I listen to the Black Gio tips podcast because

Rod and Karen, uh, even when we do recognize that we would like to be part of some larger change in our community,

we sometimes have the tendency to feel that we have to wait.

We think we need to be perfect as individuals in order to bring the work of contributing to our collective benefit.

Before she passed away, Sandra, Jissue Holmes, co-founder of the Peasmaker community, and well-loved Zen teacher, Rod and her journal,

only the wounded healer is able to heal, as long as we think that spiritual leaders need to be perfect we live in poverty.

I have a perfect teacher inside, there is no perfect teacher outside.

I originally came to write this book from a place of pain because like so many of us have been wounded and still share a space with that pain.

I believe as Jissue wrote that sometimes it is necessary to know pain, to be intimate with it, to heal, to help others to heal.

In the course of my practice, my biggest lesson has been how to open my heart and be aware of how I'm feeling.

I've learned to allow my pain to be what it is, honor it, and be gentle with myself and whatever faults I perceive.

From that place, my world, my capacity for compassion, gentleness and clarity has opened itself up before me.

I now embrace my heart that hurts because it is the very same heart that heals.

I think our communities can benefit from this lesson.

Hey, welcome to the Black Outers podcast. I'm your host, Rod.

Join us always for my co-host, Kering, and we're live on a Sunday, ready for some football, the first NFL Sunday of 2021.

I'm sorry Colin Kaepernick, but I'm feeling to watch this shit. I apologize, brother.

You can find the...

Sorry I let you down.

I'm sorry I let the Black people on Twitter down, okay, when I signed up for the NFL Sunday ticket this morning.

Come on with the backstarts, the red zone.

Woo, we got red zone back, my nigga, I missed them.

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