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The Man Enough Podcast

Shaka Senghor: A Complex Hero

The Man Enough Podcast

Wayfarer Studios LLC

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

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Best-selling author, recognized speaker and criminal justice activist, Shaka Senghor, brings his full presence to a deeply moving conversation about gun violence, fatherhood, breaking cycles, and healing. Formerly incarcerated, Shaka shares with us how journaling in solitary confinement allowed him to process his pain and gain access to his emotions and his humanity. With gentle power and a strong sense of purpose, Shaka reminds us that we can disrupt who the world tells us we should be and create our own narrative to become who we really are. New episodes every Monday 🎙️ The video version of every episode and bonus features will always be available at https://ManEnough.com/podcast The Man Enough Podcast is produced by Wayfarer Studios and presented by Procter and Gamble, in partnership with Cadence13, an Audacy company. JOIN THE MAN ENOUGH COMMUNITY: https://instagram.com/wearemanenough https://tiktok.com/wearemanenough https://twitter.com/WeAreManEnough https://facebook.com/wearemanenough Subscribe to the Man Enough newsletter for behind the scenes, updates, sneak peeks of new episodes, and positive masculinity content: https://manenough.com/newsletter Read the Man Enough book: https://manenough.com/books FOLLOW THE GUESTS: Shaka Senghor https://www.instagram.com/shakasenghor https://www.facebook.com/OfficialShakaSenghor/ https://twitter.com/ShakaSenghor https://www.shakasenghor.com/ FOLLOW THE HOSTS: Justin Baldoni https://instagram.com/justinbaldoni https://www.tiktok.com/@justinbaldoni https://facebook.com/justinbaldoni https://twitter.com/justinbaldoni Text: +1 (310) 845-6909 Liz Plank https://instagram.com/feministabulous https://tiktok.com/@lizplank https://facebook.com/feministabulous https://twitter.com/feministabulous http://www.elizabethplank.com/ Jamey Heath https://instagram.com/jamey_heath_ https://tiktok.com/@jameyheath https://twitter.com/jamey_heath_ https://facebook.com/jameyjaz http://www.jameyheath.com/ SPECIAL ADVERTISER OFFERS FOR YOU Athletic Greens This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens. One tasty scoop of Athletic Greens contains 75 vitamins, minerals and whole food-sourced ingredients to fill the nutritional gaps in your diet, support energy and focus, aid gut health and digestion, and support a healthy immune system. Get a FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase today when you visit athleticgreens.com/MANENOUGH Betterhelp This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. BetterHelp is the world’s largest therapy platform, offering access to licensed, trained, experienced, and accredited psychologists, marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, and board licensed professional counselors. An extensive study by the Berkeley Well-Being Institute found BetterHelp to be as effective as face-to-face therapy. Join over 1 million people who have taken charge of their mental health. As a listener, you’ll get 10% off your first month by visiting http://BetterHelp.com/manenough Truebill This episode is brought to you by Truebill. Truebill is the new app that helps you identify and stop paying for subscriptions you don’t need, want, or simply forgot about. Don’t fall for subscription scams, start cancelling today. Go to truebill.com/MANENOUGH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and I'm

0:05.0

welcome to Maninoff. I'm Justin Baldoni. I'm Liz Plank.

0:11.0

I'm Jamie Heath.

0:12.0

And listen, I'm not even going to pretend like we haven't recorded this episode because we have we did took a lot again so many notes. I love how you take notes. You do.

0:22.7

For myself, it's just so because even and then I reflect on it and I write it down because we have

0:28.2

such incredible guests who have such incredible wisdom.

0:31.2

We recorded this episode and it is, it is powerful and we have all been deeply affected by this incredible

0:40.0

man that we have today.

0:41.0

Shaka and Gore.

0:43.2

And it was in prison for murder, solitary confinement for years, father to two, best-selling author, activist, speaker, mentor, incredible human being and

0:59.6

we've all been just deeply affected by it and I just can't wait for people to hear this

1:04.9

episode. Can I add something to that too? I want to be clear because we've had a

1:09.3

few different guests on that have had experience in prison. In no way are we condoning behavior

1:15.8

that leads to being in prison. Oh thank you.

1:19.5

Right. This is not the point of that. The point is that there are human beings that suffer

1:25.1

and experience prison as a result of oftentimes their own doing, but it's not

1:31.2

their doing alone that we as a humanity and community are all part and connected to each other.

1:36.0

So what got them there in the first place to make such choices?

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And that's what we're trying to explore and understand and talk about.

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We just want to talk about it with real people and see there's humanity irrespective of those choices.

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Amen. With that, here we go. We'll be right back. This is man enough.

1:57.0

Hello. Hello and welcome back to Man Enough. So every once in a while we have somebody come in the studio that changes the vibration, the energy, and just grounds

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