Derate The Hate
224 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago -Bettering the world one attitude at a time. We did not create the hate, but with your help, we can derate the hate! In a world filled with divisiveness, frustration and lack of happiness, it's time we all start to get along. That all starts with each of us as individuals. We cannot necessarily control everything we encounter within our day to day lives, or the environment in which we live, but we certainly have the ability to control how we react to it. It all starts with gratitude and personal accountability. Take a listen and see if there is something here to help you in taking your part in turning down the hate. Welcome to the Derate The Hate Podcast...
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Episode 23: Keeping the Peace, Peace of Mind
September 24, 2020 02:00 - 17 minutes - 12 MBWelcome back my friends, Wilk here from WilksWorld.com with episode 23 of our Derate the Hate podcast and this week it's all about keeping the peace, not only between us and others but keeping our peace of mind. First I'd like to welcome our first affiliate to the Derate the Hate podcast and that is Instacart. Instacart is a great way to do your online grocery shopping and get great deals and convenient delivery. If you sign up through our link, it costs you nothing extra but we get a little...
Episode 22: Perception, Is It Reality?
September 17, 2020 02:00 - 13 minutes - 9.63 MBWelcome back my friends to the Derate the Hate podcast! Wilk here again from WilksWorld.com with episode 22 of our podcast and this episode is again inspired by a meme I saw that fits so well with what we try to do here with our Derate the Hate podcast. Since recording this podcast I did a little more research and the quote from the mentioned meme comes from Amy Weatherly, and it turns out she has a lot more than just one inspiring meme, she has a website and a whole pile of inspiring materi...
Episode 21: Say No to Losers, Go No Drama for the Win
September 10, 2020 02:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBWelcome back my friends for episode 21 of our Derate the Hate podcast. Wilk here from WilksWorld.com for another edition of our podcast looking to Better the World One Attitude at a Time! I'll ask again, what have you done today to make the world a better place? What have you done today to make your life a better life? This week 2 things happened in my personal life that really hit home for me because it reiterated the idea that life is way too short to be unhappy, way too short for DRAMA. I...
Episode 20: Diversity, of Thoughts and Ideas
September 03, 2020 02:00 - 16 minutes - 11.6 MBWelcome back my friends! Wilk here from WilksWorld.com with our 20th episode of the Derate the Hate podcast. Wow, I can't believe we've got 20 episodes in the box now and I cannot thank all the listeners enough for all the support. If you have not done so, please subscribe wherever you get your audio, leave us a review or rating and share us with your friends. If you'd like to contact Wilk, look for us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. I'm pretty responsive and look forward to hearing from ...
Episode 19: Political Theater, The Real Hate Speech
August 27, 2020 02:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBWelcome back my friends for episode 19 of our Derate the Hate podcast. Wilk here again from WilksWorld.com and the week I am talking about what I believe to be the #RealHateSpeech and that is Political Theater. We are living through some of the most politically polarized times in the last 155 years, and I believe that is strongly in part due to the rhetoric spewed by our political class and the main stream media. I call this #PoliticalTheater, The #RealHateSpeech and I believe it's done by d...
Episode 18: Labels, Get Out of the Box!
August 20, 2020 02:00 - 18 minutes - 12.4 MBWelcome back my friends! Wilk here again for episode 18 of the Derate the Hate podcast and this one was inspired by a meme that I recently saw that said something to the effect of: "The divide in this country is not based on race, class, gender or orientation, but it is divided between the wise and the foolish. The foolish are just always looking to divide us up by race, class, gender and orientation", or something like that. I'm calling this episode, Labels, Get out of the Box! There is ver...
Episode 17: Keyboard Warriors
August 13, 2020 02:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MBWelcome back my friends, Wilk here from Wilksworld.com and in episode 17 I am discussing the sadness that is the way that some people are treating others in and on social media sites. We all know the kind, those #KeyboardWarriors that we all know about, those that say the most vile and savage things to people they know they will never meet. It is my opinion that most of these members of what I call the Basement Dwelling Bedwetter Brigade are unfortunately unable, or have traditionally in mos...
Episode 16: Memories, Make Them Good
August 07, 2020 02:00 - 13 minutes - 9.19 MBWelcome back my friends! Wilk here again from WilksWorld.com with Episode 16 of our #DerateTheHate podcast talking about not only making good memories, but more importantly, sharing those good times in life on Facebook so when they pop up as memories one, two or several years down the road, you have something good to look back on instead of all the negativity. We may be living through some of the most turbulent times in human history, and my beautiful wife made a fantastic point the other da...
Episode 15: Synergize for the Prize
July 31, 2020 03:00 - 17 minutes - 12.4 MBWelcome back my friends to the Derate the Hate Podcast! I am Wilk from WilksWorld.com and this is Episode 15, which is actually the 4th and final episode in a series we are doing on the book by Dr. Stephen Covey, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People". In Episodes 12, 13 and 14, I went through Habits one through five, so if you missed those episodes, please step back and check those out. In this episode, I finish this series by discussing Habit 6, "Synergize" and Habit 7, "Sharpen the Saw...
Episode 14: Win Win and Understand Before Understood, Habits 4 & 5
July 23, 2020 03:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MBWelcome back my friends for episode 14 of the Derate the Hate podcast which is actually part 3 of a mini-series I am doing on Dr. Stephen Covey's, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People". In part three, I go in to habits 4 & 5 which are "think win, win" and "seek first to understand, then to be understood". Habits 4 & 5 go very much hand and hand, and a perfect example of a complete failure of these 2 habits is the current political climate. A win, win mentality, Habit 4, is the concept t...
Episode 13: Personal Leadership and Management, Habits 2 & 3
July 15, 2020 10:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MBWelcome back my friends! In this episode of the Derate the Hate podcast, the 2nd in a mini-series on the book "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Dr. Stephen Covey, I am giving a brief overview of habits 1 and 2. I am Wilk from WilksWorld.com, and as I've stated on more than plenty of occasions, my life would not be what it is without this book by Dr. Covey. In Episode 12 I talked about the first habit, being proactive, and gaining the understanding that we as individuals have t...
Episode 12: Be Proactive, Be Responsible
July 10, 2020 02:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MBWelcome back my friends for Episode 12 of the Derate the Hate podcast. Episode 12 will be the start of a series of episodes dedicated to the book by Dr. Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. I am Wilk from WilksWorld.com, and every thing I do with this podcast is done with the intention of Bettering the World, One Attitude at a Time. Bettering the world begins with bettering one's self, and I truly would not be who I am or have the life I do without having read The 7 Habit...
Episode 11: Virtue Signaling, Privilege and Cancel Culture
July 02, 2020 02:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MBWelcome back my friends for Episode 11 of the Derate the Hate podcast! With all the chaos and civil unrest our country is currently facing, what would a podcast about turning down the hate be if we didn't discuss the matter. I'm Wilk from WilksWorld.com, and I'm not going to get in to a lot of specifics here in this particular episode, as each of these topics could most certainly warrant their own, but today I am going to talk about Virtue Signaling, Privilege and Cancel Culture. As defined ...
Episode 10: Yes is Easy, but No is the Right Answer
June 26, 2020 02:00 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MBWelcome back my friends to the Derate the Hate podcast. Wilk here from WilksWorld.com with the 10th episode of our podcast. I cannot believe it's been 10 weeks since we started this podcast. I want to express my sincere appreciation for all those who are supporting us and our podcast. If you would please, jump on a computer or laptop and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and leave us a review, and of course, share us with your friends or whoever you may think would benefit! OK, so in...
Episode 9: Delayed Gratification
June 18, 2020 03:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MBWelcome back my friends to the Derate the Hate podcast. I am Wilk from WilksWorld.com and in this episode I am talking about the importance of Delayed Gratification. In a world of smart phones, 24 hour news cycles, any type of entertainment available at any time with the touch of a button, we've become conditioned to expect everything at a moments notice and if we don't get it, we become frustrated and that frustration leads to a pattern of unhappiness. I give the example of growing up and ...
Episode 8: Misery Loves Company
June 11, 2020 03:00 - 17 minutes - 12.1 MBWelcome back my friends! Wilk from WilksWorld.com here with Episode 8 of the Derate the Hate podcast. We all know at least one person that has a complete inability to see the positive in anything, someone that has nothing positive to say and is always spreading negativity. In this episode I talk about how being positive in the initial part of any conversation can guide the way that conversation can go and the chain reaction effect of positivity or negativity in the people with which you ma...
Episode 7: Misguided Anger Leads to Chaos
June 02, 2020 16:00 - 13 minutes - 9.05 MBWilk here from WilksWorld.com for another edition of the Derate The Hate podcast. This week we've seen terrible riots throughout the country as a result of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, MN at the hands of a bad cop. Though race has not been established as a motive, local politicians, doing what politicians do, instantly made it about race and bad actors from all over began taking to the streets. Are all cops racist, do we suffer from institutional racism? The politicians and med...
Episode 6: Yelling is Loss of Control
May 28, 2020 02:00 - 11 minutes - 8.26 MBWelcome back my friends for Episode 6 of the Derate The Hate Podcast. Wilk here from WilksWorld.com and today I'm talking about yelling and more specifically, about the idea that yelling means you've already lost the argument. Lot's of people talk about how yelling is ineffective and the damage that is done to the other person when it comes to yelling. Like many things I speak about, I look at the loss of control aspect of yelling and the idea that if we reach the point of yelling, we've lo...
Special Edition: #FreedomShaming
May 25, 2020 07:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBReasonable people can disagree on how the Covid-19 crisis has been handled so far, but irrational people often allow their emotions to dictate their actions. Far too often, especially lately, we see people becoming downright hostile to people of differing opinions when it comes to the way the Covid-19 crisis is being handled. Should we stay locked down, should we open everything back up? In this Special edition, (which is the audio from a video blog from wilksopion.com) Wilk goes into how ...
Episode 5: You Made Me Mad!
May 21, 2020 02:00 - 18 minutes - 12.6 MBWelcome back my friends! Wilk from WilksWorld.com here and in episode 5, I am talking about emotions and the importance of not allowing emotions to dictate our actions. Many years ago, my father and I were discussing some issues I was dealing with at the time. He said something that stuck with me from that point on but never fully understood until many years later when I first heard of Austrian Psychotherapist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl and his teachings that one cannot always cont...
Episode 4: Smiles and Bad Moods are Contagious
May 14, 2020 02:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBWelcome back friends. Wilk here from Wilksworld.com for Episode 4 of the Derate the Hate podcast. With all that we are currently faced with as a nation and it's people, it is very important to understand that it's not only viruses that are contagious. A smile may be the difference in someone's day, and your bad mood may be what ruins someone else's. Smiles and bad moods are every bit as contagious, if not more so, than any virus or illness. Nobody wants to be around a toxic person, so it's ...
Episode 3: Perpetually Offended
May 06, 2020 02:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBWilk here again from Wilksworld.com and in Episode 3 we are talking about those who are perpetually offended and how that makes for a toxic and unhappy person. I dropped in a little plug for our apparel line, Failed Understanding Apparel, as this is one of the ways we like to springboard a dialogue between people of opposing views. We all know one, if not multiple people who seem to be perpetually offended. A happy society must be a tolerant society, and those who are perpetually offended ar...
Episode 2 Please, Thank you, and the importance of Gratitude
April 29, 2020 02:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBIn our second episode, I continue on my journey into learning how to use my podcast equipment and I'm hoping we've made slight progress from episode one. There is very little in life quite so important to one's happiness as being grateful. Teaching your children to say please and thank you is an essential part of gratitude and gratitude is an essential part of being a happy person. This is all essential in helping to turn down the hate. From all of us at Wilksworld.com and the Deratetheh...
Episode 1 What Hate Is, What Is Not Hate
April 21, 2020 02:00 - 12 minutes - 8.49 MBInaugural episode of the Derate The Hate podcast. Hello, Wilk from WilksWorld.com here and this is my first attempt at doing a podcast, and that comes through loud and clear on our first episode. I'm just trying to figure out my equipment and get over how I sound when I'm not talking, because it's not at all how it sounds in my head as I'm saying it. All things considered, we're hoping our content provides some value, as our ultimate goal is Bettering the World, One Attitude at a Time. I...