Life's Learning Curve

Send us Fan Mail What happens when a favor becomes a gift ? In this episode we hear how a family’s learning curve evolves again & again. This time a cottage on Geneva Lake in Wisconsin is loaned to Paul’s family in 1969. Some experiences are magic, some are tragic. From ghost stories, to music heroes, to the strain of everyday life in turbulent 60s, they survive & move forward. In the end,...

Send us Fan Mail “If Denny had 20 choices, he always chose the worst one and went with it.” Join video producer Sam as he retells his life’s misadventures working with an idea man / client named Denny, a man whose misguided & unfortunate wisdom made his entertainment business misfunction. -Then along came entrepreneur & financier Ronald. With Ronald’s help, will Denny make a better choice...

Send us Fan Mail Paul was just 5 years old when his grandpa was age 64, yet they were the best of pals. They frequently spent quality time with one another and often went on adventures into the real world of a small Illinois town. Retired, Paul’s grandpa was going thru a phase in his life where he had time. He had gone through two terrible wars, a financial depression, & supported his nuclear...

Send us Fan Mail Did you get an allowance as I kid?  Did you live in a town that had a state mental asylum? Did you ever walk the train tracks? Mix all three questions and you have this episode where Jeff and Paul’s boyhood adventures run amuk with finances issues and escaped inmates from the local mental health center. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail We cannot travel back in time and add-on to our experiences from many years ago. Or can we? -We live day by day. Then as time passes, a change begins... We begin to reflect about what we once did, at THAT MOMENT our life morphs into stories of how things used to be. We begin to see with greater perspective as we retell our past; this time leading from our hearts. Join Kevin, an ol...

Send us Fan Mail Torqued people, are people who overreact . In this podcast episode we meet Tad, a savy landscaper / businessman who has never launched a successful business. Why? Tad overreacts to customers, employees and just about everyone else he encounters. Tad meets his match when he meets an attorney named Dennis, who calms Tad’s inner angry-child. Also we meet a child named Keisha who is e...

Send us Fan Mail What is your plum job? No matter what age we are, we dream of our best job ever . For Paul, it was when he was 16 years old, working outside for good pay at the grounds’ crew for a local school district. But it wasn’t the pay that Paul liked. It was the quirky & unusual personalities that worked within it.  Meet Shorty, Sarge, Birdman & Mr. Excitement. The smells of sweat...

Send us Fan Mail It was the summer Paul went from simply existing, -to caring passionately about people, life & ideas, age 15-16. Paul's influencers: His friend Fred, his older brother Steve, a wheelchair bound drum instructor AND author and Beat Generation novelist Jack Kerouac. In this episode, Paul hits the open road. What he discovered changed his life forever. Freedom + No Reponsibil...

Send us Fan Mail How do you solve your life’s greatest challenge?  We all use different positive prodding to help us smash through life’s roadblocks. When Paul solved one his life’s roadblocks, public speaking, he unknowingly created a solid foundation for multiple diverse, positive & creative memories for himself and others. In this podcast, Paul talks about conquering and facing challenges,...

Send us Fan Mail   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGVpebUFTOs Just what triggered this slight shy girl from the mid Midwest?  Was the trouble with Stacey really her fault? While conflict and confrontation are her reactions, we follow young Stacey from early childhood through high school. Transiency, personality clashes, an aggressive troubled older sibling, her parents’ divorce and other stimuli...

Send us Fan Mail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLZB2cHpi3k What do you do when there's a creek three blocks from your house and you're 8 years old? Paul's mother always firmly commanded, "Don't Go To The Creek!" However it seemed to call to Paul & his friend Jeff. Riding bikes down the steep slope to the creek, crayfish, minnows, older neighborhood bullies, a tr...

Send us Fan Mail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7yHl0YUs8c     This episode retells stories of encounters with bullies -shaming, blaming, and intimidating. Just why did everyone at day camp laugh and punch Wally ? Why was Donald such a creeper on the school bus? Why did Mike feel it was necessary to dismiss and let others know that they were poor at what they did in band, and they should "J...

Send us Fan Mail https://vimeo.com/374418247 LIFE'S LEARNING CURVE HAS A NEW WEB ADDRESS! lifeslearningcurve.org Buzzsprout is our homie RSS feed. but you WILLl find more about each show, photos and blogs to our content. PLZ GIVE IT A LOOK!      -Paul         http://lifeslearningcurve.org Support the show

Send us Fan Mail  https://vimeo.com/manage/370748041     You can’t leave . You have to stay .  Why? -My polio injection exploded. My friend hit me in the head with a baseball bat. Whether we like or not, we all have been detained. Sometimes painful, sometimes full of joy. We retell some of our best stories when we became unintentionally detained for the moment. Let's Love Life Again.! BLOG: h...

Send us Fan Mail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpVCmQP3-R0     Conclusion   With the help of beer and dolphins , my documentary drastically degrades even more. We attempt to complete our shoot in Key West, but our behind the scenes story OVERTAKES the entire production. At long last, I find a mentor (on site) who makes a reality simple and possible. An amazing story!   Tropical = Still Good .   ...

Send us Fan Mail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpVCmQP3-R0     Part 1 (of 2)    Tropical = Good . Turpitude = being nefarious .   When I took a crew to remote Key West to shoot a squeaky-clean documentary, the REAL story unfolded behind the scenes. With immorality trying to take the main stage, I begin to understand that former college friends, alcohol and saltwater sometimes don’t mix.    SHOW...

Send us Fan Mail Listen as Paul interviews musician Robert Broz. Besides music, LIFE is his ‘work of art’ He makes each day new, special and one of a kind. The human spirit succeeds once again! Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Our podcast retells stories of ideas & creativity. Almost all of us get our best ideas late at night when our brains are open & aware AND destressed . However, most of us wake the next day and never act upon our nighttime dreams and ideas.  but the dreamers of the day are the crazy ones whose successes & failures have been actualized & made possible . Meet Catherin...

Send us Fan Mail When my father passed a few years back, I thought about all the love , work and care he and my mom put into raising my sister & me, I realized I didn’t need him like I used to need him. It was NOT because of his age or time. I still sought him out to listen to his direct, carefully measured  appropriate advice. It was then I realized he had parented & mentored me so well,...

Send us Fan Mail https://vimeo.com/367928257         Society has rules. Some people chose to VAGUELY support these rules. ENTER ...  Hanx and the eloquent and distinguished Mrs. Dorothy Tucker who will make life's molehills into mountains as fast as Korea 4G services in Seoul. (innocent simile) Meh. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BpL64Vct3g     Are mischief & prankishness necessary? Yes...Well sometimes. Shenanigans is the theme of the podcast as Paul remembers innocent, yet effective childhood shenanigans. (See Jim Halpert) Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In First Grade, Paul's perspectives and behavior become altered for the rest of his life. -We all can become better people by adding just the right people to our lives. Paul enters reading groups, encounters a first year teacher and is forced to sit next to Jimmy, a class misfit, who cannot control his outbursts. A mentor is used to smooth the waters of 1st grade. From that m...

Send us Fan Mail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ObwZOd_MY        As we saw our childhoods coming to an end, the feeling of innocence returned because of a vacation destination in California. Through fuzzy memories we retell about a 1968 vacation which presented adventure, sunburns and discovery . During the west coast's decade of peace, color & unrest, there was an unusual imbalance of...

Send us Fan Mail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3BxSDDH1AU       Summers' possibilities are retold as Paul recalls his years at age six. Due to his family being given a surprise summer pass to a new country club, the Summer season defines its seasonal magic and the stories are synthesized through all five senses. Scary, fun and full of adventure , Paul discovers, swimming lessons, lifeguard...

Send us Fan Mail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdNWxF_wA4o     We podcast our first remote from Studio 502 here in the mid mid midwest to Austin, TX., and swap Physical Therapy stories with Dr. Trace McClintock. 'Tis realler than real! Support the show