More In Common

Kwame Bowen /// Courage, Commitment, Consistency /// E028

As we conclude September, Suicide Prevention month, and we follow to our amazing conversation with the founder of a non-profit dedicated to preventing teen Suicide, this week we welcome Kwame.  A man who had personal struggles with suicide and found h...

Brittany Chung /// You Have Meaning /// E027

"There is a reason why you are here.  Even if you don't see it now, you have meaning and there is a purpose in your life..."   Brittany Chung This conversation could not be more timely as September is National Suicide Prevention Month.

David Totten /// The Audacity Of What’s Possible /// E026

The Audacity of what's possible.  Today we go on a ride with our man David.  David is one-quarter native American and lives in Seattle.  He's a family man and successful executive at a large tech company.  You'll quickly notice that he's very aware of ...

Alanna Airitam /// There Is Fear Or There Is Love /// E025

There is fear or there is love...a poignant thought left with us when we met Alanna Airitam.  Alanna is a fine art portrait photographer best known for The Golden Age, a series of portraits shot with classic Rembrandt style lighting.

Phil Hay /// Writing, RPGs, Baseball, and Sitting With Discomfort /// E024

It is our pleasure to introduce Phil Hay and we do indeed cover writing, RPGs, baseball, and sitting with discomfort. - Phil is a screenwriter, producer, little league coach, and a pretty funny dude.  In this conversation,

The LockWest Monster /// If We Can’t Communicate We Can’t Exist /// E023

Welcome back friends, today we're joined by The LockWest Monster. While the title is our favorite quote from the conversation our next favorite is "Dialogue is the breeding ground for all resolve".  This conversation moves all over the place and weÂ...

Shye Eaze /// Be Aware of Your Breath, Keep Your Chin Up, and Be Still /// E022

We have the extreme pleasure of introducing Alex aka Shye Eaze.  She is an artist, a doer, a creator.  She tells us to: Be Aware of Your Breath, Keep Your Chin Up, and Be Still. She plays at least 4 instruments, in fact,

June 2018 Updates!! /// E021

Updates, Get your updates! In today's short episode we have June 2018 updates for the masses.  We've hit the middle of our year and want to share a few things with you all.  Chief among those, some of our learnings, challenges, and new release cycle. It's a short yet action packed 15 minutes that is geared to let you know where we're going.  Listen in. Suppot our endeavor and grab a tshirt, click ---> here Expose/Evaluate/Evolve/ Music credits: I Dunno (Grapes of Wrath Mix) by spinningmerkaba (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/jlbrock44/56346 Ft: Jlang, 4nsic, grapes

What’d We Learn /// The Stigma Around Mental Illness /// E020

In this brief follow up we talk about what we learned in "The Stigma Around Mental Illness" with Brescia. If you didnt get a chance to listen quite yet go back and check it out, it's Episode020.     Transcript: Keith: All right welcome back or welcome to more in common this is our social experiment here we find and create unity we're doing it by exposing people their stories their mindsets and the reasons for them.  It's our social experiment to find common ground and make this world a better place.  We try to do it by exposing so-called difficult topics such as race politics religion mental health and evaluating people's stories their thoughts and the reasons for having them Rodney: And we challenge our ability to evolve how we see and think of each other ultimately exposing that we have more in common than that which divides useven while rooted in differing points of view. I'm Rodney... Keith: and I'm Keith Rodney: We're more common so hey thank you for being here a couple of quick announcements you can catch us catch us and all of our content on our website moreincommonpod.com it's a mouthful moreincommonpod.com from there you can get to everything that we're doing our episodes our blogs our socials and our apparel we have shirts if you want to support us. Pick up a shirt, has a great message, they feel good. and with that we'll jump into today's follow-up episode of Brescia where we talked about her challenges with mental illness and mental health and just how awesome she is as a human being in general. Keith, what did you what are you taking away from our conversation with Brescia what are you been thinking about? Keith: Well I think one it's one of those things especially being a dad and you think about all of the possibilities of the life that that our daughters will experience and so, on the on the downside it's like man you know I want to do everything I can but I know I can't control everything. So really trying to find by parenting rhythm around that mentality and in just how awesome Brescia is and navigating that in her experience and her life.  You know she's what early 20s and she's certainly gone through a lot, more than I have right. I think the other thing that I've taken away from that conversation especially having listened to it a couple of times is… your interaction in that dialogue. I studied psychology, right. I've been diagnosed with a depression. I've you know, navigated this ecosystem in one fashion or another for a long time. So talking about mental illness is actually pretty normal for me if you will. But knowing it's not for you and having you know engaged so well in that conversation but I noticed it right and how you how you worked and navigated through it as someone who doesn't talk about it all that often.  So I thought that was it was a bit of a I don't want to call I mean I guess I'll call it a lightbulb moment of the difficulty of these conversations for most people not just myself right.  Like can you kind of take advantage of your own world that you live in so you know it's helping me frame the importance of having that conversation.  Because I would otherwise say yeah, of course, it's important we should do it right but it's not the easiest thing for everybody to navigate right. Rodney: Yeah like super uncomfortable for me I mean I don't, I don't like you said I haven't been diagnosed I don't I didn't study it I don't get it. From a very academic or I think logical standpoint like I understand the things that Brescia was telling us.  And in that mean that opened a lot of a lot of doors and a lot of things for me.  Like just to try and glimpse it more,

Brescia Dover /// The Stigma Around Mental Illness /// E019

The stigma of mental illness is a real thing. Many struggles with admitting, accepting, or even talking about the challenges they face with mental illness because of this stigma. There are a lot of amazing organizations and individuals trying to change this culture. Giving people a safe place to open up about their experience. Today, we are graced with Brescia Dover who is one of these AMAZING individuals. Brescia has experienced more in the first quarter of her life than most. Join us in learning about her journey through anorexia and today managing Bi-Polar disorder. Brescia also produces her own videos to tell her story: End the Stigma: Mental Illness Awareness Film. In this episode we traverse: The stigma of mental illness Anorexia Bi-Polar Disorder Animal Therapy Grittiness It's not about food, it's about control Shirts!! We're selling "Be brave enough to start a conversation that matters" t-shirts. if you want one check out the apparel shop on our site. Expose.Evaluate.Evolve  Music Credits: * Main Theme: I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 Ft: J Lang, Morusque * Guest Theme: The Long Goodbye by John Pazdan (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/flatwound/14476