James Wit No Radio..

James Wit No Radio.. is a solo podcast with a simple setup: James P. Chambers in his car with the radio off, thinking about his life out loud. One episode comes from the office and another from the house, but the idea stays the same. In some episodes he introduces himself through the names the people in his life call him, then gets straight to what has been on his mind. The material is his own week. In one episode his business has a new setup that keeps throwing up obstacles, and he describes them as fences he now has to climb with both hands. In 'Sharpening The SAW! and the Wake.' he calls his week about half good and half bad. He says his self-education is starting to show in how he handles hard situations. That episode also covers a sit-down where the man selling him a business wanted to raise the price. There is also a story about a school career fair that led to a call, weeks before his graduation, to test and interview in Wichita, Kansas. Each scene gets worked until a lesson comes out of it. Some of his analogies reach well beyond his own life. In 'David & Goliath the greatest underdog story ever told.. not like this tho..' he says the story gets his blood pumping the way the Rocky movies do. Then he argues that Goliath never understood the terms of the fight and starts laying out the kinds of fighters used in ancient times. The takeaway is that nobody should want to be Goliath: slow, overconfident and hard to move. He sets that beside his own experience of taking on bigger companies by being personal in ways they cannot. Money math shows up too. Working through a $100,000 goal, he notes that he cannot pull up his calculator because he is driving. He argues that checking progress once a month leaves too long a gap to adjust. In 'Your Dreams Are NOT Gremlins...' he takes aim at people who finally buy a dream car and never drive it, and says he drove his own until it no longer looked like a dream car. Another episode starts from a weekly group competition where the people who used to win stopped joining once he kept showing up. His conclusion is that some people move on once the easy wins stop, and he urges aiming to be a king among kings or a queen among queens. The delivery is brisk and unscripted, full of repeated phrases, self-corrections and check-ins with the listener. It moves between warm, excited and blunt with little warning. One episode was recorded with pink eye in both eyes and another close to midnight. What holds it together is the refrain he keeps coming back to about growing for himself and for his family, along with his insistence that he is practicing in real life what he talks about.