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Work Life Play with Aaron McHughField Report-Start Here IntroductionUnedited recordings from the front lines of my journey. Sixteen months ago, I took on a new, all-consuming career assignment—amazing and demanding every bit of me. Along the way, I’ve cataloged ideas, insights, and transformational stories to share. Welcome to Field Reports: raw, real, and simple adventure updates. Keep going, friends. Aaron2024-12-1503 min
DadAwesomeDA358 | Becoming Who You Want to Be, Engaging in the Now, and Tent-Bound Poetry (Aaron McHugh: Part 2)In the second half of this conversation, Aaron McHugh dives deeper into how to become the dad you want to be with practical, bite-sized steps. Aaron also shares his poem “Tent-Bound,” a beautiful reflection on navigating uncertainty and embracing new horizons. Key Takeaways Take the first step toward becoming the type of person you want to be. Would things have been different if someone had told you what your life would hold? It’s normal to feel that the end is out of sight—and not like it. Engage in the here and now, even...2024-11-2824 min
DadAwesomeDA357 | Attentive Aliveness, Ranking 1s and 10s, and Doing Internal Renovations (Aaron McHugh: Part 1)Fatherhood isn’t about choosing between quantity and quality time with your kids. For Aaron McHugh, it’s about being present in your child’s life for the long haul. Through personal stories and thoughtful reflection, Aaron shows how rest, curiosity, and allowing God to shape you can create the meaningful life experiences you want as a man and father. Key Takeaways Prioritizing curiosity, wonder, and exploration in your daily life can transform your overall experience. Kids care more about a long follow-through than any short-term bursts of heroism. On a scale of 1-10...2024-11-2129 min
S'more StoriesEp. 22 - Fireside Chat with Aaron ChewningAaron Chewning, close friend of the podcast and one of the funniest people I know, joins the S'more Stories campfire for a fantastic Fireside Chat! Aaron is a writer, director, podcaster, and a little bit of everything else, but his current venture is St. Andre a golf-centered sketch comedy group that is blowing up on social media! He gives some great insight into his mind and process, but also we get to talk about swords and cats and 69. We apologize in advance.
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The Happiness Squad Podcast with Ashish KothariReboot Your Life: Discovering the Rhythm of Work, Life, and Play with Aaron McHughHow often do you use the phrase "I'm seeking a work-life balance?” Many of us use it quite frequently. But what if you were told that this balance is actually a myth? Instead of obsessing over finding the perfect balance, what if we injected a little play into our lives and unlocked a whole new world of insights, habits, and ways of doing things?In today’s episode, Anil and Ashish sit down with Aaron McHugh who is going to enlighten us on this topic. Aaron is a writer, podcaster, adventurer, author, and a true advocate for find...2023-06-2051 min
Become Good Soil135: Mastering the Art of Living, with Aaron McHugh
Life is our resume. It is our story to tell, and the choices we make write the chapters. Can we live in a way where we look forward to looking back?
– Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights
Friends,
In some ways, much of my public mission in the world began with inviting men to recover the deepest questions of their masculine souls. And in that recovery, to risk giving God a decade.
Choosing to enter into the radical choice of taking the lowest seat at the table. Excavating over building. Fo...2023-05-231h 14Work Life Play with Aaron McHughFriendship-The Journey Impossible AloneToday, I'm in the interview seat again. Today's topic Friendship and the journey of life impossible to accomplish alone. (Carl Richards) Greetings from the Joy Bus. My name's Carl Richards, and I am your host today of the Work Life Play podcast. I've taken over from Aaron. It was an invitation, but I fully accepted the invitation to interview Aaron somewhere around. We're, we're talking ten years now. Aaron: Ten years. Carl Richards: And 200+ some-odd episodes. So, Aaron, welcome to the show. Aaron: Thank you. I like...2023-01-2425 min
Work Life Play with Aaron McHughA Decade of Work Life Play Anniversary EditionIn this decade anniversary celebration episode, Morgan Snyder is in the studio to interview me. For me, though, Work Life Play has no periods, no exclamation marks, no hyphens in between. It's all one integrated together story. It's taken me 10 years to articulate what it is I've been chasing the whole time. Enjoy this friends and Keep Going- Aaron Work Life Play Merch available here.2022-12-1857 min
Work Life Play with Aaron McHughReach for the stuff that's realFriends, I released ten new podcast episodes to celebrate my Decade Anniversary of Work Life Play. I'm proud to share these little gems with you. I know they will help you live more fully in your adventure, explore a well-lived life and find more meaning in your daily experience. A decade agoI began podcasting in 2012 with borrowed equipment, no training, with a simple idea "I wanted to explore." I experimented with one tiny step, then the next. Back then, there was no map to How to Podcast. With trust and boldness, I booked my first two guests before I...2022-11-0504 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughWorking Vacations and Real RestFriends, I released ten new podcast episodes to celebrate my Decade Anniversary of Work Life Play. I'm proud to share these little gems with you. I know they will help you live more fully in your adventure, explore a well-lived life and find more meaning in your daily experience. A decade agoI began podcasting in 2012 with borrowed equipment, no training, with a simple idea "I wanted to explore." I experimented with one tiny step, then the next. Back then, there was no map to How to Podcast. With trust and boldness, I booked my first tw...2022-11-0506 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughPaying Attention to Being On and Off PurposeFriends, I released ten new podcast episodes to celebrate my Decade Anniversary of Work Life Play. I'm proud to share these little gems with you. I know they will help you live more fully in your adventure, explore a well-lived life and find more meaning in your daily experience. A decade agoI began podcasting in 2012 with borrowed equipment, no training, with a simple idea "I wanted to explore." I experimented with one tiny step, then the next. Back then, there was no map to How to Podcast. With trust and boldness, I booked my first tw...2022-11-0506 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughLosing Our Sense of FrontierFriends, I released ten new podcast episodes to celebrate my Decade Anniversary of Work Life Play. I'm proud to share these little gems with you. I know they will help you live more fully in your adventure, explore a well-lived life and find more meaning in your daily experience. A decade agoI began podcasting in 2012 with borrowed equipment, no training, with a simple idea "I wanted to explore." I experimented with one tiny step, then the next. Back then, there was no map to How to Podcast. With trust and boldness, I booked my...2022-11-0503 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughTransmission for the OutsiderFriends, I released ten new podcast episodes to celebrate my Decade Anniversary of Work Life Play. I'm proud to share these little gems with you. I know they will help you live more fully in your adventure, explore a well-lived life and find more meaning in your daily experience. A decade agoI began podcasting in 2012 with borrowed equipment, no training, with a simple idea "I wanted to explore." I experimented with one tiny step, then the next. Back then, there was no map to How to Podcast. With trust and boldness, I booked my...2022-11-0502 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHugh570 Something Days of RunningFriends, I released ten new podcast episodes to celebrate my Decade Anniversary of Work Life Play. I'm proud to share these little gems with you. I know they will help you live more fully in your adventure, explore a well-lived life and find more meaning in your daily experience. A decade agoI began podcasting in 2012 with borrowed equipment, no training, with a simple idea "I wanted to explore." I experimented with one tiny step, then the next. Back then, there was no map to How to Podcast. With trust and boldness, I booked my...2022-11-0502 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughHuman BeingsFriends, I released ten new podcast episodes to celebrate my Decade Anniversary of Work Life Play. I'm proud to share these little gems with you. I know they will help you live more fully in your adventure, explore a well-lived life and find more meaning in your daily experience. A decade agoI began podcasting in 2012 with borrowed equipment, no training, with a simple idea "I wanted to explore." I experimented with one tiny step, then the next. Back then, there was no map to How to Podcast. With trust and boldness, I booked my...2022-11-0501 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughWhy Not Today! Everybody should go bigFriends, I released ten new podcast episodes to celebrate my Decade Anniversary of Work Life Play. I'm proud to share these little gems with you. I know they will help you live more fully in your adventure, explore a well-lived life and find more meaning in your daily experience. A decade agoI began podcasting in 2012 with borrowed equipment, no training, with a simple idea "I wanted to explore." I experimented with one tiny step, then the next. Back then, there was no map to How to Podcast. With trust and boldness, I booked my...2022-11-0508 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughDrop the RockFriends, I released ten new podcast episodes to celebrate my Decade Anniversary of Work Life Play. I'm proud to share these little gems with you. I know they will help you live more fully in your adventure, explore a well-lived life and find more meaning in your daily experience. A decade agoI began podcasting in 2012 with borrowed equipment, no training, with a simple idea "I wanted to explore." I experimented with one tiny step, then the next. Back then, there was no map to How to Podcast. With trust and boldness, I booked my first tw...2022-11-0505 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughA Brave Conversation with YourselfFriends, I released ten new podcast episodes to celebrate my Decade Anniversary of Work Life Play. I'm proud to share these little gems with you. I know they will help you live more fully in your adventure, explore a well-lived life and find more meaning in your daily experience. A decade agoI began podcasting in 2012 with borrowed equipment, no training, with a simple idea "I wanted to explore." I experimented with one tiny step, then the next. Back then, there was no map to How to Podcast. With trust and boldness, I booked my...2022-11-0501 min
No Worries If Not!Ep 63 - Collin McHugh (Atlanta Braves) Returns!!The boys are sad that the Braves have been eliminated from the playoffs, but there’s a silver lining! Collin McHugh is available to podcast now! Hear about what it was like for him to pitch for his hometown team, which of his teammates smell the best, and which ones fart in each other’s faces for fun! Go Braves! Special thanks to The Brotherhood of Anonymous Back Scratchers for sponsoring this episode!
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2022-10-201h 19
Men at the Movies PodcastField of Dreams with Paul McDonald and Aaron McHughThis week on the Men at the Movies podcast, we get you ready for summer with Field of Dreams. In a vibrant life with God, He is always offering invitations to us. But we must cultivate the conscious awareness to notice when He is speaking. And when we embrace the risk and act on what he says, the story will always be better than we thought it would be. So let’s follow the voice and go the distance, and discover God’s truth in this movie.
About Aaron
Aaron McHugh is a writer, podcaster, adve...2022-06-0345 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughThe Integrity of Yes and NOFriends, I've been thinking. I've been thinking about the slippery slope, the slippery slope of...as humans, as leaders, we find ourselves in a place progressively over time far from where we intended to be or accidentally just waking up one day and finding that we're in a place that no longer looks familiar or is no longer desirable. I've found myself on that slope many time. I just had a conversation with a friend this morning, and he was stating, after a year of really intentional work and changes in family, moved into a new home, found himself...2021-11-2506 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughTo Be ListsFriends, this is Aaron. And I've been thinking. I've been thinking about to-do lists versus to-be lists. One of my mentors these last few years introduced me to the idea of a to-be list. I really shook my head at first. Like you mean like to be, as in like to be and to not be? What do you mean, to be? Well, she went on to talk about how each of us have, like, a to-do list, you know, shit-we've-got-to-get-done list, things that we want to make a difference in, things we need to accomplish, deadlines, timelines, deliverables...2021-11-2503 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughTen years of living forwardToday I want to share something more intimate with you about pain and living forward. Earlier this year, my family and I we honored the 10-year anniversary of our daughter Hadley's passing and her death in 2011. And I found myself for a couple months, just feeling the... I don't even know if weight is the right word, but just the honoring of the reality of learning to live each of us individually and collectively as a family how to live forward. How to actually move forward. And it's definitely become easier by the year but doesn't mean the the...2021-11-2507 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughPierce the veneer of outside thingsFriends, today what's on my mind is piercing the veneer of outside things. Ernest Shackleton, infamous Antarctic explorer, at the turn of the century, the 19th century, did this expedition in Antarctica. His men famously were trapped in the sea ice over 23 months, they found their way back home, each of them living. And in his memoirs, he wrote called "South,“ I'll share with you, two sentences. "We had pierced the veneer of outside things. We had reached the naked soul of men." I find this particular piece, the veneer, this... I remember in shop class as a...2021-11-2502 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughDream bigger dreamsFriends, I've been thinking, I've been thinking about dreaming bigger dreams. A friend of mine sent me a poem in the mail, a prayer over the summer. I've kept, keep going back and rereading these lines. And it reads, "Disturb me, Lord, when I am too well, pleased with myself, when my dreams have come true, because I have dreamed too little." So as I asked myself and wonder about these lines, what are my new dreams? Not the old, the vintage ones of yesteryear. What are the bashful whispers? The ones too big to say out loud. What...2021-11-2502 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughThe world needs more wholehearted humansFriends, I've been thinking about what does the world really need? Our world is pretty complex, complicated place these days, no matter what part of the globe you live on. And I've been thinking about how what the world really needs is more wholehearted humans. Two quotes to get us started. Parker Palmer. "I wanted more than a job. I wanted deeper congruence between my inner and outer life." Congruence in that is about the who I am. My friend calls it a plum line, between who I am, what I think, feel and do, and they're...2021-11-2504 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughThe Economy of PresenceFriends, I've been thinking about an idea that David Whyte wrote about. He titled it "The Economy of Presence." And he told the story in his book about this old sheepdog, Cymro in the Welsh countryside, and this dog, older of the bunch with limp, had a blind eye. He talked about how one ear's flopped over, one ear that's up is raised and black. And he had this what he titled as "The Economy of Presence," that he could stand... He could do the job with the lightest touch, he writes. He knew the pivotal places to stand...2021-11-2503 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughWrite it by hand insteadFriends, I've been thinking about writing it down by hand instead. In this world of digital texts, instant messages, DMs, emails, screenshots, emojis, and all kinds of other stuff that I don't even know what they are. What if we took out a piece of paper, a pen, tear out a page in a magazine. Locate your favorite stationery, go to a card store and buy a card. And what if you...I use maps all the time. I use maps from wilderness places I've been, national parks that I visit, I keep all those maps and use them...2021-11-2503 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughThis is something I can't NOT DOFriends, I've been thinking, what can you not not do? Parker Palmer writes, "Vocation at its deepest level. This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else, and don't fully understand myself, that that are nonetheless compelling." I love that. Such a generous, expansive invitation for us to consider, what can we not do? I can't help myself. What's the thing you find yourself thinking, exploring, without prompt or obligation? A friend of mine recently told me that he cannot not photograph bacteria. Like what? Come again. He was telling...2021-11-2504 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughDoing the creative best with your own lifeFriends, I've been thinking about the words of Saint Paul. He wrote this simple couple sentences that I've been meditating on for the last year and revisiting. He writes, "Make a careful exploration, make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and sink yourself into that. Don't be impressed with yourself. Don't compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life." I found that, what is that? Four sentences? Five sentences? Incredibly disruptive, incredibly expansive, incredibly life-giving. And what I...2021-11-2506 minNo Worries If Not!Ep 18 - Collin McHugh, MLB LegendFreshly eliminated from the MLB playoffs, Collin McHugh joins the guys to discuss his time with the Tampa Bay Rays, t-shirt cannons and his sweet sweet mound moves. Special thanks to EA Sports: Fatherhood 2022 for sponsoring this episode.
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2021-10-211h 08
Stay Forth Leadership Podcast198 - Aaron McHugh ”How to find the work you love”On today's episode, Alan talks with career liberator Aaron McHugh about his journey to his work becoming meaningful and aligned to who he is and how you can take steps toward that also
About Aaron
Aaron McHugh is a writer, blogger, podcaster, and career liberator. He is mastering the art of living a sustainable work-life balance that includes rhythms of play constantly woven in.
From Aaron,
I want to help you restore balance and discover your path to a well-lived life. I write and speak on how to make adjustments to...2021-05-1142 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughThe Training Lab of Life with Flamenco Dancer Ana Lucia Jardim # 203In today's episode, I want you to meet my friend and Flamenco dancer Ana Lucia Jardim. I want to share with you a tiny moment when she and her trio shared the beautiful art of Flamenco with a room full of work colleagues in San Francisco. I knew this was a moment to savor, so I pulled out my phone, recorded the audio of their music, singing and dancing, and a year later, reflected together, and here's what she shared. Special thanks and acknowledgement to singer, Roberto Zamora http://robertozamora.com/index.html and David McLean https://www...2020-12-2207 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughTiny Moments Big Ideas: What Are You Afraid To Try? #199In this Tiny Moment, Big Idea I ask the question "What are you afraid to try?" I recorded this episode five years ago immediately after we sold everything we owned and rebooted our lives. Many people said, "I wish I could do that." Which begs the question, "what are you afraid to try or do?" Maybe that informs what you might need to consider? Keep going, Aaron2020-10-3007 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughHigher Power Nudges with Holden McHugh #198My interview today is with my son Holden. Sober five years. Wise. Gracious, and he’s teaching me a lot about the power of building an everyday muscle. He talks about how he makes decisions waiting for nudges from “Higher Power” and his brave beginnings of sobriety.2020-10-2349 min
Self Centred with Roann008 Aaron McHugh: Time to get out of your own way“From the outside, my life looks pretty much the same. I still work a full-time corporate career. I’m still married to the same woman. I still live in the same neighbourhood. The only difference is me. I’m no longer fragmented. I’m whole.”
If you feel unhappy in your job, the solution isn’t always to change your job, but to change yourself.
In this week’s episode with coach, author and public speaker Aaron McHugh, we talk about how important it is to get out of your own way. And about how his new book...2020-10-1500 min
Franchise FreedomAaron McHugh | Prioritizing People and Building RelationshipsOn this week’s episode of Franchise Freedom, we speak with special guest, Aaron McHugh. Aaron is a writer, podcaster, adventurer, and the author of the best-selling book, Fire Your Boss: Discover Work You Love Without Quitting Your Job. He is also mastering the art of living a sustainable work-life balance that constantly interweaves rhythms of play and adventure.In work, Aaron has covered the spectrum, from humble beginnings selling office supplies door-to-door to ringing the opening day trading bell at the London Stock Exchange. In play, he is an adventurer, Ironman triathlete, and mountaineer, is learning to surf, an...2020-09-2230 min
Key Conversations for LeadersWork Life Play by Design with Aaron McHughAaron McHugh is a writer, podcaster, adventurer, and author of the best-selling book, Fire Your Boss: Discover Work You Love Without Quitting Your Job. He is mastering the art of living a sustainable work-life balance that constantly interweaves rhythms of play and adventure. That includes road trips in their 1974 VW Bus, aka The Joy Bus, catapulting them into many father-daughter adventures together.
Aaron works as an Affiliate Advisor to Aberkyn, a division of McKinsey & Co as a facilitator of transformation and executive coach.
Aaron loves ideas. He loves to dream up new adventures. He is a Starbucks French press coffee...2020-09-2051 min
Soma SoulWorks PodcastFire Your Boss: Interview with Aaron McHugh - Ep 12This post may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, Soma Games earns a small percentage from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you, but all of our recommendations and opinions are our own. Welcome to the Soma SoulWorks Podcast! This podcast serves to help people, particularly those who may label themselves as "creatives," to seek wholeness and calling so they are ready to embrace the mission God has for them. Consider this podcast a rogue harmony of professional development and self-care, hosted by John Bergquist and Chris Skaggs. Wh...2020-09-1034 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughYour Unplanted Ground #192I took a break from producing and delivery for a few weeks to rest and recharge. Farmers call this fallow ground-replenish soil. “…some farmers and gardeners let their land go fallow – or unplanted – so that the soil’s natural nutrient balance can be restored…it became more and more unpopular to leave land fallow and unproductive in Western societies. The production won out over soil health. ” I'm starting a new Explorers Wanted program (virtually) and in-person starting October 5th. Details here https://www.aaronmchugh.com/explorerswanted/2020-09-1017 min
Fast Leader Show | Customer Experience Leadership291: Aaron McHugh – Transforming Disengaged Leaders into Hopeful LeadersAaron McHugh was experiencing a lot of difficulties in his life, particularly with his career, his kids, and his daughter\'s health. During that time, one of his buddies came and said to him, \"You might not be able to change your circumstance but you can own your atmosphere.\" It completely changed him and made him take this idea of taking ownership of the atmosphere of his life. Aaron learned that it\'s about starting small and taking 2° changes that will eventually build up and lead to somewhere else.2020-08-1944 min
Dad Hackers: Becoming the Men God Designed Us to BeBecoming a Whole Hearted Man with Aaron McHughAaron McHugh joins us today as a special guest on the Dad Hackers Podcast. Aaron is a writer, podcaster, adventurer, and author of the best-selling book, Fire Your Boss: A Manifesto to Rethink How You Think About Work. He is mastering the art of living a sustainable work-life balance that constantly interweaves rhythms of play and adventure. That includes road trips in their 1974 VW Bus, aka The Joy Bus, catapulting them into many father-daughter adventures together. Grab the show notes as resources at https://dadhackers.us/123-2 Here's some other ways to connect with us:2020-08-1700 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughThe Cost of Leadership is Self-Discipline with Executive Coach Doug Ament #191Doug Ament doesn't have all of the answers, but he asks excellent questions. In the heyday of the late '90s, he was a partner in the San Diego based most successful yacht dealerships in the World. Until it all went sideways, and they shut it down. His lessons provide us anchor points for how to navigate uncertainty when we lose sight of the shore in life and business. In this episode Doug Ament walks us through how he survived the 2008/09 professional downturn.2020-07-3125 min
Full Trial Audiobooks in Self-Improvement, Career DevelopmentFire Your Boss: Discover Work You Love Without Quitting Your Job by Aaron MchughPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/434796 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fire Your Boss: Discover Work You Love Without Quitting Your Job Author: Aaron Mchugh Narrator: Brian Holden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 28, 2020 Genres: Career Development Publisher's Summary: Fire Your Boss is the disruptive alternative blueprint for charting a new life-giving career path that gives you control, allowing you to set your own rules for your work life. Provocative, liberating, and universally appealing, Fire Your Boss seeks to help listeners resolve the deepest root of workplace unrest—namely, fear and self-preservation. This book upgrades listeners' co...2020-07-2803 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughFinding Neverland with Songwriter Jeff Nelson #190My guest today is songwriter Jeff Nelson. I discovered Jeff's earthy soul talk after reading about "LA contractor lands a Nashville recording contract. He is a family man who purchased and remodeled his grandfather’s home in San Pedro, where he currently resides with his wife and four children. He leads a humble life: coffee, family, building homes and good bourbon." And I knew I had to hear his story. Enjoy his intersecting art and labor, soul and play, unlock and duty.2020-07-2444 min
The PausecastThe Pausecast Ep. 31 Aaron McHugh - Fire Your BossIn episode 31 of The Pausecast, we discuss and experience...
- Experience a guided pause led by Aaron
- The missing piece most of us miss when it comes to leading yourself
- How Aaron got out of being “unstuck”
- How to lead without “driving hard”
- How Aaron learned to take in more renewal resources and “nutrients” and how it changed his life
- Depleting vs. fulfilling merit badges
- Why being busy instead of feeling fulfilling.
- How burnout can shift to be a practice of living
- Learn to have your own “no” permission slip
- How to create more e...2020-07-2240 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughThe Mindsets that Drive Us with Author Ryan Gottfredson #189Ryan Gottfredson PHD is a successful mindset expert. Mindsets as the lenses we wear to help us interpret and engage with the world. In our conversation, we talk about how we expand and shift mindsets limiting our experience and no longer serving us. 2020-07-1655 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughTurning Lemons Into A Lemonade Life with Author Zack Friedman #188My guest today, Zack Friedman recognized a pattern in humans. Some people create lemonade from lemons and others don't. His book, The Lemonade Life, is the playbook for how to choose a pathway that eludes many, and can lead to more fulfillment and success.2020-07-1036 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughStorytelling, Markers and a Wholeheart with Creative Sunni Brown #187Sunni Brown is an inspiration. She helped me exercise my wierd. After many years of trading messages, I'm proud to share our conversation with you today. One of my favorite quotes from Sunni I included in my book “If you can’t change your mind, it’s very hard to change your life. Human beings that are mentally agile, those who can and will unstick—from an ongoing challenge, a mindset, a limiting belief, or a point of view—are more likely to flourish. Period.”2020-06-2636 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughThe Art of Getting Lost with Semi-Rad founder Brendan Leonard #186Brendan Leonard promises that real adventure is not out of reach. I discovered his work through The Art of Getting Lost, a get-out-there excuse removing antidote to exploring more. He writes, “The hardest thing is convincing yourself it’s okay. Now I know you’re important at work and at home, but trust me, the folks at work and at home can do without you for a day or a couple of days. You’d be surprised what people do when you’re unavailable for a day or two: They figure it out on their own. It’s easy t...2020-06-1922 min
Outside the Box with Dr. Janeane BernsteinOUTSIDE THE BOX with Aaron McHugh, Writer, podcaster, adventurer, author, and career liberatorWriter, podcaster, adventurer, author, and career liberator Aaron McHugh featured on OUTSIDE THE BOX with host Janeane Bernstein2020-06-1535 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughDesigning Your Work Life to Thrive with Authors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans #185Dave Evans and Bill Burnett are designers at heart. Early in their careers, they designed for companies like Apple. Today, as Life Designers, they show people how to get off the couch and prototype alternative versions of their lives and their careers. 2020-06-1239 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughBravespace Workplaces with Author Moe Carrick #184Moe believes that Bravespace workplaces enable for people to face the risks, emotional exposure, uncertainty, and vulnerability that come with work. Leaders must know that people aren't machines, but that we are strong and fragile, smart, complex and beautiful. Bravespace workplaces are people-centered environments where leaders deeply understand that people make all the good things happen at work.2020-06-0537 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughThe Path to Restoring the Heart of a Man with Author Morgan Snyder #183 Morgan Snyder is more than my guest today. Our sixteen-year friendship is an anchor I repeatedly tether myself to for hope, truth, and joy. Our transformative reciprocity began when we were angsty younger men in our thirties. We'd commiserate together. Now we celebrate. To relieve anxiety, we'd pedal bikes in sync to reset our life's drive train. Our strategy? To conjure more energy, with an improved approach to come through for everyone except ourselves. Now we prioritize our soul's needs, joyfully contributing with wisdom's restraint in fewer places. Mashing those Colorado hills, Morgan was dictating his book...2020-05-2941 min
Becoming EntrefiedENT 141: Becoming Your Own Boss With Aaron McHughToday we have an awesome guest, Aaron McHugh. We cover some awesome topics about how to "Fire Your Boss" and transform your life.Who exactly is Aaron?Aaron McHugh is an executive transformation coach, enterprise agility consultant, writer, podcaster, adventurer, author of Fire Your Boss: Discover Work You Love Without Quitting Your Job and career liberator who is learning to master sustainable work-life play rhythms woven into his everyday routine. He hosts the fast-growing podcast “Work-Life Play,” leads Reboot Your Life experiential weekends, speaks widely, and is an Affiliate Advisor for Aberkyn, a division of M...2020-05-2844 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughHow to Deal With the Root Cause of Your Distraction with Nir Eyal #182I'll be the first to admit. I can be easily distracted. Ping, blue dot, check email, etc. Nir Eyal named my interference as pain management. "Unless we deal with the root causes of our distraction, we'll continue to find ways to distract ourselves. Simply put, the drive to relieve discomfort is the root cause of all our behavior." I invite you to put aside your biases and assumptions about distraction and listen to Nir Eyal's research on how to become Indistractable.2020-05-2242 min
Safe and Sound Podcast with Sean SparkmanAaron McHugh: Work Life PlayToday, Sean interviews life transformation and business coach Aaron McHugh, host of the Work, Life, Play podcast. In this discussion, Aaron gives us a hint of the amazing way in which he creates adventure even in the midst of adversity.
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Aaron McHugh is an executive transformation coach, enterprise agility consultant, writer, podcaster, adventurer, author of Fire Your Boss: Discover Work You Love Without Quitting Your Job and career liberator who is learnin...2020-05-1134 min
Screw the NaysayersEps 241 How To Master The Art Of Living | Aaron McHughAaron McHugh is a writer, podcaster, adventurer, and author of the best-selling book, Fire Your Boss: Discover Work You Love Without Quitting Your Job. He is mastering the art of living a sustainable work-life balance that constantly interweaves rhythms of play and adventure. That includes road trips in their 1974 VW Bus, aka The Joy Bus, catapulting them into many father-daughter adventures together.
Aaron is on a quest to climb all fifty-eight of the fourteen thousand foot peaks in Colorado. He has seventeen more to go. Aaron has mountain biked the Colorado Trail, traversed the Wind River Range...2020-05-0900 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughJoy at the Finish line with Sufferfest Beer Company CEO Caitlin Landesberg #181My guest today on Work Life Play is Caitlin Landesberg, founder and CEO of Sufferfest Beer Company, for those who believe in earning their beer. Caitlin Landesberg is an Athlete, long-distance trail runner, and is relentlessly curious. We talk about living fully, pursuing wormholes with curiosity and abandoning demands for outcomes. Her disarming charm, tech-startup roots tenacity kneaded the gospel of Sufferfest Beer one finish line and neighborhood grocery story at a time. Here is her story.2020-04-1743 min
Human Impact with Ed AndrewAaron Mchugh - why we should all Fire Your Boss, overcoming tragedy to thrive againAaron McHugh is an executive transformation coach, writer, podcaster, adventurer, author of Fire Your Boss: Discover Work You Love Without Quitting Your Job and career liberator who is learning to master a sustainable work-life play rhythms woven into his every day routine. He hosts the fast-growing podcast “Work Life Play,” leads Reboot Your Life experiential weekends, speaks widely, and is an Affiliate Advisor for Aberkyn, a division of McKinsey & Co, helping drive large culture transformations in North America. When he’s in his happy place he’s on road trips in their 1974 VW Bus, aka The Joy Bus, catapul...2020-04-161h 16Work Life Play with Aaron McHughThe Depressed Brain and Finding Hope Again with Andrew Jensen #180My guest today is Canadian Andrew Jensen, PGA pro tour golfer and avid spokesman for the pitfalls and hope for those of us who struggle with depression and anxiety. "I turned pro and embarked on just this lonely, isolated life and isolation is not good for the depressed brain." Rich, earnest and real. I know you'll enjoy his story today. 2020-04-1123 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughChange Your Life by Unlocking Your True Motivation with Bryan Falchuk #179In 2018, I interviewed Bryan Falchuk, author of Do a Day: How to Live a Better Life Everyday. What struck me about Bryan was how his lowest-life moment, became his redefining inspiration. Here’s what he had to say, “I walked into our room and my wife’s in bed, my son’s standing there and he’s looking at his mother who’s dying in front of his eyes and he turns and looks at me and it all smacked me in the face. It’s like, ’what are you doing? You’re failing her. You’re failing him. And I’m feeling ‘...2020-04-0323 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughTranscending the Cult of Average with Tom Davis #178What is the Cult of Average? Today, my friend and guest Tom Davis liberates our thinking by guiding us to a values-based operating system for our lives. A ‘pay the rent’ lifestyle is one that is based on living life for other people. It's about paying the rent, paying my bills, going to my job, doing what everybody else tells me. What happens is, slowly but surely, I start to erode away. I start to disappear because the things that matter to me, my core values, the ‘why I do what I do,’ there is no time...2020-03-2750 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughWhy We Need a Whole Heart | My talk from my book release #177Usually, I wouldn't write an introduction to a podcast episode that I am the "guest" or the speaker. But hey, this is the best talk I've ever given at my new book launch party on February 1st, Fire Your Boss: Discover Work Your Love Without Quitting Your Job, What makes that accurate? Ninety of some of my favorite humans on the planet were in the room transferred to me through osmosis, and I gained strength as the evening unfolded. Which meant I spoke with boldness and brightness that I long to embody daily. The second and equally equitable, I...2020-03-2147 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughFeast or Famine? Walking Over the Edge with Alastair Humphreys #176Alastair Humphreys is unusual. He cycled around the world (46,000 miles) and rowed across the Atlantic Ocean unsupported. Those feats are unusual, but more accessible for the commoner are his microadventures, short, local, burts of curious wanderings out your front door. I'd pair beautiful and unusual together to give a crisper coupling of his leadership invitation to each of us "Live Adventurously". Motivational speaker, Author, and Good Human, Alastair is the real deal.2020-03-1946 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughPeb Jackson on Emptying Yourself and Blank Spots on the Map #175Peb Jackson is uncommonly attracted to risk and survival. Today at age 75 it remains true-it's in his bones. We talk about learning to empty yourself, living an adventurous life of the heart and in wild places where blank spots on the map still exist. 2020-03-0549 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughConnector. Inviter. Truthteller Leith McHugh #174Leith McHugh, my lovely wife of 26 years, is in the house today on the Work Life Play podcast. She's up to some amazing things in the world. We talk about "How McHugh's Roll" and the importance of inviting our children into our family ethos. She shares about her LEITH brand, and the coaching work she brings to women focused on identity and story.2020-02-1432 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughRunning Home with Runner & Author Katie Arnold #173My guest today on Work Life Play is Ultrarunner, Author, mom, and Outside contributing editor Katie Arnold. Katie's book, Running Home serves as the backdrop for our conversation, "A memoir about grief, motherhood, adventure, and finding your stride". 2020-02-0548 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughClosing the Gap- Launch Day #172Today. Closing the gap between where I was and where I am. Choices. Tradeoffs. Grace. Reboot. Start. Rest. Pray. Reflect. Celebrate. My book goes live today into the world. A decade ago, I sat on my back patio and wrote the first draft of this liberating idea for Firing My Boss. My life changed that day. Not all at once, but it sparked the beginning of a journey. I remember deciding to make that manifesto available in a print self-published version. A friend asked, "why self-publish?" Me, "I don't want to wait to be picked". I had...2020-01-1407 min
Work Life Play with Aaron McHughBreaking Radio Silence-My New Book #171Wake up to your life. It’s time to make a ruckus at work. Hi friends, new and old, after 10 years of soulful wrestle, iteration and innovation, I’m excited to announce the release of my new book. Fire your boss-discovering work you love without quitting your job is about becoming wholehearted. Yes it’s about work, and it’s about living true in all that you create in the world. Check it out anywhere books are sold. Keep going-Aaron *Join my 2020 Analog experiment2020-01-0819 min
Rosin the Bow with Joe McHughAaron Allen - Impact of Violin Making on the EnvironmentAaron Allen is a professor of musicology and environmental studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In this podcast, he looks at the impact instrument making and cultural assumptions about music impact the natural world, the trees, animals, and minerals that make musical instruments possible.
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Work Life Play with Aaron McHughThe Far Green Country with Eli Pyke #170The Far Green Country, a documentary film about RV living in the national parks, marriage, and parenting. Eli Pyke shares his story of he and his family living in an RV for a year as they reset their lives.2019-01-2836 min
Work Life Play with Aaron McHughWhen You Deny You're Burning Out with Jen Fisher #169Our world is fast-paced, being everything to everyone at all times (except to ourselves), and the demands of our modern world aren't sustainable if we don't learn to listen to our body, mind, and spirit to excel in our life, work and relationships. Here is Jen Fisher's story of burning out and today leads as the Managing Director of Well-Being at Deloitte consulting.2019-01-2836 min
Work Life Play with Aaron McHughAnd Sons & The Young Man's Soul #168Today's interview is with Blaine and Sam Eldredge with And Son's Magazine. We talk about their eight-year dream of creating a print magazine, the power of transformation v.s. entertainment, masculinity as a lens by which we can view everything else, in defense of millennials, the joy of words, vulnerability and going first, the temptation to quit, brotherhood and hearing God's voice.2018-11-1641 min
Work Life Play with Aaron McHughMapping The Health of Your Relationships | Reboot Live Part 3 | #167Which relationships bring you life? Do you know which relationships drain your energy? Begin by mapping your relationships across your work and life to gain insight about where you need to invest your time and energy. 2018-11-0920 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughWhat Do You Value Most? | Reboot Live Part 2 | #166What do you value most, not your stuff, but deeper than the stuff you own?2018-11-0329 min
Work Life Play with Aaron McHughMapping What Matters Most Reboot Live | Part 1 | #165Today's podcast is from session #1 from Reboot Live last October 2017. Last year, we held two Reboot Experience Workshop and took people on an inward journey to answer big questions like what do you want in life? And How do I find my path to a well-lived joyful life?2018-10-1443 min
Work Life Play with Aaron McHughListening To The Voice of Light and Easy #164What if you listened to the voice of light and easy? What would it tell you to do? What truth would it remind you of? Maybe things are about to go great for you in your career, with your relationships and in that new thing you want to try. Lean in and listen.2018-10-0707 min
Work Life Play with Aaron McHughRevealing Light From Darkness with Artist Mark Evans #163Mark Evans carves into leather hides to reveal light from darkness. As a kid, he started drawing and his Archimedes moment came when a drop of blood stained his new Christmas present, a leather jacket. He pulled out his boyhood knives to scratch off the blood which revealed this discovery of a now eighteen year career. To tell his story, we drove our JoyBus to an empty dirt road and retraced his life, love and art.2018-07-0554 min
Work Life Play with Aaron McHughBeyond Profits at Hari Mari with Jeremy Stewart #162Jeremy Stewart and I talked flip flops, political science, pediatric cancer and the power of why. Learn from his wisdom in this episode. Wanting to do more than just create a great flip flop and stunned to learn that pediatric cancer is the most fatal disease among American children – more fatal than almost all other childhood diseases combined – Hari Mari set out to help.2018-06-2133 min
Life Through Transitions | Helping you navigate life's biggest changes007: The art of living well after traumatic loss with Aaron McHughAaron McHugh is a writer, podcaster, adventurer, and author of the best-selling book, Fire Your Boss: A Manifesto to Rethink How You Think About Work. He is mastering the art of living a sustainable work-life balance that constantly interweaves rhythms of play and adventure. That includes road trips in their 1974 VW Bus, aka The Joy Bus, catapulting them into many father-daughter adventures together.Aaron works as an Affiliate Advisor for Aberkyn, a division of McKinsey & Co as a facilitator of transformation. He also works with Moving Performance, facilitating leadership change through the power of music....2018-06-1300 min
Work Life Play with Aaron McHughHow to Keep Hope Alive #161Hope must be cared for, nurtured and protected. Hope stays alive when we steward even the smallest glimpse or the thinnest thread. An action is required for transformation to happen. Talking about, thinking about, and dreaming about change isn’t enough. Doing something and trying something different creates possibility. We are not failures. We fall short, we make mistakes, and we can screw stuff up, but we’re never beyond the reach of love and forgiveness. Love wins. Everyone gets a do-over(s). Keep going, Aaron More on my coac...2018-06-1227 min
Work Life Play with Aaron McHughI Bet My Life On What I Believe #160My savings account just hit zero. We’ve bet our life on what we believe, and I’d like to shoot straight with you about what its been like the last seven months. In October, I left my cushy $six figure career. It was intellectually challenging, but it wasn’t soulfully and purposefully satisfying. With the support of my wife, family and close friends, it was time to leap. My big life experiment- the big bet, was to align the work I do every day with the person that I’ve become. If it sounds super vague and lack...2018-06-0433 min
Work Life Play with Aaron McHughTaking the Next Brave Step #159The future is difficult to forecast, but our next brave step is the one thing we can do. Where are you suppressing the parts of you that appear to not fit in your world today? Where can you experiment with expressing the fullest version of you? Where do you feel that you don't fit in? Come join me on an adventure trip in June. More details here. 2018-05-1428 min
Work Life Play with Aaron McHughAre You Sure? Maybe There's Another Way #158Today's episode was previously recorded at our Reboot Live event back in October, 2017. In 2015, we sold everything we owned, pushed pause on our life and started over. Not everyone needs to jettison their life like we did. But everyone can benefit from the lessons we've learned from taking the road less traveled. Read our full story here. As your guides, we will take you on a journey to help you architect a sustainable life you want to live forward. Reboot is not a marriage conference. Reboot is revolutionary and experiential and brilliantly crafted...2018-04-1245 min
Work Life Play with Aaron McHughThe Hardest Part of Letting Go with Alex Woodard #157Alex Woodard reminded me of how pliable our lives and dreams are if we let go. Alex's story is a powerful example of driving hard towards his goal of playing his music to thousands. On the eve of achieving his dream, the bottom fell out. His record contract vanished, his dog died and his dream became a nightmare. Enter stage left; he received a letter from a fan telling her story about loss and love. Alex decided to write her (Emily) a song based on her letter and send it to her. A new dream was born, For the...2018-04-0640 min
Deep Fried KaleDFK #65 - Ashley McHugh - 2017 Recap (re-crap), Resolutions & MoonPiesThe dudes are joined by fan favorite Ashley Buzzy McHugh to discuss the absolute worst of 2017 and celebrate MoonPie's 100th anniversary.2017-12-2944 min
Work Life Play with Aaron McHughWhy We Should Ask For Help #143I find asking for help to be difficult. The truth is I don't like to ask for help. I'd prefer to do things on my own, to grit it out, use endurance and perseverance to push through. In this episode, I share a compelling story of how I learned why we should ask for help. I found myself in a maze that I was unable to escape and asking for HELP turned out to be the secret for escape. I could use your help in a couple of specific ways. My website and email list...2017-11-3026 min
Good / True / & Beautiful | with Ashton GustafsonReboot with Aaron McHughAaron McHugh is a writer, podcaster, adventurer and author of the best-selling book, Fire Your Boss: A Manifesto to Rethink How You Think About Work. He is mastering the art of living a sustainable work-life balance that constantly interweaves rhythms of play and adventure. That includes road trips in their 1974 VW Bus, aka The Joy Bus, catapulting them into many father-daughter adventures together.For information on his Reboot gathering, visit https://www.aaronmchugh.com/rebootworkshop/2017-08-2857 min
Work Life Play with Aaron McHughFire Your Boss with USA Cycling #120Last fall, I gave a keynote address at USA Cycling's annual coach's summit event on the topic of my book, Fire Your Boss. Accomplishing Big Things: Acting Like a Pro 8 Minutes At a Time Big goals are sexy. We love the idea of tackling big life-changing achievements. A funny thing though, not everyone makes it to the finish line. But what happens when we start breaking down those big goals and finding a space for them in the small margins? In this keynote, I’ll teach your team how Acting Like a Pro 8 minutes At a...2017-04-1250 min
Work Life Play with Aaron McHughRebooting Your Life with Leith McHugh #116write yourself a better story If you could reimagine your life again...what story would your write? Maybe you feel stuck in a life rut or simply feel you aren't living the life you were made for. It's easy to find yourself down a path you didn't want or you're eager to do something new. People like us want to live a meaningful life full of intimacy, connection, joy, creativity, beauty and adventure. We rebooted our life, sold everything and started our life (and marriage) again. We will help you explore what a well-lived life means to you and...2017-03-2238 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughLiving Like a Tourist in Your Own Town #109Alastair Humphreys in his book MicroAdventures: Local Discoveries For Great Escapes says, "Adventure is a state of mind, a spirit of trying something new and leaving your comfort zone. It's about enthusiasm, ambition, open-mindedness and curiosity". I think that invitation is a perfect frame for this idea. Wherever you live, mystery, possibility and adventure await you...if you choose to go looking for it. My wife and I first tried on this idea of living like tourists in our town by taking a Staycation. We booked a hotel three miles from our home, reserved a couple of...2017-02-2400 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughBe the Hero of Your Life #101Be the hero. Own it all. All the ingredients are raw materials that are useful in our stories. All of it. Be gracious and kind to yourself. Love the people you are with. Be curious. Go searching for life. Keep going, Aaron2017-01-1000 minDeep Fried KaleDFK #37 - Ashley Buzzy McHugh - Slow Jamz, Pornmom & Powdered Peanut ButterAshley Buzzy McHugh drops by for the 3rd time to discuss the greatest slow jamz of all time, a very interesting Instagram account and try PB2 powdered peanut butter/chocolate.2016-08-1846 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHughLive a Hell Yes #67I called my friend Gill at 10 am this morning. “Gill I’m calling you back. What’s up?” “We’re going to climb Pikes Peak today. You should join us Aaron.” Pause; remind myself that the lists of excuses for saying “No” are not that important or urgent or necessary. “YES. I’ll be there in an hour”. Movies are extremely helpful in telling parable stories through the lives of someone else. The two movies that reframed my beliefs about risking saying “YES” more often are The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Yes Man. These are must see...2016-06-0800 minWork Life Play with Aaron McHugh9 Ways to Reboot Your Life Now #63My wife Leith McHugh was interviewed last week on Rob Bell’s Robcast Episode 99 | Leith McHugh on Rebooting Your Life. You will want to listen to this powerful interview. I put together a summary of the nine key areas that were part of our Life Reboot. In this podcast, I walk through each of these key Reboot categories and how to evaluate your own need for a Life Reboot.2016-05-2400 minDeep Fried KaleDFK #28 - Ashley Buzzy McHugh - Extortionist Babies, Sporty Girls & Kuku SabziAshley Buzzy McHugh joins the dudes again to discuss almost fist fights, Uber arguments, angry late night roommate emails and Kuku Sabzi.2016-05-1947 min
Deep Fried KaleDFK #14 - Ashley Buzzy McHugh - Pitbull Lyrics, Breast Milk & GooseberriesThe dudes discuss their Google search histories, gooseberries and breast milk with artist Ashley Buzzy McHugh.2016-02-0435 minDeep Fried KaleDFK #7 - Collin McHugh - Prison Babies & BeetsThe dudes discuss baby genders, daddy-hood and beets with Houston Astro's starting pitcher Collin McHugh.2015-12-1020 min
Deep Fried KaleDFK #3 - Collin McHugh - Butt Slaps & KombuchaAstros starting pitcher Collin McHugh joins the dudes to talk about the fun side of baseball and review Organic Raw Kombucha.2015-11-0921 min