Unserious University

Another beautiful day for some serious-unserious, as I invite you all along through my solo ramble about one of the largest topics in mental health and the way I manage it and the role it's played in my life up until now. I have no idea how this episode will be received but as always the dream is that someone gets something beneficial from it. Life always has it's ways of showing it's difficulties and the toughest de...

IT FEELS GOOD TO BE BACK! 

Hello beautiful faces, happy Wednesday, I missed you all so much. As many of you know I was out of the country this past week for a wedding in Mexico, and funny enough that exact trip made for a great episode!

 I had Dyl sit down with me and do a good ol story time of the trip and what stood out to us. I haven't really done an episode in this style yet so I would love to know if it works for you guys a...

Today's guest is what you get when you wrap a lawyer, political commentator, and musical artist all into one! Everyone meet Jordan aka J-Hotz aka Patriot J aka your midwest uncle's favorite black guy on twitter. Hotz has been a friend of mine for years and someone I enjoy sitting down with to discuss similarities over differences. We share a lot of the same outlooks on life and values and he gives his unique perspective t...

Donavan Ransom in the flesh ladies and gentlemen! 
Dom is an incredibly talented rap artist straight out of my hometown and has been a great friend of mine that I have wanted to have on since I started this podcast - and we finally did it. He is one of the best creatives I know personally and somehow only gets better with time. I have been dying to have him talk about his journey and where he is headed and why so many people su...

Happy Tuesday my beautiful people, today's topic on my mindless monologue is the conversation around how we speak to others and our selves. I believe the way we word things matters and it seems to be a dying art. Nowadays people tend to speak unfiltered and take pride in it and I think there is a lot to be gained by being tactful and purposeful with the way we speak and the words we use, and now more than ever you can be one o...

Hello everyone thank you for being so patient and waiting a full day for me this week! Happy Wednesday, hope you're doing well, this episode I run solo as I still figure out this whole video thing! I wanted to speak specifically on how lately I have been feeling like adult-life and all it brings (as well as social media nowadays) is what actively contributes to the rigidity of ones brain and opinions, perhaps even more so than...

Hello everyone, if you haven't noticed WE HAVE VIDEO! 
(Right now it's only on Youtube!)

I am so excited to present to you the first ever episode of Unserious University you can actually watch, featuring none other than, Joel Bond himself. We shoot the shit for an easy couple of hours as we dive into a multitude of topics. This episode is my first time using this setup, this software, this upload process, so pleas...

Welcome home friends, Maya sits down with me again and we think out loud together about romanticizing the little things in life, how you would raise a kid if you were rich, and why she loves using photography to capture her beautiful moments rather than self-imposing perfection. We laugh a lot, and talk about the catharsis of crying, and I had an absolute ball.
In the beginning we were going over some "would you rather&ap...

Hi friends, today I treat the beginning of this episode almost like a little journal as I get slightly vulnerable and authentic about some of my personal mental roadblocks in areas I feel like I am falling short, then use that to springboard into the conversation of what matters in life, how your identity is tied to it all, and why I feel like today's day and age has absolutely destroyed my metric for what progress and success...

Hi friends todays topic of choice is regret! I dive into why I feel like I live a life that lacks any hard regrets and why I feel like that is feasible for anyone. I get a little into a traumatic childhood experience I had and how my stance on regrets relates to it, and how it relates to other more preventable situations. I dare to question whether or not regret itself is necessary and if it's healthy to live without it entire...

We're switchin' things up today as I was blessed by the presence of a good buddy of mine, Jesse Ortega, as he gives us a wild look into what his everyday life is like as a recon marine, firefighter, and super-dad. We discuss the Palisades fire, skydiving, internet trolls, and more. Jesse is one of the nicest guys I know with a full plate and a half, and he does it all with a smile on his face! He is someone who I know can...

Hello everyone welcome back, in this episode I speak on something I have been wanting to talk about for a little bit now: masculinity.

I think we are in a bit of a weird space culturally and feel like I have a decent understanding as to why, and I try to do my best to paint the overarching themes that I feel have been at play for the last decade or two.

Should men feel proud about being manly? At what point is m...

Welcome to our first ever little Q&A episode! I have Dyl sit down with me and we take some questions from y'all peeps on a wiiiiiide variety of topics and honestly it was a blast! This definitely wasn't the normal format for episodes but I definitely will be periodically doing these in the future because of how much fun I had with them. Would love to know what you guys think and hopefully the people who submitted ques...

Hello peeps, we are back and I would like you to meet one of my closest friends Maya, as we hop into the topic of icks. What are they, why we get them, which ones we think are justified, and all minute details in between. For all the guys out there, if you want a woman's perspective on what immediately takes you out of the running, here you go LOL. However, outside of that we dive deeper, discussing where these things originat...

Do YOU have the balls to tell your friends you love them? I go solo and lay out the case that I think you should consistently remind people that they are special and why it is so important. The best relationships in my life are directly correlated with how vulnerable I am willing to get with them, and as long as you're with people who are loving, opening up will never steer you wrong. It's my secret sauce to fooling the g...

Happy Tuesday friends, today we have on a ball of sunshine who goes by Chloe! A big thank you to her for sittin down with me for this one. She is an emergency room nurse, and is someone I have been looking forward to hearing give her perspective on what that job is even like on a day to day. Thanks to her, this episode is chalked full of gold nuggets that I think y'all will enjoy.  Would you be able to spot a heroine addict? S...

Happy Tuesday, loved ones! Today we sit down with my youngest brother Noah, and talk about ambitiously looking towards the future with success on your mind. I feel like last episode about wisdom and reminiscing pairs up well with this weeks style of thinking about the vast potential of what you can make of your future. Noah is 19 years old and has a passion for making sure he gets what he wants, no matter how much work it takes. I ...

Pop a squat alongside me as we do more listening and less talking. I give my Nana (Ruth Perkins) the floor as she delves into her 93 years of life, and all the lessons she has learned along the way. This was such a unique and fun episode for me and I loved every minute of it. I appreciate that I can still do this with her and will look back on this special moment for the rest of my days, and I feel honored that I get to share it wi...

This weeks guest is one of my best friends Dylan Jones! If you know me there's a good chance you also know him! Disclaimer, we kind of just hit record and figured it out so I actually wasn't planning on the beginning being published, it's purely organic. This time around you get a little bit of us goofin off about the world through our chronically online lenses, and how it's only going to get weirder. I had an a...