The Millennials Pod by Meeks @theyoung_pilgrim

In this pod, Meeks bakes up a S.W.O.T - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats - Analysis framework for the summer. In doing so, he recalls how Microsoft Bill Gates envisioned leveraging his co-founder's strengths because he understood his weaknesses. Attention being the new social currency, it may be prudent to outsource those interpersonal skills if their lacking, as did Bill with Paul...

In this episode, we explore the notion of giving unto Caesar what is due him and to God what is required Him. This dual, mutually exclusive allegiance to temporal and spiritual things has its roots in the historic financial system beginning in the days of Moses when the tithing system was instituted, up until the current fiat and digital economy built on taxes, securitization, and blockchain techn...

In this episode, Meeks celebrates the class of 2024 with a few words of advice as they enter a dynamic workforce and a changing world in general. He reviews a recent talk with a few graduating students affiliated with a Christian club in a liberal arts college. He shares best practices for job searching, financial planning, personal relationships, and religious practice. He also explores the diver...

In this pod, Meeks breaks down what constitutes a lie(s) and provides a reasonable model by which to judge a lie. In relationships, politics, business, religion, people lie but would one discern the gravity of that lie and when is an apology appropriate? There some lies that are pathological - those, one must dispense with - while some are as a result of willful ignorance. Though neither is excusa...

In this pod, Meeks challenges himself and the listener to raise the bar in their business and personal endeavors. He provides insight into how to raise the bar when dating, but doing it with grace, and also how to judge a potential business deal that lacks a worthy standard of excellence. He gives examples in his personal life and career to overstate the idea that "perfection" is not an impossibil...

In this episode, Meeks reviews his recent trip to Texas, particularly Austin for SXSW2024 and a brief visit to San Antonio. He shares experiences with people, places, and ideas during his weeklong stay in state. "Do all his ex's really live in Texas like George Strait? Should one consider moving to Texas? Is Southern hospitality a real thing? Does the socialist versus the capitalist model work in...

This episode gets into the Christian, evolutionary, and philosophical reasons why marriage is both important and necessary for survival and happiness. Meeks, here, explores how mutual values and duty versus specious influences, such as fleeting feelings - e.g., fear or hubris - social media, and other distractions are the bane of good relationships forming. As a result, fewer Millennials today get...

TRIGGER WARNING - In this episode, Meeks broaches a sensitive, personal topic about untimely death. Death in a most crude sense -- suicide. Based on the experience of someone that recently give up on life, this podcast goes into the social, relational, and religious concerns that could lead one down such a dark path. But the show also provides solutions. Those from within, beside and, importantly,...

In this podcast, Meeks revisits the recent life and times of Kanye West and explores his desperate cry for help as he attempts to expose what the New Age occultist Alice A. Bailey termed the "externalization of the hierarchy." Is Kanye an insider playing a Hegelian role or is he an insider trying to break away from his self-imposed Matrix or as Jaguar Wright coined it: "buyers remorse." Either way...

Could it be, the traditional wife is back? In this episode, Meeks reviews recent studies and social media trends that suggest that young women (Millennials and Gen Zers) are reverting to classical norms, philosophies, and practices in the household a.k.a. seeking to be a traditional housewife. The tepid economy and inflation could be part of the reason, though it could be young women are appreciat...

In this new season debut, Meeks discusses reasons to create a strategic plan for 2024 to insulate young people from the inevitable technological, financial, and environmental crisis that is likely to unfold. What can you do now to prepare yourself and loved ones should the grid go down or if a cyber attack were to occur? This season premier, proposes ideas, philosophies, and strategies that could...

In this final episode of 2023, Meeks teases the idea of evaluating your moral code to determine how well you performed spiritually. We often consider profits and losses at the end of the fiscal year as a barometer for performance. Rarely, however, do we calculate our moral score and ask: "Was I righteous or sinful this year?" Here, Meeks shares his moral shortcomings but puts it into Christian per...

Vladimir Lenin wrote about "What is to be Done" in the Bolshevik-Communist context but died before he could see its horrific demise. Still, the challenge is salient and worth considering in 2024. This episode, anticipates the tough times ahead and proposes some practical frameworks of life to drive through the storm. The goal isn't to escape but to overcome. Check it out and drop a thought or some...

In this episode, we discover the value of parenthood and its implications on childhood development into adulthood. Kerry Washington's recently released memoir "Thicker than Water," is a beautifully written expose of her relationship with her father. She reveals inner thoughts and traumas that mainly stemmed from a tenuous, if not fractured, relationship with her dad. Many lessons to be learned her...

This episode delves into the idea of reinventing oneself and provides pop culture and financial guru practical examples as a way to switch things up. How do you mix things up in your personal or professional, even spiritual, life and produce a new iteration of yourself that you can be proud of? It's ultimately less about pursuing selfish or people-drive adulation and more about finding or rediscov...

What is the true purpose of your life? Does science provide a useful model or does Christianity demonstrate the right answer to that most important question. In this episode, explore how Silicon Valley, tech VCs, and scientists are thinking about purpose juxtaposed to what Christians have deemed a purpose driven life.

In this episode, Meeks explores the difference between failure and mistakes and evaluates the implications of them respectively in jobs, dating, marriages and, even, politics. He also considers the spiritual and geographic impact of both notions in American and across the pond.

I recently had the chance to visit 4 European cities in 6 days and I learned a great deal about human culture, architecture, religion, fashion, innovation, freedom, capitalism and life in general. While traveling can't teach you the meaning of life, it can certainly give you perspective to live it more intentionally. This should be a goal for young people. Hopefully this episode charts how to begi...

In this episode, Meeks reviews his trip to London for a conference. He explores the cultural norms and misnomers of Londoners, including that of the Black and young residents of the City of London. He retells his experience at a Greenwich hotel, whose customer service left a lot to be desired, even though he was urged not lodge in South London because "Greenwich is all around better." Meeks also r...

The rapid changes in the global economy require a multi-modal mental, physical, and emotional preparation for the impending crisis. Millennials, in this episode, will learn best-practices to thrive during this epoch from a political, financial, geographic, and spiritual perspective.

In this episode, Meeks shares some reasons why employing a long-term strategy in relationships or business is prudent. Often young people are tempted to pursue short-term gains in lieu of looking at the grand scheme and, thereby, missing out on big wins.

The late, great founder of Off-White and creative designer of Louis Vuitton, Virgil Abloh, during a 2017 talk at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), explored the idea of post-post-modernism as a theme in the flailing fashion industry. In this inaugural pod by Meeks a/k/a @theyoung_pilgrim, he dissects what he believes Virgil Abloh's modernist thesis of luxe and street fashion meant.