Episodes
100
Latest episode
Aug 2026
Language
EN
This podcast is a journey that explores how design is essential to legacy building. The principles of good design will shape and direct your legacy into a work that will touch your family, friends, and business associates with your unique enduring message. We all leave legacies. Are you designing the one that you want to leave? email: rfong@truenorthshepherding.com
Americana is the tapestry of our collective history, folklore and culture. It identifies, unites, and inspires us to go west and to the moon. What is the collective history, story, and culture of your legacy? Listen to explore and to articulate the cultural artifacts and symbols that characterize your legacy.
"Water seeks its own level." "Still waters run deep." Water's physical properties direct the nature of its flow. Water's function is dependent on its movement in controlled measures. What is the nature of your legacy's flow? How are you directing its flow? Listen to explore the path your legacy is traveling and whether that is your intended direction.
Our legacy is more than than what we did. It is also what we did not do. Guidelines and standards help us navigate through temptations and peer pressure. As you build you legacy, have you clearly demarcated the lines you will not cross? Your character and legacy are defined by your adherence and respect to these lines.
Patience is a virtue and a gift. When you practice patience, you gift others the space to grow. Patience is not passive waiting. It is a unselfish decision to allow others to find their place at their own pace. Patience enriches storytelling by supporting deep interactions and appreciating nuance. Exercise patience and your legacy enriches.
Jaclyn Orent, co-founder and CEO of Cultural Catalysts Network, provides practical insights to the seasoned corporate leader to the recent high school graduate on how to improve the world by mastering self. Listen to see how sharing your vision, compassion, and energy will widen your scope and deepen the impact you have in improving the world.
Shepherd leadership is a better model than servant leadership. The servant model detracts from leadership by its redundancy, passivity, and limited scope. If you are not willing to serve, you are unfit to lead. Shepherds are proactive protectors who do not wait for instructions to lead their flock to safety and pastures where they can prosper.
The Japanese art/architecture form of kigumi builds houses without nails. Nail-less structures have the space and flexibility to absorb the shock of earthquakes, are less likely to have wood splitting from changes in humidity, and accommodate seamless assembly and replacement. Have you built your relationships to withstand stressful forces? Do you lead by joining people together as opposed to fastening together with metaphoric nails? Listen to build a stronger legacy without nails.
Approximately 12.5 million Americans are solo agers. Some never planned to spend their latter years alone. Changing trends in active disengagement reduce the reach of our social networks and strain community cohesion. Many will be left wondering what their legacy will be. Listen to transition from life planning to legacy building.
We are flawed beings who stumble on our journeys. Often, we looked for a way to correct our course. We can supply each other with that by designing offramps of grace and mercy. Listen to be a beacon of humanity to those who are at points of great need.
Danielle Philips created the They Were Here Foundation to build a legacy for her daughter Angelina, who died from cancer. The foundation provides a space for grieving individuals to keep the voices of departed loved ones alive through storytelling. Listen to hear how others are choosing to honor lost family and friends by bringing memories to life.
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