Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Malala Yousafzai, Greta Thunberg, Cesar Chavez, John Lennon and Yoko Ono... Why do we remember their words so well? And why do they resonate with many of us over long periods of time? A common thread is that they each effectively have ‘painted’ bold and audacious Pictures of a future of possibilities and hope, of a promising tomorrow that inspires each of us to take action. “Pictures Out There!” explores the opportunities we all have every day to ambitiously create our own Pictures of the future that will effectively inspire us to act toward t...
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Sep 30, 2026 · 29:10
Many around the globe who seek more power attempt to rewrite history to justify their social and political opinions and actions. Truth is truth and facts are facts, but an…
Sep 15, 2026 · 30:32
Does helping each other within our nation really make good sense? Should we establish social policies that help those who most need it? Or is that a bad idea? Data and facts…
Sep 1, 2026 · 38:24
Welcome to our first podcast of Season 6 of the Pictures Out There podcast series! We call it, “Helping Each Other is Smart! Not Helping Each Other? Not So Much…” (Part 1). So……
May 15, 2026 · 35:03
Ahh… The "waves” of life! Our level of resilience ends up being a huge impact on our lives as we ride along, and it significantly shapes how successful we are in living our…
May 2, 2026 · 30:25
Accurate histories give us the right lessons to learn. Those lessons help make our present-day activities positive and productive. They also help us move efficiently and…
Apr 15, 2026 · 48:08
A LOT has happened in those 5 years! Are there new insights to gain on where the evolution of AI might be headed in our world, from experts and from software coders themselves?…
Mar 27, 2026 · 22:20
The twin of “Think Globally”, maintaining an “Act Locally” mindset for our life, perspectives, and actions is powerful! Every loving and helpful action we take, large or small,…
Feb 28, 2026 · 34:09
Maintaining a global mindset for our Pictures, Ideals, perspectives, and life is helpful and powerful! We can then take our best actions at any level we choose…local, regional,…
Feb 20, 2026 · 40:14
Amid the current political crisis in the United States, have we just witnessed a major step toward a wonderful Picture for global government in the future? It might have just…
Feb 5, 2026 · 35:46
Universal consciousness is the idea that there is a single awareness or “mind” underlying all life. This increasingly popular concept suggests that everything in our world is…
Jan 15, 2026 · 33:18
What about the Pledge of Allegiance? What about “and to the republic for which it stands…”? What about ”and liberty and justice for all”? We agree with Trump that the name…
Dec 14, 2025 · 30:57
Hi and Happy Holidays! Today’s podcast #8 is about all the unique cultures we can enjoy in our human future! We call them Micro-Cultures. Live and let live, harm to none, and the…
Nov 30, 2025 · 37:43
It’s always good to use reflection and introspection to help drive our best lives to the destination of our dreams, taking good care of our real, truest, and best self along the…
Nov 15, 2025 · 33:09
“Empathy is the Gateway to Real and Lasting Joy!”. That’s right, Empathy is actually the best path to real Joy in life! There are two sides to the “Empathy Coin”…the…
Nov 1, 2025 · 35:10
Let’s Replace Shouting Our Opinions with Having Meaningful Conversations. “That’s not true!” “You’re wrong!”“Fake news!” These phrases are heard too often in today’s…
Oct 15, 2025 · 54:58
Here’s Season 5 Podcast #4 of the Pictures Out There podcast series, “Empathy and Action in the Face of Violence…When will we choose being fully human?” We humans have had a…
Sep 30, 2025 · 29:25
Here’s Season 5 podcast #3 of the Pictures Out There podcast series. We call this episode “Science and Our Search for Truth!” Science in our current culture is in a fragile…
Sep 14, 2025 · 41:34
Here’s this season’s podcast #2 and we call it “Time to Wise Up Again”. Yep, we’ll walk through creating the life-changing habit of moving from ignorance to knowledge to wisdom.…
Aug 31, 2025 · 31:10
Woohoo! Season 5 of the Pictures Out There podcast series is here. It’s podcast #1 of the season and we are jazzed! Signs… Signs of all kinds. We humans use “signs” a lot. What…
Apr 30, 2025 · 39:34
Welcome to the Pictures Out There podcast series and episode #16, our final podcast of Season 4. Four years in, we’re taking a reflective look at where we are today with the…
Apr 15, 2025 · 33:57
Micro-Cultures! It’s a wonderful concept and picture for the future that allows each of us to peacefully and joyfully express our unique selves, while doing harm to no one.…
Mar 29, 2025 · 38:59
There are “streams” of personal expression, the experience of living, innovation, and change that are as old as humanity, and that bind the past, present, and future together.…
Mar 15, 2025 · 39:39
We humans love Storytelling and its magic! We love to tell our stories. And we can really enjoy and benefit from the stories of other people in our lives, and from people that we…
Feb 28, 2025 · 34:39
Welcome to Season 4, podcast #12, and the finale in our four-podcast arc on Equality for All! We have a new Coalition of Inequality here in the U.S. in 2025. How should we think…
Feb 15, 2025 · 32:22
Welcome to Season 4, podcast #11, and the third in our four-podcast arc on Equality for All! We chat about how voting Coalitions of Inequality get cobbled together to win…
Jan 30, 2025 · 33:50
Equality for All is the right thing to do. Inequality in all of its endless forms, permutations, and coalitions, is just wrong. But beyond that truth…political, social, and…
Jan 16, 2025 · 40:07
We begin a fun and insightful 3-podcast arc on one of our most important Pictures for the future, Equality for All! Why have humans always chosen to create Coalitions of…
Dec 29, 2024 · 34:30
Happy New Year!! As we welcome 2025, Lee and Dave share how our Pictures and our Ideals in unison support and complement each other toward a brighter future. And by just doing…
Dec 18, 2024 · 37:42
Welcome to the Pictures Out There podcast series with Lee Stuart and Dave Fogleman! This is Season 4, Podcast #7. Ai is an avalanche of change, and we experience more of that…
Nov 22, 2024 · 43:20
Welcome to Podcast #6 in Season 4 of the Pictures Out There podcast series! How do we process the results of the recent U.S. elections through the emotional change cycle, and…
Nov 15, 2024 · 38:12
Welcome to Podcast #5 in Season 4 of the Pictures Out There podcast series! Here in the fall of 2024, we lift up and rise up from our tumultuous current events to talk about some…
Nov 8, 2024 · 45:18
Welcome to our 100th podcast in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We live in a New World of Trust and Truth. Does being trustworthy matter anymore? Does telling and sharing…
Oct 15, 2024 · 28:49
Welcome to Season 4 and Chat #3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series! With the income that we and others receive, our “community of caring” shapes and dictates our public…
Sep 29, 2024 · 29:27
Welcome to Season 4 and Chat #2 in the Pictures Out There podcast series! From sports and games to spirituality, our personal sense of our “community” shapes and dictates our…
Sep 21, 2024 · 42:00
We’re back! Welcome to Season 4 and Chat #1 in the Pictures Out There podcast series! Community is such an important concept in shaping our pictures, our ideals, and our…
May 10, 2024 · 29:34
Welcome to Season 3 and Chat #32 of the Pictures Out There podcast series! In our last podcast we talked about the joy of all the things that we don’t know or aren’t sure about.…
May 2, 2024 · 32:02
After “I love you”, are the most beautiful three words in our language “I don’t know” or “I’m not sure”? Maybe! What are questions where we can joyfully answer “I don’t know” or…
Apr 25, 2024 · 31:35
Welcome to Season 3 and Chat #30 in the Pictures Out There podcast series! Today we revisit the Equality for All Movement, and talk about Cecilia Payne, America Ferrera, Amanda…
Apr 17, 2024 · 35:27
Welcome to Season 3 and Chat #29 in the Pictures Out There podcast series! Staying true to your real and true self can be a challenge, but it’s doable. Keeping a sense of humor…
Apr 11, 2024 · 38:00
Welcome to Season 3 and Chat #28 in the Pictures Out There podcast series! If you want to think about change, or how to manage or lead change, then you’ve come to the right…
Apr 4, 2024 · 40:11
Welcome to Season 3 and Chat #27 in the Pictures Out There podcast series. We constantly coach others and are coached by others, in all sorts of settings and venues. There’s…
Mar 28, 2024 · 38:37
Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series and Chat #26. The carbon footprint of the uber-wealthy, groundwater drying up in the U.S., Howard Zinn, Ursula…
Mar 21, 2024 · 25:01
Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series and Chat #25! Humor! The power to make us laugh and to think about the future, our Pictures, and our Ideals… Steven…
Mar 14, 2024 · 30:55
Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series and Chat #24! Houston, homelessness, math, hope, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, opportunities for societal and personal…
Mar 7, 2024 · 26:01
Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series and Chat #23! The Sporting KC Soccer team, sharing power, real leadership, humility, everyone matters, and more… All…
Feb 29, 2024 · 49:13
Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series and Chat #22! Our Pictures and Ideals can guide us on how best to respond to even the most difficult public figures…
Feb 21, 2024 · 41:50
Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series, and Chat #21! Curiosity, Listening, Question Asking, Storytelling, and Lifelong Learning... Erich Fromm, Plato, Rick…
Feb 14, 2024 · 25:38
Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series, and Chat #20! Spirituality and creation… how small we are by ourselves… how big we are when we see our real…
Feb 7, 2024 · 42:51
Welcome to Chat #19 of Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series! Everybody present and future gather ‘round, aliens and AI life forms included, and listen to two more…
Jan 31, 2024 · 30:33
Welcome to Chat #18 of Season 3 in the Pictures and Ideals Out There podcast series! In part two of a two-part podcast mini-series, we talk about Dave’s new book Ideals Out There…
Jan 25, 2024 · 46:59
Welcome to Chat #17 of Season 3 in the Pictures and Ideals Out There podcast series! In part one of a two-part podcast mini-series, we talk about Dave’s new book Ideals Out There…
Dec 21, 2023 · 40:08
Welcome to Chat #16 of Season 3, in the Pictures and Ideals Out There podcast series! We talk about the reasons we do these podcasts and books, a Confederate statue in…
Dec 14, 2023 · 39:01
Welcome to Chat #15 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Worryland, Free Will, the Church of the Nones, Malala Yousafzai , and more…all with…
Dec 7, 2023 · 38:26
Welcome to Chat #14 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! New news about how humans evolved, what’s the matter with anti-matter, screaming plants, our…
Nov 30, 2023 · 25:25
Welcome to Chat #13 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series, with this episode dedicated to Rosalynn Carter. We talk about Narges Mohammadi, Toni Morrison, the…
Nov 23, 2023 · 42:44
Welcome to Chat #12 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Tom Friedman and AI, an updated Golden Rule, Pandora’s Box, just being there for someone,…
Nov 16, 2023 · 54:12
Welcome to Chat #11 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Howard Stern, Alan Rickman, Ron DeSantis, the American Climate Corps, Unions, Taylor…
Nov 9, 2023 · 42:15
Welcome to Chat #10 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about False Equivalences, Rufus Sewell, Carl Sagan, Football fans, Mexican Female Politicians,…
Nov 2, 2023 · 41:11
Welcome to Chat #9 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Charlie Chaplin, Albert Einstein, the fear of equality, Stephen Stills, big tech, satire,…
Oct 25, 2023 · 40:45
Welcome to Chat #8 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Success, Desperation, the Thai cave rescue, a Montana court decision on climate change, a…
Oct 19, 2023 · 45:24
Welcome to Chat #7 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Technology, Cancel Culture, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Dwight Eisenhower, Dalai Lama,…
Oct 12, 2023 · 48:32
Welcome to Chat #6 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Teddy Roosevelt, Kurt Vonnegut, creating the Second Amendment, life expectancy trends, the…
Oct 5, 2023 · 52:33
Welcome to Chat #5 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Paris Hilton, Sarah Silverman, Fake AI images, Judge Michael Luttig, Buckminster Fuller,…
Sep 27, 2023 · 44:04
Welcome to Chat #4 of Season 3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about the quirks of people, The New Theatre, the African American Museum In Washington, D.C.,…
Sep 21, 2023 · 45:23
Welcome to Season 3, Chat #3, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! We talk about Harry Potter, predictions, Kierkegaard, who we are, Gregg Popovich, violence, reverse trash…
Sep 14, 2023 · 43:19
Welcome to Season 3 , Chat #2, in the Pictures Out There podcast series! In our podcast chats this season, we’ll be optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny, reflective,…
Sep 7, 2023 · 44:33
Welcome to Season 3 in the Pictures Out There podcast series, and our first Chat of the season! In our podcast chats, we’ll be optimistic, imaginative, serious, funny,…
Apr 27, 2023 · 17:56
We close Season 2 of our Pictures Out There! podcast series with an episode that summarizes our first two seasons. In these two seasons, we have made an ambitious and humble…
Apr 20, 2023 · 26:52
We may have unresolved issues from our Past and Present that erroneously suggest to us that we can’t imagine and work toward our truest Future dreams, our Pictures, until we have…
Apr 13, 2023 · 29:33
We live in a world that tries to pull us in a thousand different directions. In order for us to create our Pictures and live by our Ideals, we need ways to ensure that we keep…
Apr 6, 2023 · 44:55
We’ll model conversations that should be frequent, fun, comfortable, and happen every day among people who care deeply about the world’s future. We’ll jump all over the place in…
Mar 30, 2023 · 18:36
Do we make our Choices and Decisions by “what feels good”? Probably. But what is it that makes us really feel good, now and in the future? The answer may be a surprise! Is there…
Mar 23, 2023 · 22:16
Fears pop up constantly in our daily lives, and in endless forms. How do we recognize our Fears, old ones and new ones, and not let them run our lives? We have a Picture for…
Mar 16, 2023 · 25:44
Let’s continue once again to expand our own thinking by hearing from more thought leaders on the future, who also care deeply about what happens with our world! This ongoing…
Mar 9, 2023 · 23:23
Pictures Out There! concepts and approaches can bring out the best in companies, organizations, departments, and teams…any and all groups, of any size! Let’s chat about three…
Mar 2, 2023 · 22:59
In addition to their use for individuals and for humanity as a whole, Pictures Out There! concepts and approaches are 100% applicable to companies, organizations, departments,…
Feb 23, 2023 · 24:52
Each of us can make all the difference! It’s just math, really simple math. The impact of what we each individually can do to make the world a better place is much bigger than we…
Feb 16, 2023 · 35:56
Let’s continue once again to expand our own thinking by hearing from more thought leaders on the future, who also care deeply about what happens with our world! This ongoing…
Feb 9, 2023 · 19:47
This is the last of a five-episode mini-series that we call “Breakthrough Pictures”. In this episode, we continue painting our Picture of the topics we will use to educate our…
Feb 2, 2023 · 22:29
Today’s episode is the fourth in a five-episode mini-series that we call “Breakthrough Pictures”. We’re at a beautiful tipping point. We are ready for a big overhaul on education…
Jan 26, 2023 · 25:40
Today’s episode is the third in a five-episode mini-series that we call “Breakthrough Pictures”. Humanity often does not thoughtfully and consistently deal with mistakes that…
Jan 19, 2023 · 25:51
Today’s episode is the second in a five-episode mini-series that we call “Breakthrough Pictures”. Humanity has never created equality for all people, regardless of race, culture,…
Jan 12, 2023 · 24:52
Welcome to the second half of Season 2 of our Pictures Out There! podcast series! Today’s episode is the first in a five-episode mini-series that we call “Breakthrough Pictures”.…
Dec 15, 2022 · 23:41
It’s the Holidays! That time of year when we are most open to loving, to helping others, and to feeling connected to everyone around the globe… Gee, that sounds like our Pictures…
Dec 8, 2022 · 22:56
Here at picturesoutthere.com, we offer models and tools to help us “break the ice” for creating our Pictures of the future! We actually call one of those the ICE model. This…
Dec 1, 2022 · 28:04
Let’s continue to expand our own thinking by connecting to more thought leaders on the future, who also care deeply about what happens with our world! We continue this ongoing…
Nov 22, 2022 · 30:51
How about this for an image, a Picture? Humanity is an Orchestra… It’s a nice image, and it’s a true one! In that very real Orchestra of Humanity, how do we create that beautiful…
Nov 17, 2022 · 23:08
Betcha thought in our last podcast that we had covered all of the biases that our brains can conjure up…but wait, there’s more!!...(smile). What are our natural and normal human…
Nov 9, 2022 · 20:22
As human beings, our brains do “short-cuts” in order to deal with new situations and with the fast pace of our lives. These short-cuts, or “cognitive biases”, may cause us to…
Nov 3, 2022 · 27:06
In this life each of us have both a Spiritual experience and a Physical experience! We have an incredible Spiritual experience that is always wide open for us, and that goes far…
Oct 27, 2022 · 22:01
Welcome to the first episode of a five-episode mini-series, “Getting Our Lives into a Great Balance”! Balance affects everything in our day-to-day lives. How we balance our…
Oct 20, 2022 · 25:39
In the second of our two-part podcast mini-series “Creating Pictures in a Messy World” we explore all that we have to offer…“A Variety of Gifts for Action!” We each are blessed…
Oct 13, 2022 · 24:30
Our world is a mess!! But the truth is, it always has been a mess. A beautiful mess! In Part 1 of a two-part series on “Creating Pictures in a Messy World!”, we explore if we…
Oct 6, 2022 · 23:32
Let’s expand our own thinking by connecting to some thought leaders on the future, who also care deeply about what happens with our world. You are invited to join this ongoing…
Sep 29, 2022 · 29:29
We LOVE to laugh, and in this season’s episode #5 we’ll share our Picture for great, enjoyable, bust-a-gut humor that steers us away from the so-called “humor” that is really a…
Sep 22, 2022 · 23:34
This season’s episode #4, “Top Ten Reasons to Care about our world's Future!” will underscore the big and simple reasons why we should have our own Pictures, and care deeply…
Sep 15, 2022 · 27:26
In this season’s episode #3, we use Math (gulp…that word!) to show that it’s wise and easier than we think to solve some of the world’s biggest problems! Hunger, poverty, and…
Sep 8, 2022 · 26:18
We explore three easy ways to make the “Simple-Complex-Simple” process and being Wise a simple thing to do…over and over again! Curiosity, Question-Asking and Storytelling are…
Sep 2, 2022 · 32:51
Welcome back to our second season of Pictures Out There! podcasts! After a brief review of Season 1, we’ll dive right in with a three episode mini-series we call “Wisdom is…
Apr 21, 2022 · 25:02
Information…Opinions…Facts…Deceptions…all of those coming at us, faster than ever. Our world is speeding up, and it can be chaotic and confusing. Our Picture to handle it all? We…
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