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Cousin Ed’s Corner

Cousin Ed

Welcome to Cousin Ed’s Corner. This is not only my block but it’s OUR block. Come and join me for some of the realest conversations you will have.

  1. 1d ago

    The Corner Connection - ft. Taya Darling 'The Journey From ICU Nurse to Real Estate Broker to Outdoor Entrepreneur'

    🚨 New Episode Alert 🚨: In this episode, we’re getting into the power of reinvention and community building. Today, we’re sharing Taya Darling’s incredible journey from ICU nurse during the height of COVID, to real estate broker, to founder of Thrive Tribe Outdoors — a hiking movement she built from the ground up in just weeks. This isn’t just about career changes, it’s about US, about finding peace outdoors, and about showing up for our community in real, tangible ways. Remember, sometimes the healthiest thing you can do is get outside and keep moving? We’re sharing Taya’s powerful story, plus everything you need to know about our upcoming community cleanup at Evans Mill Ruins on July 5th. Tap in to embrace the journey: https://linktr.ee/cousinedscorner Want to follow Taya’s journey and get in on the Thrive Tribe? Follow @thrive_tribe_outdoors for hikes, trail drops, and event updates, and follow her personal page @tayadarling_ to see even more of her story. Drop me a comment about a time hiking, walking, or just being in nature helped you heal, and let me know if you’ll be pulling up to the cleanup on July 5th! Let’s keep building and taking care of our community together. 💪🏾 Connect with Cousin Ed: 762-333-2032 or @CousinEdsCorner on all platforms. Cousin Ed’s Corner is not just about motivation — we’re living it. Share this with someone who needs to hear Taya’s story!

    13 min

  2. 4d ago

    Motivational Monday - It's Time To Reset Your Algorithm?

    In this episode, we're getting into something that is affecting every single one of us whether we realize it or not — and that's Resetting Your Algorithm. Now I know when you hear that word — Algorithm — it might sound like something only tech folks need to worry about. But trust me, this one is for all of us. Whether you're glued to Instagram, scrolling TikTok, or just living your daily life, your algorithm is running in the background, feeding you content, ideas, and energy — and most of us haven't stopped to ask: is what I'm being fed actually serving me? I got real in this episode, FAM. I shared how I used to not even like social media because everything I saw felt like WorldStar or TMZ — nothing positive, nothing productive, nothing that was feeding my growth. But over the past four years, I've intentionally curated my algorithm around finance, fitness, health, social justice, and finding good deals — and I want to challenge you to do the same thing. I even broke down the heartbeat monitor as a metaphor: your life has a rhythm, a pace, a pattern — and you need to know what yours is so you can protect it. Here's the moment in this episode that I need you to sit with: The sad part is being inside the Matrix and not knowing you're in the Matrix. FAM, if you can't see the code, you're caught in it. And this episode is your reminder to wake up, reset, and take back control of what you're allowing into your mind and your space. We're not going to let the negativity program us. We're going to build our algorithm on purpose — with purpose. Tap in and let's build together: https://linktr.ee/cousinedscorner Drop me a comment and tell me — what does YOUR algorithm look like? What are you intentionally feeding your mind? Let's talk about it! 💬 Connect with Cousin Ed: 762-333-2032 or @CousinEdsCorner on all platforms. Cousin Ed's Corner — It's not just a podcast, it's a Community. Share this with somebody who needs to reset this week.

    11 min

  3. Jun 27

    Thank God For Everything (TGIF) - How God Used Basketball To Change My Life

    In today's episode, I'm taking y'll all the way back to to my days in Brooklyn — and all the way forward to this week's NBA Draft — because God's timeline is nothing short of miraculous. I'm sharing a personal testimony and it starts with a basketball goal in my daddy's yard and ends with me watching one of my former players have his NBA dreams come true. Everything in between? That was ALL God. A stranger in a grocery store. A field trip I didn't plan. A scholarship that got cut in half. Lonely college nights with nothing but the Bible and Matthew 6:34 to hold onto. A private Catholic school in the mountains of Central PA that changed my life. A decade of pouring into young men in the Atlanta area. All of it — every valley, every redirect, every test — was part of the plan. But this episode isn't just my story. It's many of our stories. If you're in the middle of your life's ocean right now with no life jacket in sight, I need you to hear this: your natural instinct is to FIGHT. Don't lay down. Don't give up. Even when the armor of God is on, the arrows still sting — but that doesn't mean He failed you. It means He wants to see what you're going to do. Call your lifeline. Ask for prayer. Sit with somebody. Seek Him first. You are not alone, FAM. You have never been alone. Tap in to this episode and then pass it to somebody who needs to hear it today. Drop me a comment, shoot me a text, and let me know what part of this testimony hit home for you. Let's keep building together. 💪🏾 👉🏾 Listen now: https://linktr.ee/cousinedscorner 📲 Text the Corner: 762-333-2032 📲 @CousinEdsCorner on all platforms Cousin Ed's Corner — It's not just a podcast, it's a Community. 👑 Share this with someone who needs to keep fighting today.

    24 min

  4. Jun 24

    When My Sistah Wins We All Win - ft Yvonne Sims

    In this episode, we're getting to the ROOT of things — literally. Today I'm sitting down with Yvonne Sims, the founder of Soul Growery, and this woman is on a MISSION. We're talking about growing your own food, rebuilding lost generational knowledge, and how one sister walked away from almost 20 years in the corporate world to build a half-million-view brand by simply being herself. This isn't just about gardening — it's about US, our community, our connection to the earth, and the power of getting back to the basics that our grandparents lived every single day. Yvonne's grandmother was clipping lettuce fresh from the garden in Germany. Her grandfather worked 100 acres of land in the American South. And now Yvonne is on a mission to make sure WE don't lose that knowledge forever. We covered what to plant RIGHT NOW this season, the truth about hydroponics (you don't need thousands of dollars — I promise), the real difference between gardening and homesteading, and why authenticity on social media will always beat perfection. Yvonne also talks about how she went from 200 private followers to 6,000+ in TWO MONTHS — not because of tricks, but because she showed up real. Sound familiar, FAM? Tap in to get the full wisdom: https://linktr.ee/cousinedscorner Drop me a comment about something that resonated from this conversation, and tell me — what are YOU growing right now? Whether it's a backyard garden, a pot on the balcony, or basil on your counter like Cousin Ed 😂, we want to hear from you! Let's keep building, growing, and supporting each other. 🌱 Connect with Cousin Ed: 762-333-2032 or @CousinEdsCorner on all platforms. And go follow Queen Yvonne Sims and Soul Glory — she's out here doing it for the Community. Find her on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube by searching Soul Glory or Yvonne Sims, and tap into her free growing resources, upcoming workshops, and merch while you're there. When my sister wins — WE ALL WIN. Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. 👑 It's not just a podcast — it's a Community.

    39 min

  5. Jun 23

    Motivational Monday - Missing Dad

    FAM, after the Father's Day episode, so many of you reached out — and I heard you. People sharing how much they miss their dads, how they wished he had been there, how they're still carrying that weight. I couldn't let Motivational Monday pass without addressing that directly. So I stepped on the mic — on the move, because life doesn't stop — and I said what was on my heart. This episode is for everyone who grew up without a father in the home, everyone who lost their dad before they were ready, and everyone who's still asking "why." The answer? It wasn't you. It was NEVER you. Your father's absence was his chapter, not your destiny. And Cousin Ed is here to remind you that God still has a hand on your life — just like He did on Barack Obama's, even after Obama discovered the truth about a father who wasn't who he thought he was. I'm also throwing out a challenge to the whole Corner Community: Adopt a dad. Find your father figure. That mentor, that older man you trust, that person in church, in your neighborhood, in your life — let them in. We were not meant to do this alone. Let's keep rising together: https://linktr.ee/cousinedscorner Tap in, share this one with somebody who needs it, and drop your thoughts in the comments or hit me at 762-333-2032. This community is built on real love and real talk — and today's no different. 💛

    8 min

  6. Jun 20

    The Corner Connection - Juneteenth and Justice: Why Freedom And Survival Still Feel Out Of Reach?

    In Today's Episode, I sat down on Juneteenth — June 19th — to do what we always do on a Friday: Thank God For Everything. I sat down, as always, to give God thanks. But FAM, God redirected this episode in a way I didn't see coming, and I had to let it come out. This episode takes me back to my Jr. High memories in Brooklyn — being surrounded by racial tension. It reminded me of the day my bus was surrounded while people with chains and bats beat on the windows. And that memory came rushing back because of what happened to a young man who faced that same kind of surrounded, cornered, no-way-out moment. He was touched, threatened, and forced to defend himself. He tried to get away. He cooperated with the police afterward. He told the truth. And YES — the justice system gave this 17-year-old young man, Karmelo Anthony, 35 years for first-degree murder. FAM, I couldn't stay quiet about that. I won't stay quiet about that. THIS EPISODE WAS SOMETHING THAT NEEDED TO BE SAID. "Why are you bothering me?" That question runs through this whole episode — and it connects every story, every name, every child we've prayed over for decades. This isn't about anger. This is about truth. This is about faith. This is about asking God to watch over us, especially when justice doesn't show up the way it should. I close this one in prayer, and I mean every word. Please tap in, share this episode with your friends, family, and loved ones, and drop me a comment. Tell me what this episode meant to you. Tell me about the moments in your life when you've had to ask "Why are you bothering me?" Let's keep this conversation going together, FAM. I love each and every one of you. 🙏🏾 👉 Tap in and listen now: https://linktr.ee/cousinedscorner Connect with Cousin Ed: 762-333-2032 | @CousinEdsCorner on all platforms.  Subscribe on Substack: cousinedscorner.substack.com It's not just a podcast — it's a Community. Share this with somebody who needs it today. 👑

    33 min

  7. Jun 15

    Motivational Monday: 53 Years in the Making — What the Knicks Championship Means Beyond Basketball

    OK OK OK I cannot hold this in. The New York Knicks are NBA CHAMPIONS. 🏆🧡💙 After 53 years — after Patrick, after Starks, after Sprewell, after Marbury, after every heartbreak this city has carried — this TEAM, Our TEAM, MY TEAM, THIS TEAM OF UNDERDOGS, went all the way and brought it HOME. In this episode I'm talking about all of it — the history, the players who gave everything for this city, Jalen Brunson's story as a 6'2" point guard who was counted out on every level, and what this championship is about to do to the culture and the economy of the entire world. But I also get personal, because when I think about Jalen and his dad, I think about me and my son — and what it means to have somebody in your corner who pushes you to KNOW your greatness before the world ever agrees. That's the real conversation. This is Motivational Monday. This is Corner Connection. This is Thank God For Everything. All rolled into one. Come celebrate with the family. 🗽🧡💙🧡💙🗽 Tap in: https://linktr.ee/cousinedscorner Drop a 🧡💙 in the comments if you never stopped believing, and share this with a Knicks fan who deserves to feel this moment. We built this Corner together, FAM — let's celebrate together. Connect with me at 762-333-2032 or @CousinEdsCorner on all platforms. KNICKS 🗽🧡💙🧡💙🗽LOVE

    13 min

  8. Jun 12

    Thank God For Everything (TGIF) - Sometimes We Just Need To Call His Name

    Wassssss up fam, Some days, life just throws things at you — a cold that won't quit, a car that picks the worst possible time to act up, and a Friday that doesn't feel like a Friday. But you know what I did? I turned the mic on anyway. Because sometimes the message you need to deliver is the message you need to HEAR first. 🙏🏾 In this brand new TGFE episode of Cousin Ed's Corner, I'm getting real with you, fam. I'm talking about how easy it is to see the dark side of the cloud and forget there's a silver lining waiting right there. I'm talking about unseen blessings — the accidents that didn't happen, the lists your name was never on, the quiet ways God is protecting you every single day without you even knowing. I'm talking about what it looks like to get on your face and just SURRENDER — not in defeat, but in trust. This one came from the heart. And I believe it will land exactly where you need it to. Tap in and let it meet you right where you are today. 💛 👉 https://linktr.ee/cousinedscorner Drop me a comment — how do YOU find your silver lining when life tries to press you down? Share this episode with someone who needs to be reminded that they're not alone. No matter what you're facing today, look to your left, look to your right — God is there. Always. 🙏🏾 Connect with Cousin Ed: 762-333-2032 | @CousinEdsCorner on all platforms. It's not just a podcast — it's a community. Walk good. TGFE.

    11 min
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Welcome to Cousin Ed’s Corner. This is not only my block but it’s OUR block. Come and join me for some of the realest conversations you will have.

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  • Creator
    Cousin Ed
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    597
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    Clean
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