Somehow…I managed to brow beat 2 incredible people into a conversation on my YakkStack Zoom meeting this evening…and others were gracious enough to join in as spectators and as active participants in the conversation.
The primary guest for tonight was Dr. Alex Vasquez. I’ve followed Dr. V for at least the better part of a decade, to my best recollection, at least 6-7 years. Dr. V, is my kind of guy…doesn’t suffer fools and is kewl with the odd F-Bomb in his delivery, while still being amazingly educated and very well versed into a lot of our most current topics, with his information spanning back years before COVID was ‘a thing’ that anybody even knew about or would be concerned with.
Dr. Alex, actually admitted throughout the call that he accepted the invite because he was a little rusty due to relocation and could’ve used a conversation to get back into the swing of things…and I openly invited Drew Weatherhead into the mix because, Drew hosts a podcast and is actually quite intuitive in hearing information and asking questions to help fill in the blanks.
Drew is like the the Canadian Joe Rogan…I mean, he had his own Jiu-Jitsu training facility up until COVID hit…now hosts his own podcasts and publishes substacks…how much more Rogan, on a Canuck Version, can you even get?
While I was definitely the short chubby kid at the back eating paste and chiming in without true direction…this evening was actually pretty amazing.
[No offense meant to short, chubby, kids or people who eat paste and happen to sit at the back of open seminars]
I recorded this evenings conversation and shared both an audio and video version with Dr. V and Drew so that they could add their specific magic…but from both, I received a very similar comment…
No real editing is really needed.
And…as Dr. Vasquez put it…we’re just regular people…having a simple conversation…and as rough and crude as this may have come out, this is EXACTLY the proper type of conversation to have.
No formatting.
No scripts.
Straight off of the cuff.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, I think he’s right.
For so long, a lot of us, vaccinated or not, who may have questioned the ‘COVID fear’ or not, have been stripped of the opportunity to have an open conversation.
In this, those who joined had an opportunity to ask questions in the open forum and through the chat feature of Zoom to ask…Now…I may not have been as attentive as I should have and may not have gotten to all questions but we did cover a lot…and have an open invite into future conversations - as well as email followups.
The evening was not perfect…
It was unscripted. Raw…but in this, couldn’t have been a better time.
If you missed it…we’ll all have a version for viewing/listening too available for consumption…and if you want to meet the superstars of the evening…please visit them at their substacks:
Dr. Alex Vasquez - Link
Drew Weatherhead - Link
And make sure to give them a follow…after that, even better…if we manage to line up all together and if your time affords, be a part of the conversation!
Links to tonight’s conversation to follow…soon.
Followed both! Ty! One day I'll be able to show up for one of these 😏
Thanks for the links to the guests tonight.😊