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  • 133. Adam Clement: A Therapist Discusses Addiction. Part I: The Problems

    Part 1 of 2 on Addiction. This week: the problems. Next week: the solutions. 

    Adam Clement is a Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist (LCMFT).  He  has had experience and training working with couples, families, and individuals with a wide range of presenting problems including trauma, addiction, anxiety, depression, personality disorders, marital conflict, divorce, and adjustment disorders. 

    In this episode, we discuss addiction, and the damage it wreaks on individuals, families, and communities. Next week, we discuss Adam's three-part solution to the life-wrecking problems of alcohol, drugs, and behavioral addictions. 

    (This episode was recorded on March 13, 2023.)




    1 hr 3 min
  • 130. Adam Clement, Marriage Therapist, on Leadership (Part 2)

    Part two of a discussion with therapist Adam Clement on the topic of leadership. Adam makes the conversation extremely helpful by focusing on leadership in a person's own life: at work, with family, with kids--basically, in our most important relationships. In this episode, we also touch on business leadership and how to get along with that disagreeable person who sees politics in the opposite way from you.

    From Adam's website:

    Adam Clement is a Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist (LCMFT). He received a B.S. in Personal Financial Planning at Kansas State University and a M.S. in Marriage and Family Therapy at Abilene Christian University.  He has been practicing in Kansas City since 2014.

    Adam has had experience and training working with couples, families, and individuals with a wide range of presenting problems including trauma, addiction, anxiety, depression, personality disorders, marital conflict, divorce, and adjustment disorders. Adam has had additional training in Emotionally Focused Couples’ Therapy (EFT), Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), Gottman Method Couples’ Therapy, and is Prepare/Enrich certified. 

    Adam's website is https://www.doorsofhopekc.com/

    (This episode was recorded on Feb. 18, 2023.)

    1 hr 19 min
  • 129. Adam Clement, Marriage Therapist, on Leadership (Part 1)

    Part one of two of a discussion with therapist Adam Clement on the topic of leadership. Adam makes the conversation extremely helpful by focusing on leadership in a person's own life: at work, with family, with kids--basically, in our most important relationships. 

    From Adam's website:

    Adam Clement is a Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist (LCMFT). He received a B.S. in Personal Financial Planning at Kansas State University and a M.S. in Marriage and Family Therapy at Abilene Christian University.  He has been practicing in Kansas City since 2014.

    Adam has had experience and training working with couples, families, and individuals with a wide range of presenting problems including trauma, addiction, anxiety, depression, personality disorders, marital conflict, divorce, and adjustment disorders. Adam has had additional training in Emotionally Focused Couples’ Therapy (EFT), Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), Gottman Method Couples’ Therapy, and is Prepare/Enrich certified. 

    Adam's website is https://www.doorsofhopekc.com/

    (This episode was recorded on Feb. 18, 2023.)

    1 hr 4 min
  • 128. Sam Arth on St. Paul's Outreach, and Exodus 90

    Sam Arth did Exodus 90, a Lent-style program where you give up sugar, alcohol, tobacco, videos, watching sports, and much more for ninety days so that you can toughen up and focus on prayer and fraternity.  We discuss Sam's experience with Exodus 90, and his love of St. Paul's Outreach, an evangelical organization.

    (This episode was recorded February 15, 2023.)

    1 hr 10 min
  • 127. Sam Arth (Part 1)

    Sam Arth is a 2019 graduate of St. James Academy in Lenexa, KS, where he had an awesome career in theatre and music. Since graduating, he has joined St. Paul's Outreach. In this episode, he discusses an incredible witness story that he is writing, and we reflect on the need for community. 

    (This episode was recorded on February 15, 2023.)

    1 hr 26 min
  • 126. Sahaj Sharda Discusses His Book, "The College Cartel"

    As the grandson of a poor Indian farmer who worked his way to a PhD spending many a night studying by the shallow light of a kerosene lamp, Sahaj Sharda has seen firsthand how education has the remarkable power to uplift lives and create opportunity. But in recent decades, Sahaj now wonders what happened to the original core mission of schools like Harvard and Yale. In this episode, we discuss Sahaj’s book, “The College Cartel: How.” His opinions are controversial, intriguing, and well-researched. Enjoy!

    (This episode was recorded Jan. 21, 2023.)

    1 hr 14 min
  • 125. Multi-talented Andres Paradis is a Relationship Coach

    Multi-talented Andres Paradis is a Relationship Coach, NLP Coach, Educator of Effective Communication Strategies, Workshop Leader, Public Speaker. two times Amazon #1 Best Selling Author, and an Ordained Minister. Today, we discuss masculinity, femininity, and relationships, including: 

    • How to build a healthy, fulfilling, long-term love relationship?
    • The dance of Masculine
    • Feminine energies that flow in nature
    • How our cultural beliefs make love relationships harder than ever
    • Why masculinity is not the problem
    • Why equality kills intimacy
    • What makes a man commit to his one and only
    • What women do to keep men from caring, protecting, providing
    • How does early sex kill the building of a healthy, long term love relationships
    • Why men go their own way

    Here are Andre's links:

    My story
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33PM5ehssWM
    Website:
    www.projectequinox.net
    FB Page:
    Project Equinox with Andre Paradis   
    https://www.facebook.com/Project-Equinox-272490668761/
    FB Private Group for Ladies - Free
    https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=dating%20and%20relationship%20insights
    YouTube:
    Project Equinox with Andre Paradis
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc-n26dzlCN0dcAXgubSjGQ
    Instagram:
    @projectequinox

    1 hr 36 min

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On the surface, the guests of this podcast are seemingly ordinary. And yet, they have great stories and ideas, and they've done great things. New episodes every Tuesday.