It's the Journey

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people wit...

“I believe a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our engendering a lifestyle which will enable us to be spontaneous, independent, yet related to each other, rather than maintaining a lifestyle which only allows us to produce and consume.” Ivan Illich The lessons I learned in AfterLIFE weren’t intentionally meant to be about minimali...

Last year when I announced that I was exiting my career as a financial planner people were curious about two big things: 1) What was I going to do? 2) How did I know I could do it? The first on I tried to answer through my book (AfterLIFE, Waking up From My American Dream) and podcast (It’s the Journey) , and that is I’m going to live a life of growth and purpose through the pursuit of my passions...

Welcome to episode 56! In the episode I took time some to expand on concepts I wrote about in AfterLIFE about pursing the life we want.  I’ve combined the podcast with a full blog post I wrote below. Enjoy and feel free to comment or share. Thank you, Carlo “Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.” ― Ivan Illich Dream schools, dream cars, dream houses, dream wed...

It's been a minute, because according to my calendar it's nearly June! As life swings back to a more normal pace, or whatever this new normal is shaking out to be, I've taken some time to settle into the changes my life has been going though. In this episode, I took time time to catch you up on things and reflect on an expansion of the concept I talked about in Chapter 1 of AfterLIFE . In that cha...

The craziness of the pandemic and all the other things going on in the world threw me off my game from an exercise standpoint.  Last fall as I was thinking about this year, I set some goals and made my personal health a priority.  These past couple months as I've been changing and restricting what I eat and increasing my exercise with strength training and yoga, I've been feeling better...

This is officially my first episode of season two of It’s the Journey and for 2022! I’ve been quiet lately.  I do that as I’m preparing for big projects or going through change.  I introvert. I’m not ready to start making episodes regularly, I just wanted to give an update on some things and share some clarity I have discovered. 7-27-9 Ultimately what I was looking for was freedom. I saw...

“We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.” ― Thomas Merton I’ve tried to...

Welcome back to It’s the Journey for part of my interview with author, Amanda Oliver! Below are the show notes from Episode 50  If you haven’t listened to that I’d recommend checking it out first! Did you know your destiny when you were a child? I always admired kids who did, and my next guest is one of those people who knew what she wanted and has been on a path towards her dream nearly all...

Did you know your destiny when you were a child? I always admired kids who did, and my next guest is one of those people who knew what she wanted and has been on a path towards her dream nearly all her life! Amanda Oliver knew at the age of 4 that she wanted to be a writer.  In this first episode of two amazing episodes, she shares her journey that began with a 4 year old creating her own wri...

“When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home.” Rumi I want to dive deeper into something I’ve touched on in more than one episode, and that is how friends, family, and others can poison our dreams if we let them. But not to be mean. They do it out of a fear and lack of self belief that is inside them and they are just trying to protect us, but that doesn’t mak...

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Over and over again, my guests give examples of people tapping into what is within them and share how it has made their lives more meaningful.  My next guest, Sandra Vibe is yet another beautiful example of this! Sandra joined me from her lovely studio in Lithuania to share he...

Every year for as long as I can remember, I have begun looking at the results of my current year in the 4th quarter to begin assessing my progress and planning the next year.  We have 2 months left to accomplish whatever we are going to this year, and to set some goals for the next.   As I began this ritual for myself this year, I thought I'd share some things that have been helpful for...

This is part 2 of my conversation with Mollie! Notes From Part 1 My next guest focusses on the funny and casual side of life, but don't let those adjectives fool you! Mollie Amburgey is a rock star, and is killing it! After studying Theater and Journalism at SLU she graduated in 2013. She went on to produce plays in St. Louis , Cincinnati (OH), Covington (KY), Chicago (IL)! Mollie has been perform...

My next guest focusses on the funny and casual side of life, but don't let those adjectives fool you! Mollie Amburgey is a rock star, and is killing it! After studying Theater and Journalism at SLU she graduated in 2013. She went on to produce plays in St. Louis , Cincinnati (OH), Covington (KY), Chicago (IL)! Mollie has been performing stand up for 5 years now, and in the 6th season of her own po...

I'm so excited to share this fun conversation I had with world traveler and journalist, Kathleen Evans! I am so grateful she joined me on It's the Journey. In our time together Kathleen shared her journey and the wisdom she has gathered through her life lessons.  These lesson lead her to leave the corporate grind, so she could live the Pura Vida in Costa Rica! She traded the treadmill of corp...

Morgan Noll is embodies the messages I keep talking about around saying yes to what’s pulling you, and being the change.  During the pandemic, Morgan reflected on her values and how to better apply them to her life.  The result of that was her decision to open a business grounded in the the values of sustainability, social justice, and self-care! The Social Goods Marketplace was the resu...

Welcome Back to It's the Journey! The next 2 episodes feature Stephen Finlay Archer! When we are kids we often have many things we love to do just for the sheer joy in the activity.  When we grow up, we often set aside those things as we take on "adult" things.  Our many roles and responsibilities often take all our time and energy.  In AfterLIFE I told my story of how I rediscovere...

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” ― Henry Ford Welcome Back to It's the Journey! Children usually have many things they love to do, just for fun. Playing, in other words. When we grow up we sometimes forget that. Often, we set aside those joys as we take on "adult" activities. Our many roles and responsibilities often take all o...

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi In the last episode you got a sneak peak of my guest Marina Krivonossova, and on this one you get to learn about her journey! In the show notes of episode 39, I mentioned that Marina's life has already been a literal journey that has taken her many places. She was born in Russia, grew up in California, and now lives with her husband in t...

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.” Mark Twain Welcome back to It's the Journey and to my first episodes with a guest since I left for Dublin!  I'm back now and had a chance to do a two part episode with an incredible human being named Marina Krivonossova! Marina took time out of her day in the Netherlands to share bit and pieces of her story that began in...

So often in life we can be our own harshest critic.  Some people take pride in that...about how tough they are on themselves.  I'm not proud of this, but being tough on me is something I've done my whole life.  Several years ago in a workshop for the Strategic Coach I learned how destructive that is and counterproductive to us as individuals and to those in our lives.  It's def...

During my second week in Dublin I finally got in synch with their time zone, had more time to wander around the parks and museums, I participated in an amazing tour with Lorcan Collins and his 1916 Rebellion Walking Tour (5 stars without hesitation. Do this when your in Dublin), connected with a member of the Irish Parliament (Chris Andrews TD quietly joined out tour! At the end of the tour, a gro...

After months of planning and thinking about it, I was finally able to record and produce a full episode from on the road! With some down time to think, I took a moment in my Temple Bar Airbnb to reflect on a question I keep getting asked about what’s next for me as I come to an end of my 27 year career as a financial planner. We all will have many beginnings and endings in our lives. Sometimes the...

Join me on my first totally in the field interview with Micah Johnson! I took my equipment to Idle Hands Grooming Company to catch up with Micah. Micah was my very first guest on It's the Journey. During our conversation in Episode 2, Micah told stories about the experiences in his life that lead him to co-founding his own hair salon. When he and his business partner, Andy Prost, pulled the trigge...