The Relentless Pursuit Podcast

Everyone gets a little lonely sometimes...but in today's era, loneliness is a downright epidemic that is sweeping across the population. With more ways to connect than ever, you'd think we'd feel less lonely, but the truth is we've replaced any of our opportunities for interaction with tech-based conveniences, isolating ourselves. Today we examine the causes of loneliness and t...

Sometimes we're climbing, sometimes we're growing...and sometimes we're simply maintaining what we have. There's nothing glamorous about the maintenance phases of life, but they are a healthy and necessary part of the long game toward self-fulfillment.

Let's dream big dreams for ourselves in 2025...AND let's make sure we actually put the WORK into turning those dreams into realities!

One year ago, we ended 2023 with an episode expressing some disappointment over how much effort we put into our goals but weren't seeing the results. BUT at the end of 2024, we ARE seeing the results we had worked towards. In this final episode of the year, we share what we're proud of and what we credit our progress to. 

We explore our understanding and relationship to sex in marriage by making 12 accurate, creative, and humorous analogies. 

We know everything costs money...but consider what ELSE our desires, goals, impulses, and decisions may also be costing us. 

When we think about it, many of the most significant aspects of who we are stem from relatively small, forgettable, quirky things we might not even notice. Today we recognize the unrecognized and reflect on those quirky things we usually leave off our Thanksgiving Day gratitude lists. 

Even though we'd rather avoid agony and find ecstasy, these two experiences are interwoven. Today we talk about how we might appreciate - even lean into - the agony in pursuit of those ecstatic moments of life. 

We take so much in our lives for granted, assuming they'll always be there and telling ourselves we'll appreciate them "tomorrow." But taking something for granted means that we don't actually appreciate it until it's gone...and too late. This episode is about not waiting until we lose something - or someone - to fully appreciate it. 

What are you hungry for in life, and how are you feeding those hungers?

There are a lot of things we think only children do...but we adults do them, too. Sure, we think we're justified, or that it's different when we're all grown up. But is it? This episode is all about what it means to grow old, and to grow up.

There is not a lot that we think of as sacred, but our body is the vessel of our soul and the union of the physical and divine. Today we consider what "sacred" means and how we might treat ourselves differently if we thought of our bodies that way.

Don't wait for a problem to arise before you think, "We should work on our marriage!" Problems will arise, but if you work on your marriage when things are good, then you will be ready to confront, together, whatever life throws at you.

When we're young, we worry about what people think. As we grow up, we stop worrying so much. And when we're old...we realize no one was thinking about us in the first place. 

October starts the fourth quarter the year. The fourth quarter! That means it's "go time." Time to push hard, dig deep, and finish our year strong. What goals did you start 2024 with? Now it's time to push hard and feel proud of ourselves on December 31. 

Election years in America are known for causing stress, division, and confusion. On this season's finale episode, we talk about how true Relentless Pursuers can stay engaged in the democratic process while maintaining their health, sanity, and fidelity to what they believe is best for themselves and the nation. 

When we trust our gut, there are little warning bells that sometimes go off that tell us perhaps we should proceed with caution. In today's conversation, we list (a little tongue-in-cheek) some of the flags we identify in others, and some of the flags we confess to having in ourselves. 

Our oldest child is 14 years old and starting high school, and he has been asking to get a SnapChat account. We've resisted, and now we are officially deciding if it's time yet to allow him to enter the world of social media. 

When you combine yourself with something that is more than just you as an individual, you are locking your futures and your outcomes together. Marriage is perhaps the best illustration of two people syncing their lives 0- and their futures - with one another. 

How much of your time is spent with media and entertainment? What is the quality and the format of all that content you're consuming? We compare our media consumption to a diet, reflecting on what is good for us or what might be downright harmful. 

"Be careful, little eyes, what you see" is the old advice to our own eyes to make sure that they are not exposing themselves to things that harm us. In this episode we discuss what kinds of media and entertainment we're regularly exposing ourselves to, and consider the CONTENT and FORMATS that may or may not be so good for us to consume.

We come to terms with the ultimate truth of the phrase "we are what we eat," and we cautiously explore what we are really putting into our bodies. 

We discuss the passive influence our environment has over us - from our photos to our food to our clutter - and how we can exert control over the factors that control us. 

As American Independence Day (July 4) comes around again, we ask ourselves, "What does it mean to be American?" We have 4 different answers that explore the history and meaning of this beautiful, vigorous, complex nation and the people that make it what it is.

This summer we're making a few "vows" to ourselves to make sure we maintain the right mentality when it comes to living our healthiest and most successful lives this season.