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The Dan Bongino Show
Joe Biden Hopes Kevin McCarthy Had a 'Personal Revelation'
"Not okay I'll tell you even people in church this weekend like Dan you okay I'm okay I'm just disappointed at what chronically constantly getting sold out by people he was Biden this weekend someone and on social media noted you must have taken some edibles before I don't know what kind they were with the THC level was I'm guessing Jim was up there I don't even know what THC levels are for these things that are good or bad because I don't do edibles personally maybe I should start I could President be of the United States so here's Biden the Republicans and Democrats signed on to another bankruptcy bill extending our inevitable bankruptcy to 45 days in a 45 -day CR and Biden said uh I don't know what he said maybe you know take a listen I hope this experience for the speaker has been one of a personal revelation. I'm I've not been facetious I uh um that the guy he's really powerful can ask in his speeches I mean I've never seen speeches like this the great some of the great speakers I've seen Reagan I'll tell you now great speaker Mark Robinson Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina he's up there Joe Biden's up there anyway sounds like he's taking a dump in like a diaper or something like that you can't control himself control your bowels
Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
Fresh update on "robinson" discussed on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
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The Aloönæ Show
A highlight from S13 E14: Sean: Multi-Role Expertise & Career Insights
"Hello, welcome to The Loney Show. I'm your host, John May Loney. In this episode, we don't have Regulus because, well, raisins, as always. As for our guest, he's from Ontario, Canada. He's an electrician, volunteer firefighter, and a project manager. Hmm, intriguing. Ladies and gentlemen, I'll give you Sean Robinson. Hi there. How are you? I'm excited to be here. Yes, me too. So, how is life? Life is going great. I've got three young kids who keep me busy and I've learnt through this journey that it's better to look more positively than to complain about things. Exactly. Couldn't agree more. And have you been up too much recently? Yeah, recently. Other than my kids keeping me busy. Just trying to stay true to this new path that I found for myself and to just challenge myself to try things that I haven't tried before or wouldn't have tried before. Okay, that's cool. That's cool. So, for all that being the electrician, volunteer firefighter, and project manager, what was the journey between the three? So, the journey that brought me here, basically, working construction, working as a volunteer firefighter. I've done each for about 20 years total. And very, very masculine, very toxic masculine environment. And with that and my dad's mechanic, just a very masculine upbringing, I felt like I couldn't talk about issues. I couldn't bring things forward that were bothering me that I had to just toughen up and fix it. And my drinking alcohol kind of rhyme routine and habit circulated those things. And it was kind of separate, but also related. And it just got to a point where I was 320 pounds, feeling both mentally and physically miserable and needed to make a change. I thought I knew what I needed to do, but regardless, it just wasn't happening. So, I reached a bit of a rock bottom for myself and needed something to change. Decided that removing alcohol was a good first step to healthier living and a better attitude.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "robinson" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
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The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from Re-Evangelizing Britain with Calvin Robinson and Sen. Mike Lee
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Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust. Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at andrewandtodd .com. Joining us now is one of my favorite senators and just a terrific guy. Senator Lee Mike joins us. Senator, thank you for taking the time. Senator, you have a very powerful thread on Twitter that I want to speak with you about. You have this idea of the law firm Schumer McConnell McCarthy and Jeffries, the firm as you call it, that does deals in the the middle of the night and back room deals. Walk us through all this, Senator. I think it's fascinating and very important. Senator Mike Lee. Yeah, thanks for inviting me to talk about it. This is a thread that I posted on the Twitter presence that I use for my own personal musings is my at -based Mike Lee account and on that I explained how this four -person cabal within Congress, what I call up the law firm of Schumer McConnell McCarthy and Jeffries, comes together and whichever four fit in those positions, the top Republican and Democrat from the House and in the Senate, over the last decade or so they've gotten more and more powerful and they've taken it upon themselves very often to be intimately involved in the drafting of spending bills. In many cases consolidating all spending bills, there's supposed to be 12 separate bills each running a different part of government, these guys will put one together. We call that an omnibus and very often the omnibus or whatever bill they're putting together will be held back into the last possible moment until a couple of days and sometimes only hours before government funding is about to run out. Then they bring it forward to their respective caucuses, House, Senate, Republican, Democrat and say here you go, here's the bill, it's ready to go. We unfortunately don't have much time to read it, we unfortunately don't have really any time to debate it, we have almost no time left to amend it, so you basically have to take it as is and vote yes or you can vote no, but if you vote no you'll be blamed for a shutdown and we'll make sure of it. So most members vote for it. It usually has the nasty effect of unifying Democrats, nearly all Democrats jump on board because it almost always spends more money than it did last year and it peels off just enough Republicans to get it to pass and so this is how we end up 33 trillion dollars in debt. This is how it happens because of the action of the law firm and the unflinching response of far too many Republicans to say yeah I'll jump on board with that even though we're unifying Democrats, pursuing Democratic priorities for the most part and we're sharply dividing Republicans. So let's tie this into the 930 fight and you're right, what they do is they kind of hold these votes hostage that have some necessary components, funding the military, things of that nature, and then they just always you know they always will say well you know it's the lesser of two evils, we want to keep the government open. So tie this into the 930 funding fight and specifically the timing and the sequence of this omnibus as you write quote was carefully orchestrated by the firm but ensures that it will pass without any substantive changes once it becomes public and the very few elected federal lawmakers will have meaningful input in this highly secretive process. This is so dysfunctional, Senator. Walk us through how this is going to unfold in the next couple of weeks.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Robinson" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"Hit the brakes near the Fairfax County Parkway it's down to a work zone that blocks the right side that's breakaway your point and easy pass express lanes are pointed southbound both directions of the Beltway in Virginia passing Georgetown Pike it's a work zone blocks the right lane each way the inner loop crash that was in the mix has been cleared from your traveling in it was in the work zone now it should be completely gone Route Route 1 Woodbridge that was the latest spot for an accident near Mary's Way in both directions here you'll be following police direction in Vienna Route 7 east of Baron Cameron a crash watch again for police direction we'll check out the Maryland side inner loop slows to get onto the 270 spur that is work zone blocking on right the if you're traveling on the outer loop you're passing 95 toward 650 New Hampshire Avenue right lane was still blocked but that's now just work the crash cleared 97 running northbound still heavy from about the Hawkins Road overpass through Crownsville loosening up the crash that was near 832 officially cleared Route 1 south of the beltway near 193 University Boulevard Bard you are still following police direction we have various lanes blocked with the bus crash Whitman Walker's new Max Robinson Center is just steps away from Congress Heights Metro offering dental services primary care mental health care and more become a patient at UTOP traffic 70s first alert meteorologist Mark Pena is joining us live today we have temperatures heading back into the eighties and it feels like it's a touch more humid
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Pastor Allen Mashburn
"We are representing a second whistleblower from the FBI, Marcus Allen. Due to whistleblower retaliation by the FBI, I've been suspended without pay for over a year because of you, ACLJ donors. You get the best attorneys in the world. Folks, welcome to the Eric Mataxas show sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit Legacy PM investments dot com. That's Legacy PM investments dot com. Ladies and gentlemen, looking for something new and original, something unique and without equal. Look no further. Here comes the one and only Eric Mataxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome to the show. It's my privilege to introduce you today to someone to whom I have just been introduced. I'm talking about Pastor Alan Mashburn. Pastor Alan Mashburn is one of those crazy pastors who doesn't understand that you got to keep religion out of politics. You should never mix the two. Well, maybe I'm kidding. Alan Mashburn is running. Pastor Alan Mashburn is running to be the 36th lieutenant governor of North Carolina. Now, I don't know if you folks know, but the current lieutenant governor of North Carolina is a hothead, a Christian named Mark Robinson, who is just one of the brightest lights in American politics today. So he, I'm told by Pastor Alan Mashburn, is going to be running for governor. Praise the Lord. And Alan Pastor Mashburn is running for lieutenant governor. All I can tell you is I'm ready to move to North Carolina if this happens. Pastor Alan Mashburn, welcome to this program. Well, thank you, Eric. It's an honor to be on. I appreciate all you have done in promoting conservatism and Christian causes. Well, listen, you and I know that we forget about conservatism and Christian causes. We're just interested in truth. And it just so happens that in this crazy day and age, that falls into the category of conservatism or Christian causes. But it used to fall in the category of common sense and reality. And we are now at a point where the insane left, sometimes the demonic left, has been really at war with reality and with the God of the Bible, with his reality and with everywhere we look. So we're seeing moral corruption. We've never seen anything like it, let's be honest, in our lifetimes, never seen anything like it. So it thrills me that you, who are a pastor, are running for lieutenant governor in North Carolina. I heard Mark Robinson speak, I don't know, about a year ago someplace. And I thought, wow, this is tremendous that we have men of God running for public office, winning public office. I want to talk to you about everything. But give me a little bit of a background on yourself. Where did you grow up and how did you come to be who you are today? Well, I grew up in central North Carolina and North Carolina has always been home, except for the time I moved away in college. I have been a pastor for over 30 years and I have a family, of course, my wife, Melissa. We have four children all the way from ages 19 down to age four.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Robinson" from WTOP 24 Hour News
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Conversations with Coach LA
Poet VCR and Coach LA Reflect on Times of Grief
"Were talking a lot you know offline me and V were talking about you know being human and I heard you mention a couple times you know that you didn't cry and I often wonder why you know that's something that I don't and maybe this is not for you but sometimes that's like the badge of honor that shows the strength of you don't cry but I think crying is okay I think for that allowing that emotion to for people to see it is a human expression that lets everybody else know it's okay to miss the person I think when we're grieving sometimes we want to quickly just move on because missing the person is so so it feels so heavy and it's so overwhelming but I think allowing myself to say I miss my dad and to cry whenever I want to cry has helped me to to live with the fact that he's not here versus trying to just move on and not act as if I'm sad or I don't I just I don't want to grieve that way but I do I do realize grieving is so different for everyone so even you mentioning people saying well you should be home grieving um I understand where you're coming from sometimes you need to be up and moving and doing something to help you and what a lot of us don't understand is people grieve when they want to grieve we are not one to judge and say you need to grieve at this time you know I know I've learned that when someone lost a loved one and this is something that gets me sometimes but I can understand but when someone lose a loved one especially if they we when they posted on social media whatever I just tell them my condolences and leave it at that you know I'm saying I am not one to to take take part of your grief and add it on to my grief you know there's someone someone did that one time when my brother passed he came in I didn't even know he paid a visit my older brother left the other men and I was like I know I wasn't even just now the yo who just what was it I know it was either and I had to look out it's all what's up man yo man he told me he sorry for his no for what happened you know my brother's lost my loss for my brother but he also added his grieving because he lost a daughter and um but it was just too much you know I'm I'm not here to add in my grief to your grief so let's just say if you lost your let's say you lost your brother or your sister I'm not here to be like yo you know I'm sorry about for your loss I lost my sister too I'm like it's not about you V it's about Lala it's about coach Lala she lost one yeah you deal with your situation you deal with her it's about her now this is her moment you don't come here and just you know interfere with her moment talk about you lost your love you've done that before you know I think you know and I hear where you're coming from too I think people do that to come in solidarity to be able to say that they understand or that they can connect with you on the fact that they lost somebody too I think people just sometimes don't know what to say that's true too you know or what or what to do or they get triggered so seeing you and seeing what you're going through it reminds them of what they went through and what they experienced yeah or what they still may be experiencing
The Big Take
Fresh "Robinson" from The Big Take
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Conversations with Coach LA
It All Leads Back to Poetry With Vernon "VCR" Robinson
"Know that legacy is really important. One of the reasons why I'm doing this show. You know we talked earlier about nationality and heritage. And I'm leaving a blueprint right. These episodes and shows will forever be etched in social media land or internet land. However you want to you know frame it. You know but. My great great great grandchildren will be able to go and listen to this. And hear my voice and get a sense of my personality and my opinion. So this is my body of work that I'll be leaving behind. If I die tomorrow there's a year's worth of episodes that I've done. And people that I've talked to and touched that I probably don't even know about. So I think poetry allows us to do that. You know I love poetry. I love spoken word for that reason. Because we get a chance to talk about all types of emotions, situations. Do all type of word plays and everything. Like it's one of the most freeing forms of art. I think next to probably writing a song or music or drawing or painting. It's poetry. And it's poetry. Exactly. Exactly. And that's the thing about dealing with poetry. You know when people say I don't like poetry. I say well do you really know what poetry really means? You know what I'm saying? Do you understand? You know it's not a case where. You know and all cliches aside. You know poetry is bigger than that. You know everything comes out of poetry. You know whether it be spoken word. Whether it be rhyming. Whether it be singing. Whether it be art. It all starts with a poem. You know how many artists that I've met. And if you dig back. Even Roxanne Shante when we met her on the cruise. She said she started off with poetry. Most artists will tell you that they started off writing poems. And that led into writing songs. Or being a rapper or lyricist. It started with a poem. Yep. Their love for words started in poetry. Right. And like I said there's also other forms. Whether you're painting. Like you mentioned. Whether you're dancing. You know what I'm saying? You know it's so much. You know that is a form of poetry. You dance and you see. It's a form of expression basically. Right. It's all artistic. If you can express yourself rhythmically. Yeah that's poetry. You express yourself visually. That's poetry.
Conversations with Coach LA
"I Have to Create a Legacy": VCR Describes His Poetic Inspiration
"Lot of your pieces are timely right. And they're very much connected to what is happening in the world. In the moment. And I love that you write pieces that are time pieces. Timeless pieces. What inspires you do you just say you know what. I have so much emotion and feeling about this I'm going to go right. No I guess what what inspired me is the fact that. We're all going to reach that moment where your time's up. And it just depends on where you're going to be. And also I realize that you know I may have to. I have to create a legacy. I just can't pass away without anything to leave behind. Which is positive. Because if you don't do that. There may be a time where they go to your service. And they have nothing to say about you. And that they do have something to say about you. It better not be negative. You know oh VCR was a he was a good guy. But he owe a lot of people money. You know you want to hear that at a service. So you want to and if you. If you keep carrying yourself in a negative manner. You know. There's nothing to leave. I look at myself as building something. With that hyphen in between my life and the date that I'm gone. So you have to keep building that. They call it in between the dash. Yeah no doubt. So my thing was you know. As far as the person that. Quote unquote murder me. You know that person have to realize. Okay you think you did the job. You know you think you owe. I bust a cap in that dude. He's done. I took care of that dude. But you didn't realize how much love. And how much of course how much pain that you've caused. That now because of a person that. What I've done in the community. Is an upliftment. You know you got people that now do what I just mentioned in those poems. You know. You have festivals. You have. You know a mural or a street name or whatever. You know all these things. That dedicated to me. And you may have. Brought me to a better place. You know. Well you definitely. You definitely. Sometimes can be counterproductive. And what people think they're going to achieve. With anger. You know and when we get in those places that we feel like the situation is that intense. That we need to take someone's life which. I don't understand. You know I know you know some people say an eye for an eye. But one of the things that struck me about your piece is the people that are left behind.
Conversations with Coach LA
What Does Therapy Mean to Poet Vernon "VCR" Robinson?
"So, VCR, you know what this show is all about, right? You know everybody that comes on here gets on the hot seat on the virtual couch. And I asked them the one question that I already asked you, made sure you knew he was going to be asked, what does therapy mean to you? Therapy just means just something, you know, to more of something like a relief of sort where you can express yourself, whether it's mentally or emotionally, something to get off your chest and hopefully feel better at the end of the day type of thing. And also things that will make you feel better, whether whatever activity that you will engage in, whether it's reading, whether it's, you know, tranquility, you know, whether it's by yourself, just anything that will just ease your mind. And then, you know, physically, you know, just something that will just make you feel better. Do you think, do you think, you know, most people have a good self -care routine that includes those things that you just named? Some do, some don't. Yeah. You know. So what about you? So now that you've laid out what therapy means to you, do you have a self -care routine that you engage actively in that keeps your mind clear and keeps you grounded? I listen to slow jams. Oh, no, you don't. Yeah. Slow jams. Okay. What's your favorite, what's your favorite go -to slow jam? My favorite go -to slow jam? Yeah. Like do you have a favorite one that stays on repeat when you really, really want to get your mind in a good place? Do you have one that you, you say, yup, I need to go listen to my song? Oh, great question. See, I'm a big slow jam hit. I love slow jams and there's so many that I love. If there was one that I really love, I'm not sure if it's something that's on repeat. It is on repeat, actually. I would say Love's Holiday by Earth, Wind & Fire. Okay. So you're old school, old school R &B, Love's Holiday. It's neck and neck between that and Love Ballad by LTG. That's one of my favorites. That's actually a trigger song for me, but I love that song. My father loved that song, too.
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Monitor Show 18:00 08-12-2023 18:00
"To ask the court to take their case. No there's not been a slowdown in the number of filings that they get. You know we see a lot of cases dealing with everything from guns to abortion to admin law and for some reason or another the justices just can't get for to agree to this case that they need to take up. Thanks so much Kimberly. That's Bloomberg Law's Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson. This is Bloomberg Law on Bloomberg Radio. I'm June Grosso. Stay with us today's broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. At least 80 people have been killed on Maui due to the devastating wildfires as search and rescue operations continue in the resort town of Lahaina. Local officials fear the death toll will continue to rise with hundreds of people still unaccounted for. Six other wildfires are still burning in Maui and on the Big Island. FEMA is setting up emergency shelters as damage estimates top five and a half billion dollars. Officials in Hawaii are set to provide an update at some point tonight. The Fulton County District Attorney is expected to present the Trump case to a grand jury early next week. Scott Kimbler reports. Former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Jeff Duncan has confirmed to the AJC he has been called to testify to the Fulton County grand jury on Tuesday. This means Fannie Willis will have to begin presenting her case regarding allegations of Donald Trump conspiring to overthrow the 2020 election results in Georgia as early as Monday. Willis has said for a few months now that an announcement on an indictment would be coming this month. The Fulton County Sheriff's Office has upped security at the courthouse since surrounding streets have been closed. If an indictment is sought this will be the fourth indictment the former president has faced in recent months. I'm Scott Kimbler. The prosecutor leading the criminal case in Hunter Biden's taxes is being granted special counsel status.
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Monitor Show 23:00 08-12-2023 23:00
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Bankless
A highlight from The New DeFi Meta with Paradigms Head of Research, Dan Robinson
"Welcome, Bankless Nation, to State of the Nation, where we dive down into a topic that is currently floating around the world of crypto. This week on State of the Nation, we are talking with Dan Robinson, Head of Research, GP at Paradigm. And recently across my Twitter feed, I saw a tweet thread from Dan Robinson about how there are five big ways that Uniswap X changes the game for swapping in DeFi, swapping in crypto. And I learned a ton in this tweet thread, and I thought it would be super useful if Dan Robinson came onto the show and explained each point himself here. And so that is what you are about to get here today. Because Uniswap X doesn't just stop at Uniswap X, it also brings with it a bunch of new changes for the DEX landscape that impacts so many other things across DeFi, across Ethereum. It impacts its bridges, it impacts roll -ups, it impacts MEV, it impacts market makers. And so there's about to be, perhaps, if you believe in this new intent -based paradigm, which is something that we will define in the show, it flips a lot of what it means to be a DEX or to be a DEX swapper on its head. So you're going to learn about all of these details in this coming new meta for DeFi, as well as what it means for you, the user, you, the swapper, and also perhaps you, the LP, if you are an LP in this world of DeFi as well. And then we also open up some other doors as to what does the future of LPing yields in Uniswap look like? What can Uniswap v4 do for LPs, while Uniswap X is focusing on swappers, and why swappers and LPs are the two parts of a DEX that need to be held in the highest regard and why everything else is secondary. And then also we open the door to what FlashBoss is working on with SWAV, which is at the very end of this episode. Overall, you're going to learn a ton about the DEX landscape. That is changing quickly, both with Uniswap v4 and with Uniswap X, as well as some other things in the intent -based world, which is a hot topic in the DEX and DEV landscape. Quickly before we get into our interview with Dan, Uniswap is a main focus of this episode and Uniswap is also a sponsor of Bankless. Bankless also holds a supply of UNI tokens, which you can see at bankless .eth and also bankless .com slash disclosures. So let's go ahead and get right into our episode with Dan Robinson from Paradigm. But first, a moment to talk about some of these fantastic sponsors that make this show possible, especially Kraken, our preferred exchange for crypto in 2023. Before you get to Uniswap on chain, you first have to bridge your money from off -chain from the trad world. Consider using Kraken, our preferred exchange for crypto in 2023. If you do not have an account with Kraken, consider clicking the link in the show notes to get started with Kraken today. 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What's missing is a value layer that lets anyone exchange, store and program value. That's where Polygon 2 .0 comes in. Polygon Labs has unveiled a series of innovations that will radically alter the Polygon ecosystem and Web3 as a whole. By leveraging groundbreaking ZK innovations, such as Polygon ZK EVM, the next iteration of the best -in -class Plonky 2 proving system, and a first -of -its -kind ZK -powered interoperability layer, Polygon 2 .0 will give users and devs unlimited scalability and unified liquidity. Right now, there is a Polygon improvement proposal regarding a potential ZK -powered upgrade of Polygon Proof -of -Stake. If approved, Polygon Proof -of -Stake would become a layer 2 ZK EVM validity. So make your voice heard on this proposal by joining the Polygon Discord today. You have a chance to help the Polygon community give the internet the value layer it deserves. Are you planning to launch a token? Is your token already live? 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So if you want some help navigating the complex world of token compliance, go to Toku .com or click the link in the description below. Bankless Nation, I would love to introduce you to Dan Robinson. He is GP and head of research at Paradigm. He, over the years, has done a lot of deep thinking about markets, auctions, and liquidity in DeFi, with a particular focus, I'd say, on Uniswap, Uniswap, and Uniswap v3. Recently, Uniswap Labs released Uniswap X, a new Dutch auction mechanism that Dan thinks changes the meta for swapping assets in DeFi and also MEV, chain interoperability, and many more things. The last time we had Dan on Bankless was September of 2020, almost three years ago. If you've ever heard Ryan or I say the phrase, Ethereum is a dark forest, it came from that episode. Dan, welcome back to Bankless. Thanks for having me. Dan, you recently wrote a thread which triggered my imagination and was the impetus for bringing you onto this podcast that was titled, Five Reasons I Think Uniswap X Changes the Game for Decentralized Exchange, MEV, and Interoperability. And this already kind of gave me a model, an agenda for this episode, which we want to get into, but just I really want to start at the highest of levels. Can you maybe define the landscape for why something like Uniswap X is needed in the DeFi sphere? What are the current variables or the current things that are producing this need for Uniswap X? Yeah. So, I can talk about that, and I think it'll also talk a little about Uniswap v4 and why I see where I see that fitting in. So, from my perspective, decentralized exchange research, which is where I've spent a lot of my career and my research focus has been at paradigm and with Uniswap, decentralized exchange research, in my view, has to be about reducing the amount of value that leaks out of the system, the decentralized exchange system. And so, when you're in a decentralized exchange, particularly with automated market makers, you have, on one side, liquidity providers, and on the other side, swappers. And swappers are coming in because they can get the best prices from your decentralized exchange. And liquidity providers are hoping to earn the best returns from trading fees being paid.
The Dan Bongino Show
Rep. Jim Comer: Biden Associate Received $3M Wire From China
"The cut that isn't for the next whatever the next cut itself for here's jim comer on ted who's his podcast and a follow -up to this explaining how foreign governments paid a business robinson associate walker off the biden's a whole lot of money and he was doing some business with the biden crime family take a listen i'll use the robinson walker account because we subpoena that first was the my account we subpoenaed now who's robinson walker rob walker was one of the associates that they used uh... funnel money from china and then in romania and then down and laundry down to the bike so he's a guy that's doing business with hunter and joe but yeah okay we don't know what that is it is yet they got a three million dollar wire from from china so this so so one wire three million dollars three million dollars now remember this account never had much activity in it over the course of ten years maintained around a forty or fifty thousand dollar balance one day out of the blue they get a three million dollar wire from china oh that's so so the banks holding a balance for this guy of like thirty forty fifty thousand dollars and bam he gets a three million dollar shot in the arm what was it selling what was he what was he said what jim what was he said do you know oh oh oh influence is that a thing is that a sir oh okay products and services hmm this gets better members bank records for all this and i will continue to insist as i say often tattoo this on your brain if any what of jim comer is saying is false and these bank records don't exist why has no one been family yet because it's the truth
The Dan Bongino Show
How You Can Learn About Kirk Cameron's 'Goofy Glue' Incident
"Worse than any of the four goofy glue incidents we ever saw. Now I Jim at the goofy glue incident is going to be on the weekend show right this the week goofy glue incident on the podcast Kirk Cameron. So this weekend on my podcast channel rumble .com slash Bongino. Do you guys remember that interview I did with Dr. Peter McCullough that blew your minds about the vaccine blood clots cancer all this other stuff and everyone said Dan we got get to it on the weekend show it will be out Sunday right Jim this Sunday Kirk Cameron will be there to do it the one of our best interviews ever we talked to him about the real goofy glue incident others and a great interview with Mark Robinson it's rumble .com slash Bongino you can go there anytime click the follow button it is free where they are every single day at 11 o 'clock an hour before this show where we host an hour -long podcast live as well so if you want four hours of the Dan Bongino show you are welcome to join us just download the rumble app go to rumble .com slash Bongino download the app or go on on the desktop and just sign up an account free and join the chat but don't miss that show on Sunday it it is a
Mark Levin
Suspected Armed Muslim Kills Officer, Injuries Others in Fargo
"This guy happens upon a car accident. He goes up to the situation there, the accident, and he shoots three Fargo police officers in cold blood, shoots them, murders one of them, critically wounds two others. Thanks What do you think Van? Can you Now, if I'm a leftist like Van Jones, a Marxist, I take that situation and I applied to all Muslims in America, but it doesn't apply to all Muslims in America. Any more than something that happened applies to all whites in America or all blacks in America, you jerk. Thank They now know that he was en to the Fargo street fair, which is a big event there with an arsenal of weapons and explosives in his car. He's going try to and slaughter as many people as he could. Cops. Fargo's not exactly, know, you a community of a lot of blacks and minorities. He's here to people kill than people. Now, what happened was a fourth Fargo police officer Zach Robinson. Took heroic action. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Checked out this car.
Mark Levin
Eugene Robinson Pins Information Gap Issue on Right-Wing Media
"God, is this guy a fool? He's a menace miscreant malcontent. Is he an idiot or just a plain imbecile? Go ahead. Maybe they happened now. It's going to be that then that in fact they did never happen. It's like, what never happened? Go ahead. First timeline. And how can we? Thanks for nothing. You just blew 90 seconds of your stupidity. Now we'll never get those 90 seconds back. Jen Psaki is on the morning Shmo show. Now Jen Psaki is a perfect example of what I wrote about in on freedom of the press. Here she is a Democrat party hack, low IQ, stupidity on display. You look up stupidity in old an Webster dictionary and there she be. But there she is on the SLSD. Jen Psaki on the morning Shmo. If that's not a freak show, I don't know what is. Go. You know what we saw with Hunter appearing at the state dinner was in my suspicion was the president, his son wanted to come, so his son's going to come to the dinner. Was that optically easier for the White House and the White House communications team?
Kraig Facts
How Good Is Roy Jones Jr.?
"Is the 20th anniversary of Roy Jones being the first person in the history of boxing to go from being a junior middleweight champion to a heavyweight champ mouthpiece how good is Roy Jones jr. and where do you have them all time on your list of boxers I mean he was one of the most exciting ones to watch for sure after getting you know clobbered like he did a couple of times I think the magic man put him down a couple of times right right this record 69 and 9 yeah so it just you know once you've seen you know stuff like Mayweather it's kind of hard to like only person I say that's the most devastating like in you can say in different classes you got your favorite Mike Tyson is always gonna be my favorite in the heavyweight right because he was just you know one punch can just in everything right Mayweather isn't my other favorite because of the simple fact undefeated barely got touched look like he can go to the club right after the game I mean right after the fight and he made stupid amounts of money for a 30 -minute fight I'm saying so you know those two are kind of like the top of Roy Roy has some iconic moments some cold knockouts and some clown in like real he was a showboater is he the best offensive fighter in the history of boxing no who is better offensively than Roy Jones I mean first thing to come to my mind was Sugar Ray Sugar Ray Robinson or Sugar Ray Leonard Leonard Leonard was a puncher row Leonard used to give you dad work
Dear Dyslexic Podcast
A highlight from Episode 57: Part 2 with Garth Robinson from Mindhabits
"Hello there, and welcome to the Dear Dyslexic podcast series brought to you by Rethink Dyslexia, the podcast where we're breaking barriers and doing things differently. I'm Shaye Wiesel, your host, and I'm so glad you can join us. I'm a fellow neurodivergent, and I'm coming from the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, where I live and work, and I would like to acknowledge and pay my respects to all the tribes across our beautiful country and to all First Nations people listening today. Our podcast was born in 2017 out of a need to give a voice to the stories and perspectives of adults with dyslexia, and our voice has grown stronger year after year. We're now a globally listened to podcast with guests from all around the world. Join us for insightful conversations about living with dyslexia and other neurodivergences across all walks of life. Our special focus is on adult education, employment, social and emotional well -being, and entrepreneurship. We're excited to be bringing you this episode and invite you to like and follow us, or even better, why not leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform. So let's get started. Hello, everybody, and thank you for joining us again for the second part of my conversation with Gareth Robinson. I really hope you found the first part of our discussion helpful, and you can see how we got sidetracked talking about so many different things. But I think, you know, creating small habits that don't seem overwhelming when we're in really stressful periods of life, whether it's we're going through grief and trauma or we're having a challenge at work or we're facing difficulties in our personal lives, there's always space for us to be providing and doing some self -care. And I think that little habits where we're not feeling pressured to do different activities can really help us manage day to day. So I hope you enjoy the second part of our conversation, particularly around the stacking. And please remember that this episode does again contain sensitive discussions about grief, loss and suicide and mental health challenges. And again, while today's conversation aims at promoting understanding, reducing stigma and giving us strategies, we know that hearing about grief and suicide can be triggering for some of you listening today. So, please, if you find any of this content distressing, your well -being does matter, and it is essential that you prioritise your mental health above all else and consider seeking help. So remember, there's a lifeline that you can contact on 13 11 14 or be on Blue Councillors on 1300 224 636. I hope you enjoy this second part of our series. Thanks for listening. I've got Gareth on the line again today. We've got so involved in talking about our experiences around grief and loss and how we manage day to day that the whole point of the original podcast was around habits. So we thought we'd have this follow up conversation around the habits stacker. I think I've got that right. And how we can move through trauma of all different kinds. It doesn't have to be just losing a loved one. So thank you so much, Gareth, for joining us today again. You're welcome. Thanks for having me back. I'm so pleased that we could continue this conversation and hopefully I'll try and keep us on track this time so we don't end up having to do a third part to this series. But can you give any reflections on our conversation that we had last time? Great question. Thank you, Shay. I guess, yeah, I felt it turned into a little bit of a ramble, but I was glad that we talked we about how view time being so important. And I guess when it comes to habits, and yeah, you got it mostly right, a habit stack. When it comes to habits, it does start with what's in our head and how we view the world, our perception, if you like, our view of time, how we listen to that voice in our head. So yeah, I mean, I could talk about that stuff all day. So I think that was quite a good segue into what we're talking about here today. And for those listeners who haven't heard the initial part of our conversation, were you able to talk about some of the traumatic events that led you to the work that you're doing now? Sure. Okay. We love trauma, whether it's little t trauma or big trauma. So I guess the catalyst for meeting yourself, Shay, was the loss of my beautiful big brother Ben to suicide last August. And actually got a 30 year relationship with suicide, having lost a number of other friends. And I think maybe rather than directly answering your question, I might introduce myself in a slightly different way, even so those that were listening to the last episode, there'll be some value because I do want to acknowledge that for some of your listeners, as I share some tools and techniques to drive positive change in your life, legitimately so you could be thinking, well, you know, who's this guy who, you know, doesn't have dyslexia, doesn't have ADHD? Who's he to tell me how easy it is now? And that's a that's a legitimate concern. So I want to kind of call out that regardless of the trauma, the battles that we're fighting, we always have a choice when it comes to decisions and how we respond, and whether or not we want to change. You need to build that awareness first of that something actually needs to change, you need they need to accept that there's certain things we cannot change. And that comes back to what we talked about last on the circles of control, I guess. But you do then also need to take responsibility for making those changes. One way that helps is putting a more optimistic or positive spin on it. So I want to introduce myself properly at the risk of this turn into a ramble again, and share with your audience my last six years and eight traumatic events, mostly big T trauma that have happened to me. And I'm going to start with a negative bias because our brains are wired negatively and it's just easy to do that. But then I want to flip the script. And that could be a bit of a lesson, I guess, is that we are able to flip the switch the script, excuse me, when it comes to our past. So I'm going to run through these traumatic events for me. Firstly, I was made redundant, so I lost my job. And then over a number of years, bootstrapping a startup, that startup failed and cost myself, my brother -in -law and my family a reasonable amount of money in that in that commercial failure. Part of that is the third traumatic event, we had to sell our unit to fund our lifestyle and continuing this journey. So that was the third traumatic event. The fourth is over the last two, three years, my beautiful wife and myself have grown a little bit apart. The sixth, sixth and seventh traumatic event is that I lost one of my close high school friends to suicide. I then lost, or we lost, I should say, the best man in my wedding to suicide. And finally, as mentioned, my brother last year. So there are a pretty negative kind of traumatic events. Now I want to try and flip that script and take a more positive view on it. So look at that first one, I lost my job. And, you know, as I say, when one door closes, another one opens, because now what I do for a living is I teach, I coach, I train. And when I look back, I've always wanted to be a teacher. So I am far more content in a professional sense and personal effect than I ever was when I was working in the corporate world. And that's not for everyone. But that's me flipping the script. So that redundancy was amazing. The failed startup. Whilst I wouldn't recommend a personal development journey to be led by trying to develop an app and then starting a startup. It has for me been an incredible learning journey, a deep experience that has turned me into a far better human being. So you know, again, another cliche, we learn so much from these failures. So that has actually been an incredible process whilst I wouldn't necessarily recommend your audience to jump in and bootstrap a startup because they want to improve themselves. Now, so that's the first three. The other one was around selling the unit. Now, look, my wife and I at the time chose that we had equity in a unit. But it's sitting there. It's not doing anything. It wasn't enabling us to live the life we wanted to live. And again, this is about a shift in mindset to go well, yes, we need to be aware of the future and aim towards some financial security in the future. But we also want to enable ourselves to live the life we want to live today. So that's flipping the script on the fact that we had to sell that unit to survive financially. The fourth one, right, my beautiful wife and I, you know, we've been seeing a counselor, as you know, shout out my sharing my story and my lives for the last year and we are stronger, better together as a couple and a family unit than almost, you know, for a long time we've been so there's a nice positive end to that story. The last three traumatic events, losing people you love to suicide, you know, I'll be honest, particularly after the loss of my brother six months ago, I'm struggling to find the silver lining on that. So I want to call out two things that we talked about last time. Number one, circles of control. Like those traumatic events were outside of my control, so I need to be careful about attaching myself to them and the grief I feel that is involved with that. Certainly from a blaming point of view, number one. Number two, you can always turn an obstacle into an opportunity and it may simply be how you react and how you support your family members, your community in the event of such a traumatic experience. So those are the two kind of small at this point, but, you know, opportunities from those obstacles. I So that shared that, by the way, just I guess to let everyone know that we all have trauma of whether it's little T, big T, and because I don't have dyslexia or ADHD, it doesn't mean that I don't overthink, that I have anxiety, I suffer from the imposters I'm doing sometimes. But I work hard, partly through my habits, to ensure that I am flipping the script as much as possible. Wow. And you thought you were going to talk about habit sex. So yeah, I'll stop there. Hopefully that made sense to everyone. And yeah, I'll pass it over to you, Shona. Well, I just want to say thank you for being so open and vulnerable in all the conversations we've been having. And I think that it will resonate with our listeners regardless of whether you're dyslexic or not, because we all have traumas in our lives. And so I think it's really valuable conversation that we're having to, I think, also normalize that we all go through these types of challenges in life. And even though we're dyslexic, and we might have higher risk factors for these challenges, that normalizes that this is happening for everyone. And I think the most important message from our conversations is around how can we reduce that impact and try to put strategies in place to look after ourselves. Because I worked out after our conversation, been trying to think of what my word was for the year. And I really think it's around self -care. So I'm really glad that we're having these conversations and highlighting the importance of self -care, particularly, I think, coming out of COVID, which was a huge trauma for everyone. And that there are lots of things we can put in place to help us with our self -care. So yes, so now we will learn some self -care strategies. That's right, that's right. And just, you know, I've been learning about loving kindness meditations, and meditation mindfulness being one of the kind of what we would call some critical habit types we need to focus on. And yeah, that self -care is so important. And for me, there's a bit of a paradox there as a, I want to say as a white, middle class man, and in this kind of competitive society, we often exposed to and live in that loving yourself can be a bit of a challenge. And I think back to the conversations I had with my beautiful big brother, Ben, who, you know, that was, you know, and I'm glad you mentioned so that was a key issue for him, and very hard to understand when you're not in someone else's head, which we never are. That on the surface, you know, he should have loved himself more and taken more self -care. For some reason, he wasn't able to, but look, let's, I'm going to transition because I'm conscious I do tend to overthink, as I said before, and can over talk. So let's jump into habits. And the real question is, why is it so hard to make positive changes in our life by embedding healthy new habits? And one way of looking at this is this kind of three key problems, all right, which I want to briefly highlight, and then I'll go on to the two main discoveries my co -founder Jeremy Horne and myself discovered as we're building out ThriveWrap and what is now called Five Habits. So the first of the problem is something I covered already. This negativity bias, you know, some scientists will tell us that the mind is a little bit Velcro it's when looking at negative experiences, but like Teflon when it's looking at positive experience. So think about that, you know, Velcro, very sticky. So we have a negative experience and we remember that, right? We can catastrophize it, we can turn it into this bigger event. And then those positive experiences we just let go, you know, and I'm not sure about your listeners or yourself, but I know I'm guilty of that sometimes. So that's our first challenge around changing bad behaviors and embedding healthy behaviors is we have this negativity bias built on many of us anyway. The second problem we discovered is that over half your life you spend talking to yourself. Not necessarily out loud, but this is the self -talk or inner speech as some scientists will tell us. And it's dangerous when you have that negativity bias because often, as most of your audience will probably know, that when we talk to ourselves, it's often negative self -talk. So that again is a challenge, you know, I can't do this, it's too hard or I lack motivation. And by the way, that's one of the myths with habit creation is you can't rely on motivation because it's a slippery, nasty little devil. So you want to take some simple steps to reduce the need to motivate yourself to embed those healthy new habits. So that talking to ourselves, the negativity bias, those are real challenges or problems with driving positive behavior change in your life. The third one is that up to 90%, depending on the science you believe, between half to 90 % of your daily activities are habitual. I'll repeat that between 50 to 90 % of your daily activities are habitual. So what that means is you're on autopilot for a lot of the time, as am I. And so again, that makes it hard to drive positive change in our lives. So those are the three kind of problems that make it difficult to embed healthy new habits. The one I haven't mentioned, I mentioned last episode, which is from BJ Fogg, the founder of Stanford University's Behavior Change Lab and also the author of Tiny Habits that I think a link to that book will be in the show notes. He talks about, you know, we've been using the wrong instruction manual. So, you know, we've been looking, it's like you go to IKEA, you buy that bedside table, you open the box to look at the instruction manual and it's for a, you know, it's for a cupboard rather than a bedside table. So how's that going to go with building that bedside table? Almost impossible. So his kind of observation there is we're using the wrong instruction manual. And that's what we'll jump into shortly around the habit state. Before I do that, I'll pause and see if, Shai, if you have anything to add or questions or observations. I think for many dyslexic people, I'm not going to talk for everyone, but the, particularly for me, start with me, the negative bias and the second point around the way we're thinking and talking to ourselves, I think as someone who's dyslexic, I've really struggled with because from a young age, we're often told that we're not good enough because we can't do something that comes really easily to someone else. Or we might have labels put on us of dumb or stupid or, and that really does, it is like Velcro. It does stick to us, those types of terms. And so to try and switch that negative bias to look at how, like the strengths that we have, it's, I think we all talk about strengths, but sometimes I think it can be hard to find our strengths when we've grown up in that kind of space where it's been constantly negative for us and you're bringing that negative, that trauma of the way you've been spoken to and treated into adulthood. And so I think it's good for us to raise this, these conversations around the ongoing narrative that can be in our head that we're not good enough or we're dumb or I can't do that because of my reading or writing or I can't go for that job because what if I find out I'm dyslexic? So I think that being able to have this conversation around how we can reduce some of those tendencies is really important. Yes. No. And so thank you, by the way, for raising that, you know, you're talking for yourself because that's what I'm doing as well. Whilst I have spent many years studying this and believe our habit stack will work for most, if not all, people and help them drive positive change in their lives, I can only speak for myself just as you can only speak for yourself. And, you know, I'm not sure whether I acknowledge this on the last episode, but, you know, my brother was dyslexic. He had inattentive ADHD. The cause and effect between that and depression and then suicide, you know, I'm not qualified to draw that line. However, you know, that's probably one of the reasons also why I'm excited to be here and talk to your audience, even though I cannot necessarily walk in their shoes. So, okay, so those are some problems we have, right? So how do we go about driving effective change in our own lives? And, you know, again, I want to call out one of the major issues I see almost every day in this kind of personal development self -help space is this whole go big or go home, you know, 10X your income, all that, excuse my French, fucking rubbish, basically, the world and then also ourselves when we are our own worst critics set the bar way too high. So you do not have to 10X your income. You do not have to run a marathon. You don't have to run an ultra marathon, even a half marathon or 10K. You don't have to do that. So one of the challenges I find is that when people are looking to improve, they set the bar way too high. And that concerns me as someone who's interested in, you know, positive mental health. So let's jump into what my co -founder Jeremy and myself discovered about three or four years ago now is that there's actually about kind of five habit types that many of the world's hyper successful and extraordinary icons, athletes and artists do. And for most of your audience, these will not come as a surprise. So we we discovered that there's five types of habits or activities that a lot of these hyper successful people do every day or focus on improving that allow them to be more content, healthier and happier. And the first one is meditation or some form of mindfulness. I'll borrow from Tim Ferriss, who, you know, has interviewed over 500 of the world's hyper successful people over the last probably decade on his podcast. And, you know, according to one article that I read, over 80 % of his audience do some form of meditation every day. Now, that can be one minute. Could be 10 minutes, half an hour an hour. Again, it depends on your situation and the individual. So meditation is the first one or some form of mindfulness. In addition, the next one is movement. So no surprise there. You know, most of us recognize that some form of physical activity will help our mental muscle as well as our physical muscles. I don't think, well, you can't see me, but Shay can see me. You know, my big guns, they're not very big, but I spend a lot of time focused on my mental muscle. And help by my physical activity and or movement. So we've got meditation, movement. The next one is eating smart. Again, we could talk about eating the rainbow. So kind of vary now what we consume. The fourth is sleeping well. So some of you will be aware of Arana Huffington and her book, The Sleep Revolution. There are many people that talk about the power of sleep. And what I just want to remind your audience with this is that usually you're sleeping for a third of your life. And that's because your body needs that rest and recuperation. So there's a whole lot of different things we can do to improve our sleep. So that's the fourth of these kind of habit types. The fifth one, and this is probably the one I like the most, is giving. So I'll circle this back to your comment about self -care. Because the first person you've got to give to is yourself. So this is about giving to yourself and others and supporting your community. And that is such a powerful... And you're doing it with this podcast and your other business show and your coaching business. And as you all know, and many of your audience that do volunteer, that give, that are trying to contribute to their community, you get far more than you have to give yourself. So that's the fifth habit is find a way to give firstly to yourself and then to others. So those are the five habits. Just quickly again, meditation, movement, eating smart, sleeping well, and giving. That's the first thing we discovered. If you can build routines and habits that involve those types of activities into your world, you're going to be healthier and happier faster than you may think. So they all seem like... Well, you're right. They're habits that we would all know. Why don't we stick to them? Yeah, well, that leads me to the second discovery. That was the first discovery. Well, and then the second discovery was, how do we make habits stick? And why is it so hard? And we relied on a number of experts, but probably the three most popular. I've mentioned BJ Fogg before. Many of your audience members will recognize the name James Clear and the book Atomic Habits. So you can recognize the theme here. Tiny habits, atomic habits. We call them micro habits. You can call them small habits. It doesn't matter what you call them, but we start with small habits. That's one of the techniques and I'll expand on that a little bit later. So we discovered with them... Also, there's a gentleman called Charles Duhigg. And he popularized the habit loop, which effectively is that there is a trigger or cue and then there is the routine or activity and then there's a reward. So usually something triggers us to do that routine. So maybe we're finishing our dinner and we're turning the TV on and that triggers us to, okay, it's ice cream time, right? And then we go to the fridge, you get the ice cream out, we eat the ice cream, tastes nice. It rewards us and we feel good for a little while at least. So that's that habit loop. And what we discovered after researching this for many months is that there are these tools called habit stacks. And ours is a 4 -step habit stacking tool that allows you to embed habits more quickly without relying on much effort, your motivation, and a few other things. So that was this second discovery and I'm happy to expand on what our habit stack looks like. Again, for your listeners, I believe we'll have like a habit stacking guide that you can download for no charge. You can have a look at that and that will help you build out your own habit stack. But perhaps I should pause now, Shay, before I jump into kind of how that looks and some of the logic behind how it's designed. But I'll pause now just in case you've got any observations, questions.
Dear Dyslexic Podcast
A highlight from Episode 56 with Garth Robinson from Mindhabits
"Hello there, and welcome to the Dear Dyslexic podcast series brought to you by Rethink Dyslexia, the podcast where we're breaking barriers and doing things differently. I'm Shaye Wiesel, your host, and I'm so glad you can join us. I'm a fellow neurodivergent, and I'm coming from the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, where I live and work, and I would like to acknowledge and pay my respects to all the tribes across our beautiful country and to all First Nations people listening today. Our podcast was born in 2017 out of a need to give a voice to the stories and perspectives of adults with dyslexia, and our voice has grown stronger year after year. We're now a globally listened to podcast with guests from all around the world. Join us for insightful conversations about living with dyslexia and other neurodivergences across all walks of life. Our special focus is on adult education, employment, social and emotional well -being, and entrepreneurship. We're excited to be bringing you this episode and invite you to like and follow us, or even better, why not leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform. So let's get started. Hello there, and welcome to this two -part podcast series. My guest today, Gareth Robinson, and I had so much to talk about that we had to create two episodes, so I really hope you can stick around for both of them. Gareth is a family man first and foremost, a coach, sales leader, startup founder, and mental health advocate. He brings 20 years of blue chip corporate experience and over five years of coaching and consulting to the party. So as you can tell, we had a lot to talk about. Gareth's professional and personal purpose overlap, as he does his bit to help people live better and organizations grow. He loves contributing to his community, shining a light on the importance of developing good mental health and redefining success. I asked Gareth to come onto the show today, as I was looking to talk to some other business owners, founders, dyslexics, who had experienced grief and loss. And I was seeking these conversations after losing my mum late last year. And I came across Gareth's videos. He's been creating a series called The Grief Train, following the loss of his brother. Gareth shares tips about how we can manage during times of stress, grief, and loss by implementing tiny habits that can really change our lives and help us manage during some of our toughest days. Before we get started, though, I must note that this episode contains sensitive discussions about not just grief and loss, but also suicide. It's including Gareth's experiences and my personal experiences and some of the mental health challenges. Well, today's conversation aims to promote understanding and to reduce stigma. We acknowledge that hearing about grief and particularly suicide can be triggering for some of you listening today. So please, if you find any of this content distressing, your wellbeing matters, and it is essential to prioritise your mental health above all else and consider seeking support. You can access Lifeline on 131114 or contact the Beyond Blue counsellor on 1300224636. I really hope you get as much out of this two -part series as I have done in implementing little habits to help me manage through some of my toughest and darkest days. I'm super excited to have on the show today, Gareth. Welcome to the show, Gareth. Thanks, Shay. I was doing some research recently following the passing of my mum to try and find people that I could talk to as a business owner around how we manage business and life when we're going through a traumatic time and whether it's grief and loss or something stressful has happened at work or you're not well or someone you're with is not well. I was struggling to find people that I could talk to about this topic. I came across Gareth's work on Instagram through the Grief Train. And so I followed Gareth and contacted him and he kindly said he would be happy to come and talk to me today about his story and how we manage life when we're going through traumatic events. So thank you so much, Gareth, for coming on the show today. You're welcome. Thanks for having me. Would you be able to give our listeners a little bit of a background about yourself and your work and how the Grief Train started? Sure. So firstly, I think I'm a pretty lucky guy. I was born into a middle class family in New Zealand. I now live in Sydney, Bondi's home. I'm very lucky to have a beautiful wife, two kids, 16 -year -old daughter and a 12 -year -old son. I have a roof over my head. I have a couple of jobs, which I'll talk a little bit more about later. So, you know, overall, I'm a really lucky guy. My story, I don't believe is particularly unique in that about six years ago I was made redundant. I'd spent 20 -plus years in corporate. And over the last five or six years, I've been on a few different journeys. One was to start a consultancy, failed at that. Second kind of work -based adventure was bootstrapped a startup with my brother -in -law around creating a community to support people. Launched an app with that. And again, to date, failed with that adventure. So from a work point of view, you could look at my last five, six years as an amazing adventure, perhaps not the most commercially successful. That's when I started MindHabit as a consultancy coaching business. Alongside that journey, in the last three years, I've also lost three people close to me to suicide. One was the best man at my wedding. One was a close childhood friend. And then the third person I lost to suicide, August 22nd last year, was my brother, my big brother Ben. So that probably brings us to why, you know, we've connected. And again, thanks for having me. And that's probably why I'm here, is that I've dealt with loss over the last few years, and in particular with my brother, who I was very close to. And yeah, so that probably some set up. Yeah, and I really connected when I was watching the Grief Train and such raw conversations. So early on in losing someone we love, it's really challenging to be so vulnerable in sharing our experiences, particularly the way you've been sharing yours through the Grief Train. But with your work, with Mindful Habits, we were talking about how do we keep going when we're in such a situation? And it could be we've lost someone or there's a variety of reasons where we could end up feeling grief and loss. And through the work you've done, what is some of the ways that we can look after ourselves, but still keep going during these difficult times? Yeah, it's a great question. And as with most things in life, it's very complex. And before I jump into my answer or answers, I do want to mention, so I'm not a qualified psychologist. However, in the last four or five years, in part through the Bootstrap startup, but also in my own journeys with mental health and working with and, you know, communicating and loving my brother over the last three years as he struggled with the Black Dog, I've invested a fair amount of time and money in understanding what makes people tick and how habits in particular can help us get through these difficult times. So I just wanted to kind of set the scene on that. The thing with habits is, as BJ Fogg will tell us, and he is the founder of Stanford University's Behavior Change Lab and the author of a book called Tiny Habits, as BJ will tell us, most of us have been using the wrong rulebook or instruction manual when it comes to embedding healthy new habits. It's a little bit like buying a bedside table from IKEA, as many of us have done, bringing it home, opening the box and suddenly finding, you know, the instruction manual for a dining table. It's not going to go very well for you. And that's an example of how many of us, including myself, up until a few years ago, how we viewed habits and, you know, shifting positively our routines in the wrong way. Before I jump into the kind of habit stuff that I would like to unload a little bit on, on just how we view time as well, because I feel like with most things, a lot of this is around mindset and how we listen or not listen to the voices in our head, which we all have. And obviously this ties back, my view on this is slightly biased or very much influenced by my experience with my brother and his battles with anxiety, depression over 18 years, and in particular the last three years. So if that's okay, Shay, can I talk a little bit about just different views of time? Yes, of course. And I think for our listeners, because they might be thinking, this is a bit of an unusual topic for me to be talking about on our show, but I just want to bring them back also to the fact around that not just in business and managing challenges, but also day -to -day people that are neurodiverse generally face higher rates of anxiety and depression and are likely higher rates of suicide or likely to attempt suicide. And so the reason I wanted to speak to Garrett today was we've got so many different topics we want to talk about, but part of it was around managing when we're in challenging times and the importance of having some habits and some structure to help support that. And I think I should have given that context to our listeners today because they'll be like, this isn't a dyslexic conversation, but we will be bringing it back around to dyslexia. So hold on to your hats while we unpack. So please, Garrett, go ahead. Yeah, no, that's a good, you can put it in the show notes, Shay. So, and by the way, this is something that Shay did not know when we first connected, but my brother was dyslexic and he was later in life diagnosed with inattentive ADHD. Okay, so yeah, as a side note. Well, okay, where to go with this? Right, just again, when I unpack that, because why I'm here in part is the loss of my brother, so obviously what I'm about to share did not help my brother. So, well, let me rephrase that. It helped, but it helped not enough in my eyes. So, you know, again, just want to call that out. But let's talk about our view of time and how that affects our mental health and helps us cope in moments of stress, whether that's loss of a loved one or simply just difficult times at home or at work. I want to talk about past, present and future. At a high level, how we view the past, present, future can affect our mental health, our happiness or how contented we are and how we deal with stress in our lives. So firstly, when we think about past, often people let their past define who they are today, and that can be a risk for all of us. Therefore, from what I've learned and what a lot of experts talk about is that you need to be a little bit conscious or conscious, I should say, of your past and ensure that certainly the negative events that you can no longer change don't define who you are today, recognizing that every day we have the opportunity to be a different person, to get a little bit better. So that's the past. The present is more around how we compare ourselves to others. And I can put my hand up. This is something that I've been challenged with as most, is that I compare myself to others, my commercial success, my health, a whole lot of things. Human beings, we compare ourselves to others. And the technique here that I want to talk a little bit about is comparing the right things. So rather than comparing that external material stuff, if you like, the house, the car, the holidays, the family, even as a parent, the ability to parent, we should really focus in on what I would call our core values and behaviors. And that's the stuff we should compare if we're going to compare anything. So I'm going to pause now just in case you have anything to add. Otherwise I can move from the past, the present onto the future. I think it's an important point around the past, because as someone with dyslexia, it's very easy for us to carry with us a trauma that we've experienced, particularly in school. And it's really hard for us to leave that trauma behind when we're moving into environments where we're in situations where we've got to read or write and may not be able to disclose. So it will be interesting to talk to you further about how we can move beyond some of that by using the techniques you're going to talk about today. Well, one of those techniques or tools is looking at those events in our past. And similar to the cognitive behavioral theorists, talk about reframing them. In particular, one of the issues of the past is you cannot control it because it's already happened. So if I talk a little bit about circles of control, which move us also into the future, a really nice technique and tool is to think about those circles of control, influence, and concern, and often the stresses that are amplified when we're dealing with loss or grief, or when perhaps you're a person. And again, we have some things maybe harder that someone who isn't would not expect to be difficult, perhaps that that everything just becomes harder. Therefore, understanding what we can control within that inner circle of control, which is often tied to our thoughts and feelings, and then what we can influence, which is the ring outside the inner, which is again, we can only influence some of those things. How our friends behave, our jobs, we can't always control them. Sometimes we can only influence in the situation we're in. And then outside of that is what people call the circle of concern. And when you think about it, the past and the future sit squarely in the circle of concern. We can't change what's happened in the past. We can only change our perception and all the narrative we tell ourselves around that. We can't actually change the future because it doesn't exist here. So I feel that view of time and, you know, certainly in my world around helping manage my stress levels and anxiety is trying to remind myself through visual and verbal cues to focus in the present, which many people talk about, to recognize from the past that it doesn't have to define who I am today. And part of that can also be letting go of even letting go of friendships, perhaps if they're not productive for you or certain environments that are not helping you change positively. And then future state, and for me personally, this is the hardest bit, is try not to stress about an event that hasn't happened yet. And I'll talk a little bit about kind of reverse engineering that shortly. But for now, perhaps I'll pause because I've been talking for a little while and see if Shae's got anything to add. There's lots of things going around my head because the reason I contacted you was around grief. And listening to you talk then, I had my dyslexic hat on of what happens to us as dyslexics. But then as you were just talking, I was always also thinking, you know, how do we, when we've been in a traumatic event like losing someone or losing our job or marriage breakdown, how do we kind of move out of that past? Because it's easy to get, and I know as being someone who's been divorced as well, it's easy to get caught up on, not caught up, but you're reflecting constantly on if you've lost someone or your relationship's broken down, you're in that state of the past a lot in your reflecting time or your grief. And so sometimes it's hard to be in the present when you've constantly got those thoughts going around your head. And again, I qualify that I'm not a psychologist, but I feel there are some actions or activities that we can take to perhaps if we are ruminating about anything, it doesn't have to be the past, there are small actions we can take that can try and perhaps break that rumination if you like. In addition, something my brother -in -law in fact shared with me is tries he and not always successfully to only take the baggage from his past with him that is adding value to him today. So that's a question we need to ask ourselves. Is that baggage or that event in the past and my reaction to it and response, is that helping me deal with my present day and future state? And I can only speak for myself, but I've found when I ask myself that question and analyse it a little bit, some of the baggage, some of the issues that I still have and are still concerns for me, it helps me because I realise that it's not actually helping me today and here and now to be concerned about that something that is outside my circle of control and influence and doesn't help me do anything better today or be more content or happier. So hopefully that makes sense. Yeah it does and it's a good way to frame it and also as you're talking about the circle of influence, we will have that diagram up for people that love visuals like myself. If you haven't heard of this concept before, it's one I love to use as well and we'll put a diagram up that kind of shows you how the flow works from the inner to the outer as well. I think reflecting on what you just said about how does that help me in the now is a positive way to reflect on what's going on. Yes and another, just to expand on that and we haven't even got into habits yet goodness, but another technique that I learned from the stoics that some of your listeners may have heard, you know stoicism has kind of regained popularity as a philosophy through many people. It's only one philosophy but there's some quite good techniques and in fact I mentioned cognitive behavioral theory earlier and quite a few people feel that kind of CBT is based on a lot of stoic principles from you know from thousands of years ago. Quite a few stoics talk about turning obstacles into opportunities and so you know that is something again for me language and just almost a mantra or a saying or something and I will write these on post -it notes. You know if you look at my home office I have probably seven or eight post -it notes with almost mantras and just reminders for me to remind myself when I'm stressed what is actually important to me and just to kind of again shift gears or get out of that in a dialogue with myself. Now sometimes like the loss of your beautiful big brother, that's a pretty big obstacle. So if I unpack that a little bit like how can I turn that into an opportunity and there are actually many ways that I can turn that into an opportunity. It's not an experience you'd wish anyone to go through but there are positives from the loss of my brother and they're small but they're there and one is the gift that he has given me and others and this is quite common to embrace life more fully. It's very common when we lose things whether it's a brother, a husband or a job you know you reset and so he has given me that gift. I believe his entity is still around in some form or another so my relationship has changed with my brother but I try and again I try and be more in the present. I try to enjoy life more fully because life can be short. So certainly back to that turning an obstacle into an opportunity, that's one opportunity. Another opportunity and this is where giving which is actually one of kind of a key pillar within Habits I believe is giving, volunteering, however you give and most of us do in some form or another, it's extremely valuable and so when you are dealing in the, can I swear on this? Yes of course mate.
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"robinson" Discussed on Revision Path
"Was the side. Oh, okay. And the reason why I say that is because I am an entrepreneur like at my heart, and sometimes my husband and I are like, okay, look, we gotta pay some bills around here. We have one, two, three, four kids. Just get a job. So he or I would do that. And done that over the year, yeah, and but the threat, again, has always been, I mean, if you look at my LinkedIn, I've basically worked for myself for the majority of my career and have jumped on other teams or consulted with other teams throughout that time. Freshly given was the only one that was way left field. That was a leather. I found discarded leather in like a country town in North Carolina. And decided, why would people throw away leather? What if we can reintroduce it back and we can reintroduce leather back into the commerce, right? And so that was that project. And that lasted for a while. And that was really fun until I started having kids. One day I'll pick it back up. It'll always be there. It'll always be there. That's what I'm like. We talked about this at the beginning. That's why I'm okay. I'm becoming more, okay with letting stuff go, knowing that life is short, but there's also this long game, right? Like, I get up, and 5 years. And maybe I'll do it even better. Or maybe it doesn't matter. Making it back up. And I put it down for whatever reason. And that's okay too. That's a good thing about having the freedom to do that. But also it just adds to your overall body of work. You've done this thing. You've done it for a certain amount of years and you decided not to do it anymore and people may feel some kind of way about it, but if you want to pick it up later, you can. And if you don't, you don't. 'cause you know that you have the capacity to always come up with something new. Absolutely. Yeah. How have you sort of built your confidence over the years as a creative professional? A lot of talking to myself in the mirror, honestly. A lot of prayer, a lot of realizing that people have been here before. I have to be careful and maybe other millennials can relate. I have to be careful because we do live in a time where people are, oh, I have an idea. I'm putting it out there, making millions of dollars. You all can do that too. It is okay for just in my confidence to realize Whitney, oh, you're wrong. That's okay. Or again, people have done this before. It sounds cliche, but you stand on the shoulders of so many people who are now cheering you on. When you feel like you're the only person doing something for me, it feels like daunting. But when I look at myself as a byproduct of hundreds of generations of people, then I'm really arriving on the same equipped. I'm not lacking. I'm not, I'm not a disparity. I'm not what other folks say I am. Other folks who don't who don't identify like me or whatever. I am who all these folks who came before me said I am. I am the combination of their work and their prayers and their rest or their lack thereof. I have to have those moments with myself because I do it a lot as a mother too. He was just not doing it well. That's the craziest thing to think that as a mother, I'm not doing well. When I give it, I don't want to give him all 'cause then I'll be burned out. I give it a really good effort daily. And so yeah, it's those moments where I realized, oh, Whitney, you doing okay? You're good. That just gave me goosebumps talking about that kind of like, I show up on the scene prepared. That just gave me goosebumps because you're right. I mean, so much of what we do is at least I think now is, as you know, adults working now, it is the byproduct of our parents, our grandparents, other people in our community, praying for us, pushing us all and supporting us. We have what we need to succeed. And so even sometimes when that impostor syndrome can creep up, like it's just good to sort of have that to know that. Like you have that conviction, you know, that you know that you're prepared. Oh, God, that really got to be. I do think that as we have a lot of conversations around who abound being woke and the things that were pressed upon us about ourselves that were not true, right? When we first arrived in the U.S., how much of that is continual thread in our lives? And again, that's why I like to look at that and say, oh, who told you that you aren't supposed to be here? Who told you that? Think about where that came from and keep moving forward. What keeps you motivated to move forward these days? I'm really, really excited about the future. Like when I look at my kids and I see even their ability to create very beautiful thing. My children love snakes. I am very afraid of snakes. But they love snakes. They pick them up in our yard. Now that they know how to identify them. And they just fiddling. Like, imagine it's great. They are frolicking with snakes. All the time, even I only have one girl on the rest of my boys, and even, you know, you may have an assumption that she would be, she's a ringleader. So I'm really optimistic about it because I can defer my fear so that these little folks can pass me at just the age that they are right now. They're already doing more that I could even possibly think I would be doing. I have an opportunity, not only to raise a generation of people. But in my quiet time, I do see us winning. I see black people winning. And I do like the shifts around our bodies, our minds, our culture, that we are collectively happening, because these are the things we look back on and say, oh, that generation of people did what we are living. We are able to do now. Yeah, it's funny. I talk about that sometimes with my friends about how like we'll say like we don't really feel like sometimes we're adults or like we're kind of adulting or whatever and it's like we're the adults now like we're the ones that are doing it's funny like I think about and I don't mean this in a lofty way but I'll just kind of use the show as an example. When revision path got put into the Smithsonian in 2019 I was like I was dumbfounded that it happens partially because I have been working so hard like I had really been working on this since 2015. That's a whole other story but it happens and then like the very next day at work like my boss or he was the CEO of the startup I was working at this white dude. Just like dressed me gave me the worst professional dressing down I've had in my career. I was just like at the top of like I was like I feel like I reached a career high and now you're like, oh let me shoot them down to this point. And it was funny because then the time that it happened initially I didn't even really celebrate it. Like it happened in June or July, I think of 2019 and like I never really got a chance to celebrate it and then I went to Harvard in October for black in design. The black in design conference that they have there every other year. And that felt like my victory lap going to that and like so many people that had seen me work on this throughout the years and I see me do it that were just like, you know, you're doing a good job, congratulations. How can we help out? That sort of thing. That's just like a night and day kind of experience. I don't know if what I said even related to what you just said, but for some reason when you mentioned that that came to mind right away of like, and I'm not just me, but more so we are now in the point where we're making the history. We're doing the historical things. Like, and it may seem like a day to day thing, but people are going to look back on what we've done in like 2070. And be like, wow, this kind of stuff was happening back then. So that sort of, it helps me to think that the work that I'm doing is not in a vacuum, but that it's part of a continuum. Yeah, and I like to call them cornerstone, I think that those moments, whether they're great or not, are cornerstones for our lives, right? And so we will, and by cornerstone, I mean, they opts and have some common flexion point. And that is, but then collectively your entire life, like for you, for instance, Maurice. Your entire life is a cornerstone in the history of this country, your family, and so I think that if we look about it, look at it that way, it's the day to day nuances you realize are collectively coming together to do a thing. Yeah. And even just one of the things I am working on right now related to the Renee is around is this kind of photo journalistic tour of the south capturing black women in spaces of thriving. So that our cornerstone during this pandemic, especially isn't they were dying more. But oh, you see these people in, I don't know. Alabama are thriving and they black. These are the things that we have to that I do think about in my life for these ups and downs. At this stage of where you're at in your career and in life, how do you define success? But I would say, yes, right now, if it reduces my stress levels, it is successful. If I, if I don't have an adverse reaction to it, so meaning I feel real good about it, not that it's easy. But it doesn't feel like it's weighing heavy on me in a unnecessarily. Then I consider that success. So at this point, even projects that I join are people that I help, if I get that initial inkling of girl, they're saying it. I walk away and that feels like success. It's listening and acting immediately without the fear of, oh, but don't you need that? What if I am not a fearful person? And so I need to remember that my angle and life is, again, that I'm not behind the 8 ball, that I am a person who will attract many opportunities, but not all of them are for me and the things that are successful or lead to success for me are the things that create a space where Whitney can live and feel free within myself within my community. I was in my family, all of those things. Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years, like what kind of work do you want to be doing? I want it to be in this in the maternal health space, for sure. And by then, in 5 years, I actually the analogy that I tell people is going back to the soul train. If we get to the place where people see the pregnancy and everything, every beginning and it's like a soul train line and we're all supporting each other as one person goes down, that's where I want it. If we are narrative shift gets to that point, oh my God, that would be incredible. But I want to continue to be in this maternal health space. I want to providers folks to look at us as a force. And so I'm sticking with this for a while. I wanted to be creative. I want to dibble and dabble in the arts, be creative, do new things that people just did not expect could come out of this space for us. So that's 5 years. That's what my career. I want the Renee to be my full time full time. Well, just to kind of wrap things up here, where can our audience find out more information about you and your work and everything, where can they find that online? Yeah, obviously on LinkedIn, which is Whitney Robinson right now, I've read lips in a fro on my profile pic. And then the Renee, and you can email me about anything at the Rene because I absolutely love email. But the Renee is the, so THE, dash, Renee, that's our dot com. So you can find me at Whitney at the dance Renee dot com, but the website is the dash Rene dot com. Sounds good. Well, Whitney Robinson, I want to thank you so so much for coming on the show. Since we've connected back in, what was that? 2018, 2018 will be at xoxo. I've always felt like you've had this, there's this presence about you. And I think people have to maybe, I hope they can feel it from the interview, but certainly when I first met you in person, you have this presence that the ancestors are walking with you in everything that you're doing and like even this work that you're doing around maternal healthcare, hearing you talk about it with such passion and conviction like, I'm so excited to see what you do in the future with this. I want to walk with you as you as you make this happen because I really feel like you're on the right side of something here. And I hope that people, when they listen to this interview, they can feel it, 'cause I certainly do. So thank you so much for coming on the show. I appreciate it. Thank you for those words. And I'm very appreciative of this opportunity. Big, big thanks to Whitney Robinson, and of course, thanks to you for listening. You can find out more about Whitney at her work through the links in the show notes at revision path dot com. Revision path is brought to you by lunch. A multidisciplinary creative studio in Atlanta, Georgia. This podcast is created hosted and produced by me, Maurice cherry, with engineering and editing by RJ basilio. Our intro voice-over is by music man Dre, with intro and outro music by yellow speaker. Transcripts are provided by brevity and wit. This episode of revision path is also brought to you by hover. Building your online brand has never been more important, and that begins with
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"Your customer and I have an idea, but should I really build something on it? Or is it just good for me? That happens a lot. People discover a problem, but really they're the only one that cares about it. I want to help founders not make costly mistakes. And so it will be in cohort style, like group sessions, a couple of times a month. And I'm definitely asking people, I ask people to be committed to it, financially, and with their time because what I am really good at is helping people build strategy, road maps, understand their people, understand research, things like that. Let's kind of switch up a little bit like switch gears here. I want to learn more about kind of your origin story. Some of which I know because we've actually had your sister on the show before, but we can talk about that, but tell me about where you grew up and what was your childhood like? Yeah, I grew up in the country in the sticks where the neighbors you couldn't see them. I grew up playing outside all day, which is why I raised my kids the same way. No matter the weather, they're outside. So I explored a lot. I was bored a lot. My sisters were my best Friends. And too, 'cause my mom was like, you go to school, you come home. That's it. And so my parents played records all the time. People came to our house to have for drinks and so I just remember growing up. It was a very funky, funky environment. And so my parents being very stylish people with high standards and also just really hard workers. I didn't realize I didn't think of myself in lack. And so, and that's not even just monetary. I knew that I could think through anything. I wasn't taught to fight fist fight or anything. I was taught, if you can think through this, you can get through it. Period. Yeah, so I went to a very rural country high school in North Carolina. And then I ended up at duke. Actually, let me back up. I ended up at Carnegie Mellon for pre college, like two pre college programs. I think that's what I realized, oh, you a nerd. And I was doing gaming and stuff back in like, I don't know. 20 guys before I went to college. So early 2000. And then when to do, which was a shock, it was a culture shock to me. How so? I was top of my class in high school, but I came to duke feeling like the bottom. And, you know, imagine a place where there's the academic rigor and not that many black folks. And then I chose computer science. So I was the only only only. I always said that if I went back to do, can I give feedback? I would maybe it's in the past and just let it go. But there was so much kind of so much of the work was team based in computer science. And I was left out sometimes. People would just be meeting and I let me know. I was reprimanded for things. I was like, wait, but how are y'all doing that? But I tried so, so, so, so hard. So what would I do, duke again? Yes. But I think I would realize there is a fight in me that I did not realize. And so, but the good thing about duke is I actually started in VR and I built duke had the 6 sided cube called the die. And you enter it in and you are in immersive space. And I got so I started doing game design and character and asset design in 3D. And that was fun. And so I created a simulation, a course it was a runway with a dude in an Afro and Bill bottoms. It's just a threat in my life, but you go in, you walked in and you saw this guy walk away from you. He turned around and he came back his change clothes. His clothes changed. And so duke really did though push some of the envelope for me when it came to the way that I approached things. The look and feel and the vibe. I also walked around with a fro. I was one of the only people that was wearing a natural, right? And I wore bell bottoms. I was just like a nerdy person. And I mean, was that uncommon on duke's campus? I think so. Because I think especially in the black population, I think people came from so many other cities, like New York, Atlanta, right? Like a southern girl, like raising the stakes. And so I do think there is a bit of difference. I don't think it was like people were pointing at me or making me feel bad about it, but I do think I kind of you just felt different. I felt different. Yeah, I think I brought a different type of energy. I know exactly what you're talking about. I felt that way when I went to morehouse. I too am from the sticks. I'm from Selma, Alabama, and when I first got to morehouse, I did a pre college thing to write like the summer before, graduation. And it was so funny that that summer because first of all, I couldn't leave Selma fast enough. I was like, oh, it starts in June. I graduated late May, let's go. Like I was ready to go. There was that aspect of it, but also I graduated top of my class in high school. And then I get to morehouse and it's like meeting at least in my program, meeting like 20 other people that are just like me, at least in that way, where they were like, top of their class were there at and now they come here. And it's from all over the country. In some cases, I don't think it was in our program. It was maybe in like a an adjacent program because they put us in a dorm with, I think, two other programs. So we all kind of like commingled with each other, but there are people there from other countries that I had only heard about in school. Like I had never known about meeting people from the Virgin Islands or from a country in Africa or from Haiti. But they were there, and it's like, oh, I'm learning about y'all. Like in person and stuff like that, you know? I know what you mean about that kind of like weird country bumpkin thing like I had a throw in college and what was interesting for me is like I came in and because more else is an all male school like my mom is a seamstress and my grandmother is a seamstress. So they taught me how to sew and do everything from like a really early age. So when I came in already knowing how to wash clothes, how to iron, how to like fix a button, how to sew a hole in a sock. That was like a weird opportunity for me to get to know other people in the program because something would happen and they would know what to do. Like, oh, I got hold of my sock, roll. I lost the button, I saw that back on. Oh, you're not an iron. I can do that. I can show you how to do that. Where they wash all their clothes and they all come out like pink or something like that. I was like, oh, no, you gotta separate. You gotta see you can't put the whole box of laundry detergent in there. You have to just put like a scoop or something, you know. Like teaching them how to read the tags on the laundry and they're like, how do you know this stuff? I'm like, y'all didn't take home ec. They didn't say come back. But it ended up that sort of weakness, I guess, at least what I perceived as a weakness ended up being a strength because then I ended up getting to know other people and I felt like I was more supposed to be there as opposed to just kind of like landing there because of my grades, you know what I mean? Yeah, I do know what you mean. I mean, when I graduated, oh, I had a sigh of relief because I just felt like I graduated by the skin of my teeth. But now years, years later, almost 15 years later after graduation. The thing that does get you is in the door. It's almost like you sacrifice your mental health.
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"Dot space right sounds goodwill so nestle robinson. I want to thank you so much for coming on the show. Thank you for really. I mean one sort of describing where you're at right now embarking on this new journey in your creative career but also really diving deep into how the sum total of your other experiences whether it's been travelling or working in other industries in such have brought you to where you are right now like i hope that when people listed as they take away that they can sort of have these divergent paths that can lead them towards what their goals are. Certainly. seems like. you're doing that for yourself. So thank you so much for coming on the show. I appreciate it. Thank you for having me. Maurice thank you. I i love your show. I love the work that you're doing in. I'm very excited to be a part of it. Big thanks to genetic robinson and of course thanks to you for listening. You can find out more about genetics and her work through the links and the show notes at revision path dot com and of course thanks to our wonderful sponsor brevity and wit wit is a strategy and design firm committed to designing more inclusive and equitable world. They accomplished this. Do graphic design presentations and workshops around a inclusion diversity equity and accessibility. If you're curious curious to learn how to combine the passion for id with designed check them out at brevard. Went dot com brevity and wit creative excellence without the grind on the weekend of october eighth to the tenth joined the harvard graduate school of design. Virtually for the blackened design twenty twenty one conference. This year's theme black matter is a celebration of black spacing creativity from the magical to the mundane there speakers performers in panelists will bring nuance to the trump black excellence and acknowledged that urgent political spatial ecological crises facing black communities across the diaspora. You don't wanna miss out on this weekend of learning community and connection visit them online at black matter dot tv to learn more and to be a part of the events support for revision. Path also comes from adobe max. Adobe matt's is the annual global creativity conference and it's going online this year. October twenty six th through the twenty eighth. This assured be creative experience. Like no other plus. It's all free. Yup one hundred percent free with over twenty five hours of keynotes. Luminary speakers breakout sessions workshops musical performances and even a few celebrity appearances. It's going to be one. Stop shopping for your inspiration. Goals and creative tune-ups did i mention that. It's free explore over three hundred sessions across eleven tracks here from amazing speakers and learn new creative skills all totally free online this october to register heads. Max dot adobe dot com revision path is brought to you by lunch multidisciplinary creative through the atlanta georgia. This podcast is created hosted and produced by me maris. Cherry but engineering and editing by rj. Acilia voiceovers by music man drei with enjoy altro music by yellow speaker. So what did you think the interview better yet. What do you think about revision path as a whole. Please talk to us. Don't be a stranger. Hit us up on social media. We're on twitter or instagram Just search for revision path or you can leave us a rating and review on apple podcasts. Five stars of course. We leave a five star review. Why would you leave less than i of you if you've made it all the way through to the end of the episode especially if you've been listening for awhile like there was a solid even if you've never left a review before just they review. Due at one time we would love that. Let everyone you know. Know about the show because it really helps us grow and help reach more people all around the world as always thank.
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"I know. Okay i need to be someone who is somewhere contributing to a community that needs me otherwise. I don't become that person so design thinking can say okay. Let's research it. And let's ask questions about it can be very basic. What do you need to get to paris. Passport all these things but what types people visit paris right like. What are the choices those people make. What are the problems they're looking to solve. Were the solutions. They bring. if they're business people writing like what kind of person might be an expert there. How come that type of person version of myself is that it becomes very clear. Once you're doing persona based work. What the decisions are that. Someone's making but it's important to be clear about the desired outcomes. So is it just to live in paris. Left to live in paris. Is it to who to cultivate a sense of culture. They are so that. I can translate that you speak french. Not one person. I'd like to increase my proficiency so that it could be a translator in a way that's very diplomatic and i can particularly communicate amongst french-speaking countries an english speaking countries across the world. Right so i think is really important to think big and to be specific about what can i do for where i am right now so if i want to be a translator. A diplomat who translates it deals with issues in builds alliances between french speaking in english speaking countries. Well where can. I learn more about french-speaking countries Research effort computer. Then stopped me from doing that. Civil rights so so. It's it's something that i use. In a way that this is very intertwined and i think i need to find like mild name for this approach because design thinking is a very specific thing a manifestation can show up in a lot of different ways and there are folks who do have approaches in particular rituals and ceremonies that they use a vision. Board is a great example is just it has a title. I don't have a title for my process yet. So i'll add that to to my list of stu. Where do you see yourself in the next five years. I mean another kind of it seems like throughout your creative career you've been on this never ending odyssey in a way and now you're here in los angeles you're about to start off with this new really like new chapter of your life like where do you see yourself in the next five years. What do you want to accomplish. I see myself as continuing to who lead innovation and i don't just mean from a technical standpoint innovation and business innovation and business of course innovation in the way that we experienced our human lives so that would be leading in hollywood in the area of diversity inclusion equity. I'm looking at things that will create system change and practices change particularly when it comes to people on the autism spectrum but also people generally identified to have disabilities people of color queer people women. Because when i was in silicon valley. I got to lead. I got you advocate for in develop the existence of employee resource groups at a publicly traded company and then became the culture of a specific employee. Resource group were employed belonging. Group is what they call it. Their someone apply those learnings to hollywood in develop ways of working with people to grow our consciousness awareness into shift our habits and behaviors to reflect our values and simultaneously. I see myself continuing to build relationships. More broadly across business to make it more collaborative and to make it more reflective of a community oriented mindset and that may be me only me where for me. what's really important is to collaborate with people and yes be inclusive and. I think that you know competition is somewhat late to us. As humans as human beings there is Some sense of you know animalistic side where there's competition i don't think we need to over rotate. On particularly given the the circumstances of climate change or a hulk health pandemic. I don't think we need to over rotate be competitive. Think the time where it actually behooves us to be more collaborative and so that's something. I see myself approaching through content development through my choices in our partner with businesswise through working with different organizations to see. How do we embed those values into the way that we practice our work. Whatever that is. So i'm interested in seeing hollywood. Be more dynamic in the stories that we tell in how we tell them and what we do with those results. And when i say results i mean monetary results in the sense. I would like to see that. Hollywood is contributing to the communities of the stories that we're telling and that we're telling stories that are broad enough to represent all communities because people show up mom. Most theaters are kind of like closer limited but people show up to the theater to watch stories there watching those stories either in their own community or a community jason to them but someone across the world or across the country might have produced that picture and i would like to see that all of the parties that are participating and contributing to that picture compensated well and additionally that the communities is not enough basically to have black folks in your movies. What i'm saying. I want to see that these communities who are having their stories told or one having those stories toll in testified respectful into that they get to benefit in some way economically from having their told so. I don't know exactly what that looks like but basically is to say like you know it's not enough to come modify someone story it'd be like i told you store is like okay. Yeah you walked away with all of the the material benefits of that. I wanna see that. Communities are being reinvested into and that people have the chance to develop their own content in their own stories and that the way that the system operates in a way that's more integrated and collaborative then that may be. I don't know if that's a new idea or a repackaged idea. I'm not sure well just to wrap things up here. Where can our audience find out more about you about your work on line. The audience can find out more about me at canessa robinson dot com can find out more about me also on social media so on instagram at gymnastics robinson swam often hanging out on its own and then folks can also find out more about artistry land at www dot argosy land.
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"On the north side of chicago and it was really amazing experience because when i got there i was introduced to design thinking i've been curious about. Is it heard about it when i got there. I learned about design thinking. I learned that there are some elements of it that i had already been using which helped me find that job like this. Idea of developing product features so sometimes designers will write whatever product is or what it's meant to do at the top of page or they'll use a in east coast. It's or whatever ended up right down its features right so lake. What does the product do. How does it feel like physically but caller is it. If it make sounds what are the sounds at me what. It does sounds indicate. Where's the product use like. Just you have to think about designing this nicb be a physical product or it could be you know. It could be artistic projects. But i was stunned because i had already written down on patriot. sees me down on sheet of paper geneticists ideal work environment engineers ideal job and then i wrote down all these characteristics which as a writer the word that are either like these are the characteristics that make this experience as a designer. You go these fierce. And i wrote down that it has to have sunlight and people were really kind and i want something that had industrial feel and it was open air and i needed to be mere places. I could eat that. And so when. I showed up for my greater good studios like this open. Air office with exposed brick Huge windows and across the street is vegan place and like owing on the place so cool to work with people that very artistically and creatively inclined as well as people that very research driven and a worked on a project where our client was the robert wood. Johnson foundation in the name of the project is called raising places basically a community designed project where we went to communities across the united states was six communities from the west coast to east coast and we taught them the process of designing so we at workshops in design spreads in research. We just helps them map their community challenges so some of the challenges that came up were street lighting in safety safety for bikers right on the streets like people who are bicycling across the road and they wanna feel that there's enough space for them food security. I spent time on a native american reservation. It's chrome nation reservation in montana and they have one grocery store on the reservation in didn't carry very many fresh fruits and vegetables and there are so many systemic reasons about what's created those conditions right. We could look at policy with a look at legislation. Look at the land. Grabs from america's colonization over all. These were very very heavy serious conversations and yet there was a lot of fun because the people are there just families just people right so as we kind of. We got to get to know people in ensure bit about ourselves and do as best as we can to empower them through that process and so it was. It was a very good experience with a lot of traveling was what i'll say. I did eighteen trips in six months across the country and some of those flights were from jersey to lax on a and. It was like when i got on the plane. I was eating dinner. When god off the plane i was like. Should i eat breakfast because don't like go. Buy food is digested. It was very confusing. Why was just a scoring but it was an amazing experience. And i hope that there is some lasting impact overall. That really improves the conditions that people experience a post that you had up artistry land where you wrote about using zayn thinking to to help manifest up curious. How has that practice kind of helped you as creative because pretty sure listeners might be able to kind of learn about how they can do that themselves. Yeah is interesting so okay so some of that gets into this. The example i gave with graded studio was like as a writer writing down characteristics. And i was like oh i really loves politics and photography and writing and she loves travelling and i was just writing down all of these lists of things about myself and i was doing that as a manifestation toll right so i've meditate in its space does very open honest and vulnerable and that might be physically could be anywhere just mostly sat on the better lied on my bed or sat on a yoga mat. But when i when i close my eyes and began to breathe very intently. I did so with the intention of being vulnerable and being honest and being true to myself because previously living in washington dc. I ended up there. Because i basically decided not to go to law school. I've spent all this time. Applying law school guidance to waylay chicago decided not to go move to dc and wasn't really happy with my life there and it's because i wasn't being honest with myself i didn't really wanna go to law school either. I wasn't being honest myself. So i had to sit down and go. What do i want and find this intersection of. What do i want with. What is very meaningful to contribute to the world is the thing about. Manifestation is sure people can manifest objects or experiences however. I believe that the point at least for me to do so in a way that is contributing to my purpose right. So i've come here with a life assignment and so i would just visualize what is most meaningful to me. I'd i'd allowed these visions to pour into me. And sometimes they're very sharp unclear. And sometimes it was like a little bit of light in a roomful of darkness. In any case. We come out of meditation and then going right those things down on a sheet of paper and then as i was job searching or.
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"robinson" Discussed on Revision Path
"Where do produce content is mostly mostly written. Something i started doing this year. I think in the summer was just highlighting artists because restrictions is really focused on the intersection of art wellness. I see these things as so intrinsically tied together. I don't know a single artist who's mental health or physical or otherwise. Holistic health is impacted by their art or their ability to produce their art or the reception of it or like every artists that i know has some sort of health related experience to practicing their art in for many of us. I'll speak for myself or is healing. So i love the idea of artists who are doing well and living. Well an exploring what that means what it needs to do well for yourself and to do good in the world and to live well and what are the practices that you do that. Cultivate that experience so a begun interviewing artists who do good in the world and they live well and ask them questions. Bow artistic projects most meaningful to them. What kind of art they practice so i. I interviewed a friend of mine. Who's an opera singer. She lives in japan. She's a black woman. she's an opera. Singer is your twenty twenty one. She lives in japan. She's a rarity like my nephew right so she talks about her time studying buddhism particularly living in japan and for just discussing how important it is for her to be a black woman opera singer in this very old art form and i get to learn a lot. I think it's is really important. That artists continued to you. Learn from each other. There's there's a lot of folks who talk about the artists to support each other. Which i agree a hundred percent i just find that it is maybe more motivating if it's clear in terms of what we're learning from each other if i'm learning something i'm gonna show up if you just go. Hey man you should support me. How reliable i would like to but like is this kind of like. You're asking a meter hunger porcupine right now as you're not hearing about this so if you go hey like. This is what we're learning together. Then i'm very motivated to show up so that's my approach with artistry. Land is to say well you know i wanna learn from eu. And i hope that people by reading your interview and being introduced your art by following you on instagram or twitter are checking out your website that they learned from you as well and i think that's what's really important so something else that i've done with artistry land is i'm developing relationships with clients. I do design work under artistry land. So graphic design brand strategy. Brand design work so i have some like business to business clients. One of them's called wears might meeting. Which is a digital video production company. And i think most recently they ran a press conference for merrill bowser in dc about. Kobe in vaccinations but they also did a partner with them on this site. Got virtual talent show in february which feels like a really long time goes exam last year but does a cell is called celebrate. Lack voices talent. Show and where's might meeting. Did the video production for it. We gathered all of these black artists to spotlights. It's others poetry rap. And i shot and edited my own music video in aired it in that talent show which is really cool and then i also. I've just been searching for organizations to partner with invest in. So one of them is all you probably know. This is the we are by pox. Design up steven. What exactly. yeah. I saw it. They're doing in terms of promoting design thinking empowering clear by people with resources to be designers professionally. That's all i would love to contribute designed. I decided to donate after our call. That was steve. Just learn more about you. Know who they're starting being how they're serving people with the offerings are and then another organization that inside to donate. Hugh is one that i used to the theater that he used to train at when i was in chicago is called the chicago beverly art center in when i was in high school at morgan park high school. I participated in an off. Campus drama program at this fear is like every thursday. I was done with classes. Maybe like think halfway through the day. And then i would go to the theater. We be in class all afternoon to the evening was muniz small group of students and the staff at the beverly art center trained us on theater. They took us in to the theater onto the stage which is not the first time i've been on stage because i did do stage. Plays in elementary school. But they go. You know this is down stage. This is staged what happens behind the curtains and then we went. We started to replays and then they had us write our own play. Produce it do costume design. Let me get to act in new. The muslims mazing experience ever. So i called the beverly art center a few weeks ago. And hey like do you. Still have this partnership with morgan park high school and be artistic director at the time. Said yeah you know actually needs write. A grant for scholarships. It's okay so i donate it some money for that purpose. So that students there would have a scholarship to help cover their classes at the beverly art center because it now dons on me that someone did that for me at some point right. I didn't know. I just was there having fun but i didn't know it's one paid for and now i'm exploring with the beverly art center is as someone who has ass burgers and has learned in my life in the last year and a half two years about it. When i look back. I see how much rowing up in theater camp and drama class. Billy helped me understand social settings social norms and expectations it experiences. Because you're reading a play whether it's table reading or you're performing you could off but whatever you have this concept of setting and characters in relationship and subtexts under the dialogue and action. It just kind of broke down things to me. That were somewhat confusing. And so i thought hey. Like maybe i can talk to the beverly art center and see if they're interested in doing something that focuses on empowering people on the autism spectrum through this particular medium through theater acting and so it's something we're having a conversation about. It's something we're exploring. I hope that we're able to come up with something. Because i just know the impact on my life like people have all these conceptions about if if they're aware of autism asperger's to begin with than they might have conceptions about the way that it presents itself or with the person looks like a generally speaking people seem to think that i don't quote unquote looked like someone with that's just like whatever. What does that.
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"robinson" Discussed on Revision Path
"Articles tomorrow. I might want to shoot a film in so like i. So i don't late figuring out the way to label myself in regards to the way that i contribute artistically. I don't know. I end up with a lot of words like if you go to my website right onto nasa robinson dot com or artistry land is space there is an area in both places to read my bio says gymnasts robinson is a published journalist writer and actor a photographer. This that like. There's so many. Like would i call this. I don't know what the i like when they're something. That's flexible abroad about the word artist. I love it because you could be a performance artist. You could be a singer. You could be how you could be you know. It's flexible enough in a way where someone who creates are at this point is not just a singer or not just poet like if you're an artist it means that you have a particular artistic vision artistic gays and artistic process in you apply that to whatever medium like it doesn't the medium at that point isn't as relevant as it is to maybe like whatever the messages that you wanna communicate the question becomes. Is this the best medium or the proper medium are the best way to reach people right. Like what's the goal so with content creator at like it because yeah otherwise. It's like well am i writer video producer. This is like becomes long list in hollywood when someone is multitalented that way we used to call it a triple threat fox hill. Seeing he'll act will produce like comedy. Whatever you call this person a triple threat today. We call it a multi hyphen it. Because triple isn't it true like at that point. It's less about be specific activities. Like what it is that someone's doing more about who they are what they bring to whatever they touch. So that's how identifies like if you give me a camera. I'm gonna start shooting things right if you give me a microphone. I'm going to start seeing. Don't it's more this artistic energy so we contin creation. I feel very similar ways. I might content creation. Might be enough. Tease in graphic design. Today might be video editing in cutting me gather audio the next day in i like that. When are formed. My company artistry land to fill out. This business paperwork can articulate. Will what are the products of services and. i put one of the things that i put is digital and physical content right and then i put some examples including but not limited to because it's artistry land is a land of are gonna to be whatever i needed to be black. I don't know i'm figuring that out every day like i love that exploration. I think that's amazing. I get to learn ally in connect with people in ways that are relevant in timeline to the president. Let's talk about artistry land. This is a company that you started a few years ago. Tell me more about it. Like what are some of the projects and things that you've done through artistry land. Yeah so i. I was already operating as an entrepreneur. Sense maybe twenty fourteen. I began freelance. Writing and i was gaining all of these opportunities to be published in really great sources and publications huffington post and salon ebony in nwpp's the crisis magazine. The guardian. and. I just kinda thought that was like a cool thing to do on the side and then maybe two years ago i think occurring to me that i could formalize this business i can formalize this business into something that grows beyond just freelance writing and my father's an entrepreneur. He's been an entrepreneur for a long long time. He actually is a former professional basketball player. He was drafted the utah jazz and then he went to play in europe for about eight years and then when he came back he did some kind of like sales stuff while he still had entrepreneurial things going on and then i just kind of grew up with watching him bill businesses. And so i thought to myself. Will you know what i really like about. My dad's entrepreneurship that allows him to live to be fully human to not be tied to someone else's schedule make his own decisions about where he needs to be win particularly as it relates to him living his purpose and so with artistry land. I you know. I've had him. Did these lake brainstorm exercises. And i was like well. What is my business like. What does it do. Who doesn't serve before i came to a name by the time i kind of went through my research. I was like okay. Well who's geneticist right. Nasa does love to write lenexa so much more than that and here was dancing on instagram. Like yeah i at this point. I had also had a short films. Thirty second film featured in time magazine in abe duvalier's optimus issue unwitting optimists issue video project. Now's like yeah i do. Love film studied cinema. I've grew up in theater. And i did do some acting classes in college. In here i am. I want do music. And i was like. What is this company. So i just kind of formalize it in to artistry land as i developed my own artistry and i operate logs at artistry landau. Space.
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"robinson" Discussed on Revision Path
"You know it just has a different mass ted that it's under but national news now that we have you know twitter and youtube and all these things that help us communicate one story to billions of people instantaneously is pretty repetitive. So local news is pretty cool because is specific to what's happening in your community in your neighborhood right like what's going on in i. I started writing from us break. Just as i was leaving san francisco. So i was writing stories bear and then as i moved here i switched to writing local stories about los angeles. Honestly i liked to report on like really interesting. People local businesses. I love reporting on food peschiera. And i'm allergic to dairy. And so i like to go out and see will like. Where are the best seafood tacos without love seafood tacos. And you know. Where can i get a really good salmon sandwich like this kind of right about that and also like to eat those things. I'd like to kind of be in that moment. Just allow my palate to be dazzled and then take all of that energy in right about that selecting recommend to people where to go. I'll say that l. is la la. There's no place like los angeles reporting here has been very interesting. I just did a story on a luxury experience. Service company called the homeboy at hope that people do not the french people criticize my my french accent but speak a bit of french so i'm should mostly accurate but yeah i guess so report on this this luxury experience company and meet the owner. Who's a very private person. So you know our spec Has privacy. But it's the fact that i'm talking about luxury experience company that you know will if i say. Hey i wanna fly monaco for private shopping trip tomorrow. They'll put that together right now. They'll have a driver coming. They'll have a private jet waiting for me. There be food. Snacks that arch like all. These things is just amazing. Sort of company that in comparison to my time in san francisco. It's not to say that that doesn't exist. There is just maybe not as ingrained into the culture gives ever cisco is more like. Where's the best beacon place to woods really good mountain to climb is what draws people. They're more seven. La which is how fabulous cannot live. I mean that sounds very. La something like that. I think la was the last city that i visited before. All this pandemic stuff. We did a did a live show. They are back in january. The january february february february of twenty twenty. We did a live. Show down in the lammert part. That was pretty good. And i think it to see a ton of la. I just remember l. a. Being so big like i stayed in korea town and the event that we did was parking and another part of town not too far from korea towns that was also there for a work conference and you know people that were there were like. Oh you should go to the beach and they're like all but it's gonna take about an hour to get there like well. That doesn't really sound like something. I wanted to sue if it's going to take that long to get there. It's still in the city. I guess i didn't realize the enormity of los angeles. Until i actually got there was like places like really spread out. It is it is very large honestly so first of all. I hope that you you returned to l. a. And do another live shells that can be on. It was going to say that before. I moved here. The last time i visited it was just before the pandemic. i don't know if it was around the same time at your here but it was just before the pandemic with the los angeles clippers flew me out here for an interview. I was interviewing for jobs. And they flew me down from san francisco and alma. Gosh when i got the lax ahead about. I think like maybe forty five minutes or hour between landing in the time of my interview. That was like all this plenty of time. No oh my god. Am i gonna make it and it was just so stressful and i almost missed my flight on the way back. I was in those interviews all day. And then i was like. I don't think they know what time i fight like. No one's paying attention. So apparently i have to tell them. Hey i have to go casas light. And i almost missed it when i was in the process of traveling. Back to san francisco. Wow yeah it's been a long time since i've lived in a city that's really large. I'm from chicago. I lived in new york for a bit. Then i started to wonder i was like with eight million people. La like do. I want to do that. Like i don't know but then i do. I don't care. I'll deal with it right so now it's like will take an hour to get to santa monica. That's fine. i'll just like you know. Listen to some music. Chilling the cards. That'd be deal. I was surprised by how much traffic there was. I mean i i live in atlanta. Which has which is notorious for traffic but los angeles has atlanta. Beat it hands down the traffic. That i would see though actually stuck in at on the one on one was like hellish. It was ridiculous. It is it's tough. I'll say i don't have my only comparison points for being in traffic or needing a passenger. Because this is the first time in my life that i've ever driven regularly is the first car that i've ever owned coal sell. I don't know. I just when i was growing up everyone drove me around for most parton even when i got a license that was still case than when i graduated high school. I went to undergrad at started at saint. John's university in new york where very few people drove regular who likes Around there had been then by the time i graduate. I transferred in graduate from tulane university in new orleans. So that's how i did. That uber was a thing. It was like not yet an app tech space. But you could just text us number like a private like black harwood pull up and i thought it was sketchy at for car like so then like i just read around for like look Like eight years now. I own a car traffic. This is what it's like to drive a so. Yeah it's it's interesting. I missed those early days of uber when they just had the black cars. But from what i remember i mean i would take them in different cities but the one sort of thing that i i remember how much the drivers hated it because for them like they're used to. I guess you know if you're black car driver like lincoln towncar or something like that. There's a certain. I think clientele that you're used to in terms of decorum and all that sort of stuff. Now they're like picking up drunk kids at the bar and driving three blocks and then having to clean up vomit from the back seat. I remember talking to. I did it for an article. This was back in the atlanta journal. Constitution cheeses.
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"robinson" Discussed on Revision Path
"Artist and entertainer based in los angeles and the founder and ceo of artistry land. Let's start the show all right. So tell us who you are and what you do. I am gymnastics robinson. And i'm an artist and an entertainer. So how are things going for you right now. What's what's on your mind. Oh well things are going great. I just moved to los angeles a month ago actually drove down here from san francisco. It was it was an interesting experience. That's the first road trip that have taken by myself before and it was amazing because as pulled into los angeles. It really hit me. That i live here are moving here as a resident in each other time that i came to la. It was to visit. Stay with a cousin ones who lived in east. La she's a screenwriter and every time before that was sort of like. I came through lax airport on my way somewhere. I just wanted to stay. So i'm very happy that i'm here. And it's a very significant change for me. Because i spent three years living in san francisco and ever since i was a small child. I've always wanted to live here and not just live here but be a leader in the community here to contribute. Something just saw that my life is here so it's an amazing experience. not it. sounds like you've had a pretty transformative year. Then especially with this move i would say covets interesting right. There's a lot of change for everyone and for me. I went from gosh spending four hours in traffic. Just commuting between san francisco and santa clara to stay at home and me being like okay. Great well now can spend all the time. I want on my art because we were essentially confined to our homes in the beginning. And i decided that i would start dancing every day and i was recording myself in posting. These videos on instagram actually made a beer intentional decision that i would turn my instagram page into a television channel. Like joe is like an entertainment show on a called a variety. Nessa and dancing and rapping and singing and just shooting really interesting content in ways that would engage people. Since we were at home. I was like hey check this out so that kind of led me into doing music. Actually i was producing writing singing taking singing and song arrangement lessons piano lessons mixing and mastering my own music used algorithm actually to mastermind music. And i was really interesting Sharing it on band camp and by first project actually worked with producing partner where he did the mixes a masters and yeah so i spent the last year. Rowing tremendously artistically getting enough tease graphic design. Just blossoming just honestly blossoming. It's an amazing amazing year and you're also kind of breaking into hollywood to right. Yes actually literally live in hollywood. That's my community. My home is located which is really cool. Yeah i am training it to hollywood acting studios right now. One is sheri shaw studio which is physically located in hollywood. Although i haven't gone there yet because of kobe and then the other is lesley kahn. In co and both of these studios are very special to me. be instructors. they are my classmates. The energy in the way that we all invested to each other. It's just very special to me. And then i'm very happy because for me hollywood physically and more metaphorically the hollywood community which is spread out across the world. There's hollywood the location in hollywood the industry which is just a bunch of us. Were very very fond of entertaining and see a lot of value in it for me. Something that over the last year. I was really reminded of. Is my family history in hollywood and i have a great. Great grandmother made eve wheatley. Jowls who dance with josephine baker. She's one of the first quote unquote tan. Girls mean that she's like light skin sort of brown but not like dark skin brow. But you know at that time. It was considered progress. I suppose i guess they all just call it colored back then right. Yea yeah. I guess so. I didn't even coming by the first tand girls to dance with josephine baker. She is married to a comedian. He's part like comedy dance studio same as butter beans that i have great uncle arthur. Who played in jazz band for al capone at the copacabana in chicago. Like there's just a lot of people in my family that have really contributed to make hollywood entertainment industry what it is today and so the inclinations that i have for all of these different forms of art i just love art. I just love design for me. It's about the process in the experience in whatever the tools are i'll just use them to just make something magnificent. I don't really care what the tools are. Just wanna do cool stuff so it occurred to me when my mom is kind of sharing all this information with knee that was shared with me and my childhood. But like this is now. I'm in my adulthood in our resonates. More tighter stand all ic- beezer the gift things you know that my family my ancestors recent and much further back that they've sold on me and so i feel very blessed and very grateful appreciative to be in a position to know that to see that in to activate on what it is that they have deposited into knee. Wow it sounds like it's literally like it's literally in your blood hanging entertainer come from that lineas. that's great. Yeah yeah it is in my blood. That's what my mom says she goes. This is who you are. This is in your dna. These are your jeans is how she felt. So let's talk about one of the things that you're currently doing. You're a content creator for a company called a news break. Talk to me about the. Yeah it's interesting so news break is a news. Publication that is available as website news break dot com and as it downloadable mobile application right so people can go visit their app store or google play store and download news break and it is interesting because it solves the problem. It solves the problem of gathering local news over. Gosh analysis is twenty thirty forty years. It depends on how far you want to go back. But we know that for some time there's been a trend of investment into local news dwindling right and so newsbreaks prioritises local news on the app in the website based on the geo location of user. It also pulls in national news but the thing is at national news is pretty repetitive. Right newswires yeah like the same story over and over and it just has like a slightly different. It depends if it's a news wire is just going to be the exact same thing. But in most cases it might be a slightly different tone based on the writer's.
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"robinson" Discussed on Light Hearted
"It was a real pleasure. Talking with andy robinson. I'm looking forward to seeing the california lighthouse. Society develop over time. And as i said in the interview. It's an idea whose time has come. So we have another guest today. Chalon ah please help me tell our listeners. About j dennis robbins. Some church jeremy j. Dennis robinson properly columnist lecturer in public historian. Living in portsmouth the new hampshire seacoast. He's the author of a dozen books on topics ranging from jesse james child labor exploitation. Disturb.
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"robinson" Discussed on Around the Horn
"And i mean when you have sixteen siblings. You're like that. Sounds like some stuff. I need to be learning about. Family dynamics getting up well no. I've always been intrigued by people in how they connected society. You know what shapes them what makes them. They are Just some of those things so it was more that i wanted to enjoy the classes. I was taking in undergrad. I say a lot on this podcast. If i went back i would take so. Many classes in steph like sociology human ecology like the study of people and how we communicate. behavioral psychology all. That stuff like that's the stuff i find so interesting. Now as you move through the world and meet all different kinds people and all that stuff Yeah so you you have this great connection with a bunch of your coaches growing up high school college Was there a part of you that ever thought. I want to stick around and be a coach absolutely not might spheres as a student. Athlete watching my coaches in what they had to put up with with me in my teammates in our parents in the boosters in the athletic department i mean those it was just too much. It was more time than i ever wanted to spend a lot more stress than i thought i could handle. I also really just felt like. I was not cut out for the heartbreak of recruiting like spending all of that time investing and i knew that was going to be a big part of what i would do or what the expectation would be and so i mean god just hearing no over and over again after you've invested so much time in these young people who just decide. Oh i'm gonna go to this school because they have better screens in the lock right. Like i'm not i'm not out at so i knew very early on that Yeah coaching coaching was not going to be my thing. What i don't understand is how super competitive people become coaches because you do have an impact on what happens but only to a certain extent. You can't actually be on the court. i can't do it. I if i want something done. I'm just doing it myself. I don't really trust. Very many people to get shit as well as i think i could get should dung all right. Follow the game plan. What do you do you. yes exactly. Yeah well and that's so much being successful coach setting people don't realize after working at georgia tech for seven years. I worked very closely with the head coach at the time michelle. Joseph and coaching is like ten percent. Coaching it's ninety percent. People management is staff parents fundraising. It's i mean you know all of those other. How do you motivate different people and yeah just mean is one of the hardest jobs. I just yeah. I was like i'm good. So yeah let's talk about that. You were at the ac administration offices for one season right after school. And then you end up at georgia tech like you said for seven years so You did a bunch of stuff administrative assistant of recruiting director baseball basketball operations special assistant to the head coach again. Was this just. I love basketball so much. Now that i want to be near it but i'm not really sure what i wanna do. That was exactly what it was sarah like. I had zero plan coming out of college. I had a small window where i could have gone overseas to go pro But i had an injury my senior year that they have to sit out after i graduated for the tire year And so. I was by the time i did that. I got shave and that was never one of those kids out. Shooting into the lights went out. Like i love basketball and You know again. I was competitive. But i wanted to get my nails done. I wanted to go to movies. I wanna do a lot of other things right But i wanted to stay close to the game. That was one thing i did though and i was so inspired by watching pat summitt. I remember one thing vividly in my mind. It was my senior year. I went to the final four in greensboro very close to winston salem and i watched It might have been regional. I watched pat summitt coach. And i was like just in all of the impact that she was having on these women and thinking about how. The game I wanna close the game. I don't know where. I got an internship at the acc office which was great. Because i got a taste of a championship operation so we ran all the majors or championships for the acc I've got to visit all the different campuses in the league and see what their administrators do like. Okay maybe i'll be an athletic director. So that was kind of in the back of my mind when i went to georgia tech staying close to the game but eventually being an athletic director and that was not the plan after a while they ended up hiring you to do radio broadcasts. What was the impetus for that. Where you just chatting up a storm in the offices and they thought they'd redirected to something right. Gee somewhere i hit this. I hate this. I call it a midlife crisis but my twenty six years. Old okay typing. John mayer called it. Quarter life crisis. There you go. Yes that's where. I was Where i just spank my really going to become an athletic director where i have to lights in an office and you know just it just did not not allergic shirts with like unto too young for this jetting. I need to be close to the game. So i this crisis without having to do in my life And i randomly so part of my responsibilities at georgia tech or iran game operation. so even. i wasn't coaching. I had to be at every game. Make sure the ball kids were in order. Make sure boosters were taken care of marketing had their fliers all that stuff and one day they were life. Hey would you be interested in filling in on the radio broadcasts Sure what's the game started. I didn't have a ton to do. I just had to make sure everything was ready for the game like sure. I'll sit in so you know i've got my khakis on by georgia tech colo and i'm bringing my point over there mike. Okay sure. what do you guys want me to do now like you know. Just just talk the game. So i put the headset on and it was life changing. Sarah i mean you know how it is when you finally figure out what it is you love to do It just clicked right away. I was like wow. This is did not feel i worked. I could wake up and do this every day. And i'm not going to work and that's basically what happened to a ever since that's awesome. So how long. After that did you get spotted by espn and were you on television broadcasts from that point or i mean radio but like the public broadcast from that point on where you always part of the georgia tech games. Well yes so. I was was. I loved radio if i could go back now. In like 'cause you have to wear with what you look like and all those things like radio is a great place to learn. So i did that for a couple years while i was doing that. I was checking into opportunities to actually get on television. Like can i do this at the next level all of a sudden my aspirations my dreams were just growing But people were looking at me. Like i was crazy. They were like you are not broadcast organizations major. You have never been on television before you have zero experience like motor you doing here..
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"Nanri maps and for the book. Did you talk to some of the behind the scenes. You mentioned brannon braga some of the other young too. I think every right so which is a few yeah avenue. I obviously wanted to put a few years ago. But i knew magas well and had talked to him about roy during the pause but yet jerry ken. Billet of brennan to Nick sagan two and so on. And so on i think cons the anyone that in and then yeah we ought to talk to come back to nice steve bug makutu. Doug drexler Batman mike west down hurry employ more people. Mike wes moore had some fun with those makeup's that in in void or because they weren't adult in the delta quadrant man. He came with some amazing aliens. He's an extraordinary man. He has he keeps Everybody why he was decided. You exactly how many days out from Voyager because he would put his touchy one in south Every cat tonight and he did the same thing with the with that with taxes. Where you're going to put a number on the shock notre exactly where it but for an so you how many times he done the done. The were free on started out with a template but after awhile you just can just do it. What's it like personally for you to do this. Book and and to go back and revisit voyager and take a deep dive into it i was one of them is actually Professionally i mean what was great was the adoped to the costs. Pretty much fianna site. I did all those in the space of among. Wow and everybody because everybody was available. At a lot of time i was incredibly charming and ending gates. An interesting it was. It was really nice from that point of view. And what's great about. It is when you can tell people things that maybe they owed himselves one of the things. I'm proud of the book. Is the when you talk about a car until we just talked about it. We took the rights is about and then we say the nicest signed this. The axis was that wind. I that's what they were trying today or the white sox was saying i didn't actually. That's a good idea. So one example eyebrows took into by martha Session with robin and i was to. You can't delancey. Never be felt the key thing because they would go for the.
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"And with year of hell we got to see that and janeway just stepped up mightily in that episode. It was a for me. It was a janeway. Two-parter that really to me solidified. Her as yes. She belongs into same conversation with kirk and the card definitely and i think that you mentioned is interesting book on bravo. I win the first iraq neutral making year could have won. A whole season would have been cool was not year l. yet. It was gonna reverse wipe wipeout anorexia reset online at the in the final season. I think that the other things changed enormously since the nine cents you that there were lots of casual user. The chain in maybe not insane last week's episode could catch up on streaming would be very confused Was a very different approach to civilized. She men than there is now Yeah another janeway thing. There was a book written by jerry. Taylor who is one of the executive producers mosaic. And i act when i when this was a radio show. I had her on the show along with the editor john. Order to time pocketbooks. The interviews available as a podcast. When it's really cool. 'cause we talked about you know my my co host. The time earners louis was asking her. You know kirk cosies up to the enterprise. We see jane do the same kind of thing interesting answer and then year of hell and it's all about her. You know trying to keep the ship together is the home of the crew so it i dunno vet influence but at least it didn't hurt. Probably i talked to jerry title actually. Jerry's jerry's lovely and she had a great line. She said that she wants to be joined by when she grows up but yet she talks about how she had a. You know how much join how much how it changed the is. It's really interesting interesting. Edward you get to two different people. I find into creating some cards. I always thought would to rocking janeway. They had kind of a kirk. And spock nine the relationship. But what's your thought on that. Well originally a again book originally to focus meant to be an old car. Yes that was. They did People over fifty sixty four underrepresented television. I think was was very true in the nineties. Still probably a bit tricky. Getting back and yet i wanted to have to be Old mental and friend. And it's that it's something that they play. But i think a little nervous about mom. Gop too much like spoke and they wanted to sort of help define him as a cartoon on so really what happened here was became the tearful. Needless lads and it was only when nine one seven. That's that's how we will talk. You know i'm i'm brandon inside. That was his intention when creating central jianghuai us talk nice. Let's talk about that. Part of voyager like the s nine. They kind of had to make some changes they brought in michael dorn on ds nine and on boyer in with apologies to jennifer lien..
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"And i said wow you know it's like she has this combination of strength and yet femininity and she's beautiful. Look at and it was like. I liked her. I liked this actor. And i heard she was cast as jane way to replace ms buccio and i said wow. This is fantastic. Totally happy that she got the role. A lot of people for whatever reason never warmed up to her. Why do you think that is. People didn't warm up to jane who well actually a mice racist. Almost opposites really good. Is that a lot of people. I constantly encountering love jianghua jain way i think is is actually a very important Start to people. I mean i do think the the thing about centric is that that coke and cod are extremely hot active alert. Oh my god. I am obviously very different ways and i think they both sat a kind of standard. The an idea of what it meant to be stuffy caps in the people found it hog to to accept something different. And with pecan. I think it kind of happened by accident. Originally the concept was the waco was going to be the type character so the captain could be different. The counting of patrick stewart made a difference. Oh yeah but when it came to cisco was jianghuai. I think they were. They were again looking for ways to make a difference on some extent. Audience doesn't want people to be different. But the truth is if you if you damned if you do unto but yeah on ice custody accounts but i think china is actually a very important captain for a lot of people who are younger than i am for. Women fans in particular The guy funds that she says very big following about the lgbtq community. So i think she's one of the most successful sciences choose sandra hatch like the original series boy streaming all over the place and in reruns on television. Now so a whole new group of people is discovering the show without the baggage of the other shows. Just like you missed it. Standing on its own and janeway is like going through a renaissance. And what's cool. And i was totally on board with this. There's actually like buster statue of jane way in the town. She was supposed to be which is awesome. I don't that's fantastic. The thing is i sent to all devices have been telling me that jiang wei spat us and she said oh she be good ass likes that she you. You may showing cates extraordinary presence myself. You know she fills up a room. I think is that we started the piece of achieves incredibly charming and president she just you know when you took feels like. She's go twice as much light forces as the average i. I would say for me if i picked a janeway favourite episode and their many believe me but i would say years of hell was janeway. Her best i was like she's the ship is like i mean this is something as a fan. I've always wanted to see. Hey what happens if the ship gets destroyed. How how does the crew react..