David & Goliath - The Art of Battling and Tearing Down Giants

I launched this podcast to help you face whatever challenges life is throwing at you right now. But above all so that I can find the strength to achieve the giant that stood in front of me I also do this to believe in faith again. That all this will be useful to become more humble, stronger and more determined. I'm doing the same thing Kobe did, after losing the NBA Finals and getting back on his...

David and Goliath is nothing more than a story in which the Davids of this world are confronted by Giants. And by giants I mean, armies, England National Teams, bullying school mates, terrible misfortunes. Everything you can imagine as terrifying!! And when confronted by these enormous opponents, should I play by the rules of the game? Should I give up, run away or face him? Should I submit to fat...

I like public speaking. It's one of my passions. When I started, I made tons of mistakes. I said many "ums," made lots of grammatical errors. My stage posture was anything but correct. I had no vocal variety and sometimes lacked projection. In other words, I wasn’t loud enough. That was two years ago. What did I do to improve? Well, the first thing was not to give up. Then I started watching speec...

Last Monday, at the end of the day, I was watching a news program that I have loved for a long time: 60 Minutes. It’s a program that is essentially a storyteller. And what fantastic stories it has! In that episode, they talked about a medical scientist, a neurosurgeon who, through a non-invasive technique, “cured,” or rather, stopped the progression of Parkinson's disease. All this through the use...

Have you ever noticed that the wealthiest people in the world are excellent communicators? In the Netflix documentary about Donald Trump, it was said that many of his clients came in with a preconceived idea, and after talking with Trump, they ended up buying what he wanted them to buy. Okay, you can say he's manipulative. Let me give you another example. Richard Branson, the founder of the Virgin...

Here is the one the most beautiful myths about love and trust. Not only love and trust but other lessons on we can take to our dally lifes.  Are you confindent in you?  Is your faith bigger than anything else? Do you trust your talents and gifts? Orpheus played the lyre and was an excellent poet. Whenever he played and sang, nature and people were captivated by his music. It was his superpower. He...

Jesus said: Give to everyone who asks you, and if they take what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do to others what you want them to do to you.” How is this possible? Well, this was put into practice by Diane Foley. And who is Diane Foley? She is the mother of James Foley. James Foley was killed by ISIS in 2014, decapitated, with the video filmed and posted on YouTube. The terrorist who kill...

I love listening to podcasts (who would've thought that!!!). One of the podcasts I listen to is called "Bit of Optimism" by Simon Sinek. I was looking through the episodes and was drawn to the latest one titled "Moral Courage with Diane Foley, mother of executed journalist James Foley." I was so wowed by what I heard that the next day I went to YouTube to see if I could find more about this woman....

In today's episode, I spoke with a businessperson from the region who had a lot of success in the heavy truck and automobile mechanics field. However, in 2012, with the Portuguese public debt crisis, he had to close and file for bankruptcy. As he told me during our conversation, "I went from being great, to being despised in the blink of an eye." Today, I will talk about the anguish he suffered du...

Not everything life serves us is to our liking, and it is precisely in these moments that we eat without saying, "I don't like it!" Because we are afraid. We all fear something. As the saying goes, "He who has a butt, has fear." This is directly related to the monstrous amount of divorces occurring in the society where I live, at least in the Portuguese society. You will understand more later on....

The fact that people dislike us for invented and ridiculous reasons should not bother us. Superficial and unfounded criticisms are not what we should be concerned with. Instead, let’s focus on what we know we can improve, where we are not meeting our own standards. And if there is any external feedback we consider, any approval we seek, let it come from people who know us well, whom we admire. We...

the grape. Wine is made from grape must, which undergoes a natural fermentation process through the action of yeasts that transform the sugar present in the grape into alcohol and carbon dioxide. When there's no more sugar in the liquid, the yeasts die and the fermentation ends. So the grape came into this world to either be eaten or to be turned into wine. If it's eaten, well, its mission on eart...

Many times, if not always, the plans we draw up are not the plans that God wants for our lives. That's what happened to Isabel. That's what happened to me. No, I don't have cancer, but life also threw me a curveball. Most likely, I have more than 6 months of life left, although nothing is certain. If you listened to episode 10 of my podcast, you'll hear my story from when I was born until today. I...

In the last episode, we talked about a King. King David, and today I'm going to talk about another king. Not a king with the royal title, but a king who, although he has already died, continues to transmit his faith to his Brazilian brothers and sisters, and beyond. The three-time Formula 1 champion, one of my heroes since the late 80s, the great Ayrton Senna. He was always someone who brought gre...

There's a story of Buddha where a huge number of disciples were meditating, seeking spiritual enlightenment. It only happened with one, who when he discovered what it was to be an enlightened being, began to laugh. The disciple whom no one gave anything for. The same thing happened with today's hero. I mean, he's the reference hero of this podcast. Our young David. Who became the King of all Israe...

In today's episode, I'll tell a story of a 17-year-old Brazilian girl who understood the true meaning of success in life. To reach this conclusion, she had to go through a very painful process that she has not yet finished. It seems it's always like this: we have to "kill" ourselves to reach the treasure. In this girl's case, she literally had to "kill" herself to discover that true happiness lies...

I'm tired. I was away from Madeira Island last weekend, so I didn't have time to prepare today's episode like I usually do. However, I have this commitment to you, so I made this episode, albeit shorter than usual. That's why I removed the part from the episode "My Story" about why I'm doing this, why I'm making this podcast. Making this podcast has also given me strength to overcome my Goliath wh...

In the first episode, I said I would talk to you about stories of people who overcame great and enormous challenges in their lives and, as Malcolm Gladwell wrote in his book "facing enormous, overwhelming adversities, produces greatness and beauty." For me, these people are heroes. If it were not for them, I would not be doing this podcast today. Today, I'm going to talk about someone who, althoug...

In today's episode I explain how I'm passing by my message to my fellow workers. How can I make them feel that they belonging to the team? Communication. The foundation of the human success, here in this planet How also Shakespeare inspired me to make today's episode. I hope you enjoy it and hope by the end you realise and there is no "Us & Them". Only Us

At 15th March by 7:30 PM that same day, I was checking in to embark on one of the most fantastic adventures I've ever had in my entire life. And it was on this adventure that I met someone who inspired me immensely. His name is Vitor Cardoso, a former football player from Sporting's of Lisbon youth teams. Life led him away from his football career due to a major injury and a significant loss, subs...

Easter B.C. was meant to celebrate the liberation of the people of Israel from the clutches of Pharaoh by Moses. So at this time of year it was customary among the Jewish people to sacrifice a lamb. In the Christian religion, Easter is celebrated to remember the death of Jesus. The death of the "Lamb who came to save the World." And it is Him that we will talk about today in this episode: Jesus Ch...

I know a guy that us these principles into his life. Well start to use… He does not call the 5-step process but he’s facing reality, continues to dream and continues to have big determination. Not the reality his faced for the last 46 years, but the one his now facing in his life, right now. His name is… me! I really want to share my story with you, today, in this episode. I hope by the end of it,...

Carlos worked for 25 years in an mortuary of one the hospital in Portugal. One of his duties was to bring the dead body’s and place them in the freezer, waiting for the family to say they final Fairwell or waiting for authorization to place in a coffin for his funeral. In subconscious level of the mind, the depression and hurt would start to appear, without him noticing. A couple months later we w...

The Portuguese are best people in the world. We’re really great. No seriously, yes we are. We’re very worm, Cousy, very friendly people. We know how to welcome all the people in the world. One of proves of this is that we have more and more foreigners people choosing Portugal to leave. I don’t know if there is a ranking of the nicest people in the world, but if there is, I think we were on top 5....

In today’s episode the drama, faith, heavy and dark emotions will be very presence. I’m sure that who is listening knows or heard someone who had identical problems with (or similar). Someone who’s life was kind and very brutal in a blink of an eye. Our hero is guy who is successful on his professional life, a very well known lawyer who was always searched for solve the complicated cases that appe...