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Rising Tides Live – The Story You Should Share More

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Interview Takeaways

  • The Stories We Avoid Often Matter Most – The conversation showed how sharing difficult moments can create stronger connection and perspective for others.
  • Failure Often Leads to Growth – Guests reflected on how setbacks, pressure, and adversity helped shape their careers and personal lives.
  • Everyone Is Carrying Something – The episode highlighted the importance of empathy and remembering that every person is navigating challenges others may not see.

With Mike Bisceglia filling in for Shawn Walchef, this Rising Tides Live conversation explored the stories people often hesitate to share and why vulnerability, failure, and difficult moments can become the experiences that shape us most. Guests opened up about career setbacks, personal struggles, leadership lessons, and the pressure that comes with growth, while reflecting on how those moments ultimately created resilience, perspective, and connection. From sports radio failures and life-changing surgeries to business collapses and hard-earned lessons in hospitality, the discussion highlighted how sharing honest stories can help others feel less alone and remind us that setbacks are often part of the journey forward.

Listen to the replay of the latest room where the participants discussed community service and follow Cali BBQ Media to keep up with the latest and join the rooms to tell your story and have your voice heard.

Every Wednesday and Friday at 10am PT, Shawn Walchef hosts the Rising Tides Live room streaming with StreamYard on YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, and more. Leading voices in hospitality, and otherwise, from near and far join to discuss all things business and much more.

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Digital Hospitality is an interview-based video podcast hosted by business owner Shawn P. Walchef (@shawnpwalchef) and produced by his Cali BBQ Media company. The weekly digital series explores the ways successful businesses and entrepreneurs have merged old and new with innovative digital strategies that harness the power of the Internet and social media. Shawn is the founder of Cali BBQ Media and creator of the Restaurant Influencers podcast on Entrepreneur Media.

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