Parrish The Thought

Ladies, gentlemen and whoever else is listening. Welcome back to the show. I appreciate you stopping by.   A couple months ago I was having a chat with my co-worker Quintin, bantering back and forth about hobbies and the frivolities of life. Come to find out he is a serious sports cards collector and trader.   My dear friends, this is a world I knew nothing about. His level of knowledge astounded...

My guest today is the funnyman himself, Corey Zimmerman, co-owner and sales manager of the one and only Elevate Homescriptions . Covering Utah and Arizona for more than 10 years. For those who might be wondering what that means, well its a home warranty on steroids. He is with me today to talk about what it all means and why it matters to anyone who owns a home. Corey puts the sexy back into borin...

My guests today are Matt and Celeste Casey. A little over 2 years ago, a serious thing happened to him. His golf game started to suffer when he was losing to his friend Fuji. Real problems right.    After being poked, prodded, and scanned, Matt was found to have neuroendocrine cancer or NET, neuroendocrine tumors which took them to the gates of hell and back.    Join us for a lengthy tale of how a...

Ladies and gentlemen and whoever else is listening, welcome back to the program. My guest today is the one and only humble goddess of real estate, Jean Tanner . She is the principle broker at Summit Realty in Orem, and has been honing her craft for more than forty years here in the great state of Utah. By definition she has forgotten more than most of us realtors have learned. Sit back, relax and...

Welcome back all you great and marvelous listeners. On the program today is my friend Ken Roberts. The REAL Ken Roberts . Ken is currently running for one of the open seats on the Lehi, Utah city council .  He stopped by the international offices of the Parrish The Thought Podcast to share with us why he is also, like last week's Payson city guest, running for the position. Ken has a great persona...

Welcome back to the program everyone and whomever else is listening.   My guest today is Lacee Smith . She is currently running for one of the open seats on the Payson , Utah city council.    With local elections just a week or so away, we’re talking about why she is passionate about running and why it’s important for you to exercise your voting rights.    In the past, only a small percentage of e...

My guest today is Brian Swan. He is a principal broker and attorney with over 20 years of experience in the real estate industry. Most agents know him through Stringham Real Estate School where he was the President for several years. Through his experience in sales, brokering, education, and law, his experience lends him an expertise in the industry that few, if any, have. He now operates his own...

Welcome back to the show everyone and happy Halloween to those of you into all the dark and spooky things. Today, in light of the passing of Friends superstar, Matthew Perry and all the recent and and not-so-recent celebrity passings, my guest is Cary Snowden. He has been writing some of the most creative and heartfelt celebrity obituaries I’ve ever seen. Jump on in for a stroll into the macabre,...

Today my guest is Jenny Tedjamulia, author of the Tales with Scales dragon book series with a focus on the first book,  ⁠What Dragons Like To Do⁠ .  Jenny is a wife, mother and creator of dragons. She takes us on a scary, funny and inspirational dive into the why behind her passion for pairing up these special dragons with children and how her books have helped many kids, learn to read and stimula...

Hello Parrish the Thoughters. Yes that is a word and you are my groupies. Enjoy your place in the club. My guest today for the fourth time is my friend ⁠Kris Kristensen⁠ . For those that are joining us for the first time or if it’s been a minute, three years ago, Kris was diagnosed with stage 4 ⁠Chondrosarcoma⁠ , an aggressive bone cancer in his pelvis and was literally weeks from the disease taki...

Ladies and Gentlemen, cats and dogs, friends and foes, welcome back to another episode of the show. As ⁠Pride Month 2023⁠ is long in the rear view mirror, I have on the show with me today a good friend since high school, Jacob Mayer. Jay is a middle aged gay man who no longer embraces what gay pride has morphed into over last 10 to 15 years. Contact Jay: jacob.mayer.actual@gmail.com   Balanced vie...

Today we’re talking with Dexter Pitts, a 12 year veteran officer in Louisville, Kentucky area and Irag war veteran. In the wake of the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we talk about the reasons that fateful day motivated him to join the Army when he was 18 and his perspective in hindsight.   CONTACT DEXTER Read his book, I ⁠Am Pitts, Memoirs of an American Patriot⁠ Listen to his podcast, ⁠I A...

My guest today is ⁠Courtney Fuller⁠ , a 35-year old wife, mother of three, ⁠realtor⁠ , ultrasound technician and body-builder. We do a dive into her past and why she has always been body conscious since the age of 10 and how she has turned her negative relationships with food and body image into her current superpower. It's the ultimate flex to go from stick figure to muscle mom! #IFBB #NationalPh...

My guest today is  Adam Coleman , writer, sensible thinker and author of the ever popular book,  Black Victim to Black Victor : Identifying the ideologies, behavioral patterns and cultural norms that encourage a victimhood complex. This is his second appearance on the show.  This time it is to discuss his recent video post titled, “ Why Joe Biden felt comfortable saying, ‘You Ain’t Black. ’” This...

My guest today is Jordan Duckett, mortgage loan officer with Security National Mortgage in Lehi, Utah. We talk about the housing marketing in a simplified way so one can actually understand and why the Utah housing market isn’t as dark as the media would make you think. He’s the in-house mortgage whisperer. Contact Jordan with any questions at ⁠ jordan.duckett@snmc.com⁠  or 801-636-9069 Instagram:...

This episode is a little disturbing and enlightening.  My guest today is 19-year old Camilla Cloward, founder of the non-profit organization that raises awareness to the world’s number one growing criminal enterprise, human trafficking,  Giving A Voice .  Her story is one that no child or human should ever have to endure yet out of the horrific darkness of repeated sexual assaults starting at age...

My guest today is Jason Christensen, one of  Security Home Mortgage’s finest lenders  and recent disciple of  Mt. Kilamanjaro  the tallest mountain in Africa. We talk of the preparation and spiritual journey that was going to Africa and leaving it all on the mountain, getting scolded by the guides…and all with his kid in tow. #MtKilamanjaro #Toto #Africa #HikingKilamanjaro #Kilamanjaro #SecurityHo...

Welcome back to the program my lovely listeners and soon to be watchers. In the past I’ve had seasoned and also retired cops on the show sharing their first hand experiences in the line of duty. To balance things out, I wanted a fresh perspective, literally. So I found the youngest guy with the newest set of eyes in the field. My next guest is officer Bryce Fevold of the ⁠Spanish Fork, Utah police...

Mark Twain said " ⁠A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.⁠ ”  The story you’re about to hear is one of the reasons this phrase exists.  You may think you know what happened in the tragic ⁠shooting of Breonna Taylor⁠ back in March of 2020 in Louisville KY, but no one knows the real story better than the lead officer on scene, Sergeant John Mattingly...

My guest on the show today for the fourth time is one of my lovely daughters, Emily Parrish. She has recently returned from an 18-month service and proselyting mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of latter-Day Saints. Emily was serving the people in the Bentonville, Arkansas and Springfield, Missouri areas. We talk about the why behind her choice to serve God in this capacity and the remarkable...

In 2015 my next guest, author of the book ⁠Living Louder⁠ and speaker, Portia Louder, was sentenced to seven years in fedral prison for money laundering and mortage fraud. ( ⁠read story⁠ ) After two years of blaming everyone for her incarceration she finally had the courage to own it all, took full responsibility and became a spiritually free woman while remaining behind bars and serving another t...

Our guest today for episode 132 is Thiefane (pronounced TFN) Magré, COO of ⁠Prouduct⁠ , a Global Sourcing company and a Product Creation Accelerator.  We chat about how things have changed in the wake of Covid and crippling regulations in the business industry in China and how their company has pivoted to keep up with their clients demands. We talk about how the stories most of us hear in the medi...

My guest today is, again, Heidi Alldredge, host of  Heidi's Lemonaid Stand  podcast. However we're doing it a little different. This interview was officially recorded via  StoryCorps  in September of 2022 in Salt Lake City.  StoryCorps  has a mobile studio which travels the country asking for people to come together and just have good old-fashioned conversations about life. We start by playing Two...

Welcome back my raving fans. Thank you for your continued support of the show. This interview was done about 18 months ago by a moderator at StoryCorps ( One Small Step ). The One Small Step program was created in an effort to remind the country of the humanity in all of us, even those with whom we disagree.  Learn more about their initiative to bridge political divides, one conversation at a time...

My next guest is orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Christopher Karrasch . Former team doctor for the Cincinnati Bengals and currently a practicing physician at Central Valley Medical Center in the small community of Nephi, Utah . Chris joins me today to talk about how a conversation about power tools and construction careers with his grandpa motivated him to want to fix broken bodies. In fact, one of the b...