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How to Human: Resetting and Remaining Positive in Today’s World – A Conversation with Carlos Whittaker

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@mosheh / tentwentytwo

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4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Carlos Whittaker is a motivational speaker and author who spreads positivity daily and he brings it to the Mo News podcast in this edition. Whittaker’s Instagram account @loswhit is a true pleasure to follow as he helps change the lives of total strangers by enlisting his “instafamilia” to raise money for good causes and good people.  He is out with a powerful new book, How to Human, with tips on how we can find ourselves and listen to one another in these divisive times. Mosh and Carlos talk about how to remain optimistic amid the onslaught of news and how we can all unplug from social media and technology to help reset our outlooks.  —- Mosheh Oinounou (@mosheh) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded Mo News on Instagram in 2020 and launched the Mo News daily podcast and newsletter in 2022. Follow Mo News on all platforms: Website: www.mo.news Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mosheh/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mosheh Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoshehNews Snapchat: https://t.snapchat.com/pO9xpLY9 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@monews TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mosheh

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Mo News podcast. We wanted to feature a few of our favorite

0:08.7

conversations from the last year during this holiday week. Today, I want to feature our conversation

0:14.6

from earlier this year with Carlos Whitaker. He's an author, inspirational speaker,

0:19.3

someone who brings positivity into the world.

0:21.9

It was one of my favorite conversations in 2023.

0:24.9

Many of you may follow Carlos over on Instagram where he and I often interact.

0:29.3

He is at Los W-H-W-H-I-T over there, where among the things that he does is raise hundreds

0:36.3

of thousands of dollars for total strangers,

0:38.5

for people doing good in the world. He truly is an amazing person. He is out with a new book called

0:43.5

How to Human. It's actually his fourth book. It has lessons on how we can connect with one another

0:48.2

again during these very divisive times. Carlos and I talk about that in this conversation,

0:54.1

how he puts himself out

0:55.1

there on social media, sometimes taking incoming, but realizing that that is sometimes what

1:00.4

you need to do to make a difference. He talks about the things that he has learned when we start

1:05.0

to listen to one another again. We also talk in this conversation about the impact of technology

1:10.1

on our lives.

1:11.4

Some of the novel things that he does to unplug and not get sucked too deep into social media,

1:17.9

how he also maintains a positive outlook in what can be a very nasty place, as some of us know.

1:23.2

I think all of you will really enjoy this conversation.

1:25.5

He's a true pleasure to speak to, just an optimist, positive approach.

1:30.4

I learned a lot in this conversation.

1:32.1

Okay, before we get started here, I want to thank all of you who have joined Mo News Premium

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