#104 How following your passions can heal your soul. With April Werle

None Of Your Business with Robert DeLude

Um, I have to not watch the news. I have to limit my time on social media. Um, I think, I mean, you know, black lives matter is so important and it's really important to stay engaged with it. Um, but I think there are, there are people where it's necessary to focus on like the negatives and like share these clips of bad things happening because we need to spread awareness. But at the same time, we also need the people that stay positive because we have to spread positive energy. Um, and that's by sharing your favorite black artists and creators, you know, um, I think both of them are equally as important and, um, I try to participate by sharing my favorite BiPAP creators and black creators. And, um, but otherwise I just like have a really hard time because of my depression to engage in so much negativity.
Speaker 2: (32:31)
So me, you know, I do a lot of the same things. Um, I try and I get, uh, you know, people who are supporting the blog has been on my podcast and I want to share their story on there. Um, I just try and stay away from the negative and the negativity as much as possible. I don't watch the news, but really getting people who have been directly affected on it, all my podcasts. Like I want to hear your story. Like I think if as a white male who grew up in Helena Montana, like I, I need to do something like, I didn't realize that white privilege was a thing. Like, okay, let me re word that. I knew
Speaker 1: (34:12)
Yeah. I think it also just depends on where you are when I'm in Missoula. I like just don't ever think about my skin color, but I have the luxury of being mixed and mixed Asian. So, um, so it's different for me than it is for other people, but that I've heard stories about that. Um, my, my sister, she is my half sister. She's super fair, blue eyes, really light blonde hair. And her husband is African American and they lived in Helena for awhile, um, kinda like
Speaker 1: (35:18)
I think my mom shielded us from it for sure. When we were growing up, um, I, there's a story that she'll always tell people, um, about when I was four years old, we were in Walmart and, um, and I was in the car and this little boy that was my age. He was also in his mom's car in the checkout line. Just said, Hey mom, look at that girl. She's ugly. And he is talking about my skin color. And I think since, especially after then, my mom always made sure that like, she'd always tell us, you should be so proud to be Filipino. And like, she never said Filipino American, like we were always Filipino at home. Um, which was like a struggle after I've traveled to the Philippines a couple of times because, um, being a mix is a different struggle because you never feel like you belong anywhere. Um, yeah. Yeah. Like here I'm not white enough to be white. And then in the Philippines, I'm not Filipino enough to be Filipino, you know? So, um, so in college I kind of figured out that I can't ever call myself one or the other. So now I go by Filipino American and it helps my identity so
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