The Inspire Wire

Rachel Clasby (Northbridge, MA) currently resides in Washington D.C. and is pursuing a career in nursing. In this episode of the podcast, Rachel and I discuss various life experiences, how to deal with sudden and unexpected changes that occur throughout life such as relationships, travel, careers, and just life in general. Enjoy!

Featuring "Dirt Road Anthem" by Jason Aldean

Coach Ken Lachapelle is the current Head Football Coach for the Northbridge High School Rams. He is the winningest head coach in Massachusetts and has been coaching at Northbridge for 48 years.

Topics Discussed:

-How Coach Lach became a football coach

-Passion For Sports

-Culture of Winning at Northbridge High

-Relationhships, Family, in relation to Coaching

-Finding Your strength, and the strengths in others

- Hobbies, Interests aside from Football

Sheldon Solomon is an experimental social psychologist and professor of psychology at Skidmore College. He has conducted extensive research with regard to terror management theory, which was developed based on the ideas of Ernest Becker that attribute much of human behavior to the mitigation of terror induced via human consciousness and awareness of mortality. His book in collaboration with his collaborators Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski is called "The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life"

Topics Discussed:

-Dealing with Death - Cultural Wortdview + Self Esteem

-Development- Safety, Object Transference, Parents

-Transferring Self Esteem/Sense of Safety from parents to other sources

-Awareness helps to make better decisions

- Well Rounded- Diversify your self esteem portfolio

-Relationship with yourself

-Advice for others

Daiton Lachapelle is from Northbridge MA. Daiton has many interests including olympic lifting, all kinds of sports, and a variety of academic interests including science, technology, and history.

Topics Discussed

Exploring Human Consciousness

Freedom

Psychedelics

Natural remedies

Alternative Medicine

Florida Shooting

Gun Violence

Common Sense

Societal issues

Mental Health Epidemic

Issues with Problem Solving

Masking the problem instead of solving the problem.

Pharmaceutical Industry

Taxation

Pros and Cons

Economics of War

Capitalism vs Socialism

Federal Reserve

BONUS TRACK : "The Way it Is" - Bruce Hornsby

Daiton Lachapelle is from Northbridge MA. Daiton has many interests including olympic lifting, all kinds of sports, and a variety of academic interests including science, technology, history, consciousness, meditation, anthropology, space, and more.

Topics Discussed:

-Temptation

-Wisdom (Ideal)

- Figures (Oracle, Monk, Wizard, Jedi)

-Suffering/Hardship - Is it necessary for mental growth and evolution?

-Time - Relativity, Is it artificial, Time as a cycle and a loop

-True Detective

-Mind vs. Body - Struggle against mortality

-Denial of Death - Ernest Becker

-Questioning things - Be Skeptical

- Carl Jung's Shadow: Strong men are powerful but make good decisions

- Jordan Peterson

Daiton Lachapelle is from Northbridge MA. Daiton has many interests including olympic lifting, all kinds of sports, and a variety of academic interests including science, technology, and history.

Topics Discussed:

-Books, Research, Personal Interest

- Meditation, Chakras, Consciousness,

-Human Capabilities

-Cultural Values

-Truth Seeking

-Questioning things

-Social Relationships

-Being Different

Morgan Mackintosh (Malden, MA) is an interior designer and photo stylist from Northbridge, MA who is currently the co-founder and co-owner at Beige and Bleu Design Studio.

Topics Discussed:

- Business update

- Planning

- Future goals

- Arguments in Relationships

- Design and Travel

- Advice

Bonus: "Into the Mystic" - Van Morrison

Tom Coyle (Northbridge/Boston, MA) joins the podcast to talk about of bunch of mutual interests and topics.

Topics Discussed Include:

-Cryptocurrencies: What are they, why invest in them?

-TV Shows

- Black Mirror - Dark Side of technology

- Reality TV

- Eastbound and Down

- HBO shows

-Travel

- WWOOFing

- Spain Stories

-What would you do if you had 100 million dollars

-Random Stories mixed in

Bonus Track: "Sexual Healing" - Marvin Gaye

Intro Track: "Going Down" - Freddie King

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Chris Debowski is from Fountain Valley, California and has been travelling the world for the past eight years. He has played american football in Germany and Spain for most of those years and has recently been acting manager of Siargao Boat Rentals (Lupita Adventures) on the island of Siargao, Philippines.

Conversation Topics Include:

-Siargao Boat Rentals (Lupita Adventures) in Siargao, Phillippines

-Details, Inspiration, Activities, Future Plans

-Travel lifestyle, inspiration, advice

-Stories behind Valencia, Spain and the Firebats

-Spanish Culture

-Advice for Travel and Lifestyle Change

Bonus Track: "Beyond the Sea" -Bobby Darin

SIargao Boat Rentals - Lupita Adventures: https://www.lupitasiargao.com/

Kirby Neuner and Dylan Griswold join the podcast to discuss some really interesting topics that lead to a very thought provoking conversation! Both are Class of 2015 Williams grads and former baseball teammates. Kirby is currently living in Washington D.C. and attending Georgetown for graduate school while Dylan is currently attending Stanford Medical School.

Topics Discussed:

- Is everything we do based on Self Interest?

- Communication in the Modern Age (Macro and Micro Level)

- Relationships and Reciprocity

- Honesty - "Radical Transparency"

- Boys Recap and Catching up

Bonus track: "Keep'n It Real" by Shaggy