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Despite his family's three decades in the gun manufacturing business, Michael bills himself and the most ungun gun guy. Listen in as we cover everything from guns to social media.
Mission Statement
Reduce incidents of suicide by firearms, gun negligence through  education and proactive programs that identify risks, raise awareness,  and provide solutions to those who choose to own firearms responsibly  and the public at large.
Goals
Our goal is to raise awareness and create a change in the  misunderstandings regarding mental illness and firearms by bringing  together industry leaders to reduce gun violence, negligence, suicide  and the trauma created by these events. Develop programs for suicide  prevention, firearms negligence, trauma mitigation, and child safety.
Vision For The Future
Eradicating the prejudice that both the firearms and mental  health industries face while reducing the number of tragedies and deaths  that have occurred over the years since the US has had a decline in  mental health funding and education (*).  Creating an organization that  is solely focused on making change and is made up of experts from  different fields and all walks of life that is not corrupted by  politics, the media, or personal prejudices.  We will seek out input  opportunities to further enhance communication, compassion, calls to  action, and education.
President Walk the Talk America (501-C-3) Avidity Arms LLC  WalktheTalkAmerica.org IG:   @walkthetalkus FB:  @walkthetalkus Avidity Arms LLC IG:  @avidityarms FB: @avidityPD10
MichaelSodini.com IG:  @michael_sodini
FB: @michaeldsodini


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Despite his family's three decades in the gun manufacturing business, Michael bills himself and the most ungun gun guy. Listen in as we cover everything from guns to social media.

Mission Statement

Reduce incidents of suicide by firearms, gun negligence through  education and proactive programs that identify risks, raise awareness,  and provide solutions to those who choose to own firearms responsibly  and the public at large.

Goals

Our goal is to raise awareness and create a change in the  misunderstandings regarding mental illness and firearms by bringing  together industry leaders to reduce gun violence, negligence, suicide  and the trauma created by these events. Develop programs for suicide  prevention, firearms negligence, trauma mitigation, and child safety.

Vision For The Future

Eradicating the prejudice that both the firearms and mental  health industries face while reducing the number of tragedies and deaths  that have occurred over the years since the US has had a decline in  mental health funding and education (*).  Creating an organization that  is solely focused on making change and is made up of experts from  different fields and all walks of life that is not corrupted by  politics, the media, or personal prejudices.  We will seek out input  opportunities to further enhance communication, compassion, calls to  action, and education.

President
Walk the Talk America (501-C-3)
Avidity Arms LLC

WalktheTalkAmerica.org
IG:   @walkthetalkus
FB:  @walkthetalkus
Avidity Arms LLC
IG:  @avidityarms
FB: @avidityPD10

MichaelSodini.com
IG:  @michael_sodini

FB: @michaeldsodini


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Repurposed content from the relationship segment of the Honestly Dawn podcast. Ahmed and I talk about the trend I was seeing in angst ridden individuals who were posting questions on Reddit and Quora about how to get their exs back. We consider the question from both personal experience as well as practicality.


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https://medium.com/@verimour/how-to-see-yourself-as-sexy-21ec1c66957a

For as long as I can remember I’ve had what a friend once referred to as “White Woman’s Syndrome”. It’s that inability to step outside our heads and see ourselves in the senuous and sexy way others do. Because of that we are not comfortable in our bodies, so we don’t swing our hips or flaunt our gorgeous selves in the way of the women we idolize as beautiful.

Part of the reason is our culture and “learning” early on in life that sex is bad, therefore being sexy is bad. “Good girls don’t act like that and the more heinous and insidious, even if unspoken, “she was asking for it”. Part of it comes from not being taught how to handle the attention that arises from being confident, owning our bodies and our sexuality. Additionally, we build up insecurities over the years through repeating to ourselves perceived slights from others or unfair and biased self-criticisms.

When I got divorced 2.5 years ago I was like a caged animal unleashed. I had felt captive for so long I didn’t know who I was (sexually speaking), what I liked, and what I was or wasn’t willing to do. I knew that many people, men and women alike had referred to me as beautiful or sexy, but since I didn’t really see myself that way, I had to figure out what sexy was.

One of the first things I did was make a friend take me to a real live strip club. Now, without a doubt there are highend places that feature the amazing creatures television teaches us is the norm. However, this was not one of those. The women there each had their own form of beauty with or without perfect bodies. But what they all had in spades was the ability to make the most of their assets and be unapologetic about flaunting them. The freedom with which they moved their bodies to the music was otherworldly. While they were certainly cognizant of the men at the edge of the stage looking to hand them money, most of them seemed lost in the music and enjoyment of their movement. It was mesmerizing. The closest I’d ever come to that was mentally tapping into a great workout (which for me meant very heavy weight and total limb trembling exhaustion). But what I was seeing was foreign to me and I wanted to know more...




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A lot has changed in the 23 years since I wrote the paper highlighted in this episode. While I still have challenges, their nature and degree are very different. 


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For many years I was like the rest of the world rushing my life from weekend to weekend always trying to savor those precious final Sunday night or holiday hours and dreading the sound of the alarm that signaled a new work week. Even then I remember commenting on the irony of it and how unfortunate it all was given how delicate our existence can be. And when I found myself out of work it got even worse instead of better. I suddenly began to hate every day instead of just Mondays. I saw myself as without purpose and lacking value or worth.

For a long time I did everything I could think of to mold myself into something the corporate world wanted. I got certified in PowerPoint, studied change and project management. I changed my resume with every submission in an attempt to highlight whatever skill that particular company was looking for. It didn’t work. I became so desperate to show I could do it all I would oversell myself. Each rejection just drove me further into despair. I began to envy every minimum wage job earner I came across simply because they were drawing a check.

Then one day I began looking inward at my heart. I asked myself “What are your true gifts and what is it that you are passionate about?” Not only was the answer easy, it was one that others had been saying to me for years. I am a people pleaser. Yes, definitely in all the negative connotation ways that has of sometimes being easily taken advantage of, but also in the amazing ways of making total strangers smile with compliments and giving random hugs and getting the response “you don’t know how I needed that”. Yes dear, actually I do because I needed it too. But it was more than that. I love to hear people’s stories and I am inspired all the time by the resilience of human nature and encouraged by the strength I see in those who don’t even recognize it. My heart is also too often crushed by those I meet who have so much to offer, but have been beaten down by life and don’t know how to fight back.

So I began with getting my personal trainer certification and then lent myself to the path as it appeared and soon thereafter got my life coach certification as well as many others. Soon Mind and Body Coaching was born. Now every Monday is a gift because it means the rest of the world is back at work and I can again go out there and interact with them and have the opportunity to change lives. Every Monday is sort of like a New Years day in that it feels like a new beginning and a fresh start. So holidays excepted I get 52 fresh starts a year.

It’s natural that we all experience sort of a reverse bell curve effect with any goal. However, if you start the week miserable where can you go from there? Maybe it’s time to look at your life differently. Don’t wait for a catastrophic event like a job loss, divorce or death to open your eyes to the possibilities. Start figuring out your path, heart and true bliss right now before you have rushed weekend to weekend your entire life away.


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