This is Later with Lee Matthews The Lee Matthews Podcast more what you Hear weekday
afternoons on the Drive. Ashley Shick is a proud native Texan and two time
Emmy Award winning television hosts for the Austin and San Antonio markets. Her husband
is Jacob Schick, a war hero from the Iraqi War, proudly served and
was wounded. Together, they host a podcast that can be heard anywhere you
get podcast including the iHeartRadio app called The Good Stuff. Good morning guys,
and what were you going? What are we gonna hear? Ashley? What
good stuff are we gonna hear? On the good Stuff? All the good
Stuff, Lee, all the good Stuff. We are so thrilled and honored
to be able to present this to the world because there's so much negativity out
there that we decided, you know what, there's a lot of good as
well, and it's time we start telling those stories. So you'll hear everything
from three time Super Bowl champions telling their story about how they grew up in
the ghetto and how they got out of there, to a thirty year old
autistic rapper who's living independently in Seattle. We talked to everyday people who have
been through hard stuff, because we all go through hard stuff, but they
have come through it and come out of it and are now doing so much
to give back and inspire. And I imagine some of that inspiration is coming
from your own experience, Jacob, A lot of it is. And you
know, I don't I don't know about the whole hero thing, but I
appreciate the sentiment and you know that that's the whole the whole point behind this
thing is to give people the perspective and to help shift in the mindset to
move forward and understand you do not have to be defined by society because of
your past or things that you've done. Every day is a new day,
and there's always, always, always hope to live a life will lived.
Talking to Ashley and Jacob Chick the Good Stuff podcast heard everywhere you get podcasts,
including the iHeartRadio app and Ashley, I gather you're drawing on your experience
as a television journalist and maybe some of your sources. Absolutely, I love
telling other people's stories. It might be some of the Irish blood in me,
but you know, everybody's got a story to tell, and that's the
thing to remember. Everyone has a story to tell. Whoever is standing in
front of you at any given time, they've been through something. And this
is also encouragement for all of us to just lean into each other and be
kind. You never know what that person has been through. So if we're
all able to just talk, stop, listen, take a step back,
and really just understand. You know, we're all getting through this life together,
and that's the best way to do it as together. Jacob, how
did you and Ashley come to this podcast? Did she come up with the
idea? Was it something you were already working on you It's something that we
both really thought about even before the pandemic, And then once the global pandemic
happened, and that's when the world shut down. Just in case any of
you guys forgot when that happened, it was everything was negative and everything was
doing in gloom and it just seems to be the twenty four seven news cycle,
and we just thought, you know, we're tired of this crap.
Let's change it. We know a lot of very interesting people. We know
a lot of people who are very successful and well known, who have experienced
a lot of life that most people don't know about. We could get them
to dig deep and tell us about the lessons that they've learned and the tools
that they use to fight forward. I think that the world needs it.
The world needs a good positive perspective and need to understand that. You know,
we can all lean in and love each other even if we disagree,
especially here in this country. Well, that's what makes us best. I
mean that one of the things I've I've been saying on this program again and
again and again into the night. Our country was founded upon one large principle
compromise, coming together, finding out what we have in common, and working
toward that goal. Not the division Ashley that seems to be prevalent in society
now. Absolutely it is. And you know, Jake and I both come
from military families. Obviously his service to our great country and the Marine Corps,
but his grandfather fought on Iwo Jima, his uncle in Vietnam. My
grandfather paid the ultimate sacrifice while serving in the Air Force when he was twenty
four years old. So this is something that's very near and dear to our
heart. We are huge patriots of this country, and as Jake just said,
we can disagree and still love each other because at the end of the
day. We're all Americans, right, We're all humans first, So if
we could just lean into each other and listen Ashley and Jake Schick the name
of the podcast is the good Stuff and Jake the This is almost counterproductive to
modern journalism, which seems to be let's find the most horrible story we can
and if we can't find a story and make it even more horrible, you're
going the opposite direction. Yeah, I tend to I've got a track record
going against the tide, and I don't have a problem with that because look,
you only get one shot around the sun. And it's like we tell
our sons, you know, live a life worth writing about. And that's
the thing is that just because society has an agenda, or we've been conditioned
to think or do or feel this way or that way, doesn't mean that's
what we have to do. In order for us to truly get our soul
food and to help others. In order to help others and be forced multipliers
so they're great or good, we have to have a genuine authenticity to beat,
to march to the beat of our own drum, and we have to
have the courage to be willing to go against the tide in order to be
able to live a life. Will Live the Good Stuff podcast. It delves
into inspiring stories of success and perseverance. It's host by Ashley Shick and husband
Jake Schick. And Ashley, with your television background, finding those negative stories
that I've just mentioned not hard. Just open your phone each and every morning.
Where do you get your sources for this material? Because it seems to
me that's harder to find. Yeah, but it's not. And we kind
of thought the same thing originally, Lee, but then we you know,
that's that's the thing. Everyone has a story, and so the more you
get to know people and just start talking to them, they open up and
then you find out people you've known for years have been through some truly horrific
stuff. And like Jake said, we get them to go deep on this
podcast. It's it's not something where we just sit down and we do a
quick interview. We go deep on the podcast. And so it's it's really
interesting to see where you're sitting across from someone who you know has achieved and
accomplished incredible things, to know where they came from, and a lot of
times it's the hardships. That was the motivation they needed to get to where
they are. Ashley and Jake Schicker with us and the Good Stuff is the
podcast. To Jake, I don't know how you are with your public relations
related wife. My lovely wife is a nurse and the last thing she wants
to do is get into a studio with me and talk for fifteen to twenty
minutes. Did you have to overcome a comfort level? Not at all.
The good thing is is that I just get to show up and do me
because I've learned I suck at everything else and actually, really when it comes
to all the technical things and what plug goes where, thank God for her
because if it were left up to me, it would absolutely not be a
thing. The good Stuff is the thing. It is the podcast. You
can hear it anywhere you get podcasts, including the Heart Radio app Stories of
Inspiration, Perseverance and Success, hosted by Ashley Shick and her husband Jacob Schick.
I thank you for joining us and we'll be looking forward to hearing the
podcast. Thank you, sir. Thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews
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