What is a difficult conversation? How do you recognize them? Are difficult conversations always in a negative setting or can they be in positive settings too?

Dennis and Shane go into scenarios of where these conversations are had in relationships, work, and within themselves. By first highlighting where they come up next allows us to plan to face them.

Difficult conversations and choices essentially make up our reality. If we want to be someone or live up to our values, we must have the ability to have these conversations to steer our ship of life.

What is a rivalry? How do you define it? Imagine having an adversary that pushes you to be your best often times in ways that feel patronizing or down right agonizing. 

How can we recognize and respect those that are trying to directly compete with us as individuals, teams and companies?

Competition, and more specifically rivalries at their best reveal our strengths our weaknesses and our character. Listen in today and think about the people around you that make you become your best.

In today’s show Shane and Dennis explore gratefulness, their environment, and self love as antidotes in dealing with external validation.

If we are always trying to live like we are “supposed to” we’re never going to truly live the way we are meant to. 

Whether we are unsatisfied, or stressed out, life constantly pushes and pulls us in different uncomfortable ways. Today we discuss the ways to find fulfillment in the supposed.

By looking at examples Shane & Dennis both have seen & experienced, they question areas for growth and stagnation.

Staying close to the sun is crucial to take a pulse on your surroundings and support yourself on the journey of life.

To care is to believe in something so passionately that you will find a way in whatever capacity. Although what happens when you care about something that conflicts with others ‘why’?

Caring can be an incredible strength, but also a big deterrence on teams and relationships. One if it limits you from listening and being open to others ideas can limit you in your team's path toward growth.

By listening today we hope that the ideas shared can help you make sense of relationships, teams, and various situations that you face to help you grow in vulnerability and life.

Authenticity is the acceptance of the individual on its own unique path. 

By owning the narrative of one’s own life we are able to become comfortable with accepting ourselves fully. 

By living an authentic life that is to say you are living a free life, thus allowing yourself to be the best you can be.  

Join us today to understand what authenticity is, how to express it, and why it is so crucial to share your own unique experience.

By taking ownership of the happenings in our own lives we are able to gain more control of the outcomes both good and bad. 

The tricky part is being vulnerable and admitting when those results are bad, and the hand that you played in them. 

Vulnerability leads to ownership, and extreme ownership comes from including everyone in on the plan wherever you are in that plan.

The “path” less traveled is a concept of how we should navigate life through highs and lows and everything in between.

In today's show Shane and Dennis discuss what is the path less traveled and how do we find it? Is there really a path for you or is your outlook on life?

After listening today we hope you have a few tools to reflect on your “path” and use these tools of failure, fear, gratitude, and many more ideas discussed to help you take the path less traveled.

The present is the only thing that truly exists, however so many of us are constantly wrapped up in plans for the week or month as well as highs or lows of our past. 

By being present in both the highs and the lows of our own lives we as humans are able to accept and process emotions as they happen as opposed to letting past events control us for years to come. 

In this episode learn how to logically be more present in your own life. It will allow for the possibilities of your future to become much much more clear.

All the time things happen in our life that are simply out of our control. Whether they are good or bad the only thing we can do is react. 

Our reaction and mindset in life, on the other hand is controllable. Changing one’s mindset to recognize the opportunities that lie in every interaction, not just the good ones. 

In today’s episode, think about your approach to life, and how far you have come already. You wouldn’t be the person you are today without the good and the bad of your past. Once you can accept that you begin to take control.