new Traditional Podcast: Recent Episodes
Kwali Liggons
The new Traditional Podcast is storytelling with a "millennial" emphasis. Every episode spotlights the voice of those who sit at unique junctures while exploring their next right move, personally and career-wise.
"Multifaceted, dimensional, complicated, but undeniably beautiful." -Black Male Culture
Joshua Renfroe // Photographer, Director, Founder of Black Boy Fly
Topics: The Beauty of Black Male Culture, Black Is King, Creative Edge, What Flying Feels Like
Download Link: https://tinyurl.com/y4nehszw
Press: https://www.thecuratornyc.com // https://www.cnn.com/style/article/black-boy-fly-joshua-renfroe/index.html
Mentions: Curtis Taylor, (@curtistaylorjr_), Fred Sands, (@ivormerlyknownas); Joshua Kissi, (@joshuakissi); Travis Gumbs, (@travisgumbs)
"We can all exist in so many ways and it can all work."
Joshua Renfroe // Photographer, Director, Founder of Black Boy Fly
Topics: Home, Creative Influences, Black Masculinity
Download Link: https://tinyurl.com/y4p5gmu2
Press: https://www.thecuratornyc.com // https://www.cnn.com/style/article/black-boy-fly-joshua-renfroe/index.html
Mentions: Fred Sands, (@ivormerlyknownas); Joshua Kissi, (@joshuakissi); Travis Gumbs, (@travisgumbs)
Joshua Renfroe // Photographer, Director, Founder of Black Boy Fly
Topics: Finding Your Creative Community, Faith, Due Diligence
Download Link: https://tinyurl.com/y6nx9ykd
Press: https://www.thecuratornyc.com
Preview // Joshua Renfroe // Photographer, Director, Founder of Black Boy Fly
Download Link: https://tinyurl.com/yy3kfvs6
Press: https://www.thecuratornyc.com
"Fashion is an investment. Step your pieces up."
Sebastian Jean // Stylist, Men's Fashion Editor @ Office Magazine
Topics: Chicago's Influence on Fashion, RSVP Gallery, The Future of the Fashion Industry, Investment Pieces
Download Link - https://tinyurl.com/y5bgygh6
Source, @new.trad @kwalil @sebastianjean
Press: I'm Tired of Being Your Side Bitch: Black Opera as Architecture, http://officemagazine.net/tired-being-your-side-bitch
"You want to be able to do everything as a stylist, but you also want to do what you know well."
Sebastian Jean // Stylist, Men's Fashion Editor @ Office Magazine
Topics: Styling While Black, Accruing Credibility + Respect, Sustainability, Quick Hits
Download Link - https://tinyurl.com/y4yk6dza
Source, @new.trad @kwalil @sebastianjean
Press: I'm Tired of Being Your Side Bitch: Black Opera as Architecture, http://officemagazine.net/tired-being-your-side-bitch
Sebastian Jean // Stylist, Men's Fashion Editor
Topics: Interning at Calvin Klein, Office Magazine, Imposter Syndrome, Raf's Coffee
Download Link - https://tinyurl.com/y5yh5at5
Source, @new.trad @kwalil @sebastianjean
Sebastian Jean // Stylist, Men's Fashion Editor
Download Link: https://tinyurl.com/y5f2wb78
Own your sauce. Have you been the reason you haven't gotten to where you want to go yet?
Topics: The Creative Grind, Rehearsing w/ Beyonce, Sauce, Legacy
Meet Khadija Shari // Brooklyn Native, Quadruple Threat (Dancer, Model, Actress, Beast)
Download Link - https://tinyurl.com/yxstovkc Source, @newtrad @kwalil @khadijashariThey Come They Go: https://vimeo.com/356999929
Press: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCoHKUPMur0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7HioBAeRt8
Own your platforms. Own your creative. Own your intellectual property.
Topics: Creative Control, Needless Validation, Self Preservation, Ownership
Meet Khadija Shari // Brooklyn Native, Quadruple Threat (Dancer, Model, Actress, Beast)
Download Link - https://tinyurl.com/y3kvctmr
Source, @newtrad @kwalil @khadijashari
Press: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCoHKUPMur0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7HioBAeRt8
Meet Khadija Shari // Brooklyn Native, Quadruple Threat (Dancer, Model, Actress, Beast)
Topics: Working w/ Beyonce, Colorism, Confidence, Shining Through It All
Download Link - https://tinyurl.com/y64f8vzu
Source, @newtrad @kwalil @khadijashari
Press: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7HioBAeRt8
JT Flowers.
Topics: Slingshot theory, Trudging Through the Ascent, Stadium Rap, Steel Rose
Meet JT Flowers // Portland Native, Artist, Rhodes Scholar
Download Link - https://tinyurl.com/y9s9a75c
Source - @newtrad @kwalil @jtflowers
Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq4vSyXMA0E
Google: https://g.co/kgs/DapUdG
Press: Complex, Best New Artists of The Month, https://www.complex.com/pigeons-and-planes/2020/06/best-new-artists-june-2020/
Lyrical Lemonade: https://www.lyricallemonade.com/p/grown-man-jt-flowers
What does it mean to tell the truth?
Topics: Truth, Self Care, Mandarin, Transitional Grief, Isolation, Impact
Meet JT Flowers // Portland Native, Artist, Rhodes Scholar
Download Link - https://tinyurl.com/y9s9a75c
Source, @newtrad @kwalil @jtflowers
Press: Complex, Best New Artists of The Month, https://www.complex.com/pigeons-and-planes/2020/06/best-new-artists-june-2020/
What happens once you've seen beyond the proverbial mountaintop?
Meet JT Flowers // Portland Native, Artist, Rhodes Scholar
Topics: Unpacking Black Excellence, fulfillment paradox, mental frameworks, being taught to want, ancestral history
Download Link - https://tinyurl.com/y9vy5sh5
Source, @newtrad @kwalil @jtflowers
Press: Complex, Best New Artists of The Month, https://www.complex.com/pigeons-and-planes/2020/06/best-new-artists-june-2020/
Meet JT Flowers // Portland Native, Artist, Rhodes Scholar
Topics: Navigating "elite" spaces, undoing survival mechanisms, Yale, accrued privilege, compartmentalizing
Download Link - https://tinyurl.com/y82aldmk
Source, @newtrad @kwalil @jtflowers
Press: Complex, Best New Artists of The Month, https://www.complex.com/pigeons-and-planes/2020/06/best-new-artists-june-2020/
In part three, we chat with the host, discuss fresh cuts and plans for the future.
Download Link: https://tinyurl.com/y765qrem
In part two, we discuss the road to med school, the necessity of Black doctors across specialties in the field of medicine, the pressures of representation, and leveraging your identity to attain sustained success in medicine and in any career. Download Link: https://tinyurl.com/yczdv3oe “When I think about medicine and the problems that medicine is facing, one of the biggest issues that comes to mind is representation. It is one of the biggest threats. There were more black male med school applicants in 1978 than in 2014.”“Less than 3% of med school faculty across the country are Black. Med students do not have people to look to.”
Ep.19
In part one, we explore Vince's experience attending a private, all-male high school, discuss internalized expectations, and hear about the woman largely responsible for helping him realize his future in medicine.
Download Link: https://tinyurl.com/y9vzx6mt
“It's hard to find a sense of self-preservation when you're just trying to fight for a space.”#WhatDoctorsLookLikeEp. 18
new Traditional will be back with a brand new episode next week featuring Dr. Vince Morgan. Here’s a preview of what’s to come. Download Link: https://tinyurl.com/y7gpu7ux
In part two, we go way back and then to the future of all things STEM, being comfortable succeeding in solitude, transcending conventional thought, understanding what it means to be on the cusp of what’s new, now, and next, pursuing a life well lived, and living life with a sense of urgency. “It’s about being comfortable in your solitude, yet confident in your own conviction.”Ep. 17 Download Link: https://tinyurl.com/y7ctvo4oBook: Contagious: Why Things Catch On, Jonah Berger
In part one, we discuss privilege, life at an HBCU, and why a streamlined STEM alternate is needed to engage newcomers in 2018.
Download Link: https://tinyurl.com/y92s6mkc
Social: @Fascinatesci
"..what I ultimately want to do is make for immersive educational experiences in STEM."
Ep. 16
new Traditional will be back next week with a brand new episode featuring Justin Shaifer. Here’s a preview of what’s to come.Download Link: https://tinyurl.com/ycupycwj
In Part three, Khadija talks us through her performance in the Super Bowl 50 halftime show (Formation, that is), what working alongside the Queen (B) entails, and what it means to be a woman with a cause.
Download Link: https://tinyurl.com/ydg5fw8u
(@KhadijaShari)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoJLRfbyKgI
"..have you been looking for some validation that you haven't found within yourself yet?"
Ep. 15
A seat at the table or the whole damn thing?
In part two, we discuss creative ownership, intellectual property, and maximizing possibility.
Download Link: https://tinyurl.com/ydzcenw7
(@KhadijaShari)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoJLRfbyKgI
"..not just a seat at the table, but the whole damn thing, then the future."
Ep. 14