The Carlos Whittaker Podcast

I am FINALLY home from Rwanda and in Nashville for a minute before going out on TOUR!!! Last week’s episode with Emmanuel really laid the groundwork for this episode, so if you haven’t listened to that one yet, go back and listen to it first!  This week, we are going to go deeper into the story and into the beauty of what the human spirit can accomplish… This week’s episode is very specific on FORGIVENESS and RECONCILIATION. Mathias and Steven were the worst of enemies. Mathias actually murdered Steven’s entire family in the Rwandan Genocide.  You get to hear their story of forgiveness and reconciliation from THEM! Not only do you hear about the forgiveness between these two people who are now as close as brothers, you get to hear about how Mathais forgave himself, which is something we could ALL use a little bit of. Just a warning, this is a heavy episode, and there are talks of violence, so this may not be the episode for our younger Instafamilia. _____ Listen to the first Rwandan episode HERE: https://pod.link/1249486443/episode/200cf7c2a03f3464cc47b68a320706e5  You can find me on Instagram (@loswhit) here: https://bit.ly/CarlosIGNotes Purchase your copy of my new book, How to Human, HERE: https://bit.ly/HowtoHumanNotes Let’s keep in touch! Sign up for my newsletter to be the first to hear ALL my updates. https://bit.ly/MasFamiliaNotes Interested in advertising with us? Reach out here. _____ ATHLETIC GREENS: Athletic Greens is giving you a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase. Go to athleticgreens.com/HUMANHOPE. INDEED: Need to hire? You need Indeed. Visit Indeed.com/HUMANHOPE to start hiring now. BETTER HELP: This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/HUMANHOPE and get on your way to being your best self. HIYA HEALTH: Receive 50% off your first order at hiyahealth.com/HUMANHOPE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

INSTAFAMILIA! WE DID IT! You helped us raise money for a church building, Hope Center, AND a school in Rwanda!!!!! I've been sharing with you all about my time in Rwanda on Instagram but wanted YOU to hear from the people I have spent the week with. This is episode one of two from Rwanda and this one will help lay the groundwork for the next episode about supernatural forgiveness that maybe we have never been able to find before… Mathias murdered Stephen’s family in the Rwandan genocide and NOW they are closer than brothers… HOW?! This episode, will help us understand what led to the genocide from someone who LIVED it all, including bullet holes to prove it, my new friend, Pastor Emmanuel.... _____ Learn more about ICM here: https://www.icm.org/ You can find me on Instagram (@loswhit) here: https://bit.ly/CarlosIGNotes Purchase your copy of my new book, How to Human, HERE: https://bit.ly/HowtoHumanNotes Let’s keep in touch! Sign up for my newsletter to be the first to hear ALL my updates. https://bit.ly/MasFamiliaNotes Interested in advertising with us? Reach out here. _____ Check out our sponsors! AIR DOCTOR: Head to AirDoctorPro.com and use promo code HUMANHOPE and, depending on the model, you’ll receive UP TO 39% off or UP TO $300 off! SIMPLE MODERN: Go to www.simplemodern.com/humanhope and by sharing your email you’ll get a  unique discount code just for you or bundle and save for back to school. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we have an incredible conversation with my friend Eugene. Eugene is an advocate for justice, an intellectual, and very grounded in his theology and humanity. He is such a good human that SEES humans.  Eugene is the president of Bread for the World - a Christian advocacy organization that urges U.S. decision makers to do all they can to pursue a world without hunger, whose mission is to educate and equip people to advocate for policies and programs that can help end hunger in the U.S. and around the world. He shares with us parts of his story I have never even heard before.  We talk about immigration and how it has shaped his whole life AND his faith.  We get into what we can do to truly and honestly end hunger around the world.  I think you’re really going to love this conversation with my friend, Eugene Cho…. _______ Learn more about One Day’s Wages HERE: https://onedayswages.org/  Learn more about Bread for the World HERE: https://www.bread.org/  You can find me on Instagram (@loswhit) here: https://bit.ly/CarlosIGNotes Purchase your copy of my new book, How to Human, HERE: https://bit.ly/HowtoHumanNotes Let’s keep in touch! Sign up for my newsletter to be the first to hear ALL my updates. https://bit.ly/MasFamiliaNotes Interested in advertising with us? Reach out here. _______ Check out our sponsors! SIMPLE MODERN: Go to www.simplemodern.com/humanhope and by sharing your email you’ll get a  unique discount code just for you or bundle and save for back to school.  HIYA HEALTH: Receive 50% off your first order at hiyahealth.com/HUMANHOPE INDEED: Need to hire? You need Indeed. Visit Indeed.com/HUMANHOPE to start hiring now. ZOCDOC: Find a top-rated doctor today – go to Zocdoc.com/HUMANHOPE and download the Zocdoc app for FREE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This podcast discusses the negative effects of excessive content consumption, including doom scrolling and the mental health crisis it causes. It explores the Amish community's choice to abstain from driving cars and emphasizes the importance of therapy. The detrimental impact of consuming bad news is explored, along with the need for empathy. The chapter also emphasizes cleaning up social media lists and provides tips for managing doom scrolling.

Roman candles, fireflies, and sweet tea… I LOVE the Fourth of July. I love this country and the ideas that it was founded on, and I love the opportunities it has given me and my family. But just because I love America doesn’t mean that I have to accept its DYSFUNCTION.  It’s okay to be PROUD of your country and celebrate. And it’s okay to have a COMPLICATED relationship with this holiday. This episodes gets into WHY the Fourth can feel complicated… And why there is still HOPE for this country. THANK YOU for leaning into these conversations with me and for sharing them. Our empathy will be the thing that leads us all toward freedom! _____ Watch my trip to Panama with my dad here: ⁠https://youtu.be/BasID3OFg-E  Listen to my conversation with Kobe Campbell here: ⁠Episode 113: Mental Health Series - Our Bodies and Trauma with Kobe Campbell Read NPR's 6 Immigrants Reflect on their Complicated Relationships with the 4th of July here: https://www.npr.org/2022/07/04/1109722326/4th-july-independence-day-immigrants  Get tickets for Summer Worship Nights with Phil Wickham and Brandon Lake and ME here: https://summerworshipnightstour.com/ You can find me on Instagram (@loswhit) here: ⁠https://bit.ly/CarlosIGNotes ⁠ Purchase your copy of my new book, How to Human, here: ⁠https://bit.ly/HowtoHumanNotes⁠ Let’s keep in touch! Sign up for my newsletter to be the first to hear ALL my updates: ⁠https://bit.ly/MasFamiliaNotes⁠ _____ Check out my sponsors! ATHLETIC GREENS: Athletic Green is giving you a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase. Go to athleticgreens.com/HUMANHOPE. INDEED: Need to hire? You need Indeed. Visit Indeed.com/HUMANHOPE to start hiring now. HIYA: Receive 50% off your first order at hiyahealth.com/HUMANHOPE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s time OFFICIALLY meet the Black Aunties! A few of these ladies have been on the show before, but today they are coming in FULL FORCE. The Black Aunties are going to nurture you, uplift you, correct you, and call you higher.  If you want to know what REAL, RICH, AND THICK FRIENDSHIP looks like, this is the conversation for you. These women have been a HAVEN for one another as they walked through 2020 and navigate the aftermath in ALL the spaces.  There are TEARS, WISDOM, and a whole lot of LAUGHING.  There is something HEALING about this friendship. Come and hang out!  _____ Find Sharon’s Juneteenth message here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ctra7irgQT7/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Love the Black Aunties and want to hear more? Check out their podcast here: The Black Aunties Podcast Find the Black Aunties on Instagram (@blackauntiesgang) here:https://www.instagram.com/blackauntiesgang/ You can find me on Instagram (@loswhit) here: https://bit.ly/CarlosIGNotes Purchase your copy of my new book, How to Human, here: https://bit.ly/HowtoHumanNotes Let’s keep in touch! Sign up for my newsletter to be the first to hear ALL my updates: https://bit.ly/MasFamiliaNotes ______ New partner alert! Thanks to our new sponsor, AquaTru! AQUATRU: Get 20% off any AquaTru purifier! Visit aquatru.com/HUMANHOPE and use the code HUMANHOPE at checkout!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is our final week of the Mental Health Series and these have been some of my FAVORITE episodes of ALL. TIME.  This week, I have Dr. Dan Allender, Founder and Lead Instructor, of the Allender Center at the Seattle School. I have been following his work for a long time and he is literally a hero of mine. I wish this episode could be 15 hours long it is SO GOOD. This was one of the more special podcasts I have ever recorded… We unpack the “shattering of shalom” and what shalom really means. All the ways we numb our pain AND the difference between numbing and truly moving forward… Why we NEED one another to heal from our trauma and how to GRIEVE with each other… Dan also gives us practical next steps if you yourself are dealing with trauma. I am so excited to share this special conversation with you!  _____ Follow the Allender Center on Instagram (allendercenter( here: https://www.instagram.com/allendercenter/ Learn more about the Allender Center and Dr. Dan Allender here: https://theallendercenter.org/  You can find me on Instagram (@loswhit) here: https://bit.ly/CarlosIGNotes Get tickets to see me and my friend Annie F. Downs on the Here For You Tour HAPPENING NOW!! Get tickets to the rest of the tour dates HERE: https://bit.ly/CarlosTour Purchase your copy of my new book, How to Human, HERE: https://bit.ly/HowtoHumanNotes Let’s keep in touch! Sign up for my newsletter to be the first to hear ALL my updates. https://bit.ly/MasFamiliaNotes Interested in advertising with us? Reach out here. _____ Thank you to our sponsors! BETTER HELP: This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/HUMANHOPE and get on your way to being your best self. INDEED: Need to hire? You need Indeed. Visit Indeed.com/HUMANHOPE to start hiring now. SUNDAYS: Get 35% off your first order of Sundays. Go to SundaysForDogs.com/HUMANHOPE or use code HUMANHOPE at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the Juneteenth BONUS episode! It’s been a HOT minute since we’ve addressed any conversations on race so today, you are getting just me having a conversation around the historical LEGACY of Juneteenth. I dig into the history of Juneteenth and the reality that these things are still in NEED of focus… I help to lay the groundwork for the TRUE meaning of Juneteenth. If you want to DEPOLITICIZE Juneteenth, this is the conversation for you… __________ You can find me on Instagram (@loswhit) here: https://bit.ly/CarlosIGNotes Get tickets to see me and my friend Annie F. Downs on the Here For You Tour HAPPENING NOW!! Get tickets to the rest of the tour dates HERE: https://bit.ly/CarlosTour Purchase your copy of my new book, How to Human, HERE: https://bit.ly/HowtoHumanNotes Let’s keep in touch! Sign up for my newsletter to be the first to hear ALL my updates. https://bit.ly/MasFamiliaNotes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My new friend, Kobe, is a therapist in Charlotte, NC and she is on the cutting edge of what therapy can be.  We talk about how God and therapy can exist in the same space.  We get into our bodies and how they carry trauma… How anxiety, depression and trauma can actually be passed down through generations… This episode will BLOW. YOUR. MIND. AND leave you with hope. _____ Get Kobe’s new book ‘Why Am I Like This’: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Am-Like-This-Restore/dp/0785296425  Follow Kobe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kobecampbell_/  You can find me on Instagram (@loswhit) here: https://bit.ly/CarlosIGNotes Get tickets to see me and my friend Annie F. Downs on the Here For You Tour HAPPENING NOW!! Get tickets to the rest of the tour dates HERE: https://bit.ly/CarlosTour Purchase your copy of my new book, How to Human, HERE: https://bit.ly/HowtoHumanNotes Let’s keep in touch! Sign up for my newsletter to be the first to hear ALL my updates. https://bit.ly/MasFamiliaNotes _____ Check out my sponsors! ZOCDOC: Find a top-rated doctor today – go to Zocdoc.com/HUMANHOPE and download the Zocdoc app for FREE! INDEED: Need to hire? You need Indeed. Visit Indeed.com/HUMANHOPE to start hiring now.HIYA HEALTH: Receive 50% off your first order at hiyahealth.com/HUMANHOPE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I absolutely LOVED this conversation with the man, the myth, the legend - my friend, Miles Adcox. Miles is the CEO of Onsite Workshops here in Tennessee. Onsite is an emotional wellness lifestyle brand dedicated to changing the world through enhanced emotional health.  If you have read my book Kill the Spider, the story arch IS Onsite. It is all about my 7 days spent there and how it completely transformed my life. Miles shares all about how therapy changed his own life and his journey that led him to starting Onsite. We get into the importance of therapy and great first steps to finding your own therapist… How to talk to people we love that are in our lives and present the option of getting help and going to therapy… The ways EMPATHY can lead us towards healing through tough conversations and relationships…. And thoughts on why we now have a hyper-sensitive society… If you have any questions about therapy, it is likely they will be answered in THIS episode!!!  __________ TOUR IS HEREEEEEE!! The Here For You Tour JUST kicked off with my friend Annie F. Downs and it is SO MUCH FUN!!! Tickets for all remaining dates are HERE: https://bit.ly/CarlosTour Listen to my Kill the Spider episode HERE: https://pod.link/1249486443/episode/d5d04c2fc2a314d7ed4e04ee0b3308c7  Follow Miles on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/milesadcox/  Check out Miles’ website for more information him HERE: https://milesadcox.com/ Learn more about Onsite Workshops HERE: https://onsiteworkshops.com/  Purchase your copy of my new book, How to Human, HERE: https://bit.ly/HowtoHumanNotes Let’s keep in touch! Sign up for my newsletter to be the first to hear ALL my updates. https://bit.ly/MasFamiliaNotes __________ Check out my sponsors! GREEN CHEF: Go to GreenChef.com/humanhope60 and use code humanhope60 to get 60% off plus free shipping. SUNDAYS: Get 35% off your first order of Sundays. Go to SundaysForDogs.com/HUMANHOPE or use code HUMANHOPE at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices