by Mike Carlon | Dec 28, 2021 | Open Mike, Self Awareness
Traditionally, all of our Christmas gifts are placed underneath the tree in our family room. Even though our kids are nineteen years old, they insist that gifts not be placed under the tree until after we all retire for the night on Christmas Eve. While I appreciate...
by Mike Carlon | Jan 26, 2021 | Podcast, Self Awareness, The Shorts
Why it’s so hard for men to make lifestyle changes This week I held some curiosity conversations with men about weight loss and learned that we are full of contradictions. These contradictions go beyond weight loss though (and make me want to stress eat). Listen...
by Mike Carlon | Jan 7, 2021 | Podcast, Self Awareness, The Shorts
A Man’s Search for Meaning Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl believed that those who survived the atrocities of living in a concentration camp did so mostly because they somehow found meaning in what they were going through. He would go on to state that it is...
by Mike Carlon | Jan 4, 2021 | Business Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Podcast, Self Awareness, The Shorts
Kevin Knight “At the end of the day, if you can impact someone’s life for a moment, maybe connect with them, maybe make them smile, just maybe make them think differently about another human being. That’s what it’s all about.”...
by Mike Carlon | Dec 15, 2019 | Open Mike, Self Awareness
One summer, about thirteen years ago, we stopped off somewhere outside of Providence, RI for a bite to eat. The five of us were all kind of bummed since our annual summer vacation to Chatham, MA had come to an end and it was back to reality—a six hour drive back to...
by Michael Carlon | Jul 1, 2018 | Self Awareness
When I was growing up, we never asked if we were going to Mass on the weekend, the only question was when. This stayed with me throughout college when most of my friends stopped going. I recall often saying at the end of our Fraternity Chapter meetings on Sunday...
