Work Life Play with Aaron McHugh

Would it be OK with you if I start this blog post with a vulnerable admission? I’m pretending to myself that each of you just graciously said, “Of course, Aaron.” I’m nervous to write to […]

Quick Podcast Highlights from Miles:

• Understand the necessity of developing your EQ (emotional intelligence) to live, love, parent, and lead well.
• Hear how the doorway of pain has become one of Miles's biggest gifts in life.
• How to develop harmony in the narrative of Who You Are and What You Do For a Living.
• Why creating new healing experiences can counteract life's negative experiences.
• How the work of Donald Miller and Brene' Brown will give you insights into how Onsite can help you live out the best version of your story.
• Why a subtle two-degree shift in our actions and beliefs can improve the trajectory of our life.
• What if we lead from the places that we formerly hid our shortcomings and flaws?

In this podcast, you will hear a series of NPR like recordings captured while chasing adventure sea kayaking with my brother near Oban, Scotland. Listen to the story that gave us the original inspiration Paddle For Whiskey […]

• Understand how adventure gives us greater confidence to tackle life's challenges

• Learn why special, difficult-to-reach places in wilderness help us gain perspective on our life back at home

• Appreciate how adventure helps us lose control and "be out on a limb"

• Accept that adventure is a choice and is available outside our front door everyday

• Receive practical ideas on how to take your kids on your own adventures

Carl Richards is a certified financial planner and a New York Times Columnist best known as The Sketch Guy. Carl writes financial books, speaks all across the globe and is widely known for his sketches. Carl’s differentiator […]

Podcast Highlights:

• Carl's very personal story of loosing his home and facing financial ruin
• Learn how small financial misalignments with couples can become roots for divorce later
• Hear how Carl and I met over a financial transaction on the border of Colorado and Utah
• Learn how Carl started taking complex money ideas and translating those concepts using a sharpie marker on a napkin
• Carl tells the story about how the New York Times called him out of the blue to write his column
• Carl and I share stories about being raised by single-mothers and how that shaped our financial beliefs

I first came across comedian and director Tripp Crosby’s work from his YouTube sketch titled A Conference Call in Real Life. Conference calls are a very relatable topic for most working professionals. Have you ever read those statistics about […]

Podcast Highlights:

• Hear how Tripp juggles his roles as a Director, Writer, Actor and On Stage Host
• The backstory on how Tripp and Tyler came up with the idea for their YouTube sketch
• Where Tripp and Tyler met and how they decided to start working together
• Working to find the right sponsorship partners is a key to Tripp's YouTube success
• Risk taking is part of Tripp's DNA
• Tripp offers advice on partnerships and navigating them well
• His story about boldly borrowing money from friends and family in college
• Find out why the Lines Between Play and Work are very blurry for Tripp
• Hear about his mantra "If I haven't failed at enough risks, but if I am not succeeding"

In the spirit of being brief, these are the cliff notes to the 30 Minute podcast. Americans do not take two-week vacations. We have a long list of reasons why we only take one-week breaks […]

Podcast Highlights: The Business Case For Why We Need a Two-Week Vacation

American's do not take two-week vacations. Organizational culture, the volume of work and email compound by our addiction to busyness keeps us tied to one week vacations. In this podcast, I make the case for why we need to take two week vacations and the restorative benefits for our relationships, our work and ultimately ourselves.

I include tips and suggestions on how to get approval at work, gain the support of your peers and unplug while you are away.