Guy Shrink

Matt Kutz is a professor of athletic training at Florida International University, and former professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and a Fulbright Scholar in Rwanda. Matt and Bill have an enjoyable info-packed conversation about Contextual Intelligence as a proven way to resolve complexity and ambiguity in our decision-making. Matt goes a long way to help us think about our thinking and this episode is peppered with some funny stories, deep original thinking and lots of practical direction for those racing thoughts in our heads Enjoy.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ, PT, DPT. is a licensed physical therapist who works in a hospital-based outpatient orthopedic clinic in Toledo. He is a gifted and innovative clinician who believes that his job is less about solving a patient's problems and more about coaching him to navigate the inconsistencies of pain that many of us use to define our identity. Richard and Bill talk about the gift of pain and how we can use that physical intrusion to lead us to a new understanding of ourselves and our unique place in the world. This episode will captivate you and give you a refreshing perspective.

STEPHEN RIDELLA, Ph.D. is the Director of the Office of Defect Investigation for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of the Fed. Yep, he's the seat belt guy, always looking out for consumer safety on the highway. He is also a major thought leader in engineering organizations whose personal commitment to excellence helps form new strategies and policies for the good of all. Stephen and Bill get down to the nitty-gritty about a subject near and dear to both of these men---growing up and being a man of integrity and goodwill. The added gem to all this is that these two guys have known each other their whole lives as first cousins.

J. Brent Bill is an American author of Quaker spiritual literature. He is a graduate of Wilmington College and Earlham School of Religion and has worked as a pastor and writing coach. He and his wife live at Ploughshares Farm, fifty acres of Indiana farmland being reclaimed for native hardwood and prairie grasses. Brent and Bill discuss golf as a spiritual practice—how men need activity in their lives to be in touch with the deeper meaning of living. Both of these guys met in college and worked together in journalistic adventures.

TIM LUSCH — Self-described as a recovering attorney, Tim is a provocative writer and reviewer for several national journals and local magazines. He is one of Bill's favorite intellectual sparring partners and one of his closest friends. Together they talk about Resistance and the necessity of having a disciplined life to accomplish worthwhile things.

Chris and Bill talk about wrestling with our untapped potential and how many of us leave the scene with most of our song still inside. Fear is the number one face of Resistance and Chris gives some clear advice about how to charge through that, He also offers his personal de-stress plan that can be tried out today as you listen.

Home for the holidays? Ugh. Already the pit is forming in your stomach. And instead of visions of sugarplums dancing in your head, there is the gnawing dread of a déjà vu—another emotionally-driven holiday with family and friends. What to do? Instead of avoiding it why not embrace the opportunity to try out some new behavior?

I am suggesting ten ideas for taking care of yourself differently these next few weeks. Test-drive some of them out and see if you can manage yourself in a new and better way.

"The less a person understands his own feelings, the more he will fall prey to them. The less a person understands the feelings, the responses and the behaviors of others, the more likely he will interact inappropriately with them and therefore fail to secure his proper place in the world." --Howard Gardner, Harvard Prof of Education and Cognition