Talking About Life

Talking About Life

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Talking About Life episodes

  • 11. Talking About Super Sport Racing, Mental Health, Family, and Personal Prosperity w/ @BrumbyWild
    On this week's episode we're interviewing a friend from Australia. While it's 9:00PM in NY when the podcast starts, it's 1:00PM on the following day in Australia for our guest. Blows my mind. On Twitter, he goes by @BrumbyWIld. His bio reads, "Family above all! Ex super sport racer. mental health advocate/battler/survivor. VF discord-Wild Brumby Retreat#7481.crypto/nfts/property/invest/VF/collect/learn." We cover all of these topics and more on this episode. This is the first super car racer I've had the pleasure of interviewing. But the highlights of this one for me are the ways we discuss mental health and how to surmount the darkness despite the difficulties that come with a life-changing injury and pain. We go deep on this one. Check it out!
    1 hr 2 min
  • 10. Talking About Financial Agility, Digital Nomadism, Stoicism, and Entrepreneurship w/ @Boggles44
    On this episode we interview Boggles, who's Twitter handle is @Boggles44. He describes himself as a Digital Nomad, a Staff Accountant, a Business Developer, and a Practitioner of Stoicism. He doesn't quite feel financially free but he's financially agile. That means there's times to save and times to splurge but that he can live and travel with his wife as they please, to a pleasurable extent. Are you interested in having the type of lifestyle that allows you to make money while running around the globe with your life partner? Give this episode a listen. It may be of benefit to you!
    1 hr 2 min
  • 9. Talking About Competitive School Bus Driving and How to Choose Your Life Passion w/ Carl Saxon
    On this episode we speak with Carl Saxon who goes by @CSaxon128 on Twitter. We cover a range of topics on this one, starting with Carl explaining his professional career and how he went from that to quitting to focus on his current focuses. He's passionate about travel and documenting and sharing his experiences and is excited to find a way to monetize that. Oh, and for a while he was involved with competitive school bus driving. Yeah. I'd wager you've never heard about that before? Well, what are you waiting for? Give this episode a listen!
    58 min
  • 8.Talking About The Metaverse, @VeeMinders, Community Building, and Virtual Meetups w/ @Simulacra_io
    What if you wanted to be even more anonymous than going to an AA meeting? What if you wanted to speak but not be seen? What if you wanted to heal but from the comfort of your own home? Would you consider a meetup in the Metaverse using a digital avatar? Simulacra provides potential answers to all of these questions with their new Metaverse virtual environment! Listen to the episode to find out more!
    1 hr 29 min
  • 7. Talking About Family, The Drama, The Abuse, The Healing, and The Path Forward w/ @Jancarlo316
    A person that loves life. Passionate about his family married to a wonderful wife named Laura. Two amazing kids, six and 4. Daughter Eliana and son Alexander. Enjoys seeing life through their eyes. Passionate about being a parent. Like a kid at heart. Likes to play and create and joke around. Having kids give you the opportunity to have that experience again in full force and relive the world through your child’s eyes. Everything is magical when children experience it for the first time and seeing that excitement of going to a theme park for the first time or the first time they watch an animated movie its such an awesome thing to experience that as a parent and live through those things again with your kid. Passionate about his family
    He had a tough life growing up and a crazy life story. His life is almost like a movie where there is foreshadowing and things unfold later on. His parents met in the US. Both of them are from Columbia, South America. His father already had a family and his Mom had moved to the US with her Dad they met in the US and fell in love and had him and then the Dad later revealed to the Mom that he still had a family and she didn’t want him to leave the family and they kept a long distance relationship. They ended up moving back to Columbia eventually where most of his family was from. His whole life his Dad was going back and forth. He did not have his Dad around a lot and did not understand why he could not be there for him more. His dad was just missing and it didn’t make sense.
    A lot of the things that he has been through have helped him to be able to empathize with other people and be empathetic and caring in many ways as well as heal in general. It has been a journey and has taken him a while to process a lot of what he has went through and resentment and hatred and tumultuous periods of this poison burning inside him of all these negative emotions. hHs dad missing holidays and a lot of other stuff. Eventually his Mom said she was done with doing the long distance. But she was never good at communicating with JanCarlo about what was actually happening.
    Eventually she married a guy who became his step dad but it was a shitty situation with jealousy and abuse and domestic violence and his Mom and him had to deal with it as his Mom had 2 kids with this step dad. Jancarlo as the son said what are you still doing with him after all the shit he put you through. He went to therapy over it to understand why would people even do this and behave this way and have and end up in these types of relationships.
    Big proponent of therapy. Has learned tp champion it more. A lot of times people unjustly try to convert their significant other or spouse into a therapist or a friend when three not qualified when really they should get a therapist to listen and help them instead of avoiding the professional help and pushing your emotions on to others less capable and less trained to handle them.
    Now there are a lot of other ways to do therapy. You don’t need to go to an office. You can pursue tele health options from the privacy of your home. Even if you are smart and think you can figure everything out, consider the movie Good Will Hunting where a Genius character in the movie is still helped emotionally by therapy.
    He had lost contact with his Dad due to anger and resentment. Someone he had dated in college had lost her father to Cancer and she gave him the lesson of don’t let the hatred rob you of getting any extra time to interact with your father and not waiting until he is older or until the opportunity is gone. Luckily they sis start to talk after that and form a relationship. Was appreciative of being able to put aside the resentment and tried to build something and foster a relationship. A few years after that his father was brutally murdered in Columbia by gunmen on motorcycles. That was devastating.
    Interested in hearing the rest of this story? Tune in to the podcast to find out!
    55 min
  • 5. Talking About FTX and What to Do When Down Bad
    As FTX collapses the fallout and contagion are widespread. We discuss the situation and how to mentally handle it, potential next steps for immediate damage control, and how to plan going forward. This is also the one where I unconsciously keep talking over Matt causing him to go silent, end the episode early, and never return as a co-host. Apologies Matt!  Didn't realize that's what happened until he told me after and wish it all played out differently. But the show must go on!
    37 min
  • 4. Talking About Prayer, Energy, and Manifestation
    We kick it off by talking about prayer and branch off into whether or not we believe in the power of thoughts and prayers and energy as a whole. We don't agree about this one. We don't quite agree to disagree either. Is it an argument or a discussion? You be the judge of that.
    31 min

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Dreams? Memories? Romances? Arguments? Philosophies? Politics? Conspiracies? Jokes? Yes to all of the above. We’re talking about life. Nothing is true and everything is permitted. Join us.