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PME and I have done 3 other podcasts together. In this fourth episode we talk about what's changed for us, what our best advice is for new creators, and tips to get you started on your creative journey. Everyone should have an outlet that suits them, so if you need a kick of motivation to start you're in the right place.Mentioned in this Episode:PME's Links: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7FcmQ... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pme.jib/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_Nb... Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmejib Merch: https://teespring.com/new-pme?pid=2&c... Beaver Boys Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beaverboysf... Check out the Youtube Video version of this episode as wellTo learn more about the Get Psyched Mission:You can Get Psyched on...InstagramTwitterFacebookYoutube(Producer PME has given me permission to use his beat '300k' as the Get Psyched intro/outro beat)

For the two year anniversary of the podcast I decided to go over the history of Getting Psyched and how we got to this point in the show. I also talk a bit about the future of the podcast and where I plan to go from here. Thank you for listening and joining me on this ride. I can't wait to share another year together. Until next time, stay psyched.Mentioned in this Episode:Get Psyched BlogYou can Get Psyched on...InstagramFacebookYoutubeMy WebsiteCheckout my friend and fellow creator PME On Spotify(Producer PME has given me permission to use his beat '300k' as the Get Psyched intro/outro beat)

In The Heights, by Lin-Manuel Miranda, is a musical that's hit close to home for me and my fiance Ela Perez. We both fell in love with the movie for it's relatable characters, cultural themes, comedy, memorable music, and it's sense of community. In this podcast, we discuss each song in depth and give our personal connections to the story.Mentioned in this Episode:In the heightsGet Psyched YouTube To learn more about the Get Psyched Mission:You can Get Psyched on...InstagramTwitterFacebookYoutube Checkout my friend and fellow creatorPME On Spotify(Producer PME has given me permission to use his beat '300k' as the Get Psyched intro/outro beat)

In The Heights, by Lin-Manuel Miranda, is a musical that's hit close to home for me and my fiance Ela Perez. We both fell in love with the movie for it's relatable characters, cultural themes, comedy, memorable music, and it's sense of community. In this podcast, we discuss each song in depth and give our personal connections to the story. What's your favorite in the heights song?Mentioned in this Episode:In the heightsGet Psyched YouTube To learn more about the Get Psyched Mission:You can Get Psyched on...InstagramTwitterFacebookYoutube Checkout my friend and fellow creator PME On Spotify(Producer PME has given me permission to use his beat '300k' as the Get Psyched intro/outro beat)

Mentioned in this Episode:Jonah's blog: https://jonahaangeles.medium.com/Jonah's podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/2dU930a...Jonah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/channelsurfcinema/ To learn more about the Get Psyched Mission:You can Get Psyched on...InstagramTwitterFacebookYoutubeCheck out my friend and fellow creator PME On Spotify(Producer PME has given me permission to use his beat '300k' as the Get Psyched intro/outro beat)EPISODE TRANSCRIPT:Provided by Otter.aiDJ Psyched  0:07  I'm DJ Psyched, and you're listening to the Get Psyched podcast. Let's Get Psyched together.I'm DJ Psyched, you're listening to the Get Psyched podcast. And today we're getting psyched with Jonah, we're gonna be talking a bit about writing. So just to start things off, can you tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do, and specifically, I guess what you do with writing,Jonah Angeles  0:32  okay, my name is Jonah. I do a lot of things. Writing being one of them, one of my favorite things to do, I publish on medium. So I do poetry and nonfiction pieces. And yeah, I really enjoy writing. It's one of my passions, it sounds really cliche to say that but you know, as a writer, it's important to, to be passionate, I think. And to imbue your work with that passion, because that's where the good stuff is. And I write about anything and everything. on medium I've been writing about, you know, experiences at university, kind of like, pseudo memoir, stuff, I shouldn't say pseudo, like, kinda like memoir stuff, non creative nonfiction pieces, about my time at university to, you know, photography, which is another one of my hobbies. Also, I read about aliens. I've written two articles about aliens. And I'm not some kind of conspiracy theorist. I guess some people might label me that, but I don't want to get lumped into a niche. So I very intentionally write about various subjects. Which I mean, could also be a disadvantage for, for me as a writer on medium because I think it is important to find a niche, or find some, just some comfort zone or some, some field or domain that your readers will expect. It gives your readers something to expect from you, I guess. But with me and, you know, knowing me and my various interests and my ADHD, it's impossible to fixate on one thing, or to stay on one topic for a long period of time. As you probably know. Quite a, quite a divergent thinker. And I jump from one topic to another. And that definitely shows with my writing. But I guess what ties it all together is that I try to write from, from my voice. And that's something I've developed for years is a unique style and a unique voice. Otherwise, what separates my writing from everybody else's writing, right? It's, it's my style and my voice that I've developed over, over years.DJ Psyched  3:15  Nice. And you wanted to say a little bit more about the multi disciplinary aspect, cuz I think that's pretty big for how your writing ends up being. Because I think when you are multi disciplinary, and you do a lot of different things, it kind of shows through in your writing.Jonah Angeles  3:31  Yeah, um on medium, which is, you know, the good thing about publications, or platforms like medium, I don't want to call medium a publication because it's more so a platform for publications and for published writing, and self publishing. I can add images, and header images, and, you know, body images or like images into the body of the text of an article. And oftentimes, they're my own photos and my own graphics that I've designed for the article. So it makes it more my own thing, I guess. And it makes it more of a product of, of, of my multiple disciplines that I practice. So as I mentioned, I'm into photography as well. I'm into Visual Art and graphic design. And I'm also a podcaster I have my own podcast Overthinker's Anonymous. And I shout out my articles on on my podcast. So I guess my, my published works are linked in a way and it's nice to have multiple platforms too, like Instagram, and a medium account, and a Twitter and the Facebook where you can link to all these multiple works. I don't know it's it's nice to have that um, The thing that ties them together, that aspect of it that ties them together, makes them exist in relation to each other. So that it's it's like I'm creating, like a network of works. Or a world maybe, if that doesn't sound too grandiose?DJ Psyched  5:20  No, yeah, no, I completely understand because I think we're very similar in all those aspects like, I definitely am a writer myself, but I don't only write like, I just couldn't either. I don't think I could stop myself in doing just one thing, like I considered briefly to cut myself from the podcasting world so that I could focus on my writing. And I just couldn't do it. Like, I just couldn't give it up. I enjoy doing it too much. And I think that, with that, I end up like, if I pick something up, because I'm very prone to picking up a new kind of art, or whatever, instead of replacing the old stuff, I've learned to just kind of make like everything connected in its own ways. And I think in that way, we're kind of similar, because my podcast and my website and everything, it's all under a similar name. And it's kind of become like a theme, in a sense, although everything is very different. I try to tie it together. So would you say that everything that you do your podcast, the writing, anything else you create, is it all? Like you said, it's like a world so it's all it's all connected, right? Is what you're saying? Like, it's not like, these are separate things that you're trying to do? You're trying to make it one big thing that do you see as a reflection of yourself, do you see as a mission or something, because I kind of see mine as a very small reflection of myself, because obviously, it's not 100%. me, but I like to think that it's also a mission. So like, with your world, what are you trying to create, exactly, do you know?Jonah Angeles  6:44  I don't know exactly. Because I feel like they're all reflections of me. But they're not. As you said, there, there may be partial reflection reflections, they're not like the whole me. I don't want to define myself by what I do. By my work. I've said that many times in the past, that I'm not trying to establish my identity through my through my work. I guess I'm just trying to, like we said on on my podcast on episode 10 of Overthinker's Anonymous, we kind of ended off on the note that the meaning of life is to create something that lasts. So I think that's kind of what I'm trying to do. I, I guess the real answer is, though, that I don't think about it too much. I just do things and I, I don't think about the big picture as much as I think about, you know, what I, every single thing that I do, I put 100% of myself into it. But I don't think about my entire legacy, or my entire body of work as being one thing or one world. But I guess it's my, my content, like, my footprint, or my my I how would you? my garden, maybe my online, online garden of work. Because it sounds better than body of work. It sounds more glamorous, I think having a garden of work. And with a garden, you can have multiple different types of flowers blossoming. And the conditions have to be right, right? The temperature has to be right. You tend to it. And I don't know, I think it's important to revisit it and not just, you know, frivolously throw things out into the void and see what sticks. You know what I mean? I think it's important to preserve what you what you've made, and enjoy what you made and share what you've made. Yeah, because I feel like we live in we live in a world where it's all about content creation, content creation, content creation. And it seems the trend seems to be that you, you make stuff and you just throw it out there and you just kind of forget about it. And you're on to the next thing. That's something I don't necessarily buy when is just like, I believe that these things should last. And if you're not making things that last, you're making things that are just, you know, going to get your attention for maybe five minutes. And then it's on to the next thing and you forget about that Tik Tok or, you forget about that tweet. You know, I don't know I maybe I'm maybe I'm putting too much value into every single piece that I make. But I believe that, you know, we're creating things that are going to be there are going to outlast us. So that's what I have in mind is, you know, the future like posterity. How am I going to be perceived by future generations, by my children, and my children's children, if I have children, or like, by, by by The future. How is the future gonna perceive me? How are, how are the aliens gonna, gonna perceive me? You know, like, what are they going to infer about the life I lived and the kind of person that I was, you know, where my mind wandered? You know, the things I thought about? what I studied? You know, what I dealt with in life? Whatever I've been through?DJ Psyched  10:30  Yeah, that definitely makes sense. And I guess what I'm wondering is then, as a writer, like, do you have any certain goals for yourself? Like, maybe not like in the sense of like, Oh, well, I don't know, in the sense that you like you said, You like to make things that last and are meaningful, do you have any very specific goals? Because I know that you've talked about different writing projects that you worked on? I think you talked about it when we did the podcast together. So is there anything like you would really love to do like, I mean, personally, I read somewhere in a book once, a book I really love, that they said, like writing a book is one of the best things that you could do for yourself and preserving your legacy. Is that something that you also think as a writer, like long bodies of works?Jonah Angeles  11:13  Oh, yeah. 100%. I'm writing a book, fiction science fiction novel. And it's kind of on one level, it's, it's a dystopian, utopian/dystopian, or, as Margaret Atwood would call it Ustpopian novel. But on another level, it's it's kind of a allegorical autobiography, especially Book Three, part three. I don't want to spoil too much, but like, Part Three mirrors a lot of my life. And it gets very real, I guess it gets very personal. Even though the character isn't necessarily me, it's, it's kind of like an avatar for me. And I do have an avatar in the novel, like, one of my main characters, William, William Blue, is essentially, who I would be in that world had I existed in that world that I'm writing in, that I'm writing about in the year 2033. Yeah, he's, he's essentially just... Oh can you hear me?DJ Psyched  12:21  Yeah.Jonah Angeles  12:23  He's essentially just a mirror of me, I guess, but not not. Again, like we said earlier, a partial mirror, not, not a whole reflection of who I am. And he's definitely not one to one, a one to one translation of, of my personality. He's definitely his own being his own character. And he's got his own personality. But I feel like if you were to study this novel, that I'm writing, if you were to analyze it, you'd probably be able to pick out a lot of my life, and, you know, my experiences within the novel. So I think that's just been my goal for a long time is writing is writing this novel? I've been writing it since I was 19. So it's about eight years in the making. And yeah, it's it's kind of like, a mirror of my life, but not really. So an allegorical autobiography, as I said, and yeah, it's a lot about a lot of it is about finding yourself too and figuring it out figuring out this whole life thing in in a larger than life world with larger than life characters. But um, yeah, that's basically the gist of it.DJ Psyched  13:51  Yeah, well, that's awesome. I think I've done very similarly with my writings actually had this weird thing for a while, where every short story I wrote the main character's name started with an L, just because mine does like almost all of my main characters from anything that I wrote, like in college, their name started with an L. And I felt like I always put a part of myself into the characters, I feel like that kind of made them more real to me, and made me resonate with the story more. So I guess what I want to ask you is what would you say you write for? Because personally, when I write, I think my writing becomes one, reflection for myself. Like, I feel like there's so many times that I've started writing and just had grand epiphany is why I stand by writing and I love to write, like, whether I post the writing or not, sometimes I'll just journal to write for myself. So I think like writing for me is like a sense of reflection, but it's also a form of expression and trying to explain myself to others. So what inspired you to start writing and what do you see writing as for you like, what, what is writing to you?Jonah Angeles  14:56  Oh, yeah, I was really well put. I'm going to steal some of your words and say reflection and expression. Because like, yeah, reflection, like through journaling, and through like my own just free writing or like sometimes I do poetry, free writing poetry. It's a way to externalize your thoughts, right? It's a way to look into your, your minds activity, or like, look into the information that's passing through your mind. And processing it in a way where you can reflect on it and even analyze it in a way that's different from just thinking about your thoughts. There's something about writing something down and then actually viewing it from an outsider's perspective or like, even from the audience, an audience perspective. Because really, when you're journaling, you're your own audience, and you're writing for yourself. And, yeah, it's just a way for me to reflect and I guess, better understand myself better better understand the workings of my own mind. It's also on another side it's expression. So it's a way for me to, I guess, express myself as simple as that. No reason to overcomplicate it further than self expression. And creating something beautiful, creating something meaningful, insightful, entertaining. I love to entertain and, I guess, provoke thoughts and provoke feelings or evoke feelings and people evoke feelings of beauty. For me, writing is also about the the artistic, the artistic arrangement of words. I really love, you know, literary authors like Oscar Wilde. Nabokov, like and then poets like William Blake, Edgar Allan Poe, and like, those are just a handful of many, many authors that inspire me to create beautiful language. And there's so many ways language can be beautiful. You can write about you know, love, you can write about nature, you can write about sci fi, or even dark, Gothic, grotesque things, and still make it poetic and beautiful. For me, personally, I like to find the middle ground between poetry and prose. And one of the articles that I posted on medium called Welcome to your life now in Ultra HD, which I had a feeling that you were gonna bring this up anyway. But like that article experiments with like poetic prose with like, short, punchy paragraphs that are, um, you know, like, brevity is the soul of wit, like Oscar Wilde says, so like their brief punchy thoughts that express a lot with very little. And the whole article is a 14 minute read, but it's just full of those punchy thoughts. You know what I mean? And I feel like it makes it more easy to consume too, especially in today's world where the short form is more favored, I guess, you know?DJ Psyched  18:52  Yeah. Jonah Angeles  18:54  And that's why I like to write more like just punchy, punchy sentences, rather than long form paragraphs. But I don't want to pigeonhole myself into that kind of writing either. I do write long paragraphs too. It's just depends on the article and wherever the article needs. And whatever the individual each individual paragraph needs, right? Like to bring it back to the topic though. Writing is just about reflection and artistic expression to me, personal reflection, introspection. And yeah, and then expression, reflection and expression. That's my answer.DJ Psyched  19:41  Yeah, and, I mean, I think that's like what a lot of like art is, is like expression and reflection. So is writing one of like you said, it's like one of your big things, what made  writing so specifically, a thing to focus on. I know you do a lot of things, but you do, you were very passionate. You were very passionate about talking about writing. So I'm wondering, what is it specifically about writing that entices you. And what maybe inspired you to choose writing is something to really focus on?Jonah Angeles  20:13  Um, that's a good question. I've always been a big reader, I've always loved reading. It's one of my first loves my mom used to read to me, and instilled this love of prose and literature, even poetry. But it was more so like books, like storybooks. And works like Harry Potter. Or, you know, Lemony Snickett's a series of unfortunate events.DJ Psyched  20:42  Yeah.Jonah Angeles  20:43  Or, you know, she used to, well, specifically, Harry Potter and children's books like that, like, my mom used to read that to me when I was young. And I just always appreciated the written word. Um, and I've always just wanted to myself write magic into it, like, write like magical words, you know, there's, there's magicto  language, there's like, when you come across a passage that really hits you, there's magic there, you know, that, like a passage, that gives you chills, or this feeling that you just read something that was true, or something that was really resonated, something that really resonated with you,  Or even something that rocks your world, you know, that I get those feelings when I read, like, just really good writing. And I want to I want to be, I want to be responsible for that feeling for invoking that feeling in people. Yeah, I don't know how else to describe it. And I don't know what else to say about that. Because it's, it's very intuitive to me. It's just, it's just in my nature to write. And I guess, yeah. I've always been immersed in literature and stories. And, you know, as much as I love movies, like stories are rooted in oral tradition, right and like, language, stories are rooted in in verbal communication, or just linguistic communication. And yeah, I love telling stories. And making people feel things. Yeah.DJ Psyched  23:03  Definitely. And I think that that is something I think a lot of a lot of writers can say is that it kind of just comes naturally after a while, especially when you have a love for reading originally. So one thing so that part I think, comes naturally to a lot of people too. And one thing I find interesting because when I, when we first like, I don't know, online met, I guess you say when when we met through Reddit and like, ended up like doing these podcasts together. I thought your concept was really interesting and pretty, like relatable. The Overthinker's Anonymous thing, just kind of letting yourself talk about whatever you want kind of making a free flow space. And I see that in your writing you also don't hold yourself back, which was something I really resonated with because like, I agree that having like a niche is really important for a lot of creators, but I personally have a hard time with that too. That's why I create so many different kinds of content. So how how did you go about like, was it easy and natural for you to get that kind of, I guess, concept flowing? Like, was it just like oh, yeah, if I'm going to make something clearly it's going to be very free like this, it's going to be whatever topic I want or did it take you a while to find yourself to where you are now like to come up with the podcast? Do names and stuff come easily to you? Or was this something that you tweaked over time?Jonah Angeles  24:23   Hmm. I love how you shovel on these, you pile on these questions and just spark up these these networks of thought these neural networks in my mind. And now I'm like, experiencing analysis paralysis of where where I'm going to go. This is kind of, this is very on brand for me as an over thinker to just not know where to take the conversation next. But um, can you can you rephrase the question?DJ Psyched  24:59  Yeah, definitely. So, as far as being a creater goes, I think a lot of people yeah, tend to have, do you got an answer? Or do you want me to try and explain it?Jonah Angeles  25:08  Um, I, I feel like it, it's always it has always come naturally to me. Like, just creating just, and not limiting myself to one thing. In terms of names, I feel like names come naturally too, I feel like I just discover my process or my process is one of discovery. I, I tend to find the words, as I write them. And I tend to find stories as I write them, I tend to discover a podcast as I record it, I don't have a set plan, I'm more of a gardener than an architect in terms of like that classic distinction that writers make between like plotting a story and, like, plotting it from, like making blueprints, of where a story is going to go or a roadmap, as opposed to being a gardener and just planting seeds and seeing what sprouts. That's not to say that I don't like planning though I do like to plan, but not to the point where it restricts me because like you said, I, I don't really want to carve out a niche. Because that would feel too restrictive. And I personally just, I personally just want to discover things as they as they happen. Like, it's, it's the spontaneous side of me wanting to, I guess, develop works, without imposing too much expectation, or too much of my desires of what I want a work to be. Because with with my novel, for example, with my medium articles, I might have an idea. But you know, that idea might change or transform or evolve into something else entirely. And I'm not going to stop it from doing that. I like to just, again, discover what a thing is, or what a thing wants to be, it sounds strange, because it's almost like I'm treating it like a living being separate from myself. But to me, that's kind of what it is, on some level. It's kind of like, a child, you know, like, that I'm raising, I'm not going to impose too much of my own expectations on a piece of writing, or on a on a work of a piece of visual art. I'm going to help it develop into what it is, if that makes sense. DJ Psyched  27:57  Yeah. Yeah, that doesn't make a lot of sense. How long, I should have asked this question earlier, actually, how long have you been writing? And on top of that, just so it's not too complicated how long have you been writing? And since you started writing, has there, has there been any big things that you've learned maybe about yourself, or about the craft or anything that maybe you wish you knew back when you started?Jonah Angeles  28:21  Um, I've been writing since I was very young. I guess I've been writing my whole life. I, to be honest with you, because like, as I said, my mom read to me when I was younger, and she'd also write down stories that I tell I orally, just say stories. They'd come to my head, and she'd write them down for me. And we staple them together in little books. And I think it's so awesome but once I was able to start writing, I would do that myself, I just write I'd staple these pages together and write stories. I think I might have been like three or four years old at that time, or whenever, whenever, whatever age it was, where I was capable of writing stuff down with a pen or a pencil. That's when I first started writing stories. But um, so yeah, when I say my whole life, I don't know, I've always I've always been a storyteller. And yeah, I've always done that. For as long as I can remember, I've always written short stories. I, I know in junior high, I developed an obsession with reading short stories, and publishing them online for online communities. I really just grew up in the perfect time to be a writer, you know, I am a child of the internet age, I was born in the 90s so you know, I kind of grew up on the internet, as a lot of people have in this day and age, but I found a writing community, or writing website called Storywrite, I don't know if they still exist, but they were kind of like wattpad before wattpad is I think, Wattpad is like the big, big name now in the community, Like a community based, an online community based on sharing your writing, I might be wrong. There might be another one, out there other than, like, you know, medium and in terms of short stories, like, I feel like wattpad's the main one, am I wrong? I think,DJ Psyched  30:40  No, I think wattpad is the main one.Jonah Angeles  30:42  that's the name that comes to mind when you think of like sharing short stories online, right?DJ Psyched  30:46  Yeah.Jonah Angeles  30:46  I used to write for wattpad, too, when wattpad got big. And, yeah, and I've always just been a writer, and did I answer all of your questions?DJ Psyched  31:00  Well, the the part that I'd really like to focus on at the end of this podcast is kind of what have you learned? Like, is there any lessons anything big that stood out to you?Jonah Angeles  31:09  Okay, and if there's anything that I wish I would have known,DJ Psyched  31:13  yeah.Jonah Angeles  31:14  in the past, um, honestly, I wish I would have implemented a structure like made  more time for writing way back when. But I don't know, it's, it's not that big of a deal now. Because like, I do make time for writing. Now I do sometimes, well, I try to make an effort to, you know, carve out some time in my day for writing. But back, then I didn't have a routine, I didn't have any notion of setting aside time, I guess well, back then at that same time back then I did have more time to write. So it's kind of a moot point at this point. To say that I wanted, I should have made more time for writing when I did have a lot of time for writing and I did spend a lot of time writing, but maybe more of, like, I guess, for people listening to this, who want to get into writing, I think having a routine and carving out time to write, rather than just writing when you feel like writing, which is what I've always done for most of my life, up until recently. Up until the past few years. For me personally, as a writer, it really helps to have time, time out of your day, dedicated just to writing. I also feel the best times to write are, and this is just my personal preference is either when I wake up, or when I'm about to go to bed. So either really early in the morning, or really late at night, because that's when the ideas are more accessible, in my opinion, or even after I meditate. If I could go back in time, I taught myself to meditate more. And try to find ideas through that through meditation, because that silence is the default mode network, right? It takes you out of the default mode network of your everyday mundane way of thinking, and, you know, puts you in a state where you're more open and more, I guess, you attract more ideas. Because I, to bring it back to the idea that these works are kind of like separate beings from you, like I believe I do is are also alive in a sense. And doing things that take you out of your default mode network, like meditation, or even going for a walk, or anything that puts you in a flow state will put you in a mindset for finding fishing out these novel ideas, so to speak.DJ Psyched  34:11  Yeah, that's actually a really good point that you bring up having one like a routine for writing. I think that's something that a lot of people lack, including myself, I definitely have been trying to etch in more writing time because I do think that I used to do the same thing. And I still do a lot of the times like I just write whenever I'm just in the mood, but that kind of can sometimes leave me with periods of time where I'm not writing. And I completely agree on the walking thing. That's actually one of I think, not just walking but finding that time to mentally just be in the writing or just be with yourself and just being out of the chaos of the world because I find that the times that is hardest to write is like during the day like you're completely right if you write during the day, you have all These worries in your head, you got work to think about, there's all there's always chores to do around the house. And it's just there's too much going on. And it's hard to like writing is something you have to be in, you have to be very present in the moment. You can't write and multitask, you can't write when there's other things you're thinking about doing. It has to be in that moment, just writing. And I think, like you said, like a flow state. I think writing is one of the easiest ways to get into a flow state. Because I find that once I actually get myself down, and I start typing out, everything else, it doesn't matter for those few minutes.Jonah Angeles  35:34  Yeah, yeah, it's, it's like, you also have to just let yourself go, you just have to let go. That's a big part of the process is not rereading what you just wrote, and then judging it, because that's something I tend to do, too, is having, like typing out a paragraph and then rereading it, and thinking, Oh, that sounds stupid, why'd I write that? And it's better to just let yourself write until, until you run out of words. And then also, don't judge yourself too harshly for what you wrote. Because it's not like, every word you write, or every sentence you write is going to be gold. That that has, that takes a process to, in order to make something that's in order to make gold when it comes to writing it. It takes a lot of time and effort and energy. But I guess, part of the whole letting yourself go thing is also that ties into the whole discovery aspect of my process is just exploring it, there's an exploratory aspect to that. And just, you know, finding, finding ideas, because they're out there, you know.DJ Psyched  36:56  Yeah. Jonah Angeles  36:56  And, and not criticizing them too much. Because that's when you're overthinking that's that's when the thinking too much. happens when you when you think too much you inhibit yourself from creating gold. It's it's alchemy, really, you know, I guess that's what writing is to me. So I should have said that earlier because that's more dramatic and more, more poetic is to call writing alchemy. DJ Psyched  37:21  Yeah. Jonah Angeles  37:22  Because Yeah, you're, you're really creating gold out of like, the building blocks of reality, which is language.DJ Psyched  37:29  Yeah. Jonah Angeles  37:31  or information. Yeah. DJ Psyched  37:36  Sorry, I just lost my thought.Jonah Angeles  37:38  That's okay.DJ Psyched  37:42  What were you saying? Because I think I can find it again.Jonah Angeles  37:45  Oh, let's find this thought this runaway away thought. alchemy, gold, building blocks of reality, this is very philosophical and metaphysical to say.DJ Psyched  38:01  yeah, what I was gonna say was that, it pertains to something you said a while ago, is like not controlling what you do, but kind of letting it be what it wants to be. I think that the importance to me at least of meditating, or being in a very calm and clear state, when it when creating anything, but especially with writing is that usually, I'll have an idea, right? Just a small idea, a very small idea when I go into writing, I usually don't even try to like have a set title when I start writing. Because if I already deem, what the work is going to be, it's going to sound to forced, what I try to do is just like, have the vague thought, like, what is it that I'm trying to say here? What is it that I'm trying to write, and just start writing and usually, like, I'd say, 99% of the time, when I just let myself write, based on one thought, it'll come out completely different than I envisioned it when I started writing. And it's whenever I try to make a writing too specific like over plan it, that it doesn't end up sounding good to me, or it doesn't end up feeling real. Like it has to be like, when I'm sitting there writing, I'm in such a clear state, and I just let it be, or else I feel like, it just becomes obvious that I overthought the whole piece and the the point, usually, I when I say a concept, I mean, I have just a vague concept. As I'm writing. The epiphany happens, and you can almost see it in my writing that moment where I realized what the point is, because I don't have a word limit or anything. It's not like I ever write and I'm like, Okay, I need to write this many words. I'm just like, I need to write until I get whatever the point is. And I don't know what the point is usually when I start something, but by the end of it, I'm like, Okay, I understand the point. Now my readers can understand the point. This is where it finishes. Do you have any kind of like process like that for your writing that you do or is free handing, like a big part of your process too?Jonah Angeles  39:53  Yeah, definitely. I do like to have titles and overarching concepts and basic direction, a  single direction, at least, or maybe a, let's say, let's say I'm going down a highway. I'd like to be going north, rather than going like North and then going trying West, like I like to stay in one direction and see where that takes me. DJ Psyched  40:22  Yeah. Jonah Angeles  40:24  Or I just switched lanes and try another, try another direction, or switch switch highways maybe. Or this is this whole thing this whole metaphor is infinite. There's so many places you can, you can take your writing and it helps to have structure and constraints. I took a writing class in university, one of my favorite writing classes, actually called story games. And I was gonna shout out my professor Thomas warden. He's dope from the University of Alberta. Yeah, I was a creative writing minor, by the way. Just thought I dropped that piece of information for the listeners. Yeah. Sorry, for the big for the long pause. I'm realizing that your listeners don't know a thing about me. So yeah, I graduated from University of Florida with a psych degree, major in psych and minor in creative writing. And I took a class called story games. And that class is all about writing within constraints, and within certain sets of rules. So what was the name of the, the the Ulipo? Hold on the Ulipo I think I'm butchering the pronunciation, but it's a it was a, this was a gathering of French speaking writers. In a university. I don't know if they were, I don't know if they were they were based but um, Oh, is it the college? The pata physic, it's a French college, it was a subcommittee called Ulipo. Kind of like a student group, I guess. And they practice writing within constraints and different structures and just ways, ways in which you can, like, I guess, restrict yourself as a writer, in order to create because if you if you have no restrictions, and you're just totally free to write about whatever you want, it can be difficult to settle in on or to hone in on on a one overarching theme or idea or direction or point. But if you have, if you write within a certain set of rules, or a certain structure or a certain technique, maybe like to give you an example. Maybe maybe you want to write from the perspective of,  of an animal, or, you know, first person like you, as a writer, you have certain narrative modes, right and points of view, you can view those as constraints. But like, you can even take it a step further by, you know, writing of a constraint, they're constraints. Here, I'm looking on the Wikipedia page, s plus seven or sometimes called n plus seven. So you replace every noun in the text with the seventh noun after it in a dictionary. So for example, call me Ishmael, some years ago, becomes call me Islander, some yeggs ago. Y E G G S. Interesting. So this is obviously like a game you can play with your writing. But that can lead into maybe a new story idea, or you know what I mean? There's also, one of the techniques I used was using tarot cards to plot out a story. And you don't have to, like, necessarily write about save. Maybe you drew, you know, seven of pentacles. You don't have to write about like Pentacles or seven. You can maybe write about a night or a character who found like, seven, sometimes seven items or like seven macguffins. And went to, I don't know, a hotel, or what, a space station or I don't know you can there's so many sources of information around you. You know what I mean? And I guess one of the if you're to take away any, anything from this rambling it's that ideas are all around us. And if you restrict yourself with certain rules, you're able to better allow those ideas to flourish maybe. Does that make sense?DJ Psyched  45:26  Yeah.Jonah Angeles  45:28   Yeah, please cut that. Please edit that down. Totally, totally lost my train of thought as I was speaking. And yeah, but it's hard to explain without concrete examples. But like, even even rhymes, rhymes are a form of constraint. And you can choose a certain rhyming pattern or even like Shakespeare's use of what's it called, Iambic parameter. That's another example of a constraint about what you said about titles, I think titles are a good way to add limitations to what you want to write. And I guess, there could be a delicate balance there of like, not restricting yourself too much with a title because the title is obviously going to influence what you're writing about. And I, I come from, like, I guess where we differ, I come from the standpoint of liking to work with titles and finding the story from the title. But at the same time, I do like the other way around to where you don't have a title and you find the title after you write the piece. Yeah. But if I'm doing it the first way, where I have a title, and I'm finding the piece with the title in mind, that title isn't concrete, it can be subject to change, too.DJ Psyched  47:03  Yeah. And, and that's kind of what I meant more. So it's not like I don't ever have any title when I start writing. But whenever I write, I put a title down that I know I'm not going to keep because I think the title is going to be influenced by what ends up happening in this, in whatever I'm writing, because there have been times where I like I have a title, and then the concept is in it. And when I finish, either there's some phrase that really stands out to me in it, or some concept that really pushes through and I'm like, okay, the title will reflect the piece better if I change the title at that point. So I understand what you're saying. Because I mean, if I were to just sit there and write and just be like freehand absolutely no concept, I think none of the blog posts, I make whatever makes sense. But having like, certain limitations, and I think that's where the concept of like a niche or like, for me, I guess I like to think of it as, like a fluid genre when I write, because there are like, certain topics that I like to speak on. Like, I think, for me, personally, nonfiction is a big thing, because I'd like talking about growth and topics in life. But I think what's what's important to me is not to restrict myself from allowing myself to bring other things in. Because I think, while having one concept is, is vital, honestly, for writing, because if you go too many places, your piece isn't going to make sense. And it's going to be harder to enjoy while reading it. There's got to be like that one central theme. But what I like to think of it as if we're going to use the highway analogy is like, you've got a highway you're riding on, but you still want like pretty scenery around that highway.Jonah Angeles  48:36  Yeah. True. I like that. I like that. And you want you want the ride to be exciting. Yeah, to and you don't want it to be predictable.DJ Psyched  48:49  Yeah, and I think like with this analogy, to me, the most essential thing is that one, the story starts somewhere, right? You got to get in the car at some point and then go down the highway and there's got to be a destination because I think the biggest problem I had when I first started writing is that I never really stopped the car anywhere. It's just like, the highway ended and the car never stopped. So it feels like the ride has to stop you know, like it doesn't make sense to go on a road trip with no end.Jonah Angeles  49:16  Right. Makes sense. Yeah, I really like that. DJ Psyched  49:23  So I guess my last big question that I want for you is do you have any like Golden Nugget I guess something vital you'd want people to take away from this. Maybe something about you or something about writing you know, I'm gonna give you free rein to go wherever you want with this.Jonah Angeles  49:44  Okay, well, as I mentioned, I do want to bring up that no death no fear book by Thich Naht HanhDJ Psyched  49:51  Yeah. Jonah Angeles  49:53  Who is a famous for writing about meditation and Zen and Buddhism. And, yeah, I think one of the passages I was reading, right before this interview was how, in order for certain flowers to blossom, during the season, the conditions had to be right. And that's kind of like a metaphor for a lot of things to me, not just life. But for writing, like you got to have, the conditions have to be right. And there's a lot that you can control in relation to that in relation to putting yourself in the right writing mindset, or, you know, doing what you can in order to arrange the conditions in order to make the stars align, so that your writing can be it's best, I guess, to put out your best work, and I think what I've learned is the best writing. Or the best times, for me to write is when I'm actively living my life. And I know it's hard to live your life, quote, unquote, during a pandemic, but for me, the the right conditions of writing is for when I'm, you know, live having experiences that inspire me, or talking to people that inspire me, or going places that, you know, challenged my, my everyday perceptions, or my everyday, my default mode network that, you know, places that put me in a flow state places that show me new things that give me new experiences. I don't know when I'm, when I'm having the time of my life, when I'm falling in love, or when I'm getting my heart broken. You know, that's when I get a lot of really good material. For good art, is when I'm, you know, living my life, I guess it's the best way for me to put it. It's the most general way for me to put it and I know it's very abstract. ButDJ Psyched  52:11  yeah,Jonah Angeles  52:11  that's, that's when the right conditions are, one of the right conditions for good writing. and good material is when I'm living my life, and I'm not holding myself back from living. I have to gain experiences in order to transmit those experiences into my work. Because if I'm just sitting on my ass, like in my room, or in my workspace, trying to come up with ideas, staring at a blank page. Well, you know, there's only so much I can pull from if I'm not living my life, you know what I mean?DJ Psyched  52:47  Yeah, I completely, completely agree. I think that is where all the best art comes from, when you're living, truly living and experiencing and making the art afterwards. You know, like, letting that be a guide for creating because I mean, art is a reflection of life, life is a reflection of art, yada, yada, but, but I think it's important to live and experience. I think that's where the best art comes from, I think it'd be impossible, honestly, in my opinion, to create if there wasn't anything you're going through, because I mean, everything I create, and I think any creator who's doing it because they love it, and is not doing it as a motivation of money or something. The reason you do it is because you're you want to create something relevant, something that you can relate to something other people can relate to. And you can only make something relevant if you're living.Jonah Angeles  53:39  Yeah, the human experience, right? We're all pulling from the human experience. Assuming that you're human and listening to this, if you're an animal or an alien, I guess you can write about the animal or the alien experience, too. But um, yeah, like, in order to, to plant seeds in your writing, you need to have the seeds planted in you. Does that make sense? That, it's kind of weird metaphor.DJ Psyched  54:05  Yeah,Jonah Angeles  54:06  I have the image of like, flowers sprouting up for my ears. And, you know, my, my nostrils and whatever orifice you want to name put. DJ Psyched  54:17  That would make a cool photo. Jonah Angeles  54:19  That'd be an interesting photo. Yeah, that's a good idea. I have to write that down for later. But yeah, in order to write about life, you had to live your life. Because that's what's interesting. That's what's that's what people like to read is, you know, they like to see themselves. People like to see themselves in what they read in the characters that they read. Or they like to relate to what they read. And I mean, or I do personally. DJ Psyched  54:51  Yeah. Jonah Angeles  54:53  That's where I, where I experienced firsthand is when I read something that resonates with me that I feel like I have experienced that too. Or I feel like I can put myself in this character's shoes or this narrator shoes and really understand what they meant, or what what the writer meant when they wrote that thing. Because a lot of the time, like good writing speaks about things that are universal, or things that are commonly experienced by humans. And as far as I know, it's just us humans who make literature, but maybe I'm being ignorant.DJ Psyched  55:33  Completely agree. Well, yeah. Thank you for all of that. Jonah Angeles  55:40  Yeah, thank you. Thank you. You're welcome.DJ Psyched  55:43  For Sure.Jonah Angeles  55:43  Thank you. Thank you for having me. And thank you for sharing your that we share too.DJ Psyched  55:53  All right. Well, yeah, I guess our main following the, I guess, metaphor of the podcast we did on your page, which I want to let you get, have a moment if you'd like to just shout out that podcast again. So everyone knows where they can find you after this?Jonah Angeles  56:09  Yeah, that podcast is called Overthinker's Anonymous. It's available on Spotify and anchor and wherever you get your podcasts, I think, except for except for Apple podcasts, but I could be wrong. I think it might actually be on Apple podcast. just haven't haven't checked. Yeah, don't quote me on that. Yeah.DJ Psyched  56:32  All right. Well, thank you again for being on again. And stay psychedJonah Angeles  56:39  Stay psyched. DJ Psyched  56:40  Thank you so much for listening. The intro and outro beat us on this podcast was made by my friend and producer PME. He's super talented, so make sure to check him out. His links are always in the description. And as always, let me know what you're getting psyched about. I do this podcast because I think getting psyched is done best when we do it together. So please let me know and until next time, stay psyched.

Mentioned in this Episode: Find Pat Danger Everywhere: https://linktr.ee/patdanger To learn more about the Get Psyched Mission:You can Get Psyched on...InstagramTwitterFacebookYoutubeCheck out my friend and fellow creator PME On Spotify(Producer PME has given me permission to use his beat '300k' as the Get Psyched intro/outro beat)EPISODE TRANSCRIPT :(provided by Otter.ai)DJ Psyched  0:07  I'm DJ Psyched and you're listening to the Get Psyched podcast. Let's Get Psyched together.I'm DJ Psyched, you're listening to the Get Psyched podcast. And today we're getting psyched again with Pat danger. And we've done an episode together before on this podcast. So if you haven't listened to that, you should go back and give it a listen. But for anyone who's new to this podcast and to Pat, can you, Pat, introduce yourself?Pat Danger  0:33  What's up, guys? Um, I go by Pat danger. I'm an artist. I'm, um, I don't even know what sound would you say? Um, I think it changes depending on the day, honestly.DJ Psyched  0:44  Yeah. I think generally, it's like you would say like, maybe hip hop, r&b type rap vibes.Pat Danger  0:51  Yeah, for sure. I would say like, I don't know. I've been thinking about this lately, too. I think maybe like, alternative hip hop. Kinda cuz I do get like kind of experimental and do like some weird pop punk shit. Can I curse on here?DJ Psyched  1:05  Yeah. Pat Danger  1:06  All right. i'm gonna curse a lot. Um, so yeah, I'm Pat danger. I'm an artist. I'm from New Jersey. Right now. I'm living in the Catskills. I live in like the middle of the woods. You can't see today because it's cloudy. But I like there's a mountain in the backyard. I'm like, deep in the woods. Like I'm in like the sticks. But I love it up here. I live up here by myself. I just make a lot of music. I know last time I was on here, I probably promised you guys I was making a song every week. But honestly, at this point, I'm making like at least a song a day two songs a day. So I fulfilled that promise to some extent.DJ Psyched  1:41  Yeah, and I'm actually really interested in that. Like, I remember you saying that your whole situation had kind of changed now you're living at this place and you're making music is that like full time venture now because you were in school and working Last time we talked like what what's changed about your life.Pat Danger  1:57  So I think the last time we talked, I was working full time, I was a full time student. And music was more like I've always been super super into music. But I think at that point, music, I have to say that like music was honestly just like a hobby at that point. Like I was working on it. But it wasn't like my main thing. Because between work school, like balancing friends and all that kind of stuff, I had like very, very little time for music. And that's actually one of the reasons I quit my job. Because my schedule was, it's horrible. It was literally I woke up at 4am, I would make breakfast be at the gym at five, I would work from five to 630 I mean, sorry, workout from five to 630, I'd get back to my house, just enough time to shower and like grab a snack or whatever, go to work from seven to 330. By the time I got home, it's 4pm. And my classes started six. So by the time I got home, it's 4pm. By the time I shower and make some food, it's like 545. And my classes are from six to nine. And then I would just go to bed immediately after. So at that point, music was like, it was like the fifth thing I was working on. Like it would be like, oh, now it's just like Pat danger artist, right? That's the first thing before it was like Pat danger guy who works right? Then it's like, Pat danger guy who's in school, then it's like Pat danger goes, whatever. And then it was like down here would be music. And now I can honestly say music is like up here. So I quit my job. My job sucked. It really did. And like the people they were horrible, and like, I don't even want to get into that because that could be like a whole episode itself. But these guys were just like, whatever, I hated it there had no time for myself. So saved up a bunch of money. I quit my job. And I moved up here. My parents have this place in the mountains. They bought this place in the 1970s. And they bought it for like $70,000 They told me, which is for a house. That's nothing. That's how much people buy cars for. So this house is like all paid off. I redid almost everything in here. I'm very handy. Now I just work on music full time. I want to say at this point, besides when I have schoolwork because I am still in school. I'm in my last semester. Honestly, at this point, I work on music, like 15, 16 hours a day.DJ Psyched  4:12  Oh, nice. Wow, you just answered my next question. So I was like, Well, how did you do that? How did you manage to push yourself out to be able to create music full time. But that's awesome. Actually, that's that's a really cool thing that you were able to do. Was it ever like I'm curious, was there ever like a mindset thing where you're kind of maybe worried to quit your job or unsure of it? Or was it just like I'm out of this music is my thing. I'm rolling with it? Like what got you to that point where you're like, I'm ready to leave work to make this my like, thing?Pat Danger  4:41  Um, so there are two things one, again, I don't really I don't want to get into it too much. But there was like, a racist incident at work. And it wasn't with me. It actually had nothing to do with me. But it was one of my like, very, very close friends there. It was some dude who lived in Africa and then he moved here like a year and a half ago. I was very close with him. He was very cool and like some crazy shit went down, where if it happened at any other place, there would literally be a lawsuit. And I tried to convince him to like, not do a lawsuit but like to talk to someone. But he's like the nicest. He's like a monk. He's the nicest guy in the world. He's like, No, I don't want to problems with anybody. But basically, after that, it went downhill pretty quick. Because I'm like, I cannot work for somebody who would allow this, let alone be around people who are like this. So that was a big step. And to answer your other question. Like, how did I know I was ready to do it? I really wasn't. When I went in, I, when I went in, I was like, to tell my boss, I was quitting. I honestly, it was, like, super shaky. My voice was like, like, I had like, a mini panic attack. But um, I kind of just had to force myself to do it. And then again, you get those questions, because I was like, well liked, there and I was cool with almost everyone. So when I was leaving, they're like, oh, like, you know, what are you doing? Which I hate that question in the first place. But it's like, you know, I had to, they're like, Oh, you found another job, whatever. Like, that's fine. I'm like, no, not exactly. So I told him, I was focusing on school, I made up some, I made up some shit where I was like, Yo, I'm failing out of my classes, I really, which is not true. And I'm like, Yo, I gotta really focus on school, I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to leave. And even during that, like when I put it, I did it the right way. I put in my two weeks, but even during those two weeks, I was like, I was like, doubting myself so much. I'm like, fuck did I make the right decision. I quit like a pretty decent, well paying job. And it's easy, whatever. But um, and then even when I got up here, when I like, I live here by myself. So there's no one else here. And I'm not really used to one living by myself to living by myself where like, the closest friend is three hours away. So my first couple of nights up here, super creepy. First off, I'm like, in the middle of the woods, every little crack or whatever I would be like, the fuck was that? Then I got used to it. And like, after that first initial couple of days, I knew I made the right decision.DJ Psyched  7:08  Yeah, that's interesting that it was like, like, it wasn't exactly fully your choice. It just was something you felt like you'd had to do. But that it's working out for you. Would you say that now that you're kind of in it because like, I've been getting your music, and I've been seeing the stuff you're posting, you're doing a good job. So do you feel like maybe even though it wasn't planned, it worked in your favor, and it was kind of I don't wanna use the word destiny with that, like, it was a push, maybe that you wanted to happen. So like, on some level, are you like, I'm glad this happened?Pat Danger  7:41  Yes, I'm 1,000,000%. I'm so glad it happened. Now that I'm working on music full time. I honestly can't even imagine going back to like that job. First off, but almost any sort of job, which is like, I don't know, I've been working my whole life, I got my first job when I was 14. This is the first time I've ever been like unemployed. So it was definitely weird. And like a really rough transition, because I'm usually the type of person where like, I at least have one job. A lot of the times I've been working like two jobs while going to school and all that stuff, too. But um, now that I'm like living this kind of lifestyle, it's, uh, it's cool. I don't know. Yeah, I love it. I can't even imagine it any other way now?DJ Psyched  8:22  Yeah, I find that really admirable, because I'm kind of not in the same position. But slightly similar in the fact that I just left a really good paying full time job, just because it wasn't, it wasn't quite working out for me. And I felt like I wasn't able to do things that I needed to do in my life. And I'm kind of in that gray area where I'm like, oh, wow, that was a decision to make, because now I need to find something else to do some other way to make money. But, yeah, I think that is something that I think a lot of creators kind of feel worried about. I think what the most interesting point you made was that you said that you kind of had to make makeup what you told other people, you have like a fear of judgment of what people would think of you if you went to pursue music full time, or is it just maybe you're not ready to say that you're doing music as your full time thing?Pat Danger  9:13  I think one, I feel like I just as a person, I always have like a fear of judgment. I don't know. And that's just a character flaw, right? But I'm actually most of most people who actually listen to my music, like fans, whatever. They're all almost all people I met on the internet. A lot of my friends don't even know I make music at all, let alone I'm like doing it to the extent I'm doing it. But that's just also comes back to the fact I'm like a very, like closed person, which is something I'm trying to work on too. Like, I just started showing my parents my music, and they kind of like stumbled upon it. It wasn't even like I was like, Hey, I made the song. It was like my dad, like made a Tik Tok or something. And he's like, Oh, you know, maybe I'll add you like Yeah, go ahead. And he added me and he's like, oh, like, this is pretty good. Is this your song? I'm like, yeah, you know, Now it's kind of like that whole conversation. But yeah, a lot of my friends don't know I'm making music, a handful of very close friends do. And they're like, super supportive. Like I show my cousin my music. And he was also a big reason why I left my job too, because he worked at the same place. And he hates it too. And he's looking for a new job. But he was kind of like, sat me down. And he's always said this over the years, like, since I started making music, he's like, bro, you got some talent, like, you need to do something with this. And like, I was always just kind of like, yeah, cool, cool. And like, he saw that I wasn't putting my full effort into it, just like I told you before. It was like my fifth thing on my list. And he kind of just sat me down. And he was like, Listen, dude. He's not even a hip hop guy, either. By the way, he's like, super super rock'n'roll. And he usually hates hip hop. He was sat me down, and he was like, Listen, dude, I'm going to tell you this. Like, I want to have a serious talk. I know, I tell you this all the time. But like, this is the talk that's going to do it for you. Like, you have a talent. I can picture you like your music blowing up you helping millions of people reaching millions of ears, whatever. It was like, dude, I wouldn't be telling you this, if it was just okay. He was like, the scary thing about your music is it's like amazing, which is, you know, he basically told me, I'm not reaching my full potential, and that I should do it full time.DJ Psyched  11:13  Yeah, well, I agree. I mean, like, I'm not just saying it because we're friends. I mean, I really do listen to your music. Like I listen to any other artists I listen to, you know, it's not like I just listened to it. Like, oh, Pat wants me to listen to a song like it's, it's good music. So I think that's really awesome that you were able to take that step and to do this with your music. So I'm, I'm wondering, you don't have to share any details. You don't want to but is there, what are you working on right now? And what do you have any goals in mind? Are you just kind of trying it out since you're still in school?Pat Danger  11:47  Um, first off, thank you so much for listening. I know that you're like, so my SoundCloud, you're still like the so I have like a SoundCloud stats thing on my phone, right? It just tells me like all the thing I saw, like it said that you listened like 800 times or something. Which is crazy, and so fucking cool and awesome. And like, it's, you're always like the top like listener, top follower, or whatever. So like, that's how I know you're not just like, you know, it's good, whatever. That's something I don't like to like, sometimes I'll share my music. And that's another reason why I don't really show my friends too much. You have to, like, really appreciate music to, like, I don't know what I'm trying to say you have to, like really appreciate music to appreciate other people's music in a sense, like, when I show you my music, you take the time to listen to it, and you listen to it multiple times. And like, I know, you're actually listening. A lot of the times I'll show my friends and like, not that I really like, I don't have like a big ego or anything, but like they'll talk during the song or some shit and like, they don't really, you know, give a fuck and just be like, Oh, you know, that was good. And that's like the end of the conversation. What was the question? Oh, what, what I'm working on next. So I'm trying to, I'm trying to get in on Twitch. First off, I've been like, so a lot of things, the things I've been doing is I live stream, beginning to finish of me making a song, which is something I've been doing a lot, like have nothing written down, literally the complete process. So like some of these videos are like eight hours long, and like, I'll have like one or two viewers or something 2 viewers. But I want to get into twitch more, not only promoting my music, but also listening to other people's music. I just found out you can do like a feedback. Um, I don't even know what the terminology is. You do like a feedback video chat thing where I post like, yo, put your links and I'll listen to it or whatever. So I was doing that last night. I like discovered some new people, which is cool. I like listened to them gave them any critiques I thought of or you know, told him it was good. And even that alone from last night. It's like I added a couple people on Instagram and stuff and they want to collab. So I think that's cool. Another thing I'm working on is I really just want to collab with people and like small artists specifically. I posted on my tik tok a bunch. I'm like trying to give away verses but like, it's not like reaching the right people. I'm like, dude, you don't have to pay me One, two, I'll mix and master everything for us. I will get you the verse Just give me a beat and the subject or whatever. So I'm kind of just trying to put out as much music as possible. I'm down to collab with literally anybody on like any type of thing. And I'm also trying to transition from SoundCloud to Spotify. That's a big thing for me. So I've always been like a SoundCloud guy. But now I'm trying to actually put my music on Spotify, which is good, because I think in the first I've been you know, up here a couple weeks, whatever, even in the first couple weeks I went from six monthly listeners on Spotify, I'm up to like 330 now which is cool as fuck, you know what I mean? Yeah, that's, that's basically it.DJ Psyched  14:53  Okay, nice. And so, having gone from because I remember when we first met when we first met, you had just started making music. And now you're, you're going hard at it and you've made a lot of music. And I've seen like just listening to your music, I can see you progress in a lot of different ways. I mean, your music has always been good, but like you can even just hear it in like, the vocals like your voice sounds a little bit more comfortable and flowy on certain tracks. What do you think, like are the biggest things you've learned about songwriting, or let's start with songwriting? What is the biggest thing you've learned about songwriting since you started?Pat Danger  15:29  First off, thank you. I didn't want to interrupt you. Two, I think I was talking to this kid. So I like when I was doing one of these live streams of me making a song. Some kid came on, and he watched the entire thing, like this dude, watch, like six hours. And he was like instant fan like, he DM'ed me on Instagram. He wants to watch this podcast episode when it comes out. Like, it's cool. It's cool as fuck. But he was telling me he wanted to get into music. And he was like, dude, you're so good. Like, I can't even picture like what I would sound like. I'm like, I should play him a couple of my first songs. First off, I'm like, dude, listen to how bad this shit is please. And like, it's not even shit that's on SoundCloud. It's so bad that like, I went back and took it down because it was horrible. So I showed him that and he's like, that's you? I'm like, yeah. But I explained to him, and I was in the same boat when I first started making music. And it's definitely less now. I feel like you just you literally just need to do it. Like, I remember I like wanted to do an album. And I'm like, Oh, I wrote like a bunch of songs. And I'm like, now these aren't good. These aren't good. These aren't good. Like, you're not gonna make like a my beautiful, dark, Twisted Fantasy for your first fucking album. And you're also not even gonna have good songs for your first album. I saw something that I think it was Dave Grohl said they're like, yo, how did Nirvana come about? He was like, we played in a garage, and we sucked. And then we played for another year, and we still suck, we play for another year, and we got a little better, a little better, a little better. Like, everyone starts off bad. And just what you think is bad doesn't mean someone else does, you know, some of my worst shit, like people like. So I think it's I think it's literally just about doing it. And not trying to be too much of a perfectionist. Which is hard for a lot of people, including myself.DJ Psyched  17:11  Yeah, yeah, that's a great point to bring up. Because it doesn't matter what you're doing, whether it's making music or anything else in the creative world, like it does, it always starts off bad. You go back to my first few episodes, this podcast, and I'm pretty sure our episode together includes to be like, one of them is just, my editing is cringy. Like, it's hard to listen to. Like I don't listen to those episodes, because I wouldn't even be able to listen to it. I cut out way too much stuff. It doesn't sound like a conversation, I tried to get rid of every um, and it just makes it sound like so choppy. But you learn these things by doing them. If I would have just sat in my room and been like, Oh, well, I don't even know how to edit a podcast, I would have never started it. And I wouldn't be where like I am now either. And it's not like I'm saying, my podcast, the best thing ever, but you'll never improve until you start. You know, I think that's a great point to make. Because so many people tell me they're like, oh, but when you create things, you look so natural, I wouldn't look natural in front of a camera. I was like, I wouldn't have either. That's why I didn't start in front of a camera. Like just just start somewhere start where you're comfortable. And move, move on from there. I think that's a great advice to give. So you also have changed the way you were making music because I remember when we first started talking, you were mostly like working on the lyrics. And just doing that aspect of things and having other people do the mixing and mastering and all that side of your process now that you do it all yourself, how has that changed the way that you make music and the way that you view it?Pat Danger  18:37  So it's kind of like a similar thing. We were talking about you with your podcast and me when I like first started making music. I like just started mixing and mastering my shit like in the last couple of weeks, and I had I knew nothing about it. I just watched hella YouTube tutorials and you know, try to get better. I'm still trying to get better. And I could definitely stand for a lot of improvement. But it's it's the same kind of thing where I just had to do it over and over and over again and see what sounds good and see what doesn't sound good? Yeah,DJ Psyched  19:08  yeah. Has it changed? Like, the way you make music? Like just Pat Danger  19:12  Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot the question. DJ Psyched  19:13  Yeah. No your good.Pat Danger  19:18  Yeah, so the way I make music definitely changed. One because I mix and master my own stuff and record it myself. I a lot of the times most of my songs before the last month that I got up here, I would have to record at like a friend's house, a studio, whatever. Or I would record in my house with like a Blue Yeti. And like, my parents like upstairs sleeping Plus, I didn't want them to hear me. So I literally be like in the mic like this making the song. Now that I mix and master myself, it's cool because I don't have to wait for anybody. That's one thing I didn't like about having other people involved just because I had to wait for them. DJ Psyched  19:52  Yeah, that's an advantage I guess I never thought of because it is easier when you have control of the whole process. Do you see yourself I'm just curious. As far as making music, do you see yourself always wanting to do every aspect of the process? Or has there been like one side that you're more interested in? Because you talk about collabing a lot. So like, do you see yourself as a lyricist? As somebody who wants to get into the mixing and mastering or producer? Like, is there a specific thing? Or are you just like making music you're not quite sure yet?Pat Danger  20:20  Um, my favorite part is literally just making the music I mix and master it just for convenience sake, I don't really have a passion for it. I don't mind doing it. But like, it's nice when you mix and some master stuff only because it's your ear listening, you know how you want yourself to sound. And a lot of the times I'd be at the studio or whatever, and I just wouldn't know how to put into words how I wanted to sound. But now I don't have to put it into words. I'm like, no this sounds good. No, this doesn't. So there's that and forgot the question again. I'm sorry.DJ Psyched  20:55  Great point. I forgot the question too, to be honest. But I bet that answered most of it.Pat Danger  21:02  Oh, my favorite aspect. DJ Psyched  21:03  Okay. Yeah. Pat Danger  21:04  So I really don't care about mixing and mastering that much. It's something I do for convenience sake, but I'm never gonna have a passion for it. But besides that, I don't also like, I don't really like marketing, to be honest. Like, you know what I mean, I don't like, I'm not like a huge social media guy in general, I think my last Instagram post on my actual page is like, probably three or four years old. I don't really enjoy making tik toks that much, but I do it just so more people see the music. So that's like one of my I would say probably least favorite parts. But I do it. But it's weird, because I don't like marketing. But I love interacting with people. Like specifically like music, whatever. Like when I get on Twitch, and I'm talking to people, and they're watching my process, or I'm watching them, whatever. I love that kind of stuff. But that's not really marketing that's just connecting with people. Which I like a lot. But my favorite part is just making the songs. I really like it. I love jamming out with people. I went to like a my friend's house a couple days ago, when I was back in New Jersey and a couple guys that I haven't met before. They love music to. guy breaks out like a guitar. We're just like jamming or whatever. I love that kind of stuff. I love like the creative process of it, I would say.DJ Psyched  22:14  Yeah, yeah. And I completely agree on the marketing thing. I think a lot of creators are that way. Like, it's not like, marketing is pretty annoying, because it takes time out of your process. And for me personally, I kind of feel weird a lot of times when I do it because I feel like it's hard for me to like, let's say I write a blog post. I really love that blog post. I'm like, wow, this means a lot to me. It's so hard for me to convey that in a post without it being just like weird to me, like, you know?Pat Danger  22:42  I understand completely what you're saying. And I've been looking at like marketing tactics, and all this kind of stuff, which is why I'm trying to do that presave thing. But a lot of the times when I post stuff like, I don't, I don't want to have to like sell it almost and you kind of have to sell it like a lot of the songs I post I literally just put like, new song out now. Which is like, it's not. It's not a smart idea to do, like, marketing wise, but I don't want to be like, you know, I was really sad when I wrote this song. And that's what, I don't want to talk about that I just want to be like, yo, here's my music. Listen. So if it ever gets to the point where I could just, if I could just spend all day making music and someone else handles the rest I would true. I would love that.DJ Psyched  23:22  Yeah, yeah, no, I feel that that's actually my job that I just left I did marketing for someone who had like, made content. And it was just it kind of is what opened my eyes up to the fact that I don't like marketing, either. I think I understand what you're saying about liking, connecting people, but not marketing. Because the reason I do it, the reason I post anything that I create onto social media platforms and stuff is because I do want people who want to see it to see it. You know, like there are people out there who want to listen to your music. There's people out there who want to listen to certain podcasts or read certain blog posts, but they won't find the stuff unless you put it out there in some kind of format. So like in one aspect, I like being able to like, share my stuff with people who will like it, but I just don't like the part of marketing where it's it's so competitive and hard these days. Like the fact that there is a tactic like I love just uploading and saying new blog post up. But when I was doing that, not a soul cared. No one liked the post, no one interacted everyone was just like, I don't care about your blog. I literally feel like like, and this is just as a creator, this annoys the life out of me. I feel like I have to hide the fact that it's a blog or a podcast at the end because people will not look for even a second if they think that you're you want them to see something you've done. And I mean, fair enough, everyone's doing stuff but I also from like a creator standpoint, I just think it's so shallow because so many people who are like your friends, quote unquote, don't want to see what you're doing. They don't care what you're doing. And like if you were to say like started off with Oh, I wrote a blog. They tune out immediately because they want to consume some random content that they don't know that person at all. But your content, they won't give it the time of day.Pat Danger  25:04  That's like, yeah, so you bring up a lot of good points. That's another reason why I don't really share my music with like, just anybody because one I don't want to come off as pushy. Two. They don't want to hear it. Like my biggest responses have literally been from people I don't met, which is weird, right? It's ironic, you'd think like, your best friends and all your friends would love to hear your stuff, but like, not really, honestly. But like people who I don't know at all, like, go crazy for that shit. So it's like weird, but whatever it you know, if you don't wanna listen, you don't have to listen. I don't care. And two, back to the marketing thing. Yeah, it's like hard. It's like, I don't know, it's like, you could either. It's hard because, you know, you can make like, some super like clickbaity, like bullshit, like super cheesy thing. And you know, that might blow up. But I don't want it to be like that. You shouldn't, I don't think you should have to, like, put all these gimmicks and tactics into it, even though that like stuff might help.DJ Psyched  25:55  Yeah, I completely agree. And that's like, as somebody who makes YouTube videos, that is something I don't like, and I don't do, like I refuse to make clickbait Even if my title is boring as hell, like, I'm not gonna tell you that it's something that it's not because, I mean, I don't get a whole bunch of watches, but I do get some. And if I can, like, organically get people to enjoy my content, truly enjoy it and truly watch it for what it's there for. I'll feel better than if like, I don't know, let's say 10,000 people watched it. But they were just watching it for something that it wasn't or they liked me, quote, unquote, for something that I'm not.Pat Danger  26:30  I couldn't, I couldn't agree more. That's why I'm glad everything I did music wise, it's all been organically, I couldn't pay, I couldn't pay for someone to like, get a shit ton of views on my Spotify, right? So it looks like I have 200,000 right, no I have 300. But the 300 who are listening are like actually listening. They're hearing what I'm saying, which is cool. So I rather grow organically like that, then like you were saying, I don't want I don't want my song to have 100,000 views, if everyone just doesn't understand what I'm talking about, or you know, doesn't actually appreciate it or like it.DJ Psyched  26:59  Yeah, yeah. And that's why, like, I just tried to focus it on the like, I guess, being grateful for what I do have aspect because whenever I do post something, let's say like, I don't know, I know, I know, for a fact that half not even half 90% of the people who follow me on Instagram and like anything that I post, do not listen to my podcast. And have never read a blog post of mine. Like, I know that. But whenever somebody messages me and says, like, they'll say something specific, like I like today's blog posts, like I can relate to x, it feels so good. Like they actually read it. Like they're not just saying, Oh, I read your post, or, you know, they actually took the time to enjoy what you were doing. And that feels so much better. Because I don't I don't create for numbers. First of all, I don't make any money off of this. So that wouldn't do anything for me. But it's like, it's more fulfilling to know that the reason you put something out there, it's actually reaching that purpose.Pat Danger  27:49  I totally agree. And I think it is very important to be grateful for whatever, you know, you do have like, dude, I'm so frickin grateful even just for the 300 followers. Like, I think that's incredible. You know, I mean, like, you would think that I have like 3 million the way I like react to it. You know, I'm cool with that. Yeah, I'm making music like for myself, first off, and then two for, I don't know, people who actually want to hear.DJ Psyched  28:10  Yeah, I completely. I completely agree. I got so excited before we started this because I haven't checked my YouTube in quite a while because I haven't put a video up. But I have 35 subscribers now, which is five more than the last time I checked. So I was like, wow, 35 people are watching.Pat Danger  28:26  Yeah, see, that's good. That's cool. You know what I mean? You're like me, like 35 you get hype for it. And some people will be like, Oh, I only got like 200,000 new followers today, whatever. You know.DJ Psyched  28:37  Yeah, yeah. And I guess for me, like I try to keep the mindset very clear, because something that I've been noticing a lot lately, and the only reason I follow this kind of news is because I like to think of it as like a cautionary tale. When people start to climb, when people start to get bigger, that's when they corrupt. That's when the art changes. And that's when things go downhill. And so I feel like it's important that while you're still smaller and still working on things that you work on your relationship with your creation, because so many people go into it pure hearted, and then they're on the news for doing something that they had no business doing, because they just thought they were all powerful.Pat Danger  29:14  I totally agree. It's funny, I was actually I was showing my cousin, someone who's like famous. He's an artist, whatever. I basically had the same conversation with him. I showed him some of the guys old music. He's like, Dude, this is incredible. I was like, I know, it's incredible. But this guy sold out. Let me show you his newest music. I showed him this newest music and he's like, Dude, what the fuck? This guy's like such a sellout. So that shit sucks. Even not that I'm anywhere near the level but I'm saying if any label ever did approach me I don't think I would take it. I love being an independent artist and I love just making shit for like me. I don't think I would ever want to be like, hey, Pat, you need to make a love song today. Hey, Pat, you need to make like a sad song today. Like no fuck you. I'm gonna make the kind of shit I want to make, you know.DJ Psyched  29:53  Yeah, yeah. And I think that that aspect of control is important because like so many are Do you end up losing that control, and it's kind of what makes their crap spiral. But I also think, and this is just like me thinking about the psychology of it all, I swear, people let numbers go to their heads, like to an extreme level, because all of the people, I'm not gonna call anyone out, I'm not drama channel. But all of the biggest artists and like creators that are being called out right now they're the ones with the biggest numbers. They're the ones that have so many fans, they think they're untouchable. And I think that's just a very dangerous game to play. When you kind of stop doing like what you're doing for your heart, and you start doing it for the numbers. Like, I don't know, I'm gonna say one creator, just cuz I like this guy. I like PewDiePie a lot. And I think that he had a phase where he was not humbled. And that's where he made his mistakes. But once he kind of grounded himself again, you can tell that he just creates because he likes it, he gets the numbers because people know his name and like him. But you can tell that he's not chasing the numbers like he used to be, he has that fan base, he doesn't need to chase the numbers. Everyone that you can tell they're chasing the numbers, every video or song or whatever they do on social media, it's like they go crazier and crazier every time because they know it'll get views. Those people you can tell they're not creating because they love it anymore. It's not about their heart. It's not about what matters to them. At that point, it's what can I do to get people to look at me. And I think, just as somebody who's starting to create, I try to always tell myself, like, I don't care what what the most popular things that I'm making are, I want to make what I like the DIY series. I don't know like, I don't know, my analytics. I don't know how popular it is, but I love it. So I'm not gonna stop doing it. I don't really care if anyone ever tells me like, no one watches your DIY series. I'm like my mom does. So get off my back.Pat Danger  31:39  No, no, I think you bring up a great point. One, I think it's very easy. Like you said, it's easy to see who's doing it for views and who's doing it because they love music and they love art, which is another reason why I love working with like, very small artists because you know, they're not doing it because they have like a huge fan base or whatever. They're just doing it because they love music. Like I could tell you love doing this podcast, which is why you know, that's why you do it, which is awesome. Yeah, I don't think when you get too big is when problems happen. Like I wouldn't ever sign to a label because I wouldn't ever want I wouldn't ever want to even be like boxed in. Yeah, I got I wanna, I don't want them to be like, Oh, you're singing too much. Or you need to rao? Like what the fuck are you making like a pop punk song for? You know, I just like making music. I don't?DJ Psyched  32:20  Well, that's awesome to hear. Cuz, definitely going to long term fan here. You're number one right here. All right, well, I just kind of want to end this off by letting you say I want to do you have like a golden nugget, a piece of wisdom or something that you would want to leave whoever's listening to this podcast today with whether it's about music or personal life, go for it.Pat Danger  32:45  Don't worry about your numbers. Just make the music. Yeah, that's it. Just make the music make it for you. That's it.DJ Psyched  32:53  Spirit fingers. All right. Well, thank you for being on again. It was a lot of fun. And I do look forward to hearing what you release. Next. I want to give you some time, right quick. I know I said that was your last nugget. But I want to let you shout yourself out some more. So tell people where they can find you and where what they have to look forward to you got any. I know you got that song coming out. So definitely shout that out.Pat Danger  33:17  Um, thank you. I have. I'm on Pat. I'm Pat Danger on Spotify. If you guys want to check it out. I just put out a couple songs. I'm going to start releasing like every three weeks or so on Spotify. I got a new song coming out. It's coming out April 27. And let me remember the name of it real quick. Okay, check in on your friends. That's what I make a lot of music. check in on your friends. That's what it's called. It's dropping April 27. Check that out. I'm on Soundcloud, you can stuff to check that stuff out. I got a lot of stuff on Soundcloud that I just don't put on Spotify, just because I'm dropping songs whatever. I don't know my twitch name or I'd Shout that out too but somebody find it.DJ Psyched  33:54  Yeah, no worries. If you send it to me afterwards, all that will be in the link in the description. So if you don't remember, it's down there, you can click on it. And once again, thank you for being on and until next time, stay psyched. Pat Danger  34:06  Thank you for having me on. DJ Psyched  34:07  Thank you so much for listening. The intro and outro beat used on this podcast was made by my friend and producer PME he's super talented, so make sure to check him out. His links are always in the description. And as always, let me know what you're getting psyched about. I do this podcast because I think getting psyched is done best when we do it together. So please let me know and until next time, stay psyched.

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If you know who we are, I know what you’re thinking and in response I can only say “yes, we are huge fans of the series too”. In this episode, my girlfriend Ela and my friend David have agreed to try to make sense of this wild story with me.

If you want to feel like nothing can stop you from creating some of the coolest things ever, here are five tips that finally got me organized and even more psyched to do what I love.

If you know who we are, I know what you’re thinking and in response I can only say “yes, we are huge fans of the series too”. In this episode, my girlfriend Ela and my friend David, graciously agreed to try to make sense of this wild story with me.

"The history of…" series was created so that my friends and I could get psyched about some of our favorite musical artists together. In this episode, my sister Amber and I are talking about the first band we ever saw in concert: Fall Out Boy.

Reese is a bass player, youtuber, and a talented creator/musician all around. We talked about his experiences as an independent bassist, his thoughts on the indie scene, and he even gave some advice for anyone with a similar love for music.

The Get Psyched podcast is over eight months old now: that's why I decided I'm slowing down. In this week's episode we're talking about what Getting Psyched means to me now and how hosting this podcast has changed how I think about creating & doing work.

Over the last few months my sleep schedule has been inconsistent, my workouts have been completely altered, and I even had to adjust my eating; and I'm not the only one. This period of quarantine has forced us all to change up our routines, and no one knows how long that is going to last. But one thing I'm sure about is that we still need to take care of our health right now. I think it's important to have this conversation about both our mental and physical health, especially now. In this episode, I talk about why this is so important and give my best tips on how we can take care of our health in quarantine.

What is reality? This was not the question I was expecting to see in James Dashner's Novel 'The Eye of Minds', but it made for an incredibly interesting read. Micheal and his friends are fighting to maintain the balance between the real world and the virtual world, but what is the difference? In this episode I talk all about the dilemmas facing Micheal and his friends during their adventures in 'The Mortality Doctrine' series. Stay tuned for a review on book 3 soon and check out the link below to join in on the goodreads discussion.

David Wong's novel 'John Dies at the End' is the story of two best friends whose lives get taken over by paranormal activity after discovering what they call 'soy sauce'. Ela and I are reading the series together and in this episode we recap our thoughts on book one and the movie. If you want to join in on the discussion checkout the goodreads link below. Would you try the sauce?

Getting proper sleep is important for maintaining our wellness. In this episode I talk about why sleep is so important and offer ten tips on how to get more sleep. If you would like to learn more checkout the resources below.

I've had my Spotify account since 2014 so I thought it'd be fun to find out what my top 50 songs of all time are and talk about them. I rated them based on my first impressions, the songs impact, and if the songs have survived the test of time. This is part 2 with tracks 26-50. If you want to join the conversation checkout your stats in the link below.

I've had my Spotify account since 2014 and this week I thought it'd be fun to find out what my top 50 songs of all time are. I rated them based on my first impressions, the songs impact, and if the songs have survived the test of time. Get Psyched for part 2. If you want to join the conversation checkout your stats in the link below.

The Eye of Minds' is the second young adult fiction series by author James Dashner. As a huge fan of his 'The Maze Runner' series I read all of his books in highschool and I am rereading them now that he has released a third book in this series. What would you do if you could enter the Virtnet with Micheal and his friends? Let me know in the goodreads discussion link below.

Starting a podcast was really exciting and I was lucky to have my coworkers at WKNC because they guided me through the process. In this episode I share the steps I took to create my podcast and give some tips and advice to help anyone looking to start their own podcast. If you want to see the full blog post that this episode is based on checkout the link below.

Ela and I discuss the last Harry Potter book and movie in this podcast episode. We recap our thoughts on our favorite character developments, ships and how we feel about the series ending. What do you think of the Epilogue? Let us know in the goodreads link below.

My friends, and fellow wolfpack Alumni, Adrienne and Gina, joined me in recapping our favorite moments of the Harry Potter Series. We discuss ships, Snape, the Hogwarts Houses, and plot holes. Do you agree with our analysis on the Series? Answer the questions we discussed in the link below to join in on the Get Psyched Book Club discussion.

This week I moved into my first apartment. I thought it would be easy, since I've lived in a few campus apartments, but I quickly found out that campus living and off-campus living are not the same. There are a lot of differences I did not anticipate. For anyone in a similar position, or soon going to be, I hope this podcast will help give some insight, and advice, for some of these differences.

My top ten favorite albums of all time (and by all time I mean mostly highschool and college). This list has stayed pretty consistent over the last three years, but recently there've been a few albums that seem like they'll be taking over soon, listen til the end if you want to see which ones those are. What are your favorite albums?

Dr. Rupert Nacoste, the Social Psychologist who created the concept of ‘Neo-diversity’ and teaches the one-of-a-kind ‘Psychology of Interdependence and Race’ course at NC State University, brings us his fourth book ‘To Live Woke’. Dr. Nacoste tells us that ‘We can save the soul of America’ and he uses this book as a way to show us how we can contribute to this effort and actually understand what it means to ‘live woke’, not just by saying we are woke, but by ‘knowing how to act on this awareness’. To learn more check out his books linked below.

Krystal, my older sister, and the person who taught me what it meant to truly appreciate 'health,' joined me on the podcast today to give our thoughts on the 'health industry.' Here we discuss everything from how we define health, what we think of the 'health industry' in the current 'social media run world,' and why we think educating people is far better than being an 'influencer.'

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PME is back on the podcast. This time we had a more laid back conversation about what it's like being an independent creator, what we've learned, how we've grown, and how important it is not only to receive support but to continually give it. We throw in some advice where we can and have some nice laughs about the mistakes we've made along the way. I'm excited to see what more we'll have done, and learned, by the time we come back.

Heartstopper by Alice Oseman is an LGBTQ+ graphic novel that follows the story of two boys who fall in love. The story, currently consisting of three volumes, shares the experiences they (and several other characters) have with self-acceptance, coming out, being supportive, and more. In this episode I go over my favorite moments from the story and why I fell in love with it.

I have been practicing Intermittent Fasting for over three years now and have learned a lot about it's practical implications in this time. In this episode, I go over what I've learned about the practice, the benefits, drawbacks and my overall thoughts. I'd love to know what you think, so if you have any thoughts or comments you can reach at the Instagram linked below!

Looking for Alaska is a novel by John Green that follows the story of a young boy going off to boarding school to chase his dream of 'The Great Perhaps'. During his time in school, he meets his roommate Chip and a girl named Alaska. Through their great adventures he learns a lot about life, and, after a tragedy he experiences, he is also forced to learn more about the opposite: how to handle death. In this episode I ask the question 'What is The Great Perhaps to you?

We are on book six of the Harry Potter Series and I'm pretty shook about the turn this book took in its ending. In this episode, I discuss the themes of love and growing up that are so prevalent in this book, and set my predictions for how I think, or more so hope, this series will end. If you want to get involved in the discussion a link to the book club is below.

In 2019 I got back into reading. In this episode I go over the 22 books I read last year and give my thoughts and recommendations. I was really into 'self development' at the time, which sparked my newfound love for reading and shaped the kind of books I picked up. What were your favorite reads from 2019?

Laura and I decided to sit down together to discuss Hayley Williams's debut solo record Petals For Armor. We are both really excited about the release and wanted to share why this record is so special to each of us. They have done a lot of research on this record and gave a lot of insight into its process, so be sure to listen if you want to know why we give this record a 15/15.

We are on book five of the Harry Potter Series and things are getting intense. In this episode, I discuss some themes found in the book including the mixed emotions associated with growing up and knowing when to act in favor of the greater good. If you want to get involved in the discussion check out the GoodReads link below. This week's discussion question is all about Harry's ever-changing mood, so let me know what you think about it!

In the first episode of the let's talk health series I'm joined by Dr. Kasey Orvidas, a health and mindset coach who also has a PhD in Psychology. She uses her knowledge to teach others about the importance of having a healthy mindset, and explains the vitality of mindset in leading a healthy life. We discussed why it's important to find what works best for you and your life, and some popular myths about health.