say, "Well, we'll consider you fill out this form, and will evaluate you along with everyone else. And the problem is, I've realized that a lot of these forms, you fill them out, and you get a bunch of words on a screen, but doesn't really tell the whole story. And that's unfortunate because I think that too many evaluators are missing out on really understanding speakers when that happens. Speaker 1 51:25 Yeah, I believe that's true. Yes, absolutely. Hearing someone in person can't compare to just words on a page. Michael Hingson 51:36 Well, so yeah, it's just one of those things that one has to deal with when a team experiences a setback. What is it that causes some people to recover quickly while others don't necessarily recover quickly? Speaker 1 51:54 Why don't some people recover more quickly? Michael Hingson 51:59 Or teams, yeah. Speaker 1 52:00 Or teams. I think I don't know that I can separate teams from people. Michael Hingson 52:08 Yeah. Okay. Speaker 1 52:09 You know, and I say that because it has to do with self awareness. It has to do with personal development. I think many of these qualities are inseparable from the performance of the team, because a team is ultimately a group of individuals, and so in that way you've got the team dynamic. But you're you're also going to rely heavily on the character and the qualities of the individuals on the team. And if some people just can't let go, if they can't just raise their eyes or turn their gaze from the past and look forward, then, then they're going to struggle. Now, there are tools. You know, who is it? An autopsy without blame. He called it in good to great. In good to great, he said. This is where. What was his name now? Jim. I forget his name. Who wrote Good to Great, Jim Collins? Michael Hingson 53:04 Collins. He said Speaker 1 53:05 he called it on autopsy without blame, which is a team or person's ability to look back at the past and just understand. Okay, what happened? This isn't this isn't to point fingers. We just need to know what actually went down, so that we can learn from it. Because I tell teams this all the time, the past is only good for one thing-learning from it. And once you learn from it, you got to let go and move on. So the and and it's funny, I say this again every every meeting that I have with them. Actually, we review our data and we look back, we understand what. And then I said at the end of that review, I say, "Okay, that's the past. Nothing else we can do about it. Anything else need to be said before we leave it completely in the past and move forward? And I give them that opportunity to process and to you know make observations, insights, confessions. But after that moment, we got to let it go, and I think that a team has to be committed to be willing to do that for them to be able to to move forward. Michael Hingson 54:09 Yeah. Well, a lot of what you do is I suspect helping leaders, especially shift their mindset in some way. What mindset shift really helps leaders move from reacting to problems to leading intentionally and developing the kinds of of operations that we're talking about here as being successful? Speaker 1 54:35 I think you know you said mindset shift, but this is what I would call a mindset best practice. It's something I call a clarity break. A clarity break is a time scheduled on your calendar. So this is hard landscape. This is a an appointment you make with yourself that you keep, and in a clarity break, you get away from all the noise. You turn all the notifications off. You. On do not disturb mode, and you get a legal pad and a pen, and you simply think it. You think about the biz, think about the business, think about the biggest challenge you're facing, and you just start writing. And it's amazing what kind of solutions, ideas, next actions come to us when we have that clarity of mind. When we have time to get gain perspective, to take a step out of the fray, all of the noise, and just simply think. There's fewer things more valuable than high quality, pure thought, just simple thinking time. So that that is a mindset best practice, I would say, and and I encourage leaders to do it at a minimum of once a week, 3060, 90 minutes. Get a legal pad. Now, there's another book out there called The The Road Less Stupid by Keith Cunningham. That's lessons from the the chairman of the board, and he that book is a book full of questions that leaders should be asking themselves about the business. You could use those as prompts, or just again get quiet and think about the business right now. And I promise you, you'll start writing, and the thoughts will just flow, and you'll write the whole time and come up with such clarity and such perspective that allows you to re reengage, reenter the business with confidence as to what needs to happen, what are our next steps, and that's so important because that confidence is a precious commodity for leaders. You have to protect your confidence, and the confidence comes from clarity, and the clarity comes from taking time away from the business to simply sit and think. Michael Hingson 56:46 One of the things that I think all too often we individually and collectively don't do is to just stop and think about life, think about things, do more internal introspection, and that's kind of what you're talking about. And the reality is, if we would do more of that, and if we would listen to our own mind, we would discover so many things that would help us along the way. My favorite example is Trivial Pursuit, where I ask people regularly when you're playing Trivial Pursuit, and somebody asks, and somebody reads a question from a card. Immediately, you think of an answer, but you went, "Oh, that came too quickly. That can't be it. And so you think again and come up with another answer. But that first answer invariably was the right answer. But that's not what we listen to. We're teaching ourselves not to be so introspective and to sit back or to sit down and think about whatever it is that we need to think about, and as you point out, writing things down. Speaker 1 57:50 Yes, so valuable and and hard to do, frankly, in our age of distraction. Our phone is so distracting, and so so many other options, so many other things that hit the dopamine, get the dopamine flowing, that challenge our our ability to, or our sitting down and making time to do simple thinking time. Michael Hingson 58:16 Yeah. Well, if a leadership team today wanted to have one practical step about how they would work together this quarter. What would you advise? How would you advise them to start? In addition to reaching out Speaker 1 58:34 to you, which I'm Michael Hingson 58:35 all in favor of, but that's another story. Speaker 1 58:38 You know, there is a tool out there that I would point them to. It's called the organizational checkup. It's free. It's online. It's put out by EOS. There's no obligation, no strings attached, or anything like that. But I think that tool. It's a set of 20 questions, and you rate each question on a scale of one to five, five being best. And that tool would really shine the light on where the most pain is being felt across the organization. When the leaders, first of all, just give an honest assessment of those 20 questions, they'll be able to put their finger right on the priority of what they need should should fix first. And I think that would just that exercise alone would get them all on the same page of what problem to tackle first, and I think that would be the very valuable for them. Michael Hingson 59:30 And what is that called again? Speaker 1 59:31 It's called the organizational checkup. If you were to Google EOS organizational checkup, there'll be a link there, and it's just 20 questions. Michael Hingson 59:40 Great. Well, if people want to reach out to you and learn from you, or interact with you, and maybe use your services and so on, how best can they do that? Speaker 1 59:52 Yeah, connect with me on LinkedIn is great. Also, if you just did a search for EOS Will Watrous, my name, it'll come up. I've got lots of content out there. The EOS website has my listing and contact information on there as well. Michael Hingson 1:00:06 And what are what's your LinkedIn name or handle? Will Speaker 1 1:00:10 Watchers. Yep, Wils. Michael Hingson 1:00:16 Okay. Well, I hope people will reach out. This clearly has been instructive in so many ways and lots of great ideas. So I want to thank you for being here and being a part of this. And I want to thank all of you who are paying attention to us today, wherever you're listening and/or watching. If you'd like to reach out to me, and I'd love to hear what you think, please email me at speaker@michaelhingson.com at speaker at m i c h a e l h i n g s o n.com wherever you are with us in the podcast please give us a five star rating but more important give us a review we love reviews and people who are interested in looking at podcasts love to see the reviews that others have thought about podcasts, and so hopefully you'll say nice things about us. But either way, please give us a review. If you know someone who ought to be a guest on our our podcast, Will, including you, please introduce us. We're always looking for people to come and tell their stories. and And with that, again, I want to thank you for being here, Will. This has been absolutely fun. It's been hours gone by without without any any time seeming like it passed. So thank you very much for being here. Speaker 1 1:01:29 Thank you, Mike. What a pleasure to speak with you, and looking forward to your podcast success. Michael Hingson 1:01:37 Thank you for being here with me on Unstoppable Mindset. I hope today's conversation left you with a fresh perspective, a new insight, or at least something worth thinking about. If you're ready to go deeper into the ideas that shape how we see ourselves and others, I have a free gift for you. Head over to michaelhingson.com and download my free ebook, Blinded by Fear. It explores the invisible beliefs that hold us back, and shows you how to reframe them so you can move forward with clarity and confidence. Be sure to subscribe to our podcast, leave a review, and share this show with someone who can use a reminder that growth starts with mindset. When people think differently, we all move forward together. 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Fr. Bonaventure Chapman came back to Tulsa, and the night before this recording he stood in front of a room of men and talked about prayer. Adam woke up the next morning, remembered what Father said, actually did it, and reported back that it helped. At least on that one day. Father took the win: one day works, that's great. The line that stuck was the smallest one in the whole talk. Do a little, habitually. When his spiritual directees hand him a Lenten list, he almost never crosses anything off, because each thing on the list is usually good. He just ratchets the quantity down so they don't run straight into failure. Thirty minutes of silent prayer a day sounds holy when you're writing it down. Lent is long. Start with five, and know that five minutes a day for a year is a lot of time.Sponsor: Select International Tours When Adam and Dave went looking for help leading their first pilgrimage, everybody they asked gave them the same name. Having used Select now, they can vouch for it. Wherever in the world you want to go, whether you're leading a pilgrimage or joining one, go to selectinternationaltours.com and see what they already have ready for you.The full talk on the prayer life is going to patrons, so if you want it, patreon.com/thecatholicmanshow. Everything that comes in goes back into the show. It is not yet feeding anybody's children. They haven't reached those levels of despair.Father's definition of prayer is the setup for the whole episode. Prayer is wasting time with God, because he's worth wasting time with. He learned to say it that way as a chaplain at Providence College, where the Dominicans each took a Division I team and he got women's basketball. He told them up front he wasn't their coach and wasn't there to fix anything. He was there to waste time on them, which is how you tell somebody they're worth something valuable to you. That's what he takes prayer to be. You're not the producing agent. You showed up, you set the time apart, and even if you never touch contemplation that morning, you did the thing you were there to do.Same logic runs through beauty. Adam still remembers standing in front of Michelangelo's David in Italy and getting hit by it harder than he expected, and he doesn't consider himself an art guy. Father used to teach philosophy of art out of Richard Wollheim's Painting as an Art, where Wollheim describes needing roughly 45 minutes in front of a single painting just to clear his head enough to see it. So Father assigned it. Thirty to forty minutes, one painting, write down what happens. He did it himself in front of a Twachtman winter scene at the National Gallery, wearing the habit, people staring. Thirty minutes in, the painting changed. The cold went warm and a house appeared that he had not been able to see. Art works on you the way truth and goodness work on you. You don't take it apart, you let it tell you something.Then the topic: ethics as praxis, not poesis. Why doing good is not like making a cake.Aristotle splits practical reason in two. Praxis is doing, and its target is the doer. Poesis is making, and its target is the thing made, the finished product sitting on the counter. We almost always think about the moral life in the second category, which is why we judge ourselves by outcomes. But nobody talks like that about actual making. If a man says he's a great cake maker and every cake he produces is garbage, that doesn't compute. The goodness of a maker is settled by the product. You're not allowed to say "I'm a good carpenter, the house just always falls down." Father's point is that a man can be a lousy cake maker, a lousy air traffic controller, a lousy software developer, and still be a good man. Mother Teresa was not, as far as anybody knows, a baker.So what makes a man good is what he does, not what he produces. Ethics comes from character, and character is habit. Virtue is the power to do the thing you're for. The knife is a good knife because it's sharp and heavy, and it's a good knife sitting in the drawer, not only while it's cutting. Honesty works the same way. You build the habit so that when somebody asks you a question you don't have to run the math. You just tell the truth and then deal with whatever comes.Dave pushed back on the ends and the means, and Father's answer is the hinge of the episode. Of course the ends don't justify the means, if by "end" you mean the external result. But the real end of the moral life is you. The good man is the end. Which means the end does justify the means, because the means are you, acting. There's almost no space between them in a person. A bad act always produces a bad result inside the man who does it, no matter how well the situation turns out.Adam raised the obvious objection: doesn't that collapse into egotism, where I'm just farming my own soul and calling it virtue? Father's answer is that acting is outward by nature. You don't tell the truth in a vacuum, you tell it to a person in a situation. You don't forgive in the abstract, you forgive somebody who may well take advantage of you afterward. The act reaches out even though the character it forms is yours. And for Aristotle the common good sits above the individual anyway. For us it's better still, because the highest good is a person you can actually be friends with, which Aristotle had no room for. He couldn't make sense of relating ethically to a god at all. Show him the Annunciation and he'd say Mary owes that being nothing, because you don't share a nature with it.Then the hard question. Where does the standard come from? Aristotle says virtue is a mean determined by reason as the prudent man would determine it, which sounds like a circle, and Father grants that it is one. Aristotle was an empiricist. He found out what a good knife was by handling knives, and he found out what a good man was by watching good men. The trouble is we might pick wrong and end up admiring power. St. Francis of Assisi would not have impressed Aristotle for one minute. Too humble, not magnanimous enough, not getting anything done. But we were handed the answer key. The saints are our moral exemplars, which is why Benedict XVI treated them as the living interpretation of the Gospel, and why Paul could say imitate me as I imitate Christ.The takeaway is practical, in the real sense of that word. When you're stuck, don't ask what result you can engineer. Ask what a good man does here. Socrates settled it in the Crito: we would rather suffer injustice than do it, because suffering is something that happens to you and doing is something that is you. Father uses the same test in the confessional. Was this a happening or a doing? Were you engaged in it, or did it land on you? Most of us don't sin out of malice. We sin out of weakness, backed into a corner where one small wrong thing looks like it solves the bigger problem. That's making, not doing. Your job was never to manufacture the good outcome. Your job was to be good.Raise your glass.TOPICS COVEREDFr. Bonaventure's talk to Tulsa men on the prayer life, and the full recording going to patronsWhy he cuts the quantity, not the items, when spiritual directees hand him a Lenten listStarting at five minutes of mental prayer instead of thirty, and why "Jesus did it, I can do it" is not a planSetting the time apart as the thing you actually owe, whether or not the prayer "produced" anythingPrayer as wasting time with God, because he's worth wasting time withChaplain to Providence College women's basketball, and telling a team you're there to waste time on themStanding in front of Michelangelo's David and getting hit harder than you expectedRichard Wollheim's 45 minutes in front of one painting, and the assignment Father gave his studentsThe Twachtman winter scene that changed at the 30 minute mark, and the house that appeared in itWhy art has to work on you, the way truth and goodness do, instead of being taken apartEthics as character, not as a list of oughts handed down from outsideAristotle in the lagoon: the naturalist who studied octopuses and asked what makes a thing a good oneWhat makes a knife a good knife, and why virtue means powerPraxis and poesis: doing aims at the doer, making aims at the thing made"I'm a good cake maker, I just can't make good cakes," and why that doesn't computeMother Teresa was probably not a baker, an air traffic controller, or a software developerWhy judging the moral life by results quietly turns you into a product manager of your own soulThe ends don't justify the means, except that the end is you, so in a sense they doWhy a bad act always produces a bad result inside the man doing itHabits as the content of character, and telling the truth without running the math firstIs this egotism? Why acting is outward facing even when the character formed is yoursAristotle's problem with the Annunciation, and why he couldn't be friends with a godKant versus Aristotle on what you owe a rational being that shows up in your roomVirtue as a mean determined as the prudent man determines it, and whether that's a circleAristotle the empiricist: finding the standard by watching people who actually live wellWhy St. Francis of Assisi would not have impressed AristotleThe saints as the answer key, and Paul saying imitate me as I imitate ChristPlato is great on triangles and terrible on toadsWhy you've never seen a real triangle,...
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Born in New York City in 1924, Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress, and in 1972, she became the first Black woman from a major political party to run for President. As an outspoken politician, educator, and activist, Chisholm fought for gender and racial equality, better wages for workers, and a more equal and just world. In 2015, she was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama, who echoed the words Chisholm herself said she wanted to be remembered by: “Shirley Chisholm had guts.” [This episode originally aired September 2021.] About the Narrator Maya is a recent college graduate who began her Tiktok career during the quarantine lockdown in spring of 2020. As Maya started exploring more ways Tiktok could be used as a means of political change, she began writing witty raps about the former president, which eventually became the “Trump Freestyle” series. As her platform grew, she began making funny educational videos explaining a range of political topics from freedom of speech to how the impeachment process works. She has used her platform to encourage viewers to engage in politics not only through voting, but also by registering as poll workers, contacting their representatives, and even participating in civil disobedience movements like reserving tickets to Trump's June 2020 Tulsa rally. Maya has also received national press coverage this year surrounding her work feeding those in need around St. Louis using her unused university meal plan. In her free time Maya loves writing music and playing tennis. Credits This podcast is a production of Rebel Girls and is based on the book series Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls. This episode was produced by Camille Stennis. Sound design and mixing by Camille Stennis. This episode was written by Alexis Stratton and fact checked by Joe Rhatigan. Executive Producer is Katie Sprenger. Haley Dapkus is our Production Manager. Original theme music was composed and performed by Elettra Bargiacchi. A big thanks to the whole Rebel Girls team who make this show possible! For more, visit rebelgirls.com. And if you like what you heard, don't forget to rate and review this episode, and share it with your friends! Until next time, stay REBEL!