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Send us Fan Mail Today on Strive Seek Find we are taking a look at  expertise and experts.   What sort of factors impact their confidence and competence ?   Plus:  A news story you might have missed, but shouldn't have, A review of Reacher Shoutouts and general weirdness Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Today  we will be discussing  instutional and cultural memory through the lens of  the addition of "In God  We Trust " on our currency.   We will look at historical context  and  asking questions of the world  around us.   Also included :  Shout outs  Worth Mention https://linktr.ee/striveseekfind Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode  of Strive Seek Find  I'm joined by my wife Amy as we talk about the different types of travel we have enjoyed in the last 20 years.  from solo trips to family  we talk about the strengths and challenges of each type of travel.  link to  Travel Style's Episode :    https://www.buzzsprout.com/1125929/8840233 https://linktr.ee/striveseekfind Sup...

Send us Fan Mail Special Bonus Episode! People have been asking about education as of late.   Here are their questions and my answers.     https://linktr.ee/striveseekfind Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Grab your sleeping bag and head to the mountains to find yourself some peace.   With a shout out to Betty White Worth mentioning (regarding Kungas) https://linktr.ee/striveseekfind Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Steering language choice and emotional loading—control people’s responses, emotions, and perceptions of events.  And from politics to advertising from the book of face  experts catch  us unaware.   There are literally 100s of these repurposed or misquoted quotes that that pervade our culture. Today we are going to look at a few of these… a couple of favorites… and a couple that my...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Strive Seek Find we look at how the old analogy "burn your ships behind you",  discuss a bit of the history behind it and  how its been co-opted by the wrong ideas in leadership.    Also this week; If you're not paying attention Worth Mentioning  Shoutouts https://linktr.ee/striveseekfind Support the show

Send us Fan Mail New Year New beginnings”  thousands if not millions of people  are just days away from declaring their intention to change through the traditional  New Years resolution. For most of us…. This is a complete crock of crap   Not because change is bad…. But because of what we think making change is.  Also included in this episode:  Shout outs, Worth mentioning and If you aren't p...

Send us Fan Mail   Welcome to the Strive Seek Find Podcast.  I’m your host Chance Whitmore.  Its been a chaotic month.    Death of my dad, the holidays and work have created one of the more challenging months  that I can remember.  Its been tough…  and emotional.. and honestly I won’t pretend to be over it.   That being said.  Life moves on. While I’m not batting 100…. I thought today I thought I...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Strive Seek Find Podcast, I’m your host Chance Whitmore. So for a variety of reasons my head is all over the place this week.   Eventually you will heard about many of these, but today it seemed to be appropriate to hit something simple.  Here in the states we have Thanksgiving this week.   Now ignoring some of the sanitized history of the celebration (one of many w...

Send us Fan Mail About a year ago  I had an episode (which I’ll link to on my website) where I’d talked about the idea trying to raise fearless girls.   One many things  had reinforced for me in the past year is the positive and negative impacts that fear can have on you… and what you can learn from it.  both yourself and your kids.   Special Feature:   a post election rant  With Shout outs and Wo...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Strive Seek Find Podcast.  I’m your host Chance Whitmore.   This episode marks the  questions  “ Ten questions” episode . The ten questions episodes are based around a simple concept:  Allowing people to talk about the things  they are passionate about.  It can be a job, hobby, cause, or anything in between.  Today I’m joined by  Zac,  an avid expert camper and long...

Send us Fan Mail About a year ago I put up an episode that ended up being my most listened to ever… “Let’s not be an Object Lesson” on the eve of the Presidential elections.   I was worried about reactions to the election and apparently  while I had the time frame off.  The concern was real (thanks a lot  January 6), but we are  just beginning to look at the myriad of ways that our society has be...

Send us Fan Mail So…  life is the most normal that we have seen around my house in the nlast several years.   The latest sign of this is… everyone…  Has activities.   Basketball, dance, and martial arts (my daughter is already groaning at my Kung fu jokes. So when there was a chance to sneak away for an hour  this weekend.  We ran with it.     What was supposed to be 3 quick winery pickups (so tha...

Send us Fan Mail Parenting  at the best of times is a dubious adventure wrapped up in stress excitement,  guilt,  and ,  a large  helping of “What the hell are they thinking?   I’m sure that’s not ever going to change  As kids grow up  one of our jobs  is to know when its time to back off and let go…. And when it is time to keep the  framework so they have structure.    Along with some judgemental...

Send us Fan Mail    Many of us have looking for meaning in the  events of the last two years.   While watching the news recently something hit me:  Are we  stuck in a societal cycle of grief?   Also in this episode : Shoutouts Dark Web Worth Mentioning https://linktr.ee/striveseekfind Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes Its life’s small events that remind you of what’s important.   That’s been my weekend.  And with gratitude I thought I’d share this with you today.  https://linktr.ee/striveseekfind Support the show

Send us Fan Mail The old saying is  the squeaky wheel gets greased.  To certain extent that is true, but somewhere along the line  people have translated this to mean  “Whoever screams loudest and longest get’s there way.    And honestly,   that’s problematic.  https://linktr.ee/striveseekfind Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Strive Seek Find Podcast I’m your host, Chance Whitmore.  Life is easy when everything is hitting on all cylinders…  These days it often is not.   This week, as we  return to school I’m reminded of this very fact.    How  we deal with parts of our life being spinning (nearly) out of control will whether we  control the insanity… or  collapse under the strain of a li...

Send us Fan Mail  I have to say  hearing the phrase “well it’s the new normal”  makes me want to scream.  Not sure why.  Perhaps because we aren’t close to stability or that we are tone deafly marching forward in denial, but either way it has joined my list  of most hated phrases.   So today, rather than claiming things are  back to normal, I thought reminder of where we are at might be in order....

Send us Fan Mail It’s been an interesting couple of weeks in the Whitmore Household.  School starts with all the chaos that ensues as we moved from one schedule to five distinctly separate schedule.   At  the best of times it’s a sprint  and worst its  running through the forest at night with your eyes closed.  And then the special chaos arrived.     Called to school on day 4 to pick up my daughte...

Send us Fan Mail The ten questions episodes are based around a simple concept:  Allowing people to talk about the things  they are passionate about.  It can be a job, hobby, cause, or anything in between.  Today I’m joined by  Dave from the Beer in Front Podcast about his enjoyment of  podcasting and beer.  So join us in learning  the why of the Beer in Front Pocast and what we can learn from Dave...

Send us Fan Mail Bernard Shaw once said “Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."   And at times when we’re grinding, I can’t help but think that is true.    As I am starting back into my “busy 9 months” I find myself thinking about how to capture the  “mental energy” in a bottle to sustain me through the cold winter months.   Those times of years where the grin...

Send us Fan Mail We’ve been home from Hawaii exactly a week  as we record this.  It feels oh so much longer than that. In the second of several of our Hawaii vacation episodes, tonight  Amy and I will discuss our eclectic alcohol experiences while spending on the week on big island.  Its here!   https://linktr.ee/striveseekfind Support the show

Send us Fan Mail This episode marks second   “ Ten questions” episode . The ten questions episodes are based around  a simple concept:  Allowing people to talk about the things  they are passionate about.  It can be a job, hobby, cause, or anything  in between.  Today  I’m joined by  Phil Diplock, head baseball coach at a local high school.  Support the show