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How to Be a Better Human
"ajayi" Discussed on How to Be a Better Human
"It <Speech_Female> <Silence> <Speech_Male> <SpeakerChange> <Advertisement> <Laughter> <Speech_Music_Male> <Music> might be a friend, it <Speech_Female> might be a partner, <Speech_Female> it might be your <Speech_Female> kids, <Speech_Female> something, you know, <Speech_Female> just kind of <Silence> <Speech_Female> finding the <Speech_Female> ways in which <Silence> the <Speech_Female> truth in that moment can <Speech_Female> be helpful. <Speech_Female> So <Speech_Female> I think that's even a <Speech_Female> great way to start. <Speech_Female> And then, you know, for <Speech_Female> work, <Speech_Female> the next meeting <Speech_Female> that happens <Speech_Female> where y'all are brainstorming <Speech_Male> and people are talking <Speech_Female> about ideas. <Silence> And the idea <Speech_Female> that comes up that you don't <Speech_Female> love, <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> raise your hand. You don't have <Speech_Female> to say, I don't like it. <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> You can say, hey, <Speech_Female> I love for us to think <Speech_Female> about this a little bit <Speech_Female> different. <Speech_Female> Can we <Speech_Female> consider this? <Speech_Female> You can <Speech_Female> use soft language even <Speech_Female> as you're being a troublemaker. <Speech_Male> You can, <Speech_Male> you can still be <Speech_Female> very thoughtful, <Speech_Female> even as you are <Speech_Female> making a room uncomfortable <Speech_Female> and honestly, <Speech_Female> the room being uncomfortable <Speech_Female> is not your fault <Speech_Male> or your business. <Speech_Male> Don't worry about <Speech_Male> controlling <Speech_Female> the rooms <Speech_Male> emotions. <Speech_Female> Just <Speech_Female> do your part and <Speech_Female> then everything else <Speech_Female> is not up to you. How <Speech_Female> people receive it <Speech_Female> is not your business. <Speech_Female> Yeah, <Speech_Female> just figure out the ways that <Speech_Female> you can honor yourself more and <Speech_Female> honor the people who are <Speech_Female> around you and I think <Speech_Female> no room <Speech_Female> has true harmony <Speech_Female> when <Speech_Female> truth is exist. <Speech_Female> It doesn't exist in <Speech_Female> it. So like <Speech_Female> in the absence of truth, <Speech_Female> there is no harmony. <Silence> <SpeakerChange> <Speech_Male> You wrote this book <Speech_Male> rising troublemaker, <Speech_Male> your most recent book that <Speech_Male> for young <Speech_Male> people. <SpeakerChange> Yes. <Speech_Male> And if <Speech_Male> someone's listening to this <Speech_Male> and they're a parent <Speech_Male> or they're a teacher <Speech_Male> or they're a <Speech_Male> school administrator, right? <Speech_Male> It's kind <Speech_Male> of an unusual <Speech_Male> dynamic <Speech_Male> to try and encourage <Speech_Male> some young <Speech_Male> person to make trouble <Speech_Male> when you're a person <Speech_Male> who's often associated <Speech_Male> with enforcing the rules <Speech_Male> or even making <Speech_Male> the rules. What <Speech_Male> advice do you have for parents <Speech_Male> or teachers or <Speech_Male> people working in <Speech_Male> education for walking that <Speech_Male> boundary between like <Speech_Male> encouraging young people <Speech_Male> to be troublemakers <Speech_Male> to speak up <Speech_Male> to challenge the status quo <Speech_Male> while also <Speech_Male> being in the position of <Speech_Male> power and enforcing those? <Speech_Male> How do you <SpeakerChange> walk that dynamic? <Speech_Male> So it actually <Speech_Female> is supposed to help parents <Speech_Female> and teachers because I <Speech_Female> want you to be able to give <Speech_Female> this to your students or <Speech_Female> your teenagers <Speech_Female> and say, <Speech_Female> okay, if you are the kid <Speech_Female> that's being very mouthy <Speech_Female> in class, <Speech_Female> I want you <Speech_Female> to actually use that in a different <Speech_Female> way. Let's have you <Speech_Female> join the debate club. <Speech_Female> You know, <Speech_Female> I want to make sure <Speech_Female> that you know that <Speech_Female> even though in class, I need you <Speech_Female> to be a little bit more <Speech_Female> quiet just <Speech_Female> so it's not disruptive <Speech_Female> to the rest of the room, <Speech_Female> but I'm <Speech_Female> encouraging <Speech_Female> your gift
How to Be a Better Human
"ajayi" Discussed on How to Be a Better Human
"You're listening to how to be a better human. I'm your host Chris Duffy. Today, we're going to get into trouble. If you are a rule following goody two shoes like me, you might already be sweating just hearing that sentence. But don't worry, I understand. I was the kind of kid who would raise his hand in class and be like, excuse me, teacher, you forgot to give us our homework. You know, not exactly a rebel without a cause. I don't think anyone who's ever met me would describe me like that. But today's guest, luvvie ajayi Jones, she is the author of the book's rising troublemaker, professional troublemaker, and I'm judging you. Levy has convinced me that not only is causing some trouble once in a while okay, it's actually necessary. It's required. And levy is a big believer in not letting fear talk us out of what we need to do or what we need to say. So on the question of whether you should speak up whether you should make a little bit of trouble, love is answer is yes. But don't worry, she has tips on how and when to do it responsibly and how to conquer fear and avoid regret about not standing up for what's right. To get us started, here's a clip from one of levy's ted-talks. I went skydiving. We were about to fall out the plane. I was like, I've done some stupid things in life. This is one of them. And then we come falling down to earth and I literally lose my breath. As I see earth, and I was like, I just thought of a perfectly good plane on purpose. What is wrong with me? But then I looked down at the beauty and I was like, this is the best thing I could have done. This is an amazing decision. And I think about the times when I have to speak truth, it feels like I am falling out that plane. It feels like that moment when I'm at the edge of the plane, and I'm like, you shouldn't do this. But then I do it anyway because I realize I have to. Sitting at the edge of that plane and kind of stayed on that plan is comfort to me. And I feel like every day that I'm speaking truth against institutions and people who are bigger than me and in just forces that are more powerful than me, I feel like I'm falling
Hello Monday by LinkedIn
"ajayi" Discussed on Hello Monday by LinkedIn
"What you've been up to. And in that conversation, you'll find something to hold on to. It means being intentional about deepening relationships. Sasha and everybody is your friend, but it means that you become somebody who people know, I know what they want. I know their dreams. I know what their core values are. And I respect it. And here's where their synergy in our lives. I do it. I try. I try to do a good job of staying connected with contacts. Sending out random text messages, being like, hey, I know we haven't spoken in a few months. I hope you're doing well. You know, I'm cheering you on on social media. And social media is actually made it easier for us to stay connected with people because you get to see what they're up to, you get to like and comment and say, yes, congrats on that. That's a great shortcut that ten years ago didn't exist, right? So now you actually able to build more and more relationships in less time. So, you know, we've kind of hit the end of our time together speaking of time. And I'm just curious, we've covered a lot of ground. You got a message for us as we move into 2022 and I'll tell you our theme for the year. It's reinvention because I think we're all doing it. And we've kind of had to do it for the last two years, not of our choice. The pandemic basically said you got to rethink everything. But this is the year we get to choose reinvention. Yes. So do you have a message for us? Yes, my message is that, especially in the process of reinvention, reinvention means you're basically starting in pivoting. And so space that you might not be comfortable with yet. And that's fine. That's actually great because you should be reinventing yourself. You should be pushing yourself past your comfort zone more and more. And it's going to be scary. I want us to actually at this point, I don't even want to quote myself because that's weird. But I want us to, I do want us to be comfortable with the fact that we're going to be uncomfortable. And understanding that there is no courage in the absence of fear. This moment and beyond is probably going to be asking of you to be brave, which means you're going to be afraid at certain points. You're going to have to make the choice to be brave. So when you feel that fear, don't think it means stop, run away, go back, know that she means this is a growth opportunity. This is the point of reinvention. This is how you pivot because now you're no longer in the box you were sitting in before. So I'm just hoping people understand that that fear is absolutely necessary for courage to show up. Because if it was easy, then it wasn't courageous. That was levy ajayi Jones. You can find her book professional troublemaker, the fear fighter manual, anywhere books are sold.
Hello Monday by LinkedIn
"ajayi" Discussed on Hello Monday by LinkedIn
"But I got hired at business week magazine and I sat next to a guy who had my job and he had also trained to be a business reporter except that here's what he knew about business a lot. And he would pitch stories over and over again about the auto industry and every week he'd get in the magazine and I would watch him and try to pitch stories about the auto industry, but you know what, here's what I knew about cars, nothing because I didn't care about cars at all. And I remember talking to a mentor and just saying, I just am so bad at this. I don't care about cars. I don't know about business. And she said, if they wanted you to care about carbs or business, they would have hired another person who looks exactly like the person who sits next to you. They hired you so figure out what you have to say. And as soon as I just started thinking about what I cared about, I got in the magazine every week. Wow. And I feel like that's kind of the lesson you're talking about there. Yeah. I mean, we spend so much time doubting basic things about ourselves. Facts, we'll spend so much time doubting facts, right? Or saying, you know what, I'm not going to tout it because that might be me bragging. At this point, I'm like, if the worst thing you can say about me is that I'm arrogant, then I'm doing well. If the biggest flaw that you think I have is that I'm arrogant, I am doing pretty well. And if arrogance means I know what I know. If arrogance means I am telling you how good I am. If Eric gets me, I'm advocating for myself. I'll be here again. It's not a bad thing at that point, which brings me into the safe portion of your book. And here's what I want to touch on next. You say ask for more in man, I look around at in particular the women around me and I think it ask for more, and yet I don't always do it myself. So explain a little bit what you mean there. Oh man, I always talk about how my career is a testament of me asking for what I need. From the people around me, when I need it, whether it's opportunities, whether it's me saying, hey, I need
Hello Monday by LinkedIn
"ajayi" Discussed on Hello Monday by LinkedIn
"Hey, it's Jesse, we're off this week as we celebrate indigenous people's day. But we're bringing you one of our best episodes of the year in episode from our archives, conversation with luvvie ajayi Jones. She is fierce in this conversation. She is inspiring as she talks us through how to fight fear. I hope you enjoy it. And we'll see you next week. From the new team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse hemple. And this is hello Monday. It's our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us. And today we are talking about fear. Those early days of the pandemic, they gave us time to think. To get clear about which dreams we'd been too busy or too afraid to pursue. This
Hello Monday by LinkedIn
"ajayi" Discussed on Hello Monday by LinkedIn
"So I think it's just important that we don't one. We are really hard on ourselves. I'm sure your wife is sitting there feeling guilty. Like, I can't believe I still haven't done this laundry. Meanwhile, forgetting that she's had to do 15 other things today alone. So it's not your fault that you haven't done laundry. You just ran out of time. Okay? You are one person trying to live this complicated and simple life and this laundry is adding to your complications. I am going to make my wife listen to this when we get home tonight. And I've got one more for you, levy. Levy, this is the most important chapter by my measure in your entire book, build a squad. Talk to me about the squad. What do you have in mind? Oh man, I am a product of villages of people who are my soft place to land. Professionally, personally. One thing you probably seen is a theme here is my insistence that we can not do life alone. We can not continue being on an island by ourselves trying to figure out this floating rock, okay? Trying to figure out all of this madness and chaos and beauty. We need people who will challenge us, hold us accountable, share us on, serve as our charging stations. And I think we've got to spend more time being attentional building squads of people who will serve as almost like a blanket in this world. Multiple squads do multiple things. You know, everybody's not supposed to do everything for you, but you should have the friends who you can party with. Go on vacation with have a good time with. You should have the friends who you might have met at work who will make sure you know the next conference to go to who will speak your name up in rooms for opportunities. You should have the true blues, the ones you go and cry to in the middle of crisis, the ones who you tell your dreams to first who go, you got this. You should have mentors who are like my job is to open up doors for you because I believe that much in you. Levy, you say this thing about human relationships that I really like. And I'm remembering it from reading it. I don't have it open in my lap. And so part of me, if I butcher it, but take it and explain it. You know, I think sometimes particularly when it comes to our professional relationships, we get kind of transactional about it. And that takes the magic and the loveliness and ultimately the utility away from a relationship. When actually a friendship, a mentorship, it has a different rhythm or a different way of operating, and maybe a better framework for how to think about it is step up according to your ability, what you have to offer when you have it to offer. Yeah. It's not saying that you have to always give somebody something to be worthy of their time. But it's finding ways to be through reciprocate that person's presence in your life. It might mean sometimes you send a care package to somebody who you just met and you you were like, I think I just want to send you my favorite products. So you can do self care Sunday. It means sometimes having nothing to ask for. Just to say, hey, let's just meet, just talk, you know, catch up, which you've been up to. And in that conversation, you'll find something to hold on to. It means being intentional about deepening relationships. Sasha and everybody's your friend, but it means that you become somebody who people know, I know what they want. I know their dreams. I know what their core values are. And I respect it. And here's where there's synergy in our lives. I try. I try to do a good job of staying connected with contacts. Sending out random text messages being like, hey, I know we haven't spoken in a few months. I hope you're doing well. You know, I'm sharing you on on social media. And social media is actually made it easier for us to stay connected with people because you get to see what they're up to. You get to like and comment and say, yes, congrats on that. That's a great shortcut that ten years ago didn't exist, right? So now you actually able to build more and more relationships in less time. So we've kind of hit the end of our time together, speaking of time. And I'm just curious, we've covered a lot of ground. You got a message for us as we move into 2022 and I'll tell you our theme for the year. It's reinvention because I think we're all doing it. And we've kind of had to do it for the last two years, not of our choice. The pandemic basically said, you got to rethink everything. This is the year we get to choose reinvention. Yes. So do you have a message for us? Yes. My message is that, especially in the process of reinvention, reinvention means you're basically starting pivoting. And so space that you might not be comfortable with yet. And that's fine. That's actually great because you should be reinventing yourself. You should be pushing yourself past your comfort zone more and more. And it's going to be scary. I want us to actually at this point get I don't even want to quote myself 'cause that's weird. But I want us to, I do want us to be comfortable with the fact that we're going to be uncomfortable. And understanding that there is no courage in the absence of fear. This moment and beyond is probably going to be asking of you to be brave, which means you're going to be afraid at certain points. You're going to have to make the choice to be brave. So when you feel that fear, don't think it means like stop run away, go back, know that she means this is a growth opportunity. This is the point of reinvention. This is how you pivot. Because now you're no longer in the box. You are sitting in before. So I'm just hoping people understand that that fear is absolutely necessary for courage to show up. Because if it was easy, then it wasn't courageous. That was levy ajayi Jones. You can find her book professional troublemaker, the fear fighter manual, anywhere books are sold. Look, fear can be just downright debilitating. We can be afraid to disappoint people afraid not to be liked. Afraid to just be wrong or make mistakes. But it's holding us back because I truly believe something amazing awaits all of us on the other side of fear. If we're looking for change, if we're looking to reinvent ourselves, we have to fight that fear. And this may sound hokey, but it's something I truly believe we are all of us listening to the show right now. We're all worthy of living into the dreams we have on the other side of fear. So this week on office hours, let's talk about some goals and dreams we have and get practical about the steps we can take toward achieving them. And if you start to have feelings of fear or self doubt, write them down, come share them with us. We are a community here at hello Monday that will try our best to help you fight that fear and to support you. We'll go live from the LinkedIn news page Wednesday at 3 p.m. eastern, as usual. And as always, if you like the show, please rate and review us, it helps us so much. Hello Monday is the production of LinkedIn. The show is produced by Sarah storm with help from taisha Henry. Joe de Georgie mixture show. Florentine was head of original audio and video. Dave pond is our technical director. Michaela grier and Victoria Taylor are not afraid or at least they front like it. Our music was composed just for us by the mysterious breakmaster cylinder. Dan Roth is the editor in chief of LinkedIn. I'm Jesse hemple. We're back next Monday, thanks for listening..
Hello Monday by LinkedIn
"ajayi" Discussed on Hello Monday by LinkedIn
"No. You can say, okay. Let me think about that now. I'll get back to you. Buy yourself some time. Great idea. Go away. Buy yourself some time, go away, and then figure out how much you actually want. Now with that, you either have to send a counter offer in written form, which if you don't like the back and forth, verbal back and forth, it's a good way to do it. But for some reason, you do have to do it verbally. You have to practice this if you're uncomfortable about it. Because you want to drop a number with an exclamation point and not a question mark. So if they say, hey, let's give you $4000. Your response after you buy yourself some time and you have the follow up phone call can be okay. So the fee that I'm looking for is, and you just drop that number. So let's say you say, actually, the fee I'm looking for is $7000. Stop talking. Don't run into, and that's because then this other thing. And then the reason why I think I'm worth this is that no, no, just give them the number because they have already offered you this job. They already know your valuable. They already know you're the person they want, right? So you don't have to justify yourself anymore. Just drop the number and shut up. Sit there in silence. Isn't silence powerful that way levy? Silence is a major tool. And I was reading something recently that said that in negotiation, the person who can stand silence more wins. The person who does not feel like interrupting the awkward silence with either taking it back justifying themselves extra or arguing against this thing went. So just say, I would my fee is 7000. And you sit there and you have to sit in the steering contest for a hot second, you'll do it. But you'd be okay. And then they have to respond, but they're offered. And usually they'll either buy themselves some more time or they'll give you another number. So when you do it with the question mark, it sounds like this. Hey, yeah, we want to pay you 4000. And then you go, well, 7000? Even you saw no news sound sure. I'd be like, oh, I definitely know you're not sure. So I'm not gonna give you that at all. Say it with an exclamation point and shut up. Another thing that I often do, I'm curious what you think about it is I'm so scared of the numbers themselves. It's like my mouth is allergic to saying them. So I go with the percentage because it sounds less scary. So oh, your fee is 4000. I would need about 75% more than that in order to feel comfortable taking this job. And it gets like a little loophole thing. What do you think about that? Yay or nay? I'm only getting a half nod from you. Nay, because now I have to do the math of what's 75% more than 4000 is. Fair. Now I'm like, okay, what's 75% of 4000 to give you a quick answer of yes, no, now I gotta do the math and I'm like, all right. And now I might even follow up and say, okay, so what's that number? So if I start off with, okay, give me that number. You still have to say the number. Hell fair. I'm trying to work around my fears and you're just pushing me right into the middle of my fears over. Do it. Because here's the thing is the number is not what's scary. Because you know that you will earn that number. You're not afraid of not earning the number. You're afraid of the other person. Hearing the number and rejecting you. Yeah. And they won't. Here's the thing is when people find the right person that they want for something. Having to go back and find a plan B is expensive. It takes more time and it's labor intensive. Once I give you an offer, once anybody gives you an offer, they don't want to have to go find plan B they want plan a so think about it in that way in that you are plan a nobody wants to go find plan B because it's going to take more time. It's going to take more money. So me as plan a, my power here is that I have that leverage that I know I am plan a okay I got two more that I really want to talk about with you levy. Okay. The first is this idea of firing yourself. Talk to me about that. One of my biggest fears is people dropping the ball on my behalf. I trust myself more than anybody. I know if I have, if I'm holding the ball, it's less likely to drop. So then I hold the ball tight. Meanwhile, there's three other balls I'm supposed to be holding. And I'm like, okay, I'm holding these tattoo. I mean, some of it is kind of loose. But I'm afraid to hand one over because I'm afraid this one person is going to drop my ball. So I hold on to everything, and I'm panicked. All the time. We all do that in different parts of our lives with our home, whether it's work, whether it's with friends, because again, we trust ourselves more. It is time to fire yourself. You've seen that meme of like, Beyoncé has the same 24 hours in the day as you know, she does not Beyoncé has like a 180 hours in her day. You have 24 hours because she has a team of people who she's allowed to buy time back with. You being the solo thing doing it all yourself, you don't have the same hours. You can't do the same thing. You can't scale your time yourself. You have to clone yourself by hiring other people. And that's what practically speaking. We have to do it. We have to do it. Whether it's you're the overworked mom who was like, I have to make dinner. Even as you say that, the thing I'm thinking about is the mountain of laundry at my house and how my wife is absolutely convinced that nobody else can fold a shirt as well as she can fold a shirt and therefore she has to do all of the laundry, and I'm constantly like, Joe, please. It does not matter how well that shirt is folded. Let go of that ball. My life changed three years ago when I started sending my laundry out. I said my laundry out. Me and my husband's laundry. Every two weeks. And here's how much I know. I want people to understand how much we all do. None of us have real perspective on how much we accomplish every single day every week every month. Our lives are major project management nightmares and sometimes dreams, right? So for laundry, I'll give you an example. It's just me and my husband. We wear one outfit a day. Sometimes he'll wear too because he's asking to work out he'll change. When we send out our laundry and they send us back the report of how much we gave them. 75 pounds of clothes. So imagine you somebody who's listening right now, you probably have a family of four. You might have family of three, and you're like laundry laundry. You're probably doing a hundred pounds of laundry every couple of weeks. Just so you know how much your accomplishing, that you think is just forgotten conclusion, basic. No. That's actually major. So then you're spending three hours folding laundry. While also now having to make sure bills are paid while also being a well employed person while also being a partner while also being a daughter in a you're wondering, you're like, why am I tired? Fire yourself from something. Send out the laundry because you don't have to be the one folding. Have somebody meal prepping for you may be. Have a housekeeper come once a month who like for once like your house can look like, oh my God, a tornado did not run through it. Mine comes on Saturday. I'm excited to see her..
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"ajayi" Discussed on Hello Monday by LinkedIn
"This is hello Monday. It's our show about the changing nature of work, and how that work is changing us, and today we are talking about fear. Those early days of the pandemic, they gave us time to think. To get clear about which dreams we'd been too busy or too afraid to pursue. This year on hello Monday, we're focusing on how we go after those dreams. It's all part of what it means to reinvent ourselves. In a big part of how we do that, it's technical. How do we build skills? Where do we look for opportunities? But another aspect of reinvention, one that we talk about a lot less. It's managing our emotions. Pursuing goals and dreams can be downright terrifying. Some of us start with fear. We operate out of it daily. If I'm honest, I know this is true for me. We're gonna have to learn how to work with that fear if we want to change. Today's guest levy ajayi Jones is the perfect person to help us figure out how to do this. Levy is the author of professional troublemaker, the fear fighter manual. I first heard her at Ted a few years ago, she was great. Her talk was energizing and thoughtful. So much so that it went viral in catapulted her career as a culture critic and activist. In her book, she has three framing mechanisms for taking on fear. She advises us on how to know ourselves deeply, how to use our voice with authority and how to take meaningful action. One of her first pieces of advice is to be too much. Here's levy. I think one of the things we struggle with the most is how we're perceived in the world. A lot of people are thinking about us. Are we likeable, a lot of us are people pleasers, just because the world that we live in, it really prioritizes like ability over anything else. So one of the things that we are most afraid of is that somebody would say we're too much. We're too burdensome. We're too loud, we're too quiet. We're to whatever it is. And I want to give us permission to be too much, whatever that thing is. Because instead of us being afraid of being too much, when you embrace it, you realize that the thing that somebody's probably accusing you of being too much of is probably a superpower. So for example, a lot of us were told, you talk too much when you were little. Yeah. That was me. Right? Talk to money. Reporting for duty. Yeah. And now make a great living as a speaker as somebody who's using her words to impact people. Imagine if I heard you talk too much and I got quiet. Imagine if I stopped it from if I use it to stop me from using my words to really speak the truth. Imagine if I thought my job in this world is to shape shift. That permission to talk too much gave me all I needed to be this grown-up who now is able to do what she does. That idea of likeability it really irks me levy because it also drives me, right? Yes. As much as I don't want to, I do aspire to be likeable. And we also have, we also have research that suggests that women excel in the workplace, according to how likeable they are. Men excel according to how much authority they possess women, according to how much they are liked. What do we do about it? And what does it mean to be too much if being too much is potentially going to work against us? So first I want us to get real practical and logical about likeability. It's not a science. It's an art. It means that it's super subjective. There's no one way to be likeable because two people can do the exact same thing. One person might do it well. And somebody else might hate the other person, right? So off jump, it lets me know that likeability and people pleasing is a futile mission. Anything that is not formulaic that is not set in stone that is not affected by biases, you can't chase it. It is a futile mission. So for example, if you're like, I'm going to be more agreeable. You're going to meet somebody who goes, oh gosh, he's too agreeable. She's a doormat. Right? So constantly chasing other people's whims for us. What other people might consider likeable is a waste of our time because we might still fail at that mission of being likeable, depending on who we are, what rooms we're in. Sometimes the color of our skin affects how likeable we are. You know, I mean, there's so many different things that people come into every room with so much baggage that changes some of these criteria. So I'm always like, that's exhausting to constantly chase something that I can't even nail down is exhausted. So why do it? Why do it? What is the point? It's easier to just show up as whoever you are. And then just hope for the best. I've been trying to unlearn people please and my whole life. It doesn't mean I'm like, I don't care if people like me doesn't mean I'm like, you know what I'm gonna do something to just make you hate me? No. It means instead of forcing myself to try to fit into whatever box I might think likeability is, I disregard that box and I'm just like, I'm just gonna be this girl. Whoever likes me likes me, whoever doesn't, not my people. And I'm gonna move forward in that way. So being too much of it all is just saying, listen. It's the insistence that the more you double down on who you are, or you're too muchness, the quicker you will find the people who you are actually life minded with and who you actually fit based on value, background, whatever you consider important. And the sooner you stop chasing the people you're actually supposed to repel. They're not your people. That piece is so critical. I love that idea. This idea that you just, you be completely yourself. Yeah. And the people who are drawn to that are the people that naturally you should be working with, thinking we're living your life with, right? Correct. Well, which brings us to this idea of trusting where you are. Yeah. What do you mean by that? You know, there's a lot of chaos in the world. There's a lot of reasons to doubt what's happening around us. Some of the rooms that we are in. And I think our challenge is to question those the rooms less. I turn that TED Talk down twice before I finally said yes. Because I didn't think I was ready because I was like, how did I exist in that room of powerhouses and take the stage? Wait, wait. Can we just make sure that I'm understanding that? So they came to you and asked you twice, and you said no twice. Not because you didn't, what they had to offer, but because you thought you didn't deserve what they had to offer. Yes. I kept on coming with excuses of why I couldn't do it. And I was about to turn it down to third time, three weeks before Ted, I actually was like, oh, I'm gonna come to tell you just to cheer on my Friends. And when I told pat Mitchell that she was like, if you're gonna come, I want you to take the stage. And I was about to turn it down when I called one of my friends. And I said, listen, this is wild. Crazy. They want me to take the stage three weeks before. I have to call it the brand new talk. Everybody else has already had a coach. They've already rehearsed their top 15,000 times. And here I am. I'm about to turn it down. Again, and my friend said, you're talking about what everybody else has done, but everybody's not you. She's like, you've been on the stage every two days. You've been speaking professionally for how many years, you have your practice. You're ready for this. So get off my phone and go right this talk. That trust is she infused and mean that moment was trust I didn't have for myself, was the trust I didn't have for the work that I already done. And but she gave me know the choice, but to say, yes, and that yes, transformed my life in my career and had such an impact on my trajectory. So the very idea of trusting where we.
Celtics Lab Podcast
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"Goes right. I like to sit around the team. I think that could be good. Good good night. Eastern france lower meals good in already lost so many reasons to nick nurses really the coach. Everyone thinks he is such a new arrival rounded out. Let's go to washington thirty four and thirty eight last season but there were times where they were really sprinting a lot roster turnover for the whiz. So they added spencer dinwiddie Acp my barrel. Aaron holiday inn corey crawford. They lost russell. Westbrook ish smith robin lopez alex lang isaac bonga and chandler hutchison. Scotty brooks is out west. Unsold junior is in tom. Bryant has a c. l. issue in vija the rookie last season has ankle fracture yield comeback so blessed out thirty four point. Five wiz tells me the wizards marquette tell you they're gonna spend sedan woody bradley. Bill finished second in scoring last season. And i believe he can take that top spot. next year. casey peacock coups will have a bigger role finally out. I don't know if anybody wants to see it. I i i do honestly how he was doing a bigger role like is he the guy that he says he is like. You know he's telling everybody. Oh keep steven one because this year is going to prove us wrong. But you know let's see and they have a former six mattia. When mancha's herro man mandate can make some noise. They'll definitely when morton thirty four games. I believe you set up thirty two four yet. They wouldn't Naked sneak into the playoffs. But i don't see them winning any playoff games. That's interesting to me. Because i actually really don't like the wizards off season that much. To be honest. I well here. So here's the thing. I think from a long-term building perspective. The wizards made some news to get like cap flexibility to get You know a little more space going for them and to kind of build around that. I think the bradley beal thing is very much hanging over the season. We haven't heard much from him on that. Not kind of the story of washington season is bradley. Beal ultimately gonna stay with his team or elsewhere. And you know. I know that like the dunked on boys talked a lot about how going from committee are going from rusty dinwiddie getting all these debts pieces of big upgrade folks. I don't know if we watch the same team here. But russell westbrook did a hunt for this wizards team last to drag them into the playoffs. And i don't think that dinwiddie coming on. Acl tear is lock to replicate that allieu. I think mantras herrell is a fun but very one. Dimensional can't do much more than his specific role. I don't like kyle experience at all. Unless he's got a lebron level guy to get him exactly where he needs to go. I really don't like this was his offseason. And i happen to be one of the worst that he's i i'm with gye. Aleksey denied have talked about this kind of favorite classic rock rest or construction and save power. Forward i kind of like how this was received. Stacks up as just wanna shout. Rui hunter mara is i want to be his biggest fan and is just doing the dirty work making sure that i i'm playing ourselves. Any last thoughts. On the wizards danny He's going to if he comes back at a suitable time he still want the best When the best place scouted out of europe coming into the draft class so if you could actually like replicate what scou- saying about him next year. You have the time to do that with this type of roster. I don't think he would have been able to do that. With on nazi. I'm pretty supportive of the wizards as well. I don't think they're going to be that much better than they were last year. I think they're still kind of like somewhere in between the eighth seed in plain tournament range. But i do think that got better overall in terms of roster balance and also further for the future prospects. So i'm excited to actually see them play. I don't know if that's going to be recurring thing but at least to see how they mesh together all right well say for doing this. A gyrates or nets wire for sixers water and we were lucky to have them both seductress at eastern conference. Let us know what so. Thanks for coming on. We'll see next. Time i guess thank you for having me back on the live you guys know. I love it here. Cam alex justin Just very always to erase you guys. Exciting season to look forward to jason just thinking about him just like oh man is gonna be in the running for mvp giant. I am going to be at the first south x. next home game. And so. I'll make sure with you in. That's going gonna be really fine match this year. Think right so thanks again to a extend to are in other parts of the eastern conference so we did the celtics lab. I just gonna do a limited news because there was some stuff that actually happened. That's worth addressing first and foremost at long last carson edwards traded away from the boston. I lord has gone down has gone in porn. Funsho gomez is on his way to the celtics. Steel has been completed but will be completed in the next few days are something Hunches numbers aren't particularly impressive. But he also has had a very inconsistent career with the nuggets in the First thoughts on the deal itself. I think it's solid. You know so i can safer a couple of episodes now. I don't necessarily think that chris time was going to get the minutes. That would probably allow him to thrive on the celtics. They're really heavy guard right now and I they wanna spotlight Latin air So i don't really see a scenario where play back much on scheme celtics needed some forward depth and i think wacho is a perfectly solid suitable option. I don't necessarily buy a lot of people have been talking about one jones audible stretch for and a shooting numbers. Don't really bear that out. But i really like the possibilities of juancho on the floor particularly with al horford and other shooters shredder I think he can be a high energy cutter. And i have a good friend who talked to often nuggets fan and the thing that he said about one chill of from stick with denver. That watcher crashes the class like a maniac and his playing really hard all the time. So i think with horford has a kind of tone setter floor to really run the offense to him. I think what joke could be a fun. Complimentary player who provide.
Rants and Randomness with Luvvie Ajayi
"ajayi" Discussed on Rants and Randomness with Luvvie Ajayi
"I hope people enjoy my my folks to read so i want them to go pick it up because your story is so deep and you've been through so much and now you are here living this joyce joyce light here for your tunes bet you got from your baby. Elodie twelve hours. The by geriatric millennial okay Alright so as you are doing all of this and just living out loud how you taking care of yourself food. Mrs love food will have to eat. Yes we love to eat. And i do yoga. I try workout. Because i family person and if you know yeah suffer from lupus got diagnosed back in two thousand five and i was very very sick for a long time like full body. Arthritis couldn't move had raised toilet seats very well against the point where i was going to have to walk with a cane. It was that bad and doctors were experiment in no mean giving me with these of drugs you steroids and at one point. They suggested chemotherapy or like. Let's just block some you guys experiment in on me guinea pig. Yeah you know what you did. And then i started researching how to heal myself. Naturally i feel myself from thailand and did a detox where you fast for seven days to colonic irrigation and clean out your system and the last one. I got introduced to raw food role food. Veganism software. let me try nigerian. We eat.
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"ajayi" Discussed on Rants and Randomness with Luvvie Ajayi
"See. She's a british at niger. An actor i saw her chewing gum. Indicate a costa. And when i was putting my show in previous years about my family i had soler in to play my mother in my show so when we were starting to do this show i was like i really wanna keep it for my thing. But his defense. If this thing goes well. I'll put in most of the elements of the show. I did i had into this show anyway. So let me give the gift of shallow. So i said here we go onto. I know the actress for this role. Is this woman See she's in england but trust me get her out here. She'll be perfect. So i had my hand in the costing makes staying in the room when these actress came in and i let them know which were the ones that we we need to cost every step of the way i got black. The room chuck world is a wild. And i wanna i don't want go you have to get is. Why did i did it this way. I invite them to comedy clubs where i was headlining. And then not put my friends on the show and then what they say. Oh we really liked her. She was really funny. Go really well. That's good to Invites did you not lights. That's how i got my friend. Go gloria piccolo into the writer's room on a cbs. Show with chuck lloyd. I could you remember. Remember you tax me. I can't solicit asks me miss. Show do you want to be a writer. No gina you tax me. The day before was to leave for ghana and i was so swamped and so like overwhelmed by life and stuff and at that point girl blessed god blessed browse like you by tried.
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"ajayi" Discussed on Rants and Randomness with Luvvie Ajayi
"Folks who come on this podcast. Who at one point in their lives wanted to be a doctor in clearly. It didn't work out like that for any of us. Nope i mean. I don't know if he wants to be doctors was just subliminally implanted by Parents because from from about ten to eighteen at. I was going to be a doctor. I was all my school. It was aiming to become an adult for because my mom told me. That's what i was going to be just a little dream planting absolutely will tell you that enough. You go okay okay. Yeah we'll be that and that did not work. So what were you like at seven or ten. What was your personality. Light very boisterous. My mom says i was crazy from because i came off the twins so i was born eight years after twins. My older sister title taiwan so long brunette and apparently i went awol in the womb. So you know when the doctors come out and check your. They couldn't find me. Because i don wondering around the wound that couldn't find all the doctors will produce ella. Where is this baby whereas so my mom said that from that day senior i was gonna come out. Crazy turned up you turn up from the womb from the world so yeah as a seven year old boy swiss. I was loud. You know. I questioned everything. Yes had keep me on a tight rein at school. My mom was super like overprotective in super harsh disciplinarian so at school i let off steam like i when i got to school year. Freedom and i was crazy like every school reports said. She's very clever. She's very good. But disruptive disrupt to every school report said disruptive because i finished my work and unhappy clown in my friends laugh at all that stuff and people the teachers of latina. Just let the kids finish their work before you. So that was me as a seventy dollars. Just not not. So where did you grow up. where were you born. I was born in bethnal green east london so mccartney by birth lot proper a- bells cockney like data wherever older movies that's how i kid comey giza was on facebook and how was that. Here's thing is most martin listeners..
Rants and Randomness with Luvvie Ajayi
"ajayi" Discussed on Rants and Randomness with Luvvie Ajayi
"Welcomes professional troublemaker. Why thanks for having lobby. I've been jodi west. Read your books are falling you. As far as i'm concerned where friends. I don't care what anybody says. I consider you my friend. We'd be taxing what night best size world opens back up. We gotta beat up in some city in the world. yes. I want to be in this like julian coogan with volun- symphony and everybody the because i've seen a lot on instagram. Pre pandemic alaba jealous. How come. I'm getting buy into these. Hang out. I might not nigerian. I'm coming you're getting an invitation. I always curious what you wanted to do or be when you were growing up. What was like seven-year-old gino's dream gina. Where it's a scientist and an athlete at the same time really. I was a splinter hundred meters was my jam and i was talented and obviously a time from fat. You know had a nigerian families. Are you got the five career doctor. Lawyer accountant engineer own disgraced the family. My mom was going to be a doctor. You're going to be a doctor. But even seven on new. I didn't really like the cya blood. I didn't like barbosa. I want to be scientists. And she's like okay so scientists at athlete i wanted to scientists discover new immi bosom new cells and these things than in my spare time willing olympics. One hundred meters. That was seven
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Kicking Doors Open (With GIna Yashere)
"Welcomes professional troublemaker. Why thanks for having lobby. I've been jodi west. Read your books are falling you. As far as i'm concerned where friends. I don't care what anybody says. I consider you my friend. We'd be taxing what night best size world opens back up. We gotta beat up in some city in the world. yes. I want to be in this like julian coogan with volun- symphony and everybody the because i've seen a lot on instagram. Pre pandemic alaba jealous. How come. I'm getting buy into these. Hang out. I might not nigerian. I'm coming you're getting an invitation. I always curious what you wanted to do or be when you were growing up. What was like seven-year-old gino's dream gina. Where it's a scientist and an athlete at the same time really. I was a splinter hundred meters was my jam and i was talented and obviously a time from fat. You know had a nigerian families. Are you got the five career doctor. Lawyer accountant engineer own disgraced the family. My mom was going to be a doctor. You're going to be a doctor. But even seven on new. I didn't really like the cya blood. I didn't like barbosa. I want to be scientists. And she's like okay so scientists at athlete i wanted to scientists discover new immi bosom new cells and these things than in my spare time willing olympics. One hundred meters. That was seven
TED Talks Daily
"ajayi" Discussed on TED Talks Daily
"Each of us. No matter who we are have dreams for ourselves and all of us also have fears lovey. John jones has spent lots of time thinking about the intersection of these two things namely how you can overcome your fears to accomplish your trains here to break this. All down for us is lovey. Ajayi jones welcome lovey lovey. How're you doing doing well doing. Well why do you use the term professional troublemaker. I guess to describe yourself. Why is that the term that you've landed on to define what you are who you are. Yeah you know. Some of us have been called troublemakers growing up. When you are too loud in the class or you know your mom tells you to eat vegetables and you say no anger like you're a troublemaker. I want to reclaim what that means. I think about the late. Great john lewis. Who said we have to be ready to make necessary. Trouble good trouble and really was the lens of..
Rants and Randomness with Luvvie Ajayi
"ajayi" Discussed on Rants and Randomness with Luvvie Ajayi
"Jovi welcome thank you. Thank you out of here. Yeah ranch rance ranches much overdue to have some jovi love on here so i always start with asking people when you were little jovi. What did you want to do when you were growing up. Yeah little jovi wanted to be at their really. Yeah yeah i mean. I had a lot of clarity of mind that i wanted to sit people down couch and just have an epic conversation with them. I mean it was something from. Thanks since i was about honestly. I feel like i got. I could speak to very clearly. Once i was in middle school like i've seen A therapist on television before. I remember overhearing. One of my friend's mom who was actually seeing it. There is talk about it in the kitchen. One time we were coming back from dr practice. I remember thinking. Oh that's what i wanna do. I wanna help people with their problems going to listen to them. Give them perspective. Yeah that's that's what i want and growing up. Honestly it made so much sense to me because people naturally came to me with their stuff whenever reason people found me to be a safe place for them to explore their identities support their problem to think your ideas. I mean it was everything from like girl i know. He's got the break up with me how to handle it to. I really don't like his teacher. I'm trying to figure out how to change out of the class to Me and my brother on getting along. I mean people were coming to me with their stuff all through school. So it. It's the thing that little jovi wanted to do. And i guess is translated well to work. I do now so sixth grade. You was basically one in a mini therapist's couch I was i was. I've always been voting space for
Rants and Randomness with Luvvie Ajayi
Do Your Best With Jovian Zayne
"Jovi welcome thank you. Thank you out of here. Yeah ranch rance ranches much overdue to have some jovi love on here so i always start with asking people when you were little jovi. What did you want to do when you were growing up. Yeah little jovi wanted to be at their really. Yeah yeah i mean. I had a lot of clarity of mind that i wanted to sit people down couch and just have an epic conversation with them. I mean it was something from. Thanks since i was about honestly. I feel like i got. I could speak to very clearly. Once i was in middle school like i've seen A therapist on television before. I remember overhearing. One of my friend's mom who was actually seeing it. There is talk about it in the kitchen. One time we were coming back from dr practice. I remember thinking. Oh that's what i wanna do. I wanna help people with their problems going to listen to them. Give them perspective. Yeah that's that's what i want and growing up. Honestly it made so much sense to me because people naturally came to me with their stuff whenever reason people found me to be a safe place for them to explore their identities support their problem to think your ideas. I mean it was everything from like girl i know. He's got the break up with me how to handle it to. I really don't like his teacher. I'm trying to figure out how to change out of the class to Me and my brother on getting along. I mean people were coming to me with their stuff all through school. So it. It's the thing that little jovi wanted to do. And i guess is translated well to work. I do now so sixth grade. You was basically one in a mini therapist's couch I was i was. I've always been voting space for
Rants and Randomness with Luvvie Ajayi
"ajayi" Discussed on Rants and Randomness with Luvvie Ajayi
"My travel favorites. So if follow me on social media you know that travel a lot for work for play. I'm on a flight sometimes multiple times a week and are often post pictures of myself as i travel and i always get questions about Basically my travel central. So i'm dedicating this episodes of talking about it. So here's the thing is travel can be fine but when you do it a lot can be taxing on the body and the mind and that's why it's important to travel well with as many things to minimize your inconvenience and optimize circumstance right. So if you're on the road you wanna make sure that your life is not a difficult as it could be as you travel more and more certain things need to be routine. Certain things need to come with you because you wanna make sure that there's fewer things that could go wrong. Fewer things that make you uncomfortable. So yeah share a few tips. That can help you do better when you're traveling. I like to think about it. Like travels kind of like a project. So pre production production post production. Which in this case means before you go while you're on the go and possibly even after you come back from your trip and i'll get into details about that so the first thing about travel that is important in terms of When you wanna do it is Booking so you can book directly from airlines or you can go on websites like expedia orbitz kayak to find the tickets. Now this matters because If you book directly from a website it's from the website of the airline that you're gonna use. It is best because of the fact that they can make changes easier. It doesn't come often come with extra fees and it's just better to book direct. There's nothing wrong with booking on expedia orbitz but if you ever have to make a change to your ticket you can go through the airline. Also time they'll send you right back to that third website third party website obsolete. When you wanna book i recommend booking from the airline which you can do is search these websites the price comparison. And then you go to the website to book itself so you know delta american airlines united all of those the one thing that i recommend that you don't do you know me if you've been reading my blow for a long time. You will know that i am anti spirit airlines. It is the bane of travel existence. I traveled with them probably ten years ago. They charge you for everything that will charge you for water. They charge you for printing your boarding pass and there's no way you can use an electronic board. Impasse they charge you for kerryon so whatever you think you're saving on the front end. Let's say you're tickets. Two hundred bucks you might end up spending at the end of it all five hundred because between the fees for again carry on are like fifty bucks to print boarding passes like ten each way so that is my one recommendation. I call them. Break your spirit airlines. If you read my blog there's like three or four about spirit and i just wanna save you that headaches the in order to travel well some people love it and i'm like i don't understand but my i tip would be doll fly spirit anyway so. Yeah the next thing about travel. That is important. Is how to pack for travel. That piece important. When you're packing your carry on you wanna focus on. Creating a seamless airport experience. Because i don't like trump trouble when i'm traveling and i like to carry on most of the time because i don't want to deal with checking in luggage not because i have to pay for it but because i'm always afraid that if i check my luggage it will be lost. You'll have something in there. That i have to use that day. So packing is key. Become an expert packer. Unless i'm leaving the country of for over a week. I'm using a carry on. And i've actually done a i think i've done a damn international trip on my carry on before because i'm so hell bent on that but i will give you the tip if you do have to check in your luggage no matter where you are going. Make sure that in your carry on in the backpack you carry your whatever we luggage that you're gonna take with you on the plane. You pack one full outfit in there. So let's say you are traveling today because tonight you have an event a you're carrying your checking in luggage okay. I will highly recommend that the outfit that you're gonna be wearing tonight. You carry it on you. Put that in your backpack. You carry your extra tote something because it's happened to me once where actually was traveling to nigeria. And i did not have any extra clothes in my suitcase. Well fun fact. My suitcase did not make it at the same time i did and they were like well. It's on the next flight which comes in tomorrow. What happens when you have to do that. You have to now go shopping for underwear for clothes for t shirts in a country that you just landed in so if you have to check in your luggage make sure that you have one full outfit with so average over one hundred flights a year in have for the last four or five years And there came a point. When i realized i'm just kind of flying by the seat of my pants and i realized standardizing all these things was key also learning lessons like having my luggage not show up Basically taught me. I got do better at this thing. So okay packing talk about packing. The first thing that i do is i create a.
Rants and Randomness with Luvvie Ajayi
Expand Your World With Luvvie's Travel Essentials
"So if follow me on social media you know that travel a lot for work for play. I'm on a flight sometimes multiple times a week and are often post pictures of myself as i travel and i always get questions about Basically my travel central. So i'm dedicating this episodes of talking about it. So here's the thing is travel can be fine but when you do it a lot can be taxing on the body and the mind and that's why it's important to travel well with as many things to minimize your inconvenience and optimize circumstance right. So if you're on the road you wanna make sure that your life is not a difficult as it could be as you travel more and more certain things need to be routine. Certain things need to come with you because you wanna make sure that there's fewer things that could go wrong. Fewer things that make you uncomfortable. So yeah share a few tips. That can help you do better when you're traveling. I like to think about it. Like travels kind of like a project. So pre production production post production. Which in this case means before you go while you're on the go and possibly even after you come back from your trip and i'll get into details about that so the first thing about travel that is important in terms of When you wanna do it is Booking so you can book directly from airlines or you can go on websites like expedia orbitz kayak to find the tickets. Now this matters because If you book directly from a website it's from the website of the airline that you're gonna use. It is best because of the fact that they can make changes easier. It doesn't come often come with extra fees and it's just better to book direct. There's nothing wrong with booking on expedia orbitz but if you ever have to make a change to your ticket you can go through the airline. Also time they'll send you right back to that third website third party website obsolete. When you wanna book i recommend booking from the airline which you can do is search these websites the price comparison. And then you go to the website to book itself so you know delta american airlines united all of those
Rants and Randomness with Luvvie Ajayi
Be Less Apologetic With Kimberly Blackwell
"Kim welcome to to professional troublemaker. Oh my god. It's also thrilled to be here. This is a long time coming long time coming too long to low. Always start off by asking my guess. What did you wanna be when you were growing up. fun fact. I actually wanted to be a sports medicine doctor really so i have a passion for sports. Okay and really for me. was very curious about medicine. And actually my undergraduate degree i went to syracuse made and so everything by way of my preparation was to go to medical school so sports medicine. So how old were you when you realize that. That's something that you wanted to be. So here's what i'll tell you. I think i feel like. I thought i wanted to be a doctor. Probably as early as junior high. Not quite as young as elementary. But i think i'd junior high. I kinda develop that curiosity around medicine and then i played sports in high school so i played volleyball and basketball when i got to syracuse. They ask them okay so listen. This had a scholarship for basketball to yale. Oh did not go to your obviously to this day. My father does not let me live that down. Okay i'm gonna bring you way back because this is fascinating okay. So five year old. kim. How was she. Okay let's back that up okay. So kim started school at three years. Old ooh okay. And so for. Kim went to montessori school. I started early. Kim was also advanced a great. So i tell folks. Nothing i do or have done has ever been conventional started school early advanced. The great graduated fairly young. I pledged in my teens. Alpha kappa alpha. Oh yeah it's like so but going back to your question. I think five year old cam actually still has a lot of the characteristics of forty something year old count. I think i always was a people person. Okay i think i was always operating from a position of excellence. I put pressure on myself. And i remember this even as a child i wanted to beat you in everything that we play like kick ball. I want to win. Like and i want to win. Not by you know two kicks but by ten So i was very competitive. i think as I looked to areas sort of where i tried to kind of position myself. As a team player. I think even the end and having played soccer as a toddler to montessori school so i was kinda raised in that environment of like you know we have. We didn't sit desk with chairs we were taught to be. Free are thinking won'- the room with blocks and all that good stuff. We call it our teachers by their first name. Gianna oh no i'm burn. No i will never forget him. John berno and it was. It was really cool. My my parents like you know my mother's educator. So you know grew up. In the fact where my mother started as a schoolteacher and so you know we will come home to kids. We didn't know sitting in a diner on the table because my mother really kind of operated like you know it takes a village and though our who is it you know but i think i develop that sense of community and responsibility to community by saying my mother embodied that early age and so she was an educator teacher there became an administrator retired as the superintendent on my father was in public service I grew up where he had been on the council city council but even before that school board So we would have kids. We were sasha malia without knowing way bag win do on parades my were you oldest oldest of three. I'm the oldest. Three pitchers like my dad was the mayor you know. And so they're big plaques with you know his name and we're sitting on his lap and council chamber. My dad is pretty well traveled. He you know has served as an ambassador. Un ambassador he served as undersecretary hoods all. That's where i got a lot of my service responsibilities.
Rants and Randomness with Luvvie Ajayi
"ajayi" Discussed on Rants and Randomness with Luvvie Ajayi
"Okay so this is much overdue. But the timing is perfect because ranson randomness is now professional troublemakers. And who better. Who better to have on as he sent professional troublemaker. And the woman who has every award known to man like every award. And i'll here. Cynthia doesn't belong in any boxes multi hyphen it and even her hair makes trouble. I mean sometimes it does her hair because sometimes it's purple sometimes. It's green sometime pink any given day. I'm always like i wonder what coleman hair cynthia guy you can't. You can't bet on it so welcome troublemakers. But thank you. Thank you my main booze. Cynthia is one of my loves. I love you. I love her so much and she said yes. Of course we've definitely taken our time to do. this is taking. Oh my gosh. So yes so excited to have you on. Thank you for having me so. My first question is yes. What did you wanna be when you were growing up <hes>. I wanted to be a singer and actress and then at some point i changed that to a spinal surgeon and then i went back to being singer and actress. Okay now talk about there. How did you go from singer actress who wants to be a spinal surgeon. Well i had this one year in high school. I call the secondary school where i was like obsessed with biology and was really good at like. I'm one of those kids. That could really have gone either way. I could have done the biology of it. All and science of it. All if i really liked buckled down and when i was like truly truly applied i was like causing with flying colors and i was doing that anyway but i really like doing re doing well and then i was like no. I realized that that was me trying to strangely enough trying to fit in with everybody else because the people in my class they were super intelligent lawyer wanting to be lawyers. Nurses doctors ovet saw. Which has and i was like. Well i wanna be a part of that. Many people wanted to be performed. Only there was only really me. And i was like well. I could do this spinal surgery so you're another failed. Dr welcome to the club like there's only of us. Yeah we're like we could have actually do actually is. We could have actually. Let's be clear. I probably could not have. Let's actually terrible but like wasn't it matt. Set you a terrible at. I mean i was okay. I was probably buried math than i was. At st. oh chemistry was strolling caroline. Chemistry was a struggle for most people. Like you know doing. I liked chemistry though. But biology really my bag fizz like like. I can't even remember the name of this other science physics. Physics the worst. yes today. I actually loved maths. I love maths. Yeah i was. I was really good at it. I was good at algebra trigonometry. Calculus count me out. But i don't think trigonometry is necessary for anybody it's ridiculous. Is algebra really necessary. Not really but it's fun to do software ex. Yeah yes. I can do that all day. No so you went okay. So what was five year old. Cynthia like five year old. Cynthia was bubbly chatty would sing. Everything probably hummed when she ate nosy. Reno's i wanted to know about everything. I wanted to be in everyone's business. I wanted to hear what everyone was talking about. I wanted to see everyone was doing <hes>. Yeah that was that was her she was i was i was fun. Like i'm not shy of a show. Anything ever fabio le vian five. You would have been friends. i think. Thirty five year old. Lovey and five year old. Cynthia probably would have gotten into trouble a lot. But for nothing other than talking t- much facts actual facts and talking and really smart so you couldn't get checkup 'cause you're right. It's one of the two kids that like are always talking and when you have the conversation they do something that makes you laugh. Even you're supposed to get them into trouble and they do something silly and they're both really cute and small so you kind of like minds go back to class just is fine. Bet is exactly. Where did you grow up. I grew up in so i went to south london school in south west london. And that's where. I grew up and then we moved when i was about fifteen to east london and i. That's where i was until i was about. Twenty four twenty five. Yeah so then. In high school you went back to the performing arts of at all. Yes i did. You have a nigerian mom idea. How did she handle it. Was she cool. was she supportive. What was she like. I want you to be a doctor. She was really supportive because she's a bit of a rebel herself she <hes>. She was when she. She came over to london. I won't say twenty four. She came to london on her own. She came with one of her sisters but they basically went. She has this whole thing and she kept wanting to have thing as well and she was sent here to do one thing and did something totally different because she wanted to. She's like i don't want to do this. Thing is being asked of me. I know i wouldn't want to do this. And i think that because she was bought here a sent here to do something else. That didn't that wasn't a passion she. I don't think she ever wanted to inflict on me the same thing so she just wanted me to do what i wanted to do. But do it really well
From The Newsroom
French President Emmanuel Macron Tests Positive for the Coronavirus
"French president emmanuel macron has tested positive for covid nineteen macron now joins other world leaders including british prime minister. Boris johnson us president. Donald trump and brazilian late ajayi bolsonaro to have tested positive for the virus macron was self isolate seven days in accordance with french regulations and will continue to work
Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
An Instagram account is exposing influencer inequality
"The. Hey. Inequality exists influences to from one instagram account is exposing it from American public media. This is marketplace tech. I'm Jack Stewart Info Molly would. How much you paid, it's always an awkward conversation to have but Edessa Ajayi is asking. Just that of social media influences they can have followings of tens or hundreds of thousands and companies will pay them for promotions, but a giant you started the instagram account influence a pay gap to highlight the fact that black influences routinely paid less than white influences, and that's even when they have similar numbers of followers or the same reach, the account lets people share stories anonymously and learn from other people's experiences about what is a fair payment for particular job or endorsements. JI- whose day job is managing influences at the talent agency AGM, so she's been collecting hundreds of stories. So, one of the most interesting ones actually was a campaign and influence of was participating in. This was a why influence. And she was approached lost minute. By a beauty brand with the expectation that she was going to replace a celebrity, so she was five K to be paid for that campaign. She turned up, but realized that the celebrity that apparently wasn't going to turn up. Actually did turn up, so there was no need for her. To be, and she was still paid that five k whereas a black. Who actually participated in the campaign with paid around one thousand, seven hundred, and it had nothing to do influence and following. It's one thing in a job where people get paid a salary, and you can be fairly transparent about it or at least four that transparency, but with influences where this kind of just not that overall body. There's not a union. There's really no way as there to dig in and figure out what these differences are really lets you hide things quite easily. One hundred percent especially as there are different parties involved you have the brands, but you have. Agencies and agencies are often given big budgets from brands or depending on the budget. Will be given the budget from abroad, and there's no level of transparency whereby you know if A. Brian gives an agency around ten K.. WHO's to save agency doesn't Call Five K for themselves and intentionally level influences. I think there were so many things at play here. There's so many people involved in different ways and each industry, each niche you know there are different behaviors that a lot more common within certain niches Bill for message. To Do? You work at a talent agency. Is there anything you can think of? The would help fix this problem? Is there a way to structure pay as their away for influences to work together a former union beyond what you're doing with? The implants pay gap instagram page I'm working hand in hand with a union that has actually been set up there working towards. Towards a opportunities for advocacy when it comes to influences in space and craters in general where people feel okay to discuss the ways in which they have been treated I think reinvigorating influences in the sense that where they feel a lot more confident and a lot more Hud you in the in the grand scheme of things is really important to me. Have you heard anything from brands either talking to you personally or speaking out publicly about the inequality issue? Yes, there are some black influences especially who kind of feel away about some of the Post that have been made by certain brands especially grinds that have a habit of picking and choosing what they like from black culture, completely ostracizing black influences from their campaigns and I think there is constantly right now. Accommodation around seeing black influences black creators as a worthy of a level of respect. You know it shouldn't be anything some shallow. Shallow because you're scared of any repercussions, what you hope changes as a result of this page and the work that you're doing I would really not for it to create a space whereby people feel like they can be on us and NATO behind and not only hard that that based upon the feedback brands will take steps to do what they should do so that's one thing I would also say just. The sense of community has been amazing, and just seeing influences help one another. I think you know sometimes they can be. An influence of with a million can feel so far fetched to maybe influence PUGH has five Cape on the page it. Brings people together an and gives them an understanding of what? Different spaces like and and the things that other people go through, and so I think from the page on that find. UGH, lovell, a kind of close knit way of people advocating for one enough it also required people to use that privilege and also use that insight to help one another, and I, and I think that is what has been really really amazing about the page and I think it will only continue to. Get even. In in that sense. Edessa Ajayi runs the instagram account. Influence a pay gap. She says there is actually a union in the UK now, and she's working with it to try and promote more
Iroquois History and Legends
Seven Generations - With Karl Dockstader (Oneida)
"Hello and welcome everyone and we're so glad to have you today. Joining me is Carl docstater and just to give you a little background on this guy he's a member of the United. Nation, and he's the program called for the four year Fellowship Center about four years ago. He and a colleague of his started a podcast called one dish one Mike, and since then it's transformed into a weekly on air radio show, and recently he. He became a recipient of Canadian Journalism Foundation CBC. Fellowship for his. Outstanding Work I've been on his show before the ever since our show started. We've communicated back and forth, and finally it's my delight to introduce this man, and on top of that all he's an avid buffalo bills fan, so I would like to give a big severely to Mr Pro docstater You're very kind to Gaydos in the youngest log into low to Jota, what's the? What can I do? GEICO Ajayi? That translates to many Ms Carl. Just kidding There's there's a lot more in there. that I I like to introduce myself with Mitch official name is often as possible because our our language is under threat. I think that using any language like even if you only know Golly, even if you only know gateway when you're saying goodbye to someone or or something similar to goodbye, or or if you're seeing Jawa, thank someone. I think that every bit of language revitalization is is important, so so thank you for for having me on your show I have a gigantic fan. If you go into the archives, you can find an episode where we interview Andrew Shannon I may podcasting Betsy Andrew and I think that it's really just forty five minutes of meat gushing lick offend will. So but but you're worth it I mean it, it's it's really be concept. Your show that that you're doing at I'm I'm glad to be on for for something. Maybe a little outside of the box of avoid normally, so they are having beats danger. It's it's outside of the box, but i. feel like when we started the show. This is more of what we wanted. It's easy to talk about dead people because if you. You get something wrong well. They're not around to defend themselves. What's really hard for me? Is from a loving history and background is a lot of times. We try as hard as we can to point out. The the members of the six nations are still around today. There's still a vibrant part of our communities. They still contribute still here at not not like two or three of them left and on our show I have to. To purposely save the holding. The schone are instead of the haughtiness. SCHONE did and a lot of times we use the past tense. I I apologize to it now. You know when you're talking about past historical events that happens a lot, but we'd like to point out all the contributions that people have made in the past, and how the influenced our history and culture and society, and so it's just good to have somebody from today. Today that can can speak for today. I know you're just one person I. Know You don't speak on behalf of all indigenous people on the continent. I know you don't speak on behalf of everyone from the Oneida nation. You probably don't speak on behalf of your family either. It's good to have other perspectives because Caleb. I realized that we're limited in our scope. I wanted to have somebody come on. That could give me an. Update, but just what is Oneida culture like today? And what are the issues that your people are facing today? And then I also WANNA. Look towards the future a lot of times we get bogged down today's issues. Today's Oracle stuff, and as this podcast is recorded as different, but I realized that years from now decades from now hopefully, when people are still listening to you and me working back through the archives that you know we can, we can look forward and see what what does the future stand? What does the to row treaty mean for both our peoples in the future going forward. So that's a long winded. Introduction, BUT I want to turn over your Harlan just give you really open ended just give me a background about yourself and your upbringing. Yeah, thank you, thank you for the opportunity again. I think that what you said is probably key at. If if you're just tuning in if tuning in because of me than you've heard me, say this before if tuning into your recoil, ledges, mystery podcasts, and you're hearing me for the. The first time I think it is important that we're hitting on that concept. The Ngoni people are are still here and I, even like like I had to check myself I was helping my daughter my my nine year old at the time ten year old daughter. Do you a project for history? And it's it's difficult to sift through the history texts and to see them. Talk about how we were as people like, say we. We are as a people like we were still doing. Ceremonies were still. I'm literally trying to grow white corn, even as we speak like I'm. I'm sitting here. Thinking created rain last night because we're not something that their lives in a textbook sitting on sitting on a shelf somewhere, that's something that we want to bring a so having opportunity to come on with you today to to really remind people that can onto says about about living. Living History. History is something we're still living right now is super cool I. one of the reasons I like to get on. This side of the microphone is is that I don't have to talk about myself, so it's it's different since since I now you're the one that's technically behind the Mike but I mean I can say is that it's What it really pride myself on is is activity in my own community. I went and I volunteered tirelessly from a friendship center work at the forgery native. Friendship Centre by day. I volunteered there before I worked there I volunteered at the other friendship center in our region, the Niagara Regional Native Center and that for everything we do is indigenous people I. Think I think it's really evaluated on a on a community level and I. think that's something that we've actively done. Is that individuals? Success is just not the metric. That's not the measurement for for who we are as. at least in in the community circles that I that I hang out so so for me. My production into community was movement called idle no more if you will see American listeners after how how familiar they'll be with that movement, but there was an effort in in two thousand, twelve, twenty, thirteen to to really got environmental measures to take away protection from wire to fundamentally changed the relationship between the government and indigenous people. In four women stood up and said that we're not going to be idle anymore. We will be idle, no more and we need to. We need to put a stop to this. And our people got behind those women and all of our people. It felt like like there was a total consensus in our community that had an off and I saw the seismic shift almost ten years ago. Where people like we have to do something so so for me, that was almost may may rebirth into community I was I was just living regular life, and you know trying to trying to hold down a good job trying to buy a house and worrying about the things that normal people. People worry about and then. I saw this groundswell of activity in our community, and it really opened. My Eyes Act that we need to work together to federal sell change
Iroquois History and Legends
Seven Generations - With Karl Dockstader (Oneida)
"Hello and welcome everyone and we're so glad to have you today. Joining me is Carl docstater and just to give you a little background on this guy he's a member of the United. Nation, and he's the program called for the four year Fellowship Center about four years ago. He and a colleague of his started a podcast called one dish one Mike, and since then it's transformed into a weekly on air radio show, and recently he. He became a recipient of Canadian Journalism Foundation CBC. Fellowship for his. Outstanding Work I've been on his show before the ever since our show started. We've communicated back and forth, and finally it's my delight to introduce this man, and on top of that all he's an avid buffalo bills fan, so I would like to give a big severely to Mr Pro docstater You're very kind to Gaydos in the youngest log into low to Jota, what's the? What can I do? GEICO Ajayi? That translates to many Ms Carl. Just kidding There's there's a lot more in there. that I I like to introduce myself with Mitch official name is often as possible because our our language is under threat. I think that using any language like even if you only know Golly, even if you only know gateway when you're saying goodbye to someone or or something similar to goodbye, or or if you're seeing Jawa, thank someone. I think that every bit of language revitalization is is important, so so thank you for for having me on your show I have a gigantic fan. If you go into the archives, you can find an episode where we interview Andrew Shannon I may podcasting Betsy Andrew and I think that it's really just forty five minutes of meat gushing lick offend will. So but but you're worth it I mean it, it's it's really be concept. Your show that that you're doing at I'm I'm glad to be on for for something. Maybe a little outside of the box of avoid normally, so they are having beats danger. It's it's outside of the box, but i. feel like when we started the show. This is more of what we wanted. It's easy to talk about dead people because if you. You get something wrong well. They're not around to defend themselves. What's really hard for me? Is from a loving history and background is a lot of times. We try as hard as we can to point out. The the members of the six nations are still around today. There's still a vibrant part of our communities. They still contribute still here at not not like two or three of them left and on our show I have to. To purposely save the holding. The schone are instead of the haughtiness. SCHONE did and a lot of times we use the past tense. I I apologize to it now. You know when you're talking about past historical events that happens a lot, but we'd like to point out all the contributions that people have made in the past, and how the influenced our history and culture and society, and so it's just good to have somebody from today. Today that can can speak for today. I know you're just one person I. Know You don't speak on behalf of all indigenous people on the continent. I know you don't speak on behalf of everyone from the Oneida nation. You probably don't speak on behalf of your family either. It's good to have other perspectives because Caleb. I realized that we're limited in our scope. I wanted to have somebody come on. That could give me an. Update, but just what is Oneida culture like today? And what are the issues that your people are facing today? And then I also WANNA. Look towards the future a lot of times we get bogged down today's issues. Today's Oracle stuff, and as this podcast is recorded as different, but I realized that years from now decades from now hopefully, when people are still listening to you and me working back through the archives that you know we can, we can look forward and see what what does the future stand? What does the to row treaty mean for both our peoples in the future going forward. So that's a long winded. Introduction, BUT I want to turn over your Harlan just give you really open ended just give me a background about yourself and your upbringing. Yeah, thank you, thank you for the opportunity again. I think that what you said is probably key at. If if you're just tuning in if tuning in because of me than you've heard me, say this before if tuning into your recoil, ledges, mystery podcasts, and you're hearing me for the. The first time I think it is important that we're hitting on that concept. The Ngoni people are are still here and I, even like like I had to check myself I was helping my daughter my my nine year old at the time ten year old daughter. Do you a project for history? And it's it's difficult to sift through the history texts and to see them. Talk about how we were as people like, say we. We are as a people like we were still doing. Ceremonies were still. I'm literally trying to grow white corn, even as we speak like I'm. I'm sitting here. Thinking created rain last night because we're not something that their lives in a textbook sitting on sitting on a shelf somewhere, that's something that we want to bring a so having opportunity to come on with you today to to really remind people that can onto says about about living. Living History. History is something we're still living right now is super cool I. one of the reasons I like to get on. This side of the microphone is is that I don't have to talk about myself, so it's it's different since since I now you're the one that's technically behind the Mike but I mean I can say is that it's What it really pride myself on is is activity in my own community. I went and I volunteered tirelessly from a friendship center work at the forgery native. Friendship Centre by day. I volunteered there before I worked there I volunteered at the other friendship center in our region, the Niagara Regional Native Center and that for everything we do is indigenous people I. Think I think it's really evaluated on a on a community level and I. think that's something that we've actively done. Is that individuals? Success is just not the metric. That's not the measurement for for who we are as.
Casefile True Crime
Exposing a War Crime with Justin Watt
"On March. Twelve two thousand six during the height of the Iraq. War full members of the Janabi Family forty-five-year-old forty-five-year-old Qasim. He's thirty four year old wife Factoria and two daughters six year old at deal and fourteen year old. A B were murdered in their home in the Iraqi village. Village of USA fail south of Baghdad. Be had also been right and her remains set a lot. It was widely accepted. The attack had been carried out by local insurgents as such violence was common in the area that was referred to by occupying. Foreign Military is the triangle of death. The American soldier Private First Class Justin. What was stationed in Iraq? At the Thanh months off that Janabi family slaying. Ajayi sajjan confided that one of their fellow soldiers was responsible for the brutal crime. Justin pussies friendships Corre- and David. He's lot but risk but conducting talking. He's uncovered investigation into the matter. He discovered several of the soldiers were involved to varying degrees and made the difficult decision to expose posed them for the American soldiers. Sergeant Paul Cortez Specialist James Baca Private First Class Jesse spillman private first this class Brian Howard and Private First Class Steven Green with band to of planned carried out and covered up the ripened murder of be as well as the massacre of her family. Ole Five individuals faced charges by their involvement and received varying convictions. Green had been discharged from the US army mental instability prior to the crime's coming to lot and was consequently trod in civilian court while the other four perpetrators is faced the US army general courts Martial Green. Who was responsible for carrying out? The Med is sentenced to life imprisonment with no possibility. PF parole he took his life shortly after the remaining perpetrators was sent to military prison to serve a varying sentences. You just what's actions led to mixed opinions from the American public some viewed as a hero while others accused him of being a traitor data and sent him death threats. His decision also impacted the Iraqi paypal creating hostilities. Between the locals insurgents and touring military three Justin has since been medically discharged from the army and has spoken with US candidly about military experience including the Janabi family family murders adding additional context to our episode on the crime. Justin started by telling us how he came to join the military before nine. Eleven by buddy names all and we're GONNA do the steel challenge together. They had a program in the navy. That dead allowed you to join with a friend. She going at the same time in guaranteed you a selection slot to go to buds went through got qualified for that. What I was seventeen at the time and I showed up to maps like the process for joining the military? Here in America's like you'll go through talk to a recruiter you'll do. There's some preliminary testing then you have to go up to maps for you know. Some physical batteries stuff apt to batteries. Stuff like that on the day that I was supposed go to maps. And that's where you sign your contract. My buddy bailed on me completely so I went up there on my own and as it turns out the job it was like a crypto does slash networking like computer type position. That wasn't available anymore and so I was like okay. I'm not going to do this because I was seventeen. you can't join into your eighteen hours in what was called the delayed entry program so you get all your stuff done when you're seventeen and then basically as soon as you're eighteen you ship out. I basically dumpstered the idea. Nine nine eleven happened and like in a serious relationship. You know I had a pretty decent job I was a blackjack dealer. Casino pit boss. The relationship ended and I remember just being in a position where I was just Kinda like okay. Like what am I gonNa do now because like all of my plans kind of like based around future with that person listen and you know. I had no idea what I was going to be doing. And I was like cleaning out my room and I found my body and my original ship date was supposed to be on September eleven and at that point I was just like while somebody else's probably like in my place. I just watched band of brothers. Zoom may be sound like the biggest cliche ever. But you literally after watching that I was like you know I want the hundred and first airborne infantry and if you're not going to give him I'm not going and at at that time the Iraq war kicked off this is like two thousand four. I want to say so it. It just really kicked off in Iraq. Ans- dance they couldn't find people join just as Iraq was a lot bloodier then Afghanistan. And so I got like a twenty thousand dollar bonus for joining the infantry which is unheard of because it's a it's a low like agr- apartment job. Yeah twelve days later from that data I found that I D I was on a plane for Benning to get into training so went through that then Amelie after that the air assault school school has learned a robot of the jobbers which is a big part of the hundred and first does and then got on my unit you know and it was. It was a very different thing to go through all the training knowing that. You're going to war like everybody. They're sergeants that were teaching. Just got back. It was their first combat deployment. mm-hmm there's people that were in the logistical infrastructure of basic training. They were headed down to the hundred. I with me so I know there was a lot of camaraderie. I I think apprehension everyone. Everyone knew with certainty that they were going. Everyone knew that it was popping off over there. So yeah yeah I mean it was. It was a crazy time for sure when we sent in Iraq so the way it worked out is I got down to one hundred I I I. And that's where I linked up with my unit and you get assigned to accompany and everything and that's how I ended up in First Striker Bravo Company the unit that the book was based not got down there on the mmu pre-deployment spin ups. you go out and do more training. You know out in the field and like these stimulated urban combat villages at the National Training C. C. Out in Louisiana we see Anna and you do training pull unit and then as smaller elements. Then you go. I mean usually get stood down a couple of times just because they don't like people knowing exactly when you're going to be leaving with how many people you're going and everything like that just operational security stuff so I wanna say so. From the day that we're seagoing. There is like a couple of week variation we went and we stopped in Germany on the way there and then landed in Saudi Arabia. You did our last combat zero before getting down into into theater which is like make. Sure Weapons Still dialed in. And then yeah. We're down to Iraq doc. We landed in Baghdad. It just a different world. I mean you land there and the war machine is is pretty pretty sophisticated so like by the time we got down there. We'd only been in Iraq in that kicked off two thousand. Three's basically the end of two thousand and four early two thousand and five. They already had this. Main kind of super base built up in in Baghdad. was called striker at the time and there was like a Pizza Hut and green bean copy. It's just weird but then you're like walking around in this area. That feels kind of like you know a military base and then you'll be talking with your friend and then all of a sudden you hear like a a huge explosion. A few hundred meters outside the perimeter. Then you'll hear a bunch of machine gun fire and from a couple of different areas and then you it'll just go silent right and you're like somebody has died at their like. That's crazy I it was just a a weird transition.
Skip and Shannon: Undisputed
Game Preview: Chiefs at Patriots
"We are joined by Super Bowl champ former patriot Brian Cox. Thank you for joining us this morning. Big aim Sunday. What do you expect expert hus- going game. Whoever has the ball last has an opportunity win, but I think the Kansas City Chiefs coming away with the victory. Wow, wow. I don't like either the visits. Agree with you, I think is going to be high scoring, but I don't believe that Tom radio will make them stakes that Blake Bortles dead. I also believe that once they get inside the red zone, Blake Bortles turned the ball over Tom Brady's gonna get touchdowns. And so the question is know. We see them go head to head for a little while being and they outgun the Steelers, but can he go full quarter in New England head to head with Tom Brady because in order to beat them, they've only been Tom Brady has been to start a two thousand five. They've only been home. They only been home dog four times. So people, man, I'm surprised that New England favorite over Kansas stated that a number one power rank. I mean, number two power ranking behind the ramp. I'm not because as long as Tom Brady's there is long, it's called Bella checks. They're, they're probably going to be favored at home because we know that record is not skip it. Probably a little shot that the spray is not bigger things like giving money. So they go to keep that thing low and they want to try to get somebody as opposed to give the money away. But. This is going to be. I'm anxious to see Mahomes as we go along, you say on a magic carpet ride. I don't know if he's fourteen in too good specially in the second year starting. Yeah, but the patriots are different animal at home, and now that they have all their pieces off physically, they'll slowly integrate. Ajayi Gordon Gordon on the outside. Now that's gonna lessen the double teams on. You can't double team adamant.
Ron St. Pierre
Rooting for different sports teams may be bad for your relationship
"Call courtesy of NBC Jay Ajayi with his second touchdown of the game there to put the Philadelphia Eagles back on top late in the fourth quarter. They'd hold off a late drive downfield by the Atlanta Falcons as the eagles come away with an eighteen to twelve win on night where they unveil their Super Bowl fifty two champion banner and opened up the NFL season Doukas receiver Julio Jones though with a solid performance despite the loss ten receptions for one hundred and sixty nine yards. Matt Napolitano, Fox News anybody who's been following. Tiger Woods this season knows that he's been doing incredibly well to somebody who's been inconsistent hitting the
News, Traffic and Weather
Starbucks coffee in California must have cancer warning, judge says
"In california says cancer warnings must as we hear from abc's alec stone in la in a proposed ruling here in l a jog says starbucks and other coffee companies must start putting cancer warning labels on their products in california finding the companies did not show that the threat from chemical produced in the coffee roasting process was insignificant the coffee industry fully admits that the cancer causing chemical is in the coffee we drink but they claim it said harmless levels and should not fall under state law for cancer warnings ajayi disagrees alex stone abc news los angeles this good friday the vatican denying a report that claims pope francis said hell does not exist this is abc news komo aaa traffic every ten minutes on the fours into coma construction as northbound i five closed for the time being at milepost one thirty four traffic is diverted to portland avenue in the other direction southbound i five roadwork had highway sixteen has two left lanes closed and we also have construction on the eastbound highway sixteen ramp to south five that ramp is closed overnight till five o'clock in the morning this sport is brought to.