Trauma: The Adversary of Love: A conversation with Frederick Joseph
The Steve Harvey Morning Show
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4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In the first episode of “In the Deep: Stories that Shape Us,” host Zach Stafford sits with author and activist Frederick Joseph to talk about the power of stories, both told and untold. As a young man growing up between the northeast and the South, Frederick isn’t a stranger to heartbreak, sharing how stigmas and traumas couldn’t define his life’s trajectory. And, despite these moments of deep sadness, he lives a life where he’s actively choosing love - which he calls the adversary to trauma. Frederick walks us through his journey, filled with the stories that defined his life - and others that he didn’t allow to shape the outcome of his personal and professional road to happiness and health.
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes life can be complicated and messy and in our society made up of so many rules and expectations |
| 0:10.3 | being yourself can be seen as an act of rebellion or bravery. |
| 0:13.4 | Hi, I'm Zach Stafford and this is in the deep stories that shape us. |
| 0:19.2 | Join me as our guests black and Latinx men unravel the complexities and struggles they face in a place |
| 0:25.3 | that doesn't always see them, all of them for who they really are. |
| 0:29.2 | I sit down with the people, the athletes, community, and thought leaders that have struggled with the traditional ideals of masculinity, religion, and family the society often imposes upon them. |
| 0:40.0 | Each episode we explore the fears that make up the black and Latin X male |
| 0:43.3 | psyche understanding the effects of stigma and masculinity on self-identity. |
| 0:47.6 | We'll talk about how these common themes of discrimination, culture, and economics |
| 0:52.3 | factor into the struggle and yet how these hardships |
| 0:55.0 | aren't enough to stop these men on the road to health and healing. I want to start off our very first episode by talking about something I'm incredibly passionate about. |
| 1:09.0 | Stories we are told by family members, stories we tell ourselves to make sense of the world around us, |
| 1:15.2 | and even the stories we tell ourselves to stay alive. |
| 1:18.2 | I'm so passionate about storytelling, |
| 1:20.3 | not just because of my background as a journalist, but because I always say that the one thing we all do besides eat and drink each day is tell each other stories. It's how we all communicate. |
| 1:30.0 | But what we rarely talk about is how these stories shape our entire lives, maybe more than anything else, especially when it comes to understanding the good and the bad that happens to each of us. |
| 1:43.0 | Today's guest, Frederick Joseph, is special because he teaches us how to take our own stories |
| 1:48.2 | and swap trauma for love in a really beautiful and expansive way. He's a New York Times best-selling author, |
| 1:54.6 | activist, and philanthropist who isn't a stranger to heartbreak. |
| 1:58.0 | And I think his own stories of love and loss |
| 2:00.5 | are something we can all relate to, |
| 2:02.0 | especially when some of his own stories |
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