August 20, 2024 • 17 mins
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Stone Written, the official podcast of the Sonya Haynes Stone Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hosted by Dr. LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant, also known as Dr. Rhon, this episode introduces listeners to the rich history, mission, and dynamic programs of the Stone Center.
Dr. Rhon, a professor of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, provides an in-depth look at the Center's evolution from its modest beginnings to its current status as a hub for research, scholarship, and cultural programming. Learn about the Center's three pillars: Arts and Culture, Service and Outreach, and Research and Scholarship, and discover the impactful initiatives like the Institute of African American Research and the Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program.
This episode also offers a preview of the exciting guests and topics lined up for the season, featuring prominent scholars, activists, artists, and community leaders who will share their insights on Black life and culture. From historical explorations to contemporary issues, Stone Written promises to be a biweekly educational journey celebrating the resilience and brilliance of Black communities.
Join us as we navigate the rich tapestry of Black experience, bringing the Stone Center's vibrant programming and events directly to you. Welcome to Stone Written.
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(00:01):
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Stone Written, the official podcast of the
Sonya Haynes Stone Center.
I am your host, Dr. LaRonda Manico-Briant, or as I am locally and perhaps best known, Dr. Ron.
I'm a professor of African, African-American and Diaspora Studies,
(00:23):
a musician, a filmmaker, a writer, a scholar, and a Geechee girl from Moncks
Corner, South Carolina.
A daughter, a sister, a mother of two beautiful sons,
a wife to a most extraordinary husband and partner, and perhaps most relevant,
I am the fourth director of the Sonia Haynes Stone Center for Research in Black
(00:47):
Culture and History here at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
I bring you greetings from the Stone Center where I have the luxury of having
a job that allows me to bring all of my creative capacities to bear,
to steward an amazing team, and to do that work in an extraordinary space.
(01:09):
So I'll talk more about the space of the Stone Center in just a little bit,
but I thought I would tell you first a little bit about why I decided to start a podcast.
So I've been in my role as director for just about 18 months now.
Now, this is August of 2024, and one of the things that I realized pretty quickly
since my arrival is that there are lots of people who don't actually know what
(01:31):
we do and the amazing things that go on here at the Stone Center.
I mean, there are some who know, and then there are people who think they know,
and then there are the categories of folks who really, I think,
should know, which is where you all come in.
So let me tell you about what we do and who we are.
(01:52):
But to understand who we are and why we do what we do, it's important to first know where we're from.
So the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was chartered in 1789 and
is the first public university in the United States of America.
Carolina is proudly public, and we tout our nationally recognized teaching,
(02:15):
groundbreaking research, and dedication to public service, as well as our sports.
Sports it's a bit harder they're not impossible for me to get into the sports
of the the tar heels because I am and UNC alum please don't hold this against
(02:35):
me a graduate of Duke University now talk about conflict.
In contrast to Carolina's founding, or perhaps adding to its storied legacy,
is the Sonia Haines Stone Center, which was established on July 1, 1988.
Initially known as the Black Cultural Center, which occupied a 900-square-foot
(02:55):
space, it was renamed for beloved faculty member Dr.
Sonia Haines Stone after her untimely passing in August of 1991.
Early in its history, the Stone Center swiftly outgrew its space in the Frank
Porter Graham Student Union.
So the need for a freestanding center became a top priority.
(03:18):
And in 1993, after an urging by a coalition of students and faculty and staff,
the Board of Trustees approved a site for a freestanding center.
Now, I'm glossing over this a bit, But you better believe that placing a freestanding
center that would prioritize research and scholarship and thinking about black
(03:40):
life at a historically white preeminent institution might be a little controversial, right?
The much-anticipated groundbreaking took place in April of 2001,
and the tri-level, 44,500-square-foot, freestanding Sonia Haynes Stone Center
(04:01):
opened in August of 2004.
August 20th, 2004, to be exact. Twenty years ago today, this building opened. program.
Upon its inception, the Stone Center was focused on raising awareness of and
appreciation for African-American culture within our campus community.
(04:24):
And over time, that focus has expanded to incorporate cultural and academic
programs, including the work of the Institute of African American Research, IAAR,
which was conceived of in the early 1990s and founded in 1995,
by UNC faculty who believed it was important to have a freestanding center devoted
(04:46):
to researching Black life and history.
Today, the Stone Center is an important site for the critical examination of
Black culture in the broadest sense, and we provide intellectual and cultural
programming that is timely, that is informative, and that is necessary.
I tell folks that our work is broadly grouped in three categories.
Arts and Culture is one category, Service and Outreach is another,
(05:10):
and Research and Scholarship is the third.
In addition to offering robust cultural programming in the arts,
we, for example, have a gallery exhibition that happens every single semester.
We host outreach and service programs like CommUniversity or CYP,
our K-12 program, that seek to improve student performance through education
(05:30):
and practical experience.
We center research and intellectual rigor as an invaluable aspect of what it
means to understand Black life and experience.
And the spirit of scholarly inquiry that founded the Institute of African American
Research is really woven into all that we do.
So while our work takes our location in the American Southeast seriously,
(05:55):
we recognize that Black experience in North Carolina is inextricably linked
with global Black experience throughout the diaspora.
So our mission at the Stone Center is to encourage and support the critical
examination of all dimensions of African-American and African diaspora cultures
(06:16):
through sustained and open discussion, through dialogue and debate.
We seek to enhance the intellectual and social-cultural climate at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in communities beyond the campus boundaries.
Our work and our activities support the university's objectives to really serve
(06:36):
as a center for research and scholarship and creativity and to teach a diverse
community of undergraduate, graduate and professional students to become the
next generation of leaders.
We want to extend the knowledge-based services and other resources of the university
to the citizens of North Carolina and their institutions to enhance the quality
(06:57):
of life for all of the people in our state.
We also do more than that we are
a community united in a legacy of struggle and we uphold the mission and we
do so unapologetically part of being unapologetic and our support of this mission
is recognizing our place and our purpose in this institution but also in the black global South.
(07:22):
I think of the work that we do as really getting folks to recognize that we
are not, in fact, on the margins.
Our role at this institution, just as it is in the South, has been instrumental.
So rather than thinking of us as somehow over there or in the margins because
(07:43):
of our focus on our mission and our support of our mission,
we actually think of our work and and see our work and conceive of our work as being in the center.
We're simply waiting for folks to catch up to that truth.
The Stone Center is housed in a stunning freestanding building nestled in a
(08:04):
centrally located part of campus adjacent to Kenan Stadium where Tar Heel football
takes place, right in Coker Woods adjacent to Bell Tower,
one of the university's signature landmarks.
Our building stands as one of the most significant accomplishments of our university
community. It houses the staff of the Stone Center, myself included.
(08:26):
It also has seminar rooms and classrooms, a 10,000-volume lending library,
an art gallery and museum, as I mentioned earlier.
We have a 360-seat auditorium, a multi-purpose room, a dance studio,
several office suites, single offices and space for visiting scholars and artists, and for meetings.
(08:47):
So in 1993, when the university's board of trustees approved the site for the
center, again, it was controversial.
It also assured the campus community that the Stone Center would be integrated
into the life and culture of the university and serve as a resource for the
entire campus, which is exactly what we do.
Designed by the award-winning architectural firm, the Freelon Group.
(09:12):
It was Phil Freelon's first cultural center built by Clancy and Faye's construction firm.
And more than 95% of the center's cost of over $9 million was met through private gifts.
I like to tell people that we are a center that was founded on the double-sided
coin of activism and philanthropy.
(09:33):
And with that legacy in mind, today at the Stone Center, we serve thousands
and thousands of people a year in various ways.
15,000 students take classes alone during any academic year.
Separate from that, over 14,000 people visit our library annually.
And separate from that, we host over 300 events, which generally,
(09:59):
based on our modest estimation, with 30,000 additional visitors.
And this is on top of partnering and collaborating with so many departments
and units and centers on campus.
What a way to have come from a 900 square foot space that was once the Black Cultural Center or BCC.
(10:20):
So it's important to me that you all, that we all know this history.
This podcast, Stone Written, is one way that I get to share our story with you.
I also want to do a little of the heavy lifting, though, so I get to do the
work of bringing the Stone Center to you, the listener, because it's easier
for me to get to you in some ways than it is for you to get back to the Stone Center. So here we are.
(10:45):
Through StoneWritten, I intend to let you know what we're up to,
our programming, our events, our research, the students who occupy our spaces,
the scholarship that comes out of this space.
I want you to learn and experience just like we are.
The wonderful lectures we have, such as the Stone Memorial Lecture and the Jenna
(11:06):
Rae McNeil African American History Month Lecture, the Diaspora Festival of
Black and Independent Film.
I want you to learn about our programs like MURAP, the Moore Undergraduate Research
Apprentice Program, and, and, and, and.
I want you to know these things and so much more. I want you to learn just like I'm learning.
(11:29):
I'm really excited to announce that I'll be releasing this podcast bi-weekly
and you'll hear from me, but I'll be regularly talking with other folks,
those who are connected to UNC,
some who are not, regular folks who just like me will be sharing their experiences
about what it means to be Black,
what it means to navigate a PWI and why it's important to preserve and celebrate
(11:54):
our histories and how we've been informed and shaped by those histories.
On occasion, we'll have guest hosts from current students here at UNC Chapel Hill.
And just to give you a little taste of what's on the horizon for this season,
and I promise this is not a humble brag, right?
I want to give you just a little sample of some of our guests this season. So Bobby Stone L.
(12:19):
And Precious Stone, the children of Dr.
Sonia Hainstone, will join me and we'll talk about legacy and the spaces we
hold between nostalgia and futurity.
We have my faculty folks, Kareetha Mitchell from Boston University, who is a historian.
We have some real talk conversation, y'all, about words like affinity and identity.
(12:41):
Tanisha Ford will join me. She's a professor and historian and academic and
expert in Black historical fashion and culture.
My UNC colleagues and sister center directors, Patricia Parker and Blair Kelly,
will have a conversation you will not want to miss on Black women's leadership.
My brother Josh Myers from Howard University, who has written many things,
(13:06):
including a phenomenal work on Africana studies called A Black Study.
We'll hear from Dr. Jenna Rae McNeil, Professor Emerita of History here from
UNC, and for whom our university's Black History Month lecture is named.
Then we'll also have a slate of community folks and activists, right?
Nicole Hutchison, who is the CEO of Mosswood Events, a New Orleans-based event
(13:30):
planning and destination management firm, recently coming off of hosting the
VIP suite for the 2024 Essence Music Festival.
The Love Ethic is an episode that you won't want to miss.
Part one will be with Rachel Elizabeth Harding, a scholar of Afro-Caribbean
religious traditions and the daughter of the late esteemed civil rights activist
(13:52):
and architect Vincent Harding.
To Love Ethic Part 2, Rachel has called upon her friends and comrades,
the amazing visual artist Daniel Minter and the civil rights icon Miss Ruby Sales.
We'll hear from Savannah Maria Brown, the National Director of Black Women's Blueprint,
(14:13):
Taneja Lea, who is a model, an athlete, a former student of mine who has simply
come into her own around topics of mental health and body awareness.
And of course, there will be the UNC Chapel Hill alumni contingent, do not worry.
The Honorable Judge Patricia Timmons Goodson, who will be our Stone Memorial
(14:34):
lecturer in November of this year, will join us.
Laura Anderson Wright and Dr. Cassandra Caldwell will join us.
Jahan Naila Avery, who is a freelance journalist, writes for the New York Times,
among other places, and has this amazing work that has recently come out,
Those Who Saw the Sun, African-American oral histories from the Jim Crow South.
(14:55):
And of course, we'll have the artists, the writers, and the creatives.
Angelica Wallace-Whitfield, who is an amazing Bahamian creative and muralist.
Mari, who is a Chicago-made musician and self-proclaimed forward-thinking soul.
Arturo Lindsay will join us. Lauren Z.
Collins, the esteemed American journalist and staff writer at The New Yorker,
(15:19):
who is also my death buddy, which we'll talk about at length when the time comes.
And last but certainly not least, I just got them to agree today,
Shango Dara Wallace and Alexis Pauline Gumbs will also join us at some point this season.
I want you to think of Stonewritten as a biweekly educational foray into the
(15:43):
rich tapestry of Black experience with navigating life at a PWI taking center stage, right?
So whether through dynamic interviews or candid takes, you can and should expect
insightful conversations,
captivating stories, and an audio journey that truly honors the The Resilience
(16:05):
and Brilliance of Black Communities.
As you can hear, I hope you know that you are in for a treat.
Thank you for joining me on this inaugural episode of Stone Written.
Follow us on all the socials on IG and X, formerly known as Twitter.
You can follow us at Stone Written
Pod and you can find Stone Written anywhere you find your podcasts.
(16:30):
Educate. Inform. Lead. Culture. History. Legacy.
Through this podcast, we, the beneficiaries of great traditions of struggle,
look to a future where who we have been informs who we are, but doesn't determine who we become.
(16:50):
Welcome to Stone Written. I am your host, Dr. Ron.
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Stone Written, the official podcast of the
Sonya Haynes Stone Center.
I am your host, Dr. LaRonda Manico-Briant, or as I am locally and perhaps best known, Dr. Ron.
I'm a professor of African, African-American and Diaspora Studies,
(00:23):
a musician, a filmmaker, a writer, a scholar, and a Geechee girl from Moncks
Corner, South Carolina.
A daughter, a sister, a mother of two beautiful sons,
a wife to a most extraordinary husband and partner, and perhaps most relevant,
I am the fourth director of the Sonia Haynes Stone Center for Research in Black
(00:47):
Culture and History here at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
I bring you greetings from the Stone Center where I have the luxury of having
a job that allows me to bring all of my creative capacities to bear,
to steward an amazing team, and to do that work in an extraordinary space.
(01:09):
So I'll talk more about the space of the Stone Center in just a little bit,
but I thought I would tell you first a little bit about why I decided to start a podcast.
So I've been in my role as director for just about 18 months now.
Now, this is August of 2024, and one of the things that I realized pretty quickly
since my arrival is that there are lots of people who don't actually know what
(01:31):
we do and the amazing things that go on here at the Stone Center.
I mean, there are some who know, and then there are people who think they know,
and then there are the categories of folks who really, I think,
should know, which is where you all come in.
So let me tell you about what we do and who we are.
(01:52):
But to understand who we are and why we do what we do, it's important to first know where we're from.
So the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was chartered in 1789 and
is the first public university in the United States of America.
Carolina is proudly public, and we tout our nationally recognized teaching,
(02:15):
groundbreaking research, and dedication to public service, as well as our sports.
Sports it's a bit harder they're not impossible for me to get into the sports
of the the tar heels because I am and UNC alum please don't hold this against
(02:35):
me a graduate of Duke University now talk about conflict.
In contrast to Carolina's founding, or perhaps adding to its storied legacy,
is the Sonia Haines Stone Center, which was established on July 1, 1988.
Initially known as the Black Cultural Center, which occupied a 900-square-foot
(02:55):
space, it was renamed for beloved faculty member Dr.
Sonia Haines Stone after her untimely passing in August of 1991.
Early in its history, the Stone Center swiftly outgrew its space in the Frank
Porter Graham Student Union.
So the need for a freestanding center became a top priority.
(03:18):
And in 1993, after an urging by a coalition of students and faculty and staff,
the Board of Trustees approved a site for a freestanding center.
Now, I'm glossing over this a bit, But you better believe that placing a freestanding
center that would prioritize research and scholarship and thinking about black
(03:40):
life at a historically white preeminent institution might be a little controversial, right?
The much-anticipated groundbreaking took place in April of 2001,
and the tri-level, 44,500-square-foot, freestanding Sonia Haynes Stone Center
(04:01):
opened in August of 2004.
August 20th, 2004, to be exact. Twenty years ago today, this building opened. program.
Upon its inception, the Stone Center was focused on raising awareness of and
appreciation for African-American culture within our campus community.
(04:24):
And over time, that focus has expanded to incorporate cultural and academic
programs, including the work of the Institute of African American Research, IAAR,
which was conceived of in the early 1990s and founded in 1995,
by UNC faculty who believed it was important to have a freestanding center devoted
(04:46):
to researching Black life and history.
Today, the Stone Center is an important site for the critical examination of
Black culture in the broadest sense, and we provide intellectual and cultural
programming that is timely, that is informative, and that is necessary.
I tell folks that our work is broadly grouped in three categories.
Arts and Culture is one category, Service and Outreach is another,
(05:10):
and Research and Scholarship is the third.
In addition to offering robust cultural programming in the arts,
we, for example, have a gallery exhibition that happens every single semester.
We host outreach and service programs like CommUniversity or CYP,
our K-12 program, that seek to improve student performance through education
(05:30):
and practical experience.
We center research and intellectual rigor as an invaluable aspect of what it
means to understand Black life and experience.
And the spirit of scholarly inquiry that founded the Institute of African American
Research is really woven into all that we do.
So while our work takes our location in the American Southeast seriously,
(05:55):
we recognize that Black experience in North Carolina is inextricably linked
with global Black experience throughout the diaspora.
So our mission at the Stone Center is to encourage and support the critical
examination of all dimensions of African-American and African diaspora cultures
(06:16):
through sustained and open discussion, through dialogue and debate.
We seek to enhance the intellectual and social-cultural climate at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in communities beyond the campus boundaries.
Our work and our activities support the university's objectives to really serve
(06:36):
as a center for research and scholarship and creativity and to teach a diverse
community of undergraduate, graduate and professional students to become the
next generation of leaders.
We want to extend the knowledge-based services and other resources of the university
to the citizens of North Carolina and their institutions to enhance the quality
(06:57):
of life for all of the people in our state.
We also do more than that we are
a community united in a legacy of struggle and we uphold the mission and we
do so unapologetically part of being unapologetic and our support of this mission
is recognizing our place and our purpose in this institution but also in the black global South.
(07:22):
I think of the work that we do as really getting folks to recognize that we
are not, in fact, on the margins.
Our role at this institution, just as it is in the South, has been instrumental.
So rather than thinking of us as somehow over there or in the margins because
(07:43):
of our focus on our mission and our support of our mission,
we actually think of our work and and see our work and conceive of our work as being in the center.
We're simply waiting for folks to catch up to that truth.
The Stone Center is housed in a stunning freestanding building nestled in a
(08:04):
centrally located part of campus adjacent to Kenan Stadium where Tar Heel football
takes place, right in Coker Woods adjacent to Bell Tower,
one of the university's signature landmarks.
Our building stands as one of the most significant accomplishments of our university
community. It houses the staff of the Stone Center, myself included.
(08:26):
It also has seminar rooms and classrooms, a 10,000-volume lending library,
an art gallery and museum, as I mentioned earlier.
We have a 360-seat auditorium, a multi-purpose room, a dance studio,
several office suites, single offices and space for visiting scholars and artists, and for meetings.
(08:47):
So in 1993, when the university's board of trustees approved the site for the
center, again, it was controversial.
It also assured the campus community that the Stone Center would be integrated
into the life and culture of the university and serve as a resource for the
entire campus, which is exactly what we do.
Designed by the award-winning architectural firm, the Freelon Group.
(09:12):
It was Phil Freelon's first cultural center built by Clancy and Faye's construction firm.
And more than 95% of the center's cost of over $9 million was met through private gifts.
I like to tell people that we are a center that was founded on the double-sided
coin of activism and philanthropy.
(09:33):
And with that legacy in mind, today at the Stone Center, we serve thousands
and thousands of people a year in various ways.
15,000 students take classes alone during any academic year.
Separate from that, over 14,000 people visit our library annually.
And separate from that, we host over 300 events, which generally,
(09:59):
based on our modest estimation, with 30,000 additional visitors.
And this is on top of partnering and collaborating with so many departments
and units and centers on campus.
What a way to have come from a 900 square foot space that was once the Black Cultural Center or BCC.
(10:20):
So it's important to me that you all, that we all know this history.
This podcast, Stone Written, is one way that I get to share our story with you.
I also want to do a little of the heavy lifting, though, so I get to do the
work of bringing the Stone Center to you, the listener, because it's easier
for me to get to you in some ways than it is for you to get back to the Stone Center. So here we are.
(10:45):
Through StoneWritten, I intend to let you know what we're up to,
our programming, our events, our research, the students who occupy our spaces,
the scholarship that comes out of this space.
I want you to learn and experience just like we are.
The wonderful lectures we have, such as the Stone Memorial Lecture and the Jenna
(11:06):
Rae McNeil African American History Month Lecture, the Diaspora Festival of
Black and Independent Film.
I want you to learn about our programs like MURAP, the Moore Undergraduate Research
Apprentice Program, and, and, and, and.
I want you to know these things and so much more. I want you to learn just like I'm learning.
(11:29):
I'm really excited to announce that I'll be releasing this podcast bi-weekly
and you'll hear from me, but I'll be regularly talking with other folks,
those who are connected to UNC,
some who are not, regular folks who just like me will be sharing their experiences
about what it means to be Black,
what it means to navigate a PWI and why it's important to preserve and celebrate
(11:54):
our histories and how we've been informed and shaped by those histories.
On occasion, we'll have guest hosts from current students here at UNC Chapel Hill.
And just to give you a little taste of what's on the horizon for this season,
and I promise this is not a humble brag, right?
I want to give you just a little sample of some of our guests this season. So Bobby Stone L.
(12:19):
And Precious Stone, the children of Dr.
Sonia Hainstone, will join me and we'll talk about legacy and the spaces we
hold between nostalgia and futurity.
We have my faculty folks, Kareetha Mitchell from Boston University, who is a historian.
We have some real talk conversation, y'all, about words like affinity and identity.
(12:41):
Tanisha Ford will join me. She's a professor and historian and academic and
expert in Black historical fashion and culture.
My UNC colleagues and sister center directors, Patricia Parker and Blair Kelly,
will have a conversation you will not want to miss on Black women's leadership.
My brother Josh Myers from Howard University, who has written many things,
(13:06):
including a phenomenal work on Africana studies called A Black Study.
We'll hear from Dr. Jenna Rae McNeil, Professor Emerita of History here from
UNC, and for whom our university's Black History Month lecture is named.
Then we'll also have a slate of community folks and activists, right?
Nicole Hutchison, who is the CEO of Mosswood Events, a New Orleans-based event
(13:30):
planning and destination management firm, recently coming off of hosting the
VIP suite for the 2024 Essence Music Festival.
The Love Ethic is an episode that you won't want to miss.
Part one will be with Rachel Elizabeth Harding, a scholar of Afro-Caribbean
religious traditions and the daughter of the late esteemed civil rights activist
(13:52):
and architect Vincent Harding.
To Love Ethic Part 2, Rachel has called upon her friends and comrades,
the amazing visual artist Daniel Minter and the civil rights icon Miss Ruby Sales.
We'll hear from Savannah Maria Brown, the National Director of Black Women's Blueprint,
(14:13):
Taneja Lea, who is a model, an athlete, a former student of mine who has simply
come into her own around topics of mental health and body awareness.
And of course, there will be the UNC Chapel Hill alumni contingent, do not worry.
The Honorable Judge Patricia Timmons Goodson, who will be our Stone Memorial
(14:34):
lecturer in November of this year, will join us.
Laura Anderson Wright and Dr. Cassandra Caldwell will join us.
Jahan Naila Avery, who is a freelance journalist, writes for the New York Times,
among other places, and has this amazing work that has recently come out,
Those Who Saw the Sun, African-American oral histories from the Jim Crow South.
(14:55):
And of course, we'll have the artists, the writers, and the creatives.
Angelica Wallace-Whitfield, who is an amazing Bahamian creative and muralist.
Mari, who is a Chicago-made musician and self-proclaimed forward-thinking soul.
Arturo Lindsay will join us. Lauren Z.
Collins, the esteemed American journalist and staff writer at The New Yorker,
(15:19):
who is also my death buddy, which we'll talk about at length when the time comes.
And last but certainly not least, I just got them to agree today,
Shango Dara Wallace and Alexis Pauline Gumbs will also join us at some point this season.
I want you to think of Stonewritten as a biweekly educational foray into the
(15:43):
rich tapestry of Black experience with navigating life at a PWI taking center stage, right?
So whether through dynamic interviews or candid takes, you can and should expect
insightful conversations,
captivating stories, and an audio journey that truly honors the The Resilience
(16:05):
and Brilliance of Black Communities.
As you can hear, I hope you know that you are in for a treat.
Thank you for joining me on this inaugural episode of Stone Written.
Follow us on all the socials on IG and X, formerly known as Twitter.
You can follow us at Stone Written
Pod and you can find Stone Written anywhere you find your podcasts.
(16:30):
Educate. Inform. Lead. Culture. History. Legacy.
Through this podcast, we, the beneficiaries of great traditions of struggle,
look to a future where who we have been informs who we are, but doesn't determine who we become.
(16:50):
Welcome to Stone Written. I am your host, Dr. Ron.
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
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