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The Impact Hour: Redeem Your Tough Experiences

On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, redeem your tough experiences. Click here to listen. Learn how you can make something good come from your difficult life experiences. Life can bring us many hardships: abuse, loss, medical problems and more. But we can use those tough experiences for good. We can use the experience […]

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The Impact Hour: Life Lessons from the Oroville Dam

On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, life lessons from the Oroville Dam. Click here to listen. There are some really great lessons to be learned from the recent crisis regarding Oroville Dam’s spillway. We apply some principles we observed from that situation to your life’s impact including purpose, relationships and more. You can […]

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The Superbowl and Your Life

The best football teams of the year played in the Superbowl a little over a week ago. It was a pretty exciting game that went into overtime with a huge comeback by the Patriots for the win. What if we compared your life to a Superbowl. How might that look? Superbowl For starters the teams […]

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The Impact Hour: Meaningful Connections

On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, how to have more meaningful connections with people. Click here to listen. We all long to be seen, heard and understood. Then we feel like people get us. That’s how we can create more meaningful connections in our lives. If you want to feel more meaningfully connected […]

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He Makes Me So Angry

How many times have we heard someone say something like, “He makes me so angry”? I hear phrases like this frequently, but is it really true? Emotional Responsibility It may be true that the other person does something and in response I feel a certain way. But saying something like, “He makes me so angry,” […]

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When are people objects?

Often when we are having difficulty, when we are riled up and upset, and when we struggle in relationship, it’s because we are being treated or treating others as objects. Surprisingly, it happens frequently. When you are getting on an airplane, are the other people just in the way? If so, you might be treating […]

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The Impact Hour: Be a Stand

On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, don’t just take a stand, BE a stand. Click here to listen. There’s a big difference between taking a stand for something (once or occasionally) and BEING a stand for something you care about deeply. When you choose to be a stand, to let your life stand […]

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2 Reasons We Don’t See the Truth

Most folks believe that the world is exactly the way it looks. However this is often not true. There are a number of things going on that prevent us from perceiving truth. No one is immune. Perceiving truth is difficult. The summary is this: People believe what they want to believe, and they make up stuff […]

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The Impact Hour: Is It Fake or Real?

On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, what’s fake and what’s real? Click here to listen. What’s real and what’s fake these days? There’s fake news and fake food. We can even have fake–or at least shallow–impact and connections with other people. We’ll explore how to evaluate quality and what deserves to have the highest […]

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