One moment can trump a lifetime of good deeds and sometimes other actions redeem one hundred transgressions. Day-to-day we face what feels like a million thoughts, hundreds of behaviors, but our actions define us to our audience. We have our own spotlight that we self-consciously monitor (or don’t). It’s those daily choices that stack up and build the foundation of who we are. The gang gets together to talk about our personal characters. What defines us as individuals? What defines us to those who we interact with each day? How do we come to terms with the version of ourselves that we are sharing with the world? Saddle up as the gang dives deep into the vulnerability about what their characters are like and how they define the different level of characters they have been or interacted with on a daily basis. This is going to be an amateur master class on many different forms of CHARACTER. 

1. What is character?
2. What is a description of someone who has weak/developing character?
3. What is a description of someone who has strong character?
4. What is a description of someone who has questionable character?
5. Can you describe someone who is a great or wild character (Wild Card)?
6. What kind of a character do you want to be?

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Life is a story in itself. So, what story are you creating with your existence? Are you building a novel that when you are reflecting on your life after death say, “now that was the shit!”. Currently our world has so much darkness if you choose to not see the light. When has there not been darkness though? Every night brings darkness, rest, and reset, do you take advantage or are you fighting it? The Dismount squad OGs come together to peel back that old yellow paper smelling of mildew gold to tell us about story in everyday lives and what makes a good tale. The boys continue by rationalizing how we continue to make story and meaning out of the mundane and the exhilarating. The squad dives into what stories inspire them, what they love in stories, and what they look for in a story to be something they never forget. Saddle up with the squad as they take another deep authentic vulnerable dive into themselves on another installment of the Dismount Podcast.

EPISODE OUTLINE:

1. What does a good story look like to you?
2. What is your favorite story, movie, or book? Why?
3. What kind of genres do you steer towards away from?
4. Are there any common themes in movies/shows you tend to favor?
5. If your life is a movie/book, what kind of a movie/book is it?
6. If your life was a movie, past or present what time period makes for the most compelling? What elements of that story made it good?
7. What would you like to see in your next/current story in the next chapters/sequels?

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Some of us grow up and some of us grow old? Where is the healthy middle ground? Do you need to grow up and if you don’t what does that look like for you? Are there man children and princesses running around you on a regular basis? Is there something actually worse that you experience often? Dismount cracks open the floor to discuss how we each have grown in some ways and stayed a kid in others. Ride along into 3 goobers heads, experiences, and lives on another authentic vulnerable personal deep dive.

EPISODE OUTLINE:

1. Do you feel like you (and other people) have an inner child, feel free to say no… but why not?
2. If you could talk to your five-year-old self for 20 seconds, what would you say?
3. What’s your earliest memory?
4. Do you have any beliefs from childhood that are irrational, but you still hold on to?
5. Do you feel any moments in life where your childhood was sacrificed for a mission/life/higher purpose?
6. What parts of your inner child do you still bring with you today good or bad (if there is such categories)?

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Where does creativity come from, how do we experience it, how do we express it? Does it get buried? Have you found your own creative side and if not, do you care to? This week, we sit down to discuss our creative sides and how we have found ourselves through different creative outlets. Creativity sometimes becomes what we’ve wanted to express without saying it. When you feel dulled-down, drifting, or confused; get your thoughts and feelings into something positive. 

EPISODE QUESTIONS: (the squad journals on these questions prior to recording the episode so that each of us can take a deep dive into ourselves and bring you deep authentic vulnerability)

1. Where does creativity come from? Do you feel a creativity drive coming out of you? What does that look like, starting with boredom or something else?
2. What kind of experiences have you and/or friends got “Bored” what kind of magic or destruction did you experience?
3. Can destruction be creative?
4. How do you experience creativity? Is it something you share?
5. Do you bury any creative aspects/drive from yourself? If so, why?
6. In a perfect world, what does expressing your creativity look like for you?
7. What’s stopping you?

Geeezze, what a wide net we cast for ourselves! Stretch out before we jump in to todays topic. Today, the guys are scratching the surface of empathy. How it is defined, how we understand it, and how to distinguish what it is not- Sympathy, Compassion and Apathy. We’ll also touch on empathy seen as a skill and our thoughts on empathy in animals.

EPISODE OUTLINE:

1. What is your definition of Empathy?
2. Is Empathy a skill?
3. What is your definition of Sympathy?
4. What is your definition of Compassion?
5. What is your definition of APATHY?
6. We may feel empathy towards animals, do they feel it in return? If no, what of the other previously used words would you use to describe their relationship with us?

Are you the uniform you wear? Are you who you say you are? Do you feel like someone slapped a title across your forehead that you do not resonate with? Saddle up and join the squad on a dive into the world of labels and how they make the 3 of us feel.

EPISODE OUTLINE:

1. Which labels do you subject yourself to?

2. Do you feel like a self- author or are do you subscribe to the narrative other people attach to you?

3. Do you hold any values relating to social etiquette and empathy?

4. Are there some value systems that need to be thrown out?

5. Once you recognize other people have independent needs, can understand your own value system and then challenge your value system/societies value system, what is left? How do you justify holding multiple value systems for different occasions without pissing people off? Can you?

6. How does one get to the point where they can cherry pick value systems and supersede societies pressure to conform?

Self- Scientist.

Whether you like it or not, Life is One Big Experiment! We’re constantly making observations, making assumptions/hypotheses (and calling them theories), collecting data, changing up variables and putting ourselves to the test. Often, our consistent behaviors produce a predictable behavior we can repeat over and over. We are in an age of information where one can not only do our research but have all of YouTube, tik tok, and Google’s worth of education to turn ourselves into refined machines.

EPISODE OUTLINE:

1. What does it mean to be a self- scientist?
2. In what ways have you treated your body/mind as a subject in an experiment?
3. If your life is an experiment, what kind of theory are you trying to prove to yourself/others?
4. Do you tend to focus a lot of your growth on your mind, body, spirit or a blend of the three? Which one do you value most?
5. What areas of life/self are you interesmted in pursuing?
6. What would it look like to be a master/Self- Scientist?
7. Is there a downside to being a good Self- Scientist?

The word habit started off referring to one’s clothes, then to the clothes of someone’s profession and eventually to “how one conducts themselves.” Your body and brain are very responsive to what you practice and if are what you practice, you are your habits.

EPISODE OUTLINE:

1. What does a habit look like to you?
2. What is the difference between a habit and a ritual?
3. What are positive habits you engage in daily, monthly, yearly?
4. What are negative habits you engage in regularly?
5. What are some habits you would like to adopt or cut off from your life?
6. Are there any habits that have helped bail you out of a bad situation (e.g. leaving keys in the same spot) and on the other hand are there any that have caused you to drop the ball (e.g. one more drink).
7. What are habits you think everyone could be benefit from?

What is a diet? What does diet look like for you? What are some ways that you can improve? The group sits down to discuss how they see diet and how it operates in each of their lives. Diet becomes the building blocks of who you are. Right now, at least a lot of people I know my age do not advantage of the wealthy of healthy fresh food available, I myself personally often choose to eat greasy salty and sweet foods. Sit down and relax as we jump into how diet impacts our lives and what other ways it affects everyone.

EPISODE OUTLINE:

1. What does a healthy diet look like to you?
2. What kind of changes do you need to start making immediately?
3. What are some obvious things that you and all people could benefit from changing immediately?
4. What kinds of foods and routines are other countries implementing that we could benefit from (e.g. not giving hormones to chickens, not drinking bottled water, cycling crops/locations).
5. What are some superfoods or detoxing foods that help improve diet?
6. What are some habits/structure built around diet that you would like to implement?
7. Are there other types of Diet you would like to mention outside of what you eat that you find to be a useful/healthy practice?

Milestones can often define who we become or do not become. For some people they mean nothing but then to others they mean everything. The guys get together to discuss milestones whether milestones wanted or unwanted are inevitable and can shape the type of people we become.

Join the Dismount Squad as they saddle up and discuss how milestones have impacted them in life. How deep do the guys dive on this one? How much vulnerability will be displayed? Will there be any break throughs for them?

EPISODE OUTLINE:

1. What even is a milestone? What milestones have you passed and do they hold any meaning to you?

2. What are some milestones you accomplished or not accomplished that you feel shaped who you’ve become? Why do you feel people put so much emphasis on milestones?

3. Do you feel pressure to complete certain achievements/goals by your inner circles? Are there certain milestones you don’t subscribe to/Apply to you?

4. What are some artificial milestones achievements we can do without? Have you let your outside world influence your decisions?

5. What is the difference between a milestone and a rite of passage?

6. Which milestones are you looking forward to/or dreading? Do you feel that you are right where you are supposed to be in life?

7. Do certain milestones have an expiration date/shelf life?