Pete has been a broadcaster for the last 30 years, falling in love with the edit bay in the back of a newsroom in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He studied journalism at the University of Colorado with a focus on long-form documentary production, turning that early experience into a career helping businesses shape the stories of their brands through image and sound. Pete earned an M.S. in Organizational Design and spent fifteen years teaching graduate marketing students the power of human-centered communications. From public relations teams on global multi-million dollar brand projects to marketing for independent business owners, Pete has helped shape communications that build brands. In 2006, he launched Fifth & Main, LLC., a media consultancy focused on brand-building through the nascent field of podcasting. In 2020, nearly 3,000 individual podcast episodes behind them, the company rebranded as TruStory FM with an ear toward the next decade of podcast education and entertainment.
Pete has hosted as well as been a panelist on a number of episodes.
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We wrap up our Car Racing series—and our 14th season!—with a movie that’s more a dog movie than a car racing movie, but either way is a saccharine movie. It’s Simon Curtis’ The Art of Racing in the Rain.
Ever started a fight in your head, won it spectacularly, only to realize the other person didn’t even show up to the battlefield? Welcome to adulthood, where conflict is less about actual shouting and more about side-eyeing someone into oblivion while whispering “I’m fine” with enough passive-aggression to wilt a cactus.
Father David Mowry, Catholic priest and professor, explores the fascinating world of Catholic annulments—how they differ from civil divorce and why the Church sees them as paths to healing rather than legal loopholes.
We continue our Car Racing series with James Mangold’s look at the turning point for Ford Motor Company when they decided to start racing, beginning with the 1966 Le Mans. Or it’s about two racers up against the corporate machine. Either way, it’s the 2019 film Ford v Ferrari.
Exterior. A moderately obscure European airstrip. Day. The camera dollies past a series of neatly arranged suitcases, a broken harmonium, and a pigeon holding a classified microfilm in its beak. We hear the narrator: The Film Board Gathers. This week, a gang of thugs donned their finest pastels to unravel: The Phoenician Scheme.
This week, Pete accidentally runs for office and Tommy desperately tries to get selected for jury duty—two adults chasing civic engagement like it’s a slightly weird amusement park ride with no height requirement. Along the way, we unpack the absurd beauty of local government, honor the sacred power of the “I Voted” sticker, and guide you through a meditation that ends—quite naturally—in institutional collapse.
Forget everything you thought you knew about building muscle—this isn’t about vanity, it’s about vitality. This week we talk all about why muscle is the medicine you control, bust common myths, and set the stage for a new way to think about strength at any age.
Leadership expert Shermin Kruse explores stoic empathy—how to maintain emotional control while understanding others’ perspectives during divorce.
Memory isn’t a vault—it’s a fragile system of steps, and for ADHD brains, each one is more vulnerable to collapse. This week, Dr. Daniella Karidi helps us rethink what it means to forget, why prospective memory is the hardest of all, and how kindness might be the most powerful memory strategy we have.
We continue our Car Racing series with a story of an intense rivalry that was the predominant focus of the Grand Prix in 1976 between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. It’s Ron Howard’s 2013 film Rush.