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Climbing Higher Mountains

Climbing Higher Mountains

Song by Aretha Franklin

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Oct 5, 2026

No Boxes: Just Verses

No Boxes: Just Verses

Michael Strautmanis on Chicago Roots, Family and Faith, the Obama White House, Walt Disney, and Coming Home as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer of the Obama Foundation

Oct 5 · 3 Mentions

Shannon NashHOST
36:46
And it's funny because I'm from the East Coast.
Shannon NashHOST
36:48
But you pick a song by Aretha Franklin and the Southern California Community Choir, Climbing Higher Mountains.
Michael StrautmanisGUEST
36:55
Yes.
Shannon NashHOST
36:56
Take us to the next stage.
Michael StrautmanisGUEST
38:45
I was at a big corporate environment with people at my level who had been there 20, 30 years to go in, know nobody, have no experience in the company, have no experience in corporate America was hard.
Michael StrautmanisGUEST
38:58
I ended up just relying on the divine and trying to take everything as a lesson, trying to spread joy wherever I could.
Michael StrautmanisGUEST
39:05
And yeah, it was climbing higher mountains, Southern California.
Michael StrautmanisGUEST
39:10
I can hear Aretha's voice saying it, the Southern California choir.

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