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Michael Foster
Who we are is a show about who we are. My cousin Jay and I (Michael) talk about what's going on in our lives.
The new year show: In this show Mike talks about why he had to postpone the Paris trip. Jay explains the generational intolerance to music. This is the standard hodge podge show we hope you love!
In this episode Jay and Mike discuss Paris, Politics and the hodge Podge of Life Events.
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Welcome back to the podcast! This week's show Jay and Mike discuss marriage.
The truth about success is that it requires a tremendous amount of failure. If you want to be successful you have to be willing to fail a lot. We’ve been lied to about failure. We were told failure was bad, but it’s not. Failure is part of the process of growing. Children fail all the time and they don’t give it a second thought. Children continue trying because with each try they learn something new and they apply that new information to help them advance. Failure is foundational to our development and we need to embrace it. Our negative emotional response to failure prevents us from achieving success. Who wants to feel bad while trying to achieve success? No one does. What we must do is change how we feel about failure. Whenever you fail, be critical of your emotions and control your mind. Maintain positive thoughts and embrace your failure. This is your learning opportunity, maximize it and then apply what you’ve learned to your next steps forward. You can’t be successful without failure and you will have far more failures than successes. This is the biggest secret about success. So lets’ snuggle up and get comfortable with failure because this is the only way to achieve success.
Jay and Mike discuss the major elements of success. Mike reveals the true definition of smart and why planning is Irrelevant to success and life.
The Easter Sunday show Mike and Jay discuss
- The madness of political ads and campaigns
- Alexandria Ocasio Cortez challenges ignorant beliefs and how dangerous this is
- Voting is a team sport and everyone needs to participate
- United States is a quasi democracy and the freedoms we have are temporary
- Can we survive another Trump presidency
- A small sports discussion
- Happiness is a croissant
In this podcast we discuss
- Wives are being used for sexual pleasure, income and labor
- The norms of society is to keep women in cages
- Tradition is the new term for slavery
- Society is structured to benefit men at the detriment of women
- Loving husbands happily over burden their wives and diminish their growth
- Men are unable to sexually satisfy women because they has no understanding of pleasing anyone beyond themselves
Mike’s Tesla order has been pushed back to end of May, but he won’t be mad if the car is delivered without the quality issues experienced by other Tesla owners.
Tesla will have true competition if Rivian can deliver and service vehicles. Rivian’s R1S is a true SUV that offers ruggedness, luxury, plenty of cabin space, beautiful design and its’ base model is $30,000 less than the Tesla Model X. I like the R1S and I’ve been thinking about cancelling my Tesla order to purchase the Rivian R1S, but I’m not going to do that. Tesla will be the leader in this industry for decades to come because of its’ charger station network and its’ service centers. As long as companies depend on government to lead the nation with infrastructure enhancements to electrify the country they will always fall short of achieving Tesla’s success and will never be able to rival them.
The Ford Mustang Mach-E poor rollout and questionable quality for a company that has been make cars for over a 100 years.
Families can be quite odd. Especially the members who proclaim their love and affection for you and their constant desire to spend time with you, but are reluctant to put forth any effort to visit you.
Losing friends seems to be the natural state of life, but why?
Creating new friendships as we age seems to be more difficult and I don’t understand why.
Being yourself is a simply phrase, but the act of being ones-self is extremely hard because we weren’t taught to understand who we are or how to express our true needs.
COVID-19 has created a lot of opportunities in the workforce. Lets hope we don’t return to how the things use to be pre-COVID.
In this podcast Jay and Mike discuss
- Managing sick kids
- Weight loss and Exercise
- Tesla, Ford, Polestar, Prius Prime and other EV's
- Investing in Cryptocurrencies and Market Conditions
In this Saturday conversation Jay and Mike discuss religion, faith, maximizing three day weekends, the lack of Christ in Christmas and more.
In this post cast Mike and Jay discuss self care, mental health, nixing new years resolutions and more.
Failure is the norm and paramount for success.
- If you want to be successful you have to be comfortable with failure.
- Failure clears competition and obstacles.
- When people fail at anything the normal reaction is to quit.
- When things get hard people normally quit.
- Why do we failure?
- We fail because we don’t know anything and we’re trying something new.
- Most people who are successful failed a lot and continue to fail a lot.
- If you’re failing don’t worry you’re on the right path to success.
- When you fail keep trying and never give up or take a temporary pause.
Mike and Jay are back! In this podcast the guys talk about Jay’s Florida Vacation, Save America Again, Weather Forecast and more.
This week’s show Mike discusses,
- Investment Gurus
- Inflation
- QE Tapering
- tastytrade.com
- Employment
- Investing in 2022
Streaming services have offered opportunities to people Hollywood has traditionally overlooked, but the abundance of content doesn't necessarily mean the abundance of good T.V. In this podcast Jay and Mike talk about what's right and wrong in the new era of streaming entertainment.
Listen to the conversation evolve
In this episode Mike and Jay ramble on about the climate issue, how negativity thrives in the extremes, how traditional and social media are pushing away most people by promoting the most heinous acts and dreadful beliefs and ideas. Mike and Jay discuss what they're reading and the importance of controlling ones mind.
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In this podcast Jay and Mike discuss their parenting mistakes and the changes they've made to become better parents.
This week's podcast Jay and Mike talk about their dads negative behaviors and how other men continue this destructive cycle.
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In this episode of who we are Jay and Mike discuss how they manage work and relationships. The focus of this podcast is making time for your spouse and the stress associated with managing work and relationships.
In this podcast Jay and Mike discuss how past mistakes can either hinder us now or helps us become better people.
In this podcast Mike and Jay discuss mental health and how they are handling stress and anxiety.
Relationships aren’t easy. They aren’t divine gifts. Relationships require constant evaluation and work. In this podcast Jay and Mike discuss relationships and how to improve your chances in finding someone who will love you.
In this week's podcast Jay and Mike talk about their hopes and concerns for their children returning to school with COVID-19 infections increasing.
How I Had To Change When I Got Married
- Key TakeAways
- Over communicate. Be patient and allow your partner to ramble. He or she is trying to express their emotions with words to help resolve an issue and that is difficult. Be gentle and understanding when communicating. You have to create a safe space for your spouse to express themselves freely without causing offense or provoking retaliation.
- Share your emotional state. Tell your spouse how you’re feeling. Let your spouse know about your negative emotional triggers. Tell your spouse about their behaviors that cause you to have negative feelings
- Team living. Make all decisions as a team. Take the time to discuss each others point of views and come to a common understanding on the solution and execute the decision as a team with equal responsibility for success and failure.
- Marriage expectations. You and your spouse must have the same expectations for your marriage.
- Happiness. You and your spouse can’t make each other happy. You have to make yourself happy and your spouse has to make themselves happy.
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For years I didn’t value being at home with my kids because I lacked the vision to see
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How I was shaping their lives just by being present
- I didn’t know how important it was to be active in my children’s education and how that would help them advance in school
- I didn’t know how much fun it would be to experience their lives with them
By no means is it easy. We have great days, but when we crash and burn it’s really ugly and we struggle our way through, but we get through it.
It took six years for me to realize the good I was doing being home with my children. My identity was tied to a job and a paycheck. I never had a job I loved or was good at, but the norm in my mind was to work the grind and the negative feedback I got for being at home with my kids didn’t help.
The reoccurring questions
- What do you do with all your down time
- Being a man don’t you want to provide for you family
Being a stay at home parent you don’t have any down time. You work from Monday to Sunday. There are no vacations, sick days, personal leave or a sabbatical. I love my job. It’s not easy, but it’s fulfilling and it allows me to play an active role in providing for my family.
The monumental statements
- Get a part time job
- Do something
- Stop being lazy and get a job
- You’re lucky you don’t have to work
- I wish I could be you
The things that people say when they have no idea what you do and how you struggle to do it. They don’t understand that having a family is scary. You want to make all the right decisions and do all the best things to help your family grow. They don’t understand the work and stress that comes with that. We’re not television families. Our lives, issues and challenges can not be resolved within 22 minutes and commercial breaks.
Things to Remember
When you receive negative feedback for being at home with you kids
- Your children are the important people in your life
- Your kids are your greatest investment
- You have to be mentally independent from society because most people don’t understand the value of being at home caring for a family
- Your value and success in life can only be defined by you.
- Your happiness comes from within you
- The tragedy of our world is that we attack what is good and right. The negative feedback that you receive is validation that you’re doing the right thing.
- Your family needs you happy and sound. You are the general and your state of being determines your families outcomes.
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