The Alchemy Continuum - Built by Wisdom, Guided by Change

Send a text This is just a quick service announcement to talk briefly about an exciting pivot of format and interview subjects coming up very soon. Also here is the link to get the free guide if you've tried and couldn't get it before.  Our site got hacked and we're just now starting to recover. 5 Ways to Become a Better Man Now:  Your Guide to the New Modern Chivalry Enjoy and see...

Send a text Will and I currently work together for a large banking corporation and it became evident very quickly to me that this was a guy I wanted to interview for you for this podcast.  He and his partners are responsible for more than a few of the installations and murals you see around Columbus and he's tireless in pursuing new ideas and ways to help further his community. Will Alston jo...

Send a text Lex and I met rather recently through his affiliation with TechQualled and I asked him very quickly if he'd like to be on the podcast, to which he agreed equally as quick. Lex R. Brown II is the Founder and CEO of FortiPhi, LLC, a digital media and e-commerce company, where they engineer content and design products to help people build resilience, adapt to change, overcome adversi...

Send a text I first met Troy a few years ago when he was recruiting me for a tech position in Cincinnati and we became friends very quickly.  He's a very honest and genuine man who loves his family and is dedicated to doing his best every day. He's the Director of Digital at Vaco in Cincinnati, OH and has spent the last decade working to shape user experiences for some of the world’s mos...

Send a text In this episode I share a bit about a few challenges I'm facing right now and my ability to bet on myself, rather than giving into doubt and fear. Will you bet on yourself when the odds may seem stacked against you?  Would you know how to help someone else make a choice in this regard if asked to assist? Look back at your wins and create a powerful momentum from them that can be y...

Send a text Matt Strippelhoff, Partner and CEO at Red Hawk Technologies, is an artist, technologist, serial entrepreneur, husband and a proud father of two. He moved from a small town in central Kentucky to attend the Art Academy of Cincinnati, where he met his soul mate and graduated with a BFA in 1993.  After working as an illustrator and graphic designer for several years, he started his first...

Send a text In this episode that continues my reading from the free guide I give away on bachelorsurvivalguides.com I talk about getting out of your shell and sharing your knowledge with others. As you know if you've listened to my interviews, I ask each man what he would mentor a younger person on.   That's what I'm getting to here - a purpose.  A belief in the world around you and...

Send a text Yes!  Read a book!  Any kind of book, just start reading.  Put down the smartphone, get off TikTok, Tinder, WhatsApp, etc, and read something. Hmmmm - how about if I start you off with a short list of books?  Yes, let's do that.  No particular order and several genres, here we go with some of my all time favorites, all Amazon links: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo...

Send a text David started drawing as a kid, signing up for every class possible, and now, after playing bass in Mad Anthony among other creative endeavors, he’s a film maker who innovates, connects, sparks wonder, and solves problems.  A native of Cincinnati, Ohio now living in Boston, David and I met a few years ago while doing a volunteer project for the United Way.  I got to know him as a gener...

Send a text Reading and thoughts continue from my free guide "5 Ways to Become a Better Man Now:  Your Guide to the Essential Habits That Make People Respect and Honor You" Excerpt: "Exercise is especially important as you start to get older.  That middle age paunch sneaks up on you, which I know from painful experience.  All of a sudden you're on the last notch on your belt an...

Send a text Bachelor Survival Guides:  5 Ways to Become a Better Man Now Your Guide to the Essential Habits that Make People Respect and Honor You http://bachelorsurvivalguides.com Here is from page 1 of the guide: Welcome to your life as a bachelor in the 21st century. I think you’ll agree that the world has never been as complicated as it is right now.  We get closer and closer to our world with...

Send a text Steve has had a great career in the fashion industry in NYC and as President of Pointcarre USA, supports some of the largest and best known companies with what I found in my career in fashion to be the best software for design textiles. He was born in Brooklyn, NY and put himself through college, attending the Parsons School of Design where he earned a BFA in Advertising and Communicat...

Send a text The website has a very brief page on African philosophy so this is a short episode. African Philosophy is a disputed term, partly because it is not clear if it refers to philosophies with a specifically African theme or context (such as distinctively African perceptions of time, personhood, etc.), or just any philosophizing carried out by Africans (or even people of African descent). O...

Send a text So we close out Eastern Philosophy with this Part 2 episode on Japanese philosophy, mainly in the three schools of Buddhism - " Buddhism definitively entered Japan (from its native India , via China and Korea ) in A.D. 550. Each major period after that - the Nara period (up to 784), the Heian period (794–1185) and the post-Heian period (1185 onwards) - saw the introduction of new...

Send a text Our fascinating discovery of Eastern Philosophy continues in this Part 1 of the Japanese schools. Interesting fact:  " Buddhism definitively entered Japan (from its native India , via China and Korea ) in A.D. 550. Each major period after that - the Nara period (up to 784), the Heian period (794–1185) and the post-Heian period (1185 onwards) - saw the introduction of new doctrines...

Send a text Giving you 10 minutes today to make up for the miss yesterday.  We get into the intros of both Chinese and Korean philosophies in this episode with a small side bar on a paper I started writing a couple years ago.  May delve into that soon. Chinese Philosophy refers to any of several schools of philosophical thought in the Chinese tradition , including Confucianism , Taoism , Legalism...

Send a text Join me for part 2 of Indian Philosophy where we mostly discuss Vedanta, with a little bit on Political philosophy at the end. From the page: "The Arthashastra , attributed to the Mauryan minister Chanakya in the 4th Century B.C., is one of the earliest Indian texts devoted to political philosophy, and it discusses ideas of statecraft and economic policy . During the Indian strugg...

Send a text We're going to leave Western behind for a bit and start our dive into Eastern philosophy in this episode.  We get started on Indian today, starting with the Hindu schools of Samkhya and Yoga. Enjoy --- Jeff

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Send a text Part 2 in our discussion of Epistemology, where I re-examine an example in the text that's just a little too loose for me - until I go back and read it again. Ah this philosophy stuff - gotta love it. Enjoy --- Jeff

Send a text Switching it up from the deepness of Existentialism to the new subject of Epistemology.  We about knowledge of "how" and knowledge of "that", and we tackle a tongue twister from Aristotle on the nature of truth. And did you know that Reliabilism, Evidentialism, and Infallibilism are schools of thought that actually exist?  Oh wait - did I just slip back into Existen...

Send a text Hi and welcome back.  Another pivot here to talk you through my 30 Day Fitness Challenge and the results. I created my own challenge and here's the link to a video I produced on how to do it for yourself:  https://youtu.be/XGljz_ex67M Started June 15, 2020  Completed July 14, 2020 (incorrect in audio)  No days missed  Routine: with 25 lb weight plate  https://www.amazon.com/SPRI-W...

Send a text Hi and welcome back to our foray into Existentialism.  In this Part 2, we get into what is currently recognized in modern society and learn that quite a few philosophers wrote both fiction and nonfiction works centering on this theme. We learn more about Nietzsche's considerable influence among his peers and also his opposing viewpoints to other stalwarts of the era such as Pascal...

Send a text Okay - deeper we go into Western Philosophy in this episode on Existentialism Part 1.  We start to learn the definition and also the interesting fact that the philosophers who started it, didn't even call it that.  Enjoy!

Send a text Getting further into the whys and what-fors in Part 2 on Metaphysics, we discover more about the nature of the mind and its relationship to the body.  Not everyone agrees of course, and if they did, it would be boring!