Brother Wesley is back! Although Wes didn't talk much in this episode he introduced us to his pops, Dack Whitfield. This was a fun conversation. For being only an hour we flew threw quite a bit of information. Dack's plan for the community to buy back the block was quite intriguing and I look forward to contributing to this fund! Tune into to hear more on that topic.

Topics;

Community home buying program

Affordable rent

The crash of 2008 and corporate America buying up properties Minneapolis communities

Dack's experience growing up in N Minneapolis and commuting to Edina to attend private school

Military experience

Lesson's learned in the Navy

Occupational experience

Fighting for change & progress - is it daunting?

Confident in our intentions

Turning down the nay-sayers

Being held back, discouraged

Cautious-optimism

The future

An open invitation to attend a discussion on November 14th, 2020 hosted by Dack and Wesley 

Sam and I had an awesome conversation today that I look forward to continuing in another episode. We covered a lot of ground and learned about one another. Hear how Sam was caught up by alcoholism and the variables that led him there. There are a lot of similarities between how people become addicted to substances. 

Addiction and recovery

Harm reduction

Sam's path into addiction and then recovery

Control, hyperfixation

Control of emotions

Substances as a tool of control

Early addiction/ overuse of sleep aids

Sam's Traumatic Brain Injury, (TBI)

Genetic predisposition

The devastating impact alcohol had on Sam's family just a couple of generations ago

Why alcohol as your drug of choice?

At the peak of alcoholism, alcoholics often are perpetually drunk

Staving of withdrawls

What are withdrawls?

Rational/irrational

ADHD

Post acute withdrawl symptoms- PAWS

Psychedelics for recovery

HP Rogers a photographer from Minneapolis who has been doing some stellar work documenting protests, demonstrations, and riots. I had the chance to travel to DC with HP also.

Topics;

Where HP started his photography journey

Our trip to D.C.

Some of the memorable moments from the past months

Policing, defunding the police? The nuance to this

Criminalization of poverty

HP photo review 

The Umbrella Man, a short update

Current Political Climate

Check out hprphotography.com ! 

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This episode was fun! If you'll recall, Ravyn has joined us on the We Are One! podcast in recent history. Him and I did 5 hours on a comprehensive list of Criminal Justice Reform ideas. Today, we are joined by his twin brother Drake who is equally as intelligent and well spoken. This really was a fun conversation. 

Podcast also available visually on YouTube! Will be doing live shows and updating with new footage/reporting/interviews around the nation. YouTube Justin Goeman We Are One! 

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Topics in today's episode;

Beginning of the twins interest in politics

View of Bernie Sanders in recent times

"Wealth Inequality in America" 

The leftist movement in politics and Bernie Sanders spearheading it

Minimum Wage in recent history

Unemployment through Coronavirus

The three branches of the economy to consider; governement, labor and private business

Future of media and specifically independent media

Potential for politically motivated violence around election day?

What's at stake in this election? (Opinions)

Riots vs. Protests Vs. Demonstrations

The fact that nobody makes irrational decisions intentionally and we all make decisions with rationalizations

Rick Perlstein's Nixonland, Before the Storm, The Invincible Bridge, Reaganland

Labor unions

2020 predictions

peoplesparty.org

An open invite for debate with Ravyn and Drake

Some independent media groups and shows that the twins recommend checking out; The Majority Report, The David Pakman Show, Secular Talk, The Michael Brooks Show, Vaush, Democracy At Work, Ben Burgis, Jacobin, Democracy Now!, The Real News Network, The Rational National.

 

Russian efforts to undermine the west and democracy

Where Michael gets his information

The wrongdoings of the Democratic Party and DNC

Active measures, hacking efforts

Cozy Bear, Wikileaks, Jullian Assange

And a whole lot more in this realm of conversation

Pillars of Russia’s Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem   themoscowproject.org   Jacob Lanier Lecture Youtube   A subreddit dedicated to Keeping Track by organizing and summarizing the different notable developments involving, but not limited to, Trump, the GOP, investigations, abuse of power, and election interference.   Analyzing Russia's Attacks on American Democracy - Check out the timeline!   Twitter accounts to follow for information; https://twitter.com/Public_Citizen https://twitter.com/ericgarland https://twitter.com/10milesbadroad https://twitter.com/kelly2277 https://twitter.com/clearing_fog https://twitter.com/lizburgh https://twitter.com/dailybeanspod https://twitter.com/waltshaub https://twitter.com/TomJChicago https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote https://twitter.com/gregolear https://twitter.com/Billbrowder https://twitter.com/SethAbramson

Shireen uses her Masters in Counseling and Psychology Services alongside multiple other modalities in physical and spiritual healing; SEP, MA, LPCC, NASM, Energy Healer

Mindfulness Practice

Reiki

Movement/ personal training

Jungian Archetypes

Entanglement of body and mind

Trauma 

Generational/ ancestral trauma

Deregulated nervous systems and disconnect

Justin's personal experience with reiki healing

Pleasant and unpleasant, positive and negative

Reforming our online environments

Social media being gamed against human nature

Neuralink

Willingness to heal 

libhealing.com

traumahealing.org

reiki.org

 

Fuego! I love these conversations. Links included at the bottom of the show notes. Michael Johnson (BAARD MUSIC) Andrew Koalska (AKKO) join me today. 

Topics today;

The founding of Eunoi Studios

Why the future is art. Expression of ideas.

Addiction to social media.

"Driving engagement" profit model

Datasets and what social media companies are doing with this information

Jaron Lanier "A Blueprint for a Better Digital Society"

Foreign influence in our democracy 

How the mainstream media has failed our society

Pillars of Russia’s Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem   themoscowproject.org   Jacob Lanier Lecture Youtube   A subreddit dedicated to Keeping Track by organizing and summarizing the different notable developments involving, but not limited to, Trump, the GOP, investigations, abuse of power, and election interference.   Analyzing Russia's Attacks on American Democracy - Check out the timeline!

Our first podcast done remotely over the web! Super excited about the quality of sound that we were able to achieve even though we weren't in the same room together. 

Eric Boso is an independent filmmaker out of Columbus, Ohio. 

How the two of us got connected

Livestreams and social media

The Umbrella Man

The world hasn't ended just the world as we know it

48 Hour Film Festival

How Eric has been impacted by COVID-19 and the quarantine

Anxiety

Expression of ideas = art

Eric's personal experience during protests in June

Vimeo.com/grex 

@theflyingcolors

@Eric.Boso

Bryan Carleton, Psych Nurse practitioner for the state of MN. Bryan and I worked together for a couple of years now trying to get this podcasting thing kicked off. We talked a few times on the Let's Have a Conversation podcast that is out on Soundcloud. But today, 3 years later now the both of us have been moving along and quite a bit more comfortable in front of these microphones. We covered a wide variety of topics in this episode.

We refer to this article at some point; https://eand.co/this-is-why-it-feels-like-the-democrats-are-going-to-lose-7b96ad6e40a5

The year 2020, it being mismanaged

First followers

Good reason for bad feelings

What's the point?

My journey/feelings/emotions recently

Therapy in the year 2020

Higher self

Bryan's religious/spiritual experience

Is Justin a leftist?

Moral compass

His journey from International Business undergrad to a masters program in political advocacy and leadership

Turning up the heat on change. Being forced into these conversations

Treating symptoms of issues as opposed to determining the root causes of the issues

Asking why?

Liberalism. Neo Liberal.

Antifa, antifascism

Adaptive leadership vs. technical leadership

Decentralization

Welfare for the wealthy

Privatizing profit and socializing the loss

Decentralization