Tag

adventure podcast

May 27
Love44

Joseph Bronson

By Author, Personal Growth, Podcast, Sports No Comments

Some people play golf for fun. Joseph Bronson turned it into something deeper.

This week on Here’s What We Know, I sit down with the award-winning author, longtime business executive, world traveler, and passionate golfer for a conversation that starts with golf… but doesn’t stay there for long.

Joseph has played 93 of the world’s most iconic golf courses, teed it up with legends like Arnold Palmer, and spent decades chasing mastery in a game that never fully lets you catch it.

And maybe that’s the point.

We talk about competition, discipline, aging, perspective, and why the mental side of golf has so much to teach us about life itself.

There’s a moment in this conversation where we land on something that felt bigger than golf:

Most people aren’t thinking about your mistakes nearly as much as you think they are.

Honestly, that might be one of the healthiest things any of us could remember.

This episode is sponsored by:

(Be sure to tell them Gary sent you!)

In this episode:

  • What it’s like playing Augusta, Pebble Beach, and St. Andrews
  • Why golf is almost entirely a mental game
  • The difference between elite athletes and everyone else
  • What Arnold Palmer was really like off the course
  • Why Joseph walked away from golf for a season
  • How First Tee of Silicon Valley helps shape young people through golf
  • The surprising connection between golf and personal growth

Quotations:

“It’s all mental; you just have to concentrate.” – Joseph Bronson

“Because golf is so much more than just hitting balls and things of that sort.” – Joseph Bronson

“The comfort zone is where all the faults are.” – Joseph Bronson

Bio:

Joseph “Joe” Bronson is a longtime business executive, world traveler, and passionate golfer whose career has taken him across the globe and onto some of the most prestigious golf courses in the world. A member of renowned clubs including Monterey Peninsula Country Club, CordeValle, and Boulder Ridge Golf Club, Joe has played 93 of America’s Top 100 golf courses, along with legendary courses throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East.

Joe is also the award-winning author of Pardon Me, Golf Chronicles, and Through the Green, three books inspired by the stories, traditions, humor, and human moments that make golf more than just a game. His writing blends personal experience, thoughtful observation, and a deep appreciation for the culture and character of golf.

Guest Contact Info:

Website: https://www.josephbronson.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-bronson/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorjosephbronson/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebronsongroup/

May 13
Love43

Teri M Brown

By Author, Personal Growth, Podcast, Relationship No Comments

Sometimes the biggest adventures begin after life falls apart.

This week on Here’s What We Know, our host, Gary Scott Thomas, sits down with author Teri M Brown about surviving emotional abuse, rebuilding self-worth, and riding a tandem bicycle across America with her husband.

Their 3,102-mile journey became more than a cycling trip. It became a story about resilience, relationships, fear, kindness, and discovering what’s possible when you stop letting your past define you.

This conversation is funny, vulnerable, deeply human, and exactly the kind of unexpected story that reminds us how powerful connection can be.

Listen now and discover why Teri says adventure can restore your faith in humanity.

This episode is sponsored by:

(Be sure to tell them Gary sent you!)

In this episode:

  • How Teri rebuilt confidence after emotional abuse
  • What riding across America taught her about resilience
  • Why tandem bicycles are called “divorce machines”
  • What cross-country travel revealed about humanity
  • How adventure changes relationships and identity
  • Why most people are far kinder than the internet makes us believe

Quotations:

“You can’t educate people who don’t want to be educated.” – Teri M Brown

“I stay away from the news because generally, all the news is doing is making everybody hate one another. And the truth is that we don’t hate one another if we will just get out and say hello to people. Generally, people are very nice.” – Teri M Brown

“Don’t quit on a bad day.” – Teri M Brown

“Learn to enjoy the downhills.” – Teri M Brown

Bio:

Born in Athens, Greece as an Air Force brat, Teri M Brown graduated from UNC Greensboro. She began her writing career helping small businesses with content creation and published five nonfiction self-help books dealing with real estate and finance, receiving multiple awards.

In 2017, after winning the First Annual Anita Bloom Ornoff Award for Inspirational Short Story, she began writing fiction in earnest, and published her debut novel in 2022, Sunflowers Beneath the Snow, a historical fiction set in Ukraine. Her second novel published in 2023, An Enemy Like Me, takes place during WWII. Her third novel, Daughters of Green Mountain Gap, a generational story about Appalachian healers came out in January 2024. 10 Little Rules for a Double-Butted Adventure (Feb 2025), is an inspirational look at the life lessons she learned riding across the United States on a tandem bicycle. Little Lola and Her Big Dream, is a children’s picture book helping children realize that it is okay to have big dreams even in the face of opposition. Her newest work, Peg, Unhinged (April 2026), is a humorous contemporary women’s fiction looking at menopause.

​Teri is a wife, mother, grandmother, and author who loves word games, reading, bumming on the beach, taking photos, singing in the shower, hunting for bargains, ballroom dancing, playing bridge, and mentoring others.

Guest Contact Info:

Website: https://www.terimbrown.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terimbrown/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TeriMBrownAuthor/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/terimbrown_author