When things don't go right, do you use it as information - or as a weapon for beating yourself up? In this episode we consider the power of staying curious.

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Sometimes the stories that define our lives are given to us by others. Sometimes we create them ourselves. Either way, what's your story?

Is your story helping you create and live the life you want? Or is it time for a change?

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We're urged to aspire to greatness. We're told that if it's worth doing it's worth doing right. But what if you want to do something, not because you can be great (or even pretty good) but because it just makes your heart sing? Join me on this episode as we celebrate mediocrity.

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Five mind-sets of designer thinking:

(from "Design Your Life" by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans)

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They may have been terrible to you. And they may have been wonderful to you. What do you do when your family history is complicated?

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It was meant to be, right? Everything fell into place perfectly.

Until it all fell apart.

In this episode we reflect on the breaking apart that sometimes leads to breaking open.

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One of the losses that comes with midlife is the loss of friends, sometimes because they die and sometimes because life breaks us apart. We talk about that in today's episode - the things that make it hard and some of the things we can do.

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How to give uo something without having to let go of it - whether it's books, clothes or how you used to see the world.

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If you question what you've always been told, will you lose your faith? Is challenging and questioning God a sign of less faith - or more? In today's episode we talk about this fear of going down the wrong road.

A great companion book for the episode is "Everything Happens For a Reason and Other Lies I've Loved" by Kate Bowler