Politics in 2016, Importance of Character, Bad Resolutions

Politics in 2016, Importance of Character, Bad Resolutions

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 5, Episode 3

  • Jan 4, 2016 2:00 pm
  • 2:19:23 mins

Politics 2016 (16:15) Joe Cannon is the CEO of the Fuel Freedom Foundation, former Chairman of the Utah Republican Party, past assistant administrator in the US EPA, and editor of the Deseret News. Joe Cannon talks about how candidates spend in Iowa and why Ben Carson and Marco Rubio are struggling.  Importance of Character (1:01:20)  Kent Sanders is a writer, guitarist, creative coach and author of The Artist's Suitcase: 26 Essentials for the Creative Journey. He writes about creativity and the arts, culture, and fatherhood at The Good Men Project and around the web. He is also a college professor who teaches music, art, technology, and writing.  New Year’s Resolutions Are Bad for You (1:47:46) Jessica Lamb-Shapiro is an author of many fiction and nonfiction pieces which have been shown in many publications including The Believer, McSweeney’s, Open City, and Index magazine. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and is a graduate of Brown (BA) and Columbia (MFA). You can read more of her work by finding her new book, Promise Land: My Journey Through America’s Self-Help Culture. Jessica Lamb Shapiro shares why New Year's Resolutions may be bad for goal setting.

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