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Live Right Now
by Allan Haw
Live Right Now is a podcast about living with purpose, presence, and possibility. Host Allan Haw explores honest reflections and real-life lessons about living with purpose, presence, and possibility. Each episode offers thoughtful insight and encouragement to help you slow down, think deeper, and take meaningful action - right now.
Episodes
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When Life Changes Without Your Permission: How to Define What It Means Before It Defines You
When life changes in ways you didn't choose, the instinct is to let the change write the story. But there's always a choice available — even when the change itself wasn't. In this episode, Allan shares what the first weeks of an unexpected career transition taught him about identity, meaning, and...
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The Leader People Want To Follow: Why Reputation Is Built When No One Is Looking
Most of us have had at least one boss who made us feel expendable. And if we're honest, that experience shapes what we decide to become when it's our turn to lead. In this episode, I'm stepping into a new management role and thinking out loud about the kind of leader I want to be — and the kind I...
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Cultivating Connection: What gardening teaches us about the relationships worth keeping
Most of us genuinely care about the people in our lives. We mean to reach out. We tell ourselves we'll get to it. And somehow months pass — not because we stopped caring, but because nothing was urgent enough to interrupt the momentum of daily life. This episode explores why the relationships…
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Take The Next Step: What 235 Days Of Uncertainty Taught Me About Identity and Change
Most of us expect life to hand us a straight path. But real life gives us choices — and sometimes those choices lead somewhere we never planned. In this episode, Allan shares what 235 days of unemployment taught him about identity, change, and what it actually takes to step into a new direction...
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Don't Wait for Permission: What Waiting For Permission Is Costing You
You have roughly 4,000 weeks on this earth. So why are you still waiting for permission to start? In this episode of Live Right Now, Allan explores what waiting really costs you — and why most of us have been conditioned since childhood to wait for an assignment before we begin. Through the lens…
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Can or Should? The Slow Drift Of Small Decisions
Most people don't ruin their lives in one big decision. They do it in small ones that don't feel like a decision at all. In this episode of Live Right Now, Allan explores how temporary choices quietly become permanent patterns — and why the gap between "just because you can" and "you should" is...
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The Show Must Go On: How to Keep Going When Motivation Stops Working
There are seasons when starting something is hard. And there are seasons when the harder part is staying with it — when motivation fades, everything feels heavier, and you're left wondering why you said yes to this in the first place. This week on Live Right Now, we're talking about what to do…
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Life's Too Short To Drink Cheap Beer: Why You Keep Settling – And How To Stop
What if the thing standing between you and a fuller life isn't fear or circumstance — but a quiet agreement you made with yourself to accept less than you deserve? In this episode, Allan unpacks a phrase he's been saying for years — "Life's too short to drink cheap beer" — and what it really…
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Expanding the Circle: How I Learned the Heart Has No Limits
What if the love you feel for your family was never meant to stop there? In this episode of Live Right Now, Allan explores what a single moment at a basketball game — three words shouted without thinking — revealed about love, connection, and the way we treat the people around us. Starting with a...
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Growth You Couldn’t Dream Of: Why the growth that changes you most arrives uninvited
You're already living something your past self once hoped for. Can you see it? In this episode of Live Right Now, Allan reflects on what happens when the dream you worked toward becomes so familiar it turns invisible — and what it takes to see it clearly again. Drawing on his own experience of a...
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Success vs. Happiness: Getting Clear About What You Actually Want
What do you really want? Not what looks good on paper. Not what you're supposed to want. But what actually matters to you. In this episode of Live Right Now, Allan explores the quiet gap between success and happiness — and why working hard isn’t always enough to create fulfillment. Many of us…
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The Sun Will Come Up: How Grief Can Teach Us Presence, Connection, and Meaning
In this deeply personal episode, I reflect on the sudden loss of my daughter, Alie, and the quiet lessons that grief can teach about living intentionally. Losing someone we love changes how we see time, priorities, and the small moments that shape our lives. Through my experience, I explore how...
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The Power of Ordinary Moments: How small routines quietly shape connection, meaning, and the life we remember
Life is made in the quiet, ordinary moments that often go unnoticed. In this episode of Live Right Now, I reflect on the small routines and shared habits that shape our relationships and daily experience. Using personal examples from my eleven-year marriage, I explore how gestures as simple as...
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Do Something: How taking one small step restores agency and creates meaningful change
Have you ever hesitated to act because your effort felt too small to matter? In this episode of Live Right Now, we explore why we often confuse scale with impact and how that belief quietly paralyzes us. Drawing on psychological insights like learned helplessness and behavioral activation, he…
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Deserve What You Want: How preparation, self-awareness, and values shape the opportunities you pursue
Have you ever wanted something deeply, only to realize that achieving it didn’t feel as meaningful as you expected? In this episode of Live Right Now, Allan explores the principle of “Deserve What You Want” — the idea that meaningful opportunities are experienced fully only when your values,...
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Your Words Shape Your Mind: Transform your internal language to notice, respond, and perform better
In this episode of Live Right Now, Allan explores how the words we repeatedly allow into our minds quietly shape our emotional state, decision-making, and daily experience. From subtle self-talk to the language we consume through media and conversation, our mental environment directly influences...
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What You Notice Changes Everything: How Attention, mindfulness, and gratitude shape your daily experience
What if the good things in your life aren’t missing—you just haven’t noticed them? In this episode of Live Right Now, Allan explores how attention shapes your experience, why comparison and distraction pull us into autopilot, and how mindfulness helps us see what’s already present. You’ll walk…
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The Shadows We Chase: Seeing life as it is, not as fear makes it appear.
Fear has a way of turning small uncertainties into overwhelming shadows. In this episode, Allan reflects on why worry so often exaggerates reality and how learning to pause, notice, and respond to what is actually happening can restore clarity and calm. This is an invitation to step out of…
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The Same Snow: Choosing Joy When Circumstances Don’t Change
As a major winter storm moves across the United States, this episode of Live Right Now explores how joy isn’t dependent on circumstances. Allan reflects on the difference between adult worry and childlike curiosity, offering insights on slowing down, noticing what’s already here, and cultivating...
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Making Room For The New — Clearing Space Without Crisis
What if growth doesn’t require a breaking point? In this episode of Live Right Now, Allan reflects on how the very things that once sustained us can quietly crowd out what’s next. Through scripture, lived experience, and gentle reflection, this episode invites you to release what has served its...
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The Waiting is the Hardest Part
Waiting can be one of the most challenging spaces we ever face — that uncomfortable stretch between what has ended and what hasn’t begun yet. In this episode, Allan reflects on his own season of transition and unemployment, and what it’s teaching him about trust, uncertainty, and the quiet work...
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The Thankful Heart
In this episode of Live Right Now, Allan reflects on the deeper meaning of gratitude—beyond holiday traditions, seasonal rush, or surface-level “thankfulness.” He explores why we so often focus on what we don’t want, chase what we think we need, and overlook the good that’s already present in our...
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The Smallest Act Matters
In this episode, Allan shares a simple moment from a recent trip — a brief exchange with a stressed hotel breakfast chef named Hector — that reveals a deeper truth about kindness, connection, and the power of seeing people as individuals. It’s a reminder that while it’s easy to make judgments…
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Life Does Not Get Better By Chance
We all want life to get better — but too often, we wait for it to happen on its own. In this episode, Allan explores what it really means to create change instead of waiting for it, and how lifelong learning keeps us growing, open, and inspired. From lessons learned at the PodIndy Podcasting...
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It's Not Pratice. It's Preparation
How many free throws does it take to be ready for the game winner? In this episode of Live Right Now, Allan reflects on the quiet, unseen moments that prepare us for life’s big opportunities. From watching his oldest son practice countless shots in the backyard to stepping out for his first long...
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Change Is Not the Enemy
When life shifts unexpectedly — the job ends, the plan unravels, the future feels uncertain — it’s easy to see change as something to fight against. But what if change itself isn’t the enemy? What if it’s the wind that can move us forward, if only we learn to use it? In this episode of Live Right...
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The Kindness That Finds You
Sometimes kindness finds us when we least expect it — and just when we need it most. In this episode, Allan shares how a small act of compassion at an ordinary eye appointment became a powerful reminder of grace, connection, and the ripple effect of simple goodness. It’s a story about being…
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When Something Goes Wrong, Don’t Go With It
Elvis once said, “When something goes wrong, don’t go with it.” In this episode of Live Right Now, I share how staying grounded, noticing connection, and choosing your response (E + R = O) can turn setbacks into opportunities. Take a breath, reflect, and join me on this journey of connection,...
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The Science of Luck
What if luck isn’t random at all? In this episode, explore the formula behind “good fortune” - where preparation meets opportunity. Through his own story of sudden change, Allan shares how relationships, integrity, and showing up every day create the conditions for luck to appear. Take a breath,...
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A New Beginning, Again
After a long hiatus, Live Right Now returns with a new voice at the mic — and a familiar spirit at its heart. In this special transitional episode, Allan Haw reflects on the journey that began with Chef Wendell Fowler, the pause that followed, and the lessons learned along the way about loss,...
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The Time We Have
Live Right Now - Episode 034 – The Time We Have Hello Beautiful Souls! This is Producer Allan. Chef Wendell isn’t with me today. In fact, you may have noticed that we haven’t put out a new show for a little while now. (and this one won’t be very long) I’m really sorry about that but I’m even more...
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Café Conversations with Joe Melillo
Live Right Now - Episode 033 – Café Conversations with Joe Melillo This week Chef Wendell and Allan are joined in the Zinnia Café by Joe Melillo. Joe is a former TV reporter and is now host of the Infamous Indy podcast. Although Joe’s show often talks about the darker side of things Joe is a ray…
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Café Conversations with Steve Ross
Live Right Now - Episode 032 – Café Conversations with Steve Ross Chef Wendell and Allan are joined in the Xenia Café this week by Steve Ross. Steve has been connecting people and making a better world around him from his start in radio, to owning and managing iconic music venues like the…
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Jesus on a Plate with Shawn Sullivan and Tom Clark
Live Right Now - Episode 031 – Jesus on a Plate with Shawn Sullivan and Tom Clark Chef Wendell Flower and Allan Haw sit down with their friends Shawn Sullivan and Tom Clark and talk about Jesus, but not in the way you probably grew up with. The discussion covers spiritual journeys, the Christ...
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Cool It!
Live Right Now - Episode 030 – Cool It! Much to the delight of grandkids and overheating grandparents… there’re here: inviting ice cream trucks blaring Pop Goes the Weasel trolling neighborhood streets. When its hotter than blazes, consuming popsicles, ice cream bars, slushies, might seem like...
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It's the Journey
This week we’re diving in a little deeper into Sandy’s Story with some specific things that have kept her strong and the realization that the story is still being written. You can find out more about the Om Home HERE For more from Chef Wendell including the “Eat Right Now” books and info on how…
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Sandy's Story
Live Right Now - Episode 028 – Sandys Story You may have noticed we’ve been on a pretty long break. This is the story about why we’ve been gone, but also the story of why we do what we do. You can find out more about the Om Home HERE For more from Chef Wendell including the “Eat Right Now” books...
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The Dawn of Lifestyle Medicine
Live Right Now - Episode 027 – Lifestyle Medicine Hello Beautiful Souls-I’m optimistic about our future. My story of Code Blue-Validation for my message and or podcast. Typical Current Eating Patterns in the United States do not align with the Dietary Guidelines set forth by our creator. About...
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Totally Tea!
Live Right Now - Episode 026 – Totally Tea! “If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.” ― William Ewart Gladstone “Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your...
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The ABC's of CBD
Live Right Now - Episode 025 – The ABC’s of CBD This Week Chef Wendell and Allan sit down with Rick Montieth and Stephanie Burner from Georgetown Market in Indianapolis to talk about CBD Oil. For more information about CBD you can go to Stephanie’s articles on the Dreem Nutrition Blog. For more...
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The Magic of Mushrooms
Live Right Now - Episode 024 – The Magic of Mushrooms Shiitake mushroom is used for boosting the immune system, HIV/AIDS, lowering blood cholesterol levels, hardening of the arteries, diabetes, eczema, colds and flu, treating prostate or breast cancer, and as an anti-aging agent. It is also used...
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The Pineal Gland We Never Knew
Live Right Now - Episode 023 – The Pineal Gland We Never Knew What we don’t know is more liberating than what we think we know. The holy temple is a living miracle and every part has a designated purpose. To assume God created us to have a gland or organ that does nothing lacks knowledge. We were...
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Why Are We Here?
Live Right Now - Episode 022 – Why Are We Here? For more from Chef Wendell including the “Eat Right Now” books and info on how to book Chef Wendell to speak to your group go to http://www.chefwendell.com. To connect with the Live Right Now Podcast “like” our Facebook page or email us at...
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Celebrating Celery
Live Right Now - Episode 021 – Celebrating Celery In the Mediterranean, crunchy celery has been cultivated and used as food and medicine for millennia. Although, in America celery, meh, it’s been diminished; just another dreaded veggie we’re ‘forced’ to eat. King Tut’s tomb contained a shroud...
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Ezra's Enlightened Cafe
Live Right Now - Episode 020 – Ezra’s This episode was recorded on location at Ezra’s Enlightened Café in Broad Ripple, Indianapolis, Indiana on December 21st, 2018 with guest Chef Audry Baron. For more about Chef Audry and Ezra’s Enlightened Café go to: gaiachef.com or Ezra's Enlightened Cafe:...
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Building Immunity
Live Right Now - Episode 019 – Building Immunity Make your body an inhospitable host for the Flu season The sugar season is here! It’s also the Flu Season! From Halloween to news year day…we binge. Dehydration, stress, less sleep, more alcohol, less sunlight, less exercise, eating more crappy,...
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Angel Diet
Live Right Now - Episode 018 – Angel Diet I stood in the pulpit recdntlhy at Unity Church of Indy to share my message of food’s relationship with our ability to connect and hear the soft whispers of God and our omnipresent guardian angels. Because society has not been taught this truth from the...
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How Can We Be So Malnourished?
Live Right Now - Episode 017 – How Can We Be So Malnourished? For more from Chef Wendell including the “Eat Right Now” books and info on how to book Chef Wendell to speak to your group go to http://www.chefwendell.com. To connect with the Live Right Now Podcast “like” our Facebook page or email…
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Wellbeing Fest
Live Right Now - Episode 016 - Indy Wellbeing Fest We sit down to talk with Jennifer Seffrin from the Indy Holistic Hub and Karmen Fink, the Founder and Inspiring Magical Force behind Sparkle and Celebrate about Wellbeing Fest! For more from Chef Wendell including the “Eat Right Now” books and…
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Raising Good Vibes
Live Right Now - Episode 015 – Raising Good Vibes Everything you see vibrates at a frequency… and so do you. The table, car, food, rocks, colors, thoughts and feelings are all governed by The Law of Vibration: nothing rests. High vibrations are generally associated with good health and feelings,...
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Live Right Now is a podcast about living with purpose, presence, and possibility. Host Allan Haw explores honest reflections and real-life lessons about living with purpose, presence, and possibility. Each episode offers thoughtful insight and encouragement to help you slow down, think deeper, and take meaningful action - right now.
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