Coming - 9/29/26: EP# 323, Interview #36: Julieta Duvall : Exploring 🔭 how self-awareness and resilience can transform parenting and 🧑🏫 education
Every week, Rick Barron explores the stories, ideas, and turning points that shape our lives and challenge how we see the world. Through conversations about human behavior, resilience, beliefs, and change, he uncovers lessons hidden within life's triumphs and struggles.
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Sept. 28, 2026
Book Review from Rick’s Library: How to Know A Person by David Brooks
The central lesson of the book, How to Know a Person, is deceptively simple: attention is love, and most of us are worse at paying it than we think. Supporting links 1. David Brooks [Wikipedia] 2. How to Know a Person [Amazon] 3. David Brooks [PBS] Contact That's Life, I Swear Visit my website: https://www.thatslifeiswear.com Twitter at @RedPhantom Bluesky at @rickbarron.bsky.social Email us at https://www.thatslifeiswear.com/contact/ Episode Review Submit on Apple Podcast Submit
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Sept. 24, 2026
Engineering Your Way Out of Flossing: Sir James Dyson Explains
The lesson for entrepreneurs isn't "charge $499 for everyday objects” it's that deep, obsessive problem-solving can create demand for things people didn't know they wanted, even without a business plan to justify it.
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Sept. 23, 2026
When Strongmen Believe Their Own Myth
Learn how unchecked ego is not strength; it’s a liability. Nations survive not because leaders are infallible, but because systems exist to tell them when they’re wrong — and force them to listen. Supporting links 1. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present [Amazon] 2. Ruth Ben-Ghiat [Wikipedia] 3. Ruth Ben-Ghiat [NYU|Arts|Science] 4. @ruthbenghiat [Instagram] 5. @ruthbenghiat [Twitter] Contact That's Life, I Swear Visit my website: https://www.thatslifeiswear.com Twitter at @RedP
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Sept. 18, 2026
Movie Review from Rick’s Streaming Library: Notting Hill
Builds the argument that the film's real subject is what fame does to a person's permission to be vulnerable, and that William's gift to Anna is not excitement or transformation — it's the safe ground of being genuinely, ordinarily seen. Supporting links 1. Notting Hill [Wikipedia] 2. Hugh Grant [Wikipedia] 3. Julia Roberts [Wikipedia] Contact That's Life, I Swear Visit my website: https://www.thatslifeiswear.com Twitter at @Re...
318
Sept. 16, 2026
Pssst, Baseball was invented in Canada!
By the early 20th century, Canada had handed baseball back across the border and claimed the ice instead Supporting links 1. Beachville, Canada [Small Town Canada] 2. Abner Doubleday [Wikipedia] 3. Bill Humber [Seneca Journalism] 4. Baseball Hall of Fame [National Baseball Hall of Fame] Origins of Baseball [Wikipedia] Contact That's Life, I Swear Visit my website: https://www.thatslifeiswear.com Twitter at @RedPhantom Bluesky at @rickbarron.bsky.social Email us at https://www
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Sept. 15, 2026
Book Review from Rick’s Library: Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
This book teaches us that genius is not purely innate. It is cultivated through relentless practice, honest self-interrogation, and a willingness to be wrong publicly and often. supporting links 1. Leonardo da Vinci [Wikipedia] 2. Decoding da Vinci -NOVA | PBS [YouTube] 3. 12 Most Important Works by Leonardo da Vinci [The Collector] 4. Leonardo da Vinci’s 500-Year-Old Bridge [Smithsonian] Contact That's Life, I Swear Visit my website: https://www.thatslifeiswear.com Twitter at @
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