What Kind of Natural Disaster Are You?
A humorous (and honest) look at the weather we bring into each other's lives. There are people who enter your life quietly, settle in comfortably and become part of the scenery. And then there are those who arrive with the kind
Second Canvas: The New Podcast for Determining What Comes Next, A Goldenseal Production
For me, Second Canvas is about what happens when you realize your first chapter does not have to be your last. So many of us spend 20 or 30 years building a career, doing what we are supposed to do, becoming
Turning Up the Heat
A year ago, we launched The Raad Life as something larger than a podcast. It was an invitation to stop treating the next chapter of life as something to manage—and start seeing it as something we still have the freedom
RAAD GHANTOUS EARNS 2026 INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR NOMINATION FOR BUILDING A NEW MODEL THAT CONNECTS MEDIA, HOSPITALITY AND EXPERIENCE
Orange County Business Journal nominee is expanding The Raad Life as a connective platform bringing together sports, media, hospitality and live experiences. ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA | September 2026 — For more than two decades, Raad Ghantous has designed hospitality environments. Today,
I Don’t Hit the Ground Running on Mondays Anymore
On Labor Day, maybe the real question isn’t how hard we work. Maybe it’s why we’ve become so uncomfortable when we’re not working. There is something almost comical about publishing this on Labor Day, a national holiday meant, at least in
A Longer Life is Not the Point
We are getting remarkably good at adding years to life, but perhaps the moreinteresting challenge is deciding what those years are for. I recently read an interesting piece by futurist Carl Rohde titled Longevity as ContinuousLifestyle Optimization. His premise is that
We’ve Brought All the Noise With Us
Lately, I’ve noticed an interesting theme showing up from a few different directions. I was sitting at a spa in Mexico recently, about halfway through ‘Slow Productivity’ by Cal Newport, when I looked up and saw the scene above. I couldn’t
Human Beings vs. Human Doings
We've made success incredibly easy to recognize and dangerously easy to misunderstand. If it looks busy, productive, impressive, and outwardly functional, we call it success. Rarely do we stop to ask what it's costing the person underneath it. At this stage of
The Freedom We Hide From
The opposite of freedom isn't always oppression. Sometimes it's self-deception. As America approached its 250th birthday, I've found myself thinking a lot about freedom. Not just the freedom we celebrate as a nation, but the quieter, more personal kind—the freedom we spend
What is YOUR Declaration of Independence?
As we celebrate Independence Day and begin America’s 250th year, I came across a couple of thought-provoking articles that reminded me that declarations of independence aren’t only made by nations. Sometimes they’re made by people rebelling against the status quo…just as