Waking Up in America

Daquan Summers (18), who faced a felony at the age of 12, now leads an anti-violence movement in Nashville, TN.

“Waking Up in America” Season 3 – EP 3

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Blog: What This Teenage Leader of Positive Change Taught Me

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Daquan Summers Speaks Against Violence and For Change

 

 

In this episode Daquan Summers, who faced a felony at age 12, tells what happened that changed the direction of this life. This high school senior speaks at the City and School District events, leading an anti-violence movement and helping others to change their lives as well.

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Highlights From This Episode:

4:41 – “I knew I was getting in trouble when…”

5:28 – Why he left the gang

7:30 – growing up and seeing gangs, shooting…

8:24 – “I had to do better for myself despite what other people were going to say about me.

8:35 – “the biggest thing about change is that a lot of people are scared what other people are going to say about them once they change.”

10:40 – “Stop doing the same old stuff that you see other people doing and expecting a different result…”

10:57 – “A lot of people make excuses…”

12:22 – “I’m not only tired of the situation for me, but I’m tired of the situation for the same people…”

13:19 – On Harriet Tubman

14:07 – “You can be inspiring too, whether you live in a mansion,

whether you live in the Projects.”

14:38 – “Help and Need are similar because a lot of people see them as a weakness”

16:20 – What can we do better?

17:42 – Ms. Rosa asks a question about how to help a young man who is going in a wrong direction.

21:52 – One Word Answers

23:34 – Daquan performs his poem “No Excuses for Failure”

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Filmed at “O” Gallery in Marathon Village, Nashville, TN

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Join Doctor Val and Randi, as they have a fascinating conversation about bio-domes and the future with Kiernan Kit, who's mom lived for the years in such a dome.

Twenty year old fashion blogger Larissa May, realizes the power of transparency and truth and launches a social media movement #HalftheStory

“Waking Up in America” Season 3 – EP 2

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Blog: Tell the Other #halfthestory to Connect

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Connect with Larissa May and #HalftheStory

Web: halfthestoryproject.com |  livinlikelarz.com

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Twitter: @livinlikelarz   |  @halfthestory_

Instagram: @halfthestory  |   @livinlikelarz

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Connect with guest MUSICIAN Julia Cole: juliacolemusic.com/

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Larissa May, a fashion blogger, artist and founder of #HalftheStory social media movement talks about her struggles and solutions to use the social media in a positive way rather than becoming a victim of it.

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Save this Image and Post the Other #halfthestory

HIGHLIGHTS:

2:09 – ” I thought that I had to be someone else. I thought that I had to fit inside a box. ”

3:28 – “Social media is not good or bad. It’s only half the story…”

4:26 – Building your world around social media – during transitioning from high school to college

5:43 – “use social media for the passion… then you find the people”

6:45 – “I just got distracted by trying to be someone that I wasn’t.”

7:58 –  “most people think that vulnerability has to be something depressing. But vulnerability can be something that makes you happy… because other people don’t support it.”

9:38 – New York Fashion Week: “I was running from the Betsey Johnson show…”

10:53 – “I realized this is only half the story and people are misunderstanding art as reality….”

13:21 – “Half The Story allows the story to be about you and not about what you’re doing…”

17:10 – #HalftheStory having an impact on a student in New York who was struggling with an eating disorder..

19:50 –  “#HalfTheStory is a personal statement at first. Also, then it becomes a moment.”

20:20 – What about when people get addicted to the number of likes?

20:53 – Would you say that physical friendships are still as important as social media?

21:52 – Julie Cole performs “Half the Story” Song

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Filmed at “O” Gallery in Marathon Village, Nashville, TN

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You are gonna love Riley Wafful and her Landmark Self Expression and Leadership Project which teaches young women to access their strength and power. Randi and I love what you are up to Riley - Keep it up!! Check Out her possibility at LionessRetreat.

Brett Swayn had been homeless, broken ‘by his brokenness,’ and had himself felt utter desolation. He knows what a miracle feels like. In this episode we talk about how his turning point shifted him from chasing a dream to satisfy the person he thought he was, and into a much more purposeful life of helping others and providing healing in their lives.

Season 3 – EP 1

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Filmed at O Gallery in Marathon Village, Nashville

Check out the highlights

03:00 – Brett talks about his growing up in Australia

05:33 – Getting stuck in chasing a dream of a person Brett thought he was

06:54 – the dream collapses

07:34 – becoming a ‘monster’

08:18 – ‘[the Bible] literally reading me as I’m reading it’

09:30 – experiencing ‘utter desolation’ before the miracle happens

13:34 – arriving to Nashville and becoming homeless

14:56 – ‘why do you worry about little things?”

17:33 – talking to Devin, one of the formerly homeless guys from The Cookery

20:34 – One Word Answers

22:32 – Brett sings his song “Move”

Connect with Brett and The Cookery – Where Lives of the Homeless Are Restored

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