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The Way Forward with Alec Zeck

Ep 181: What Didn't We Talk About? Post-Confluence Roundtable with Mike Cardamone, Mark Gober, Danielle Hamilton & Alec Zeck

The Way Forward with Alec Zeck

Alec Zeck

Alternative Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.8968 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 168 minutes

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Mike Cardamone, Mark Gober, Danielle Hamilton, and Alec Zeck come together for a post-Confluence roundtable to unpack what wasn't said on stage. They explore how mindset, environment, and emotional health shape our well-being—touching on food sensitivities, sleep, indigenous wisdom, and the impact of public health policies. This open conversation invites listeners to reflect on integration, resilience, and conscious living.

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Oh It's so

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It's so funny because my sister was in New York at the time, and my wife and I, we're in Oklahoma,

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and then my mom was in Kansas City, and we went back to visit my mom at the same time as my sister.

0:50.3

And my sister, when we got to Kansas City, was like, oh, my God, it's so open here.

0:53.4

This is so incredible, like bawling her eyes out on how open Kansas City was. But my wife and I, when we got to Kansas City was like, oh my God, it's so open here. This is so incredible, like bawling her eyes out on how open Kansas City was. But my wife and I, when we

0:57.9

got to Kansas City, relative to Oklahoma, thank you, Paul. Relative to Oklahoma was so much

1:05.4

more tyrannical. So it's just like crazy how different it was depending on where you were. Because

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Oklahoma was basically like it, people were cautious for the first two weeks or whatever and then after that people weren't

1:16.0

concerned all and like you could go to pretty much any place and yes they would have like wear a mask

1:20.7

upon entry but you would just say no thank you and they'd be like okay whatever like they didn't

1:24.0

really care we had to wear a mask you oh, can we have a table for four?

1:27.9

And then you get to the table and you just take it out. I'm just like, this is so... It's a very brilliant virus that knows when to not, but mess with people. I know. And the plexiglass. I was working as a speech therapist, and they wanted me to wear a mask. And I'm like, you understand that I have to cue children with my mouth. Like I need, and, and then they had these, like, clear things that kind of, like, rested on your chin and it went up straight like this. And, like, like, yeah. And I'm like, you know that the air is just, it's coming right. I'm like, I'm not doing this. I refuse to do it. And yeah, and then we started doing speech therapy from home. And then that's when I got to build up my business and I was able to retire from speech six months later. I'll probably interview individually at some point. But like if you could touch on just from a perspective of a

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speech language therapist, like what that does to kids masking them up. Because I've always wanted

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to ask someone in your sort of domain, like what are the implications for kids who are like learning

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language, not only just by the mouth, but facial expressions and things like this.

2:32.3

Yeah, I mean, I have to say I haven't been a speech therapist for the last five years.

2:36.2

So once COVID hit, I was kind of like out of it.

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