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Education: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

I strongly believe education is the cornerstone of success for both people and the society they live in. This is why I believe it would be far more prudent to invest in the future of education by funding community colleges and trade schools for a minimum of two years for each student that earns a diploma or GED. There should also be a civic service requirement for each student that takes advantage of the program so the return on investment begins immediately while building civic pride in the student.

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Failure: Our Common Bond

Failure is something I have an intimate relationship with; hell I’d say the thing I’m most successful at is failure. That isn’t necessarily a good thing, because, like many relationships, my love of failure isn’t always healthy. How is your relationship with failure?

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Camas: Facing the Homelessness Problem

Homelessness is an issue that can affect every single one of us in some form or fashion in 2022. Homelessness has become a very hot-button issue for governments and citizens alike as both seek to find some sort of solution to a problem that continues to fester in society.

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America’s Microcosm: The County Fair

If we pull our noses out of the air, phones and zeitgeist, we see the incredible creativity, hard work, ingenuity, intelligence, cohesion (shoutout to the fair staff that pulls any fair off) of the great people that are fair participants, all so we, the fair attendees, can enjoy the fruits of their labor.

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Adult Bullies

As adults though, bullying can be substantially different than dealing with a kid on the playground taunting us or making fun of our shoes. Adult bullying can have profound impacts on our mental health, especially if it’s from a loved one or someone we believed we could trust. I think many of us look at bullying like I described above but obviously it’s much, much different as an adult because our interactions with others are quite a bit different than as a kid. How bullying manifests itself in adulthood can look many different ways, especially with the advent of social media and cyberbullying.

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Men and Emotion

As men, how do we get ourselves to a place that allows us to fully admit we need help? Many times us guys struggle to realize our own emotions. Some of us have been programmed to eat our emotions because they don’t matter, some of us have been programmed to show only one emotion, typically anger and still others don’t even know that we have emotions.

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The Blind Eye of Addiction

The shame a family member may encounter because of addiction can cause us to fundamentally change who we are, or in the case of children, change them to the point they are unsure of their own self-identity. In society though, many of these battered souls hide their pain from the world because their fear of embarrassment stings like alcohol on a fresh cut.

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Industrial Fear Machine

Each of us is engaged in a David vs Goliath fight on a daily basis for control of our own brains and I’d venture to say most of us don’t even know it. As parents, this battle is even more important because our kids don’t stand a chance of understanding the forces working against them.

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ManVsMood Podcast Ep 13: Healing Wounds

Healing wounds from the past is a huge part of overcoming mental health struggles. In this episode of the ManVsMood Podcast, we break down what it feels like to heal wounds from the past.

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ManVsMood Podcast Ep 12: 2021 is gone

This is ManVsMood’s year in review episode. 2021 was obviously a crazy year for all of us and in this episode we explore the year and what 2022 has in store for us.

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MvM Podcast Ep 8: Enneagram

ManVsMood Podcast Episode 8: Enneagram Personality Test

The four of us took the Enneagram personality test and we dug deeply into the results of the test.

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MvM Podcast Ep 7: Disappointment

ManVsMood Podcast Episode 7: Disappointment

Disappointment affects our mental health so we’ve got to be proactive in how we approach disappointment.

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