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LifeBlood
by LifeBlood
A Human Wellbeing and Flourishing podcast, featuring professionals and subject matter experts, released daily. Get Better, Live How You Want.
Episodes
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2650: It's OK to Like Your Culture
It's OK to like your culture. It's OK to love your country. And it's OK to appreciate what previous generations built without pretending they were perfect. Imagine your grandparents built a beautiful house. They sacrificed, they saved, and they built something to last. When it's passed down to…
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2649: Work and the Grace of God
“Pray as though everything depended on God, work as though everything depended on you.” That line captures so many of the great tensions of life all at once. Ultimately none of this belongs to us—the money, the house, the business, the body, the reputation, even the people we love. We’re…
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2648: Nutritionally Illiterate: Was the Death of Home Ec the Death of Us?
We talk constantly about financial literacy. But what about nutritional literacy? Think about how strange this is: You can spend the first 18 years of your life being fed by other people, then suddenly become responsible for feeding yourself three times a day for the rest of your life—with almost...
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2647: Finding Your Own Good, Your Own Way
Finding Your Own Good, Your Own Way We've gotten extraordinarily good at manufacturing pleasure — food engineered for the next bite, apps engineered for the next scroll, infinite entertainment on tap. Stimulation is easy. Fulfillment is not. Comfort isn't meaning. Pleasure isn't purpose. Feeling...
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2649: Escaping Modern Slavery: Opt Out of Dependency
Are you actually free? You can have a good salary, a nice house, two cars, every convenience imaginable—and still be completely dependent on your next paycheck. And money isn't the only thing being extracted from you. Your attention, energy, appetites, and time are constantly being competed for…
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2648: Start Walking Away: Some Things Can't Come with You
Maybe freedom isn't being able to do whatever you want. Maybe freedom is being able to NOT do what you want. To put the phone down. To not buy the thing. To skip the drink. To walk away from the approval. To leave the opportunity alone. To say no to something pleasurable because there's something...
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2647: Are You a Terrible Person? Do Your Part
LifeBlood: Are you a terrible person? Probably not. But how would you know? Character isn't only revealed by the enormous decisions we make. It's revealed by the tiny things we do when there's no reward for behaving well and almost no consequence for behaving badly. Do you return the shopping…
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2646: F@#K You I Won't Do What You Tell Me: Rage Against the Right Machine
What if the most rebellious thing you can do today is think for yourself? We live in an outrage economy. Every headline is an emergency. Every controversy is existential. Everyone wants your attention, your anger, your fear, your vote, or your money. But not every dragon is real. In this episode…
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2645: Where the F Am I? What to Do When You're Feeling Lost
LifeBlood: Ever look around at your life and wonder, “Where the f#&k am I?” Not geographically. In your life. Maybe your career isn't where you expected it to be. Your finances have drifted. Your health has slipped. Your relationships feel different. Or maybe everything looks fine from the…
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2644: Better Tolerance: Not Everything is Life or Death
LifeBlood: We live in a world that increasingly pushes us toward black-and-white thinking: good or evil, right or wrong, friend or enemy, us or them. But human beings aren't black and white. This episode explores the difference between chiaroscuro- the artistic use of dramatic contrasts between...
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2643: The Work of Life is Inside: The Joy of Life is Outside
LifeBlood: The work of life is inside. The joy of life is outside. We spend a lot of time searching outside ourselves for the missing piece—the relationship, money, success, recognition, accomplishment, or experience that will finally make us feel whole. But there’s no external solution to an...
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2642: Family: The Most Important Thing You'll Ever Build
LifeBlood: We spend enormous amounts of time building careers, businesses, résumés, investment portfolios, and net worth. But what are all those things supposed to be for? G.K. Chesterton called family a “fairy-tale”- an unpredictable world filled with people we didn't choose, rules we didn't...
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2641: Number Your Days: You've Only Got So Many of Them
LifeBlood: There are only about 50 Saturdays in a year. An 80-year life contains roughly 4,000 weeks. Your kids will only believe in Santa for a handful of Christmases. There will be a finite number of dinners with your parents, years when your body is at its strongest, and seasons when you have...
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2640: Shop Different with Ron Johnson
LifeBlood: We talked about Ron's career journey from Target to Apple to JCPenney, the current state of physical and omnichannel retail, go-to-market strategy, relationship-based customer experience, the influence of AI on retail and employment, and Steve Jobs' leadership style, with Ron Johnson,...
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2639: The Fiction of Instant:Why Everything Takes Longer than We'd LIke
LifeBlood: We've been sold the fiction of instant. Next-day delivery. Food on demand. Buy now, pay later. Endless entertainment at our fingertips. We've engineered waiting out of more and more of our lives…and somehow started expecting everything else to work the same way. But the things that...
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2638: Raising Strong Sons and Daughters: Preparing Them to Holdout When Necessary
How do you raise children who are strong enough to stand alone? Someday, your son or daughter may find themselves in a room where everyone else believes one thing—and they believe another. You won't be there to tell them what to do. So how do we raise independent thinkers who can recognize what's...
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2637: How to Find World Peace: It's Easier Than You Think
LifeBlood: World peace feels like one of humanity’s biggest and most impossible challenges. But what if we’ve been starting in the wrong place? Mother Teresa is widely credited with offering a remarkably simple answer when asked what someone could do to promote world peace: “Go home and love your...
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2636: Faithfulness Over Success: Become a Good Steward
LifeBlood: What if the goal of your life isn't to become great? We're encouraged to dream big, achieve more, build something extraordinary, and make our mark. And there’s nothing inherently wrong with ambition. But ambition makes a terrible god. In this episode, we explore the deeper meaning of...
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2635: The Right Person to Lead: How to Stop Electing Morons
LifeBlood: Who is actually the right person to lead? The smartest person? The strongest? The most empathetic? The toughest? The most experienced? Maybe we're asking the wrong questions. Modern politics seems increasingly designed to select for fundraising, charisma, tribal loyalty, outrage,...
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2634: What's the Way Forward? How to Take Action in Uncertain Times
LifeBlood: What’s the way forward? For starters…it’s forward. You cannot change the past, reclaim lost years, or undo what happened to you. You can forgive, learn, accept reality, determine your next best move, and start moving. This episode explores why victimhood is a losing strategy, why...
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2633: The Town that Ate its Seed Corn: EVERYTHING Compounds
LifeBlood: There was once a prosperous farming town with a peculiar tradition: every harvest, they took some of their very best corn and locked it away. They called it seed corn. Then someone asked a perfectly reasonable question: Why are we keeping perfectly good food in a barn when people could...
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2632: This Ends Here: When to Draw a Line in the Sand
LifeBlood: There comes a point when keeping your mouth shut stops being prudence and starts becoming self-betrayal. We live in an age of tribalism, outrage, intimidation, and ideological zealotry. Too often, reasonable people respond by holding their tongues, nodding along, and avoiding...
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2631: Deadly Serious: Are You Protecting What Matters Most?
LifeBlood: Not everything deserves to be taken deadly serious. But some things do. Your family. Your health. Your work. The people who trust you. The responsibilities you've willingly accepted. The things you've decided matter most. The challenge is figuring out what those things are—and then...
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2630: Undeniable Ambition
LifeBlood: Every civilization must answer one timeless question: What should we do with human ambition? James Madison believed ambition should check ambition. Ayn Rand believed it should be unleashed. Karl Marx believed it was created by capitalism. B.F. Skinner believed it could be engineered...
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2629: Bridges, Seeds, or Garbage
LifeBlood: Not every contribution has to change the world. Some people build bridges that future generations will cross. Others plant seeds they'll never see grow. And sometimes the greatest act of responsibility is simply picking up the garbage everyone else walks past. This episode explores...
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2628: Overcoming Shame with Dr. Frank Spinelli
LifeBlood: We talked about overcoming shame, the distinction between guilt and shame, common sources of shame across demographics,the shame spiral and its link to addiction, the Four P's framework (Pause, Present, Ponder, Possibilities), the neuroscience of self-compassion, and the importance of...
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2627: Tolerance is Overrated
LifeBlood: Tolerance is often treated as an unquestionable virtue. But should it be? You get what you tolerate. That's true with your children, your relationships, your organization, your community, and ultimately your society. This episode explores the limits of tolerance, why values without...
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2626: Have You Asked?
LifeBlood: When we see a big problem, what's our first instinct? Do we ask who should pay? Or do we ask who is best equipped to help solve it? This episode explores a simple but powerful question: Have you asked? Using Elon Musk as one example, not as the point, we examine a much bigger idea…
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2625: Return Maxing
LifeBlood: Most people believe success comes from doing more. More work. More saving. More exercise. More planning. More learning. But life doesn't reward endless effort…it rewards wise investment. This episode explores the economic principle of diminishing returns and introduces a new framework:...
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2624: Achievement and Self-Worth
LifeBlood: Should your self-worth be separated from your achievements? Maybe…but only if we're talking about outcomes. Money, promotions, awards, and recognition don't determine your value as a person. But the promises you keep to yourself? Those matter. This episode explores why self-confidence...
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2623: That Which Feeds Me, Destroys Me
LifeBlood: What if you lost everything tomorrow? Not your family. Not your health. Just...your stuff. Your house. Your furniture. Your closet. Your garage. Everything. What would you replace immediately? What would you never buy again? This episode explores how loss creates clarity, why our...
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2622: What If It Works?
LifeBlood: Is getting what you want actually what you really want? We often imagine the moment of success without thinking about the life that comes after it. We picture the promotion, the business, the relationship, the money, or the new lifestyle, but we stop the movie too soon. This episode...
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2621: Dust Off Your Cape
LifeBlood: What if the hero you've been waiting for is you? This episode explores the timeless archetype of the reluctant hero, from Clint Eastwood's weary gunslingers to Wolverine in Logan, and challenges us to dust off the capes we've quietly packed away. Real heroism isn't about superhuman...
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2620: The Right Frame
LifeBlood: Why can two people experience the exact same situation and walk away with completely different lives? Because of the frame. This episode explores one of the most powerful mindset shifts available to us: reframing. Want to say “Thanks!” You can buy us a cup of coffee....
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2619: Beating the House with Kit Chellel
LifeBlood: We talked about the world of professional gambling, who the elite 1% of gamblers are, how they apply data science and technology to beat the house, what their mindset reveals about risk management more broadly, the parallels between professional gambling and Wall Street investing, the...
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2618: Reimagining Deconstruction
LifeBlood: What does it really mean to "reimagine" society? Anyone can criticize a system. Anyone can point out flaws. But building institutions, maintaining communities, and creating lasting change is far harder than tearing something down. This episode explores the difference between criticism...
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2617: Government Gangsters
LifeBlood: Government exists for a reason, but what happens when it begins acting more like the very organizations it was created to stop? This episode explores the uncomfortable overlap between organized crime and government. From incentives and bureaucracy to constitutional limits and human...
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2616: Everything Compounds
LifeBlood: Everything compounds. Not just money. Confidence or anxiety. Trust or resentment. Health or disease. Saving or spending. This episode explores why and how every day you're making deposits into the person you'll become. Your future is simply the compound interest of today's decisions....
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2615: Every Goal Pays
LifeBlood: Every Goal Pays. But who's getting paid? A sports betting commercial inspired today's episode, and revealed a much bigger truth. Most people spend time, attention, energy, and money betting on outcomes they can't control. What if we redirected those same resources toward ourselves?…
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2614: Society's Thin Veneer
LifeBlood: Society feels permanent, until history reminds us it isn't. Every generation inherits civilization twice: first as beneficiaries, then as stewards. The electricity, clean water, grocery stores, roads, schools, businesses, and freedoms we enjoy today didn't appear by accident. They…
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2613: Conscious Caring with Dr. Tony Nader
LifeBlood: We talked about the concept of conscious caring versus reflexive or obligation-based caring, the physiological and psychological benefits of caring, the importance of balancing self-care with care for others, and the impact of modern information overload on individuals' capacity to…
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2612: IMBY: In My Back Yard
LifeBlood: Everybody knows what they don't want. But have you ever stopped to ask what you actually DO want? This episode explores the idea of IMBY; In My Backyard. Using the familiar idea of NIMBY ("Not In My Backyard"), it challenges us to think less about what we're trying to avoid and more...
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2612: The Blind Truth
LifeBlood: What does a blindfold, a violin audition, and the justice system have in common? More than you might think. This episode explores the timeless principle behind blind auditions, Lady Justice, and judging people as individuals rather than stereotypes. Fairness isn't about ignoring…
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2611: What Matters Is All That Matters
LifeBlood: If nothing matters...then whatever you care about is all that matters. The question isn't whether life has meaning. The question is: What are you building your life around? Because every day you're investing your time, attention, energy, and money into something. Eventually...that...
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2610: There Is No Dependence Day
LifeBlood: We celebrate Independence Day every July, but have you ever noticed we don't celebrate the day America won its freedom? We celebrate the day it declared it. That's because independence isn't a destination…it's an ongoing practice. Freedom is earned, protected, and renewed through...
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2609: The Weight of Caring
LifeBlood: What does it really mean to care? Most people associate caring with kindness, sympathy, and emotional support. While those things matter, they don't tell the whole story. Sometimes caring means holding someone accountable. Challenging them. Refusing to lower the standard because you...
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2607: Put an Oar In the Water
Most people aren't stuck because they're incapable, they're stuck because they're drifting. Putting an oar in the water, grabbing the rudder, raising the sails, and using the spyglass can help you stop drifting and start intentionally building the life you want. If you've ever felt busy but…
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2606: Don't Fold Your Cards
LifeBlood: Some people are dealt incredible advantages, others face challenges from the very beginning. But while we can't control the hand we're dealt, we can control how we play it. Because hope isn't believing you'll win, it's believing your next move still matters. Want to say “Thanks!” You…
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2605: Your Sexual "Why" with Dr. Diane Mueller
LifeBlood: We talked about determining your sexual why, what sexual health means, a three-pillar framework for addressing libido and intimacy (physical, personal, and interpersonal), the science behind declining testosterone levels and hormonal health, root-cause treatment approaches, and...
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2604: A Real American
What does it really mean to be a "real American"? Beyond politics, flags, and slogans, America's Founders envisioned a nation built on self-government, personal responsibility, virtue, and stewardship. Those timeless ideals connect to the everyday choices that shape not only your life, but the...
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A Human Wellbeing and Flourishing podcast, featuring professionals and subject matter experts, released daily. Get Better, Live How You Want.
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