12/31/2011 Consciously Setting Intention for the New Year

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Are you just about to make your New Year’s Resolutions? Do you remember what happened last year with your resolutions…say about sometime in March? Before giving yourself another reason to beat yourself up for some failed goal or project, listen to my conversation with Caverly Morgan as we talk about how we habitually set goals from a misinformed belief that we need to be improved. We don’t … [Read more...]

1/7/2012 Best of 2011

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Join David Winer and me as we look back over the last year and share some of our favorite Real Life moments filled with sweet memories, joys, insights, and lessons learned. … [Read more...]

12/3/11 Unconscious to Conscious with Gregg Kendrick

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Communicate. It’s something we do every day of our lives; at home, at church, in the super market, at school; at work. But given the frequency with which we do it it’s unsettling to see how often we don’t do it as well as we might. The consequences of poor communication can range from mild to catastrophic and when this happens in the workplace in can damage not only working relationships, … [Read more...]

11/26/11: Gratitude with Caverly Morgan

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As I thought about this upcoming show on gratitude, I thought about a single and unique strawberry that recently grew in my garden. As I’m sure all of you know, our local strawberry season is long over. Indeed the last strawberry that I picked was in May. But last week, as I cleared away a pile of dead leaves that had fallen from the trees around my garden, I found one new, unique, hearty and as … [Read more...]

11/12/11: Changes with David Winer

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Sometimes the old familiar and simplest pleasures can be the best. And so this morning, my Executive Producer, David Winer, and I are going to reach back to the earlier days of Real Life with Jennifer Till when we would choose to make a show just about the who make the show. To talk about things in our lives, things that matter, and things that we find interesting and that we hope you do … [Read more...]

11/5/11: American Walkabout with Andrew Forsthoefel

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Walkabout refers to a rite of passage during which male Australian Aborigines would undergo a journey during adolescence and live in the wilderness for a period as long as six months. In this practice they would trace the paths, or "songlines", that their people's ceremonials ancestors took, and imitate, in a fashion, their heroic deeds. My guest this morning has recently embarked on his own … [Read more...]