PODCAST · health
Common Humanity
by Chandra Watson
We are here for real human conversations with real people. Speaking up to share their stories, their passions, and their thoughts to show that we are all human. We all have joy, fear, and pain, so we can come together and share in our common humanity. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/common-humanity/support
Episodes
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Living Life to the Fullest
After meeting Leanda at World Championships Powerlifting, we knew further conversations had to happen. As a woman who has been plagued with illness she has a zeal for life many may never understand. The number of times that her doctors have told her she is done and she kept going is unreal. And…
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Restarting, Rebirth - We're Back
After a much longer than intended break, we are back. I had lost access to this channel but now it has magically (because I don't know how) been returned to me. That said, enjoy my 12 minutes of ramblings about the past the future, and a bit of the present as we roll back into real human...
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Facing Death, Creating Life, and Making Art
With the subdued spirit of lo-fi hip hop and a flow reminiscent of hip-hop’s golden age, Kaesevyn - real name Ju-Marri Sims - uses a history of trauma and social ineptitude to give a voice to those who need one. A Cleveland native, Kaesevyn adopted his persona after his father passed away in…
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Mental Health, Diagnosis, and Being Human
Laeticia, better known as Lae, is an online peer supporter who has been voluntarily working in a Discord support server for youth named Kendra Kat Foundation for over 4 years, and she used to spend 3 years helping out in another support server for teenagers as a minor before that. Today, she…
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Human Trafficking, How Justice Has Evolved
Heidi Chance is a retired Human Trafficking Detective with a unique lived experience as an undercover detective working the Sex Trafficking problem. Detective Heidi Chance created “achanceforwareness.com”, as a means to share her experience with law enforcement and the community. She hopes to...
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The Power of Poo, Gravity Colonics
Brandy is a gut health enthusiast and advocate for the "power of the positive poo." She likes to open the lines of communication about all the funny or uncomfortable topics of "gut/ butt stuff" while demystifying and destigmatizing the interworkings of gut health, toxic debris and their far...
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Finding Hope and Beauty in the Dark
Wesley is a God loving, life living, gym crushing, recovering addict who had an amazing conversation with me about his life in recovery. And the many things he does to make his life beautiful. You can follow Wes on IG @sexualchocolatee I am C. S. Phoenix; an empowerment coach, author, athletic...
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ADHD, Mosh Pits, and Caring About the World at Large
Brandon is a 25 year old male who attend raves and festivals, loves gaming, dabbles in beatboxing, and plans to start recording his own music soon. You can follow Brandon on IG @jxsus_thx_cocaine_fairy I am C. S. Phoenix; an empowerment coach, author, athletic coach, and lover of real human...
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The Transition to Civilian Life and Motherhood
I am an Air Force Veteran, wife, and soon to be mother of a baby girl in 2024! I left Active duty a few years ago in search of a more balanced and family lifestyle. Since leaving Active Duty, I still have a strong desire to serve others. I have been able to find that in becoming a licensed Life...
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Writing, Parenting, and Living - The Best Improv You'll Ever Do
John and I have a great conversation about poetry, parenting, and life in general. As promised, the two movies I couldn't remember the titles of in the episode were, "A Marriage Story" and "The Ultimate Playlist of Noise" if you want to check them out. John Roedel is a comic who unexpectedly…
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Health, Corporations, and Finding Your Path in Life
Hi there! I'm Bailey, an optimistic and enthusiastic individual driven by a passion for entrepreneurship. As the proud owner of The Fermented Leaf and with exciting plans for other business ventures, my primary goal is to develop and offer products that bring value to our community. Additionally…
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Plants, Community, and Mental Health
We are Wyoming's only LGBTQ owned plant shop. We wanted to create a space where people feel welcomed and cared for while providing high quality house plants. Plants have the power to make people happy, and we wanted to bring a little bit of that to Cheyenne! You can follow Cylie & Alexa on IG...
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Live Your Life For You
Chef Petrina is a Jamaican immigrant, an East Coast "native" and an Air Force veteran. Through her travels she explored and adapted to many different cultures. During which, she gained an understanding of how important food is and how it connects us all despite our different languages and…
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Transformation Through Weight Loss and Self-Acceptance
Danica is just a gal making her way through life to come out on the other end of it having learned self acceptance and love. You can follow Danica on IG @seekingthepeak and @tinybonesandthings or support her art and small business on her website at tinybonesandthings.com. I am C. S. Phoenix; an...
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Making Art and the Importance of Showing Up
A Wyoming transplant since 2004, Alisha Isaacson is a painter, mixed media, and fiber artist specializing in high contrast space-themed art featuring vibrant, saturated color, Natural elements, and graphic lines. A lifelong outdoor enthusiast and gardener, she frequently features floral themes…
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Perspectives From the Other Side of the Equator
Gasti is a Graphic Design Student in his last year of school in Argentina. He shares with me some of the ways his life, in a different part of the world, is just like mine, and also where we differ. You can follow Gasti at @_gast1 to see updates of his life and his purrfect pet Pistachio and at...
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How Relationships Can Change Your Course
Ashley is a math scholar, educator, emo band enthusiast, and world adventurer. Here we talk about the changes and challenges she has had through various relationships and how they brought her to where she is today. I am C. S. Phoenix; an empowerment coach, author, athletic coach, and lover of…
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Celebrity Obsession and Its Impact on Us
Jasmine is a mom, a wife, a daughter, a sister, a teacher… many things. She keeps it real and that’s not what a lot of people like. But she feels it’s the only way to be! We talk about how our obsession with celebrities affects us, our children, and our society, as well as what we think would be…
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Healing the Heart and Mind After Addiction
Clay is a country boy from Wyoming, one that actually lives on a ranch (I apologize for when the internet wasn't friendly to our audio and video, I blame the wide open spaces). He has been many things, but the one we discuss here is being an addict and how he found recovery. Plus, his plans for…
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Redefining Health and Fitness for Every Body
Cristina is a Certified CrossFit Level 4 Coach who is flipping the script on health and fitness. A firm believer that fitness comes in many shapes and sizes and passionate about helping others believe that they are worthy of having a healthy body; whatever that means to them. This conversation...
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Finding Yourself Through Movement and Intention
Christopher would define himself as such: Human being human, Baby step taker, Officially unsure, Yoga student, Buddening artist, Fitness enthusiast, Beginner entrepreneur, Gamer, Advocate for self. We dive into Christopher's experience in becoming. How yoga helped him find his true self and how…
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The Tables Turn, Being the Guest on My Own Podcast - Trauma, Healing, and How We Got Here
Chandra is so many things all rolled into one. A mother, a coach, a trauma survivor, a powerlifter, a podcast host (but today I'm the guest), and so much more. As a neurodivergent person, I have a habit of incorporating everything I have ever tried into my personality moving forward. But, it…
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Traveling the World for Work and Challenging Yourself Through Sport
Kyle Cunningham is a digital nomad and recovering Muay Thai fighter. He's worked in technology for 15 years with organizations both large and small while traveling across the globe. We talked about his favorite and least favorite travels, how fighting sports have impacted his life, and what he...
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The Physics of Making Decisions and a World That Has 24 Hour Access to You
Ian McConnell is a special boy. He likes to sing his little songs and tell his little jokes. There is always someone watching Ian. Are they in… THIS CLOSET??? *opens door dramatically* Alas, just the usual skeletons. Ian has noticed that an increasing number of his socks contain holes. It might…
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Learning Who You Are Through the People You Serve
Ali is a psuedo-poetic writer and mother, trying to pen a semi-comprehensible story web encompassing her experiences with culture and counter history. Ali and I discuss her role as a mother and teacher and how that has shaped who she has become over time. From her interests to her will to mold…
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Helping People With Small, Steady Steps tot Health
Kierston’s passion for fitness and nutrition developed early in college and was amplified after her exposure to the world of bodybuilding in 2013. Kierston has over 10 years of personal training experience and holds two Bachelors of Science in Kinesiology and Dietetics. She is an NSCA Certified...
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Talk About It, Mental Health and Breaking the Stigma
The line between mental illness and spirituality is blurred so well, it's almost as if it's greyscale. I want to show the world the black and white and everything in-between. I want to expose old, harmful and corrupt systems and practices that no longer serve us. I want to shed light on what we...
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Gaining Literacy in Adulthood and the Power of Books
Oliver was born and raised in Pennsylvania with his mom and sister. In elementary school he was placed into special education classroom and was abused at the hands of his teacher. He began to associate learning with physical restraint and did not enjoy his time at school. He found a way to slip...
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How Motherhood and Disney Movies Can Change the World
Our conversation today kept coming back to our experience as mothers and daughters; as we work to heal our generational trauma and create a better world for those that come after us, our kids. And the incredible power we have to learn from our children and for our children to create the world we...
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Creating Space and Giving Permission, The Yoga Practice of Life
Ashley Campise is a St. Louis, Missouri based yoga and meditation teacher. She started practicing in 2014. Ashley completed her 200 hour RYT in 2016 with BlueBird and Southtown Yoga in St. Louis, MO and her 300 hour RYT in 2020 with Yoga Oasis in Tucson, AZ. Her gusto for these practices (and…
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Powerlifting, Endometriosis, and Taking on Challenges Head First
Nichole, like most humans, despises writing bios. How does one tell the world that they secured a world record for deadlift without sounding braggadocious? Well, now that the bandaid has been ripped off--Nichole is neuro-divergent, so she has deep interests and several hobbies including...
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Practice Gratitude and Be Kind
Leyla is a senior at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point with a major in early childhood education and minors in early childhood special education and environmental education. She has competed on the swim team at UWSP throughout her 4 years in college and has been powerlifting for 2 years....
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What is the Point of It All?... We Figured Out the Answer to Why We Are Here
Sophie is a wise young woman who brings her spirit to every conversation we have. In this particular exchange of thoughts we decided that we finally found the meaning of life and we are eager to tell you about it. We also discuss her mentality as a Gen-Z person trying to make her belief systems...
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Highly Sensitive People, Artificial Intelligence, and Finding Your Passion
Scott is a somatic therapist and coach who joined me for a conversation about highly sensitive people or HSPs, artificial intelligence, how, if used well, could open up our time as people to actually find and share our passions with one another. Not to mention all of the lovely tangents into how...
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Religion, Trauma, Compassion, and Fatigue
Emily is a compassion fatigue coach who has taken her journey from growing up in a fundamentalist religion where she experienced trauma, to being a pastor herself, to helping people overcome religious trauma and compassion fatigue. We talk the poetry of religion, the science or trauma, and the...
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Growing Up Mixed
Jasmine is a new mother who has spent her life facing the unending identity crisis of being a mixed race woman in the United States. Being the combination of black and white but being treated like she had to be one or the other. And she tells us that the most push back about her race comes from a...
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Art, Environment, and Helping Others
Eva is an independent business woman who took her love for the environment and mixed it with her love for art to create @thenewold.llc, a handmade jewelry business using environmentally conscience materials. She has spent her life as a go-getter, taking pride in her independence, intelligence…
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Simple, Joyful, Grateful, Living a Happy Life
Victor and I discuss a broad spectrum of things that we have faced on our journey through life. As an actor from a young age, Victor has spent time in in Hollywood, where many dream to be, but has found more peace taking care of his elderly grandfather and moving to Wyoming where he enjoys the...
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Building Community and Staying One With Nature
Dominick is an IT guy by day and an entrepreneur, youth sports coach, outdoor enthusiast, and an integral part of the community by night. He is a prime example of an entrepreneur, someone who sees a problem in the world around him and creates a solution. From his own IT business, to a martial…
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Failing Into the Best Version of You
Today we have a great discussion about healthy relationships with parents, kids, exes, and yourself. And we talk a lot about failure and how it molds us into who we are meant to be, for better or worse. Life takes us on an amazing journey of ups and downs. Through this journey we stumble, fall…
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Vulnerability, Masculinity, and More
Christopher, like many of us had to learn the hard way, that he deserves to be loved and to do that, he needs to be vulnerable. But since he has learned it, he has begun teaching others to do the same as a vulnerability coach who has taken his life to the road. This conversation spans how...
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The Hero's Journey in Literature and Life
This episode I am joined again by Daniel Rosenthal but this time to discuss the hero's journey and how it relates to some of our favorite books, characters, and real life people. There is a lot of discussion about Harry Potter, with no shame from either of us. Plus, we discuss how villains are…
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Strength, Vulnerability, and the Pursuit of Happiness
This episode I am joined by Cody Abell, a brother, a friend, a husband, a tattoo artist, a 80Kg strongman competitor, and a big fan of the human connection. We start off light discussing DC or Marvel and how we really need a Nightwing movie already then move into how the the diagnosis of…
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Conversation With a Smile
Liz and Zack are fellow podcasters over at @myfavortiveburgerpod on IG or on Spotify. Their show is full of jokes, puns, and pop culture references that go straight over my head (as they do in this episode). Just because they brought the laughs, doesn't mean we didn't also hit on real life things...
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Empathy in the Work Place, at School, and for Yourself and the Power of And
Maurina Venturelli is a leader in her field who has implemented empathy in her workplace. This seemingly extreme action of encouraging her teams to open up and care for one another on a human level has helped increase their ability to work together and be effective on the job. This same idea is…
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Culture, Language, Humanity, and Self
Ken Stearns is a world traveler turned author, turned podcast host who has taken his life experience and personal journey and developed it to learn about the lives of others. Ken and I discuss how culture overlaps language, how life brought him around the world and back to his third act, and the...
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Health and Longevity Through Sustainability
Excited to talk with Daniel Rosenthal, an online weight loss coach, about what health really means and how it is very different than how it is portrayed in media. Plus, some insight into strategies you can implement to help you on your own journey to health. Catch him on Instagram @rosentrain or...
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Exploring Humanity Through Questions and Conversation
Bradley and I traverse many facets of the human experience. From knowing your beliefs and having the self awareness to challenge them when presented with new information, to using that awareness to filter the mass amount of information we receive everyday. As the creator of the How Game Are You?...
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Food Allergies and Getting Back to Nature
Minden Fox and I take a deep dive into food allergies and how they have impacted our lives. Including how they have changed our eating, shopping, and growing habits, as well as the business she is working on to make allergy friendly food available where it hasn't been before, vending machines!…
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Finding Wellness Through Connection and Conversation
Valerie Moses is a blogger turned podcaster who uses her platforms to help people explore the many ways they can find wellness in their lives. She spends each episode talking to experts in their subject and has covered topics from the divine feminine, to sex addiction, decluttering your space, to...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
We are here for real human conversations with real people. Speaking up to share their stories, their passions, and their thoughts to show that we are all human. We all have joy, fear, and pain, so we can come together and share in our common humanity. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/common-humanity/support
HOSTED BY
Chandra Watson
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