Just Dumb Enough Podcast

I can't blame you if you've never heard of Ayurveda. I certainly wasn't aware of it when our expert today approached me for the show.

Welcome to the Just Dumb Enough Podcast. A show that acknowledges no one is always an expert, by dispelling misconceptions with real experts. 

My guest today is Ananta Ripa Ajmera. Ananta is here today to teach us things that humans have known for thousands of years. The problem is that we've been overwriting a lot of this old, hard earned knowledge with new trends and fads that don't actually serve to help us as much as they hurt us. I was quite surprised by a lot of what used to be considered common sense, which is never a good sign. And I'm guilty of doing quite a few of the bad things she points out.

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Let's relearn old knowledge!

There are so many people on so many journeys out there, that it can be easy to sidetrack yourselves. I hope the advice in this episode helps someone to better find their footing and return to their own path.

In other news, May is just over halfway done and the rankings have mostly stabilized since last week:

1. The United States, now led by California, Oregon, and New York.

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

We all love to trash talk bad bosses, but when I asked people what they thought the worst traits in a boss were: I didn't expect to get flooded with responses.

Welcome to the Just Dumb Enough Podcast. A show that acknowledges no one is always an expert, by dispelling misconceptions with real experts. 

My guest today is Dr. Jennifer Nash. Jennifer and I were both sick at the time of recording and decided to make the most of it, using her two decades of experience as a leadership coach to break down what makes a person a bad leader. With a whole host of responses from listeners just like you, we had no shortage of examples. But if you think it's all goofs, think again as we drop nuggets like this: "Those employees were 50% more likely to have a heart attack or die of a stroke."

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Let's hope we don't get fired after this!

I hope you've enjoyed the boss bashing bonanza without being left feeling hopeless. Everything we've discussed today can be fixed, if the leader in question has a desire to fix it.

In other news, the May rankings have changed just a bit since last week:

1. The United States, still led by California, Georgia, and Oregon.

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

I'm sure that no matter where we are from, or where we live, we like to consider our place to be pretty diverse. Well my expert today is coming 

Welcome to the Just Dumb Enough Podcast. A show that acknowledges no one is always an expert, by dispelling misconceptions with real experts.

My guest today is Joel Dubin. Joel is a Polyglot, meaning he speaks many languages. In a world where many people consider learning a second 

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Lass uns noch viel mehr Sprachen Sprechen! That is to say: Let's speak many more languages.

I love languages so so much. If only I was better at speaking any of them! But still, I'd love to hear all of your complaints about either your 

In other news, May has begun and the rankings have shaken up a bit from the norm:

1. The United States, now led by California, Georgia, and Oregon.

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

Graduating from college generally comes with the payoff of earning more money in a career that you actually want, but the cost is so high that some never really consider it. Well, would you reconsider it if I told you that there was a free money just sitting on the table for you?

Welcome to the Just Dumb Enough Podcast. A show that acknowledges no one is always an expert, by dispelling misconceptions with real experts. 

My guest today is Shaan Patel. Dr. Patel is the Founder and CEO of PrepExpert.Com. He came from humble beginnings: Studying for the SATs in a public library because it was free. After a perfect SAT score, he went on to research the ways in which other students could achieve the success he had found. Now he helps parents and students discover that college doesn't have to be expensive if you just figure out the system.

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I really hope someone discovers that they can go to school because of this episode. I never knew there were such great scholarships just within reach, or I might have followed a different path through schooling.

In other news, April is over and rankings didn't changed at all from last week:

1. The United States, still led by New York, California, and Texas.

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

You are codependent. I'm sorry. I know that's not easy to hear, but it's the truth. And I'd rather you knew now, than waiting until you feel you have no way out.

Welcome to the Just Dumb Enough Podcast. A show that acknowledges no one is always an expert, by dispelling misconceptions with real experts. 

My guest today is Sarah Michaud. Dr. Michaud knows codependency better than anyone, having lived it, lived with it, and worked against it. She's joining us today to unshroud this insidious trait, and the ways in which we are all effected by it. She's also a listener of the show, and I'd love to hear from more listeners like her!

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I know I opened the show calling everyone codependent, but by the end of this episode: you've probably seen a handful of these red flags in 

In other news, April is almost at an end and rankings haven't changed much since last week:

1. The United States, now led by New York, California, and Texas.

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

I know we've done a couple AI episodes in a couple months, which is more consistent than most topics come up on this show, but they have each had a very different spin. And today's is no different, expanding on the possibilities of this ever growing technology to maybe earn you a raise.

Welcome to the Just Dumb Enough Podcast. A show that acknowledges no one is always an expert, by dispelling misconceptions with real experts. 

My guest today is Philip Blackett. Philip is the author of a new book, Future-Proof, that leverages AI to better your life. He's here to talk a bit about what AI can do, what that means for you, and how it can help secure your job regardless of the turbulence cause by machine learning programs.

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April 15th, 2025. That's the one year mark from this episodes publish date. If you're listening to this after that date, I'll freely admit that I can't imagine what AI has grown to at this point. But I'm interested to see the things it will allow us to do that were previously out of reach.

In other news, April rankings have changed very little since last week:

1. The United States, now led by New York, Oregon, and Texas.

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

I think that I've only ever heard Child Protective Services mentioned in a scary context. Like: "CPS is going to come take your kids!" So when my expert today reached out to me, I couldn't wait to get the real scoop.

Welcome to the Just Dumb Enough Podcast. A show that acknowledges no one is always an expert, by dispelling misconceptions with real experts. 

My guest today is Lance Hillsinger. Lance retired after 34 years in Child Welfare. He's here to breakdown what child welfare does, what they don't do, and ways the system can improve. There are certainly some very surprising bits tucked away in this brief interview, like this: (audio only teaser)

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Let's foster better homes.

Being a foster home must be a mix of stressful and rewarding. I'd love to have someone on who has some time into it, if anyone listening wants to come on the show.

In other news, April rankings have shuffled a bit since last week:

1. The United States, now led by New York, California, and Illinois.

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

It's strange to think that your path towards making stress work for you would start with a cold shower. But that immediate response to cold water is actually a very beneficial experience.

Welcome to the Just Dumb Enough Podcast. A show that acknowledges no one is always an expert, by dispelling misconceptions with real experts. 

My guest today is Matt Soule. Matt is so many things, but one of his most interesting careers is as a trainer of the Wim Hof method. You've probably seen videos of these people running around what looks like the arctic in nothing but their underwear, jumping into below freezing water like it doesn't even bother them. I don't know about you, but that sounds incredibly stressful to me! Yet if you ask Matt, it's easily one of the best things you could ever do to get your mind into a much better place.

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It's really striking how too much of a good thing causes us to embrace way more stress than necessary. So I'm going to challenge people in a bit different direction this time. Do five minutes less exercise. If you're already doing zero, you know you need to change, but if you're doing an hour? Do five minutes less. I'm challenging you to stop early. Then maybe tomorrow you realize you feel better because you didn't overdo it so much. Find a happy medium between doing the most you can do, and not doing it at all.

This is the first day of April so the rankings are a little unusual:

1. The United States, led by Colorado, New Mexico, and Louisiana.

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

I don't know that I have the right temperament to be a landlord. I'm probably too empathetic and forgiving to be making my living off of other people struggling to maintain a place to live. But, according to my expert today, it turns out that I might just be coming at it from the wrong angle.

Welcome to the Just Dumb Enough Podcast. A show that acknowledges no one is always an expert, by dispelling misconceptions with real experts. 

My guest today is Janet Tonkins. Janet is known as the "Cash Flow Diva". She is a Real Estate Developer, Investor, and Hard Money Lender with over 100 properties across multiple states. She's with us today to help others find financial freedom through one of the more difficult seeming avenues: Rental Properties.

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It's definitely more dicey than I thought with the rules and penalties, but also seems like it carries a lot more power for growth on both sides of the situation... if you handle it correctly.

This is the last week of March so there's a little time left to change the rankings:

1. The United States, led by New York, California, and Illinois.

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

Geography was never my strongest subject, so I had to guess at where Delaware was when I started discussing it with my expert today. And it turns out the term "Boswash Megalopolis" did not give me as many clues as I was hoping.

My guest today is Dave Tabler. Dave is a historian with all kinds of interesting knowledge about the second smallest state. It sits in the aforementioned Boswash area, which is the space between Boston and Washington D.C. Specifically it's just east of D.C. and South of Philadelphia. And boy do they have some weird history since they are old enough to be part of the thirteen colonies, but isolated enough to not really be that involved. They end up with all kind of odds and ends from German food to Elizabethan English clothes and accents.

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So there's Delaware. Some fun, some weird, and some in between. I hope you enjoyed the history trip, but know that next week will be entirely 

In other news, the March rankings are competitive for sure:

1. The United States, led by New York, California, and Florida.

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