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2640: Shop Different with Ron Johnson Sep 23, 2026

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LifeBlood: We talked about Ron's career journey from Target to Apple to JCPenney, the current state of physical and omnichannel retail, go-to-market strategy, relationship-based customer experience, the influence of AI on retail and employment, and Steve Jobs' leadership style, with Ron Johnson, former Head of Retail with Apple, and former CEO of JCPenney.

You can learn more about Ron at RonJohnsonShopsDifferent.com and LinkedIn.

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2639: The Fiction of Instant:Why Everything Takes Longer than We'd LIke Sep 21, 2026

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LifeBlood: We've been sold the fiction of instant.

Next-day delivery. Food on demand. Buy now, pay later. Endless entertainment at our fingertips. We've engineered waiting out of more and more of our lives…and somehow started expecting everything else to work the same way.

But the things that actually matter don't.

You can't DoorDash a great marriage. You can't Amazon Prime financial freedom. You can't download wisdom, microwave mastery, or overnight-ship character.

A strong body, meaningful relationships, financial independence, mastery, purpose, and a life you're proud of all require time.

And that's the paradox: meaningful things take time, but we don't have time to waste.

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2638: Raising Strong Sons and Daughters: Preparing Them to Holdout When Necessary Sep 18, 2026

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How do you raise children who are strong enough to stand alone?

Someday, your son or daughter may find themselves in a room where everyone else believes one thing—and they believe another. You won't be there to tell them what to do.

So how do we raise independent thinkers who can recognize what's true, decide what's right, trust their instincts, and have the courage to act on their convictions?

In this episode of LifeBlood, George Grombacher talks about raising strong sons and daughters, why obedience cannot be the ultimate goal of parenting, teaching children how to think instead of what to think, allowing kids to experience consequences, developing courage through small acts of bravery, and giving them principles that matter more than popularity.

We also explore an important distinction: raising independent thinkers doesn't mean raising contrarians. Automatically disagreeing with the crowd is just another way of letting the crowd control you.

The goal is conviction with humility.

Raise children who can belong without surrendering themselves—and who are strong enough to stand alone when it matters.

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2637: How to Find World Peace: It's Easier Than You Think Sep 16, 2026

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LifeBlood: World peace feels like one of humanity’s biggest and most impossible challenges. But what if we’ve been starting in the wrong place?

Mother Teresa is widely credited with offering a remarkably simple answer when asked what someone could do to promote world peace: “Go home and love your family.”

This episode explores the order of operations for peace…why it begins with the individual, moves into the family, spreads through communities, and only then has a chance of changing the world.

You may not be able to stop a war, heal political division, or fix humanity. But you can forgive someone. You can become a better spouse or parent. You can raise good children, become a good neighbor, strengthen your community, and bring peace to the small part of the world entrusted to you.

World peace starts at home.

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2636: Faithfulness Over Success: Become a Good Steward Sep 14, 2026

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LifeBlood: What if the goal of your life isn't to become great?

We're encouraged to dream big, achieve more, build something extraordinary, and make our mark. And there’s nothing inherently wrong with ambition. But ambition makes a terrible god.

In this episode, we explore the deeper meaning of “Well done, good and faithful servant,” the difference between achievement and stewardship, and why a meaningful life may have less to do with becoming extraordinary and more to do with faithfully using what you've already been given.

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2635: The Right Person to Lead: How to Stop Electing Morons Sep 11, 2026

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LifeBlood: Who is actually the right person to lead?

The smartest person? The strongest? The most empathetic? The toughest? The most experienced?

Maybe we're asking the wrong questions.

Modern politics seems increasingly designed to select for fundraising, charisma, tribal loyalty, outrage, attention, and the ability to win elections. But none of those things necessarily correlate with wisdom, judgment, courage, economic literacy, or the ability to govern.

And with enormous fiscal challenges facing the United States, vibes aren't getting us out of this one.

This episode explores what we should actually select for in our leaders: character, intellect, wisdom, practical experience, courage, humility, communication ability, and demonstrated competence.

Maybe the first thing we need to do is take off our political jerseys and stop treating elections like sporting events.

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2634: What's the Way Forward? How to Take Action in Uncertain Times Sep 09, 2026

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LifeBlood: What’s the way forward?

For starters…it’s forward.
You cannot change the past, reclaim lost years, or undo what happened to you. You can forgive, learn, accept reality, determine your next best move, and start moving.

This episode explores why victimhood is a losing strategy, why maintaining the status quo isn’t enough, the importance of gateway actions when you feel lost, and our responsibility to steward and strengthen the things that matter.

Good things require good people to continually invest in them.

The future is being built whether you participate or not.

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2633: The Town that Ate its Seed Corn: EVERYTHING Compounds Sep 07, 2026

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LifeBlood: There was once a prosperous farming town with a peculiar tradition: every harvest, they took some of their very best corn and locked it away.

They called it seed corn.

Then someone asked a perfectly reasonable question: Why are we keeping perfectly good food in a barn when people could eat it today?

So they ate some. Nothing bad happened. In fact, things got better.

Until decades later, when the town found itself facing a mysterious shortage no expert could quite explain.

This episode explores compounding, second and third-order consequences, our preference for the present, and one of the most difficult questions any civilization must answer:

What do we owe the future?

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2632: This Ends Here: When to Draw a Line in the Sand Sep 04, 2026

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LifeBlood: There comes a point when keeping your mouth shut stops being prudence and starts becoming self-betrayal.

We live in an age of tribalism, outrage, intimidation, and ideological zealotry. Too often, reasonable people respond by holding their tongues, nodding along, and avoiding uncomfortable conversations.

But silence has a cost.

This episode explores courage, conviction, individual rights, personal responsibility, and what it means to stand for principles without becoming another zealot.

Bad ideas are bad ideas regardless of who has them. Principles that only apply to your enemies aren't principles.

The challenge is to decide what you actually believe, determine what you're unwilling to surrender, and find the courage to calmly say: No. Not anymore. This ends here.

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2631: Deadly Serious: Are You Protecting What Matters Most? Sep 02, 2026

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LifeBlood: Not everything deserves to be taken deadly serious.
But some things do.
Your family. Your health. Your work. The people who trust you. The responsibilities you've willingly accepted. The things you've decided matter most.
The challenge is figuring out what those things are—and then acting accordingly.
This explores what it means to become deadly serious about your Meaningful Few: the handful of things that matter most across the six key areas of your life.
You'll learn why seriousness doesn't mean being intense all the time, how greater empathy and undivided attention can demonstrate seriousness, why your calendar and actions reveal your true priorities, and how to identify the areas of your life that deserve more from you.
If you say something matters, act like it.
Take it like you mean it.
Become deadly serious about the most important things in your life.

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George’s newest book is available! Get your copy of You’re Money Isn’t the Problem- You Are here:
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