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29 OCT 2026 · Pattie Ehsaei searched for how to honor her Mom. She chose to teach women financial independence.
Pattie built her career as a lawyer and financial executive. She hit a wall where she realized, I'm NOT FULFILLED. All the material success was never enough for Pattie.
When you focus on your own success, it's a lonely place to be.
For Pattie's proteges, when you don't have control over your own destiny, you are bondage. Becoming financially independent means building your self esteem, pride, and even emotional intelligence.
Read Pattie's book- Never Date a Broke Dude. It challenges conventional thinking about relationships and financial security. It's a must read, especially for pre-marrital preparation.
Hear the priceless ending to this show about who Pattie is becoming. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/success-made-to-last-legends--4302039/support.
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28 OCT 2026 · Monique Kelley, Boston University professor, shares her communication framework for the significance of all working generations. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/success-made-to-last-legends--4302039/support.
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27 OCT 2026 · The Truly Significant side of Chris Ortiz.What happens when someone who has reached the heights of one profession discovers another calling that brings a different kind of joy?
A career in opera demands discipline, extraordinary vocal technique, emotional interpretation, and years of preparation. The world of wine asks for a different kind of mastery: a deep appreciation of the land, patience with the seasons, curiosity about flavors, and the ability to bring people together around a table.The connection between the two is more profound than it might first appear. Both opera and wine are about the senses, craftsmanship, culture, and creating an experience that stays with people.
.Through the lens of Truly Significant and Side Quests to Significance,...1. Mastery is an achievement. Becoming is a lifelong journey.An elite opera career represents years of practice, discipline, and artistic excellence. Yet the next chapter can reveal something that professional recognition alone cannot provide: the freedom to explore another dimension of oneself.2. Wine offers a new classroom for curiosity.In the Texas Hill Country, wine opens a door to agriculture, terroir, history, hospitality, and the patient work of cultivating something worthwhile. Around Comfort, wineries such as Singing Water Vineyards and Newsom Vineyards offer examples of how wine can connect craftsmanship with community.3. The gift changes from performance to participation.Opera brings an audience together through music. Wine can bring people together through conversation, shared discovery, and friendship. Chris' central story is that a Side Quest is not an escape plan. It is an identity-expansion plan.Chris's story, illustrates three important principles:
- Achievement does not have to be the finish line. A person can accomplish extraordinary things and still have new worlds to explore.
- Curiosity keeps life open. A second calling invites us to become beginners again, even after becoming experts.
- Significance grows when enjoyment serves others. The most meaningful version of a Side Quest is often one that creates connection, shares knowledge, or enriches someone else's life.
The important distinction is that a new pursuit does not automatically make someone more significant. The deeper question is what that pursuit allows the person to contribute. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/success-made-to-last-legends--4302039/support.
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26 OCT 2026 · The topic of the YEAR is Side Quests....meaningful activities that are passionate pursuits bringing you deep joy, seldom found in your primary quests.
Learn from world class game designer Shane Bogardus. Hear his philosophy on creating the most unique games.
And enjoy our bonus guest Ernie Slatinksi, co-owner of Giles Hotel, Comfort, Texas extraordinary and historic hotel from 1900. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/success-made-to-last-legends--4302039/support.
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26 OCT 2026 · Newsom Vineyards in Comfort, Texas is home of the most fantastic tasting wines. Our favorite is their Malbec. Enjoy this conversation with Nolan Newsom, honored by GO TEXAN as Truly Significant Texans in Agriculture by Governor Abbott and the Texas Department of Agriculture. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/success-made-to-last-legends--4302039/support.
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26 OCT 2026 · Parker Dolphin of Comfort, Texas' Three Paths introduces the most incredible, one of a kind coffee liqueur distilled at Three Paths , 724 Front Street, Comfort, Texas 78013. His distillery also creates other unique spirits including vodka and more. Discover the new flavors today. Simply exquisite. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/success-made-to-last-legends--4302039/support.
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26 OCT 2026 · Enjoy this fascinating conversation from the Texas Wine Month celebration with legendary viticulturist Neal Newsom. He honors T.V. Munson from Denison, Texas that virtually saved the billion dollar French wine industry and was knighted by French royalty for his actions. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/success-made-to-last-legends--4302039/support.
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14 OCT 2026 · Mark Kennedy's story invites readers to reconsider a lifetime of striving. His teaching career demonstrates the significance of serving people others might overlook. His late-in-life diagnosis offers an opportunity to reinterpret his own journey. His sobriety and release from people-pleasing point toward a more authentic chapter after 60.The unifying idea is that we don't become significant by earning everyone's approval. We become significant by living authentically and helping other people recognize their own worth.From our Truly Significant point of view, Mark learned to see his students and how he is learning to see himself.For decades, he helped young people look beyond the labels the world had placed on them. His next chapter invites an equally important question: What happens when we finally extend that same compassion, patience, and possibility to ourselves?That is where his story moves beyond a career profile and becomes a conversation capable of helping listeners at any age reconsider what it means to live a life that lifts others up. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/success-made-to-last-legends--4302039/support.
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9 OCT 2026 · Glenn Llopis rocks our network with the most provocative podcast of the year. We have lost our identity and the next generation is danger.
Part of the solution lies in taking an old fashioned immigrant's mindset. After all, we are ALL immigrants.
Hear Glenn, the Identity Catalyst, take his immigrant spirit of survival, renewal and reinvention, sprinkle in a dose of agency to the next gen, focus on significance and you find the super power within to be authentically yourself.
Read Glenn's latest book Earning Conviction- Practice that redirects leaders from exhausted to unshakeable Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/success-made-to-last-legends--4302039/support.
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Truly Significant honors Dr. Greg Allgood, leader of World Vision, providing fresh water to millions
7 OCT 2026 · We are honoring Dr. Greg Allgood, leader at World Vision, focused on clean water to 700 million people in need. World Vision works in a variety of sectors, with water being a central focus.
Greg shares a life changing story of Mercy, a woman was taking toxic water to her family. Greg offered his P&G product, a water purification packet, that instantly cleared the muddy water. He saw changed and improved lives.
Visit worldvision.org and drop down to water or go to www.drgregallgood.com. It only takes $50 to transform a life or buy two copies of his book Thirsty for a Miracle and Greg's team will contribute $50 to help an individual with clean water.
What makes Greg's story is that he didn't simply give to people in need. He used science, business, partnerships, persistence and personal conviction to build a system capable of helping millions.
- He made clean water a life mission Dr. Allgood spent 26 years at Procter & Gamble and founded the P&G Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program. With his background in toxicology and public health, he recognized that P&G's water-purification technology could do far more good as a humanitarian program than it could as a conventional commercial product.
- He turned corporate capability into humanitarian impact This may be the most significant part of his story. Allgood persuaded P&G to create a nonprofit model around its water-purification technology. The little packets could transform contaminated water into drinkable water in about 30 minutes. The program eventually delivered more than 23 billion liters of clean water, reaching millions of people.
- Greg became a bridge between unlikely partners Allgood understood that no single organization was going to solve the global water crisis. He helped build partnerships involving P&G, World Vision, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Gates Foundation, UNICEF, WHO and USAID. That's a powerful Side Quest to Significance lesson: sometimes your calling isn't to do everything yourself. It's to connect the people, resources and institutions that can accomplish something together that none could accomplish alone. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/success-made-to-last-legends--4302039/support.
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