From time to time I see snarky comments floating around the internet with folks commenting about how they’ve been paying rent for 10 years without missing a payment, but the banks won’t qualify that person for a house. Home ownership has become one of the defining features of the American Dream and it can be quite devastating and difficult for people who see this dream as a part of life and also forever out of reach.

Do you know why you do what you do every day? Why you sell a piece of your life nearly every day of the year and likely will for decades to come AND why you spend the fruits of you labor the way you do?

I’ve said before, nothing had a greater impact on my ability to achieve my goals than simplification. I’ve mostly focused on personal life and the benefits of fewer material things to reduce the cost and complexity of my life and how this freed up space for my growth and development.

This week I want to look at how this impacted my first business and former profession as a financial planner.

This week I want to dive into the fear we have of being new at something. Below is a blogpost I wrote early last year that sums up my thoughts. Thank you for reading and listening!

Last year when I announced that I was exiting my career as a financial planner people were curious about two big things:

1) What was I going to do?

2) How did I know I could do it?

Welcome to episode 56! In the episode I took time some to expand on concepts I wrote about in AfterLIFE about pursing the life we want. I’ve combined the podcast with a full blog post I wrote below.

Enjoy and feel free to comment or share.

Thank you,

Carlo

It's been a minute, because according to my calendar it's nearly June! As life swings back to a more normal pace, or whatever this new normal is shaking out to be…

The craziness of the pandemic and all the other things going on in the world threw me off my game from an exercise standpoint…

“We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.”

―Thomas Merton

Did you know your destiny when you were a child?

I always admired kids who did, and my next guest is one of those people who knew what she wanted and has been on a path towards her dream nearly all her life!

Amanda Oliver knew at the age of 4 that she wanted to be a writer…

Did you know your destiny when you were a child?

I always admired kids who did, and my next guest is one of those people who knew what she wanted and has been on a path towards her dream nearly all her life!

Amanda Oliver knew at the age of 4 that she wanted to be a writer…

“When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home.”

Rumi

I want to dive deeper into something I’ve touched on in more than one episode, and that is how friends, family, and others can poison our dreams if we let them. But not to be mean….

Over and over again, my guests give examples of people tapping into what is within them and share how it has made their lives more meaningful. My next guest, Sandra Vibe is yet another beautiful example of this!

Every year for as long as I can remember, I have begun looking at the results of my current year in the 4th quarter to begin assessing my progress and planning the next year.

My next guest focusses on the funny and casual side of life, but don't let those adjectives fool you! Mollie is a rock star and is killing it!

After studying Theater and Journalism at SLU she graduated in 2013. She went on to produce plays in St. Louis, Cincinnati (OH), Covington (KY), Chicago (IL)…

My next guest focusses on the funny and casual side of life, but don't let those adjectives fool you! Mollie is a rock star and is killing it!

After studying Theater and Journalism at SLU she graduated in 2013. She went on to produce plays in St. Louis, Cincinnati (OH), Covington (KY), Chicago (IL)…

I'm so excited to share this fun conversation I had with world traveler and journalist, Kathleen Evans!

In our time together Kathleen shared her journey and the wisdom she has gathered through her life lessons. These lesson lead her to leave the corporate grind, so she could live the Pura Vida in Costa Rica!

Morgan Noll embodies the messages I keep talking about around saying yes to what’s pulling you, and being the change. During the pandemic, Morgan reflected on her values and how to better apply them to her life. The result of that was her decision to open a business, The Social Goods Markeplace…