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Our lives are a series of beginning and endings. Yet the process of closing one chapter and opening a new one is never easy. How can we navigate times of change by building more resilience? According to Thom Allison, the key to redefining the next…

For too many of us, we see our lives as ordinary. It’s not like we’ve walked on the moon, discovered a new element, or won the Nobel Peace Prize. You know, things that stand out as extraordinary. At least in the sense of world-shaking or…

It sometimes feels as though our choices and decisions are binary. As if it’s either this or that; wrong or right. But not everything is reduced to an opposing idea. Maybe it’s simply the values that we’ve been instilled with—or where we're comfortable with our…

There are three kinds of people: Those who follow the rules to the letter. Those who ignore the rules because they don’t believe they apply to them. And those who like to follow the rules, but can justify with reason why they need not be…

Getting older is an inevitable part of our journey whether we accept it or not. While our culture hasn’t made it seem desirable, how could our lives change if we saw aging as a chance to become who we really are? In this episode, we’ll…

I have never been, nor will I ever be a runner. My body is just not built for it. Even as a teenager when I played freshman football, I was always the last one to cross the finish line in the sprints. In gym class,…

PPP…no, not the Paycheck Protection Plan. I’m talking about people who exert control where it’s not needed, just because they can, to the misery of others… You know, Petty People with Power. I remember visiting my grandparents at their condo in Florida when I was…

A quote from Dr. Sam Qarashi (@samqarashi) caught my eye. “My current reality is always a starting point.” Ok, so maybe that seems obvious. But is it?   When was the last time you stopped to ask yourself what your current reality is—and considered what…