Here's a brief excerpt from "Leadership Challenged - A Middle Manager Memoir" where I describe the beginning of the Peace from the Porch Project. This episode includes the anchor song from "Peace from the Porch Vol 1".

Affirmation - written by Stacy Lieder and performed by the original Bear Creek Ensemble.

A reading from "Leadership Challenged - A Middle Management Memoir." Here's an excerpt where I share an encounter with an elderly hospice patient in a small town. This encounter taught me how to listen and how to use compassion as a premise for stepping up to lead.

If the world continues to become more siloed, how will we survive? Economically, the math isn't adding up, so we're going to need our community, and that community includes immigrants and people should get to know and understand.

Why will some people freely accept claims that are obviously untrue? I think the Trump campaign is testing the gullibility of its base, and that is as dangerous as Germany, pre-WWll.

Storytellers talk too much. I'm a storyteller. But I also love to hear other people's stories. Here's a ramble about the direction I want to take those stories. Older women and marginalized communities! Listen in!

Why do women condone degrading content about women? In fact, it's so common that politicians freely do it and don't apologize for it.

Why is it so hard to be nice to strangers? Or people who look, think, and even vote different than us? Election season is brutal. Here's a quick pod about that dark part of people that looks for anonymous places to explode.