• Podcasts

    My Favorite Business and Political Podcasts

    I am a Podcast addict.  Walking around or in the car, I’m listening to one podcast or another.  Right now I’m listening to about three hours of political podcasts per week and this week, I don’t think that’s going to be enough to contain all this chaos. But, I thought it was a good time to list my favorite podcasts in categories.   Political Podcasts Most Informative: Pod Save America by Crooked Media.  This podcast is hosed by Jon Favreau (the Obama speechwriter, not the IronMan director), Jon Lovett and more with special guest like the former White House Counsel and current members of the Senate Intelligence Committee.   Most…

  • Lessons

    Passion and Business

    Passion.  That’s what I learned about when I attended the 2017 Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans this last weekend.  Everywhere I looked, I saw performers loving what they were doing and concert-goers thrilled to be a part of the experience. In the Gospel tent local choirs moved the audience to tears and living legends like Irma Thomas completely transformed herself and the crowd by her presence.   On some of the larger stages I saw fans listening to music not because the pop-music industry machine told them that they had to go see whatever the latest boy band was, but because they wanted to be there.  They wanted to be transformed. The Crown…