Buddy Wakefield - Poetic Wisdom, Serendipity, and Learning From Your Narrative

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Connor Beaton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

I’ve followed Buddy’s work for a while now, and it was great to finally connect with him! This interview is full of incredible stories and is equal parts humorous, poignant, and uplifting. We cover a lot, including what it was like growing up gay in Texas, how that’s shaped his life and work, and finding the point of connection in everything.Buddy Wakefield is a three-time world champion spoken word artist, signed with Sage Francis’ Strange Famous Records as well as Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Records. He’s also the inaugural author released on Write Bloody Publishing, and the most toured performance poet in history. Buddy is the founder of Awful Good Writers, and the producer and host of the Heavy Hitters Festival 2020, a summer-long series of online shows and workshops featuring thirty of the most beloved performance poets alive. He’s performed around the world in over 2000 venues internationally from The Great Lawn of Central Park, Zimbabwe’s Shoko Festival and Scotland’s Oran Mor to San Quentin State Penitentiary, House of Blues New Orleans and The Basement in Sydney, Australia. His most recent book of prose and poetry is titled A Choir of Honest Killers. Website: www.buddywakefield.com Instagram: @buddywakefield Facebook: @buddywakefield Are you looking to find your purpose, navigate transition or fix your relationships, all with a powerful group of men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today. Check out our Facebook Page or the Men's community.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Did you enjoy the podcast? If so please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. It helps our podcast get into the ears of new listeners, which expands the ManTalks Community Editing & Mixing by: Aaron The Tech See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the man talk show, training for men, answers for women.
0:15.4	I'm Connor Beaton, and joining me today is Mr. Buddy Wakefield.
0:20.6	Now, I've been wanting to have Buddy on the show for quite a long time.
0:24.1	Buddy is an American spoken word artist, a three-time, three-time poetry slam world champion,
0:32.4	and the most toured performance poet in history.
0:37.0	His works have been released by strange famous records on
0:42.7	CD, Righteous Babe Records, and Right Bloody Publishing, which sounds like a great publishing.
0:50.4	So Buddy actually has such a wild and fascinating story. And so on this episode,
0:56.4	we're going to talk about what it was like for him to grow up in probably one of the most,
1:03.1	you know, hyper, uh, masculine oriented spaces in Texas as a game, as a gay man, as a boy, a teenager. And, you know, he has some amazingly
1:15.4	hilarious stories about his upbringing. So we talk about a number of things. We talk about
1:20.9	what his experience was. He shares a little bit of his poetry. He shares a little bit about,
1:25.1	you know, how his experiences have created a lot of
1:28.9	who he is. And he shares some really deep wisdom on how we can all learn from our own experiences,
1:37.5	how we can integrate our experiences, learn from our own story, learn from our own narrative,
1:43.6	and actually build the
1:45.1	type of story in our life that we ultimately want. So this is just an abundance of wisdom,
1:51.4	a plethora of wise stories and some really funny, but also some really sad moments. So this is a
2:00.2	little bit of everything today, and we've got some really sad moments. So this has a little bit of everything today,
2:01.3	and we've got some really great topics. So, you know, without any further delay, I'm just
2:07.1	going to bring him on in and let him do the talking because he is a really, really gifted speaker
2:12.8	and poet. So joining me now is Mr. Buddy Wakefield. I am. I'm stoked to have you here on the show, my friend.
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