The Professional Noticer Podcast
Podcast Episode 137: A Brief History of My Father
In The Loop with Andy Andrews, hosted by David Loy On this week’s episode, I’m sharing a story I wrote about my dad. It’s not really a short story since all of it is true. It has been pieced together from things I remember, and stories I have heard from...
Podcast Episode 136: How Does a Successful Marriage Work?
In The Loop with Andy Andrews, hosted by David Loy On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question on what it really takes to have a successful marriage. Occasionally you hear people say, “We don’t have any problems. We don’t fight ever.” Anytime I...
Podcast Episode 135: The Paradox Between Thinking and Action
In The Loop with Andy Andrews, hosted by David Loy On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question on thinking and how it inspires action. Most people believe that their choices determine where they are. In a way they do, but you can’t really...
Podcast Episode 134: How to be Intentionally Grateful
In The Loop with Andy Andrews, hosted by David Loy On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question on which three words I would use to describe myself. One of them would definitely be searching. In the second decision –“I will seek wisdom”– I...
Podcast Episode 133: Displacing Negative Thoughts
In The Loop with Andy Andrews, hosted by David Loy On this week’s episode, I address a listener question on displacing negative thoughts. You can’t leave your mind blank. When we don’t choose what goes in our minds, our minds fill up with things that...
Podcast Episode 132: How to Honor Your Mother Year-Round
In The Loop with Andy Andrews, hosted by David Loy On this week’s episode, we honor our mothers with an episode not just for Mother’s Day. A couple of weeks ago the boys found a vine hanging down from a tree. I can remember telling Polly, “They’re fine.”...
Podcast Episode 131: The Benefits of a Family Mission Statement
In The Loop with Andy Andrews, hosted by David Loy On this week’s episode I discuss why your family needs a mission statement and how my family created ours. I’ve never seen a successful company that didn’t have a mission statement. I found out that a...
Podcast Episode 130: What to Do When You’re Frustrated or Worried
In The Loop with Andy Andrews, hosted by David Loy On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question about the hardest thing in my life and what I worry about the most. I think frustration is one of the hardest things in my life. First, I don’t want...
Podcast Episode 129: The Most Important Quality You Can Have
In The Loop with Andy Andrews, hosted by David Loy On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question on self-sabotage and the most important quality in people. We’ve talked on several other episodes about how the way you think is the foundation...
Podcast Episode 128: The Most Reliable Parenting Advice I’ve Found
In The Loop with Andy Andrews, hosted by David Loy On this week's episode, I talk about the first steps Polly and I took when we found out we were going to be parents. I never expected to do anything like this, but I think this is the most important...

About Andy Andrews
Hailed by a New York Times reporter as “someone who has quietly become one of the most influential people in America,” Andy Andrews is a best-selling novelist, speaker, and consultant for the world’s largest corporations and organizations. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Noticer, How Do You Kill 11 Million People?, and the modern classic, The Traveler’s Gift.