Changing the Rules

Derek and Julie are brother and sister. Hear how challenges in their lives, big challenges, have helped them discover true happiness and learn to spread it to others. Julie has Down's Syndrome, and Derek is paralyzed in half of his body, yet they travel the world to inspire others to "Live Simply and Love Wastefully."

Anna shares her journey from Boston to Sotheby's to Paris, healing to rebirthing to weddings to Maine, and writing.

In this episode, Ray talks with two of the Luckiest People in the World about politics, in a non-political way. There is a lot of noise in everything we hear today on the news. So we Don and Greg what the real issues they think are important to them, independent of what the candidates are addressing.

Between 1850 - 1923 two religious organizations, one Catholic, and one Protestant noted that many orphans in the big eastern cities had no homes. The two organizations arranged for homes in the mid-west on farms and farther west with parents seeking children. So the orphan trains moved children westward for better homes and maybe not for better homes. Judye Ruffo joins us. Her mother was one of th...

Personal banking relationships can be a resource to help you counteract fraud. To ensure your bank accounts are protected by FDIC insurance and yet still meet your estate plan goals. When you find a relationship hang on to it, even if you have to follow the relationship from bank to bank.

The Luckiest People in the World practice retirement. Rather than stop working cold turkey and restarting in their next phase of life, they tend to look ahead while working and test what they want to do later.

Sarah Brown created of the "Book of You" to help mid-level executives get a clear vision of what they want out of life. Her latest project, "Book and Ted" helps these same executives write a book that expresses what they do and where they are going. It then puts it into a Ted Talk to help clarify their mission.

Danie Harris one of The Luckiest People in the World, gets to produce movies for a living. Join us as we discuss the making of a movie, Silver Linings, and what it takes to make a documentary.

"The luckiest people in the world often find themselves involved in projects that have a lasting impact on society." Carol was at the right place at the right time. Carol MacAllister was a social worker in 1978 for the State of New Mexico Mental Health Bureau when a new law "The Sexual Crimes Prevention and Treatment Act" was passed. Carol was assigned as a project manager to implement parts of th...

Ray Loewe talks with Charles Napier with LegacyStories.org about the importance of saving your stories for future generations and how to easily do it.

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Dr. Terry Webb and Dr. Greg Carey feel democracy is deteriorating in the United States. There are things we can do about it. This appears to be an international problem, reflecting itself in Poland, Hungary, & Italy to name a few. It seems that this is a problem that manifests itself periodically in history, we experienced this problem at the end of WWII and we seemed to have survived it. Is this...

In the journey of life finding clarity can be a challenging task. During times of profound difficulty, we sometimes find ourselves grappling with questions of meaning and purpose. It's within this context that understanding our life purpose emerges.

At age 48 Sally transformed her life and built a new career on excitement and passion. That career has continued to grow since our last podcast. Recently, Sally earned the title of Ms. Senior America and began Sally's Iron Mustangs, a 65-year-old plus women's power weightlifting group...the movie will be released shortly.

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Carol has a unique experience set that we want to capture in this podcast. First, she has been a podcast host. Second, a podcast guest. And third, a unique storytelling experience from a previous work life. After recording a podcast about her forest rangering experience, she received intriguing feedback from some of her family who didn't know she had done this. her hosting experience has helped he...

Don Helin and I have been working on a project for several months. The project involves telling stories about our lives, the times we lived in, or messages we want to send to our future heirs. We have been using a private podcast format to make it easy. The project keeps morphing based on things we learn. Get an update on why you need to tell your story to your heirs and what we've learned about h...

On September 18th-19th, 2024, the Friends Connection Forum will convene in Lancaster, PA. This is a meeting of The Luckiest People in the World, designed to reenergize their lives and their relationships with each other. Ray Loewe, Don Helin, Dale Johnson, and Ellen Haas discuss the importance of one of the topics at the Forum... Your purpose, what is it, and how to make it work for you?

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Linda Dochter has degrees in math and library science. She is an artist, who once was told she should never be an artist. She suffered from an unfortunate accident several years ago. She since has escaped being wheelchair-bound by doing her own version of a "marathon a month." Through all of the things in life that came against her, she has overcome them and is one of the Luckiest People in the Wo...

Jane Armstrong, is a writer, ventriloquist, classical pianist, and one of the Luckiest People in the World. Jane shares with us how she discovered her life's purpose through understanding her brother's life purpose.

After traveling the world Peter and Joyce decided to concentrate on the USA. One thing that they concentrated on was spending time at National Parks as volunteers, this allowed them to stay in a region for 3-4 weeks at a time exploring the region in-depth. They were also able to travel with their pets.

Many of the Luckiest People in the World plan on extensive travel in the future. There are many things to think about to maximize the travel experience. In this session, Ray ponders his experience with travel traps. Get ready for a sequence of future interviews.

This week Ray talks with Joe Dean, super mixologist. Joe and Ray discuss why a custom cocktail uniquely constructed and named appropriately can be an incredible conversation starter. Imagine this, the bartender takes out a wooden plank and a blow torch, sets a glass on top of the lit plank and allows it to smoke, adds some secret ingredients, and voila a Luckiest Guy in the World Old Fashion.