In-Q: ...to look at other people as fellow humans instead of looking up to or down at them

Nobody Told Me!

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🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It’s a great pleasure to welcome In-Q, a National Poetry Slam champion, award-winning poet, and multi-platinum songwriter who’s written for artists like Selena Gomez ("Love You Like a Love Song"), Miley Cyrus ("Forgiveness and Love"), and many others.

In-Q was named to Oprah’s SuperSoul 100 list of the world’s most influential thought leaders. His new book of poems and stories is called, Inquire Within. On this episode, he shares invaluable wisdom about forgiveness, the importance of relationships, and the meaning of life in general.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.5	I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black.
0:15.8	And it is a great pleasure to welcome our guest on this episode, InQ, who is a national poetry slam champion,
0:22.8	award-winning poet, and multi-platinum songwriter who's gotten to work with Selena Gomez,
0:28.1	Miley Cyrus, and many others. InQ was named to Oprah's Super Soul 100 list of the world's most
0:34.4	influential thought leaders. His new book of poems and stories is called Inquirer Within.
0:40.3	InQ, we thank you so much for joining us.
0:43.2	Yes, absolutely. Thank you both for having me.
0:45.5	Tell us more about your background and how you came to take the name in Q.
0:51.2	So, in Q is sure for in question, and it was a nickname that was given to me when I was
0:55.9	15 years old and it just kind of stuck. Um, originally it was inquiry because I asked so many
1:01.5	questions about my environment. So my friends kind of pegged me that. And then it just, you know,
1:07.6	I guess evolved into in question. And it's really a philosophy that I have in my life and definitely something that leads into
1:16.2	the book that I just read, which is called Enquirer with them.
1:18.9	Tell us more about your background.
1:20.9	I'm from Santa Monica, California.
1:23.1	I was born and raised there to a single mother who was a school teacher.
1:29.2	And yeah, my dad wasn't around and I didn't meet him until I was 15 for the first time.
1:35.8	And when I was around that age, I fell in love with hip hop and just started freestyling.
1:41.3	And I loved the meditation aspect of it.
1:45.1	I think it was my first form of meditation because it put me into the moment in a way that nothing else could.
1:52.3	Because when you're freestyling, you're not thinking of anything else but the next rhyme and the next word.
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