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Project Rook

Welcome to the Project Rook podcast! I’m just here to challenge you to eat & think well. Nah, I lied. I’m also here to call you on your bs, remind you of some uncomfortable truths, AND light a fire under your ass. First you get mad, then you get better :)
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PR111: The Aftermath of Pain: What YOU Gon’ Do Now?

What you gone do when you experience loss, when life keeps dealing what appears to be blow after blow, when one of the greats exit this physical experience and leaves you feeling hopeless and uninspired? If your health and wellness work doesn't prepare you to handle any and every situation that you could ever encounter on earth, you might wanna check that asap. If you didn't already know, Nipsey Hussle got a promotion. That's the end goal my friend. Rest in Peace? Nah, ball out brotha. Salute....

Apr 07, 201932 min

PR110: 3 Ways a 21 Day Challenge Can Help You Reset Your Mind and Body

I'm encouraging you to stay focused. Now more than ever. One of the best ways to do that is by challenging your mind and body. If you knew that you could reset your health, clear your mind, and move closer to your goals just by disciplining yourself for 21 days, would you do it?

Apr 01, 201935 min

#FiveMinuteFriday Mastering Your Bounce Back Game

Bringing your greatest aspirations to life are contingent upon your ability to master your bounce back game. Despite the trials, the adversities, and the blows, can you keep coming back again and again and again?

Mar 22, 20196 min

PR109: Why Mainstream Vegans Are Getting Sick

Here we go again with the notion that real plant-based food from Mother Earth is causing people to get sick. How are people able to eat24/7 and appear to be just fine but those who eat fruits and vegetables are dying of nutritional deficiencies? Let's cut the bull and get to the bottom of this.

Mar 21, 201946 min

#FiveMinuteFriday Focus Forward

When you are in the inital stages of moving towards your health and life goals, I need you to remember two key words - Focus Forward. Do whatever you have to do in order to saturate yourself with the words, feelings, and frequency of that which you are desiring to become.

Mar 15, 20195 min

PR108: Why You MUST Save Yourself First

There's nothing wrong with desiring to help others or even "saving the world" but that's not your job and should not be your focus. Your first and only job is to save yourself, first. Assess yourself, heal yourself, strengthen yourself. This opens the door to a shift in consciousness and a shift in individual consciousness will by default affect mass consciousness. You are no good to anyone until you are first good to yourself.

Mar 13, 201953 min

PR107: How To Bring The Body Under Subjection

“Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for.” – Myles Munroe The health you want is unachievable without first having the desire. After the desire, you must bring the body under subjection in order to instruct it to move, operate, and respond to your will and not outside stimuli. Know thyself, master thyself.

Feb 07, 201944 min

PR106: Why Isn’t #BlackGirlMagic Helping Black Women Get Well??

If intention and results matter, what exactly are we gaining from the so-called #BlackGirlMagic movement? The last I checked, magic makes a difference. It has the ability to transform people, places, and things. Not emotional feel-good or temporary excitement about being a part of something. Real transmutation. Where's the magic that makes black women better? Improves our health? Activates our power? Enables us to isolate ourselves from physical and mental degradation? Where is the real fn magic...

Jan 30, 201925 min

PR105: What Pains Are You WILLING To Sign Up For?

Here's a little secret: The life and health you desire are going to cost you something. If this year is to be any different than any other year, what are you willing to give up for it? Is your health or wellness worth the discomfort, frustration, and pain that you will have to temporarily endure while pursuing it?

Jan 18, 201957 min

PR104: Holiday BS, Fake Celebrity Apologies, Infertility, and the Real Deal Behind Flu Season

Whether it comes to navigating the holidays, the winter, your health or the bs news headlines, the truth is always present it's just up to you to recognize it. The takeaway from this episode is that the Flu Season is just like most things you waste time obsessing and worrying about, nonexistent until your belief in it gave it power. Episode Notes: [03:10] What's Really Going on in These Streets [10:33] Kevin Hart and Fake Apologies [16:20] Gabrielle Union and Infertility [24:42] The Real Deal wi...

Dec 09, 20181 hr

PR103: Why Imagination and the Law of Assumption Are Vital To Your Healing

Your magic lies in your imagination and your ability to BEcome what it is that you desire. The plot twist is this: what you see and experience in the world depends not on what is there but the assumptions you make when you encounter it. Healing will always come back to you, every single time.

Nov 17, 201839 min

PR102: Why Breast Cancer Awareness Month is Some Bullsht

You can drown yourself in all the Awareness you want but until you DO something to prevent cancer, all the pink in the world ain't gon' save you. This is your friendly reminder that Breast Cancer Awareness Month is nothing but a billion dollar hustle that plays on your emotions while doing nothing to actually help you or those you love.

Oct 25, 201828 min

PR101: Why Most People Need To Stay In The Matrix, For Their Health’s Sake

Everyone says they want it, the truth that is. But do you really? Are you really ready to shatter the world as you know it? I think you're lying. I think you want the benefits of creating a new world for yourself but not the consequences of letting go of your old one. Exiting the Matrix seems exciting until the truth ushers you into places your beliefs are unable to support.

Oct 11, 201832 min

PR100: Why You Never Have To Fear Cancer

Cancer is nothing to be feared. Why? Because when we understand what it really is and what actually causes it, we then come to understand what it takes to eliminate it or better yet never experience it in the first place. --- Episode Notes [00:48] Reflection on 100 episodes [11:12] What you must understand about cancer

Oct 06, 201854 min

PR99: Poverty Consciousness and Your Health

If consciousness is your "state of awareness", what do you think happens to your health when your state of awareness of the world is that of lack and fear? You can not stay in energetic alignment with the Universe and experience all of her love and abundance when you're stuck replaying the memories of scarcity and lack. Remember every thought matters and all physical conditions manifest from the nonphysical.

Sep 26, 201850 min

PR98: How Food Sets The Tone For Your Thoughts and Behavior

While I do believe that how you think is more important than how you eat, from my experience, my mind has always been it's clearest and most focused during the times that I've eaten the best. It's not rocket science that what you put into your body matters and anyone who eats food (every-body) can attest to the fact that they feel certain ways after eating certain foods. Cleaning up your body has a majestic way of cleaning up your thoughts, and with clear and intentional thoughts you put yoursel...

Sep 05, 201847 min

PR97: What To Do When Harvest Doesn’t Come: Lessons From My Garden

Whether you're working to restore your health or simply in pursuit of a better life, the journey is undoubtedly not going to look exactly the way you may expect. Although we love to highlight the bountifulness of fruitful living, there are going to be times when despite planting seeds in what you believe is good soil, despite watering it consistently and making sure it has adequate sunlight, the harvest still doesn't come. What does one do when you put time, energy, and genuine effort into somet...

Aug 17, 201849 min

PR96: #BlackOnBlackOppression Our Obsession With Replaying Trauma Is Not Activism

We've been lied to. We were taught that in order to love our people and community we must stay connected by way of our pain points. The more traumatic the better. Trauma is deeply embedded in our DNA and no matter how much you try to move beyond it, it's always the people who claim to love you who are there to remind you that you must not forget. I wonder what would happen if we decided to forget traumatic memories and create new visions of a powerful and fearless future.

Jul 31, 201848 min

PR95: What We Can Learn From Michelle Williams About Depression, Fraudulent Christians & Pseudo Help

Michelle Williams says she wants to normalize the mental health discussion. Well, let's chat. The narrative is that most people are suffering from some sort of mental illness and the solution is to "seek help". Funny though, that help always seems to come packaged with some sort of mind-altering and nerve-damaging psychotropic drug. Christians, on one hand, say that by His stripes they're healed, yet they see little to no healing taking place. On the other hand, they claim it's ok to drug themse...

Jul 19, 201837 min

PR94: How Not To Leave 2018 The Same Way You Came In

Yes, it's July and yes, we're at the midway point of 2018. However, I'm here to remind you that I don't give a where you currently are, you do NOT have to leave 2018 the same way you came in. Remember the hardest person you have to convince is yourself.

Jul 05, 201840 min

PR93: How To Keep Going When Life Is Kicking Your

Hate to tell you but you're soft and the life you say you want is not accessible to the soft. We can all agree that life will and often does kick your unexpectedly, however, it's imperative to know what to do and how to do it in order to keep pressing forward. On this episode, I'm challenging you to look at your kickings just a little bit differently. Episode Notes [11:30] First thing you should do when life is kicking yo [15:13] Second thing you should do when life is kicking yo [21:09] Third t...

Jun 20, 201840 min

PR92: The Most Important Decision You Have To Make This Lifetime

I don't give a what's going on in this physical world, I need you to understand that your health and wellness really comes down to one decision. You must decide what you believe. Are you following the reality that other humans have created or are you creating and living the reality you say you want and believe in??

Jun 13, 201829 min

PR91: Curing The Incurable w/Jazmine Janay

On today's episode, we're talking about curing what doctors say is incurable. My guest, Jazmine Janay, is walking us through her journey back to healing, health, and wellness. From a 100-pound weight loss to becoming a junk food vegan that led to several debilitating autoimmune conditions at age 22, she describes in detail the moment she decided to put her health back in her hands. Twitter: @jazminejanay www.WellnessWithJaz.com

Jun 06, 201840 min

PR90: How To Help Our Kids NOT Be The Sick and Weak Punk Asses That We Are

How you gon' win when you ain't right within? Our bodies are falling apart, our minds have gone to , and we have become weak links who, rather than operating in our power, have become emotional pawns in this earthly game. The problem, however, is that we claim we're here to leave a legacy. So as much as we would like to "preach" to the youth, the question at hand is what are we really "doing" to illustrate what healthy, wise and abundant living really looks like?

May 31, 201837 min

PR89: Dear Women, Your Inability To Shift Focus Is Costing You Your Health

I don't want to hear anything else about toxic masculinity because what we're now experiencing in response to this "problem" is toxic femininity. Society has created a narrative for women to follow and we have followed suit to our own detriment. Until focus is shifted to the matter at hand, we will continue to see the rise in mental and physical health problems with women that ultimately trickle down to our children, our families and our community.

May 26, 201835 min

PR88: The Question You Haven’t Asked That Stands Between You and Healing

When people say that some are just "lucky" because they healed from an illness or condition, please know that is some utter bullshat. In the health game there is no such thing as luck. It's levels to healing. Like pulling back the layers of an onion, you decide how deep you wanna go. However, before you can even consider that, there's one fundamental question that you haven't asked that is more than likely hindering 1)your ability to consider what's possible and 2)your overall health progress. L...

May 10, 201832 min

PR87: Making the Connection - Processed Foods and Your Inability To Focus

We all seem to agree that children's behavior is often stimulated to a larger degree by specific things they eat or drink, yet we have such a hard time accepting the correlation between what we, as adults, put in our mouths and its effects on our mood, thought processes and behavior. As society continues to shift, it would behoove you to make your mental focus a top priority and the first way you can do that is by checking the types of "food" you're putting in your body.

Apr 26, 201848 min

PR86: 3 Signs You’re A Weed Addict

I know, I know, marijuana is all natural, straight from mother earth so it can't be a problem. Maybe. Or maybe you've abused it so much that instead of you controlling it, it now controls you? The task, as with everything in life is self-checking to be sure you're aware the moment your vice no longer becomes an option that you choose but rather a "need" that you've become dependent upon.

Apr 21, 201836 min

PR85: The IG Generation of Low Self Esteem, Injections, and Implants

We've hit an interesting place in society where the masses are finding comfort by embracing, seeking, and desiring all things quick, fast, fake and phony. Can one really love themselves if they are willing to risk their health and life to alter their physical body based on a standard created by society? Of course, people have the right to do what they choose but what's important to remember is that the Law of Cause and Effect still applies.

Apr 12, 201837 min

PR84: #DetoxSeries - The 3 Things You Need To Remember About Detoxing

We're wrapping up the last episode in the #DetoxSeries with the three main takeaways to remember about detoxing. If nothing else, keep in mind detoxing is the key to health and longevity, and reversing illness and disease. Thank you to www.healthyself360.com for sponsoring the series! Episode Notes [05:00] 1st thing you should remember about detoxing [13:00] 2nd thing you should remember about detoxing [23:35] 3rd thing you should remember about detoxing

Mar 31, 201838 min
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