Pictures Out There!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 there, and the cosmos. We’re inclusive here! Please join us at Apple, Spotify and picturesoutthere.com

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 complicated. Our best unique life is actually pretty simple to figure out, by using our own Ideals, our own Pictures, and some simple Life Tools as a guide for our best unique life journeys!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com , Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites, and stay tuned for Season 3 in September! 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 picturesoutthere.com , Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify and other major podcast hosting sites.

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 major podcast hosting sites.

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!

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 podcast hosting sites.

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 major podcast hosting sites.

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!So, let’s explore!Please join Lee and Dave at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify, and other podcast hosting sites.

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.

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!

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!

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 picturesoutthere.com , Apple, Spotify and other podcast hosting sites.Let’s explore!

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 along with our Physical experience in these busy lives of ours?Let’s explore!Please join us at picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify and other podcast hosting sites.

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.

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 picturesoutthere.com, Apple, Spotify and other podcast hosting sites.

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!

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.

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!

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!

In 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!

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!

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

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!

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 leaders in power structures.We should love people, help people, befriend people, commit to people, be trustworthy and loyal to people…but never pledge allegiance to any person or group who ask us to abandon our best and highest Ideals.Please join us on Apple, Google or .picturesoutthere.com

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…groups of any kind! It’s a simple Picture, and it works.Power has been and is our ultimate human addiction. But over time, Influence gets better results! And leaders gain Influence when they give their Power away.Real Leaders, Strong Leaders, constantly and consistently share their power with others!Please join us at Apple, Google, other platforms, and at picturesoutthere.com

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 Picture for Power, Leadership, and Allegiance in our world of the future that would make life great for all of us?Join us on Google, Apple and other platforms, and picturesoutthere.com