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The Michele Tafoya Podcast

Kaizen Asiedu

The Michele Tafoya Podcast

Salem Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary, Society & Culture

2.4590 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

He’s a Harvard grad who’s not afraid to criticize Harvard. He’s a recovering perfectionist. He’s an Emmy Award-winner. He’s a gamer. He’s really, really interesting to talk with. Find out for yourself.

Michele Tafoya is a four-time Emmy award-winning sportscaster turned political and cultural commentator. Record-setting, four-time Sports Emmy Award winner Michele Tafoya worked her final NBC Sunday Night Football game at Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022, her fifth Super Bowl. She retired from sportscasting the following day. In total, she covered 327 games — the most national primetime TV games (regular + postseason) for an NFL sideline reporter.

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0:00.0

Yeah, well, everyone has historical trauma, and none of it is invalid.

0:04.4

And I think oftentimes when people talk about trauma, the deeper thing underneath what they're saying is they want to feel acknowledged in their pain, whether it's in their lifetime, right?

0:15.4

So some people are talking about trauma in their lifetime, or they're talking about in their ancestry.

0:19.2

And the problem is when the acknowledgement becomes about comparison and competition and reparations,

0:26.6

and I deserve something from you because of something that my ancestors did,

0:31.2

you get into this like trauma Olympics where it becomes about, well, who's had the most pain?

0:35.7

Who's had the most trauma?

0:36.6

And it actually becomes this way of creating a status hierarchy based on how much trauma and pain you've experienced or other people in the past have experienced. And the problem with status hierarchies like that is because they're not based on competence, they don't actually get anyone anywhere. It's like, great, okay, you've proven

0:54.6

you're the most traumatized. Is that actually fixing your trauma? Is that advancing everyone? So, yeah,

0:59.6

I think trauma is real, right? And I think you should acknowledge it for yourself so that you can have

1:05.6

compassion for yourself and you can heal it, not to demand social reparations

1:11.1

or demand some sort of additional status

1:14.8

from everyone else and from society.

1:16.9

Because like, yeah, if you go back far enough,

1:19.1

everyone has had trauma because the history of humanity

1:21.7

is violent.

1:22.9

It is violent.

1:23.9

It's a, there's people taking advantage of each other.

1:27.0

It's survival. Like, everyone has

1:29.2

it. You're going to hear from Kaizen Asiadu. He is a fascinating guy. You may know of him. You may not.

1:42.2

I would suggest you'll want to know him. We try to bring you some

1:46.9

really unique and interviews of people you may not have otherwise heard of. And I think they're so

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