Crooked Butterfly Podcast

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Creating Culture Nov 21, 2025

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I get asked quite a bit about how to create culture.

The simple answer is you don't create it, you're living it.

You don't start out with a blueprint of how to create a culture. You begin by living the values you've spent time thinking about and invested in upholding ruthlessly and consistently.

Little Less for A Greater More Nov 13, 2025

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If you give a little of something you have to someone who needs a little of that something - the net value is greater.

It might not work with the numbers & maths, but it's absolutely true for the things that matter most.

Tribe, Community, Brotherhood... Nov 06, 2025

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Call it whatever you want, it still is so much more than can be described.

You can't use loyalty to capture it and likely a distorted concept of loyalty would ruin what would be the greater part of the sentiment.

Using our recent Annual Elk Camp Trip to try to build the picture of what I'm trying to talk about. Maybe it wasn't as well spoken as it feels or sits in my head & heart.

Do You Have Any Idea Who You're Talking To? Oct 30, 2025

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I generally have to manage my first reaction & pop up thoughts anytime someone talks to me with their arms folded across their chest or hands on their hips. More so with strangers than with knowns, but even still.

There's lot of suggested non verbal communication and room for misinterpretation for sure. However, the majority of the time there's a trend or pattern of something - righteousness, dominance, arrogance, ego, know it all, excessive confidence...

I constantly have to fight this feeling of "do you know who you're talking to?" or "look at you, you smug..." and miss out on half of what's discussed.

Then that makes me question that if I'm having these thoughts in response, what does it suggest I think about myself in the same regard?

Giving Grace to the Human Condition Oct 23, 2025

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A little clean up from last week's ending.

People are messy. Life is complex. I believe that most people are good and well intended. Driven be self-interest to varying degrees, but that doesn't necessarily mean we are wrong or bad.

Giving some tolerance & allowance for each other and ourselves to be messy w/o a major character flaw indictment, to be personally ok when others show up and elicit some sort of injury within ourselves, and not having to invent some narrative about another to dismiss them or loft ourselves.

Humanness

From Spam to 'Consider the Source' Oct 16, 2025

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Kind of a babble this evening talking about spam email & phone calls through feeling guilty or held hostage by those free return labels that come in the mail.

Not sure what prompted me to start a little rant about shit talkers and gossip champs leading into 'consider the source'. But maybe there's a full circle in there somewhere.

Mostly not a heavy or deep session other than just listening to myself talk to let things out.

Holding the Middle Ground Oct 09, 2025

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I've been asked for my thoughts/opinions regarding the Pete Hegseth address in Quantico last week. I was reluctant to share for the better part of the last few days as I am with the Tim Kennedy Stolen Valor discussion. But here I am, not speaking about it politically and almost as a bit of a continuation from last weeks struggle bus regarding the world & our country's state of the human element.

'Holding the Middle Ground' is much different than 'Fence Sitting'. I use holding vs occupying or standing in. To hold something insinuates intention. Much the same as fence sitting implies simply waiting to fall on the side with the greatest favor or probability of winning. I suppose we could swap out middle ground for common ground, but I am choosing middle much because I don't believe those in the middle are aware of or invested with anything in common.

Add value, not noise. Just thought I'd poke that out there as well.

Divided They Will Fall Oct 03, 2025

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Seems like the world is crazy and so full of ignorance, hate, & confusion. Not sure what it's all about, how we got here, or if even half of it isn't just sensationalized.

The last few weeks I can't seem to shake the 'looping' on it all. In my head, when I try to break away from productivity sprints to refresh & refocus, I feel consumed with frustration and sadness; even anger, about the "news" (if that is actually is) and how people get so consumed.

Let's Get Back After It Sep 25, 2025

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After a long break, I'm digging back into sharing stories and my internal dialogue about life, leadership, and random thoughts.

During my break I haven't been just slacking off; Connor and I have been writing a book on Leadership and these Identity Circles I've been working on. I've been engaged with a lot of material with Diesel Day & 'Checking In w/ the Left Hand' Framework, as well as, putting an incredible amount of energy into the Big Fish Foundation and personal growth.

Connor & I have also started up a Substack account where we're sharing short articles generated from conversations and ideas we shared during our weekly book writing sessions and what would have generally been topics of this podcast.

Since I've been off this BuzzSprout platform things have changed a little and seemed to have been updated with more capability. Excited to see where we can polish up things a bit.

Anyways, here we go...

Persistence & the Wolf Spider Oct 01, 2024

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Some story telling and reflections that a Wolf Spider gave me regarding Resilience and Persistence.
How we've let learned behaviors get transferred into areas of our lives where they don't belong...

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