The Zennurgy Podcast

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Dedication- A Zennurgy Podcast- Episode 71 Feb 08, 2022

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Dedication is a word people throw around, but haven't often defined. It's a compliment we give others. But it's also something that comes with consequences, sacrifices that some don't often recognize and are unprepared for. Join me as Rodney Smith and I discuss this important success principle.

1. What does dedication mean to you?

2. Were you always dedicated? If not, how did you develop it?

3. How do you deal with motivation, laziness, procrastination or do you acknowledge any of these at all?

5. How does dedication tie to goal setting and success?

6. Are role models, accountability partners or mentors a part of your dedication?

7. What has dedication done for you?

8. Your music

We have a lot to talk about and you are invited to comment questions or personal experiences below.

There are 69 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.Rodney Smith stated he had to have as a COP because It was a means to an end. He didn't want to be a starving artist, but he always wanted to play music. He found out the local police department, Prince George's County in Maryland had a 20 year retirement plan. So, he said to himself, "If I can manage to not get killed for 20 years, I can get back to my music. I managed to survive, and I've been happily retired for 14 years. I retired when I was 42. I played in a band with a high school friend for almost 10 years until Covid showed up and put us out of business. Now I work with an artist. My life shows dedication to a dream, and the process to achieve that dream."

Enjoyable Faith- Episode 70 Feb 04, 2022

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Enjoyment is important. It makes life worth living. But sadly, it's missing from many people's lives,, and not enough people make it a priority. They see it as a result of certain situations or outcomes,, rather than a goal or priority in itself. Join singer Immanie, comedian MacYouFunny and I as we discuss two important success principles.

1. What does enjoyment mean to you? What does faith have to do with it- faith in yourself, humanity, a higher power?

2. Were you always someone who enjoyed life, who enjoyed your career? If not, how did you decide to pursue enjoyment? What role did faith play in that?

3. How do you deal with depression, disappointment, pain and other negative emotions as you pursue enjoyment? How do you keep your faith in the midst of setbacks?

5. How do enjoyment and faith tie to goal setting and success?

6. Are role models, accountability partners or mentors a part of your pursuit of enjoyment? Do they build your faith?

7. What has joy/faith done for you?

8. Music

9. Comedy

We have a lot to talk about and you are invited to comment questions or personal experiences below.

There are 60 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.

**Emotions - A Zennurgy Podcast Discussion- Episode 69** Feb 03, 2022
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Emotions. Emotional intelligence. Emotional maturity. Tune in as we talk about
1. What our emotions means to us.
2. How emotions help us progress and grow.
3. When we realized we needed to manage our emotions.
4. How we started on the journey of learning from and about our emotions.
4. What sources have helped us become more emotionally sound?
5. Why LJ Hamilton picked this topic?
6. How emotions relate to poetry, writing and performing.
7. LJ Hamilton's books..
8. How people can reach him
Happy Sunday There are 67 more published episodes on varying topics! Also shop with us. unique gifts for all ages.
Speaking of gifts, you can read Chapter 1 of my upcoming book Plenty of Guppies free through a download link here. https://linktr.ee/zenase
Here is the blurb for the book. (Stick around to the end of the podcast for a 3 min clip of the audio for chapter 1. The full chapter 1 audio is available under exclusive content.)
Book blurb
Zen Ase, a newly divorced 43 year old Southern woman wanted a fresh start. She'd heard there were plenty of fish to choose from in the modern dating pond. What she discovered were plenty of guppies. Exactly 101 of them!
The result? A provocative, transparent, raw and delightfully uncensored account of her experiences with the 101 men she encountered on her journey to find "the one". In Plenty of Guppies, Zen spills all the tea on dating psychology, relationships, and self-discovery, while giving readers a rare glimpse into the life of an award-winning artist and best-selling author. The book is an enlightening narrative that explores gender roles and identity outside of societal expectations.
Zen has written a refreshingly mature modern day epic of online dating, layering her personal story with erotic poetic verses and passionate prose that frame her journey toward rebuilding a life as a single woman and adjusting to both an empty nest and boomeranging children.
Zen Ase’s story is alternately poignant, hysterical, uplifting, shocking, and (at its heart), a real life example of the old adage "truth is stranger (and can be harder to believe) than fiction".
Plenty of Guppies is the book every adult who has loved, lost and lived to try again didn't know they needed and will effortlessly respond and relate to.
Prepare to lose yourself in the enchantingly unorthodox dating world of Zen Ase, best selling author of Zennurgize Your Life.

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Plenty of Guppies audio: Chapter 1- Ep 67 Feb 02, 2022

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Listen to learn what that means. Plenty of Guppies Chapter 1 audio. Chapter 2 (76) and chapter 3 (81) are free episodes on the podcast.

Zen Ase, a newly divorced 43 year old Southern woman wanted a fresh start. She'd heard there were plenty of fish to choose from in the modern dating pond. What she discovered were plenty of guppies. Exactly 101 of them!

The result? A provocative, transparent, raw and delightfully uncensored account of her experiences with the 101 men she encountered on her journey to find "the one". In Plenty of Guppies, Zen spills all the tea on dating psychology, relationships, and self-discovery, while giving readers a rare glimpse into the life of an award-winning artist and best-selling author. The book is an enlightening narrative that explores gender roles and identity outside of societal expectations.

Zen has written a refreshingly mature modern day epic of online dating, layering her personal story with erotic poetic verses and passionate prose that frame her journey toward rebuilding a life as a single woman and adjusting to both an empty nest and boomeranging children.

Zen Ase’s story is alternately poignant, hysterical, uplifting, shocking, and (at its heart), a real life example of the old adage "truth is stranger (and can be harder to believe) than fiction".

Plenty of Guppies is the book every adult who has loved, lost and lived to try again didn't know they needed and will effortlessly respond and relate to.

The full book will be available on Amazon on Valentines Day.

Prepare to lose yourself in the enchantingly unorthodox dating world of Zen Ase, best selling author of Zennurgize Your Life.

Dare to Heal- Episode 68 Jan 18, 2022

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1.What does healing mean?

2. Why is this a good goal to have?

3. How can healing require courage?

4. How can healing lead to greater fulfillment and success?

5.How does one start to heal?

6. How does it relate to visualization, goal setting, affirmations, family, community, entrepreneurship, personal life?

7,. Are there clear difference between people who just want to do enough to get by and those who want to heal?

8. Is a lack of healing a reason that some accuse the black community of a "crabs in a bucket" mentality?

We will discuss these concepts and many more including both of our guided journals, her upcoming workshop and coaching practice. I also have several upcoming events so follow me and check out the links on my linktree. https://linktr.ee/zenase

Encouragement- Episode 66 Jan 12, 2022

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1. What does encouragement mean to you?

2. How do you encourage yourself? others?

3. How do you deal with haters, waiters and fake supporters? or do you acknowledge any of these at all?

5. How do you create new goals and build on past successes?

6. Networking? Collaborations?

7. Who or what really encourages you?

8. Encouragement tips?

9. Your music and album

We have a lot to talk about.

There are 65 more published episodes on varying topics!

The best selling guided journal can be purchased here.

https://amzn.to/3ETulZq

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 Out of the Box- Episode 65 Jan 01, 2022

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1. What does break out of the box mean to you?

2. Are most people labeled?

4. Why is breaking out of the box important?

5. What makes independence grow?

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

7. Who is a person that inspires you who broke out of a box?

There are 63 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.

Darnell Oaks said about himself, "I became a teenage parent at the age of 19 and a single parent by the age of 21. I wrote about just that and everything that happened in between in my 2020 debuted ebook entitled "I Did That" later that year I begin life coaching under the great Tony Gaskins mentorship. In 2021 I found my purpose which is to empower single parents and rebuild broken families."

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Benediction- Episode 64 Dec 26, 2021

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Today is the 1st day of Kwanzaa, Umoja, meaning unity- in the family, community, nation and race. Happy Kwanzaa.

We are one. We rise or fall together.

I choose rising. Today is my mentor Runyararo Fana birthday. I may have tears in my eyes because I cannot hug him, but I will and do honor him.

More than any person on the planet, he taught me the importance of unity, supporting one another, lifting one another, encouraging one another, working together as he would say to create Wakanda.

Almost every Saturday, he taught a class- a free class- on community, principles, love. It was called Conversations in African Culture, but it was Umoja in action.

He started with meditation, libations, then music. He brought and read from books. He talked about contemporaries and ancestors. Every class was focused on one or more principles.

I'd never been taught like that.

He did not call it Zennurgy, but Zennurgy incorporates all those things plus affirmations, vision boards, journaling, and breathing. https://www.amazon.com/Zennurgize-Your-Life-Zen-Ase/dp/B09MYXXCD2

He taught me. I continue his legacy.

Today, I release Benediction on my podcast. It's an episode dedicated to those we lost to Covid and during Covid.

I hope it helps unite us in reverence, in hope, in love. Https://linktr.ee/zenase

As Runyararo Fana would say Pamoja Tutashinda- Together we shall win.

**Enlightenment- Episode 63** Dec 25, 2021
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Thank you for making Zennurgize Your Life a best seller in New Releases on Amazon for the past 10 days!
https://www.amazon.com/Zennurgize-Your-Life-Zen-Ase/dp/B09MYXXCD2
1. What does enlightenment mean to you?
2. How does enlightenment help you progress and grow?
3. How did you start on your journey of enlightenment?
4. What sources have helped you become more enlightened?
5. What have writing and education meant to you ?
6. What is your book about? How can people reach you?
Happy Sunday 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. TH3RD EYE Ent., LLC
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DIFERNT.
Born on December 15, 1990, in Houston, Texas, Fifth Ward she has overcome homelessness and foster care. She had a normal childhood until eleven; then her family ended up homeless. For the next three years, she would live in various places including: strangers’ houses; cars; parks; bus stops; shelters; and even a crack house. At age fourteen, she was placed in foster care and discovered that, in the State of Texas “foster kids” who aged out of care received free college tuition.
She is now an alumni of Sam Houston State University and a member of the Beta Theta Chapter of Phi Chi Theta. She graduated receiving her BA in International Business, with two minors in Economics & Business Communication, and her Master’s in Entrepreneurship. Difernt is also a Texas Real Estate Agent.
She has a love for traveling and has visited over fifty countries and participated in amateur kickboxing. Her hobbies include reading, journaling, watching "Shark Tank", meditating, biking, ATV riding, ziplining, and hanging out with her best friend—her nephew.
Difernt always knew she was meant for greatness, however, she understood to become the person she was meant to be—it would take fixing the issues that plagued her. She found the courage to do something about her depression and dismissed the notion that “black people don’t do therapy”. While
in therapy Difernt was encouraged to channel her negative experiences into a positive outcome. She quickly learned that with strategic planning, proper preparation, and constant prayer, she could manifest the life she was meant have—and wants others to do the same with their lives. Now at the age of thirty, realizing she
is not person she once was and by God’s Grace; Difernt is ready for the next adventure in her life-- publishing her first book.
It is with WHAT IF? A Controversial Paradigm Shift, Difernt hopes to inspire
individuals to have healthy conversations with others about systemic racism. It is her hypothesis that when we have these conversations about systemic racism and other taboo subjects then society can change for the better. Because when you know better, you do better.
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Criteria- Episode 62 Dec 17, 2021

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Having, raising and maintaining standards in personal and professional life is important. Listen in for insights and inspiration on CRITERIA. from Zen Ase, the author of the best selling Zennurgize Your Life on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MYXXCD2

Here is more information about her guest, Bayou Beaux Beez who vends at the Rayford street Market on the first and third Sundays of each month.

Barbecue and grilling during family reunions and on the weekends were a way of life for Jeffrey “Beez” Beasley growing up in Zwolle, Louisiana. Today Jeff and his wife Keisha Beasley are carrying on the family tradition by creating creole grilling sauces, rubs, seasonings, and homemade desserts that demonstrate the best of Louisiana’s unique cuisine. Called BayouBeauxBeez, the products were launched as a family business and has established itself as a popular brand in only six months. “We’re so excited about how much people love our products. From the barbecue sauces to our homemade cakes, we have a broad customer base and people who look for us at many of the malls and markets where we sell.” Their love for cooking has long been admired at gatherings by their close family and friends where they grilled and shared their culinary talents. Old family recipes like creole chicken and sausage gumbo, stuffed bell peppers with creole crab dressing, grilled meats and fried catfish all made with their own special blend of creole seasonings were often a part of their family events for years. Recently both Jeff and Keisha were both oil and gas executives who were laid off from their jobs this year due to the pandemic. Instead of idly waiting for the industry to bounce back, they decided to launch their own business based on their love of cooking and their talents for making rubs, sauces and spices. They also added homemade cakes and cookies to their product list. Every sauce, rub, seasoning, and dessert that they create is a tribute to their family members. Some include Drea’sDry Jerk Seasoning, named after Jeff’s sister-in-law who often cooked her famous Jerked chicken when he was growing up. And Pearl’s Butter Pecan Cookies and Butter Cakes are Jeff’s mother’s recipe that have been a favorite in Zwolle at church gatherings. Jeff and Keisha aspire to open a restaurant someday. For now, they will continue creating bold creole sauces and seasoning blends for their customers around the world. More information about their products can be found at www.bayoubeaux.com and by following Bayou Beaux Beez on all social media platforms.

www.bayoubeaux.com

Instagram: @bayoubeaux_beez Facebook: @bayoubeauxbeez

Twitter: BayoubeauxB

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