Blossom of Thought

Blossom of Thought

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  • Manqoba Nxumalo: Cancel Culture and Alternative Ideas and Platforms | eSwatini/Swaziland

    In this episode, I'm joined by Manqoba Nxumalo, an activist from eSwatini (formerly Swaziland) currently based in Norway. He is a master’s degree candidate in Environment, Development, and Cultural Change at Oslo University (Norway). Manqoba is the publisher of an online weekend newspaper called The Bridge and a chairperson of the eSwatini Institute of Alternative Ideas (SIAI). SIAI is an independent platform for a healthy exchange of ideas about the developmental, political, social, and economic challenges facing eSwatini. The organization aims to promote alternative ideas on the transformation of eSwatini from an absolute monarchy to a democratic country.

    Highlights of the conversation:

    • There has always been a form of social censor, but now it happens through online social platforms.
    • Cancel culture began on online social networks as an act of social shaming for an act considered cringeworthy.  It has also taken another dimension where wielders of materials and power exert some control over a given social milieu. Cancel culture is really marginalizing voices to an extent that they have no opportunity to be part of a discussion.
    • Cancel Culture is a dress rehearsal for mass murder or extermination.
    • Ultimately, cancel culture is the cancellation of human life – murdering those with differing views.
    • Cancel culture in Swaziland – The government has occasionally shut down the internet (violating the right to freedom of expression) to silence calls for democracy and suppress evidence of killings of unarmed civilians by the army and police.
    • Courts deny protestors their right to bail and others are given long custodial sentences for minor crimes/felonies of looting or theft during protests.

      • Find Manqoba on

      Facebook:

      https://www.facebook.com/manqoba.chavezjuniornxumalo 

      eSwatini Institute of Alternative Ideas:

      Twitter - @lingashoni

      Website - https://lingashoni.com/about-us/

      14 min
    • Ryan Zadrazil: Dealing with Mental Health

      Ryan Zadrazil, from Wisconsin, US, joins me in this episode to discuss mental health. Ryan is an executive at BetterMynd, an Online Therapy for College Students. BetterMynd Partners with colleges to improve the mental health of students everywhere.

      Below is an abridgment of our discussion:

      1. A lot of universities have recognized that students need help but there’s not enough budget for that…students schedule appointments and this will not occur until another month out when they really need those counseling services there and there. That’s when BetterMind can come in and provide those diverse counseling services to those students on campus.
      2. We need to prioritize our mental health. Our mental health, not only our physical, is equally important if we are to be well-rounded human beings.
      3. Some types of mental disorders:
        • Anxiety disorders, including panic disorder,      obsessive-compulsive disorder, and phobias.
        • Depression, bipolar disorder, and other mood disorders.
        • Eating disorders.
        • Personality disorders.
        • Post-traumatic stress disorder.
        • Psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia.

          • 4. There should be an all-encompassing mental health program from high school all through college – and people would be more aware of the issues they are facing. This will give them the ability to prevent some of the side effects that happen when they are unmedicated or don’t understand what’s going on in their minds. There isn’t enough being done in this regard in the US and the world at large.

          5. Dealing with mental issues: A morning routine coupled with breathing technics. The first hour of the day do things that will mentally prepare you – like listening to soothing music or going on a walk to get the spirit of serenity and calm.  Also, have a wind-down routine at the end of your day.

          Find Ryan @:

          linkedin.com/in/ryanzadrazil

          Email
          31 min
        • Yitz Epstein: How Childhood Trauma Affects You

          Join me and Yitz Epstein, a Jewish narcissistic abuse and relationship life coach and healer, founder of the Magnolia Healing Center, creator of Narcissism Recovery Podcast. Yitz specializes in helping people overcome childhood trauma and abuse, specifically narcissistic abuse as well as narcissistically abusive relationships. Yitz is from the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, California, USA.

          Highlights of our conversation:

          • No child grows and is left unscathed by childhood trauma.
          • Trauma is emotions that never got to be processed – they never got the space, the freedom, and environment to be felt and processed.
          • Childhood abuse is not always intentional. Sometimes it is the lack of unconditional love; the lack of childhood needs being met -  child validation, attainment, acceptance – just the need to develop our sense of self.
          • Childhood trauma/abuse – means that there was a need, whatever that need was, the child (whatever the environment) didn’t get the psychological, spiritual and emotional nutrients to develop a sense of self. Because of that, the fundamental core (or life) of the child is affected.
          • Adults are able to correct childhood trauma/abuse even though it happened a long time ago.
          • Everything is a relationship – even if there’s no relationship, we have a relationship with ourselves – our higher self.
          • When parents are wounded, they don’t know how to meet their needs. Parents may wound their children in the same way they were wound.
          • Childhood trauma often begins before birth, that is, some emotional wounds do not only occur in childhood but even before birth.
          • Narcissism is psychological and spiritual warfare.
          • Emotions are not weak or fragile, they just are. They are just messengers; we need to understand what they are telling us. Healing is inviting our lives without judgment.
          • If you are in emotional pain, sit there with it, acknowledge it, accept it, love yourselves through it. You cannot run from yourself.

            • Find Yitz Epstein @:

            linkedin.com/in/yitz-epstein-994668184

            Email

            31 min
          • David Clark: The Family - Our Refuge In A Stormy World

            David Clark joins in this episode to talk about the place of the family in society. He is an advocate for family and family values. David is a former military lawyer in the US Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps. He had a six-year stint in entrepreneurship – building an executive benefits consulting and insurance agency. Most of his career has been spent in public utility regulation. He is a commissioner of the Utah State Public Service Commission. David has been an attorney for about 43 years.

            Some of the highlights of our conversation:

            1. The family is so critical to the advancement of our world – of society.
            2. It’s so stabilizing for children to be nurtured by their biological parents.
            3. The connection of family economy to the national economy: the family is the bedrock, laboratory, and the initial place of training in industry, morality, frugality, and all of the moral compass that we acquire. 
            4. The family becomes a unit of production in the economy and the unit of consumption.
            5. Children need unconditional love and the understanding that they can make mistakes and still come back home and find acceptance and a warm embrace.
            6. One of the things I would recommend for a family to stay together is to make a conscious record of what they are doing and accomplishing together. As young children grow, record what they are accomplishing. Record what you are interested in and what you care about.

              7. What experts say on the Family:

              • “Married-parent households work, earn, and save at significantly higher rates than other family households as well as pay a lion share of all    income taxes collected by the government.” The “discipline of chastity and monogamy… promotes a stronger economy, as promiscuous are more likely than the monogamous to adopt less economically productive living arrangements, whether cohabitation, stepfamilies, single parenting, or divorce.”
              • “Civilization wouldn’t be possible without the role of the married women in motivating their husbands to be economically productive… First, she raises her future labour force; second, her at-home labour saves the family money; and third, by tending to details on the home front, she both allows and motivates her husband to be fully committed to his occupation… or profession.”
                • 58 min
              • Allison Huish: Dietician - Surviving Brain Tumor

                Allison Huish - a brain tumor survivor - is my guest in this episode. She has been an entrepreneur for over 10 years and lives in Salt Lake City, UT, US. Allison is a registered dietician with a bachelor’s degree in exercise science and a master’s degree in dietetics.

                She grew up a healthy girl, but at age 13 she was diagnosed with a brain stem tumor which altered her life forever. In her own words: “Part of my tumor was inoperable and so my teen years were focused on getting healthy, becoming stronger, and ultimately beating the remaining part of my brain tumor. I had success and was able to graduate high school on time and went to college.” Now that tumor is behind her, she continues to take her health seriously. When she is not working, she loves being with her incredible family, running in the canyons, and listening to podcasts.

                Highlights from our conversation:

                · The food we eat makes us.

                · I have friends who reversed serious diseases all from their diets - they have never done chemotherapy. Their cancer went away due to, in part, plant-based green-leafy vegetables.

                · Most drugs and a lot of Western medicine are just focusing on symptom management.

                53 min
              • Kelly Campana: The Power of Rest in a Restless World

                Hope in and listen to Kelly Campana as she takes me for a walk on the power of REST in a world that is becoming more and more restless. Kelly, from Newport Beach, California, United States, is a life coach. Part of her coaching is helping women leaders in Fortune 500 achieve a life that exceeds their professional success through mindset coaching. Her services range from leadership development, life coaching, executive coaching, career development coaching, change management, team building, and corporate training. She has worked as a communication and messaging advisor to elected officials and new candidates at a local and national level as a lobbyist on Capitol Hill in for-profit and non-profit organizations, as well as Investor relations, public relations, crisis communications, M&A, branding, and product marketing in Fortune 500. She also has lived throughout the US + LATAM and worked in Europe.

                Some of the talking points from our conversation are:

                1. Information and inspiration without application will never lead to transformation.

                2. When we are well-rested:

                • We are extremely resourceful. 
                • We are more reaching to our intuition and wisdom. 
                • We can solve every problem because we are not cluttered, depleted, and wasted.

                  • 3. One of the reasons we couldn't handle the pandemic (Covid-19) - not on physical ailment - is, we came to it extremely depleted. We were already under-rested and exhausted. So our ability to respond and adapt was weak. It took us longer because we didn't have the necessary resilience built up.  

                  Find Kelly Campana @ linkedin.com/in/kelly-campana-8373a0194

                  41 min
                • Kat Niambi: Food as Medicine and African Spiritual Tradition

                  Join me as I converse with Kat Niambi, the founder of the Hungry Medium Podcast and an expert in digital marketing and demand generation strategies.

                  After a diagnosis of/and extensive treatment for breast cancer, Kat Niambi, aka The Hungry Medium tried to look for ways to take more control of her health.  The answers always led to food.  For a person who loved (loves) food so much, this news couldn’t have been more disappointing.

                  Eventually, she finally decided to watch the groundbreaking documentary, What the Health.  It changed everything.  Not only did the film expose corruption in the food industry, but it empowered her to take control of her own health instead of relying solely on the advice of doctors that had never studied nutrition.

                  Today, The Hungry Medium is a lifestyle brand with over 4,500 followers on Instagram and 7,500 on Clubhouse; spreading the word about plant-based eating.  She reviews and demonstrates recipes and highlights vegan and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.  Her goal is to inspire people to make a shift in lowering or eliminating their consumption of animal products to fight disease and feel better in their everyday lives.

                  Kat Niambi also has a professional career spanning over thirty years and within every niche area in the field of marketing; most notably and namely as a subject matter expert in digital marketing and demand-gen strategies

                  At a very young age, Kat also connected with spirit on a different plane than others.  A plane that didn’t manifest in huge and amazing ways until she was much older and drawn to the African spiritual tradition of her ancestors as her foundation for worship.

                  As a spiritualist and priest in the Yoruba Lukumi tradition, Kat eventually found her path to alignment with Source and everything that comes with that: a greater desire to help others on their personal journey as she travels on her own.

                  Now as The Hungry Medium, her goal is sincere; to inspire folks to make a shift.  Whether it’s lowering or eliminating the consumption of animal products to fight disease or feeling “lighter” in our everyday lives, she hopes to impart techniques she uses to move in this world with intention and prayer.

                  Find Kat @

                  IG - https://www.instagram.com/thehungrymedium/

                  FB - https://www.facebook.com/thehungrymedium

                  51 min
                • Dr. Meadow Linville: The Problem is Addiction, The Answer is Recovery

                  In this episode, my guest is Dr. Meadows M. Linville, M.D. from Willis, Virginia, United States. Dr. Linville is a retired oncologist and author of the bestseller SPIRITUAL PATHWAY TO RECOVERY FROM ADDICTION.  He woke up one “morning of my 49th birthday to realize that I was addicted to drugs and alcohol and that my life was unmanageable, and I had no idea how to fix it.” But he eventually found his way out of this disease. He now spends his time helping others recover from the disease of addiction. In my conversation with him, he talks about:

                  • The disease of addiction and how it can be treated by the use of spiritual principles.
                  • Learning to control the thoughts in the head.
                  • Escaping the chains of his past, and find happiness in life.
                  • How to live without fear.
                  • The disease concept of addiction.
                  • Overcoming the uncontrollable craving.
                  • Finding the openness, honesty, and willingness to change.
                  • Dealing with past mistakes and removing character defects.

                    • Find Dr. Linville M. @

                    linkedin.com/in/linville-m-meadows-m-d-46006715

                    Websites

                    • spiritualpathwaytorecovery.com/  (Personal Website)
                    • spiritualpathwaytorecovery.com/blog  (Blog)
                    • theanswerisrecovery.com/  (Personal Website)
                      • 1 hr 4 min
                    • Krista Lynn: Overcoming Shame for Being Human in the Mist of Struggle.

                      In this episode, I have Krista Lynn. Krista is a business lawyer who resides in Orlando, Florida, US, where she is the Deputy General Counsel for Airbus OneWeb Satellites, a joint venture between Airbus, the global leader in the aerospace industry, and OneWeb, a company founded in 2012 that will deploy and operate a constellation of up to 900 low-earth-orbit satellites providing global high-speed affordable internet access. Krista is also a speaker, blogger, and consultant under the handle @recoveringsuperwoman – a platform where she journals about her experiences extracting herself and her kids from an abusive marriage. Her story (or liberation) is and has motivated and given other women permission to liberate themselves.

                      Highlights of our conversation:

                      • Life as a career in-house counsel - intersection of business and law
                      • Full-time single mom life while managing high profile career.
                      • Montessori and conscious parenting advocacy - Montessori educational practice helps children develop creativity, problem-solving, critical thinking, time-management skills, care of the environment and each other.
                      • The importance of therapy and working through issues with the community.
                      • life is not meant to be lived alone.
                      • What we don’t need in the midst of struggle is shame for Being Human.
                      • How her personal trauma and experiences have made her a better, more resilient person.

                        • Find Krista Lynn @

                        linkedin.com/in/legallykristalynn

                        Email

                        1 hr 17 min
                      • Olivia Vizachero 2.0: How to Change Our Circumstances for Better Results

                        Olivia Vizachero returns to tap with me for a second episode. Olivia is a lawyer from the State Bar of Michigan, a life coach, and co-author of the bestseller #Networked – an anthology she and 19 other US women lawyers produced in the midst of a global pandemic, proving that despite Covid-19 lockdowns, their minds could not be locked down. When she is not practicing law, Olivia supports lawyers who find themselves overworked, over-stressed, and overwhelmed.

                        In this episode, she eloquently and intelligibly unloads the fundamental principles underlying her coaching institute. She dives deeper into the following:

                        • Circumstance: circumstances are neutral and they don’t make a person, but reveal him to himself.
                        • Your Thoughts Cause Your Feelings: what happens to us does not affect our behaviour, but our interpretation of what happens to us.
                        • Change Your Circumstance: question your thoughts and surround yourself with those who will uplift and inspire your thinking.
                        • Other People's Opinions: They can't be happy for you, so don't make decisions based on what they think. Follow your inner voice, it already knows what’s right for you.
                        • Rest Is A Resource – rest re-energizes and renews body, mind, and soul.
                        • Scenario - the worst-case scenario is missing out on the best-case scenario.

                          • Find Olivia at:

                          linkedin.com/in/oliviavizachero

                          Website

                          · thelessstressedlawyer.com  (Company Website)

                          Email

                          Twitter

                          · OVizachero

                          · GirlFriday313

                          1 hr 36 min

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