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Een zwart leren Corbusier sofa en 6 gasten;  Filip (the HAVEN boss), Brandon (the sponsor - VANS),  Kim Hertoghs (the skater lady), Chris Nelson en Lewis Arnold (The Big Sea), Kelly (special guest).  Tman en Jokke vuren vragen af over het HAVEN Surf Film Fest, de Belgische surf community, oude VW busjes, hipstershizzle influencers, skaten op leeftijd, nieuwe heupen, totdat de sfeer omsloeg. The Big Sea is een surf documentaire die hard binnenkom. Nooit werd er gesproken over de impact van neopreen productie. And it's... dirty. MUST WATCH.  Enjoy this episode. Epic shit! Check our website: www.surfersearpodcast.comVolg ons op Instagram @surfersearpodcastBekijk deze podcast op YouTubePowered by Oxbow

Candle-extinguishing butts, 3am afterparties, collections of seamen (and semen)--this dishy tour of Langston Hughes's love life will leave you gagging with the gays.Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Pretty Please.....Buy our books:     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.     James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.SHOW NOTES:Watch Hughes recite his poem, "The Weary Blues" to jazz accompaniment on tv in 1958.You can check out troves of Hughes's poetry here, here, and here. Read Langston Hughes's poem "Café: 3AM"Listen to Hughes read "Harlem." Langston Hughes's first memoir, The Big Sea, about his seafaring travels--including upon the West Hesseltine where he said he had that fateful encounter with a sailor--can be found here.  It includes  the essay "Spectacles in Color" in which Hughes describes queer ballroom scene and Countee Cullen's wedding  to Yolanda Du Bois (with Harold Jackson, his boyfriend, serving as best man).Faith Berry's biography of Hughes is Before and Beyond Harlem. Her papers are at the Library of Congress.Read more about Arnold Ampersad's biography of Hughes:Volume 1 (which covers 1902-1940 and does have a snazzy subtitle: I, Too, Sing America).Volume 2 (which covers 1941-death and also has a snazzy subtitle: I Dream a World).Other receipts for the episode can be found in the following essays and scholarship:Hilton Als, "The Elusive Langston Hughes" (The New Yorker, 2015)Juda Bennett, "Multiple Passings and the Double Death of Langston Hughes" (Biography, vol 23.4, 2000).Link through Project Muse.Andrew Donnelly, "Langston Hughes on the DL" (College Literature, Volume 44, Number 1, Winter 2017). Link through Project Muse.Mason Stokes, "Strange Fruits: Rethinking the Gay Twenties" (Transition , 2002, No. 92). Link through JSTOR.Shane Vogel, "Closing Time: Langston Hughes and the Poetics of Harlem Nightlife," in Criticism (Vol 48.3, 2006). Link through Project Muse.Jennifer Wilson, "Queer Harlem, Queer Tashkent" (Slavic Review , FALL 2017). Link through JSTOR.Finally, visit Ann Patchett's bookstore online here: https://www.parnassusbooks.net/

Would you like access to our advanced agency training for FREE? https://www.agencymastery360.com/training Do you feel along or isolated in your agency leadership journey? Wonder how it feels to have people who ‘get you' and understand the unique challenges of owning an agency? Today's featured guest faced numerous insecurities and challenges on her growth journey. Ultimately, the pivotal moment came when she joined a peer community, which encouraged her to adopt a new mindset and explore various solutions and strategies. Discover her unexpected journey into entrepreneurship and how the support of her peer community empowered her to confidently remove misaligned talent and pursue strategic partnerships, alleviating the burdens of ownership. Andi Graham is the CEO and founder of Big Sea, a marketing agency that began its journey as a web development firm in 2005. She shares her unique educational background, her interest in the intersection of communication and behavior change, and discusses her self-taught journey into graphic design and how realizing her vision was bigger than her skills paved the way for starting to build a team and eventually starting an agency. In this episode, we'll discuss: The role of community in embracing a different approach to agency challenges. Learning the importance of due diligence in an agency merger. Lessons on the high price of misaligned talent. Subscribe Apple | Spotify | iHeart Radio Sponsors and Resources Join us in Feb 2025 to ELEVATE YOUR AGENCY! You don't know what you don't know. But you can learn a ton and get connected with a small group of like-minded agency owners plus me and some game-changing speakers at our exclusive event. We're meeting in Phoenix, AZ for two days of transformative insights where you'll make meaningful connections with top-tier leaders, master inbound and outbound strategies, and elevate your agency to achieve 10x growth. Check out ElevateMyAgency.com and grab your spot! Accidental Agency Owners: Embraces Your Strengths and Delegate Weaknesses Although Andi graduated with a bachelor's degree in Sociology, her true passion was advertising and understanding the connection between communication and behavior change. She also taught herself design and had fun creating menus for the pizza shop where she was working at the time. Later on, in her first professional role, she got to dive into other marketing activities like starting the company's first email newsletter. To enhance her skills, she learned coding to implement more visual modifications than the newsletter platform could offer. Eventually, she started building websites and taking freelance clients and realized she had built something more lucrative than her full-time job. When the time came to intentionally start growing her business, Andi knew her strengths are copywriting and project organization but lacked in design and web development skills. It was time to start hiring people with expertise in these areas to improve the quality of her services. She recognized she was more of a jack of all trades but lacked the patience to get really good in a particular area. It was the right combination of skills to become a business owner, as running a business requires learning a little bit about every part of the business. The Importance of Community in Agency Leadership One of the most significant challenges Andi faced while launching her own business was the struggle to balance financial realities with her desire to cultivate a positive workplace culture. Yes, she wanted her team to have fun and like her but she also needed to run a profitable business. However, finding a community of peers who understood the unique difficulties of agency ownership proved to be a game-changer for her. She quickly learned that, although her peers faced the same challenges, they were approaching them with a different mindset. This highlighted the importance of perspective in business and the need for a supportive community that encourages open dialogue and shared learning. This camaraderie was not just about commiserating over shared challenges; it became a platform for exchanging solutions and strategies and helped Andi appreciate the value of having a “tribe” who not only validate your experiences but also inspire you to adopt new approaches to your work. The Significance of Due Diligence in an Agency Merger By 2016, Andi found herself feeling overwhelmed by the demands of running her agency alone and yearned for more quality time with her daughter. She had connected with various agency owners, which enabled her to build relationships with peers whose skills complemented her own. This collaboration led to a partnership that resonated with both her personal and professional goals. Each partner brought unique strengths to the table, whether in sales, operations, technology, or marketing and creative projects. This division of labor allowed everyone to concentrate on their passions, ultimately enhancing job satisfaction and productivity. However, the journey was not without its challenges and Andi regrets not conducting thorough due diligence on her partners prior to the merger. As a result, she encountered unexpected friction due to undisclosed ownership stakes that created tension in decision-making processes. Fortunately, there was a positive outcome, with a successful buyout of the problematic partner handled with care and mutual respect. Collaborative partnerships are not merely transactional; they are rooted in shared values, trust, and open communication. As Andi learned, prioritizing alignment in partnerships is essential for fostering a healthy, productive, and fulfilling business environment. Lessons on the Hidden Cost of Misaligned Talent Another significant challenge Andi encountered was the difficulty small agencies face in attracting and retaining talent that not only possesses the necessary skills but also aligns with the team's dynamics and values. At one point, she struggled to let go of a highly skilled developer whose negative attitude was detrimental to the work environment. This is a common pitfall for agency owners who often become overly reliant on individuals with specialized skills, overlooking the importance of interpersonal dynamics and team cohesion. Recognizing that technical expertise does not automatically translate to a good cultural fit is a vital lesson for leaders. Ultimately, Andi faced several situations that taught her the importance of recognizing early signs of misalignment and getting over the fear of disruption and the perceived challenge of replacing a key player can lead to prolonged periods of dissatisfaction within the team. She is now much more confident in her team's potential for resilience and adaptability in the face of personnel changes. Embracing the Long Game in Agency Growth Having run her agency for almost twenty years, Andi has learned the value of patience as it become clear that success is not merely a product of quick actions or rapid changes, but rather the result of sustained effort and the ability to endure challenges over time. Although agency owners are usually fast-movers and very action-oriented, her recent agency rebrand has taught her the importance of building momentum through consistent actions and understanding that the efforts put forth today will yield results in the future, sometimes months or even years later. This long-term perspective is essential for entrepreneurs who may feel disheartened by the slow pace of progress. Do You Want to Transform Your Agency from a Liability to an Asset? Looking to dig deeper into your agency's potential? Check out our Agency Blueprint. Designed for agency owners like you, our Agency Blueprint helps you uncover growth opportunities, tackle obstacles, and craft a customized blueprint for your agency's success.

What is our relationship to the land, to its other-than-human inhabitants, and to the rest of humanity? These are fundamental questions for thinking through how we can transform ourselves in ways that allow a multiplicity of ecologies and human communities to thrive alongside one another. And these questions are not just fundamental to us as individuals—they are essential to how we view our cultures, traditions, institutions, and ways of knowing.Layel Camargo lives at the vibrant intersection of ecological justice, queer liberation, and indigenous culture—a cultural space that offers a distinctive vantage point on how our societies work, while holding enormous potential to both see and reorient our relationships to the land and to one another.Layel Camargo is an organizer and artist who advocates for the better health of the planet and its people by restoring land, healing communities, and promoting low-waste and low-impact lifestyles. Layel is a transgender and gender non-conforming person who is an indigenous descendant of the Yaqui and Mayo tribes of the Sonoran Desert.I met Layel at a climate storytelling retreat in New York City in 2019, where I became a huge fan of their work and of their way of being in the world.Layel is a founder of the Shelterwood Collective, a Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQ-led community forest and retreat center, healing people and ecosystems through active stewardship and community engagement.Our conversation explores the idea of culture as strategy in confronting the climate crisis, diving into Layel's work in video, podcasting, and poetry and the origins of their approach to this work of healing people and planet.You can listen on Substack, Apple Podcasts, and other podcast platforms.Please rate, review, and share to help us spread the word!Layel CamargoLayel Camargo is a cultural strategist, land steward, filmmaker, artist, and a descendant of the Yaqui tribe and Mayo tribes of the Sonoran Desert. Layel is also transgender and non-binary. They graduated from UC Santa Cruz with dual degrees in Feminist Studies and Legal Studies. Layel was the Impact Producer for “The North Pole Show” Season Two. They currently produce and host ‘Did We Go Too Far' in conjunction with Movement Generation. Alongside Favianna Rodriguez and at the Center for Cultural Power, they created ‘Climate Woke,' a national campaign to center BIPOC voices in climate justice. Wanting to shape a new world, they co-founded ‘Shelterwood Collective'. The collective is a land-based organization that teaches land stewardship, fosters inventive ideation, and encourages healing for long-term survival. Layel was a Transformative Justice practitioner for 6 years and still looks to achieve change to the carceral system in all of their work. Most recently, Layel was named on the Grist 2020 Fixers List, and named in the 2019 Yerba Buena Center of the Arts list of ‘People to Watch Out For.'Quotation Read by Layel Camargo“You wanna fly, you got to give up the s**t that weighs you down.” - Toni Morrison, Song of SolomonRecommended Readings & MediaTranscriptIntroJohn Fiege  What is our relationship to the land, to its other-than-human inhabitants, and to the rest of humanity? These are fundamental questions for thinking through how we can transform ourselves in ways that allow a multiplicity of ecologies and human communities to thrive alongside one another. And these questions are not just fundamental to us as individuals—they are essential to how we view our cultures, traditions, institutions, and ways of knowing.Layel Camargo lives at the vibrant intersection of ecological justice, queer liberation, and indigenous culture—a cultural space that offers a distinctive vantage point on how our societies work while holding enormous potential to both see and reorient our relationships to the land and to one another.And besides that, Layel is hilarious.Layel Camargo My passion for humor has come from has been maintained by a lot of data and information that I've gotten around just the importance of people being able to process things through laughter. And that the climate crisis is nothing to make mockery and or to laugh, there's this is very serious. The ways in which our species is kind of being at threat of extinction, and right before our eyes. But I think that as humans, we're so complex and layered, and we're so beautiful in the sense that we get to feel so intensely, and feeling is what motivates us to take action. And laughter helps you process so much data quicker, it helps you be able to take something in, embrace it, release, and then have it make an impression.John Fiege  I'm John Fiege, and this is Chrysalis.Layel Camargo is an organizer and artist who advocates for the better health of the planet and its people by restoring land, healing communities, and promoting low-waste, low-impact lifestyles. Layel is a transgender and gender non-conforming person who is an indigenous descendant of the Yaqui and Mayo tribes of the Sonoran Desert.I met Layel at a climate storytelling retreat in New York City in 2019, where I became a huge fan of their work and of their way of being in the world.Layel is a founder of the Shelterwood Collective, a Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQ-led community forest and retreat center, healing people and ecosystems through active stewardship and community engagement.Our conversation explores the idea of culture as strategy in confronting the climate crisis, diving into Layel's work in video, podcasting, and poetry and the origins of their approach to this work of healing people and planet.Here is Layel Camargo.ConversationJohn FiegeHow you doing?Layel Camargo I'm doing pretty good. How are you doing?John Fiege I'm doing well. I've got this thing in my throat. I, so I'm going to be drinking a lot of tea. And I might have to have a bathroom break. Know, I have forgotten to take my allergy medicine. And here we are. Great. Yeah. So can you start out by telling me where you grew up? And how you viewed your relationship to the rest of nature when you were a kid?Layel Camargo Yeah. Um, I can start off by Yeah. talking a little bit about where I grew up. Yeah, so I grew up on the Mexican border between Tijuana and San Diego. And my upbringing was in this very highly dense migrant community from Latinx to Philippines, because of the proximity to the military base. It was very military towns, pretty much the professions. They're like you're either work for Homeland Security, the military or police. And I didn't really notice what my upbringing was like till I left. But I grew up crossing the border back and forth. My grandmother migrated from the Sonoran Desert, to Tijuana. And that's basically where my mother was born. And she grew. She went to high school in San Diego, which is why I can say I'm an American citizen, but I'm a descendant of the Maya or the uremic tribes, my grandmother said, and then my grandfather said, The yucky tribes of the Sonoran Desert so I think for me, my connection ecologically was like the ocean Because I grew up in a beach city, and then it was also the desert, because of all the stories and my grandmother's connection to sanada. So high, I never felt like I was at home because as a queer person paid never really fit into the conservative nature of San Diego due to how militarized it is, and all this stuff. But it was through a drive, which I took from Northern California, down to Sonora, where my grandmother's family lives, when I drove through the saguaros and Arizona that I remember seeing the Saguaro forests and just like needing to pull over and just like, take them in. And I had this a visceral feeling that I don't think I've ever had before of just like being home. And I think this, this experience was like in 2016 2017. And that's when I realized that, in theory, I was a climate activist, I cared about the planet. But it wasn't until that moment that I was like, oh, what I'm actually doing is like actually fighting for us to return to be in better relationship with the planet. And this is where I belong, this is my source of my route, these trees and this desert. So because of that, and growing up in proximity to the beach, water conservation has always been an area of like passion for me and caring about the ocean, which pushed me to a practice of lowering my plastic consumption and being more mindful of oil consumption. And the desert has always been a source of like grounding in regards to like place and knowing that I come from the earth. So it's kind of like I was gonna say, it's kind of like, I'm from a lot of places, I moved to Northern California in 2006. So I love the forest. But nothing speaks to my heart, like the beach in the desert.John Fiege Well, they have sand in common. Is there? Is there a tension between the ocean pulling you in the desert pulling you or is it? Is it a beautiful harmony?Layel Camargo It's a bit of a tension. But I would say that in my body, it feels the same. They both dehydrate me and over, over like it's just a lot of heat, typically. So yeah, that it's different for Northern California beaches, because they're a little bit more Rocky and more cold. You have to wear more layers. Right? definitely like to where I grew up, it's it is warm, the sandy ness. That's a great connection, I definitely need to make that a little bit more concrete.TotallyJohn Fiege cool. Well, can you tell me more about the path you took from the neighborhood where you grew up in San Diego, to studying at UC Santa Cruz and what that experience was like for you?Layel Camargo Yeah, I, I went. So I grew up in a home where there was a lot of violence, which is very common in a lot of migrant-specific and indigenous communities. And I kind of came into my teenage years, like really realizing that I was different, but I didn't know how when it kind of got summarized in college around my queerness my sexuality and my gender, but just feeling this need of like needing to leave. It just didn't make sense for me to be there. And with that being said, I had a wonderful community. I still have quite a few friends in San Diego that I keep in touch with my sisters live there. And I was actually just started last weekend. So I, when I was in San Diego, I think a lot of my trauma responses of like, just ignore what doesn't make sense and just keep moving forward was how I kind of functioned. And that race. And I loved it, I succeeded at it. I've actually realized that I'm a performance artist because of that upbringing. Like I, you know, was captain of the water polo team. I was president of my senior class, I was featured in newspapers for my swimming. I was a competitive swimmer for 10 years. I I did, I did a you know, a good job. I had advanced placement classes and honors classes and I was well rounded but in the inside, I just didn't feel like I belonged. So I picked UC Santa Cruz to go to college because it was the farthest University and the University of California system that had accepted me. And they went and I didn't know what I was getting myself into. I visited the campus like two to three weeks before I had to actually be there to live on campus. Bass. And when my dad drove me, drove me up with my whole family drove me up and they left me they were like, are you sure you want to say I'm like, I got this, like, it was all redwoods. So it was definitely like, we went down to the local store. And it was like all these like hippie dreadlock, folks. And I was like, I don't even know what I got myself into. But I'm getting this degree, so we're good. And it was a big culture shock, I think for a lot of black and brown and indigenous youth when they have to leave their communities to attend. What is like better economic opportunities outside of them it is it's, it's more than just having to adjust, it's having to really like, Oh, I had to let go of everything I knew. And in order for me to take the most out of college, and I was fortunate enough that I had a container a university is like a container for young folks that I wasn't having to leave for work or opportunities. And so I fully immersed myself, and it allowed me to be able to identify myself sexually and through my gender, and a gave me solace, when you know, my family rejected me for coming out. And I think that I'm so fortunate that I had that experience. And then I also was able to gain double bachelor's when feminist studies and legal studies which allowed me to have some upward mobility that my family hadn't had, traditionally I was, I am the first person in my whole family to attend a four year university after high school. So I'm definitely very grateful that that path took me there. And at this point, I feel like it was not only good for me, but it was good for my whole family for me to have taken that journey.John Fiege And did you come out to them? In college or before college?Layel Camargo in college? Yeah, I was my second year, I had my first girlfriend. And I was a Resident Advisor, always I'm always trying to be the overachiever. So I was like Resident Advisor of my college, I was like, involved in every club, I was part of the dance team. And, you know, my mom called me, I just decided to actually move in with my girlfriend the following quarter. And she was like, What are you doing? I was like, Oh, my girlfriend's house. And she was like, why do you have to tell me those things. And I'm just like, because I'm not gonna lie to you. And she was like, I know, you're gay, but I just don't need you to rub it in my face. And I was like, then I guess we can't talk. And so we didn't talk for three months. And then she called me It's, it's, it's hard, you know, like, going to college is hard, especially when I went to very marginalized public schools before that. So I was struggling academically. And my solace was, like, being involved on campus, like to meet some social needs. And I was in, I was in a retention program for black and brown youth from urban communities. So that helped a lot. But I, I, my mom kind of rupturing that, really. I didn't realize what the impact was until probably a quarter the quarter into after that. And she called me three months later, and was like, so are you not gonna talk to me? And I was like, you're the one that doesn't talk to me. And she was like, well, let's just let's just try to make this work. And so we, you know, it took probably five to six years for my family to kind of fully integrate my, you know, my, my lifestyle as they, as they call it. The magic word of magic word. Yeah.John Fiege Yeah, wow. Well, you know, that's just what you need, right in the middle of college trying to adapt to, you know, crazy new culture and world is for your family to reject you.Layel Camargo Yeah, yeah. It's definitely one of those things that like a lot of queer LGBTQ folks. I, I feel like it's so normalized to us, right? And it's just like, well, when you come up, just expect to lose everything. And I think it is it now until I'm like, in my 30s, that I realized how painful that is, and how, like, it's just like, you know, one of the core things I think, as a human species is to know that you belong somewhere. And if you don't belong at home, then where do you belong? And I think for many of us, we've had to go through that unconsciously, without really thinking through that we're seeking to belong. And this theme of belonging has been something that's been coming up as I'm I navigate like, my professional career now is that like, I really do want people to feel like they belong somewhere. And the only thing I feel like makes sense as we all belong to the planet. We all belong to the same descendants and how we got here as a species and that I think that's being rejected from my family allowed me to be like weird do I belong? And so I fortunate that I had a best friend who was also queer. I had my queer community I had student governments and students social organizing. And then when I graduated, I was like, wait, like, Where else do I belong? So I went to my natural habitats like to the beach, and I picked up surfing again and scuba diving. And then it was like, Oh, I actually like I belong to the earth. Like, that's where I belong.John Fiege That's beautiful. Yeah. I love that. Oh, I am hearing some background noise.Layel Camargo Is it audio? Or is it just like,John Fiege people laughing?Layel Camargo It's my partner's on an Akai here, I'm going to shoot her a quick text. She like gets really loud because she gets so excited. Just going to share a quick text.John Fiege So before coming to climate justice work, you worked as an organizer with the Bay Area transformative justice collective. Can you tell me how your work in transformative justice informed your understanding of the climate crisis and how you approach ecological concerns?Layel Camargo Yeah, so I I organized with transformative justice for about six years. And then I you know, for folks who don't know, transformative justice is an alternative response model to violence, harm and hurt. And so similar to restorative justice, which works with the carceral system, so police, judicial systems, etc. to reform in order to help alleviate some of the biases that exists in the systems, transformative justice, as there's those systems actually don't serve certain communities like migrants, folks like that are trans, just the way that those systems just inherently violate certain people who are not included in our society fairly, was like, transparent justice exists to serve folks who cannot access or choose not to access or use the carceral system. So if you will, if you believe in defunding the police, and let's say you're sexually assaulted, you're probably not going to call the police for a rape kit, because there's probably ways that you've experienced those systems as harmful or violent. So when I started organizing were transferred to justice the spoke to me as somebody who had just come out as trans, somebody who grew up in a mixed status family, have relatives who have been deported. And I realized, like, Oh, it's actually worth investing in alternative models, besides the police. In order for us to get our needs met when crisises do happen, because they happen to all of us. And I was in it for six years, you know, we had built up, I had built a great capacity to work with people who had caused harm people who are caused domestic violence, sexual assaults and transforming their behavior and working towards reparation of relationships and or just like helping victims be able to move on after something like that happens. And it's it wasn't an easy task. And what we would come back to is we would spend like the first front of the months, trying to make sure that people's basic needs were met in order for them to slow down enough to process what had just happened. And basic needs included food included shelter, if they lived near, you know, a toxic site, what was infringing on their health, making sure that they had access to health coverage or health benefits. And that was about 60% of what we're doing was making sure that we could get the basics kind of stable so that they could jump into really honoring what it was a justice look like for them. And in doing this a handful of times, not too many, I will say I didn't think thankfully, we had a team. And so I did wasn't always having to handle everything. And we, the experiences that I did have, I was like, man, if people just had, like, a healthy environment where having to fight for housing wasn't a thing. Like we could just actually say, this is where I was born, this is where I belong, and I'm in relationship with the land. And that's how I feed myself, I clothe myself, like all these things that are kind of like indigenous traditional ways, then people could actually solve a lot of their crisis. He's in the moment without having it to be delayed years or having to rely on for it to get outsourced through the carceral system in order for them to feel like they get a minuscule amount of justice. And so I started to just be more cognizant of the way that we interact with the planet and how are everything from our legal structures to our economic structures are just completely devastating. Our environment that have led for us not to have good air quality for us not to have good clean water for us not to feel like we've belong to the earth that is right beneath us that we like, are in relationship with, with the rest of you know, most of our lives. And I, at the time I was living in West Oakland and I had just looked into the air quality report in the area I lived in, and I had the worst air quality in the whole Bay Area. And I started noticing my dog started developing like little spots on her skin, I started having like a lot of chronic coughing. And I was looking at how much money I was making. And so at the time, I was doing a lot of our pop ups, I was really passionate about zero waste, I cared about veganism, a lot of it was through the planet, and it just slowly started shifting away from Yes, I care about how we respond to violence and harm and all of that. And I want us to have alternatives that meet the needs of folks who fall through the waistline of certain systems. And at the same time, we don't even have clean water to come home to to drink when something violent happens, like we have to go buy it from, you know, a grocery store. Most of us don't even test our tap water anymore, because it's just consistently, we just grew up thinking that it doesn't, it's dirty, it's gross, it's non potable, so Right, right. I think at that moment, my heart just completely was like, I want to dive into this work 100% I want to fight for people to have clean air, like if you can't breathe, then you can't, you can't even do a lot, a lot of things. And so many black and brown people who grew up in rural communities have high rates of asthma have like low life expectancy because of air pollution, to you know, the logistics industry etc. And I just kind of fell in with all my heart in like, if I'm, if I'm against plastic put which at the time I was, like vegan for the planet and vegan for my health. And I was also really passionate about reducing plastic use. And I was like, if these are two things that I care about, I want to do it at a larger scale. So it meant that I had to really make those connections of if I want to end gender based violence, if I want to end large forms of violence, I have to start with the one common thing we have that we're constantly extracting and violating, which is the earth. And I think that that led me towards climate justice, because that is the most critical environmental crisis that we're in at this moment.John Fiege So what is the climate crisis? What what what causes is how do you how do you think about culture as a source of power and strategy for climate crisis?Layel Camargo Yeah, I mean, I this is this is really, you know, this, that this is what I do for my life is I spent the last 7 to 8 years really strategizing around what are the cultural shifts that are needed in order for us to be able to be in right relationship with the planet where things like the climate crisis are not happening, so that we can have an economic system and a political system that is serves the planet and the needs of our of us living and thriving, not surviving, which is I think, what we're stuck in as a global society now. And the, we have like quite a few things to kind of look at historically. And I think that there is a dominance of, which is we now know, it is like white supremacy, which is the idea that one group of human is like better than another group of human, and that because of that, everybody else needs to conform to the languages, the culture, the food, the clothes, the housing structures, that are pervasive, and that in, you know, the Euro centric way of living, and that has created a monoculture that is now spread at a global scale. And it's even because it's an economic sister in their economic system. Now we have global stock markets. Now we have the extraction at a global scale, for the sourcing of consumer goods that are all homogenous, and there. There's just one kind of how we do things. And I think the crisis that we're in is the ways that human have removed ourselves from our natural biodiversity relationships with our ecological systems. And then as removing ourselves we have are allowed for the rupture of a relationship that is very needed, which is if we're not integrated into the trees that are natural in our environment into trimming certain invasive species and supporting other biodiverse relationships around us, then we're crippling the ability of the soil to be healthy of the air to have the most amount of oxygen Have you Now we know that we need to be trapping carbon at such high rates. And I think that with a crisis that we're in is that we've allowed and have fallen victims to white supremacy, which was facilitated by colonization, that I, you know, that dominance of one group of people in the way of existing, and I think that's where we're at. I mean, if you look at the kelp forests, the kelp forest needs the otters, they need the, the sea urchins. But when you remove the otters and the sea urchins, you know, are not being preyed upon at a normal scale. And that's, you know, we're connecting it to white supremacy, let's assume that the sea urchins are like the dominant and because they're, they're the ones that ruled the kelp species are starting to be eradicated, and some of them are becoming a threat of extinction. And without a healthy kelp forests, you don't have healthy oxygen and maintenance of the acidification in the ocean, which, you know, couple that with global warming, and you basically have the rapid eradication of so many other natural ecosystems in the ocean that we need to survive. And so when you have one species dominating over another, it leads towards a crisis. So I think we're in a imbalance of relationships because of, of white supremacy. And that's what's causing the climate crisis we have. We have a monoculture. And so just as you look at mono cropping, as you look at anything that eradicates the health of the soil, because it doesn't have the reciprocal relationships that it needs from other crops, and are the resting in order for the soil to be healthy. This might not be speaking to everybody who's listening. But it makes sense that like, Yeah, definitely. The environment crisis is a symptom of Yes. Oh, the climate crisis is a symptom of a larger systemic problem.John Fiege Yeah. And in so many ways, white supremacy was created by colonialism, like, white supremacy is the cultural system that in some ways had to emerge to justify the political and economic brutality of colonialism. You know, it was a it was it was a way of organizing and understanding the world that justified these terrible things that were happening. And they're so it goes so much hand in hand.Layel Camargo Yeah, definitely. Yeah, I mean, I feel like I could talk about this for hours, because there's just so many ways in which we can break it down to the minute level. And then there's so many ways that we can think about solutions. And a lot of my my work and my passion is really bringing as much power as I can to black, indigenous and people of color. Because the retention of culture, language, and different ways of engaging with the world, everything from how we grow our food to how we dress and what we celebrate. And where we honor is what's going to help us be more resilient towards the impending and the realism of what the climate crisis means to a lot of our communities.John Fiege Yeah, totally. Yeah. And you're you're living and working at this really interesting intersection between ecological justice, queer liberation and indigenous culture. Can Can you talk a bit about the intersections of your identity and cultural background and their importance to you and how you orient yourself to this work?Layel Camargo Yeah, definitely. So as I mentioned, I'm a descendant of the Yaki and the Mio tribes in the Sonoran Desert. And I didn't really realize how much this matter to me, I think till about like five to six years ago, because I grew up because of the borders. Technically, I'm Mexican descent, and Mexican American salesperson in this country. But the Mexican government is similar to what we're talking about white supremacy was created by European settlers and, and a hybrid of mixture of stealing of indigenous cultures. And there are so many subgroups of different indigenous cultures. And my heritage is that both my grandfather and my grandmother's tribe as they were nomadic, and they used to migrate up and down the Sonoran Desert, before the border was there from seasonally for survival. And there's so many ways that like food that we eat, how we dress, how we talk that I didn't realize like, Oh, that makes me so much more than just Mexican American. It makes me more than just Latinx. And I think my background and being in such close proximity to immigration and the necessity of immigration or to survive because my grandmother came to Tijuana because it was industrialized and she needed work. And so when they migrated, they like left everything behind. And they never went back. Like, I think so many people leave their home, thinking that they're going to go back and they don't, their children are born in different places. And eventually, that led me to be born in a different country. And so because of that background, I am so keen to issues around native sovereignty and land back here in the United States is like the retention of keeping people in the place of their origin is a climate solution. It's a way of keeping that ancestral knowledge in the place that is needed. I mean, here in Northern California, we look at the wildfire crisis, and it's due to climate change. And it's also due to the lack of forest management, that our indigenous relatives that are native to that area have been robbed of the opportunity to maintain those forests at the scale, which is needed in order to adapt and prepare for wildfires. Yeah,John Fiege yeah, with with the prescribed burning, and all that maintenance that used to happen. That was invisible in so many ways to the European colonists, they didn't even understand that that was going on, or how it worked.Layel Camargo Yeah, and I feel like, you know, it goes back to the monoculture. And I think, because I have indigenous ancestry, because I understand the nature of needing to migrate. And the realities of migrant experience, I think I feel so passionate about keeping people in their place of origin as much as possible, and allowing for people to move freely when they have to. And I think as as the climate crisis gets worse, I started to realize just what a disservice we have made by instilling borders by having governments that have been so gatekeeping and operating off of scarcity, that we've kind of mandated a world where people can move freely people, and people have to leave their place of origin. And that these two paradox that we exist in, is creating the dehumanization of a group of people that if you cannot sustain yourself in your place of origin, because of global extraction, by the way, because of environmental degradation and the economic viability of your area, and how that creates wars and mass extraction, that that is why people migrate. But yet those same people who are creating those systems that make it difficult for you to stay in your place of origin have also created borders to not let you move freely. That paradox to me is also part of this climate crisis as because many of us are going to have to leave john, at some point, there's going to be floods, there's going to be hot water, we're experiencing a drought prices in California, I'm actually living between northern California and Southern California already. And a lot of it is because of the wildfires and my family's down here. And my family's at threat of sea level rise by living in San Diego, which San Diego filed a lawsuit against Exxon and Chevron. And I think one or two other oil companies is we're all we're all existing now in this global climate crisis, that it's not quite in our face every day, but we feel it seasonally now, so we're gonna have to be able to move. Right? So yeah, and last to say is like similar to my cultures I have I lived with an end an endocrine illness. And so air pollution is something that could severely impede my ability to reproduce my ability to function. At this point, I spend about four to five days a month in bed, working from bed, and I'm fortunate enough that I get to work remotely. But for a lot of people, we're going to see more and more ways in which the mass destruction of the planet which has led to the climate crisis is how we become to adopt ways of having different abilities or not being able to live our day to day function. So yeah, the intersecting points are just, they're overwhelming. And I think a lot of us are starting to feel that more as things start to kind of get a little worse.John Fiege Right, right. Yeah, I was talking to, to my partner the other day, she was she was talking to a fellow activist about this idea of ableism. And how, you know, so much of the discourse around it is you know, what are your abilities and, and this, this person was talking about how it it's how unstable that is. Like you can be able bodied today and tomorrow, you can be not able bodied in the same way. Because of, you know, like you say the changing air quality or something happens, or you just you're getting old, or you get sick. And it's one of those things that we've so ignored as a culture of what, what ableism really means about our assumptions about the world.Layel Camargo And like the economic viability and how our economic system is just so dependent on us being fully productive 24 seven, which I made a video on this called The Big Sea, which talks about the intersecting points of labor and how the labor crisis is actually the root of our climate crisis. Because if we can have people have a bigger imagination around how they can use their bodies, to serve their own needs, instead of serving the needs of corporate interests, how that would actually alleviate a lot of pressure on the planet. And that that would potentially lead to our most successful outcomes in regards to the climate crisis.John Fiege Yeah, totally, totally. Well, can you tell me about decolonizing conservation in the environmental movement and what that looks like to you?Layel Camargo Yeah, so I, I started during the beginning of the pandemic, I started a nonprofit called shelterwood collective, which is black and brown and indigenous queer folks who are aiming to steward land at the time, I was aiming to sort of land a month ago, we acquired a 900 acre camp in cassada, California, and Northern California and our team is about conservation efforts, specifically with forest resiliency against wildfires. Taking Western Western practices of conservation, mixing them with indigenous practices that are similarly to conservation. And I feel like when we think about conservation efforts, a lot of them have been dictated by European ways of thinking through conserving natural environments, which a lot of it is like humans are bad, nature must be left uncared for. And this does such a disservice because our indigenous ancestors knew that in order for a forest to be thriving, we needed to be in relationship with it, we needed to monitor monitor it, if there was a fun guy or a virus that was spreading their disease, that we could actually help it, he'll help trees, he'll help it spread less, if there was fires that were coming that we could trim, and tend and do controlled burns, if there was, you know, sucks anything happening where a species was struggling, that we could help support its growth and its population by you know, hunting its predators. And so I think that, that is the challenge between indigenous conservation efforts are traditional ways of just being in relationship with the natural environment and conservation is the western conservation is that we have been so removed from what it means to protect water systems, what it means to protect forests, that now we have a crisis of mismanagement we have and that more and more countries are adopting European Western perspectives because of the dominance that white supremacy has instilled that there are certain group of people that know more than we do. And that's just that's created, at least for me feels very heavy on when it comes to wildfires. There is certain areas in Northern California where there have been residential communities that have been built on wildfire lines that we know now, indigenous people knew that like every 30 years, for every 50 years, there would be a wildfire that would run through that area. And now that we're not that it's getting hotter, the gap of that time is getting shortened. And also that we're realizing that the years, hundreds of years of mismanagement, and lack of tending has led to also these extreme wildfires, that's now causing casualties outside of wildlife. And I feel like conservation needs to evolve. I think that there needs to be more understanding around the harm that Western conservation has done to not only the ecosystems but to the people who have traditionally been keeping those ecosystems. And I do feel like it's like it's evolving. I just think that it's not evolving as fast as we need. And unfortunately, with the climate climate crisis, we're gonna have to really come to recognize what do we need to move really fast on on what can wait because it just feels like Everything's urgent, we need to save the oceans as much as we need to save the forest as much as we need to Save the Redwoods as much as we need to take the rain forests and it just feels like and and that is like the natural environment, then we have like the growing list of extinction, threats of extinction for certain animals. And I think that I don't know why just came to my head. And then you have people like Bill Gates who want to eradicate a whole mosquito species. So it just feels like we're gonna have to pick and choose our battles here. And I do feel like coming to reckoning around the harm that this pervasiveness in western conservation, which isn't the idea that sometimes we are harmful to, you know, our natural ecosystems isn't a bad one. Yeah, we are. But how we got here was by completely removing ourselves and not knowing how to take care of those ecosystems, had we been in a relationship with them for the last 100 years, maybe we wouldn't be so wasteful, maybe we would have caught air pollution sooner than then our body is telling us, hey, we don't like this, this is bad, we're gonna die sooner if you keep doing this. And I think that that is a disservice. So it's beautiful to see more forest schools popping up for young people. It's beautiful to see more conservation groups trying to bring in indigenous leaders into the conversations. But I do feel like that overall idea needs to shift. And I also think that the land back movement, which is returning national parks back to indigenous hands, is going to help alleviate some of those major tensions that do not honor that certain people have been doing this for hundreds of years. And if we don't return it in this generation, we just run the risk of losing more language, more culture and more practices that we need at a larger scale.John Fiege Yeah, in protecting ecosystems is just not a complete picture of everything that's needed. Like as you say, it's important on some level, but it's it's not it's not a whole, it's not a whole understanding of of the problem or how to address it. There reminds me I was I was just reading or rereading a bit of Robin wall kimmerer book braiding sweetgrass, and she talks, she talks about this very issue a bunch about, you know, sweet grass in particulars is something where there's this, this back and forth relationship between humans and nature. And she talks about teaching one of her University classes up here in New York, and asking them at the beginning of the semester, you know, whether people are bad for the environment, and almost everybody says yes. And we alsoLayel Camargo have this this perception of we are bad. Right?John Fiege Yeah. Yeah, this Western guilt is pervasive in that as well. Which is,Layel Camargo which is facilitated by religion? Yes, religion has a very good job of making us feel like we are horrible for everything that we have sent us that we need to repent for our whole existence as like, going from embryo to sperm is actually a sin itself. So we're born with so much already on our shoulders.John Fiege I was gonna say Catholic guilt, but I feel like at this point, it's so much broader than that. Yeah, it is. So you work with the Center for cultural power. And, and one of the main projects you've done with them is climate woke. And I'd like to start by saying how much i'd love the artwork of the logo. It says climate woke. And it's in, in the style of this fabulous flashback 1980s airbrushed t shirts, with, you know, rainbow colors and sparkles. And it feels like there's so much meaning embedded in the artwork. And I wondered if you could tell me about climate woke, how the project emerge, but also like how this logo artwork reflects what this project is.Layel Camargo Yeah, so we when we started thinking about what climate woke would be, we didn't know what's going to be called climate woke it was through several meetings with different community partners, different funders and other stakeholders, where we kind of discussed that we wanted a unifying symbol for all the communities that we had been meeting and we kind of landed that we wanted something to look good to represent black Dan Brown young people between the ages of 16 to 25, something that was appealing that somebody would wear with pride. And, you know, at the time, there was a lot of like, different stuff coming up around the importance of wokeness. The it wasn't used as how we use it now, which is like political correctness. It's, it's, it's not where it is now. And so we decided to kind of ride on the, the term itself climate woke, which talks about uses black vernacular very intentionally that this is a racialized issue. And we spoke with several leaders in the black community, and at the time, it felt like it made sense. And, and so we kind of quickly were like, this makes sense kind of work. We want people to wake up to a climate crisis, but also be like down and enjoy it. And that it's different than this doom and gloom narrative that we constantly see when it comes to the environment. As it is kind of depressing when you think about it. But so we wanted it to feel like inviting. And at the time, which I think was like 2017 2018. All these like 90s was like coming back. So we sat with like two or three potential designers, and we didn't really like what we saw. And then it was heavy and agile that he Guess who is kind of a co creator of this. Also, like a globally recognized artist who was like, hold on, I got this and just like hopped on her computer through some colors, did some and we were like, We love it. Like we just love it. We wanted it to be bright. We wanted it to be inviting. And I feel like we've been successful just two weeks ago actually got a text from my executive producer who works on the planet. Well, content, it was like to send a photo of like, I believe it was a young male of color about 21 or 22 years old wearing a climate woke t shirt. And she was like, do you know where that's from? And he was like, No, I have no idea. And I was like, that's how, you know, we succeeded. Because we popularize something, we made it look so good. People don't necessarily need to make the connections, but they'll be promoting our work. And I'm sure and I get so many compliments when I wear t shirts and sweaters. And so she she told him to look up the videos. And you know, she sent me the photo. And she's like, we've I think we've succeeded. And I was like, I think we succeeded, I think we have you know. But at this moment, we are considering evolving the terminology because it doesn't feel as honoring. And we definitely are very sensitive to the fact that we use black vernacular intentionally. And it's time to kind of give it back and think through like what other ways can we popularize other terms to kind of help. It's about it's about to help kind of build the community because it was about building a group of people kind of drawing in a certain community that wouldn't necessarily be about it. And I feel like that to me was like a, we did it. We did it.John Fiege Yeah, it's it's it's definitely one of those terms that the the right has co opted and really done a number on they. Yeah, they're they're good at stealing those terms and turning them on their head. And usually, honestly, as a as a weapon back the other direction. Can you turn down your volume just to hear again, just noticing when you get excited? I get excited so much. Alright, how's that? Right? Great. Yes. So in a couple of your videos, you talk about what being climate milk means to you. And you say it means one, standing up for communities of color and communities most impacted by climate change, to complicating the conversations on climate in the environment. And three, doing something about it. Can you take me through each of these and break them down a bit?Layel Camargo Yeah, so the first one is, can you repeat it again, that's the firstJohn Fiege standing up for communities of color and communities most impacted by climate change,Layel Camargo right? That's right. Yeah, I've said it so much. And we actually haven't even recorded anything because of the pandemic. So I'm like, I haven't said it in a while. Yeah, standing up for communities of color. I think that that one to me specifically spoke to that. We need black, brown and indigenous people to feel protected and seen when it comes to the climate and environmental crisis. And that's everything from activating people in positions of power to empowering the people who come from those communities to know that this is an intersectional issue. I think that the climate crisis traditionally was like a lot of visuals of melting ice caps, a lot of visuals of the polar bears and you It's interesting because as we're getting more people narrative, I feel like the, we need to get a little bit more people narrative. And we need to return those images a little bit back, because the IPCC report has just been highlighting the rapid rates in which we were losing ice. And I think that when I initially thought of this at the time, there wasn't highlights of how indigenous people were protecting the large scale biodiversity that we have on the planet. There wasn't stories of, you know, urban, black or brown youth trying to make a difference around solutions towards climate change. And so I kind of made it my purpose that climate woke represent those demographics that we that I was important for me that black, brown and indigenous people of color were at the center of the solutions. And the complicated conversations and do something about it was that I actually feel like we have a crisis of binary versus complexity in our society. And I think that how we've gotten into this climate crisis is because everything's been painted. So black and white for us, that if you want a job, you have to be harming the planet, if you want to be unemployed, then. And then like all these hippies that are fighting to save the trees, they're taking away your job, you know. So I feel like there's so many ways in which our trauma responses just look for the patterns have been used against us. And it just felt really important for me, that people feel comfortable to complicate as much as possible, where we're gonna need different angles and different ways of looking at solutions that we need to embrace experimentation, where we need to embrace failures, and we need to really let go of these ideas that technology is going to come in and save us technology is a big reason why we got into this mess. And so I think that complicating the conversation to me was about this is like, if you are black, brown, indigenous, and you want to be a part of the climate crisis, but you have no way of integrating yourself besides talking about gender oppression, go for it, look at look at the leaders in this movement, and look at how many women are fighting and protecting, you know, at a larger global scale that don't get the visibility that they deserve. So I feel like that was my aim is to really invite that complexity. And then let's do something about it is that I don't want things to get stuck on the dialog. One of the biggest failures of the United Nations when addressing these crisises is that they don't have global jurisdiction. So they cannot actually mandate and or enforce a lot of these, it's usually done through economic influence, or like if one if we can get a first world to sign on to a certain agreement, then hopefully, they'll all do it. But then who ends up in implementing it, usually it's not the United States and Europe is not the first one to do it. And yet, we are the biggest global polluters on almost every sector you can think of. And I think that the do something about it is, for me a call to action, that we can talk about this, we can try to understand carbon emissions, methane emissions, global greenhouse, carbon markets, carbon, sequestering drawdown methods, we can talk about it. But if we're not doing it, putting it to practice while integrating these other two points, which is centering communities of color, and embracing the complexity of that, then it's nothing, it's pointless. We're just we're just allowing corporations to keep exploiting the planet and governments can keep, you know, sitting back and saying that they're doing something because they're convening people without actually regulating and putting down their foot for us. So, yeah, I think it was trying to summarize just my general feelings of this movement and the ways that there's been just lack of opportunities by not centering certain other people or allowing there to be more complexity.John Fiege Yeah, there's, I find, watching how those un meetings go down. So frustrating. Yes, just, you know, Time after time. It's just maddening. I'd have a hard time working in that space.Layel Camargo Yeah, I think I was fortunate enough to take I voluntarily took like a law class at pace, Pace University, pace law University, and one of the classes was United Nations policy, and so I got to witness the sub All meetings before that big meeting where Leonardo DiCaprio came out and said that we had a climate crisis, which everybody googled what the climate crisis was, I think it was called climate change. It was like the most time climate change was googled in the history of mankind. And I was sitting in those meetings and just seeing how it really is just a lot of countries just try not to step on each other's toes, because relationships translate into the economic sector, that I'm like, wow, y'all, like legit, don't care about the people you're representing?John Fiege Yeah. Yep. Yeah, it's crazy. Well, I wanted to talk a bit about what environmental justice means to you. And I thought we could start with your video called a power to rely on. And in your crudest, you include a statistic in the video that says in the US 75% of all houses without electricity, are on Navajo land. And, and then one of the people you interview in the video with Leah, John's with a group called native renewables, says, whoever controls your water and your power controls your destiny. And that's really powerful statement. Can Can you talk a bit about your experience working on this video, and how it impacted your thinking about environmental justice?Layel Camargo Yeah, so I, I realized that I'm really passionate about renewable energy and alternatives to energy capturing, probably through working on this video. And when we were first thinking about what themes we were going to cover, that's usually how I approached most of the climate world videos as I tried to talk to a few community partners. But mostly, I just do a lot of like, cultural observation, just like what are some of the themes that feel that are kind of resonating for people outside of the sector. So what's resonating for folks outside of the environmental justice world, and, you know, land back native sovereignty is something that's been popularized, especially after the Standing Rock camp, the no dapple camp, and I was noticing that it was kind of dwindling down. But a lot of data was coming up around the fact that a lot of indigenous communities are either sitting around and or holding and protecting 80% of the global biodiversity. And so something that how I approached this video was I wanted to show the native sovereignty piece with the land back as well as my passion for alternatives to our current energy use. And what Haley Johns is somebody who was recommended to me by Jade bug guy who's also featured in the videos, a dear close, like cultural strategist, filmmaker, co conspire in the sector. And she would I had initially approached her and said, I want ndn collective, which is what she works to kind of help us think through the script. And she said, Yeah, we're down and like, we trust you, like, we know you're gonna get the story, right, but we're down. And so it was, it was very easy for us to start with that. And then when I was like, Who do I talk to? They're like, you need to talk to a hayleigh. And I was like, Alright, let's talk to a healer. And so I flew out to Arizona, just to have a scout meeting with her, which I felt like I was chasing her down, because we didn't know she was going to be in Flagstaff, or if she was going to be near Phoenix, like we didn't know. So we were flying in. And we were like, Where are you today? She's like, I'm at my mom's house. I'm with my mom at this hotel. And we're like, Alright, we're coming through. So it felt very, like family off the bat, which now she has been nominated for I forget the position, but it's the internal affairs of Indian energy, energy efforts and some sort. So she's she's doing it at a federal level now. And when I was when I was working on this video, and I had talked to her and I interviewed her as she was giving me a lot of these numbers, and I just realized that, you know, the irony of this country is just beyond what we could imagine. You have a lot of these coal mines that help fuel some of the larger energy consuming cities and in the United States, like Vegas, like la that just consume energy at such high rates that are being powered by coal mines in Navajo or near Navajo Denae reservations. And yet, I was hearing about what halos program and her efforts were just trying to get funding and or subsidies from the government in order to put solar panels on folks his house because the infrastructure doesn't exist. And she was running she's letting me know about that. cost, she's like at $75,000 per house. And then we in order to like run the lines, and that's not even including the solar panel infrastructure. And then if they can't, we can't run the lines, and we're talking about batteries. And she was breaking this all down, I'm like, that is a lot of money. We need to get you that money. And then she started just educating us more through that. So I think I went into this video just knowing that I was going to try to make those connections. But what I realized was that I was actually going in to learn myself, just how much I need to humble myself with the realities that communities who have had less to nothing in certain things, everything from food, to energy to water, have made alternatives that they are, they've already created the solutions like we found one of the elders who had put up one of the first solar panels and Hopi reservation, which I highlighted in my video, she got it 30 years ago, like I, I was flabbergasted that she had the foresight, and the way that she articulated was everything from comfort to entertainment. But at the end of the was she knew she needed power. And she runs a business, the local business won a very few on the reservation that she was passionate enough to keep alive. And so this video just showed me that like, wherever you go, where there has been disenfranchisement, that's where you will find solutions. Because a lot of people have just making do for a long time, it just hasn't been seen, it hasn't been highlighted. Those are the people that like the UN should be talking to the you know, our federal government should be listening to.John Fiege Yeah, and I actually wanted to talk to you about Janice de who's the Hopi elder that you mentioned. And, you know, in particular, how it relates to how depth and skillful you are communicating with people from a wide range of backgrounds. in you, you you use humor a lot. And in this power to rely on video, you're sitting down with Janice day. And talking about how she's one of the first people to get solar power 30 years ago. And you asked her whether the first thing she charged with solar power would be a vibrator. And that was that was that was really funny. And all of a sudden, I'm watching with anticipation, asking myself, how is this woman going to react to that question? And you seem to have such a good read on the people you're speaking with. And I was hoping you could talk a bit more about how you communicate so many, so well and so many in so many different spaces and how you consciously or unconsciously lubricate the relationships with humor.Layel Camargo Yeah, I've been I I think a lot of it is my passion for humor has come from has been maintained by a lot of data and information that I've gotten around just the importance of people being able to process things through laughter. And that the climate crisis is nothing to make mockery and or to laugh, there's this is very serious. The ways in which our species is kind of being at threat of extinction, and right before our eyes. But I think that as humans, we're so complex and layered, and we're so beautiful in the sense that we get to feel so intensely and feeling is what motivates us to take action. And laughter helps you process so much data quicker, it helps you be able to take something in, embrace it, release, and then have it make an impression that is the one line that everybody brings up with that video. So I made the impression. And I hope that people watched it and then wanted to show it to other people. And so I think that, that that knowledge has retained my passion for humor. And then like I said, You know, I grew up in an abusive home where we had to process things fairly quickly in order to be able to function in the world to go to school to go to work. And growing up in a home where there was a lot of violence. I learned how to read people very keenly everything from anticipating when something was going to happen tonight, and I speak about that pretty like nonchalantly because I think a lot of us have a lot of strategies and skills that we've developed because of our traumas and our negative experiences that we've had in the world. And I think they don't often get seen as that we'll just say like, Well, I was just really I'm just really good at reading people and we'll leave it at that and it's like, but what is your learn that from like, there have been many chronic situations where you had to be really good at reading people in order for you to like practice it so clearly in it skillfully. And so I think I honor my experience in that in order for me to do that. And then I think cultural relativity and cultural content petencies is another thing like, Janice de actually reminds me a lot of my grandmother and my grandmother was somebody who was very religious. And at the same time, I always loved pushing her buttons. I would just like try to say things to get her activated. And I knew at the end of the day, she loved me. And that was about it. I didn't have to question whether she loved me because she was upset that I asked her something and appropriately. So I think it's a combination of that. And I'm grateful that I can embody that and be able to offer it to people who are curious about climate change and and feel more invited through laughter than they would about doom and gloom or heavy statistic videos and our ways of gathering information.John Fiege Awesome. Well, another kind of video you made is called consumerism, cancelled prime. And the first shot is you waiting while the camera crew sets up the shot and you're putting items in your Amazon cart on your phone. And then the quote unquote real video begins. And and you say 80% of California's cargo goes through the Inland Empire. And then you yell along expletive that's beeped out. And you ask emphatically his climate, wrote, his climate woke about to ruin amazon prime for me. And and I love how rather than just saying Amazon, or Amazon customers are bad. You're starting by implicating yourself in this system that leads to serious environmental justice issues. And again, it's really funny. Can you talk more about the situation with Amazon and other real retailers? And and how you went about positioning yourself in this story, and using humor again, and self criticism to connect to the audience?Layel Camargo Yeah, I mean, when we first started working on this video, we explore different avenues of that opening scene, when we wanted to highlight community members, I kind of at this point, have a pretty good like tempo of what it is that I want. I want a community member I want somebody who's like academic or scientifically based, and then somebody else who kind of comes in allows her to be more of a creative flow. So we have a pretty good structure at this point of the voices that we seek, we just didn't know how we wanted to hook the audience. And we went back and forth quite a bit on this, the thing that kept coming up was amazon prime memberships are very common. Most people have them most people buy on e commerce and this is pre COVID. And I was keenly aware of that I also knew that Amazon was growing as a franchise to now own Whole Foods that were just like expanding in regards to what it is that they offer people online. And as I mentioned, I, through my passion for reduction of plastic usage and plastic consumption, and plastic waste, I understand the ways that ecommerce has really hurt the planet. So I myself am not an Amazon Prime member, I I don't actually buy online and I allow myself when needed one Amazon thing a purchase a year. And it's like kind of more of a values align thing. So in order for me to reach connecting with somebody who's kind of a little bit more normal in regards to needing to rely on buying online, is I just had to exaggerate what I think happens when you're shopping, which is you look at a lot of stuff, you add them to cart, you get really excited, and then you kind of mindlessly click Buy without knowing what's going to happen. But you're excited when it arrives, surprisingly, because maybe you bought it in the middle of the night while drinking some wine and watching some Hulu. So that's like what I was trying to embody. And then what I was really trying to highlight in this video was I wanted to invite audiences to not feel shame about what they do, like we are we've all been indoctrinated by the system through what our education has taught us. Like we have values of individualism and patriotism and all these things, because that's what we were taught in schools. And that's been used and co opted by corporations in order for us to continue exploiting other humans and the planet. And that's by no fault of our own. That's a design that's an economic model that was designed since the Great Depression. It's just the way that it's been exaggerated and has scaled so quickly is beyond our control where our governments don't even regulate it anymore at the ways in which they should be. And I think that I wanted this to feel like it's not just on you as an individual, but it's specifically if you live in Europe or in the United States. You need to know that we are The biggest consumers on the planet, we have the most economic resources. We actually, if even a fraction of the United States decided to stop shopping at Amazon, we could significantly bring that Empire down. I say Empire pretty intentionally. And we could I mean, I feel like you. And that's and how I understand economics is that all you need to do is impact 10 to 20%. of supply and demand chain in order for a whole corporation to collapse. The problem is, is that our governments always come in to aid these large corporations that are hurting us on the planet by saying that they want to maintain jobs and maintain a GDP are going stock market, which they're reliant on. So this video was meant for audiences. And for people to feel like this is not just on you. But if you live

This episode takes us down under the sea where we get some questionable osteology and a magical drug that makes you follow only the unsub's directions. It's another Criminal Minds recap! Due to the nature of the show, there will be discussion of violence and sexual assault. Original theme music composed and performed by Nate Youngblood. This podcast was produced by Nate Youngblood.

Hello and welcome to WGSN's fortnightly Create Tomorrow podcast, bringing you the latest innovations impacting the future of design and product. Surfer, filmmaker, and journalist Chris Nelson joins WGSN Editorial Director Bethan Ryder to discuss his documentary 'The Big Sea'. In this episode, we dive into the big sea a new documentary exploring the connection between the $10b surfing industry and Cancer Alley in Louisiana in the US. Cancer Alley is a region along the Mississippi River in Louisiana with many factories and chemical plants. The pollution from these plants has made the air and water unhealthy, causing high rates of cancer and other illnesses among the residentsThe documentary sheds light on the toxic truth behind a single material - Neoprene a material used to make swimsuits. Chris and Bethan discuss greenwashing and more about the film because it demonstrates the crucial role designers and brands can and must play in creating a better future for people and the planet.

Andrew Lewin interviews Chris Nelson and Lewis, two surfers and filmmakers, about the impact of the surfing industry on the environment. They discuss the evolution of the surfing industry, the challenges it faces in aligning with environmental values, and the need for more sustainable practices. They also highlight the role of smaller, more environmentally conscious brands in filling the gap left by larger, mainstream brands. The conversation touches on the use of petrochemicals in surfboards and wetsuits, the environmental impact of travel for surfing, and the need for greater awareness and action within the surfing community. The documentary film explores the environmental and health impacts of neoprene production in Cancer Alley, a predominantly black community in the deep south. The film highlights the historic layers of environmental racism and the increased cancer risk faced by the community. It also exposes the complicity of the surf industry in supporting the petrochemical company responsible for the pollution. The filmmakers aim to raise awareness and drive consumer-driven change by promoting the use of natural rubber as an alternative to neoprene. The film is currently in post-production and will be released soon. Film Website: https://thebigsea.org/ Instagram:  Film: https://www.instagram.com/thebigseaorg/ Lewis Arnold: https://www.instagram.com/lasurfpics/ Chris Nelson: https://www.instagram.com/approachinglines/ Takeaways The surfing industry has evolved over time, with larger mainstream brands giving way to smaller, more environmentally conscious brands. Surfers have a deep connection to the environment and are increasingly aware of the impact of the industry on the oceans and the planet. The use of petrochemicals in surfboards and wetsuits, as well as the carbon footprint of travel for surfing, are major environmental concerns. There is a need for greater awareness and action within the surfing community to promote sustainability and protect the oceans. The documentary 'The Big C' sheds light on the dark side of the surfing industry and aims to inspire change and promote more sustainable practices. The film exposes the environmental and health impacts of neoprene production in Cancer Alley, a predominantly black community in the deep south. It highlights the historic layers of environmental racism and the increased cancer risk faced by the community. The film reveals the complicity of the surf industry in supporting the petrochemical company responsible for the pollution. The filmmakers aim to raise awareness and drive consumer-driven change by promoting the use of natural rubber as an alternative to neoprene.   Follow a career in conservation: https://www.conservation-careers.com/online-training/ Use the code SUFB to get 33% off courses and the careers program.   Do you want to join my Ocean Community? Sign Up for Updates on the process: www.speakupforblue.com/oceanapp   Sign up for our Newsletter: http://www.speakupforblue.com/newsletter   Facebook Group: https://bit.ly/3NmYvsI Connect with Speak Up For Blue: Website: https://bit.ly/3fOF3Wf Instagram: https://bit.ly/3rIaJSG TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@speakupforblue Twitter: https://bit.ly/3rHZxpc YouTube: www.speakupforblue.com/youtube  

LinksTry Benchmarks ExplorerLearn More About DataboxSubscribe to our newsletter for episode summaries, benchmark data, and moreIn this episode of "Metrics & Chill," host Pete Caputa, CEO of Databox, chats with Andi Graham, CEO and Founder of Big Sea, about scaling a marketing agency and success in the purpose-driven space. Find out:How Andi transformed Big Sea from a local web design agency to a specialized marketing company for nonprofits, healthcare, and human servicesLead generation tactics, including a unique grant program for nonprofits and robust email marketingThe importance of metrics and benchmarking for data-driven growth, alongside effective content strategies like SEO and landing pages

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Big Sea Monster Found in the UK There's a big sea monster in the UK. It looks very scary. It's twelve meters long. That's as big as a house! 英國發現一隻巨大的海怪，牠長達12公尺，跟一棟房子一樣大。 It has a lizard's head. But its skull is two meters long! And its mouth has one hundred thirty sharp teeth. This monster might eat you in one bite! 牠的頭部像蜥蜴，光是頭骨就長達兩公尺，還有130顆牙齒。 Ahhh! Thinking about it makes me scared. But do we need to be afraid of this sea monster? Don't worry. It's okay. This animal is NOT alive. Scientists found its skull. 我們需要擔心這頭海怪嗎? 完全不用，因為牠早就死了。科學家找到牠的頭骨。 This animal lived 150 million years ago. That was the time of dinosaurs. This big sea monster is a pliosaur. Pliosaur means "more lizard"! 牠生活在1億5千萬年前恐龍的時代，這頭巨大的海怪是「上龍」。 Long, long ago, it was the king of the ocean. The pliosaur used its four strong flippers to swim very fast. Any other fish or ocean animal was its food. 很久以前，上龍是海洋的掠食者，牠強壯的四肢讓牠游得非常快。 But now it's a fossil. Its teeth and bones are now stones. Scientists want to study this pliosaur. They hope to learn more about this real-world sea monster. 但牠現在變成了化石。科學家想要研究上龍，希望對這頭真的海怪了解更多。 What? You see a big sea monster? Don't worry, it's not a pliosa … ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vocabulary 上龍可不是童話故事裡的海怪，牠真的在地球上生活過。 1. skull 頭骨 Hey, I just came back from an adventure! 我剛剛探險回來。 Really? What happened? 真的嗎?發生了什麼事? I was at this dinosaur museum, and saw a giant T-Rex skull. 我去恐龍博物館，看到一個巨大的暴龍頭骨。 2. as big as 一樣大 It's as big as my body! 跟我的身體一樣大! No way! 不可能! But it's true. 是真的。 3. scary 讓人害怕的 It's very scary. 它很嚇人。 Okay, what else did you see? 好吧，你還看到什麼? A fish fossil that has hundreds of teeth! 一個魚的化石，有好幾百顆牙齒! 4. teeth 牙齒 Why so many teeth? 為什麼有那麼多牙齒? To eat other monsters? 好來吃別的怪物? 請跟我一起讀單字。 skull頭骨 as big as一樣大 scary讓人害怕的 teeth牙齒 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quiz 1. Where was the sea monster found? a. The USA b. The UK c. The UAE 2. How many meters long is the sea monster? a. two b. twelve c. twenty 3. What is the sea monster called? a. Pliosaur b. Lizardsaur c. Dinosaur Answers: 1. b 2. b 3. a

Diese Woche geht es um das Thema Neoprenanzüge. Woher kommen die Rohstoffe für unsere Neoprenanzüge, was ist wirklich nachhaltig und was können wir heute überhaupt noch guten Gewissens tragen? Wir haben in der Vorbereitung dieser Folge mit Lewis Arnold und Chris Nelson gesprochen, die seit mehreren Jahren an der Doku „The Big Sea“ arbeiten, wo es um den Ursprung für die größte Krebsrate in den USA geht (Spoiler: u.A von der Herstellung regulärer Wetsuits).Checkt das Projekt gerne hier aus: https://vimeo.com/774177195 @thebigseaorgSupport kommt von: @finisterre – Born For The Sea, Built For Adventure. Danke

Diese Woche geht es um das Thema Neoprenanzüge. Woher kommen die Rohstoffe für unsere Neoprenanzüge, was ist wirklich nachhaltig und was können wir heute überhaupt noch guten Gewissens tragen? Wir haben in der Vorbereitung dieser Folge mit Lewis Arnold und Chris Nelson gesprochen, die seit mehreren Jahren an der Doku „The Big Sea“ arbeiten, wo es um den Ursprung für die größte Krebsrate in den USA geht (Spoiler: u.A von der Herstellung regulärer Wetsuits).Checkt das Projekt gerne hier aus: https://vimeo.com/774177195 @thebigseaorgSupport kommt von: @finisterre – Born For The Sea, Built For Adventure. Danke

Diese Woche geht es um das Thema Neoprenanzüge. Woher kommen die Rohstoffe für unsere Neoprenanzüge, was ist wirklich nachhaltig und was können wir heute überhaupt noch guten Gewissens tragen? Wir haben in der Vorbereitung dieser Folge mit Lewis Arnold und Chris Nelson gesprochen, die seit mehreren Jahren an der Doku „The Big Sea“ arbeiten, wo […] --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/surftalkpodcast/message

On this episode of Rising Tide we talk with surfers and filmmakers Lewis Arnold and Chris Nelson about their upcoming documentary "The Big Sea". This startling expose takes a look at the links between the manufacture of neoprene (chloroprene rubber), used in wetsuits and the toxic pollution and high-cancer risks faced by low-income communities adjacent to neoprene's main manufacturing plant in Louisiana's "cancer alley". Learn about the costs - and natural alternatives - to chloroprene in our latest show.Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!Learn more at bluefront.org

Nikki Van Dijk was a major threat on the women's Championship Tour. Her best season on tour was in 2017 where she reached No. 7 on the Leaderboard after claiming her first CT victory at the Cascais Women's Pro in Portugal. Her style is smooth rail surfing shaped by her years of honing her approach on Phillip Island, a remote little enclave that's a day trip away from Melbourne, Australia.She inherited her passion and froth for surfing from her surf-crazed dad. In 2012, during her final year of school she raced off to Bali just before final exams to clinch the World Junior Championship and then later joined the Tour in 2014. After years spent with her main sponsor Rip Curl she left them to partner with WALLIEN Wetsuits as an Ambassador where she has gone on to co-create an exclusive collection of high-performance wetsuits with a focus on optimal comfort, style and environmental mindfulness. We were fortunate enough to meet Nikki while she is in NYC for the UN General Assembly NY Climate Week where she was on a panel with former guest of the Show Chris Nelson to discuss the film The Big Sea, the investigative documentary exposing the hidden links to cancer Alley in Louisana and the wetsuit worlds toxic addiction to neoprene. Nikki was here in our studio in Rockefellar Center and we were stoked to welcome her on to our show. For more information on Nikki Vandijk follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nikkivandijk/To find out more about Wallien and their natural rubber wetsuits go to https://www.wallien.com/collections/wetsuits The Swell Season Podcast is recorded by The NewsStand Studio at Rockefeller Center in the heart of Manhattan and is distributed by The Swell Season Surf Radio Network. www.swellseasonsurfradio.com Music: Artis: The Go TeamSong: Lady FlashAlbum:Thunder, Lighting, Strike

Ci vuole coraggio per mettersi tutti contro: Lewis Arnold è un giornalista e regista indipendente che insieme al collega Chris Nelson ha svelato lo sporco segreto dell'industria del surf. La produzione del neoprene di cui sono fatte le nostre mute inquina l'aria a tal punto da rendere 50 volte più alta della media la possibilità di contrarre il cancro. Succede in una zona nel sud degli Stati Uniti chiamata “Cancer Alley”, è tutto documentato: il governo USA ha fatto causa all'azienda proprietaria della fabbrica di neoprene. La soluzione al problema esiste, si chiama yulex: una gomma naturale estratta da foreste di alberi coltivate con metodi sostenibili certificati. Lewis spiega: “I brand sanno che questa è la strada da percorrere ma produrre le mute in yulex ha ancora un costo troppo alto, il prezzo è artificialmente gonfiato. Quando uscirà il nostro documentario, The Big Sea, tutti i surfisti avranno finalmente gli elementi per decidere consapevolmente e cambiare le cose”.

What do neoprene  wetsuits have to do with Cancer Alley ? The global wetsuit industry is valued at around $2.8 Billion USD."The vast majority of wetsuits on sale today are made of a synthetic rubber called Neoprene. Neoprene – the commercial name for chloroprene rubber – is the product of a toxic, carcinogenic chemical process.There is only one chloroprene plant in the US. It is owned by Japanese chemical company Denka and lies in the predominantly black, low income town of Reserve, Louisiana – in the heart of an area known as Cancer Alley. Rising from the site of a former plantation, the Denka chloroprene plant casts a long shadow over St John's Parish.No home in the community around the plant has been untouched by cancer. It has the highest cancer risk in the USA – 50 TIMES the national average. The EPA acknowledges the high cancer risk is due to chloroprene emissions from the plant."In their forthcoming film The Big Sea, Lewis Arnold and Chris Nelson take us to Cancer Alley in Louisiana to hear from local activists who have spent decades fighting for the health and safety of their community. The Big Sea is an exploration of the toxic nature of wetsuits, the true human cost of Neoprene production and surfing's links to Cancer Alley. Learn more: TheBigSea.org…Listen with Lauren L. Hill & Dave RastovichSound Engineer: Ben Alexander Theme song: Shannon Sol Carroll Additional music by Dave & BenJoin the conversation: @Waterpeoplepodcast Get monthly musings and behind the scenes content from the podcast by subscribing to our newsletter. You'll get water-centric reading and listening recommendations, questions worth asking, and ways to take action for the wellbeing of Planet Ocean delivered straight to your inbox.

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If you're curious about digital marketing that is grounded in purpose, this episode is for you. We sat down with Andi Graham, the CEO & Managing Partner of Big Sea, a Digital Marketing Agency based in St. Pete, FL and Asheville, North Carolina, to discuss their expertise in digital marketing in the B2B and nonprofit industries. Whether it's building a positive company culture or creating successful content driven campaigns and stunning websites, Big Sea approaches everything they do with purpose and connection in mind. Tune in every week for new episodes where we help marketers and business owners stay in the know! About the Brick Media Podcast: This is the official podcast for Brick Media, an award-winning social media agency in Tampa, FL. We help marketers and business owners stay in the know. We do that by interviewing professionals in the marketing industry about current trends, career paths in marketing, social media strategies and much more! Thanks for being here. Get In Touch With Us! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brick_media Website: https://www.brickmediagroup.com Share with a friend or colleague. We appreciate you! - Produced by Brick Media Group LLC Recorded in sunny Tampa, FL - Check out our CEO's podcast, Brick By Brick with Jake Kurtz

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A reactive and insightful episode to coincide with their Kickstarter campaign, we speak with Director Lewis Arnold and Writer Chris Nelson on the environmental surf film of the moment, The Big Sea.  The Big Sea is an independent, investigative documentary exploring the toxic nature of wetsuits, the true human cost of neoprene production and surfing's link to Cancer Alley. To learn more about the film and for ways to get involved yourself, head on over to https://thebigsea.org

Can you live with the true cost of a Neoprene wetsuit?That is the question being asked by guests Lewis Arnold and Chris Nelson. Filmmakers who explore this question in their documentary The Big Sea. Surfing is a $10 billion global industry – built on the dream of carefree spirits, crystal clear waters and an even clearer connection to the natural world – has never been more popular. Surfing has posed as a champion of environmental issues. But there is a dirty secret… and people are dying. Lewis Arnold and writer Chris Nelson have followed the story from the communities of Cancer Alley in Louisiana, through to the wave rich beaches of California, to the heart of the surf industry and beyond.Through speaking with surf brands, industry leaders, surfers, cultural commentators and environmental campaigners, they ask: “Can you live with the true cost of a Neoprene wetsuit?” and, “Will surfing lead the charge of the outdoors industry and beyond, away from Neoprene, to a more viable alternative?”The Big Sea is a fully independent documentary that was filmed over three years in the USA, Australia, France, Spain, UK and Ireland. For more information you can follow @thebiogseaorg on Instagram or go to www.thebigsea.org The Swell Season Podcast is recorded by The NewsStand Studio at Rockefeller Center in the heart of Manhattan and is distributed by The Swell Season Surf Radio Network. www.swellseasonsurfradio.comMusic: Song: Riding The WindArtist:The Val Dusty ExperimentAlbum: Litmus

Andi Graham, CEO of Big Sea, joins our host, Camela Thompson, in this episode of the Revenue Marketing Report. Andi shares her insights on the things that feed into determining a persona profile, why persona is so important in developing messaging that works, and the dangers of relying only on data in understanding your customers.   For more great content like this, check out calibermind.com.

Guest: Andi Graham Guest Bio: Andi Graham is CEO at Big Sea, a 40-person remote digital marketing agency she founded in 2005. Andi's team provide marketing strategy and consulting, web design and development, SEO and media buying for mid-market organizations across the country. Andi currently lives in Asheville, NC with her husband, teen daughter, and 3 dogs and spends her weekends hiking, traveling, and skiing.   Guest Links: https://bigsea.co/     About Salesology®: Conversations with Sales Leaders Download your free gift, The Salesology® Vault. The vault is packed full of free gifts from sales leaders, sales experts, marketing gurus and revenue generation experts.  Download your free gift, 81 Tools to Grow Your Sales & Your Business Faster, More Easily & More Profitably. Save hours of work tracking down the right prospecting and sales resources and/or digital tools that every business owner and salesperson needs. Watch the demo of the Salesology® Prospecting Method, A Simple, 3-Step Method That, On Average, Increases Qualified Appointments & Sales By 73%. If you are a business owner or sales manager with an under-performing sales team, let's talk. Click here to schedule a time. Please, subscribe to Salesology®: Conversations with Sales Leaders so that you don't miss a single episode, and while you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated! To learn more about our previous guests, listen to past episodes, and get to know your host, go to https://podcast.gosalesology.com/ and connect on LinkedIn and follow us on Facebook and Twitter and checkout our website at http://www.gosalesology.com

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Ashley Brown teaches Coastal Kayaking, Stand Up Paddleboarding, and Instructor Development at the College of Charleston. She has developed these paddlesports courses over the past decade to include Sustainability Literacy and a First Year Experience course with a Biology class. Learning about sustainability and sharing it with the students led Ashley to start a Masters of Art at Prescott College in Outdoor Education Leadership. She only has a few more classes before she finishes her degree. Ashley shares her passion for teaching kayaking at all levels and challenging people to test their limits while learning and having a ton of fun. She has been developing a curriculum in Kayaking, SUP, and Instructor Development at the College of Charleston, where Ashley serves as an Adjunct Professor.  Ashley is the recipient of the American Canoe Association 2019 Excellence in Instruction Award.  This award is presented annually to an ACA member for outstanding contributions to paddlesports education and instruction. She earned the prestigious Level 5 American Canoe Association Advanced Open Water Coastal Kayaking Instructor Certification and is also an ACA Level 4 Kayak Instructor Trainer, Canoe Instructor, and L2 Standup Paddleboard Instructor. Ashley serves as a member of the executive committee of the Safety, Education, and Instruction Committee for the American Canoe Association. She loves to travel and has gone from Canada to Mexico and beyond, sharing her talent and knowledge with clubs, groups, schools, outfitters, events, and symposiums. Residing in Charleston, SC, she enjoys welcoming guests from all over the world to paddle in Charleston's beautiful waterways.  One of her favorite venues is the “Edge of America”, the Atlantic Ocean off Folly Beach.  She provides paddlers an opportunity to have an exciting experience and widen their perspectives. Today we're talking about how and why she got diagnosed, how an ADHD/ADD brain can often serve as a prerequisite, and what being buoyant may do for the ADHD in you! Enjoy! ——  In this episode Peter and Ashley discuss:   00:45 - Thank you so much for listening and for subscribing! 00:50 - Apologies for the near horrid audio- Peter is in a tourist-filled lobby today. 01:05 - Intro and welcome Ashley Brown! 01:53 - When were you first diagnosed and how did it happen? 03:00 - What was the first big change you felt after your diagnosis? 03:56 - What inspired you to seek out aquatic sports & activities; and to teach them? 05:33 - Do you experience sort of a rebirth every time you go kayaking; like I do when skydiving or running? 06:00 - On the good kind of exhaustion and a completely focused flow.  07:18 - How does scanning a wave, being outdoors and on the water help your ADHD? 08:56 - I had never thought of ADHD/ADD as a requirement for something! For what else could ADHD possibly be a prerequisite? 09:40 - On the importance of physical movement! 11:30 - How can people find more about you? [Ashley isn't a public figure but you can check into her courses via Web: www.wavepaddler.com and on their Facebook page here] 12:34 - Guys, as always thanks so much for subscribing! Do you have a cool friend with a great story? We'd love to hear. I'm www.petershankman.com and you can reach out anytime via email at peter@shankman.com or @petershankman on all of the socials. You can also find us at @FasterNormal on all of the socials. It really helps when you drop us a review on iTunes and of course, subscribe to the podcast if you haven't already! As you know, the more reviews we get, the more people we can reach. Help us to show the world that ADHD is a gift, not a curse!  19:08 - Faster Than Normal Podcast info & credits  — TRANSCRIPT via Descript and then corrected.. somewhat: [00:00:38] Peter Shankman good morning. I am coming to you today from the lounge at a Hilton in Midtown Manhattan because, uh, my apartment was supposed to be finished two weeks ago for all my renovations and it's not, and I am living the Dylan McKay life here in New York Hilton in Midtown. For those not old enough to understand what the Dylan McKee lifestyle is? Well, look it up. Your parents knew. Anyway, welcome to another episode Faster Than Normal. Uh, I apologize in advance for all the background noise. Ashley Brown is joining us today. Ashley, get this we're going outdoors today, even though I'm sitting in a lounge in mid Manhattan, we're going outdoors. The great big ocean. to the coast. We're gonna talk to Ashley Brown who teaches coastal kayaking standup paddle boarding and instructed development of the college of Charleston. She's ADHD. She's developed these paddle sports courses over the past decade to include sustainability literacy and her first year experience course to the biology class. This is a very, very cool stuff. She got diagnosed when her kid did, as we hear so much about .Ashley, welcome to Faster Than Normal. Let's talk about some outdoors and how it relates to ADHD.  [00:01:39] Ashley: Hi! Hi, thank you so much for having me. And, um, I am really excited to talk to you. I've enjoyed listening to your podcast and I have to admit I'm a bit nervous. I hope that I hope this goes well.  [00:01:51] Peter: . You're gonna be, you're gonna be fine. Don't worry about it. So tell me when you tell me when you first got diagnosed and how did it happen?  [00:01:56] Ashley: Um, my daughter was in around third grade and, um, she had hit like unbelievable benchmarks in, in, in intelligence as a, as a little kid, you know, when they do those, pull you out, testing things to put 'em in gifted and talented and stuff. And then suddenly she couldn't read, you know, she wasn't reading, uh, at her, at her pace had had had just stopped. So we discovered that she had dyslexia and, uh, ADHD, and, uh, as we are moving through all those, those categories, I'm going, yep. That's me. That's me. That's me. And of course, this is something that, um, I, I understand a lot of adults have had that experience. So, so I got diagnosed when she got diagnosed and, uh, same thing, dyslexia, ADHD, and, uh, it's, it's interesting to hit it at, you know, 40 versus eight, you know, so  [00:02:55] Peter: I was gonna say, so you lived your life, not knowing anything about it, sort of similar to the way I did. I didn't get diagnosed in my late thirties and, um, what was the, what was sort of the first cha big changes that you saw in yourself once you, once you got that diagnosis?  [00:03:06] Ashley: Um, changes in myself, I guess, I guess maybe just like forgiving myself for being me, I don't know. Um, like suddenly. [00:03:20] Peter: That's actually a, that's a pretty huge answer. A pretty huge answer. Cause a lot of people don't realize that I, I went through the same thing. [00:03:25] Ashley: Yeah, no, I, uh, I always just, you know, why can't you do your taxes on time? Why can't, why do you have to work at a de at a critical deadline? Like, why can't you do this ahead of time? Like, um, so many of. So many other things that ADHD, people struggle with. Like, um, and I, I guess I cut myself a little more slack, not enough, not, not enough, but a lot more slack than I used to. Like now I have a reason, you know? [00:03:53] Peter: Well, we'll never cut ourselves enough slack that's for darn sure. But, okay. So tell me about how outdoors, how did you, first of all, how'd you get started in, in the classes of paddle boarding and kayak and all that, all that stuff outdoors. And what prompted you to say, Hey, there should be, there should be a school or classes. [00:04:07] Ashley: Well, um, so it, the, all the school and the classes are there it's, um, I didn't create that, but I just brought it in a different venue. So, um, I, um, I was, I, my first career was an artist and an art teacher and I was, uh, teaching. and it, it just, it just, you know, it, it's a pretty punishing, um, field. Uh, and I, I, I never was super successful with it. And then teaching children and then having children, it was just so many children and so much mess in my life that I, uh, I had a neighbor who said, Hey, you should come kayaking. And I went kayaking with a bunch of adults who I didn't have to clean up after. And I was like, ah, I can do this. And I, um, I just made some, made some major changes and I really went. Uh, full force into kayaking and stand and, uh, and then loved it. And I live in a place I live in Charleston, South Carolina, and, um, there is nothing but water around here. So there's so many places to explore and so many, uh, dynamic environments to, uh, get to know. So, um, I shifted from teaching, uh, children to taking people on kayak tours and all this stuff. And then, um, I met an instructor with the College of Charleston and, and. Uh, opened up some doors to me and I, I ended up with a full-time job teaching, uh, paddle sports at, uh, college level.  [00:05:31] Peter: I'm gonna go into a limb and say that paddle boarding or paddle sports or anything like that is similar for the brain as skydiving or running is for me. Would that be correct? Are you, is it a rebirth for you every time you do.  [00:05:42] Ashley: Rebirth. Hmm. I don't know. I don't know, rebirth and it, and it, and it is exciting and fun. And particularly when you do surf, so I'm guessing that skydiving and, and actually hearing that crashing wave behind you kind of stuff is this is similar. [00:05:57] Peter: Tell me how you feel when you're done. You come back to land.  [00:05:59] Ashley: The good exhaustion. Just space, that's it? Yeah. That's yeah. Um, so, and, and when I, when I bring people into it, I love their, uh, reaction to it. And I love the layering cuz. And I think that this is one of the things that I was that I wrote to you and the reason I wanted to, to talk to you, and I think that the layering of, of understanding the environment and watching the student and understanding where the student is is, has it. It it's that flow, right? Where you, where your brain is working on all the levels in the environment you're in. This is, this is probably the only thing I've ever done, where I wasn't also having a conversation with, you know, somebody from a year ago and writing a grocery list, you know, at all three going on at the same time. So, so it is the only place where my entire, where all of my attention is, is layered into there. So, so I love that. And then that puts me in that good exhaustion. [00:06:56] Peter: Well, there's a level of focus there, right? I mean, you absolutely, you have no choice. You have to look at what you're doing. You have to focus on what you're doing. You have to pay attention to what you're doing. You can't do a hundred of those things. It's the same thing with skydiving and, and for people with ADHD, we don't often realize that we realize that is the, the level at which we thrive!  [00:07:11] Ashley: Right. Exactly. Exactly. It's um, it is definitely the level where you thrive. [00:07:18] Peter: Tell me about, um, how it helps, how doing that helps your ADHD. Tell me about, uh, sort of how your brain reacts to that kinda stuff to, to being outdoors, to being on the water, to, to scanning the wave.  [00:07:29] Ashley: Okay. Um, so, so I came in to ADHD later, I did not understand the dopamine thing. Um, Prior to it, but now I understand and I, and I seek the, and I identify the things that give me that pleasure, that dopamine rush. So sometimes you're bored out of your mind of course, but then when you, when you can find the things that are giving you pleasure, like the, like moving very quickly through the water or looking at a reflection of a surface and, and, um, and so seeking those things has, or, or, you know, seeking that experience through somebody else's experience. So I'm watching, I'm watching 20 year olds figure out how to make their body work in a new way and how to make a boat, move, move through waves and stuff in a, in a, um, in a, something that they're not familiar with. It is, it is exciting in, and then that really does feed the, um, that dopamine receptor, I suppose. And, um, gives me a pleasure that, that, uh, I don't know that I, that I, I guess I had is with an art with art, but I had gotten so done with it with art. But anyway, um. [00:08:40] Peter: That's a good answer. I wanna read something that you wrote in, in your email to me, you said, I think that or ADHD is practically a requirement for outdoor educators. They problem solve on the go keep people safe while putting them in intentionally risky situations and manage their expectations to keep it engaging, but not scary. You know, I've never thought of it that way. ADHD is a requirement for something, right. We always look at it as a gift and, and, and something beneficial. I've never thought it as a requirement. I wonder what other things a ADD could be a requirement for? What do you think?  [00:09:08] Ashley: Um, gosh, I don't know. Um, the, the it's back to that multi layering thing, it's, it's, it's seeing some body and their process and a situation that needs your undivided attention as well. So probably teaching someone to skydive or teaching someone to do other things that are risky. Um, Ropes courses. Those are, yeah, those,  [00:09:32] Peter: I mean, I think, I think along the lines that, that, you know, one of the things about ADD & ADHD is we have that incredible power to hyper focus. Right. Right. When we want to focus on something, we are there 100%. And I don't think that a lot of, a lot of people, without ADHD, really understand how that works. And so I think in that regard, it's probably very beneficial for us. Um,  [00:09:50] Ashley: you know, and also the busy bodiness like the, the physical, um, Busyness is, is, uh, is key. So I think a lot of people that, that engage in that, like that come to an outdoor education experience and enjoy it, but don't want to be in it constantly. They need to think while sitting still or being still. And I, and I, I don't know how you are, but I never stop moving so it's a, it's a perfect thing for me to, to keep moving, to keep thinking. I,  [00:10:22] Peter: I think it's the same it's same reason. Yeah. It makes perfect sense. It's the same reason that, you know, my, my parents always told me as a kid, no listening to music while you're studying, but it turns out that listening to music is actually the best possible thing. Someone like us could do. No question about. [00:10:33] Ashley: Absolutely. And like, um, um, teaching kids. Well, my own children. Teaching kids like the multiplication tables or reading stories out loud or whatever, when they were tiny. If they, it, my, my little one was jumping around the whole time and, and I, and I would go, you know, what did I just say? And she could repeat it, back like just like word for word. But if I, you know, she just couldn't sit still to do that. So. No question. And, and I related to that, so I didn't try to get her to sit still. I went to Catholic school and I was required to sit still. So ,  [00:11:09] Peter: I went to school in the seventies and I was, yeah, in the seventies, it was sort of the same way. And lemme tell you something that didn't work really well for me either. No. And that was a public school too.  [00:11:17] Ashley: Not a big fan of the sitting still  [00:11:20] Peter: Ashley, how could people find out more? How can they find you? Do you have an Instagram, you have things where people could find your great, you sent me some great photos of paddle boarding and all that stuff. The places people could find this stuff? [00:11:28] Ashley: Um, so I have a website wave paddler.com and, um, I am, I, I actually am not I'm, I'm not a public personality in the, in this, in the way that you are. I don't have something that I'm trying to convey to people. [Ashley isn't a public figure but you can check into her courses via Web: www.wavepaddler.com and on their Facebook page here] Um, I just loved your show and I wanted to talk with you. And, uh, and, um, I don't know. I really do appreciate my ADHD! [00:11:51] Peter: Good enough. Yeah. As you should, we're trying to change the world. Not everyone has to be a celebrity and everyone has to be, uh, famous. We could be like, you know, regular normal people, just, just doing the best they can with the tools that they've been given. Ashley Brown. Thank you so much for sticking around and coming on the show and, uh, stay on the water and keep having fun! [00:12:07] Ashley: Thank you. You too! Come and paddle with me sometime.  [00:12:09] Peter: Most certainly will. Guys, as always, we've been listening the fast than normal. Sorry again about the background. Apparently every loud person, who's a tourist in New York happens to be in this lounge right at this very moment. But I'm hoping that the next time we talk, I'll be back in my apartment where it's much quieter. We will see you next week. If you like what you heard, leave us a review in any of the stations, any of the places you download your podcasts. My name is Peter Shankman  @PeterShankman all the socials. And thank you for listening. We'll see you next week. ADHD is a gift not a curse. Credits: You've been listening to the Faster Than Normal podcast. We're available on iTunes, Stitcher and Google play and of course at www.FasterThanNormal.com I'm your host, Peter Shankman and you can find me at shankman.com and @petershankman on all of the socials. If you like what you've heard, why not head over to your favorite podcast platform of choice and leave us a review, come more people who leave positive reviews, the more the podcast has shown, and the more people we can help understand that ADHD is a gift, not a curse. Opening and closing themes were composed and produced by Steven Byrom who also produces this podcast, and the opening introduction was recorded by Bernie Wagenblast. Thank you so much for listening. We'll see you next week!

One memorable night, a mother and her daughter go for a magical moonlit walk by the sea.

SOCA THERAPY - APRIL 24, 2022: Soca Therapy Podcast PlaylistSplash (Dr. Jay Plate) - LavamanWet It Up (Dr. Jay Plate) - ZeekTake Ah Bathe - Iwer GeorgeFish Dance (Riddim Master Road Intro) - Low RiderThe Teach (Antiguan Style) - Ricardo DrueTornado - Marvelus x Ricardo DrueBorn To Mash Up - Marvelus x Patrice RobertsDo Road New Road - Marvelus x Lil Natty & ThundaBad Tingz - Marvelus x Adam OStupidness - Marvelus x Skinny FabulousMaddest Crew - Machel MontanoLose Weight - SackieContainer - Shireen BDe Saltfish - Problem ChildSoak It Good (SMJ Road Mix) - Skinny BantonMudda Sally (Dj Puffy Road Mix) - Lil RickMust Wet - Mr. Legz Fog Up - Marzville & StabbyShell Down Dat - Motto & Fadda FoxGo Ask Yuh Mudda - Bunji GarlinCall My Mother For Me - EdwinWine Up - Black ChineyLike A Horse - Dhirv2Funny x BoboThe People Man - Kisha x MataNot My Man - KikiBacchanal - Freezy Mr Prickle - Blackboy ft. Big Sea Go Down - JoJo Foot Apart - Big RedDominate - Jadel Pan & Soca (Road Mix) - Bunji GarlinSteel Band Power - Burning FlamesTANTY TUNE OF THE WEEK: Pan In A Minor - Lord KitchenerPan In Ya Ring Pong Pa - Square OneColours Again - Destra GarciaRoad Budy - Kerwin DuBois x Nessa Preppy x Dj Private RyanRaggamuffin - Sekon Sta x Dj Private RyanLevel Vibes - Skinny Fabulous x Dj Private RyanRoad Skank - Preedy x Dj Private RyanFree Again (Private Sayeed's Clapapella Intro) - Preedy x Dj Private RyanI Like It - GBM Nutron x Dj Private RyanFind A Way - Lyrikal x Dj Private RyanToast (Dj Private Ryan Iron Intro) - Sekon Sta x Dj Private RyanBam Bam - Sekon Sta x Salty x Dj Private RyanBoatride Anthem - Viking Ding Dong x Dj Private RyanTOP 8 COUNTDOWN (Curated & Co-hosted by International Dj & Producer Dj Private Ryan)8. Touch the Ground - Dj Private Ryan x Machel Montano & Marge Blackman7. Location - Dj Private Ryan x Preedy6. Dancing Partner - Dj Private Ryan x GBM Nutron & Imani Ray5. X Games - Dj Private Ryan x Teddyson John4. Can You Feel It - Dj Private Ryan x Terri Lyons3. Keep Jammin On - Dj Private Ryan x Kes2. So Sweet & Dubai - Dj Private Ryan x Erphaan Alves & Sekon1. Feel the Love - Dj Private Ryan x Freetown CollectiveJUS SMILE NUH Segment with 9 Year Old JUSTINBruck It (Jester Edit) - Machel MontanoKotch De Bumper - Lil RickWild Out - Lil RickBumper Bounce - Erphaan AlvesDefense - Skinny FabulousBlessings (Intro Mix) - King BubbaMind My Business - Patrice Roberts x Travis World x Dan EvensAll Eyes On You - Skinny Fabulous x Travis World x Dan EvensHappy Papi - Machel Montano x Travis World x Dan EvensStress Bout Dat - Adam OEarthquake - Viking Ding DongGyal Wine - Nailah BlackmanBad Badd - Mole x Brucelee AlmightyDrunk'n Style - Problem ChildClean - Lil RickDutty Dutty - DJ CheemTake Bamboo - MelickToo Much x Take Bamboo (Refix) - Marzville x Klassik FrescobarTambou & Pan - Army GuySucka Bag - Taller DanCome Down From Dey - Trinidad KillaOut & Bad (Scratch Master x Riddim Master Remix) - VoiceOut & Bad (Official N.M.G PodMix) - Voice x Lord KitchenerOut & Bad - VoiceFollow Dr. Jay @socaprince​ and @socatherapy“Like” Dr. Jay on http://facebook.com/DrJayOnline

Pastor Preston continues in our sermon series for Lent: Small Boat, Big Sea. Jesus spent several years of his ministry around a lake with his followers. Often he criss-crossed the Sea of Galilee on a boat, teaching, healing, and doing some surprising things that all pointed to God's work in making things right in a broken world. In many ways, our world today does not feel ‘right.' So many things seem broken. Jesus did a strange thing: taking a small group of friends out into a big world is risky and should be doomed to fail. Jesus showed that as long as he was on the boat, his followers were safe to venture out with him. Today we are a little boat on a big sea. We are always learning to trust God as the waves and wind push and pull. But we can live courageously knowing that Jesus is here, and knows the way. Join is for our Lenten journey to encounter Jesus, and his invitation into new life with him.

Pastor Evan continues in our sermon series for Lent: Small Boat, Big Sea. Jesus spent several years of his ministry around a lake with his followers. Often he criss-crossed the Sea of Galilee on a boat, teaching, healing, and doing some surprising things that all pointed to God's work in making things right in a broken world. In many ways, our world today does not feel ‘right.' So many things seem broken. Jesus did a strange thing: taking a small group of friends out into a big world is risky and should be doomed to fail. Jesus showed that as long as he was on the boat, his followers were safe to venture out with him. Today we are a little boat on a big sea. We are always learning to trust God as the waves and wind push and pull. But we can live courageously knowing that Jesus is here, and knows the way. Join is for our Lenten journey to encounter Jesus, and his invitation into new life with him.

Pastor Evan continues in our sermon series for Lent: Small Boat, Big Sea. Jesus spent several years of his ministry around a lake with his followers. Often he criss-crossed the Sea of Galilee on a boat, teaching, healing, and doing some surprising things that all pointed to God's work in making things right in a broken world. In many ways, our world today does not feel ‘right.' So many things seem broken. Jesus did a strange thing: taking a small group of friends out into a big world is risky and should be doomed to fail. Jesus showed that as long as he was on the boat, his followers were safe to venture out with him. Today we are a little boat on a big sea. We are always learning to trust God as the waves and wind push and pull. But we can live courageously knowing that Jesus is here, and knows the way. Join is for our Lenten journey to encounter Jesus, and his invitation into new life with him.

Pastor Evan continues in our sermon series for Lent: Small Boat, Big Sea. Jesus spent several years of his ministry around a lake with his followers. Often he criss-crossed the Sea of Galilee on a boat, teaching, healing, and doing some surprising things that all pointed to God's work in making things right in a broken world. In many ways, our world today does not feel ‘right.' So many things seem broken. Jesus did a strange thing: taking a small group of friends out into a big world is risky and should be doomed to fail. Jesus showed that as long as he was on the boat, his followers were safe to venture out with him. Today we are a little boat on a big sea. We are always learning to trust God as the waves and wind push and pull. But we can live courageously knowing that Jesus is here, and knows the way. Join is for our Lenten journey to encounter Jesus, and his invitation into new life with him.

Erik Davis, Youth Ministry Leader continues in our sermon series for Lent: Small Boat, Big Sea. Jesus spent several years of his ministry around a lake with his followers. Often he criss-crossed the Sea of Galilee on a boat, teaching, healing, and doing some surprising things that all pointed to God's work in making things right in a broken world. In many ways, our world today does not feel ‘right.' So many things seem broken. Jesus did a strange thing: taking a small group of friends out into a big world is risky and should be doomed to fail. Jesus showed that as long as he was on the boat, his followers were safe to venture out with him. Today we are a little boat on a big sea. We are always learning to trust God as the waves and wind push and pull. But we can live courageously knowing that Jesus is here, and knows the way. Join is for our Lenten journey to encounter Jesus, and his invitation into new life with him.

Pastor Preston kicked off the new sermon series for Lent: Small Boat, Big Sea. Jesus spent several years of his ministry around a lake with his followers. Often he criss-crossed the Sea of Galilee on a boat, teaching, healing, and doing some surprising things that all pointed to God's work in making things right in a broken world. In many ways, our world today does not feel ‘right.' So many things seem broken. Jesus did a strange thing: taking a small group of friends out into a big world is risky and should be doomed to fail. Jesus showed that as long as he was on the boat, his followers were safe to venture out with him. Today we are a little boat on a big sea. We are always learning to trust God as the waves and wind push and pull. But we can live courageously knowing that Jesus is here, and knows the way. Join is for our Lenten journey to encounter Jesus, and his invitation into new life with him.

Today we are featuring one of the icons of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the fathers of Black Literature, Langston Hughes. James Mercer Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1901, in Joplin, Missouri. His parents divorced when he was a young child, and he was raised by his grandmother until he was thirteen. He moved to Lincoln, Illinois with his mother and her husband for a spell, before the family eventually settled in Cleveland, Ohio. Hughes began writing poetry as a teen, and after graduating from high school, he spent a year in Mexico with his father, followed by a year at Columbia University in New York City. During this time, he worked odd jobs and began to write in earnest. Hughes claimed Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his primary influences. In November 1924, he moved to Washington, D.C. and in 1926, after Hughes's first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, (Knopf, 1926) was published by Alfred A. Knopf He graduated from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in 1929 and in 1930 his first novel, Not Without Laughter (Knopf, 1930), won the Harmon gold medal for literature.Harlem functioned as Hughe's muse and he wrote novels, short stories, plays, and poetry, in particular being connected to the world of jazz. His work was one of the cornerstones that defined the Harlem Renaissance, but Hughes vision encompassed the stories of Black people throughout the United States.He established his voice through a variety of mediums, contributing articles and writing a longstanding newspaper column in the Chicago Defender and other papers to develop the Jesse B Simple character which turned into four volumes of prose. He compiled and edited “The Poetry of the Negro” alongside Arna Borntemps, bringing new black voices into the literary fold, and he penned a dozen plays, childrens books and the acclaimed autobiography, “The Big Sea”. The critic Donald B. Gibson noted in the introduction to Modern Black Poets: A Collection of Critical Essays (Prentice Hall, 1973) that Hughes “differed from most of his predecessors among black poets… in that he addressed his poetry to the people, specifically to black people. During the twenties when most American poets were turning inward, writing obscure and esoteric poetry to an ever decreasing audience of readers, Hughes was turning outward, using language and themes, attitudes and ideas familiar to anyone who had the ability simply to read... Until the time of his death, he spread his message humorously—though always seriously—to audiences throughout the country, having read his poetry to more people (possibly) than any other American poet.”In Hughes's own words, his poetry is about "workers, roustabouts, and singers, and job hunters on Lenox Avenue in New York, or Seventh Street in Washington or South Side in Chicago—people up today and down tomorrow, working this week and fired the next, beaten and baffled, but determined not to be wholly beaten, buying furniture on the installment plan, filling the house with roomers to help pay the rent, hoping to get a new suit for Easter—and pawning that suit before the Fourth of July."Langston Hughes died of complications from prostate cancer on May 22, 1967, in New York City. In his memory, his residence at 20 East 127th Street in Harlem has been given landmark status. His ashes are interred beneath a floor medallion in the middle of the foyer in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem.Today, Black Books Live will present three of Hughes works of short fiction that were featured in “The Short Stories of Langston Hughes”, edited by Dr. Akiba Sullivan Harper, published in 1996. The stories are presented in the following order: “Rock, Church”, “Trouble With Angels”, and “Spanish Blood,” a short story by Langston Hughes first published in “Metropolis,” magazine. December 29, 1934.

The Big Sea, is it real? Scientists claim it kills loads of people every year,and that its spreading - effecting old and young alike. If you would like to support the show join my Patreon and get yourself discounts on the canvases on my website along with access to the digital books I've wrote. otherwise if you want to buy the digital downloads or want something I've made from dead rats go to www.worldaroundewe.com    You can find all my links here - www.linktr.ee/worldaroundewe   

"Perhaps, like a field in the springtime that is newly plowed, my brain, my opinions, my algorithms, need to be turned over, leaving me a little unsettled," says Dr. Carol Bier-Laning, who dove into Courageous Conversations from day one — and has leaned in with beautiful curiosity and humility since. In this episode, hosts Rev. Dr. Zina Jacque & Jessica Green invite Carol to reflect on what she is learning and how she is shifting — including understanding her privilege, examining her biases, and finding the right moments to scatter seeds with others, not knowing which will find fertile ground.References:Small Boat, Big Sea by Dr. Carol Bier-LaningProud to be Maladjusted by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.We Wear The Mask by Paul Laurence DunbarParable of the Sower ( Matthew 13:1-23)To learn more about the series, visit http://courageouscommunity.us

La formidable autobiographie The Big Sea de Langston Hughes a été publiée en 1940 aux États-Unis et en 1947 en France, par Pierre Seghers. Ce livre, véritable trésor retrouvé dans le catalogue Seghers, vient d'être ré-édité. Antoine Caro, directeur des éditions Seghers, nous explique toute cette fabuleuse histoire.Dans cette interview, nous discutons de la vie incroyablement riche de Langston Hughes en suivant son récit : son enfance aux Etats-Unis au début du XXè siècle, les périodes difficiles avec son père au Mexique, son passage dans un Paris où la vie quotidienne est rude mais les nuits riches de poètes, d'écrivains engagés, de danseuses avant-gardistes - Isadora Duncan, Joséphine Baker… - et de jazzmen dans les clubs de Montmartre, puis les cargos sur lesquels il s'embarque pour travailler et grâce auxquels il découvre l'Afrique, à l'époque des colonies, avant de regagner New-York, Harlem, et de plonger dans la Harlem Renaissance… Une immersion dans une époque, dans des lieux et un contexte historique que l'on traverse avec Langston Hughes, au travers de son regard et de ses réflexions d'une lucidité implacable mais non dénué d'humour. Nous parlons aussi de Léopold Sedar Senghor, de Zora Neale Hurston, de Bessie Smith…À écouter !Présentation par l'éditeur"La littérature est une grande mer où nagent toutes sortes de poissons. J'y ai jeté mes filets. Et je continue de pêcher." Ecrite en 1940, publiée par Seghers en 1947, l'autobiographie du grand poète noir américain Langston Hughes est à redécouvrir, en même temps que son auteur, un écrivain majeur et méconnu en France. Langston Hughes (1901-1967) est un auteur majeur du xxe siècle : premier poète africain-américain à introduire le blues puis le jazz dans la poésie, il a considérablement influencé le développement de la culture dans le Nouveau Monde. Dans son autobiographie, écrite en 1940, et traduite en France aux éditions Seghers dès 1947, il raconte sa jeunesse aventureuse et la naissance de sa vocation d'écrivain. The Big Sea est un document exceptionnel sur une décennie d'une folle liberté, les Roaring Twenties, et son effervescence dans le domaine des arts, sur la lutte pour les droits civiques et le sort des intellectuels et des artistes noirs aux États-Unis au début du siècle dernier, sur le Harlem du jazz et la " Renaissance noire ", sur le Paris nocturne des cabarets de Montmartre... Une œuvre littéraire pleine de vie, de style, de drôlerie et de beauté, à redécouvrir aujourd'hui dans une traduction revue."Je lis The Big Sea et j'ai tant de plaisir, vous ne pouvez pas imaginer ! " Nina Simone Antoine Caro, ex-directeur général adjoint de Robert Laffont, est aujourd'hui directeur de la maison d'édition Seghers.Acheter The Big Sea de Langston Hughes sur le site Librairies Indépendantes :https://www.librairiesindependantes.com/product/9782232145209/Soutenez ce podcast http://supporter.acast.com/so-sweet-planet. Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

Steph & Ash talk to Big Sea CEO, Andi Graham and talk about her journey of starting her own company and how she organically got there. Everything that happens starts with a conversation. An agreement or an idea. A connection. That conversation can take place almost anywhere, at any time, through the digital devices always […] The post Live Bold & Boss Up: How To Create A Great Company Culture with Andi Graham, CEO of Big Sea appeared first on Radio Influence.

Steph & Ash talk to Big Sea CEO, Andi Graham and talk about her journey of starting her own company and how she organically got there. Everything that happens starts with a conversation. An agreement or an idea. A connection. That conversation can take place almost anywhere, at any time, through the digital devices always […] The post Live Bold & Boss Up: How To Create A Great Company Culture with Andi Graham, CEO of Big Sea appeared first on Radio Influence.

Valerio Cesari, Riccardo Castrichini ed Emanuele Forte in diretta sui 106.6 di Radio Rock dal Lunedì al Venerdì dalle 15.00 alle 17.00. caparezza – la scelta dinosaur jr. – […]

Playlist the offspring – we never have sex anymore mc5 – looking at you the stooges – t.v. eye the cramps – garbageman motorhead – louie […]

Matteo Catizone in diretta sui 106.6 di Radio Rock dal Lunedì al Venerdì dalle 19.00 alle 21.00. ASCOLTIAMOLI A CASA LORO – ON THE ROAD, ogni mercoledì dalle 19 […]

Luigi Vespasiani in diretta sui 106.6 di Radio Rock dal Lunedì al Venerdì dalle 17.00 alle 19.00. Podcast del 21 aprile 2021. Playlist: black spiders – good times peter […]

Emilio Pappagallo in diretta dalle 08.00 alle 10.00 dal Lunedì al Venerdì sui 106.6 di Radio Rock. In studio Alessandro Tirocchi e Maurizio Paniconi. Podcast del 22 aprile 2021. Playlist: corey […]

Podcast del 22 aprile 2021. Playlist billy gibbons – west coast junkie ac dc – you shook me all night long deep purple – pictures of […]

Alessandro Tirocchi e Maurizio Paniconi in diretta dalle 06.00 alle 08.00 dal Lunedì al Venerdì sui 106.6 di Radio Rock. Podcast del 22 aprile 2021. Playlist: ministri – peggio di […]

In this teaching we examine pharaoh's heart hardening, the crossing of the Red Sea, and The Lord descending on Mount Sinai. There's a reason God didn't take the people over or around the Red Sea, but instead made a way through it.

Colter and Pete take on "Big Sea".

Tonight we will be listening to the works of Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes was a prolific writer, he wrote his first book in 1926, and within that time period up until his death in 1967 he devoted his life to writing and using his voice to lecture. He wrote sixteen books of poems, two novels, three collections of short stories, four volumes of "editorial" and "documentary" fiction, twenty plays, children's poetry, musicals, operas, three autobiographies, a dozen radio and television scripts and dozens of magazine articles. His work has appeared in the NAACP publication, Crisis Magazine, Opportunity Magazine and many others. The long and grand list of Hughes' works includes: Not Without Laughter (1930); The Big Sea (1940); I Wonder As I Wander" (1956), his autobiographies. His collections of poetry include: The Weary Blues (1926); The Negro Mother and other Dramatic Recitations (1931); The Dream Keeper (1932); Shakespeare In Harlem (1942); Fields of Wonder (1947); One Way Ticket (1947); The First Book of Jazz (1955); Tambourines To Glory (1958); and Selected Poems (1959); The Best of Simple (1961). He edited several anthologies in an attempt to popularize black authors and their works. Some of these are: An African Treasury (1960); Poems from Black Africa (1963); New Negro Poets: USA (1964) and The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers (1967). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Vamos a iniciar este episodio con Mario Bautista y su nuevo sencillo “Miami” junto a Lalo Ebratt y Austin Mahone, continuamos con el romanticismo de Danny Ocean y “Pronto”, una historia personal de Danny convertida en canción con ese toque que lo caracteriza.Seguimos con “La Fiesta”, track que se desprende del quinto material de estudio de Pablo Alborán, "Vértigo". Y cerramos el episodio con un regalo de navidad adelantado, Twenty One Pilots comparte un nuevo sencillo navideño, “Christmas Saves The Year”.Para escuchar estos y más lanzamientos disfruta la playlist Nueva Música Viernes:https://TopsifyMX.lnk.to/NMV

"I am a writer by passion at heart. At the core of everything I've ever done, writing has always been a part of my role. And this was the first opportunity that I had to actually make that my main function and turn it into a job. And what I learned in that experience is that tying your passion to a paycheck is not always the best mix." How do you take a product through the process from idea to execution in the midst of a global pandemic? With the help of your community! Get first-hand insights from Jackie and Donny Minchillo about how they built Pineapple Pickup in response to COVID-19's impact on their local restaurants and how the UFMB Community* supported their journey. More about Jackie & Donny: Jackie is a former corporate ladder climber with a background working for digital marketing and publicity agencies in Detroit and Chicago. In 2015 she and her husband decided to quit their corporate jobs, sell everything they owned and move to Costa Rica. Jackie spent 3 years covering Costa Rica for International Living Magazine and spent a lot of her time in Costa Rica on a journey of spiritual discovery and self-healing. During her "hiatus" in paradise, she developed the idea to expand her husband's freelance web development business into their co-founded eCommerce web development agency, Pineapple Development. Today she and her husband live in St. Petersburg, Florida where Pineapple Development has merged with local digital agency Big Sea. The Minchillo's are also the co-owners of residential and commercial cleaning company Joy of Cleaning, amongst various other business ventures. Writing has always been a passion of Jackie's and a part of everything she's ever done, and has lead to her latest endeavor, a life-long goal of publishing her first book: "Happy Pillz; 25 Tools to Overcome Overwhelm in Your Everyday Life Amidst Normalcy OR Chaos" available on Amazon.  Born in Brazil, Donny spent his teenage years in New York learning to speak English and plotting his American Dream. He studied computer arts and technology at Mercy College in New York and was always technically inclined. His interest was really sparked though when he decided to sell a faux fur coat he bought and never wore on eBay, and made money! Today Donny is an eCommerce expert with 15+ years of experience. Throughout his journey, he's touched every aspect of the industry from retail arbitrage and creating wholesale relationships as an omnichannel retailer, to being the merchant. He eventually became an E-commerce Director and then decided he wanted to "get his hands dirty" so to speak and became a Magento developer. He is the co-owner and CEO of Pineapple Development which he co-founded with his wife while they were living abroad in Costa Rica, and now he leads a team of the dev-iest developers to bring high-quality development services to merchants using the Shopify or Magento platforms or those in need of a custom web application to run their business. He is also the co-owner alongside his wife Jackie, of Joy of Cleaning in St. Petersburg, Florida, a residential and commercial cleaning company. In addition to multiple business ventures, Donny is a cryptocurrency enthusiast and early adopter. He's committed to accepting Bitcoin as a form of payment through any business that he owns ;-)  Connect with them: www.pineappledevelopment.com www.pineapplepickup.com ******* *NOTE: At the time of recording, the UFMB Community was still known as the CORE Leadership Collective. So you will hear everyone mention CORE a lot. That's us; they're talking about us. ******* In this episode: Chris Delaney, Chris 'Jinx' Jenkins, Jackie Minchillo, Donny Minchillo ******* get on our fucking email list: https://sendfox.com/ufmb join our fucking facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/unfckmybusiness subscribe to our fucking show: https://unfuckmybusiness.com/listen visit our fucking website: https://unfuckmybusiness.com/ This podcast uses...

In this episode, I talk to Matt Simpkins, of the band Rev Simpkins and The Phantom Notes, about how music elevates our consciousness, and the difference (if there is one) between a religious encounter with God and a non-religious experience of spirituality. Matt and the band have a new album out, called Big Sea, which you should check out!This episode also features snippets of an unreleased demo Matt recorded with the band. The song is called Jonah, and another version of it eventually appeared on the album Lions.Check out Rev Simpkins and the Phantom Notes: https://revsimpkins.com/Guardian article mentioned in intro: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/sep/26/dreading-a-dark-winter-lockdown-think-like-a-norwegian Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sometimes when you're starting somewhere new it can be intimidating and for some maybe discouraging. Great episode from Ray talking about this concept!

How can we change the world? Loyalty, Friends, & SUPPORT! Starting a business and living ESSENTIALS!

How can we change the world? Loyalty, Friends, & SUPPORT! Starting a business and living ESSENTIALS!

Hannah Griggs joins Elizabeth to talk about her website, Intemperance.org where she mapped 1,000 Prohibition raids that occurred in New Orleans throughout The Great Mistake. She discusses her findings and takes listeners on a virtual tour of drinking life in New Orleans back then, one data point at a time. Other references include:Tanya Marie Sanchez' work on women bootleggers in New Orleans. Lisa Lindquist Dorr's book A Thousand Thirsty BeachesLangston Hughes' autobiography, The Big Sea.

On the second episode of Band On Band we sit down with Jordan from Gender Roles to talk about his love for Crash Of Rhinos. Music used in this episode - Big Sea by Crash Of Rhinos. Band On Band is a Big Scary Monsters Podcast production. Please subscribe and share.

Happy New Year! Wow, 2020!! A new year and a new decade. In this episode you will learn how to make 2020 YOUR YEAR in real estate. What are your goals in real estate?? Tune in to find out our Top 5 attainable goals that you can set to make 2020 YOUR YEAR in real estate. If you or anyone you know needs help buying, selling, renting or investing, please don't hesitate to contact us at: Raquel.Knoell @elliman.com 646-331-1237 Instagram @teamknoell Facebook @teamknoell Always happy to help!

Our first grocery cast of 2020!We’re all either in the grips of, or coming down with, a cold.We had a couple of nice messages about the clip show, thanks!We don’t talk about it, but I got a vacuum sealer for Christmas from my Mom and it is great.It’s funny how where we are in our drive seems to drive what we talk about.Isabelle will be busier now that she’s not teaching, which may seem counterintuitive, but it’s true.Don’t reuse passwords!

Our first grocery cast of 2020! We’re all either in the grips of, or coming down with, a cold. We had a couple of nice messages about the clip show, thanks! We don’t talk about it, but I got a vacuum sealer for Christmas from my Mom and it is great. It’s funny how where we are in our drive seems to drive what we talk about. Isabelle will be busier now that she’s not teaching, which may seem counterintuitive, but it’s true. Don’t reuse passwords!

Welcome to Episode 55 of Profiling Criminal Minds where we discuss creepy photographers, Amtrak, and the dumbest episode of Criminal Minds yet! If you would like to read Count Vardulon's original reviews of each episode go to vardulon.com where you will find breakdowns of every episode of the show with additional material that focuses solely on the issue of profiling.

The creative agency industry is constantly evolving. For this reason, it's good to keep your agency's strategy fresh. Founder and CEO of Big Sea, Andi Graham, fills us in on why the agile approach isn't just a software development strategy anymore. We also cover: Educating your team about agile Embracing the discomfort of change Developing a feedback loop Real-time collaboration Resources mentioned in this episode include: "Manifesto for Agile" Scrum Methodology “Transforming to Agile: How We're Doing It” This blogpost is based on an interview with Andi Graham from Big Sea. To hear this episode, and many more like it, you can subscribe to The Innovative Agency Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on our website.

SOCA ESSENTIALS PRESENTS: ST. LUCIA [EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW...] TRACKLISTING TEDDYSON JOHN & KES THE BAND - Y DOUS D BOY - SHAKE DI BUMPA BLACKBOY - GIVE IT ALL TO ME MESSI - ON YOUR BACK BLACKBOY - FLAT BUM BUM TECKER - STICK & ROLL YUH BUMPER VACCUM - VACCUM BOSSLA - I HAVE A TING MATA FT. BIG SEA - 2 STROKE (FROM THE BACK) MAC11 - BUMPA INSTRUCTIONS UMPA & XONADZ - MAKE IT SHAKE MAC11 - BEND UP UR BACK VEAYGEL - REVERSE COOYAH - CLAP DAT ZOOMBOY - MOVAY TUH KROME FT. NASSIS - THE THING (HMMM) UMPA - JIGGLE FREEZY & EXODUS - BOUNCE PEPE - INSTRUCTION SONG (TOUCH YOUR TOE) MOTTO & BLACKBOY - FOR YOUR QUARTER (BING BUNG) DJ CHENG & EZZY - MATAY PRADO FT. SAVAGE - CONTROL BLACKBOY - SYIAY FREEZY - SISPAN DHIRV 2FUNNY - LOOK AT YOURSELF (VAYY KORWW) WHOOPY - LOCOTOE FASTLANE - MAKE A SNAP K.O. & PITCHBOY - BEND FOR THE BENG TECKER - SELFIES (GET BUSY) PABLO - KEISHA VEAYGEL - TOOFY UMPA - SIREN RICKY T - SULLY RICKY T - PRESSURE BOOM RICKY T - SHAKE UR TI LIN TI LIN (REMIX) MARVELOUS - BOUNCE BOBO - STICK IT JARDEL & TMOB - BIDING KEENAN - GIMMIE BUM BUM PRADO - OU PA HAH TAN (YOU NOT HEARING) PRADO - MOVAYTUH NASSIS FT. KROME - DRINKING PROBLEM EDWIN - CALL MY MOTHER FOR ME (SMARTIEZ FESTIVAL EDIT) EDWIN - CALL MY MOTHER FOR ME (SMARTIEZ DUB) SUBANCE - BUNNY RABBIT BOBO & DHIRV2FUNNY - IN MY EARS (MOSQUITO) SUBANCE, DRC & MIGHTY - HELLO HELLO HI HI MOTTO FT. SHAL MARSHALL & HYPA 4000 - TAKE JAM MAC11 - PANDA AMBI & BRUNO DABONVILLE - SOCK IT BIG SEA - BOOM DRIZZY & BUNUN - APPLE ON A STICK NASSIS - THEY DOH TELL YOU THAT SUBANCE & MIGHTY - YOYO HOLLYWOOD HP - RINGTONE BUMPA MOTTO & SKINNY FABULOUS - PICK YOUR POSITION MOTTO FT. BLACKBOY & EZRA - MAN WITH RIDE (BIG RIDE) SEDALE - IN D BAND SLY - MIX UP BLACKBOY - FIRE DEV - IS JAM BOBO - TIC IT & TAC IT BABA ROOTZ - BOUNCE ON IT SUBANCE & MIGHTY - TWO CLAP UMPA FT. SULLY - ONE DROP BUNUN & DRIZZY - WAKA WAKA MIIGOS - DOUBLE TAP TEDDYSON JOHN - CREME DE LA CREME KELLY B - BUM BUM SKILL KELLY B - ANYTHING GOES COOYAH - WIT IT UMPA - BAGUY SHEMMY J - START A FYAH LU CITY FT. SHONTELLE - SA KA FÊTE SHEMMY J - PRETTY ON PURPOSE SHEMMY J & IMRAN NERDY - CHERRY CASSAVA TEDDYSON JOHN - KITAY SA (SMARTIEZ FESTIVAL EDIT) TEDDYSON JOHN - VENT (JESTER ULTRA VIP EDIT)

In Episode 2 dürfen Clemens & Ben sich Gedanken über seltsame Orte machen, ihrer Begeisterung über die Band "Big Thief" freien Lauf lassen und sich mit dem sibirischen Haus und Hof Rapper aus Hohenschönhausen auseinandersetzen. Was das Alles mit Asbest, Noise und Maria Carey zu tun hat - erfahrt ihr im Podcast. Dazu gibt es noch ein politisches Manifest für den Berliner Senat. Es bleibt spannend...

Researchers hope to use disease-fighting genes found in whales to help find treatments for cancer in humans. Airliners that mix batteries and fossil fuel could dominate the skies in the future. And, are people more honest than they think they are? Kenneth Cukier hosts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Researchers hope to use disease-fighting genes found in whales to help find treatments for cancer in humans. Airliners that mix batteries and fossil fuel could dominate the skies in the future. And, are people more honest than they think they are? Kenneth Cukier hosts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tracing the footsteps of Irish emigrants to Newfoundland In our latest Documentary on Newstalk, International award-winning Producer Nuala Macklin, travels to Newfoundland, the most North Easterly point in North America, to trace the footsteps of Irish emigrants who set out from Waterford in the early 18th century to make their fortunes…IN:Big Wind - Big Sea - Big Welcome BROADCAST DATES:  Big Wind - Big Sea - Big Welcome will air on Newstalk 106-108FM on Sunday February 17th at 7am, Repeated Saturday February 23rd at 9pm. Our Newfoundland - Ireland connection can be traced back as far as 1715; long before the Great Famine had ever touched our lands. Thousands of young Irish boys and men embarked on the often treacherous Atlantic crossing from 'The Port of Waterford' to St, John's Harbour in Newfoundland. The big lure was seasonal work in Newfoundland's prosperous cod-fishing industry. Taking their Irish cultural blueprint with them, eventually, many of these Irish began to settle in this harsh but rewarding environment - creating what is often regarded as 'Ireland's 33rd county'. This little patch of Ireland and its heritage, exists along the Avalon Peninsula to this very day. For more than 50 years now, the passionate and tireless efforts of Galway man, Professor John Mannion (St. John's Memorial University) and his Kildare-born wife Maura, have created a phenomenal legacy for Ireland and the Newfoundland Irish. They've compiled an archive which contains over 80,000 handwritten documents which traces the paths of every Irish soul who emigrated to Newfoundland and their Irish roots since 1750. Known as 'The Mannion Papers', this unique archive means that every Newfoundland inhabitant of Irish decent, can trace their roots right back to the parish and burial spot in Waterford, Tipperary, Carlow and surrounds going back as far as 1715 from whence their ancestors embarked. In her usual colourful style, international award-winning Producer, Nuala Macklin, explores the fascinating history, similarities and contrasts which exist between the two places (Ireland & Newfoundland). With its exceptional line-up of interviewees and other magical elements, this deeply emotional, entertaining and highly informative audio excursion, preserves a precious, beautiful and vital part of our Irish heritage. BROADCAST DATES:  Big Wind - Big Sea - Big Welcome will air on Newstalk 106-108FM on Sunday February 17th at 7am, Repeated Saturday February 23rd at 9pm. CREDITS: Big Wind - Big Sea - Big Welcome was recorded and produced by Nuala Macklin, with Sound Editing by Declan Quinn. John Cullen was the Production Assistant. This programme was funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence fee. MUSIC CREDITS: Debut broadcast of anchor soundtrack for this programme is 'Mo Anagaire' from Irish Composer - Damien Gallagher's latest album - Alanú The BAI Sound And Vision Scheme: Sound and Vision is a funding scheme for television and radio that provides funding in support of high quality programmes on Irish culture, heritage and experience, and programmes to improve adult literacy. The scheme is managed by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.    

How to wave goodbye to your current career. 

•SOCA FIX 2018 PT2• SOCA FIX 2018 PT. 1 FEATURED SOCA HITS FROM TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO'S CARNIVAL AND NOW WE'RE READY FOR SOCA FIX 2018 PT. 2 A BLEND OF SOCA FROM ACROSS THE CARIBBEAN SO OFF WE GO TO THE NEXT CARNIVAL ENJOY! TRACKS: Sweetness - Marzville Dem Gyal - Shemmy J Fetulous - Mr Dale Who drinking - Maloney Sugar - Jus D x Faith 90s Honda - Jus Smoove Camo - Miguel Tro Wine - Shanta Prince Manager - Jus D Jiggle Jiggle "Show Me" (party mix) - King Bubba FM Yuh Bless - Lyrikal Rock That Body - Fadda Fox Face Down - Jagwa De Champ Correction Tme - Jagwa De Champ Rod Of Correction - NEESHA FEAT STIFFY Girl Bounce - Ti Camo Bomp And Whine - Chester (ft. Short-Star & Siy) Wining Exercise - Blackboy Any Size - Don Ups x Big Sea x Brandon Harding IS JAM - Dev Live Good - Bunji Garlin ft Ding Dong Fire - Blackboy Boom - Mata ft Freezy For Me Please - Freezy Two Clap - Subance & Mighty Land Work - Blackboy Whine For Me Gyal - Krazy K Di Baddest Jump Off - Dymez x da Pixel Good Up Good Up - Problem Child Vinyl - Dymez x daPixel My Lover - Bomani Taking Over - GBM Nutron Glorious - Lyrikal POUR ANUDDA SHOT - LEADPIPE & SADDIS WHEN YUH PASSIN - RICARDO DRUE JUCK FUH DAT - IWEB PUT IT ON ME - SHANTA PRINCE MORNING VIBEZ (BREAKFAST IN BED) - LIL RICK ENJOY - Holla Bak x Machel Montano Jiddle Fiddle - Boss Gyal Judi GO - Coded ft. Ayomidimeji Stand Tall - TwiXx Ft. Paula Right Now - ShadyLane Ft Dymez X daPixel HATERS - DYNAMITE FT. PROBLEM CHILD BIG UP - DYNAMITE Wine After Wine - Hypasounds Brace - Hypasounds FETING FAMILY - MIKEY MY FRIEND - NIKITA & KING BUBBA FM GURU - ALTEK ROUGHNESS - MARZVILLE BEN IT - LIL RICK MADNESS AGAIN "SHELL DOWN” - KING BUBBA FM PHONE AH RING - SEKON STA BACKWAY - RICARDO DRUE DIFFERENT - PETER RAM FIRERY - RICKY T FEAT KING BUBBA FM No Behaviour - Leadpipe & Saddis Unbreakable - Peter Ram Tomorrow - Lil Natty & Thunda DAMAGE IT - SKINNY BANTON OPPOSITE JAB - LOOSE CANNON TROUBLE - TONICK Till Morning Come - SKINNY BANTON JAB IS MY JOB - Pumpa & Mr Killa Wine & Stick-Ah - Subance & Mighty Can You Whine - Edwin X Subance MAD GYAL - FREEZY & K.I TROUBLE START - LIL RICK & MIKEY GO DOWN - RICKY T Bend Dong For De Hmm - Krome X Nassis Sports - Miigos Mata x Freezy x Big sea DOS BAL ( Double Time ) - Miigos & Big Sea WANGE' ( Fix It ) - Freezy FEH SA BAT - Mata TURN IT OVER - Hypa 4000 Make It Clap - Trinidad Ghost Hold Yuh Gal - Swaggy Move’ Temps - Migos Ft Fantom Dundeal Bend And Roll - Marzville x Freezy Waist Pun Fire - Marzville X Skinny Fabulous MUDDA SALLY - LIL RICK Bruk Out - Bunji Garlin Action - Lil Natty N Thunder x Lavaman WET - KWASI ACE Head Not Normal - Skinny Banton x Shal Marshall Bawd Hed - Lavaman x Peter Ram

Morgan Madness trundles onward as Ronnie and Jazz finish up the missing cousin storyline introduced in last episode's "Big Sea" with this episode's "The Company". How was the initial investigation botched so badly? Why doesn't Morgan's mother make an appearance? Is JJ a better character when she's mean? All these and more will be answered as Deliver The Profile enters the second month of the year.

Season 6's "Big Sea" is so bad, so full of Rachel Nichols, that the hosts spend most of their time talking about 90s television shows, from Party of Five to The Crow: Stairway to Heaven. It's a rough one, people, and Morgan Madness shows no signs of stopping. Here Morgan has to contend with his aunt asking if a resurfaced dead body belongs to his cousin. Can't she just forward anti-Obama chain letters like any other aunt?

Big Sea is leading with goals, not inbound deliverables. Here’s how they do it and why it’s working.

Andi Graham is the founder, CMO and managing partner of Big Sea, a digital marketing agency started in 2005 in St. Petersburg, FL. Big Sea works with clients of all types, helping entrepreneurs and organizations build and grow their businesses. We navigate through her entrepreneurial journey, from Big Sea’s early stages to running one of the most successful marketing companies in Florida. Like me, she was encouraged to go outside her comfort zone and leave her old job to start running her own business full-time. Support the show (http://buildingabusinessthatlasts.com)

   In this episode of Tobin Tonight, Tobin chats with Canadian Country star, Dean Brody. The two talk about Dean's upbringing and getting into the country scene. They talk about new country compared to old country and about crashing a wedding in Newfoundland while filming a song with great Big Sea.     Dean also talks about his success at the CCMA's where earlier this month he added to his collected with another three, giving him 16 CCMA Awards and 2 Juno's.  So don't just sit there, go listen! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on StoryWeb: Langston Hughes’s book of poems Montage of a Dream Deferred. I play it cool And dig all jive That’s the reason I stay alive. My motto As I live and learn Is dig and be dug in return. So goes the poem “Motto” in Langston Hughes’s 1951 jazz collection, Montage of a Dream Deferred. The list of my favorite Langston Hughes poems would be long indeed, but no volume of his poetry makes my heart sing like Montage of a Dream Deferred. Not only does it include justly famous poems like “Harlem” and “Theme for English B” and lesser known poems like “Motto.” But it also – taken as a whole volume as Hughes intended – provides a marvelous portrait of the African American community in post-World War II Harlem. The story goes that Hughes wrote Montage of a Dream Deferred in a creative outburst in one week in September 1948. Hughes had just moved into his own home after being a renter his entire adult life. Writing to a friend, Hughes described Montage as “a full book-length poem in five sections,” “a precedent shattering opus—also could be known as a tour de force.” I completely concur with Hughes’s self-assessment: Montage of a Dream Deferred is very much a tour de force. In his early work, Hughes showed how the blues as a uniquely African American musical form shaped his poetry. Some time back, I explored his landmark 1925 poem “The Weary Blues” and the way it exemplified the blues influence on Hughes’s poetry. By the 1940s, however, jazz had more than come into its own, embodying the vast creativity and artistry of African Americans. Jazz is just right as a vehicle for Hughes’s poetry, for he can riff on a poetic theme much as a band member might riff on a musical motif set down by the leader. Jazz was, of course, a distinct creation of African American musicians. Though there were many white musicians who became interested in and mastered jazz and pushed it in new directions, jazz was largely an African American cultural phenomenon. No volume of Hughes’s poetry illustrates his “jazz in words” approach quite like Montage of a Dream Deferred. And here it’s especially be-bop and boogie woogie that shape the volume and provide its language and syncopated rhythms. In a prefatory note to the book, Hughes writes, [T]his poem on contemporary Harlem, like be-bop, is marked by conflicting changes, sudden nuances, sharp and impudent interjections, broken rhythms, and passages sometimes in the manner of the jam session, sometimes the popular song, punctuated by the riffs, runs, breaks, and disc-tortions of the music of a community in transition. Right from the volume’s first poem, “Dream Boogie,” we are immersed in the “cool” language of be-bop, and we encounter our first syncopated stanza of poetry. Hughes writes: Good morning, daddy! Ain’t you heard? The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred?   Listen to it closely: You’ll hear their feet Beating out and beating out a –   You think It’s a happy beat? Now that the motif has been established – the “dream deferred” – Hughes can riff on it throughout the volume, which he stressed was to be seen as one long poem rather than a collection of 87 individual short poems. He employs different voices, takes different vantage points, takes the same words and plays them back to us in a different way. Even a short and seemingly straightforward poem like “Harlem” (taught by many an American literature instructor and “sampled” by Lorraine Hansberry in the title of her pioneering play A Raisin in the Sun) can take on a deeper resonance when it’s set in the context of this jazz-in-words volume of poetry. Appearing about midway through the book, “Harlem” opens with one of the most well-known lines in American poetry: “What happens to a dream deferred?” That question is at the heart of this book of poems. What exactly is the “dream deferred” that gives title and theme to this volume of poetry? Hughes had always played with the theme of “the dream,” in particular the dream of political and social justice for African Americans. “But Hughes now faced the fact,” says The Oxford Index, “that the hopes that had drawn thousands of blacks to the northern cities had led many of them to disappointment, alienation, and bitterness. Some of these poems depict blacks still able to hope and dream, but the most powerful pieces raise the specter of poverty, violence, and death.” And finally what of the term “montage”? Usually used to name a cinematic technique, the word “montage” describes the quick cuts and splices between disparate but associated images. In this case, the montage is of Harlem just after World War II. Famous for its Renaissance in the 1920s, when African American migrants from the rural South poured into the Manhattan neighborhood and filled it with music, art, literature, rent parties, and life, Harlem by the late 1940s was in decline. The dream African Americans had sought in their own vibrant neighborhood was, indeed, drying up like a raisin in the sun. The montage Hughes gives us, says The Oxford Index, is one that pulls together “virtually every aspect of daily Harlem life, from the prosperous on Sugar Hill to the poorest folk living down below.” The book “touches on the lives of Harlem mothers, daughters, students, ministers, junkies, pimps, police, shop owners, homosexuals, landlords, and tenants; its aim is to render in verse a detailed portrait of the community, which Hughes knew extremely well.” In his 1940 autobiography, The Big Sea, Hughes said, “I tried to write poems like the songs they sang on Seventh Street. . . . Their songs—those of Seventh Street—had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.” Eight years later when he wrote Montage of a Dream Deferred, he succeeded magnificently in capturing that pulse beat. To read Montage of a Dream Deferred, you’ll need to purchase The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad. It is the only place the 1951 volume is available (and except for a few individual poems, you can’t read Montage of a Dream Deferred online). A great recording of many of Hughes’s poems, including several from Montage of a Dream Deferred, is an album by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. It’s available only on vinyl, but if you’ve got a turntable, you’re in for a treat. If you want to go deeper, consider taking the Langston Hughes walking tour the next time you are in Harlem. The Big Sea: An Autobiography will give you insights into Hughes’s life, as will Selected Letters of Langston Hughes. True aficionados will want to read Arnold Rampersad’s two-volume biography of Langston Hughes. Volume I of The Life of Langston Hughes is subtitled I, Too, Sing America and covers the years 1902-1941. Volume II is subtitled I Dream a World and covers the years 1941-1967 (the year of Hughes’s death). Visit thestoryweb.com/montage for links to all these resources. You can also listen to Langston Hughes read “Harlem,” arguably the most important poem to come out of Montage of a Dream Deferred. You can also watch actor Danny Glover recite the poem.

We're joined by Darryl for this We Watch It So You Don't Have To double header. We look at Warcraft followed by X-Men: Apocalypse. We are able to find some good in both movies. Suggestions for the week are Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, and the band Crash Of Rhinos Song credit Big Sea by Crash Of Rhinos And as always if you have any suggestions please email us at mailbag@loveitpod.com and follow us on twitter and instagram at @loveitpod

http://BizWomenRock.com/252-2 Biz Women on the Move The Biz Women on the Move segment features the amazing accomplishments of the members of the Biz Women Rock community! Today, we're featuring... Stephanie Bennett of Stephanie Bennett Makeup. Stephanie was the first listener I ever heard from when I launched the Biz Women Rock podcast! She sent me an email telling me what an impact my very first episode (an interview with the great Joy Gendusa of PostcardMania) had on her. In this Biz Women on the Move segment, Stephanie shares where she's come in the past 2.5 years, the evolution her business(es) have had and how she's happy and living out her dreams within her makeup company! Congratulations, Stephanie! You are rockin' it! The Main Event The Main Event is our main feature of the show. Sometimes a deep dive interview with a kick ass business woman, sometimes a case study digging into a phenomenal business strategy, sometimes a diatribe from me about some cool lesson learned in business...whatever it is, its always chalk full of wisdom for you. Today on our Main Event... We're featuring a pointed interview with Andi Graham of Big Sea, a Digital Marketing agency in the heart of St. Petersburg, Florida. Andi is brilliant and shares how and why she merged her company with a "competitor," how she created recurring revenue with clients in her service-based business and what personal work she does to make sure SHE shows up as her best self every single day. Money Moxie The Money Moxie segment was created so we can KNOW OUR DOUGH! Savvy business women know their money, and Money Moxie will ensure you have the best information to grow your company intelligently! Today, our topic is... Getting Outside Funding For Your Business. It's not as scary or as complicated as you might think. I spend 20 minutes talking about the most common types of financing for small businesses with my good friends, Naim Hamdar and Keyur Patel of Synergistic Funding. If you've ever thought about acquiring funds for your business, whether it's a line of credit, purchase order financing, SBA loans or anything else, these guys are your best source of information! http://synergisticfunding.com Product Review I'm reviewing the latest and greatest business tools and products so YOU can get your business running more efficiently and effectively! Today, I'm reviewing... Google Keep. This Google application is fantastic for creating priority lists, taking notes and taking ideas that pop up in your head and putting them somewhere so you don't lose them! It has great features like reminders, sharing options and labeling so you can organize. Best part? It has a great phone app that makes this a must-have app for anyone who is on-the-go! I love it so much, I created a video tutorial of Google Keep just for you! http://bizwomenrock.com/keep Looking for a way to start and grow your own community? Check out Facebook Groups Rock! Your complete online course to help you start, grow and monetize your own Facebook Group! http://bizwomenrock.com/facebookgroupsrock  

I continue talking about my TdF spinning projects in the first part of this podcast.  In the second part, I go over some tips and troubleshooting for an old Ashford Tradition spinning wheel. The snippet of music today is Wild Mountain Thyme by Big Sea.   The fiber I started spinning on my Ashford wheel is from Chamomile Connection.  Check out the website, she still has merino/seasilk listed.  And Sheep Street fibers has a fun website to check out too.  That is where I got the dyed Shetland fiber I am spinning.   I used this website for information about the seacell fiber.