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Need a free online life coach? Look no further than the most motivational self-help authors of the past. Inspiring readings from James Allen, Napoleon Hill, Hellen Keller, Booker T. Washington, Khalil Gibran, Marcus Aurelius, and more. With over 20 million downloads, we have been one of the most popular self-development podcasts since 2016. Listen to our inspirational podcasts every Tuesday and Thursday, and browse hundreds of uplifting podcasts in our archive. Buy our best-selling trilogy o ...
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Botch Job Society

Ramero Starks and Chris Brueggeman

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”Botch Job Society” is a celebration of life’s missteps and miscalculations. Hosted by Ramero Starks and Chris Brueggeman, two enthusiastic non-experts, this podcast delves into the humorous and humbling world of failure. Ranging from bad movies, blundered products, and even hands-on failures, it’s a no-holds-barred exploration of what happens when things don’t go as planned. Sometimes, the best stories come from the biggest blunders.
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Listen to episode 919 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Getting Over Your Fear of Death. Edited and adapted from Growth in Silence, the Undertone of Life by Susanna Cocroft. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The fear of death is one of the greatest restraints to life, to growth. We do not realize how our lives are hampered by fear of it. The opposi…
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from What All the World is a-Seeking by Ralph Waldo Trine, published in 1920. Podcast Excerpt: I often talk about the principle of love and service, and how this principle should be the foundati…
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Listen to episode 918 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Magic Door to a Wonderful Life. Edited and adapted from The Open Door by Hugh Black. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We need more non-conformists, more people ready to protest, because their eyes have seen a nobler vision. It would be a poor thing to have youth prudent with the selfish c…
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Listen to episode 917 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Even Insurmountable Difficulties. Edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Courage, combined with energy and perseverance, will overcome difficulties apparently insurmountable. It gives force and impulse to effort an…
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast.This episode is edited and adapted from Studies in Thought World by Henry Wood, published in 1896. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Poverty is a condition of soul. This is even true on the material plane. The millionaire who feels p…
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Listen to episode 916 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Driving Your Ambition to Success. Edited and adapted from How to Develop Your Personality by Clare Tree Major. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Ambition is desire, the desire for self-expression along the line of least resistance. Desire is a thing to be cultivated. Feed it with your imaginat…
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Listen to episode 915 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret Power of Tolerance. Edited and adapted from The Power of Truth by William George Jordan. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Tolerance is a calm, generous respect for the opinions of others, even one's enemies. It recognizes the right of every person to think their own thoughts, to li…
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from Creed of The Dauntless by Frank B. Whitney, published in 1931. Podcast Excerpt: Here is the way to get along with people: Get out of personal consciousness! If you are in the attitude of mi…
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Listen to episode 914 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Become Rich in Love & Happiness. Edited and adapted from A Man Worthwhile by John Phillips Meakin. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: I would like to talk with you today about the subject of success. But first let us understand each other. My idea of success may not be yours. I do not mean succ…
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Listen to episode 913 of the Inspirational Living podcast: You Can Be the Master of Your Fate. Edited and Adapted from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every weight carried lessens the chances of victory; every weight discarded increases the prospects of success. Yet how many people enter life's great arena l…
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from Creative Mind by Ernest Holmes, published in 1919.. Podcast Excerpt: How often it is true of our spoken prayers, that we have said words over and over again, and yet our prayers have appare…
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Listen to episode 912 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Art & Power of Conversation. Edited and adapted from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: To be a good conversationalist — to able to interest people, rivet their attention, draw them to you naturally by the very superiority of your conversational …
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Listen to episode 912 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Turning Time & Money Into Success Habits of Personal Power. Edited and Adapted from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Economy is a much broader word than most people imagine. It applies to time, strength, talent, influence and effort, as well as to the…
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall, published in 1911. Podcast Excerpt: How often it is true of our spoken prayers, that we have said words over and over again, and yet our pra…
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Listen to episode 912 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How the Successful Use & Value Money. Edited and adapted from Youth and Opportunity by Thomas Tapper. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When discussing the Factors of Success, comparatively few people would fail to insist that the one thing above all others in desirability and importance, is m…
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Listen to episode 911 of the Inspirational Living podcast: We Really Do Get What We Ask For. Edited and adapted from The Open Door by Hugh Black. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Always remember that what you request is given to you, and what you really will in your heart you attain. Life comes and says calmly and confidently, "Ask what I shall give …
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from The Life Radiant by Lilian Whiting, published in 1903. Podcast Excerpt: The great truth of life — that which we may well hold as its central and controlling and dominating truth — is that "…
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06/07/2024 Botch Job Society Episode 10: Dangerously Queasy: Taste Testing Cheetos Mac ’N Cheese What happens when you mix Cheetos with mac & cheese?" We subject ourselves to this culinary catastrophe so you don't have to. From the deceptively named Bold & Cheesy to the stomach-turning Flamin' Hot, we try them all, and boy, do we have some thoughts…
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Listen to episode 910 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Go Through Life With Perfect Poise. Edited and Adapted from Poise: How to Attain It by D. Starke. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Poise is a quality which enables us to judge of our own value, and which (in revealing to us the knowledge of the things of which we are really capable) gi…
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Listen to episode 909 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Success is No Accident | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun. Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Michelangelo was one day explaining to a visitor at his studio what he had been doing to a statue since a previous visit. "I have retouched…
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from Power Through Repose by Annie Payson Call, published in 1900. Podcast Excerpt: It is with life as it is with art. What we do must be done with love, or it will have no force. Without the li…
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Listen to episode 908 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Taking Control of Your Mind & Body | Health Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Youth and Opportunity by Thomas Tapper. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Most people are very content with the world they live in. Even the poor are often happy because what they have and what they think are equal. …
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Listen to episode 907 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Be the Master of Your Circumstances. Edited and adapted from The Freedom of Life by Annie Payson Call. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: IT is not the circumstances of life that trouble or weigh upon us. It is the way we take them. If a person is playing a difficult game of chess, the more int…
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode is edited and adapted from The Shining Gateway by James Allen, published in 1915. Podcast Excerpt: Every dog can bark and fight, and every foolish person can rail and abuse with hard words, and give way to fits of ba…
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05/24/2024 Botch Job Society Episode 9: Purple Pain: Watching "The Amazing Bulk" Ever found yourself inexplicably drawn to a movie so bad, it's good? Well, buckle up, because we're about to take you on a rollercoaster ride through the wonderfully wacky world of "The Amazing Bulk." Our latest podcast episode peels back the curtain on this low-budget…
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Listen to episode 906 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Patience & Perseverance are Your Keys to Success. Edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The soldier who begins the battle in doubt is half beaten in advance. The entrepreneur who loses heart after one failure is a fool to ha…
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Listen to episode 905 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Getting Rid of Your Fear of Failure | Success Talks. Edited and adapted from Personal Power by Keith J. Thomas. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is a big thing, and your mind is a big thing. There ought to be nothing mean or small in your thoughts. Your imagination is bounded only by the…
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. The Will to be Well by Charles Brodie Patterson, published in 1901. Podcast Excerpt: Day by day we are writing the record of life's journey. Day by day our minds are becoming filled with the pictures of life that are hourly occur…
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Listen to episode 904 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Focusing Your Attention. Edited and adapted from Stepping-Stones to Success by Horace D. Hitchcock, published in 1916. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The achievement of focusing the mind on one thing at a time involves not only the energy in striving to do that one thing, but a…
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Listen to episode 903 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Getting Started On Your Road to Success. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Are you disheartened? Are you afraid to make a start for fear that you will fail, and your subsequent condition be worse than your first? Such feelings are common t…
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. Listen to the full series (ad free) by becoming a patron at: https://livinghour.org/patron Today's episode was edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall, published in 1911. Inspirational Podcast Tran…
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05/10/2024 Botch Job Society Episode 8: "As Seen on TV" Hall of Shame Ever wondered if those "As Seen on TV" products are as life-changing as the perky hosts in khaki pants claim? Well, wonder no more! Join us on this episode as we dive into the wild and often disastrous world of products that promise miracles but deliver... nightmares. [00:00] - I…
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Listen to episode 902 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Mastering the Game of Life. Edited and adapted from C’mon Up by Franklin Fillmore Farrington. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Some people have called life a voyage, where we steer for a certain port. Some say it is a climb from the valleys of labor to some great mountain peak of rest. Others…
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Listen to episode 901 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Benefits of Forgiveness | Inspiring Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Today, I would like to talk about forgiveness. There are people who say they have forgiven, but they have not forgotten…
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks. Edited and adapted from The Call of the Upper Road by Kathrine Ross Logan, published in 1924. Inspirational Podcast Transcript: No road is forced upon you. You travel whatever road you are on because you willed to do so. Your will is yourself in action. Your will is your soul exercising self direction…
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5/3/24 Botch Job Society Episode 7 - Noodle Adventures: Breakfast and Bagel Ramen Ever wondered how your favorite bagel could taste in ramen noodle form? Brace yourselves for a wild ride through the zaniest ramen flavors you never dreamed would exist! We're not just talking about a quick noodle slurp; it's a full-blown, laugh-out-loud taste-testing…
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Listen to episode 900 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Hard Times | Inspirational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Don't be overcautious. The person who never risks anything will never have anything. If you are working for someone, do more for them than they expect. That …
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Listen to episode 899 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Failure is Always the First Step. Edited and adapted from Ready Money by George H. Knox. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It’s been said that most business owners fail. Even if this were true, it doesn't mean that they fail absolutely. It simply means that they failed to make a success of the…
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Listen to episode 898 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Build a Happy Life. Edited and adapted from Life Lessons by Joseph Frank Thompson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Let us make the most of our one chance, and not spoil it by any folly or cruelty. How pleasant it will be, as we draw near the goal, if we can look back and realize that …
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Listen to episode 897 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Important Thoughts to Contemplate. Edited and adapted from Morning Thoughts for Every Day in the Year by JR Miller. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Remember that we are all both sowers and fields. Our words, our acts, our influence, as we touch other lives, become the seeds. This is true not…
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Listen to episode 896 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Character & Happiness | Self-Development Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Character and Happiness by Alvin Edwin Magary. Motivational Podcast Excerpt: If you and I are not changing ourselves constantly, we are not fulfilling the character of our potential. It is a persistent and destructiv…
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Listen to episode 895 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Recovering Your Happiness & Joy. Edited and adapted from The Joy that No Man Taketh from You by Lilian Whiting. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is true that many troubles are inevitable. They are a component part of life. Death is the universal human experience. Illness is largely so (in …
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Listen to episode 894 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Evidence of the Spiritual Life | Uplifting Podcast. Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The first question to be faced frankly, and if possible, honestly answered, is this: “Is there a normal spiritual life possible to all …
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Listen to episode 893 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Start Living the Inspiring Life Meant for You. Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It’s been said that character is practically fixed for most people when they reach the age of 25. I suspect this is true — for how many of u…
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4/5/24 Botch Job Society Episode 6 - Cinematic Trainwreck: Watching "Fateful Findings" Hold on to your popcorn, folks; our latest episode is a whirlwind tour through Neil Breen's cinematic enigma "Fateful Findings." Imagine watching a film so perplexing, it makes "Birdemic" feel like a Hitchcock thriller – that's the kind of bizarre ride we're talk…
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Listen to episode 892 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Avoid Certain Failure | Success Podcasts. Edited and adapted from Fundamentals of Success by Hiram Abiff Boaz. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: No normal person wants to fail. Failure takes the sparkle from the eye, the color from the cheek, the edge from the intellect, and the nerve f…
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Listen to episode 891 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Real You is Waiting to Come Alive. Edited and adapted from A New Philosophy of Life by John Herman Randall. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The old materialistic idea of the universe, as a machine made up of physical matter, and run simply in accordance with certain physical laws, is gon…
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3/28/24 Botch Job Society Episode 5 - Culinary Chaos: Hilariously Bad Recipes (Part 2) WATCH THE VIDEO VERSION ON OUR WEBSITE. Buckle up, food enthusiasts, because we’re about to take you on a hilarious jaunt through the culinary cataclysm of the internet’s worst-rated recipes! In the second part of our culinary misadventures, we dive into the doug…
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Listen to episode 890 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of Living a Successful Life. Edited and adapted from The World Beautiful by Lilian Whiting. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Success in life is too largely attributed to special gifts or exceptional good fortune, or of some combination of the two, rather than to simple duty and the…
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Listen to episode 889 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Succeed in the Battle of Life. Edited and adapted from A Book of Friendly Thoughts by Nixon Waterman. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Half-way, half-hearted doings never amount to much. Battles are not won with flags at half-mast — they are run up to the very top and waved as far towa…
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