MAD Talks Podcast

MAD Talks Podcast

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MAD Talks Podcast episodes

  • YMTP Kwentuhan 60 with Love, Librarians: “Meet your Librarians”
    MAD Knb? What comes to mind when you see or think of Librarians? In today’s YMTP episode, we are joined by the millennial librarians, Kevin, Eunice, Rhoan and Trisha, as they share about how and why they chose Librarianship and their realizations about their advocacies. They are all members of Magbasa Tayo Movement, an organization that works with community partners in barangay to build reading centers. It was established in 2015 and has reached many parts of the country. In 2020, the organization has extended their book donations to their community partners and donated supplies of books that are needed in the new mode of learning in Sibuyan, Romblon.
    Tara na at makinig sa "Love, Librarians"!
    53 min
  • MAD Kwentuhan 59 with Kuya Edwin: "Leading from Classrooms to Community"
    MAD Knb?  In today's episode, our duo hosts, Lady J and Lord Jay, get to know our guest, Kuya Edwin, a member of the I am MAD organization. Kuya Edwin is currently taking up BS Psychology and is also a student leader.  His first MAD experience was in Nueva Ecija 2018. Aside from school works, he is also a member of the Rotaract Club of Tugon-Rescue, a community-based organization. Kuya Edwin shares how being leader in school has taught him to also extend this skill by joining various community organizations. Listen now and know more about Kuya Edwin's leadership journey.
    36 min
  • YMTP Kwentuhan 58 with M&M Meets: “Why and How I Started Volunteering”
    MAD Knb? In today's episode, our hosts Kuya Maco and Kuya Mirus recall and share their volunteer experiences from childhood to present. Both are youth advocates and leaders since they were young. Kuya Maco is one of the founders of the I Am Making a Difference (M.A.D.). Kuya Mirus, on the other hand, is the Founder and Executive Director of ASEAN Youth Advocates Network.  Join us as we get to know more of these two leaders and be inspired to start your volunteer journey too.
    35 min
  • MAD Kwentuhan 57 with Ate MC: “Minding Your Mental Well-Being”

    MAD Knb? Many people are bombarded with so many information and stresses nowadays, especially in this time of pandemic. We either tend to be anxious or we do things that would help us get through our situations.  In today's episode, Kuya Lord Jay and Lady J exchange stories with Ate MC on how we can take care of our mental well-being.  Ate MC is working as a School Counselor. She joined I Am MAD in 2017 and served as a Team Lead for MAD Camp Bohol in 2018.  Join us and listen as she shares how we can link volunteerism and mental health and how to find meaning and joy in it. 

    33 min
  • YMTP Kwentuhan 56 with The Redefiners Talks: “Empowering the Youth through Self-Reliance”

    MAD Knb? In this YMTP episode, our host, Kuya Arjay from The Redefiners, is joined by Ate Candy, as they talk about self-reliance and financial independence.  We will learn more on how, at a young age, can we stand for ourselves and support our own lifestyle without having to rely on the finances of our parents. Listen now and be inspired of Ate Candy's journey as a young entrepreneur.  

    32 min
  • MAD Kwentuhan 55 with Ate Pau: “Solo Parenting: Meaningful Volunteering”

    MAD Knb? Being a solo parent can be a tough job, from juggling different roles on being a parent and providing for the family. In today’s episode, our guest, Ate Pau, revisits her experience in joining the I Am MAD with our host, Kuya Lord Jay. She shares how volunteering has changed her perspective in being a mother to her three children. Ate Pau is a currently working as a Restaurant General Manager of KFC. She also served as the Assistant Team Lead for the MAD Pampanga 2019, Instant Builder for MAD Dumaguete in 2019 and a resident cook for BIDA para sa Dumagat Passion Project. Listen to this episode and learn about how Ate Pau was able to extend help to other people, even as a solo parent and how it made her volunteering experience more meaningful.

    34 min
  • YMTP Kwentuhan 54 with Wow ChariTalks: “U can connect despite the differences"
    In today's episode of YMTP, we are joined by our hosts, Ate Bea and Ate Jam, with their guests and co-members, Kuya Kim, Kuya Terrence and Kuya Kenneth, as they talk about CharitAble Maitum, a youth-lead organization of the Municipality of Maitum, Sarangani Province. They share their  experiences as members of the organization and the projects they have contributed to their municipality.  Listen now and be wowed of CharitAble Maitum's advocacies!
    41 min
  • MAD Kwentuhan 53 with Kuya Godwin: “Coping through Arts”

    MAD Knb? In this YMTP episode, our hosts, Big Jay and Catriona J, get to know our guest, Kuya Godwin, a beneficiary of the MAD Camp in 2014 when he was in his 5th grade. He is currently a Grade 11 STEM student and loves making Webcomic Arts. He shares how Arts has helped him get through this pandemic. Let’s hear it straight from one of the participants of our MAD Camp and learn on how it impacted him then as a child and now as a grown-up young man. 

    38 min
  • MAD Kwentuhan 51 with Ate May Ann: “Getting More Involved Locally”
    MAD Knb?! There are so many ways on how we can get involved in our local community. It gives us the opportunity to change people’s lives, including our own. This episode of [Your] MAD Talks podcast revisits Ate May Ann’s experience in joining the I am M.A.D. organization and how the passion project, “Bida Para Sa Dumagat” started. Big Jay and Small J had the privilege of joining our guest in reminiscing her volunteer journey. 
    Ate May Ann is the Assistant Volunteer Lead of Luzon. The Bida Para sa Dumagat’s initial target was to support the community that the group has visited during the camp. Now, they have reached five more Indigenous People (IP) communities in Nueva Ecija. Another youth organization has also adopted one these IP communities. This goes to show that when we help others, a lot of people will also be inspired to do the same.
    27 min

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I am M.A.D. (Making A Difference) believes that even through our smallest positive habits and simplest acts of volunteerism, we can contribute to a better world. Join our Big and Small J's (Jay from…