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The Neighbor I Thought I Knew | Skip's Quips | Ep. 151 (opens the original)
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The Neighbor I Thought I Knew For twenty years, Irv lived directly across the street from Skip. They weren't strangers. They had shared meals. Shoveled snow. Looked out for each other during power outages. By any reasonable definition, they were good neighbors. Skip thought he knew Irv. Then, one late-summer weekend, a simple request for a fair gave him a reason to cross the street. In this short Skip's Quips wisdom story, Skip recounts what happened when he agreed to check on Irv while the rest
The Wisdom in Your Voice featuring Amie Breedlove | Ep. 150 (opens the original)
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The Wisdom in Your Voice A Wisdom Conversation with Amie Breedlove There's a pretty good chance you've already heard Amie Breedlove's voice. If you've used the self-checkout at Target, that's Amie reminding you not to forget your receipt. Before voiceover became her full-time career, she spent years in radio in West Virginia and Alaska. Her work today spans commercials, corporate projects, e-learning, video games, character voices and voice coaching. But this conversation goes well beyond the mi
Be the Kind of Leader People Remember | A Wisdom Conversation with Bethany Meighen (opens the original)
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The People Who Shape Us The people who leave the deepest mark on our lives rarely do it with grand gestures. More often, they are parents, mentors, teachers, coaches and friends whose quiet encouragement shapes who we become. Dr. Bethany Meighen has spent her life learning from people like these—and becoming one herself. As President of Concord University, she now helps prepare a new generation of students while preserving the close-knit community that makes Concord distinctive. In this warm and
What's Life Trying to Teach You? | A wisdom conversation with Rick Barron (opens the original)
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Welcome back to The Main Thing Podcast! The Teachers We Never Chose Sometimes our greatest teachers don't stand at the front of a classroom. They arrive disguised as hardship, disappointment, illness, financial pressure, failure or seasons we never would have chosen. When fellow podcaster Rick Barron accepted my invitation to join me on The Main Thing , I expected to hear great stories from his remarkable 42-year career in Silicon Valley. What I didn't expect was to come away thinking about fail
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