Spirit-Led Life Podcast

We have a bad habit of playing the blame game in America. We want to blame everyone but ourselves. Everyone but the person who committed the crime (or the mass shooting). We don’t have the luxury of playing that game in our free nation – a constitutional republic. Here’s why and what we should be doing about it.

Normally conservatives go to sleep when a Republican is in the oval office. But they're not going to sleep now because of the polarizing reactions to President Trump. Let's use this unique window to teach the American people (those sleeping giants) the principles of freedom. Maybe... just maybe we can turn the tide and save our country.

Why is the U.S. National Debt so high and what can be done about it? This episode of Front Porch Sense explains why our national debt is out of control and what needs to happen to stop the runaway train.

Many are upset about corporate greed and corruption. Whether it's Big Pharma or corporate bailouts of entire industries, something smells fishy in Washington. Corporations and government corruption go hand-in-hand. Why is it so easy for corporations to get away with things and run smaller businesses out of the market? Why is Washington DC swarming with lobbyists? Find out in this episode of Front Porch Sense.

If you have a cause that is important to you, don't wait around for somebody else to fix it, roll up your sleeves and do it yourself! Just like these folks! They didn't wait around for the government to fix problems they see in the world, they started cleaning up the environment, helping children with special needs and building a border wall themselves.

If we are ever to have a civil discourse in our country, we need to cut through all the emotion and finger-pointing and look at the root issues … the core values. Where are they the same and where they are different between the right and the left? If you’ve ever wanted to understand your friends and family on the left or wished you could cut through all the drama to discuss what really matters, this episode of Front Porch Sense is for you.

Political candidates and parties that rally people around what they stand FOR are more likely to succeed in getting elected than those whose primary focus is defeating another candidate. In this episode I go out on a limb and make my prediction for the 2020 Presidential Election and explain why hate is not sufficiently galvanizing to win elections.

In our families, parenting, spousal relationships, and as a society at large, we are allowing other people to manipulate us. It’s time we stop walking on egg shells and own our own personal responsibility in how we respond to people who make excuses, demand free stuff, or violate the rule of law to get their way.

This episode explores what it looks like when someone’s manipulating you and how to pull yourself out of the dynamic. It’s time we take responsibility for our part in these codependent relations and take responsibility for our own responses.

Are we responsible for the sins of our fathers? How far do you go back and make reparations? How do people prove that they are due reparations? What about people who have ancestors who were on both sides of situations that modern America deems offensive? Should our own individual contributions be nullified because of the sins of our fathers? In this episode, Marnie shares a little of her own family tree to illustrate how convoluted and impractical the reparations and accountability arguments really are.

What is common sense for some makes no sense to others. Each person comes to conclusions based on their core beliefs. We may think others are irrational but their views are quite rational when you root back to the fact that they have different fundamental beliefs than we do.

This episode of Front Porch Sense deals with the root cause of rifts happening between those with varying viewpoints. How can we ever have a civil discourse on sensitive topics? Is it even possible? And why bother?