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    Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness | Ep 39 w/ Dom & Maya

    Reevaluating Priorities

    I think like on some genuine level it's going to be so important for us now more than ever to leave no neighbor neighborhood left behind [3.64]. Like, it's not desperate I 100% agree with that and I think that like you know... it's going to take number one it's going to take unity and number two like a lot of the literature I've read on stuff like this is it's going to take radical compassion like nobody talks about radical compassion too.

    00:03

    The Power of Community Building

    I think like when we really take a look at like what we're told to invest in being like these successive moments of history that are going to change the world like they don't want us to feel like going down the street and giving a houseless person like $20 cash [629.519] is going to do anything you know, and I think that's what it's going to take for us to really like rebuild and withstand [638.68] type [__] and I think that that's shown again and again and again in history

    10:29

    The Need for Radical Compassion

    We need all of these things, but we also need to understand that people can change, people can grow, people can learn, people can [886.079] like unlearn all of these things and we need to hold some space for that too [956.12]. Like, at the end of the day what it gives is Progressive people we all going to have different ideas of the future because we're making something that does not exist like all of our futures in our brains are going to look slightly different but when we like boil it all down what do we want we want people to do whatever the [__] they want really [962.959]

    14:46

    The Power of Community

    I think that once you have that realization like we're all literally in the same game we're all playing this game and it's like we're all trying to make some kind of progress and like the only thing that's gonna stop us from making progress is this internalized like doubt and fear and that's it like so it's like it's time to like get cozy with our own insecurities like that's it like we gotta be that somebody

    20:34

    The Importance of Radical Compassion

    I just think that like people don't know how to receive love and I think it's because of our conditioning like we're conditioned to be like okay never show vulnerability never show weakness never show emotions because we're humans and we're meant to be vulnerable and we're meant to be emotional and like that's what makes us human

    22:43

    Decolonizing the Idea of Success

    I think it's so important my friend posted today like she had to like pick her niece up from school early because the the like young boys in her class were screaming your body my choice and she's lit Lally in fifth grade she had to pick her niece up from school oh my God and I was literally like these little in fifth grade and not [__] because we going we going to pick you up too on the bus but I'm just saying like he [__] you're sitting in the back but we going but like but like come on we going to pick your ass up too that's why I'm like get in your [__] Zoom no get in your zoom

    28:21

    Change Starts with Individuals

    I think a big part of this too is going to be taking care of yourself so that we have a little more fight so that we aren't so burnt out like I'm trying to take that advice for myself too

    41:31

    Decolonizing the Mind

    I just hope y'all know that like the space we're going to provide is always going to be that no matter what

    43:17

    Living Life on One's Terms

    Ultimately if it was up to me I wouldn't give a fuck like ultimately I would just live my life how I want to live my life because that's what we deserve is to live our life how we want to live our life

    45:25

    Reaction to Oppression

    Ultimately, I'm like I'm working for a world where like I'm not always in reaction to what y'all want to do. hit my quote from from B hooks visual politics well my girl said clearly it is only as we move away from the tendency to define ourselves in reaction to white racism that we are able to move toward that practice of freedom which requires us first to decolonize our minds.

    46:54

    The Power of Taking Up Space

    like I know a lot of people are like I'm just going to just stay in my Lane I'm going to just do me and I'm just not going to say stuff like that's never going to be us type [__] just letting y'all know and it shouldn't be y'all to be honest.

    56:31

    Recognition of Interconnectedness

    like someone's talking to you know everybody talking to someone and someone's listening to them so I'm just like yeah okay it's about taking up space whatever but also just recognize that [__] but yeah so but yes you're right

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