SouthernLive Gumbo

On this first episode of 2025, I speak about where I've been since the last episode on 14 March 2023, why the break in episodes was so extended and the humongous changes my life endured in 2024. What better way to say hello again than a new podcast. Money and chicken wings are probably better but outside of those...this is right there. As always I only wish for three things....love, peace and...

On Episode 41 of Southern Live Gumbo, we pay homage to all the wonderful mother's in the world on thier day of worship, Mother's Day. We discuss my visit to New Hampshire for graduation and how they are challenging Disney for being the best place for their genre of people as well as sending words of encouragement to Jamie Foxx. In our Development pot, we discuss what it means to invest i...

On Episode 40 of Southern Live Gumbo, I provide a quick update to where I've been and my medical situation which includes how the words "Gluten Free" should be changed to "Happiness Free" on all nutrition labels.  We discuss why China doesn't care what you're doing in your backyard, The Super Bowl, Singing the National Anthem, How Netflix and Chill was replaced w...

On this week's Episode 39 of Southern Live Gumbo, I explain my absence (Again) but share some very good news on how things have been going healthwise. We discuss Christmas etiquette, specifically regifting, using packing materials from other holidays and the average time to remove decorations from the facilities. New Year's resolutions and the indirect ways that we can affect the success...

On Episode 38 of Southern Live Gumbo, we get away from our Cancer Chronicles and go back to our normal programming of discussing the topics of the current world and the human psyche. This was recorded late so my language is fitting for the time frame. We made the decision to not talk about Kanye West, and then proceed to talk about him from a Mental Health perspective. We then transitioned the men...

On episode 37 of Southern Live Gumbo, we discuss what's happened in the time that's passed since the last episode on 15 July. The lead up to surgery, the completion and healing process of the surgery and the weight of dealing with the changes you're enduring then and for the rest of your life. The need for therapy is even more important now than it was before the diagnosis.  We also...

On Episode 36 of Southern Live Gumbo, I discuss new updates to my diagnosis and I talk about the emotional aspect of what publicly disclosing it has meant to my relationships with people in my life. How you can be so focused on the effects on you, that you never think about the effects on the people around you and the eye opening experience it can be. Lastly, we talk about the questions you must a...

On Episode 35 of Southern Live Gumbo, there is only one subject I'm speaking about, how i found out that I have prostate cancer. This won't dominate the show but I wanted to explain why things have fallen off and exactly what the experience has been like for me to this point. I started thinking about my life as time I didn't want to waste but this space is always where I wanted to b...

On this week’s episode, Number 34 of Southern Live Gumbo, we heartily wish all mother’s in the world a belated Happy Mother’s Day and ensure they receive their flowers that are well deserved.  We discuss creative’s finding a way to scratch their creative itch, the need to take the time to live if you’re going to talk about life, American veterans fighting in the Ukraine and the Alabama prison love...

On this week’s episode, Number 33 of Southern Live Gumbo, we take a step back to discuss the Gumbo recipe,  the foundation of emotional intelligence within this brand, what it encompasses for me and why it is at the core of what this podcast is and will continue to be. We discuss the rabbit hole that is the Social Media algorithm and how hard it can be to climb your way out of it, as well as the i...

On this week’s episode, Episode 32 of Southern Live Gumbo, I talk about my 120-day hiatus and why I’ve been forced to practice better time management skills. We talk about Mike Tyson using a passenger as a heavy bag, why Chris Rock should have joked about the terrible movies Will Smith has made instead of Jada and attacked the Amir Khan London robbery, which brought forth the question of what shou...

On Episode 31 of Southern Live Gumbo, you will hear how I clearly don't know how to read a calendar as I believed i'm still in the month of December.  I discuss Jack Frost not being a fan of me calling him out last week, the death of the Golden Girl Betty White and the great  couple of weeks it's been for old hip hop legends in music.  In our Leadership topic of the month, I discuss...

On Episode 30 of Southern Live Gumbo, I discuss why i keep getting the new Covid name and the Transformers confused, how global warming messed up my Christmas playlist and I take time to bid rest in peace to Bishop Desmond Tutu, Issa Rae's breakthrough show "Insecure" and my Pittsburgh Steelers playoff chances. But mainly, I  used this episode to explain where the hell i have been f...

On Episode 29 of Southern Live Gumbo, we discuss the very interesting week in the Olympics that includes the ladies of the Jamaican track team treating the 100M final like a dance contest, Simone Biles pulling out of the Olympics for reasons that people felt some type of way about and how a guy with the hoodest Italian name ever, made history.  For development, we discuss the importance of Communi...

On episode 28 of Southern Live Gumbo, we discuss the plight of the Olympics in Tokyo, the misery for men when basketball season ends and if all employers will view the vaccination of their employees in the same manner as the NFL.  We also discuss the podcast question of the week, " Would You Rather Spend A Year living at a nudist colony or with the Amish community?" Our main topic this w...

On Episode 27 of SLG, we discuss the need to have a conversation with Mother Nature about the heat index currently in the world, the current state of the COVID vaccination plan and how Juvenile's remix of "Back Dat Ass Up" to "Vax Dat Ass Up" will help or hurt its chances of future success. Lastly we discuss if its possible for Cancel Culture to be transformed into Counsel...

On Episode 26 of Southern Live Gumbo, we discuss the finality of finally being retired and receiving the prized DD214 for the first time. We also discuss the disastrous events in Haiti, the new math my mother uses to calculate her birthdays and the outcome of the Sha'carri Richardson Olympics story.  Our wellness topic this week is pain, specifically the public manifestation of it. Are we at...

On this week's episode of Southern Live Gumbo, we discuss the newly adorned federal holiday of Juneteenth and what it is. We also discuss the NBA, the new normal for vacations and vaccinations and Father's Day also known as the day the man get's the big piece of chicken and show love to all the father's out there, by blood or actions, who are stalwarts in their families. As wel...

On Episode 24 of Southern Live Gumbo, I discuss why I've been gone off the air for 2 months and why it was something that was mandatory to take care of. We discuss the notion of preparing for change and the importance of losing purpose.  We discuss Naomi Osaka and her battle with Mental Health and the problems we all have with dealing with expectations at work and at home.  Lastly we discuss...

On Episode 23 of SouthernLive Gumbo, we discuss our extended hiatus and why things have taken so long to get back on track. I touch on hot topics like Kurt Franklin and his Stomp Remix starring his son, the growing cases against Deshaun Watson and The Verus of all Versus battles despite Steve Harvey.  We visit our pot to see what's cooking, as we discuss the path we all walk when transitionin...

Welcome to Episode 22 of SouthernLive Gumbo. On this episode, I discuss my extended hiatus from recording and how i was not locked up but was away for very good reasons. We discuss the country waiting for stimulation again, the coming cicada swarm and the death of hall of fame boxer, Marvelous Marvin Hagler.  In our What's Cooking pot on the stove, I discuss the theory of Cognitive Distortion...

This week, on Episode 21 of Southern Live Gumbo, we wish everyone a belated Valentines Day, discuss Dennis Quaid showing up at our doors with this ridiculous winter weather, the newly created uses of Gorilla Glue and the ending of the impeachment of the 45th President. Our topic of the week is the communication gap between men and women today and what are the questions that will shape the future f...

On Episode 20 of SouthernLive Gumbo, we discuss this year's  Super Bowl and acknowledge the accomplishment of the player who wears #12, whose name we do not mention on this podcast, embrace the discussion of the fight to increase minimum wage and highlight the accomplishments of the inauguration poet, Amanda Gorman. We delve back into our emotional well being path and discuss the concept of w...

On episode #19 of SouthernLive Gumbo, we discuss the unnecessary need for Jack Frost to be seen and not heard in nature, the losses of of African American icons, Cicely Tyson and Hank Aaron and the start of my fearful 60 day countdown to taking off my uniform for the last time. The main subject matter today is our delve into the evolving emotion called Love. All the conceptual situations that upli...

On this week's episode, #18 of Southern Live Gumbo, I talk about my harrowing experience with the second Moderna COVID vaccine shot. The immortality of the Bernie Sanders memes, the status of the dreaded New Year's resolutions and the pageantry of seeing all the old president together.  We also discuss the question of "What will it mean to be a man in the future?" and how the s...