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. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />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!<br /><br />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.
Not by Accident
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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. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />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!<br /><br />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.
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Recent Episodes
July 17, 2025
Not by Accident: Scott Ruskin and Heroes -Episode25
US Coast Guard rescue swimmer Scott Ruskin recounts his heroic efforts during the central Texas floods of July 2025, where he saved 165 victims and organized the evacuation of children from Camp Mystic in this interview with Kagan Dunlap.
June 8, 2025
Not by Accident: Changing a Losing Culture -Episode24
This episode explores how teams can transform losing cultures into winning ones by learning from setbacks and fostering individual growth, drawing insights from Joan W. Young's speech.
April 3, 2025
Not by Accident: The Dark Side of Education -Episode23
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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