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Episode 0: Introduction to The Junto Podcast · The Junto Podcast

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  Music.
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  Welcome to the Juneto Podcast, where we promote the practical applications of
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  critical thought and bold creativity.
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  Music.
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  Hello, America, and thank you for listening to Episode Zero,
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  the introduction of the Juneto Podcast.
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  I am your host, Edgar Mills.
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  So, a little bit about me. I am an Atlanta native, a former bicycle messenger
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  of which I'm very proud, a retired Green Beret, a father and a grandfather,
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  a husband of 28 years, and a small business owner.
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  The two businesses I own are Osprey Shooting Solutions, where we do firearms
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  training and education for a broad range of skill sets.
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  And we and I own Southern Ornithological League, where we do teamwork and leadership
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  development around adventure based training.
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  And we also happen to love birds.
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  So those are the things I do that I'm passionate about. And that's what I'll
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  be promoting on here from time to time.
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  But why are you here? You're here for the Juneto podcast. And what is it all about?
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  Well, the podcast is a nod to the original 1727 Juneto Club founded by Benjamin
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  Franklin, also known as the Leather Apron Club.
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  And there, men came together weekly in a social setting to discuss a broad range
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  of topics from business to religion to philosophy and so forth,
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  with the goal of making each other more critical thinkers and more intellectual
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  thinkers, so that they could then go out and be useful and help to better their communities.
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  And many, many, many good things came from the Junto Club that still exists today.
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  So we have the same exact goal.
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  The podcast is a platform where people from all corners of American society
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  can offer topics and insights on those topics to a broader audience. Okay.
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  So that we can get better together, that we can become more critical thinkers together.
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  The podcast lives on a website, thejuntopodcast.com.
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  And another thing that lives on that website is a blog.
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  Now, I happen to like to write, and occasionally I will put my thoughts on paper
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  in a more formal format, and I like to get feedback on those.
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  I like to hear what my colleagues and friends have to say about what I've written.
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  I think it's very important for my own development and I enjoy it.
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  I strongly encourage listeners to do the same.
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  Put your thoughts down. Put them on paper. Read them out loud.
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  Share them with other people. Share them with the platform. Share them with us.
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  Well-written papers we will post on our website.
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  The most compelling papers will become topics of discussion on the podcast.
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  So do that. Put your thoughts together.
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  Put them out there and defend them. And furthermore, own your own thoughts. Own them.
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  So that's what we aim to do here. Now, the primary goal of all of this is to
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  promote critical thinking and bold creativity in practical application.
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  Theory and philosophy is nothing without action. So we need to be able to learn
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  how to action these thoughts, the things that we want to see happen and make
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  happen. We need to learn how to action those.
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  And that is part of our whole existence here is to learn to do that together.
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  So in the spirit of Benjamin Franklin, let's keep things lively.
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  Let's keep things fun because he was those things. And most importantly,
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  most importantly, let's keep things genuine.
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  This is the Juneto Podcast. I'm Edgar Mills.
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  Music.