So, today marked the first day of doing my first ever Tedx on my podcast. Here are some notes.
Separation
I’m trying to create a timeline from the beginning, preface, worst month, the overcoming, and then the resilience.
For example, I started it off with a visualization exercise which pinpointed that sever racial issues that plague this country. This literally puts people into my state of awarness and make them view the world through my eyes. This captures the audience (remember I told you about props before) instantaneously and now I have them in the palm of my hand. After this process, they’re locked in and feel the raw emotion of what I felt.
After that, I pointed out some of the biggest problems I had. The night I went home and slammed my arms on my bed, weeping. Seeing the comments: “ewww, black man! Low-class! Pimp!” — and ultimately leading into the darkest month of my life. I want this to be a journey, bringing people into the catacombs of what I went through.
The goal for a Tedx is what can the audience take from the Tedx? What can you give them? What can disrupt their biochemistry along the way? What could, and will be their breakthrough? That’s what came in the second half of my talk.
Comment From A Teacher
This was the changing point when a teacher, who I used to work with, told me, “Arsenio, you need to utilize all your skills. You have a radio voice. Create a podcast.” I asked him what should the podcast be about and he said, “you’ll figure it out.”
Little did I know my story was being created after all those years, ultimately converting it into a podcast with personal development after a botched trip to Singapore.
Yes, there were still some problems along the way and some racial tensions, but they subsided after I started feeding my mind with texts that have been written in the last 100 years. That was the beginning.
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