Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth® is a weekly broadcast from “The Rock Star of Consulting,” Alan Weiss, who holds forth with his best (and often most contrarian) ideas about society, culture, business, and personal growth. His 60+ books in 12 languages, and his travels to, and work in, 50 countries contribute to a fascinating and often belief-challenging 20 minutes that might just change your next 20 years.
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Following Christ is not for the faint of heart. Striving to be a Kingdom man isn’t about packing up and taking a vacation. It’s about getting your mind right, your gear packed and heading into war. It’s more important now than ever before to stand up for what’s right and just in the eyes of the Lord and seek His Truth. This ain’t a cruise ship fellas, it’s a battle ship. So buckle up and get ready for the truth. The Uncomfortable Truth.
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We all know that the truth isn’t always pretty but it can also be uncomfortable at times. You know what else is uncomfortable? Growth! Here at the Uncomfortable Truth our Host Velvet Jones and Qaadi team up to tackle subjects not often openly discussed or viewed as taboo in the Black Community. We welcome you along for the ride, it’s The Uncomfortable Truth with Velvet Jones & Qaadi
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Brutally honest weekly content designed to inspire uplift and most importantly to dare to think! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theuncomfortabletruth1/support
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Honest takes on politics, current events, entertainment and sports for the average street dude or just a person bored with CNN. Short and sweet. We have fun. We laugh. But main objective of this podcast is to inform.
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Uncomfortable Truths is hosted by Melbourne comedian Pradeepa Timmermans. She interviews interesting local comedians and regular people here in Australia. Each podcast briefly discusses or delves right into at least one uncomfortable truth. These include topics like being a comedian, writing comedy, sex, addiction, corruption, experiences of failure as well as success, mental health - you know, the stuff we don’t talk about. The only thing we find more uncomfortable than these subjects is tr ...
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Shane, Shaun, and Obie are back together discussing anxiety, and why it naturally rules us unless we choose to put our eyes on One who is greater.Av The Uncomfortable Truth
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The rate of failures of small businesses is astounding: 20% fail during the first two years, 45% during the first five years, and 65% during the first ten years. While there are myriad reasons, such as succeeding generations of ownership not being as motivated or competent, most of these fail under the original founders and owners. That’s because t…
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When the Leader Needs to Follow | S5 E33
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Are you actually okay with just God and none of your pride? Shane continues a vulnerable conversation with Curtis Lane and Zach Vaught on what it means to truly lead, loving like Jesus did.Av The Uncomfortable Truth
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Some suggestions to build credibility with a buyer during the initial meeting. (This assumes you’re meeting with a true economic buyer who controls the budget.)1. Assume a peer mentality. Don’t allow yourself to be cast in a “dog and pony show.” (I suggest you never show up with visual aids for this very reason.) Adapt an attitude that the two of y…
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Real Talk with Real Pastors - Curtis Lane & Zach Vaught | S5 E32
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Shane dives deep with pastors Zach Vaught and Curtis Lane as Zach shares his recent testimony of heavy-hitting financial loss and how the Lord pulled his heart back toward the Kingdom.Av The Uncomfortable Truth
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There are 330 million people in the US that we know of. There are 12,500 school districts, 18,000 police departments, 17,000 libraries, 400 different languages spoken, 45,000 flights per day, 5 million privately and commercially owned vehicles, 200,000 dentists, and 641 amusement parks. There are nation-states (Japan, Korea), multi-state nations (S…
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Tragedy into Goodness with Special Guest Westin Williams - Part 2 | S5 E31
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Westin continues with his life story, telling of his near-death experience and how it has driven him to life with the Lord of intentionality.Av The Uncomfortable Truth
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This is a marketing lesson for the Catholic Church. I’m a lector and a Eucharistic Minister in the Church and converted 18 years ago. As some of you know, I’ve also spent a great deal of my coaching and consulting career in the field of strategy and have written two commercially published books on the topic.The average age in the church my wife and…
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Tragedy into Goodness with Special Guest Westin Williams - Part 1 | S5 E30
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Guest Westin Williams tells his life story: a testimony of the grace of God in incredibly trying and weighty circumstances.Av The Uncomfortable Truth
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The agenda of inequality and wealth focused only on the richest might not reconcile with reality.There have been increases in home ownership (even though buying always has its difficulties, from interest rates to inventory). There is a record of intergenerational wealth transfer from retirement savings and the Regan-era IRA legislation.In the West,…
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How to Not Rule Your Kids: Special Guest Blake Nelson | S5 E29
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In a second episode, Blake Nelson of Heartlight Ministries continues sharing his personal experience on parenting teens, what they truly need, and how to reach their heart. Referenced in today's show: www.parentingtodaysteens.org www.heartlightministries.orgAv The Uncomfortable Truth
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Just tell me what I want to know.People instead tell you everything that they know.College professors are reading their dissertation notes. Electricians are telling you about high and low voltage, amps, and watts. The tree guy tells you about diseases of poplars when you asked if he could prune some dead branches on an oak. The auto guy explains wh…
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When Parenting Doesn't Work: Special Guest Blake Nelson | S5 E28
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Blake Nelson of Heartlight Ministries hones in on the core of teen parenting struggles of today, and how Heartlight seeks to bring teens into wholeness through relationship. Referenced in today's show: www.parentingtodaysteens.org www.heartlightministries.orgAv The Uncomfortable Truth
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Even in truly tough times and horrible market segments, there are winners and strong companies. You have to play the hand you’re dealt, and you have to play it well. If anything is happening to you more than two times out of ten, it’s you, not them.With high interest rates, houses are still being sold. With food being expensive, people are still di…
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Send us a text WHOOP!!!!! Episode 72, The return of Uncomfortable Truth Alumni and very own Inglewood's own St. Nick along with Boskoe 100. This episode started off with small audio difficulties but quickly got on track. Everything was discussed from Bolitics, to internet personalities and even misconceptions between DC and LA so tap on in and enjo…
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Intrinsic Value in Others | S5 E27
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Why do we get so much satisfaction from helping people? Shane shares a recent story and discusses how we are built to serve.Av The Uncomfortable Truth
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If you win a race by .001 seconds, have you really “won.”? And certainly, you’re not the “best in the world.” On that day, in that place, at that time, you finished barely ahead of the next person. What if you did it again an hour later?Of course, if you constantly and consistently win, you might be the best in the world or the best ever: Yankees, …
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When God Prompts Us to Speak | S5 E26
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Shawn shares a recent experience of being prompted to share the Gospel with a business client.Av The Uncomfortable Truth
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The Olympics sparked several replays of an Australian swimmer, Cate Campbell, being interviewed on what I think was an Australian TV news show. In a prior competition, she had beaten out the Americans for the gold medal. The interviewer asked her what it was like. She ranted on about how glorious it was because she detested the Americans using a co…
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Curtis Lane continues his conversation with Shane on coaching Gen Z into adulthood and works through what it means to be emotionally mature.Av The Uncomfortable Truth
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You’ve known wowsers. They’re always trying to be the “second smartest person in the room,” and they correct you even though you’re correct to begin with.They are official “killjoys.” They are critical of others’ pleasures and accomplishments. Lacking expertise doesn’t inhibit their critiques and corrections. They never converse; they lecture as pe…
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Breaking down walls in student ministry with Curtis Lane | S5 E24
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Shane sits down with Curtis Lane, youth pastor at Mobberly Baptist of Longview, to talk about being the parents our teens desperately need.Av The Uncomfortable Truth
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Send us a text We Promise we aren't a political podcast!!!! Dead ass seriousAv Velvet Jones & Qaadi
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People may think of a "Grand Challenge" as an exceptionally worthy and difficult problem to solve, and they'd be right. But it's also representative of a more formalized and impressive approach to what appear to be intractable societal issues.Seth Kahan specializes in these, his most recent being to remove stigma in mental health issues. This invol…
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God Doesn't Care About Your Money | S5 E23
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Shaun & Obie dive into what the Bible has to say about money.Av The Uncomfortable Truth
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My wife wasn't feeling well, so I went out to eat at 5:30 and brought her something back. When I do that, I bring my iPad and read a book at the bar.I finished, the takeout arrived in a shopping bag, and I drove home. At 10 pm I thought I'd play some Angry Birds before going to bed but realized my iPad was gone. I used "Find My iPhone" to determine…
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Responding to people who knock you down | S5 E22
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Shaun, Obie, and Shane tackle responding to people's cutting words about you and how to diffuse heated situations.Av The Uncomfortable Truth
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I recorded and wrote this prior to the presidential debate. When I couldn’t publish it before the debates, I was going to abandon it. But in view of what occurred, I’m publishing the recording and show notes now.In the upcoming debates, no notes will be allowed, and the moderators can mute the microphones. Moderators have had undue influence on pas…
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When something providential happens in your day, how do you respond? Shane and Shaun share some personal stories and why a posture of humility is a right response to a moment where God shows up.Av The Uncomfortable Truth
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The only way to “coast” is when you’re going downhill. Even on a plateau, you have to pedal to keep moving. However, there is a way to “coast uphill.”To succeed, businesses must keep growing. And to keep growing, they must innovate. No business can grow simply by solving problems and “fixing” things (or, worse, blaming people). Problem-solving keep…
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Shane, Shaun, and Obie wrestle with Paul's wrestling in Romans 7, asking what it means to live in our sinful nature even as we have been freed from sin by Jesus Christ.Av The Uncomfortable Truth
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They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?No, they don’t. The advent of the automobile around 1895 did not engender a huge equine genocide. We use horses today: for work, for recreation, for crowd control, for sport.Hence, the internal combustion engine is not disappearing in your lifetime, despite stupid political statements such as the recent “all cars must …
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Our 60th High School ReunionOn the way to the reunionWe’re on Amtrak on our way to our 60th high school reunion: Emerson High School, Union City, NJ. It was then and is now the most densely populated city in the country. Emerson is now a middle school, but back then it was one of two full-fledged high schools with all sports, and dances and typical…
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When Your Trust in God is Expanded | S5 E19
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Shaun asks Obie and Shane about life moments which strengthened their faith.Av The Uncomfortable Truth
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Show NotesMario Abbondanza and Noah Chantharangsy have been bartenders for quite a while, Mario for about a quarter century. I see them so often from the customer side of the table that I thought it would be fun to “step around the bar” with my listeners and discover what that would be like.You’ll find out that the hours are often brutal, but the j…
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Those tough convos with your kids | S5 E18
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The influences on our lives and our kids’ lives from the outside are weighty and often very contrary to the Kingdom of God. What does it look like to help cultivate community in our kids’ lives which combats the enemy?Av The Uncomfortable Truth
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We claim we don’t like elites, but we eagerly follow every ridiculous and pompous movement of the British Royals. (They’re now upset about a Nigerian trip that Harry and Megan took where they were treated too much like a state visit!) We belong to air clubs, hotel clubs. We have Amex green, gold, platinum, and black cards. Hertz has a platinum serv…
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I met Doug at Merck where he worked as a sales executive and I was an external consultant. Some years later, he called me from his current pharma company and asked my advice about an ethical issue he was seeing. About five years later, he was presented with a huge (listen to find out how much) “whistleblowers award” for turning the dangerous practi…
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The old apothegm is that the first generation starts it, the second expands it, and the third ruins it. Probably not so true any more.It’s not about a mandatory spendthrift or wasteful generation. It’s more about hunger. I don’t know about you, but I grew up poor, and when I was fired as president of a consulting firm, we had relatively little mone…
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The best leaders and most successful people I’ve met also exemplify generosity. This is not an accident.“Generosity” means “giving or sharing,” and being liberal in so doing. It isn’t primarily about money, but it is about credit, recognition, time, listening, coaching, supporting, and so forth. If it’s authentic, then it’s consistent, not situatio…
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Shane and Obie talk about how to intentionally meet your teen with the wisdom and grace they need.Av The Uncomfortable Truth
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I was required to engage in a “liberal arts” education at Rutgers. That meant that I had to have credits in languages over two or three years, science every year, history for two years, and English for two years. Although I majored in Political Science, because I thought I was going to law school (!), these other classes were required.The length an…
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Where do you go when you find yourself empty? Shane and Obie sit down in the new studio space and talk avoiding burnout.Av The Uncomfortable Truth
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Al McCree is a former fighter pilot who has flown 196 missions! He is an executive in the music business and has managed all kinds of talent. He’s also worked with top business executives.We talk about the differences and similarities of combat flying and the competition of the music business and the challenges of changing hearts and minds in a bus…
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