Dec 19, 2018
I turned forty the same week of launching this podcast, and in honour of that milestone birthday I set a goal of releasing forty episodes this year. I didn’t quite reach that goal. I am ending my first season of the B-RAD Podcast with thirty episodes.
This thirtieth and final episode of the first season feels like a...
Dec 11, 2018
John Maxwell, renowned leadership expert, New York Times Bestseller List author, well-known speaker and septuagenarian says that as he has matured, the things he truly “knows” can be summarized with the five digits on one hand.
Those are the things he knows that he knows and he can’t be budged on those points. But...
Nov 26, 2018
The story by David Foster Wallace goes like this; there are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other...
Nov 16, 2018
The phrase "good enough", which is so ubiquitious in our culture, implies that there is something better than good. Perfection, something without flaws, something pristine and ideal, is better than good. Isn't it?
In the beginning creation was declared good. Tov is the original Hebrew word which we translate as "good"...
Nov 9, 2018
Labels aren't bad, they're necessary for making our way through the external world. Imagine navigating city streets or an airport terminal with no labels. Labels are obviously good.
Labels are also a necessary part of our internal framework and personal structure.
They help us identify where we're from (Toronto, Canada)...