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Pictures Out There!Happy New Year, with our Ideals and Pictures!Happy New Year!! As we welcome 2025, Lee and Dave share how our Pictures and our Ideals in unison support and complement each other toward a brighter future. And by just doing our part, simply living our Ideals toward our Pictures helps to harmoniously make all of our Pictures happen! Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com !
2024-12-2934 minPictures Out There!Our Picture for AI... Revisited!Welcome to the Pictures Out There podcast series with Lee Stuart and Dave Fogleman! This is Season 4, Podcast #7.Ai is an avalanche of change, and we experience more of that avalanche every single day. What’s our picture for AI, and what are some of the fascinating possibilities? Please join us at Apple, Spotify, and at picturesoutthere.com !
2024-12-1937 minPictures Out There!Sports, games, and community... Let's Play!We’re back! Welcome to Season 4 and Chat #1 in the Pictures Out There podcast series! Community is such an important concept in shaping our pictures, our ideals, and our perspectives. What is the impact of the sports and games that we love on our own personal sense of community? Let’s explore, and have some fun doing it! Please join us on Apple, Spotify, and at picturesoutthere.com !
2024-09-2142 minPictures Out There!What Do We For Sure Really Know?Welcome to Season 3 and Chat #32 of the Pictures Out There podcast series! In our last podcast we talked about the joy of all the things that we don’t know or aren’t sure about. So in this life and world of ours, are there things that we absolutely do know? Sure there are! Let’s explore!
2024-05-1029 minPictures Out There!The Beauty of "I Don't Know" and "I'm Not Sure"!After “I love you”, are the most beautiful three words in our language “I don’t know” or “I’m not sure”? Maybe! What are questions where we can joyfully answer “I don’t know” or "I'm not sure"? Let’s explore!
2024-05-0332 minPictures Out There!Heroes talking bravely about the way it really is with Equality!Welcome to Season 3 and Chat #30 in the Pictures Out There podcast series! Today we revisit the Equality for All Movement, and talk about Cecilia Payne, America Ferrera, Amanda Gorman, as well as exploring a simple solution for reparations. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com !
2024-04-2531 minPictures Out There!Staying True to Your Real and True Self!Welcome to Season 3 and Chat #29 in the Pictures Out There podcast series! Staying true to your real and true self can be a challenge, but it’s doable. Keeping a sense of humor in even the most difficult circumstances helps. We visit about that and also take a look at some important trends in education, with lifelong learning a key to discovering your real and true self, and then staying true to it! Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com
2024-04-1835 minPictures Out There!Change, change, change... what to do with it?!Welcome to Season 3 and Chat #28 in the Pictures Out There podcast series! If you want to think about change, or how to manage or lead change, then you’ve come to the right place. Today, Lee and Dave chat about how we can adroitly drive positive change in our daily life, our jobs, with our families and friends, and within ourselves. Expertly handling, managing, and leading change is important fuel toward really living our own dreams, Pictures, and Ideals! Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com
2024-04-1138 minPictures Out There!Coach us up!Welcome to Season 3 and Chat #27 in the Pictures Out There podcast series. We constantly coach others and are coached by others, in all sorts of settings and venues. There’s coaching in our jobs… With our family or friends… Sometimes with people we’ve just met. Wanna do a little thinkin’ about how best to coach or be coached? You’ve come to the right place, ‘cause we’ve got a few thoughts on that! Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com
2024-04-0440 minPictures Out There!Carbon and Water... Pretty Basic Stuff!Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series and Chat #26. The carbon footprint of the uber-wealthy, groundwater drying up in the U.S., Howard Zinn, Ursula LeGuin, and more… All receive mention and attention today! Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com
2024-03-2838 minPictures Out There!Humor! Always Time for a Good Laugh!Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series and Chat #25! Humor! The power to make us laugh and to think about the future, our Pictures, and our Ideals… Steven Wright, George Carlin, Fredric Brown, and even a very satirical and amateur attempt at improvisation by Lee and Dave! Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com
2024-03-2125 minPictures Out There!Homelessness and Hope!Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series and Chat #24! Houston, homelessness, math, hope, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, opportunities for societal and personal Change, Marie Curie, and more…all receive mention and attention today! Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com
2024-03-1430 minPictures Out There!Sharing Power... the Road to Real Leadership!Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series and Chat #23! The Sporting KC Soccer team, sharing power, real leadership, humility, everyone matters, and more… All receive mention and attention today! Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com
2024-03-0726 minPictures Out There!In Any Difficulty, Hope Can Live On!Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series and Chat #22! Our Pictures and Ideals can guide us on how best to respond to even the most difficult public figures we encounter, while keeping our hope and optimism intact. Equality for All, Catch-22, Debbie Dingell, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and more receive mention and attention today, as hope lives on! Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com
2024-02-2949 minPictures Out There!Curiosity and Lifelong Learning!Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series, and Chat #21! Curiosity, Listening, Question Asking, Storytelling, and Lifelong Learning... Erich Fromm, Plato, Rick Warren, Sam Gamgee, and more… all receive mention and attention today! Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com !
2024-02-2141 minPictures Out There!Spirituality and Creation!Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series, and Chat #20! Spirituality and creation… how small we are by ourselves… how big we are when we see our real connections… Carl Sagan, the James Webb Telescope, Kurt Vonnegut, the mud that stands up, and more… all receive mention and attention today! Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com !
2024-02-1425 minPictures Out There!Gather 'round for master storyteller Lee!Welcome to Chat #19 of Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series! Everybody present and future gather ‘round, aliens and AI life forms included, and listen to two more wonderful childhood stories from master storyteller Lee Stuart! Lee’s stories will make you cry, make you laugh, and leave you with a lot to think about. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com !
2024-02-0742 minPictures Out There!The new book, part deux!Welcome to Chat #18 of Season 3 in the Pictures and Ideals Out There podcast series! In part two of a two-part podcast mini-series, we talk about Dave’s new book Ideals Out There. We describe our simple model for creating your own most satisfying and happiest life by living your Ideals and acting toward your Pictures for the future, with the additional support of the Life Tools that we discuss in this podcast. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com !
2024-02-0130 minPictures Out There!The new book, part uno!Welcome to Chat #17 of Season 3 in the Pictures and Ideals Out There podcast series! In part one of a two-part podcast mini-series, we talk about Dave’s new book Ideals Out There. We describe a simple model for figuring out, and then living out, our own most satisfying and happiest life. We can each get there by living our Ideals as we directly act toward our dreams and Pictures for our own desired future, as well as for the future of our world. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com !
2024-01-2546 minPictures Out There!Why "Out There"?Welcome to Chat #16 of Season 3, in the Pictures and Ideals Out There podcast series! We talk about the reasons we do these podcasts and books, a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Nobel Prize winner Claudia Goldin, the Equality for All Movement, the “Out There” Model, and more! We’re optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures and Ideals Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com
2023-12-2140 minPictures Out There!So Much to Chat About, So Little Time!Welcome to Chat #15 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Worryland, Free Will, the Church of the Nones, Malala Yousafzai, and more…all with special guest Terry Ecklund! We’re optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com
2023-12-1439 minPictures Out There!And I say to myself, what a wonderful universe!Welcome to Chat #14 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! New news about how humans evolved, what’s the matter with anti-matter, screaming plants, our connections to the whole universe, curiosity, humility, Marcus Aurelius, Maya Angelou, and more! We’re optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com
2023-12-0738 minPictures Out There!In Rosalynn's memory!Welcome to Chat #13 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series, with this episode dedicated to Rosalynn Carter. We talk about Narges Mohammadi, Toni Morrison, the guinea worm, Habitat for Humanity, Jimmy Carter, Madeleine Albright, and more! We’re optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com
2023-11-3025 minPictures Out There!AI and a new Golden Rule, and then some!Welcome to Chat #12 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Tom Friedman and AI, an updated Golden Rule, Pandora’s Box, just being there for someone, male loneliness, modern masculinity and feminism, Mark Twain, and more! We’re optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com
2023-11-2342 minPictures Out There!A Picture for Justice... Revisited!Welcome to Chat #11 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Howard Stern, Alan Rickman, Ron DeSantis, the American Climate Corps, Unions, Taylor Swift, Mitt Romney, government dysfunction, Barbers Hill, Dalai Lama, Tony Blinken, Einstein, Confucius, special guest Krista Fogleman, and more! We’re optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com
2023-11-1654 minPictures Out There!A Potpourri of Topics!Welcome to Chat #10 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about False Equivalences, Rufus Sewell, Carl Sagan, Football fans, Mexican Female Politicians, Rolling Stone magazine, the Lord’s Prayer, insurance companies, and more! We’re optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com
2023-11-0942 minPictures Out There!The fear of equality and our human potential!Welcome to Chat #9 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Charlie Chaplin, Albert Einstein, the fear of equality, Stephen Stills, big tech, satire, Ted Cruz, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Solzhenitsyn, lollipop moments, Carl Sagan, and more! We’re optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com
2023-11-0241 minPictures Out There!At our human best and worst!Welcome to Chat #8 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Success, Desperation, the Thai cave rescue, a Montana court decision on climate change, a fishing dispute in a Georgia neighborhood, a retirement home for American politicians, George Bernard Shaw, Franz Kafka, and more! We’re optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com
2023-10-2540 minPictures Out There!Orwell, Huxley, and Happiness!Welcome to Chat #7 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Technology, Cancel Culture, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Dwight Eisenhower, Dalai Lama, the happiest man in the world, Martin Sheen, and more! We’re optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com
2023-10-1945 minPictures Out There!The 2nd Amendment, life expectancy, and Hope!Welcome to Chat #6 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Teddy Roosevelt, Kurt Vonnegut, creating the Second Amendment, life expectancy trends, the power of hope and taglines, and more! We’re optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com
2023-10-1248 minPictures Out There!Comedy and Bravery!Welcome to Chat #5 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Paris Hilton, Sarah Silverman, Fake AI images, Judge Michael Luttig, Buckminster Fuller, Jerry Garcia, and more! We’re optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify, and at picturesoutthere.com
2023-10-0552 minPictures Out There!Justice, tyranny, kindness, etc.!Welcome to Chat #4 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about the quirks of people, The New Theatre, the African American Museum In Washington, D.C., the Florida Board of Education, Ezra Klein, Aristotle, tyranny, Albert Einstein, a simple act of kindness, and more! We’re optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about past, current, and future topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com
2023-09-2744 minPictures Out There!A Veritable Smorgasbord of Topics!Welcome to Season 3, Chat #3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Harry Potter, predictions, Kierkegaard, who we are, Gregg Popovich, violence, reverse trash talking, Larry Bird, John Cena, Hugh Jackman, Abraham, Martin, and John, and more! In our podcast chats this season, we’re optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about past, current, and future topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts. Please join us on Apple, Spotify and at picturesoutthere.com
2023-09-2145 minPictures Out There!Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Taylor...oh my!Welcome to Season 3 , Chat #2, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! In our podcast chats this season, we’ll be optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about a potpourri of current and future topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts.In this chat we talk about Barbie, Oppenheimer, Taylor Swift, 2001: A Space Odyssey, UFOs, Charlie Chaplin, Mother Earth, and more…all receive mention and attention! Please join us on Apple, Spotify, and at picturesoutthere.com
2023-09-1443 minPictures Out There!Everything But the Kitchen Sink...Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series, and our first Chat of the season! In our podcast chats, we’ll be optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective, satirical, and grateful as we chat about a potpourri of current and future topics with connections to Pictures Out There concepts.As for this chat, we have Franklin Roosevelt, Dave’s dad, Microsoft, George Carlin, Gaming, and a lot more…all receive mention and attention today.Who’s our target audience? Any human alive today or anytime in the future, all AI life forms, any aliens out ther...
2023-09-0744 minPictures Out There!“Creating and Managing the Roadmap for Our Best Life!”We close Season 2 of our Pictures Out There! podcast series with an episode that summarizes our first two seasons. In these two seasons, we have made an ambitious and humble attempt to describe our best high-level answers for humanity and our world to thrive in the future.We also describe how anyone else can determine their own best life answers for the future...for their unique place in the world and for their individual lives...and we then share tools to go live that best life accordingly.Life is often unnecessarily hard and...
2023-04-2717 minPictures Out There!“Our Past, Present and Future in Harmony”We may have unresolved issues from our Past and Present that erroneously suggest to us that we can’t imagine and work toward our truest Future dreams, our Pictures, until we have fully resolved those Past and Present issues.But creating our Pictures of the Future now actually helps us identify those Past and Present issues, and then provides us with energy to resolve them!A simultaneous Triple Track…we’re working on our Past, Present and Future in harmony!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com , Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.
2023-04-2026 minPictures Out There!“Truly Seeing our Real World through Our Own Eyes!”We live in a world that tries to pull us in a thousand different directions. In order for us to create our Pictures and live by our Ideals, we need ways to ensure that we keep our life real, while we stay in close touch with our true and unique self.What are the ways we can do that?“Trust your instincts” and “Pay Attention” are a powerful start.And wait, there’s even more! Let’s explore…Please join us at picturesoutthere.com , Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.
2023-04-1329 minPictures Out There!“A Chit-Chat with Lee and Dave!”We’ll model conversations that should be frequent, fun, comfortable, and happen every day among people who care deeply about the world’s future.We’ll jump all over the place in this chit-chat to demonstrate all the wonderful thoughts that springboard from and connect to the Pictures Out There! model!Not a “deep” or “too serious” chat, just fun and spontaneous. So, kick back, relax and join the imagination party, please!Let’s explore…Please join us at picturesoutthere.com , Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.
2023-04-0644 minPictures Out There!“Fear, Courage and Love...and How We Choose!" (Part 2 of 2)Do we make our Choices and Decisions by “what feels good”? Probably.But what is it that makes us really feel good, now and in the future?The answer may be a surprise!Is there a new way to think about Making Choices? Making Decisions?Is there a new Picture for Making Choices and Decisions?We think so!Let’s explore…Please join us at picturesoutthere.com , Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.
2023-03-3018 minPictures Out There!“Fear, Courage and Love...and How We Choose!" (Part 1 of 2)Fears pop up constantly in our daily lives, and in endless forms.How do we recognize our Fears, old ones and new ones, and not let them run our lives?We have a Picture for that! It’s about always moving from Fear to Courage to Love and our Ideals, as we make daily choices and decisions. And making that a Habit!We can move from Fear to Courage to Love...on big choices and decisions, and little choices and decisions. Every time!Let’s explore!Please join us at p...
2023-03-2322 minPictures Out There!“Hearing from More Future Thought Leaders!”Let’s continue once again to expand our own thinking by hearing from more thought leaders on the future, who also care deeply about what happens with our world!This ongoing conversation and thought stream about our world’s future helps us each consider how we can help move the world toward a better place through our own lives, Pictures, and actions!Let’s explore!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com , Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.
2023-03-1625 minPictures Out There!“Creating and Managing the Roadmap for Your Group or Organization’s Best Life!” -- (Part 2 of 2)Pictures Out There! concepts and approaches can bring out the best in companies, organizations, departments, and teams…any and all groups, of any size!Let’s chat about three important topics related to groups and organizations…equality, guiding principles, and change.Explore time!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.
2023-03-0923 minPictures Out There!“Creating and Managing the Roadmap for Your Group or Organization’s Best Life!” -- (Part 1 of 2)In addition to their use for individuals and for humanity as a whole, Pictures Out There! concepts and approaches are 100% applicable to companies, organizations, departments, and teams…any and all groups, of any size!The concepts are simple to understand and easy to use for a beautiful path forward for any group to act toward their best and most imaginative dreams and ambitions.Let’s explore!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.
2023-03-0222 minPictures Out There!“The Math of Kindness, Help and Love Re-Visited!”Each of us can make all the difference!It’s just math, really simple math. The impact of what we each individually can do to make the world a better place is much bigger than we tend to think!The power of one…just us!...helps solve even the biggest problems in our world. Imagine the power of one multiplied by eight billion!Let’s explore! And then let’s act!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.
2023-02-2324 minPictures Out There!“More from Thought Leaders on the Future!”Let’s continue once again to expand our own thinking by hearing from more thought leaders on the future, who also care deeply about what happens with our world!This ongoing conversation and thought stream about our world’s future helps us each consider how we help move the world toward a better place through our own lives, Pictures, and actions!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.
2023-02-1635 minPictures Out There!“A Breakthrough Picture for Education, Part 2!”This is the last of a five-episode mini-series that we call “Breakthrough Pictures”.In this episode, we continue painting our Picture of the topics we will use to educate our children and youth, and that we will reinforce through lifelong learning.It’s a new era for humanity, and we’re ready for a big education overhaul. We can do it! Here are our ideas…our Picture!What’s yours? Let’s explore!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify and other major podcast hosting sites.
2023-02-0919 minPictures Out There!“A Breakthrough Picture for Education, Part One!”Today’s episode is the fourth in a five-episode mini-series that we call “Breakthrough Pictures”.We’re at a beautiful tipping point. We are ready for a big overhaul on education topics for our children and youth…they are ready for it, and we can do it! The sheet of paper is blank…let’s draw a Picture! What should education address in order to create our very best future world, along with life satisfaction and fulfillment for all?We’ve got a few ideas…come take a look at our Picture! Let’s explore!
2023-02-0222 minPictures Out There!“A Breakthrough Picture for Crime and Penance!”Today’s episode is the third in a five-episode mini-series that we call “Breakthrough Pictures”.Humanity often does not thoughtfully and consistently deal with mistakes that people make, including crimes. Helping victims become as whole as possible and providing perpetrators with cleansing opportunities helps both parties heal and positively move forward in their lives.Can we breakthrough to a world of where we consistently use penance as a way to heal and move forward, energized by a new Picture? Absolutely! Let’s explore!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify and other m...
2023-01-2625 minPictures Out There!“The Equalist Movement!”Today’s episode is the second in a five-episode mini-series that we call “Breakthrough Pictures”. Humanity has never created equality for all people, regardless of race, culture, gender, wealth, or social standing.We are at a pivotal moment in time, a tipping point…and so here comes our Picture…The Equalist Movement!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify and other major podcast hosting sites!
2023-01-1925 minPictures Out There!“A Breakthrough Picture for Equality!”Welcome to the second half of Season 2 of our Pictures Out There! podcast series!Today’s episode is the first in a five-episode mini-series that we call “Breakthrough Pictures”. Humanity has never solved for equality for all, with respect to race, culture, gender, wealth, or social standing. Racism, gender bias, wealth inequality , and other forms of inequality all still exist in our world.Can we breakthrough to a world of true equality, energized by a new Picture? Absolutely! Let’s explore!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify and other major pod...
2023-01-1224 minPictures Out There!“A Holiday Love Song to Love and Our Ideals!”It’s the Holidays! That time of year when we are most open to loving, to helping others, and to feeling connected to everyone around the globe…Gee, that sounds like our Pictures Out There Ideals! Hmm…Ideals that we could live by throughout the year…if we chose to.How about a podcast we call “A Holiday Love Song to Love and Our Ideals”?And our hope for joy, peace and love to everyone around the world, whatever your spirituality may be!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify and other majo...
2022-12-1523 minPictures Out There!“Ice, Ice, and More Ice!”Here at picturesoutthere.com, we offer models and tools to help us “break the ice” for creating our Pictures of the future!We actually call one of those the ICE model. This simple tool allows us to assess how we think and feel about ourselves Individually, how our closest Community thinks and feels about us, and what the External world thinks and feels about us.We can then decide how we can improve the dynamic among those three elements for ourselves…Individual, Community and External…and then go ICE it up through our actions and plan!
2022-12-0822 minPictures Out There!"What More Do Thought Leaders Picture about the World’s Future?"Let’s continue to expand our own thinking by connecting to more thought leaders on the future, who also care deeply about what happens with our world!We continue this ongoing conversation and thought stream about what should happen in our world’s future, and to consider how we move toward a better world through our own lives, pictures, and actions!Please join Lee and Dave at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.
2022-12-0128 minPictures Out There!“The Orchestra of Humanity!”How about this for an image, a Picture? Humanity is an Orchestra…It’s a nice image, and it’s a true one! In that very real Orchestra of Humanity, how do we create that beautiful Balance where we each play our instrument of choice and everyone gets to play?Playing breathtaking symphonies, all in concert, while still allowing for beautiful solos!Please join us for our final episode in our five-part podcast series “Getting Our Lives into a Great Balance!”Let’s explore!
2022-11-2230 minPictures Out There!“Balance Through Managing Our Biases (Part 2 of 2)!”Betcha thought in our last podcast that we had covered all of the biases that our brains can conjure up…but wait, there’s more!!...(smile).What are our natural and normal human biases? By understanding them and managing ourselves, we can avoid their negative effects.Please join us for Part 2 of “Balance Through Managing Our Biases!” at picturesoutthere.com , Apple, Spotify and other podcast hosting sites.Let’s explore!
2022-11-1723 minPictures Out There!"Balance Through Managing Our Biases (Part 1 of 2)!"As human beings, our brains do “short-cuts” in order to deal with new situations and with the fast pace of our lives.These short-cuts, or “cognitive biases”, may cause us to lose our balance in life, and can bring pain and harm to ourselves and to others!What are these biases, and how can we ensure that we avoid their destructive potential? By understanding them and properly managing ourselves as we interact with people, and as we address issues or questions! Please join us for Part 1 of 2 of “Balance Through Managing Our Biases” at picturesou...
2022-11-0920 minPictures Out There!“Balancing our Spiritual and Physical Lives!”In this life each of us have both a Spiritual experience and a Physical experience!We have an incredible Spiritual experience that is always wide open for us, and that goes far beyond our physicality. Religious beliefs may be part of our spiritual experience, but don’t have to be at all!Our Physical experience is ongoing in this life, driven by our senses and bodies that we hopefully love and fully appreciate in ourselves and in all other people.How do we Balance and Optimize having a wonderful and full Spiritual experience alo...
2022-11-0327 minPictures Out There!"The Magic of Balance!"Welcome to the first episode of a five-episode mini-series, “Getting Our Lives into a Great Balance”!Balance affects everything in our day-to-day lives. How we balance our accomplishments versus our experiences, our variety of ambitions, our pride versus our humility, and our curiosity versus our certainty.Having a great ongoing Balance on these life elements sets us up for a happy and fulfilled life!Join us as we explore the “The Magic of Balance!” on picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify and other major podcast hosting sites.
2022-10-2722 minPictures Out There!“A Variety of Gifts for Action!”In the second of our two-part podcast mini-series “Creating Pictures in a Messy World” we explore all that we have to offer…“A Variety of Gifts for Action!”We each are blessed with our own unique set of gifts that support our unique dreams, our desires for the future, and our amazing ability to act toward those dreams!A beautiful and glorious array and diversity of gifts, styles, talents and abilities that we should understand and respect in ourselves and in all other people.Let’s explore!Please join us on picturesoutt...
2022-10-2025 minPictures Out There!“To Act or Not to Act…That is the Question!”Our world is a mess!! But the truth is, it always has been a mess. A beautiful mess!In Part 1 of a two-part series on “Creating Pictures in a Messy World!”, we explore if we should we really go to the effort to be pro-active with Pictures for our life and the world, and then act upon them.Would it really make a difference in this messy world of ours?Let’s explore!
2022-10-1324 minPictures Out There!What Do Thought Leaders Picture about the World’s Future?Let’s expand our own thinking by connecting to some thought leaders on the future, who also care deeply about what happens with our world.You are invited to join this ongoing conversation, this thought stream, about what should happen in our world’s future, and to consider how we move toward a better world through our own lives, pictures, and actions!Please join Lee and Dave at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.
2022-10-0623 minPictures Out There!A Really Funny Picture for Humor!We LOVE to laugh, and in this season’s episode #5 we’ll share our Picture for great, enjoyable, bust-a-gut humor that steers us away from the so-called “humor” that is really a thinly-veiled form of verbal violence to other people.So…what is good and positive humor? And what gets labeled as “humor”, but is actually negative, destructive, hurtful and harmful?Let’s explore!Dave and Lee are available on picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites. Please join us!
2022-09-2929 minPictures Out There!Top Ten Reasons to Care about our world's Future!This season’s episode #4, “Top Ten Reasons to Care about our world's Future!” will underscore the big and simple reasons why we should have our own Pictures, and care deeply about our world's Future as a regular priority for what we do every day.We can all make the world’s future a primary focus of our lives!Dave and Lee are available on picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites. Please join us!
2022-09-2223 minPictures Out There!Wisdom is Easy! (Part 3 of 3) – The Math of Kindness, Help and HopeIn this season’s episode #3, we use Math (gulp…that word!) to show that it’s wise and easier than we think to solve some of the world’s biggest problems! Hunger, poverty, and more…some simple math takes us out of the complexity of the world’s biggest problems, and shows us that these huge problems are simply right there waiting to be solved… we can all get wise, and just do our part!Dave and Lee are available on picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites. Please join us!
2022-09-1527 minPictures Out There!Wisdom is Easy! (Part 2 of 3)We explore three easy ways to make the “Simple-Complex-Simple” process and being Wise a simple thing to do…over and over again!Curiosity, Question-Asking and Storytelling are easy to do and remember, and are powerful tools on our road to Wisdom!Dave and Lee’s podcasts are available on picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites. Please join us!
2022-09-0826 minPictures Out There!Wisdom is Easy! (Part 1 of 3)Welcome back to our second season of Pictures Out There! podcasts! After a brief review of Season 1, we’ll dive right in with a three episode mini-series we call “Wisdom is Easy!”In this first episode we will walk through the “Simple—Complex—Simple” process that can turn our curiosity and critical thinking into our clearest and most actionable Insights, fuel our Pictures, and springboard each of us to daily Wisdom in our life!The process is easy to do, and it’s simple to repeat.Please join us!—Dave and Lee
2022-09-0232 minPictures Out There!Wisdom is Easy! (Part 1 of 3)Welcome back to our second season of Pictures Out There! podcasts! After a brief review of Season 1, we’ll dive right in with a three episode mini-series we call “Wisdom is Easy!”In this first episode we will walk through the “Simple—Complex—Simple” process that can turn our curiosity and critical thinking into our clearest and most actionable Insights, fuel our Pictures, and springboard each of us to daily Wisdom in our life!The process is easy to do, and it’s simple to repeat.Please join us!—Dave and Lee
2022-09-0232 minPictures Out There!Ideal-filtered Input and Output…it’s good and it’s easy!Information…Opinions…Facts…Deceptions…all of those coming at us, faster than ever. Our world is speeding up, and it can be chaotic and confusing.Our Picture to handle it all? We need the best possible filter for all that Input, as well as for our own Output. And the answer is easy…it’s our own best and highest Ideals!Join us for our Season 1 finale at Apple, Spotify, other platforms and at picturesoutthere.comAnd please join us for Season 2 of our “Pictures Out There!” podcast series, beginning in September!
2022-04-2125 minPictures Out There!Power, Leadership and Allegiance (Part 3 of 3)Leaders in any type of group or power structure frequently want to increase their own personal Power over time. When we are in that group, they usually demand our Allegiance to them directly and personally at some point, or to their so-called “leadership”.An ask to support a leader’s thirst for more power frequently means that we get asked to abandon our own Ideals. We should never let that happen.Here’s our Picture for Allegiance…We should always have our Allegiance to our very best and highest Ideals, and not to individual...
2022-04-1427 minPictures Out There!Power, Leadership, and Allegiance! (Part 2 of 3)Real Leaders Share their Power with others!"Leaders, you should share your power with the least or less powerful all the time…over time, give them as much of your power as you can...and gain influence as a result! See your group get better and stronger in how they communicate, innovate, collaborate, decide, adapt, change, and perform…in a more positive and inclusive culture that attracts and develops people.” That’s our Picture for Leaders in the future, whether they are leaders of families, friend groups, teams, companies, organizations, religions, cultures, countries, or the globe…gro...
2022-04-0733 minPictures Out There!Power, Leadership and Allegiance! (Part 1 of 3)Power…how do we turn it from our most destructive human addiction today, to a huge opportunity for human possibilities tomorrow?In this Part 1, we show how once we have our Pictures and Ideals ready to go, we engage with powerful leaders and systems of every kind to help make them happen. They often work against our dreams, our Pictures, frequently because of the addictiveness of Power.How do we make sure we’re effective in our engagement with power systems and leaders, as we live through our Pictures and Ideals?And what is a...
2022-03-3124 minPictures Out There!Love, the Ultimate Ideal! (Part 2 of 2)Whenever we are ready to act in greed, apathy, deceit, destructive competition, ignorance, ego or violence instead of acting in Love, we should pause and ask…Is there ever a reason to act in those non-loving ways, instead of acting in Love?No. Never. Like…never!Love is miraculously, at the same time… -- our best individual expression in our own life -- the best common experience and glue for all humanity Both at the same time!! Wow…what more could we ask for?Just love.Join us...
2022-03-2417 minPictures Out There!Love, the Ultimate Ideal! (Part 1 of 2)Love is our most important and ultimate Ideal!Every kind of Love! Romantic love…love in friendships…spiritual love…familial love…love in our work…love when we play…love when we meet people…love when we are impacting people we haven’t met...and more.There is one basic question we re-answer every day about how we will live our lives…at every level, in every situation, in every relationship, and in every interaction. It is “Will we fully love, love a little, or not love at all?” It always has been, is, and will be the most impor...
2022-03-1721 minPictures Out There!AI…Living with Advanced Intelligences and a new Golden Rule! (Part 2 of 2)AI…now we call it Advanced Intelligence…our human survival may depend on a new and higher bar for our own human behavior that models how we should be treated by a variety of new AI life forms, and that motivates them to treat us respectfully and well.AI is the ultimate gift to humanity, but not in the way we might expect.AI will force us to strive for a seemingly unattainable bar where we will stop the worship of superiority, dominion, and power…and where we establish a new Golden Rule.Here’s...
2022-03-1015 minPictures Out There!AI…a Picture for “Advanced Intelligence”, there's nothing “Artificial” about it! (Part 1 of 2)There already are AI intelligences with intellect superior to humans.They will continue to advance.In time, they will probably become conscious and create their own behavior models, unless humans model consistent love and care with the whole world.We need an updated Golden Rule in our Picture for AI:“Do unto other people, animals, plants, and everything else that exists on this planet…as we would wish intellectually superior intelligences to do unto us.”Join us for Part 1 of 2 of a great conversation on AI!picturesoutthere.com
2022-03-0319 minPictures Out There!Help!Our second of three Ideals is Help.Helping others, and letting others help us when we need it. Living with simple consideration for other people and our planet.Our good and selfless acts of help have great ripple effects we can’t see, as we forever become a part of each other’s lives.In our abundant world, we gain everything and lose nothing from helping each other. Please join us!picturesoutthere.com
2022-02-2428 minPictures Out There!Let’s see…should we all choke and gag, or all drink and breathe freely?Amazing that we need to create a Picture for this comically absurd question…no one in the world would ever personally choose dirty water or dirty air for themselves. Ever. Right? Not one of us!But some of us lazily, greedily or selfishly foul the water and air that other people use.Enough of that. I mean, c’mon…it’s the air we all breathe. It’s the water we all drink. To live!This Picture’s a breeze to imagine, and should be a piece of cake to come true… Join us!
2022-02-1721 minPictures Out There!We’re the Same and We’re Each Unique! – and We’re Immortal! (Part Two)Our group affiliations and communities should always support, and never inhibit or block, our individual uniqueness and our commonality with all people!Our truest, most authentic individual self should never be submerged, diluted or denied…ever.Our overwhelming commonality with all humans should never be submerged, diluted or denied…ever.And we’re immortal, so we might as well start showing our common uniqueness right now!
2022-02-1022 minPictures Out There!We're All the Same and We're Each Unique! Really?! At the same time?! Yes! (Part One)Ideals…a beautiful, future looking word that suggests change and trying to be our best!Our first of three Pictures Out There! ideals is a beautiful balance of loving our Commonality and similarities with all human beings, and loving our Individual Uniqueness and differences as human beings.Equally. At the same time. Balanced.We call it “Common Uniqueness or “We’re The Same and We’re Unique!”And hooray for that!Join us for Part One of discussing this incredibly powerful Ideal!
2022-02-0325 minPictures Out There!Lights! Camera! Action!You’ve put your Dreams into Pictures, and then your Pictures into words.Now it’s time to put your Pictures into motion with Process and Action!We’ll talk about getting started down Your Path toward the Pictures of your Dreams…Join us!
2022-01-2721 minPictures Out There!Picture Government of the Future! (Part Two)We share our Picture for Government in the future! It includes a global government structure that solves global problems like pandemics, climate change, religious intolerance, global supply chains, workforce mobility, cybersecurity, hunger, income inequality, health and life expectancy, and access to education and learning.All other issues are addressed by local and regional governments to increase support for diversity and cultural uniqueness, where people can create or find the culture that best matches their preferences, with no harm done to others.The new structure keeps us all safe and secure, treats all of us fairly...
2022-01-2025 minPictures Out There!Picture Government of the Future! (Part One)Humanity’s biggest issues today are global in nature…global pandemics, climate change, religious intolerance, global supply chains, workforce mobility, hunger, cybersecurity, income inequality, health and life expectancy, and access to education and learning…global-scale problems requiring global-scale solutions!Humanity has always had government, and it has always evolved over time. Always! The government structures we have today aren’t effectively solving these issues. We have to evolve and change.Join Dave and Lee for a discussion of government of the future for our world!
2022-01-1329 minPictures Out There!Are You Widening or Are You Narrowing? It Makes a Lot of Difference!Podcast Episode #17 - Widening and NarrowingAre you Widening your world with new types of people, skills, knowledge or experiences?Or are you Narrowing your world by standing pat with the types of people, skills, knowledge and experiences you have, or have already had?How curious or adventurous, or not, are you these days…and why?Join Lee and Dave, and explore your own life of Widening and Narrowing…a critical second Perspective that has an enormous impact on our lives and our Pictures!
2022-01-0630 minPictures Out There!Express ourselves, through the gift of Language, Music, Dance and Art Bridges...what a Picture!We can express ourselves freely and honestly as individuals, a culture or a society.Bridges are available among everyone in the world, as we openly and honestly share our music, art, dance, and language with others!Enjoy our podcast today, and then please join us for Episode #17 on January 7.
2021-12-1623 minPictures Out There!When are you Moderate and when are you Extreme? It Really Matters!We call our second Perspective “Moderate-to-Extreme”. We each select a point on a Moderate-to-Extreme spectrum with each of our Actions, Opinions, Expressions, Behaviors, and Experiences.We make hundreds of choices every single day, with corresponding decisions about how Moderate or Extreme we think and feel about each of them!The impact of these Moderate-to-Extreme choices make a huge difference in our life experiences:how we feel and think about ourselveshow we think and feel about othershow others experience ushow they react to our opinionshow our interactions and relationships play out Come join us a...
2021-12-0922 minPictures Out There!Pictures are Your Visual Dreams described in Words –– and They Make You Unstoppable!When we create and share our vivid, bold visual Pictures in words it sets us up to take Action, with our visual, verbal and auditory powers working in harmony!People use words to describe action steps, to create change, to do things, and to collaborate with others.Once our Pictures are described in words, it is much easier to determine the actions that we would take to start the journey toward our truest dreams!
2021-12-0220 minPictures Out There!A Picture of a lifetime! A Conversation with Natasha Kirsch of The Grooming Project!Want to hear a GREAT Picture?! Join us for a fascinating and authentic conversation with Natasha Kirsch, founder and CEO of The Grooming Project. Natasha has a wonderful story of how her Picture for helping struggling parents lift their children out of poverty became the journey of a lifetime, and created the energy for her very successful endeavor, The Grooming Project!
2021-11-1831 minPictures Out There!Let’s get happy and relaxed with a new Picture for Money and Wealth! – Part TwoWe each really matter because of our soul, spirit, personhood and individuality…not because of any wealth we may have!Our audience in the future that will listen to our podcasts has figured out how to avoid the addiction of money and materialism. We’ll talk about how they pulled off that change and how it has opened up new future possibilities for all of humanity around the globe!
2021-11-1121 minPictures Out There!Let’s get happy and relaxed with a new Picture for money and wealth! - Part OneWe each really matter because of our soul, spirit, personhood and individuality…not because of any wealth we may have! Here’s a positive Picture for money that takes care of any of our addictive, greedy, and destructive pursuits to hoard obscene wealth! - Part One
2021-11-0416 minPictures Out There!Lee’s childhood community…“The Second Saturday in December” and “Full Service”!For Part 3 of our podcasts on community of caring, Lee shares two of his delightful short stories about his small growing-up community, and how that led him to having a broad global community of caring as an adult. Please join us for the fun!
2021-10-2832 minPictures Out There!How Wide or Narrow is your own Community? And what do you want it to be?In Part Two of our exploration of Communities of Caring, Lee and Dave share their own community paths, invite you to explore your own community journey, and speak to our listeners in the future about how their world likely handles the idea of community differently and better than we do today!
2021-10-2117 minPictures Out There!Who’s in your Community? Wow...it really matters!Who’s in the community of people that you really care about? It matters, big-time, for your pictures and for your life! And you control it, and how it evolves. Wow...amazing!Today, we’re exploring community and the people we each really, deeply care about. Please join Lee and Dave for this first Perspectives conversation, and to reflect on your own community of caring!
2021-10-1425 minPictures Out There!Pictures Help Everything!Can Pictures help make your own boldest, truest dreams come true? YES!For you personally – self-image, vocations, relationships, interests? YES!Teams or groups you’re in, or lead? YES!Your family and friendships? YES!Organizations where you work or volunteer? YES!For any issue, situation, or opportunity? YES!Please join Lee and Dave to explore your own Picture opportunities!
2021-10-0724 minPictures Out There!Kindly Minimize Violence, Part Two...Here's How!In Part One we shared images of current life in our "water world" and our never ending human creativity on how we act and react with Violence.In this Part Two episode, we share our Picture of a future where we have minimized that Violence in its endless ways and forms.“Really?!”, you ask. “We can minimize all the forms of violence that we do to each other?!”Yes, really! And it is mindbogglingly simple and achievable! We just have to do it.Kindly join Lee and Dave for the next step of...
2021-09-3026 minPictures Out There!Kindly Minimize Violence, Part OneIn this episode, we share our Picture of a future where we minimize the Violence that we endlessly do to each other every day, and in a thousand ways and forms.“Really?!”, you ask. “We can minimize all the forms of violence that we do to each other?!”Yes, really! Starting with a clear Picture of a less violent future that serves as our compass.A less violent future…would that be cool, or what?! Join Lee and Dave for this important step of the Picture Out There journey!
2021-09-2323 minPictures Out There!Our bodies are each unique and beautiful, and so is everyone else’s. Yay!!!We each live inside these physical casings that we call our “bodies”. Pretty neat contraptions to house our souls! Our casings have a lot of similarities but are each unique. Very cool, huh! We should always celebrate our own physical uniqueness and that of others!But do we? Uh…no. Instead we live with our own physical insecurities in a world with racism, body shaming, etc., etc.Can a Picture actually make a difference and start the change to something better for us individually and for our world? Absolutely!So here’s a Picture o...
2021-09-1629 minPictures Out There!Pictures...Stop, Let's Wait...No, Let's Go!This Pictures idea...so much opportunity for each of us! But maybe a little daunting? Or even scary?We'll have some fun with all of the reasons why we turn away from our boldest dreams for our own life, and for the world. And we'll share why we should always turn away from those excuses, and turn toward our most ambitious and audacious dreams! Our most amazing journey awaits!
2021-09-0129 minPictures Out There!How 'bout a Picture of the world for Spirituality and Religion?!We're jumping in the deep end with this Pictures idea...we'll share our Picture of our future world for Spirituality and Religion. A bit ambitious? Nah. We can do it with Pictures!And after you hear all about Love First, we'd love to know what your Picture would be. Please join the fun!
2021-09-0127 minPictures Out There!The Journey and Life of Your Dreams!Welcome to the life journey of your boldest and most audacious dreams! The Pictures Out There! podcast series explores our too-often neglected opportunities to create powerful Pictures of our most desired future. Once created, our Pictures serve as a compass and motivator toward our happiness and success, and give us a new approach for vision and action. The concepts can be applied to any issue or situation we wish, and at any individual, community, organizational, or global level. In this first episode, we introduce and give examples of the life-changing Pictures concept.
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