Up Your Average

Dan Stroup's handwritten birthday letters have followed his students from eighth grade into their fifties, and some of them have kept every one. Dan spent 41 years at Heritage Christian School in Indianapolis, most of...

Buying and selling, mortgage interest, and the case for calling where you live a house, not a home. Keith Tyner and his son Caleb Tyner compare 40 years of moving from place to place. Caleb's first house is a new build...

Living courageously is a choice. Keith's daughter has made it in a war zone, facing brain surgery at 24, and alone in cities where she knew no one. Keith Tyner and Doug Shrieve sit across from Kristen Hakalmazian...

The road to someday leads to a town called Never. That warning moved Tony from Indianapolis to a surf town in Costa Rica. Tony O'Neill, founder of Highline Outdoor Group, runs executive search for the outdoor and...

The crowd follows the same biases into the same losses. Don names every one and shows how to catch yourself before the next mistake. Keith Tyner and Doug Shrieve sit down with Don Murphy, a former Marine and longtime...

10 minutes is the one block of time nobody is too busy for. Doug set a stopwatch at a coffee shop table and beat it with 36 seconds to spare. Keith argues that our world shrinks with time. And investing only 10 minutes...

Keith and Doug learned the hard way that being sure of something and being right are two different things. This week, they name three things they believed for years, and none of them held up. Keith Tyner and Doug...

Andy Benes gave up the home run that tied a playoff game, and three decades later it still gives him chills. The man who hit it was Don Mattingly, and Yankee Stadium came unglued. Keith Tyner and Phil Byers sit down...

America's founding fathers stepped into total uncertainty with no guarantee it would work. The only thing that gave them the courage to do it was faith. On this Fourth of July weekend, Keith and Doug sit down with...

Before you assemble the crib and install the car seat, there are a few commonly forgotten questions you should ask. Keith Tyner and Doug Shrieve of Gimbal Financial cover the financial and life decisions young families...

A legacy letter, a father's voice, and the question every child carries for the rest of their life without asking out loud. Blake Brewer, founder of Legacy Letter, joins Keith Tyner and Doug Shrieve to share how a...

Keith packed everything for the Inca Trail. A porter could have carried most of it for a few dollars a day. It’s a good picture of how most of us handle life. In this conversation, Keith Tyner and Doug Shrieve of Gimbal...

Have you ever felt like no matter how much you accomplish, it still isn't enough? Many people spend their lives chasing success, approval, achievement, and significance, hoping the next milestone will finally bring...

The future belongs to skilled workers. In this episode, Keith and Doug interview Jason Altmire, author of Trade Up , who explains why skilled trades are becoming one of the most important pathways to career stability...

Regulatory compliance is usually treated like the most boring part of business, but this conversation proves it doesn’t have to be. In this episode of the Up Your Average podcast, Doug sits down with Gimbal Financial’s...