Change The Narrative with JD Fuller

Priya Harpaul is a New York-based therapist and the force behind @The_Therapy_Notebook on Instagram and TikTok. During the pandemic she started the Instagram account to give back and educate the public about mental health.  Priya takes an intersectional approach to therapy knowing that our culture and how we exist in society have major influences on our mental health. Priya is on a mission to change the narrative by removing the stigma of seeking mental health services and we are here for it.  Welcome Priya

What You Will Hear:

• Identifying as Indo-Carribean.
• Impact of cultural differences and birth order.
• Respecting elders and fighting to be heard.
• Deciding to become a therapist.
• Collective cultures.
• Biases and preconceived notions in therapy.
• Understanding cultural differences.
• The influences of cultural and experience on mental health.
• Generational cycles and breaking negative patterns of behavior.
• Mental health and psychoeducation
• The Therapy Notebook- developing user friendly language for therapy
• Signs of depression that don’t appear as sadness
• What does the global majority need to do

Quotes:

“Family business stays in the family.”

“If you wanted to get help with your mental health, there weren't many people that looked like me in the therapy room.”

“The global majority do come from collective cultures and you can't do therapy from an individualistic european eurocentric lens that alienates the collective and wants to pathologize it.”

“Every teacher teaches from teachers from their cultural lens”

“One thing about therapy is we do not treat the diagnosis. We treat the person.”

Mentioned

PriyaHarpaul.com

Instagram @the_therapy_notebook

TikTok @the_therapy_notebook

CBT Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Giva Wilkerson, M.A., MPA, Masters of Public Communications is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and Indiana University Bloomington. She joins JD to talk about eating disorders. Giva recovered from her eating disorder and it's through that journey coupled with her perspective on life, social justice, activism, and health that have deeply changed her.

This week's guests Megan Reid and Ashely Gulyas are changing the narrative when it comes to education for kids and adults and learning through the good old fashioned book. Ashley aka “Diversify Our Parenting” is a mom, music teacher, instagrammer and Megan Reid aka “I Have a Book 4 That”, is also an author, blogger and a mother.  Megan and Ashley give new meaning to unlearning white washed history.  They are both teachers, moms, readers and living in accountability for diversifying our parenting and helping people find diverse books for all of life's moments, no matter how big, small or silly.  One lesson we all learned during the pandemic is we don't need to be in the classroom to learn.  Wherever you live, however old you are or your kids, whatever your skin color, this week’s guests will teach us how to bring diverse learning in to the classroom

What You Will Hear:

• Ashley and Megan’s backgrounds and how they met.
• Unlearning and relearning.
• Intention vs. Impact.
• Pushback from social media.
• Finding equity in books.
• Libraries.
• Book banning.
• Greatest messages imparted to Ashley and Megan’s kids and students.
• Changing the narrative

Quotes:

“Guilt never hurt anybody. We've all done something different because of guilt, but shame can really hold you hostage.”

“It's absolutely clear that children from different backgrounds need to see themselves mirrored in books. We know that for sure kids learn best when they see images of themselves.”

“What is most important are the lessons that you received as children and the messages you're giving to your children.”

“In order for students to grow up and be people who help change, they have to first be able to identify the problem.”

Mentioned:

Megan IG @Ihaveabook4that

Ashley IG @diversify.our.parenting

All Are Welcome

Prejudice meets power equals. Racism says our guests today Chase Linka Looper, soon to be legally Xavier Linka Looper. Xavier is a father, activist and disabled veteran. If you want to hear the true story of the birth of the United States and not the whitewashed version, you must listen to Xavier. He has made it his mission to use his white privilege responsibly.   He recognizes his power and uses it to educate about racism, LGBTQ plus rights and women's rights. His platforms are quickly growing while he encourages and is sometimes provocative, but always intentional from painting his nails black, without apology, to telling the truth about white supremacy and the systems that protect it.  Xavier speaks and is not afraid to ask the real questions.

What You Will Hear:

• Thank you for your service vs. Thank you for your sacrifice.
• Dark humor.
• Race-based, intergenerational chattel slavery.
• The creation of racism and race by the pale skinned.
• Doctrine of discovery and manifest destiny
• White privilege
• Convict leasing
• Individualism. Using the individualistic lens.
• Understanding white privilege
• Abortions and white supremacy
• Dismantling white supremacy

Quotes:

“I tried my best to be what I believe to be an ally, I realized I was never truly an ally to anyone”

“Just try to be the best human you can be, that's it like, you don't need a title for it.”

“Racism came before race was ever created. it first started out as a blood quantum where people had pure blood and unclean blood.”

“White privilege is the option to not do or explain anything.”

“Marginalized groups can and will use civil rights, methods, agenda and dynamics to move their mission forward and then opt out.”

“Individualism equals white privilege.”

“White privilege isn't necessarily about what you have, it's about what you don't experience.”

“The way we dismantle white supremacy is by dismantling the white supremacy that lies within us.”

Mentioned:

The Birth Dearth

Tik Tok  @logicbylink

Instagram @logicbylink

Youtube @logicbylink

You probably don’t recognize D854/105 but this week’s guest does.  They are the patent numbers for the first ever patent for a punching bag since 1800. This badass entrepreneurial fitness expert has managed a way to take out her mental energy, anguish, anger, sadness, anxiety, fill in the blank and a fitness gain in the creation of Skullz, the first double end punching bag. Chris Jackson Baldwin is impassioned about changing the fitness and empowerment narrative and she is kicking some butt on the way.   She uses her tough love and can do attitude to manage physical health.  She is a wife, author and JD’s close friend.

What You Will Hear:

• The theme of Chris’s childhood.  Living a rebellious life.
• What Chris gained by enlisting in the military.
• Being adopted and how finding Chris’s birth family informed her life.
• Psychological warfare. Social media and negativity.  
• Countering propaganda and the algorithm design.
• Psychological aspect of being fed fear.
• How Hitler was informed by slavery.  Caste
• Colonization.
• The detriments and depths of self hatred.
• Gun reform.  
• New book and Chris’s journey through her wife’s cancer treatment.
• Skullz boxing bag creation.
• The L Project
• Changing the narrative through politics

Quotes:

“Some mothers are just birth canals.”

“Turn off the news.  Get your news from a non-partisan source. There are people out there really speaking truth and power.”

“You don’t think you have a will, but you do.”

“Gratitude really propels me a long way.”

“Activity is more important than anything else.”

“Tweak your diet until you find something that works for you.”

Mentioned:

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

The Zinn Education Project 

The L Project

Ig @lprojectla

Twitter @lprojectla

Fight Goddess Fitness

If the lyrics of Meshaun Labrone’s life were to tell a story it may be how it all comes true, how to be of service, how to assist and be you.  When you listen to his music and watch his creativity you will hear the journey, transformation and flow of his life's intricacies and secrets.  How does someone go from service, 13 years of being a state of Florida corrections officer, a metropolitan police officer in DC and still a court security officer contracted by US Marshals into what would seem to be a seismic transition in to being an acclaimed artist, actor, musician, writer, playwright, director, mentor and activist?  The underlying theme of his life and all that he does is service, assistance, protection and justice.  These are intertwined into all that he does.  Can you hear the sirens blaring? They must be hearing the sounds of all of his acclaim, for his incredible work including his film Spook and one man show Power!

If the lyrics of Meshaun Labrone’s life were to tell a story it may be how it all comes true, how to be of service, how to assist and be you.  When you listen to his music and watch his creativity you will hear the journey, transformation and flow of his life's intricacies and secrets.  How does someone go from service, 13 years of being a state of Florida corrections officer, a metropolitan police officer in DC and still a court security officer contracted by US Marshals into what would seem to be a seismic transition in to being an acclaimed artist, actor, musician, writer, playwright, director, mentor and activist?  The underlying theme of his life and all that he does is service, assistance, protection and justice.  These are intertwined into all that he does.  Can you hear the sirens blaring? They must be hearing the sounds of all of his acclaim, for his incredible work including his film Spook and one man show Power!

JD and Suzy are joined by Judge Alex, the host of the long-running hit show, Judge Alex and the CBS true crime hit Whistle Blower.  What you may not know about the Cuban American former Dade county circuit judge, lawyer, speaker and author of Bench Book, a book and guide on closing arguments that is used by judges throughout Florida, is his journey.  Judge Alex has lived in Florida his whole life after his family immigrated here from Cuba to flee Castro’s communist regime.  He worked his way through college and law school by working as a cop.  Law school til 4 pm, then like Batman, he morphed into the youngest Miami cop.  When Suzy was a television agent, she sold Judge Alex’s show to Fox.  Judge Alex is a no-nonsense outspoken personality who is a regular on all the new shows for his commentary.  Married to Jane with 2 kids, tune in as JD and Suzy delve into Judge Alex’s story.

What You Will Hear:

• Judge Alex’s upbringing, parents and fleeing Cuba.
• The Immigration experience.
• Working at 15 and earning a pilot’s license at 18 and traveling the world.
• Setting his sights on police work.
• Education creates options.
• From law enforcement to law.
• Being the youngest judge and first Cuban American lawyer ever elected to the circuit court bench.
• Becoming a TV Judge.
• Advice for judges.  Influencing law vs enforcing law
• Media and the division of the country. News vs. commentary

Quotes:

“We’d gone from just getting by and eeking out and existence to a comfortable lifestyle and that kind of ingrained in me the work ethic that I have.”

“The options came from my education.”

“If the job you're looking to get is something that you really want to do that you really like to do, it's a lot easier to see as something other than a job.”

“I don’t quit, I just don’t”

“Opportunities come from your educational base.”

“As a lawyer you are a hired gun.  Our system is adversarial.”

“Your political views should have absolutely nothing to do with your judicial rulings.  Whether you’re conservative or your’re liberal, you shouldnt be trying to create policy from the bench.”

“If you want to make law and create policy then you should be a legislator, you shouldn’t be a judge.”

“If you listen to the news, it’s demonizing your neighbor.”

“News today is so blended with opinion that no matter what, you’re gonna get the news with the opinion and with whatever slant that particular network wants its viewers to hear.”

Mentioned:

Judge Alex

Whistleblower

I AM Music Group

Marquita Thomas is a speaker with her own TED talk, she is an award-winning marketing and brand consultant and an event developer who knows her way around Hollywood.  She is the owner of Out and About events.  Deeply understating the world of marketing, pr, creating tv, radio and multimedia campaigns as well as red carpet even productions, Marquita walks the red carpet every day.  As a leader in her community, she is running for West Hollywood City Council and is currently the Executive Director of the Los Angles LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce.  

What You Will Hear:

• Marquita’s upbringing before coming to Los Angeles.
• Going to parochial school and cleaning to pay off her tuition.
• Marquita’s determination to go to Occidental College.
• Humility and tenacity.
• The impact the Rodney King beatings on Marquita.
• How being a public persona has impacted Marquita’s personal journey.
• Clarifying “coming out”.
• Being on the planning commission.
• Affordable housing for marginalized communities.
• Inclusionary procurement.
• Thriving minority businesses.
• The pillars of Marquita's campaign for the West Hollywood City Council.
• Mental health crisis awareness.
• The most important thing to know about Marquita.
• Change the narrative by filling the gap and getting involved.

Quotes:

“I lived in red states for 17 years.  I moved to West Hollywood and within 4 months I got called the N world for the first time in my life.”

“Racism is a societal problem.”

“If you have more businesses run communities of color they’d be more inclusionary.”

“Until all of us are free, none of us are free.”

Mentioned:

Marquita4Weho.com

Gender expert Dr. Legato joins JD and Suzy to talk about gender amd medicine.