This Naked Voice

If Trust was easy, we wouldn't be talking about it. Why is trusting so difficult? Burt Gershater is an inspiring, nationally recognized life coach, speaker, and trainer who sparks powerful changes in people’s lives. For 45+ years, Burt has worked with corporate CEOs, company managers, nonprofit executives and teams, professionals from many different industries, and top collegiate

In the US, we think "freedom" is about choices. And, it partly is. But true freedom is about so much more. It's about being free from our engrained patterns of responses to the external world. From our sense of identity. Free to consistently explore, change and evolve who we are, without feeling tied to old thoughts, behaviours and beliefs. That can be easier said than done, but th

"The art of creative living is not the execution of some intentional program for life, but a natural, evolving expression."It's no secret humans have not been the best stewards of nature in the last 150 years or so. What are the cultural beliefs that have allowed us to be so callous in our behaviours? Spoiler alert: It's not as simple as ignorance and greed. It's much deeper and mo

What does it mean to be an "Artist of Life"? Not just a painter or musician kind of artist, but someone who shows up with the qualities, mindset and behaviours of an artist in every aspect of your life? What the hell does that even mean? How does our modern world discourage us from stepping into our potential roles as artists? This episode dives into how shifting our mindset to app

What do women find attractive, and/or what do they seek when evaluating men as potential partners? How might a changing world have shifted this over the last many decades? If at all? I put up a poll on my social media account last year on the topic and got a pretty forceful response... so much so that my friend and fellow coach, Casey Sedlack, invited me to have a conversation abou

"There are a thousand right choices, and all of them are wrong.""Everything is a risk... once you realize that it's all a risk, then you minimize your risk."I must say, there are some wonderful and memorable moments in this talk I have with Dale Bates - a retired architect and urban designer whose focus for the majority of his career was on healthy design - architecture that suppor

How do Masculine & Feminine values shape our culture around work and life in general? How do you define Masculine & Feminine? Do you get down with Carl Jung and his badass self? This episode attempts to define leisure in my own words, as well as explain why I believe it's important. I do this through exploring masculine and feminine value structures - Doing vs Being, in a n

If you could take a pill to instantly learn anything you wanted, would you take that pill:A) Every time you had to learn something?B) Some of the times you had to learn something?C) Never?Why or why not? What things would you take the pill for and what would you not take it for? I continue my discussion with Prof. Eugene Matusov of the University of Delaware about the importance of

Why is leisure important? How might we see evidence of the lack of genuine leisure impacting us in our education systems and beyond? This is part 1 of 2 of my conversation with Professor Eugene Matusov - he wrote a book called "Envisioning Education in a Post-Work Leisure Based Society". Professor Matusov (or, Eugene, as I know him) is one of the most unique and out of the box thin

It's easy to be a critic. It's easy to tear things down. It's much harder to be a creator - to have a vision of what can be and build things up. What makes the difference between a cultural critic and a cultural creator? Why is it even important to draw a distinction? I speak to the intention and energies behind these two ways of being, how to shift from critic to creator, and why