Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird - Episode #20: WTF is going on? Stuck...depressed...needing change...wanting a new life...well then, how? Here I get real...hyper-real, and bare all. I hold back nothing.

Episode #20: WTF is going on? Stuck...depressed...needing change...wanting a new life...well then, how? Here I get real...hyper-real, and bare all. I hold back nothing.

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07/26/22 • 26 min

Lies Between Us - Roger Ray Bird

Stuck? Needing change? Wanting a new life. Well then, how?

Here I get real. Hyper-F'ing real and bare all. I hold back nothing.

Is it possible to get something else out of life...is it possible...is it really?

Could I try something different? Could I even f*cking try to try?

The book:
Daddy, Why Were You A Drug Addict?: Winning the War Amid My Angel and Devil Within
by Roger Ray Bird
ISBN 979-8218286651
Available on Amazon for $11
Roger's social directory: HERE

Stuck? Needing change? Wanting a new life. Well then, how?

Here I get real. Hyper-F'ing real and bare all. I hold back nothing.

Is it possible to get something else out of life...is it possible...is it really?

Could I try something different? Could I even f*cking try to try?

The book:
Daddy, Why Were You A Drug Addict?: Winning the War Amid My Angel and Devil Within
by Roger Ray Bird
ISBN 979-8218286651
Available on Amazon for $11
Roger's social directory: HERE

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undefined - Episode #19: Co-host Charles. Keeping his sanity as a black man in America experiencing homelessness...mental health...Jim Crow...and mass incarceration.

Episode #19: Co-host Charles. Keeping his sanity as a black man in America experiencing homelessness...mental health...Jim Crow...and mass incarceration.

Charles won conference three times as a wrestler in high school and went on to wrestle in college. He graduated with a management degree from University of Wisconsin and achieved success in corporate America before getting divorced and experiencing homelessness.

Charles, aka Pops, is an amazing thinker and speaker, explaining how he was always a planner in life but after being twice incarcerated and then living outdoors, he had to learn to just roll with it.

My mother was clinically insane and homeless most of her life. I was a drug addict for 13 years in Baltimore City so I have a slight perspective to speak with Charles candidly, about trying to maintain his sanity amidst the 100-person homeless tent city encampment in Madison, Wisconsin.

As an educated, outspoken, and traveled black man in America, Charles offers incredible insight into the absolute love for his daughters, his commitment to mindfulness, and a person trying to lead by example despite the local powers to be taking advantage of him.

Charles speaks of his need to try and do better and rise above the Jim Crow laws of racial injustice, trying to control his behavior and his response to an incessant challenge from the mass incarceration system of the black man in America.

We touch on how Dane County Wisconsin makes it illegal to be homeless and despite most everything taken away from him, Charles has remained sober for 10 years and has not surrendered to the hardcore drug use running wild in the local homeless community.

We also speak of Charles saving three lives this year, his self-appointed role of first responder in his homeless community, and how his attempt to help save lives by trying to prevent drug overdoses is also illegal. A great conversation and one I am honored to be part of.

The book:
Daddy, Why Were You A Drug Addict?: Winning the War Amid My Angel and Devil Within
by Roger Ray Bird
ISBN 979-8218286651
Available on Amazon for $11
Roger's social directory: HERE

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undefined - Episode #21: Writing a book with Sarah Young...losing weeks of writing...starting over...staring down life's trauma...printing...binding...hybrid publishing.

Episode #21: Writing a book with Sarah Young...losing weeks of writing...starting over...staring down life's trauma...printing...binding...hybrid publishing.

Coach Sarah and I discuss the might of the written word...and what about the value of our stories shared anyway? Both regarding the writer awhile the reader, we consider the realities of publishing our life’s experiences...personal and professional.
How to do it...self-publish, hybrid publishing, or working with a formal publisher? What happens after writing for weeks or even years, you realize the need to either start over or re-write the lost sort-out of your most burdensome inner trauma?
Sarah and I cross paths with our juxtaposed youthful reading and writing experience.
We discuss...when we write, how much we write, jacket or no jacket, working online and offline, and writing in big chunks of time away from home or squirreled away during private quiet minutes adjacent to all our daily distractions. I touch on my massively inward journey, keeping score and the process of it all.
After 6.49 hours of writing per day on average for two and a half years, and sometimes writing 10, 12, or even 18 hours at a time, I explain my commitment alongside my sacrifice to accomplish the task.
We chase our tails a bit over the notion of personal pain and trauma processing on paper, versus after the fact.

In summary, we both agree on the critical nature of reading aloud, and working with programs utilizing Read Aloud functionality. Finally, how about the on-the-shelf publishing...printing small or large runs...print it first, or record the audio book first, and why?
The emotional content runs deep as we share our experiences of actually writing a book versus not writing a book, and the chore of not only writing, but publishing, and bringing our works forward to the world.

The book:
Daddy, Why Were You A Drug Addict?: Winning the War Amid My Angel and Devil Within
by Roger Ray Bird
ISBN 979-8218286651
Available on Amazon for $11
Roger's social directory: HERE