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Keep it Positive, Sweetie

Wisdom Gained from Relationships, Love and Lust w/ Josh Powell

Keep it Positive, Sweetie

The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.92.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this weeks episode, I have former NBA player now author, Josh Powell on the couch. I learned about Josh through mutual friends who shared with me how moved they were by his vulnerability and the open conversations he has been having about healing his relationship with love, lust and sex. So many of us can relate to his journey! Tune in and be sure to get his book, What I Wish I Knew: The Wisdom Gained From Relationships, Love, and Lust

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0:00.0

Hi guys and welcome to this episode of Keep It Positive, sweetie.

0:12.0

Today we are talking about what I wish I knew with Josh Powell.

0:17.0

Josh, thank you so much for coming today.

0:20.0

I've known you through mutual friends for years, but we've never spoken. It's always been kind of in passing. But recently a friend of mine and her boyfriend went to your book signing event. And she called me and she goes, because we go to church together and she goes, yeah, she's like, my boyfriend asked me to come to this book signing. And she was like, I didn't think it was going to be anything special.

0:39.3

And she said, girl, it was the most amazing, different book signing than I've ever been to in my life.

0:45.0

And she talked about how you spoke about relationships and did an open apology to women that you may have mistreated or that you felt were owed an apology in your past.

0:56.3

And she's like, it was the most beautiful thing ever.

0:59.0

And a day later, I get an email from your team to come on your podcast, Relationships Matter.

1:04.9

And when I realized it was you, I said, hey, is this the same guy?

1:08.2

She goes, yeah, I said, we need to get him on.

1:10.3

Keep you positive, sweetie.

1:29.8

So it all worked out. I'm excited to do your podcast as well. Absolutely. Cannot wait. But thank you so much for coming. No, thank you. Yes. And it's funny because it's kind of like one of those things, like, what's an athlete going to talk about in regards to relationships? Yeah. And that's the thing that I, that I love about this platform is just being able to

1:31.3

show that different side.

1:33.2

Because when you see me, you know, you see an athlete, you see a guy with just all these tattoos

1:38.7

and da-da-da-da-da, and it's like, man, what he going to be talking about?

1:41.3

Right.

1:42.1

And being in this place and space that I'm in

1:46.4

right now just service that's it like I really want to make an impact each and

1:52.7

every day and continue to grow and get better so you know I feel like you know I'm

1:58.1

trying my best to write my wrongs even though that's impossible for any of us to

2:03.0

do but I do try to make the effort so I really do appreciate you know some people don't

2:09.6

even try to make amends so the fact that you have the awareness and I know that's come with the work

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