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The Spiritual Perspective

178: Peace Activist Ken Nwadike Jr. And Light Explore The Art of Navigating Conflict In A Chaotic World

The Spiritual Perspective

Light Watkins

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.9981 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest, Ken Nwadike explains, what we need more of is love, empathy, and peace – and a simple hug can go a long way. Welcome back to The Light Watkins Show as we encourage you to use today’s episode as a guide for finding your center, pressing reset, and ensuring that your mind and heart are in the right place for you to be most useful and effective as a vocal activist against all wars. Ken Nwadike returns to the show to further explain why he decided to take it upon himself to ...

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The Riot cop, he's like me mugging this guy, the guy is yelling at him.

0:06.1

Dude takes off his shirt and he's like, what's up then? He's yelling at the cop.

0:10.2

And now as I see the cop go to start to reach for his weapon then I go and

0:15.4

grab the guy the guy who taken off his shirt and I grab him and I'm like talk to me

0:19.2

bro talk to me talk to me talk me, what's going on?

0:22.6

And he was just like, he can't be looking at me like that, man,

0:25.8

trying to test me, like I'm a sucker.

0:27.3

Like, I'm like, talk to me, talk to me.

0:29.2

And as he starts talking to me, I'm letting them know.

0:32.0

I'm like, you have a kid, man, I got two kids. I'm like, you know what, your most

0:37.3

important thing that you can do tonight is make it home safely to your kids, not

0:41.6

getting into it with this cop.

0:44.1

And he's like, the reason why I need to get into it

0:46.0

with this cop is because I don't want my kids

0:48.6

having to go through all of this same stuff all over again.

0:51.8

As he's shouting this, he starts weeping. And so it's moments like that where people are just so amped up with this rage that talking it out or being held by someone, it's like, I hear you, man. I hear you. I

1:07.0

got kids too. I'm a dad too. I got five little ones. I get it. But I want to make sure everybody gets home safe.

1:17.0

Hello friend and welcome back to the Light Watkins show. I'm Light Watkins, and I interview ordinary folks just like you and me who've

1:26.6

taken extraordinary leaps of faith in the direction of their path, their purpose, or what they've identified as their mission in life,

1:34.4

and in doing so, they've been able to positively impact and inspire the lives of many other people

1:40.8

who've either heard about their story or who've witnessed them in action or people

1:46.4

who have directly benefited from their work.

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