Oneness IS the indescribable, the fullness, the beyond. I can assure you that you have experienced this feeling before. The way we experience oneness is directly, individually.....when we are able to go beyond our mind, intellect and ego. You can’t compare it to anything, and the reason for that is because, Oneness itself...is incomparable. We actually have phrases to quantify this feeling and they often are; “It took my breath away” “Time stood still” “I’m Speechless” Oneness is our theory of everything. It can be difficult to access this feeling or network. Accessing this part of ourselves, our existence requires an enormous release of our own ego and concern for oneself. We all want to experience our oneness, it is just not easy to manifest. Largely due to forces in our lives that are either egoist or belonging to society, and these stand in the way. ### INTRO/OUTRO MUSIC: Artist- [Heather Mae ](http://www.heathermae.net/home) Song- [Hero](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFaHqBmHiIE&list=OLAK5uy_nOS7Uh9Wt5RDeOkOO7CtQujQwyuShKUSs&index=1) **Follow Us!** [Website]http://welikeitraw.podiant.co [Apple Podcasts]https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-like-it-raw/id1526491114 [Google Podcasts]https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5wb2RpYW50LmNvL3dlbGlrZWl0cmF3L3Jzcy54bWw= [Facebook]https://www.facebook.com/WLIRAW/?view_public_for=108764274261659 [Twitter]https://twitter.com/welikeitraw [Instagram]http://instagram.com/raw/pod

*We are shifting our release schedule to a bi-weekly basis going forward! We want to acknowledge that our promise of releasing an episode every MONDAY has been inconsistent. You all deserve follow through and that, is what we intend to give to you! * **Follow Us!** [Website]http://welikeitraw.podiant.co [Apple]https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-like-it-raw/id1526491114 [Google]https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5wb2RpYW50LmNvL3dlbGlrZWl0cmF3L3Jzcy54bWw= [Facebook]https://www.facebook.com/WLIRAW/?view_public_for=108764274261659 [Twitter]https://twitter.com/welikeitraw [Instagram]http://instagram.com/raw/pod **Music** Artist ~ [Heather Mae]http://https//www.heathermae.net/home Song ~ [Hero]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFaHqBmHiIE Shifting to an every other Monday schedule gives us the ability to not only make you SQUIRMMM...with anticccccccipaiton! But also for the chance to make sure we get it right! You, our listener, matter most to us and we would never want to show up unprepared for y'all. Let us know how you feel about this schedule shift, as well as, if you hav any thoughts or feedback about our first month on the AIR! We would love to hear from you and cannot WAIT to share our next episode with you! Tune in next Monday, OCTOBER 5th for the newest episode of WE LIKE IT RAW! -----

### Follow Us: * [Our Website](http://welikeitraw.podiant.co/) * [Apple Podcasts](http://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-like-it-raw/id1526491114) * [Spotify](http://open.spotify.com/show/4QrtrXe6axAzxS2rg9U28w?si=Hp_wpbY3SGeQMH-Ustbi9w) * [Google Podcast](http://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5wb2RpYW50LmNvL3dlbGlrZWl0cmF3L3Jzcy54bWw=) * [Twitter](http://twitter.com/welikeitraw) * [Instagram](http://www.instagram.com/raw.pod/) * [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/WLIRAW/?view_public_for=108764274261659) ### INTRO/OUTRO MUSIC: Artist- [Heather Mae ](http://www.heathermae.net/home) Song- [Hero](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFaHqBmHiIE&list=OLAK5uy_nOS7Uh9Wt5RDeOkOO7CtQujQwyuShKUSs&index=1) Everyday since the pandemic has been acknowledged in this country, we have seen a bloodbath of the psyche. Little to no care or *empathy* has been shown to the aftermath that will continue to ruin for countless decades after, these unthinkable extraordinary years of our lives. I only say *after* because I believe the human race to be resilient in all challenges and impossibilities we have surmounted. Our fight has never been with each other. It has always been with *the fear of preservation of way of life*. These moments we are experiencing as Americans now have happened as countless iterations over the millennia’s that the human has been on this planet. While we call most, if not all, of them, myth/legend or scripture…to endure time bears the strongest of significance. All of us at **WLIRAW** want to make you feel *preserved*, *shared*, *appreciated* and *valid* during the **Age of Reaction**. You always have a choice, and while we all possess the capacity to grow and adjust our choices with new information. We encourage you to not be swept up by words so easily. Let actions, choices and sacrifice speak to the whole of the human. *Anyone can tell you who they are, but everyone will prove it sooner rather than later.* The Polygon of life we are existing in right now is incredibly sophisticated. There are many answers to all of the new sensitivities we have discovered not only within ourselves, but those that we are just now acknowledging have existed among us for millennia and have been growing, silently in our society. Entrenched deep within the institutions we have been instructed to trust. If you feel like not enough; is currently being, has been, or will be done in response to COVID-19, you are correct. Yet our grandiose, feeble government has proven-again-time and time, that they will never answer the call to the most extreme measures….they claim its political….but it is because they fear…they fear your power. You wield the most incredible power in the history of all living organisms….the power of choice. You always have access to that choice, in any moment, to decide and manifest your reaction to any situation. Often, we think our first response is the right choice, because it was our instinct, our fight or flight….but isn’t that really fear? Why do we make any choices at all as humanoids with free will? To protect the very temple that houses the organ providing us with the power to enact that cunning power. Do not be fooled by any rhetoric of compassion, care, sympathy, hate, fear, pressure….Choose to see others for their choices, their actions taken to combat the immoral and unethical treatment of another…for their actions will fill the novels of your mind with who they really are…and their words, won’t even make it into the preface. If there is anything I have learned in this life so far, it is that No one will tell you who they really are, but they will always show you. You always have a choice, and all of us at We Like It Raw want you to know that, you will always have the space you need to make the choice that serves you to the highest purpose. It is ok to feel scared, you are valid in thinking that our country is purchasing the gasoline for the bonfire, lighting

# It's all about the spoons baby!! *This is touching on experiences that we spoke about in episode 2!* We are so happy to share our audio space with the insightful **Leslie Blake Walker!** ### Intro/Outro Music Heather Mae- [Website ](http://www.heathermae.net/home) Song- [Hero](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFaHqBmHiIE) ### Follow Us: * [Our Website](http://welikeitraw.podiant.co) * [Subscribe on Apple Podcasts](http://https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-like-it-raw/id1526491114) * [Subscribe on Spotify](http://https://open.spotify.com/show/4QrtrXe6axAzxS2rg9U28w?si=Hp_wpbY3SGeQMH-Ustbi9w) * [Subscribe on Google Podcast](http://https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5wb2RpYW50LmNvL3dlbGlrZWl0cmF3L3Jzcy54bWw=) * [Twitter](http:///twitter.com/welikeitraw) * [Instagram](http://instagram.com/raw.pod/) * [Facebook](http://https://www.facebook.com/WLIRAW/?view_public_for=108764274261659) ## Will you spoon me? Join Leslie Blake Walker and I today where we discuss what the Spoon Theory is and how it can be so effective in pulling back the curtain and identifying why we behave the the way we do, how our own behavior is perceived by others, and what some healthy steps are to addressing and coming to peace with these realizations. *This is touching on experiences that we spoke about in Episode 2!* We are so happy to share our audio space with the insightful Leslie Blake Walker! As a fellow performer the experience of sharing space on stage and off it we find ourselves in very vulnerable spaces mentally emotionally. The spoon theory is based on a story of the affects our own actions and behavior and what we can and cannot give space too in a single moment What do we have time for? We all find ourselves using that phrase constantly throughout our lives. We analyze what we can give space for mentally throughout our whole day. By taking into account what we can and cannot give space too is a way for us to communicate to others what we are able to handle personally. It is ok to not have enough, it might even be the healthiest choice to take into account your own personal room for what you can take on in that moment. Because we want to be our best and give the best of us to those whom we love and need us. Giving away your spoons and taking spoons from others throughout your day is important. While it’s important to know our own capacity, be sure to take account our shared capacity in that moment. This time that we are all living through, is taking more from us than normal. More is being asked of us, required of us and expected of us. How can we make some sort of difference in our day? Take into account your spoons! Spoons can be anything; sleep, water, food, calling a friend, having a treat, watching your favorite show, listening to your favorite podcast ;) We don’t have the same conversations with everyone in our lives, we share some conversations with certain people and some with others, but take into account what you’re really asking or needing from that person in that moment, be honest and real. Don’t beat around the bush, be real, be RAW and share your truth #ruth. The worst part can be that we don’t even realize it! How we feel about one thing factors into many other relationships and actions in our entire life. When we don’t take the time to asses the real problem and how we are feeling then it pops up into other places of our life. But then it has already happened..and forgiveness can be really hard to give yourself. One of the hardest thing about the spoon theory is that no one else owes you their spoons and you don’t owe other people your spoons. “I don’t have the time for you”. It can be hard to hear that form some people you really want to receive that from. Aristotle shares many philosophical insights and in his eight book he describes something called the ideas of friendship. Utility, pleasure, and the perfect friendship. The perfect friendship is

*We Like It Raw curates the complexities of the human experience so you don’t have to! Because honestly, who has time anymore to sit around and wonder….”Why did this happen to me?”….well, WE DO! Sit back, relax and let us get RAWED so you don’t have too!* ## Here's What You Need To Know Today on We Like It Raw, Tom and Kate provide the RAW TRUTH, #ruth, behind the origins of the WLIRAW podcast! What secrets and....substances will we discover?! Tom, Kate, and Nadia also share some brief insight into why it is powerful and important to set effective boundaries, and HOW TO SAY NO! Even when it is to those in your life that you care deeply about. ## What’s inside “How To Say NO!-Origins of a Pod”? *Welcome to How To Say NO!-Origins of a Pod Today we catch up with Kate, Tom and Nadia to learn the secret behind this podcast! Stick around for the second half of the episode where they give you some helpful tips on how to set effective boundaries, how to cope with setting boundaries, and why it is so powerful to just SAY NO and be selfish!* ## Show Notes: One thing we do to find safety in our lives is by creating our own spaces. Someone may consider their bedroom as their paradise and place to escape, for others its the bathroom, their car….Well for us it was our GARAGE! We always have so much to be thankful for in this life. One of those things for us is the never ending, seemingly boundless, humor that sprouts from our fathers mind. For we have hime to be grateful for on this day when he dubbed our outdoor relaxation cove *“The Pot Haven”* Kate and Tom find peace in stillness. However for them, stillness means being present in their here & now by connecting to their minds and letting their worlds pass by for a bit. Imagine looking out your window on the freeway as the physical world rides right by you. On this day though, Kate and Tom decided to roll down the windows of their lives and listen to each other differently. Unsurprisingly, through their shared (and often extensive) recreation time together, Kate and Tom flourished the deeply confusing and complicated sibling rivalry and their prevailing trust issues. At this moment, it was the commitment of two siblings. Two siblings who had spent years of their lives believing there was something or everything wrong with themselves. What Tom & Kate knew now was that they not only needed to see…to listen and hear…but to understand and realize…That, all this time that was spent trying to get away from each other has, ironically, now brought them to this summit of peace and love *literally sobbing over here you guys* Moments like these in our lives create something for us as idividuals called cornerstones. Think of like a guidepost that is always there in your mind, gently inlfuencing your decisions and commitments in life. These, "cornerstones" help frame you as a human and you subconciously take them into account when making big decisions. It factors into who you are at your rawest self, at your core. These life altering realizations have inspired us to analyze every aspect of our lives from not only our personal relationship with each other, but our whole family, friendships, at work and in our everyday life. You have been the only one who has experienced any of your own lives. Not even your siblings, or those who raised you no one else truly possesses the power to experience and respond to stimuli the exact same way that you do. Which, in my opinon, is pretty f-cking cool! That is why, often, Tom, Kate, and Nadia feel as though life is really f-cking lonely. One ***RAW TRUTH*** **#Ruth** that these idiots are still figuring out is the intimacy of loneliness. It is ok to not be surrounded by people or family and be social all the time. In fact, it is VERY HEALTHY TO DO SO. Our society and culture of connectedness has subconsciously instructed us to feel, “less than”, or, “not normal”, if we struggled t

*We Like It Raw curates the complexities of the human experience so you don’t have to! Because honestly, who has time anymore to sit around and wonder….”Why did this happen to me?”….well, WE DO! Sit back, relax and let us get RAWED so you don’t have too!* # **Episode Summary:** Our goal while recording this episode was to provide our listeners the chance to learn more about who we are as individuals and a podcast! ## What’s inside “THE MEAT”? *Welcome to THE MEAT!* Today we catch up with Kate, Tom and Nadia to see just how RAW their own lives are currently, and if they have any advice or plan on how to take steps forward... ## **Show Notes:** *Our goal while recording this episode was to provide our listeners the chance to learn more about who we are as individuals and a podcast!* Siblings, Kate and Tom, along side Nadia lay the foundations for this episodes, *RAW truth* **#ruth**. You can always compare creative content, but you will always be the only you. We are confused, unsure and have absolutely no clue as to where any one of us will end up as we head into the last quarter of 2020. Uncertainty can be scary, actually…terrifying! COVID-19 has essentially shuttered each one of our respective artistic industries. Finding ways to fill that financial and spiritual void has shown us just how much we should not take for granted in regards to our craft. While we may not understand *WHY* the universe forces us to go through these tumultuous transitional periods of our lives, we can *TRY* to find the beauty in the unknown, knowledge amongst the unknowable, and future while failing forward. *16:15* Identifying, processing and communicating our own varied levels of trauma we carry from childhood, to this current moment in our lives, can be a powerful engine to understanding and allowing peace within our mental and spiritual conscious. As Nadia shares with us, verbally identifying the raw truth *[#ruth]* within our suffering brings us closer to the peace that we so desperately seek. Power and our path wear many faces. For years, Tom believed that our individual journeys had been pre-determined for us. Nadia challenges this idea with the insurmountable evidence that is COVID-19. *22:50* The universe has given us an opportunity in disguise by providing us with the time and mental capacity to give attention to areas of our lives that may have otherwise, continued to take up space in the backseat of our minds. We recognize the formidable loss every human is experiencing during this pandemic. However, the time is NOW that we must design innovative and robust solutions to this crisis of not only creativity, but humanity. *28:30* “Your expectations of who I am is your responsibility” The way we perceive situational and experiential scenarios as adults is much different than that of the mind a child…..hopefully. The ability to instantly recognize and identify with negative information as adults is what some researchers refer to as, [“Negativity Bias”](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3652533/). A [study](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1940161214524832) published in 2014 by Marc Trussler, an academic of Vanderbilt University and Stuart Soroka of the Dept. of Political science at McGill University in Quebec, Share their informed reasoning as to why news stations give the highest quantity of air time to the broadcasts that contain news that is perceived by us to be bad. Simply because bad news accentuates this negativity bias and sells better than good/positive news. ### **Links Mentioned:** * [SHE-RA and The Princesses of Power](https://www.netflix.com/watch/80179862?trackId=14277283&tctx=-97%2C-97%2C%2C%2C%2C) * [Negativity Bias](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3652533/) * [Consumer Demand for Cynical and Negative News Frames](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1940161214524832) ### Music By *Song- "[Hero](http://https://www.yout

We validate your feelings that simply existing...can be pretty tricky. ## WE SAY IT'S OK! A creative podcast built from the unique minds of Tom, Nadia, and Kate. Start your Mondays the only way we know how! **RAW** We will dive into the raw truths of our lives and environment, as we analyze the raw shit that has brought us to this moment in time. We’re the cheap value pack of the Three Wise Men, you never knew you needed. Come toast your raw truth (#RUTH) with us every Monday & discover what what it truly means to go RAW or go HOME. ## Hit Us Up Boo! - [WEBSITE](http://www.welikeitraw.pod) - [INSTAGRAM](http://www.instagram.com/raw.pod/channel/) - [TWITTER](http://https://twitter.com/welikeitraw) - [FACEBOOK](http://https://www.facebook.com/We-Like-It-Raw-Podcast-108764274261659) ### Credits Podcast Hosts: Tom ~ Kate ~ Nadia ~ Music: Intro/Outro song; *Hero* by [Heather Mae](http://https://heathermae.net/home) [Podiant Page](http://https://welikeitraw.podiant.co/)