Choose Your Struggle

Episode 44!

A little bit different than the regular way this show flows.

No Shout Out, no longer interview. Two awesome women talking to me about Mental Health and their own journeys. 

The first chat is with Kiah Dixon. Kiah and I have been friends since we were in 6th grade. She's pretty damn incredible and is so knowledgeable. She takes me to task for being blind in high school! It's a great moment. You can follow Kiah (if she'll let you, she's on private) at her Instagram. 

The 2nd chat is with Paris Prynkiewicz. You'll recognize her from the Crooked Illness podcast, on which I appeared earlier this year. I put it out a special episode a few months back. We had a good chat. Her story is super interesting. Follow her and her podcast at her Instagram. 

Stick around after the interview for today's Choose Your Card and Good Egg.

This week's Good Egg: Check out The Passion Project at their website and Instagram. 

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Episode 43!

Buy Stakes Is High by Mychal Denzel Smith!

This week's episode begins with my thoughts on the election and where we go from here. 

Congrats to Kamala Harris for becoming the first woman to hold one of the two highest positions in our government and the first Black and South Asian VP. 

Please, please. please don't tell me you're looking forward to things going "back to normal". 

The interview in this episode is with Dennis Gillan. Dennis has been working for decades to end the stigma around discussing issues of Mental Health and Suicide and helping prevent those tragic deaths. You can learn more at his website. 

The Shout Out is from Aphroditi (Didi) Mamaligas! Follow her on Twitter and Instagram. 

Stick around after the interview for today's Choose Your Card and Good Egg.

This week's Good Egg: Read something by a Black author!

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Episode 42!

Buy Unraveled wherever you get your books! 

This episode features a chat with the AMAZING Ashley Loeb Blassingame of Lionrock Recovery. Ashley is the host of the Courage to Change podcast, which I was on earlier this season (check the special episode!) and whose producer is the lovely Christiana Kimmich, who was my guest a few episodes back.

The Shout Out is from Brendan Black of Talk Ag To Me. 

Stick around after the interview for today's Choose Your Card and Good Egg.

This week's Good Egg: Do something for yourself!

Keep filling out the survey (link below, or at the podcast website, www.JayShifman.com) and leave a review (link below or at https://ReviewThisPodcast.com/Choose-Your-Struggle) to get up to two entries per person for the 2nd giveaway. You have until the last episode of the season (early December) to enter. Winner gets a Choose Your Struggle Tank Top!

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Episode 41!

Thanks for tuning in to this Special Episode of the Choose Your Struggle podcast. This episode was originally broadcast on the Kenetik Fitness Show with Ali West, which you find here, or wherever you get your podcasts.

No Good Egg or Card this episode. But check out Israel McCullough, where I reference on the Intro. https://www.instagram.com/spacecowboy_af/

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Episode 40!

This episode features Michelle Kuei. Her story is inspirational as hell! And what she's chosen to do with her life is easily just as inspirational. Her focus is on negative self-talk, which is something I think we all need to work on. You can find out more about Michelle from her website. 

The Shout Out is from my Dad, Steve Shifman. You should recognize his voice from card reads earlier this season. He's the CEO of Michelman, our family business. If you want to learn more about Michelman, or my Dad, check out this interview. 

Stick around after the interview for today's Choose Your Card and Good Egg.

This week's Good Egg: Read an honest and independent source on the topic of defunding the police. I suggest checking out the Marshall Project. Their work is incredible. 

Here's an article I wrote this week on the death of Walter Wallace Jr. 

Keep filling out the survey (link below, or at the podcast website, www.JayShifman.com) and leave a review (link below or at https://ReviewThisPodcast.com/Choose-Your-Struggle) to get up to two entries per person for the 2nd giveaway. You have until the last episode of the season (early December) to enter. Winner gets a Choose Your Struggle Tank Top!

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Episode 39!

This episode features Christiana Kimmich, who is the Marketing and Communications Manager and Podcast Producer at Lionrock Recovery. She produces the incredible Courage to Change Podcast which I was a guest on (go back and listen to Episode 13, a Special Episode, which was me on that show. She's also the founder of Haven Dance Company. Check out the video we chat about here, and learn more about Haven at their website. 

The Shout Out is from Kerstin Cable! Kerstin is a lover of languages and a swell person to boot! Learn more and check out her podcast at the show's website.

Stick around after the interview for today's Choose Your Card and Good Egg.

Congrats to Mijeal Pichardo, the winner of the first Choose Your Struggle Podcast contest. He's winning two bags of Four Sigmatic Coffee. 

Keep filling out the survey (link below, or at the podcast website, www.JayShifman.com) and leave a review (link below or at https://ReviewThisPodcast.com/Choose-Your-Struggle) to get up to two entries per person for the 2nd giveaway. You have until the last episode of the season (early December) to enter. Winner gets a Choose Your Struggle Tank Top!

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This week's Good Egg: Support the arts!

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Episode 38!

This episode features a conversation with Natalie Papillion, of the Equity Organization, that peels back the curtain on the racism and lies that form the foundation of the War On Drugs and how the violence we see from police towards black and brown Americans has its roots decades ago. The Shout Out is from Annie Leib! 

Stick around after the interview for today's Choose Your Card and Good Egg.

To learn more about Natalie's work, check out the Equity Organization. 

More from Annie Leib. 

This week's Good Egg: Listen to Reagan by Killer Mike and check out Gladversity (featuring yours truly!).

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Episode 37!

Today we hear from Kim Buser-Clancy and Dr. Sam Buser (editor's note: after publication, I realized I referred to Dr. Buser as Sam Clancy in my intro. My apologies!) of the Leaving the Valley Podcast. The Shout out is from Mark Kumar, host of the Simple Podcast Cloud Podcast. It's a great episode. 

Trigger Warning: We go deep on the topic of suicide. 

Stick around after the interview for today's Choose Your Card and Good Egg.

For more from Kim and Sam: https://leavingthevalley.com/.

More info on Mark and his work: http://simplepodcastcloud.com/.

This week's Good Egg: Reach out to someone you care about and have an honest conversation about how THEY are.

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Episode 36!

Today we hear from John Hudak, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute, on the history and future of Marijuana in the US, and Es Lou, the Founder of Bad Body Bad Skin!

Stick around after the interview for today's Choose Your Card and Good Egg.

For more from John: https://www.brookings.edu/experts/john-hudak/ or buy his book Marijuana: A Short History.

More info on Es: www.badbodybadskin.com

This week's Good Egg: take some time for yourself!

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Episode 35!

Today we hear from Ivy Watts, an incredible motivator and Mental Health advocate, and Hypnotist Doug Sands!

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For more from Ivy: https://beautifullysimplyyou.com/about/

More info on Doug: https://www.anywherehypnosis.com/

This week's Good Egg: https://report.nih.gov/categorical_spending.aspx

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