Podcast Episodes

re32: The book together with the kids isn’t the thing.

I’m not interested in the product. I’m interested in the process.

I don’t care as much about what you accomplished or even where you ended up–althoug…

7 years, 3 months ago

re31: Is your story in the prison of the past? (Can we set it free?)

Is it stuck in a computer? Maybe in a drawer. The old collecting dust dilemma.

Is there a way out?

7 years, 3 months ago

re30: Don’t wait 12 years

It’s just a step. A little step. Right in front of you. One foot in front of the other. Standing still counts as zero. One step counts as one. Take t…

7 years, 4 months ago

re29: Oh baby, it’s cold outside. (AKA: No one will notice if we don’t do this.)

It actually is cold outside.

Why do you do what you do?

7 years, 4 months ago

re28: Math with a 14-year-old son, storytelling, and a pitch-black darkness in the forest.

It’s Thursday. It must be Repossible.

7 years, 4 months ago

re27: Indefatigable, indomitable, and the spanakopita

It’s a Greek dessert and an ancient Indian book.

From an old colleague:

“Among your other qualities, you’re indefatigable. Congratulations on this.”

7 years, 4 months ago

re26: The school uniform and unleashing massive brain power

Unless you’re a kid and go to a school where they require you to wear the same exact uniform to school every single day, you have a decision to make …

7 years, 4 months ago

re25: What was that tingle in the hairs on the back of your neck?

If I don’t get the goose-bump factor when I’m reading it then I can’t do it.– ?Russell Crowe

Just as you’re doubting the whole sombrero escapade, the…

7 years, 5 months ago

re24: In a schoolyard brawl, “Decide” is going to win out over “Hope.”

By a knockout.

Hoping, wanting, dreaming, wishing, pleading, begging, whining, hoping.

These are just a handful of the actions you undertake, whether…

7 years, 5 months ago

re23: When you talk to your friends, do you usually bring up the Regret Minimalization Framework?

As an author, I talk about my books with friends.* But a little-known secret is that I haven’t finished the books yet and I’m doing research for the …

7 years, 5 months ago