Skip Chronicles

Skip shares his thoughts on Substack which is a new platform that allow you a great relationship with your audience. It is a hybrid of Twitter/Tumblr/Mailchimp with you sharing content to followers as well as your email list. This has a lot of potential and should be great for the early adopters. A must listen for those creatives that want an inexpensive way to market their services.

Skip shares his aspirations for streaming and handling gadget reviews. His love of technology and gaming is a great core to becoming a nice hobby to build community. Skip shares the new tech he is adding and how he hopes to market it.

Skip talks about how important it is to understand when you need to pivot in your life. What are you doing professionally? Financially? Emotionally? Physically? Spiritually? He shares how he goes into relationships differently and accepting closed chapters in his life. Tap in!

Skip shares why building community amongst men with hobbies is important. As people get older, it is often times harder to build connections with people. Thus people drive into shared hobbies to be amongst others with the same interest. For Skip, comedy + Video games + movies + basketball are how he connects to his bros.

Skip shares about leaning on your strong traits and working on the weak ones. He shares why routines are important in succeeding within your tasks. The example of basketball pops up where he describes how a lost in the playoffs had him working hard to be ready for the next season. You learn skills by grinding every single day. The consistency is always the hard part in any journey honestly. You ca...

Skip discusses how he showed up in dating (in the past and at points now) and how it leaked into other portions of his life. He struggled with staying present due to coping mechanisms he developed in his childhood. Unfortunately, those bad traits come up in the professional AND romantic realms. Rejecting others before they reject you was a common narrative. The hard part is trying to break that cy...

Skip covers how impactful the year 2020 was for all of us. He shares a few notable people we lost in that time who left a tremendous mark in his life (and some of your lives as well). Alex Trebek Jerry Stiller Pop Smoke Kobe Bryant Chadwick Boseman Around 1.34 million were lost in the Americas within 2020 due to Covid. Around 1.11 million were lost in the European region within 2020 due to Covid....

Skip shares his thoughts on the passing of Mac Miller and Nipsey Hussle years ago. When people you love are hurting because of their connection to people, you have to feel for them. Skip grapples with mortality after seeing more people dying from a variety of reasons.

Skip chats about how he came up with the idea of Dreams Money Can Buy. He was studying content from people like Nardwuar, ItsTheReal, and Sean Evans. A refreshing deep dive into why he enjoys making this space to show love to his peers.

Skip goes through his list of monikers he acquired over the years. He has been a huge fan of ItsTheReal and their creative of numerous monikers for each episode of "A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal". In all seriousness, these monikers showcased different aspects of his personality and he worked on getting more. Silly episode but definitely big up to Jeff and Eric of ItsTheReal.

Skip shares who inspired the start of one of his most utilized hash tag on Instagram titled #FireJawnSunday. He further discusses why he often revisits ideas and concepts to improve upon them. When making things of new, you sometimes borrow some essence from a prior work to move forward. This hashtag was a healthy movement to big up the women on their fits every week. Maybe one day we can see it&#...

Skip shares how he added the titles of host/comedian/actor to his byline. He started off hosting some events which led him to getting his start with comedy and acting. A quick walkthrough with that experience and the growth he underwent to learn these different avenues of skill.

Skip discusses how important to find what brings you joy and peace. While going through his therapy journey, he confronts some traits that aren't helpful to becoming the man he wants to be. Short and sweet episode but a refreshing convo on doing what is best for the self.

Skip talks about his love of movies with a few of his favorites that embody who he is as a person. A lot of these movies have sentimental value that showcases things he wished he had growing up.

Skip discusses how depression/anxiety/imposter syndrome can ruin your romantic and work situations. This is a vulnerable episode where Skip details his past relationships and how things were astray due to his low emotional intelligence at the time. He also covers why he experienced some issues in previous workplaces as well. A lot of these lessons were integral to him becoming the person he is tod...

Skip finally gets to a pivot moment which is the creation of Cove Alpa. Before there was Dreams Money Can Buy and Skip Chronicles, we had Cove Alpa as the center for content and interviews. A big light bulb moment for Skip and the foundation to what he does in his creative endeavors. Tune in!

Skip talks about his relationships with his closest friends and siblings. He goes through the impact of each and how much he values them in his life. Friendship and family connection are vital to a quality way of life. A great episode putting a spotlight on his loved ones. Tune in!

Skip chats about his relationship with his father and how that has an impact on numerous aspects of his life. The older generations have had to go through various situations different from our own. We should give them grace but we also have to prioritize ourselves as well. Great episode detailing how Skip wants to grow from his father's life journey to build his own path. Tune in! 😎

Skip shares how difficult it was to break into his desired career path post college. The types of jobs he had to go through before he got to his current company was a journey. He learned along the way on his poor preparation physically and mentally to excel in a lot of these spaces. This episode is for people to understand that getting to that ideal job and company will take a lot of work. Please...

Skip goes through a quick look back on things he wish he could have done differently in a variety of areas in life. He breaks down how things were personally/professionally/romantically and how his tendency to avoid confront brought greater issues to the forefront. This is a really open episode on his thought process on how his growth was needed to experience growth in these areas of life. Tune in...

We are talking about some serious tings with body dysmorphia! Everyone deals with this dreaded phrase when it comes to their body and Skip is no different. He chats about how his concept of his body has changed over the years and how it occurred. Skip also covers how Body dysmorphia affects men and women differently. Body happiness is the goal and no matter the method, respect everyone's journey w...

We are in our college daze! Baruch college was an impactful time for Skip in his early adult years. The core of his close friends was created during those 4 years. There is a lot of adult stuff you need to learn to do well in college. Time management and proper execution for projects academically and personally. It was quite a time (and he is so glad it is over). Tune in to Baruch SZN! 

There was a time Tumblr was right there with Twitter and Instagram in terms of influence. Feels like a lifetime away honestly. Skip shares the importance of navigating the internet during the late 2000s and early 2010s. He made some friends and lost some friends. Found love a few times and learned so much more about himself. This was definitely a transitional period of his life. Tune in! 

Yes yes yes. We know Skip is a major Drake fan. The question is why is he a Drake fan? This episode is in detailed on the projects he enjoyed. Heads up this episode was recorded back in late 2020 (we will have a sequel episode to this much later in 2023). Enjoy the episode and peep his ranking of Albums and Mixtapes/compilations 😎! Tune in!  

On this episode of Skip Chronicles, Skip shares about his time in high school and how he learned ambition from a love interest at the time. We also learn how he went from Skippy (JHS) to Skip (HS and beyond).  We are getting past those awkward teenage years alright 😅. Tune in!