Crazy Zen Life

The conversations around NIL (Name Image Likeness) standards is nothing new but its stirring controversial conversations at colleges around the country.  The NIL term has taken on new meaning amid the national conversation.  NIL or “name, image and likeness” is broken down into three elements that make up a legal concept known as “right of publicity.” As of right now, most colleges have the rights to all student athletes right to publicity which prohibits them from monetizing on any platform while enrolled and participating in an athletic program. A call to amend these standards is becoming more imperative as social media platforms become increasingly more popular and lucrative among college age adults. To help us understand the importance of listening to college athletes, we invited Celene Funke, to the pod.  She helps us breakdown why NIL standards need to be changed and what that would mean for non-revenue sports moving forward. Please  Enjoy the show!

https://www.si.com/college/2021/03/11/ncaa-name-image-likeness-athletes-acc

• We start the episode breaking down the shooting of Daunte Wright last Sunday night.  His death has contributed to riots and deeper racially charged wounds around the country. 

We are so excited to share our conversation with Alexa Silvaggio, the founder of Savage Los Angeles, meditation & yoga teacher, and founder of savage practices (an online self care site). We had an exploratory chat with Alexa about the healing from her eating disorder, finding body acceptance, being more aware of how you receive pleasure, and starting a company centered around mindfully eating chocolate.  About half way through today's episode, you will hear Alexa lead us through a breath work exercise and we invite you to try it. 

We also took a few moments at the top of the show to share what our spring break 2021 looked like.  Spoiler! Spring break did not break us.  Enjoy the show! 

If you would like to find out more about Alexa click the links below:

http://alexasilvaggio.com/podcast

https://www.savagelosangeles.com/savage-practices

https://www.instagram.com/savage.practices/

Things are heating up on the internet this week and we are hear to dish on all of it! 

From Ranch Rankings to Chrissy Teigan leaving Twitter, we get saucy on why the internet has such a love-hate relationship with us all. 

Lil Nas X sets the world on fire this week with his controversial new video and insanely impressive pole dancing skills. 

The World's Sexist Bald Man is revealed and we have LOTS of opinions on whose crown is king.

Sexist Bald Man:

Ahhhh! The journey to finding yourself.  Seems fun, right?  Nope, not even a little bit.  Here's the thing, after a crazy 2020 and a not so tame 2021, we find ourselves faced with some hard questions and maybe some internal changes.  We have been on an introspection ride for a while but that does not mean we have it all figured out. Self acceptance is understanding the good, bad , and the not so fun parts about yourself and being okay with Y-O-U.  Today we dive into self acceptance and how to navigate the internal voices in 2021. Enjoy!    

The shrimp tails dont lie. What is going on with Cinnamon Toast Crunch customer service? (9:30) 

Did you use baby oil instead of sunscreen? Did you go to the tanning bed to get a "base tan" before spring break? Did you love the St. Ives apricot scrub? If you said yes to any of those you need to push play and take some notes. 

Today, Morgan and Alexis from Lumi Skinbar  take all things skin.  The one thing we all had time to do over the past year was look in the mirror.  If you were like us, with less of a need to wear wearing makeup you really started to examine the health of your skin. Yikes! But with so much information, products, tools, and tiktoks out there, where do you start? This is where Morgan and Alexis come in.  They are self proclaimed skin nerds and walk us through the dos & don'ts of skincare in 2021. We learned so much about what we should be doing TODAY to our skin and the one product you should never skip.  Enjoy the show!

https://lumiskinbar.com/

https://www.instagram.com/lumi_skinbar/

This Social Catch Up hits a little hard. We stand with the A

• We could not round out the week of headlines without mentioning the horific shooting in Atlanta on Tuesday that left 8 people dead, 6 of whom were asian women.  We break dow the details and why the language around this investigation is severally heartbreaking. (16:07)

• The Grammy's were aired on Sunday night and there were some history making appearances and some history making zoom pop-ins. Beyonce took home some more golden cups but does she deserve more? Also, why are conservatives so upset with Cardi B and WAP? Is it too close?(26:36)

JLo tiktok

• We had to touch on the season finale of the Bachelor.  We open the show with a little rundown of the final episode and maybe what we can expect from the franchise moving forward. (3:44)

Matt James Good Morning America Interview

The title of this episode says it all. Megan B. Bartley is BACK and she is here to help the zen community look deeper into what is creating a rise in childhood anxiety and what we can start doing today to help our kids.  SPOILER! It most likely can start with you and that is not a bad thing.  As Megan explains, all kids exist within numerous systems and the most important system is the one at home.  Added stress throughout the last year has left many of the nurturers of the household on emotional empty.  Who is nurturing the nurturer? During this episode you might ask yourself a lot of probing questions. What is my parenting temperature? Can I take a step back? Is anyone dying? We think this is a much needed therapy session with Megan to help unlock exactly what the nurturer needs right now. 

Megan B Bartley IG

Megan B Bartley Website

There is so much to cover in today's episode.  We get into the hot topics most appealing to us and we come with links and references. 

• It would not be a Social Catch Up if we didn't talk about the Oprah interview with Megan & Harry. (6:00) -https://www.cnet.com/how-to/missed-meghan-and-harrys-oprah-interview-how-to-rewatch-the-whole-thing/