The Zennurgy Podcast

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**Activism- Do What You Can, Where You Can- Episode 52** Oct 06, 2021
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1. What does activism mean to you?
2. How does activism help society progress and grow?
3. How did you start on your journey of activism?
4. What sources have helped you become a better activist?
5. What services do you offer?
6. What are your books about? How can people reach you?
Happy Saturday There are 51 more published episodes on varying topics!
Click to listen or watch the youtube videos at www.laughzandlyrics.com.
The audio is also on all podcasting platforms and available by googling The Zennurgy Podcast.
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Peace and blessings.
Artists, entrepreneurs, educators and community leaders are also invited to become guests. Fill out the Would You Like to Be a Guest form found on both the links above.

Endurance- Episode 51 Sep 28, 2021

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Being strong is facing challenges and just as importantly finding your own balance.. Determination and perseverance are important. But also knowing when to change course.

And don't let this anything or anyone take that from you. This year celebrate you, flaws and all. Because self love can be the greatest challenge of all in a culture that makes more profit by making us feel inadequate.

Listen or watch. Then indulge in merchandise NOT meant to make you feel anything but inspired, uplifted and valuable.

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Give the gift of lift! May you walk in Zennurgy!

Address Your Assumptions- Episode 50 Sep 25, 2021

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Question Assumptions

According to the University of Louisville, "An assumption is an unexamined belief: what we think without realizing we think it. Our inferences (also called conclusions) are often based on assumptions that we haven't thought about critically. A critical thinker, however, is attentive to these assumptions because they are sometimes incorrect or misguided. Just because we assume something is true doesn't mean it is.

Think carefully about your assumptions when finding and analyzing information but also think carefully about the assumptions of others."

Many of us are no longer in school, so our eyes may have glazed over reading that. But so many of our problems in life and society are based on assumptions. What have you heard?

All men are/do/should do ...

All women are/ do/should do...

All kids are/ do/ should do...

Blacks...

Whites...

Hispanics...

Asians...

The elderly...

The rich... The poor...

Democrats... Republicans....

Etc. The truth is people are individuals, and our assumptions about people, about situations, hell even about ourselves can lead us to engage in prejudice, can create misunderstandings and missed opportunities, can literally limit our world to a very narrow sliver of experience. The process of growing is often the process of challenging what we have assumed to be true and learning what is really true. Join Martin Felton and I as we discuss how we have expanded our horizons using poetry, writing, intuition and other tools from our collective toolboxes that have helped us ADDRESS our ASSUMPTIONS and those of others.

Confidence- Episode 49 Sep 18, 2021

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Everyone needs confidence in every area of life. Join us as we discuss this vital key to success and fulfillment.

1. What does confidence mean to you?

2. Are people born confident? or do they learn confidence?

4. Why is confidence important?

5. What makes confidence grow?

6. How does confidence relate to personal life, to business, to community life?

7. Who is a confident person that inspires you?

8. What does confidence mean to you as an artist?

Join Ant Boogie, Boss at High Volume Music Radio, On-Air Personality at KCOH-Tv Radio Station and Owner and Founder at High Volume Music Live and his son recent college freshman and musician Prince T'Challa and I.

We may discuss these questions as well as our personal journeys as artists.

There are 48 more published episodes on varying topics! Click to listen or watch the youtube videos at www.laughzandlyrics.com. The audio is also on all podcasting platforms and available by googling The Zennurgy Podcast. Some links are here https://linktr.ee/zenase.

Peace and blessings.

Artists, entrepreneurs, educators and community leaders are also invited to become guests. Fill out the Would You Like to Be a Guest form found on both the links above.

Break Through Bias- Episode 48 Sep 06, 2021

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According to the dictionary, "Bias is prejudice in favor or against one thing, group or person in a manner considered to be unfair."

So many of our problems in life and society are based on biases, many of them unconscious. Some biases are harmless, like chocolate or vanilla ice cream. Some are more sinister.

Here are some types in media-

1. Advertising bias- what is shown is geared to attract or keep advertisers happy effectively silencing some issues.

2. Concision bias - reporting only the views that are simple and easily digestible rather than more nuanced or complex ideas

3. Popularity bias - reporting what's trendy to seem "in the loop", avoiding lesser known byt important stories

4. Sensationalism reporting the scandalous or gory to entice "rubberneckers" who might ignore more newsworthy but "boring " stories

and of course there's bias against and for different demographics

men, women, kids, minorities, social classes, genders, educational levels, religious or political affiations, economic or social status, geographical locations etc.

Etc. The truth is people are individuals, and our biases concerning people, situations, or even ourselves can lead us to engage in discrimination, can create misunderstandings and missed opportunities, can literally limit our world to a very narrow sliver of experience. The process of growing is often the process of challenging our biases. Join Gwen Pearce and I as we discuss how we have expanded our horizons using poetry, writing, intuition and other tools from our collective toolboxes that have helped us Break Through Bias and pass that freedom on to others.

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Calm- Finding Quiet in the Chaos- Episode 47 Sep 01, 2021

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1.What does calm mean?

2. Why is this a good goal to have?

3. How can one find quiet in the chaos?

4. How can developing the ability to calm one's self lead to greater fulfillment and success?

5. What are the results of a lack of calm? How does living in chaos and stress hurt people?

6. What can lead to chaos in our lives?

7. Our personal journeys to finding calm and lessening the chaos.

8. How does calm relate to visualization, goal setting, affirmations, family, community, wellness, physical health and mental health?

9. What do you consider are the most important aspects of it?

10. What is the Back to Eden?

11. Who would benefit from it?

We may discuss these questions as well as others.

Happy Tuesday! There are 46 more published episodes on varying topics! Click to listen or watch the youtube videos at www.laughzandlyrics.com. The audio is also on all podcasting platforms and available by googling The Zennurgy Podcast. Some links are here https://linktr.ee/zenase.

Peace and blessings.

Artists, entrepreneurs, educators and community leaders are also invited to become guests. Fill out the Would You Like to Be a Guest form found on both the links above

**Appetite- Get Your Grub On! Episode 46** Aug 25, 2021
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1. What does appetite mean to you?
2. People have appetites for many things. And meeting those appetites leads many people to create businesses. How did you come up with the slogan - A Taste of Culture Delivered?
3. What does that slogan mean to you?
4. How did you learn there were restaurants that were hidden from the public?
5. What do you see people craving in food and in life?
6. What advice do you have for those viewers/listeners with an appetite for change?

We may discuss these questions as well as our personal journeys as artists and entrepreneurs.
Happy Tuesday!
There are 45 more published episodes on varying topics!
Click to listen or watch the youtube videos at www.laughzandlyrics.com
The audio is also on all podcasting platforms and available by googling The Zennurgy Podcast.
Some links are here https://linktr.ee/zenase
Peace and blessings.
Artists, entrepreneurs, educators and community leaders are also invited to become guests.
Fill out the Would You Like to Be a Guest form found on both the links above.
Zennurgy also has all types of inspirational materials.

**Creativity- a Zennurgy Podcast Discussion - Episode 45** Aug 20, 2021
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Join me as I visit with two veteran poets who are using poetry as a mental health tool.
They work out of The Heart's Ease Love and Freedom Center, which is a place to explore heart-centered living.
One of my guests, Salaam Green is proudly born and bred in the Black Belt of Alabama. She is the founder and executive director of www.theliteraryhealingarts.com, a 2018 New Economy's Fellow, Deep South Storyteller, Poet and Master Healer.
She was:
Birmingham's 2016 Poet Laureate for Innovation and Entrepreneurship,
and a 2018 Tedx Speaker.
The other poet, Liz Hildreth, has been writing poems for more than 40 years.
She studied poetry at NYU with Robert Bly, Sharon Olds, Allen Ginsberg, and Galway Kinnell.
She considers herself a confessional poet and thinks the best poems are raw, honest, weird, and wild.
One of her daughters has autism, cerebral palsy, and a seizure disorder.
She has written at length about mental illness and has written commissioned poems for people at galleries, museums, and other artistic venues.
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Discipline - Episode 44 Aug 11, 2021

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1. What does discipline mean to you?

2. What is its foundation?

3. Is it something you're born with or do you have to develop it?

4. Is it important? If so why?

5. How is it developed and maintained?

6. Who is responsible for developing it?

7. What do you consider are the most important aspects of it?

8. How does it relate to personal life, to business, to community life?

9. Who would be the best examples of discipline?

10. Books about discipline .

11. How discipline helps her as a writer and author

Elizabeth Brown, from Saint Paul, Minnesota. graduated from Southwest Minnesota State University with a Justice Administration major. She is the author of Unwanted Confessions Confirmed and Sour Lemonade. She has been interviewed on the Tribal Cafe, Road to Recovery and Creative Expressions podcasts.

@Thelostartofpoetry

Instagram/beautii28

We may discuss these questions as well as our personal journeys on this road to becoming more disciplined. There are 44 more published episodes on varying topics! Click to listen or watch the youtube videos at www.laughzandlyrics.com. The audio is also on all podcasting platforms and available by googling The Zennurgy Podcast. Some links are here https://linktr.ee/zenase.

Peace and blessings.

Artists, entrepreneurs, educators and community leaders are also invited to become guests. Fill out the Would You Like to Be a Guest form found on both the links above.

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