PDPW Podcasts

Successfully guiding ourselves through life's transitions requires a powerful trait, resiliency. On this week's episode, Holly Green explores the five traits resilient people possess. Get your notepad ready, because Holly provides tips to help you work towards implementing and improving these important traits.  Click here for the Resilience Self Assessment form.

This week, Holly Green makes her PDPW Podcast debut to discuss adversity and why it’s important for personal growth. She also explains how our brains react to change, and what we can do to adapt to the challenges life throws at us. “Exposure to adversity can create the resiliency we need to lead others in a constantly and rapidly changing world. It can teach us to cope with what is yet to come and...

Understanding your mental health is important to your overall well-being. On this week’s episode, Pastor and author Dianne Deaton Vielhuber shares why learning more about mental health can be beneficial to all of us, as well as helpful tips on how to manage your own mental health.

We all have expectations that we think we need to live up to but are those perceptions based on what society thinks or from our past experiences? On this week's podcast, Hank Wagner shares his personal experiences and failures while discussing how passion can be the difference in long term success. Listen to Hank as he talks about how having fire in your belly is imperative for growth and personal...

On this episode, Tom Thibodeau shares how the gift of hospitality is the glue that holds our communities together. Through hospitality, friends and strangers provide kindness and services that can have a lasting impact on the lives of those around them. This discussion of hospitality also poses a question to ourselves, how do we show hospitality to others? 

Did you know... a person with good friends tends to have a stronger immune system? As we hear from Tom Thibodeau, friends can do great things for us besides improving our physical health. Listen as he shares why it's important to have a friend to call on during any season.

Lately, it seems everything has gone from bad to worse. Milk prices have plummeted with some farmers having to return milk to the field, and on top of it all, livestock processing plants have started to shut down. With so much uncertainty and worry, how do you keep going and why? For many, it is because of hope for the future and what good may be yet to come. Today on the PDPW Podcast, Tom Thibode...

We live in a time where fake news is all too common. With people spending more time at home on their computers and with information that is changing so quickly, it is hard to know what is correct and who to trust. This week on the PDPW Podcast weekly, Tom Thibodeau reminds us about the importance of trusting others, and how we need to trust those around us more than ever before. While building tru...

How are you acting as a leader during this time?  Are you taking over more chores in the house without others asking? Are you picking up groceries for the elderly couple down the street? Are you making someone smile? It doesn't take much to step up and change someone's day.  On today's episode, Hank Wagner concludes his two-part series where he challenges listeners to be servant leaders who contin...

Hank Wagner shares a message of hope during a time when many of us feel anxious. He reminds us that we can grow and influence others even during the biggest challenge of our lives. This is the first of a two-part podcast where Hank reminds us that we are all in this together!  

The infamous Covid-19 has left many people feeling worried and nervous for what the future has to hold.  On this week's podcast, Dianne Deaton Vielhuber reminds us to stay positive and persevere during these uncertain times. Take a moment to listen to her suggestions on how you can serve others and care for yourself. 

How well do you really know yourself?  We all have blind spots about ourselves. What's yours? Perhaps what you believe about yourself is really what other people told you. In this podcast Hank Wagner challenges us to really look at ourselves, so we can truly understand our own identity and priorities and have a more fulfilling life.

“Failure is success in progress.” Albert Einstein Do you ever compare yourself to others or envy other people's success? What if someone told you that success can actually be limiting? In this podcast Hank Wagner explains how failure is a positive and encourages us to not worry so much about winning or being on top, but rather to strive to be the best versions of ourselves and to celebrate the acc...

Temperance is a wonderful virtue. It's defined as moderation or voluntary self-restraint. Credit cards, food buffets, fast food, binge drinking, on-line shopping and human weakness all contribute to us gravitating to extremes and the epidemic of instantaneous gratification we see today. In this podcast Tom Thibodeau wonders what the world would be like if we all had a little more temperance.

Are you living life or is life living you? Or do you determine how you will experience life? Often times things are imposed on us whether we like it or not. However, like a surfer who has no control over a wave, we can learn to master the waves. Tom Thibodeau encourages us in this podcast to live a life with intention and travel life's currents in ways that are meaningful. How will you live a life...

There is something really special about receiving the simplest of notes from someone when it is completely unexpected. It's not your birthday or anniversary, but just a random and regular day. What makes them special is because it tells the receiver you were thinking of them and they often come at times when they might need a little pick-me up. Hank Wagner has given and received his share of notes...

Don't you love Thanksgiving with that feeling of gratitude and being connected with others? However, the very things that make Thanksgiving so wonderful - the presence of family and friends, time off from work, extra servings of turkey - also make gratitude come easy. Given all the negative news and sometimes instability we may feel at times, there is no better time than now to stop and reflect on...

Some people naturally have high expectations; yet, others have low expectations. Whether it's good or bad, whatever the expectation is will shape how we view the result. Sometimes your hope for the outcome guides the end result. No matter what you do, thinking the best possible outcome should be the expectation and standard. What kind of life do you have with lowered expectations? Hank Wagner tack...

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air... but only for one second without hope."  - Hal Lindsay   Remember a time in your life when somebody or something gave you hope? Remember that feeling?  Did you feel motivated? Did it help you endure through or push you further? Hope can be the difference between hanging on and giving up. I...

Fashion, pop culture, social media...there is always something trending, and it is difficult to stay on top of the latest trends. However, are these trends worth watching?  In this podcast, Hank Wagner shares what trends are worthwhile and why it is important to "Be a trend watcher".

Sunshine is vital for plants, animals and people to grow and be healthy.  Did you know you have a light inside of you that also has positive benefits when it shines?  In Tom Thibodeau's podcast, he has a simple ask. "Let's keep the lights on."

There are many people in the world that we would identify as leaders and thousands of books written on the subject leadership. However, do you consider yourself a leader? In this podcast, Hank Wagner will help you answer this burning question - "Are you a leader?"  Once you have your answer, find out how that piece of information should impact you and those around you.

We all have the same amount of time every day, but it’s how we go about spending those 1,440 minutes that is really important. In this PDPW Podcast Weekly, Hank Wagner shares a message about how time is a very valuable and limited resource, and how we should appreciate the value of it every day. 

All strong relationships are built on trust - through the good, the bad, and the ugly. In this PDPW Podcast Weekly, Hank Wagner shares a past experience and four options he considered before responding. Through Hank's story, learn the value of being a trustworthy person and the benefit of telling the truth always, but doing so with care and kindness.  The results will be beautiful!

Do you know someone who always seems to be "in the right place at the right time"?  Good things always seem to come their way? Is it luck? Hank Wagner joins us to show how people who enjoy consistent success know how to make great opportunities happen in their lives. Hank shares how you don’t need luck to make good things happen; you just need a strategy. Tune in as he shares the five habits to ma...