Pictures Out There!

This is the last of a five-episode mini-series that we call “Breakthrough Pictures”. In this episode, we continue painting our Picture of the topics we will use to educate our children and youth, and that we will reinforce through lifelong learning. It’s a new era for humanity, and we’re ready for a big education overhaul. We can do it! Here are our ideas…our Picture! What’s yours? Let’s...

Today’s episode is the fourth in a five-episode mini-series that we call “Breakthrough Pictures”. We’re at a beautiful tipping point. We are ready for a big overhaul on education topics for our children and youth…they are ready for it, and we can do it!  The sheet of paper is blank…let’s draw a Picture!  What should education address in order to create our very best future world, along w...

Today’s episode is the third in a five-episode mini-series that we call “Breakthrough Pictures”. Humanity often does not thoughtfully and consistently deal with mistakes that people make, including crimes.  Helping victims become as whole as possible and providing perpetrators with cleansing opportunities helps both parties heal and positively move forward in their lives. Can we breakthrough...

Today’s episode is the second in a five-episode mini-series that we call “Breakthrough Pictures”. Humanity has never created equality for all people, regardless of race, culture, gender, wealth, or social standing. We are at a pivotal moment in time, a tipping point…and so here comes our Picture…The Equalist Movement! Please join us at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify and other major podcast h...

Welcome to the second half of Season 2 of our Pictures Out There! podcast series! Today’s episode is the first in a five-episode mini-series that we call “Breakthrough Pictures”. Humanity has never solved for equality for all, with respect to race, culture, gender, wealth, or social standing. Racism, gender bias, wealth inequality , and other forms of inequality all still exist in our world. Can w...

It’s the Holidays! That time of year when we are most open to loving, to helping others, and to feeling connected to everyone around the globe… Gee, that sounds like our Pictures Out There Ideals! Hmm…Ideals that we could live by throughout the year…if we chose to. How about a podcast we call “A Holiday Love Song to Love and Our Ideals”? And our hope for joy, peace and love to everyone a...

Here at picturesoutthere.com, we offer models and tools to help us “break the ice” for creating our Pictures of the future! We actually call one of those the ICE model. This simple tool allows us to assess how we think and feel about ourselves Individually, how our closest Community thinks and feels about us, and what the External world thinks and feels about us. We can then decide how we can impr...

Let’s continue to expand our own thinking by connecting to more thought leaders on the future, who also care deeply about what happens with our world! We continue this ongoing conversation and thought stream about what should happen in our world’s future, and to consider how we move toward a better world through our own lives, pictures, and actions! Please join Lee and Dave at picturesoutthere.com...

How about this for an image, a Picture?  Humanity is an Orchestra… It’s a nice image, and it’s a true one!   In that very real Orchestra of Humanity, how do we create that beautiful Balance where we each play our instrument of choice and everyone gets to play? Playing breathtaking symphonies, all in concert, while still allowing for beautiful solos! Please join us for our final epis...

Betcha thought in our last podcast that we had covered all of the biases that our brains can conjure up…but wait, there’s more!!...(smile). What are our natural and normal human biases? By understanding them and managing ourselves, we can avoid their negative effects. Please join us for Part 2 of “Balance Through Managing Our Biases!” at picturesoutthere.com , Apple, Spotify and other podcast host...

As human beings, our brains do “short-cuts” in order to deal with new situations and with the fast pace of our lives. These short-cuts, or “cognitive biases”, may cause us to lose our balance in life, and can bring pain and harm to ourselves and to others! What are these biases, and how can we ensure that we avoid their destructive potential? By understanding them and properly managing ourselves a...

In this life each of us have both a Spiritual experience and a Physical experience! We have an incredible Spiritual experience that is always wide open for us, and that goes far beyond our physicality. Religious beliefs may be part of our spiritual experience, but don’t have to be at all! Our Physical experience is ongoing in this life, driven by our senses and bodies that we hopefully love a...

Welcome to the first episode of a five-episode mini-series, “Getting Our Lives into a Great Balance”! Balance affects everything in our day-to-day lives. How we balance our accomplishments versus our experiences, our variety of ambitions, our pride versus our humility, and our curiosity versus our certainty. Having a great ongoing Balance on these life elements sets us up for a happy and fulfilled...

In the second of our two-part podcast mini-series “Creating Pictures in a Messy World” we explore all that we have to offer…“A Variety of Gifts for Action!” We each are blessed with our own unique set of gifts that support our unique dreams, our desires for the future, and our amazing ability to act toward those dreams! A beautiful and glorious array and diversity of gifts, styles, talents and abi...

Our world is a mess!! But the truth is, it always has been a mess. A beautiful mess! In Part 1 of a two-part series on “Creating Pictures in a Messy World!”, we explore if we should we really go to the effort to be pro-active with Pictures for our life and the world, and then act upon them. Would it really make a difference in this messy world of ours? Let’s explore!

Let’s expand our own thinking by connecting to some thought leaders on the future, who also care deeply about what happens with our world. You are invited to join this ongoing conversation, this thought stream, about what should happen in our world’s future, and to consider how we move toward a better world through our own lives, pictures, and actions! Please join Lee and Dave at picturesoutthere....

We LOVE to laugh, and in this season’s episode #5 we’ll share our Picture for great, enjoyable, bust-a-gut humor that steers us away from the so-called “humor” that is really a thinly-veiled form of verbal violence to other people. So…what is good and positive humor? And what gets labeled as “humor”, but is actually negative, destructive, hurtful and harmful? Let’s explore! Dave and Lee are availa...

This season’s episode #4, “Top Ten Reasons to Care about our world's Future!” will underscore the big and simple reasons why we should have our own Pictures, and care deeply about our world's Future as a regular priority for what we do every day. We can all make the world’s future a primary focus of our lives! Dave and Lee are available on picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify, and other podcast ho...

In this season’s episode #3, we use Math (gulp…that word!) to show that it’s wise and easier than we think to solve some of the world’s biggest problems!  Hunger, poverty, and more…some simple math takes us out of the complexity of the world’s biggest problems, and shows us that these huge problems are simply right there waiting to be solved… we can all get wise, and just do our part! Dave an...

We explore three easy ways to make the “Simple-Complex-Simple” process and being Wise a simple thing to do…over and over again! Curiosity, Question-Asking and Storytelling are easy to do and remember, and are powerful tools on our road to Wisdom! Dave and Lee’s podcasts are available on picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites. Please join us!

Welcome back to our second season of Pictures Out There! podcasts! After a brief review of Season 1, we’ll dive right in with a three episode mini-series we call “Wisdom is Easy!” In this first episode we will walk through the “Simple—Complex—Simple” process that can turn our curiosity and critical thinking into our clearest and most actionable Insights, fuel our Pictures, and springboard each of...

Information…Opinions…Facts…Deceptions…all of those coming at us, faster than ever. Our world is speeding up, and it can be chaotic and confusing. Our Picture to handle it all? We need the best possible filter for all that Input, as well as for our own Output. And the answer is easy…it’s our own best and highest Ideals! Join us for our Season 1 finale at Apple, Spotify, other platforms and at pictu...

Leaders in any type of group or power structure frequently want to increase their own personal Power over time. When we are in that group, they usually demand our Allegiance to them directly and personally at some point, or to their so-called “leadership”. An ask to support a leader’s thirst for more power frequently means that we get asked to abandon our own Ideals. We should never let that happe...

Real Leaders Share their Power with others! "Leaders, you should share your power with the least or less powerful all the time…over time, give them as much of your power as you can...and gain influence as a result! See your group get better and stronger in how they communicate, innovate, collaborate, decide, adapt, change, and perform…in a more positive and inclusive culture that attracts and deve...

Power…how do we turn it from our most destructive human addiction today, to a huge opportunity for human possibilities tomorrow? In this Part 1, we show how once we have our Pictures and Ideals ready to go, we engage with powerful leaders and systems of every kind to help make them happen. They often work against our dreams, our Pictures, frequently because of the addictiveness of Power. How do we...