Business professor Ronald Dulek and his wife bought a house sight unseen in the African Bush seeking to “squeeze the juice” of life. In the 20 summers they spent there, he learned profound spiritual lessons about humility, presence, facing fear, systems that produce poverty, the importance of unplugging from modern busyness, and finding God in nature. He recounts some fascinating stories about his encounters with elephants and other animals and what they taught him about life and himself. Perhaps you will be inspired to also “squeeze the juice” of life in your own way.

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Bio - Ron Dulek, the John R. Miller Professor of Management, just completed his forty-ninth year as a faculty member at the University of Alabama. During that time he has published nine books, the most recent of which is Sitting with Elephants, which examines the experiences and resulting lessons he has learned from spending twenty summers in his African bush house.

Ron has published more than 50 refereed academic journal articles in the areas of business, business strategy and business communication. He is the recipient of the Kitty O. Locker Outstanding Researcher Award from the International Association of Business Communication.

A devoted teacher, Ron Dulek has been selected MBA Teacher of the year twenty-eight times and EMBA teacher of the year twenty-five times. He is also the recipient of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, the University’s highest faculty honor. He was also selected by Alabama’s senior class as the inaugural speaker for the University’s Last Lecture Series.

Dr. Dulek consults regularly with the Cabinet and Ministers of the Tanzanian government and is presently Chair of the Alabama Credit Union Board.

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Caregiving is a universal topic, as Rosalynn Carter (1927–2023) once famously stated that everyone will eventually be a caregiver, have been one, need one, or will need one. While it can be an emotionally and physically draining experience, guest Roy Remer brings a new light to caregiving and offers a path to genuinely grow and even thrive through the process. He reframes caregiving as restoring a human, psychospiritual connection often lost in a medicalized, death-denying culture, and emphasizes broad, everyday caregiving through presence and compassion. We explore honesty, resentment, storytelling, and why fixing and understanding can be overrated, especially in dementia care. The episode also highlights the Zen Caregiving Project training and support circles offered online.

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Bio- Roy Remer is the author of Zen Caregiving: How to Care for Yourself While Caring for Others. An educator and end-of-life caregiver since 1997, he is executive director of Zen Caregiving Project in San Francisco and lead creator of the Mindful Caregiving Education curriculum. A dedicated practitioner in the Soto Zen tradition, Remer is a student at San Francisco Zen Center.Visit him online at http://www.ZenCaregiving.org.

Author and meditation teacher Georg Lolos shares his profound Ego House framework where attention and beliefs fertilize thoughts, pulling us into any of 10 relatable rooms of suffering (control, resistance, greed, hubris, denial, inferiority, neediness, guilt, confusion, and powerlessness). He describes these rooms on both the individual and collective level and provides a road map out of suffering into the garden of peace, freedom, and creativity. Our conversation also explores the power of compassionate self-observation, how these emotional structures impact our societies collectively and politically, and the huge healing potential for the children of our world.

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Bio- Georg is an author, meditation teacher, and former television journalist based in Cologne, Germany. He spent three years as a resident at the Buddhist monastery Plum Village under the guidance of Thich Nhat Hanh. He is the author of two books built around the "Ego-House" framework, a model exploring the different rooms of human consciousness. His current work extends this framework into the political and social domain.

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