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Not by Accident

Not by Accident

De: Thomas H Wicke
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Becoming and raising good people does not happen by accident. Nothing that is worthwhile, valuable or magnificent happens by default -not a marriage, not a career, not children who grow into happy, kind and accomplished adults. Excellence is not accidental.

This podcast is a tool for parents to use as they purposefully introduce their children to high ideals, virtues, and concepts that are essential to becoming a good person. We do this in short 3-5 minute podcasts (borrowing from experiences in history, stories shared by others, scenarios and situations) with the intent to foster conversation between parents and children.

No one wants to be lectured or moralized -especially children and teens... especially by their parents. So having some outside voices on matters that will help shape children is invaluable. This of this podcast as a contemporary version of Aesops Fables. Great for parents, teachers, youth leaders or anyone who is looking for inspiring content when driving to school, a soccer game, to the grocery store or beginning your day. Enjoy!

Creator and Host: Dr. Thomas Wicke -a social psychologist who is president of a healthcare college in Denver, Colorado. He is an author, published academic, teacher and speaker on creating effective culture in the workplace through intentional leadership. He consulted with the Department of Homeland Security on community impact of disaster. He is husband for 30+ years to a public school teacher and parent of three children.Copyright Thomas Wicke Crianza y Familias Desarrollo Personal Literatura y Ficción Relaciones Éxito Personal
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  • Not by Accident: Scott Ruskin and Heroes -Episode25

    Not by Accident: Scott Ruskin and Heroes -Episode25
    Jul 17 2025
    Scott Ruskin is a hero of the devastating and tragic central Texas floods of July 2025. His story is inspiring but somewhat unexpected. He helped save 165 victims in his first mission as a US Coast Guard rescue swimmer. He volunteered to get out of the rescue heicopter so there would be more room for the crew to load survivors they would dramaticall rescue in the flood waters. He found himself as the only rescuer to organize, triage, administer first aid, protect and coordinate the evacuation of scores of children from Camp Mystic. In the chaos and hell of an unfathomable disaster, Petty Officer Ruskin was salvation to scores of children and adults.
    We need heros in our society. Sometimes the work they do is not hanging from a cable connected to a helicopter. Sometimes they swim through raging waters and sometimes they run into burning buildings. But more often heroes quietly do less dramatic work or simply keep committments or consistently show up and bear heavy burdens that others walk away from. Scott Ruskin was unknown before this event. He was not hitting home runs or donating millions to a charity, on the front page of newspapers or a social media influencer. He was quitely and thanklessly preparing, training and learning first aid and protocols for disaster response. He, like teachers, parents and many obscure people was doing the hard work so that they might be ready to make a difference. We have a mistaken idea that heroes wear capes, are super-human, win the super bowl or world cup for their teams. No, some of the most amazing super people quietly do a hard, thankless job, or fight through chronic pain or are kind even when others are mean to them. You can be a super hero but it demaands having character and doing some hard things, preparing yourself and making good decisions.
    Story told by Kagan Dunlap (Instragram site)
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  • Not by Accident: Changing a Losing Culture -Episode24

    Not by Accident: Changing a Losing Culture -Episode24
    Jun 8 2025
    People like to win and to be associated with winning teams or efforts. But the truth of life is that we will often fall short individually and as part of a team. What happens when that team can't seem to come out on top? What happens when one loss becomes two, then ten then fifty?

    This is not uncommone either for the girls under 10 youth soccer team I coached or for the Detroit Lions of the NFL. The point is, it can (and as I suggest, will) happen to many of us. One important think to keep in mind is that there is a HUGE difference between losing and being a loser. Our wins or losses don't need to become a reflection on us. They definitley do not need to define us. There are great things to be learned in the losses we encounter in life. Loss is actually what makes us stronger, smarter and more committed to winning. When trapped in a cycle of loss sometimes it takes a coach who sees in us what we may have forgotten. Sometimes an individual player or participant can spark a change that impacts the entire organization. YOU can be that spark.

    Episode story taken from Joan W. Young's BYU Devotional speech, "Seeing as Far as Forever", June 24, 2003.
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  • Not by Accident: The Dark Side of Education -Episode23

    Not by Accident: The Dark Side of Education -Episode23
    Apr 3 2025
    Education is one of the top 5 factors that not only transforms an individual's life (including their spouse, children and generations to come) but also to improve the world and mankind's condition. As access to learning (education being the formal system to facilitate learning... at least that is the objective) swept across society like a wave with the invention of the printing press and other monumental changes that took place in the time period we generally know as "the enlightenment", life on earth began to change. For the previous five or ten thousand years life was lived within 20 miles of your birtthplace; locomotion remained walking, running or domesticated animals and simple carts; technology was generally static; daily life consisted of subsistence, illness and death (of infants, children and what are now minor diseases). Education changed all this. I encourage education. I run a college. I have no hesitation championing the virtues of education. Even with all this, education has a dark side. This is largely because human nature has a dark side. Education is little more than a gun, knife or car. All are tremendously valuable but can be wielded to great harm, opppression and brutality. Too often educated people think they are better than the less educated. They presume to have some moral superiority over those without letters (MD, Ph.D., MA, BS, Esq.) behind their names. Thy trade education for arrogance among many other things. This episode explores this tragic and dangerous propensity. Education and learning should always lead to humility and compassion, especially for people of character..But like so many things, this does not happen by accident.
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