HeyJaredSpread The Positive Podcast
There is so much GOOD in this world. This podcast is PROOF. The people in these audio recordings genuinely care about their community. The stories they share will make your day. Your week.
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Humble Beginnings Are a Launch Pad with Robert Vaughn (opens the original)
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Robert Vaughn bootstrapped a pottery brand out of a 1950s garage to 1,000 retailers, then sold it. Here are his 13 optimistic notes. Robert came in with thirteen written notes, and his reason for writing them is the episode's point. Most business podcast guests work at large, impressive companies, and if you are a small business owner or an employee, a lot of those lessons are not relevant to you. So he started at 11 and 12 years old, buying and selling on eBay before he had a debit card, handin
Ask Forgiveness, Not Permission: Chuck the Lifelong Tinkerer (opens the original)
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Chuck went from wiring bicycle dynamos as a kid to now being a pioneer in AI and creating a bar built on six continents. Here is his story. Chuck sits down with Katie in his Harvard shirt to go back to the start. He talks about how he works best under stress, how he slows down and absorbs while everybody else panics, and why when a deadline slips he is the one who walks in, delivers the bad news, and hands over the solution in the same breath. By day he is a product manager building the next pro
Building Character with Josh Chapman (opens the original)
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Josh Chapman was born 3 months early and breathed through a straw. He now fixes chainsaws and works at Home Depot. Trent sits down with Josh and his sister Katie taking it all the way back to expand his airway. Katie explains why that matters today: Josh's normal breathing is basically breathing through a straw, so physical activity is hard, but you would never know it watching him work. From there it turns into pure Josh. He talks about the weed eater he found broken, how he took it home, and h
Success Starts with Skills, Not Circumstances (opens the original)
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Alex Piedra, pediatric dentist, entrepreneur, and Harvard education graduate, joins us at Spread The Positive to share the mindset that helped him overcome poverty, family hardship, and setbacks to build a life centered on service. From immigrating to the United States as a young child to treating more than 60 patients a day, Alex explains why your circumstances don't define your future—your skills do. Katie and Alex talk about growing up below the poverty line, the way the 2008 recession affect
You Don't Have to Do This Alone with Therapist Sarah Amos on Grief & Trauma (opens the original)
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Licensed therapist Sarah Amos on when you actually need therapy, EMDR, and grief. Stephanie sits down with Sarah Amos, owner and lead therapist at Sparrow Creek Counseling in Nashville, for a full conversation about mental health. Sarah explains the name behind her practice: sparrows know how to protect themselves, so when a storm rolls in or food gets scarce, they find a cool dry place to rest and preserve their energy instead of powering through. That's how she sees therapy, a creek where you
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