Just Dumb Enough Podcast

Most people are at least vaguely familiar with the inhuman treatment that happened inside concentration camps during World War 2. The thing most people have never heard, is that Germany was not the only country that engaged in collecting and imprisoning specific ethnic groups. In fact, the one we are talking about today was claiming to be the most freedom forward place on Earth while also building these camps in bleached desert wastelands where the weather alone could kill... The United States of America.

My guest today is John Suzuki. John is the author of the Amazon best selling book "American Grit". It details stories from a shameful time in American history, and the incredible people that rose to greatness in spite of it. John does a great job breaking down the details and easily secured a place as one of my favorite guests, with a fascinating topic that for obvious reasons has been largely buried.

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Let's learn America's dirty secret.

And thank you for listening. I really think it's time we start talking about these stains on our collective pasts. Only by being fully aware of who we are and what we've done, will we be able to build a brighter future with a fuller picture. Make sure you're doing your part to at least make others aware and give them the chance to learn through interviews like this one.

August has continued moving forward despite my pleas for it to stop, so we've got updated rankings:

That's it for this week! Have a great weekend and I'll see you all back here for the next episode!

When this show started, I found myself fascinated with all the things we think we know, but still get wrong. Sure, it can be as complex as psychology, but it can also be as simple as stretching.

My guest today is Diane Cherico. Diane started working in the Massage and Chiro-therapy field 24 years ago and along the way found Active Isolated Stretching. It was one of those innocuous things she didn't give much though to. Could stretching really be the key to alleviating work related chronic pain? Is all that warm up stuff we half-heartedly did in gym class actually the reason we bounced back so fast?

Let's finally stretch correctly!

Don't be afraid to rewind so you can easily listen to those stretching instructions again. A little bit now could save you a whole lot of pain later.

It's a new month, so we've got new rankings:

That's it for this week! Have a great weekend and I'll see you all back here for the next episode!

A dream home is a funny concept. It's easy to critique these custom houses as being imperfect, and yet we each build a list of must haves in our mind that barely amount to a sensible structure ourselves. So where is the point we leave reality and enter daydream?

My guest today is Julie Laughton. Julie has been working in the architecture and home design world for 40 years. She now runs her own company and has a whole briefcase full of job titles that encompass nearly everything you could need when building a house from the ground up. Her primary contracts are building dream homes from scratch. She's here today to impart wisdom about the process, tips to get it done smoothly, and nightmares to avoid.

Let's build the houses we dream of for prices that work!

Well hopefully that audio wasn't too much for anyone. I'm going to make a more conscious effort in the future to ensure each guest has true recording equipment.

We are somehow already at the end of July, so here are the ranking results:

That's it for this week! Have a great weekend and I'll see you all back here for the next episode!

My first autism episode was by far one of the two most requested topics to date, and it was well received by all of you in the lovely Just Dumb Enough audience. But in talking to listeners, many people still wanted more. Something even more personal. So now I'm revisiting the topic with an all new expert and a different angle.

My guest today is Deann Hampton. Deann has been mother to two twins for 35 years now. Even though they are grown now; Deann had a rocky start to say the least, when they received multiple diagnosis at a very young age. The road was a hard one to travel, not knowing that autism was at the heart of the issues, and Deann got a lot of advice that did more harm than good. ( Www.DeannHampton.Com )

Let's learn some tips and tricks!

I hope this helps those of you touched by autism in some meaningful way. As always you can reach out to me or my guests to learn more.

Now past the midpoint, here's our July rankings:

That's it for this week! Have a great weekend and I'll see you all back here for the next episode!

How do you define yourself? Do you start with: Your gender? Your race? Your religion? Your politics? My expert today would tell you any of those are the wrong things to start with.

My guest today is Sara Ting. Sara is the Author of the Sun Poem as well as President and Founder of World Unity Inc. She specializes in promoting diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) by raising awareness of yourself first. And it accomplishes some of this by using the increasingly rare skill of critical thinking.

Let's put our humanity first!

I think humanity first is an interesting perspective, but do any of you see any flaws in it?

The updated July rankings:

That's it for this week! Have a great weekend and I'll see you all back here for the next episode!

Coming back from the American holiday, I figured we'd do a short episode on a well recognized, non-toxic, social media.

My guest today is Joe Apfelbaum. Joe is CEO of Ajax Union, a marketing company that has 15 years of experience helping people in all fields build effective strategies. One of the most important of these is the proper use of the social media site: LinkedIn.

It's something I was aware existed before the interview, but never understood the purpose entirely. Luckily Joe delivers an excellent lesson, so I'll get us right into the interview!

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Let's socialize our way to better business!

Are any of you listeners business owners or entrepreneur hopefuls? If so, write in or leave a comment and tell me what you do!

It's a new month, so we've got a new ranking:

That's it for this week! Have a great weekend and I'll see you all back here for the next episode!

It seems to be a trend with this show's audience that most conventional topics never perform as well as the unusual. So to feed into your insatiable lust for the abnormal, I've got an expert today who's speaking about our past lives and how they impact the people we are today.

My guest today is Christa Okon. During some routine oral care, Christa found herself having visions of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. She was understandably confused, frightened, and off put by these intrusive memories. Over time she came to understand that we as humans have an ability to tap into some highlights from the past lives we've lived. You'll soon hear her description of how these seemingly unconnected people have far reaching impact on you, even after their deaths.

Let's dig into the lives we had before our birth?

So that was the episode. What do you think? Have we all experience past lives and diverse experiences? Or do we just get one trip on this big planet? I always want to believe in the fantastical, no matter the evidence. It won't change the way I live my life, but what's the harm in just humoring the possibility?

We've reached the end of June, a bit slower than the months before it, with the following ranking:

That's it for this week! Have a great weekend and I'll see you all back here for the next episode about the same time that America blows up the sky! It's Independence day next week, for those unaware, and the US just loves launching colored dynamite into the sky to celebrate.

My last episode featured my youngest guest ever, and now we're rolling into this interview with a man who describes himself as "an old timer", I think being the oldest guest I've had on the show. (Sorry I'm sick during the Intro/Outro)

My guest today is Stuart Lichtman. For 50 years now, Stuart has been teaching people to make their unconscious work for them. New research with functional MRIs has shown that everything we do originates as an unconscious thought about ten seconds before we do it.

But doesn't consciously thinking about the unconscious make it conscious? Don't think about it too hard just yet. Stuart is going to spell it out for those of us not quite gifted enough to grasp the concept right away. And once you've learned the basics, you can use it to make everything from working out, to learning a language, to losing weight, to finding a parking spot easier!

Admittedly Stuart has a bit slower cadence than many of my previous guests, but he's got quite the wisdom to deliver, and a resume to back it up. From Margret Thatcher to Owners of NFL teams like the Philadelphia Eagles, Stuart has worked with some of the biggest names to ever grace industries and has led them to remarkable successes.

Let's put our big brains to some use!

This became one of the show's shorter episodes, because of the editing I had to do. Hopefully I was able to clean up and condense the audio in such a way that you all still learned and didn't tune out. But if you're one of those people that enjoys the metaphysical episodes, and you know who you are, you're really going to enjoy the episode next week.

On the flip side, there's no meaningful changes in the ranking, so I'm going to skip the update and just wish you all a fun and/or relaxing weekend.

I'll see you all back here for the next episode! Until then, please do all the good stuff for the show: rate, review, like, and subscribe. [email protected] or social media if you want to reach me.

I've always loved writing; I think it's just such a fantastic outlet for creativity. But back in high school, I would have never dreamed of actually writing and completing a novel. Well my expert today published her first novel when she was still in middle school!

My guest today is Shanti Hershenson. As I said, Shanti wrote her first novel back in middle school, at the age of 12. And this wasn't just a loose collection of thoughts, it was almost 900 pages long and had to be broken into a series before she could have it's first edition printed.

As of now this young Hemmingway is only 15 years old and has 13 published works with more in editing, and still more being writen. It's a feat that most adults on the planet would be hard pressed to accomplish, even if you removed the need to edit and publish!

This is as good a time as any to address that as of now I'm starting to compile all the lessons and tips, from my over 140 guests so far, into book format. I'll continue to add to the pages until I think it's a sufficient length, and then I'll throw it out there for people to enjoy.

What do you think? Would you want a copy? What have been your favorite things you've learned? I'm personally looking forward to the new challenge I likely would have never taken on without incredible guests like this one!

Let's find out how we can write multiple books per year!

I hope this interview has inspired at least a few of you to give writing a shot. It doesn't have to be 1,000 words a day, it could be 200 words a day and you'd still finish a novel before the end of the year!

In other news, it's the middle of June and here's the ranking update:

That's it for today! Have a great week and I'll see you all back here for the next episode!