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Send us Fan Mail Going to geek out a bit today.    A little celebration  of parts of myself that I have been missing a bit for the last year or two.   In the last few month as things have begun to loosen up ( as much as it will for the foreseeable future and some of my other interests have started to come back.    Today I thought I’d talk about a few of these beginnning with movies and books. Supp...

Send us Fan Mail Well while in Hawaii its important to have a few new life experiences.   This is the first  of several episodes that are coming out of ourHawaiian adventures.  Join Amy and I  today as we hike the Kuleana Iki trail that takes you through floor of a dormant volcano.    Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Con men,  flim-flam artists the like, when it comes to movies we revel in their getting away with it  while knowing eventually they will eventually get there comeuppance , it is easy to forget in those situations these people are the worst kind of predator preying on  the susceptible.   Today we are going to look at a few of the worst cases and talk briefly about what they all hav...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Strive Seek Find Podcast.  I’m your host Chance Whitmore.   This episode marks the first of a new  type of episodes.  “ Ten questions”. 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.  Tonight for our inaugural episode, I’m jo...

Send us Fan Mail After lockdown, post lock down, another variant is a coming and a million other things  I’m fairly sure that we are ALL Ready to get away.   How an what this looks  like will be different for everyone. Knowing the vacation styles of those you travel with and what they need is important for your stress level.    Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Season 2.   A few weeks ago I road tripped into Oregon for the first time in over a year.  It gave me an opportunity to look at things through new eyes because while Oregon borders on Idaho… they tend to be very  different places at the heart.   In a previous bonus  episode I touched on some the high quality beverages that seem to be everywhere in Oregon , today I...

Send us Fan Mail Strive Seek Find returns for season 2 Support the show

Send us Fan Mail So this week was time for a Breakaway.   I needed a break from work.   Season 1 was wrapping up.  It was a great time to get away. A  road trip was in order. Thanks to  our Friend Charlie,   a group of us were able to come together this weekend  and hit the road to the some of the best (intentionally) and worsts… (accidentally)  breweries in central Oregon.     Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Whitmore.  Welcome to Episode 52 of the Strive Seek Find Podcast   I’m excited today.   Last June I challenged myself to do 52 weekly episodes of what would become this podcast.   I’m proud to say. Its been with bonus episodes closer to sixty with the bonus episodes.   Now that I’m done patting myself on my back for the simple accomplishment of being consistent, this week I was re...

Send us Fan Mail  In celebration of episode 51 I’m trying something new. So today is the first step into an experiment.  I’ve been wanting to take the podcast a little more mobile, so at the suggestion of Friend of the show Mike I’ve picked up a new Rhode mic for my phone.   So adventuring has a new companion.    Which today we working through multiple purposes:   seeing if my idea  work in the gr...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Strive Seek Find Podcast.   I’m your host  Chance Whitmore.  A lot happened this week.  Early birthdays, concerts,  and work accelerating towards a “slowdown” and more.   It was a  long busy week and I regret nothing though admittedly my rear is dragging.   In the process I ran across a couple opportunities to watch experts in their field  work their magic.   It rem...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Strive Seek Find Podcast. I’m your host Chance Whitmore.  The old Proverb “timing is everything” has more  uses than any of us can count.   Oftentimes it ends up sounding as cliché  as  the related “Strike while the iron is hot”  Funny thing about clichés though ,  many of them end up being overused in great part because they have a elements of truth in them.   In t...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Strive Seek Find podcast I’m Chance Whitmore.  As I record this, its Mother’s Day. So I’ll start out with gratitude to my mother and my wife. Both of whom have had to put up with me for much longer than anyone should.   That being said, sometimes on days like these we  get trapped in narrow definitions and forget how many people truly help us raise our kids.   Hilla...

Send us Fan Mail  Farmer’s market it was a wonderful escape prior to yard work today.  Looking for plant starts. Lots of baked & handmade goods. Families strolling in the sun.  Watching the entertainment.   What I didn’t go for was to hear  people  lectured about why their beliefs were a recipe for an express elevator to hell.  Well this got me thinking as I wandered and things got worse.  How...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a very special bonus episode of  Strive Seek Find:  Its spring time.   days are getting longer and finally warmer.   Its time for a crisp refreshing go to drink.   Last year during quarantine I worked on my recipe slowly lowering the citrus and growing my appreciation of different gin.   We are dialed in…. and then my culinary Jedi master, Alton Brown  informed me… ther...

Send us Fan Mail   I’m good at reminding others to take care of themselves.   I’m less good at actually doing it myself.  I know  that this probably holds true for many of us. Right now, as we are continuing to grind through a world that is still in flux, taking care of yourself is mission critical.  So as we begin to move toward summer, its  important to remind us all of a few parts of this… and...

Send us Fan Mail .   One of the things that I remember quite well from last year  at this time was how energetic and productive I was.    The garden boxes , the the table, the yard and garden were done and incredible shape. The universe was making things difficult, but I was personally kicking a little ass.    But life is a marathon, not a sprint.  And that manic energy, at least in my case has wa...

Send us Fan Mail We all have our reasons for doing things.  At times we don’t truly recognize it ourselves.   Even when we are acting at what seems to be our most altruistic there are often elements of selfishness inherently built in to our actions.   Most of the time it may not matter as long as the “good gets done” At other times, those bits of selfishness, whether  they are unconscious or not c...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Strive Seek Find Podcast, I’m Chance Whitmore. on some level it would be nice if TRUTH was a capital T  ruth rather than something we need to dig into to discover.   And with the 24 hour news cycle (which is more interested in being first and interesting rather than accurate), social media (speaking of interesting over accurate… easy of spreading inaccuracy and lets...

Send us Fan Mail Dichotomies fascinate  me. Right now it seems to me that are living in  culture that seems to be made up of almost nothing else.  Part of this can be but down to the shift nature of  our culture.   Some of it is me noticing things that were already there, but the ways the puzzle pieces continue to change and yet still slide together is just short of a miracle.   Today I thought I’...

Send us Fan Mail .  The last year travel, especially travel to see family has been severely curtailed foremost of us.   My family had camped  and  road tripped in our area of the state while  keeping to isolation last summer—but it has been months of a dry spell in travel.  This week  changed that.   Spring break started.  My wife and I are a month past our second vaccination and my parents have a...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a very special bonus episode of  Strive Seek Find: Irish Whiskey edition.  Irish Whiskey the second type I fell for  during my journey into whiskey love my trip.  So tonight we are going to try four whiskeys  and tell you which of the batch win’s the  highly coveted Best in Liquor Cabinet Award.   Happy St. Patrick's Day Support the show

Send us Fan Mail  Once again  changes are in the air.  Our friendly neighborhood  Global pandemic seems to be fading black.  There's a feeling that normal Is right around the corner., or at least a less stressful version of now; which will slow congeal into a new normal.  But today I thought it might be fun to mention some of the things  we learned during the pandemic that I  would like to ho...

Send us Fan Mail There is nothing like an  discussion with your kids.   Attacking a problems,  watching them consider a solution with  fresh eyes.   Even if it does come from one of the intentionally weirdest conversations I could have had its a amazing to watch them grow  And the real world twist that brought the point home for me and gave me a growth opportunity alongside of my daughter.   Suppo...

Send us Fan Mail I don’t know about you these days  but I find myself CAPITAL E exhausted right now and I have a feeling, based on my   not terrible astute as normal observations,  I’m not alone in this feeling.    So pry your eyelids open,  get off the couch and  Let’s get started.   Support the show