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In this week’s episode, the Soul of Giving,  we have Sammy Ashe II. He performs a reading of his song “Enemy” sung by Fanesha Fabre. We listen to her singing it and find out what prompted him to write the song, This is an entertaining conversation about everything from music, the Ashe Academy, and how our experiences teach us to help ourselves and others.

Samuel Jonathan Ashe II, better known as Sammy Ashe is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of The Ashe Academy, a nonprofit focused on addressing the access and opportunity gap for Students of Color pursuing the Arts & STEM fields through mentorship, annual scholarships, and parental engagement. He is also a Marketing Strategist with a passion for Filmmaking, Podcasting, and Songwriting.

In his music career, he has worked with artists like Fanesha Fabre, Stephen James, Cortex Accelera, Danielle Parente, and Mike Georgia to name a few on projects involving songwriting, composing, and producing.

Website: www.theasheacademy.org

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This week we discuss why thoughts contradict affirmations. They contradict because we state them but our subconscious mind isn’t believing it. i.e., I am wealthy – my bank account states differently. This is because our negative self-talks are repeated over and over.

EX: Someone annoys you – there will be a thought & an emotion associated with it and we usually repeat something like “I can’t believe they did that” and now you have created an affirmation.

We usually read off affirmations like a list with no emotion.  I am wealthy, I am safe, I am prosperous, I am healthy, I am loved. No emotion, just going through a list.

Affirmations can be difficult to state especially if it’s contradicting an emotional experience

With affirmations and if needed support, you can change your thoughts.

It’s okay to take your time with them.

Taking deep breaths and exhaling slowly helps.

Visualizing being a calm place – the beach, forest, meadow, or bed.

Think of someone or something you love: your family, your friends, a loved one, a pet, your home. Feel that emotion of love.

You’re using affirmations to help change long-standing patterns and beliefs. A good way to bring this change about is to act as if you’ve already succeeded.

Affirmations are effective if stated in the present.

Adding I feel to them – ex: I am wealthy – I feel wealthy, I am loved – I feel loved.

It’s easier to make a change when an emotion is associated with it. Emotions are energy – which helps us with a change.

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Rick White wrote Before & Beyond Understanding in hopes to have a positive impact on the reader’s life. From his being in the army to dealing with chronic illness he put his heart into sharing the lessons that have helped him along his personal path.

Rick White – A simple guy with sometimes hard-won and sometimes spiritually provided wisdom – shares what he’s learned in a way we can all understand.

From being murderously angry in his youth to talking people down from bad trips at concerts during the years surrounding Woodstock…

From working with friends to get through severe tragedy to profound interactions with those afflicted with homelessness…

The lessons contained in this book are not born of theory and concept… These ideas are from the depths of the experience of a man whose search for meaning, humanity, and profundity never ends. Some he discovered on his own, some he received through mentoring, all changed his life.

His only hope is to be able to pay forward the insights and understandings he’s received to as many people as he possibly can.

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Get a copy of his book here – Before & Beyond Understanding

Poetic Resurrection is honored to present Pulitzer Prize finalist, Puerto Rican poet Martin Espada for an intimate and informative conversation. Martin reads his poem Letter to My Father from his book Floaters. We discuss the effects of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico, the people, and especially the town of his father’s birth Utuado. We conversed about historical events and perceptions of Puerto Rico and its people in this heartfelt interview.

Martín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator. His new book of poems from Norton is called Floaters. Other books of poems include Vivas to Those Who Have Failed (2016), The Trouble Ball (2011), The Republic of Poetry (2006) and Alabanza (2003). He is the editor of What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (2019). He has received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize*, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Robert Creeley Award, an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, the PEN/Revson Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Republic of Poetry was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The title poem of his collection Alabanza, about 9/11, has been widely anthologized and performed. His book of essays and poems, Zapata’s Disciple (1998), was banned in Tucson as part of the Mexican-American Studies Program outlawed by the state of Arizona, and reissued by Northwestern. A former tenant lawyer in Greater Boston, Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

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http://www.martinespada.net/

Frank Espada’s gallery of work: https://www.thefrankespadagalleries.com/

Floaters link on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3C6R3fJ

Pulitzer Prize-nominated book Republic of Poetry: https://amzn.to/3fgIu88

*Ruth Lilly Award: Awarded annually.  Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize honors a living US poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition.

This week on the Poetic Resurrection Podcast we have Jonathan Troen as we discuss the Self-Love Revolution. What it means to learn to love ourselves so we can learn to love others. 

 

Jonathan Troen is a Life Mastery Coach and creator of the Self Love Revolution. 

His mission: To help people find the joy inside of themselves. 

Jonathan spent 20 years in the music and entertainment business, living the life of his dreams and interviewing the biggest stars in the world. But he still wasn’t happy. He also found out, he wasn’t alone. So he went on a mission to find out why.

Once he learned the secrets of true happiness and success, he had to share it with others. This was the beginning of the Self Love Revolution. 

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Website: https://www.SelfLoveRevolution.com

Our guest this week on the Poetic Resurrection Podcast is Dr. Ian Brooks. We had a lively discussion on the process of intention. How the pandemic, perceptions, and beliefs affect our lives and how we can change the characters we created in our story.

His book Intention—Building Capabilities that Transform Your Story is available wherever books are sold.

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This week our guest is the amazing Che’Rae Adams. We discuss what it takes to write a good story and how the story germinates from the soul. That inner voice drawing us to write our story. We discuss the concept sentence, the why of writing and even when we write a memoir or solo show there is a beginning, middle, and an end.  Che’Rae Adams is the Producing Artistic Director of the LA Writers Center http://www.lawriterscenter.org

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This week we have an informative talk with Trini Rodriguez discussing Native American and Mexican American healing sweat-lodges and healing circles. How these concepts bring us closer to the soul. We discuss how they facilitate the “self” in becoming “whole” and we see how the Aztec (Sun) calendar guides us to the essence of our character.

Trini Rodriguez (AKA Tlazohteotl) is co-founder and former Executive Director of Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore (www.tiachucha.org). A cultural center/bookstore in  L.A’s San Fernando Valley that transforms community through ancestral knowledge, the arts, literacy, and creative engagement. A former bilingual educator, court interpreter, and newspaper editor, she writes, speaks, and strives for personal and collective healing and systemic social change. Trini facilitates women’s healing sweat-lodge and healing circles in Native American and Native Mexican traditions. She and her husband Luis J Rodriguez produce “The Hummingbird Cricket Hour” podcast (http://hummingbirdcricket.libsyn.com/) to explore thoughts and move hearts on pressing matters of life, social change, and philosophy.

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