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The Reunion Podcast - Episode 2 - Connecting with Ancestors & Embracing the Influence of Place
The Reboot Podcast
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Exploring the impact of societal disconnection and the desire for connection, Marshall Pollard recounts his experiences in Washington, D.C., revealing a shift in perspective from childhood to adulthood.
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Speaker 1
If the past few years have revealed anything, I really hope it convinces us of our need to be reconnected. You know, how did you and I, how did our people, how did we get to a point where I mean at least across different ancestry and origin, the status quo is to be disconnected. And maybe more importantly, I'm wondering how those of us who do long for belonging. How do we confront the fact that we are all paying a price for this disconnection, some more than others? I mean, if it is possible to move forward, connected, belonging to one another. Maybe we got to explore the stories of how all of us, I mean all of us, you, me, our people got here. Welcome back to the Reunion Podcast. My name is Marshall Pollard, often referred to as Mr. P by creatives of all ages. I was an elementary school teacher that turned into an intergenerational network builder. I've always been fascinated with how people are connected and disconnected. For a while now, I've been on a journey with Jerry Colona, author of Reunion, leadership and the longing to belong, to sit with the stories, as he likes to say, listening to stories of people's ancestors, of their origins, and our individual and collective longing to belong.
Speaker 2
I'm from Washington, D.C. but I'm from a neighborhood, Kennerwood, Fox High, and I started out as a normal kid, you know, an innocent kid. I want to play sports, baseball, basketball, good in school, still good at them things, but that was mainly what I was focused on at the time. But the neighborhood growing up, I didn't really recognize what I recognize now as an adult. So, I might have been running through bullets. I might have seen things, but I wasn't worried about it enough to remember them, because I was a child growing up until I was 12 years old. I started noticing things that weren't normal. Like, say me and my mom, and my little brother and sister, we go to the mall one day, we got to get on the train. Other people have an acar, you know, or we share a meal at the mall, you know, stuff like that. I started recognizing at the age of 12, and that made me realize a lot. Like, I didn't want to be here for that long, but when I was a child, I loved her, because it was fun. Five-hydrated on, summertime, it was really fun. Like, all my friends were still there, none of them was dead, you know.
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