Dave Evans
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2,777 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 6 Jul
Dave Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so this thing begins to fail a little bit.
And then he tries to shoulder it up again with his own labor and a little bit of his own money.
And he keeps putting good money after bad and year after year.
And he does this for a period of about five years and finally had to set the company down.
The company so failed.
You know, that his investors and supporters said, look, it's too much.
You got to give up.
But he went bitter because for a couple of years after that, he just couldn't, you know, God's punishing me.
And I said, George, look, I mean, you tried real hard.
You gave it the old college try, and it didn't work out.
You know, God's right next to you saying, shoot, George, I wish it had worked too.
You didn't do anything wrong, but you're making up a story about the way things deserve to be, which is not how they are.
So radical acceptance precedes any real meaning making.
I'm really glad you asked the question.
It comes up all the time, and it's a crucial question, and it's one that some people really, really struggle with, particularly around, you know, moral issues or social issues.
In fact, I'll give a very real example.
A lovely young woman that I've been mentoring for over 20 years, she's my chosen daughter, you know, found herself once again working for a ridiculously horrible boss.
I mean, this is a bona fide bad boss.
I said, you've got to accept that this guy is a raging, nasty person, and it's not going to get any better.
She goes, but I can't accept that.
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