Podcast: The Pattern Is Full
The other night I was watching the Top Gun movie that was released in 1986. In the movie, when Tom Cruise achieved a victory during a Top Gun training mission and when he shot down three enemy planes in actual air combat in the movie, he requested…
Podcast – Interview with Deonte Tatum – Above and Beyond the Playground
Deonte Tatum, is an educator in the Milwaukee Public School System and is the Founder and Executive Director of a nonprofit organization called Above and Beyond the Playground, Inc. Above & Beyond the Playground provides academic and athletic mentoring programs for at risk, middle school, high school…
Above and Beyond the Playground – Deonte Tatum
Mr. Tatum is a special education teacher who works with highly at risk students in urban Milwaukee. He has a degree in sociology from the University of Hawaii. Deonte founded the organization at Milwaukee Vincent High-School, where he played basketball and was instrumental in leading his…
When is up actually down and down actually up?
Let me share a true story with you. A number of years back, I enrolled in a scuba class with a bunch of friends from work at a YMCA in the suburbs of Chicago. Our instructor was a former U.S. Navy Underwater Demotion Team (UDT)…
Surfing the Tsunami of Change
Many things are causing unwanted change in your life. Back in 2004, an earthquake caused a “tsunami,” a wave one hundred feet tall, that caused major disruption to life in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand. If you have ever seen any of the video footage of the…
