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Where There's Smoke
Where There's Smoke explores self-development through the filter of current events, pop culture, and experience. We surf the zeitgeist through an array of audio clips, quotes, concepts, and conversations. In the spirit of The Daily Show and This American Life, we throw everything into an audio ce...
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In Memoriam: Verleon Grant (Listener Favorite Guest and Nick's Grandmother)
Sadly, my grandmother passed away this week at the age of 99. You might remember her from episode #49 of WTS: Can't Get There From Hair (Acceptance)....
82: A Christmas Episode
It is December and any show worth its weight in gold (or frankincense… or myrrh) has a Christmas episode - and WTS is definitely with its weight in tr...
81: Halloween or Hallo... won’t? (Play)
What is Halloween without the trick or treating?
That is the question that started the journey of this episode. A lot of our traditions o...
80: Can We Talk? (Dialogue)
The world is grappling with a lot of tough issues. Issues that are nuanced and layered. Issues that don’t necessarily have a right or wrong answer. Is...
79: Lessons from Chadwick (Generosity)
This week our episode is inspired by the life of Chadwick Boseman.
We challenge ourselves to look at how we are showing up in the world. With al...
78: Stay The Course (Change)
“Change is the only constant in life.” Heraclitus said that back in 500 BCE. It was true then, and 2500 years later, it is still true.
That sai...
77: To Act or To Action (Allyship) w/ Holiday Phillips
This week, as the world continues to reckon with race and equality after the murder of George Floyd, we try to understand what an ally IS... and what...
76: Pencil Something In (Intention) w/ Marc Champagne
Life moves pretty fast and, if you're not careful, it's easy to be swept away by it. (How's that for a mixed metaphor?) Anyway, today's episode asks s...
75: You’re In Luck (Humility) w/ Edward Hess
This episode is a riddle, wrapped in an NBA championship, wrapped in a chance encounter, wrapped in privilege, wrapped in mashed potatoes, washed over...
74: The Courage to Accept (Surrender)
It's our first new Where There's Smoke episode in two years!
Pliny the Elder said, “The only certainty is that nothing is certain.”
73: Time to Go (Urgency)
Author Frank Herbert once said, “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.” In this final episode of Season 4, Brett & Ni...
72: What Are You Telling The World? (Message)
If you could tell the world just one thing, what would it be? And, what impact might it have? This week, Nick explores that idea through the music of...
71: Refresh Yourself (Classic)
This 48 Hour Challenge is going to be classic. Literally.
But what is classic? How do we define it? Is there a Classic version of you?...
70: Whole In One (Integrity) w/ Matthew Schueller
Integrity is defined as “a state of being whole and undivided”. It is a simple concept, and yet at times, living it can be some of the hardest work we...
69: Go Let It Out (Expression) w/ Lord Birthday
Expression is the process of taking something from a spark of an idea through to existence. And, while there can be moments in that process that are t...
68: Straight from the Source (Secrets)
We’ve all had a time or two (... or three…) where we’ve shared a secret that wasn’t ours and it comes back to his us square in the face. Sometimes, be...
67: How You Are Who You Are (Self-Acceptance)
The 48 Hour Challenge is back! We gathered show topic suggestions from our audience, threw them into a word randomizer, and ended up with “self-accept...
66: Lost Together (Collaboration) w/ Jim Cuddy of Blue Rodeo
Jim Cuddy has been making music with Greg Keilor for 40 years. For the last 34 of those years, they have made up the songwriting duo for one of Canada...
65: We’re Mad As Hell and We’re Not Going to Tweet It Anymore! (Complicity)
In the 1976 movie Network, upon being prompted by news anchor Howard Beale, people in cities all over the USA get up, open their windows, and yell, “I...
64: Best. Year. Ever. (Goals) w/ Michael Hyatt
What would it take for this to be your best year ever?
That said, what is a year? Is it the days between January 1st and December 31st?...
63: Eat Be Move (Exploration) w/ Bassam Tarazi
What does it mean to explore in a world where everything’s been found?
That’s the question posed to Brett by Bassam Tarazi - author, entrepreneu...
62: How to Inspire (Engagement) w/ Chris Atkinson
We’ve heard it countless times before: “Beautiful minds inspire others,” “Time to inspire,”, “Get out there and inspire people”, or simply “Be inspiri...
61: Ahead by a Century (Our Life): Gord Downie and The Tragically Hip
We are getting tragically hip this week with a story about a band, a country (Canada), and all the people in it. But, this episode is really about eve...
60: Just The Way You Are (Sincerity)
Halloween is coming up and that means Halloween movies and TV specials! To celebrate, Nick explores one of the earliest and most famous Halloween spec...
59: Knowing Me, Knowing You (Understanding) w/ Gretchen Rubin
Have you ever heard of The Golden Rule? If you have, you may realize that while it sounds nice, it has a pretty significant flaw in it. In this episod...
58: Let’s Dent The World (Onlyness) w/ Nilofer Merchant
It’s easy to see that the world has a lot of problems right now. But as the saying goes, slightly paraphrased, ‘The only thing necessary for the trium...
The Where There’s Smoke Summer (almost) Spectacular!
Where There’s Smoke is coming back in September for their Fourth Season! In this episode you will hear all the details - launch date, frequency, etc.<...
Life's Like a Movie
This week, Nick asks himself AND the listeners a hypothetical question. If you have an answer or a thought that you'd like to share, visit www.whereth...
57: Bringing Home the Bacon (Strategy) w/ Melanie Deziel & Truly Social's Tara Hunt
Succeeding at something isn’t just about having a good idea. That’s part of it, but there’s so much more. This week, we are talking about strategy - a...
A Personal Message from Brett
Brett provides an update and shares some thoughts.
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56: Soaking in the Holidays (Feeling)
Two holiday vignettes make up this week’s episode:
First, Brett peels back the veneer of the joyful and festive holiday season, to ack...
55: Let’s Build! (Environment) w/ Archangel Summit's Giovanni Marsico
How much of who we are is influenced by where we are? And what do we do if we feel our environment is draining us, instead of charging us?
54: Everybody Can Be Great (Service)
Mahatma Gandhi never said, "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.". But … that doesn’t mean it's not an accurate...
How to Relax on Election Day
We don’t know if you’ve heard yet, but it’s Election Day in the United States of America. And that is causing many people just a bit of anxiety. So to...
53 - The Elephant in the Room (Certainty)
What does it mean to be certain?
Which comes first: judgement or reason?
What is the difference between our differences dividing us or e...
52 - Decency Now! - A WTS Election Special
The US Presidential Election is weeks away, and while Brett and Nick initially thought they wouldn’t address it in the show, it eventually became clea...
51: Change Your Mind (Stress) w/ Kelly McGonigal
It’s the Season 3 premiere and Brett and Nick are asking: “Is stress really THAT bad?”
To help them unpack this question they are joined...
50: Plunge Into Nothing (Breaks) w/ Karan Bajaj
So much of our life is going from Point A to Point B, and it is about execution, deliverables, and responsibilities. And there is an absolutely a plac...
49: Can’t Get There From Hair (Acceptance)
Eventually, we’re all forced to turn around and face the truth. In today’s episode, Nick shares a truth with Brett that he is having a hard time accep...
48: Scratch That Itch (Purpose) w/ Drew Daywalt
Do a Google search for ‘How Do I Find My Life Purpose’ and you will find a slew of articles and videos claiming to help you discover your purpose in 7...