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The Black Tax
by Malik Shakur
What is The Black Tax?The Black Tax is a podcast about the fine print attached to Black success in America.Produced, and hosted by Malik Shakur, the show moves through corporate America, entrepreneurship, entertainment, music, law, politics, and culture to explore what it means to be simultaneously Black, ambitious, creative, educated, and highly visible in rooms built to tolerate only one version of you at a time.Some conversations are about work. Some are about art. Most are about power.The podcast began with stories from corporate America and big law. It evolved into a broader examination of identity, performance, masculinity, class, creativity, and reinvention, and the strange negotiations required to move through American life while carrying all of those things at once.
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EP 123 Certainity Is Often Emotional Laziness
Only the fool never doubts. Don't be anybody's FOOL!
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EP 122 Your Habits Shape Your Character
Every step you take adds to your character, including the wrong ones and the ones that made no damn sense
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EP 120 When They Thing Y'all Are The Same But Realize Y'all Not
Fake and Phony a'int where its at. Being your true self is!
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EP 119 Your Nervous System Perfers Familiar Pain Over Unfamiliar Peace
Our bodies specifically our nervous system, prefer comfort over discomfort ease over pain, but you have the question, why do you go back to a place in the past just to avoid the present in the future
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EP 118 Most conflict is two wounds arguing.
Everyone wants to be heard, seen. and understood. But when two people are arguing, it's always the wounded who speak the loudest.
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EP 117 Neglect is a silent form of violence.
Silence can starve louder than hunger, and when you starve your wants, needs, and desires, you forget who you are.
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EP 116 Children Inherit What Parents Refuse to Face
At some point, you gotta walk away from the family drama or continue being a part of it.
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EP 115 You become what you rehearse internally
Just so were clear their are no fucking over night success stories. Every story starts with an idea and the grind to make ot happen, that's the work, that's the rehearsal.
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EP 114 Most people fear wasted life more than death
Most people, if not all people, fear accomplishing nothing in life, but that only happens if you fear the unknown. Fear is the thing that stops you, not your ability to do whatever you want to do!
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EP 113 Healing feels boring before it feels peaceful
Change is slow, it's steady. At times it's boring as fuck, but sticking to it will always bring you peace!
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EP 112 You Don't Become What You Want Without Training
Everything you want to do requires training, and in that training, you gain the skills to do what you been wanting to do.
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EP 111 Attention is your most valuable currency
Your attention is one of your most valuable commodity you have to become the person you want, and need t be.
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EP 110 Boundaries are not cruel, they're Clarity.
Some of us think when we set a boundary we're being cruel, not true what we are doing is stopping the harm to our mind body sprit and soul.
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EP 109 You Teach Without Speaking
The rhythm of being Black is the ability to convey emotion, thoughts, and you're working my last nerve without saying a word. That's your superpower in every room, classroom, and/or boardroom.
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EP 108 Truth matures slowly but lasts longer than lies.
Y'all want to know something about the Truth? Truth always matures slowly but that bitch will lasts longer than lies.
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EP 107 Lessons Repeat Until Learned
They say a hard head makes for a soft behind and some of y'all need to get your shit together... me too
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106 The Body Keeps Every Receipt
The body keeps every receipt as reminder, and warning system to protect you from your self and others.
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EP 105 Stillness is intelligence, not weakness
When you learn to sit with yourself, you begin to know how to become the person you were meant to be!
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EP 104 Your Intention
Your intention is what's matter... Not what people thought your intentions were.
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EP 103 You Need To Apologize To Yourself
The hardest apology anyone will ever have to make is thw apology to yourself.
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EP 102 I Pressed On
Depression Respelled = I PRESSED ON
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EP 100 Staying In A Situation To Long
Staying in a situation that may be uncomfortable is the medicine you need to rid your mind, body, and soul of that situation.
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EP 99 Prayers are easy; it's having faith in the work that is the difficulty.
Praying for what you want is always important, but if you don't believe in the work and have faith in your ability, what you want won't happen.
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EP 98 You Can't Heal around those who trigger your pain.
You can't heal around those who trigger your pain.
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EP 97 Wisdom comes from the lessons that experiences taught you
Wisdom is not read, wisdon is learned.
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EP 96 RESPECT Do you understand it!
So many of us want respect but most don't have a clue to what respect is.
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EP 95 You are not responsible for people's version of how they see you. That's how they control you.
You are not responsible for people's version of how they see you. That's how they control you.
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Is it my effort that people want to keep around or is it who I am?
So people want your effort, not your friendship, because you have something they DON'T!
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Stop Being Someone Option When Your The Star
When we work with other people, sometimes we have to see if the person is real or am I the option someone is counting on
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The Best Gift You Can Give Yourself is Peace
Your pease is priceless if you treat it that way.
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Envy Is a Motherfucka
It funny, when you start really looking at your friends circle you tend to see how bright their evny shines.
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EP 89 Your Never Going To Get The Apologies
So many of us wait, and hope that the person that did us wrong will apologize guess what its not coming and here's why.
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EP 88 Sometimes Its Best To Be Quiet
Always allow your talent to be the thing that speaks the loudest in any room you walk in.
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EP 87 When People Can't Control You They Will Control The Story About You to Others
If you think people don't like you and you've done nothing wrong find the person who's telling a different story about you then you will know why they dont like YOU!
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TBT EP 86 You Never Loose, You Only Learn
Lesson come from failure regardless of how small or big they are what's important is you grow from it and keep on trying
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TBT EP 85 The Magic You Seek Is In The Work Your Avoiding
If we take the time to do the thing that keeps popping up that we keep avoiding I promise you the magic you seek will appear.
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TBT EP 84 Be a Friend to Yourself of Become Your Worst Enemy
When you are friends with everyone and never take the time to be a frind to your self you always end up empty.
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TBT EP 83 When you Don't Listen You Get What You Get.
When you don't listen to what I said, don't get mad when you don't get what you wanted.
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TBT EP 82 You Don't Need More Friends, You Need More Allies
Friends come and go but Allies are the one who will be there helping you along the way.
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TBT EP 81 Stop Hearing What Is Being Said Start Listening What is Said
Often time we allow our excitment to here what we wants to hear when we should be lisening to what was said so we can understand what it actually is.
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TBT EP 80 No More Red Boots or That Damn Red Cape
When you get to the point where you have enough of helping ... you will take the boots and cape off
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EP 79 Identify Potential Revenue Streams, That Align With YOUR Brand
Everything isn't worth chasing if it does not align with you BRAND and it's IDENITY
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TBT EP 78 Finding Your Way
They say teamwork makes the dream work but that only works when Everybody pull their own weight. Sometime YOU is the TEAM
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TBT EP 77 United We Stand
We are making the differnce; We are standing out ground; We are the change, the movement and the moment!
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TBT EP 76 Overcoming Self Doubt and Imposter Syndrome as A Business Owner
You got this because of you didn't you would of never tried in the first place.
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TBT EP 75 Avoid Short Cuts Focus on Quality
The road to success is never easy but taking short cuts always make the road harder in the long run.
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TBT EP 74 Retaining Your Identity Through Change
The only thing you truly own is your identity you should protect it. It all cost the glimmer of gold. The promise of success in exchange for your soul means losing everything you want stood for.
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TBT EP 73 Letting Go of Attachments
Getting stuck in the past is the memory it the thing the memory is tied to.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
What is The Black Tax?The Black Tax is a podcast about the fine print attached to Black success in America.Produced, and hosted by Malik Shakur, the show moves through corporate America, entrepreneurship, entertainment, music, law, politics, and culture to explore what it means to be simultaneously Black, ambitious, creative, educated, and highly visible in rooms built to tolerate only one version of you at a time.Some conversations are about work. Some are about art. Most are about power.The podcast began with stories from corporate America and big law. It evolved into a broader examination of identity, performance, masculinity, class, creativity, and reinvention, and the strange negotiations required to move through American life while carrying all of those things at once.
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