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Building Better Leaders: Jim Carlough's Six Pillars Approach
Send us a text Jim Carlough, accomplished business strategist and author, shares his six pillars of effective leadership, emphasizing integrity as the...
June 20th, 2025 - Building Better Leaders: Jim Carlough's Six Pillars Approach - Jim Carlough, accomplished business strategist and author, shares his six pillars of effective leadership, emphasizing integrity as the foundation that makes all other leadership qualities possible. Through compelling stories from his 30-year career, he demonstrates how integrity combined with empathy creates environments where people thrive even through difficult transitions.
July 4, 2025 - Rule of Law : Our Last Line of Defense Antowan and Rauel dive into a discussion of the "Big Beautiful Bill" which takes a fascinating turn when examining the phenomenon of Americans voting against their own interests – referencing Jonathan Metzl's book "Dying of Whiteness" – and how fear and manipulation drive political decision-making. "People will vote against their own best interest to keep their agenda intact,"
Our Recent Episodes
Thursday, March 11, 2021The COVID Connection - With Dr. John McAuliffe - Part 2
Part 2 of my discussion with John McAuliffeIf about Health care ( a topic that is intricately woven into the fabric of our families and communities) a...
Thursday, March 4, 2021The COVID Connection - With Dr. John McAuliffe - Part 1
If you want to have a discussion about Health care and how COVID has affected that as well as the very fabric of our communities, Dr. John McAuliffe i...
Thursday, December 31, 2020Healing with Hope - Rev. Bill Harris and Nathan Tolliver
On a chilly winter morning in 2012, Bill Harris, the founder of People Helping People, watched a group of homeless men leave the Baraboo Warming Cente...
Thursday, December 24, 2020Christmas Carols with Jerry Apps and the Prairie Spies
Normally at this time of year, I would've recorded a special show called "A Very Merry Sauk Prairie Christmas as I have for the past 5 years. But ala...
Thursday, December 17, 2020The Heralding of History with Paul Wolter
Years ago I met Paul Wolter when we started a tradition of doing a radio interview around Christmas time in order to talk about an annual event at the...
Thursday, December 10, 2020The Magic of Music with Beth Kille
A few years back, I did (as far as I know) a very unique episode of "Mornings at McFarlanes'" in which I played noting but unique versions and origina...
Thursday, December 3, 2020Lessons in Leadership with Jenny Erickson and Morgan McArthur
Back in 2014-15 I was lucky enough to become acquainted with a unique and wonderful experience available to Sauk County residents (and beyond) called...
Thursday, November 26, 2020Talking Turkey about Thanksgiving with Students at Merrimac Community School
Back in 2019, I got the "crazy" idea of interviewing kids from one of our local schools and asking them about the things that they knew about Thanksgi...
Thursday, November 19, 2020Musing about Medicine with Dr. John McAuliffe
If you want to have a discussion about Health care ( a topic that is intricately woven into the fabric of our families and communities) it helps to ha...
Thursday, November 12, 2020A Conversation about Conservation with Charlie Luthin
If you have a soul that yearns to be outdoors, Charlie Luthin is someone that you want to talk with in depth. And if you don't, he will help you see ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020Heroes for Honor - Special Veteran's Day Edition
A chronicle of my 2019 Badger Honor Flight experience.
Wednesday, November 4, 2020Bantering about Business with Ed White
A conversation about business and overall economic development