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Send us Fan Mail If you have ever turned on the radio while driving with your kids  to sports talk mind you, and had the first phrase involve  arrest during an orgy;  you know exactly how fast you can truly move.    Yeah.  That happened about  week ago. Not my proudest hour,   but it has put me in a mind set where it made me think about my commute a bit and how it impacts my   10 and 4 year old as...

Send us Fan Mail   Failure.   A word with so many uses.   From machine breakage “critical failure of a key component”,   to grades “ you failed the class”, it often used as a word to mark as an end rather than any sort of  opportunity for growth.     So while I have been processing this  in my own life I thought I’d share what I hope is a healthy perspective.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Zoom cocktail parties became a think in our house while we were locked in.  It forced us to open up or pallets to different flavors.  And as a staunch believer that Whiskey should be consumed neat this has  been a bit of a struggle for me.  With most of us safe at home for Valentine’s day this year, we thought this would be a  way to spruce up your holiday at home.  So as a treat...

Send us Fan Mail Nostalgia is a tricky thing. You find something you once  loved  and your growth  has the potential  to ruin what you most like  as you look back  and see not what you loved about it , but what you realize is wrong with it.   It can be little things like realizing how poorly written  a favorite story or movie really was.  Or it can be oh so much more.   Today I thought I might wal...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Strive Seek Find Podcast, I’m Chance Whitmore.  Last week due to my job I had the opportunity to get the first dose of my Covid vaccination.   It brought back a question that I have been asking myself on and off for a while now.   What responsibility do we have  for our fellow man?   Just a small question.  To start your day with.. Roll it around in your brain.  Wha...

Send us Fan Mail   I’ve been feeling a bit locked in as of late between work, projects,  and family illness (thankfully not Covid)  and we have been a bit more “about the house” than I would have preferred the last few months.  Last weekend that changed. Not to the extent I really planned, but a winter road trip adventure . It was just what the doctor ordered for me and more importantly, for the f...

Send us Fan Mail Has anyone else noticed that that as a society we  have  seen a shift  toward wealth as the main definition of accomplishment    and from achievement to building a brand?  Its very much a  “we to me” approach that doesn’t necessarily fit with people growing anything more than a bank account.  Why did we make that switch?  Why is accomplishment  viewed as transactional? What has ha...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Strive Seek Find Podcast  I’m Chance Whitmore.  My most important role  and my most challenging on are of course the same thing:  parenting.   Even at the best of times its challenging   and at the worst Its heart rending.  It doesn’t matter the age, parenting is not going to go easy.  So I’ve been thinking about parenting.   And here’s what I came up with. Support...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Stive Seek Find Podcast. I’m Chance Whitmore. This is it.   The first week of 2021.  At times   it has seemed like this year would never end and in other ways, it may have seemed like the fastest year ever as the world dealt with change after change.    And while we were doing that on a personal level some cool things happened around the world.   Now as 2021 begins...

Send us Fan Mail Let's ring in 2021!  On this special Bonus Episode we  are tasting Scotch Whisky.  How to drink it. How to pair it and most importantly the memories that go with it.   Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Without a doubt the last 10 months have proved challenging for people worldwide.  Even without major personal tragedy  (which there has been more than enough of for one year),  there are few people who haven’t struggled getting through this year.   In times like these it Is easy to dwell on the negative and let ourselves get ground down during these times.  Today I want to ask you...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Strive Seek Find Podcast. I’m Chance Whitmore.  It’s the Christmas week and and I’m feeling festive.   Christmas is my favorite holiday… and its not even close.  Which brings me to a little fun today.   For those of you who are asking for a more traditional Christmas than 2020  can provide you.  I’m asking question:  Which parts of  Christmas do you consider traditi...

Send us Fan Mail I’m rolling this rock up a hill.  Not so bad.  I’m making progress. get closer and close to the top.    And just as I get to the top something shoves back hard and down to the bottom of the hill with the rock bouncing in hard pursuit.    Till it comes to rest even further down the hill.   Maybe the rock has 2020 carved into it.  Maybe it represents a habit.  Either way that bad bo...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Strive Seek Find Podcast.  I’m Chance Whitmore. So this week brought one of those shocks to the system.  A gut punch of sorts that makes you do some self-evaluation.  The event, well that’s not my story to tell.  Its sufficient to say that this week I got to watch a family’s life to ripped to shreds in such a way that they will never be able to pull the remains into...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Strive Seek Find Pod cast. I’m chance Whitmore. a little over six months ago I decided that I needed to do a podcast.   After one abortive start  I launched SSF.  Its been challenging, its been exciting , and I wouldn’t trade it.  So today to celebrate making it this far I thought I’d reflect a bit.    1)Discuss what I learned 2) look back at where we’ve been 3) loo...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Strive Seek Find Pod cast. I’m Chance Whitmore. I don’t know about you but I’m sensing a little stress anxiety and general worry in the world right now. Whether it’s the election outcome or Covid numbers exploding or 100 other stressors at seem to be more prevalent than ever to feel like life is happening to us.     Now I’m going to say something absolutely ground s...

Send us Fan Mail  Last year at this time I was trying to pull together a trip to DC for my family—COVID was not on our radar.  It marked a change in how my family wanted to view gift giving  and started the process of getting our kids parental dates to local events. We took them to see an acrobatic troupe at the local college and took them to hear an Irish band visiting our town.   It started out...

Send us Fan Mail The old saying "when one door closes and another opens" has a lot of truth to it, but if you don't like where that door goes dive out a window.  Opportunities come and go at times you don't even notice their passage, while others can leave you with feelings of regret.  All that's natural, but today we will discuss adversity and the opportunity that flows f...

Send us Fan Mail When you hear three times in a week from normal conversations the phrase Civil War mentioned in a non-historical context its a problem.   I’m sitting here on Halloween considering the future.  This week  I walked away from conversations with  average people thinking “We must be better.”  Today specifically I’m going to talk just a bit about rights and  the often forgotten counter...

Send us Fan Mail    The best stories pull you and  make you feel what happens on the printed page or on screen.  Today we are going to look at an example of one of these techniques:  suspense.  And the example I’m pulling from today is one of my favorites in television  the opening episode of Season 1 of the 2004 Reboot of Battlestar Galactica title 33.    Support the show

Send us Fan Mail  In life we will face conflict.   It is as certain as sunrise and  Internet trolls.  While conflict can be good and healthy part of life.   At other times  conflict becomes more trying as people try to pull an emotional reactions from you in order to gain advantage. How you respond or don’t respond speaks impacts your long-term success  or failure in these situations.  In the proc...

Send us Fan Mail Perfection.   We are supposed  to seek it, to work toward it find ways to make it happen. Who set that bar?  Realistically… Perfect  rarely happens outside of a computer model. And yet most of us have cut our teeth on chasing perfection.  In the last six month that drive has been upended as people were dumped out of their comfort zones, their status quo disrupted, home lives broug...

Send us Fan Mail I recently spent 30 minutes staring at the spines of travel books.  Dreaming.   I don’t “go go go” all the time, but I like the possibility,  especially now when there is no possibility of leaving the country it feels especially poignant. It got me thinking of things I have learned on my trips so far.    As well as  how they can apply elsewhere.   Let’s be honest I’m suffering fro...

Send us Fan Mail Today on Strive Seek find we are going to take a look at the importance of relationships in life and work as well as the way they may have evolved during the Covid Crisis.  In either case  relationships tend to be  critical to our long-term success  and mental health,but where do the relationships start and how do they continue to function.. that is the question I’ll briefly attem...

Send us Fan Mail Over the past few years it has felt  like we have seen people become more  entrenched and inflexible in their thinking.  Stuck in belief  even when faced with overwhelming proof to the contrary.      It is an understatement to say that it makes things frustrating.  Whether we are talking Flat earth, science denier, people who learned history from Wolfenstein games or any of the ot...