We Are Speaking Podcast

Season 1, Episode 4 Wednesday, November 2, 2022 Welcome to Season 1, Episode #4 of the “Find Out In Fifteen” Global Creative Community Podcast. My name is Pamela Hilliard Owens, and I am honored to be your host. The title of this week’s episode is “Why It is Important to Grow Your Email List.” Email lists are important for your overall marketing strategy because it is still the best way to connect...

Keith A. Owens and Pamela Hilliard Owens Season 1, Episode #26 October 29, 2022 The Republicans and Trump supporters have shown us time after time that they do not care about those who may be disabled, even temporarily, and that they directly or indirectly support political violence against Democrats, as long as it helps them to regain power. This week, Pennsylvania Lt. Governor John Fetterman, wh...

The title of this week’s episode is “Building Your Brand through Social Media.” In the Global Creative Community, we work with you to brand and market yourself and your creative business, which includes your books if you are an independent writer. My name is Pamela Hilliard Owens, and I work with independent writers and creative professionals just like you. You keep clients and customers coming ba...

Season 1, Episode #25 October 22, 2022 In this 30-minute episode, Keith and Pam discuss how they work together as TeamOwens313. We talk about: * How we met. * How we’re alike. * How we’re different. * What we do together. * What we do separately. * Why it works. The podcast is available on our website and on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and other podcast players. Enjoy! Let us know wh...

Season 1, Episode #2 October 19, 2022 Your journey as a solopreneur is one that may feel lonely and uncertain at times. Once you launch your business, there's no boss to turn to for advice or direction. Throughout all three of my careers, as an educator, as a corporate and direct sales leader, and now as a solopreneur, I have benefitted from mentors who contributed to my success in all three of th...

Season 1, Episode #24 October 15, 2022 “This is the most important election of our lifetimes!” Yes, you’ve heard that before, but this time, our democratic republic itself is on the ballot. In this 30-minute episode, Keith and Pam talk about the upcoming midterm elections and some of the issues that are on the ballot: locally, statewide, and nationally. We are urging our listeners to get informed,...

Season 1, Episode #1 October 12, 2022 Welcome to the “Find Out in Fifteen” Global Creative Community (GCC) podcast! Each weekly 15-minute episode will have relevant information and educational content for independent writers and creative or solo professionals. The podcast is sponsored by our paid subscribers and our company, the [Global Creative Community]. The podcast will be a part of our “We Ar...

Season 1, Episode #23 October 8, 2022 In this 30-minute episode, Keith and Pam discuss their recent 2-week trip to Morocco: why we went, what we experienced, and what we learned about visiting a country very different from the U.S. The podcast is brought to you by our wonderful paid subscribers and our company, the TeamOwens313 Global Creative Community (GCC), through which we offer online trainin...

Welcome to the “Find Out in Fifteen” Global Creative Community (GCC) podcast!   Starting on October 5, 2022, each week, I will record a brief but informative 15-minute podcast about business building, branding, and marketing for independent authors and creative and solo professionals. Each episode will be published on Wednesdays. Each weekly episode will have relevant information and educational c...

Season 1, Podcast Episode #22 September 10, 2022 This was a huge week for news at home in the U.S. and across the pond in the UK. In this 30-minute episode, Keith and Pam discuss all of the political, historical, and cultural takes on the biggest news stories. Let us know your thoughts in the comments and please share and subscribe or upgrade your subscription. Enjoy! Get full access to We Are Spe...

Season 1, Episode #21 Our Thoughts About Serena September 3, 2022 Yes, there was a lot in the news this week: everything going on around “NARA-lago,” President Biden’s “Soul of our Country” speech, the horrific water conditions in Jackson, Mississippi, and much more. However, in this 30-minute episode, Keith and Pam talk about Serena. As she herself said, “Just Serena.” The weekly “We Are Speaking...

Season 1, Episode #20 August 27, 2022 In this 30-minute episode, Keith and Pam discuss how they grew up speaking American Standard English, how the term “woke” has been misappropriated by the right-wing, and the upcoming AAVE (African American Vernacular English) dictionary being written for the OED (Oxford English Dictionary), with editor-in-chief Dr. Henry Louis Gates. The “We Are Speaking” podc...

Episode #18 August 13, 2022 In this 30-minute episode, Keith and Pam discuss 1) the good news about everything that President Joe Biden and the Democratic Congress have achieved in about 18 months, but especially in the last few weeks, and 2) the good news about all of the bad news Trump received this week. We remind our listeners that especially in the current Senate, the Democrats range from pro...

Podcast Episode #18 August 6, 2022 In this week’s 30-minute episode, after clarifying what the “Dog Days of Summer” phrase actually means, Keith and Pam discuss several stories that happened this past week: * The continued rise of authoritarianism and fascism in the United States. * A string of legislative and policy wins for Joe Biden and the Democrats * Why elections matter, specifically moves m...

Episode #17 July 30, 2022 In this 30-minute episode, Keith and Pam discuss the difference between climate change and weather, and how the climate has changed (and not for the better) since humans started using fossil fuels in the mid-1800s. Keith and Pam also discuss the recent passage by the Senate of the Inflation Reduction Act that caught the Republicans off-guard and made Mitch McConnell very...

Season 1, Episode #16 July 23, 2022 In this 30-minute episode, Keith and Pam discuss how and why they became Democrats, their definition of being liberals, and why and how they are progressives, but pragmatic progressives. They also explain, again , why voting for Democrats in November is so very important, even if you think President Biden and the Democrats aren’t doing things exactly as you woul...

Podcast Season 1, Episode 15 July 2, 2022 In the United States, Juneteenth (June 19) is now an official Federal holiday. June 19, 1865, is the date when the last enslaved people in Galveston, Texas were notified that they had been freed when the Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863, two and one-half years prior. In 1776, 12 of the 13 colonies ratified the Declaration of Indepen...

Season 1, Episode #14: The Lyin’ SCOTUS June 26, 2022 A lot of people may not know that the SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) often announces several rulings at the same time, and that is what happened this week. What is different about this week is that several high-profile and life-changing rulings were announced on Friday, June 24, 2022. “Roe v Wade” was THE most important, but not th...

Season 1, Episode 13 June 20, 2022 This podcast episode was recorded a couple of days later than usual because we needed more time to collect some research and mostly to collect our thoughts. Being apathetic about the midterms and/or considering not voting at all because Biden and the Dems “aren’t perfect” is NOT an option. The Republicans are chomping at the bit to retake the House of Representat...

Season 1, Episode 12 Friday, June 10, 2022 *Scroll all the way down to see a full video of the June 9, 2022, public hearing. This week we are doing something a little different for our free and paid subscribers. Instead of publishing a separate issue about the hearings and then a podcast, we are combining the two with this introduction to the hearings and the audio file of the podcast. Over the ne...

Season 1, Episode #11 June 4, 2022 In 1978, music producer Kenny Gamble started the Black Music Association and founded Black Music Month. On June 7, 1979, President Jimmy Carter held the first-ever Black Music Month celebration and began the annual celebration of African-American Music Appreciation Month. On May 31, 2022, President Joe Biden declared June 2022 as “Black Music Appreciation Month.”...

Season 1, Episode #10 May 27, 2022 In addition to all of the “regular” news about horrible things going on all over the world, we have been rocked to our core by TWO mass shootings within ten days by 18-year-olds armed with military-style assault rifles: Buffalo, New York on May 14 where 10 Black people were deliberately targeted and murdered, and Uvalde, Texas on May 24 where 19 children and two...

Season 1, Episode #9 May 21, 2022 On May 14, 2022, at 2:30 in the afternoon, an 18-year-old self-described white supremacist and anti-Semite dressed in body armor and carrying assault rifles went into the only full-service grocery store in a majority-Black neighborhood in Buffalo and opened fire. He shot 13 people and killed 10, all of them Black. In this 30-minute episode, Keith and Pam discuss t...

Season 1, Episode 8 April 23, 2022 Prince and Jimi, in addition to being two of Keith’s FAVORITE musicians, were enormous influences on the American and international music culture and music business. In this 30-minute episode, Keith and Pam discuss how Prince and Jimi, plus other musicians like Sammy, Stevie, Michael, and Jay-Z maximized their musical talents, but also how they branded themselves...

Patrick Lyoya Traffic Stop Photo Credit: WireAP Season 1, Episode 7 April 16, 2022 On April 4, 2022, Patrick Lyoya, an immigrant from the Congo, was executed by a Grand Rapids, Michigan police officer who shot him in the back of the head after tackling him to the ground after a routine traffic stop. About nine years ago, Lyoya and his family escaped the violence in. their home country and settled...