Out Front with Vince Noble Podcast

Out Front Season 1 & 2 Replay

During Seasons 1 and 2, we had the privilege of interviewing some exceptional thought leaders and brilliant minds of our time. Among our guests was Shawn Prez, the CEO, and founder of the Global Spin Awards and Power Moves Inc., a promotions-driven enterprise. Prez, a former executive at Bad Boy Entertainment, played a vital role in helping rap mogul P. Diddy establish the Bad Boy Entertainment Group. He has also worked with legendary artists such as the late Notorious B.I.G., Ma$e, and Black Rob, and has helped launch the careers of some of the biggest names in hip hop. Another guest was Shannon Amos, an American producer, and writer who followed in her father's footsteps in the entertainment industry. Her father, John Amos, is best known as James Evans from the hit 70s TV show "Good Times," and her mother, Noel Nickerson, was also a prominent actor. Shannon has appeared in numerous television series, networks, and films, including BET Network and ESPN BET Network, ESPN, and Turner Originals TV One, just to name a few. today, she is also widely known as the international holistic health coach and founder of Sumana a luxury wellness travel agency. We were also joined by Dr. Don Trahan, Jr., a renowned global diversity practitioner, keynote speaker, and experienced professional who has worked in various sectors such as higher education, nonprofits, corporates, and the US Government. D.A.V.I. Radio Los Angeles and a radio host, discussed the topic of developing mental endurance, which entails cultivating daily habits that build mental strength while letting go of negative habits that hinder personal growth. She emphasized the importance of positive thinking, self-confidence, and the belief in one's ability to perform and make decisions as key traits of a healthy mind.
We also had Desmond Wiggan, a Tech CEO, on the show, who shared his insights on how to understand one's response to adversity by asking oneself the right questions. Desmond also highlighted the difference between challenges that one chooses for oneself and those that one is forced to confront. He emphasized the importance of using adversity to sharpen one's mindset and become a stronger individual.
In addition, Marques Ogden, a retired NFL player, shared his inspiring story of achieving success and offered valuable tips on how to overcome obstacles and maximize one's potential.

One on One with Andrew Minott

In this episode we went one on one with the author Andrew Mynott — we talked all about his new book “Prove Em Wrong” A powerful and personal story of a young man who traveled from Jamaica to America believing he would land in the place where dreams come true - we discussed his incarceration, his road to redemption and so much more!

History in The Making - One on One with Yvette Kendall

Yvette Kendall is an International selling Author from the south side of Chicago, Illinois — she is the author of “The GOD Maps” SciFi Series and the creator of the new SciFi sub-genre “Biblical Futurism". Her initial offering of The GOD Maps, Volume One is the first in the trilogy series.

In this episode, we talked about her inspiration for her latest published book “The GOD Maps” and her vision and mission to assist women in technology and so much more.

00:00.80
noblemen
Hello everyone and welcome to the out front podcast I am your host vince noble as always before we get started with these extraordinary conversations I want to say as much as I love how intellectually stimulating they are. They are meant to do far more than peak our intellect they are meant to inspire us and drive us into meaningful action. So as you listen our guests are not solely on this show to promote themselves their services or products. But in large part. To provide significant insights and actionable steps to encourage us and engage us thereby helping to shift you from 1 level to the next. So I encourage you to listen and think about how you may be positively impacted in some way. No matter who you are. It is my greatest hope that you find tremendous value in today's episode I am super excited Today. We have the distinct pleasure ah having with us miss Evette kindle Yvette kindle is a international selling author from the south side of Chicago Illinois we already have a little bit in common there. A event is the author of god maps an sci fi series and the creator of the new scifi sub.

01:32.60
noblemen
Biblical futurism her initial offering of the god maps volume 1 is the first in the trilogy series and this episode will be talking about her inspiration for her latest published book the god maps. Her vision and mission to assist women in technology and so much more. We certainly have a lot to unpack in this episode. So let's go Yvette welcome to the show today.

02:02.43
Yvette Kendall
Hello and it's nice to be here.

02:05.45
noblemen
Wonderful. Wonderful. Is certainly a pleasure to to have you on the show with us today I know we had been really tried to sink up with you and our busy scares you to get you on the show but nonetheless hey you here and welcome to the show today.

02:16.80
Yvette Kendall
Um, yeah.

02:19.67
Yvette Kendall
Thank you so much and again I'm happy to be here.

02:23.11
noblemen
So that for those who may not know you please tell us a little bit about yourself.

02:28.72
Yvette Kendall
Well like you just mentioned I am from excuse me I am from the south side of Chicago wanting raised and I used to be a product developer I used to file patents to create things and.

02:35.37
noblemen
Okay.

02:47.38
Yvette Kendall
Foul patents and I really noticed that it wasn't a lot of black women in technology so they kind of started me on the path that I'm on today and after I decided to walk away from technology a little bit I wound up getting this story ah in my head and. I thought it was great and I started to share with other people and I say hey you need to you need to write that ah never written a thing in my life and I was terrified to write the story down and write a book I had no knowledge of how to do any of that. But god kept giving me the story parts of it every day.

03:10.10
noblemen
Oh.

03:27.16
Yvette Kendall
And it felt like it was meant for me to do and I just I just did it with the lack of my knowledge of what to do once. The story was completed I just did it and you know, kind of here we are today.

03:40.60
noblemen
That's that's certainly wonderful one. So being that you say you from the south side of Chicago you know hey we have a little bit in common a born and born and raised on the South Side Chicago myself as well. So so.

03:54.96
Yvette Kendall
Oh ah, yes yes.

03:55.24
noblemen
Ah, and another Chicago one. Yes, so I I attended um, Curie metropolitan high school I'll know if you're familiar with that.

04:03.32
Yvette Kendall
I am familiar with Curie I my first year of high school I went to Kenwood. So oh yeah, but.

04:07.91
noblemen
Okay, yeah, okay, so listed you know I respectfully say you know so that there are some exotic ways of of spelling name there on the shelf size Chicago so you your your. Proper pronunciation of your name is e that correct Eva yes, ok, certainly all right? So so y that um what what inspired you you know to to author books and more specifically sci-fi you know there's.

04:24.81
Yvette Kendall
It is Yvette. Yes, 

04:40.16
noblemen
That's not a great deal of African American women in that particular space.

04:44.71
Yvette Kendall
Yeah, well, you know what? Ah like I was just saying growing up in um, growing up in high park. Um, my mother was a psychiatric nurse. And I would get out of school at three o'clock and her hospital was right across the street from my school so I used to go to her job after I got off. Ah after I got out of school and she didn't get off of work till about think four thirty or 5 and I would have to spend the day on the psychiatric floor.

05:12.89
noblemen
Ah.

05:17.29
Yvette Kendall
Ah, and just kind of do art and things like that until she got off of work and at some point I got tired of doing that so she was dating a man that worked at a bookstore and at the University Of Chicago and she said hey if you don't want to come over here. Go you know, walk over there and you know hang out with him in the bookstore. So ah, this one particular day I was walking to the University Of Chicago's bookstore and I got to the the University Of Chicago and they had a courtyard and he had these huge medieval doors that opened up to this beautiful courtyard.

05:37.37
noblemen
O.

05:54.91
Yvette Kendall
And I just wandered in and when I wandered in I went through the halls and I got to a classroom that was empty. Of course it was after school and um, it was a man there ah wearing a white lab coat and he was um. Doing something in this classroom. So I kind of dipped my head in he saw me and I kind of dip back Out. He says no no come on in and I walked in he said let me show you something and he put ah he blew up a balloon and he put it in a container with dry ice and. I Saw this balloon collapse right in front of my eyes and then he pulled it back out and it reinflated I was Hooked. It was like is nothing else better than whatever it was. He showed me. It was just it was science.

06:33.18
noblemen
A.

06:46.34
noblemen
Alright.

06:49.11
Yvette Kendall
I Grew up ah with my father watching Star Trek So it was just like always around me one way or another so when I got older. Of course you know taking science in high school and doing ah you know all these little functions where it was science involved.

06:51.34
noblemen
I.

07:08.18
Yvette Kendall
So after I got older and I got into doing um patents and and products and things like that which is of course very science adjacent I got the story and like I said it really sci-fi is the flip Side. Of Science is just it's the same coin just a different side. So Um I Just you know decided to go into the to the literary aspect of it and start writing and I started writing in 2018 and like um.

07:27.65
noblemen
Ray.

07:41.79
noblemen
In me.

07:46.11
Yvette Kendall
The middle of 2018 so january two thousand and nineteen I was done with the book. It took me six months to write it and got it published and a year after it was published I was contacted on linkedin and. By the executive producer of lovecraft country. Ah and he offered me a tv series for the got maps. So yeah, so from there I just kept writing so I have a love for sci-fi I have a love for horror and I just.

08:04.27
noblemen
Oh.

08:12.25
noblemen
That's awesome.

08:20.29
Yvette Kendall
I just kept writing and then I started writing children's books and I I just kept writing so here we are today? Um I just finished writing my first full feature um horror movie called north.

08:36.45
noblemen
Um.

08:37.94
Yvette Kendall
And I've been in talks all week about getting that you know done with a major studio so we can you know go into production. So yeah.

08:44.18
noblemen
Right? That's Wonderful. So So along with that. Would you say your your discovery of that did you did you always have this ambition but but never kind of you know, pulled the trigger on writing. Was was it always your ambition to become a publish author.

09:04.43
Yvette Kendall
No I didn't even know that I I didn't know what I didn't know I when I grew up I was really good with I used to win spelling contests and I used to win poetry contests because I loved Langston Hughes

09:09.24
noblemen
Right? right.

09:20.68
noblemen
I.

09:22.81
Yvette Kendall
And always want to write like Langston Hughes and I would win all these little writing contests. But I thought it was just something you did when you were in school you just I didn't I didn't think it was an aspiration someone like myself could have. Ah, so you're talking to someone you know I have a high school Diploma I've never been to college a day in my life. So when you start saying things when you start saying things like become an author or become a writer and when you do not have that education. You just don't think that's something that's optional.

09:40.90
noblemen
Um.

09:43.43
noblemen
M.

09:59.40
Yvette Kendall
For you.

09:59.69
noblemen
Right? right? right? So So what would you say sort of been sort of your superpower that you would share with us in terms of your secret sauce if you will you know everyone have this creative space. Um, if you will that that. Those success Hacks that that keeps you focused on the challenging times of creating and writing.

10:23.66
Yvette Kendall
Ah, success hack. Ah, you know what I just write down everything I think a lot of people may go Oh well that may sound stupid or oh I don't have time to complete something your your best friend is you writing down incrementally. So if you.

10:38.62
noblemen
No.

10:40.96
Yvette Kendall
Um, up even with a paragraph you know put it in the notes in your phone and if you do this often at the end of the week you'll have you know several pages that you can write down and kind of you know, start sewing those tissues together.

10:53.81
noblemen
Piece together. Yes.

10:58.98
Yvette Kendall
When you are you know, doing your meaningful meaningful writing. So I think a lot of people are just so afraid and apprehensive just to get started. So the first thing is you just start writing.

11:07.59
noblemen
Right? right? right? Absolutely absolutely So before we you know, really get you know too much into the book. Talk talk to us about you know your inspiration for creating this female Black. Um. Inventors Rock space. You've created.

11:25.70
Yvette Kendall
Um, yeah, well I actually just I touched on it like when I first started doing ah product development and filing patents I Just people would not believe that what I created.

11:28.44
noblemen
M.

11:35.75
noblemen
Ah, her. But.

11:42.40
Yvette Kendall
Was my and one of the reasons was were you a black girl from the south side of Chicago how do you know about you know chemicals and engineering and electrical this or statistical that they just.

11:51.82
noblemen
Alright.

11:58.43
Yvette Kendall
They just assume because I was African-American and female that I would not be able to have this type of knowledge. So I ran into it not only on the side of African Americans But when I started going you know getting East doors with these big companies that were.

12:09.67
noblemen
M.

12:17.86
Yvette Kendall
White ran they were you know they had the same questions. How did you do this and how did you figure this out we we couldn't figure this out. How did you figure it out So I would I was a little confused like is this because I'm female and I'm black that.

12:23.21
noblemen
Um, ride.

12:36.34
Yvette Kendall
This should not be open to me so I that was that was one of the catalysts and the other thing was every time I went to find someone to work with me in moving my innovations along they were They were not female.

12:36.61
noblemen
On.

12:54.80
noblemen
Right.

12:55.40
Yvette Kendall
Or they were not black so it kind of made me feel like this is an industry that is untapped to female black ah innovators. So that's where Fbi rocks came from.

13:08.34
noblemen
Right? You kind of alluded a little bit to that. But in terms of you know, scaling this sort of business or or funding many of your initiatives. What what have you found most difficult in this space.

13:24.33
Yvette Kendall
Ah, funding is definite funding is well. You know what it goes back to belief. Oh if black people don't believe you'll be successful. Well though, that's your grassroots If you're black.

13:28.80
noblemen
No.

13:33.81
noblemen
Right? m.

13:40.60
Yvette Kendall
Your grassroots are generally going to be the people that live around you and look like you. So if they don't believe you you can't get what you need in order to take this product and bring it to fruition. So that's 1 thing and then when you.

13:52.37
noblemen
M.

13:58.92
Yvette Kendall
Are talking people that are not ah you know of other persuasions is filled with the I don't if I give you money How do I know that you're going to handle it properly. How do I know that there's going to be a return. So then you have resistance.

14:01.65
noblemen
No.

14:16.17
Yvette Kendall
On their end because of their fear so you have a lack of belief and then you have fear which means things are stagnant unless you have your own you know your own money to push your part forward.

14:16.89
noblemen
Right.

14:28.88
noblemen
Right? right? right? right? So on your own capital so that kind of leads me to saying So so what insights would you say? um, you know that you would share with with those seeking to start a business venture without heavy outside investors.

14:45.60
Yvette Kendall
You know you have to get around ah like minded people and you have to get around people that believe in your cause and believe it believe in it to the point that they take it personal. You know so because other than that it's just you pushing this bolder uphill and even.

14:46.48
noblemen
M.

14:55.17
noblemen
All right.

15:02.35
noblemen
Um.

15:02.64
Yvette Kendall
Get it uphill once you get to that Plateau You realize there are several more Hills you need to climb. So if you don't have a team if you don't have people that believe in you and are like minded and want to work with you and see you successful.

15:07.66
noblemen
Right? absolutely.

15:19.30
Yvette Kendall
Is's just Iss really a hard go at it and that was really one of the one of the reasons why I left during innovation one was it was so hard to find a capital and I had used up all of my own personal funds to drive. You know these ideas. But then the other thing is the lack of protection from the Us patent office especially with with companies that want to you know to take your patent that have the money to do so there's just a lack of protection. Ah.

15:39.20
noblemen
M.

15:52.20
Yvette Kendall
Via the government with patents so it was just something you darned if you do you darned if you don't kind of think.

15:57.51
noblemen
Right? right? right? So that I have to ask you know coming out of this I would say post Pandemic lockdown at least um the effects of the lockdown and social distancing and all of that you know how are you doing and more specifically. You know you know how are you you know dealing with it now in your business marketing your books or just in your personal life.

16:21.24
Yvette Kendall
This pandemic borrowing that people have died and have suffered was the best thing that could have ever happened to me I am I'm an Introvert so I was I was already not. Going outside and hanging out with people so it's like my life didn't change in that aspect. But what did change there. There started to be excess funding made available. So I could sow into and grow my business.

16:38.78
noblemen
You don't know.

16:53.19
noblemen
No.

16:55.90
Yvette Kendall
And because I own a publishing company. Ah and it can be in a virtual space. You can reach around the world and not having leave you know, leave your your computer.

16:57.78
noblemen
I.

17:10.60
noblemen
A.

17:12.77
Yvette Kendall
My business actually grew in that aspect and then you have all this downtime where people that always wanted to write something or they were writing something they weren't complete. Um they had time to finish and say hey you know can I publish with you or can you teach me.

17:22.56
noblemen
Oh.

17:31.16
Yvette Kendall
This or that so there were a lot of opportunities because people were settled people were kind of stuck with themselves and they had to figure out how to move to the next thing without going outside and without being around a group of people. So um, it did like say it it accentuated.

17:34.96
noblemen
Right.

17:44.24
noblemen
More.

17:50.86
Yvette Kendall
My situation ah very much. So.

17:54.23
noblemen
Wow, That's good so that you know let's get into the book a little bit more so to tell us about you know what was your inspiration for writing a book. The the God maps.

18:06.19
Yvette Kendall
You know it's funny because there were literally I said to myself I do not want to do product development anymore I don't want to file not another patent I don't want to do anything with the patent office and I said I'm just gonna not do it anymore. And when I said that it was almost like like God was waiting on me to say Okay, you sure you're done okay got nothing else for you. So I was walking through my living room and his story fell in my head and I'll say well this is this is cool.

18:33.64
noblemen
Yeah, or I right.

18:44.48
Yvette Kendall
And I've never heard of this concept before and I just ah sat down and started writing and I wrote the first 12 pages and that's when I started to share it with some close friends and family and they was like we think you have something here. You just need to you need to finish it and that's.

18:58.62
noblemen
Right.

19:01.89
Yvette Kendall
Kind of what happened so it really was not ah it. It was a flash of inspiration. Ah, but it wasn't generated by me seeing something or hearing something or seeing a picture. It was really it got speaks to me through innovation.

19:18.90
noblemen
Right? So so having said that in writing this book and in other books you've written what what would you say is your single greatest mistake in writing ah publishing or even marketing your books.

19:19.12
Yvette Kendall
And this is him having a conversation with me.

19:36.30
noblemen
And what did it teach you.

19:38.40
Yvette Kendall
Oh my gosh. What was my biggest mistake in my biggest mistake in writing is sharing my writings with other people. Ah because other people.

19:54.52
Yvette Kendall
Like to see themselves in other's works and you get a lot of what you should do what you need to do and I always tell people if you feel so strongly strongly about something then you should write your own book.

19:59.61
noblemen
Um.

20:01.94
noblemen
Right? right? right.

20:09.21
noblemen
M.

20:11.62
Yvette Kendall
Should never alter. Now you people giving you advice on. Oh you, you know this may be helpful is 1 thing versus people saying hey I I want you just to do this. So my my biggest thing is. Sharing the information and having to tell these people I'm not gonna listen to and a word that you say so and it still is still something I struggle with because you get excited when you know you've done something great and you want to share it but but people being what they are um.

20:35.44
noblemen
Mm.

20:47.97
Yvette Kendall
Kind of can ruin it or even take you down a path that you're not supposed to go if you if you listen to everything people say so um, but as far as publishing. Um my biggest problem and I think is a.

20:54.56
noblemen
Alright.

21:06.58
Yvette Kendall
Think is a global problem finding the right people to do the job and and be people of their word and you know once they're paid for a position they do that position you you you bump into a lot of people that. Just want to you know they just want to get paid but they don't want to do the work So find people that are they have a track record that are credible and disclosure is everything don't just people understand what you mean don't assume that they understand what you're talking about.

21:28.94
noblemen
Ah.

21:35.47
noblemen
Right.

21:42.16
Yvette Kendall
You know, talk to people or explain things like people to people like it's the first time they've heard it and that way you can get a better understanding and contracts good contracts make good situations I can't say that don't do a handshake. Don't do a verbal.

21:50.10
noblemen
Oh.

22:00.54
Yvette Kendall
Everything has to be spelled out and the one don't put in your contract that not that's not spelled out I'll be darned if that's not the 1 thing they go do um.

22:02.85
noblemen
Marai.

22:10.16
noblemen
You're right here I right right? So so what would you say you know sort of looking back. Um, what? what was what was the single attribute growing up in your past that you think sort of.

22:14.90
Yvette Kendall
Um, yeah.

22:27.77
noblemen
You know, prepared you in a way to become this offer that you are today and business owner.

22:35.54
Yvette Kendall
Ah I guess struggle I left home early I didn't have a close relationship with my ah my parents I mean you know we didn't talk very much and I was really.

22:50.40
Yvette Kendall
Go and figure it out for yourself and I think it prepared me for dealing with people. It prepared me for being let down it prepared me for having to um you know, rotate swiftly when things are going left.

22:51.30
noblemen
M.

23:09.22
Yvette Kendall
I think being independent and being independent early gave a a um ah a thickness to my skin that I probably wouldn't not have had had I had parents that were really involved and helped me along with everything it just I was really.

23:11.29
noblemen
Oh.

23:28.00
Yvette Kendall
And I say that having a 21 year old daughter that I did help her along and I did make sure she was protected and things like that. So I see the difference in her at 21 and me at 21 is is a you know a definite ah contrast. So. That's 1 thing that I'll say it just like you know coming from the south side of Chicago and having to take the the bus at you know, Eight nine years old by yourself or get on the l you know you learn a lot about people really quickly like way away from things and recognize things where um.

23:50.74
noblemen
E.

23:59.53
noblemen
Right? right.

24:07.82
Yvette Kendall
So when you get older, you go like you know I've seen that before so just kind of yeah I would say that.

24:11.22
noblemen
Right? That's awesome. You know so you that you know I always say you know on this show that a huge part of this show. You know is about positive when Mindsets about being resilient and demonstrated mental toughness and learning to face adversity to all. Wow.

24:23.87
Yvette Kendall
Um, disease.

24:30.84
noblemen
Continuing to lead and live and win and help others fulfill their dreams and so you truly bring you know we we truly bring guests on this show that that embodies what that is all about and you my friends certainly embody what this show is all about.

24:33.15
Yvette Kendall
Um, yeah, yeah.

24:49.50
Yvette Kendall
Um, ah thank you so much.

24:50.66
noblemen
Absolutely so you bad listen you know this is the part of the segment that we call a hot seat. Um, where we he a few random hot topics about yourself and that we found helpful to our artists that often want to know from our ah from our guest. So you know my first question would be to you.

24:54.21
Yvette Kendall
Um, oh.

25:08.47
noblemen
If you could turn back to time and talk to that 18 year old self. What would you say to her.

25:13.85
Yvette Kendall
Um, ah oh my gosh I would I would tell her to travel globally meet people from all walks of life and thrones and faith and.

25:24.93
noblemen
Yeah, that's awesome.

25:31.36
Yvette Kendall
Pay attention. Take notes take advice. Ah but go beyond what you see every day. Ah so you can see what the world has to offer a lot of people don't leave their block A lot of people don't leave their town. A lot of people.

25:43.80
noblemen
Right.

25:51.30
Yvette Kendall
You know? So when you say things they'll go hey well black people. Don't do this black but well you know? yes we do you just haven't left seventy ninth street you know it's like so yeah I would tell her stop what you're doing graduate travel see the world.

25:53.48
noblemen
Right.

26:10.20
Yvette Kendall
And and become a worldly person and not as a national person.

26:15.45
noblemen
Yeah, yes that that's truly a good one I do believe that you know once people get outside the zip codes or they comfort zones I would say um, they really discover that there's um. There's a whole another world that opens up to them and and it changes your travel um will will definitely change your perspective you know, even um, you know myself you know today you know the more I travel I get the opportunity to travel engage people in different environments. Um, it. It changes your perspective. That's awesome. That's a good one. so so so what what would you say y that that some people Misunderstand about event.

26:48.23
Yvette Kendall
Yes.

27:02.37
Yvette Kendall
Ah, people think I am mean and aggressive. But thank you and I'll I'll tell you what that where it come what that comes from when people cannot get you to do what they want you to do.

27:05.78
noblemen
Is that right.

27:15.95
noblemen
Right? Or I I.

27:19.71
Yvette Kendall
You are aggressive. You are. You're faulty in some way shape or form if you constantly said yes and you gave in you would be the best person that they know so I let people know that my life is not about them. My life is about me and. Despite what you got planned and what you want for me and what you want me to do want me to go I don't have to be nobody I don't want to be so I think people Misunderstand my directness and my ah ability to tell you what you're not going to do.

27:43.79
noblemen
Right.

27:55.36
Yvette Kendall
As something does not afford it to everybody. So.

28:01.13
noblemen
That's wonderful. So so what would you say has been your greatest personal achievement.

28:08.48
Yvette Kendall
My greatest personal achievement. Um as a career wise I mean I'm obligated to say my daughter if you want to say that but beyond my daughter ah career wise it has been. Ah.

28:15.32
noblemen
M.

28:25.42
Yvette Kendall
Allowing ah allowing god to speak to me and then dared to do the things that he ah is allowing me to do and not being afraid of doing them. You know again I went from. Not writing anything to writing a book that ah some people say needs to be paired with the bible and I for some people for for them to say that what it is my first works ever that is so um, you know that is so prolific to them. Um.

28:44.53
noblemen
Wow.

28:51.29
noblemen
Right. Right? right.

28:59.75
Yvette Kendall
And those are their words not mine I just wrote my novel this past to do a god but um, that to me and then finding out that I went from I want to write something to living in I am a writer um I wrote something today.

29:18.68
Yvette Kendall
On Facebook and it says writing books tv series and movies is such a delicate thing. It's all about balance being certain to open and close the circle of ideas that's powering your stories. Hopefully. You will be blessed to speak to the majority of your audience and have the creativity to induce more who are not also be inclusive in a way that's not pandering and trendy authenticity should be what anchors.

29:51.77
noblemen
Amen.

29:55.36
Yvette Kendall
Your universe for me is about exploring what has been overlooked in a fantastic way is about making something that's remarkable. So that's kind of what I'm doing. It's like I want something to be intrinsic I want something.

30:15.00
noblemen
Um.

30:16.21
Yvette Kendall
Ah, you know a lineage to move on and on and on so I'm not just writing ah for fun. It has to be it has to mean something.

30:26.76
noblemen
All right? Absolutely absolutely. That's wonderful. So so what would you say your biggest failure and what did you learn from it.

30:38.92
Yvette Kendall
Oh my biggest failure. Oh goodness. Um.

30:48.44
Yvette Kendall
Oh Gosh I don't feel a lot. Ah you know what? my you know, um, unanswered and unspoken expectations is my biggest failure. Ah, whether that be in a relationship whether that be with a job whether it be with you know,? whatever if you have expectations of something or someone else and you don't communicate them. You're setting your situation up for Failure. So.

31:05.58
noblemen
Um, yeah.

31:14.54
noblemen
Right? Yeah, absolutely.

31:22.28
Yvette Kendall
I I have learned that when I am in a situation to express what I want and find out if that person place or thing even has the capacity to provide that.

31:31.11
noblemen
Ah.

31:38.54
noblemen
Right.

31:41.89
Yvette Kendall
And that way you're not setting yourself up for failure and you're not ah losing a relationship that could have been something that even if it wasn't going to be what you intended It could still be.

31:53.83
noblemen
Right? Absolutely absolutely And as you said, um, that that could be applied to you know every area of our life if you will whether it's relationships whether that's business or what have you.

32:09.40
Yvette Kendall
Um, and.

32:10.61
noblemen
Um, you said a couple key things - capacity and expectation. Um, you know I just believe that um performance is a direct link to expectations.

32:13.94
Yvette Kendall
Yes.

32:24.22
Yvette Kendall
With it.

32:27.94
noblemen
And and if they're known from the beginning I mean that's sort of the expectation management before you have to manage expectations or realize as you said um, are you in a space or place that has no capacity for what you're seeking. Yeah.

32:43.45
Yvette Kendall
Right.

32:46.80
noblemen
That's Wonderful. So So my my next question would ask you E that is what what makes you feel sort of inspired or like um like your best self. What? what? what is that? What is that place or space that you go to that really gets you inspired. Ah, you feel like you're at your best.

33:09.71
Yvette Kendall
Ah I have started a um, a system of self-care and and and and it doesn't it doesn't look like the way it sounds like you know when women say self-care. Oh I'm going to get a massage I'm going to get my hair done is is not that. My self-care is my living space and and being able to listen to whatever music and and not see anyone if I don't want to see them not talk if I don't want to talk and if I want something that I believe I want to. Eat is is about is about saying yes to me so I bought a home last year and my room is um, decorated like a art museum like I have um, Klimt. And Monet and boskyat paintings I mean it's their every war and um I come in my room I close my door I turn on my himiddifier I have my shows I watch or I play music and um.

34:05.26
noblemen
Um.

34:20.42
Yvette Kendall
I absorb the art of life and I feel like a different person I wake up at at four or five o'clock in the morning I start writing I you know couples after hours after that I'll take a a bubble bath.

34:22.50
noblemen
And.

34:32.10
noblemen
I know.

34:39.72
Yvette Kendall
Get out the bubble bath. Get back to writing open the window give fresh air. You know is whatever peace looks like to you my just look artistic and I started to give into that I used to go Oh well I'm gonna spend all this money on a painting I could be you know.

34:46.78
noblemen
For right right.

34:57.97
noblemen
Pray.

34:58.69
Yvette Kendall
Buying a vacuum you know, but that vacuum is not giving me life. So I started to give in to what feeds my soul and I just feel like a different I feel like a different person and it has changed the what you know what? I write the way I write. Ah, the way I communicate it has to be from a space of Self-love and that's what I do now.

35:27.96
noblemen
Well, that's wonderful y event wonderful things to live by as well. So you've had before we go talk to us about um, a bit more about, Um, you know those interested in. How to connect with you those looking to purchase your book or just connect with you on on social media.

35:44.69
Yvette Kendall
Okay, so if you want to connect I am on Instagram and I am up under my handle is scifi dot ceo and that's spelled sc I f I dot ceo and if you want to connect on Facebook is yvettee kindle sci-fi writer. Um I'm no longer on Twitter thank goodness. Ah, oh.

36:21.86
Yvette Kendall
And I am on Linkedin under you know Yvette Kindle if you want to reach out there which I do a lot of business there and as far as my books um, not to sound hollywood but if you Google me.

36:31.53
noblemen
No.

36:34.94
Yvette Kendall
You'll find out all the books that I have but all my books are on a Amazon they're on Barnes and noble books a million target. So if you want to is on I have books on audible as well. So got maps I have heart cover soft cover.

36:47.47
noblemen
Oh.

36:53.76
Yvette Kendall
And ebooks and audibles so you can go to Amazon and either just put in Evette Kindle which is spelled y v e t t e k e n d a l l and it will pull up all the books in my library or you can just put in the god maps. That's maps in the search bar and it will pull up the different versions for you as well.

37:18.30
noblemen
wonderful you bad? that's wonderful hey you bad thank you once again for joining us today and it's certainly been a real pleasure. Please come back and check on us soon.

37:28.85
Yvette Kendall
I will. It's been awesome and I can't wait to hear your other interviews I'll definitely be tuning in.

37:35.70
noblemen
A thank you for that then I look forward to speak with you once again, take care.

37:39.90
Yvette Kendall
Thank you.

 

 

It’s Never too Late

It's Never too Late - but it is Time to out it All Together - 

00:01.60

Hello everyone and welcome to the out front podcast I am your host Vince Noble hey I am once again, super excited to be with you on today and I you know certainly hope all as well on this beautiful. Sunday in September you know in spite of you know all the certainty and and negativity that is currently taking place in our world today. You know we really do still have a great deal to be thankful for. I think we should be mindful that at times you know? Yes, it's is true. The economy is still sort of messed up. It's true. We are starting to see the negative mental cumulative effects of this. What I would call a mental marathon in the form of a pandemic yet still in all of that we still have so much to celebrate and and it's a matter of perspective I believe.

01:10.53

I had this very interesting conversation. You know with someone this past weekend and they said to me you know Vince I think it's too late for me I think it's too late for me to go back to school and start the business I've always wanted. Yes, he said to me, it's too late to start the business I've always wanted all of my life and you see I was vexed in my spirit by once again. The realization that so many people are not living the lives that they had hoped for so many people are not living the lives that they have envisioned so many people are living the lives that - they didn't expect for themselves nor their family and so as a result of that you know many people sort of have become what I would say cynical by too many delays too many missed opportunities and setbacks. You see and the fact of the matter is I know for certain this individual is not the only one who feels this way but you see my friend in truth.

02:10.53

I believe there is no way God would have brought you this far and allowed you to sit and not go further. 

03:44.14

So I was thinking today about time but what what is time and you see God doesn't see time the way that man sees time God's timing. Is certainly not like our timing I think we all can agree on that you know someone once asked me hey Vince what is a simple definition of time and I would say that it's the measurable period. On which an action process or condition exists or continues. However, when you think about it in the grand scheme of things time itself is unmeasurable. Its infinite, right. Someone once told me it's it's not over until it's over but when is it really over. So I would tell you today many of you just listening to this podcast on today. It's not over until it's over. So get up out of your bed get off of the sofa get out the house and get to it. It is not over. It is not too late. It is not a waste of time god is going to honor every single one of your teardrops.

05:16.49

It's already put into motion. Yes I believe for many of you the the business the the book deal The the do to the the degree completion plan. All the things that you thought was dead and no longer possible to exist in you. It's coming back to life I believe that I believe God is going to honor every single one of your teardrops. It's already put into Motion. You see the the majority of that is you just don't see it because he wants to honor your faith. You see you just don't see it. But the reality is he wants to honor your faith I know you heard your mother say plenty of times faith without works is dead. It's it's it's the substance. It's those things. Um. Those things that you hope for.. That's not always seen or evident of those things see a lot of times we want Proof. We want signs before we believe and that's that's not how faith worked but I will tell you today. My friend.

06:41.81

That it's still going to require your faith. You see I can give you a lot. You know I know this I can I can give you a lot but the truth is your hope comes from Within. You have to personally work towards your own hope the question becomes what are you working on or have you given up have you given up working on that business plan have you given up working on. Ah you know going back to school completing your degree. Have you have you given up So again, the question becomes because you're not out of time. It's never over until it's over the question becomes what are you still working on stop stop listening to all the naysayers and haters talk. Talk about you're wasting your time. It's too Late. You're too old as if time is up I know you feel like you've missed opportunities a lot of people feel that way I know you feel like you're Missed. Your opportunity I've been there. My friend I know you feel like you're missed your opportunity and you missed your timing but I'm here to tell you it's not too late. My friend. You have all the time.

08:14.70

Because it's not over until it's over when it's over It's not open until it's over. We all have different times of our arrival. You see we all have different times of our arrival so you can't look at 1 person in particular in this side. Well why did this person arrive before me because. Why because we all have different times of arrival you see we perhaps may not have been on the same flight you perhaps have gotten delayed along the way for several different reasons you were delayed for several different reasons. But sometimes god had to get you rebooked on a different flight to see the conditions and to set the conditions more importantly, for your arrival sometimes we have to sit for a while. We have to sit for a while as part of our process of refinement think about that for a moment sometime. We have to sit for a while as part of the process of our refinement. And continue learning I know for many of those even in the religious community. You know you don't know which way to turn because for years you've set underneath a cultural construct that dictate dictated what you should look like.

09:49.41

What you should look like in that like that that that in truth is not even consistent with the holy scriptures you see I believe there are some people that you have been taking advice that you know. I believe there are I believe there are some people that perhaps you have been taking advice from will never allow you to go further than them think about that for a moment. There are some people in your circle that you have been taking advice from will never allow you to go further than them. You see you are going. To serve them at 1 time or another you understand you see you no longer even know what you want and need. You see you no longer know what you even want and need to get you where you desire because we have sat under oppression for so long. We no longer even know what we want or need.

11:16.55

We no longer even know what we want and need to continue to feed us in a way that we truly need all you know is you can no longer continue doing things the way that you have. You see now and that you have been waiting now that you have been waiting longer than most god is going to I believe accelerate you do time to god have a way of accelerating us through time. Remember god doesn't see time the way we see times god have a way of accelerating us through time the time in which it took most people to do specific things you're going to do it in half amount of time. Yes, what it took 10 years to be. You're going to do it in 5 because you've been waiting. There's some people that's been waiting and and you have learned and sat long enough and the truth is you either winning or you're learning. It's not too late, it's not too late but it is time to put it all together. It's not too late, but it is time to put it all together.

12:44.82

You see for years I celebrated other people and I had no problem with that for years I celebrated other people for years I watch other people seasons arrive while waiting you see celebrating and waiting at the same time. I don't know if you know the psychological effects of that at times but but but we have to learn this It's very important to learn that we have to learn to celebrate and wait at the same time you see some people don't know how to. Celebrate with others instead. They get mad instead. They get angry instead. They start hating instead. They start trying to sabotage the success of everyone else around them. Yes, they start drinking the slow poison of jealousy. They start drinking the slow poisoning of envy they start drinking the slow poisoning of strife. It gets pint up in your body and begin to spread like a cancer. You've seen that. But but not, you. Those that listen to this podcast but not you, you've been celebrating and waiting long enough. You've been celebrating and waiting in faith knowing god is not a respecter of person. He doesn't have clicks and crews and favors like we do meaning if he did it for me.

14:19.90

He'll do the same thing for you plus some god is about to shoot someone ahead straight ahead. See this is not any Hocus Pocus stuff I believe it's because I lived it myself and so I see in my spirit I see in my spirit god is about to shoot someone far forward than everyone else. Even in the midst of this economy even during an approaching recession and depression. He's going to put you on the winning side of a recession. He's going to put you on the other side of a depression. So don't worry about it. He's going to put you on the other side of this thing. Yeah, he's going to put you on the winning side and even the ones that hated you will take notice even the friends of those who hated you would take the message back to take notice that they were forced to be noticed. They were forced to notice you even the ones that told you it's too late. It won't work. You're wasting your time you're too old. It will never work. You're going to have to go back and bless them too.

15:47.43

So just make sure your attitude is right because you're going to be the one god used to save the very one that tried to kill your spirit. Yes, the very one that talked against you the very one that talked behind your back. The very one that hated on you god is going to use you to say that very 1 yes, even the people that deliberately ignored you even the people that deliberately dismissed you even the people that. Deliberately tried to dismiss the significance. They refused to see your value. They are all going to have to acknowledge you. It's never too late. My friend. Again and this is not any hocus pokers I'm telling you from what I experienced in my own personal life have you ever seen a sling shot. You remember middle sling shots growing up we we would be with our own sling shots. See growing up in the neighborhood. We used to collect materials to see who could who could build the best looking sling shot and after walking all through the neighborhood all through the alleys and railroad yards and.

17:15.33

Walking alone the railroad tracks and anywhere we could find old stacks of wood that was good enough as material to build our sling shots and whenever we would return to our secret clubhouse. I would always be the last one to finish building my slingshot every single time and all the other kids you know that they would laugh at me because mine wasn't finished before theirs I would always take my time building my slingshot. But you see I think god was teaching me a few things about being disciplined enough to realize the precision that it takes some time the mastery that it takes some time and development and timing that it takes some time. You see I knew if I could build my sling shot durable and strong enough to be able to pull back the rubber bands further enough that my sling shot would shoot farther than anyone else's could. Yes, if I could just build it strong enough and durable enough that I could pull it as far as back as I could that my sling shot that my slingshot would be guaranteed to go furthest with precision.

18:50.56

I'm certain I got the most confirmed squirrel kills this this very day right? and just as I had hope for when my sling shot was complete. Mine was consistently going several hundred meters further than all the others. To the day and just as I had hoped for my sling shot was consistently going several hundred meters further than everyone else's you see the individuals that was. Previously laughing the loudest they they started to ask me for help to build their sling shots I'd go with a pocket full of now or laters and candy and all sorts of goodies because I spit the day negotiating. You know if you. Give me some of what you have I'll be your slingshot too. You see in the same manner. All those years god had god had to slow you down so that he could pull you back sometime. God has to pull you back. He has to pull us back further. Than everyone else so that he understood that when he pulled you back to make sure that you were durable enough to withstand being pulled.

20:20.48

Every which way at high levels one day knowing that the day will come. You'd make it out of your situation. You make it out of your circumstances by the grace of god going going further than anyone else imagined. My friend. Ah, tell you just a few moments today that it's not over. It's not over until it's over time is still on your side

until next time.

 

One on One with Shannon Amos

In this episode, we talked about her experience of being the daughter of prominent artist, her work in television as a producer, and most importantly her current life work of helping others optimize mental, spiritual, and physical health.

00:37.31
noblemen
Hello everyone and welcome to the out front podcast I am your host Vince Noble hey as always before we get started with these extraordinary conversations. I want to say as much as I love how intellectually stimulating they are they are meant to do far more than that they are meant to stimulate us. They are meant to inspire us and drive us into meaningful action. So as you listen. Our guests are not solely on this show to promote themselves their services or products have in large part to provide significant insights and actionable steps to encourage you and engage you thereby helping to shift you from 1 level to the next. So I encourage you to listen and to think about how you may be positively impacted in some way. No matter who you are. It is my greatest hope that you find tremendous value in today's episode I am certainly super excited today. We have the distinct pleasure of having with us miss Shannon Amos an American producer and writer who sort of followed her father's footsteps in the entertainment industry. She is the daughter of John Amos most of us affectionately know him as.

02:04.35
noblemen
James Evans from the hit seventy s tv show good times and her mother Noel Nickerson both were prominent actors she has appeared in many television series networks and films including BET Network, ESPN, Turner Originals TV One just to name a few, today, She is also widely known as the international holistic health coach and founder of Sumana a luxury wellness travel agency in this episode. We'll be talking all about her newfound passion her business vision and mission some of her experiences of being the daughter of prominent actors some have worked in television as a producer and most importantly, her current life work. Of helping others optimize their mental spiritual and physical health. We certainly have a lot to unpack in this episode. So let's go. So.

 

03:45.94
noblemen
Um, Shannon welcome to the show today.

03:49.24
Shannon Amos
Um, thank you so much Vince I'm so happy to be here. Thank you.

03:51.26
noblemen
Hey is it's certainly it it. It's certainly a pleasure to have you on the show today Shannon and so hey so for those who may not know you or all that what you do tell us a little bit about yourself.

04:09.63
Shannon Amos
Ah, well again, my name is Shannon Amos I am currently living in Playa Del Carmen Mexico where I facilitate and host wellness retreats in this new life that I've created and prior to that I was a television producer. For over 20 years in the entertainment industry.

04:30.79
noblemen
Wow Shannon and thanks, it's certainly a pleasure to to have you on the show with us today I know we've we've been trying to s sink this ah interview up for a little while now and you're all over the world on. Ah, you know, great and wonderful things. But um, hey it's certainly a pleasure to to finally you know, get you on the show I think the last time we had the opportunity to speak. We may have talked you know close to an hour and it was certainly a pleasure.

04:56.52
Shannon Amos
Absolutely I enjoy it. Thank you.

05:01.87
noblemen
So, Shannon you know I have to ask upfront what was it like before we get to anything else. What was it like as a child growing up with with prominent actors. You know, um your dad John Amos

05:05.36
Shannon Amos
Um, yes.

05:19.73
noblemen
Um, at home was he much like the good times character. We officially know as James Evans or what.

05:25.95
Shannon Amos
Um, yeah, wasn't a stretch I will admit that his character is not far off from who he is but um, you know there's so many multiple layers to who my father is so while he embodied some of those characteristics. Um, you know that was a fictional character in real Life. He's a very much introverted man um, pretty shy loves to be in a quiet space loves nature and really a renaissance man actually both of my parents I would consider Renaissance people.

05:53.28
noblemen
Um.

05:58.93
Shannon Amos
Um, my mom wasn't an actor I just want to correct that my mother is an artist so she was a creative with her hands and my father being an actor. Um you know, brought that energy of creative spirit into the household.

06:00.51
noblemen
Had her heart.

06:15.29
Shannon Amos
And so it was amazing. Growing up because I got to be around people like Maya Angelou you know having dinner with her in my youth and not even realizing or maybe I was realizing but not to the magnitude of of who she was in the world until I really grew up and having people like Lou Gosset and Ben Vaine and um, other you know, just really prominent amazingly talented people in and out of our home growing up and being exposed to that was was amazing.

06:42.59
noblemen
Yeah that's amazing. So Shannon you know you've kind of followed your dad somewhat. Um you know into television and producing and that sort of thing but there was a bit of ah of a shift as I understand around 2017 so sort of what what ultimately brought you, you know to the work you so passionately do today.

07:03.68
Shannon Amos
You know it was a series of events. Um I had been producing like I said for over twenty years and I wasn't feeling as fulfilled as I thought I would you know even in the pinnacle of my career like I was I was happy and grateful for everything. But. Just wasn't feeling as fulfilled in the work and as television changed and more things were being driven by marketing and by the networks of ideas of who we are and how we're supposed to show up the more I became disenchanted and around that same time. Um.

07:23.18
noblemen
Um, a number.

07:36.78
Shannon Amos
My mother who had been struggling for many years from injuries sustained from a medical malpractice incident finally succumbed to them and prior to her transition while she was in the hospital. Um in the last week of her life I asked her hey mom.

07:44.29
noblemen
Um, a.

07:56.12
Shannon Amos
Do you have any regrets and for anything that you regret regret that you didn't do and she said you know Shannon only that I didn't get to travel and see the world and so we knew that we were going to be cremating her. We knew that she was actively transitioning at that point and so I said well what if I traveled the world and I took your ashes with me.

07:58.61
noblemen
Um.

08:15.36
Shannon Amos
Her eyes lit up and she smiled and she said Shannon go see the world and let the world see you? Yeah yeah.

08:21.10
noblemen
Wow, that's that's amazing yes yeah and so Shannon, I understand right now you you're currently doing the work in and all the way in Mexico tell us a little bit about that.

08:34.36
Shannon Amos
Yeah I took off um after my mom passed I took off and I traveled solo around south east Asia for about a year year and a half and then I ended up in I took I call it my soul sabbatical. So I just took here to to heal and and worked through the grief and I ended up.

08:39.73
noblemen
And.

08:47.93
noblemen
I'm gonna.

08:52.15
Shannon Amos
Um, in Peru and I sat with a shaman in Peru and had my first experience with plant medicine called ayahuasca some people will not be familiar with what that is, but it's now been talked about by will smith in his book Mike Tyson

09:00.22
noblemen
I know.

09:09.68
Shannon Amos
Um, has recently shared his experiences as well as Chris Rock and um, so I think now that it's moving more into the the conversations around healing with psychedelics is moving now more into Mainstream consciousness and awareness and into black culture and.

09:22.85
noblemen
Um, all right.

09:27.81
Shannon Amos
That's what kind of brought me to Mexico I was invited by a friend and I came down to visit I fell in love with it and then I ended up connecting with a facilitator who here who was the protege of the facilitator I sat with in Peru.

09:46.18
noblemen
That sound exciting. You know Shannon I feel like even now you know sort of we are all still very much on this. You know mental Marathon Globally if you will you know with with all ah you know various. Infectious diseases since the pandemic you know here in the Us. The political climate is still yet. You know, probably the most polarizing many of us known in our lifetime you know the impact of high inflation and all this mental. Cumulative effect if you will is certainly beginning to manifest you know in our culture. You know what have you personally found most challenging during these times and how are you dealing with it as well as you know, coaching others to it.

10:30.74
Shannon Amos
No vice I feel like the culture that we've created American society that we've created was designed for machines not for humans and we've been living our lives like machines we're getting up. We're going to the same jobs we're doing the same thing over and over and over in repetitive motion. And you know, no wonder people are exhausted. No wonder people are tired and burned out and frustrated and feeling stuck. It's like we didn't sign up for this right? and I think that there is a serious process of needing to remember who we are and remember what we come from and where we come from.

10:59.20
noblemen
Um.

11:08.93
Shannon Amos
And really to tap into our sole purpose and so my work now having gone through so many changes and also reconnecting with nature reconnecting with indigenous people learning more about ancestral wisdom. And really getting educated about the different tools that are out here to support our wellbeing. That's now what I bring to my clients and bring into my retreats and even my wellness travel.

11:32.23
noblemen
Um.

11:39.40
noblemen
Well, that's wonderful. So Shannon I I heard you once say something that that I'd like to sort of unpack a little bit is that um you know you made a statement. How can you be a light worker.

11:44.75
Shannon Amos
Each.

11:54.20
noblemen
Ah, when you have yet to sit with your darkness and that kind of moved me in a way when I first heard that talk to us a little bit about that.

12:00.89
Shannon Amos
Yeah, you know there is a there is I guess I repeat this a lot and I'll say it again is that healing isn't linear. It's different for each and every one of us as we are to our own thumbprint and I feel like there is a path for each and every one of us for me the path was plant medicine. The path was. You know, really getting reconnected with nature but also there were many steps in that process before I got there. You know when I first landed in Bali um I was introduced really to the practice of meditation and from there I went on to India where I studied yoga in ayurveda and. You know so there were different tools that I was gathering in that process and I think that in the current state of affairs that we find this world in with things always changing and and moving so quickly that it's really important that we slow down and when you slow down.

12:55.78
noblemen
Um.

12:57.35
Shannon Amos
You can really do some serious reflection and that's where we tap into that shadow part of ourselves that the the thoughts and the feelings and all the stuff that we've been consuming and pushing down in our bodies. All that generational trauma that we are holding.

13:10.11
noblemen
Right? right.

13:14.32
Shannon Amos
Yeah, and and until we actually do the work to to bring it up to sit with it to process it and to let it go. We can't you know we can't fully step into helping others. How do we help our families if we're not helping ourselves so it's like that.

13:29.87
noblemen
Um, right right? That's that's amazing in there. So Shanna what? what would you say you know is your single you know, greatest mistake if you was to share.

13:30.46
Shannon Amos
Philosophy of securing your own mask first.

13:41.91
noblemen
And what did it really teach you.

13:42.55
Shannon Amos
I Think that the calling had been there for me for a long time and I chose to ignore it I Chose to do what I thought was what I was supposed to do which would be successful to honor. You know my family's legacy.

13:55.47
noblemen
Um.

13:59.95
noblemen
Um, right.

14:01.30
Shannon Amos
Make money to have a lot of things to have cars and houses and material wealth and yet with all of those things I still felt like I wasn't fulfilled and I think that was probably the biggest mistake wasn't listening to my heart's calling.

14:18.78
noblemen
Wow, that's amazing there. So Sean let's just twist a little bit and talk a little bit about the company you established um and in 2019 suma right yeah a luxury travel company.

14:30.20
Shannon Amos
Um, yeah, yes.

14:31.70
noblemen
Tell us a little bit about that and and sort of you know what was your inspiration for starting a company.

14:34.42
Shannon Amos
Absolutely you know after the year that I did backpacking across Southeast Asia I really did it in a very unconventional way I left with $700 on a one-way ticket and not because I had to I was choosing to because I wanted to see what.

14:48.28
noblemen
Um.

14:51.22
Shannon Amos
What it would be like to just step into flow how far could I go and I ended up being gone for over a year and traveling to 12 countries and what that taught me is that there is infinite abundance in this universe and everything that we need is really here to support us but we have to tap into it and.

14:55.18
noblemen
Um.

14:59.80
noblemen
Um, wow.

15:09.74
noblemen
Um.

15:10.16
Shannon Amos
Along my Journeys I Was you know I was healing and I was receiving all these different tools without even realizing it and by the time I came back. My life had changed in so many ways and I had changed in so many ways that I wanted people that I care about to experience that I wanted people through.

15:27.61
noblemen
Um.

15:28.50
Shannon Amos
Ah know what it's like to detach from all of the stuff and to have a deep cultural experience and a wellness experience and that's how Summana was born and in sanskrit Sumana means to bloom and so yeah, we just plant the seed so you can bloom.

15:38.63
noblemen
Awesome! That's that's wonderful. So a I tell you I'm certainly looking forward to one of those adventures here real soon.

15:52.17
Shannon Amos
Um I love that I love that we want to go to Egypt you got to join us in Egypt or Africa. Um.

15:55.78
noblemen
Ah Wow. Okay, we're gonna have to carve that in the calendar like ASAP right? like right away. So what's the dates on that.

16:06.16
Shannon Amos
Um, well our first Egypt trip is in January January tech through the twenty second that 1 is already full so we are gonna launch a second one but what makes it so special is that we are going to really tap into ancient Kemet and the African history of Egypt. The part of the history. We don't get and.

16:11.93
noblemen
Okay.

16:20.23
noblemen
Um, ah.

16:23.50
noblemen
Cry.

16:25.96
Shannon Amos
We have a guy on the ground there who is so powerful and amazing and is really tapped into the historical truths. So we're going to plug into that energy that frequency and get a lot of wisdom and knowledge too.

16:40.38
noblemen
That's wonderful. That's wonderful I. Really yeah, you know a number of years Actually I've I've been sort of you know doing a great deal of study on as you mentioned ancient Kemet and and Timbuktu all of those things that. Perhaps um, we were we were taught to sort of not investigate or were falsehood and so we didn't explore them So I often say is when you can't get it all in the book you got to go there for yourself and see for yourself. I'm certainly looking forward to that trip.

17:15.31
Shannon Amos
Absolutely absolutely and you know it's it's really interesting part of what traveling has opened up for me in that way and I've been to 53 countries now that um how much propaganda and news. You know, kind of dissuades us from going to places like even Mexico when I came to Mexico people were like. Are you going to be safe. Is it dangerous is the cartel going to be after you and now I feel safer here like we don't have mass shootings in Mexico. Ok, we're not yeah.

17:33.10
noblemen
Um, dry or I all right.

17:41.60
noblemen
Um, right right? right? right? Yeah, right? Yeah, so so.

17:50.58
Shannon Amos
Very different.

17:53.39
noblemen
What is it that individuals can look to experience. Overall you know and in a Sumana experience.

17:58.31
Shannon Amos
You know what we do is we really take the time to curate an experience for each and every person that's traveling with us and so rather than travel on a Rigid itinerary. It's a very free flowing itinerary. Let's say for example.

18:11.54
noblemen
Right.

18:15.11
Shannon Amos
We went to Egypt and and you want to just stay in a spa and get a massage that day and maybe a few people want to go on the nile and go kayaking or maybe they want to take a walk along you know in Cairo or something. It's it's.

18:22.14
noblemen
And.

18:29.63
Shannon Amos
The way that we craft it is so that you can have an experience that is unique to you and you know there are activities we do as a group which are really beautiful and lovely. But.

18:35.56
noblemen
Um.

18:41.20
Shannon Amos
Um, it's very free flowing you you move the way you need to move at the time you need to move and that allows people to really get the rest they need which is so important but also to um, enjoy the experience and not feel rushed.

18:50.31
noblemen
Um, no.

18:53.47
noblemen
Right? right? So So what? what piece of Advice. You know as you mentioned is you know getting Beyond sort of the propaganda that that is oftentime associated with traveling abroad. But but what piece of advice would you give someone that's. Sort of looking to take that leap of faith as you have and then just get out and travel abroad.

19:18.85
Shannon Amos
Yeah, you know, um I say just do it get out of your way get out of your fear and just do it. But some advice I could give is that if you're planning to go to a country go on on a Facebook even if you don't like Facebook to set up an account you know for this purpose and.

19:31.80
noblemen
By group.

19:35.15
Shannon Amos
Look for expat groups in that country. For example, when I came to Mexico I joined like 3 or 4 different expat groups on Facebook and I was able to pretty much ask for anything that I was looking for and someone would answer and um I was also able to tap into communities of expats. That we're already living here. So it was like upon arrival I already knew a few people you know that I had spoken with that. You know, ah that could give me and kind of show me the ropes and it makes life so much easier in that way to have a connection when you arrive.

20:04.74
noblemen
Um.

20:10.15
noblemen
So Shan I know you I know you talked on it a little bit but if you could if you could unpack it just a little bit more about, um you know something you previously said about the indigenous wisdom and plant Medicine retreats. Um.

20:20.79
Shannon Amos
In him.

20:25.28
noblemen
Talk talk to us a little bit ah about that a little bit more what what to expect from that experience a little bit.

20:29.19
Shannon Amos
Absolutely first off I know that you know we've been colonized into believing that plant medicine is drugs when it's absolutely.

20:39.26
noblemen
Um I.

20:41.80
Shannon Amos
Ah, the opposite drugs are um, you know what the government you know has deemed as such one to um, it is pharmaceuticals they are synthe synthetic medications those are actual drugs what grows in nature and what is in nature. Um, has the technology and the wisdom of plants and and when we look at things like for example, Psilocybin which is the street name would be called Magic mushrooms, mushrooms or fungi and fungi have been on this planet you know for.

21:04.96
noblemen
Um.

21:15.94
Shannon Amos
Probably be well way before man you know they they even say that it probably comes from the stars from stardust um, it holds the wisdom, the innate wisdom and intelligence of hundreds of thousands of years and indigenous people who live in um, in nature.

21:29.60
noblemen
Um, remember.

21:33.97
Shannon Amos
Are very tapped into the plants the herbs the various medicines and and what they can be used for It's scientists that come in and then cultivate it and turn it into um other you know, healing modalities and not to even say that all drugs in western culture are bad because clearly there are some that cure us and help us. But they also usually come with loads of side effects. So um, what we're doing is we're working with indigenous cultures who have been studying and understanding and working with various plant medicines for generation upon generation and we're bringing people into a safe space, a comfortable space. Working alongside our indigenous partners to create and share experiences to help elevate consciousness and some of those things for example are ayahuasca and psilocybin and both help there's scientific evidence now that shows they help relieve ptsd. Um, anxiety depression ocd um, and other there's studies now around alzheimer's Parkinson's and dementia so there are very powerful healing abilities that happen with these medicines. Um. If. You're not prepared or not feeling called to um the work with Psychedelic Plant medicines there are plenty of plant medicines that don't have a psychoactive effect that are also beneficial like cacao and cacao has a molecule called the bliss molecule which is a heart opener.

22:53.34
noblemen
Um, I mean.

22:58.94
noblemen
Um.

23:03.50
Shannon Amos
Gets the blood flowing and it's a great to combine with other Healthcare practices. You can drink it every day. Um, you know it's better for you than Coffee. It's a super ah superfood a Super fruit Um, and it has multiple beneficial you know effects. So ah in a retreat with us. You get to experience on what you choose and you know we're not here to push anybody into anything with ayahuasca or psilocybin I would say if you feel called then we're here for you to support you if you're not ready for that. We're not here to try to make you Ready. We're here to support whatever your wellness needs are.

23:35.60
noblemen
Um.

23:40.93
Shannon Amos
And if it's movement if it's yoga if it's meditation you want to deepen your practice. All of that is available in our retreats.

23:48.57
noblemen
That's certainly amazing and but you know as you said that? So so much you know I think so much education is still needed. Um in terms of you know how do you know? treat. Different ailments from a holistic perspective especially when you know as you mentioned we've been sort of conditioned. Um by primarily big pharma. Um, that did yeah have been conditioned to to think of you know, certain drugs in a certain way. Um.

24:11.61
Shannon Amos
A.

24:21.68
noblemen
So who who would you say would be you know sort of the ideal person in this case for your retreats.

24:28.89
Shannon Amos
I would say someone who is tired exhausted feeling stuck burned out possibly suffering from depression anxiety. Also we have a lot of folks who are seekers who are um, going through a spiritual transition or or tapping into their you know.

24:34.30
noblemen
Um, are you on.

24:46.81
Shannon Amos
More of their spiritual spirituality or um, those who are seeking to expand their consciousness who are ready to you know to grow and ready to step into um their full purpose. We also get people who are suffering from addiction smoking cigarettes. Um alcoholism.

25:03.21
noblemen
Um, and hope.

25:05.97
Shannon Amos
Ah, tobacco drugs. You know hard drugs like ah cocaine and heroin so we see a broad spectrum of people we get moms and dads we have families come in with their adult children. Um, our youngest client was 19 years old who suffered from. Clinical depression and what we're able to do and what we're seeing is that a matter of fact I've had several clients now who've come in with clinical depression. We've been able to move them off of their drugs that had horrible side effects and onto micro dosing with psilocybin.

25:37.84
noblemen
Um.

25:42.77
Shannon Amos
And now they're thriving and when I hear that back from my clients when I have a client that tells me for the last twelve years I've been in misery and I'm finally sleeping I'm finally experiencing happiness and joy. That's what keeps me in this work.

25:59.59
noblemen
Well Shannon you know there's certainly um, a a work um particularly in in the African American and latino community to be done in this area. Um I think I think even now.

26:11.26
Shannon Amos
Um, yes.

26:17.25
noblemen
As as we really begin to see things manifest at at levels that we've never seen before at a much younger age. Certainly um that that um, you know I personally believe that um mental health has to take a priority in America and.

26:23.36
Shannon Amos
Um, yes.

26:36.90
noblemen
And and it it may be needed in a number of different ways and certainly from a holistic natural perspective. You know? Um, yeah, so how do you feel today like with all the the 24 hour news cycle and the internet and social media and.

26:41.40
Shannon Amos
Um, yeah, let's get.

26:54.88
noblemen
All the streaming platforms um have have ah impacted you know mental health of people. You know, certainly you know I don't know if that all those things like go away you you turn all your cell phones in when you get on one of your retreats. So what have you? But how did you feel like you know, although that has.

27:09.60
Shannon Amos
Um, same position.

27:13.21
Shannon Amos
In a huge way because it's programming and when we are consuming that content when we're consuming things that aren't good for us things that sit in our body we're consuming it on a cellular level and that's why the work we're doing is is.

27:13.28
noblemen
Impacted mental health of people.

27:29.24
noblemen
Um.

27:32.26
Shannon Amos
So amazing because we're really working on a cellular level to move that energy to move that programming to expand beyond it so that we can face it release it and let it go um the work that we do is you know from? Well let me go back for a second being black folks. And brown folks in America we're being exposed to so much violence on a regular basis and that's all trauma and we hold that in our body and it manifests in other ways as disease right? So so no wonder more people are having strokes no wonder more people are having heart attacks and suffering.

27:51.61
noblemen
Um.

28:08.80
noblemen
Are I.

28:10.90
Shannon Amos
And attacks and Anxiety. We weren't designed for violence. We weren't designed to consume all this negativity and so yes, we do unplug during retreat. Um and we ask our our guests to but we also want to give you the tools so that when you go back into the world. That you're mindful of what you're consuming that you turn off the news and that you limit you know the programming you're receiving so that you can rewire your brain pretty much and part of that rewiring is also with the medicine because you're literally creating new neuro pathways.

28:40.68
noblemen
Um, and and.

28:46.44
Shannon Amos
And there's more neuro plasticity with the brain so integration integrating anything that you experience. It's going to help you shift into ah a you know higher frequency or vibration or into a better form of Health you have to integrate.

29:02.68
noblemen
Um, right.

29:03.57
Shannon Amos
Those tools into your life. So we also follow up with integration.

29:05.66
noblemen
Awesome! That's wonderful sharing so listen Shannon before we go. How can you know people connect with you. Some of the things you're doing either online or through social media.

29:11.67
Shannon Amos
Ones.

29:18.40
Shannon Amos
Ah, you can go to sumana s u m a n a h dot com and you can see where we are and what we have coming up and you can follow me on Instagram at official Shannon Amos and also our business page is Sumana as. Soulle Sanctuary and sumana luxury travel. So we would love to have you all and really appreciate you. Events. Thank you.

29:40.44
noblemen
Oh that's awesome I appreciate you too and I certainly look forward to connecting with you and you can get on one of these for trips retreats and I'm bringing a whole lot of other folks that I really think would tremendously benefit as a result of that. Um, so hey, thank you once again for joining us today and you know again, it certainly has been a pleasure and please come back and join us sometime.

30:02.50
Shannon Amos
I would love to thank you so much Vincent. You guys have a great day.

30:05.78
noblemen
Thank you.

30:18.58
noblemen
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