Encompass Collective Conversations

We sit down with screenwriter, director, and actor Kyra Jones to unpack her prolific career. Kyra is a staff writer for WOKE, and the writer/director of Go to the Body which will be her first feature film. If there was an example of someone carving their own seat at the table it would be Kyra. In this she drops a how to guide on persevering while maintaining your integrity in a white male heterosexual dominated industry. Hope you were inspired as we were.

On this belated mother's day special Melo and Martinez sit down with Charlene Muhammad 35 year yoga practitioner, herbalist, organizer, and mediation teacher to breaks down the importance of self-care and a health mediation practice. Along the way we scratch the surface of Ms. Muhammad’s amazing journey from being a union buster for corporate america to teaching Yoga to BPOC women. We also gossip on her other son, Taj and find out a little on why our host is a little eccentric.

We break down our post Trump society with actor/activist Chris Myers. Chris recently co-founded the online school Anticaptalism for Artists. We discuss what does Anticaptalism look like for the global majority, and how one navigates the industry while maintain their activist integrity. Follow Chris on Instagram @chrismyersinc

Elijah and Budi Miller (@millerbudi), Senior Lecturer Head of Acting at the university of Melbourne dive deep into Budi’s philosophy behind movement training. Exploring everything from Ball culture in Detroit, to Balinese mask performance Budi expands his award winning performance tradition and drops a few pearls of wisdom along the way.

Actor, writer, teacher joins us to break down the Western Canon, a concept used to teach actors here in the United States and a pillar for many predominately white institutions.