James Shaw Jr.
UNSPOKEN
Miles Adcox and Ruthie Lindsey
4.8 • 789 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Unspoken, we have the honor of sharing our conversation with James Shaw Jr. — most known for making headlines and becoming a national hero after bravely disarming a gunman in Antioch, Tennessee Waffle House. Determined to turn the tragic course of events into a stepping stone, James is committed to using his voice and personal experience to make a major impact in his community.
The 29-year-old native to Nashville, now known as the “Waffle House Hero,” is currently hosting national meetings and galvanizing global thought leaders to share his community and humanitarian plan to systemically address policy change, and increase efforts to make gun control/ gun violence, mental illness and the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder a national priority. James is currently making appearances and speaking at schools, universities, corporations, conference, etc. on the above issues and recently announced his foundation, The James Shaw Jr. Foundation.
This episode is particularly special because this is James' first podcast interview since the Waffle House event.
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| 0:00.0 | Before the show starts, several of our listeners have been curious about the work I do at OnSight. |
| 0:05.1 | So I wanted to give you a quick glimpse into what I get to be a part of. OnSight's an emotional |
| 0:09.9 | health retreat center on a beautiful 250 acre ranch just outside of Nashville. We've got some of the |
| 0:15.4 | best minds in the therapeutic space that come and create a safe space, honestly for people just |
| 0:20.0 | to reconnect to who they are |
| 0:21.4 | and who they're becoming. And if you want to learn more, you can visit onsiteworkshops.com or |
| 0:26.1 | follow us on Instagram and social as at at on site workshops. The work y'all are doing there is so |
| 0:32.9 | important. And I feel so grateful that I've gotten to experience it firsthand. I really hope everyone |
| 0:40.2 | gets to experience this sort of healing because we're all so deserving of it. |
| 0:45.9 | Thanks, my friend. Welcome to the show. It definitely made me not believe in coincidences anymore. |
| 0:53.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.8 | Because you have to understand that we went to a whole other Waffle House before that. |
| 1:04.3 | He shot 32 bullets and 42 seconds. |
| 1:09.2 | And it was a coincidence that none of those hit me or one of them grazed me. |
| 1:12.7 | Just to be grazed is a blessing, is what think because if my arm was over just another inch you could have got blown off yeah coincidences is |
| 1:19.2 | is not something that i can believe in anymore um and i think that's got a lot to do with faith. I think I was supposed to be there from |
| 1:30.1 | December 28th, 1988 to April 22nd, 2018. I think that was, those two things were designated to happen. |
| 1:45.3 | Hey guys, I'm Miles. |
| 1:46.8 | And I'm Ruthie. |
| 1:47.8 | And welcome to the unspoken podcast, where we believe that saying the unsaid may be the hardest, |
| 1:53.3 | but one of the most important things we can ever do. |
| 1:55.5 | Yes. |
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