#winwithThePhoenix: The Shattering Slavitude Podcast

Conjure up ideas on a whim.  Revisit the past.  Create the future.   Discover your distinction.  Explore your means of coping within your unique experience.  "Imagination breeds creativity.  Creativity produces options.  In those options we find freedom." ––Najja .  Goose says that imagination is is reality.  If he's right, then we have the freedom...

Need I say more?  Some will read this title and think they have this episode figured-out!  However, I'd bet it's not what you think.  Trust me, this episode is for you!  Bless!

In this episode we're chopping it up about what it looks like to have a life full of the things that serves us.  And, how having said things–impacts and charges our lives.  We also discuss genuine attraction versus distraction.  We went overkill this episode with rounding our conversation off with the difference between optimum and maximum.  Lock in, get your pen, pad, or notes app ready.  This ep...

What is Design Thinking? According to Rikke Dam and Teo Siang over at Interaction Design Foundation, “Design Thinking is an iterative process in which we seek to understand the user, challenge assumptions, and redefine problems in an attempt to identify alternative strategies and solutions that might not be instantly apparent with our initial level of understanding.” Come in and find out the Desig...

You wanna know what the top twelve Enterprising Skills are in the game today? How about—how closely big Creativity relates to entrepreneurship? What might be all the implications of this [peak] performance in today’s market? Better yet, how valuable is it? You’ll find the answer to everything questioned above, and more inside this episode. So, sit back, take a load of, turn the volume up, and vibe...

The above equation is the brain child of Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, and Creativity dynamo, Ruth Noller. Though symbolic, this equation serves as a compass-of sorts. It is a cursor for the attitude one practices, regularly. I believe attitude either grants or denies us -our freedom(s). Keeping positive can be difficult. Use this equation to work it out. Cheers!🥂

Are you planning for success, or have you been inadvertently planning to fail? Have you devised a contingency plan? Are you executing from a contingency mindset? Come on in and learn how we ensure our individual safety and readiness, while planning and strategizing rapid responses to/for freedom. This one will leave you with the “-itis” it’s so filling! Enjoy! Cheers!🥂 @askthephoenix @gooseswavey

Often we see and hear ourselves from the outside in. It’s rare that we look at ourselves from the inside out. The surest way to see your true self is through your values. Knowing your values sets a benchmark for your conduct/behavior. A standard. Living as such sets a philosophy by which you move. Confused? Tune in!

@meezseason joins us to recap the year since we recorded Episode 2, together. And it has been an amazing year of ‘trial and learn’; and, a year of hardcore failure fanaticism.... All to make our dreams come to life. Come inside and listen to what we’re willing to sacrifice for extra lives in this game! @gooseswavey is electric in this one!😂 Enjoy! #CRIGstrategies

This is an incredible interview! Pastor Garney delivers penetrating, and exciting questions about the state of our youth-today! He’s asking to discover—what we might do, as a solution, to shatter paradigmatic thinking in the young ones. Najja simply gives some clarity, and alternative perspectives on the topic. This one is short, yet most impactful. Come in! It’s a very real, and very-raw conversa...

Join us as we uncover the many untruths, or inconsistencies, in the pursuit of the “American Dream/Ideal”. First, we propose if this dream is yours-alone! Then, we open up the conversation of having everything an individual “should” strive for, and how one could still feel hollow inside—amidst the success. More over, we also cover the fullness that can come from minimalism! Finally, we offer some...

Have you been life-boating at the last social/networking event you attended? Is it hard for you to ask for help? Do you find it hard to make new friends? Do find solace in spouting things like, “no-new friends”? Do you subscribe to “FOMO”? When you’re upset, do you find it hard to calm down; in fact, you may look for cues to sustain said upset? Don’t fret, this behavior is NOT incurable! However,...

Have you ever felt like a stranger in your own home? How might that effect your productive output? Your creativity? Your resilience? What does this feeling—do to your imagination? How might this effect how we see value? With skill, can we change? Come on in and let’s stretch our thinking around these questions. Shout out to the Queen, Jontay Walton (@tay_lovesu) for coming out and sharing some of...

According to Merriam-Webster, to Rectify (v.) is to remedy; or to correct by removing errors. Join us as John Torrey, Ph. D details what rectification means for capitalism, and—overall justice! This episode, another from the hip, is enlightening, intimidating, and empowering... almost—in that order! @goosesoswavey even came out his shell in this episode! Come in and shatter those antiquated paradi...

How much does the institutions of Gucci, Burberry, and others cost you as the person? Is your value in the art or the artist? The paint or the painter? The culture or the purveyors? The gun or the gunner? The law makers or law enforcers 🤔🤷🏿‍♂️? Doesn’t matter how well the institutions are built, it’s the persons that’ve done the building that are of value. Likely, you have gifts and talents tha...

Join us in-vivo for an impromptu session with a friend of a friend. Peep the scene, I was lying on the couch in the studio wondering what this episode would be. I let it go, took a nap, and awoke to this opportunity! It was so much fun! Come in and enjoy the magic of breakthrough... you’ll be better because of it.

Growing up, I learned quick that the head of the table is reserved for the individual(s) who’ve exhibited a high level of reliability, in regards to responsibility. Peter, Goose, and I break down what it means to be looking at the proverbial table, having a seat at said table, and lastly occupying the head seat at the table. This episode is chocked full of hacks! Check it out now!

Today’s world can prove to be a bit confusing as to—the you that’s respected, versus the you that’s sensationalized. In our volatile society, this confusion could lead us to identify and follow the influences of caricatures. Yet, if we do it right, tact in truth is the assurance of mobility in this ever-changing company of civilization. We must be able to communicate with one another across cultur...

Tamara called up and said she’d like to share her commitment to shattering slavitude with us. She said she had developed several gripping lectures around elevation, education, relationships, and morning masturbations. This conversation... straight DRIP! Enjoy! PS: This is PART 2, and let me say the sequel is better than the first installment! Please believe it, believe it please! Check it out! Aft...

Tamara called up and said she’d like to share her commitment to shattering slavitude with us. She said she had developed several gripping lectures around elevation, education, relationships, and morning masturbations. This conversation... straight DRIP! Enjoy! PS: be on the look out for PART2 soon!

Ms. Monet unpacks strategies for managing success during her quarter-life crisis, and the bravery required in simply getting up to create! We all give our take on the impact SMF has on our day to day endeavors, and some tools we employ to aid us in our commitment to being better. Pull up, I know you’re gonna love this one!

I’m in the ether with this one y’all. I went in and worked through ruminating thoughts that were haunting me. Catch this drip... it’s hitting hard!

Do you have questions of the effects/affects Patriarchy has or is having on your decision-making, parenting, and professional life? Join @askthphoenix @gooseswavey and @darealzstory as we fervently confer on this topic.

Come kick it with Goose and I as we attempt to explore the overlap between Capitalism and Antisocial behaviors/pathological personality traits. I believe these behaviors stem from America's haunting, traumatic past. And because of such, we're gonna have to do the really hard stuff required for us to heal to heal. First, let's call it what it is. We need to build dialogue around these sorts of topi...

What’s a good or bad woman? What’s a good/bad man? Am I a “millennial” lover? What dating could look like with a millennial? Is there a love of a lifetime? Join Monet, Goose and I as we confer on this hot take.