Mind of the Messiah

Folks, we’re back with another interview. Today, I sat down with Kylle to discuss her most recent trip to Arizona. This wasn’t her first adventure in the Southwest, but I was excited to hear what stories she came back with! Also, we were lucky to have a special guest sit in for this conversation - Tonkie Hraban. It was nice to have all of Red Velvet Photography participating in this interview, a t...

Today’s topic revolves around creativity and how outside influences, such as money and opinions, can poison your craft. The most crucial element of any creative endeavor is autonomy—being in control of each process and step from start to finish. Your projects are your babies. The fastest way to fuck that up is to begin allowing outside factors to influence the development, direction, or continuati...

Saddle up for another round of Footprints and Photographs, our first page of 2024! We started off the year with a trip to the Wisconsin Dells. Our mini-vacation was to celebrate a special occasion - our 3rd wedding anniversary. The last time we were in the Dells was a week before we got engaged; revisiting old memories and indulging in the nostalgia was the purpose of our return. We had a great ti...

Today’s episode is dedicated to the most beautiful wife in the entire world - Kristin Hraban. January 8th marks our three-year wedding anniversary! A day like today is a beautiful time to reflect on our relationship and appreciate how blessed we are to have found each other in the first place. Out of 8,000,000,000 people on this planet, I am amazed that I’ve found the one person who was made for m...

Hello, friends! This is my second Virtual Coffee Shop interview with my pal, Abraham Lange. Abe was in charge of this episode's preparation and topic selection; we plan on flip-flopping who constructs the topics after each interview. Enjoy!

Happy New Year, gang! When entering a new year, it is vital that we take inventory of ourselves, our routines, and what fills the time in our days. Through reflection, we can spot the faults in ourselves and our lives; what we see is often a difficult pill to swallow. Once spotted, we can make the proper course adjustments and implement the necessary changes needed to advance ourselves towards a b...

Happy New Year, gang!! As we reach the dawn of a new year, it is important to look back at the time we’ve spent in 2023. Wether it was a great year or a terrible one, analyzing how you spent your time and what filled your days is the key to approaching 2024 in a new manner; we are given a fresh slate to make a proper course adjustment to the trajectory of our futures. It is sad to realize that ano...

Gang, it’s the last segment of Footprints and Photographs for 2023! What a bittersweet feeling that is. It has been a hell of a year from start to finish; parting with it is tough to swallow. With that said, we ended this year the right way. December was a mix between very busy and not busy at all, which was wonderful considering each previous month has almost exclusively been just busy. Before we...

Merry Christmas, folks! Here in Wisconsin, we are experiencing an odd holiday season. For the first time in my life, Christmas is being celebrated in 50-degree weather and without a snowflake on the ground; that does not happen here! To add to the unusualness, my family is spending their Christmas in Arizona, and Kristin's side is celebrating with us on the 29th, leaving Tonkie and me back home to...

Today is a beautiful day! I’m happy to announce that my third book has been released - QuoteCast: A Collection of My Interpretations and Philosophies. I’ve been sitting on this project idea for a while; the beginning of December marked when I began assembling each chapter. It has been a lot of work but extremely rewarding! I’m very satisfied with the end product and couldn’t be happier with the de...

Today is a brief episode, folks. Forgive the audio as well, it was recorded on my drive home from work. I’m here to announce that as of now, I will be taking the next two weeks off from podcasting. I am taking this time to complete the final formats and edits for my third book release - “QuoteCast: A Collection of My Interpretations and Philosophies.” My deadline is December 22nd; I still have a l...

It's a big day for the Mind of the Messiah platform! Today marks a brand new show segment - Virtual Coffee Shop. In this segment, I host a virtual interview with Abraham Lange via our online recording platform, PodCastle. Having the capability to conduct interviews online has opened a new set of doors for us. We no longer have to schedule meetups or try to squeeze in time to see each other. No...

It’s a bittersweet day for Red Velvet Photography. Now that 2023 is over, I wanted to reminisce over the good and bad that has happened this year before we move on to 2024, putting these memories behind us forever. We’ve had a hell of a year; I cannot adequately express how thankful I’ve been for every second RVP has shared together. It is important to look back over these past 12 months and remem...

Today’s episode was recorded on my way home from Eau Claire, WI. The topic stemmed from a previous conversation with my uncle - using compassion as a mechanism for dealing with less-than-happy people. In a society that cannot stop arguing and fighting, we’ve dug ourselves into a deep hole of forgetting how to communicate with one another. Due to this, we have forgotten how to treat each other. It...

Boy, it was a hell of a month! This may have been the busiest we’ve been all year. November was jam-packed with places to be and people to see. Between hiking with Tonkie, Thanksgiving, whitetail hunting, family emergencies, and my biggest podcast projects of the year, there wasn’t a single dull moment! We experienced a mixed bag of ups and downs during the last 30 days; it kept us on our toes at...

Here we go again, gang. Today’s episode of Top of Mind was inspired by a recent episode of the Jocko Podcast - Standard Directive: Operating in Good Weather. United States Navy Seal, Jocko Willink, discusses how conditions such as psychological, environmental, physical, or emotional factors can heavily influence the outcome of a situation; they inevitably determine the result of your mission. It p...

We are at the best part of November! Thanksgiving is one of my favorite times of the year; a perfect holiday to take inventory of the things we hold near and dear to our hearts. On a day like today, it is important not only to examine the things we are thankful for, but to appreciate them on a deeper level. Taking the time to slow down and reflect on this beautiful life is the key to living a good...

Folks from all across the state are gearing up and hitting the woods today, myself included. It has been about 4 years since I’ve been able to hunt during whitetail season, and god damn have I missed it. It is an event like this—especially something that is celebrated statewide—that makes you proud to be from Wisconsin. This year will be a different experience for me; I have a new hunting crew to...

Gang, today is a very special day! Today’s episode officially marks my 100th podcast of 2023. I couldn’t be more excited to reach this milestone; it’s taken a lot of work to get there. Regardless, I am very proud on a day like this. Podcasting has consumed a majority of my free time this year, which is perfectly fine in my book. It is an art form that I’ve fallen deeply in love with. The process o...

“We knew the world would never be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, ‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’ I suppose we all thought that, one way or an...

Today’s episode of Top of Mind was recorded on my way home from work. The topic is on the development of the atomic bomb and how it relates to human evolution. If I could go back in history for a day, my day would be July 16th, 1945. I’d love to be at the Trinity Test site in New Mexico at exactly 5:29am. That date and time marked the first detonation of the atomic bomb - code named, “Gadget”. On...

Happy Birthday, Mom! Today, I wanted to take a minute to honor you and reflect on our relationship. We’ve been down a long road together; I know I wasn’t easy to raise, but you did an amazing job. You’ve taught me many things throughout my life that serve me on a daily basis - compassion, problem solving, time management, overseeing day to day functions, and perseverance. I couldn’t be more apprec...

Happy Halloween, gang! Unfortunately, today is the last day of our favorite month of the year. This October has been loaded with seasonal activities such as pumpkin patches, corn mazes, caramel apples, bonfires, autumn hikes, and Trick-or-Treating. Overall, our schedules remained booked. Before we say goodbye to this beautiful time of the year, I wanted to sit down behind the mic and openly reflec...

Today is a sad day, folks. With the release of the October compilation page, we’ve officially waved goodbye to the fall season. That is always tough on us; we cherish every minute of fall and the seasonal activities it provides. Nevertheless, we’ve had a great time these past couple of months! There was something to look forward to each weekend; no shortage of adventures on our plate. We had a lau...

Good morning! On today’s episode I ponder how humans use man-made systems of measurement in an attempt to understand our universe with a strong degree of certainty. However, we forget that concepts such as time, distance, and “universal” laws are relevant only to human beings; we made them up a long time ago to rationalize our physical reality. Therefore, their respective units of measurement are...