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

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Twitter @lprojectla

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