A reunion style conversation between previous guests on season 2 with discussion on affirmative action 4th of July versus Juneteenth and 50 Years of Hip Hop. The transition of uncomfortable conversation the beginning and the direction that we're headed. The EmergenZ of RIZE radio the new home of UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATIONS 🦋

A mutually exclusive conversation on Juneteenth and pride. How and why do the two intersect. If there is room to honor both celebrations collectively without removing the value from one to the other.

1st Generation and Debt free graduate Nila Addo shares her 4 year college journey and discovering herself as well as what a friend means to her. From therapy to journaling, coping with cannabis, and emerging.

Domestic violence saved a young man's life and gave him the motivation needed to move selflessly. David Clora, a retired Navy Petty officer, speaks to Memorial Day for the us Military. Why, at the tender age of 18, he believed going into the military was the only viable option for him. He escaped Domestic Violence only to put his life on the line for his "country"

Bone therapist TJ shares his personal Journey of drug use. What he feels as a parent as well as why he lied to his parents about drug use.

Penny is an adult but was a child whose mother was an addict of meth and murdered. Miss Peggy is a mother and grandmother who has been using drugs for over 50 years. Peggy started using before she had children her children have long since grown up and raise their own children. However, Piggy continues to use drugs as she sees fit. Despite Penny's experience with her mother being murdered by her meth addict boyfriend while her mom was also using. Penney still indulges in her own drug use primarily marijuana.

Penny Birthday growth as a woman from being a 16 to a 34 year old woman.

From a life of crime and not so great choices, Mikey D is working to provide his community youth with options he didn't have. After close to 30 years served in prison, Michael DiVicino morphed into a poet and activist.

Maxsim Ealy who is a journalist, author, poet , and father happens to be a Polyamorous pansexual. We discuss masculinity and the toxicity of it which he shares through some of his poetry.

Sy and Bash from Gender Justice discuss with Emer.GenZ some of the challenges of parenting as a queer. They also provide solutions to why queer parenting is healthy for children to experience.