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Frame of Reference - Profiles in LeadershipAuthor: Rauel LaBreche
"Frame of Reference - Profiles in Leadership" and "Frame of Reference - Coming together" are conversational style shows with local, national, and global experts about issues that affect all of us in some way. Im, at heart, a theatre person. I was drawn to theatre in Junior High School and studied it long enough to get a Master of Fine Arts in Stage Direction. Its the one thing that Im REALLY passionate about it because as Shakespeare noted, all the worlds a stage and all the men and women merely players. Think about the universality of that line for just a moment. Think about the types of theatre that play out around us every day in todays world. The dramatic, the comedic, the absurd, the existential, the gorilla theatre (its a thing, look it up) that is pumped into our Smart Phones, TVs, Radios, and PCs every minute of every day.Think about the tremendous forces that play upon us - trying to first discover, then channel, feed, nurture, and finally harvest our will power and biases in order to move forward the agendas of leaders we will likely never meet. Think of all these forces (behind the scenes of course) and how they use the basic tools of theatre to work their magic on the course of humanity. Emotionally charged content matched to carefully measured and controlled presentations. With that in mind (and to hopefully counter the more insidious agendas), I bring you the Frame of Reference "Family" of podcasts, where the voices of our local and global leadership can share their passion for why and how they are leaders in their community and in many cases, the world. Real players with real roles in a world of real problems. No special effects, no hidden agenda, just the facts and anecdotes that make a leader. And at the risk of sounding trite, I sincerely thank my wife Ann and my two children Elisabeth and Josiah for continually teaching me what leadership SHOULD look like. Language: en-us Genres: Education, Self-Improvement, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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From Washington Insider To Free Speech Advocate: Lisa Ekman On Deprogramming Politics
Tuesday, 17 March, 2026
Send a textWhat happens when a dedicated Democratic warrior realizes her certainty was built on sand? We sit down with Lisa Ekman—former DC lobbyist, Senate staffer, and now author of Deprogramming Democrats—to unpack how a crisis of trust pushed her to question authority, confront cognitive dissonance, and reclaim the courage to ask uncomfortable questions. It’s a personal story with national stakes, because when institutions lose credibility, citizens need a roadmap back to truth, not new idols.Lisa takes us inside the culture of expertise that shaped her worldview for decades and explains why the pandemic exposed deeper fractures: censorship dressed up as safety, scientism standing in for science, and incentives that reward the right outcome over an honest one. We pull apart how research can be captured by funding, why full trial transparency is essential, and how “appeal to authority” short-circuits the public’s ability to evaluate risk and evidence. The conversation doesn’t let any tribe off the hook; cult-like behavior thrives wherever questions are punished. So where do we go from here?Together we explore practical paths forward: citizens learning to read results and weigh tradeoffs; AI helping map complex debates and surface uncertainties; and communities rebuilding trust with face-to-face work that humanizes disagreement. We talk about education that teaches how to think, not what to think; the exhausted majority stuck between loud extremes; and simple local actions that prioritize people over purity tests. If you’re tired of outrage and hungry for clarity, this episode offers a grounded, human route back to dialogue and discernment.Subscribe, share this with someone who values honest conversation, and leave a review with the one belief you’ve recently reexamined—we’ll feature our favorites in a future episode.Thanks for listening. Please check out our website at www.forsauk.com to hear great conversations on topics that need to be talked about. In these times of intense polarization we all need to find time to expand our Frame of Reference.
