More In Common

"There is a reason why you are here.  Even if you don't see it now, you have meaning and there is a purpose in your life..."   Brittany Chung This conversation could not be more timely as September is National Suicide Prevention Month.

The Audacity of what's possible.  Today we go on a ride with our man David.  David is one-quarter native American and lives in Seattle.  He's a family man and successful executive at a large tech company.  You'll quickly notice that he's very aware of ...

There is fear or there is love...a poignant thought left with us when we met Alanna Airitam.  Alanna is a fine art portrait photographer best known for The Golden Age, a series of portraits shot with classic Rembrandt style lighting.

It is our pleasure to introduce Phil Hay and we do indeed cover writing, RPGs, baseball, and sitting with discomfort. - Phil is a screenwriter, producer, little league coach, and a pretty funny dude.  In this conversation,

Welcome back friends, today we're joined by The LockWest Monster.  While the title is our favorite quote from the conversation our next favorite is "Dialogue is the breeding ground for all resolve".  This conversation moves all over the place and weÂ...

We have the extreme pleasure of introducing Alex aka Shye Eaze.  She is an artist, a doer, a creator.  She tells us to: Be Aware of Your Breath, Keep Your Chin Up, and Be Still. She plays at least 4 instruments, in fact,

Updates, Get your updates! In today's short episode we have June 2018 updates for the masses.  We've hit the middle of our year and want to share a few things with you all.  Chief among those, some of our learnings, challenges, and new release cycle. It's a short yet action packed 15 minutes that is geared to let you know where we're going.  Listen in. Suppot our endeavor and grab a tshirt, click...

In this brief follow up we talk about what we learned in "The Stigma Around Mental Illness" with Brescia. If you didnt get a chance to listen quite yet go back and check it out, it's Episode020.     Transcript: Keith: All right welcome back or welcome to more in common this is our social experiment here we find and create unity we're doing it by exposing people their stories their mindsets and the...

The stigma of mental illness is a real thing. Many struggles with admitting, accepting, or even talking about the challenges they face with mental illness because of this stigma. There are a lot of amazing organizations and individuals trying to change this culture. Giving people a safe place to open up about their experience. Today, we are graced with Brescia Dover who is one of these AMAZING ind...

This follow up to our conversation with Vu about Fighting The Zombies Of Injustice is short and sweet.  We contemplate what we learned and what we took away from the conversation personally.  If you didn't have a chance go back to Episode017 and check out the original conversation with Vu.  You can find Vu's work with non-profits on his website nonprofitAF, he's doing some great work to help non-p...

Vu Le (“voo lay”) joins us today.  He is a writer, speaker, vegan, Pisces, and the Executive Director of Rainier Valley Corps, a nonprofit in Seattle that promotes social justice by developing leaders of color, strengthening organizations led by communities of color, and fostering collaboration between diverse communities. Yes, we do talk about fighting the zombies of injustice. Vu’s passion is to...

What'd We Learn: It's Fun to Be Nice and Face Blindness In typical fashion, we follow up with our last episode with a short talk about what we've been thinking about.  Specifically where our conversation with Ken forced us to consider new things.  If you didn't get to hear you can find it here:  It's Fun to Be Nice and Face Blindness.   it  This is the Evolve part of More In Common, in which we ch...

Prosopagnosia or face blindness: the inability to recognize faces. Face blindness is thought to be the result of abnormalities, damage, or impairment in the right fusiform gyrus, a fold in the brain that appears to coordinate the neural systems that control facial perception and memory. Remember kids, It's fun to be nice Today's conversation is with Ken, a Technical Sales Engineer, a good dude wit...

Part 2 - A Sweet Remembrance. School to Prison Pipeline: The disproportionate tendency of minors and young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds to become incarcerated, because of increasingly harsh school and municipal policies. In an uncommon twist to our typical follow-ups, today we continue "A Sweet Remembrance" with Lloyd Wilkey.  We do add a follow-up to the conversation in the spirit of our...

Moral Turpitude Noun   * Conduct that is believed to be contrary to community standards of honesty, good morals, or justice. Origin 15th century     Latin turpitudo (“vile” or “base”) A Sweet Remembrance. Today we are back with Lloyd Wilkey. Please go back to the first episode find it here, episode 4.  You can find Lloyd on twitter @mindfulpolicing. Lloyd is an activist, human relations trainer fo...

Evolve In today's episode we take a moment to talk about what we learned from our conversation with Felicia.  What's been on our mind and what about the conversation has spurred growth and evolution for each of us. Expose. Evaluate. Evolve.

Well, here is the first guest episode of 2018!  Additionally, this is our first conversation under the new name, MORE IN COMMON! We are excited to bring this discussion to you.  In this episode, we have Felecia Killings.  Felecia is a devoted mother, educator, and entrepreneur. She is the Founder and CEO of FKMinistries, which seeks to help people walk in their calling. She is the Executive Direct...

Name Change & Guns Follow Up Happy New Year and welcome back to More In Common.  That's right, the  name change is official.  In this episode we talk about the change and what it means to us. We also include our "What'd we learn" segment regarding our last conversation about guns.  We talk about what we've been chewing on since that conversation and how (or if) we've evolved. Join us in this, our...

Let's Talk About Guns Welcome back as we took a small respite to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday with our families and to build out a release docket for the next 6 months that we should all enjoy! Today, join us as we explore the topic of gun ownership, rights and use.  This is actually a topic we have never discussed before and given the nature of sensitivity we wanted to see where the conversatio...

This social experiment we've embarked upon as already taught us a lot.  We thank you for joining us and we look forward to bringing more and more as we continue to grow. - In today's episode we step back from interviewing guests and talk about where w...

Join us as we discuss our last episode with Lloyd.  If you've not listened to the episode with Lloyd yet, you're doing it wrong - do that first. - In these "What'd we learn" episodes we aim to both Evaluate out last conversation and discuss where we'v...

Oh, So I'm Black Now? I Wasn't Black During The War Today we learn about Lloyd.  Lloyd is gracious to share his story that led him to today where he lives in Los Angeles and is an Activist, a Human Relations Trainer doing work with Law Enforcement, businesses, non-profits, and educators.  He is a Mediator, Youth worker, boxing/self-defense coach, and singer. After living his developmental years in...

Sit in as we explore our thoughts regarding the discussion with Speaks.  As is with each episode, we always seek to evaluate our thoughts after a conversation in an effort to evolve our thinking and our mindset. -

Disclaimer: This episode has explicit language. Speaks has a lot to say so this is certainly a great listen, just be aware of the language. - gri·ot [ɡrēˈō, ˈɡrēō] - NOUN a member of a class of traveling poets, musicians,

In this follow up to our 2nd episode and first interview we share what we took away from the conversation with Josh.  We also touch, briefly, upon the events that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia just a week ago on August 12th. -