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Defining Moments is a podcast dedicated to telling some of Kentucky’s best stories — the ones you already know, and the ones you should know.Each episode spotlights the people, places, and turning points that shaped a legacy: builders, risk-takers, quiet heroes, trailblazers,…
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Episode 08 | Defining Moments | Dudley Webb on Coal Camps, Cartoons and the Lexington Skyline (opens the original)
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For most of a decade, a cleared block in the middle of downtown Lexington sat open — backfilled, sown in grass, used for car shows and soccer games while the newspaper ran cartoons of the developer's children on bulldozers.In this episode, Dudley Webb joins us to reflect on what it takes to keep believing in something long after everyone else has stopped.He grew up in Hot Spot, Kentucky, a coal camp where his father was paid in script and eighty kids shared a four-room school. He delivered The M
Episode 07 | Defining Moments | Will Stein: On Growing Up, Going Home, and What the Game Can’t Give You (opens the original)
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Will Stein grew up in Louisville watching Kentucky football from Section 128. He walked on at Louisville, backed up Teddy Bridgewater, and started thinking about coaching from the sideline. What followed was one of the more unconventional paths to a head coaching job in college football — including a decision to step out of the game entirely and go call plays at a high school in Austin, Texas, when most people in his position would have kept climbing. In this conversation, JP Blevins and MK Wath
Episode 06 | Defining Moments | JP Blevins & MK Wathen: Ten Lessons on Identity, Parenting, and Surrender (opens the original)
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For five episodes, JP Blevins and MK Wathen have been asking other people the hard questions. This time, they answered them. In this episode of Defining Moments, JP and MK turn the microphone on themselves — each sharing five life lessons they'd go back and tell their younger selves, and what it actually cost to learn them. MK sits with the wounds she almost passed on to her kids without knowing it, the fear that stepping away from her career meant falling behind forever, and what happened on a
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