Jason Reynolds: Freedom to Breathe. Finding Self When No One is Looking
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Jason Reynolds, known for his creative storytelling has topped the charts now 17 times as a #1 New York Times best-selling author. Jason specializes in writing not-boring books that will entice even young reading-skeptics into books. Born in Washington, DC, Jason began writing poetry at an early age and only read his first book from cover to cover at age 17. Jason published his first novel in 2014 and has since then been a leading force in books for youth.
Highlights from our conversation:
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How to understand your own voice and use it to stand in your space
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How to use critical thinking on the fly
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Anxiety can be a super-power
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Your true self is who you are when no one is watching
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Identity is far more than what we do, it is a culmination of everything we have experienced
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | How important is your voice? |
| 0:05.0 | And by voice, I don't mean singing voice. |
| 0:10.0 | I mean your voice in this world. |
| 0:13.0 | Your voice, your art, how you move through the world, |
| 0:17.0 | how you carry yourself, how you stand in your eunus, if having a voice is something that you've |
| 0:25.1 | always wanted to and have either shied away from or haven't been able to own it, or if you |
| 0:30.6 | have a voice and you understand its power and you want to cultivate more, today's episode |
| 0:35.2 | is going to shoot you to the roof because we've got Jason |
| 0:39.6 | Reynolds on the show. Now, Jason, you may remember his work. He is a number one New York Times |
| 0:44.9 | bestselling author. He's a Newberry award honoree. He is a Prince Award honor. He's a two-time |
| 0:50.9 | National Book Award finalist, a Carnegie Medal winner, a two-time Walter |
| 0:56.0 | Dean Myers Award winner, multiple Coretta Scott King honors, and he's the 20 to 22 National |
| 1:04.1 | Master of Young People's Literature. |
| 1:05.5 | And you're right, okay, those awards are not just incredible, but this young people's literature, |
| 1:11.7 | tell me more, Chase. |
| 1:17.8 | Well, the more that you need to know is that Jason's upbringing had such a profound effect on me. |
| 1:25.0 | I found myself re-listening to the recording that we made for this show immediately after we recorded it. |
| 1:27.2 | I just went back and started listening and taking notes. So much of what |
| 1:28.6 | Jason does is give us counterintuitive ways to think things that are outside the way that most |
| 1:35.6 | of us move to the world, how we've been raised. And again, this aspect of developing, maintaining, |
| 1:41.9 | and growing your personal voice, whether you need this more in your |
| 1:46.0 | art or just in life as you move from day to day. This episode is, I would consider it transformational |
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