Reboots

My friend Eric has experienced some serious career reboots.

Eric is a minister turned financial services professional turned podcaster.

When Eric realized he’s more comfortable listening and facilitating than teaching or preaching his life and career began to take shape.

In this episode, Eric and I talk about:
* The difference between being a heart human and a head human
* How God was training Jeremiah to see
* The Critical Journey of how most of us experience spiritual growth
Eric is one of my favorite interviewers, so it was fun to get to ask him questions.

Meet the Reboots Sound Genius
Mikhail Kosenkov has beautifully edited, mastered, and engineered this episode.

If you’re a podcaster and you don’t have a sound genius, trust me. You need one. Even if it’s to help you sort out your compression and EQ settings.

He’ll be glad to talk to you about your sound questions. [email protected]

Are you paralyzed by the lies inside your head?
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Matt Ragland teaches at MattRagland.com, a platform dedicated to sharing journaling and time-tracking techniques that help individuals focus on what matters.

Matt says journaling helps him manage the tendency to overthink things in his life, as well as capture ideas he wants to explore and - perhaps - implement.

Today, Matt's journaling practice is geared around helping him celebrate healthy patterns and identify the emergence of unhealthy behavioral patterns so he can correct them before they impact his life.

Matt's favorite tools

Pentel EnerJel .7mm (Amazon affiliate link)

The Bullet Journal Notebook

Baron Fig Confidant

Airtable

Take small steps toward the person you want to be.

Encouragement

Don’t overthink your journaling practice.

Get your thoughts and ideas onto paper and do it consistently.

1. Make simple lists each morning about what you want to do or need to do & review at the end of the day (5 minutes)
2. Write one line each morning and at the end of the day (5 minutes)

Matt’s Journaling Challenges
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5-day time tracking challenge

Daily journal prompts

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Tony is an alcoholic. 

He found the courage and the will to change when he realized he was about to lose his family.

In this episode, Tony walks us through his first AA meeting and how drawing helped him reduce each of the 12 steps to the bare essentials.

Today, Tony is nine years clean and sober! 

Tony illustrates the 12 steps as a means for helping others find and walk the road of sobriety.

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The Arkansas River in Oklahoma and Arkansas is well out of its banks and thousands of people have been displaced by historic flooding.

A half mile from me in three directions, homes are underwater.

An entire region was virtually landlocked overnight when the Arkansas Department of Transportation shut down all but one bridge across the Arkansas River. 

Thankfully, those bridges have been inspected and re-opened - at least for now.

The river is expected to crest in hours - not days. But we are expecting heavy rains and the potential for tornadoes in the area.

This morning, my friend Chris Benjamin - preacher at the West-Ark Church of Christ in Fort Smith - called to check on me. 

I hung up on him. 

Not because I was mad, but because I wanted ALL OF US to be able to hear the conversation. 

So I called him back and hit the record button.

It's a full hour and then some. We talked about:

• The preacher who walked into a local bar to offer his church's assistance in flood preparations
• The luxury of the assumption of safety
• Loving our neighbors
• Feelings versus facts
• Listening to the wisdom of our tribes
• The value of a HEART Check in trying times

Resources

Chris’ most recent sermon (Psalm 46)

How to conduct a HEART Check

Steven Lawson is creator of The Monk Manual, a guided journal designed to facilitate an intentional life of being and doing.

Steve says he's been obsessed with doing - almost robotically.

Today, his journaling practice is - not surprisingly - guided by The Monk Manual, and augmented by a time of daily reflection of what's inside - versus external events.

Journaling helps him be more fully present in all his relationships - especially with his wife and their three young children.

It's the Friday before Memorial Day Weekend 2019 in the United States.

We thought it would be fun to share what we hope will soon be a poorly kept secret in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

We talk a lot about working to navigate change, but change navigation requires rest, too.

The work is difficult.

Rest is part of the cycle.

The Wanderoo Lodge, owned by Tim Freeman is a place steeped in history - originating as the Joy Campground in 1929 and owned by Tim's great-great grandparents.

In this episode, Tim explains why he repurchased the property, where he got the idea to transform the brand into a place where adventurers of the Great Arkansas Outdoors can find respite after days filled with climbing, zip-lining, kayaking, hiking, or mountain biking.

The property is pet-friendly and even more human-friendly - with a bar stocked full of interesting microbrews, mouth-watering dishes, and live music.

Here's more information about the Wanderoo.

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Reboots Episode 46 features Staci Bartley, a relationship coach and divorce mediator who draws her expertise from personal experiences, professional training, lots and lots of reading about human behavior, and probably just as many conversations.

Staci’s relationship story is a bit like a fairy tale - except the pain of failed marriages has been very real.

When she met Tom Bartley, the two came up with a Lease Option on Love contract that helped Staci work through her commitment fears.

Read more at RebootsPodcast.com/Episode46.

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Greetings from Music City, USA!

In Franklin, Tennessee this week on business and stopped at a restaurant I hadn't stepped foot in since my senior trip in 1982. 

To me, the place looked EXACTLY as I remembered it.

When I told one of the employees I hadn't been here in more than three decades, he said, "It's changed a lot, hasn't it?"

I'm like...

Nope - and that's GOOD!

On the way home, I'll be stopping there for a meal.

Also, check out a quick "lessons learned" entry on life, business, and helping others.

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Read Sarah's work at BeautifulBetween.com.

See the show notes from this episode at RebootsPodcast.com/Sarah-Robinson-Journal.

ç who spent the early years of her life hiding from her school friends that she spent her summers with her family doing back-breaking labor in berry fields belonging to someone else.

And there was abuse and trauma that led to a victim mentality for awhile - until Ranbir had had enough of feeling sorry for herself, of hiding her pain behind a relentless drive to be the best at everything in life.

Ranbir has a passion for teaching adults to help children navigate trauma so that the impacts of trauma don’t carry forward into adulthood.

In this conversation, you’re going to hear Ranbir say stuff like:

• The cornerstone of relationships is communication.
• “We’re not raising children, we’re raising adults.”
• “Trauma is associated with unprocessed memories.”
• “If you don’t move when you’re stressed it’s like not putting on a bandaid when you’re bleeding.”

Read and learn more in the show notes at RebootsPodcast.com/Episode45.