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The Extraordinary Family Life Podcast Episodes
March 11, 2019
#20 How to remove judgment, racism, prejudice and enmity from your life.
Enmity: The state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something. We should not feel enmity towards other people, in fact we should judge ourselves by how we treat people who are unkind to us. Turn …
Feb. 27, 2019
#19 Cultivating the Courage to Pursue Your Goals and Dreams
Encourage your dreams. If you can't change the world yet, what can you do to change your world? Courage is the only thing you need to reach your dream, to change your world. Is money stopping you? Then make a good business/m…
Feb. 20, 2019
#18 Your moral obligation to become your best self
You never graduate from learning. Though, sometimes we feel childish when we get to start something new. Very few adults learn new talents. Why is it that when we get older we think that because we never had the chance when …
Feb. 16, 2019
#17 So there I was—Crazy stories and important lessons
Drove from Dallas, TX all the way to New York City. When he found he couldn't get a job or even get into school, he called a buddy and that friend drove all the way up to get him! They almost crashed on the way home, but n…
Feb. 16, 2019
#16 Will You Be a Part of This Problem, Or Its Solution?!
What group or people do we de-humanize? Democrats? Republicans? Muslims? Black people? White people? The list goes on, why do we objectify people? During WW2 the Germans strategically under social strategy got the general p…
Feb. 14, 2019
#15 Choose your love and love your choice
Greg and Rachel met in college, you could say Greg was struck at first sight. Growing up Greg didn't have a lot examples of what a good marriage should look like, or if it was even possible. In his late teens he was terri…
Feb. 13, 2019
#14 How to Feel Joyful and Happy Most of The Time
Emotion is the driving force in our lives . So it's helpful to ask, "What emotion do you feel most of the time? Is that how you WANT to feel?" The first thing to do that clears a lot of emotional space is to forgive! Let sma…
Feb. 8, 2019
#13 Forgiveness is for you, not for them.
When someones poor choice effects you, it's hard not to react in an outburst, or hold it against them. People carry hate for people their entire lives. Maybe you are in the right, but how does keeping that chip on your shou…
Feb. 8, 2019
#12 Broken Bones, shootings, and obesity. Life lessons from strange stories.
Caution! Awesome stories and reality checks lay ahead! While playing football, Greg's hand got smashed between two helmets and broke four metacarpals. When he saw that his back up wasn't doing too well, he headed back into …
Feb. 5, 2019
#11 You Have The Power To Choose How You Do Life
Everyday you have the choice to between mediocrity and excellence. When Greg was just twelve years old, he was out late in a bad part of town with some friends. He ended up getting beat up pretty bad by some older teenager…
Feb. 2, 2019
#10 The Common Denominators Of Disaster
The common thread of how people end up at rock bottom. How do people's lives crumble and ultimately lead to the giant train wreck at the end of the tunnel? The cause has been around since humans first began. Juvenal, a Roma…
Jan. 30, 2019
#9 Creating Your Extraordinary Life Plan
At the end of our life, most hope to say it was meaningful, filled with love and accomplished. Whatever your goal is, your passion to complete, you need more than ambition to get there! You need a game plan. You have to know…
Jan. 30, 2019
#8 Incredible Stories and Reality Checks That We All Need
There are times in our life where we get so busy with one goal, that every other area in life gets thrown off balance. Some people work so hard at their job that they neglect their health - on the other hand, others spend s…
Jan. 29, 2019
#7 The one habit that has brought every good thing into my life
Everyone needs a mentor to teach them, though those mentors don't always have to right in front of you. Learning from the best people in history often comes through their books. Some of the brightest people of all time hav…
Jan. 29, 2019
#6 Life Lessons From Really Bad Decisions
What are your dreams if you had no limits? What are those limits and how can you get them out of the way? T hen there is the hard question, how many of our obstacles are there because we put them there? When we do stupid th…
Jan. 29, 2019
#5 This Selfish Habit Destroys Your Relationships
[0:38] We need to cherish our relationships and the people that mean so much to us. [0:49] Do we sometimes take them for granted? Get too comfortable? [1:16] Bad memory of an act of selfishness. [3:57] Now he has the underst…
Jan. 25, 2019
#4 Turning on your energy
There is nothing holding you back but you. Give yourself permission and do it! Maybe one of the reasons that is keeping you is your energy levels. It's hard to keep going sometimes, life gets busy. Every thought, every e…
Jan. 24, 2019
#3 The Terrible Car Accident (and Near Loss of a Child) that Changed our Lives Forever
"They'll stop. We're in the United States where people follow traffic laws and we have the right of way." Those were my (Rachel's) exact thoughts as I saw headlights coming fast toward us as we drove through a sleepy fishing…
Jan. 24, 2019
#2 Creating Epic Experiences And Memories
Life all blends together when things are the same every single day. Then when we look back, the few things we remember were the oddities to the norm -good or bad. Our memories are something that no other human being can tak…
Jan. 24, 2019
#1 Our Journey Begins
The goal is to share my story to help inspire you, everyone, to get out and live! This story starts off in a broken home and eventually out of the house at sixteen. The turning point was on the cold, dark night of Christmas…
Jan. 23, 2019
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