Kute Blackson: Redefining Your Own Path to Freedom
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2017
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Born in Ghana, West Africa,Kute Blackson was the child of a Japanese mother and a Ghanaian father who was a legendary faith leader with some 300 churches across Ghana and a massive following in the U.K.
By his early teens, Kute was being groomed to rise up in his father’s church, but that would all change when Blackson rejected the path his father laid out for him and chose his own instead.
Estranged from both his father and his community, and feeling called to blaze his own path, Kute headed to the United States where he’d struggle on nearly every level and finally come to a place where his true hero’s journey would begin.
That process of stripping away, hitting rock-bottom and eventually mounting his own search led Kute to rediscover his path to freedom, and rebuild his life and living, becoming a respected voice in spirituality and consciousness on his own terms, in his own way. His story and philosophy are detailed in his recent book, You. Are. The. One.
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| 0:00.0 | And so sometimes when you find your purpose everything's easy, I think sometimes when you |
| 0:05.3 | find your purpose life gets more challenging and you then have to clear away everything |
| 0:09.7 | that's not in alignment with that so that you can really align with your purpose. |
| 0:13.8 | And I think we put through challenges and tests to develop us so that we can really become |
| 0:18.8 | the person who is really capable of fulfilling. |
| 0:22.4 | Today's guest, Koot Blackson, was born in Ghana at a time where there was tremendous |
| 0:29.3 | political upheaval in the country and his father also at the time was fairly public and |
| 0:35.0 | high level and when all this turmoil began it became clear that they would be targeted. |
| 0:40.5 | So they left the country, his father actually had already been in London and not too long |
| 0:47.2 | after him and his mom sort of smuggled out where he then spent most of his growing up |
| 0:53.0 | years in London. |
| 0:54.8 | He was growing up in a way that is very foreign to so many of us. |
| 0:59.6 | His dad was a spiritual leader and the head of a church with 5,000 congregants and some |
| 1:04.8 | 300 other churches or so in back in Ghana and he got brought up in a tradition that he |
| 1:11.9 | was expected to step into but in his early teens he made the decision not to and what unfolded |
| 1:18.0 | from that decision, what led to it and his experiences from Ghana to London to his journey |
| 1:24.1 | after that is where we go in today's conversation. |
| 1:28.1 | I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Project. |
| 1:31.4 | It's so good to be hanging out with you today. |
| 1:36.6 | I've been a fan of your podcast. |
| 1:40.9 | Really interested in you and your story. |
| 1:43.4 | I have too many questions for one conversation so we'll see how far we get today. |
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