Building the Business of Your Dreams: Jason LeisterBuilding the business of your dreams takes a certain amount of moxie, tempered with an outsized amount of patience, slathered in perseverance.It also requires a clear vision, something ofte

#44: Reinventing Yourself From The Outside In

Sep 16th, 2018 24m 51s

Reinventing Yourself From the Outside In: Jason LeisterFrequently, we're told to work on our Inner Selves to get the Outer World to look as we'd like.(That's a rough oversimplification of the advice but you get the point.)Jason Leister ha

#43: Chop Wood Carry Water

Sep 1st, 2018 17m 13s

The Chop Wood Carry Water Method for Getting Clients: Jason LeisterThis is really all about Doing The Work. And it is something I struggle to do with any sort of consistency.In this site, I do loads of work, constantly.But the work is of a

#42: The Slipper Is Dead. Long Live The Slipper!

Jul 16th, 2018 32m 58s

The Slipper Is Dead. Long Live The Slipper!The slipper came back.I don't know where the last one went.I don't know if this one's the other half of a pair.I don't know why it is where it is.I don't know who put it there or why.I just k

#41: Membership Thingies

Jun 6th, 2018 29m 32s

Outsiders Journey was always intended to be a membership site, from Day One.Changing its meat from "me-based" to "we-based" has always been the plan.But making it so has been one of the toughest hills I've had to climb yet.To be sure, I've

#40: My Absence

May 17th, 2018 22m 58s

Where have I been? Well, this absence took me to the same place any other does: straight to the bowels of Internet Hell.OK. It's not that tragic. But it does have a similar stink to it, once you're in it.You're not dying. But you are fighti

#39: I Have A Growth

Mar 27th, 2018 24m 39s

Hope that doesn't look like a nipple. Because it's a mole. A growth. On this guy's face.OK! Nipple disclaimers aside, let's get back to the issue of my growth!Just a lot of really cool events happening lately. None of them earth shatterin

#38: It Takes Guts To Be Me: PT II

Feb 19th, 2018 22m 14s

It Takes Guts To Be Me 2Been an interesting few weeks since we last met!The stuff that has made up the gap between podcasts is varied and spread wide.The fight to deal with it all has been as much internal as it's been external.The messa

#37: The One Thing

Jan 30th, 2018 25m 20s

The One ThingJust keeps getting more far out as I clarify my One Thing to the world and myself!My mind gets too busy for its own good many times.It's an offshoot of whatever it is within me that let bipolar disorder come to be in the first

#36: Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland

Jan 24th, 2018 26m 32s

There's a metaphor and a literalization embedded in today's title!Across the last 4 days, I've been locked inside a whirlwind of technical chaos.Most of this has turned out well, so far. Some is still settling out.All of it created a work

#35: New Kid In Town!

Jan 17th, 2018 29m 16s

Took my youngest stepson to the airport today.He's just launched Phase Two of his young adult life by moving to a new town, and we think he's off to a great start!And in Outsiders Journey news, I've just launched my Phase Two, as well.I'v

AB Pod: Epi-3: WKNY Interview with Judy McTague: Pt2

Jan 15th, 2018 1h 6m

This was my return interview at WKNY, about 4 months after the original. Right off the bat: the info and helpful perspectives I shared here all remain valid. But man, was I humming a hair along the manic power lines! I was truly bipolar-free bu

#34: Save Me, Please!

Jan 10th, 2018 20m 28s

What a slipshod affair, lately.This title should have been directed at myself, as I attempt to keep up with what I've recently built.I keep running out of time to do these episodes and the newsletter in a timely fashion.It's even harder to

#33: Ignorance, Thy Name Is Ken

Jan 3rd, 2018 25m 7s

We are not "here". Not really.We are puttering about in the Past and living dreamily in the Future.But there is only NowWent a little Eckhart Tolle on you there.But it's true. And if we remain ignorant of this fact, nothing ever works r

#32: Turtle Leaves Shell

Dec 26th, 2017 30m 6s

(David Attenborough speaking.) "The grizzled male turtle slowly peaks his scarred head out of his weathered shell.He knows danger may await, yet his need to do right by others compels him to take this time honored risk. It's a risk others

#31: A Bloody Mess: The Mess Of Success

Dec 19th, 2017 27m 52s

Success comes only to those who are willing to fight all those who stand in its way of becoming a reality.What "those" things are and how you actually "fight" them represents an amorphous and variegated stack of potential life circumstances a

AB Pod: Epi-1: Let’s Wage Some War! (My Way)

Dec 14th, 2017 28m 18s

Here I go again. I thought I’d left behind the idea of actively sharing anything about my bipolar past. I have always wanted my material to be available to those who need it most. But my first run at doing so turned into a bitterly stressful de

AB Pod: Epi-4: Dr. Larry Smith: Embracing The Journey Of Recovery

Dec 14th, 2017 1h 6m

Dr. Larry Smith is a chiropractor in Canada who had his own devastating run down the Addiction Mountainside. Pun intended. He’s also a triathlete! We met while simultaneously writing our books with the help of the same marketing company. And me

AB Pod: Epi-5: Karen Gupton Interview – Arc Of My Bipolar Story

Dec 14th, 2017 40m 32s

This is the best version of my entire bipolar story. It’s concisely delivered without a lot of fluff. Yet it’s crammed with every pertinent fact about how I became bipolar, how I found out, what it did to me, how I got out and a bit of what cam

AB Pod: Epi-2: WKNY Interview with Judy McTague: Pt1

Dec 14th, 2017 59m 26s

About 9 years ago (!) WKNY in Kingston, NY had me on as a guest, speaking with Jody McTague. Jody was wonderful! The experience of being on the radio was almost surreal but also gratifying. At the time, I thought I was finally “making it” as I

AB Pod Epi-6: Seven21 Media Center

Dec 14th, 2017 52m 55s

Seven21 Media Center in Kingston, NY. Home of Ellenbogen Creative Media and my friends: Jeremy, Henry and Alice Ellenbogen. This is where a big piece of my new life as a sane man began I just wanted to reformat a DVD. It was from one of my very

#30: You Should Have Your Head Examined If You Choose To Skip This Episode

Dec 14th, 2017 19m 53s

(I reuse the following opener due to the critical nature of this post.)With the utmost respect I say the following:"If you're an Outsider and you skip this post, you are throwing away one of the best chances you'll ever have of building a l

#29: I Just Want To Be A Jew

Dec 12th, 2017 23m 55s

With the utmost respect I say the following:"The Jews in my life have always had a profound impact on my thinking, directly and indirectly."I'm gonna be honest: mostly indirectly.But the effect they've had on me is no less important.I n

#28: What-No Gravy?

Dec 5th, 2017 28m 16s

Sometimes, we ask for more than we can handle in one sitting.Then we add even more to our plate.Like extra gravy. Gravy's tasty...until you've had too much.You asked your mom for more on your mashed pertaters but she poured in excess. A

#27: Kicking Puppies

Nov 29th, 2017 26m 3s

Ho-oooo! Now that's an incredibly jarring start to a podcast episode Ken, n'est-ce pas?Yeah. It is. But quite a few helpful, hilarious, and insightful stories are rooted in my mind, in relation to that phrase.And I couldn't pick just one