S2 #002 On this episode of DADtalks, JT interviews his older brother, JC Zahradnik. JC and his favorite assistant coach aka his wife, Beth, work together to help their team of 4 “Work Hard. Be Tough. Be their best self.” We talk about our shared childhood experiences, how the skills needed to be a great …
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Photo by Evie Shaffer on Pexels.com A friend told me a terrible pun: 2021 is the first time in human history where hindsight is actually 2020. Ugh…dad jokes….are the best! Even if you didn’t laugh, I think he might be onto something. Even though 2020 was a rough year for a lot of us, it …
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com “When I do anything that no one else can do because they’re not the CEO, I smile and thank God that I am making a difference. I have the worst and best, loneliest and most social, most appreciated and thankless job in the company and I do that job with …
Photo by Yaroslav Danylchenko on Pexels.com Oh COVID-19 the gift that keeps giving. Really it’s more like the white elephant gift that no one wants that just keeps getting passed around waiting for someone to finally throw it away…or burn it. Well, I know for some of you life has not changed much from earlier …
I am stepping off the path of parenting posts and wadding into culture with this week’s post.This post was sparked by a couple of items I came across in the past few weeks. The first was an article sent to me that was about a LGBT gal who decided to leave the political Left because …
My family and I recently got to go the Great Wolf Lodge thanks to the generous gift of grandma to her grandkids. It was a blast especially since our son was finally the height to ride some of the slides with us and that grandma was around to watch the youngest so we could go …
“The average child today experiences the same level of anxiety as a psychiatric patient did in the 1950’s.” -American Psychological Association What’s so different today that is causing kids these days so much anxiety? Where does this anxiety come from? It’s not like there is a depression or war or anything going on that would …
In my last blog post, I talked about the leadership lessons we could learn from the life of King David that could help in how we lead the next generation. I want to continue that conversation in this blog post and look at two major issues that Tim Elmore, an author and thought leader on …
“Hi! How are you? Great! How’s your family? How’s your job? Did you see what the weather is going to do? (Awkward pause…) Ok see ya later!”Ah isn’t small talk just the greatest…said no one EVER! Small talk is the worst. Have you ever went home and said, “Wow, I had some great small talk …
I wrote about this idea in a previous blog (Create not Consume) but my brain would not stop thinking about it. Or maybe I should have spent more time thinking about it before I wrote my blog post…Anyways, I wanted to explore the idea that when we consume we are consumed by the very thing …
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