Podcast appearances and mentions of josh armstrong

In this Trellis episode, Aaron and Jon Sweet go in-depth about Scripture, but first we hear from Sharon McCarter, Josh Armstrong, and Natasha Warren. https://www.24-7prayer.com/resource/lectio-365/ https://waha.app/

In this episode we hear from Josh Armstrong, our Missions Pastor, and Lily Johnson about their experience on our recent short-term trip to the Dominican Republic.

An update from our missions pastor, Josh Armstrong as well as what Jesus parables about mustard seeds and yeast have to teach us about God's invitation to be the chaplain of where we live, work, learn and play.

Josh Armstrong of the Vineyard USA Missions Team shares this morning.

Aaron, David, Josh, and Erin talk through albums and artists that have formed them over the years. Click the link to access a list of the albums mentioned (with links to listen on Spotify!) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j9Srnehb4J5UoEQG4Y5gnAVMWEFsTKKW/view?usp=sharing

We've got another full episode, this time centered around being a neighbor. First, Josh updates us on the situation in Haiti, then, Renee, Theresa, and Chad share their experiences with neighboring.

This week Aaron and Mission Pastor Josh Armstrong talk all things missions! Reach out to Josh at josh.armstrong@vineyardchurch.us

The guest on this episode is one of my professors and mentors in Servant Leadership, Dr. Josh Armstrong, who shares with us the importance of creating a psychologically safe space where we can have real conversations and make meaningful connections with the people around us. We talk about some of the experiences I had in his classes and he talks about how he is trying to become an emotional scientist to recognize personal feelings while encountering the feelings of others in healthy ways. Josh believes people long to connect and that we all have expectations for the teams we are on that we too often don't vocalize. We have some great discussion on how to approach conflict and to resist avoiding uncomfortable conversations. Dr. Armstrong shares some great book recommendations and one is a recent book he read on the importance of creating rituals and we share some of our own personal rituals. As we create real meaningful connections and help people feel safe and present, we can create real harmony in our teams, but in order to do so we have to resist staying in the artificial harmony we too often settle for.  Dr. Josh Armstrong is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Leadership and Faculty Director of the Comprehensive Leadership Program for undergraduate students at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. He holds a Ph.D. in education and leadership from Michigan State University, a master's degree in higher education and student affairs from the University of Vermont, and an undergraduate degree in psychology from Whitworth College. Dr. Armstrong's research interests include development of intercultural competency, servant leadership, experiential education and adaptative leadership. In addition to teaching, Dr. Armstrong provides leadership training for student leaders at Gonzaga, and provides vision and student learning opportunities for a campus community of 5,300 students at Gonzaga. For the past fifteen summers, Josh has lead a summer program in Zambia, Africa with undergraduate students at Gonzaga and it always changes his life. Resources: Marc Brackett - Permission to Feel: The Power of Emotional Intelligence to Achieve Well-being and Success https://www.amazon.com/Permission-Feel-Emotional-Intelligence-Well-Being/dp/1250212839/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2VJL3E8HCELAW&keywords=marc+brackett&qid=1652248292&s=books&sprefix=marc+brac%2Cstripbooks%2C97&sr=1-1 Erica Keswin - Rituals Roadmap: The Human Way to Transform Everyday Routines into Workplace Magic https://www.amazon.com/Rituals-Roadmap-Transform-Everyday-Workplace/dp/1260461890/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3AWKY5SPJ0SY3&keywords=erica+keswin&qid=1652248356&s=books&sprefix=erica+keswin%2Cstripbooks%2C79&sr=1-3 Patrick Lencioni - Conflict Continuum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VZERZyY198 Josh Armstrong & Larry Spears - The Accompanying Servant Leadership: Facilitating Change that Builds Engaged Partnerships https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C19&q=The+Accompanying+Servant+Leadership%3A+Facilitating+Change+that+Builds+Engaged+Partnerships%C2%A0&btnG=  

Justin Patton has been doin' the thing for years. And he's still just 28 years old. ...and he's still getting better. Recently, Patton registered his first professional victory inside the cage, choking out Josh Armstrong with a textbook Von Flue choke in Round 1 of their 135-pound tilt at Brawl in the Burgh 10. Now 1-1, Patton feels he's just getting started on his fighting journey. Speaking with 247 Fighting Championships General Manager Hunter Homistek and owner Ryan Middleton, Justin details his fight mentality, his work at both the Academy and the Mat Factory, and much more. He might've even let us know when he wants to fight again. Enjoy the show!

Brawl in the Burgh 10 weigh-ins are here. Our Feb. 5 show at the Monroeville Convention Center is upon us, and the Pittsburgh Combat Sports Podcast (subscribe here) is on the scene to break down all the action. Today (Friday), fighters will weigh in at the Monroeville Convention Center and pass one last pre-fight check before making that walk to the 247 FC cage. Khama Worthy vs. Jeremiah Scott. Justin Patton vs. Josh Armstrong. Cam Allgeier vs. Hunter Starner undefeated super-prospect title fight. Gavin Teasedale's MMA debut. All that and more goes down SATURDAY in Monroeville.

In January of 2021, Trellis began with a hub of apostolic leaders in the greater Knoxville area, which is currently working to mobilize an army of local missionaries in order to train, equip, and empower them to plant the gospel in areas and among people that current church models are struggling to reach. Leader Josh Armstrong and his team believes that 3 startup hubs are necessary to get the ball rolling. While the greater Knoxville area is the first, there are 2 other areas that they see as strategic, which are the Tri-cities area in the northeast of TN, and the greater Chattanooga area in the southeast of TN. The Tri-cities hub is already in the process of forming.  Listen to Episode 13 of the podcast and access the show notes below. Future Church Insights: 1. Josh talks about why Trellis. Josh says that after he and his wife served as missionaries internationally, they returned to the United States and were searching for what was next. They felt convicted that God wanted to show them how to do what we learned overseas in East Tennessee. 2. Josh introduces the idea of a “HUB”. Josh talks about using Disciple Making Movements to look at how Jesus made disciples. He talks about the importance of going into others' contexts and learn from them and understand their culture, identify persons of peace and slowly disciple people to Jesus and then allow them to do the same within their own social network. And see the gospel go away from us rather than coming to us, coming to our church buildings. And so there's a lot more I can say about how that looks and what that looks like. But the long story short is you make disciples and see the church emerge from that. So, a HUB is a missionary sending and equipping team that would function within a county to launch Disciple Making Movements with normal everyday believers. So indigenous missionaries, if you will, that are living in their counties that are going to schools and going to their workplaces and how do we equip and train and mobilize them to live as missionaries in their everyday context. 3. Josh explains the structure of the HUBs. And by extension, none of the HUBs govern the network of missionaries and micro churches, the movements, if you will, that are launched within that respective county. The HUBs don't govern. And there's no HUB of HUBs that govern the hubs. And so it's very decentralized and it allows people to use creativity while having some shared language and resources and things of that nature. Goals and Desired Outcomes of Trellis Gospel saturation through a disciple-making movement (DMM), rallying dormant missionaries, and hubs that empower missionaries and micro-churches in every county of East TN are among the goals that we have identified thus far. Links:  thetrellisnetwork.org More of a reader? Download the transcription here. Key Quotes from the episode from Josh Armstrong: “And so rather than saying, we're going to go plant churches and there's not necessarily anything wrong with that at all, but that was the mentality that at one time had, let's get a group of people and go plant the church rather than go into the harvest, make disciples and see the church emerge from not yet believers, which is a little bit counterintuitive to a lot of people. But it makes a lot of sense when working amongst unreached people groups and increasingly here in North America, even it's necessary, and a lot of people are kind of shunning and turning away from prevailing model churches, unfortunately.” (5:23) “And it's also a big challenge, because a lot of times when you do something like this, you attract people that are just burnt or bitter toward prevailing models. And we said from the beginning, we don't want that to be our MO, that is some of our stories, but God very early on made it clear that we are to be honoring of all expressions of the church, that he is still using each and every expression that has been used in the past.” (15:35)

Native Canberran Josh Armstrong joins us for a highly entertaining chat about his career to date, including playing in the Junior Presidents Cup and meeting Gary Player, as well as a story about one of his earliest Instagram posts that cannot be missed.

Terry and Alan sit down with Josh Armstrong, pastor in Maryville, TN and creator of the Trellis Network, to hear his ideas of "Questions the Church Should Be Asking".

Pivot Spokane is a live storytelling event hosted quarterly. It returned to full production with a performance on June 17 at the Washington Cracker Building. I Got You was the theme of the evening's six performances heard July 12-14 on KPBX at 6:30 pm on The Bookshelf. In this episode, storytellers Josh Armstrong and Jennifer Mesa take the stage.

Hello, and thank you for listening to this weeks DISY! We have a double fun episode for you, but lets start off with the special part, in the first 15 mins! So this week Jake and I had the opportunity to chat with Josh Armstrong, of Last Dog Productions, and actor Michael Southgate, about their project that they have been working on. They have written a Sci-Fi / Horror, Apocryphal, that deals with drug addiction and tries to go a little beyond the stigma it has garnered over the years. They had the chance to work with one of the writers of His House on this project, so you know its gonna be something to behold! Do us a favor, please go and check out their Kickstarter, at www.APOCmovie.com. Support their project, and support the independent folk who are out there that still try to do it their way! Real short and sweet! This week Jake and I on the episode had John stop by to take a look at Day of the Triffids! It's a 60's, it came from outer space, kinda flick! We had twists and turns, 2 awful things to happen to our characters that, somehow feel unrelated, but still make it interesting and fun. We had a blast doing this episode, I also wanted to apologize, we had to go back to some OG type recording, so apologizes up front! Thank you for listening, if you'd like to follow us on our social platforms you can do so at, Twitter @DISYPod and Instagram @didiscareyoupod. Again thank you Josh and Michael for coming on, we wish them the best on their project. If you wanted to follow Josh, his twitter is @Josharmstrongs and follow @Lastdogfilms to keep in touch with the projects.

Long time, no see (hear? words are hard)! I'm back with some personal news and an amazing interview with filmmaker Josh Armstrong. Links Apocryphal - http://apocmovie.com/  Shift on amazon prime - https://www.amazon.com/Shift-Raymond-Hemson/dp/B08L44F3PQ  Josh's website - https://www.jsarmstrong.com/ Pentagon confirms leaked photos and video of UFOs are legitimate - https://bit.ly/3bwhIXw  Take The ACE Quiz — And Learn What It Does And Doesn't Mean - https://n.pr/2S04rzG  Beyond Health Care: The Role of Social Determinants in Promoting Health and Health Equity - https://bit.ly/3w9usez What mental health resources are available? - https://bit.ly/3tUD4UR   Wisconsin Mental Health Resources - https://bit.ly/3eT4p5K  For resources on ableism and disability, visit http://bit.ly/Dis101Resources  ----more---- Rough transcript: hello, spooky friends, and welcome to the spooky sconnie podcast. The podcast that explores all of the wonderfully wicked and wild Things that go on in the state of Wisconsin. I'm your host Grayson Schultz. Um, you might be noticing some new things around the podcast. It's been a minute and the podcast took a break, um, was dealing with some life stuff as I'm sure we all have been doing during the pandemic. Um, one of the things that I started doing, and I'm sure I've talked about this before, but I hate listening to my own voice. So I'm not going to go listen to past episodes. But one of the things that I started doing in January of 2020, um, is I started testosterone and started transitioning to being more masculine. And, um, for a little bit here, it's been a little difficult for me to control the pitch and volume of my voice. And so I wanted to wait until that was a little bit better under controls, being able to record new podcast episodes, uh, because I know I would probably lose it. If I was listening to somebody crackling and going through puberty on a podcast, you will hear voice breaks. I am sure you will. But, um, for the most part, things have evened out and, um, my voice has gotten a lot deeper. Other things have happened to I'm turning into Robin Williams, all of a sudden with all the hair. Um, it's been a pretty wild almost a year and a half here. Um, and, and with that too, I've been using a new first name Grayson, um, and needed to kind of reconfigure things to match all of that. So if you stay and listen to the outro, there's new outro, it's basically the same script. I just changed my name, um, and a couple of other things that I needed to take care of. Um, and also I am working in public health right now. And as you can imagine, uh, kind of a fun time and by fun, I mean not really fun at all. Um, it interesting time to be working in public health and it's a little taxing. Um, so, you know, with, with the pandemic, with people, not to reason or science, and now with the CDC pulling stuff about not having to wear masks, if you're fully vaccinated without explaining to people the risks, um, and that a vaccine does not necessarily mean you will not get COVID, it just means you might not die from it might not die from it. Um, anyway, I won't get on my soapbox there, but, um, it's been a minute and I'm really glad to be in a position to, um, at least record a couple of episodes here and there over the summer at the very least. Um, I am having top surgery in July. Um, for those of you who are not familiar with, uh, gender affirming surgeries, top surgery, for those of us who are on testosterone and like transitioning to masculine or male appearance, um, basically is getting rid of my womanly chest and turning it into something that I can like actually walk around outside with. So I'm very excited about that. Um, but that also means that there might be another disruption in, you know, the timetable of releasing episodes around then. Um, my goal is to try to maybe get ahead of that and record some more episodes, you know, uh, before then and have them scheduled and ready to go. We'll see what happens, uh, between work and the 5,000 other projects I do and, you know, spending time with my partner, um, which brings up another thing. Um, I may not actually be living in Wisconsin a whole lot less. Um, I, I started dating somebody last year who lives in Ohio of all places and, and, um, we are in talks like a, some sort of negotiation we're talking, talking about moving in together, um, which would be me moving there. So, um, you know, the, the podcast may change a little bit, um, may not be as focused on Wisconsin specifically. We'll see what happens with it. Um, but my goal is to keep the podcast going. So, you know, we'll, we'll see what happens, everything's up in the air. Um, and I'm really excited. Um, and his is a pretty fantastic person and I'm really very lucky and feel very affirmed and cared and supported, um, and very loved, which is really nice, really, really, really nice. Uh, I will stop talking about that because I don't want to get mushy on here. So, um, for this first episode back, um, I actually am doing an interview. What I know, um, I sat down with Josh Armstrong, who is a filmmaker, um, to talk about his work and talk a little bit about why, um, he is fundraising for an upcoming project. And I think it sounds really, really, really cool. So I'm gonna throw you not, I'm not gonna throw you, Oh my God. I'm going to throw it to past me. I mean, a conversation with Josh. Um, and then I'll talk to you a little bit more at the end. Okay. Okay. Hi, Josh. Thanks so much for joining me today. I thank you for inviting me. Yeah. Um, for people who don't know who you are, could you like tell them a little bit about, um, the work that you do and the kind of the themes that you like to portray in your work? Yeah, absolutely. So as you probably realize from my accent, I'm a London filmmaker in England and at the moment I'm really driving to break or essentially redefine horror and science fiction to better portray mental illness. Um, I think it's a theme which is so vital talk about, I see it as really the next big pandemic, if not the current, you know, another covered academic. Um, but that's what I worked with was I'm a filmmaker who tries to make people, uh, not see the stigmas of mental health. That's, that's really cool. And I think something that's super important, um, especially like during the pandemic, right. I think, um, a lot of people who may have had good coping mechanisms back in the old times, right. Seems to go, um, you know, are, are maybe now struggling with like isolation and how that might be bringing up depression or anxiety around things reopening or, you know, all of that. And so I think this is, you know, incredibly precious, right? It's, it's incredibly time sensitive stuff. Um, Yeah. And if you look at the current situation, I think if you talk to most people below the age of 40, and even even older than that, almost everybody says they've experienced some form of mental illness or really struggled with their mental health. Uh, in Britain we say, Oh, you know, keep calm and carry on. I don't know if that's a popular phrase, but, uh, I just, I think that's not what you should do. I think we need to talk about it because if we ignore it, it's just going to make the situation so much worse and we need to look out for each other. Yeah. And so much of that starts right. Um, with, with tearing down walls that are historically built, right. Whether that's, um, as we talk about systems of oppression and healthcare, or, you know, um, the ways that I don't have the problem with healthcare. Oh, do you guys just want to like a job to me? Can I just More than welcome to come by? But like, like as we talk about ways that that oppression shows up, right. Like, I think it's very telling that a lot of people don't like to talk about their mental health, um, because it's one way that we've kind of self reinforced this idea of like, keep calm and carry on. Right. Like if I don't talk about it, it's not there. I don't have to deal with it. Yeah, exactly. And I think we're seeing the impacts of that now, uh, especially in the younger generations, um, you know, I always try to incorporate these subjects in my films, whether it be horror sci-fi as I mentioned. Um, but I think the important thing is yet to just work towards creating that content because you look at say the cabinet of Dr. Category writes a film made in the 1920s and the depiction of mental illness in that is shocking. If you watch it now it's really quite depressing. Um, but even now with TV shows like American horror story, even then the person with mental illness is often villainized. And really they're the people who need the most help rather than the people that they're supposedly after it trying to swing a chain, saw a rat, uh, you know, we really need to push full together in changing this representation in film as well, because it does make such a huge influence. It really does. Um, I have a friend who who's visiting right now. Um, who's dating my roommate and, um, they have schizophrenia and, you know, one of the things that I think other people might have been concerned about, about them visiting it's like, Oh yeah, schizophrenia is one of the quote, unquote, bad mental illnesses. Like you can't, you know, you can't handle that. Like what happens if they have an episode, whatever. Right. Um, and the reality of, of any mental health right. Issue is it's, it's made so much scarier in the media. Right. Um, you know, my friend definitely deals with hallucinations, but has also had, you know, years of dealing with them and is on medication and knows how to cope with them. And in healthy ways that like, it's one of those things where, um, people often don't trust the person that has the mental illness, um, to handle their own thing. Right. Like they know their own body, they know their mind, they know how things might be for them. It's important to kind of let them take ownership of that. You know what I mean? Yeah. So I think as well, it's interesting because if you look at Asia, people with schizophrenia are more likely to hear positive voices and have positive hallucinations. Whereas in the Western world, it's the opposite and often negative, which I think really helps drive home the message that there is a correlation between negative mental illness and then negative influence. Um, my friend passed away, uh, from heroin addiction a couple of years ago. Uh, and he had schizophrenia. And what I found though, when I tell that story is that people just think, Oh, we died from heroin addiction. Well, he went to heroin because of schizophrenia and because it was so difficult for him to find that support. So, you know, it, do you, I keep drilling it's home. It's so important to talk about it. Um, and by the sounds of it, it's good that your friend has you and, you know, they have somebody they can rely on. Um, I think it's been an interesting journey for me having them here. Um, you know, as somebody who talks a lot about mental health and like my own mental health, um, I think there was still as, as much as everybody tries to, you know, practice what they preach. Right. So to speak, I think because of media and like negative representation and stuff like that, there was still a part of me that was like, huh. And that's a good description of it. I don't know how I'm going to caption that. No, I think, I think it's also one of those things of, if you don't know somebody who has one of those conditions, that's so stigmatized, you're not going to talk to them. You're not going to like learn what it's like for them or the ways that they're able to cope or handle those things. Right. And so it's almost like the self perpetuating cycle where, okay, we're not going to talk about it. Um, which means we don't know which, which people in our lives may have conditions, which means we don't know like the healthy ways people cope or, um, you know, anything that would, de-stigmatize the conditions, which then leads to us not talking about it. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. It's uh, yeah. I mean, w what can you say it's so important? I think that we move forward in various different stadiums to address big issue, because we don't want it to be until too late. Um, especially with my friends, you know, what you think sadly was when he passed away, decided he just, wasn't a surprise because we'd seen him go downhill so often. Um, but if there wasn't this huge stigma against schizophrenia, maybe it would have, you know, worked out a little bit differently. And especially, you know, saying earlier that specifically in Western culture, schizophrenia does tend to involve negative, uh, hallucinations. Um, yeah. Well, let's, uh, let's shift to talking a little bit about shift, uh, The, the short that you have that's on Amazon right now. Yeah. So you can watch it free with Amazon prime. It was, gosh, how so shift is a supernatural ice rink, thriller. That's how I always pitch it. It's a 10 minute little short and we crowdfunded it with 2,500 pounds in the U S I think that's like three know $3,500. My is terrible. I could make anything. I don't know, but we made it with a very short, uh, sorry with a very small amount of money, uh, for film. And it did really well in festivals. We really try to explore if it was possible to create tension and suspense on a well lit ice rink. And I think we definitely succeeded. Yeah. I would agree As, as someone who, uh, plays hockey, um, it was really fun to kind of see a different kind of tension, right. Like on ice. Um, I'm a goalie, so I'm usually like getting to see like all of this different tension between the different players or players on myself. Right. Um, and it was really fun to be able to see this different kind of tension. And there's like a part of you that knows at the beginning that like something bad is going to happen. Right. Like that that's part of that tension, but like, just the way that, that you, you guys crafted the story and the cinematography was really great. Um, and I just also really enjoyed kind of that little last twist at the end. Um, did not see that coming at all. And then I was like, Oh my God. Well, I, yeah. I hope your listeners really your choice as well. It was a fun thing to still feel that's for sure. It was surprisingly, we only did it over three nights, so yeah, three long nights, but, you know, there were certain restrictions in place at the interstate all picked up fine now, um, which is why we're working towards crowd funding and other projects, uh, on a bigger and more, shall we say, vibrant scale. Yeah. Do you want to talk a little bit about, um, your new project? Uh, yeah, sure. Why not? Um, so gosh, you'd think after all this time I'll be able to pitch it well. So, so essentially it's a film, uh, mental illness and drug addiction, and we follow the story of a drug addict who has paid out of this world, uh, encounter with aliens. And the question is how would society treat them if a member of the public came up to you looking like they've had a wild night out and they said to you, Oh, I've just been abducted by aliens. Would you stop and listen to it now to do this sort of film? We've actually worked with the battle winning story writer of his house, which is a really great little horror film. Uh, that's exposed some really important themes of all time. And we're working really to, as I mentioned earlier, sort of redefine horror tackle stigmas of mental health. And what I like to do in my work is try to blur those lines of realism as claims, say of realism and surrealism. Um, because I feel like that is for me trying to get somebody to understand what mental health is like. You know, there are some great little projects, uh, out there and indeed Gogo scene and spark. There's some great projects out there. There's one which is called [inaudible], which is, you know, explores like stigmas of mental disabilities combined with homophobia. Um, and there are so many of these little projects that are going on, but in order for them to happen, we need supportive of fans because I think we can probably safely say that when you look at the film industry, they seem to just want to perpetuate this villainization of mental illness in order for us to stop that we need to work together and try to support projects that go against that. I don't know if I actually talked about the film, but yeah. So we're crowdfunding a film called apocryphal, which is a scifi horror, and it's a 34,000 pound goal, which I think is like $45,000. It changes every day. I can't keep up with that, but I think that's the conversion. Um, and all of that goes to just creating this film. You know, I don't make any money from it. Uh, I put in my own money and spurt as well. We've all arranged to sleep, head to toe in one hotels need cardboard food. Nope. All of the money goes to creating this film because we feel it's such an important project to make. And I think too, like the notion of, you know, kind of exploring if somebody comes to you and says, Hey, I just had like an alien encounter. I was just abducted. Right. I, I think it's such an interesting way to talk about like mental illness and addiction too, because oftentimes, you know, if people don't really believe in aliens or whatever, right. Like if somebody comes to you and was like, Hey, this is a thing that just happened. There's automatically this dismissal of, Oh, okay. Like you were either inebriated high for your crazy. Right. Um, the, those are kind of the things that leap to people's minds immediately. And so I think it's especially cool way to explore mental health and addiction because those things are so intertwined when it comes to alien abduction stories. And, you know, I think, I don't know, what's, I believe if you'd asked me three years ago, do I believe, uh, eight years of visited earth? I would say no. And now I just have no idea, you know, with the Pentagon have released all this video footage of UFO's I just, and we've got this report coming out June 1st. I just don't know what to believe anymore. And so that really does, as you said, just go hand in hand with mental illness. I don't know when to believe some people who have extreme mental illnesses and that's really sad on my part. Um, you know, I, I should be able to support them as much as possible, but I just feel there isn't enough of a foundation out there to, for these people to get all of the support they need. Um, one thing I found with my friend was sadly that we were giving so much support. Eventually it starts to consume your own life and it puts your own mental health down and it's hard work. Um, but if I foundation of support had been there from the start, uh, perhaps he would still be with us. Um, and you know, that's, that's a theme that we explore in the film as well, where these detectives that's, the main character is speaking to just look at him as if he's guilty of a crime or talking like he's mad, man. So yeah, we, we really hope that it actually resonates with people and, you know, challenges, their ideas of how to preach even people in the streets look like they need to talk to something. Yeah. I, I really liked that. Um, yeah, I, I have had a few friends, um, you know, like, like the friend that's visiting us right now, um, who, who struggle a lot with their mental health and it's, um, I mean, shoot, I do too, but mine is always like super internalized and nobody can tell there's anything wrong. Right. Like, um, which I feel like there's, there's stigma there too, but it's like a whole different world of stigma. Right. Um, and I think it's interesting, um, that the seems to be like a relatively global thing, right. Um, that the portrayals in media, aren't always as positive, uh, of mental health and that there is some sort of stigma around whether it's talking about your own mental health or, um, you know, certain types of mental illness, um, especially like hallucinatory based ones. Um, and like America, sorry, I think in America as well. It's, it's so important. I know that, uh, people with mental illness, I think that, I think there are 8.3 million Americans who are openly, uh, saying that they were addicted to drugs and have mental illness. I mean, that's huge. That's absolutely massive. So, you know, I won't go into the politics of it all, but you know, when you look at, say gun crime, uh, in America, uh, you know, we don't have two things progressive, but obviously the people who are doing them have mental illness. And I think you have to, I have to pick the question. If a foundation had been there to support their mental health, would they have gone and done what they've done, uh, because, uh, you know, same person would do those sorts of atrocities. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's good. Deepest. Um, I think there's also, um, a lot to be said for like adverse childhood experiences. Right. Um, and I don't know if it's something that, you know, a ton about, but there's, um, the, the center for disease control here, um, put together kind of, well, they didn't put it together, but they like highlighted it it's from a study. Um, and that there are a certain number of adverse childhood experiences that you can go through as you're growing up that also make you more statistically likely to develop, um, not only like mental health issues, but substance use and addiction issues, um, issues around possibly like committing crimes, um, and living in kind of like continual poverty or having worse overall health outcomes and things like that. Um, and you know, some of those things are actually like one of them is, uh, living with a parent guardian or other adult that has undiagnosed and, or untreated mental health issues. Um, which I think is a really poignant thing. Absolutely. Especially now that we only really started to talk about, yeah, my parents' generation, it was very much keep calm and carry on. Uh, and that did affect me that attitude. So yeah, I think that's really true believe. Um, but you know, for, for the film as well, we try to have as much of a diverse crew as possible in order to essentially make this feel more pointed with as many people as possible. You know, we've got, uh, LGBT, we've got people from all various different ethnicities and different accents, uh, you know, so I think it's so important to just try to speak to as many people as possible and work together for a common cause whether it be in film or indeed ensuring that, uh, our children, the next generation, don't this negative impression of being able to talk about things. Yeah. It's, it is really interesting. Um, so I I'm on Tik TOK because I have no life and because there's a pandemic, um, one of the things that I've found on Tik TOK is there are a lot of people kind of, um, millennials too, like the younger generations, right. That are really doing a lot about talking around, Hey, like, do these symptoms sound familiar? You might actually have ADHD that was never diagnosed. Right. Because you grew up a girl or whatever. Um, and so it's really cool to be able to see that kind of movement happening, um, on social media platforms with some of the younger like crowd and knowing that this is like the perfect time, right. To talk more about mental health, to talk more about like, how do we grapple with the different things that might keep somebody from getting diagnosed or treated. And, um, you know, I think it's just like the perfect time to work on this project. Yeah, absolutely. Um, it's something we've been working on for almost a year now in pre production. So passionate about it, any support we can get. So, so appreciative. Um, but even if people can't fund it, if they can share it, that makes such a huge difference as well. But if people do want to go ahead and fund it, they can@apocmovie.com, that's APOCmovie.com. And yeah, we really hope that you'll enjoy the content we have on there. And you feel that this is something, you know, you'd like to get involved with. Super cool. I'm so excited for this project. And I, I know it will be fully funded. I'm just going to like, bring that into the universe right now. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. You know, I think we have such an amazing class and it's such an important theme that, you know, I, I think we can do this, but we all need to work together to make it up. Yup. Agreed. Well, thank you so much for coming on and talking about your work. I'm super excited to be able to share this with other people. Is there anything else that you want to say to anybody who might be listening before I turn off the recording? Um, gosh. So just the people. No, I, I actually also work in COVID lab and I just want people to know, you know, just stay safe, keep sanitizing your hands, wear your masks. Uh, just ultimately look out for each other. Cause so important to speak to people who need help right now, keep going, pandemic will be over. We can get through it, but we can only get through it together. I think it's so important for us to think about what that means. Right. Um, Josh's parting words with us there. It is really telling that so much of the world kind of focuses in on this individuality aspect. Um, especially here in the States, right? We're all, all for one and one for themselves. Right. It's got nothing to do with community. Um, capitalism, doesn't really set things up that way. Right. And there are a million things I could say about capitalism and why I hate it. But I think one of the key features of it is that removal of community, of communal thinking of communal action. Um, and I think that's part of why during COVID times we've seen such a big boom of people engaging in mutual aid work. Um, that's been something that I've actually been doing a lot of in the last couple months, um, you know, giving things like an old better way and helping people get stuff set up in their new places and moving things, um, and doing other things that, that are really helpful, um, to individuals, right. But also to our communities. Um, and I would just encourage you if you have the ability and the means to do that. If you have something that you are really good at, or you really like to do that can be turned into something that helps another person, right. Whether it's fixing up a computer or, um, being some, some muscle to move some stuff around or, um, doing a grocery run for the community fridge or something like that, um, that you, that you spend time and take time to do that, um, I think is really important. And I would say, especially as we start thinking more about what does community look like, right. Um, I know here in Madison, we are pushing more and more towards less police presence and we're not the only city doing that by any means. Um, but if we were to have an end to policing, as we know it, what would justice look like? Right. Like what would our justice system look like? What would there have to be set up from a community standpoint for that to work? Um, and I think, I think this is a really great first step for a lot of people to think about, you know, stepping in and helping other people when you have the means and ability to do it. I also really, um, I want to point out another thing that Josh and I talked about, um, about ableism, right, as essentially what we were talking about and the different ways that it ingrains itself into representation. Um, and I know I've talked about ableism before, but there are, you know, a couple of different kinds of able is. Um, and one of the things I want to call out specifically is seen as, um, which is able as, um, um, geared at people with mental health conditions, substance use disorder, um, intellectual disabilities, things like that. And, um, I think it's just really important to call that out. We see a lot of movies where killers are, you know, mentally unfit or deranged or unhinged. And the reality is that that's not who generally commits crimes, right? Like my mental health actually makes me more likely to be a victim. Um, with some health conditions, it can be up to 10 times more likely to be a victim than a perpetrator of a crime. And that's especially true for people who have some of the more quote unquote severe, you know, kinds of mental health issues like schizophrenia or Schizoaffective disorder and especially true if you are a woman, right. Or, um, a racial or ethnic minority and the other different identities that you might hold really impact your likelihood of being a victim. Right. Um, I also want to share a definition of ableism for those of you who might not know what it is. Um, like I said, I'm sure we've talked about it before on here, but, um, I specifically wanted to use a working definition by Talia Lewis, um, who has helped, has been helped in coming up with this, um, definition by other disabled black and negatively racialized folk, including Dustin Gibson. Um, and so Abel isms announ, and it is a system that places value on people's bodies and minds based on societaly constructed ideas of normalcy, intelligence, excellence, and productivity. These constructed ideas are deeply rooted in anti-blackness eugenics, colonialism, and capitalism. This pharma's systemic oppression leads to people and society determining who is valuable and worthy based on a person's appearance and or their ability to satisfactorily produce reproduce Excel and quote unquote behave. You do not have to be disabled to experience ableism. And one way I'd like to point out, you know, cause we do talk about ableism a lot, um, in, in work that I do. And one thing I want to point out about the fact that you don't have to be disabled to experience [inaudible] um, is, you know, we saw a lot of discussion over the last four or five years about Donald Trump and his mental health, um, or his overall health. And there were a lot of people who would cite things like he's crazy, he's unhinged, et cetera. Now we don't know. Right. Like if he has a mental health issue, if he has other health issues, we don't know that. And frankly, it's not our business to know. I hate the man. I hope he burns in hell, but like from, from a very basic human standpoint, it's nobody's business. Um, and there have been presidents who have had mental health issues before Lincoln had horrible depression and other, um, presidents have had other health issues, right? Like having a mental illness or, or any health issue does not preclude you from being a public official or even precedent. Right. The issue here is that people are connecting possible illnesses to reasons why Trump did or said or put into place XYZ. And when you do that, um, not only are you kind of excusing his actions, you're actually like harming the disability community as a whole, right? Like, um, the American psychological association says like nobody can armchair diagnose, like even the best of the best psychologists and therapists are not allowed to armchair diagnose. Like they can get in trouble reprimanded and possibly lose their license for that. So if they can't do it, nobody really should be doing it. Uh, and you know, we don't know again, to kind of go back to my main point, right. We don't know if, if Trump has a mental health issue or not, um, and acting as though he does often exposes him to be on the receiving end of ableism. Not that he pays attention to that, but like people act and, um, speak in ways about him that are full of ablest rhetoric and harm. Um, and again, that really doesn't do anything to Trump. It doesn't really do anything to his supporters. What it does is tell the disabled people in your life, um, that you don't care about us because if you did, you wouldn't be resorting to that kind of conversation, that kind of language. Right. Um, and that system of oppression. Right. Um, and I'm gonna put some links in the show notes about things like ablest language that we can work on unpacking. And, um, this stigma around, um, you know, villains being disabled, whether it's the villain in ant man and the wasp, or, you know, um, gosh, all that's coming up or are Marvel movies right now, like any superhero villain for the most part has either gone through some sort of major trauma or is somehow disabled. And that's why they're awful instead of like, I don't know, people just choosing to be evil. I get that it's not as fun from a storyline perspective, but it really, uh, is really nice to like, it would be really nice to like watch a movie where somebody sucks and it has nothing to do with their mental state. They just suck as a person. Um, I've, I've gotten off on a tangent, but, um, I'll put some links in the show notes about those kinds of things and some of the stuff that Josh and I talked about, um, like the Pentagon footage of aliens or, um, adverse childhood experiences, social determinants of health, um, resources for, if you are struggling right now with your mental health. Um, and then also the link to the fundraiser for the film, uh, pot LA, I can't speak apocryphal. I can speak sometimes, um, that Josh has working on which that you are all again, and I'll put it in the show. Notes is a P O C movie.com. Okay. I think I have rambled enough at you. Um, thank you so much for listening. I really, uh, can't say enough. Um, during this time that I was taking a break, it was really something to get notes from people asking when there would be new episodes, have people check in on me, see how many people were listening to these other episodes that are already up, um, and just really cool. Um, and really made me want to come back to this, you know, sooner rather than later. And I, I really appreciate it. I really appreciate you. Um, Oh, one final thing too, um, is I've been streaming on Twitch. Um, so Twitch, for those of you who don't know is, um, a website mostly for gamers, um, to like play games while other people can watch. Um, and there are all sorts of different interactive things you can do. Some people do podcasts on there. Um, so you know, doing a live episode might be something that we do, um, and things like that where people can chime in, in the chat. Um, and you can kind of have real time interaction with somebody. Um, I've been playing resident evil eight, so resident evil village, um, and it's been really fun to do that and stream that. So I'm going to do more of that. Um, and specifically around horror themed games. So dead by daylight, um, play big, you know, those kinds of things Subnautica, which isn't as much horror, but it's very puzzley, which I can appreciate a lot about too. So, you know, if that's something that you're interested in, I'll put that link in the show notes too, and you can come hang out and watch me stream games, or, you know, talk about spooky things live. Um, and I'd like to start doing more of that kind of interactive stuff with y'all cause it would be really fun, um, really fun. And okay, now I think I've actually yammered at you enough, but please, please, please. Don't forget to check the show notes for all these links and other information that I'll put in there. Um, and if you don't know where to find the show notes, um, it's spooky Scotty, um, dot podbean.com. And again, that link will be, I think, in like the main thing on the podcast. So you should be able to see it anyway. I don't know. Um, it's been a minute since I looked at this stuff, but, um, with, without any further ridiculous, uh, do take care of yourselves, um, please continue to wear your mask. Please continue to take steps to protect yourself and your family and other people. You care about people around you and in your community. Um, this pandemic is not over and it's not going to be over if we start eliminating masks now, uh, um, by any means, so take care of yourselves and I will talk to you next time. You just listened to the spooky sconnie podcast. It's produced every so often by me, Grayson Schultz. The intro outro music is from purple plant. You can find show notes, a rough transcript, and more over at spookysonnie.podbean.com. While you're here, take a minute to rate and subscribe. If you can, you'll help more people see the show by rating and you won't miss a single episode if you subscribe. And that's pretty dope. Feel free to reach out with feedback, spooky stories or episode suggestions at spookysconniepodcast@gmail.com in the meantime, sleep tight and don't let the badgers bite.

We've got a bonus for you this week as we chat with Josh Armstrong and Michael Southgate of The Last Dog Film Productions about their new film APOCRYPHAL, launching on Kickstarter today! The story behind this film is an important one. Please check it out and consider supporting these amazing filmmakers! You can support the Kickstarter here! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jarmstrong/apocryphal-a-story-of-drug-addiction-and-aliens Twitter: @lastdogfilms  

Moyra & Baggs were chatting about which high school is the best on the Gold Coast! Plus, Moyra got caught in very heavy rain, and Baggs had car troubles!Plus, they had a chat to Josh Armstrong about the GC Laughs Festival which is coming to the Gold Coast! And Moyra opened up the latest entry to the Gold Coast Community Page, and it was a good one! Listen in for so much more!

Cory and Brian interview Josh Armstrong, movement practitioner in East Tennessee, Haiti and West Africa.  Next step with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

Josh aka the man with a plan came thru to drop some jems! Our listeners sent in questions for our resident Financial Broker like, how do you know what is right for your business needs + where to start LLC, S. Corp Trademark? How should we go about tackling debit + limiting liabilities while still living our best lives?We discussed investing during the pandemic - should you look into real estate, physical commodities, or the stock market? Josh also explained how our generation is winning compared to our parents’ retirement plans but we just aren't taking advantage! Ashley explains how the lack of information + asking for help has her STILL overpaying for a basic car when she could be in a big body benz. Lexie’s heatseeker inspired her to let a hater know that “he couldn't even pay her to react” word to Drake. (Now that's what we call GROWTH!) The group talks about Ashley’s two favorite words: PASSIVE INCOME + why sometimes we doubt the ones closest to us instead of lending our immediate support. Inland Empire stand up! Stay safe, wear a mask + remember… No Justice, No Peace until ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER! Little reminder from Josh have faith in all things you do. Stay connected: @josha7_ @ComeThruPod @FlexxLutherr @Ashlijaayy EPISODE SPONSOR: Original SSCO: Welcome to the Lifestyle, friends! The Original Street Savvy Culture Operation and Come Thru wants to set you up with the drip. Get Fresh and enjoy 20% off your order with code: COME THRU www.OrignialSSCO.com BUSINESS HIGHLIGHT: Josh Armstrong - Financial Broker + Advisor! Let him know Come Thru sent you for a FREE consultation. Message him at @Josha7_ on Instagram. HEAT SEEKERS: Young C - The WaitDrake - Laugh Now Cry Later Featuring Lil Durk Juls - Gwarn Featuring Burna BoyVibe to the Heat Seekers and follow the playlists: Apple Music/ iTunes: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/heat-seekers/pl.u-55D6ZylugW2MDM Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1BxWfYK7rJSPZhH4fBMJEt?si=9lFATMeBTDO1mvRMhbaxLQ Tidal: https://tidal.com/playlist/4eb24890-f738-4615-b98a-f68064149c27

For this installment of @530 on Main, we invite Josh Armstrong, president of the Downtown Evansville Economic Improvement District (EID), to share his passion for urban life and community betterment. Josh discusses EID's push to improve the experience of Downtown Evansville. He also speaks passionately on how valuable authenticity is in attracting consumers and what it means to create an Instagrammable experience.

For this installment of @530 on Main, we invite Josh Armstrong, president of the Downtown Evansville Economic Improvement District (EID), to share his passion for urban life and community betterment. Josh discusses EID's push to improve the experience of Downtown Evansville. He also speaks passionately on how valuable authenticity is in attracting consumers and what it means to create an Instagrammable experience.

For this installment of @530 on Main, we invite Josh Armstrong, president of the Downtown Evansville Economic Improvement District (EID), to share his passion for urban life and community betterment. Josh discusses EID’s push to improve the experience of Downtown Evansville. He also speaks passionately on how valuable authenticity is in attracting consumers and what it means to create an Instagrammable experience.

I did not approve of this theme, demi just kept saying there was a theme without letting slip what the theme was. them's the breaks i guess. check out dalton's soundcloud, pigbeans, here: https://soundcloud.com/pigbeans See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Featuring testimonials by: 1. Dawn Lambe, Biomass North Development Centre 2. Dermot Wilson, Nipissing Region Curatorial Collective 3. Guy Porlier, Shift Energy 4. Lieann Koivukoski, Post Production North 5. Josh Armstrong, Modern Investing 6. Christian Fortin, Pronor Developments & Mallette-Goring (N.B.) Inc. https://www.coworking176.space/ Find us on IG and Facebook @coworking176 -- Welcome to GATEWAY LIVE by RFPMEDIA, a place where people interested in Northern Ontario’s politics, arts, entertainment & culture scene will find useful information, advice, insights, resources and inspiration for growing and connecting our community. GATEWAY LIVE is our opportunity to get organized and inform our audience about Nipissing’s entertainment industry news, events, businesses and key influencers; all to help us develop new opportunities for the creative industry to grow and thrive here at home, in beautiful Northern Ontario. Thank you for watching! Please subscribe the the channel (we need to reach 100 to customize things and make it better), share with all your friends on social media... and consider sponsoring a future show. We need your support to help this thing grow. Love, Rich Creator of GATEWAY LIVE ~ Owner of RFPMEDIA INC - Follow Us Online Here: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6wt... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rfpmedia/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rfpmedia/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rfp-... Website: https://rfpmedia.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/rfpmedia Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast.. --- Let me know what you think of the show! I really do appreciate your feedback.

Gilligan's Island is a sitcom from the 1960's where a small boat is shipwrecked on an island It's not too good - but on the episode, Beauty Is As Beauty Does, there is a chimpanzee (played by a man in a suit). On the episode, the castaways hold a beauty pageant. To discuss this important piece of television, I am joined by Brett Blake and Josh Armstrong to discuss (we're up on the Gold Coast, so unfortunately Evan isn't second banana-ing on this episode).Buy MERCH (pins and Prime Mates beanies) here: https://mattstewartcomedy.com/shop/Support the show on PatreonOur twitter: @PrimeMatesPodOur instagram: @primematespodFacebook: facebook.com/primematespodEmail: primematespod@gmail.comGot topic/primate suggestions for the show? Chuck them here: http://bitly.com/PrimeMatesTipsCheck out my other podcast (where we do a report about a different topic from history each week): Do Go OnPrime Mates Spotify PlaylistMy twitter: @mattstew_artMy instagram: @MattStewartComedyMy facebook: facebook.com/mattstewartcomedyEvan's web series (about video games): gameygame.comEvan's twitter: @evanmsBrett's podcast: Worst First DatesBrett's instagram: @brettyblakeJosh's Comedy Company: Based ComedyBased Comedy on Instagram: @basedcomedyOur awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and sweet logo by Peader Thomas See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ok, sooooo turns out that fortune cookies were never a good idea for this show. But lucky for me I had 3 awesome guests to make some very boring cookies very very funny. Im joined by guest host Jemma Kidd (confirmed racist) as we talk to Based Comedy runner Josh Armstrong and International Headliner Aliyah Kanani. Aliyah is from Canada and she stopped in this week on the way to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. We harness the power of the cards in order to determine how Aliyahs festival run will go and also to work out if Josh's rampart stds will get the better of him.    Check out Aliyahs Festival show at  https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2019/shows/where-you-from-from   And make sure you grab tickets for Big Boiz of Brisbane Comedy   https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2019/shows/big-boiz-of-brisbane-comedy  

Thats right folks, this week I make Logie Winner Dilruk Jayasinha freeze hits bits off in a Cryotherapy Tank. This ep is an absolute crack up and we go all over the place, Dil wants to go speed dating, Bron wants proof that Nick is smart, someone gets stung by a jelly fish and Erin gets her divers license. Listen to the EP I promise it all makes sense.    You can find Dil - FB - https://www.facebook.com/DilrukJComedian/ Insta- dilrukj Twitter - @Dilrukj   Jump onto tickets for Dil's MICF shows. He really is a killer comic so make sure you don't miss out on his new show Cheat Days.   https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2019/shows/cheat-day-s     Get onto Fit Bet Podcast. Its soooo good.  https://omny.fm/shows/fitbet-with-dilruk-jayasinha-and-ben-lomas/playlists/podcast   Also, the young Josh Armstrong runs the fantastic Based Comedy all over the Gold Coast and is currently hard at work for the upcoming GC laughs festival which is featuring some of my favourite comics of all time. https://gclaughs.com.au/  

This week, Grady talks with Josh Armstrong - Missions Pastor of Vineyard Church - about everything from prayer walking and travel's effects on faith, to getting a new dog and reading way-too-long books.

Irish Comic Aidan Killian and guest host Josh Armstrong join Dwayne to chop it up about gang banging American style on "American Gangster."  Follow Aidan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/aidankillian and check his tour dates at www.aidankillian.com

Message from Josh Armstrong on Sep 23, 2018

Josh is the owner of Based Comedy, which is a Gold Coast comedy and entertainment company, bringing some of Australia’s (and New Zealand’s) best comedy to the… Read more "Closure Optional Ep. 11 – Josh Armstrong, Based Comedy"

  In this episode, Kenny interviews web developer, writer, blogger, and podcaster Josh Armstrong about being intentionally and purposefully culturally relevant and the importance of avoiding just being "casually religious" in our modern contexts. Josh and Kenny also talk about the importance of every Christian seeing themselves as "missionaries" in their own cultural context, no matter where in the world they live. Recommended Check out Project Faith Journey Follow Josh on Twitter: @pfaithjourney Church Leaders Podcast Tony Morgan Live Radical (by David Platt)

Jack and Joel travel down the M1 to visit Josh Armstrong, spend almost an hour trying to figure out how to use his equipment, then discuss schoolyard bullying, read some poetry, examine fat tongues, and cast a critical gaze over hung parliaments. If this makes you laugh, please share!