• Why I believe in the Trifecta of combining all three Work Life Play
• How "succeeding" in any one category of the trifecta is not sufficient
• Why work-life balance by itself lacks long term sustainability
• How running with a rock on the bottom of the ocean taught me to play
• Why Fantasy Football and watching TV on the weekends is not the same as living adventurously

Podcast Highlights with Yogi Roth:

• Learn about Yogi’s inspiration from Emilio Esteves and Martin Sheen’s trek in 2010 movie The Way.
• How this act of bravery has reshaped his perspective on the definition of a tough guy
• Everybody has a story that is worth listening to, Yogi coaches us on how to man-up and ask
• In Life everyone is dealt a hand of cards, listen how Unapologetic Curiosity is our power play card.

Microadventures: a refresh button for busy lives.

WHAT IS A MICROADVENTURE? (From Alastair Humphreys & www.microadventures.org)
Adventure is the spirit of trying something new, trying something difficult. It is about enthusiasm, ambition, open-mindedness and curiosity.

We all have to pragmatically juggle the commitments and constraints of our “real lives”. But we can still have a microadventure.

Getting out into the wild, if only for one night, is enjoyable, invigorating and important. Today's podcasts explores the small, easily accessible, bursts of adventure that can happen right out our front door regardless of our fitness, discretionary income or large amounts of time away from home. 

Podcast Highlights:

• Bike tires rely on spokes to keep them balanced and "true".
• An imbalanced career is like a bike tire that isn't "true"; it's imbalanced, unsafe, and keeps you from finishing well.
• Our careers change, which is why we need to evaluate our careers with each new season.
• It's better to fix an imbalanced career now and be delayed than to go a long time on an imbalanced career trajectory.
• There are five spokes that balance your career:
  • The Work you do
  • The Company you work
  • The Compensation you earn
  • The Team you work with
  • The Relationship you have with your boss
• Take the time to grade each "spoke" of your career with a green light, yellow light, or red light.
• Get feedback from those closest to you to find where the balance is present or missing in your career.

Highlights from 99 Ways to Live Your Best Life

• Set a specific directional bearing on the course you want to take in Work Life Play
• Topics have a wide range: managing money, marriage, pursuing fame, becoming a better boss, personal fitness.
• Hear two of the backstories behind 99 Ways:
  • 10// Don't dip your quill in company ink
  • 04// Don't neglect your relationships
• Understand how to master the art of living a sustainable work-life-play balance

Starting in April, my life was upside down and sideways.

This is my story of my how I unplugged in order to recharge, hit the reset button, and started over.

Podcast Highlights:

• Understand the importance of understanding whose life are you actually living
• How to get real honest about the current trajectory of your Work Life Play
• How to count the costs of success
• Why unplugging for months maybe the only way you can really get clarity
• How selling everything we owned liberated us to start dreaming again

Learn about the Joy-Use Ratio. Small bursts of Joy can happen regularly if you come prepare and anticipate them 

• How to stop listening to the voices of disqualification.
• Understand why it is important to move forward with your ideas without consideration for the outcome.
• Learn how being concerned about what other people might think, actually contributes to us doing a poor job.
• Offering our best is the best rebuttal to every excuse we can come up with

Highlights from Podcast #32: Acting Like a Pro Eight Minutes at a Time 

• The difference between acting like a pro and becoming a pro is not neglecting narrow windows of opportunity.
• Take the opportunity that's right in front of you.
• Small margin plus consistency over time equals accumulative benefit.
• The gap between the life, marriage, income, adventure, fitness level, or anything else we wish to have can be closed over time with even small, intentional investments.
• Show up, invest your time, be consistent, and enjoy the benefits of your investment.

Quick Podcast Highlights from Miles:

• Understand the necessity of developing your EQ (emotional intelligence) to live, love, parent, and lead well.
• Hear how the doorway of pain has become one of Miles’s biggest gifts in life.
• How to develop harmony in the narrative of Who You Are and What You Do For a Living.
• Why creating new healing experiences can counteract life’s negative experiences.
• How the work of Donald Miller and Brene’ Brown will give you insights into how Onsite can help you live out the best version of your story.
• Why a subtle two-degree shift in our actions and beliefs can improve the trajectory of our life.
• What if we lead from the places that we formerly hid our shortcomings and flaws?

• Understand how adventure gives us greater confidence to tackle life’s challenges

• Learn why special, difficult-to-reach places in wilderness help us gain perspective on our life back at home

• Appreciate how adventure helps us lose control and “be out on a limb”

• Accept that adventure is a choice and is available outside our front door everyday

• Receive practical ideas on how to take your kids on your own adventures

Podcast Highlights:

• Carl's very personal story of loosing his home and facing financial ruin
• Learn how small financial misalignments with couples can become roots for divorce later
• Hear how Carl and I met over a financial transaction on the border of Colorado and Utah
• Learn how Carl started taking complex money ideas and translating those concepts using a sharpie marker on a napkin
• Carl tells the story about how the New York Times called him out of the blue to write his column
• Carl and I share stories about being raised by single-mothers and how that shaped our financial beliefs

Podcast Highlights:

• Hear how Tripp juggles his roles as a Director, Writer, Actor and On Stage Host
• The backstory on how Tripp and Tyler came up with the idea for their YouTube sketch
• Where Tripp and Tyler met and how they decided to start working together
• Working to find the right sponsorship partners is a key to Tripp's YouTube success
• Risk taking is part of Tripp's DNA
• Tripp offers advice on partnerships and navigating them well
• His story about boldly borrowing money from friends and family in college
• Find out why the Lines Between Play and Work are very blurry for Tripp
• Hear about his mantra "If I haven't failed at enough risks, but if I am not succeeding"

 American's do not take two-week vacations. Organizational culture, the volume of work and email compound by our addiction to busyness keeps us tied to one week vacations. In this podcast, I make the case for why we need to take two week vacations and the restorative benefits for our relationships, our work and ultimately ourselves.