Shaka Senghor: A Complex Hero | The Man Enough Podcast
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2 жыл бұрынShaka Senghor-New York Times best-selling author and criminal justice activist - discusses gun trauma, fatherhood after incarceration, and how journaling and manifestation helped him create the life he lives today.
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SHAKA SENGHOR: A COMPLEX HERO
Best-selling author, recognized speaker and criminal justice activist, Shaka Senghor, brings his full presence to a deeply moving conversation about gun violence, fatherhood, breaking cycles, and healing. Formerly incarcerated, Shaka shares with us how journaling in solitary confinement allowed him to process his pain and gain access to his emotions and his humanity. With gentle power and a strong sense of purpose, Shaka reminds us that we can disrupt who the world tells us we should be and create our own narrative to become who we really are.
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@whymyelbow 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this conversation. But especially, Jamey Heath, thank you for so beautifully and passionately articulating your feelings about solitary confinement at the end of the episode. I started crying so hard but it was super dangerous because I was on the highway! Anyway, thank you.
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
I think we all had a similar experience. Thank you for being here and for welcoming the deep emotions. Drive carefully, though!
@GretchenHewitt 2 жыл бұрын
Dear Shaka. What a lovely, kind, deep, loving man. I keep having a picture him and his family sitting by my wood stove and visiting with some good food. I watched his TED talk. Hearing about his response to his son's letter was just beautiful. So much to say!
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
He's really incredible. More of Shaka ahead, for sure.
@OrtegaOY 2 жыл бұрын
Jamey opened up in a way that I've been waiting for since I've been watching this podcast ✊🏼 Brotha Shaka is such a gift to Humanity. ÀSÉ to all the Powerful Jewels that were dropped in this episode 🙏🏼🤲🏼❤️🖤💚💪🏼
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you. This was a powerful one, indeed.
@suzettephinn7829 2 жыл бұрын
This was a great conversation. I am sure that one day soon a previously incarcerated female will be on the podcast. I would love to hear her story. Great job guys. ❤❤❤
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you. We were just discussing that ourselves. Booking has been a bit challenging along those lines, so we will continue to look for the right opportunity.
@sims4u422 2 жыл бұрын
Sounds interesting thank you for suggesting, and thank you to the "Man Enough Podcast" for replying to the comments.
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
@@sims4u422 Doing our best!
@AntoinetteMPetty 2 жыл бұрын
So deep, I heard about Shaka Senghur a couple of years ago but this is the first time I got to hear his story from his soul. I'm so deeply moved I can't stop crying. Thank you for letting me see that men like you are in this world. Thank you Man Enough Podcast crew. 🙏🏾 💜🤝🏾👍🏾
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
We're so glad this conversation could touch your heart the way it's touched each of us here at #ManEnough! We agree, Shaka's story is really one from the soul and we're so grateful he shared his truth with us 💛🙌
@AntoinetteMPetty 2 жыл бұрын
@@WeAreManEnough Amen and amen
@sarale1905 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much to all the podcasts people. Since I started hearing "Man Enough" so much light has come into my life. May God bless you. With love from Israel.
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sticking with us on this journey 💛🙌
@dr.portnoy2028 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for creating this podcast. Every episode helps me grow in a different way and allows me to gain more empathy towards my friends, family and even patients. This podcast has definitely helped me become a better doctor. Keep the episodes coming! :)
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
That means so much to us. Helping a healer to heal in a different way is incredibly meaningful. So glad you're here with us.
@saylorcole16 2 жыл бұрын
This was such a great conversation and I love how he didn’t try to make excuses for what he did but show others why he did it and let them make their own judgement on him with all the facts present which of course is that he’s an amazing man but more importantly he’s an example of a man who didn’t stop trying to become the man he always needed in his life and the man he knew he could be. He sets an incredible example for other fathers or just people in general that even though it seems your life has come to a metaphorical end like being incarcerated that you can make that where your new life begins thank you so much shaka and Jamie, Liz, and Justin. Also I’d love to see Emmanuel acho on this I know it’s a big one but also if he manifested oprah we can manifest Emmanuel!
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
It was so amazing to experience Shaka in his truth! Thanks for staying in the room with us 🙏 And thankfully we've already had Emmanuel on the show, but of course we'd love for him to come back to visit us any time. Check it out: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a9pmir1-0qfdaWg.html
@marianadasilvacenteno5 2 жыл бұрын
We need another episode with Shaka! He is amazing!
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
We agree! Stay tuned...
@claudiafegari5116 2 жыл бұрын
This is the true history of someone changing his whole life; learning from his mistakes and paving a new and brighter path ahead. Thank you for this. (*I could not hold my tears, when I heard that nobody hugged him, after he left the hospital... Oh, man... I am so sorry... :( )
@theladyaries19 2 жыл бұрын
I am so appreciative of this podcast for helping me to understand the inner workings of pitfalls for many black men who live strictly from the physical (ego). I am happy that he returned back to the source. Thanks!
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! We're all learning together.
@gwenadams4509 2 жыл бұрын
What a conversation. Besides all the Trauma Shaka experienced in his life.I love the Calmness in his voice all the time. It stayed on an even tone he never once spoke loudly. May God continue to Bless him and Hopefully his experiences will help millions of Boys and Girls to not stay in the circumstances that will lead them to prison before they turn their lives around.Bless you Jamey, Liz and Justin. Also Jamey for starting off this Podcast by making it clear that Manenough does not condone violence but rather focus on the changes your guests who were incarcerated made in their lives to be set free from all the trauma they experienced.🙏🙏✨✨
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Gwen. It's quite a journey.
@okterlox0 2 жыл бұрын
I want to respond but I am afraid I don’t have the adequate vocabulary to address this lovingly and not sound mean. That is not my intention. I am an elderly white lady and have spent the past 2 years trying to educate myself from my sickbed. I hear what you are trying to say but can you also expand your thinking to include the truths -the systemic anti-blackness REASONS that WAY too many young folks are even having to grow up in the conditions of “not being valued” in the first place - I’m sorry. I can’t figure out a sweet and positive way to say what I’m feeling. Let me go think on this some more
@okterlox0 2 жыл бұрын
It’s when you say you hope his experiences will help children “not stay in the circumstances that will lead them to prison” They are children! It’s not the children that are the problem. And it’s not millions of children making bad choices that is the problem either. And I apologize that I just don’t have the vocabulary to explain what feels like the “problem” maybe a better way to say it would be that I hope Shaka’s story will inspire enough adults to then for changing those circumstances for the children so that this vast number of children simply do not find themselves even in the position of HAVING to worry about having to “turn their lives around” Look for the root cause -change that.
@sims4u422 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much, interesting episode. Great podcast and great production.
@camillejames9130 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this episode! Needed this. Hoping to see a black womxn on the podcast soon!
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
Recording with one today! Open to suggestions for season 2 as well. We will continue to primarily feature male-identifying people, but completely agree that the Black female perspective is especially important to this conversation.
@marianadasilvacenteno5 2 жыл бұрын
This was one of the best episodes when it comes to criminal justice and fatherhood! I love the way that Jamey speaks! ✨all of you are amazing!
@kennethgourlay1525 2 жыл бұрын
Interesting that you felt a need to apologize for/justify having guests on the show who were incarcerated. But you're right, humanity can be found in every one of us; we dismiss someone's value at our own collective peril. What a great conversation! Same with every episode I've seen so far. And it makes me so proud to see Shaka on the stage with all the other amazing guests in this lineup. Thanks to you all for doing the work that you're doing.
@vanhoudtshoorn 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, thank you, thank you❤❤❤.
@kemiyusuf2176 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you guys for all that you do ❤
@CiruM. 2 жыл бұрын
I have watched this three times. So inspired. I think I'm going to work with the incarcerated.
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
Wow, that's incredible! Thanks for sharing your inspiration with us.
@okterlox0 2 жыл бұрын
Are you serious? That would be SO awesome! I hope you are young enough that if you start digging in to work on being a change maker now that you will be able to look back on your life and efforts to change the “prison industrial complex” on your deathbed and rejoice in knowing that you were a part of dismantling the whole thing in a single generation. And that how people treat each other at the end of your life compared to what you see now -I hope the difference is too vast to put into words.
@CiruM. 2 жыл бұрын
@@okterlox0 thank you Laura. Working on it
@okterlox0 2 жыл бұрын
@@CiruM. I say this as I lay here preparing myself to die. I’m autistic so I’m pretty “different” I could be wrong but your reply “felt”super powerful to me and what I wrote was what your reply “looked like” it’s what I “saw” I used to be afraid to speak of these things but it has only been in past few months and working to come to terms with my own impending death that I’ve found myself I afraid for the first time in my entire 63+ years on this earth.
@okterlox0 2 жыл бұрын
UNafraid is was supposed to say.
@ligiamorales3709 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for not only this but for all the episodes of Man Enough. It's just amazing to learn from everyone in this podcast. In fact, you are inspiring me to do the same in my country but stand up for all women that have been oppressed by men and the masculinity in our society. Not because they want but just because they have been forced to behave in such a way that makes men feel miserable at one point in their lives. I am also a Baha'í and I appreciate so much any chance you have to pour Bahá'u'lláh's wisdom and help people meditate on His writings. Thanks to Justing, Jamey and Liz for the wonderful work you are consecrated in doing. Blessings.
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for being here with us! We are so grateful to be a part of your journey in the great work that lies ahead.
@amjad1_da969 2 жыл бұрын
I feel that my energy has absorbed his energy. I hope he enjoys peace and tranquility. I hope that life will treat him in a better way now
@ronsparkman4913 2 жыл бұрын
While I know Jamey mentioned the number of formerly incarcerated people at the top of the show, this podcast and the people I've found to follow or docs I've watched have fundamentally changed the way I think about the carceral system. Thanks for sharing incredible stories like these and changing minds!
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
That's wonderful to hear, Ron. Thank you for being here all season long and for your thoughtful comments.
@hellentatendakajawu 2 жыл бұрын
what a beautiful conversation. this one was quite heavy, learnt a lot, i love your guests u bring here , this is phenomenal
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Shaka is really mind and heart-opening.
@vikkienos8030 2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful.
@liricabox 2 жыл бұрын
Wuoh, what a episode! When i was hearing the life of shaka i was feeling a lot of emotions: sadness, anger, hope... I dont know, it was a raw episode. Im so sorry for people that experience this hard things, im so lucky of the life that i have, my traumas are shit in comparison with a lot of people. I hope that in my life i can put my little piece of sand to help to improve the world in some strange way, i will try harder, i have a lot to learn. Thank you for sharing this conversation, it was amazing, probably i will rewatch it. Thank you shaka for sharing your story, for teach me new things and give me perspective for my life. Thank you all the man enough time for making this amazing show, i really appreciate your work, passion and dedication. PD: as im hard of hearing/deaf person, i rely on captions, and for seeing this episode i used the automatic captions of youtube. Your audio quality i think it has to be really good, because i know for my experience that, sometimes, the automatic captions mess up a lot of things, but reading them in this episode, i think i understand all the podcast (i hope hehe). The automatic captions have some funny errors like when justin says "this is man enough", the captions says: "this is mad enough". I just laugh a lot with this... This is MAD enough, its a good title for other podcast hahahahaha. Lots love! :)
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us. While we appreciate you putting your traumas in context with other peoples', we encourage you to avoid diminishing the challenging experiences you feel. Those are valid and each person has their own mountain to climb. Glad to hear that the captions are helpful and thank you for the feedback on the errors. We get them professionally created, so we should at least get the name of the show right!
@liricabox 2 жыл бұрын
@@WeAreManEnough thank you! Im sure that making the subtitles takes time but i really appreciate your effort! Thank you for increase the accesability!! :)
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
@@liricabox Absolutely. Also, we found out that our professional subtitles hadn't gone live yet, so those were KZfaq's autogenerated ones. Our show name is indeed correct in the ones we publish. :)
@eka707 2 жыл бұрын
JAMEY HEATH 🗣🗣🗣 white women hear you Jamey! This one at least. I got chills listening to your conviction this episode. Incredibly powerful all around. I’m ready for the 2023 Man Enough Convention!!
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
Why wait until next year?! Thank you for your support and we know Jamey hears you too.
@amjad1_da969 2 жыл бұрын
I don't know what to say for the first time I didn't cry I feel like all my body is crying except for my eyes I haven't finished the episode but I'll finish it
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
It's a lot. It's worth it, though. Shaka brings so much beauty and hope in the face of such challenging experiences.
@amjad1_da969 2 жыл бұрын
Yes, it is true, I will gather my courage and watch the full episode. Thank you. This program needs people who have high endurance and patience in such situations and experiences
@amjad1_da969 2 жыл бұрын
It's interesting that you all Jimmy, Justin and Liz have Scorpios Jamie Scorpio and Justin and Liz have the Moon representing "our inner feelings" in Scorpio in your astrological chart and the scorpion represents death and rebirth as the phoenix are all connected together.
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
@@amjad1_da969 Indeed. We have some fun ones too. Next week's episode with Jaime Camil is both funny and poignant.
@amjad1_da969 2 жыл бұрын
@@WeAreManEnough Do not worry, I also enjoy these episodes, because they are real, and I ask myself all the questions that you ask the guest, I treat your program as a psychiatrist. Thank you🤍🤍
@ronsparkman4913 2 жыл бұрын
I feel like Liz *def* sent this episode to Andy Grammar. 😁
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
Haha, hopefully she didn't need to. We hope he's watching on tour right now. :) Maybe we should have the two of them on together sometime.
@justicewilson7929 2 жыл бұрын
I think Jordan Peterson would be a great guest
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
We agree. We have invited him and hope he will accept at some point.
@louisventers9798 2 жыл бұрын
@@WeAreManEnough I’d be very surprised if he takes you up on that or even responds. I think what y’all are doing and the tone you have set is way different from where he’s coming from.
@WeAreManEnough 2 жыл бұрын
@@louisventers9798 Well, we'll keep trying. He does seem to go and speak with people from all sides, albeit with a very strong agenda and unwavering POV. We just recorded an episode with someone closer to that side, which we're excited to bring to the audience, and we'll continue to widen the conversation as much as we possibly can.
@louisventers9798 2 жыл бұрын
That’s great! I’m so glad for what y’all are doing and trust that you will keep seeking out “good trouble” in the months and years ahead. 😉
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