The Practical Path - A Podcast for Personal and Spiritual Growth

This week, some real "human stuff." Bill talks about the emotinal and energetic challenges of his upcoming eye surgery. All the usual suspects are here: Fear, anticipation, hopefulness, desire to jus…

The search is offically on... we're looking for a new term or phrase to use in place of "senior citizen." Just seems like we're all approaching (or already at) "that age," and we would really like to…

Crazy times out there, for sure. We start this week's journey down the Practical Path by talking about how we can be more mindful and (hopefully) aware of what's going on around us in these strange t…

This week... Bill has completed his short-distance, but long-on-meaning move across town in Gainesville, Florida. See what we did there? Yes, there are a few interesting life lessons to be learned, a…

Regular listeners to the podcast know that Bill has talked about his feelings of "wanderlust" now and then. Some news on that this week.. Bill has decided to move! Yet it's a relatively simeple cross…

This week, we had some questions about the ways co-host Vicki Wagoner helps her clients in various sessions of guidance and support. We take a few minutes to talk about her process, the people she he…

This week, an update from Bill and Vicki about their progress, thoughts and other inspirations from the "experiment" with journaling for the past coiuple of weeks. 

Question: When you meditate, or ar…

This week, the results of an small "experiment" for both Bill and Vicki... keeping a journal for the week! There weren't any rules aboiut it... just write something - anything - every day for the wee…

This week, something new. While Bill and Vicki have suggested "homework" for listeners in the past, this week they're giving themselves some homework. A bit of a challenge, as is popular on social me…

With credit to a post on the "UpWorthy" blog, this week Bill and Vicki talk about some rules of life that you might not want to admit are true, but they certainly are. Here's a sample of one of the r…

Lots of great talk about - and "nuts and bolts" ways to implement - gratitude in your life. Bill quotes a big study that showed (and continues to show) the ongoing, real-life physical health benefits…

This week, a deeper dive into the idea of "being your own best friend." Sometimes it takes a hard, direct look into the mirror ... not to berate yourself for the negatives in your life, but to recogn…

This week, a small podcast-based celebration of Bill's birthday! Yay! Another successful trip around the sun. (Plenty of thanks and gratitude for that...)

More this week on setting up, speaking about…

We've decided to make it a "thing" every week... our little opening story or "Lesson from the Universe." What have we learned - or simply been shown - by the universe in the past week that's made an …

A couple of new ideas for the new year for the show... 

First, we want to start off every "step" (our word for episode) of the show with the thought / idea / intention of the week. Sometimes funny, s…

More New Years thoughts and intentions for you in this early-January episode. 

On the show, both Bill and Vicki address what might be post-holiday "letdown" for the both of them... and some ideas for…

Happy New Years! This being a podcast on personal growth, we can't start the New Year without talking about resolutins, intentions and all that. So yes, while there's some of that, it's done in our o…

The holidays are here... this podcast releases between Thanksgiving and Christmas (2024) and plenty of people are involved in all kinds of gatherings: Family, office, school and more. Sometimes those…

Have you noticed? Humans are everywhere! Around you every day, no matter where you go. Yes, a bit of humor, but on this episode, there's talk about how to cope with the everyday interactions with all…

A very powerful episode. Bill reports on the death of a high-school friend, and even though he had not been in touch with this friend for years, the friend showed up in a dream! The big discussion th…