The Millennials Pod by Meeks @theyoung_pilgrim

Who gets to hold power in relationships or in society? In the pod, Meeks considers the intersection of power, safety and Judas vs. Jesus spirit as it relates to personal and professional relationships and geopolitics. The question of where power lies can best be answered by the Person who created the rules of engagement - of Who, therefore, allegiance is due. Earthly power should likewise be held...

In this pod, Meeks gets into the four new love languages for the modern age as experienced in his recent trip to the Motherland. In Kenya, Meeks met friends and suitors that enlightened him on some fundamental cues of romantic relationships with women. These are validation, emotion, containment and challenges. These are new love languages of modernity. While he's not the first to use these terms,...

In this new episode of season 6, Meeks takes a circuitous route from an MIT Entrepreneurship event led by Bill Aulet, Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship at MIT, to the current and dire state of medical and financial freedom in the globe, and drops in on the old Roman Republic rights of the people, to tease this idea of our reason for existence. Building on previo...

This episode is of an adult nature. Proceed with caution. An Alpha widow is a colloquially used modern term connoting a woman who has lost or divorced or broken up with an Alpha man and, as a result, has difficulty moving on and forward with future companions because of the damage she's incurred. By the way, men also go through this. In this episode, Meeks applies the movie Vicky, Christina, Barce...

Putting yourself in the other person's Reebok's and being close to them to learn more about their humanity, is what relationship - personal and professional - is fundamentally about. In this pod, Meeks explores how those two concepts - including competence and warmth - should show up in the workplace and in romantic relationships. This idea is actually not new, since Biblical scripture says: "Let...

In this pod, Meeks reviews his first trip to the West coast of Africa, Ghana, specifically, and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of nations and people in light of pride. At the heart of failed democracies in nation-states that had a bright future, like Ghana -- which was the first independent country on the Continent, is pride. Meeks relates this motif of pride from a national as well as a p...

In this pod, Meeks breaks down and projects nascent current affairs from a religious, political, health, and preparedness perspective. The change of the guard at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue requires a reflection of 2024 in light of 2025. This is part one of a two-segment series that paints a broad picture of the left and the right ideologies coming to a point of symmetry. Therefore with that impendin...

This episode takes stock of serious issues surrounding the modern man and how he has in many ways been compromised to be less of the actualized, Christian, and fully human man he was intended to be from antiquity. Today, many men have been compromised by their willful acquiescence to those things that appear to make life enjoyable - from work to relationships and technology. A few good men are nee...

Is identity a fact or a social construct? In this episode, Meeks attempts to define identity as knowledge of oneself - i.e., an individual, sentient, created being that has a purpose. From that definition, he invites the listener to develop their own identity paradigm from a religious, personal, and professional perspective - preferably in that order - to help them find fulfillment. To begin the j...

In this pod, Meeks dissects how the Black revolutionaries and activists of 1960s and 70s the were suppressed, infiltrated, expunged and replaced by leaders of the new school made up of sundry gangsta rappers, questionable politicians, a few would-be-billionaires, prosperity gospel pastors and masons. Altogether they are called the Boulé. This evolution of the unified Black Christian tradition left...

This episode gets into looking into Ivy League schools and how they influence political and social theory, religion, and often culture. Meeks evaluates his visit to Princeton and Harvard and considers how elite schools have evolved over 300 years to become institutions that increasingly stifle free thought at the best of corporations. Hence, the need to contextualize higher education in the framew...

In this episode, Meeks discusses the implications of the 2024 US elections and goes back in time to delineate the history of democracy and the ideologies that run both parties. Here we delve into the origins of democracy and build up a case for the partisanship we see today and project where the could lead in 2025.

This episode reviews Meeks' short trip to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In it, he uses Vancouver as A motif to describe the urban sprawl endemic in major cities today. But the story of today is rooted in the colonial beginnings of independent or imagined communities, according to Benedict Anderson, which became societies and nation-states that lost their meaning and cohesion, or in 14th cen...

In this new season pod, Meeks reviews Compliance as a barometer for a good life, particularly in the context of relationships, education, race, health, common law, environment and religion. Compliance as the act of obeying rules and regulations - from government or your boyfriend or God - for better or worse, is a normative modern societal practice. But the delicate dance between the extremes of o...

In this final season episode, Meeks interrogates authenticity, a practice worth applying in your everyday interactions. Part of the personal and professional challenges people face is because they fail to consistently balance and employ authenticity, honesty, truthfulness in their daily life. Using Alex Hormozi as a template for saying what you feel without being dismissive, though it could sting...

In this pod, Meeks considers the topic of celibacy and proposes that men need to take a chill pill and abstain from knocking boots with women for the betterment of society. The increased sexuality in society - surprisingly led by women with the advent of social media - has propagated the demise of successful relationships. Indeed, the obsession with sexual content and toys among men and women has...

In this episode, Meeks references and expounds upon a newly released song called Residuals by Chris Brown. The nostalgic record hearkens back to a moment in time when you were with someone and it seemed like time slowed in their presence, and then just like that, it was over. Was it God's plan or your indolence? That's the question this pod tries to answer and help young adults understand that the...

In this episode, the notion of the "sunk cost fallacy", which is a term generally used in economics meaning a cost that has already been incurred and cannot be recovered, is applied to dating and relationships. Another similar aphorism is "doing the same thing and expecting different results." So in this pod, we explore how, for instance, many women who were generally thought to be more mature tha...

In this pod, Meeks delves into the meaning of truth within the context of relationships and the its greater implication in society. He references the Nas lyrical quote "how can I trust you when I can't trust me?" as a starting point. We should only expect the truth in a loving relationship, if we are willing to also be truthful. Next he gets into how nice, good, and evil people view and apply trut...

Is the market always right when it comes to dating? If so, should we accept its signals carte blanche or balance them with other indicators such as past experiences? In the pod, Meeks revisits his grueling three weeks of traveling through France during the Olympics and meeting diverse younger women. His run-ins with mostly Gen-Z women is the basis of this podcast, insofar as the market is indicati...

This pod addresses the recent CrowdStrike computer cyber bug which had lasting effects in the global financial, airline, and digital industries. As a result, Meeks considers the urgent need to develop contingency plans for the inevitable events brought about by an increasing interconnected and complex telecommunications and political world. Here he encourages the listener to develop a strategic pl...

This episode draws from Meeks recent vacay/workday in the Bahamas, where he found it challenging to understand the local culture until it was time for him to return. In the waning days of his trip, his providential encounter - not chance - with a lovely young lady of brown complexion with good values compelled him to seriously consider the need for having a predetermined standard for all seasons a...

In this pod, Meeks tries to understand Terrence Howard's novel mathematical project. His new light on understanding the nano physical nature of the universe breaks away from the gravitational and string theories we've been accustomed to. More importantly, Meeks makes the point that even if Terrence is entirely wrong, fear and tarnished belief systems handicap our ability to even discern what could...

In this pod, Meeks opens up about his deep experience with the woman that got away. Or did she? He investigates if there is a "one" that God has purposed for each of us. In trying to answer the question, Meeks provides a values-based framework to determine if you are compatible with the person who could be the "one." Drawing from African marital tradition and Biblical practice juxtaposed to Cultur...

In this new season debut podcast, we look into pain as a derivative of love. Hence to love is to accept that pain is inevitable, though wallowing in it is unhealthy. Meeks here, inspired by the early 2000s Ja Rule album with the same name, Pain is Love, is curious about how the two emotions and actions - pain being a feeling and love an active verb - not only influence each other in personal and s...