Planet Noun Podcast

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Episode 40 features Miguel Asia, someone I met right before Rona became a national emergency…but we’re part of the same team at work—at a new job I started just as the pandemic was starting to rage in the United States.

This guy wears a lot of hats: Writer…music artist…to video producer…. But let me stop typing so you can meet him yourself!

We talk inspiration, motivation, and his sense of self awareness that enables him to speak confidently about his strengths--yet with vulnerability about his fears.

You don't want to miss this chat--on Planet Noun

Welcome to Planet Noun where it’s all about the People, Places, Things and Ideas that teach us, prompt us to make a difference and do more with what life presents!

Talk about doing the most with what life presents! Rashad McCrorey, our guest for Episode 39, is doing just that.

McCrorey joins Planet Noun for another COVID catch-up. In this series, I’ve been chatting with past guests on Planet Noun—to find out how they’ve been faring during this year. McCrorey is new to Planet Noun, and we connected via Instagram a few months ago.

McCrorey is a travel company owner whose journey took them to Ghana—temporarily—but then COVID was declared a pandemic, and a national emergency in the United States (where he was born), so Rashad McCrorey decided stick around in Ghana after COVID-19 lockdowns started up. That’s where he joins us!

Well, let’s get to it…Meet Rashad McCrorey… on Planet Noun!

This episode is another installment in the COVID catch-up series…I’ve been chatting with past guests on Planet Noun—to find out how they’ve been faring during this rough year.

This time, I’m catching up with someone I met a couple of years ago while working as a reporter. We met at a street festival in Washington, D.C., and I wanted to interview him for a radio story I was going to file with the radio station.

That’s where it started, and we’ve been chatting online about him coming on the show. THEN...the pandemic hit, so that stalled everything for a while. But, here he is!

Rodd Quinn is his name. It was totally intrigued because during the interview for work, I found out he was a traveling artist. Look, by now, you know that anyone who has the courage to follow their dreams fully -- fascinates me!

Well, let’s get to it with Rodd Quinn. He joined Planet Noun via Zoom from Laredo Texas. He shares his story of how life presented with him with a passion for art--and what he's chosen to do with it!

Welcome to Planet Noun where it’s all about the People, Places, Things and Ideas that teach us, prompt us to make a difference and do more with what life presents.

This episode is another installment in the COVID catch-up series…I’ve been chatting with past guests on Planet Noun—to find out how they’ve been faring during this rough year…known as 2020.

This time, I’m catching up with another guest from last year…Jay Herriott from The 25th Project—an organization that started by helping the homeless at least once a month…on the 25th. The inspiration stems from the last time Thanksgiving’s roving date matched up with the static date of Christmas…the year both were on the the 25th of their respective months.

Welcome! This episode is another installment in our COVID catch-up series…I’ve been chatting with past guests on Planet Noun—to find out how they’ve been faring during this rough year…known as 2020.

This time, it’s a first time guest to the show…but THIS dude…I haven’t seen in SOOOOOOO long. We overlapped at college for a bit where we sang in the same choir…then poof! No sightings for many years—until Facebook came along. Still haven’t seen him in person since the 90s.

His name? Brian Watts… author and host of Knowledge is the Key on Envision Radio. He’s also an author and an educator. We talk about a range of things including how his love of travel led him to Kuwait, how getting pulled over by the police so many times factored into that decision and experiencing the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in another country. We also talk about his book—which delves into how parents can help their children to help themselves.

Let’s get to it with Brian Watts…on Planet Noun!

This episode is another installment in the COVID catch-up series…where I’m chatting with past guests on Planet Noun—to find out how they’ve been faring during this rough year…known as 2020.

The last time Dr. LaKeischa McMillan was on, we were talking about family health history about two years ago…it was an episode ahead of Thanksgiving. Back then, the world had plenty of rough patches, but this time around, it's smeared with the foul layer of a deadly pandemic.

There’s a lot to talk about this time around from her thoughts on how long she originally thought this national emergency would last, homeschooling, getting used to the "new normal" this year has hoisted upon us and more!

So let’s get to it with Dr. LaKeischa McMillan!

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Today, we’re catching up with another past guest. This time, Stacia Wright.

She was on Planet Noun about two years ago…a little more than that, actually…we met up at a local Panera Bread, sat outside in the sun and talked about her life as a business owner.

Welp, thanks to the COVID-19 global pandemic, we caught up via Zoom this time…so that meant no selfies after the interview—but plenty of conversation and laughs…despite this tough time we’re all navigating together.

We talk about a bunch… From how the pandemic has affected her business and family life…to Zoom school and learning to go with the ebbs and flows of the new educational reality.

Even though this year has been a train wreck for the WORLD in so many ways--woven into everything are blessings and joys.

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So it’s been about a year since the first episode dropped with Lenina Mortimer. At that time we were talking about her new book.⁠

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Well, one year later, it’s time to catch up. A round of guest catch-ups is something I was thinking of for some of the folks I interviewed a couple of years ago, but 2020 is so janky, one year ago feels like five! ⁠

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Find out what's been going on in Lenina's world, her work, and lessons she's learned from the pandemic and this period of social unrest and racial tension—on this episode of Planet Noun!⁠

Quick warning: This episode contains a couple of cuss words. Personally, I don’t care. This advisory is just in case you have little ones around who like to repeat things. 😀

Welcome to Planet Noun, and enjoy!

Sometimes you just need to talk it out with friends…to catch up, to listen, to process and share. Welcome to this conversation with a longtime friend. A fantastic friend with a beautiful mind—one who is a constant wonder, one who I admire, one who I am constantly learning from and inspired by.

Welcome to Planet Noun, where it’s all about the people, places, things and ideas that teach us, prompt us to make a difference and do more with what life presents.

Joining me is a repeat guest, my friend Pamela “RareEpiphany” Best.

Last time she was on the show, we caught up with each other in Philadelphia and talked about her erotic poetry book titled "Soul Kisses."

So this time around, Rare and I talk about a range of thing--starting with this COVID-19 pandemic that’s turned us all topsy turvy and how it’s affected her. We also get into how the never-ending soul and structural pandemic of racism in America hit close to home this year.

Let’s get to it…on Planet Noun.

You want dreams? Well, dreams cost.

If you don’t remember Debbie Allen uttering those words on the television show Fame, we can’t be friends.

Kidding!

But seriously, what I’ve learned from interviewing folks on the 30 previous episodes of Planet Noun, is that there’s a cost to realizing goals and aspirations. Even when it seems like luck, trust and believe—there’s a lot of work that goes into being ready for that “lucky” break and being ready when opportunity calls.

Welcome to Planet Noun where it’s all about the People, Places, Things and Ideas that teach us, prompt us to make a difference and do more with what life presents.

My guest today is Keosha Turner—a woman who has a busy life, but she manages to write fantasy books in her spare time, like a page turner called The Disappearance of Magda Harden.

In this conversation, learn more about Keosha’s path to writing, and her writing plans.

Get a link to the book at PlanetNoun.com.