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The Millennials Pod by Meeks @theyoung_pilgrim
by Meeks, theyoung_pilgrim
A frank discussion about trending topics for millennials including relationships, finance, fashion, gastronomy, politics, careers, religion and art. This pod takes a religious, macro, grassroots and divergent position on these topics. No idea or subject is anathema.
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#47 Power, Safety and the Judas Spirit
Who gets to hold power in relationships or in society? In the pod, Meeks considers the intersection of power, safety and Judas vs. Jesus spirit as it relates to personal and professional relationships and geopolitics. The question of where power lies can best be answered by the Person who created...
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#46 The Femme Language of Love
In this pod, Meeks gets into the four new love languages for the modern age as experienced in his recent trip to the Motherland. In Kenya, Meeks met friends and suitors that enlightened him on some fundamental cues of romantic relationships with women. These are validation, emotion, containment…
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#45 Raison d'être
In this new episode of season 6, Meeks takes a circuitous route from an MIT Entrepreneurship event led by Bill Aulet, Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship at MIT, to the current and dire state of medical and financial freedom in the globe, and drops in on the old...
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#44 The Alpha Widow
This episode is of an adult nature. Proceed with caution. An Alpha widow is a colloquially used modern term connoting a woman who has lost or divorced or broken up with an Alpha man and, as a result, has difficulty moving on and forward with future companions because of the damage she's incurred....
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#43 Perspective and Proximity
Putting yourself in the other person's Reebok's and being close to them to learn more about their humanity, is what relationship - personal and professional - is fundamentally about. In this pod, Meeks explores how those two concepts - including competence and warmth - should show up in the...
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#42 Ghana, Democracy & Pride
In this pod, Meeks reviews his first trip to the West coast of Africa, Ghana, specifically, and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of nations and people in light of pride. At the heart of failed democracies in nation-states that had a bright future, like Ghana -- which was the first…
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#41 The Year 2025, Part I
In this pod, Meeks breaks down and projects nascent current affairs from a religious, political, health, and preparedness perspective. The change of the guard at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue requires a reflection of 2024 in light of 2025. This is part one of a two-segment series that paints a broad...
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#40 The Compromised Man
This episode takes stock of serious issues surrounding the modern man and how he has in many ways been compromised to be less of the actualized, Christian, and fully human man he was intended to be from antiquity. Today, many men have been compromised by their willful acquiescence to those things...
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#39 Identity
Is identity a fact or a social construct? In this episode, Meeks attempts to define identity as knowledge of oneself - i.e., an individual, sentient, created being that has a purpose. From that definition, he invites the listener to develop their own identity paradigm from a religious, personal,...
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#38 The Boulé and the Secret Black Establishment
In this pod, Meeks dissects how the Black revolutionaries and activists of 1960s and 70s the were suppressed, infiltrated, expunged and replaced by leaders of the new school made up of sundry gangsta rappers, questionable politicians, a few would-be-billionaires, prosperity gospel pastors and...
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#37 The Ivy League Corporations
This episode gets into looking into Ivy League schools and how they influence political and social theory, religion, and often culture. Meeks evaluates his visit to Princeton and Harvard and considers how elite schools have evolved over 300 years to become institutions that increasingly stifle…
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#36 The Election & Democracy
In this episode, Meeks discusses the implications of the 2024 US elections and goes back in time to delineate the history of democracy and the ideologies that run both parties. Here we delve into the origins of democracy and build up a case for the partisanship we see today and project where the...
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#35 Vancouver, BC
This episode reviews Meeks' short trip to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In it, he uses Vancouver as A motif to describe the urban sprawl endemic in major cities today. But the story of today is rooted in the colonial beginnings of independent or imagined communities, according to Benedict...
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#34 - Compliance
In this new season pod, Meeks reviews Compliance as a barometer for a good life, particularly in the context of relationships, education, race, health, common law, environment and religion. Compliance as the act of obeying rules and regulations - from government or your boyfriend or God - for...
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#33 - Authenticity
In this final season episode, Meeks interrogates authenticity, a practice worth applying in your everyday interactions. Part of the personal and professional challenges people face is because they fail to consistently balance and employ authenticity, honesty, truthfulness in their daily life.…
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#32 - Celibacy
In this pod, Meeks considers the topic of celibacy and proposes that men need to take a chill pill and abstain from knocking boots with women for the betterment of society. The increased sexuality in society - surprisingly led by women with the advent of social media - has propagated the demise…
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#31 - Residuals
In this episode, Meeks references and expounds upon a newly released song called Residuals by Chris Brown. The nostalgic record hearkens back to a moment in time when you were with someone and it seemed like time slowed in their presence, and then just like that, it was over. Was it God's plan or...
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She Ain't for Everybody
In this episode, the notion of the "sunk cost fallacy", which is a term generally used in economics meaning a cost that has already been incurred and cannot be recovered, is applied to dating and relationships. Another similar aphorism is "doing the same thing and expecting different results." So...
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Truth Be Told
In this pod, Meeks delves into the meaning of truth within the context of relationships and the its greater implication in society. He references the Nas lyrical quote "how can I trust you when I can't trust me?" as a starting point. We should only expect the truth in a loving relationship, if we...
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The Dating Marketplace
Is the market always right when it comes to dating? If so, should we accept its signals carte blanche or balance them with other indicators such as past experiences? In the pod, Meeks revisits his grueling three weeks of traveling through France during the Olympics and meeting diverse younger...
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Contingency Planning
This pod addresses the recent CrowdStrike computer cyber bug which had lasting effects in the global financial, airline, and digital industries. As a result, Meeks considers the urgent need to develop contingency plans for the inevitable events brought about by an increasing interconnected and...
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The Standard
This episode draws from Meeks recent vacay/workday in the Bahamas, where he found it challenging to understand the local culture until it was time for him to return. In the waning days of his trip, his providential encounter - not chance - with a lovely young lady of brown complexion with good...
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Hidden in Plain Sight, Part 1
In this pod, Meeks tries to understand Terrence Howard's novel mathematical project. His new light on understanding the nano physical nature of the universe breaks away from the gravitational and string theories we've been accustomed to. More importantly, Meeks makes the point that even if…
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The One
In this pod, Meeks opens up about his deep experience with the woman that got away. Or did she? He investigates if there is a "one" that God has purposed for each of us. In trying to answer the question, Meeks provides a values-based framework to determine if you are compatible with the person…
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Pain is Love
In this new season debut podcast, we look into pain as a derivative of love. Hence to love is to accept that pain is inevitable, though wallowing in it is unhealthy. Meeks here, inspired by the early 2000s Ja Rule album with the same name, Pain is Love, is curious about how the two emotions and...
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S.W.O.T Summer
In this pod, Meeks bakes up a S.W.O.T - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats - Analysis framework for the summer. In doing so, he recalls how Microsoft Bill Gates envisioned leveraging his co-founder's strengths because he understood his weaknesses. Attention being the new social...
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Caesar or Christ - Whom Shall You Serve?
In this episode, we explore the notion of giving unto Caesar what is due him and to God what is required Him. This dual, mutually exclusive allegiance to temporal and spiritual things has its roots in the historic financial system beginning in the days of Moses when the tithing system was...
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It's a Graduation!
In this episode, Meeks celebrates the class of 2024 with a few words of advice as they enter a dynamic workforce and a changing world in general. He reviews a recent talk with a few graduating students affiliated with a Christian club in a liberal arts college. He shares best practices for job...
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Lies, Apologies and Everything in Between
In this pod, Meeks breaks down what constitutes a lie(s) and provides a reasonable model by which to judge a lie. In relationships, politics, business, religion, people lie but would one discern the gravity of that lie and when is an apology appropriate? There some lies that are pathological -...
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Setting A High Bar
In this pod, Meeks challenges himself and the listener to raise the bar in their business and personal endeavors. He provides insight into how to raise the bar when dating, but doing it with grace, and also how to judge a potential business deal that lacks a worthy standard of excellence. He…
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Texas!
In this episode, Meeks reviews his recent trip to Texas, particularly Austin for SXSW2024 and a brief visit to San Antonio. He shares experiences with people, places, and ideas during his weeklong stay in state. "Do all his ex's really live in Texas like George Strait? Should one consider moving…
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Whom Shall You Marry?
This episode gets into the Christian, evolutionary, and philosophical reasons why marriage is both important and necessary for survival and happiness. Meeks, here, explores how mutual values and duty versus specious influences, such as fleeting feelings - e.g., fear or hubris - social media, and...
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Life is Short, But it can be Sweet
TRIGGER WARNING - In this episode, Meeks broaches a sensitive, personal topic about untimely death. Death in a most crude sense -- suicide. Based on the experience of someone that recently give up on life, this podcast goes into the social, relational, and religious concerns that could lead one...
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Kanye Revisited
In this podcast, Meeks revisits the recent life and times of Kanye West and explores his desperate cry for help as he attempts to expose what the New Age occultist Alice A. Bailey termed the "externalization of the hierarchy." Is Kanye an insider playing a Hegelian role or is he an insider trying...
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The Trad Wife is Back!
Could it be, the traditional wife is back? In this episode, Meeks reviews recent studies and social media trends that suggest that young women (Millennials and Gen Zers) are reverting to classical norms, philosophies, and practices in the household a.k.a. seeking to be a traditional housewife.…
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The Strategic Plan for 2024
In this new season debut, Meeks discusses reasons to create a strategic plan for 2024 to insulate young people from the inevitable technological, financial, and environmental crisis that is likely to unfold. What can you do now to prepare yourself and loved ones should the grid go down or if a...
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What was your Moral Score in 2023?
In this final episode of 2023, Meeks teases the idea of evaluating your moral code to determine how well you performed spiritually. We often consider profits and losses at the end of the fiscal year as a barometer for performance. Rarely, however, do we calculate our moral score and ask: "Was I...
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2024: What is to be Done!
Vladimir Lenin wrote about "What is to be Done" in the Bolshevik-Communist context but died before he could see its horrific demise. Still, the challenge is salient and worth considering in 2024. This episode, anticipates the tough times ahead and proposes some practical frameworks of life to…
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What Women Can Learn From Kerry Washington
In this episode, we discover the value of parenthood and its implications on childhood development into adulthood. Kerry Washington's recently released memoir "Thicker than Water," is a beautifully written expose of her relationship with her father. She reveals inner thoughts and traumas that...
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The Reinvention of RiRi, 3000 & Jamie
This episode delves into the idea of reinventing oneself and provides pop culture and financial guru practical examples as a way to switch things up. How do you mix things up in your personal or professional, even spiritual, life and produce a new iteration of yourself that you can be proud of?...
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Your Purpose in Life
What is the true purpose of your life? Does science provide a useful model or does Christianity demonstrate the right answer to that most important question. In this episode, explore how Silicon Valley, tech VCs, and scientists are thinking about purpose juxtaposed to what Christians have deemed…
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Failures and Mistakes
In this episode, Meeks explores the difference between failure and mistakes and evaluates the implications of them respectively in jobs, dating, marriages and, even, politics. He also considers the spiritual and geographic impact of both notions in American and across the pond.
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Lessons from Visting 4 European Cities in 6 Days
I recently had the chance to visit 4 European cities in 6 days and I learned a great deal about human culture, architecture, religion, fashion, innovation, freedom, capitalism and life in general. While traveling can't teach you the meaning of life, it can certainly give you perspective to live…
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London
In this episode, Meeks reviews his trip to London for a conference. He explores the cultural norms and misnomers of Londoners, including that of the Black and young residents of the City of London. He retells his experience at a Greenwich hotel, whose customer service left a lot to be desired…
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How to Govern your Affairs
The rapid changes in the global economy require a multi-modal mental, physical, and emotional preparation for the impending crisis. Millennials, in this episode, will learn best-practices to thrive during this epoch from a political, financial, geographic, and spiritual perspective.
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Pursue a Strategy, not a Hack!
In this episode, Meeks shares some reasons why employing a long-term strategy in relationships or business is prudent. Often young people are tempted to pursue short-term gains in lieu of looking at the grand scheme and, thereby, missing out on big wins.
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Virgil Abloh's Post-Modernism
The late, great founder of Off-White and creative designer of Louis Vuitton, Virgil Abloh, during a 2017 talk at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), explored the idea of post-post-modernism as a theme in the flailing fashion industry. In this inaugural pod by Meeks a/k/a @theyoung_pilgrim…
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A frank discussion about trending topics for millennials including relationships, finance, fashion, gastronomy, politics, careers, religion and art. This pod takes a religious, macro, grassroots and divergent position on these topics. No idea or subject is anathema.
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