From the heights of collegiate basketball success to the depths of a Nebraska roadside ditch, Patric's life experience will encourage anyone who is wrestling with hope.  Mike and Patric talk basketball, coachability, family, identity, about the accident that robbed Patric of the ability to walk, and the journey forward.  Strength, courage, pain and positivity feature prominently.

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Too many firsts to name!  Historic Jacksonville Mayor who preserved land, invested in infrastructure and pursued innovative ways to understand and represent everyone - not just those who voted for him.  

Public University and Private College President - who won over critics who initially saw him as not "enough of an academic."  And, before all that, Chief Assistant State Attorney, City General Counsel and Mayoral Chief of Staff. 

Curiosity, reaching across the aisle, humility, and kindness feature prominently in this episode.

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Adam took the helm of Hillel, the world's leading Jewish student organization, just months before the Pandemic.  

So, there has been no shortage of crises for the man who heads an organization that counts 180,000 Jewish students in 850 colleges and universities as its constituency.  

Mike and Adam get into how the lawyer, turned entrepreneur, turned playwright, and oh yeah a capella singer, brings problem- solving, creativity, technology, empathy and good humor to bear in leading in unusually divisive times.  

Listening, learning, and laughing feature prominently.

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After her debut performance as a fairy in elementary school, Helen didn't perform again for decades. She has been on a pretty good tear ever since  -  playing memorable characters in Jane the Virgin, Never Have I Ever, booking her first commercial (Comcast Cable) and then her first acting audition: a Coen Brothers classic,  becoming a regular on NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell me, and hosting her own game show, Go Fact Yourself -- meanwhile entertaining comedy audiences across the country with a unique brand of quirky, expressive, edginess and well-crafted jokes.   

The immigrant experience, rebellion, and sisterhood feature prominently.

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Seth and Mike talk, growing up Jewish with the shadow of the Holocaust front and center and how, for Seth, this permeated his DNA and his being and drew him to innocence work. The Bone Valley Murder, college protests, and passion feature prominently.

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A touring theatre comedian out of Nashville, Tennessee, Lee has two successful DryBar comedy specials.

Mike and Lee talk, comedy entrepreneurship, creating opportunities vs. being angry about the opportunities that don't come, television work, upbringing, lacking luxury but being provided for and encouraged, and growth.

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The millennial president is on this episode. 

He became the 30th president of Edward Waters College, now University, in 2018. 

Since then he’s shaken things up for EWU and the entire HBCU world. 

He is enthusiastic, thoughtful, demanding of himself and others, and above all passionate. 

Want to find out how he got that way? 

Check it out!

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When it comes to news reporting, Alex Ebert is at the same time a throwback to old school journalism and a foreshadowing of what newsrooms are becoming. 

Perspective, exuberance, how stories impact the lives of real people and the judicial process, learning from mistakes, pursuing passion, and work life balance. 

This episode has it all.

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This episode is all about leadership and service. 

No one better exemplifies both than the man who has led at the highest levels of PepsiCo, Eastman Kodak, Bristol Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson, and now his own alma mater (and Mike”s too), Jacksonville University. 

Passion, encouragement and loyalty feature prominently.

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You asked for it, you got it: a larger dose of the reality show that is produced for an audience of two in the home of a 56 year old comedian/lawyer and his 15 year old daughter.  

This episode gives you a taste of the bantar, sarcasm, sharing, exploring and compassion that occurs daily in the home of two people from very different generations.  

You will be as captivated by the intellect and candor of my sweet Samantha Rose as I am each day!

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