Tuff Talks

In this episode... Grant shares his takes on the traditional education system while being open with expressing his own experiences and stories to help shine light on the need of change for the educational system.

Have you ever heard someone use the 'joke' "Ha Ha, you're adopted, in some variation? Emphasis on joke. Episode 4, host Grant Smith, shares stories and experiences about his adoption in hopes to share the harm that can come from meaningless jokes like these. Additionally, he navigates through the topic of adoption as he feels it is often unspoken about.

Episode 3 is a touch on death. Broken down into 3 ways, host Grant Smith, shares his thoughts on 1. why people don't have conversations around death? 2. How can we find the positive/silver lining within death? 3. How do you deal/cope with death? Grant dives deep into these three questions using the death of his father as the theme for the episode to guide the construct of this conversation.

Episode 2 captures the importance of practicing effective communication, and how we can get there through the substitution of 'but' for the word 'and' when in conversation. This is a practice known to be of useful in some context. Our host, Grant Smith, will share his take on the subject through experiences, stories, and examples.

Tuff Talks is a conversation of diverse meaning and thought behind difficult topics associated with aspects of our life that are often hard to discuss. Our host, Grant Smith, dives head first into the nature of these discussions with interesting take on subjects in hopes to bring awareness and enlighten the eyes of listeners and drive them to expand their minds on these Tuff Talks. Episode 1 is a discussion on a common expression used "I don't see skin color." Grant gives his honest and just thoughts to the nature of this topic through stories, experiences that have motivated him to shine light on this subject.