Speak Brilliance Podcast

Today I talk to my new friend Miles Lindsey, aka idski / Intricate Dialect about his creative process and his new album KV55. It's a rich conversation! Find his album here: https://intricatedialect.bandcamp.com/ https://audius.co/intricatedialect More about idski: There is a simple formula idski aka Intricate Dialect is using on his new album, just loops and rhymes...and no features. Within that simple formula, though, there is a wealth of spiritual wisdom and storytelling. idski has been on the Detroit Hip Hop scene for quite some time but has not yet bubbled too much out of the beaker. He keeps a relatively low profile and makes songs that people who are well read or grew up amongst ancient Egypt enthusiasts, 5 percenters, or practice occult science would appreciate. For instance, in 2011 Intricate Dialect made an album, Kemet, in which the entire project was focused on ancient Egypt but mixed in references to Detroit and the Hip Hop community. In 2016, idski started a creative storytelling podcast called The ‘Lum Podcast. This allowed him to widen his scope of storytelling, poetry, and production to networks outside of a Hip Hop format. Collaborating with artists like Shigeto, Marcus Elliot, Jah Connery, and close friend Timo 1-2. In 2021, the album KV55 has sprinkles of ancient Egyptian mythos but primarily focuses on stories of personal growth, society at large, our confusing place in it, and spirituality.

I talked to Olivier Egli  from The Why Story on The Antihustle Culture and Living from Your Purpose, and got a whole masterclass on spirituality, neuroscience, and business. This conversation was a game changer for me and I hope it will be for you too. Note- there is a small interruption at the end due to connection. About Olivier: After almost 20 years in advertising, communication and marketing working for agencies and international corporations as creative director and producer, Olivier Egli had to face a crushing reality: Despite his apparent success he felt empty, irrelevant and burnt out. This realization led him to leave everything behind and go on a quest to find the foundation of what he calls “happy work” - Work that speaks from the soul and that is aligned with the true nature that is innate to every human being. He calls this “Being like an Apple Tree."Standing at the crossroad of neuroscience, spirituality and business strategy, he has since developed a process he calls “The Why Story” and that aims at helping people reconnect with the one thing that will lead them to their happy work: total unapologetic self-ownership. Connect with Olivier :www.why-story.com https://www.instagram.com/thewhystory

On this episode I talk to Team Cafecita about coffee, social justice, equal pay, and feminism. Joining me are Natalie and Samantha: Natalie was born and raised in Los Angeles. At 18 she left home to live, work and travel abroad, which eventually drew her to international social justice work. After working as a human rights attorney for 10 years, and traveling to over 70 countries, she returned to her hometown to create a company that combines her love of coffee with her passion for social justice. The result is Cafecita, a coffee company focused on women's empowerment.https://www.cafecitacoffee.com/Samantha is a third culture woman whose love for California brought her home after 10 years of living in Brooklyn. She is a trained translator who loves to write and think of creative ways to dismantle the patriarchy. She loves artful things, the NBA, cooking and mixology. Check out her podcast Maskulinity below. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/maskulinity/id1277529273The book I referenced: Sultana's Dream: A Feminist UtopiaRokeya Sakhawat Hossainhttps://books.google.com/books?id=ztVWAwAAQBAJ

This weeks podcast is extra special because I am in conversation with Lola Pickett who has been my mentor for the past year. We talk about navigating the world as empaths and HSP's, living at our edges, the effects of gaslighting, and how we can get our power back by understanding our patterns of the nervous system.About Lola:Through her courses and programs, Lola Pickett empowers empaths and sensitive folk to rewire their brains, bodies, and behavior for internal & external resilience; shifting from self-repression to soul-expression. She is the published author of the Wild Messengers Alchemical Tarot and founder of EMPATH*ology—an emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual resiliency training program.Her offerings blend cutting-edge neuroscience with trauma healing, herbalism, permaculture, ritual, and play to create powerful and lasting results. When not facilitating transformational work, you'll find Lola on a hike, wildcrafting medicines, and loving up on her husband, kids, and kitten in the mountains north of San Diego, California.Find Lola here: https://moonandmanifest.com/https://www.instagram.com/moonandmanifest

In this episode, I speak with writer Leigh Shulman, about the importance of storytelling.Leigh's bestselling book, The Writer's Roadmap: Paving the Way To Your Ideal Writing Life has helped thousands of writers find their way in the writing world. She's published her nonfiction and translation in The Washington Post, New York Times, Guernica, and Longreads among others. She earned her MA in writing and education at City College of NY. On the business side of storytelling, Leigh completed Bernadette Jiwa's Story Skills workshop and Seth Godin's altMBA. Leigh's received writing and teaching fellowships from The New York Times, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and The Adobe Foundation and Burners Without Borders. She teaches classes in both Spanish and English at universities and writing programs in the US, Panama, Costa Rica, Argentina and around the world and runs international writing retreats that have been called the most empowering retreats for women. Her website is listed in The Write Life's Top 100 Websites for Writers.   Leigh currently lives in Argentina where she writes and mentors in The Workshop, her online community for writers. Connect with Leigh at leighshulman.com and on social media @theleighshulman .