It's the Journey

Hey Kids! In this episode I was lucky enough to spend some time with my amazing friend Elli Richter!  Elli was one of my first guests, way back in Episode 7. During that conversation, she mentioned that she was about to hit the road and live the nomad life working from bed offices around the country applying her subconscious integrative coaching to client's all over the world from wherever in...

Hello and welcome to the 33rd episode of It's the Journey! In this one I’m super honored to get to spend some time with my friend Kevin Mckernan, who is the Founder of The Improv Shop (an improv theater in St Louis, Missouri).  Kevin is a kind, humble, smart, caring guy, and a super thoughtful, patient, and motivating teacher! His work and passion for this artform has impacted so many lives i...

Welcome back everyone and if you are new, thank you for joining! This week I'm trying something new.  I created this quick, sort of, Prequel Episode, with Kevin McKernan who is the founder of The Improv Shop, a great friend, and a treasure of a human being.  I asked Kevin a quick question with the hope he would share his wisdom on a topic I thought would be helpful to you and he did just...

Welcome back for another episode of It's the Journey!  If you are a first time listener, Welcome and thank you for joining me!  You all are in for a treat and some wonderful lessons!   My guest on this episode is Jodi Werner.  I've known Jodi for just over 5 years.  I met Jodi, like so many of my amazing friends, through improv.  Over the years I've enjoyed seeing her...

Welcome back to episode 30 of It's the Journey! This week I wanted to take some time to talk the the usefulness of looking back over our lives, and dreaming forward as we decide what actions what want and need to talk TODAY.  Now. A decade ago I was wrestling with myself trying to force myself to stay in a marriage and situation I didn't want to be in any longer, but felt I had to. If you rea...

“You just plod on and do what you can to make the world a better place,” Jane Goodall Great advice from someone who has devoted their life to making the world a better place. With this Episode I wanted to do something I've been thinking about for awhile, and that is spending a bit more time diving into lessons I've learned or continuation of ideas from a previous episode.  In #28 , with Lucin...

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” Alan Watts Welcome back to It's the Journey!   With the book AfterLIFE, Waking Up from My American Dream and this podcast, I have been working hard to provide lots of inspiring examples of people pursuing their dreams in order to help inspire listers like you! Sometimes, in order to make space f...

Episode 27! Good golly! Hello to my regular listeners and Welcome Aboard to all my first time listeners! This week I'm proud to bring you the amazing Steven Harowitz!   Steven is just the kindest, coolest, calmest, chillest soul, who has this amazing gift of being, as he describes, a starter of things. And I will add, quite cool things! I wanted to talk to him about his Campfire Creation. &nb...

Eh Cumpari! Hey Buddies! If you follow me on Instagram you may have seen my post about this last Sunday on Father's Day. I recently discovered the name of a song I hadn't heard in about 40 years! It has been a mystery to me all this time and hearing it brought back a flood of memories, emotions, and lessons I wanted to share. Also, Anchor has a function that allows me to put music right in a episo...

Welcome to Episode 25!  I'm just one episode shy of being halfway to my goal of 1 per week for this year!  Thank you for coming along for the ride, for all the wonderful and helpful feedback, all the likes, shares, reviews and downloads, and Welcome Aboard if you are new!  If you're just joining me and wondering what this is all about, Episode 1 is my intro episode that lays out wha...

As as aspects of pre-covid life return; driving, meetings, lunches, coffee, etc.,  life has gotten busier. Though I have a few episodes already recorded, I didn't have the energy to listen to them to edit them...so I made a short one with some things I've been pondering about what I do and don't want in my post covid life. I'll be back next week with some great conversations! Thank you for li...

Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the Amazing Julie Gill! Julie is another wonderful, creative, intelligent, kind, creator from my improv tribe.  Julie listened to something that was calling to her after college to create a community of families that didn't want the traditional educational system, and that led her to open her own school!   Juniper Root Woodland Preschool , located in Chesterfie...

”Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost Welcome back It's the Journey! This week I had the honor to sit down with my friend Lisa Dittmar from her home in London! Lisa has a wonderful ability to take a big picture view of her life, and the direction it’s heading, and make important decisions based on that. Both of th...

Welcome back to It's the Journey. With episode 21 I took some time to reflect on the progress the podcast has made as well as some other projects I have going on in my life.   At the end of my book, AfterLIFE, Waking up from My American Dream, I mentioned some projects I was working on, but not ready to share with the world.  Well, now I'm ready.   Thank you again for joining me on...

Welcome back to It’s Journey and to part 2 with Andy Sloey! In this episode we dive in deeper to the world of improv.  I listened to this again before posting it and am so excited to present this to you.  If you love improv or have been curious about it listening to some of Andy’s thoughts about the process are like sitting in on a Masters level class on the subject.  Even if you do...

Andy Sloey in a gem of a human being.  He’s a kind, caring, friend, teacher, coach, leader, partner, an amazing father to two awesome human beings (and some furry friends) and he’s also an Amazing actor and improvisor.  I learn from him every time I get to see him perform (and I’ve laughed until it hurts) and I’ve been lucky enough to have been in his classes and have him as an improv co...

Jack Davis has been an entrepreneur for 35 years now.  During the the 18 years I’ve known him, he and I have had many great conversations that meander between very practical to more philosophical and this one is no different.  In this episode Jack shares some of the lessons he’s learned and his thoughts on aspects of the American Dream he’s still contemplating. As he says, life can be li...

Hey friends. Here is episode 17.  Covid Fine.  I’ve had a ton of tech issues that slowed me down that I think I’ve finally figure out, with the much needed help of my audio engineer, Rich Harris.  Thank you Rich! But that has reduced my inventory of episode so I'm working closer to my deadline than usual.  Plus my day job has been very busy lately.  I’m not telling you thi...

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!” Henry David Thoreau & “Bring a brick, not a Cathedral.” Bill Chott Ladies and Gentlemen, I’d like to introduce you to my talented, kind, and amazing friend BJ Lange. At a quick glance on social media you’d see a list like: Actor, Comedian, Host, Cancer Survivor, Speaker, Pilot, and USAF Medic/Veteran. You might wonder how all those things fit t...

Please join me for my 15th episode with my guest and friend Sherley Moran!  Sherley is another bright beautiful soul that I have the honor to call my friend.  I always enjoy catching up with her and was so happy when she said yes to joining me. In this episode she shares stories about her journey of yes and-ing and following the fun that lead her from the bustling, cultural and financial...

Helen Petty is simply a Rock Star. If you know her, you know this.  If you don’t know her, you are about to learn why in this delightfully meandering conversation I was honored to have with her. In this episode, Helen shares her stories, lessons and philosophies that have helped her realize a dream of opening her own beauty and barbering collective to create an environment that corrected the...

I’m happy to introduce you all to my awesome friend Joe Dolan.  Joe is in his 6th decade of life but his enthusiasm, joy and passion for living and experiencing the world is inspiring, as is his kind and caring heart.  I’ve always admired and been inspired by his dedication to family, friends, and living life fully and I was so grateful for the opportunity to dive into his thoughts and p...

I’m so excited for you all to meet my friend and teacher Nadin Lorenz, who works as an online German language teacher and soon to be author! Part way through the plague, I decided to take some German lessons to brush up on that skill I spent 8 years of my life learning but that had remained tucked away (in a shoebox for those who have read AfterLIFE) for the better part of 2 decades.  By sayi...

Join me in this episode to dive into the journey of my friend, Jill Duncan.  If you know Jill, you love Jill. If you don’t, you will! She’s an amazing human who lives with a beautiful combination of mind, heart and soul. She is smart, funny, driven, fun loving, talented, focused, positive, supportive, professional, Brave, and just a bright beautiful soul. During our fun conversation she share...

Hey Friends! Welcome to Episode 10 and Happy Women’s History Month! For a while I’ve been wanting to dive into the lives of various historical figures I’m fascinated by and interested in.  I mentioned in my book AfterLIFE, that as I restructured my life to have more free time I’ve used that to pursue my passions in history and especially art history and especially-especially Italian Art Histo...