JumpStart – Enrage and Engage

Podcast In a normal year, there is an average of 150 in-flight incidents involving unruly passengers on airplanes. But in just the last 4 months, there have been…get this: 1,300 such incidents and they’re increasing daily to the point that American Airlines has issued...

JumpStart – Phrases to release

Podcast Over the last month or so I’ve been watching the words that pop up in my mind as I’m approaching any new task from learning a new software program to playing pickleball. And these phrases are so automatic that I don’t realize that They are limiting my...

Jumpstart – Coaching

Podcast As you may know, I’m addicted to the TV show Ted Lasso starring Jason Sudekis. Well, recently I’ve gotten hooked on Friday Night Lights  starring Kyle Chandler. One is a show about British football (soccer) and the other is about American...

JumpStart – The Frigate vs. The Seagull

Podcast This morning as I sat out on the bay having my coffee I watched the two preeminent birds in Key Largo. The seagull and the frigate. The frigate barely moves its wings and rarely ever cries out. The seagull constantly flaps it’s comparatively short wings and...

JumpStart – Stress Balls

Podcast In the last month, I’ve given live speeches in Napa Valley, Phoenix, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Austin, Traverse City, Dallas, and I’ve noticed one thing each of these events have in common… Stress balls. You know what stress balls are, right? They’re those...

JumpStart – Flexibility

Podcast This pandemic has put the limits of human flexibility under an enormous stress test. People working from home, children staying home for school, some businesses being open and others being closed. Then there is the conflicting medical advice. Sometimes, the...