I met DJ Doran when he reached out to interview me about my podcast. We hit it off rather quickly, and of course I had to have him on to discuss Curiosity. In fact, the whole Curiosity interview series was inspired by DJ! See, DJ told me my podcast made…
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Preview KEW Curiosity Series Interview 3: DJ Doran
DJ Doran is a podcaster, visionary, pilot, sailor, and an all around genuinely good dude. He currently heads and/or manages several multimedia outlets representing the LBGTQ community. He’s a leader, and definitely a mover and a shaker. Yet he seems to have his life well balanced between his family and…
FLASHBACK! KEW Episode 23: Who’s Right?
Would you rather be RIGHT, or HAPPY? Think about it. How many times have you faced this situation: You disagree with someone. A spouse, a friend, or coworker. And instead of getting curious and trying to understand each other, you end up in a posturing match of who will more…
Kew Episode 42: Safety
Recently I discovered, or I guess RE-discovered, my 13 year old self around the time I moved from Georgia to Ohio. I figured this was an important time in my life and have always wondered how it might have affected me. By exploring my feelings and thoughts, from my heart…
Preview KEW Episode 42: Safety
One of our basic human needs is to feel safe. I realized recently that I created my own safety as a kid in response to bullying. My thirteen-year-old self built a protective cocoon my bedroom filled with all the things I loved and valued. Maybe all teenagers do this, but…
FLASHBACK! KEW Episode 22: Time
Time. It’s our most valuable resource, yet for half our lives we think we have enough. Hell, we think we’re immortal for a good part of our lives, as if we have all the time in the world. Youth, is wasted on the young; retirement, on the old. But all…
KEW Curiosity Series Interview 2: Mandy Napier
Mandy Napier resides in Australia where she shares her thirteen years of experience as the ‘mindset alchemist’, a high performance mindset and executive coach (and via zoom, obviously). She has represented Australia in the international Iron Man competition in Hawaii. After being forced to give up her sport, she focused…
Preview KEW Curiosity series: Mandy Napier
I am so lucky to have met Mandy Napier. I stumbled upon her when Google searching for Curiosity. She had published an article called “Why Curiosity is the Essential Skill to Build Right Now“. I reached out to her, thinking she could share with us how Curiosity had influenced her…
FLASHBACK! KEW Episode 21: We All Feel Different (But We’re All the Same)
In this Episode I tried to capture the feeling we all have sometimes that we don’t belong. Some of us feel this way most all the time, others just every once in awhile. You may have experienced it as ‘Imposter Syndrome’, when you get a new job or join a…
KEW Episode 41: State of the Podcast
Just checking in this week with some observations about KEW. It’s been almost a year and over 40 episodes. I’ve learned a lot and am doing my best to deliver the highest quality content. What’s new? -I have shortened the episodes. Though 50 minutes works for my ‘thinking cycle’, I…