Episode 72: Keeping Our Humanity In Tact By Holding Empathy In One Hand And Accountability In The Other

The Carlos Whittaker Podcast

That Sounds Fun Network

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

5 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Something I posted on Instagram this week is kind of blowing up… and I think it’s because it gave language to some things that we’re all feeling. How do we stay human when the world feels like it’s falling apart? I’m back with more thoughts on current events! This episode kind of piggybacks off of last week’s when we talked about the ICE raids in LA. This week I want to dig deeper into the specifics of what’s happening—from a human level. I didn’t post a political argument. I posted a human one. And that’s what I want to talk about today. Behind every protest sign, policy, and headline is a human. If we’re going to keep our humanity in tact, we have to hold empathy in one hand and accountability in the other. . . . . . Order your copy of my new book Reconnected HERE: ReconnectedBook.com Let’s keep in touch! Sign up for my newsletter to be the first to hear ALL my updates. https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audience/signup/1987227/1965424/ Interested in advertising with us? Reach out here. Book me to speak HERE: https://www.carloswhittaker.com/events . . . . . DOSE: Go to dosedaily.co/CARLOS and get 30% off your first month’s subscription! SHOPIFY: Go to shopify.com/CARLOS to take your business to the next level today. AQUATRU: Get 20% off any AquaTru purifier! Visit aquatru.com and use the code CARLOS at checkout. FUNCTION: Join now! The first 1000 get a $100 credit toward their membership. Visit www.functionhealth.com/CARLOSW to own your health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	One of the things that I'm grateful for about what we did with our kids is when each of them turned 10 years old and they began to get an allowance, they had to use that allowance to buy their toilet trees, their clothes, and have extra spending money. This was my wife's idea. But we really had a hard time tracking all of that, even though it was a great idea.
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0:30.6	Acorn's Early Chores Tracker helps kids learn the value of a dollar.
0:35.6	That's right.
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0:44.8	That's right.
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1:44.0	It is Thursday, June 19th, 2025.
1:47.0	My name is Carlos Whitaker and welcome to Human School.
1:52.0	Hey friends, it is Carlitos and well, this is going to piggyback on last week because this week, something I posted on Instagram kind of blew up, right?
2:06.6	Not because it was extreme, not because it was clickbait, but because I think maybe it gave language to some things that we're all feeling, which is what we talked about last week on the show,
2:22.6	right? Like, how did I actually navigate that episode title? Like, how to stay human when the
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