Diary of a Bald Man

Many of us are like chameleons; we try to adapt our physical, mental, and emotional projections to fill the eyes and mentality of those around us with what we think they want to see. It’s time to pull your ass out of the box and live without the fear of not being accepted. Be fat, blunt, and full of love – what you see in the mirror is the one you have to consider the most.

When I started to work on this episode, I knew it would be different for quite a few reasons. With JR working remotely with family in Washington state, I used AI-generated voices for the intro and outro, and it sucked! I was then fortunate enough to find the legendary Keith Krammer on Fiverr. With the assistance of a radio talk show professional and audio engineer, I changed the face of the show –...

What do Colonel Harlan Sanders, Julia Childs, Duncan Hines, Ray Kroc, and I have in common? We would all have wait until we were after 50 to become famous. I just turned 54 on the 14th and found out three things. The first is that I did not win the lottery. Not a damn penny The second is that after getting my tattoo on Saturday at Crater City Ink that was mentioned in the intro, that if I was goin...

So when I was working with a team of maintenance workers with a high number of lacerations, and injuries to their hands, I found the perfect way to reduce the issues within two months. I gave first aid kits to teams that didn’t need them and had the lowest injury rates. Listen to this episode to learn how a group mindset and poor safety practices were triggered to change in under 10 minutes.

So in this segment, I am discussing the –  Safety Outlook for 2022 In the safety industry, many of us have been institutionalized these past two years by the effects of the pandemic and the severe conditions placed on them by OSHA and by the members of management not knowing how to deal with the events. The year has to start with reassessing the site or project for hazards or changes—updates...

If 1990 was the bitch in my life, then 1995 was the start of the ball! Bill Clinton was president, the devastation Oklahoma City bombing occurred, OJ Simpson was not found guilty of murder, Mike Tyson was released from prison. Windows ’95, eBay, and PlayStation made their appearance after the Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the Russian Mir space station, and Operation Desert Storm officially en...

1990 was the best and worst of times for me. In this first episode on Diary of a Bald Man, I talk about how a life changing event took me from a perceived "top of the world," to an epic failure. It's not how we fall - it's how we fight to get back up that's important. By not living with regrets of what could have been - we are free to do so much better.