Project Candor: Ordinary People. Unexpected Stories

About Project Candor: Ordinary People. Unexpected Stories

Everyone has a story worth telling. On Project Candor, host Jeanne Andersen sits down with entrepreneurs, veterans, educators, creatives, leaders, and everyday people to explore the moments that shaped who they became. Through thoughtful conversations and our signature Two Truths and a Lie segment, guests share authentic stories filled with unexpected turns, hard-earned lessons, humor, resilience, and hope. Learn more at ProjectCandor.com

Publisher

Jeanne Andersen

Category

comedy · society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Dec 2025

Latest episode

22 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 54 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   22 Oct 2026

   The Mission Nobody Claimed with Lt. Col. Eric W. Hommel | Ship's Log #53

   “Nobody cares what you know, until they know you care.” — Eric W. Hommel Episode Summary Eric Hommel doesn’t sound like a man who spent thirty years in uniform guarding his own reputation — and that’s the point. A Cold War Navy submariner turned Air Force lieutenant colonel, he commanded a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan’s Panjshir province, where the job was to build roads, governance, and a police force the Afghans could run themselves. Instead he found himse...

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   19 Oct 2026

   Applied Stoicism | Are You Carrying Burdens That Aren’t Yours? With Arky Jones | Ship's Log #52

   "A man does not lose his life all at once. He loses it every time he calls the truth inconvenient and chooses the warm lie instead." — Arky Jones Episode Summary Arky Jones has spent most of his life doing what most people avoid — looking closely at himself and asking hard questions about why people think, react, and live the way they do. That curiosity led him to build PersonalityPeek, a platform that blends personality insights, Stoic philosophy, and practical tools to help people unders...

3. 

   15 Oct 2026

   War Ended. Real Fight Began with Lee Freeburg | Ship's Log #51

   "The Cheat Code of life is finding Order in Chaos." - Lee Freeburg Episode Summary Lee Freeburg spent eight years as a Navy Corpsman — embedded with Marines, deployed to Iraq, trained to keep people alive in the field when there's no clinic to run to. He came home with his body intact. What followed was quieter and harder: seven years of drift. No mission. No structure. No one to tell him what to do next. In this conversation, Lee walks through what really happens when mili...

Inside a recent episode

Steady Hands on the Helm with Jim Carlough | Ship's Log #26

Published 25 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] What would you say to them? I would tell them they're killing their bottom line. Let's talk about the cost of replacing an employee. So the Society for Human Resource Managers did a study and they say that it costs between 100 and 300% of an individual's salary. in order to bring the next person on board. Because the components of that are, you have lost productivity because you didn't know the person was gonna quit till they quit. And you can't hire somebody and train them in two weeks. So you've got some period of time where that work isn't being performed. You then have, it starts with recruiting, whether internally or externally, finding candidates, screening candidates, interviewing candidates, you know, two, three level interviews or whatever they are, because in every company is different. […]

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