LifeBlood

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2646: F@#K You I Won't Do What You Tell Me: Rage...

LifeBlood ·

2026/10/07

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9:22

2645: Where the F Am I? What to Do When You're...

LifeBlood ·

2026/10/05

LifeBlood: Ever look around at your life and wonder, “Where the f#&k am I?”Not geographically. In your life.Maybe your career isn't where you expected it to be. Your finances have drifted. Your health has slipped. Your relationships feel different. Or maybe everything looks fine from the outside, but something inside you knows you're off course.This episode explores dead reckoning, the centuries-old navigation technique sailors used to estimate their position using a known starting point,

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10:12

2644: Better Tolerance: Not Everything is Life or Death

LifeBlood ·

2026/10/02

LifeBlood: We live in a world that increasingly pushes us toward black-and-white thinking: good or evil, right or wrong, friend or enemy, us or them.But human beings aren't black and white.This episode explores the difference between chiaroscuro- the artistic use of dramatic contrasts between light and darkness- and sfumato, where colors and tones softly blend together. What if we're being encouraged to see a chiaroscuro world when reality is much more sfumato?You'll learn why disagreement doesn't

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10:37

2643: The Work of Life is Inside: The Joy of Life is...

LifeBlood ·

2026/09/30

LifeBlood: The work of life is inside. The joy of life is outside.We spend a lot of time searching outside ourselves for the missing piece—the relationship, money, success, recognition, accomplishment, or experience that will finally make us feel whole. But there’s no external solution to an internal problem.The real work is inside: self-awareness, responsibility, forgiveness, discipline, humility, courage, and learning to understand ourselves. But we shouldn’t mistake the work for the life.The

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9:30

2642: Family: The Most Important Thing You'll Ever Build

LifeBlood ·

2026/09/28

LifeBlood: We spend enormous amounts of time building careers, businesses, résumés, investment portfolios, and net worth. But what are all those things supposed to be for?G.K. Chesterton called family a “fairy-tale”- an unpredictable world filled with people we didn't choose, rules we didn't write, and adventures we couldn't anticipate. C.S. Lewis argued that our enormous economic and social machinery ultimately exists so people can live safely and meaningfully in their homes. In this episode, we

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10:33

2641: Number Your Days: You've Only Got So Many of Them

LifeBlood ·

2026/09/25

LifeBlood: There are only about 50 Saturdays in a year.An 80-year life contains roughly 4,000 weeks.Your kids will only believe in Santa for a handful of Christmases. There will be a finite number of dinners with your parents, years when your body is at its strongest, and seasons when you have the energy to build something meaningful.Psalm 90:12 tells us, “Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”The Stoics called it memento mori. Martin Heidegger explored

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25:14

2640: Shop Different with Ron Johnson

LifeBlood ·

2026/09/23

LifeBlood: We talked about Ron's career journey from Target to Apple to JCPenney, the current state of physical and omnichannel retail, go-to-market strategy, relationship-based customer experience, the influence of AI on retail and employment, and Steve Jobs' leadership style, with Ron Johnson, former Head of Retail with Apple, and former CEO of JCPenney.You can learn more about Ron at RonJohnsonShopsDifferent.com and LinkedIn.Get your copy of Shop Different here:https://link.amazon/B0cJvRgaw Want

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9:17

2639: The Fiction of Instant:Why Everything Takes...

LifeBlood ·

2026/09/21

LifeBlood: We've been sold the fiction of instant.Next-day delivery. Food on demand. Buy now, pay later. Endless entertainment at our fingertips. We've engineered waiting out of more and more of our lives…and somehow started expecting everything else to work the same way.But the things that actually matter don't.You can't DoorDash a great marriage. You can't Amazon Prime financial freedom. You can't download wisdom, microwave mastery, or overnight-ship character.A strong body, meaningful

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12:51

2638: Raising Strong Sons and Daughters: Preparing...

LifeBlood ·

2026/09/18

How do you raise children who are strong enough to stand alone?Someday, your son or daughter may find themselves in a room where everyone else believes one thing—and they believe another. You won't be there to tell them what to do.So how do we raise independent thinkers who can recognize what's true, decide what's right, trust their instincts, and have the courage to act on their convictions?In this episode of LifeBlood, George Grombacher talks about raising strong sons and daughters, why obedience

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9:34

2637: How to Find World Peace: It's Easier Than You...

LifeBlood ·

2026/09/16

LifeBlood: World peace feels like one of humanity’s biggest and most impossible challenges. But what if we’ve been starting in the wrong place?Mother Teresa is widely credited with offering a remarkably simple answer when asked what someone could do to promote world peace: “Go home and love your family.”This episode explores the order of operations for peace…why it begins with the individual, moves into the family, spreads through communities, and only then has a chance of changing the world.You

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11:42

2636: Faithfulness Over Success: Become a Good Steward

LifeBlood ·

2026/09/14

LifeBlood: What if the goal of your life isn't to become great?We're encouraged to dream big, achieve more, build something extraordinary, and make our mark. And there’s nothing inherently wrong with ambition. But ambition makes a terrible god.In this episode, we explore the deeper meaning of “Well done, good and faithful servant,” the difference between achievement and stewardship, and why a meaningful life may have less to do with becoming extraordinary and more to do with faithfully using what

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12:01

2635: The Right Person to Lead: How to Stop Electing...

LifeBlood ·

2026/09/11

LifeBlood: Who is actually the right person to lead?The smartest person? The strongest? The most empathetic? The toughest? The most experienced?Maybe we're asking the wrong questions.Modern politics seems increasingly designed to select for fundraising, charisma, tribal loyalty, outrage, attention, and the ability to win elections. But none of those things necessarily correlate with wisdom, judgment, courage, economic literacy, or the ability to govern.And with enormous fiscal challenges facing the

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10:50

2634: What's the Way Forward? How to Take Action in...

LifeBlood ·

2026/09/09

LifeBlood: What’s the way forward?For starters…it’s forward.You cannot change the past, reclaim lost years, or undo what happened to you. You can forgive, learn, accept reality, determine your next best move, and start moving.This episode explores why victimhood is a losing strategy, why maintaining the status quo isn’t enough, the importance of gateway actions when you feel lost, and our responsibility to steward and strengthen the things that matter.Good things require good people to continually

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14:41

2633: The Town that Ate its Seed Corn: EVERYTHING...

LifeBlood ·

2026/09/07

LifeBlood: There was once a prosperous farming town with a peculiar tradition: every harvest, they took some of their very best corn and locked it away.They called it seed corn.Then someone asked a perfectly reasonable question: Why are we keeping perfectly good food in a barn when people could eat it today?So they ate some. Nothing bad happened. In fact, things got better.Until decades later, when the town found itself facing a mysterious shortage no expert could quite explain.This episode

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10:35

2632: This Ends Here: When to Draw a Line in the Sand

LifeBlood ·

2026/09/04

LifeBlood: There comes a point when keeping your mouth shut stops being prudence and starts becoming self-betrayal.We live in an age of tribalism, outrage, intimidation, and ideological zealotry. Too often, reasonable people respond by holding their tongues, nodding along, and avoiding uncomfortable conversations.But silence has a cost.This episode explores courage, conviction, individual rights, personal responsibility, and what it means to stand for principles without becoming another zealot.Bad

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2631: Deadly Serious: Are You Protecting What Matters...

LifeBlood ·

2026/09/02

LifeBlood: Not everything deserves to be taken deadly serious.But some things do.Your family. Your health. Your work. The people who trust you. The responsibilities you've willingly accepted. The things you've decided matter most.The challenge is figuring out what those things are—and then acting accordingly.This explores what it means to become deadly serious about your Meaningful Few: the handful of things that matter most across the six key areas of your life.You'll learn why seriousness doesn't

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9:05

2630: Undeniable Ambition

LifeBlood ·

2026/08/31

LifeBlood: Every civilization must answer one timeless question: What should we do with human ambition?James Madison believed ambition should check ambition. Ayn Rand believed it should be unleashed. Karl Marx believed it was created by capitalism. B.F. Skinner believed it could be engineered away. Adam Smith believed ambition required virtue. Elinor Ostrom showed how ordinary people build extraordinary institutions.This episode explores what these thinkers got right, what they got wrong, and why

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10:01

2629: Bridges, Seeds, or Garbage

LifeBlood ·

2026/08/28

LifeBlood: Not every contribution has to change the world.Some people build bridges that future generations will cross. Others plant seeds they'll never see grow. And sometimes the greatest act of responsibility is simply picking up the garbage everyone else walks past.This episode explores stewardship, legacy, personal responsibility, and the simple question that can transform how you engage with your community:Does this situation require a bridge, a seed, or just someone willing to pick up the

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2628: Overcoming Shame with Dr. Frank Spinelli

LifeBlood ·

2026/08/26

LifeBlood: We talked about overcoming shame, the distinction between guilt and shame, common sources of shame across demographics,the shame spiral and its link to addiction, the Four P's framework (Pause, Present, Ponder, Possibilities), the neuroscience of self-compassion, and the importance of community in overcoming shame, with Dr. Frank Spinelli, physician, health coach, and author.You can learn more about Frank at FrankSpinelli.com, Instagram, Facebook, X, and LinkedIn.Get your copy of The

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9:40

2627: Tolerance is Overrated

LifeBlood ·

2026/08/24

LifeBlood: Tolerance is often treated as an unquestionable virtue. But should it be?You get what you tolerate. That's true with your children, your relationships, your organization, your community, and ultimately your society.This episode explores the limits of tolerance, why values without standards are little more than preferences, the relationship between diversity and shared values, and why healthy families and societies must be willing to distinguish between behaviors that strengthen them and

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