The Small Moves Podcast

In today’s solo episode, I chat about some of the crazy, unexpected things that have come up in the house we have moved out of and in the RV that we moved in to this week. This process has made my head spin, but reinforced the need to be prepared for the unexpected expenses that come up at home… whatever home looks like for you!

“The longer you live, the sooner you’re going to die. It only gets scarier the longer you wait to discuss it.”

In this emotional episode, I chat with Jen Hardy, author of the book, The Sick Mom’s Guide to Having Fun Again. Jen is chronically ill and is a self-described “collector of eclectic diseases and mystifier of physicians.”  She’s a mother of 7 children ranging in age from 6-28, and the wife of a retired Army soldier. Jen has had a meandering trip through the American healthcare industry that will boggle the mind and show the systemic problem that this system has inherent in its bias towards fixing problems rather than maintaining health and promoting well-being for patients.

This episode was dark at times, and a very rewarding conversation.  I hope you enjoy it, and do please give Jen’s blog, The Chronically Positive Mom, a read as well. I appreciate you for listening.  Thank you!

Jason

“Isn’t it ironic that we are totally overwhelmed by the options for meditating today?”

In today’s show, I talk about the benefits I’ve seen to meditating regularly, and a few of the available options for doing so that I (and my toddler!) have tried.  Good, bad, none really ugly.  Thanks for listening!

For me, and fellow A.D.D. scatterbrains: Headspace

For normal people, not debilitatingly distracted by nature sounds: Calm

For tiny humans: New Horizon

“I see people needing to remember who they are and how to access their inner truth.”

– Jacqui Letran

Today’s guest is Jacqui Letran, ​a Mindset Mentor specializing in helping teens and young adults take control of their lives by taking control of their minds. She is the author of three books that you can find on Amazon:

–5 Simple Questions to Reclaim Your Happiness

–I Would, But My Damn Mind Won’t Let Me

–Unleash Your Inner Super Power

Jacqui had her  son when she was 16, had a tragically bad encounter with the healthcare system throughout her pregnancy, and came out of the process knowing what trauma really is and an unquenchable desire to show compassion and provide help to young people going through trauma. This conversation got deed! Please enjoy, and thanks for listening!

“Read what you’ll read, not what you should read.”

In this episode of the show, I talk about a few quick ways to start developing a reading habit. The act of reading has tremendous benefits for brain development (young people) and brain health (old people), not to mention the behavior pattern of simply being curious and learning about things by seeking information through reading.

Thanks for listening to the show! I appreciate you!

In this episode of the show, Jason chats with a good friend, Jon Kirsch. Jon is a librarian in South Carolina with both strong and reasoned political leanings; two traits sadly rarely found in combination in modern times on the political landscape. Jason met Jon about seven years ago as a friend of a friend of his new girlfriend (now wife, Carrie) at a New Years Eve party which manifested in a political discussion that spanned nearly six hours in the middle of a party (those party animals!)

Jon recently moved from the public library system to a private college library system, exposing him to an inside perspective of the recent political activist climate in our universities today. Jon and Jason discuss several of the cultural movements happening today, and some of the hypocrisy associated with them… So, you know, no controversy in this one at all!

As a side note for those of you that have listened to the show for a while, Jon is the person that connecting with with both Gail McAbee and Nate Butkus, former guests of the show on episodes 23 and 30, respectively. Check out those shows as well! Gail is hilarious, and Nate is annoyingly impressive for a 7 YEAR OLD!

Thanks for listening!

$100 Question: MoviePass

In this short solo show, Jason talks about death. Specifically TALKING about death with the people in your life. Both them and you.  Hate to break it to you, but you’re going to die. Statistically, maybe this afternoon. Are you squared away?  Mentally, financially, logistically… What would happen to your spouse, your parents, your kids, and most importantly YOU STUFF (see sarcasm on page 31) when you die?

We hate talking about it, but we need to! Today is just a bit of a wake up call on this, as well and some strategies I’ve used to break the ice and talk about this in a way that’s not terrifying or daunting in any way… within reason.

Thanks for listening! I appreciate you.

In today’s show, Jason chats with Lisa Carpenter, a health and wellness coach with a focus on her clients’ behavior patterns and how to interrupt the patterns that are causing the problems they are having, and helping them make peace with food in their bodies. She’s also the author of Let’s E.A.T!: Break the Addictive Cycle of Dieting, Lose Weight and Make Peace with Food and Your Body…For Life.

Lisa is a certified personal trainer that’s transformed from a dorito chip eating, cigarette smoking woman to having the body of her dreams and now works with others to achieve the same goal of a massive change in body composition.

This was a fun conversation! Lisa is hilarious and a master at blunt-force-trauma conversations, a favorite style of the humble host of this show!

You can find Lisa on her website, and also in her Facebook page.

 

 

 

In this episode of the show, I talk about the experiences that I’ve had investing in real estate, all the benefits I’ve realized from it, and why I really want to never do it again for the rest of my life!  Great for some… just not me. I also talk about a few ways that you can get into it if you want, one way with little to no cash outlay.

“The whole idea of the book is to learn how to go from nothing to something and then have the tool kit and skills they need to scale it up.”

-Seth Hanes

Before I get into the notes for today’s show, this is episode 50 of the show. THANK YOU SO MUCH for listening to the show so far!  It means the world to me that you are listening! I’m looking forward to future of this show and all the awesome people I will meet because of it, both the guests and you, the listeners! Here’s to the future!

Now, back to business!

Today’s guest is Seth Hanes, professional web marketing consultant and professionally trained musician.  He works at Seer Interactive and author of the book, Break into the Scene, a book focused on helping musicians land more paying jobs. Seth and Jason met through a mutual friend, Azul Terronez, the guest on Episode 10 of the show.

Seth has an awesome story of how he used Strikingly.com to create a website as a pitch to get a job at Seer. He also talks about his blog, The Musicians Guide to Hustling, where he has readers all over the world using its info to get paid more or even for the first time to landing paid work as professional musicians.

Enjoy, all!  I really appreciate you listening!