• Learning To Parent With Patience And Understanding

    Frustration and reaching the end of your patience when raising three toddlers is inevitable, but my wife Ana and I have learned that raising your voice may be a way of regaining temporary control but it doesn’t solve the problem, it only makes it worse.  Since becoming foster parents...
  • Garbage In Garbage Out

    You roll out of bed and look at your phone.  There’s a notification there and you click on it and suddenly you are thrust into a world of drama and injustice, political outrage, or someone else’s tragic story.  It only took a couple minutes to read but long after...
  • Ana Finding Her Way Back – Episode 53

    Two weeks after her return to the stage after a lengthy retirement, Ana talks about the competition experience and the bigger reason she got back into contest shape.  It was about feeling better about herself and the upside is that she will be modeling more and as her personal...
  • Is She Being Selfish Or A Good Example – Show 53

    My Wife Ana Tigre decided she wanted to come out of retirement after nine years to compete in a fitness contest.  The difference now is that we have three kids, two dogs, and a very demanding business to run.  She was feeling guilty about the sacrifice and time spent...
  • Culture Clash In Our Marriage And How We Solved It – Podcast Episode 52

    Ana was born and raised in Brazil and I come from the prairie province of Saskatchewan in Canada.  She is a fascinating woman and she puts all the color and excitement in my work-until-you-drop life and I bring things to her world that she appreciates.  But when the stress...
  • Managing Overwhelmed

    Ana and I are overwhelmed most day, every day actually, with three toddlers in the foster system, two dogs, two businesses, and a marriage.  The brochure said there would be balance, the brochure lied.  So here we are in way over our heads and wondering how the heck we...
  • My Ex-Wife And I Talk About The Good Ole Days?

    Elaine Goodlad and I brought our 20 year marriage to an end many years ago but we did it in a strange way.  We didn’t fight over anything, we didn’t hate each other, and we didn’t pay any lawyers even a single red penny.   We were friends when...
  • Managing Life Instead Of It Managing You

    Episode 49 Difficult times can either break you or make you stronger but it’s how you react to the circumstances and not the circumstances themselves that determine your happiness, success and peace.  Mike Tyson once said that every fighter has a plan until he gets punched in the face....
  • Our Foster Kids Came Back – Show 48

    Episode 48: You can read this related article about the girls coming home. Last October the two little girls that we took in as foster kids moved to live with a former foster family that wanted to adopt them.  We did all we could to help make that happen...
  • She Married The Perfect Man

    One of the biggest problems couples have is putting up with the differences in personality and habits.  It’s been a flash point for us, like most people, but the sermon in church yesterday opened my eyes to a better way of dealing with it than the way I have...
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