Alchemy For Life
Episodes
Balance and the Holidays – revisited
24 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The holidays can be a wonderfully unbalanced time of year. According to Pew Research Center 90% of Americans celebrate Christmas, with about the...
Framework
17 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the framework of your life? It sounds like a big question and it sounds like something that one would design. But instead it’s something we...
Motivation or information?
27 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Do you want motivation or information? Do you want inspiration or a dissertation? This is a very basic question and yet it’s one I am only asking...
Commitment – Only 3 things you need to know to get something done
13 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Commitment Whatever you commit to happens. You’ve heard that before, right? There really only are three things you need to know about get...
Tesla and the whole
06 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I have much reverence for Tesla – not the car company or the car (although I appreciate them) but instead the man they are named after – N...
Stolen Validation and Writing
22 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In a previous podcast I talked about stolen validation. So let’s back up and talk about the V word first. Validation As I affirm in The S...
Flair for dissonance
15 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I was recently watching a young man entertain a small group of people with his cello. This set up was simple in that he just had the cello footpedal a...
Dissonance for flair
15 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My interview with Tieg – the cellist mentioned in the previous podcast. Sort of a two-parter for you. We cover what music means to him, creati...
Does this suck?
08 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Does this suck? If you’re a creative or anyone that produces a project or a work product of some kind that you can take a step back and look ...
Five causes of indecision – and how to overcome them
01 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I took an early walk, and thought about my day. Being a fairly decisive person I wondered why I was having so much trouble deciding if I was going t...
Resolutions revisited
25 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hi. How are those New Year’s Resolutions doing? (pause for gasps, pregnant silence and bad looks) You made some right? Because you did...
What do you want from me?!
18 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
You’ve heard and seen and read motivational speakers, motivational people, thought leaders, influencers, etc. etc. etc. You hear that you should liv...
What is change?
04 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What is change, exactly? We hear that word so much. I tell you what change really is, what it means to you (and me) and why it scares you. You mi...
Self-care and Self-love? What is that, really.
28 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We hear about self-care and self-love all the time, but what is that? What do those words really mean? Let’s explore what those buzzwords actu...
Refugee resettlement
14 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I spoke with Jeffrey Kirk. By day he runs an SEO business and has been doing so for 20 years. However, like so many he doesn’t just have a car...
Grab the wheel – not the hood ornament
30 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In my talks about balance (I have a few that are specific to balance and one is called “Balance Through Transition) I talk about “grabbing...
June updates
16 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
June has been an interesting month and I’m taking a few minutes out to updates you on all the goodies. Book signing, June 15th – Blüm ...
Nicholas Arnold
09 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In my conversation with Nicholas, we chat about being in the zone, and the feeling of having that spark – and just as importantly how it felt to...
Suffering Experience and Wisdom
02 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We all suffer. Looking back after many years you realize that suffering is now wisdom. At the time though all we think about is the experience, how...
It’s all your fault
26 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s all your fault! There, now you can fix it, right?** One of the biggest lessons I had to learn was that not everything was under my cont...
Never Mind…
19 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Once you decide what you need to do you actually have to do it. If you are not willing to do that then one of two things must happen next: Yo...
What rule do you live by?
12 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone is familiar with The Golden Rule, but is it really the best rule to live by? Is the Golden Rule a selfish rule? What other conceptual r...
Interview – Blüm and John Lewandowski
05 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I sit down (literally) with John Lewandowski, the manager of Blüm coffee garden. As part of the continuing local series, I’m interviewing ...
Resolutions: Writing that book (part two)
14 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How are you doing on writing that book? That resolution remember? Remember when you made that resolution? Well, this is part two of Resolutions: wr...
Alchemy For Life – the book.
07 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Three books ago I sat down to write this book. But the books would not have it; they wanted to be first, and second, and third. This patient book is...
The Canary Does Not Mine Coal
31 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The canary Are you a canary? Do you have talents and contributions that set you apart from others on your team, your group or your family? Feel a...
Collette Gee
24 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Collette Gee took time out from her busy schedule to chat with me. We discuss her initial beginnings as a nurse and how she because a Certified Healt...
Sunday and updates!
17 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Sunday. I have some interesting updates for you, some insider information, and a reminder about how you just need ten minutes to make next week...
Mark Concannon
03 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Concannon is a four-time Emmy-award-winning storyteller. He’s connected with audiences through video his entire career – previously a...
Free book: The Status Game II
24 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Want a free 202 page book that explains how we connect with other people, why they choose you over someone else, and even why you stay at a job you ha...
Status conversations
22 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes guests approach me for the podcast, and sometimes I reach out. I’ve had excellent luck with reaching out to guests – they are a...
Valentines: Sophie Personne
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sophie Personne is a dating coach from the UK. Her newest book, The Other Half is out now. We talk about dating, relationships, what “your oth...
Valentines: Lisa De Pasquale
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Author and columnist Lisa De Pasquale joins me for a chat about her book – The Social Justice Warrior Handbook, #1 in political humor on a...
OneSelf
10 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The last podcast was about keeping the resolution to write that book. As it so happens at that same time I published my third book – hopefully ...
Resolutions: Writing that book (part one)
03 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Alchemy For Life, Life Management system can help you navigate and understand what it is you actually want. And it can help you see where all yo...
Cynthia Starich
27 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Have questions about what it’s like to be a talent agent? Want to know what they actually look for? How about Opera, or being in a band in Mil...
My mission and crabbiness
20 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Since it’s still the beginning of 2019, I thought I’d restate my mission in this podcast, and give you an unusual way to look at things. ...
The Amazing Lucas
13 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today I speak with The Amazing Lucas. Calling him a “youtube commentator” is a disservice; he’s much more than that – a body...
Resolutions: Steering from afar
06 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Did you make resulutions? I hope not. I tell people every year not to make resolutions. Not that there’s anything wrong with resolutions...
Look Forward / Look Back – One year
30 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New year… almost. I am sure that you are being bombarded by posts, articles and information about your New years, your new years Res...
Twas The Night Before Christmas – a reading of the poem by Mark Bradford
24 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The poem, The Night before Christmas (also known as Twas The Night Before Christmas) was originally published anonymously. It was later claimed as a ...
Charging a battery, filling a bucket and accomplishing a goal
23 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Charging a battery We all own devices that run on batteries – iphones, androids, laptops, macbooks, ipads, apple watches, wireless headphones. ...
The Zone – AFL Podcast
09 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In The Zone Have you ever been “in the zone?” Have you ever heard someone say “I’m in the zone, don’t bother me?&#...
Absurdity Filter
02 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Absurdity Filter Do you have an absurdity filter? Of course you do. But are you using it correctly? Do you keep messing with the sensitivity...
Too much positivity?
18 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Can positivity be bad? Can positivity be as bad as negativity? How much is too much positivity? Why would there be a limit to how positive you can be?...
Resources – Time, Energy and Resources revisited
11 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Time, Energy and Resources This podcast started out as a podcast on Time, Energy and Resources – as a reflection of the Alchemy for Life coach...
Fall Back
04 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Time It’s Daylight Savings Time in most of the US (and some other countries). If that’s true for you then you “fell back” th...
Doubt
28 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As I said in the Dread podcast, I read a lot of articles on productivity, personal development and all that jazz. The result is invariably the same ...
Dread
14 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I read a lot of articles on productivity, personal development and all that jazz. More accurately, I naively see a great title, start to read the ar...
Resting and Tension
07 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cutting the grass and sump pump hoses My son came by for the weekend and like a good dad I put him to work. He cut the grass for me, and as he was c...
Attitude is… something something
23 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re like me – and why wouldn’t you be – then you have a healthy level of suspicion over really short phrases that are su...