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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Good morning, you'll find out with Beating the Poet Gold.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I'm Peter Leonard and I'm the Poet Gold.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And we're on the air with two citizens from Poughkeepsie
Christopher Grant. This is Howrah Brown. And before we get
to the collaborative project, we want to go right to
the poet Gold for her weekly pray a poem incantation.
Go please lit it.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Roll, Okay, Peter, I'm going to give a stanza from
Be the Poem, which is also included in my upcoming
book that's coming out this summer called Be the Poem,
Living Beyond our Fears. Be the poem that chooses to
be fearless, never imprisons the heart, beckons the soul to
rein tears when you're falling apart. Be the poem that
heals and learns to forgive release in thunderous anger and hate,
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so you may truly live. And if there comes a
day you should fall ill, know that cure may not
come in the form of a pill, but in the
lines of poetry that will be more than a prayer.
It will shout Hallelujah, your salvation will be there be
the poem.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
I like it. I like it.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Amen to that one. And you know the relationship between
spirituality and poetry is very keen in general, but gold
makes it palpable. You can feel every poem is from
in the sanctum of the soul. So let me go
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right to what your projects are because people might know
both of you individually. Christopher Grant is a city council
person and Poughkeepsie and sin Sarah Brown is a promer
young entrepreneur who has had her a high profile in
the local area. But this is related. Is something you
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two are doing unwellness. You want to give us a
sense Christopher.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Well, yeah, you know, I'll talk a little bit about it.
Satara approached me a while ago about, you know, doing
some wellness events in the park and she wanted to
collaborate with me, and I thought it was pretty cool
because I just you know, I'm on a wellness initiative
and I just had a five K about a couple
couple months ago, so you know, just part of this
push to you know, initiate wellness and wellness in the
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community and to get people taking care of themselves and
to take you know, be serious about taking care of themselves.
So that's kind of something I wanted to push in
the community. So I thought it was a no brainer
to kind of collaborate with Satara on this event.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
And in thinking of yoga in the parks, Chris was
the first and only person that came to mind, because
I know that he has a personal journey that is
near and dear to his heart, and for me, wellness
is very, very important. I actually just lost my mom
last year to cancer, and I've always been into the
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wellness sphere and it was important to eat health and
to exercise, but now more than ever, it's so important
to be preventative instead of being reactive. And I think
that hosting an eight week yoga series for free for
the community is a great way to jump jump start
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something that's bigger than just the both of us and
our journeys.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I want to get this in early because you know,
I'm gonna ask you again, but because it's a community
minded situation, how can people get in contact with you
regarding it?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
How do they sign up for this?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well?
Speaker 6 (03:36):
If people want to sign up, they can always email
me at c Grant at cityopikeepsie dot com and then I'll,
you know, always forward the information to Satara. But we're
looking for the entire community to get involved. It's not
it's not limited to anybody, women, children, elders, young people.
We're just looking for everybody to get involved. So we're
also on social media. You can find me Chris Grant
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for PK n y or Chris Grant New York in
my personal page and you could also sorry about that,
and you could also contact Sataris. She'll tell you her
social media handles and her contact information.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, so you guys can find me on Facebook the
Balanced Sweet community and you will also be able to
sign up and register for the yoga sessions at yoga
INTHEPARKPK dot com.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
And why did you choose yoga as the medium for
wellness in this particular initiative that you guys have.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Well For me, it was very very personal. So after
I had to quit my corporate job to take care
of my mom, and watching someone that you love deteriorate
day after day takes a toll on you. And I
was not well during that process and after she passed away.
I was not well at all. I spent last summer
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in New York City and what found, what gave me
peace was going to yoga in the park after work.
So New York City they run free wellness sessions throughout
the summer and that was the only peace of mind
I had, and I made friends through it, My mind
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got clear through it, my body felt better, and it
was the only thing I had to look forward to
during a really hard time. And I know that a
lot of people just don't know where to start a
lot of people don't know what to do in the gym.
Maybe they can't afford a gym membership. So providing this
platform and yoga is a way to ease into something bigger.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Right And for me, you know, a little bit of
a personal journey for me. I you know, one of
the reasons for me starting the five k run that
I did earlier this year, it was a wellness run,
and it was because I was battling health issues.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
You know.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
And I've always been a big guy, but I never
really had heart issues or heart heart blood pressure issue
years and I went to the doctor one day and
it was like really high, like one seventy over one
hundred or something like that. So ever since then, you know,
they wanted to put me on medication. But I just
started to run every day. I started to run two
miles a day, and it completely like reversed it, you know.
So it's really important for me to be around for
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my family, for my son, for the community, and it's
important for me to help people understand the importance of
taking care of their body, whether it's mentally or physically
or financially even and everything yields the other. So I
think everything is connected, and yoga is like a perfect balance.
Yoga helps balance you and it helped centers you. So
I think, like I said, it was a no brainer
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to join this initiative.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
And blood pressure is a is a hard battle for
a lot of people, and they immediately want to put
you on medication. Do you run every day?
Speaker 6 (06:49):
I haven't in a while because I got an accident,
so I'm a little banged up. But I was running
two miles every day for like from last year, maybe
February to up until the winter.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
And you found it that was you were able to,
you know.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Completely eliminate it, completely eliminate it, you know, And I
tell people all the time, and so you could work out.
You could really eat whatever you want if you you know,
do it in moderation and you work out enough.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
So I didn't really change my diet much.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
I just changed the times that I was eating and
just running every day, and just like that, I lost
like seventy pounds and blood pressure went back to normal.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Curing ourselves, healing ourselves, that's what it's about.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And for both of you to have issues around health
with her mother and then her own trauma that she
was dealing with, and you're dealing with the trauma of
all of a sudden, you're basically a young man who
never thought of himselves as them a health problem.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
You have help problem, right right right.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
You know, how did you know each other beforehand that
it would make you would have the trust with this
project together.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Well, I mean we've known each other for a long time.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
We're probably approaching a decade now, honestly, on like a
personal closer level. We've known each other for a while,
so it's it's it was more so just you know,
she does things in the community. I do things in
the community, So it just made sense, you know, if
I was doing an event that I know Satar would
be a good fit for I'd reach out to her
the same way.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
So and for me it's a little deeper. We both
went to the same Catholic school.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
We did. I wasn't gonna go back that far. We did,
so it was.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
A connection there. And then Chris does a lot of
great work. And there's a lot of people who are
elected officials. There's a lot of young people who are
doing great things. But you know, I would like to
be with the best of the best, so.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I had.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Especially when you went in a shirt that says girl
Boss Sorry.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
I actually bought two girl Boss shirts to send to
my family in the UK a few years ago. I
don't remember when I bought them, but I sent it
over to the UK.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I think he bought like sexy. That was like one
of my biggest purchases at the time. I need five
of them.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Are they still for sale?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
They're still for sale? Girl Boss brand dot com want you.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
It takes two minutes to explain what girl bosses about
it because she has a black shirt with white writers'
girl Boss on it, and you know she makes that
phrase authentic in every moment. You know she's bossy.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
It's the girl boy.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
So to make a long story short, I started a
nonprofit ten years ago. In August, we actually turned ten,
and through my nonprofit, we started doing a lot of
community work. We started after school program, summer camps, prom
dress drives, a lot of different initiatives, and a lot
of people started asking me like how do you do it?
Like how do you start a nonprofit? So I started
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helping people create nonprofits and then like covid hit and
then I started a consulting business. So in twenty twenty,
I started a consulting business and then I put it
on social media and I started over sixty businesses throughout
the United States, and most of my clientele were women.
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So I'm like, the girls are bossing up. And that's
where the girl Boss brand came from. Because it's a lifestyle.
It doesn't matter if you're a mom, it doesn't matter
if you work. It doesn't matter where you work, what
your job is, what you do, if you go to school.
The girls are just bossing up. We're bossing up with
our health, we're bossing up with our lifestyles, and it's
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just an everyday kind of thing. So to where your
girl Boss brand it is a different kind of feeling.
It gives you the encouragement and the empowerment you need.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
So if you're just tuning in, you're listening to finding
out with Pete and the poet gold and I'm the
Pobel Golden. We're here today talking to Satara Brown, a
local citizen here in the city of Poughkeepsie, and Christopher Grant,
a council person here in the city, and they're talking
about the wellness initiative that's going to be taking place
this summer.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
You say you're going to have yoga in the park,
what parks will.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Talk I'll give you guys the schedule right now. So
we're going to start July sixth, which is going to
be at Bartlett Park that's in my ward, the sixth
ward on Hooker Avenue, and then July thirteenth will be
at King Street Park. July twentieth will be at Mansion
Square Park, July twenty seventh will be at College Hill,
August third will be at Pulaski, August tenth will be
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at cal Rock Park. A lot of people know that
as under the Bridge. August seventeenth will be back at
City Hall on the lawn and August twenty fourth will
finish off back at Bartlett Park.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Nice, so you'll be moving around the community, not one.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Content, right.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
It kind of makes a circle. And I thought it was,
you know, pretty significant to do it that way. So
it's like we touch everywhere at Poughkeepsie and like kind
of in some form of some synergy just going around
in like a nice circle.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
So I thought it was a good idea to schedule
it that way.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
And it's not Participation is not limited per neighborhood, right,
I mean, anyone you can be you know, in a
certain park area and come next week to the other park.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
And I think anybody if you would love to go
to each different Paul, Oh yeah, because I mean I've
been in Poughkeepsie for forty years, over forty years, and
I have brushed by all those parks, but I don't
I don't use them. Only two a three of them
I use regularly. But if you're going to live in Poughkeepsie,
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you get you get a free tour of the park.
Oh yeah, absolutely, friends, and uh, it's like going on
a travel event. I love the idea of moving the
thing around.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
I know this is great.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I'm excited about it. So we have t shirts for
that for you know, the support yoga in the parks.
So what are you calling it?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
It's yoga in the parks. But our tagline is be
Well Poughkeepsie.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Be Well Poughkeepsie.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Okay, So there will be shirts available.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
And I just want to say just a touch on
the girl boss thing. I'm a person, I'm a firm
believer and if you want to get things done, you
have women involved. So you know, I'm always gonna any
any project I'm on, I'm always gonna have women involved
because I just feel like they get things done.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
No argument, I mean absolutely.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah. Gold and I do an event uh where we
uh have thirty leaders uh women leaders from the community
come in and you uh for a lunch and a
session that cole brings them through some personal stuff. But
it's occurs to me that it's just county I think
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is the most women led county in all of New
York State. Not only do we have, you know, the
county executives a woman, the mayor of Poughkeepsie of Flowers
a woman. The Town of Poughkeepsie supervisor.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Yeah, even Red Hook mayor is a woman too.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Women bosses bosses.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
And then you look at the nonprofits and all the
major nonprofits run by women, you know, Leah Felman Family Services,
across the Hinds. That's just outreach. As Renee Filette, we.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Can mention r occ in that one.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah, but I mean, not only is it sort of
like folk wism that women get things done, but at
least one of the defining aspects of life in Justice
County is that women have the power, you know, very
value and.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Lawge you know.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
And it's okay, I agree with you, Peter, No, but
I don't think it's just necessarily the power. I think
there's a collaborative spirit, you know, and it collaborative out
loud in it. We don't I don't think necessarily inch
into collaboration. I think we come into the room, you know, saying, okay,
we have to get things done, so let's put our
minds on the table.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Whether you're a man or woman or you know.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Whatever, you know, let's let's let's make this work. And
I think that's that's why that's where the power, uh,
the belief comes from.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yeah, I'm more comfortable using what power than gold is.
But I'm sure really identifies that a natural and uh
or an openness or collaboration make sure a better leader.
I mean women in general. Obviously not every single one,
but women in general are better community leadership because there
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not only the collaborative abilities, but my observation, which I
think can be very well established. Women unless you go
men I call them, I mean, uh, you know men?
Uh you name any national figure.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Everything is a competition, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Anybody stays centered and above wants to be president. There man, Yeah,
you're experiencing politics. Have you noticed a difference between men
and women in their attitude too?
Speaker 6 (15:48):
I'm gonna say nothing that I could I could point out,
nothing much that I could point I mean I I
I deal in the political realm. I kind of deal
with everybody on the on a similar similar plane, you know.
So it's it's I don't have many expectations, whether it's
a man or a woman.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
So you know, I just deal with people as who
they how they show up.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And let me say this. And I say this because
not only you run two miles and day you if
I get really fresh, you could throw me around. But
I want to say that seems more like an answer
of a seasoned political person. Nobody and I suspect you
were not being entirely frank. I mean, you look at
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Vonne Flowers, who was the mayor of Poughkeepsie. She handles
power in a way different from any man political figure
I ever met, and she's genuinely leaning into the collaboration
before the before the sentence, and she's not alone. I mean,
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so let me give you a break and ask if
Satara notices any difference between men and women when it
comes to holding political power.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I don't really have anything to say on political power,
but I do have something to say about collaboration. We
have some great men and women collaborators for this project.
Chakra Bols Sunday Burgers is one of our sponsors. Sherry's
t is another collaborator. New Line Auto and O'Connor and
Partner's Law Firm are both sponsors. So we are definitely
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collaborators ourselves, both Chris and I. And that's very important
in pushing this entire city.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Wide collaboration over competition.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Yeah, I like that collaborations competition, Yes, collaboration of competition,
which is which is so true because you know, you
know one of the I'm not I'm not trying to
push my book here.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
But but you know, one of the book, I'll take it.
I'll push that book.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
But but when you take collaboration, collaboration over over competition, oftentimes, uh,
competition is part of some subliminal fears, right that we're
dealing with.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Yeah, yeah, I can agree with that.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
I think sometimes people, when they want to compete, it's
because they they they notice how good you are, what
your potential is, and they might see that as a
threat sometimes. So I think that that form to want
to compete with a person has has some underlying fear
in it.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
I think for some people, it does not for.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Everybody, for everybody.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
One of the things I noticed about competition is very
few people like competition. What people like is winning in
other words, And I think, but I think your competition
is a really great thing, and it's thrilling, you.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Know, healthy competition.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean, but I mean it becomes
unhealthy when the only thing you want to do is win.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I mean, we're gonna win regardless. So I don't even
really look at the competition. I mean I could have
looked at Chris, look at me as a competitor. I
don't even see that, Like, I mean, Chris is a
very strong person. You could see that I am very strong,
talked when minded, and he could have said a note
of working with me. I could have not even think
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to work with him. But like you know, he has
his task to do for this, I have my task
to do. We get our tasks done. We talk about it,
and we keep it pushing. Like to me, like I
don't I don't really see the competition.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Okay, I'm giving.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
And I think that's because of the collaboration, you know,
going back to the collaborative you know spirit, but someone
who may have been harboring fears that they don't even recognize.
You know, it'll it'll it'll be a situation where it's
not so much a collaboration, you know, it'll be more
of a control type type you know relationships sometimes. And
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and that's when generally, even in political spaces or initiatives
to get things done, and when the folks in the
room are not really working together because they want to
hold on to the you know, to the.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
People, and and it's it's and and and the that's
the thing about it, especially when working with a team.
And I think what's important for people to understand is
you know, and I like to put it in terms
of basketball. Right, we're going to put it in terms
of basketball, and we're going to say, you know, not
every not every game we need somebody to score. We
don't need everybody to score every game. Sometimes we just
need you to play defense. Sometimes we need you to
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crash boards. But it's all about staying together and being
united and understanding that as a team, we have a
goal to accomplish. And I might be the star today,
Satar might be the star tomorrow. Gold might be the
star on Monday. You know what I'm saying, you might
be the star on Sunday. So it's fun. So you know,
it's all about just understanding that you know when it's
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time to do what you have to do, and then
you know when you're called upon to deliver and just
to help the team win.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
And if you're just tuning in, you're listening to finding
Out with Pete and the Poet Gold and I'm the
Poet Gold and we're here with Satara Brown and Christopher
Grant talking about their wellness initiative and a great basketball metaphor.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
I use basketball all the.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Time when we're talking about you know, teams and stuff,
even if someone hasn't played the game, Like, just stay
with me for a minute, and you know.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
The wellness in the park. I want to re emphasize
what a great civic event that is. It's not only
good for health, but it's also good for you knowing
your local park. If you go to a different park
once a week for eight weeks, you're going to know
something about Potepsie you didn't know before. And I would
say that for one hundred percent of the listeners, almost
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nobody really knows all those parks. And I also suspect
you make friends. It's Tarah mentioned when she was in
New York City and having gone through the trauma was
her mother. She needed friends and she found friends in
New York through yoga, and so being friends in the
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park is another way of being well in the park.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
And it's all about community building, you know, and going
to different parks. You might get people from different neighborhoods.
You might get people that are not even from Pekeepsie up.
They might show up to all these events and like
you said, get to know something new about Peckepsie every time.
So it's all about community building, bringing people together and
having people take there their wellness serious.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
And so how do people register again so they can
visit excuse me, visit us online at yoga indeparkpk dot com.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
And you know, I want to say a lot of
people talk about travel, especially when you get to be
my age. I'm seventy five years old, I'm retired, my
wife's retired, and the expectations we're going to travel, and
I hate traveling. And part of the reason for is
there's so much great stuff locally and I haven't gotten
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to all those parks in an thematic way. But if
somebody was charging me seven or eight thousand dollars and
we'll make sure we get us to the box and Pegepsie,
and you have to travel and you take up your
shoes and do all these other things, it would be attractive.
So what I'm saying, it's a great way to create
a new world in your same old space.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
And it's free, and it's free.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
It's free, And I just want to say two things.
We are starting at Bartlett Park, which is Councilman Chris
Grant's park, and that is on purpose, that's very intentional.
And we are ending at his park as he is
spearheading this event with me, and we are leading this
initiative and this is just the start of something bigger.
So we're very, very excited. And another thing that I
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want to say is that I used to work a
local hotel in fish Goo and a lot of people
they come to Poughkeepsie for the walkway, for different attractions,
and I hope that this brings in people who are
visiting so that they can see how beautiful Poughkeepsie is,
as we would like our residents to see as well too.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
And you know, I say a lot that I want people.
I want the people of city of Poughkeepsie to realize
the beauty of Poughkeepsie like the outsiders do. If you
if you see now we have a lot of developers
that are coming into Poughkeepsie buying property, creating the housing.
And I just want the people of the city Piccaussie
to see what they see in Poughkeepsie, right right right.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
No, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
You know, when I came to Poughkeepsie, I don't know,
about eighteen years ago, somewhere in there, and and I
was struck by the architecture, I was struck by the history.
I was struck by the art on the wall, and
and those are the things. I was struck by the bridge,
you know, I go to Washington Heights right by the
George Washington Bridge or on the Hudson River. And so
my brother got it right when he said, no, since
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you're gonna like it, there's a park right by the water,
just like when we were growing up.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
You know, all that made me stay.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
You know, the food made me stay, the people, you know,
Sunday's Burger.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Academy in the sixth Ward too, in the sixth Ward.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
So that's it. Pockepsie's rich.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
I've always I've always felt that way. And yeah, so
it's a very it's a very rich, vibrant city. I
always say to people, I think I can call it
home now, you know. And you know, people go, you know,
what point are you, Poughkeepsie.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
You know you're here now and we're ready to show
everyone our city.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
You know you mentioned Paul Park. My observation is it's
an underused park. In other words, it's more beautiful and
has more more things in there than than people using it.
It's right in Hooker Revenue and I live on Ferris
and somebody there a lot and I've gone there for sure.
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I put my kids there. I've been there, but I
don't use it regularly, and I'm missing something on that.
And so you giving people a reason to not only
go there, but to make friends there. That going is going,
making friends brings you back.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
And that's that's something that's that's true because that's what
happened to you in New York City.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Yeah. I even met someone who now I'm a business
consultant for them from your in the park in New
York City. So we're gonna be outside all summer. So
Bartlett Park get ready for us.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
We'll be there.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
You mentioned you had a vision I want to share.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
You know, I'll keep it late. We want the community
to start prioritizing their health, and we want to introduce
them to exercises that are accessible to them because accessibility
is an issue. I could say on a personal level,
(26:31):
and I won't say too much, but I'm getting ready
to open a wellness studio and Poughkeepsie nice. So that's
something coming and I look forward to that. But on
a note between Chris and I I look forward to
continuing and growing this initiative.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
And what strikes me is both of you talk about
it wellness is not just blood pressure. I mean, it
seems as if there's a psychological and spiritual dimension to
the word well.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Right, yeah, And that's that's you know, when I think
about wellness, it's not just it's not just health, you know,
it's it's it's financial wellness, it's mental wellness, it's it's
social wellness, you know. And and like I said before,
that was one of the things to push the Poughkeepsie
five K event that I did was to you know,
use that to propel like a wellness initiative in the community,
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and to even help fund wellness and wellness initiatives in
the community, like I would love to when she opens
her wellness studio to be able to you know, fund
some children going there for different needs, because it really
starts with the kids. And we're trying to create a
good landscape for Poughkeepsie. So if we start instilling wellness
into the youth, then we turn them into very healthy adults,
(27:45):
right absolutely.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
And you know, and I've known from working with with students,
particularly students that have had trauma experiences, and you know,
we try to give them healthy development through the arts,
you know, through poetry, through learning, how to right. You know,
learning literacy, learned to express yourself. You know vocally that
it makes a difference. You know, it really does make
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a difference.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
You know, getting kids healthy is a good thing. And
from a civic point of view, you community point of view,
if they live on where they pay more taxes, it's
good for the country.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
But I wasn't I'm not gonna lie, I was not
thinking that, Medica.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
If you want to talk about national health, one of
the reasons the government has a reason to want you
healthy is you you pay taxes for longer be the
does it may I'm interested Chris in your distinction between
your volunteer work that which just as part of in
your work in politics, I mean to be a uh
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a political leader and a civil agree to Do you
feel attention there or do you think you close together? No?
Speaker 6 (29:04):
I think it goes ind in hand because I stay
true to what my initiatives are and what my platforms are,
which is like you know, business development, helping fixing main
street and providing for youth programs. And this is why
I run the Youth Baseball League. And you know, I'm
a part of a lot of different other youth initiatives
so I think it does. I don't see any tension
because I'm kind of aligned in what i want to
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do in the community and what I want to do politically,
so I don't really get much tension in that sense.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
What about you, Satara, in your alignment with you know,
with continuing to do your civics duty, so to speak,
in the City of Poughkeepsie.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
It goes hand in hand because it's all about purpose
and this is what I'm really living in real life.
So I'm not changing faces or anything. I don't have
to switch anything on or off. This is real life.
This is me, and I just want to exert that
in everything that I do.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Can you let the listeners know one more time how
they can get the information in the schedule for your
initiative in the Park.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Sure, it's Yo in theparkpk dot com and the schedule
is sorry.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
July sixth at Bartlett Park, July thirteenth at King Street Park,
July twentieth at Mansion Square Park, July twenty seventh at
College Hill Park, August third at Pulaski Park, August tenth
at cal Rock Park, August seventeen at City Hall on
the Lawn and August twenty fourth, at Barlett Park, All at.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Twelve pm, All at twelve pm.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Okay, fantastic, Well, thank you Satara, Thank you Chris for
being here today on finding out with Poto. You're welcome
always come back and visiticism. To our listeners, thank you
so much for being with us again once again this weekend.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Thank you,
The views and opinions expressed in the following programmer those
of the speaker and don't necessarily represent those of the
station it's staff, management or ownership.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Good morning, you'll find out with Beating the Poet Gold.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I'm Peter Leonard and I'm the Poet Gold.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And we're on the air with two citizens from Poughkeepsie
Christopher Grant. This is Howrah Brown. And before we get
to the collaborative project, we want to go right to
the poet Gold for her weekly pray a poem incantation.
Go please lit it.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Roll, Okay, Peter, I'm going to give a stanza from
Be the Poem, which is also included in my upcoming
book that's coming out this summer called Be the Poem,
Living Beyond our Fears. Be the poem that chooses to
be fearless, never imprisons the heart, beckons the soul to
rein tears when you're falling apart. Be the poem that
heals and learns to forgive release in thunderous anger and hate,
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so you may truly live. And if there comes a
day you should fall ill, know that cure may not
come in the form of a pill, but in the
lines of poetry that will be more than a prayer.
It will shout Hallelujah, your salvation will be there be
the poem.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
I like it. I like it.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Amen to that one. And you know the relationship between
spirituality and poetry is very keen in general, but gold
makes it palpable. You can feel every poem is from
in the sanctum of the soul. So let me go
(01:33):
right to what your projects are because people might know
both of you individually. Christopher Grant is a city council
person and Poughkeepsie and sin Sarah Brown is a promer
young entrepreneur who has had her a high profile in
the local area. But this is related. Is something you
(01:55):
two are doing unwellness. You want to give us a
sense Christopher.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Well, yeah, you know, I'll talk a little bit about it.
Satara approached me a while ago about, you know, doing
some wellness events in the park and she wanted to
collaborate with me, and I thought it was pretty cool
because I just you know, I'm on a wellness initiative
and I just had a five K about a couple
couple months ago, so you know, just part of this
push to you know, initiate wellness and wellness in the
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community and to get people taking care of themselves and
to take you know, be serious about taking care of themselves.
So that's kind of something I wanted to push in
the community. So I thought it was a no brainer
to kind of collaborate with Satara on this event.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
And in thinking of yoga in the parks, Chris was
the first and only person that came to mind, because
I know that he has a personal journey that is
near and dear to his heart, and for me, wellness
is very, very important. I actually just lost my mom
last year to cancer, and I've always been into the
(02:57):
wellness sphere and it was important to eat health and
to exercise, but now more than ever, it's so important
to be preventative instead of being reactive. And I think
that hosting an eight week yoga series for free for
the community is a great way to jump jump start
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something that's bigger than just the both of us and
our journeys.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I want to get this in early because you know,
I'm gonna ask you again, but because it's a community
minded situation, how can people get in contact with you
regarding it?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
How do they sign up for this?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well?
Speaker 6 (03:36):
If people want to sign up, they can always email
me at c Grant at cityopikeepsie dot com and then I'll,
you know, always forward the information to Satara. But we're
looking for the entire community to get involved. It's not
it's not limited to anybody, women, children, elders, young people.
We're just looking for everybody to get involved. So we're
also on social media. You can find me Chris Grant
(03:58):
for PK n y or Chris Grant New York in
my personal page and you could also sorry about that,
and you could also contact Sataris. She'll tell you her
social media handles and her contact information.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, so you guys can find me on Facebook the
Balanced Sweet community and you will also be able to
sign up and register for the yoga sessions at yoga
INTHEPARKPK dot com.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
And why did you choose yoga as the medium for
wellness in this particular initiative that you guys have.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Well For me, it was very very personal. So after
I had to quit my corporate job to take care
of my mom, and watching someone that you love deteriorate
day after day takes a toll on you. And I
was not well during that process and after she passed away.
I was not well at all. I spent last summer
(04:55):
in New York City and what found, what gave me
peace was going to yoga in the park after work.
So New York City they run free wellness sessions throughout
the summer and that was the only peace of mind
I had, and I made friends through it, My mind
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got clear through it, my body felt better, and it
was the only thing I had to look forward to
during a really hard time. And I know that a
lot of people just don't know where to start a
lot of people don't know what to do in the gym.
Maybe they can't afford a gym membership. So providing this
platform and yoga is a way to ease into something bigger.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Right And for me, you know, a little bit of
a personal journey for me. I you know, one of
the reasons for me starting the five k run that
I did earlier this year, it was a wellness run,
and it was because I was battling health issues.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
You know.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
And I've always been a big guy, but I never
really had heart issues or heart heart blood pressure issue
years and I went to the doctor one day and
it was like really high, like one seventy over one
hundred or something like that. So ever since then, you know,
they wanted to put me on medication. But I just
started to run every day. I started to run two
miles a day, and it completely like reversed it, you know.
So it's really important for me to be around for
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my family, for my son, for the community, and it's
important for me to help people understand the importance of
taking care of their body, whether it's mentally or physically
or financially even and everything yields the other. So I
think everything is connected, and yoga is like a perfect balance.
Yoga helps balance you and it helped centers you. So
I think, like I said, it was a no brainer
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to join this initiative.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
And blood pressure is a is a hard battle for
a lot of people, and they immediately want to put
you on medication. Do you run every day?
Speaker 6 (06:49):
I haven't in a while because I got an accident,
so I'm a little banged up. But I was running
two miles every day for like from last year, maybe
February to up until the winter.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
And you found it that was you were able to,
you know.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Completely eliminate it, completely eliminate it, you know, And I
tell people all the time, and so you could work out.
You could really eat whatever you want if you you know,
do it in moderation and you work out enough.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
So I didn't really change my diet much.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
I just changed the times that I was eating and
just running every day, and just like that, I lost
like seventy pounds and blood pressure went back to normal.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Curing ourselves, healing ourselves, that's what it's about.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And for both of you to have issues around health
with her mother and then her own trauma that she
was dealing with, and you're dealing with the trauma of
all of a sudden, you're basically a young man who
never thought of himselves as them a health problem.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
You have help problem, right right right.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
You know, how did you know each other beforehand that
it would make you would have the trust with this
project together.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Well, I mean we've known each other for a long time.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
We're probably approaching a decade now, honestly, on like a
personal closer level. We've known each other for a while,
so it's it's it was more so just you know,
she does things in the community. I do things in
the community, So it just made sense, you know, if
I was doing an event that I know Satar would
be a good fit for I'd reach out to her
the same way.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
So and for me it's a little deeper. We both
went to the same Catholic school.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
We did. I wasn't gonna go back that far. We did,
so it was.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
A connection there. And then Chris does a lot of
great work. And there's a lot of people who are
elected officials. There's a lot of young people who are
doing great things. But you know, I would like to
be with the best of the best, so.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I had.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Especially when you went in a shirt that says girl
Boss Sorry.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
I actually bought two girl Boss shirts to send to
my family in the UK a few years ago. I
don't remember when I bought them, but I sent it
over to the UK.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I think he bought like sexy. That was like one
of my biggest purchases at the time. I need five
of them.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Are they still for sale?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
They're still for sale? Girl Boss brand dot com want you.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
It takes two minutes to explain what girl bosses about
it because she has a black shirt with white writers'
girl Boss on it, and you know she makes that
phrase authentic in every moment. You know she's bossy.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
It's the girl boy.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
So to make a long story short, I started a
nonprofit ten years ago. In August, we actually turned ten,
and through my nonprofit, we started doing a lot of
community work. We started after school program, summer camps, prom
dress drives, a lot of different initiatives, and a lot
of people started asking me like how do you do it?
Like how do you start a nonprofit? So I started
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helping people create nonprofits and then like covid hit and
then I started a consulting business. So in twenty twenty,
I started a consulting business and then I put it
on social media and I started over sixty businesses throughout
the United States, and most of my clientele were women.
(10:04):
So I'm like, the girls are bossing up. And that's
where the girl Boss brand came from. Because it's a lifestyle.
It doesn't matter if you're a mom, it doesn't matter
if you work. It doesn't matter where you work, what
your job is, what you do, if you go to school.
The girls are just bossing up. We're bossing up with
our health, we're bossing up with our lifestyles, and it's
(10:27):
just an everyday kind of thing. So to where your
girl Boss brand it is a different kind of feeling.
It gives you the encouragement and the empowerment you need.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
So if you're just tuning in, you're listening to finding
out with Pete and the poet gold and I'm the
Pobel Golden. We're here today talking to Satara Brown, a
local citizen here in the city of Poughkeepsie, and Christopher Grant,
a council person here in the city, and they're talking
about the wellness initiative that's going to be taking place
this summer.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
You say you're going to have yoga in the park,
what parks will.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Talk I'll give you guys the schedule right now. So
we're going to start July sixth, which is going to
be at Bartlett Park that's in my ward, the sixth
ward on Hooker Avenue, and then July thirteenth will be
at King Street Park. July twentieth will be at Mansion
Square Park, July twenty seventh will be at College Hill,
August third will be at Pulaski, August tenth will be
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at cal Rock Park. A lot of people know that
as under the Bridge. August seventeenth will be back at
City Hall on the lawn and August twenty fourth will
finish off back at Bartlett Park.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Nice, so you'll be moving around the community, not one.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Content, right.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
It kind of makes a circle. And I thought it was,
you know, pretty significant to do it that way. So
it's like we touch everywhere at Poughkeepsie and like kind
of in some form of some synergy just going around
in like a nice circle.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
So I thought it was a good idea to schedule
it that way.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
And it's not Participation is not limited per neighborhood, right,
I mean, anyone you can be you know, in a
certain park area and come next week to the other park.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
And I think anybody if you would love to go
to each different Paul, Oh yeah, because I mean I've
been in Poughkeepsie for forty years, over forty years, and
I have brushed by all those parks, but I don't
I don't use them. Only two a three of them
I use regularly. But if you're going to live in Poughkeepsie,
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you get you get a free tour of the park.
Oh yeah, absolutely, friends, and uh, it's like going on
a travel event. I love the idea of moving the
thing around.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
I know this is great.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I'm excited about it. So we have t shirts for
that for you know, the support yoga in the parks.
So what are you calling it?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
It's yoga in the parks. But our tagline is be
Well Poughkeepsie.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Be Well Poughkeepsie.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Okay, So there will be shirts available.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
And I just want to say just a touch on
the girl boss thing. I'm a person, I'm a firm
believer and if you want to get things done, you
have women involved. So you know, I'm always gonna any
any project I'm on, I'm always gonna have women involved
because I just feel like they get things done.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
No argument, I mean absolutely.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah. Gold and I do an event uh where we
uh have thirty leaders uh women leaders from the community
come in and you uh for a lunch and a
session that cole brings them through some personal stuff. But
it's occurs to me that it's just county I think
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is the most women led county in all of New
York State. Not only do we have, you know, the
county executives a woman, the mayor of Poughkeepsie of Flowers
a woman. The Town of Poughkeepsie supervisor.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Yeah, even Red Hook mayor is a woman too.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Women bosses bosses.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
And then you look at the nonprofits and all the
major nonprofits run by women, you know, Leah Felman Family Services,
across the Hinds. That's just outreach. As Renee Filette, we.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Can mention r occ in that one.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah, but I mean, not only is it sort of
like folk wism that women get things done, but at
least one of the defining aspects of life in Justice
County is that women have the power, you know, very
value and.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Lawge you know.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
And it's okay, I agree with you, Peter, No, but
I don't think it's just necessarily the power. I think
there's a collaborative spirit, you know, and it collaborative out
loud in it. We don't I don't think necessarily inch
into collaboration. I think we come into the room, you know, saying, okay,
we have to get things done, so let's put our
minds on the table.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Whether you're a man or woman or you know.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Whatever, you know, let's let's let's make this work. And
I think that's that's why that's where the power, uh,
the belief comes from.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yeah, I'm more comfortable using what power than gold is.
But I'm sure really identifies that a natural and uh
or an openness or collaboration make sure a better leader.
I mean women in general. Obviously not every single one,
but women in general are better community leadership because there
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not only the collaborative abilities, but my observation, which I
think can be very well established. Women unless you go
men I call them, I mean, uh, you know men?
Uh you name any national figure.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Everything is a competition, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Anybody stays centered and above wants to be president. There man, Yeah,
you're experiencing politics. Have you noticed a difference between men
and women in their attitude too?
Speaker 6 (15:48):
I'm gonna say nothing that I could I could point out,
nothing much that I could point I mean I I
I deal in the political realm. I kind of deal
with everybody on the on a similar similar plane, you know.
So it's it's I don't have many expectations, whether it's
a man or a woman.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
So you know, I just deal with people as who
they how they show up.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And let me say this. And I say this because
not only you run two miles and day you if
I get really fresh, you could throw me around. But
I want to say that seems more like an answer
of a seasoned political person. Nobody and I suspect you
were not being entirely frank. I mean, you look at
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Vonne Flowers, who was the mayor of Poughkeepsie. She handles
power in a way different from any man political figure
I ever met, and she's genuinely leaning into the collaboration
before the before the sentence, and she's not alone. I mean,
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so let me give you a break and ask if
Satara notices any difference between men and women when it
comes to holding political power.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I don't really have anything to say on political power,
but I do have something to say about collaboration. We
have some great men and women collaborators for this project.
Chakra Bols Sunday Burgers is one of our sponsors. Sherry's
t is another collaborator. New Line Auto and O'Connor and
Partner's Law Firm are both sponsors. So we are definitely
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collaborators ourselves, both Chris and I. And that's very important
in pushing this entire city.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Wide collaboration over competition.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Yeah, I like that collaborations competition, Yes, collaboration of competition,
which is which is so true because you know, you
know one of the I'm not I'm not trying to
push my book here.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
But but you know, one of the book, I'll take it.
I'll push that book.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
But but when you take collaboration, collaboration over over competition, oftentimes, uh,
competition is part of some subliminal fears, right that we're
dealing with.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Yeah, yeah, I can agree with that.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
I think sometimes people, when they want to compete, it's
because they they they notice how good you are, what
your potential is, and they might see that as a
threat sometimes. So I think that that form to want
to compete with a person has has some underlying fear
in it.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
I think for some people, it does not for.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Everybody, for everybody.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
One of the things I noticed about competition is very
few people like competition. What people like is winning in
other words, And I think, but I think your competition
is a really great thing, and it's thrilling, you.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Know, healthy competition.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean, but I mean it becomes
unhealthy when the only thing you want to do is win.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I mean, we're gonna win regardless. So I don't even
really look at the competition. I mean I could have
looked at Chris, look at me as a competitor. I
don't even see that, Like, I mean, Chris is a
very strong person. You could see that I am very strong,
talked when minded, and he could have said a note
of working with me. I could have not even think
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to work with him. But like you know, he has
his task to do for this, I have my task
to do. We get our tasks done. We talk about it,
and we keep it pushing. Like to me, like I
don't I don't really see the competition.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Okay, I'm giving.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
And I think that's because of the collaboration, you know,
going back to the collaborative you know spirit, but someone
who may have been harboring fears that they don't even recognize.
You know, it'll it'll it'll be a situation where it's
not so much a collaboration, you know, it'll be more
of a control type type you know relationships sometimes. And
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and that's when generally, even in political spaces or initiatives
to get things done, and when the folks in the
room are not really working together because they want to
hold on to the you know, to the.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
People, and and it's it's and and and the that's
the thing about it, especially when working with a team.
And I think what's important for people to understand is
you know, and I like to put it in terms
of basketball. Right, we're going to put it in terms
of basketball, and we're going to say, you know, not
every not every game we need somebody to score. We
don't need everybody to score every game. Sometimes we just
need you to play defense. Sometimes we need you to
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crash boards. But it's all about staying together and being
united and understanding that as a team, we have a
goal to accomplish. And I might be the star today,
Satar might be the star tomorrow. Gold might be the
star on Monday. You know what I'm saying, you might
be the star on Sunday. So it's fun. So you know,
it's all about just understanding that you know when it's
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time to do what you have to do, and then
you know when you're called upon to deliver and just
to help the team win.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
And if you're just tuning in, you're listening to finding
Out with Pete and the Poet Gold and I'm the
Poet Gold and we're here with Satara Brown and Christopher
Grant talking about their wellness initiative and a great basketball metaphor.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
I use basketball all the.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Time when we're talking about you know, teams and stuff,
even if someone hasn't played the game, Like, just stay
with me for a minute, and you know.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
The wellness in the park. I want to re emphasize
what a great civic event that is. It's not only
good for health, but it's also good for you knowing
your local park. If you go to a different park
once a week for eight weeks, you're going to know
something about Potepsie you didn't know before. And I would
say that for one hundred percent of the listeners, almost
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nobody really knows all those parks. And I also suspect
you make friends. It's Tarah mentioned when she was in
New York City and having gone through the trauma was
her mother. She needed friends and she found friends in
New York through yoga, and so being friends in the
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park is another way of being well in the park.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
And it's all about community building, you know, and going
to different parks. You might get people from different neighborhoods.
You might get people that are not even from Pekeepsie up.
They might show up to all these events and like
you said, get to know something new about Peckepsie every time.
So it's all about community building, bringing people together and
having people take there their wellness serious.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
And so how do people register again so they can
visit excuse me, visit us online at yoga indeparkpk dot com.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
And you know, I want to say a lot of
people talk about travel, especially when you get to be
my age. I'm seventy five years old, I'm retired, my
wife's retired, and the expectations we're going to travel, and
I hate traveling. And part of the reason for is
there's so much great stuff locally and I haven't gotten
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to all those parks in an thematic way. But if
somebody was charging me seven or eight thousand dollars and
we'll make sure we get us to the box and Pegepsie,
and you have to travel and you take up your
shoes and do all these other things, it would be attractive.
So what I'm saying, it's a great way to create
a new world in your same old space.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
And it's free, and it's free.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
It's free, And I just want to say two things.
We are starting at Bartlett Park, which is Councilman Chris
Grant's park, and that is on purpose, that's very intentional.
And we are ending at his park as he is
spearheading this event with me, and we are leading this
initiative and this is just the start of something bigger.
So we're very, very excited. And another thing that I
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want to say is that I used to work a
local hotel in fish Goo and a lot of people
they come to Poughkeepsie for the walkway, for different attractions,
and I hope that this brings in people who are
visiting so that they can see how beautiful Poughkeepsie is,
as we would like our residents to see as well too.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
And you know, I say a lot that I want people.
I want the people of city of Poughkeepsie to realize
the beauty of Poughkeepsie like the outsiders do. If you
if you see now we have a lot of developers
that are coming into Poughkeepsie buying property, creating the housing.
And I just want the people of the city Piccaussie
to see what they see in Poughkeepsie, right right right.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
No, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
You know, when I came to Poughkeepsie, I don't know,
about eighteen years ago, somewhere in there, and and I
was struck by the architecture, I was struck by the history.
I was struck by the art on the wall, and
and those are the things. I was struck by the bridge,
you know, I go to Washington Heights right by the
George Washington Bridge or on the Hudson River. And so
my brother got it right when he said, no, since
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you're gonna like it, there's a park right by the water,
just like when we were growing up.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
You know, all that made me stay.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
You know, the food made me stay, the people, you know,
Sunday's Burger.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Academy in the sixth Ward too, in the sixth Ward.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
So that's it. Pockepsie's rich.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
I've always I've always felt that way. And yeah, so
it's a very it's a very rich, vibrant city. I
always say to people, I think I can call it
home now, you know. And you know, people go, you know,
what point are you, Poughkeepsie.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
You know you're here now and we're ready to show
everyone our city.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
You know you mentioned Paul Park. My observation is it's
an underused park. In other words, it's more beautiful and
has more more things in there than than people using it.
It's right in Hooker Revenue and I live on Ferris
and somebody there a lot and I've gone there for sure.
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I put my kids there. I've been there, but I
don't use it regularly, and I'm missing something on that.
And so you giving people a reason to not only
go there, but to make friends there. That going is going,
making friends brings you back.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
And that's that's something that's that's true because that's what
happened to you in New York City.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Yeah. I even met someone who now I'm a business
consultant for them from your in the park in New
York City. So we're gonna be outside all summer. So
Bartlett Park get ready for us.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
We'll be there.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
You mentioned you had a vision I want to share.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
You know, I'll keep it late. We want the community
to start prioritizing their health, and we want to introduce
them to exercises that are accessible to them because accessibility
is an issue. I could say on a personal level,
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and I won't say too much, but I'm getting ready
to open a wellness studio and Poughkeepsie nice. So that's
something coming and I look forward to that. But on
a note between Chris and I I look forward to
continuing and growing this initiative.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
And what strikes me is both of you talk about
it wellness is not just blood pressure. I mean, it
seems as if there's a psychological and spiritual dimension to
the word well.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Right, yeah, And that's that's you know, when I think
about wellness, it's not just it's not just health, you know,
it's it's it's financial wellness, it's mental wellness, it's it's
social wellness, you know. And and like I said before,
that was one of the things to push the Poughkeepsie
five K event that I did was to you know,
use that to propel like a wellness initiative in the community,
(27:23):
and to even help fund wellness and wellness initiatives in
the community, like I would love to when she opens
her wellness studio to be able to you know, fund
some children going there for different needs, because it really
starts with the kids. And we're trying to create a
good landscape for Poughkeepsie. So if we start instilling wellness
into the youth, then we turn them into very healthy adults,
(27:45):
right absolutely.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
And you know, and I've known from working with with students,
particularly students that have had trauma experiences, and you know,
we try to give them healthy development through the arts,
you know, through poetry, through learning, how to right. You know,
learning literacy, learned to express yourself. You know vocally that
it makes a difference. You know, it really does make
(28:07):
a difference.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
You know, getting kids healthy is a good thing. And
from a civic point of view, you community point of view,
if they live on where they pay more taxes, it's
good for the country.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
But I wasn't I'm not gonna lie, I was not
thinking that, Medica.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
If you want to talk about national health, one of
the reasons the government has a reason to want you
healthy is you you pay taxes for longer be the
does it may I'm interested Chris in your distinction between
your volunteer work that which just as part of in
your work in politics, I mean to be a uh
(28:58):
a political leader and a civil agree to Do you
feel attention there or do you think you close together? No?
Speaker 6 (29:04):
I think it goes ind in hand because I stay
true to what my initiatives are and what my platforms are,
which is like you know, business development, helping fixing main
street and providing for youth programs. And this is why
I run the Youth Baseball League. And you know, I'm
a part of a lot of different other youth initiatives
so I think it does. I don't see any tension
because I'm kind of aligned in what i want to
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do in the community and what I want to do politically,
so I don't really get much tension in that sense.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
What about you, Satara, in your alignment with you know,
with continuing to do your civics duty, so to speak,
in the City of Poughkeepsie.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
It goes hand in hand because it's all about purpose
and this is what I'm really living in real life.
So I'm not changing faces or anything. I don't have
to switch anything on or off. This is real life.
This is me, and I just want to exert that
in everything that I do.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Can you let the listeners know one more time how
they can get the information in the schedule for your
initiative in the Park.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Sure, it's Yo in theparkpk dot com and the schedule
is sorry.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
July sixth at Bartlett Park, July thirteenth at King Street Park,
July twentieth at Mansion Square Park, July twenty seventh at
College Hill Park, August third at Pulaski Park, August tenth
at cal Rock Park, August seventeen at City Hall on
the Lawn and August twenty fourth, at Barlett Park, All at.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Twelve pm, All at twelve pm.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Okay, fantastic, Well, thank you Satara, Thank you Chris for
being here today on finding out with Poto. You're welcome
always come back and visiticism. To our listeners, thank you
so much for being with us again once again this weekend.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Thank you,
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