Audio Tidbits

In episode 121 of How To Matter, James and Ava have returned to offer their perspectives on wisdom and on beer and pizza. It would be good if one could simply take one's choice but alas, life does not quite work that way. Listen to hear how this quandary gets resolved.

James is back with another tidbit or two for your leadership strategy portfolio. He says to seize the day but with a caveat or two. As James likes to say, "Listen and learn."

In episode 120 of How To Matter, it's time for another trip on The Success Train. Is this a new route? Are you in for a new experience? The bad news is that success is always down the same road. The good news is that success is always down the same road. All aboard. The Success train is pulling out of the station. It'll be great if you're not late.

In episode 119 of How To Matter, I look at the keys to being a successful writer. Paul, Tom, and James each provide a perspective with tips about strategies writers can use to get beyond simply staring at the keyboard. We learn that the same strategies are key anytime success matters. Those same strategies apply to writing the great novel as well as to helping your neighbor, making a difference with people who make a difference to you.

James is back to encourage you to disclose, to always give people the unvarnished truth. They need to know what you think, know your perspective. They also need to know your feelings about the situation, your fears, your reservations. James says to avoid ever dealing in half truths.

In episode 118 of How To Matter, I focus on the risk we all face of being boring. Whatever our point, our message may not survive the telling. Please listen if you want to avoid being one of the talkers who made a perfect point but no one stuck around long enough to listen or benefit from the wisdom.

James is back to give us the skinny on success vs. failure. Are they life conditions or mere events? Listen and decide for yourself.

In this belated episode of How To Matter, I admit to being abandoned by my muse but am happy to let you know that there are signs of her return. The question is whether the experience has made me a better person, a better podcaster, someone who is happy for the unhappy experience. It's that silver lining thing. Does the darkest cloud always have a silver lining? Why don't you listen to the episode and come to your own conclusion.

Welcome back to Leadership Shop. In this episode of the podcast, I have returned from slacking and otherwise procrastinating to give you something more or less serious to consider. Where do leaders come from. Do they gradually develop or perhaps just magically emerge from the ether. Do children come into the world as future leaders or is the process more nuanced? Listen to the podcast to get the answer.

In episode 116 of How To Matter, I conclude the series on helping children with school and learning problems. In this final section, focus is on children who have simply quit caring about school, learning, and too often quit caring about what happens to them. The final step is to skip school, quit going to school and concluding their school days by dropping out. It is a sad ending to a very young journey.