My wife and I have been working with the dōTERRA essential oil company for the last seven years. When first introduced to essential oils, it was another tool in our toolkit for a healthy, holistic lifestyle. Essential oils changed our heal

Imagine That

Dec 6th, 2019 21m 51s

I love language. I’m a reader, a writer, a person who loves ideas. I recently watched Tolkien and loved this line from the movie. Language isn’t just the naming of things, it’s the lifeblood of a culture, a people. You can catch that clip for

Unknowing God

Nov 21st, 2019 36m 34s

Like many people who grew up in a religious context I was taught the purpose of our faith, the meaning of life in fact, was to know God. Not only was this the goal but it was actually achievable by getting saved, reading the bible, having a per

Past Lives

Nov 8th, 2019 26m 49s

I recently had the opportunity to take a trip back to where I grew up in central Alberta. My immediate family members no longer live there and so the last time I was back was thirteen years ago for my grandmother’s funeral. Like most forty-some

Something to Say

Sep 20th, 2019 24m 56s

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price to pay for living a lie. - Cornell West Sometimes I'm not sure what I was thinking about when I started this podcast. Podcasts about hosted by talkers, right? I'm a quiet,

Back-to-School for Adults

Sep 6th, 2019 46m 19s

As the father to three kids, September is marked with back-to-school energy. Something about the shift in season, summer turning to fall and kids back in school, inspires an air of possibility for new habits and making change in your life. In t

Follow You

Aug 21st, 2019 41m 13s

I’m a learner. I LOVE learning. I’m constantly reading, writing, listening, digesting and assimilating things I’m interested in learning. To be engaged with ideas this way is a big part of what makes me feel alive. I have a strong tendency and

When Marriage is a Let-down

Aug 6th, 2019 53m 4s

Have you ever been disappointed by your spouse, partner, child, parent, or friend? Perhaps nothing stings as much as the disappointments we face in our long-term romantic relationships, especially marriage. Unfortunately our popular culture set

Find your Frequency

Jul 16th, 2019 49m 8s

This spring I attended a meditation retreat hosted and taught by Dr. Joe Dispenza. A fan of his work, it was amazing to experience, in person, the principles of his teaching and research. One of the thing Dispenza teaches is a modern take on ch

Make Some Noise Drew Brown

Jun 28th, 2019 52m 46s

Drew Brown is an award-winning singer-songwriter, music producer and a friend of mine from way back. We have a shared history of being involved in contemporary Christian music, or CCM for short. In this interview Drew and I sit down in his kitc

A Meditation: Fools Rush In

Jun 7th, 2019 11m

For my previous episode Elvis the Theologian, I recorded my own piano playing as part of the background musical track. A first for the B-RAD Podcast. Today is another first. In this short episode I offer a meditation on Divine Love paired with

Elvis the Theologian

May 30th, 2019 30m 53s

When I was ten years old, I fell in love with the movie "The Princess Bride. After seeing it in the theatre, I must have watched it almost a dozen times in the years that followed. If you also enjoyed that movie the wedding scene may be etched

The Enneagram with Liv Lacroix - Part 2

Apr 24th, 2019 38m 12s

Your personality creates your personal reality. Joe Dispenza This is the second half of my two-part interview with personal friend, Enneagram Coach and Facilitator Livingston Lacroix. Listen to Part 1 here. We continue our discussion of the En

The Enneagram with Liv Lacroix – Part 1

Apr 15th, 2019 40m 23s

Learning about the Enneagram was a light-bulb moment, or rather many moments for me, in my self-discovery and becoming. The Enneagram, like no other personality assessment I know, challenges a person to face “their stuff”. It’s a brutally hones

Let your Yes say No

Apr 3rd, 2019 56m 24s

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth or power, our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter. So that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having

I am Not Sorry

Mar 26th, 2019 14m 47s

With a world population on the cusp of eight billion people (unbelievable!), I sometimes wonder if my single life matters. One person out of eight billion hardly seems significant. Does my presence matter? Do I deserve to exist? I live in Canad

Free Your Inner Guru with Laura Tucker

Mar 11th, 2019 42m 32s

Laura Tucker started her professional life as a school teacher before transitioning to the private sector working in training, sales, and coaching. Always wanting to make a difference in people’s lives, from the time she started coaching baseba

Here, but not Here

Mar 4th, 2019 16m 18s

Time can be a considerable source of stress for us in many ways. I grew up with an antique clock in my home that was wound up, by hand, once a week to keep it going. Time literally had a sound, a tick-tock, one second after another. Often it fe

Addiction to Approval

Feb 19th, 2019 13m 38s

I have an addiction. I'm addicted to approval. I’ve never attended an AA meeting, or had a close friendship with someone in those circles, but my guess is that at the genesis of addiction you find a desire. Without desire, none of us would do a

Originality is Overrated

Jan 15th, 2019 10m 50s

There's a lot of pressure in our culture to be original. And the self-actualization subculture isn't any better. It's probably worse. Do you have to be an original? What if being original is overrated? In the music world artists regularly cover

This is B-RAD

Dec 19th, 2018 25m 28s

I turned forty the same week of launching this podcast, and in honour of that milestone birthday I set a goal of releasing forty episodes this year. I didn’t quite reach that goal. I am ending my first season of the B-RAD Podcast with thirty ep

Knowing What's Unknown

Dec 11th, 2018 19m 56s

John Maxwell, renowned leadership expert, New York Times Bestseller List author, well-known speaker and septuagenarian says that as he has matured, the things he truly “knows” can be summarized with the five digits on one hand. Those are the th

Obviously

Nov 26th, 2018 22m 2s

The story by David Foster Wallace goes like this; there are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swi

Goodness Me

Nov 16th, 2018 19m 35s

The phrase "good enough", which is so ubiquitious in our culture, implies that there is something better than good. Perfection, something without flaws, something pristine and ideal, is better than good. Isn't it? In the beginning creation was

I am Human

Nov 9th, 2018 23m 42s

Labels aren't bad, they're necessary for making our way through the external world. Imagine navigating city streets or an airport terminal with no labels. Labels are obviously good. Labels are also a necessary part of our internal framework and