The Abscondo Podcast

This week, Mark and Sofia take a call from a listener with a deeply personal question.

The vast majority of advice is only a self-justification people use to explain away the things that they regret about their own lives. Just to take one example: not everything changes when you have a baby.

On this week's podcast, I share three of the book interviews conducted over the past week. Find out more about the book at www.markmanney.com.

This week, rather than the usual podcast format, we're sharing a segment from a recent interview to support my upcoming book, Love It or Leave It: The End of Government as the Problem.

Sometimes even if we get everything we want in life, we find out that it isn't what we want. Only when we begin to pay attention to that internal voice, we allow change to happen. This week we talk with Journalist Patti McCracken.

Some truths are so fundamental that they affect our lives whether we accept it or not. Money and debt are topics that cannot be avoided. David Weliver (www.moneyunder30.com) tells us about how he unburied himself from $80,000 of debt in 3 years.

What is that basic human trait that makes us want to change the world? We all want to do something to give our lives meaning in our own unique ways. Today we talk to Julia Bailey, a PhD. and UCLA Professor who changes lives each day.

On this final podcast of the 2010 season, we discuss the value of tradition in our lives. What role does tradition have in the life of a free-thinking, open-minded person? Is tradition a part of an authentic life?

This week we introduce the idea behind my upcoming book. Inspired by the recent Republican victories in Congress, I am unveiling the idea that ends government as the problem. This podcast is for you only if you care about American politics. Comment on this show or download Abscondo's music: www.abscondo.com.

Sofia and I discuss the place music has in our modern lives. What makes us love a certain kind of music? How do we listen to it and when? How do we discover it and share it?