Live Right Now is a podcast about living with purpose, presence, and possibility. Host Allan Haw explores honest reflections and real-life lessons about living with purpose, presence, and possibility. Each episode offers thoughtful insight and encouragement to help you slow down, think deeper, and take meaningful action - right now.
Subscribe:.rss.atom.json.md.m3u.pls
Live Last read · last published · next check
Saves to your Listen queue, to pick up on another day or another device.
When life changes in ways you didn't choose, the instinct is to let the change write the story. But there's always a choice available — even when the change itself wasn't. In this episode, Allan shares what the first weeks of an unexpected career transition taught him about identity, meaning, and what actually travels with you when everything else changes. From a moment of clarity on his first…
Most of us have had at least one boss who made us feel expendable. And if we're honest, that experience shapes what we decide to become when it's our turn to lead. In this episode, I'm stepping into a new management role and thinking out loud about the kind of leader I want to be — and the kind I don't. The answer I landed on isn't about strategy or skill. It's about trust. And trust is built one…
Most of us genuinely care about the people in our lives. We mean to reach out. We tell ourselves we'll get to it. And somehow months pass — not because we stopped caring, but because nothing was urgent enough to interrupt the momentum of daily life. This episode explores why the relationships that sustain us in hard moments are built in the ordinary ones — and why tending them before you need them…
Most of us expect life to hand us a straight path. But real life gives us choices — and sometimes those choices lead somewhere we never planned. In this episode, Allan shares what 235 days of unemployment taught him about identity, change, and what it actually takes to step into a new direction when nothing is fully clear yet. This is a story about a pivot that almost didn't happen — and the…
You have roughly 4,000 weeks on this earth. So why are you still waiting for permission to start? In this episode of Live Right Now, Allan explores what waiting really costs you — and why most of us have been conditioned since childhood to wait for an assignment before we begin. Through the lens of a famous pottery study and a simple but powerful question, this episode makes the case for…
Most people don't ruin their lives in one big decision. They do it in small ones that don't feel like a decision at all. In this episode of Live Right Now, Allan explores how temporary choices quietly become permanent patterns — and why the gap between "just because you can" and "you should" is where most unintended habits begin. From a personal running injury that taught him about delayed…
There are seasons when starting something is hard. And there are seasons when the harder part is staying with it — when motivation fades, everything feels heavier, and you're left wondering why you said yes to this in the first place. This week on Live Right Now, we're talking about what to do when motivation disappears but the commitment remains. Not how to get motivated again — but how to build…
What if the thing standing between you and a fuller life isn't fear or circumstance — but a quiet agreement you made with yourself to accept less than you deserve? In this episode, Allan unpacks a phrase he's been saying for years — "Life's too short to drink cheap beer" — and what it really means. Starting with a karaoke night and ending somewhere much deeper, he traces the way we settle not just…
What if the love you feel for your family was never meant to stop there? In this episode of Live Right Now, Allan explores what a single moment at a basketball game — three words shouted without thinking — revealed about love, connection, and the way we treat the people around us. Starting with a deeply personal story about his son Austin, he traces the idea that the heart doesn’t divide when we…
You're already living something your past self once hoped for. Can you see it? In this episode of Live Right Now, Allan reflects on what happens when the dream you worked toward becomes so familiar it turns invisible — and what it takes to see it clearly again. Drawing on his own experience of a 22-year broadcasting career that ended without warning, he explores why the growth that changes us most…
