Alex, Macon, and Marshall interview their friend and former colleague, Shane Arthur. They ask him about the business of coaching, starting gradually, and the kinds of help driven professionals need.

Show Notes:

* Steak-Umms

* “On Grounds” See #4.

* Jimmy Long

* InterVarsity Regions, post VA, NC/SC split (RIP Blue Ridge Region).

* they probably didn’t live in the water

* of course ships need roads

* but not everyone does

* this is the book that got the Arthurs to Duke

* Not just poised. But poised for Growth.

* the next job “up” was National Field Director.

* the view of Executive Coaching back in 2014

* Shane, the LinkedIn version.

* Vistage - Kurt Graves

* bidness

* what do you want?

* one set of footprints

* Fierce Conversations

* the treasure was inside them the whole time

* opinions on what Shane should talk about while on HFP

* Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective

* turns out, there are 26 letters in the English alphabet. Pretty tricky, the English alphabet.

* Polanyian intuition

* “knotty”, not “naughty”

* cave as metaphor for personal exploration

* It’s actually a technical term: willfull blindness

* Mary Poppins Returned

* it’s a pretty solid approach to controlling demand

* Follow Shane on LinkedIn

Marshall, Macon, and Alex talk about Spiritual Disciplines, Practices, and the structures that help us along the Wisdom Path.

show notes:

* sodastream (not a sponsor, but we are ready to sell-out)

* coconut water

* topo-chico

* Smokey and The Bandit

* Talkin’ ‘bout practice

* Stations of The Cross

* a rock

* Police Academy 6

* but, actually, it was Police Academy 5. We thank you, in advance, for not getting your facts from HFP.

* “Hey Dork”

* Joseph of Arimathea

* where Alex and Marshall go on a retreat together

* John Stott was also known for his naps: Half Hour Horizontal

* Angels and Bells

* More Cowbell

* STIM - Student Training In Missions

* Obsidian.md

* Picture of Macon’s Obsidian Daily Note Practices Section

* Karatekas

* Dallas Willard

* Spirit of the Disciplines

* You remember Rachelle

* Inside Scaffolding. Outside Scaffolding.

* James Bryan Smith his books

* Centering Prayer

* Crossfit’s Workout Of The Day

* Cramming a 4.5 year reading plan into 6 years: This Morning with God

* don’t forget to scroll down to see it blurbed by J. A. Kirk!

* Thrusters and Burpees are the worst.

* dee doo deet!

Marshall tricks Alex and Macon into writing his Easter sermon, while we talk about Good Friday, expectations of rescue, living our best lives, and our eventual death.

show notes:

Jesus Revolution

Jesus People

Crashdog

Dungeons & Dragons

the game Liza missed

no, actually, they couldn’t have called it Magicland

Mid

Tolkien’s World

A Christmas Episode

Easter follows the Lunar Calendar

Jesus Flipping Tables (Luke was unavailable for comment.)

All Night Long

All Night Long, but Singer-Songwriter

Daily Lectionary for Holy Week

yay yay Jesus

Gary Deddo, speaking about "One God, Three Persons" for the TF Torrance Reading Group

You don’t listen to HFP for “facts” but just in case: it’s Ash Wednesday where you get the ashes, not Maundy Thursday.

Live your best life now. Faster.

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front : “Practice resurrection.”

Two Birds Film: Look And See

The Denial of Death

All Illusions Must Be Broken

I got it right the second time, first try.

St. Peter, making his exit, Caravaggio take.

The Story of You

Smoldered, is obviously the past tense of smolding.

Taking our first listener question. Not a question from our first listener, but the first question we’ve gotten from a listener. Alex, Marshall, and Macon work out why churches have a vision, and why it can be helpful.

Show Notes:

Thunderstruck

The Beatles

The Rolling Stones

Led Zeppelin

The many faces of Marshall

The Foo Fighters

Peter, Paul, and Mary

Hoochie Koo

U2

What is a Boy Band?

Bye Bye Bye

Chuck Berry

Of course, everyone knows where Chuck Berry got his sound.

Iron Maiden & Eddie

Guns n’ Roses - Appetite for Destruction

Best Aerosmith Unrequited Love Song

INXS - What You Need turns out to be a perfectly executed 1980’s Music Video

Here’s the Mail

Turns out Nothing Ever Happens on 38th Street.

Miracle on 34th Street Mail Scene.

Cedar of Lebanon

Becoming Brave, by Brenda Salter McNeil

Four Disciplines of Execution

Don’t Worry About Your Ministry Brand

Can you Match Pitch?

Forging Elite Fitness

Marshall’s Cell Number

Movies restore Marshall’s soul, and he reviews the last few he’s seen. We talk about that kind of soulwork as well as Macon’s morning restorative (aka, “survival”) practices. Finally, we return to fiction, science-fiction, fantasy, and the over-arching need to sit down with a good storyteller, regardless of medium or genre.

Show Notes:

Cocaine Bear

Elizabeth Banks

Pitch Perfect

Ray Liotta

Care Bears

Fighting Grizzlies

Creed III

Not to be confused with Creed

Ant Man and The Wasp: Quantumaina

Kang the Conquerer

65

Muppets From Space

Pigs In Space

Worldbuilding

Rings of Power

Internal Chronology vs Publication Date, a short reddit discussion.

Enneagram 1 - The Reformer

Restorative Rhythm of the Night ← actual video of Marshall’s restorative practice

Not to be confused with this Rhythm, which, surprisingly, is even more 80s than the Rhythm above, though both relate to nightly rhythms.

At The Table Podcast: E166 Work Harder at Resting.

Restorative Banjo

Daily Lectionary Readings

Yin Yoga

* Trigger Point Yin: session for Runners

* 50 min of a Yin Yoga Session

"Muscle Fibers Relax When the Nervous System Signal Is No Longer Present"

Meat and Nuts breakfast

Sample Deep Book/Paper: Resisting Reductionism: Why We Need a Truly Theological Anthropology to counter the Dehumanization of God’s Humanity

Brandon Sanderson

Battlestar Galactica Original

Battlestar Galactica Reboot

Greenhouse Retreats

Rohr on Enneagram Threes

The Stand

The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke

Team of Rivals

A Man Called Cash

Paul Simon: The Life

Jim Gaffigan on his wife’s brain tumor

The Wheel of Time

Pellinor

They’re called Embedded Stories or Nested Stories.

Hero’s Journey

Brenda Salter McNeil preaching on The Woman At The Well

Sword Drills

Oh, that tournament.

Alex and Marsh ask Macon how he applies “process engineering” to other places in his life. Macon lets Alex and Marshall know that they both have a PKMS, it just might not be very good. Plus a theory about how all three of us accidentally learned to value the bottom-up way of life when we were on the College Pro Christian Tour.

Strap on your Nerd Hat.

Show Notes:

Jason Sudeikis as Backup Dancer

He can dance if he wants to. ← this video is a special kind of amazing.

Why Can’t This Be Love? ← uh, clearly this isn’t David Lee Roth.

The Capital Centre

It’s not Punk, but it’s Indie. (And, no, it’s not nearly as good.)

Alex’s Favorite Problem No.1: Context

Poetry In The Forest

A 15 Min, Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done

Field Notes

Ubiquitous Capture

The call is coming from inside the house.

Lean

5S

Gemba

Mark Manuscript Study

Happiness Study

Look out for cyclists

Between the Lions

Frederica Mathewes-Green wrote The Jesus Prayer: The Ancient Desert Prayer that Tunes the Heart to God

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” — Albert Einstein

The Weekly Review

Personal Knowledge Management Systems (PKMS)

Obsidian.md

Enneagram 8 - The Challenger

Consider the dachschund.

KLF - 3AM Eternal

Microsoft One Note

Plinko

How to pronounce Pericope

Probably want to wear one of these when pronouncing pericope properly.

Evernote

Consider six dachschunds.

How InterVarsity started.

This is how we do it

You totally redeemed yourself

Franklin Covey Planner

OmniFocus

Drafts

Focused Podcast

Time Blocking

Death by Meeting

Special Guest: Rachelle McClintock

Marsh, Alex, & Macon work through with Rachelle: How do we get to having real and deep friendships? What are the qualities of such relationships? How do we know if they will stand the test of time?

Show Notes:

What is an exec team?

Windy Gap

Voxer

Marco Polo

DTR: actually a term.

The Fellowship of The Ring

The Mines of Moria

Systematic Theology III (We took this class through Fuller Seminary, though now the professor is at Grace Communion Seminary.)

Lectio 365 App

All The Single Ladies

Long Obedience In The Same Direction - the book

…long obedience…in the same direction… - the Nietzsche quote. (line 27)

Eugene Peterson (again)

"Only time will tell if we stand the test of time." Easily top 10 80’s Rock Songs with a Synthesizer.

Survivorship Bias

John Hughes Movies

How do you pronounce Zildjian?

Enneagram 3 The Achiever

Jerry Sinefield on Smartless

If I link this song, maybe will Marsh stop singing it at the end of our recordings.

Show Notes:

Rihanna’s Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show

The Champions: UNCC Women’s Tennis

First it was a Joke. Then it was Real, sort of: The Ocho .

S0E13 Deconstructing Deconstructing

Tolkien, Lewis, and Fairy Stories (Marshall gets it right, of course.)

We shall be like gods

Nick at Night (not the Biblical one)

Nic at Night (the Biblical one)

You can’t do that on television (though they did).

Bare Necessities (safe for work)

Quantumaina

What is this? A Center for Ants?

Cocaine Bear (again)

Emerging Culture Curriculum by Jimmy Long

Seriously, Macon is pronouncing modernity (and post-modernity) correctly.

U-N-I-T-Y (asking the important question, “Who you callin’ a B*tch?”

Thomas F. Torrance, "Predestination in Christ," The Evangelical Quarterly 13 (1941): 108-141. (Heavy theological lifting in this essay, one-hundred percent worth it.)

Goodnight, Ned

Macon asks Marsh and Alex whether God prefers the Poor. Old Testament, New Testament, Modern Commentators, Motivational Psychology, we try it all on in order to figure it out.

Show Notes:

Octordle / Wordle

Pitch Perfect. Again. Until Alex remembers.

Des Moines. It’s French.

Joy In the Margins

The Lord Hears the Cry of the Poor (a classic Slow Jam)

The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill. A great podcast series for people interested in the inside-baseball on 2000’s Evangelical Cool Kids.

Steph Curry Eeating Fresh

We would see Jesus

Grace Community Church Mission

One of Marshall’s favorite problems is working on understanding what it means for people to “abide in Christ.” Alex and Macon try to relate, even though it feels very “woo, woo.”

Show Notes:

I’m always angry. (Best quote in all of the MCU, followed by, “I could do this all day.”)

Cocaine Bear (It’s real and it’s spectacular.)

S1E01 Favorite Problems

Macon’s Favorite Problem #1

Alex’s Favorite Problem #1

12 Life Lessons From…Gian-Carlo Rota: “Use Feynman’s Method” section

Kids In The Hall Theme Song (Clearly, they were some of the earliest listeners to HFP.)

The Spirit of the Disciplines

Abide In Christ - Book Abide In Christ - PDF

John 15

Andrew Murray

Life In The Spirit —> The Spirit of Christ - Book The Spirit of Christ - PDF

Dharma Talks in the Yoga session

Eugene Peterson

The Practice of The Presence of God

The Liturgy of the Ordinary

Brother Lawrence