Derate The Hate

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) The Dream Isn't That Far Away There are many among us, who for the pursuit of money, power or attention, ( and some out of pure hate), would have you believe that the institutional racism of the 1960s is still present in the United States today. Nothing could be further from the truth. Many of these people would hav...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) How do we get to the why? Far too often, people enter a conversation, or worse yet, enter an argument with someone that they disagree, and never ask the most important question. Understanding the other person's why will always make for a better conversation or more effective argument, whether you end up agreeing or...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) What Does Science Have To Do With Gratitude? " Some people are seek to perform, a few are called to lead, and most do the best they can on their own." When I saw this quote on the website of this week's guest, I knew I wanted to know more. When we started emailing and he talked about an attitude of gratitu...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Accountability is Key in the Journey to "Unstuck" I know it may sound simplistic, but it is something I talk about often, I believe it, and I strive to live it every day. Friends, much of what we seek in life, and much of what we can do to make the world a better place begins with accountability. Sometimes, per...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) What's "Turning Your Baggage into Luggage" mean? When I first saw the phrase, "turning your baggage into luggage", I knew I wanted to speak with this week's guest. We all know someone, or know plenty of them, who carry around everything that's ever happened to them. All their toxic bagg...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) What Makes Up Your Web of Beliefs? Those who have followed the DTH podcast for long know about my work with the organization Braver Angels . One vitally important part of that work is a project that I have been working on with Dr. Francis Collins . (Learn more about the "Truth & Trust Project" by  listening...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) What's Possible with the Power of Mind Control? Those who regularly listen to the DTH podcast know I love a good story of adversity to awesomeness. Many people experience trauma in their lives, and occasionally, those people triumph over trauma and use their experience to better the world. This week's guest, Da...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Level Up Your Life with Next Level Thinking Sometimes in life, once we attain a goal, we realize that goal is not quite the prize that we imagined it would be. This is not to say that goals are not important, because they very much are. This is to say, that often people put to much of their personal fulfillment and joy i...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Communicating Better by Following the Platinum Rule One of the largest problems we face in society today is the fact that we do not communicate well.  We spend so much time talking past each other instead of speaking to each other in a way to effectively be understood. Effective communication is a two way street that inv...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Do You Struggle with Self-Discipline? Many of us struggle with self-discipline. I know I often do. Sometimes it takes the right motivation, or maybe the right coach. This week's guest knows about self-discipline. In fact, he wrote a book about it, called "Climbing the Self-Discipline Tree" where he discuss...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) What Shape Are Your Emotions In? Did you know that emotions had a shape? I personally did not until I was approached recently by this week's guests. As someone who talks a lot on the podcast about emotions and how we need to understand and react well to our emotions, I was intrigued. It wasn't until I began to...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Do You See All the Possibilities? Sometimes the greatest challenge we face is not what we don't have or cannot do, but not seeing all the possibilities available to us. Wanting what we don't have, or not being able to do something we desire can be cause for great frustration, and in some cases, Hate. Sometimes...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Achieve Greatness Through Mental Fitness  Not a single human being has ever died from a snake bite.  In reality, what kills is not the bite, but actually the venom.  Venom kills and when you hold on to hate and negative emotions, you are allowing the venom of hate kill your positive mental fitness.  Think about the last...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) How do you escape the FOG of a toxic relationship? If your past is anything like mine, you may have been in a toxic relationship, or several. So many of us find ourselves in relationships with the wrong person for the wrong reason. Some of those relationships are toxic. Maybe it's because of a toxic person. Maybe yo...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Getting along isn't possible if we aren't having the conversation. I bring this up because we are just weeks away from yet another contentious election. Accusations are flying, hyperbole is everywhere. Hate for the opposition is thick in the air and little of what is said about those on the opposing side is pro...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Do you approach all of your personal interactions with Grace, Gratitude, Respect and Integrity? What do the words grace, gratitude, respect and integrity mean to you? I make the statement every week on the DTH podcast that we cannot control everything that happens to us in life, but we can control how we react to it. Thi...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) What is the Theory of Racelessness? Have you ever heard of the theory of racelessness? What if there were no such thing as race, if race as a "thing" did not exist? Would we then be able to conquer racism? It's not a hard theory to grab a hold of if you try. This week's guest has developed the Theory...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Is our country at  odds with its own identity? What is our country's true identity? My guest this week, James E. Palombo, makes the claim that there is not enough dialogue about the character and culture of our great nation. Who is James E. Palombo? Jim Palombo was a self-described drug dealer and wise-guy who while...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Nothing good comes of Hate I’ve made the statement so many times on this podcast, but I’m reminded daily that nothing good comes of hate. There is no greater reminder in my mind than the speech given this past week, and other things said recently by the current President of the United States . For clarification, THE DTH...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) The importance of family and family time cannot be overstated. I spoke last week about taking a little time for myself and the family. We enjoyed our little weekend camping trip, and so grateful for the memories. As I was thinking about the importance of family and family time, I began thinking about an early DTH convers...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Friends, what is Freedom if you don't take the time to enjoy it? In the past week it became very apparent to me that I've been neglecting one of the greatest gifts that I have been blessed to receive. That is freedom. As we, my wife and I, were preparing for an upcoming camping trip, I realized how little we do...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Sometimes the prize is the experience itself. In this quick episode, I take on the defeatist attitude that unless you're going to win, why bother trying. That may be an exaggeration of the way it was said, but this comes as a result of something someone said to my wife recently regarding my participation in a BBQ co...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) What role does fear and trust play in the gun safety debate? I recently sat down for a follow up conversation on the topic of gun safety with 2 friends of mine from Braver Angels . In December of 2021, I conducted a round table event with some friends on the same topic. A lot of things were left unsaid and unresolved in...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply)  Do you trust that our public health officials are telling you the truth? This question, for me, lead to the Truth and Trust Project. I for one find myself very skeptical these days. As many who’ve listened to the DTH podcast for long know, I’ve been highly critical of the government’s response to the pandemic from the v...

Send Wilk a text with your feedback! (incoming msgs only - I can't reply) Did you hear about the Nazis at the Turning Point USA event? If those in the media, and more specifically, the gals on The View trying to perpetuate the Hate, you probably wouldn't have. I thought it was another staged bit of nonsense. This is why I called up my friend Jeff Schoep. We live in an age when certain peo...