Andrew Petty is Dying

We all have a lot of competing demands and priorities, obligations and opportunities--plenty of day-to-day things to tend to that have clear relevance. In the midst of all that, why would we set asid…

The previous episode laid out a simple way to change the world–one to which each of us can contribute. It’s not easy, but thankfully it is simple. 

This episode lays out a way to overcome one of the …

Today’s episode is a timely reboot from the archives. It’s a reminder we can all benefit from and something we tend to lose sight of all too easily. It’s an antidote to apathy and despair in an age o…

What does our energy have to do with finding our unique Path in life? A lot, as it turns out. Stay tuned to learn how to put it to work for you.  

Energy for the Win

It was 2015, and I was a couple…

What's on the other side of Death? 

Danielle Slupesky came face-to-face with her own Mortality through a harrowing and prolonged medical crisis. She barely lived to tell the tale. In the midst of tha…

What does it take to live a life you’ll be outrageously proud of when you die? 

That’s really the question at the heart of this podcast, and this episode is part two of a two-part series aimed at pro…

What does it take to live a life you’ll be outrageously proud of when you die? 

 That’s really the question at the heart of this podcast. Together, we’re cultivating the mindset and acquiring the mea…

Legacy. What is it, and why does it matter?

As a 28-year veteran in the field of Otorhinolaryngology, clinical nurse specialist Maggie Gannon first encountered the transformational impact of legacy i…

Unless you’re completely deluded or hiding under a rock, you know that life is hard. On the whole, it’s a series of challenges, crises, and steep learning curves punctuated by brief periods of relati…

On Mother's Day 2020, with COVID beginning its inexorable march around the globe, Alison Zimmerman got the news that her dad was being rushed into emergency brain surgery after an ER visit for a head…

What new things do you have in mind for this new year? Maybe you want to tackle a new professional challenge. Maybe you want to pay more attention to your health. Maybe you want to dial back your int…

In episode 070, Forward, Pioneer!: Why the "Frontier" is the Best Place to Be, I asserted that we humans are made for the Frontier and the Frontier is made for us. To shrink back from it is to do our…

“...So fire cremation, we really think, okay, somebody dies and, poof, they’re ash. But what happens is the body gets put in an oven, which is known as a retort. There's an open flame that's at about…

What comes to mind when you hear the word “frontier?” Covered wagons? Lewis and Clark? Space–the “final frontier,” for all you Trekkies out there? Danger, uncertainty, a place to avoid? Or how about …

A year or so ago, I became captivated by the idea of creating rites of passage experiences for our boys when each of them turned 13--an age that to me represents the transition from childhood to youn…

Just three years ago, in the dark of night on a battlefield in a foreign land, Army Ranger Sergeant First Class Ryan Davis was hanging on to life by the very slimmest of threads. 

The tale of heroism…

Serendipity. According to the Oxford Languages Dictionary, “serendipity” is “the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.” 

What if it was possible to harness the …

What do you need to let go of? 

It’s an easy question to ask, but it can be an awfully tough one to answer. In this episode, I’ll share how an answer to this question revealed itself to me recently a…

Pam Blackburn loves to climb mountains. 

Pam is also dying. 

In this episode, Pam shares what the view is like from her lonely mountaintop of terminal illness. This is her final word to the world, pr…

Do you have a plan for when you die? Do you have a plan for when your loved ones die? 

In 2001, Michelle Mathai was just two years into her first foreign service post as vice consul in Auckland, NZ. …