Make Your Damn Bed
@MYDBpodcast is a bite sized, real talk, daily motivation podcast to play while you make your bed every morning. Build momentum - better your life.
Each episode is around 10 minutes and intended to encourage, motivate, and inspire you to get out of bed - so you can start making it!
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 7 minutes
- Episodes
- 1581
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
1093 || heroism is helping with the dishes
Everyone wants to save the world, but nobody wants to help mom with the dishes.
Resources: https://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Hero-in-Real-Life
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1092 || pep talk hotline re-release
a pal on IG asked for this episode and I couldn't find the original post, so I figured I'd repost it for a Sunday special since i feel like most of us could use a lil pick me up again.
Sending good v…
1091 || culture jamming
Did y'all know about this??? I didn't and I think I'm obsessed.
"Culture jamming (sometimes also guerrilla communication)[1][2] is a form of protest used by many anti-consumerist social movements[3] t…
1090 || the final history lesson
“White supremacy is a toxin. The older history textbooks were like syringes that injected the toxin of white supremacy into the mind of many gene rations of Americans.” - Historian Donald Yacovone.
h…
1089 || Lewis Howard Latimer's Inventions
Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and _________.
Lewis Howard Latimer has been erased from history lessons but the man should absolutely be a household name.
Here's what I found:
1088 || Lewis Howard Latimer
Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and _________.
Lewis Howard Latimer has been erased from history lessons but the man should absolutely be a household name.
Here's what I found:
1087 || Are Prisons Obsolete? || Angela Davis || Book Club
if it hasn't been clear by now, Angela Y. Davis is one of my favorite writers and humans to follow when it comes to revolutionary thinking and theory. This book: are prisons obsolete, was 128 pages o…
1086 || Angela Davis || Prison Reform
"The prison industrial complex is fueled by privatization patterns that, it will be recalled, have also drastically transformed health care, education, and other areas of our lives." - Angela Davis
G…
1085 || Angela Davis || recent interview highlights
“I’ve come to the conclusion that our work as activists is always to prepare the next generation,” she says. “To create new terrains so that those who come after us will have a better opportunity to …
1084 || Free Angela || Larry Saunders
Originally released in 1971, the album Free Angela was sold to raise money for the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis. This is a sample of just some of the songs, including the title trac…
1083 || Angela Davis: Cultural Icon
Angela Davis is a lot of things. A scholar, an author, a philosopher, an activist, an advocate, an educator, and a badass. Let's talk about her.
RESOURCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis
1082 || Angela Davis: Radical
Angela Davis is a lot of things. A scholar, an author, a philosopher, an activist, an advocate, an educator, and a badass. Let's talk about her.
RESOURCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis
1081 || Angela Davis: Badass
Angela Davis is a lot of things. A scholar, an author, a philosopher, an activist, an advocate, an educator, and a badass. Let's talk about her.
RESOURCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis
1080 || Maya Angelou Affirmations (most banger quotes)
Today I recite a whole bunch of incredible Maya Angelou quotes because I knew I had been quoting her for years but the extent to which I did NOT know how much(????) was absolutely revelatory.
Did you …
1079 || the poetic analysis of Maya Angelou
Yesterday, I shared Maya Angelou’s poem, On the Pulse of the Morning. And today, before we discuss it, I want to share an interview I found of her discussing writing it, this video includes Bill and…
1078 || "On the Pulse of Morning"
Maya Angelou's poem "On the Pulse of the Morning" feels as relevant today as it did when she recited it on January 20, 1993. Tomorrow, we will dig into it. Here is the transcript: https://awpc.cattce…
1077 || a lil Maya Angelou moment
Did you know James Baldwin is the friend who pushed Maya Angelou to write "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"??? I sure didn't. This human was so impressive and intentional and inspirational + I can't …
1076 || where to start with Baldwin work
In his 1955 essay, Notes of a Native Son,
“I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” —James Baldwin
FU…
1075 || Baldwin vs. Buckley
The Baldwin/Buckley Debate was a televised debate of The Cambridge Union Society held on 18th February 1965, which has since come to be seen as one of the most historic and influential intellectual d…
1074 || James Baldwin's Pin Drop Speech
Today's words are brought to you by the badass James Baldwin at a speech that is wildly still relevant today.
"What is crucial here is that unless we can manage to accept, establish some kind of dial…