On this weeks episode we have Massachusetts raised, New York based photographer, Nehemiah Brent. Brent talks about stumbling onto photography as a hobby while studying at UMass Amherst as a Kinesiology student, moving to New York, photoshoot horror stories, his style of photography, and much more!!!  

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This week we virtually sat down with San Diego based, and Cleveland raised artist, creative director, and designer Erwin Hines. Hines spoke about creating his clothing brand FUTURE IS COLOR ® after the murder of George Floyd and using art to cope with tragedies. He also reflected on his time as an architecture student, and how he's able to apply it's theories and principles to everything he does as a creative, as well as growing up with parents who developed affordable housing, which taught him that everything we create as humans, can ultimately impact our communities and much more!!! PLEASE LIKE, COMMENT, & SUBSCRIBE!!!   

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In this weeks episode, we traveled to Allentown, Pennsylvania to interview Black Dre. A rapper whose learned to balance a life of growing up playing basketball, getting an education, and now a career as a mental health professional. We spoke about Allentown's Hip-Hop identity, breaking down his lyrics, pursuing a graduate degree while rapping, turning down records deals and much more. PLEASE LIKE, COMMENT, & SUBSCRIBE!!!    

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In part two of last week's episode, producer of Yusef Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn, director of Digging for Weldon Irvine, and co-owner of Legacy Vinyl Boutique in Brooklyn, NY, Victorious De Costa speaks about how losing five of his friends to suicide was a factor in creating Digging for Weldon Irvine, eliminating the stigma of seeking out mental health resources, artists not only needing inspiration to create but needing inspiration to live, and wanting to show the tenacity of black people at the time after Yusef Hawkins' murder by white teenagers. PLEASE LIKE, COMMENT, & SUBSCRIBE!!! 

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This week we have director of Digging for Weldon Irvine, producer of Yusef Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn, and co-owner of Legacy Vinyl Boutique in Brooklyn, NY Victorious De Costa. In part one of this extensive interview, Victorious speaks about telling the stories of those before us through their record collections, musicians like the late Weldon Irvine feeling inadequate and not having the mental health resources that he needed, the decline and resurgence of vinyl music, the value of hypnotherapy and much more. PLEASE LIKE, COMMENT, & SUBSCRIBE!!! 

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Brandon C. Bjerre wears many hats. Currently a footwear designer, his experiences growing up in Europe for the first 10 years of his life, visiting Maryland in the summer where he eventually spent the rest of his youth, and playing basketball collegiately and professionally all shaped his journey and the stories he tells through his design. In this episode I asked him about what true originality is in design, where his influences derive, seeing the art in basketball, and retaining your creativity while working for corporations. PLEASE, LIKE, COMMENT, & SUBSCRIBE!!! 

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Award winning Certified Life Coach, mental health advocate, public speaker, and author of Surthrival Mode, and most recently Heal Forward: Four steps to purposeful living, Pervis Taylor, III reflects on his life growing up in Lancaster, Texas and not fitting into the stereotypical tropes of what men were in his environment, being inspired by his pain and feelings of being lost as a black men to help other black men professionally, people having a better relationship with lack than they do with abundance, toxic masculinity versus healthy masculinity, and more. PLEASE LIKE, COMMENT, & SUBSCRIBE!!!

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Darlene Okpo, owner of Adanne Bookshop in DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY, tells her story as a young girl growing up in The Bronx and falling in love with a library, living in Staten Island but not being of Staten Island, the sense of familiarity she got from urban fiction novels, owning a black owned bookstore, and her  experiences as an English teacher in New York City public schools. PLEASE, LIKE, COMMENT, & SUBSCRIBE!!!  

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NFL veterans and Super Bowl champions, Jason and Devin McCourty are known for what they've accomplished on the football field, but they're also host of the successful podcast, Double Coverage with The McCourty Twins. We spoke about what it's like to be active players while being members of the media, controlling your own narratives as pro-athletes, athletes speaking out against injustices; preparing for life post-football, and much more. LIKE, COMMENT, AND SUBSCRIBE!!!  

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