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Burn the Shell: Why Your Passive Faith is Keeping You Trapped

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Burn the Shell: Why Your Passive Faith is Keeping You Trapped Let’s stop playing small. Look around. We are a culture of builders, creators, and visionaries, yet too many of us are walking around mentally bent over, carrying the crushing weight of a system that was never designed to see us win. We’ve been conditioned to be passive—to sit back, pray for a rescue, and hope for validation from the very institutions that profit off our dependency. That isn't faith. That’s a spiritual sedative. True Imani (Faith) is a fire. It is active, aggressive, and disruptive. But before you can catch fire, you have to scrape off the toxic buildup of doubt, blame, shame, and guilt that has accumulated on your psyche. We’ve become like a collective "Simba," raised by sheep, eating grass, and actively hiding our claws because we’re terrified of our own majesty. We’ve been trained to chase external certifications and look for permission from our captors just to prove our worth. It ends toda...

Hookah and Conversation

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Checkout the open mic conversations as I drop into one of my Hookah spots and open the conversation. This week we happened to be at the Shi-sha Lounge in Columbus. This spot lais back and right off campus and you never know who will drop in to say hello. this week we hit on: the third tool in the book "The Player's Pyramid" added to earlier description that I shared today. From a lesson I got from my youngest daughter trying to drive my car. I shared a lesson from the vault of my grandfathers wisdom, and from a request shared a fable created by Aesop called the "The eagle and the Kite" of coursed remixed in a Hip-Hop fashion. This led into a conversation about relationships, sex, emotional connection, security, the mask we wear, lies of commission, and omission, etc.. check it out and feel free to check out both podcast1 and podcast2 ... Be the thousand person and help me hit my first milestone. next stop 10000 hits on my spreaker shows, and 200 hundred f...