Smile High Podcast Club

Rachel is back! This is the final episode of our conversation. Thank you for listening to his story and enjoy the show. If you like the show, please share it with your friends and like us on Facebook. If you've felt inspired and cracked a smile, you may consider leaving us a small donation to help fund the club. It's easy.

Rachel is back! We haven't finished our conversation yet so this is part c of a four part episode. This episode touches upon Rachel's experience in dealing with life as a transgender woman. Thank you for listening to his story and enjoy the show. If you like the show, please share it with your friends and like us on Facebook. If you've felt inspired and cracked a smile, you may consider leaving us...

Rachel is back! We haven't finished our conversation yet so this is part b of a four part episode. This episode answers questions related to Rachel's experience in finding someone who she felt safe enough to share who she truly was. The best part, her fiancé not only supports her but loves who Rachel is as a person. Thank you for listening to his story and enjoy the show. If you like the show, ple...

This Smile High Podcast Club (SHPC) episode is AMAZING!!! Here we highlight the life of one of Nate's friends. This week's guest is the very wonderful, Rachel! Rachel is a world class engineer and amazing person who recently came out as a transgender woman. This episode explores Rachel's experience growing up and slowly learning who she was. She then explains the difficulties about coming out and...

You've made it! This is part d and the last portion of Lance's interview. If you've made it this far, the SHPC can only assume that you've either enjoyed it or you are so mad at them that you're only listening with the motivation of keeping a tally of how many faux-pas they've said. :) In this episode, Lance discusses why he looks to science to help direct his decisions in life. He admits that a l...

This is part c of Lance's interview. Yep, these two didn't stop for nothing! In this episode, Lance and Nate continue to tackle tough topics. Lance shares his perspective of God and why, after growing up faithful in the Mormon religion, he now has moved to a more agnostic view of him. Nate manages to ask Lance a few more direct questions such as what good he sees in his former faith. Nate also sha...

This is part b of Lance's interview. In this episode, Lance and Nate touch upon some rather lesser talked about subjects. Topics such as what constitutes a good friend and can someone leave the Mormon church and find true happiness are discussed. These two wild n' crazy guys even peel the onion back on taboo topics such as how pornography and masturbation are handled by the Mormon church. Is there...

For this week's episode, Nate interviews one of his old friends from way back. This incredible guy's name is Lance. As you will hear, Lance is a very active guy who knows no bounds when it comes to running. He has run multiple races including ultra marathons of as far as 100 miles! Not only a runner, but Lance also enjoys many other outdoor activities. One of these activities, however, nearly cost...

Have you ever asked the question "Why me God?" or wondered why you were given an experience that seemed almost more than you could bear? This episode speaks to all those who have experienced a significant loss or trial in their lives and, as a result, have found it hard to find the Faith to carry on. In this episode, our dear friend Jody shares personal details of a tragic event that occurred in h...

For this week's episode, the SHPC traveled across the deep wide ocean to a small green rock that goes by the name of New Zealand. And just did we find in our virtual travels? We found a cool dude known as Derek Sivers ( www.dereksivers.org ). Derek is the founder of CD Baby. This company is the largest online seller of independent music and has sold over $100M of music to over 150,000 independent...

Young Leo just graduated to full time underwear(s). In his great excitement, he decided to put all 4 new undees on at the same time. This moment was captured and we wanted to share it with you. Why? Because it's sure to make you smile and everyone needs a smile every now and then. Enjoy. Thank you for listening to his story and enjoy the show. If you like the show, please share it with your friend...

For those who survived rounds 1 and 2, it's now time for the knockout episode round 3. In this session, Nate answers Doug and Dave's tough questions. They didn't let up to say the least. Make sure you don't miss the extra question asked by Nate's friend Aarica from the Facebook website. This was recorded a week or two after Doug and Dave let him go. He not only opens up another can of worms with h...

Here's round 2 of 3 with Dave and Doug probing Nate's brain yet again. In this podcast Nate is asked about what inspires him. On this topic, he shares a few thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self Reliance" essay. He explains how he interprets Emerson's phrase "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." We hope you enjoy taking a facility tour through Nate's brain. Please keep your...

Help! I've been ambushed and my studio was taken over by two super stealthy hobgoblins. They tortured me with questions and probed my brain for nearly two hours. I pert near confessed everything. Yep, every dog has his day and today was mine. I was interviewed by my two bestest friends ever, my brothers. They were super nice and managed to wrangle a few personal skeletons that I've been carefully...

Cameron returns as our guest on the Smile High Podcast Club to share with us his experience of going on a 30-day complaining fast. That's right! Cameron's goal this past 30-days was to not complain. Can you imagine going 30-days and not complaining? What a challenge! During our conversation with him, Cam shares his thoughts about how difficult it was to bite his tongue and not indulge himself in t...

What a terrific guest we have this week! I was able to get Cameron on the horn for an hour or so and learn about what makes this fantastic guy tick. He's like the older brother I never had. In this episode, Cam talks about an event earlier in his life that made a significant impact in the way he views and treats others. To know firsthand that we all are going to pass on and the time of this event...

Nate finally did it. He cornered his brother Doug and got the interview of the century. What an incredible episode it was! Doug shared some very personal details in this episode about growing up in a Mormon household but noting at a very young age that he saw things in a different light. After pushing his own thoughts and feelings aside in isolation, he tried to follow what he was expected to do i...

In this episode, Nate really shoots the deeps about what his Dad saw and learned on the other side while he was in his coma. His Dad, Alan goes into more details on what he learned from what he saw while in a comma. There are quite a few details here than were read by Nate in episode 18b. Nate asks some pretty direct and tough questions like; what religion is the right one? Does one earn their way...

Doug is back! Yep, the co-host from season 1, my brother, is back for this very special episode. Both Doug and I gang up on my Dad and interview him about his life and share a little bit about what they saw growing up with a father who got into quite a few hairy situations and managed to live to tell the tale. This is a very fun episode with a lot of laughing. My Dad was such a great sport. This i...

How do you recognize spiritual truth when you come across it? What does it take to get into heaven? How important is it to learn how to love while here on earth? What is the "other side" like? All of these questions and more are explored in this episode. As you may have noticed, this is the third episode that discusses my dad's near death experience. This one is extra special because we listen to...

Yep, I'm back as the special guest this week. Don't you just love it! Okay, I'd rather listen to someone else's voice but, on a shoestring budget, James Earl Jones couldn't justify the time. :) J/K. This second portion goes into the actual NDE where my dad relates what he was taught by his angel buddies on the other side. There are quite a few gems here. I'd like to hear any and all of your though...

This week Nate is doing things a little different. Sometimes it's good to break free from the monotony and put ones pants on backwards (or something along those lines. This week's special guest is Nate. What? I know, you're probably sick of hearing from me as the host. Bear with me though, I've got something I'm reading that might just be worth your time. This is a very personal and special episod...

This week's guest is someone truly UNMISTAKABLE. His name is Srini Rao and his company is the "Unmistakable Media" which ports the slogan of "The voice of disruption". Under this company Srini is known by many as the master mind and creator of "The Unmistakable Creative" podcast. At unmistakablecreative.com you'll find his 500 episode archive that's full of unbelievably insightful episodes. One of...

This week's guest is someone truly remarkable. His name is Keith and his story is one of love and good humor. Not too long ago, Keith had a life changing experience where he was electrocuted by a high-voltage power line. Fortunately, this dangerous situation did not take his life but it did leave him with some serious scars. Living through this horrible experience, Keith realized that his life was...

This week's Smile High Podcast Club (SHPC) episode is all about Matt's 30-day challenge. Yep, it has already been 30-days and he's ready to report what happened. I know you've been waiting for this moment so let us dig in. In this episode, Matt and Nate explore the power of prayer and how it might prove useful to both the believer and unbeliever alike. Matt's take on prayer is very insightful and...