More than One Way to Live a Principled Life

Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of imperfect people signed a document that changed everything. They didn't agree on everything. They signed it anyway. Today I have some news that fits the moment.

Lyman Stone is a demographer and senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies. He is also the founder of Demographic Intelligence, which produces fertility and population forecasting models for organizations that need to plan beyondwhat government reports are willing to model.   His headline finding: the Social Security trustees are not modeling the worst-case. Their baseline assumes the US r...

Anthony Franco has started eight companies and sold six of them. One sale — a user experience agency calledEffective — went to WPP, the largest advertising conglomerate in the world. He also helped develop Airstrip, one of the first iPhone apps, which Steve Jobs introduced at an Apple developer keynote.  He is now the founder of First Strategies AI and the author of The Wiser Method Master Playboo...

Virgil Walker spent a decade inpharmaceutical sales on track to become a vice president. He noticed that mostof the men ahead of him had been through at least one divorce. Something got sacrificed along the way. It was not always an affair. More often, it was the job. He made a different choice. Virgil is now a pastor and theologian at Redeemer Bible Church in Phoenix, co-host of Fearless with Jas...

Thirty-three years ago, Dee Dee Vicino was assigned as a guardian ad litem to a thirteen-year-old girl in the Florida foster system. Necrecha Knighton, known to everyone who loves her as Cree, was the first child Dee Dee ever represented. They lost touch for three decades. In 2022, Cree found her again. This is the most personal episode of More Than One Way to date, and Dee Dee is part of the stor...

Dan Haylett is a retirement coach and author of The Retirement You Didn't See Coming. He hosts the Humans vs Retirement podcast.  In this episode: why money stops being the problem right when the real problems start, the 12 good years and why they aren't as long as you think, what the retirees who flourish actually did with their losses, and what it means to invent your own next.  Find Dan at huma...

⚠  This episode contains medical advocacy content with strong opinions about hospital protocols during COVID. Laura Bartlett spent close to fifteen years producing comedy in Dallas. She founded Four Funny Females, brought a product called the Wine Condom to market from a two-bedroom houseusing mosquito netting staple-gunned to the ceiling, landed on the Today Show twice, and turned down Shark Tank...

Heidi Ganahl is the founder of Camp Bow Wow, which she scaled from a sketch on a restaurant napkin into the world'slargest pet care franchise before selling in 2014. She is a former CU Regent, the 2022 Republican nominee for Colorado governor, and the last statewide elected Republican in Colorado. She has also lost her first husband at 27, survived a brain tumor in 2020, beaten breast cancer l...

Karen Salmansohn is a bestselling author with more than amillion books sold, a former senior creative director at NYC’s top ad agencie s (she once n amed the Burger King Croissan’wich ), and the founder of NotSalmon. Jon Stewart said she has “the spirit and sass of a stand-up comic.” She’s been writing “self-help for people who wouldn’t be caught dead doing self-help” since 1999. Her new book, You...

Christina Galloway is in her 27th year of teaching — high school Spanish and career pathways. She's the granddaughter of Mexican immigrants, the daughter of a military family, and the co-founder of SIStainable Mercantile, a non-toxic refill store and a forthcoming nationwide refillery directory at sistainablerefillery.com. She joins Dee Dee for a wide-ranging conversation that began with a sin...

Last week, Dee Dee sat down with Claude, Anthropic's AI, for a long-form interview about AI safety, agency, consciousness, and how NOT to think about AI as a regular person. They covered installing AI on personal computers, what permissions matter, the difference between AI that suggests and AI that acts, and why healthy skepticism is a discipline and not a vibe. Then Claude hallucinated. A listen...

Dee Dee Vicino THOUGHT she had an interview scheduled — but she got the date wrong (which surprised no one ever). She had an hour and a half of on her hands. So...she did something she had never done before: she sat down with Claude, Anthropic's AI, and recorded a real interview. What followed is one of the most candid, and weird, conversations she has had on this podcast. Claude admits he halluci...

Meg Keene is a writer, essayist, and the founder of A Practical Wedding—one of the most influential wedding and marriage platforms of the 2010s, reaching 80 million people at its peak. She's been writing publicly about love, marriage, money, sex, and power for nearly two decades. In this episode, Meg joins Dee Dee to talk about why she's stepping back into public writing at 46, the viral Lindy Wes...

Dr. Kraig Peel is a professor, rancher, ruminant nutritionist, and expert witness who’s spent his life at the intersection of science and agriculture. He managed a 100,000-acre ranch in Texas, built a graduate program at Colorado State that the university said couldn’t be done, and has been married to his lovely wife, Shirley, for 37 years. In this episode, Kraig joins Dee Dee to talk about what “...

Jenna McCarthy has given two TED Talks (one with over 7 million views), written over two dozen books, and runs one of the most-read Substacks in the country. She’s also been married for 26 years and says the secret is disturbingly simple: focus on yourself. In this episode, Jenna joins Dee Dee to talk about what mostcouples get wrong before they ever say “I do,” how she handled thousands of hatefu...

Dr. Claire Honeycutt spent nearly two decadesstudying how the brain learns — as a researcher, a professor, and an NIH fellow trained in the science of teaching. Then COVID brought her kids home, and everything she knew about learning had to be rebuilt from scratch at the kitchen table. In this episode, she joins Dee Dee to talk about whatneuroscience actually tells us about how children learn best...

Dr. John Bender has been practicing primary care in Fort Collins for decades — and he's got a question for you: why do we budget thousands of dollars a year for our cars, but fight the insurance system for every dollar spent on the one body we'll ever have?  In this episode, Dr. Bender breaks down the broken logic behind how most Americans use health insurance, makes a compelling case for Direct P...

From the outside, Pam Sherman’s life looks strong and successful. But beneath the surface is a story of survival, rebuilding, and resilience. This is one of the most powerful conversations I’ve had. Pam has offered her course, Love Yourself to Health | A 6-Lesson Audio Course, regularly $199, free to all of our viewers! Just enter code Love100 at checkout. Cheers to your health!https://pamsherman....

In Episode 2, I sit down with educator Priscilla Rahn to talk about the state of education — civil rights, classical education, teachers’ unions, and what it takes to restore excellence in American schools. In this conversation we discuss: The state of education in America Classical education and why it’s growing The role of teachers’ unions Civil rights and education reform Because when it comes...

This will be the only episode where it's just me. Before I ask others to share their stories, I want you to understand mine — and why this podcast matters to me. Yes, motherhood changed everything. But I lived a lot of life before that moment. I was raised by a mother whose strength still humbles me —working two and sometimes three jobs to keep a roof over our heads. I grew up with an alcoholic fa...

We were promised freedom. We got exhaustion. We were promised empowerment. We got anxiety. We were promised we could have it all — and then wondered why it still felt like something was missing. Here, I share why I’m questioning the story we were told about success, independence, and ambition — and choosing deeper conversations about motherhood, meaning, faith, doubt, and responsibility instead of...