Whitestone Podcast

Are you more of a generalist or more of a specialist in your workplace? Either way, have you worked to eliminate the hazard you might be to your organization? What, you say? Me…a hazard? Yes…if you’r…

Have you been sucked into a product pitch or a relationship or political party or even a deep religious commitment where the story told to you was badly deficient? Was there maybe a happily-ever-afte…

When people reference Sodom nowadays, it can be a fast route to controversy and even conflict. And there can be a great deal of latitude taken by Christians with terms like “righteous nation” and “Ch…

Do you have the wonder of a child when you walk into a large store full of consumer goods and reflect on how many people have worked to put thousands of affordable conveniences at your fingertips? Ye…

The term “influencer marketing” is on the lips of many business and nonprofit executives. The social media giant Instagram, for example, hosts famous people who reportedly have over 300 million follo…

So, after years of never really thinking seriously about inflation, is it on your mind a lot more in recent times? Yes, for many of us, notably those of us in the U.S. at the time this podcast episod…

Are you truly consistently joyful, day in and day out? Or is joy elusive or, at best, a “come and go” type of thing? Have you given up on expecting a consistently joyful life? Are your analytical min…

Are you a Sherlock Holmes fan—you know, the fictional detective who solves mysteries with great powers of perception? In one particular short story by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes discerned …

One of the most amazing tools in computer programming is the use of stored procedures. Does that sound boring or perhaps even over your head? Quite the contrary! Understanding, applying, and optimizi…

Have you experienced serious “faith fatigue” on an important issue that’s been really long-standing as an obstacle for you? Is this faith-fatigue unusual for you? Does faith-fatigue mean that you are…

Covid pretty much threw everybody for a loop, didn’t it? Talk about impacting routines and perspectives! But it truly impacted workplaces in so many ways…and getting stuff done with people the tradit…

Powerful viral marketing is usually one of the very key goals of the marketing executives of every successful large organization. So, how does your workplace deploy and measure its viral marketing pr…

Bursting on the scene about 1960, the story of Berry Gordy and the Motown record label’s music is nothing short of astonishing! Amazing talent was gathered together into a sort of assembly line, prod…

Financial advice floating around many American churches is often ridiculously irrelevant to less affluent Christian brothers and sisters in many countries around the world—let alone in the context of…

Sooner or later, everybody has picked a portal poorly…you know, choosing the wrong search engine or the wrong book or the wrong church or an off-track pastor. But portals are extraordinary tools for …

Are you a big fan of Major League Baseball? Well, count people like me definitely out! But there is one particular facet of Major League Baseball that should be fascinating to us all…and that was cap…

OK, so you have worked or are current working at a highly dysfunctional workplace. What’s your approach to that dysfunction? Are you just merely a survivor or a true thriver, creating an island of gr…

Have you been very certain about one of God’s specific promises for your life, but you lost patience and took control over the situation anyway? Perhaps even control that resulted in a bit of a disas…