Surviving Empathy

On this episode I ask the question, "is it me, or are things getting weirder than ever!?"  I want to address how things are starting to feel as an intuitive person on this planet during these times, and I want to put it all into perspective to find solutions, hope, and perspective in order to ride out these weird and more difficult times to arrive at a place where better attitudes and outcomes arrive sooner not later. At the end of the day, there's no reason to despair, there's no reason to blame yourself or find fault with yourself. These new and unprecedented times demand that we stay vigilante and place the blame on society itself. We are not failing our society; society is beginning to fail us! In order to create better and more sustainable outcomes, we must first be able to identify what's going on and why, then to believe in ourselves enough to take the reins of our own happiness and agency to find better, and to maintain more sustainable times moving forward. Sometimes, we just have to embrace the chaos because the world is a rather big and unusual place. Here, I talk about how to figure out what's going on and what can be done about it.

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On this very light and informative episode Rebecca and I examine the Johnny Depp defamation trial against Amber Heard, and what it can tell us about a great many things. From human behavior to relationships and love, to our inherent biases. We'll talk about some of the witnesses and testimony and our impressions on it, and what this trial can tell us about abuse, drug and alcohol abuse, relationships, and how relationships and love can make ya downright crazy! At the end of the day, we're trying to be excruciatingly fair-minded about all this, and this episode is using the Depp case to explore human behavior and what can be derived from it. Please enjoy!

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On this fun and irreverent episode, Rebecca and I talk about how in a top-down society us regular folks start to feel like we have no value, have no say, and have nothing to make us feel worthy in a society that's always pushing the "might makes right" agenda. How these wealthy and sophisticated systems make us feel bad about ourselves, and how to empower yourself in a society where there are a million know-it-alls all trying to own and rule us, and how to stay empowered, even if you're not wealthy or "successful" by society's standards. We all have value, and this episode goes into the ins and outs of how to feel like a winner whilst dealing with insufferable people and systems always pushing fancy pants agendas.

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Honesty and being direct is always the best policy, and while you guys know by now that we're not only trying to be a strong, intelligent, vigilant, positive, and ever growing and expanding brand, movement, show, and resource for regular folks all about advocacy, positivity, hope,  and helping regular struggling people though their regular life problems offering advice, encouragement, and resources; but we're also just regular people with our own host of very real problems in these very real times as well. On this episode I go into the weeds of who Rebecca and I really and truly are, what our real-life problems are, and why we need this to succeed both emotionally and spiritually,  and why we started this podcast, brand, and movement. But also, why its so essential that it continues to grow, expand, and continue on.

While I will not go into that into that goodnight without a fight, every once in a while you do hit an emotional or financial snag every now and then where you reach a point where you start to feel like the world has grown too big, cynical, indifferent, broken, and uncaring to ever feel like you could succeed doing anything anymore, let alone something as bold as this! I'm trying to combine the things that I love;  radio, helping people, finding mental health clarity, advocating for hypersensitive types, and advice and encouragement for people suffering from minor mental health snags and the workaday life woes. 

I'm a strong veteran, realized empath, fitness runner, organizer, motivational speaker, influencer, tech savvy radio personality, activist, and all-around decent and caring human being with a fun-loving sensibility and sense of humor, with a strong desire to do some real good in this world before I go, and before it's too late. But like I have said before, we really need your help until we grow enough to get the attention of sponsors to help pay for the show and grow the brand and movement.  This episode goes into the details of our hardships, and feelings, and why this is such an important spiritual passion project for us, and why we care so  much about it in times where most folks in the world don't care much about anyone or anything anymore, and even when they do, don't really know what to do, or just can't do much about it. 

This podcast has a 5/5 rating because most of the time we bring our A game, and work hard to be both funny, insightful, informative, and real. Because we are committed to continuing to perfect our business model and brand, and maximize the benefit in or culture and society for average folks, sensitives and empaths, and regular people toiling to find clarity and purpose, and straight talk about mental health, who often struggle staying encouraged in these very corporate, robotic and plastic times. It's no wonder we're all looking backward to yesteryear, to nostalgia, to better simpler times. But I have a dream you guys, and with your help, I sincerely believe that my dream can come true.

To start coalitions, to educate people on forward thinking progress, class, and dignity. To fight the status quo,  to gut-check oppressive and regressive systems we find ourselves surrounded by. To fight against low wages, empty promises, and the corporate greed and wealth agendas that has the vast majority of us working jobs we hate on wages we can't get ahead on, for corporate oligarchs and tyrants spending millions trying to unwind progress and the laws in order to maximize their own profits at the peril of the regular working people and at the detriment to the sustainability of our economy and culture. But we're not here to depress you, we're here to impress upon you the urgency of now, and to advocate and celebrate regular working-class people who share our homespun values.

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On this episode Rebecca and I explore how to see the good in real life people, where that comes from, and discerning real goodness within from those who might not be entirely coming from a place of good intentions. We talk about superheroes, our favorites, and their contribution to society, and what qualities we cherish in them, and how they help us to find our goodness and bravery within. We talk about the difference between those who have "it" and those who don't. What is the "it" factor when it comes to goodness, kindness, coolness, and having that cool natural likeability thing that seems to be so natural in some people, this inherent sense of cool, calm, collectedness, and the successes and spoils therein, and how can we capture the "it" factor in all of us? 

We talk about the qualities that make up a good person from a bad person, and how to find the good inside of people who are not perfect, but who are trying to be an agent of good on the whole. We talk about how to embrace who we really are on the inside and making that a cool thing. At the end of the day, greatness and coolness is different for everybody, and attitudes and agendas out there range from the practical to the boisterously ridiculous to the tragically shallow, and those folks who are getting strange and bad attitudes thinking they're getting stronger, when all they're really doing is becoming creeps. We talk about the difference between being strong, fierce, and embodying a "spiritual warrior," and getting downright cruel, indifferent, mean, and not coming correct. 

Here, we try to sort out the good from the bad, and how to embrace a positivity, strength, and greatness within, but here in the real world, not what characters can get away with in the movies. Thank you for listening, we really enjoyed making this one, it was both a lot of fun and an eye opener! Thank you so very much for embracing us, we're really coming into our own, finding ourselves, and embracing who we want to be and sincerely loving you fine people as well! On these longer episodes, feel free to listen to our show in segments. We record twice per week so we can work on other projects, so that you might listen in bite size pieces if you need to, breaking it up into daily chunks of self-affirmation if you will, so you can hang with us every single day! We wish you could all be here with us right now! That's what this is about, finding our voice, our strength, our comfort, our empowerment, and our tribe of people, to celebrate life's joys together, and commiserating together when we're at our wits end. Thanks so much for joining us!

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We're so divided today, whether it's politics, religion, or finances, it's tough trying to make sense of the word where there's so many agendas and attitudes. Some politically motivated, some financial, some just based on our differences. But at the end of the day Rebecca and I want to get to the bottom of our differences and try to uncover not only some of the overlap we can all share as a people, but also, perhaps try to learn from each other's point of view. Here, we take on subjects like the differences between Oregon and California since moving to Oregon a little over 7 years ago, and some of the things we like and don't like about both. We talk about trying to find an appreciation for those rivals and folks who are different from us and celebrating our common base values. We take on the subject of equality vs equity, and what are the differences and similarities, as well as tolerance vs intolerance, and finding the class, grace, and maturity to come together to solve our biggest problems together to help try to elevate regular people and build a stronger middle class. We're trying to find ways in which we can all get along and work together, and I'm not exactly optimistic yet about it! But here, Rebecca and I put on our thinking caps to try to get to the heart of what's going on in our culture and times today.  We may never agree on the solutions, hell, we may never even agree on objective reality! But what we should be able to do, at minimal, is to try to agree to put our differences aside so that we can start finding real answers to the issues that are killing the heart and soul of people trying to live in the world today!
 

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Back in the day my gramps would ask me as a small boy, "Hey, wanna play a new card game?!" In my excitement, I'd say "yeah sure ok!" "It's called 52 Pickup!" "Oh ok, how do you play that?!" Then, invariably, he'd throw all 52 cards on the floor and say, "now pick 'em up!" Hardy har har! My gramps was a bigtime jokester, that's just how he was. There was no malice in his heart, he was just an old WWII vet who, if he liked you, would joke, poke, prod, mess with, and rib and jab with you. It was just his way of saying that he liked you! Because if he didn't like a person, he'd completely ignore the person! Anyway, I'm calling this episode "52 Pick-me-ups" in honor of my grandfather, who was the strongest, kindest, most clam and easygoing soul I ever met. Since his passing in 2006, I've really grown to miss him and my grandma very much. He's really become, along with my grandma, someone I think about often to offer me cosmic wisdom from beyond! He's become my Obi Wan in essence, and for whom without his teachings I would never have become the man I am today. He taught me wisdom, calm, grace under fire, a relaxed and jovial demeanor, and to be capable and steady as she goes.  I am the person I am today due to his guidance and example. 

Because everything good about me is due to him and his teachings, I am titling this show "52 pick-me ups" in honor of one of the greatest and wisest man who I've ever known. He wasn't fancy, he wasn't sophisticated, and occasionally his solutions were sometimes "crude but effective!" But at the end of the day, he didn't worry about the world, he didn't fret over what's going on in the world, he didn't spend his time caring what others were doing, saying, or thinking. He didn't get caught up in anything he thought was nonsense, he just did his thing, raised his family to the best of his abilities, and had his simple pleasures in life, tinkering in the garage, fixing his little boat (by the end it was more Bondo than wood!), watching his football, and fishing with his friends. I have a feeling that if he were alive today, he'd say something like, "people get so uptight about everything." Sometimes his words come to me, and often speak through me, in a weird way. Since my list was 52 things, and my grandfather is the person I learned the most about life and inner toughness from, I thought it was a fitting tribute to the man. They just don't make 'em like that anymore. I miss you gramps.

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On this no holds barred episode Rebecca and I talk about trying to hold it together most of the time, but how eventually life just keeps coming at ya, and you begin to run out of gas and start feeling broken again, and what we can do about it. We get a little bit into religion and politics, but at the end of the day we're here to be ambitious and positive helpers and healers, but every so often you got to "go there" to get stuff off your chest in order to process your feelings and reclaim your happiness and empowerment. Even us free thinking positive optimist creative types run out of faith and steam now and then, and this is show is all about that! Passion, we have learned, is a saloon door in that it can fuel our positivity as well as fuel our disgust and frustration in certain things. But at the end of the day, it's all a part of being human and desiring a better society and more opportunities and hope for regular struggling folks. We're here as a resource for everyone who needs help finding hope, sanity, and realness in a world pretending but not always acting on ways we can improve for the middle class and regular working people.

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On this informative and spooky episode, we take a deep dive into demons and malicious entities and try to get down to the bottom of the phenomenon. Over the years I have witnessed a duplicity of repeated phenomenon that has informed my understanding of what is going on here. From demonic infestation, oppression, and possession to lashing out, to portal creation, to soul collecting, dark dwelling, and the harvesting of human spirits in order to draw energy for their dark, mischievous paranormal parasitic purposes. I talk about the difference between demons in real life vs pop culture and movies, demons vs other mischievous paranormal entities, and what these creatures just might be and what they want. I theorize what they most likely are, where they come from, what their motives likely are, how they came to be, as well as how we must handle demons and the paranormal as a whole. You will not find this wealth of new information anywhere else, as these are my own conclusions and speculations as a lifelong paranormal enthusiast and empath with years of dedicated thought and research into the paranormal, from an energetic intuitive's perspective. Strap in, this is going to be a doozy!

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On this episode I talk about my love, excitement, and nostalgia for Friday, and with that, Friday vibes, and how to find and capture those Friday vibes every day! Contrarily, Monday vibes can be the pits, and I talk about that as an empath. Here I talk about how to find success, wisdom, greater happiness, and better attitudes and habits that can lead to a more open, free, and prosperous life. Not by sugar coating everything, not by taking the advice of rich influencers through generic ridiculous means, but by gaining a real and everlasting appreciation of life, and finding the courage, agency, and calm to continue growing and getting bigger and bolder to become one's truest self. In doing so, attaining the fun and hopeful life you want and deserve. 

This is advice coming from an imperfect person living in the real world with real problems, not from some sunny sandy beach with a daquiri in hand, but living in the real world of struggle, hardship, grief, frustration, disappointment, and constant worry. With all the accumulated wisdom and appreciation that I have attained through the school of hard knocks and learning the hard way, I talk about all things I had to go through in order to finally find perspective to boldly find new ways to make a better life, find balance, and to continually grow so I can become the person I want to be, and to live the happy life I want for myself and all those I love and care about, including you! This episode is a lot of my wisdom brain droppings and kitchen table wisdom that I think real, regular folks can appreciate. Have a great day!

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