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Welcome to our podcast where we delve into the concept of the 15-minute city, exploring its potential benefits and addressing the conspiracy theories surrounding it. Is it truly a utopian vision of urban living, or could it conceal darker intentions?
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Welcome to Creative Habits Podcast! In this episode, we have the incredible Ashshahid Muhammad sharing his remarkable journey from homelessness and addiction to becoming a beacon of hope and creativity in his community.
In 2013, Ashshahid found himself in Nashville, Tennessee, homeless and battling drug addiction. But through the support of organizations like Nashville Rescue Mission and Room in the Inn, as well as the guidance of individuals like Charles Strobel, he found a path to recovery and transformation.
After completing a drug program, Ashshahid secured housing, pursued education, and emerged as a positive force in society. His story even caught the attention of The Tennessean, shedding light on his inspiring journey.
Now based in Staten Island, Ashshahid is not only an accomplished artist but also a dedicated mentor to youth. Through his art, he tackles important issues such as drugs, gangs, guns, bullying, and incarceration, using his own experiences as a powerful narrative.
Despite facing adversity, including being shot and losing vision and mobility in one eye and arm, Ashshahid found solace and purpose in art. He went back to school, earned his G.E.D., and pursued higher education in art, eventually publishing several comic books detailing his life story.
In 2024, Ashshahid debuted his latest art show, "One Eye Television," a poignant exploration of his journey and the resilience of the human spirit. You can learn more about it here.
Join us as we dive into Ashshahid's story of redemption, creativity, and the transformative power of art. Tune in now!
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Have you ever observed how some people effortlessly work together in your workplace, while others prefer working independently or feel anxious in collaborative settings? The reason behind these differences lies in something known as "attachment styles," which can greatly impact how we interact with our colleagues and influence our professional success.
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Dr. Rebekah Louisa Smith, an esteemed Film Festival Strategist, delves into crucial topics intersecting the creative realm and mental well-being. Her insights, featured in Forbes, Variety, and Screen Daily, offer invaluable guidance on managing stress, overcoming rejection, and combating imposter syndrome within the film industry. Through her latest e-book, "Film Festivals & Looking After Your Mental Health," she addresses the taboo of mental health in the arts, navigating emotional hurdles triggered by rejection letters, and nurturing filmmakers' mental well-being. Dr. Smith's expertise spans advice for creatives, integrating meditation techniques, using vision boards, and harnessing Emotional Freedom Technique (ETT) to aid emotional management. Her journey, from navigating anxiety diagnosis to founding a female-led company, provides a roadmap for understanding mental health in niche industries.
Her latest e-book, Film Festivals & Looking After Your Mental Health, came to fruition when she noticed certain triggers occurring when filmmakers received rejection letters from film festivals, flaring anxiety and a plethora of other mental health issues.
Featured in Forbes, Variety, and Screen Daily.
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Studies
University of Virginia, Jim Tucker.
“Some young children, usually between the ages of 2 and 5, speak about memories of a previous life they claim to have lived. At the same time they often show behaviors, such as phobias or preferences, that are unusual within the context of their particular family and cannot be explained by any current life events. These memories appear to be concordant with the child’s statements about a previous life.”
In many cases of this type, the child’s statements have been shown to correspond accurately to facts in the life and death of a deceased person. Some of the children have birthmarks and birth defects that correspond to wounds or other marks on the deceased person whose life is being remembered by the child. In numerous cases, postmortem reports have confirmed these correspondences.
Older children may retain these apparent memories, but generally they seem to fade around the age of seven. The young subjects of these cases have been found all over the world including Europe and North America.
For the past 20 years, Dr. Jim Tucker, now the director of the Division of Perceptual Studies, has focused mainly on cases found in the United States. His book Return to Life offers accounts of very strong American cases of young children who remember previous lives. In this book, Dr. Tucker writes about the now well-known cases of James Leininger, a young boy who had verifiable past-life memories of being a WWII pilot, and Ryan Hammons, who had verifiable memories of being a Hollywood extra and talent agent.
Types of Statements a Child Might Make
“You’re not my mommy/daddy.” “I have another mommy/daddy.” “When I was big, I …(used to have blue eyes/had a car, etc.).” “That happened before I was in mommy’s tummy.” “I have a wife/husband/children.” “I used to…(drive a truck/live in another town, etc.)” “I died … (in a car accident/after I fell, etc.)” “Remember when I …(lived in that other house/was your daddy, etc.)Quick discussion : between Phil and Handi
Main topic
Topic :Reddit user u/TapiocaTuesday asked the AskReddit community: "Parents, what spooky 'past life' memory did your kid utter?"
eplies :
1. "Back pre-pandemic, I was watching my friend's then–3-year-old for her and he saw a big military ship and he got this kind of faraway look, and said, 'I remember when my boat sank. There were so many sharks.'"
"I said, 'What?' He blinked and, said, 'What?' and then started asking questions about the boat. I mentioned it to my friend and she said, 'Yeah, he does that sometimes.'"
—Planksgonemad
2. "When I was very young and still unable to string sentences together, my mom and I were sitting at the dining room table. She was crying and I comforted my mother by telling her without any babbling or hesitation: 'It’s okay, I used to be your great grandmother, I’ll take care of you.'"
"I have no memory of this and my mom said I went back to my baby-like talk immediately after. She stopped crying, probably because it scared the shit out of her."
—AceTrainerEmily
3. "I used to watch my nephew when he was about 3 or 4. One day, he was at my house and pointed to a magnet of Arizona — it had a picture of the desert with rock formations. Kid pointed at it and asked where it was. He said he used to live by 'red rocks like that' with his first family."
"(The first family) all had straight, dark hair (his is blond and curly) and that he had a mom, a dad, and a brother, that is until he went too far into the desert, too close to dark, and got eaten by 'not dogs, not wolves, but smaller.' I said, 'Coyotes?' And he kind of mouthed the word and said, 'Oh, that's what you call them.' Then he was sad and didn't want to talk about it anymore, so we had lunch and that was the first and last time he mentioned it."
—auntiepink
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Lionel Frazier White III is a Washington D.C native, arts educator, and interdisciplinary conceptual artist they work in painting, drawing, wood sculpture, installation, and mixed media collage.
White’s work explores themes of forced and coerced labor and its effect on family pathology, erasure, displacement, reassertion, and gentrification. White holds a Bachelor in Fine Arts from The George Washington University Corcoran School of Art and Design (2018) and is a graduate of The Duke Ellington School of the Arts High School in Washington, D.C. they have been exhibited at the D.C Commission on Arts and Humanities, Prince George's African American Art Museum and Cultural Center, Torpedo Factory |Connect The Dots, Rush Arts Galleries, and Area 405. White was a 2019 Halcyon Arts Lab Cohort 3 Fellow in Residence in Washington DC.
Welcome to the show Lionel.
If you could introduce yourself
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Our Experience in London
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His name is Swahili and comes from East Africa in Kenya. Omari (Oh-Ma-Ree) means the highest, mountaintop and close to God, Ajamu (Ah-Jah-Moo) means he who fights for what he wants, Ajanaku (Ah-Jah-Na-Koo) means free and wealthy people. Omari is a husband and father of three children; Aiyanna, Bashiri and Israel.
He was born in Chicago, IL and grew up in Langston/Guthrie, OK. After attending Langston University in 2012 he graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma in 2017 with two bachelor's degrees; one in forensic science and the other in criminal justice with the intention of using both with his future criminal law degree.
His experience includes;
six years with Oklahoma City Public Schools as a substitute/Language Art's Teacher, seven years with the YMCA as a youth and family counselor/coordinator and four years with various youth shelters as a youth specialist/advocate.
Omari is the owner of an entertainment company,
a criminal law firm, a vocational non-profit and a podcast.
His purpose is to control his intellectual property, ensure generational wealth and
to lead by example while doing what he loves to do.
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Dejah Greene is a semi self taught photographer from Prince George’s County, Maryland. She has been shooting for 10 years. Dejah finds the beauty in simplicity as well as showcasing the beauty of black culture and the realities of mental illness.
Dejah is currently taking photography bookings.Please email at [email protected].
Website https://www.dejahgreenephotos.com/
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Nami Oshiro is an artist based in the DC-Metro area. She makes drawings, paintings, and comics.
Her work plays with everyday absurdities experienced by people with unique relationships with societal constructs like race and gender. Viewers have described her art as "trippy," "unsettling," "nihilistic," and "very upsetting to my friend Daniel."
She was born to Okinawan parents in California, was raised in Florida and Virginia, and now works in Washington DC. She went to the Corcoran College of Art + Design, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Art in Fine Art in 2012.
Oshiro’s work has been exhibited in spaces throughout the DC-Metro area, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Area 405, Pepco Edison Place Gallery, and more. Her first professionally-published comic book is scheduled to come out in 2022.
When not focused on her own work, she teaches art to children in DC’s Ward 7 community and coordinates gallery exhibitions of artwork created by youth artists from marginalized communities.
https://www.namioshiro.com/
Instagram: nami_oshiro
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Intro
During the conquest of Africa under European rule in the 1800s artifacts from non-western nations were under the wrongful control and ownership of their colonizers. Recently, there has been a demand for all artifacts housed in museums to return to their place of origin.
Many artifacts in Western museums and libraries are believed to have been seized over the ages by conquest and colonialism. Anthropologists, curators, and private collectors have looted African artifacts during both war and peace. The act was justified as an act of benevolence; as a way to save dying knowledge.
Museums have begun to acknowledge that some of their collections have uncomfortable histories linked to colonial violence. In spite of this, Britain does not give up its looted treasures. David Cameron, the then-Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, had said of Greece's Elgin Marbles and India's Koh-i-Noor diamond: "No, I certainly do not believe in returnism.". I don’t think that is sensible.”
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You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
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Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Keyonna graduated from St. John’s College High School in 2006 and started her collegiate career as a student of Psychology at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C. In search of a more challenging path, she transferred to Philip Merrill’s College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism with a concentration in Education. She obtained her Master’s in Science Management with a specialization in Public Relations in December 2019.
During the four years she worked as a news producer for News Radio station WNEW, 99.1, Keyonna received two Edward Murrow Awards. Returning to one of her original passions, in August 2015, Keyonna founded Congress Heights Arts and Culture Center (CHACC) home of #soufsidecreative, located at 3200 MLK Ave. SE, with a mission to bring something new and necessary to the East of the River community in the District of Columbia. She also serves on the board of Community College Preparatory Academy, the first adult charter school East of the River, and on the board of The Creative School as Vice President.
Beyond her many efforts at CHACC, Keyonna has given serious energy to her many hobbies, transforming many of them into entrepreneurial ventures. She turned her love for thrifting into a 'side hustle' of Freelance and published Fashion Styling and Image Consulting through KMJ6Style . KMJ6Kloset was also born from the love of thrifting, where Keyonna offers one-of-a-kind handpicked items for low prices. Her backyard gardening sparked the idea for KMJ6Bloom, providing handmade products infused with garden herbs and flowers. KMJ6Photos is Keyonna's photography journey and KMJ6Designs consists of digital and fashion designs.
In June 2020, Keyonna had the honor of being 1 of 7 artists to paint the 'Black Lives Matter Plaza' and has since been doing murals in and out of her city through KMJ6Art.
Keyonna is a proud mother of daughter Kayla Shawn and son Keon Michael.
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The great replacement" is a conspiracy theory that states that nonwhite individuals are being brought into the United States and other Western countries to "replace" white voters to achieve a political agenda.
White supremacists argue that the influx of immigrants, people of color more specifically, will lead to the extinction of the white race.
The "great replacement" theory is sometimes seen in other ways such as claims of voter replacement and immigrants invading America, the National Immigration Forum said. The first claim assumes that immigrants and nonwhite people will vote a certain way, ultimately drowning out the votes of white Americans
The "great replacement" theory has roots in French nationalism books dating back to the early 1900s, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). However, the theory's more contemporary use is attributed to Renaud Camus, a French writer who wrote: "Le Grand Remplacement" (which translates to "The Great Replacement") in 2011.
The white supremacist conspiracy falsely asserts that white people are being replaced and losing their standing in society as a result of a plot to increase non-white immigration, as well as other factors, including birth rates among non-white people.
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"Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth."
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Elaisha Hilliard is a fine artist located in Detroit, Michigan. Her favorite medium is paint.
Paint is her most preferred medium. "You can communicate so much with it," she adds. "A brushstroke, a texture, as well as a color can tell you a lot about an artist's emotions." Elaisha began with acrylics because they were the cheapest and most accessible medium, but as she became more serious about her work, she transitioned to oil paints and is loving every minute of it. She has shown interest in pursuing additional mediums in the future.
When asked what motivates her to create art, she replied, "I'm inspired by everything." Elaisha stated emphatically that she strives to be as unique as possible. She claims that in the past, she would frequently come across artwork by other painters and think to herself, "Wow, I wish I could paint like that," but then she goes on to say, "I wish I could paint like that."
You can check out her work at https://www.artlaish.com/
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ALL ABOUT CASS
Cassandra Marin owns several companies one of which happens to be a wellness company by the name of Rawsource Kitchen. where she focuses on educating the community about different nutritional facts fruits and veggies have to offer and how a fast every once in a while can affect the body in a good way.
Living in the real world
When I graduated college over 10 years ago I was certain my path would be straight. Life has been more like a jungle gym or monkey bars on a playground. This website encompasses my journey of mastery. It is not until now that I have discovered a way to combine all that I have accomplished and all that I am passionate about. I am excited to be in this space where I can be complete.
https://www.casadaimari.com/
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Topic: virtual and augmented reality
Augmented reality (AR) is becoming more common in social media. After Snapchat pioneered it, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and TikTok have launched their lenses, filters, and effects. In the process, AR is showing its value not only for branding and entertainment but also for commerce.
You can thank augmented reality for a quick filter to tweak your appearance if you don’t have time to touch up your blemishes before your morning post. If you were a fan of Pokémon go between 2016-2018, you can thank augmented reality for that experience as well.
In today’s episode, we will discuss all things augmented and virtual reality. How does this phenomenon impact our lives for the betterment of society? how does it hinder our ability to function without it?
First, it’s imperative to define and share What augmented reality and virtual reality are. We’ll start off by sharing a little about virtual reality:
Virtual reality or VR is a technology that creates a virtual environment. People interact in those environments using, for example, VR goggles or other mobile devices. It is a computer-generated simulation of an environment or 3-dimensional image where people can interact in a seemingly real or physical way.
Since the pandemic began, there’s been a spike in dependency in the United States when it comes to virtual and augmented reality. Some drive-throughs adjusted to contactless customer service by using self-checkout kiosks, we all probably downloaded services such as instacart, doordash, had conversations with colleagues via zoom, or our years of exposure to FaceTime, those are mostly examples of augmented reality.
Augmented reality Unlike virtual reality, where everything a user sees is generated by a computer, augmented reality keeps the real-world focus, but just adds elements that aren’t really there to enhance the user’s experience
Technology continues to advance as the years progress with amazing inventions and creations that may be moving faster than we can keep track of, Although it’s clear that there are many possibilities to immerse ourselves in the VR/AR world and take advantage of this leading tech, we also need to consider the applications and the cost before starting a journey into virtual and augmented worlds.
The distinctions between VR and AR come down to the devices they require and the experience itself:
AR uses a real-world setting while VR is completely virtual AR users can control their presence in the real world; VR users are controlled by the system VR requires a headset device, but AR can be accessed with a smartphone AR enhances both the virtual and real-world while VR only enhances a fictional realityIf you’re looking for a truly immersive gaming experience that will allow you to leave the real world behind, virtual reality (VR) will allow you to do just that. These gaming applications can help you experience places and events that go far beyond our real-world environment by allowing players to exist within a three-dimensional artificial world. The human brain can adapt quickly. When you’re in the VR world, it can take as few as 30 minutes to lose your sense of spatial awareness in this one. Your brain may be able to quickly adapt to inhabiting the virtual world, but your body will still remain in this reality—and so will the walls you can walk into and slip, trip, and fall hazards, and people you may punch in the face.
As virtual reality continues to soar in popularity, so do cases where the use of VR resulted in injury.
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Jean Robert Edouard jr, however I am better known by my alias
“O’Skoo”.
I am an aspiring artist with a passion to showcase my talents as
well as motivate other young individuals to explore their own creative and
artistic side. They type of artwork that I identify with the most is Visual Art.
This specified art form has allowed me to express myself through drawing,
painting, fashion/jewelry design, as well as decorative art.
Beginning from a young age and residing in one of the greatest
cities better known as the Big Apple, Queens ny.
my inspiration has always came from
my everyday surroundings and cultural exposures such as, music, poetry,
and various styles of dance.
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No specific topic, we're just having conversations and play a good game of "would you rather"
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