Meet to of my oldest friends Danny Leidsinger and Corey Arballo

Danny: Father, Husband, Actor, stand-up comedian, event host, personal trainer, spiritual coach and UMZU ambassador.

Corey Arballo: Sommelier/cyclist/dad 

Over 15 yrs in wine service. Currently hosting wine podcast in support of the black Hispanic LGTBQ Vegan and women driven distilleries, breweries and wineries in the industry

Marques Ogden joins the Fight the funk podcast team. 

Former NFL athlete and writer of the book "Sleepless Nights" the Autobiography of Marques Ogden

This podcast episode gets into failure and life's many lessons.

No better quote of what this episode entails than Mr. Ogdens' line. 

"I began speaking to help others succeed where I failed."

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A few other topics.

🎧 How getting tattoos helped him pivot out of Alcoholism. 

🎧 This podcast takes place after Ahmaud Arbery's passing. 

We discuss how his murder and the loss of countless others changed our lives. 

🎧 What were his experiences growing up in a single-parent home with a father as the 

lone standing parent. 

🎧 The Success Cycle; core basics of fundamental relationship building and success.

🎧 He also introduced his book "Sleepless Nights" the Autobiography of Marques Ogden

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Fight The Funk is dedicated to exploring mental health, culture, and the world around us.

Every purchase on the Shopify store you make helps sustain our Mission; to reimagine our understanding of mental health by elevating the conversation through lively discussions and personal experiences, to create an environment of openness and respect for every individual's personal journey with mental health.

What is antiracism teaching? 

What does it look like moving forward? 

How do schools confront the historic changes in America? 

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Join me as I talk with Dr. LaTonyaDavis, J.D.

A few highlights derived from her LinkedIn profile.

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Keynote speaker, designer, audit and facilitates virtual training for K-12 districts, companies, and nonprofits on antiracism, academics, and culture. 

#BlackLivesMatter #AutismKids #LawyersLife #DeltaSigmaTheta

LaTonya Davis had a secret clearance at the Pentagon-SHHH! 

She is a Christian, Houston native, and Outstanding Woman in Law Recipient whose mission is to ensure that K-12 students have an equal opportunity at life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in their communities and the U.S.

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#46 Conversation with Maisie Soetantyo, M. Ed. 

The Founder at Autism Career Pathways nonprofit.

@asccareerpathways @maisiesoetantyo

📚 Autism Career Pathways’ mission is to increase hiring and long-term retention for autistic individuals in small to medium-sized businesses.

📚 Maisie describes herself as an openly autistic family coach, advocate and professional trainer.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published the first study to estimate the prevalence of autism in U.S. adults aged 18 and older.

Findings estimate autism affects 1 in 45, of U.S. adults.

Earlier this year, the CDC released an estimate that 1 in 54. children in the U.S. have autism.

🎧 Blocking Out the Noise

🎧 Number Dyslexia

🎧 How Maisie ended up working with

Kids with Autism

🎧 What is ABA?

Applied Behavior Analysis

🎧 The Unorthodox Athlete

What can we learn from them?

🎧 What is Autism?

You have a different operating system.

🎧 Neurodiversity

🎧 Knowing your Neurodiversity

is a guide to move forward.

🎧 Responsibility is always on the individual to

evolve and get better.

🎧 How does mentorship work in the autistic community?

🎧 Future generations that won't be homogenized as one group with the same needs.

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Episode #45 Dedicated to the life of Travon Martin and Deputy Clyde Kerr III

When I think of these two I think of Reparations for the most lasting change. 

🗣Next, the FTF conversation will be with Maisie Soetantyo 

Founder at Autism Career Pathways  - Out of San Francisco

Their mission to increase hiring and long-term retention for autistic individuals in small to medium-sized businesses.

🎧 Shoutout to Cardi B Music Video

Making tough choices

🎧 Cutting down followers. (it sucked, but for clarity, it is vital moving forward)

🎧The paradox of Choice (Not Better off for more choices)

55 different sodas example.

Try to live in the moment of no stimulation. 

🎧 Celebrate the accomplishments: 1.9 trillion dollar stimulus bill. (Celebrate that... black indigenous/working class/grassroots)

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🎧 Reparations: Federal Level for Systemic Change

🎧Deputy Clyde Kerr III took his life, to send a message to us all.

A few examples of his last message.

Mental health and wellness.

🎧INCLOSING: 

The practice of smiling by Thich Nhat Hanh

Joy and Happiness  = To be able to handle pain and despair in you.

New Ebook is coming out called Ruminating.

Relaunch of Shopify Store. 

Help me keep Fight The Funk going with a donation: 

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Maagic Collins is a creative artist, mental health, and civil rights advocate.

Fight The Funk is more than a podcast. It is a way of being, dedicated to exploring mental health, culture, and the world around us. To create an environment of openness and respect for every individual's personal journey with mental health.

Every purchase made at the FTF Shopify store helps sustain our mission to reimagine our understanding of mental health. By elevating the conversation through lively discussions and personal experiences.

Fight The Funk, it is way more than a podcast.

For links to my other work checkout link tree below: 

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Special Sat/Sun Edition.

Exploring Mental Health, Culture, and the world around us.

I had to take a step back. Recharge. Re-work. Simplicity and solace give way to clarity. 

📚Wrote a book I’m excited to be putting out soon.

📚Urgency! For this administration coming out of a great depression.

📚The black, indigenous, and struggling working class have earned their seats at the table. 

📚Keeping an eye on...

📚America is all about the feeding frenzy.

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📚 Black Lives Matter 

📚Nobel Peace Prize

📚These movements came from real events.

Breanna Taylor, George Floyd, Elashiah Mclain

📚The kid in Florida slammed into the ground by an adult.

📚The Stanford study. Prisoner/Guard Experiment 

Black Lives Matter is not a competition it is not a sport. 

It is to preserve life. 

The nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize is a great example of that work. 

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 GOP has never been about bipartisanship. 

California - Gold Rush.

🎙 Tax codes have to change in California to have rapid business growth and returns of a healthy business. 

🎙No state is without its own issues to address. 

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Every purchase made at the FTF Shopify store helps sustain our mission to reimagine our understanding of mental health. By elevating the conversation through lively discussions and personal experiences via The Fight the Funk podcast, Peer-to-peer support groups, and speaking engagements.

The Shopify store also supports the emerging FTF podcast. Which currently streams on all major services, such as Pandora, IheartRadio, Spotify, and Apple cast to name a few.

Fight The Funk is dedicated to exploring mental health, culture, and the world around us. To create an environment of openness and respect for every individual's personal journey with mental health.

https://anchor.fm/maagic-collins1

https://fightthefunkpodcast.com/

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Enjoy your weekend.

Congratulating Balck Lives Matter Nomination for the Noble Peace Prize.

Be on the lookout for my book coming out soon.

Be well.

#43 Fight The Funk Podcast 

We are all on a continuum of learning and teaching.

Such as learning how to balance social ills and still finding ways to enjoy life. 

Two main ideas were explored in this episode:

One of the examples he uses is the Black Joy Parade in Oakland, an annual celebration that takes place during the winter. 

Making trauma-free blackness a norm. That is part of the work. 

Exploiting, enjoying black life is often like binge-watching trauma porn. 

As the research and learning take place it is important not to Fox News yourself. 

You can create an inner narrative of dark and gloom. Preach fear to yourself. 

Something to monitor while going over information to solve problems.

If too much emotion is added to information it becomes toxic...

= Manic episode

= Depressive episode

= Disorienting

= Numbness

In a Global world, an information age? 

How do we allow information to affect us? There is no easy answer. 

It is one of the challenges of a lifetime. Like everything else in life. 

The challenge to find balance. 

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Every purchase made at the FTF Shopify store helps sustain our mission to reimagine our understanding of mental health. By elevating the conversation through lively discussions and personal experiences via The Fight the Funk podcast, Peer-to-peer support groups, and speaking engagements.

The Shopify store also supports the emerging FTF podcast. Which currently streams on all major services, such as Pandora, IheartRadio, Spotify, and Apple cast to name a few.

Fight The Funk is dedicated to exploring mental health, culture, and the world around us. To create an environment of openness and respect for every individual's personal journey with mental health.

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#bewell

Martin Luther King Jr's Day. 

Fight The Funk Podcast: Exploring Mental health, Culture, and the world around us.

Sunday, January 17, 2021

A talk on grieving. 

During this pandemic, we all have found ourselves grieving. It's important to sit in that emotion. Asking yourself what you need. Allowing the heart to releases tension and stress. Being in the moment will lead to clarity. 

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Maagic Collins is a creative artist, mental health, and civil rights advocate. Fight The Funk Podcast explores mental health, history, current events, politics, and sometimes just talking shit on the fly. Let's keep our sanity. Enjoy this lifetime.

If you like this podcast check out more episodes including the FTF virtual store and you can hit up my buy me a coffee link and donate to the work I do.  

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The inauguration is coming up. Another stressor. 

On top of a pandemic, the homeless crisis, white supremacy, great depression levels unemployment, the silent mental health crisis, and overpacked hospitals.  

Are you doing your best? Then follow that up with some grace for yourself.

Below is some of what  I discuss: 

🎧 The Civil Rights Leaders gave their life to deliver the blueprint to this generation.  

🎧 We've always thought famine and sickness were abroad, but it was really in our mind the whole time. 

🎧This generation has a chance to mold something that is truly theirs. 

🎧What comes from us can't be appropriated. 

🎧 If you are a Youth fighting for black lives to matter your elders look up to you with joy. It's a dream to see you thrive. 

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Maagic Collins is a creative artist, mental health, and civil rights advocate. Fight The Funk Podcast explores mental health, history, current events, politics, and sometimes just talking shit on the fly. Let's keep our sanity. Enjoy this lifetime.

If you like this podcast check out more episodes including the FTF virtual store and you can hit up my buy me a coffee link and donate to the work I do.  

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🌳 https://linktr.ee/maagiccollins

☕️ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MaagicCollins

📦 https://fightthefunkpodcast.com/

🎧 Podcast:  https://anchor.fm/maagic-collins1 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaagicCollins 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MaagicCollins 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maagicman