Men Speaking Out

I am joined with one of my daughters (Brittany Payne) to discuss some of the challenges and experiences that she has had over the years. She talks about her life, our family and even sleeping in her car and being homeless at somepoint. 

She also shares how she overcame these adverse items and now she is on the road to success. This is a excellent podcast and its only the beginning. I have many more daughters to  interviews in the future. If you noticed this is only Part one! 

Threre is no video on this one but it was a great podcast!

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Ask yourself these three questions?

1. What is the inherent value that women have that men don’t?
2. What makes a man valuable to a woman?
3. What makes a woman valuable to a man?

Well Join Bazz and Ash on this podcast as they discuss their different views and give some enlightment on what some men think and how it impacts today's relationships.

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Believe it or not, there is a cost associated with being in a relationship. Not a financial cost, but a submission cost. What sort of price does it take to be submissive to your mate?

 We all have one, what's yours?

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Sometimes we find ourselves giving so much to everyone else (i.e our family, friends, and loved ones), but we have to ask ourselves the question..."Who's there for me?"

Do we really have the kind of relationships with people that we can count on when the going gets rough? Or do we have individuals in our lives that speak a good game, but their back is turned when you need them to assist you?

Who is the one making sure I am ok? Think about it!

Join MSO as we (Tory, BJ, Melissa and myself - Bazz) discuss it.

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Listen in on Part 2 of the Afforable Housing Crisis podcast. On this show we talk about the challenges we face when selling our homes with:

• Depersonalizing your home - removing photos, cultural items, etc. to make the sale. Why do we have to do that and does that leave an impact to the seller having to change up?
• Low appraisal for people of color compared to the majority.
• Owning your home vs Renting? Which one makes sense?
• And an assortment of additional topics.

So listen in as we (Bazz, and my mortgage and real estate professional - Petrita, Robert, Steven, David and Tasha) talk on the above subjects. This is also very educational and can be see on YouTube as well.

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Is there a housing crisis?

• Is the major part of this issue is the supply is rapidly shrinking? 
• Are real estate agents experiencing the market to be “unhealthy and very challenging”?

Home Prices Increases - Since the price of homes have increased – are most homebuyers struggling to obtain financing?

Interest Rate increases - What’s considered a good rate?

Financing / applications - How challenging can financing be in this market today?

Gentrification - Gentrification has the power to displace low-income families or, more often, prevent low-income families from moving into previously affordable neighborhoods.

• This impacts Minority communities at all levels which lead to negative impacts (poorer moving to poorer neighborhood).

Well listen in as I host a group of real estate professionals (Eric, Lisa, Stacey, David and Doug) along with myself - Bazz to go through the above mentioned and then some!

This podcast is also on YouTube.

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Just recently (May 7th 2022)  we lost YouTube personality "Kevin Samuels".  He was 57 years old. He was unique in his own right, because he was an advocate for the black family and was very blunt on giving lifestyle advice to women. 

Now of course some of his subject matter appeared to be controversial to some of his viewers but nevertheless he spoke the truth. 

In this podcast we (DBazz, Matt and myself - Bazz) share some of his thoughts around relationships and the impact it made to the social media community.   

Basically put - Kevin Samels gave us the hard truth instead of settling for the easy lie. Listen In!
This episode is also on YouTube.

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In March 2022 at the 94th annual academy awards, Will Smith got upset with Chris Rock by when he (Chris) made a "GI Jane 2" joke about his (Will) wife Jada. Will Smith was laughing at first until he saw the facial expression of his wife who was not pleased with all about the joke. At that time Will went on stage and assaulted/smacked Chris Rock in front of the entire world.

Questions to ask are:

• Was Will Smith Wrong?
• Did this leave a blemish on Will Smiths' Career on one of the most important nights of his career?
• Did he embarrass himself (Will) and his family?
• What negative backlash does it leave on Chris and Will (i.e. Jokes, Videos, MEMEs, ticktock, etc.)?
• Did this take away from all the other award winners, especially Will Parker who is the first black man to produce the Academy Awards?

Well, at least we know one thing that came out of this...Will Smith could not take a joke but Chris Rock could take a punch.

Listen in as we (DBazz, JD, Meach, Bazz, and Iman Saahir) speak on this crazy event.

You can also see it on youtube - here.

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Superbowl 2022 weekend the fellas and I just doing our normal annual Orlando trip as we have done in the past. It's a great opportunity for us to fellowship, hang out, laugh, smoke cigars, drink and little and just practice "Men Self Care". 

Think about the term "Men Self Care" for a second...as a man are you getting that? WE ALL NEED IT! Life is stressful enough with the day-to-day challenges we face. It's always nice to be able to get away from time to time and reconnect with your dear friends in an environment that is conducive to your mental well-being.

Well, I won't spoil the podcast anymore notes here - just listen to Eric, JD, Cory, and myself (Bazz) as we tap into the importance of Men Self Care.

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What is an Audible?  An audible is when a change is made from the original plan. In life, we should have the ability to adapt or change a plan on the fly if needed.

For you football fans out there – when a QB comes to the line of scrimmage to run a play, he looks at the defensive and may or may not call an audible if he needs to change the play. This gives the QB a chance to be successful and either set his team up for another series of downs or a touchdown.

Audibles can be called with family, friends, careers, and even relationships. Nevertheless, we do this all the time  with life…but the questions are:

When and how often?

So listen in with BJ, Big E, John, JD and myself (Bazz) as we talk through some of the audibles we've made in our lifetime and their impacts.  Watch it on YouTube here.

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