Reggie Hubbard - Weathering Politics, Activism’s Purpose, and Achieving Racial Equality

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Connor Beaton

Education, Relationships, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This was a powerful interview, and I’m grateful to have had the chance to listen to Reggie’s peace-oriented mindset and his perspective on a highly divisive period in American history. We dove into understanding the origins of modern activism and activist groups, Black Lives Matter, why discussions fall apart, and how we might repair them. Listen in for an honest, real conversation, and if it resonates, please share! Help us reach more people like you. Reggie Hubbard has held many senior strategic and logistical roles across a variety of fields, ranging from global marketing, digital and community organizing, government relations, international education to Presidential campaigning. He currently serves as a senior political strategist for MoveOn, managing their relationships, impact, and communications with Capitol Hill and among the broader progressive movement. Reggie is also a 500 hour certified yoga teacher and authored a thesis entitled, "Yoga and Spiritual Activism: Serving Humanity from a Sense of Devotion and Love." He has studied extensively with leading teachers such as Faith Hunter, Amy Ippolitti, Yogarupa Rod Stryker, Sri Dharma Mittra as well as many amazing teachers along the way. In July 2020, Reggie helped launch a grassroots campaign along with David Lipsius, Amy Ippoliti, Jack Kornfeld, and Tara Brach called Buddhists and Yogis United. This is an effort to share information and inspire teachers and their respective communities to encourage active civic participation in the upcoming election and beyond. Reggie has taught Members of Congress, Congressional Staff, leading progressive organizations and individuals, sharing techniques for growing peace and ease as a foundation, not an afterthought. The focus of his teaching practice is to bring more peace and balance to activists AND to guide the wellness community toward being more engaged, concerned citizens. Achieving this balance is how we catalyze transformative change. Connect with Reggie Website: www.moveon.org, www.activepeaceyoga.com Instagram: @oreggieglobal Twitter: @oreggieglobal Facebook: oreggieglobal Are you looking to find your purpose, navigate transition, or fix your relationships, all with a powerful group of men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today. Check out our Facebook Page or the Men's community. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Did you enjoy the podcast? If so please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. It helps our podcast get into the ears of new listeners, which expands the ManTalks Community See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Man Talk Show.
0:11.7	I'm Connor Beaton.
0:12.9	And joining me today is Reggie Hubbard, who is a strategist, congressional liaison, and yoga teacher.
0:19.9	Reggie has held many senior strategic and logistical roles across a variety of fields
0:24.7	ranging from global marketing, digital and community organization, government relations,
0:31.1	international education to presidential campaigning.
0:34.2	He currently serves as a senior political strategist for move on managing their
0:39.3	relationships, impact, and communications with Capitol Hill and among the broader
0:44.0	progressive movement. So he's done a number of things. We're not necessarily going to talk
0:50.3	about yoga today, but we are going to dive into understanding activism.
0:55.6	Reggie had done some really incredible things. He was the ground logistics coordinator for
1:00.0	John Kerry's 2004 campaign, and then the vice presidential candidate, Senator John Edwards,
1:07.1	visiting four to five states a day over a six-month period.
1:17.6	He was also the freelance advice, advanced consultant for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
1:22.0	And he worked on the gubernatorial, that's a word there for you, gubernatorial.
1:30.9	And national campaigns, including Florida's 2006, gubernatorial race, and on Bernie Sanders' 2016 primary campaign. So he has been in the political field for a while. And today we're going to talk
1:36.8	primarily about the modern activism movement. We're going to talk a little bit about Black Lives
1:43.9	Matters. And we're going to talk a little bit about Black Lives Matters, and we're
1:45.3	going to talk about how some of these movements are sort of running rogue. We're going to talk
1:52.8	about the importance of activism. We are going to talk about the organizations themselves. So it's
1:57.6	a very interesting conversation and one that I've been wanting to dig into for
2:01.4	a while. And Reggie has a lot of experience, you know, almost two decades worth of experience
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