Les Booth, Creative Collaboration Architect, and I continue discussing the explosive field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In part one, we discussed what AI was, and now we delve into how it can improve your writing and how it can be used to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ.     

AI has greatly changed how we do things and it's just beginning!

Twila Reynolds and I talk about the inevitable moment coming to all of us: the day of our death.  

Twila Reynold is retired.  She spent most of her professional years in the commercial insurance industry.  But, later, she changed fields and worked in the administrative medical field, which has always interested her. When she began working at the VA Medical Center, she started as an Invasive Procedure Coordinator in the CT area. She later moved to Human  Resources, where she handled all the worker compensation claims for that facility.  

Twila directed me to the book Being Mortal by Atul Gawande. A PBS documentary by the same name is available on YouTube at 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQhI3Jb7vMg

Atul Gawande is a surgeon who explores the inevitable process of aging and ultimately death, and takes a critical look at how the medical profession does not yet have a firm grip on how to handle these processes well. He explores the birth of nursing homes, independent and assisted living facilities, and the various roles modern hospice programs can play to support those nearing the end of their lives. Gawande shares several stories of those who were adeptly aided through the process of growing frail as well as those were not so lucky. Finally, Gawande shares what he has learned about how each of us should approach our mortality as well as that of those we love.

Gary Petty and our wives attended the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) Conference in Nashville, TN, on February 22, 2024.   We met a lot of passionate people with ministries ranging from anti-abortion to anti-pornography to preaching a strong warning and repentance messages to the American people. We met with Russian workers on the Gospel News Channel with a message to the Russian people in their language.  We viewed several live podcasts by Eric Metaxas as well as visited with Washington Times Religion and Family reporter Mark Kellner and much more.  

NRB is a nonpartisan, international association of Christian communicators whose member organizations represent millions of listeners, viewers, and readers. We work to protect the free speech rights of our members by advocating those rights in governmental, corporate, and media sectors, and works to foster excellence, integrity, and accountability in our membership by providing networking, educational, ministry, and relational opportunities.

NRB equips Christian communicators to share the television, and digital platforms. It advocates for issues that matter to Christian communicators, including freedom of speech, online censorship, and technology access. 

www.nrb.org

This will be our 13th Podcast together. Last time we started with a brand-new topic… effective communication. Since August of 2022,  we have been discussing an ongoing series of thought-provoking topics on the subjects of personal leadership development, and business leadership. Greg is a business consultant, author, keynote speaker, and a personal life-coach that I got to know very well over a decade ago.  As a reminder, you can learn more about Greg’s training skills on his YouTube site. Simply type in “leadership excellence channel” on the YouTube home page “search” bar, and you will find him.

In the past, we have spoken with Greg about a lot of interesting topics including Personal Leadership Development, Business Leadership, Servant-Leadership, How to Have a Fulfilling and Productive Day, and the common misconceptions about the Law of Attraction. 

https://leadershipexcellencenow.com

What did we learn from this rare interview that Tucker Carlson did with Vladimir Putin. Who benefited?  Do we have a greater understanding?   Victor Kubik comments 

Also, is a reading of my article in the BEYOND TODAY magazine about the kind of person Putin is. 

Photo credit: 

Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Andi Chapman and I discuss what life is like after ending our professional careers. We compare how we coped and what learned and what new vistas have been created.  

She is an R.N. CDP. CCADCT, Certified Dementia Specialist, Naturopath, FNIP (Food as Nutrition Informed Specialist) CWCN (Certified Wound Care Nurse), and as of 2021, she started her own presentation, consultation company, SelectMed Seminars and Counseling which allows her to write programs for the state of MI assisting in education in facility care staff. 
 
Currently she speaks for Wayne State University; Lansing College in MI;Web MD; Stellantis and Chrysler worldwide, among other groups

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Andi Chapman and I have done previous podcasts about death at 

https://www.ucg.org/inside-united-podcast/inside-united-podcast-113-andi-chapman-discussing-death-part-1

https://www.ucg.org/inside-united-podcast/inside-united-podcast-114-andi-chapman-discussing-death-part-2

Also a video resources about anxiety, depression and despair having consequences  

https://www.ucg.org/members/news/new-video-resource-recorded-with-andi-chapman-anxiety-depression-and-despair-have-consequences

Steve Buchanan discusses his observation of living in Tucson, Arizona, only 60 miles from the Mexican border.  Very timely, up-to-date discussion about what's going on with the worst border crisis in history, in which 302,000 illegal aliens entered the United States in December alone.  

Two excellent Twitter sources mentioned in the podcast 

Les Booth is a Creative Collaboration Architect specializing in many diverse fields ranging from AI to Fly-fishing.  I have known Les for almost 28 years, and he helped me in the infancy of developing my first websites.  Here, he gives a knowledgeable perspective about AI, which is hot news yet a concept known for many decades.  

Part 1 tells us what AI is, its capabilities, and its very quick development as quickly growing computer memory and speed have made miraculous things happen.  

Listen to learn more about the importance of communication skills that you can learn that are vital for a leader's effectiveness and connectivity with those he leads.

The heart and core of most global conflict is a lack of communication skills.  We are not born with them. They must be learned.  We will discuss with you some basics of human communication and how we can begin to develop more positive skills. 

I’d like to go back to an address I made to the General Conference of Elders of the United Church of God on May 2, 2020.  This was to be our biggest conference yet, celebrating 25 years of the United Church of God’s existence.  We planned for 80% of the ministry to come to Cincinnati, OH for the special event.  As it turned out, this date was in the midst of the darkest days of COVID-19 pandemic.  The in-person conference was canceled.  I did speak to our ministry, but it was in an empty room with everyone listening online wherever they were in the world.

Our theme for Conference was Conviction, Commitment and Courage. 

I chose to speak about Courage as it applied to our outlook on the world and how we need to face challenges in doing our Work, such as in the time of COVID which we were in and didn’t know how things would work out. 

I was inspired to post this as a podcast because of a person who wrote to me how they found this message online and how it helped her face a current life’s trial.

So, here it is...going back to May 2, 2020 in Cincinnati, Ohio.