No Justice No Peace Race & Storytelling with VO Talent & Musical Guest Nicky Scorpio

What would it look like just to plant the seed into the universe? Not to come up with all the answers, but what pops up. And then he also offered, how does it feel to you? How does a kinder just society feel to you? So what would it look like and how would it feel? And this was planted, not just for the moment, but for an exploration, for the coming moments, thoughts, future ahead, you can visit it on youtube.com. You can just type in one tribe, unite, Michael Beckwith, or CYA on earth. The homie ShawMan Derek. He was on with his beautiful princess and, you know, he gave his heart and soul and spoke about how he feels.
ShawMan also has an amazing podcast. If you want to check it out, it's called ancient wisdom today. My sister, Anna actually turned me on to him a couple of years ago and yeah, he's amazing. So yeah, for me, it really moved me. I shared it on my social media and then also Michael Beckwith said journal about it, meditate on it. You put it into the universe. Some things came up for me specific situations of the day, or maybe the day prior with maybe how I feel about someone or how I communicate with someone in particular. And then I also, you know, it's a reflection of how you communicate with self.
So I'm really moved and grateful for the seeds to be planted. And I'm really taking it to heart and being more responsible with my actions, with myself and with others, for a kinder just society. And I invite you to join me on the journey and be a part of the one TRIBE, for sure, for sure. Oh, speaking of one TRIBE today, we're going to have a Musical Guest, Nicky Scorpio. He's a singer and songwriter and he has been so inspired by what's been going on in the world that he wrote this beautiful song called No Justice, No Peace that I would love to share with you. So we're going to have him on in a little bit. Yeah, we'll get some words from him.Gratefully. I'm a part of the sag AFTRA foundation and they have an event it's called Race and Storytelling and it's through their education outreach and engagement platform. It's actually going to be on YouTube. So by time you hear this, the live will be done, but I invite you to watch it type into YouTube, just sag, AFTRA, and type in Race and Storytelling. It's going to be with David White. He's a sag AFTRA national executive director, Robbie Reed. She's a casting director and a producer Paris Barkley. Who's a director producers going to join the panel, Sterling K brown. Who's an actor. He that Nicole Brown, she's an actor, Michelle herd. She's an actor and these are all African-Americans on this panel and they're going to be live streaming.
This series in conversations, focused on race Storytelling, an equal opportunity for all. So I'm excited to be a part of that and listen to their wise words and what they have to say. So I can learn. My friend turned me on to this podcast community. It's called She podcasts. So I've been connecting with a lot of podcasts on there. That's been really cool and informational. It's a nice supportive community and platform. You know, if you may have your own podcast, you might want to check it out and be a part of the community and say, hi, my beautiful friend, Isabel, who's an art dealer. She's a part of the national arts club. And she sent me this invitation for the art of Voiceover. And that was today. It was really, really cool. And I was able to be on a live zoom with Dee Bradley baker.
And he's this animation Voiceover person. And I'm on his website right now. It's just Dee baker. He's super cool. He gave all this information about voiceovers and he was just a really open book and his metaphor was being a painter and having these different pallets and trying these different things and just being so great at what you do. And, you know, we talked about union versus non-union and he's a union actor, and he was talking about developing his craft and putting content out. He gave his website, his social media and Twitter. So you can just follow him and find him it's at a Dee Bradley baker. And then bottom of his website, he has a link that says, I want to be a voiceover actor.
And this artist is a great person. He created this link for people who want to be in voiceover. So, and then he, it's so organized and it's like, if you're starting from zero or, and it gives the breakdown about agents and he talks about the VO myths and he talks about like going pro and your demo and your website. He gives information to people who are already in voiceover, who already have agents who are already like in it and how to go to the next level. He talks about, you know, building a home studio and I'm going to be exploring the website more myself. And I'm really excited about it. So awesome that, you know, a friend sent me an email and gave me an invitation.
And I said, yes, that opened up a door just for me to enhance my life and enhance my craft and expand my love for my passion of what I love to do. So my hopes, whoever's hearing this, that you can see how one can be a ripple effect and how it can be the same for you and how you could be that for others as well. The power of saying yes and being the ripple effect. So that's kind of what I've been up to the last couple of days. I'm really excited to have my girlfriend tally she's in South Africa. We're going to have her on a podcast coming up. We have some really cool guests coming up on the podcast. Woo-hoo, let's get right into it and bring Nicky Scorpio on and let's hear what he has to say about No Justice.
No Peace. Cool. Cool, cool. And now we have Nicky Scorpio with us without Nicky Scorpio. Thank you so much for joining me.
Thanks for having me. Thanks for doing what you're doing. It's important. We get this message out there
Finale. So I appreciate you. Thank you. And it's important what you're doing to my friend.
Yeah. You know, there's a lot going on and it's difficult to be silent about it, you know, so it's, it's good that people are waking up and, and really, you know, taking action and educating themselves.
Definitely. I mean, I've known you since 2012, and you have been nonstop talking about justice and Tupac and how the African American community is treated. And you know, you've been talking about systemic and racial injustices for, I mean, since I've known you, you've been very passionate and raw about this movement and what's been going on and I really, really admire and love your new song. No Justice, No Peace. Can you share with us some inspiration?
Yeah. Well, I grew up in a very diverse neighborhood. I had a very diverse upbringing and you know, I feel that if children were brought up with more diversity, there wouldn't be this issue that's going on right now. And so for me, when I made it, it's more to say, like, besides the fact that we need to come together is that, you know, we need to look at this like a relationship we need to look at what's going on. People that are different than us than the same way we do as a relationship. You know, you want to have certain things in a relationship. Well, that goes for other people too, that don't have the same opportunities you want to introduce your girlfriend, boyfriend, husband, wife, best friend, et cetera, to different things so that they can have happiness.
Well, we need to do that as a, as a world. You know, so that's what it was for me, you know, is, is we all, we listen to hip hop music. We go to these clubs. We, we get our fashion, our inspiration from, from, you know, the African-American community from people of color. And we need to acknowledge that. And, and, and really, and not only acknowledge that, but we need to also, you know, really stand up and speak out when people are being unaware, ignorant,
now at the beginning of the month, you wrote a beautiful article on thrive. Global called the power of uncomfortable conversations. It really moved me. And it was so wild because ever since I've known you, you've always been like ahead. You've had this foresight. You're like, oh, this is going to happen. Or this is going to happen. Or this is about to happen. Like you've been calling it, you've been calling it for a while. And you're like, I don't know what it's going to look like, but something like it has to get ugly before it's going to get better. And you've just been like talking and saying things for years. And now things are really unfolding in the ways that you were really talking about. And you know, I'm, I'm in your community and I've heard your management team. And like some other people, you know, say the same thing and I acknowledge you because you're amazing.
And you're really saying something so powerful here. And I'm so happy. Like, you know, the rest of the nation is saying this as well. And you're this energetic force and this huge vibrational being, and you wrote this amazing piece, June 1st, the power of uncomfortable conversations. And then I saw Arianna Huffington post something a couple of days later. And then like, then that same day, and then just like every single day, since then, everyone's talking about, I just mentioned earlier in the podcast, SAG foundation has Race and Storytelling tomorrow. And now these, all these conversations are being spoken about. Matthew McConaughey just did one. And you said it, you said it in your articles. Can you share a bit about that with us?
Thank you. Yeah. The way that our world is more so in America, we're living in a world where people are barely getting by a lot of times or people are so in their worlds that when something doesn't fit into the conversation, they ignore it. Right. And
I've seen it. I've seen it. We've been in, we've been in meetings, we've been at lunches and you'll talk about something raw and something real. And like, I'll, cause you'll tell me, and I didn't notice it before, but then like then after you told me, I noticed like people who stay there engaged in their, I, I locking or they'll like get up and leave and go to the bathroom or take a call and come back and they just like check out.
Yeah. So, I mean, for me, this is a way of life because regardless, even before the COVID thing happened and you know, the terrible tragedy with George Floyd, this has been happening for months and for years and for centuries. And really because of, you know, cell phones, people have been able to capture this, like will Smith said racism, isn't getting worse. It's being, it's being recorded. You know, and a lot of people want to ignore that because they want to, you know, live this beautiful, perfect moisturized life and just go on with that. And if something doesn't fit into that dialogue, that they ignore it, the way that the world is shifting now, which is beautiful, is it's coming into people's lives and saying that this thing that you're ignoring is here and you can sit there and say, I'm a good person, or I'm not racist because I have friends that are ethnic or something along the lines of that.
But it's, it's, it's not enough. You know, that, that people are now becoming aware of certain people don't have the same opportunities. When people talk about these spiritual things, we're all one and new, deep breathing people that are living in impoverished neighborhoods don't have the opportunity to meditate all the time. They don't, they don't have that. They're, they're living one step away from, from broken homes and from chaos. And so when we change the dialogue, when we share the same information, when we really, you know, understand when we put ourselves in the other people's shoes that we don't know, we don't understand. It creates a better world for ourselves if we really want to be selfish about it, but it creates this amazing ripple effect where everyone around you feels better because of something that you take for granted, you know?
And so that's, that's what it is for me is that we really need to take a look at simple things that you know, that we have in our lives and, you know, certain opportunities and where our focus is going on and where, you know, where we're putting our energy and who we're buying products from and, and, you know, those kinds of things. So that's, it's
Definitely, it's definitely important. Those are some big awarenesses and, and really stepping to the plate and being a responsible ally. So I mean, you, you know, you've definitely moved me in such a way when I read your article and then something came through thrive, and they're like, you know, they were talking about allyship and then, you know, I'm like, oh my God, like, you know, you just wrote about this and then boom. You know, then, then I was inspired and I went on to thrive global. And I wrote an article about allyship and responsibility. So I really appreciate you allowing me to share your new song, No Justice, No Peace. You know, it's, it's not out on apple or Spotify or anywhere yet.
It's only a link on SoundCloud. So, and who knows knowing you'll probably take it down next week or something. So I would say, Hey, go to SoundCloud and check it out, but it might not be there, but
No, she's just saying I'm a perfectionist. No, I'm, I'm definitely, there's a lot changing in the music industry. And we're all working on our strategy and everything, you know, but this is, this is something, thankfully music changes. The dialogue for people in popular culture changes the way that people perceive things. And I believe that people are all good at heart. I believe that education is important and education. Isn't just a one-sided history book. From the point of view of the, of the person who was victorious education is, is having those uncomfortable conversations and understanding people. Don't realize police look at people with white skin and they treat them differently without even realizing it, judges do the same thing. People hold their purses and don't even, they don't even want to, you know, so now that things are changing, it's up to us to keep this going.
This isn't a trend, this isn't a fad. This isn't a hashtag, this is, this is something systematic that is changing. And it's going to be uncomfortable for people, your friends, your family, or relatives might be ignorant. They might go against you and you need to have that confidence and have that faith and understand that if you were being treated unfairly, you would want justice. That's all people are asking for is basic human rights.
Yeah. Well, at some point I really feel like we're human beings. So I feel a lot of us feel, you know, things aren't fair, no matter, no matter who you are. So we all can relate to that thread of what it feels like to be unfair. So then, you know, Michael Beckwith was saying in the meditation yesterday and you know, a lot of spiritual healers and everything, the spiritual journey and just being a human, we, we focused on compassion and being kinder and we focus on, you know, self-compassion so really taking responsibility and stepping into, you know, bigger shoes for self and into the shoes of others to have empathy and compassion for others. And to really explore what empathy is to you and how you can be more empathetic, which has pudding feeling for another and then compassionate feeling for yourself, you know?
Yeah. I mean, I would say really quickly, one of the things, because I just naturally grew up in diversity and I, you know, sometimes I forget other people don't have that is for people that are parents or for people who want to have children, his kids love absorbing information. So, you know, you can, besides taking kids to summer camps and things like that, where there are different backgrounds and different walks of life and different kinds of people, you know, you can also show kids and tell kids about the history of different foods and like how things are made and where things come from. Cause it's cool to know. And then when you also teach your children and teach yourself your culture and not just being an American, but actually where you come from, where your, where, how significant of your, your background of your DNA, then you can really start to have a different dialogue and conversation.
So those are, those are ways where we can really start changing this and it's, it's beautiful. And we're part of it. We're part of history. So
In 2020, here we are, and June 22nd. So it's, you know, beginning of summer we have a lot to celebrate change is really here and super exciting with all the traumatic, you know, devastation, fear, patterns, and things that are happening. Actually it's breaking down, you know, the old that doesn't serve us in stepping into the new. So, you know, it's important to have a positive attitude and to be open. Cause you know, a lot of people, you know, are close minded and it, and when you have 70,000 thoughts and 90% of those thoughts are the same thoughts every single day, it's in your hard wired, it's really difficult to, you know, say yes to that. You might be like, no, I don't want to do that.
I don't want to be a part of that. And that's the ego, that's the fragmented part. That's disconnected from the self, you know, so it's, it's really difficult and we understand that like, it's so, so difficult, but also we're human beings and we're here for a bigger experience and it's more than just ourselves. Yeah.
There was a balance to it. It's definitely, you need to make sure that you're taking care of and that you're giving yourself self love at the same time for me, like when I'm stressed out, when I give somebody a compliment, when I help somebody out, like it puts me in a better head space. So I think right now with everything that's going on and with, with all the fear, I think now is the time to say, you know what, I've been doing it my way for years and years. And it hasn't gotten me to where I want it to be. So maybe I can try to switch things up and maybe I can try to understand people or a culture that I haven't understood before. Maybe I can try a different approach. Maybe I can catch the thoughts that are going on in my head and start from there. So it's, it's baby steps, but you know, now is actually a beautiful time to really stay educated and to really, you know, look at our patterns and how we react to different things and how we, you know, not only judge people around us, but how much we judge ourselves and how much we put that on to other people unfairly.
Definitely with that. Thank you so much for joining us on she's all over the place. And one thing I know for sure is No Justice, No Peace.
Yes. Power to the people. Peace and love.
Rock on. Okay, cool. No Justice, No Peace.
Certainly people upset here tonight, but we've got, you know, innocent business owners who are now going up in flames. What's it gonna take for you guys to be okay tonight and to stop?
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Us.
Thank you so much for joining us. We'll see you next time. Kyriaki, over and out.