Consciousness at Play Podcast

EP 15 Jihad's Citi Bike Gets Stolen


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00:40 Weekly Check-in 

02:20 Jihad gets his Citi Bike stolen 

06:30 (Dave shares) Dave begins shadowing at a chiropractor clinic 

09:40 Dave feels he's receiving subtle signs from the universe to seek another opportunity elsewhere

11:05 Should men get a pat on the back for not cheating? 

16:50 Dave feels once you step into a partnership you should honor it as well as do your best to communicate

18:40 Jihad feels that when people aren't honest with themselves or their partners, they sometimes put themselves in unfavorable situations to remain loyal while in committed relationships.

23:50 Dave thinks it’s important to practice unconditional love in your relationships because at the end of the day you’re doing something because you want to and that includes being loyal

24:20 Kanye West is barred from performing at this year's Grammys due concerning online behavior 

25:15 J.Prince wants to do a concert in Vegas with Ye, Drake, The Weeknd & Nicki Minaj, at the same time as this year’s Grammys 

25:45 Jihad points out that artist and creators these days seem to recognize that power and influence that they share and are starting to take the reigns back to reshape public narratives that concern them 

27:25 Dave feels important to create our own platforms like Lavar Ball (father of NBA players LaMelo & Lonzo Ball) attempted to do with his own professional men’s basketball league 

35:10 What’s a childhood coping mechanism method you unknowingly developed only to realize later that it wasn’t normal?  

35:45 Jihad connects with a comment he read from a Reddit user in which he explains how he would emotionally repress anything that would come up when he noticed someone intentionally trying invoke a rise out of him

37:45 It’s inevitable to feel pain, life is suffering. The more we allow ourselves to feel emotional responses that pain invokes, the more intimate we can be with reality - Jihad 

39:00 (Dave touches on his childhood and some of the strategies he employed to feel safe and how he nurtured that strategy as he matured to only use it only when applicable) 

42:05 Dave explores how abandonment experienced in childhood can affect us later in life

43:15 Dave explores how details of our lives (whether it's childhood coping mechanisms, or the early development of our) all go on to impact our individual stories

46:10 Jihad tries to apply his non-dual perspective to his circumstance of having his Citi Bike stolen 

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