Protagonist: Recent Episodes
Ben Corkery, Pete Corkery, Joel Krikorian
We are all living out our own stories. Each week we talk to real people about real life to learn about their stories and how they navigate through them. We dive into their interests, relationships, life experience and careers to see where life has taken them and where life is going to take them. We are all the protagonists in our own lives, and we want to know how your story will end.
What is up you protagonists welcome back to the show where we become hero's in little ways and maybe even big ways every week with discussions and interviews around personal development and taking the high road, today we had a fun chat about the dark side of self development and how it might have some pitfalls to watch out for.
What is up you protagonists we are back at it again with friend of the show Patrick Beresford. We had a fun convo about his new projects making, the challenges and benefits of lifestyle change such as not drinking as much and cutting out digital entertainment.
Find Patricks Blog And Podcast Here
Blog: Champion Sports
The Back Row Podcast
This week we sit down with long time friend of the show Joey Wilson. Joey is a full-time auto mechanic and new shop owner. We chat about small business, trades, and Joey's vehicle recommendations. Enjoy!
https://www.instagram.com/bayviewmooreauto/
This week we have Andy Hickman on the line. Andy is the founder of "The Art Of Workflow" A program to integrate and enliven your professional and personal life through a holistic approach combining his four core behaviors. This one is pretty philosophical but it gets at some important questions about how to attain more peace and fulfillment in our work and life.
Check out Andy's work here and grab his free email course
What is up you guys we are back it again. Today it's your hosts chatting current events. How to control the controllables and not get overwhelmed by the uncontrollable's.
We chat, Freedom, Ukraine, Media Coverage and how to not let your energy get sucked up by the drama.
Hot Crazy Matrix Video (Watch it!)
The Smoke-Filled Rooms Podcast
The boys sit down with Ontario Journalist, Podcaster, and Free Thinker Greg Zink. Pete stumbled across one of Greg's articles on Twitter titled "Citizenship 2.0 Post Pandemic Questions" after reading it he knew we had to get this guy on the show.
We chat about the covid fallout, what it means to be Canadian, the wounds of the pandemic, the implications of our violated charter, and a lot more. Sit back enjoy and let us know what you think!
Greg's Stuff linked here
Article of topic
https://uncancelled.ca/?p=143
Greg's Blog
https://gregzumcc.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=substack_profile
Greg's Podcast
https://www.smokefilledrooms.net/
Hey Everybody!
Today we're joined by Philosopher, Economist, and All Round Beautie Ole Bjerg. Ole is/was a professor at the Copenhagen Business School author of several books including The Meaning of Being a Man, Poker: the Parody of Capitalism, and Making Money: the Philosophy of Crisis Capitalism.
In this episode, we talk about value, education, family and love. We also hear about what Ole is up to this week: getting fired from the Copenhagen Business School.
We really enjoyed this one and think you will too!
If you want to hear more from Ole and are interested in getting into some more of his stuff definitely check out his online course for helping people become more sovereign in their relationship with money.
Also for those interested in Ole's work on family constellations you can find out more here, https://www.athosconstellations.com/
It's been years but we finally reconnected with our man down under the one and only Max Brown. We know you have had it up to here with Covid talk but we couldn't help ourselves.
We chat about what's really going on in Australia and get Max's take on the whole plandemic.
Enjoy.
What a year it has been, join us in the last Protagoniat episode of our almost weekly podcast to close out 2021.
We chat goals, reflect on our guests and the podcast in general and cover a few of the top stories from 2021.
We thank all our listeners for their support and we wish you all a happy, blessed and protagonist-filled new year.
We chat about the concept of the small bet, which Ben has been playing with. The idea is to mitigate risk and lower the barrier of entry to working on projects, side hustles, or businesses that you care about. Maybe you don't need to bet the farm or invest your life savings, maybe you already have value to offer, maybe it's time for you to place a small bet!
As mentioned in this episode
Daniel Vassallo Pioneer of the "small bets" Interview
Rober the "Keto Savage" Sike is the real deal. He tells his story of finding the ketogenic diet and how it changed his life. We talk keto (and what it is) bodybuilding, starting a business, and a whole lot more. We have the utmost respect for this guy and it was absolute pleasure having him on!
Grab Some Keto Bricks
We had a discussion about the changes Joel's engagement, changes in the economy, capitalism, staking out your place in the market, what makes a human and ethical business, how ben is maybe changing his mercenary ways...
enjoy!
We sit down with life and intuition coach Taylor Roark founder of Galliant trainings to chat about his winding career path and how it led him to now help people to unwind their intuition and build a life of meaning. We chat about career paths, stepping stones, his coaching style, value based living, and a whole lot more. Stick it out to the end the boys reflect on their takeaways from the convo.
We sat down with freelance guru and poet turned entrepreneur Austin Chruch to talk about the meeting of Art and Commerce why artists have always been freelancers, changing our ideas around making money, the do's don't and how to's of starting out as a freelancer and a whole lot more! Enjoy.
Mentioned in this episode
Austin's Website
Book he talked about 100 Million Dollar Offers
In this episode Greg Johnson, husband father and father of seven as well as full time entrepreneur joins us to talk about finding fulfillment in business, running an online subscription box for Catholic artists and swinging for the fences with their Kickstarter product launch, Greg also hosts the love line for business podcast where him and his cohost help entrepreneurs get unstuck. Greg loves working with entrepreneurs and business owners and he gave us a little mini-coaching session at the beginning of the podcast. Enjoy
Mentioned in this episode
The Little Catholic Box Website
Love Line For Business Podcast
Support the Kickstarter here
In this episode we sit down with long time friend and longtime brother (haha) Nelson and Joe.
They share their experience starting a service-based business from scratch, what they learned the challenges, and a whole lot more.
Joe and Nelson are both certified arborists who started their own business around the same time in 2014, and are still here today to tell the tale.
If you are thinking of starting a service business this a must listen! We had a blast, and we know you will too, so a grab a brew and give it a listen.
Climb into their DM's on Instagram @cbletree and @morris_treeservice
We catch up with Pete who recently moved to the Big Apple and then contracted COVID. He shares his experience with virus and also his take on moving to City that never sleeps. We chat COVID, his internship at the United Nations and more!
Mentioned in this episode
John Kay and Mervin King on Radical Uncertainty
Radical Uncertainty
Irresistible Movie
We sit down with good friend and repeat guest Patrick Beresford to delve into the indirect approach. A strategy that is taken from a war scenario but certainly bears repeating and application to other areas of life, from business to family to your own dialogue with yourself. Sometimes the clearest path to accomplish something is not as intuitive as we might think, sometimes being direct creates more resistance. We chat about what the indirect approach is and what the implications might be for the different areas of life.
Mentioned in this episode
https://jockopodcast.com/
Episodes 285, 286, 287
We catch up with an old friend from uni (as he would say) to talk about starting a school and helping others to be a better version of themselves. Ben McCabe shares his mission of building Augustine Academy in New South Wales, Australia to provide others with the experiences that he valued in his own education. From idea to reality, Ben talks about how he got things moving and took action to bring this mission to life. Ben is a life enthusiast, scholar, adventurer and has an uncanny ability to make things happen and be spontaneous. We chatted about education and how to make it exciting, the meeting of studies with real-life experience, and the barriers that we need to identify in order to become the best version of ourselves.
Checkout Augustine Academy here, maybe you will even end up teaching there...
In this episode, we sit down with long-time friend Ana Maria to talk about her take on how to make the world a better place, hint she finds it somewhere in the middle. Ana Maria is a Wife, mother, philosopher, life enthusiast, Zumba teacher, cannabis enthusiast, creative and a whole lot more. She talks about starting with what we have and overcoming our fears, sharing the gifts we are given, and how people can find some joy in life. We delved into getting started with new ideas the philosophy behind her vision and the importance of local economies. You can find her @thehappymean on Instagram
We had a great time recording our first in-person podcast with the crew. We tried out a nootropic to kick things off and then chatted about education, independent thinking, asking yourself why you are doing something, and alternative ways of learning and finding a career.
Enjoy!
Mentioned in this Episode
Committed Mind Nootropic
The Seven Lesson School Teacher
Tune in to hear the incredible story of Michael Gorman, who topped out at over 500 pounds before deciding to turn his life around and loose the weight. Gormy talks about getting your mindset right, having a true "why" and why he had to go through the weight loss process twice before he found a sustainable approach to transformation. Gormy shares his insight and experience with making change in our lives through wholistic interventions which can be applied far beyond the area of weight loss.
Enjoy
Mentioned in this Episode
Instagram @gormygoesketo
Website The Keto Road
Podcast: The Fat Guy Forum
Welcome back folks its been a hot sec! After a brief summer break we are back on the THE PATH and have some awesome guests up coming. But for now please enjoy your hosts once more as we discuss checking your ego, embracing failure and getting your punk ass in the game.
In this Episode we take on a listener request as the topic of conversation. We draw on a few sources and talk about our own experience in defeating the inner bitch voice and winning the small battles each day. We talk about some action steps some strategies and making a plan for a good day.
Mentioned in this Episode:
The Three Stages of the Interior Life by Garrigou-Lagrange
We sit down with pro skier Ian McIntosh to talk about following his passion, the journey to becoming a pro, fear, BASE jumping and much more. This was one of our favourite interviews with real top level guy, enjoy!
We sit down with an old friend to talk about her experience sailing the world. We learn how she got into sailing, the things you see only at see, life lessons from sailing and a whole lot more.
Learn more at Liz' blog where she documents here adventures here
Enjoy.
In this episode we chat about some positives that have come out of the pandemic, how it has challenged people to take more responsibility in their lives and also exposed strengths, weaknesses. We talk about how we have taken advantage of the disruption and tips for how you can as well.
Mentioned in this episode:
Ben's Newsletter: Society for a Wonder'ing mind found here
We sit down with father, teacher and literature enthusiast Michael Thompson to talk about education, failure, taking a stand. societal dissonance and courage it takes to turn things around. Enjoy.
The boys sit down to discuss the less spoken of cost of heroism and what goes on behind the scenes of heroic stories. Is there always a cost and a price for doing something great or brave? How do we relate to heroic stories? Is there a down for every up? What are the benefits and costs of vulnerability?
Inspiration for this discussion came from the story of US Medal of Honour recipient and military personal Dakota Meyer who shared his story on episodes 115 and 277 of the Jocko Podcast. Enjoy.
We sit down with entrepreneur and brand consultant Margaret Ryland to chat about liberal arts education and finding a career path, falling into a career, starting businesses, branding, authentic marketing, creativity and a lot more!
Find her at https://www.mryland.co/
Mentioned in this episode:
Community: Capitalism.com/ the one percent
Book: 12 Months to One Million
We sit down with Tom Bouvier the founder of Ology. Tom left is corporate job to pursue what is truly meaningful for him and he is on a mission to help others do the same for themselves. We talk kickstater, marketing, getting out of a funk, creative side hustles and why we all need to be reminded of our inevitable death.
Mentioned in this episode: ology
The dog hats: yarns and bones
Why is it so hard for people to choose a path? Why do people struggle to apply their knowledge? In this episode we talk about the importance of context and community for choosing a life path and sharing information with others. We use the word context a lot.
Enjoy.
Mentioned in this episode: Book - Deep Nutrition
Patrick Beresford and Francis Doyle join us to talk about money management and Dave Ramsey's financial "Baby Steps". We discuss their experiences on budgeting, getting out of debt, and taking control of their finances, as well as some advice for our listeners looking to do the same! Enjoy!
Check out their work @doyletree and @beresford.woodworking
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In this episode we sit down with entrepreneur, writer and problem solver Sam Venis. Sam is incredibly thoughtful and articulate when it comes to using systems to solve problems both personal and business related. We chatted about philosophy and its application, his experience in the start up world, solving personal problems and a whole lot more. Enjoy.
Sam can be found at his website www.samvenis.com
and his newsletter at https://samvenis.substack.com/
I cant recommend his work enough.
In todays episode, Ben, Pete, and Joel discuss flow states, finding your strengths, taking on the day, and the "hot hand" in sports.
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Dr. Richard Shaw is the Chairman of the History Department at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom. He joins us for a fantastic conversation about getting out of our comfort zones, taking action, and making history in our own lives.
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This week on Protagonist host Ben, Pete, and Joel discuss New York Times #1 Best Seller "The One Thing" by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan. They get into motivation, momentum, and even a little physics...Enjoy!
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Isaac Longworth joins us from Nova Scotia where he discusses his life as a seminarian of the Companions of the Cross, his work in a parish, and his current journey to becoming a Catholic priest.
He hosts his own podcast titled "Heroes of the Faith" which can be found on Itunes, Google , and Spotify, and can be followed on Twitter and on his Youtube Channel @IsaacLongworth .
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Kaitlyn Krikorian majored in film production and currently works for Yellow Line Digital while also running a successful photography business. She joins us to today to talk about her journey through film school, her life in California, transitioning into the industry, and much more!
Check out her work on Facebook and Instagram: @kkrikorianphotography
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John Espadero is an occupational therapist, photographer and beekeeper, husband, father and much more! He joins us today to talk about how he got into his many lines of work as well as some of the finer details of occupational therapy and beekeeping.
His company Bayanihan Honey Bee Company can be found at honeybeecompany.ca., and his fantastic work behind the camera can be found at Espadero Photography on Facebook. \
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Pete Ryland works as an oil salesman as well as running his own business performance tuning diesel engines. He joins us from South Dakota to talk about his background and the story of how he entered into his professions and startup.
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Pat McNeely is currently studying to become a Doctor of clinical psychology. He joins us from Front Royal, Virginia to share his story about his work and practical experiences in his program.
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Hosts, Ben Corkery, Pete Corkery and Joel Krikorian discuss the American election, the new documentary "The Social Dilemma", and lockdown restrictions.
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