A weekly podcast that chronicles the different experiences, communities and highlights of being a young professional in New York City. Joined with Churchill are various guests that discuss everything from the pandemic, interesting interactions, sex, relationships and shameful social moments.

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Over the past several years, self care has become a viral craze with an over focus on taking care of the individual more than community. It is now a $450B industry. In this final episode of season 2 of City Living With Churchill, I read a recent reflection piece. I makes an argument on how self care should include community care. I argue it is important to reframe self care not as an individual only work but seeing it as a community effort.

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Trappy Hour has become such an iconic nightlife experience in the black NYC queer scene.  What started as a birthday party celebration took a life of its own and has now become such staple part of the black queer experience in NYC. It has been attended by Issa Rae, Tiffany Haddish, Lil Nas X and Andy Cohen among others.

 In today's episode of City Living With Churchill, we revisit a 2020 conversation with the founder Leon about how he ended up in NYC, the black queer dating experience in the city,  impacts of the pandemic to the nightlife scene and the importance of black queer representation.

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In this episode of City Living With Churchill, Churchill sits down in conversation with community organizer, nightlife aficionado, and ballroom mother Gia Love on Transforming Trans Visibility and changing the narrative from Trans suffering to one of joy and community love.

This conversation is even more relevant given the many policy attempts to oppress trans people and make their lives and those of their loved ones even more difficult.

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Friendships Amidst The Pandemic: The pandemic changed a lot peoples perspective of how they think about friendships. In this episode of City Living With Churchill, Churchill is joined by his friend Ronny Oppong to discuss how the pandemic has impacted friendships. We talk about how our friendships have been reshaped, transformed and in some cases fizzled out.

Ronny Oppong is a good friend of mine from college. He is a multidisciplinary creative based in Brooklyn. You can find him on Instagram @Irontheworld

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The Great Resignation: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics 4.5M people quit their jobs in September, October and November  of last year. And there is a forecast of an average 3.7M people per month quitting their jobs. A lot of these people are between ages 18-34. It is being called The Great Resignation. 5M new business applications were submitted nationwide in 2021 and the number of self employed workers in the US has risen to 500 thousand since the pandemic started.

In this episode of City Living With Churchill, Andrew Kim the Founder of Scattered Kind and I talk about how the pandemic has forced us to rethink our relationships with our jobs and what meaning we want from them. His journey from quitting his job in the middle of the pandemic, pushing through depression, embracing his ADHD and finding himself and a new company through the hardships

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In this episode of City Living With Churchill, Joann Wang the Co-Founder of East Side Stories and I talk about the importance of uplifting and amplifying Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders (AAPI) voices, inclusivity & solidarity in the AAPI communities and where do we go from here with the Stop Asian Hate Movement

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Stillness Amidst The Pandemic: Part two of our discussion with Father Paul Daniels of The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City. We discuss what the pandemic was like Priests and Pastors in NYC, especially when dealing with so much death but not being able to memorialize people because of COVID restrictions. We talk about what New Yorkers can learn from the stillness of COVID and what it can teach us about spirituality and where do we go from here.

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Changing the Narrative: A two part discussion with Father Paul Daniels of The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City. We discuss spirituality in New York City and how to change the narrative between the black LGBTQ community (What does it mean to give up the narrative that Christianity is always already antagonistic to queerness?), Millennials and the Church. What can the pandemic teach us about spirituality and where do we go from here.

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Season 1 comes to end. This week, for the season 1 finale of City Living With Churchill we revisit some notables moments from the season. Discussions on the importance of black queer representation, NYC Subway stories, maintaining friendships, surviving in NYC and dating in a city like New York. 

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