I Just Can't Stop Talking!

Ashton is transitioning RIGHT NOW. And you have a chance to help her! Please look below for donation info!

We recorded this about a year ago, and it is FINALLY here for your listening pleasure! And what a pleasure it will be. Ashton takes us through her journey, how her identification as a woman has impacted her life and how transitioning into herself is only beginning. She has put in a year of voice work, hormones, and advances in style; she is currently recovering from surgery, and the process is exactly as challenging and expensive as she made it sound a year ago when we recorded this.  

The most exciting part of this discussion for me, is trying to figure out if I am an egg myself. If you don't know what an egg is, then you really gotta get listening! And once you know what an egg is, you are encouraged to decide whether or not YOU think I am one. 

Below is a link to donate to Ashton's recovery/medical fund, and every little bit helps your girl out! When you make your donation to Ashton, you are also REQUIRED to vote whether or not you think I am an egg! Votes will be tallied, results will be announced, and a consequence of the winning side will be revealed... 

DONATE HERE: https://www.plumfund.com/medical-fund/ashtons-transition

or DONATE THROUGH VENMO: @ashtonimore 

Woah! Where is that title going?? This one is wild. My dad and I sit down and talk sobriety. I am more sober than I have been since 12, and he is a sobriety champion, and we talk this topic out from all angles! Bill is a voice actor in Quarantine Radio Theater, and a thespian you can catch in some local productions if you're lucky, he's also great at building restoration! He's a lover of animals, and our dogs join the podcast as well. Getting to have a talk like this with my dad was incredibly special for me, and objectively I know this is going to be a great one to hear. I don't want to spoil it, my dad is a great speaker and we'd both love for you to hear it all from him! 

This week's charitable encouragement, chosen by my dad, is Safe Connections. https://safeconnections.org/   Safe Connections offers a variety of resoures and services for survivors of domestic and sexual assault, so follow the link, and click the word donate in the upper right corner.

Love you all very much! Hit me up and lemme know what you think, or hit me up if you just wanna talk about something! [email protected]

This episode was a blast! It's always a good time to talk to Mat. Mat Lewis works at a brewery, and this is our spin on that standard two-white-guys-talking-beer kinda podcast episode! Just a really great conversation, with a really great guy to talk to. Learn how to make beer, how it can fulfill you creatively, and how it needs to be talked to appropriately. 

We used to have hours of talking like this when we worked together at a different brewery, so it was really nice to have some drinks, and have a good time. I'm glad to share it with you, hope you enjoy. Then later, I hope you visit Mat, and enjoy some beers!

Mat wanted to make sure that anyone wanting to donate to a good cause be encouraged to pick their favorite local mental health nonprofit to donate money to. Mental health is an incredibly important thing to support, and bolstering the local resources is one of the best ways to contribute to our cultural shift towards healthier minds inside healthier humans! He also wanted me to include a local mental health nonprofit of my choosing, and so here is a link if you'd like to donate to the Missouri Mental Health Foundation! https://www.missourimhf.org/donate/

Jordan and I sat and talked for a while! We had such a blast, aaannnd it's a long one. If you've ever wondered anything about us as a couple, the answer is probably somewhere in this jam packed episode.

We did a bit of catching up, but then we unpacked. We unpacked five years of relationship stuff! It was a lot of fun, it got real, and we talked about a lot of stuff that doesn't come up super often, and all amidst our ENGAGEMENT TIMES! 

So just sit back, relax, treat yourself to breaks when you need them, and enjoy a big ole lovey relationship episode. 

Unrelated to everything we talked about, Jordan's pick for a charity or cause for listeners to donate money to, should hey wish, is Greenpeace! Greenpeace is a global network involving many organizations which bring attention to environmental problems as well as solutions. If you want to  donate, there is an option in the upper left corner of their website, this link will take you there. https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/

Thank you so much for listening! Love over everything!

We're back! And I'm gonna keep making this podcast as a great excuse to have some fun conversations with some fascinating people. As often as possible! 

This one is just to catch up on some life stuff, and talk about what's next for the podcast. I'm happy to be releasing episodes again, and I've had such an amazing experience recording the episodes we have on deck. Thank you so much for listening, I promise to keep doing my best for you! 

Among the new stuff I wanna do, I'm including an opportunity to donate to a good cause. Later episodes will have causes picked by our guests, so today will be one I wanna include! 

https://blackpowerblueprint.org/donate/ Here is the link to donate to the Black Power Blueprint. This group is working hard in the north side of St. Louis, to transform the community into one owned and managed by the members of the community, and with infrastructure and coordination to continue making improvements indefinitely. They're outstanding, and more important than ever during a time in which the city government is close to completing a decades long project to displace an entire community of people. If you're wyt, just think of a donation as reparations on your terms! I dunno if I'm qualified to say that at all, but I'll say anything I wanna if I think it'll get you to donate! Whoever donates the most and sends a screenshot or some sort of proof to [email protected], WILL get a gift! To be determined and announced officially, at a later time.

Love you all so much! Thanks again! 

Wow! What a big episode for us to end poetry month with! T-Spirit herself sat down over zoom and talked with me for a while about all sorts of amazing stuff. 

First of all, she has a new book out now! Some Things Must Be Heard! I've said it before, and I will say it again, this should be required reading/listening for any poets or fans of poetry, as well as a required book for anyone's 2021 reading list. After listening to the audio book which comes with the book itself, you will feel empowered and creative and ready to take on the world. You deserve that. 

Follow everything she does on facebook or instagram; more importantly, be sure to get your copy of her book, then book her for your events, get your own Intimate Expression, and be on the look out for her writing workshops! You can find all those things and more at https://tspirit.net/

As always, find me on tiktok and facebook, and hit me up with any feedback or fun stuff you'd like to at [email protected]

Love you all so much! 

Been a little while since we've had an episode this long!!! And you know I just love the long ones. 

Zach Brown is an amazing person, and a very talented poet known as the Word Nerd! He and I have a lot in common, haven't had the chance to talk this much before, and neither of us had a time limit, so we just let it RIP! Poetry talk, current events talk, and tangents galore. Not to mention exploring the amazing game of Find-the-Right-Word! He truly had a lot of great wisdom to share as well. And his amazing poetry is scattered through the episode, more towards the end, and very worth hearing! 

Jordan even makes a surprise appearance, and if you listen close enough you just might catch her! 

If you want to check Zach out, find Word Nerd Poetry on facebook and instagram. And be on the lookout for his upcoming haiku prints and book projects in the future!

Wow, what a special episode this is! The man who welcomed me to the StL poetry scene, the man who lives the life of a creative in all ways, the man himself, Chris Ware!

I am so grateful we got to sit down and talk for the first time in a while. He had so much good wisdom to drop in our affirmations, gratitude and pride time. We get to hear about all the great things Chris is working on, as well as which ones you can check out and how, and we hear some epic poetry, some old and some new! 

Be sure to check out Brother Ting on Spotify, and his album Cat my Svelte at https://open.spotify.com/album/1WKeR0e7g5EOzAs2ZLBtpy?si=WUTlVypXStueuAMht3il3A

Check out the Shakespeare Festival in St Louis at https://stlshakes.org/

Check out the Metro Theater Company at https://www.metroplays.org/

Oh wow, do we have an epic episode for you today! 

Kisha, Unlimited the Poet, the founder and owner of The Woke Brand is our guest, and we got into it! She had plenty of gems during our affirmations, proud and grateful talk. We got into some good business talk, and you won't get all her secrets, but if entrepreneurship is your interest, then she is an amazing person to listen to. We managed to talk plenty about poetry too, and she shared two POWERful poems with us. Seriously, if all you do is listen to this episode for the poems she shared, then you'll be so happy. 

Make sure to check out The Woke Brand on Facebook or Instagram, get some customized clothes, some of her original designs, or find something for someone you know! While you're checking it out, find a way to follow the brand for the future of The Woke Brand's events. 

We've got nothing but love for all of you. Thank you so much for listening, and have an awesome day! 

Oh dang! What is up??? Not much here, just a full life and poetry discussion with Blakk the poet, the man himself: Jared Lewis!!! 

We do our usual stuff, he had nothing but wisdom and happy vibes for us, and then we get deep talking about poetry! 

You've gotta listen to the full thing this time (I know, I know, as if you'd ever wanna do anything else), because he spits some perfect poetry towards the end and we close it out with one of his new favorite poems. 

Be sure to follow him on the socials, and start by checking out his instagram @47_blakk_74, we talk about what he's got going on lately and it's a lot of cool stuff to check out!

So enjoy. Lemme know what you think. Take it easy, and feel nothing but love!