Out There on the Edge of Everything®
Dr. Stephen Lesavich
Episodes
October 3, 2025 • 5 mins
EPISODE 226
The other day, I made a small mistake while ordering something online. I typed in the wrong street address for my location to have my package delivered.
While trying to deliver the package, the delivery driver called me, confused. The location on her GPS delivery system in her truck, was showing a fire hydrant in an empty field.
I laughed quickly gave them the deliver driver my correct address. My package was ...
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September 26, 2025 • 9 mins
EPISODE 225
What is a capability gap?
Why do your capability gaps exist?
How can you spot your own capability gaps?
How can you close your own capability gaps?
Your capability gaps represent the space between the actual life you’re living and the life you are potentially capable of living.
Closing your capability gaps means stepping into your own life with authenticity, bravery, and purpose.
Closing your...
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September 18, 2025 • 8 mins
EPISODE 224
We are all guilty of spending most of our time consuming instead of creating. We spend hours scrolling on our phones, tablets and computers through social media, binging episodes on streaming services, watching cable tv, etc. Consuming makes you passive in your life.
How would your life change if you became an active creator of new things in your own life?
What are the benefits of creating instead of consumin...
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August 27, 2025 • 11 mins
EPISODE 223
When I worked as a professional software engineer for AT&T Bell Laboratories, I was a member of the AT&T corporate running team.
At that time, one component of AT&T Bell Laboratories was located in Naperville, Illinois, which is a city about 30 miles south west of the city of Chicago.
The AT&T running team was very competitive at that time and there were a couple of runners who could run about 4:10 mile. On my...
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August 12, 2025 • 6 mins
EPISODE 222
Are you bored are work? How often have your heard from your children and other people that they are bored.
In the age of constant notifications, motivational hacks and our productivity culture, boredom has been cast as a villain, something to avoid at all costs.
What if Strategic Boredom is actually an untapped superpower you can use in your personal and professional life?
What is Strategic Boredom?How Can S...
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August 5, 2025 • 6 mins
EPISODE 221
Summer carries a certain magic. The days stretch long and golden, the evenings hum with warmth and nature bursts into fullness.
It’s a season that invites you to pause, breathe and savor.
Yet, how often do you let it pass by in a blur of plans, busyness, or distractions?
This summer, what if you chose to slow down, just enough to fully experience the joy that’s right in front of you?
What can summer teach...
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July 22, 2025 • 7 mins
EPISODE 220
It’s Hard to See the Bigger Picture When You’re Standing in the Frame.
You have been there. Stuck in a problem, tangled in emotions, or unsure of what’s really going on.
Why?
It’s hard to see the bigger picture when you’re standing in the frame.
To gain perspective, you need to intentionally create distance.
Here are a few tools that can help.
Changing your perspective by stepping out of the cur...
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July 14, 2025 • 7 mins
EPISODE 219
When we think about health and fitness, we often focus on strength, flexibility, or endurance.
There’s one foundational element that quietly supports them all: physical balance. Balance is essential to everyday life, and its benefits reach far beyond simply avoiding a fall.
I urge you to, challenge your balance!
"Challenge Your Balance"
Stephen Lesavich, PhD
When we think about health and fitness, we...
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July 8, 2025 • 4 mins
EPISODE 218
The week after the 4th of July often feels like a deep breath. It allows you to take a pause between celebration and routine.
Many of you find yourselves craving calm after the fireworks of the 4th of July and this is the perfect moment to dive inward.
What can swimming and water teach you about resilience and letting go?
How can you use water to get into a flow and stay into a flow in your own life?
Swim...
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June 22, 2025 • 6 mins
EPISODE 217
Let me share another true story with you.
A painful one.
A couple of years ago, as I was closing my car door with my left hand in the parking lot a local business, I got distracted and I slammed the car door with my left hand on all four of my fingers on my right hand, trapping all four of my fingers on my right hand in between the car door and the car body, with the car door locked.
Ouch!
It was immediat...
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June 8, 2025 • 6 mins
EPISODE 216
On May 21, 2025, in Game 1 of the 2025 NBA Eastern Conference Finals, the Indiana Pacers rallied from a 14-point deficit with under three minutes remaining in regulation to defeat the New York Knicks in overtime, The Pacers were down 14 with 3:14 left in the fourth quarter. Aaron Nesmith, with six 3-pointers in the final five minutes, fueled the comeback.
Taking and making 3 point shots in a game also offers a n...
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May 16, 2025 • 8 mins
EPISODE 215
Your attachment style, is a psychological blueprint that influences how you relate to others.
Attachment theory was developed by British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, John Bowlby and later expanded by American-Canadian developmental psychologist, Mary Ainsworth.
Attachment theory is based on how you bonded with your primary caregivers (e.g., your mother, grandmother, aunt, father, etc.) which tends to mirror ...
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May 10, 2025 • 7 mins
EPISODE 214
A traumatic event is defined as “a distressing experience that causes significant emotional, psychological, or physical harm.”
Examples of traumatic events include such things as a car accident, a death of a loved one, a breakup, a loss of a job, or an ongoing series of events, like a chronic health problem, continuous physical, emotional or sexual abuse.
These traumatic events typically trigger a range of int...
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April 17, 2025 • 5 mins
EPISODE 213
On July 12, 1987, I ran the Chicago Distance Classic as part of the AT&T running team. Our running team won the team championship as the fastest 20K team.
On that day, in that 20K race (12.4 miles) I beat Olympic Champion Frank Shorter.
Frank Shorter’s time was 1:25.07. My time was 1:22.10.
Here are three things I learned from that magical experience that day.
How can you create magical experiences in y...
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March 27, 2025 • 8 mins
EPISDOE 212
The concept of micro-achievements focuses on the cumulative impact of small, consistently completed tasks on overall personal and professional development. This approach is particularly powerful because it taps into the psychological principle that achieving even minor goals can provide a substantial motivational boost in your mental health, creating a positive feedback loop that propels further successes for you.
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March 13, 2025 • 6 mins
EPISODE 211
I was watching the TV show, FBI International, Season 4, Episode 14, and I heard one of the characters, said this with respect to sniper training and shooting at someone at about timestamp 5:30 into the episode:
“Patience + Persistence + Timing + Opportunity = Then and only then do you fire.” – Cameron Vo – Fictional Character – FBI International TV Show
Even though you are not a sniper, you and are not goin...
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February 26, 2025 • 9 mins
EPISODE 210
Using technology on a regular basis will impact your mental, physical, and social well-being.
The excessive use of technology can create some very real, negative effects in your life.
What are some of the negative effects associated with excessive use of technology?
What are a few of the benefits of a tech detox?
How can you implement a tech detox in your own life?
Implementing a tech detox can be ...
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February 18, 2025 • 6 mins
EPISODE 209
It is very popular to be told to “think outside the box” in business and in your life.
Thinking “outside the box” encourages creativity and looking beyond current boundaries, comfort zones and established processes, to find novel solutions.
However, “thinking inside box” is very different concept.
“Thinking inside box” is beneficial in situations where consistency, accuracy, speed are necessary.
“Thinking...
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February 10, 2025 • 10 mins
EPISODE 208
Are you focusing on negativity, doubt, pessimism or being a victim in your own life?
Then you are always looking for the clouds in your own life.
Can you shift toward optimism, action and mindfulness instead?
If so, you can get rid of the clouds in your own life.
What techniques can use to stop looking for clouds in your own life?
If you stop looking for clouds, you can easily create a significant ...
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January 1, 2025 • 6 mins
EPISODE 207
There are many times in your personal life where you face a situation that you cannot change.
Such a situation is called an “Immutable Reality.”
What is an Immutable Reality?
An Immutable Reality is "a fixed set of facts for a situation that is unlikely to undergo any real change in any respect, no matter what decisions are made or what actions are taken."
What are Some Types of Immutable Realities?
A ...
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