The Jeff Glass Podcast

  "The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." -Henry David Thoreau   As I sat across from her, I asked the question. . . "What's it like to be Black?" She gave a half-smile and a gaze as she waited silently for an explanation to my question. "As a White male, I believe there are things I will never fully understand. Yet, I see such strength in every Black person I know, or do I say African American?" She laughed, "Either is fine with me," she said. "It's true. As someone who is half White and half Black, we are conditioned to be strong by daily struggles and challenges." "What do you mean?" I asked. "Well, have you ever felt judged by the color of your skin?" "No. I cannot say that I have." We are surrounded by people who are positioned to teach us about life. I grew up on the east side of San Jose, California, one of the most multicultural cities in The ...

“Don’t ever play cards with a man named Doc.” ~Jim Hunter, Teacher   I remember when girls were gross. They seemed to be unnecessary extras cast in my adventurous boyhood. Growing up in Tuolumne County, California, my life consisted of building forts, making spears, shooting BB guns, playing superheroes with my friends, and discovering new ways to injure myself while making my mother’s hair turn grey. Just before my 10th birthday, my mother, my sister, and I moved back to the city where I was born. This was a dramatic shift; I was in a bigger city with fewer places to play in the dirt, a bigger school, and more of those distracting creatures known as girls. I hated having to move. I missed my friends and my freedom to play and roam around town on my bike. I was in a big city now with too many rules. There was only one positive aspect, I believed, to my exodus from my boyhood paradise. At Cherrywood School, I had the most incredible teacher: my hero in elementary educati...

In this life, I have discovered 3 types of inevitabilities for men. The Sedated Slave, The Powerful Tyrant, and The Peaceful Warrior. The Sedated Slave is trapped, but his philosophy is indifference, and his results are defaulted in dissolution and denial. He seeks pleasure and an easy life. There is no escape. He never finds a way out. The Powerful Tyrant is insatiable and relentlessly seeks dominion over others, but ironically and explicitly, lacks control over his own behaviors and ensuing loop of mental addictions. There is no stop. He never finds enough. The Peaceful Warrior is quietly dangerous, pensive about the forged path of his journey, conscientious of others while eerily silent about what matters most—domination, slave master over his own thoughts. There is always a way. He finds peace in the storms. His wealth is acquiring wisdom and requiring as little from the world as possible while simultaneously pouring out, giving without hesitation to the growth of others....

  “When we honor people by empowering them in the beginning and create a culture of success along the journey, we position them to experience personal victory in the end.” ~Culture Inc. & The 7 Scrolls Everyone can expect to encounter conflict with other people throughout the course of their lives. Do we expect others to follow our standards when they wrong us? Or can we create a culture through our own words and actions that will help resolve conflict and enable others to succeed? This is the story of how I attempted to save someone who did not share my standards. The winter of 2006 was the longest season of my life. My business and my family life fell apart. I had reached one of my lowest points, incessantly haunted by a suffocating darkness in my mind. You see, I thought I had killed someone. The way I saw it, I was the guilty one. He showed up on my doorstep, sleeved with tattoos, slicked-back hair, and a caring smile. He stood there, anticipating my acceptance; hop...