[NEW EPISODE] Personal Freedom Vs. Community Responsibility

This week, on The Conscious Consultant Hour, It's just you and Sam!

Bring your comments, your questions, and anything on your mind as Sam talks about why he got his shot this week, and why it is important to look at both sides of the discussion about Vaccines.

This is not a show to convince you of anything, but rather an opportunity to look at this situation from a higher perspective and from a different point of view.

Let's have a robust conversation together, and express your view of this ongoing debate!

Tune in for this enlightening conversation or watch the Facebook Livestream by clicking here.

Show Notes

Segment 1

Sam starts with a quote from his book Everyday Awakening. Today’s section is called, “strength does not come from force, it comes from being vulnerable.” Sam shared his experience being bullied in his youth and how it had affected his self esteem. Through these experiences he now understands that people will often project false strength in order to prop up a weak ego. Sam believes that you must use your strength to uplift others and help them find their own strength. The ability to be vulnerable and ask for support is strength.  Thought leaders often talk about authenticity and being strong enough to share your pain with others. That is real strength.

Segment 2

The reception of the Covid Vaccine has been incredibly divisive. Some have even seen it as an assault on their personal freedom. Sam questions whether or not this is a mindset specific to America and compares the mindset of eastern nations. He understands that the statistics can look a certain way but this is not a matter to be for or against. It is important to be critical and do what makes sense in the moment.

Segment 3

Sam explains why he has gotten his first shot. It is because of the science, seeing what has happened in communities that don’t have access to the vaccine, and because he does not want to transmit the virus to the people he loves. When the vaccine came out, he talked to people that he trusted about the vaccine and his options. Sam is aware that when new tech comes out there will be bugs, it is for that reason that he chose to get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. When making the decision to not take the vaccine, Sam wants you to think about whether or not your choice is a heart centered choice or a push back. Sam does not view the choice to take the vaccine as an attack on personal freedom because it is not being forced on the public and you are not losing freedoms when helping the community at large.

Segment 4

The perspective about community responsibility is not just about vaccines, it’s about how we show up in the world in general. Sam ties this to climate change. Regardless of your stance on climate change, the things that scientists encourage us to do should be done regardless. Recycling and reducing carbon emissions benefit us regardless. We have a responsibility to life in general. Sam believes that this is more significant than being right or wrong about the issues. Sam then talks about the difference in vaccination when he was a kid compared to the way children are vaccinated.

Transcript

00:00:27.150 --> 00:00:36.810 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Good afternoon my conscious co creators, welcome to another edition of the conscious consultant our awakening humanity.

00:00:37.410 --> 00:00:48.840 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I am very, very pleased you're all here with me today it's one of those shows, yes, those shows that my listeners tell me they like so much it's just me and you.

00:00:49.770 --> 00:01:01.200 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: riffing on a certain topic we've got one today, I think it might be a little controversial so we'll see what happens, but first of course reading an excerpt from my.

00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:10.980 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Book every day awakening and, if you like this excerpt and you would like to read more you can always find it at everyday awakening book.com.

00:01:12.270 --> 00:01:24.750 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I have to tell you I actually went into a local pharmacy a little Community pharmacy just this week and I saw they had like a couple of books on the side that were little signer name that said.

00:01:25.890 --> 00:01:34.440 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Local neighborhood authors, I was like Oh, would you be interested in carrying my book, and they were like yeah sure, as long as it's.

00:01:36.630 --> 00:01:40.110 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: As long as it's family friendly book and stuff I go yeah absolutely.

00:01:40.590 --> 00:01:49.620 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so, and I went back there I brought a copy of the book they bought it from me for wholesale price and being there and it so it's like the first kind of real store.

00:01:50.520 --> 00:01:59.730 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Little local neighborhood store that it's at so that makes me feel good anyway just thought i'd share that with you and I see loyal listener patty checking in and listening on the road okay.

00:02:00.960 --> 00:02:03.390 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Alright, so our section from the book today.

00:02:03.570 --> 00:02:04.500 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: is entitled.

00:02:05.730 --> 00:02:22.350 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: strength does not come from force it comes from being vulnerable kind of apropos I think for what our topic is for today being strong is not about strength being strong does not mean we are domineering being strong.

00:02:22.470 --> 00:02:36.060 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: is not about being forceful being strong is about something far more powerful true strength comes from deep inside us from having an intimate connection to our souls.

00:02:36.930 --> 00:02:49.050 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: strength is also the power that comes from seeing ourselves clearly strength is the knowing that, through our choices and our intentions, we are the creators of our world.

00:02:50.190 --> 00:03:04.740 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: We are strong we make conscious decisions in our lives, and we are strong when we refrain from using our strength, but we are strongest when we allow ourselves to be the most vulnerable.

00:03:05.940 --> 00:03:08.250 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Today is going to be a very vulnerable show show you'll see.

00:03:09.450 --> 00:03:20.700 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: true strength is the will to exercise our power as a force for good made only makes right when the mate is used to uplift and support.

00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:38.010 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: It is easy to use our muscles to hurt another It is too easy to use, intimidation, to control another These are signs of weakness and that strength, it is far harder and more difficult to be a gentle giant than to be a bully.

00:03:39.060 --> 00:03:52.020 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: The world does not need more cowards hiding behind the masks of power, the world needs more people who have the courage and strength to be true, honest and authentic.

00:03:53.280 --> 00:04:02.100 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: real strength comes from being a real person real vulnerability comes from sharing our difficulties and our pain.

00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:13.710 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Can you share more of your true self with another, can you find one person to tell something vulnerable to that you've never told anyone before.

00:04:16.080 --> 00:04:19.860 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: yeah I like this, I like this particular section of the book.

00:04:22.050 --> 00:04:22.410 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and

00:04:23.580 --> 00:04:31.590 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Trying to remember why I wrote this particular one, but I believe it was probably because.

00:04:34.710 --> 00:04:54.330 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know, when I work on myself it's not uncommon for things to be brought up from childhood and as a kid I was short slappy fat little Jewish boy in the bronx and I was an easy target and got picked on by the local neighborhood bullies fairly regularly.

00:04:55.470 --> 00:04:57.660 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: um and.

00:05:00.180 --> 00:05:01.530 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: It was not a good feeling.

00:05:02.370 --> 00:05:06.330 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: It was not something I would wish upon anybody.

00:05:09.630 --> 00:05:19.020 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: In those experiences did get me to question like, why are things the way they are, I mean, in some ways it kind of put me on my path.

00:05:20.250 --> 00:05:25.560 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That you know got me questioning why things are the way they are, and got me questioning.

00:05:26.730 --> 00:05:28.500 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know how to change how to be better.

00:05:31.200 --> 00:05:35.700 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But it's also it got me questioning like, why does somebody become a bully.

00:05:36.750 --> 00:05:37.830 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Why.

00:05:39.300 --> 00:05:48.750 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Do we do we find people that fall into that so much and a person can be a bully not just by using their physical strength.

00:05:49.830 --> 00:05:59.130 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: People can be intimidated and bullied at work through mental intimidation through innuendo through harassment, through a lot of different things.

00:06:02.070 --> 00:06:07.440 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so, one of the things, and this is this is it's a very deep and complex subject.

00:06:08.550 --> 00:06:17.940 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But I know that just one of these, one aspect of someone being a bully of someone using their strength against another.

00:06:20.850 --> 00:06:23.550 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Is that it usually comes from feeling weak.

00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:26.430 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Inside internally.

00:06:27.870 --> 00:06:36.720 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And that, when we feel weak, we need to pick on somebody else who's even weaker, so that we feel stronger.

00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:48.690 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: it's all about propping up a week ego if you ever see somebody who has a really big ego and always has to be out there in front and always has to be the Center of attention and.

00:06:49.020 --> 00:07:06.990 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: always has to be the one who everyone else has to listen to, that is a sign of actually not a strong ego but a very weak ego because the person has to constantly prop themselves up to feel good about themselves, because actually underneath that they're feeling very not good about themselves.

00:07:09.810 --> 00:07:12.210 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so, using our strength.

00:07:14.850 --> 00:07:27.660 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And again i'm not making strength right or wrong it's like anything else it's like a hammer, you can you can use it for good or you can use it for ill intent that it's completely completely up to the individual.

00:07:29.700 --> 00:07:39.750 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But when we use our strength to defend somebody who maybe is being picked on by a bully you can't defend themselves to stand up for people who don't have a voice.

00:07:40.500 --> 00:07:58.980 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: To to uplift somebody who's in pain and again there's there's a difference between uplifting and enabling we don't need to use our strength, so that other people can stay week we want to encourage other people to find their own internal strength and to learn to stand up for themselves.

00:08:01.710 --> 00:08:11.430 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But we all need support now and then we all fall down, and we all feel like oh my God I don't know how to deal with this, I don't know what to do.

00:08:13.170 --> 00:08:14.220 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And that's okay.

00:08:16.830 --> 00:08:20.940 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: being open and admitting that that is a real strength.

00:08:23.850 --> 00:08:27.720 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Because when we're truly strong inside.

00:08:29.940 --> 00:08:33.660 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Then we're not afraid to show.

00:08:34.740 --> 00:08:40.920 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: When we're in pain when we're hurting when we're confused and tired when we don't know what to do.

00:08:42.810 --> 00:08:52.950 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And this is one of the reasons why you see it talked about so much in the leadership circles, these days, and among thought leaders around leadership.

00:08:54.300 --> 00:09:05.280 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: there's a lot of talk of authenticity there's a lot of talk about you know Baring your soul, because that's how people relate to us because they're all in pain as well.

00:09:05.820 --> 00:09:23.070 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And by being strong enough to share our pain to share our confusion to share what we truly deeply believe in inside, even though it may not be the popular opinion that is real strength.

00:09:28.950 --> 00:09:33.030 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And again, we can use our strength so many different ways.

00:09:34.710 --> 00:09:44.970 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But how do we cultivate strength right and we know physically to cultivate strength going to the gym working out weights Cardio all that stuff that that's that's how we build it up.

00:09:46.170 --> 00:09:51.270 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: physically but what's the emotional mental spiritual version of that.

00:09:53.640 --> 00:10:12.510 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Well i'm a big believer that before we can truly be authentic or honest with anybody else we first have to be authentic and honest with ourselves it's about admitting to ourselves those deep dark secrets that we never talked about with anybody we first have to admit it to ourselves.

00:10:13.830 --> 00:10:20.670 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: it's having the strength to admit to ourselves that we don't feel good enough that we don't feel strong enough.

00:10:21.330 --> 00:10:37.530 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That that that we make mistakes, or that the there are these aspects of ourselves that we don't like a lot that we put down that we try and ignore that we try to lock in a little box and hide away.

00:10:40.050 --> 00:10:44.010 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And maybe it's that little part of ourselves that.

00:10:45.180 --> 00:10:52.230 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Is greedy or just wants what it wants, or you know, is just looking for something.

00:10:53.520 --> 00:10:58.350 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And, most of the times those wounded pieces of ourself.

00:11:00.750 --> 00:11:07.680 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: All they want is to be loved to feel safe to know that they're okay to know that they're good enough.

00:11:12.570 --> 00:11:15.750 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And, to be honest about that is a tremendous relief.

00:11:19.800 --> 00:11:21.420 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: through most of my life.

00:11:23.370 --> 00:11:32.640 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I have to tell you I felt like a victim not consciously again, you know when we talk about doing the deep inner work when we talk about these deep subjects.

00:11:33.210 --> 00:11:45.780 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: they're not often very we're not often consciously very aware of it, and this is where kind of watching ourselves and just watching observed, not even observing but just watching and paying attention to our thoughts to how we show up.

00:11:47.370 --> 00:11:51.570 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: For so much of my life, I felt like a victim.

00:11:52.590 --> 00:12:01.200 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Because of early trial childhood trauma because of abuse by one of the local kids by being beaten up by some of the local bullies.

00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:03.930 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: It really.

00:12:05.190 --> 00:12:08.340 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Affected me on a very deep level.

00:12:10.920 --> 00:12:28.590 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And how did it show up it showed up by me, allowing myself to be taken advantage of by me, giving more attention time and energy to people who didn't really fill me up who never supported me I was always supporting other people.

00:12:31.590 --> 00:12:38.220 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And they don't regret any of it, because it was all a path to help me to be who I am today.

00:12:40.140 --> 00:12:47.370 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And while I know there's still deeper places I can go, I know there were still there's more evolution there's more.

00:12:49.890 --> 00:12:52.860 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: there's more growth for me.

00:12:54.270 --> 00:12:56.130 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But even though I know there's more.

00:12:57.390 --> 00:13:07.020 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: i'm in a much, much better place than I was and part of it was by at the very least just admitting these things to myself.

00:13:09.060 --> 00:13:16.680 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: admitting the things to ourselves, is where it starts, but when we can then also share it with people we trust.

00:13:18.300 --> 00:13:23.160 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Then, when we see their reaction and we get the support from them just.

00:13:23.220 --> 00:13:26.160 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: being present being witnessed by somebody else.

00:13:27.270 --> 00:13:34.350 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That is so healing and that's why I love this romantic work that I do on the side because it is something we do in community.

00:13:35.400 --> 00:13:41.580 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And we share our process with other people, and when we share with other people, the healing is so much deeper.

00:13:43.260 --> 00:13:50.040 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But first we have to go internal ourselves first we have to share it with ourselves first we have to be cognizant.

00:13:51.120 --> 00:13:52.950 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and be aware of it ourselves.

00:13:54.900 --> 00:14:00.240 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And after we're aware of it ourselves, then we can share it with other people.

00:14:01.980 --> 00:14:03.120 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And this is where.

00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:04.800 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That.

00:14:04.860 --> 00:14:05.910 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That given take of.

00:14:05.940 --> 00:14:09.750 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: doing the internal work but doing it in Community comes to play.

00:14:11.970 --> 00:14:23.700 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So i'm a wonderful section for my book, everyday awakening yes and it's still available it's on Amazon it's on Barnes and noble books, a million it's on all the.

00:14:24.030 --> 00:14:30.960 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Major big retailers and and also like, if you like, and I personally love going to the small independent bookstores.

00:14:31.920 --> 00:14:39.300 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: If you like just go to them and tell them hey I know this is available it's through a major distributor ingram.

00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:44.520 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: If you need to tell them but ask them hey everyday awakening by Sam leibowitz can you get me a copy.

00:14:44.880 --> 00:14:52.950 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: They can absolutely order it from where they ever they get their regular books, even though it's self published now, it can go everywhere, so please.

00:14:53.910 --> 00:15:04.800 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: support those small independent bookstores I love them, and I think they're great so all right it's time for us to take our first break William I see you're checking in as well, welcome to the show William.

00:15:05.940 --> 00:15:09.150 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Always warms my heart to see my loyal listeners.

00:15:09.150 --> 00:15:09.930 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Checking in.

00:15:10.770 --> 00:15:15.450 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And if there's anybody who this is your first time listening on the Facebook live or.

00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:25.260 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: or who's first time listening, please check in, and let me know you're listening, let me know what questions you have we're going to be talking about a very interesting topics today.

00:15:25.950 --> 00:15:31.770 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: One that I think might be a little triggering for some people about personal freedom versus Community responsibility.

00:15:32.310 --> 00:15:35.580 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And i'll tell you how I came about with this topic.

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00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:06.450 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and welcome back to the conscious consultant our awakening humanity, thank you for tuning in today whether you're listening live.

00:19:06.750 --> 00:19:18.840 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Through the Facebook live on talk radio dot nyc or if you're listening to the podcast which we're on all the different podcasts platforms now where i'm Pandora So if you like, Pandora you can find the conscious consultant our on Pandora.

00:19:19.830 --> 00:19:35.160 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And I really would love, especially with people on the Facebook live if you can put in your comments and questions, because this is a topic I really want some interaction with, so I hope I hope you can reach out to me, and I see scenarios, also with us on the Facebook live, so all my.

00:19:36.210 --> 00:19:46.500 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: My top three most loyal fans are all with me today, I really appreciate that so today's topic is personal freedom versus Community responsibility.

00:19:48.090 --> 00:19:50.970 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So why am I talking about this.

00:19:51.000 --> 00:20:06.690 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: This particular week well, other than the fact that it scheduled one of these only me know guest shows, because I got my shot yesterday and, to be honest, I didn't even know how was going to feel today, so this could have been a very like a kind of show, but I actually am feeling fine.

00:20:08.940 --> 00:20:09.480 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and

00:20:10.770 --> 00:20:17.550 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Getting the covert vaccine it's so so interesting how divisive, it is.

00:20:18.060 --> 00:20:26.880 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: The topic it's so interesting how tightly people hold on to their beliefs about getting vaccinated.

00:20:28.410 --> 00:20:36.120 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And look i'm I know a lot of people in the alternative health realm we've had shows on the network.

00:20:37.770 --> 00:20:44.820 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: With with the creator of the film vaccine, that there is so much around this topic that's.

00:20:46.350 --> 00:20:53.940 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: makes it very challenging to kind of be clear about what's really best for us individually.

00:20:56.850 --> 00:21:02.100 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But one of the things that I see that in some ways, I feel.

00:21:03.270 --> 00:21:12.900 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: It makes the conversation in the topic around it so confusing is this idea that people feel it's.

00:21:13.650 --> 00:21:19.740 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: it's an assault on their personal freedom and this might be something that's very unique to United States because.

00:21:20.040 --> 00:21:25.890 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I know, like my my sister, many of you know my sister lives in Israel she's with different many years her whole family.

00:21:26.340 --> 00:21:40.260 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Israelis when they got the vaccine, nobody looked at it as an assault on their personal freedom well, maybe not nobody but very, very few people, but here in the United States, we have such a mindset of the individual and individual rights.

00:21:41.580 --> 00:21:45.090 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And I believe in that 100%.

00:21:47.700 --> 00:21:59.070 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But where do we find that that very porous line between individual rights and our responsibility to the community at large.

00:22:01.140 --> 00:22:22.080 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And the reason why I bring this up is because, if we look at the countries where people tend to be more Community focused we look at the Asian countries, I mean look at Taiwan, I have a good friend right now in Taiwan and she's like there is no cases there like zero cases of corona there.

00:22:23.760 --> 00:22:24.780 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Why is that.

00:22:26.190 --> 00:22:37.230 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Because they did all the right things in the beginning lock down the place very strict everyone wore a mask when they came up with the guidelines everybody.

00:22:39.810 --> 00:22:46.140 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know, everybody like followed along, because in in the Asian cultures in general.

00:22:46.590 --> 00:23:02.910 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: it's actually the opposite of what we have here in the United States it's actually the focus is on the Community, much more than the individual like the individual has much less rates compared to the Community it's all about Community responsibility, much less about individual rights.

00:23:08.670 --> 00:23:17.040 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Oh, I see some some comments on the Facebook life oh i'm so happy so patty says, yet we don't need vaccines to attend school remember when we took.

00:23:17.430 --> 00:23:29.460 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: The polio shots at school yeah I mean I remember as a kid I you know I don't take the flu shot every year I know a lot of people do, and there are some reasons for and against that.

00:23:30.510 --> 00:23:45.120 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But when I was a kid I got all the standard shots there is one thing and i'll get to that a little bit later, but there is a difference between what they do with kids now with with those standardized shots when their kids compared to when I was a kid.

00:23:49.890 --> 00:24:08.010 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: William says, I don't get the flu for that wasn't going to get Kovacs nap because trust or anything I got it because my family is high risk, and I have to go out a lot, I take local buses to I did it for the Community and the family off Thank you so much, William So this is the point.

00:24:10.230 --> 00:24:12.210 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: knew we were going to get to this pretty quickly.

00:24:13.260 --> 00:24:16.110 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So we're going to have a lot of time to talk about a lot of other things.

00:24:18.270 --> 00:24:25.710 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I would win this they were coming out with the vaccines, when I was looking at what was going on in the world in general.

00:24:26.850 --> 00:24:40.170 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I was concerned, this is a global pandemic, like the Spanish flu back in 1918 now, yes, we didn't have a vaccine back in 1918 and 50 million people died from it.

00:24:41.760 --> 00:24:43.530 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: 50 million.

00:24:44.850 --> 00:24:48.060 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Now that would be a lot of people today in.

00:24:49.290 --> 00:24:55.650 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: When the population was not as big as it is today, that was a huge number of people.

00:24:56.670 --> 00:25:06.240 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and, interestingly, some of the same debates like people wearing masks people not wearing masks as matter of fact, I I saw some old photos of like people at a baseball game and they're wearing masks.

00:25:08.940 --> 00:25:18.000 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So doing the things that science says helps to prevent the spread of these kinds of diseases.

00:25:19.050 --> 00:25:22.380 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: To me it's about logic it's about what makes sense now look.

00:25:23.580 --> 00:25:28.410 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I know as well as anybody that statistics and numbers can be made to look a certain way.

00:25:28.680 --> 00:25:31.620 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: can be used to support a certain point of view or not.

00:25:33.540 --> 00:25:34.680 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But still.

00:25:35.730 --> 00:25:39.150 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: it's about being critical it's about learning to think.

00:25:40.710 --> 00:25:43.290 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: learning to think for ourselves about not.

00:25:45.150 --> 00:25:51.870 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Being for or against something, but really what makes sense in the moment.

00:25:53.430 --> 00:26:00.120 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And to me it's kind of you know, looking at what's going on around you in the world.

00:26:01.560 --> 00:26:10.410 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And for those people who think getting vaccine vaccinated is not such a good idea that wearing masks is not a good idea, take a look at what's going on in India.

00:26:11.310 --> 00:26:21.750 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: They are getting so overwhelmed and now granted their infrastructure for their health system was not anywhere near what it is in the United States and they have a lot more people.

00:26:22.860 --> 00:26:37.620 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But by looking at the extreme cases, it does give us an indication of what to do, look at Taiwan versus India or Israel versus India, where would you rather be right now.

00:26:38.760 --> 00:26:48.870 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I know for myself, I would rather be in a place like Israel or India that's opened up that the you know the disease is under control it's not spreading as much people are dying.

00:26:52.560 --> 00:27:05.250 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So, if you look at what the places that have been successful at curbing a worldwide pandemic in their own little island in their own world, if you look at what they did that worked.

00:27:06.810 --> 00:27:10.920 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Why wouldn't you do the same things yourself.

00:27:13.380 --> 00:27:18.600 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I hope you understand the logic of what i'm trying to get across.

00:27:19.980 --> 00:27:33.210 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: i'm not for me i'm not saying to be for or against anything i'm talking about looking at what's right in front of us and making an intelligent decision.

00:27:34.530 --> 00:27:34.950 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Now look.

00:27:36.210 --> 00:27:42.300 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Most of you know, I believe that we're not just a mind, we have a heart, we have a body, we have a spirit.

00:27:42.870 --> 00:27:57.870 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And we have multiple intelligences and we can access those intelligences by by learning to be present, with each of them so it's not just about a logical smart thing it's also got to feel good in our body it's also got to resonate with our heart.

00:27:59.970 --> 00:28:09.330 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And if there are some questions and if you're not sure about something there are different ways to go about approaching something.

00:28:11.580 --> 00:28:19.860 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And we've got a break coming up, and when we come back i'm going to get into what decision I made why I decided to get the vaccine.

00:28:20.430 --> 00:28:30.000 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And not just why I decided to get it, but also in the United States, we happen to be amazingly fortunate because we've got three different vaccines to choose from.

00:28:31.050 --> 00:28:37.920 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I mean Now you can choose from it, one of the reasons I waited I just got my shot yesterday, but one of the reasons why waited.

00:28:38.970 --> 00:28:43.230 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: was because I, even though I was eligible, and I could have gotten a shot.

00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:53.310 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: A month ago, two months ago I waited until I knew I could have a choice, and they can have the choice that I wanted.

00:28:56.130 --> 00:29:14.580 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so, yes, as Williams said before, sometimes doing something is not only about protecting yourself it's about protecting those around you it's about contributing to the well being of the community at large, not just our own well being.

00:29:16.440 --> 00:29:27.270 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so I want you to think about this we're going to go to a break patty says it's the younger ones that are causing more outbreaks in the state of Washington, they just don't get it yeah that's.

00:29:28.590 --> 00:29:37.470 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Something i've heard as well and we'll get into that that sometimes you know when you're young it's easy to think that Oh well, young people aren't getting it.

00:29:37.920 --> 00:29:43.680 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And yeah you know your immune system may be nice and strong and you may not have any symptoms and you can be asymptomatic.

00:29:44.340 --> 00:29:50.160 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But who are you spreading it to who you giving it to are you giving it to your parents your grandparents.

00:29:50.610 --> 00:29:57.480 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Maybe be you maybe your family is fine, but you give it to a friend of yours, who also is asymptomatic and they give it to their parents.

00:29:57.960 --> 00:30:08.790 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: How is that going to make you feel so we're going to dive deeper into all of this, I really appreciate all the engagement and interaction on the Facebook life keep it coming we're going to continue on our topic.

00:30:09.030 --> 00:30:22.080 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: of personal freedom versus Community responsibility after we come back to break and you are listening to the conscious consultant our awakening humanity right here and talk radio dot nyc and we'll be right back after these messages.

00:33:11.370 --> 00:33:13.110 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and welcome back.

00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:21.660 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: To the conscious consultant our awakening humanity our topic today is personal freedom versus Community responsibility.

00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:36.750 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And it's there's no guest today, except for you, so if you want to contribute to the conversation go to our Facebook live stream on facebook.com slash inspired thoughts with Sam and comment.

00:33:37.470 --> 00:33:44.370 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Let me hear your opinion, I would love to know more, I see you know patty and William and sanai are there and.

00:33:44.730 --> 00:33:50.340 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I love my loyal listeners, they are, they are absolutely the best best people in the world, thank you, thank you for being a part of this.

00:33:50.790 --> 00:34:01.650 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so we're talking about this whole topic around getting vaccinated for the coven virus and I, and the reason why i'm talking about it this week is because I just got my shot yesterday.

00:34:02.850 --> 00:34:12.060 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Now I say my shot I didn't say my first shot and there's a reason for that So when I mentioned this briefly before that, when.

00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:26.190 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I was looking at getting vaccinated I didn't get it right away because I wanted to have a choice, so to me that's exercising my personal freedom, but why did I say okay look, I want to get vaccinated.

00:34:27.630 --> 00:34:35.100 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Because of the science because of seeing what's happening in the communities where people are not getting vaccinated.

00:34:36.540 --> 00:34:47.520 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And because I personally do not want to be responsible for spreading the virus to people I care about.

00:34:49.020 --> 00:35:00.630 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And because I love people I miss people I miss being in Community I miss being with my friends, I miss being able to see people face to face.

00:35:03.270 --> 00:35:03.960 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and

00:35:05.340 --> 00:35:15.870 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: If I were to come face to face and i've done it a little bit here and there, I mean just with very close friends just with individuals who either vaccinated or have the antibodies because they got over it.

00:35:18.000 --> 00:35:27.840 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I don't want to be a transmitter I don't want to you know get together with a group of people i'm the one not vaccinated.

00:35:28.530 --> 00:35:39.780 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I happen to carry it, I give it to somebody else's also vaccinated or hasn't had it doesn't have the antibodies and their fam whole family get sick and i've known people I know people.

00:35:41.340 --> 00:35:49.740 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: To who've gotten it as a matter of fact, I know I personally know one person who's died from it, I know, several people who have had it and recovered.

00:35:50.580 --> 00:36:04.170 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Some people still have some symptoms they're not fully recovered, one of the things about covert that's so nasty is that the symptoms of it, like last for a really long time I mean this is one nasty virus.

00:36:06.660 --> 00:36:16.620 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And you know my heart my heart so goes out to the people of India and to the poor countries in the world where they don't have access to the vaccines.

00:36:18.840 --> 00:36:29.490 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know you want a good reason why to get vaccinated look at the places that don't even have the opportunity, look at what's going on there.

00:36:32.550 --> 00:36:46.590 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: it's so funny it's like when when you have such easy access to so much stuff it's easy to get entitled and to feel like well I don't need to do this because you know look everyone else is getting it, so I don't need to get it.

00:36:49.620 --> 00:37:02.220 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And, and yes it's it's definitely easy to feel that way, but when you're in the other side of the coin, when you're in an area where there's not easy access to it.

00:37:02.610 --> 00:37:12.450 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: where you have to wait, where there are people around you dying from this disease you're going to have a very, very different perspective on all of this.

00:37:15.210 --> 00:37:24.870 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so, when the vaccines came out and and you know I did my research, I talked to people who I hold in high esteem.

00:37:27.390 --> 00:37:34.080 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And you know my my sister's family, they all got the Pfizer vaccine back in December, because they are in Israel they're fine.

00:37:36.150 --> 00:37:54.150 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But for me personally, because it's a relatively new technology and i've been around technology almost my whole life, I know that when a new technology comes out it's not unlikely that there are some bugs in it like there might be a little little problem here and there.

00:37:55.200 --> 00:37:56.670 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So for me personally.

00:37:57.720 --> 00:38:04.020 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Because this m m RNA vaccines, the phase and maturing and ones haven't been around a long time.

00:38:05.310 --> 00:38:16.680 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I I felt for myself for me personally, I would rather stick with the the more traditional vaccines, the Johnson and Johnson one.

00:38:17.970 --> 00:38:21.180 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So I made a very conscious decision early on.

00:38:22.230 --> 00:38:26.040 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That I was going to wait until the Johnson and Johnson one became available.

00:38:26.580 --> 00:38:35.670 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And I could pick it because it was available, but still it's like you show up the place and you maybe you could get it, and maybe would be a different one and I just didn't want to.

00:38:36.030 --> 00:38:56.130 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: be put in that position, where I didn't have a choice, so I understand that I completely understand people who feel like they don't have a choice and and and how that ruffles feathers absolutely we all want a choice, but there are are there are different levels of choices and personally.

00:38:57.510 --> 00:38:59.970 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I feel that when people make a decision.

00:39:01.230 --> 00:39:06.060 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: To get vaccinated a very conscious decision to get vaccinated not out of.

00:39:07.260 --> 00:39:21.780 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know, fear, not out of what everyone else is doing it, but a heart centered choice that i'm doing this because I want to protect other people I don't want to get sick and I don't want to be the cause of other people getting sick.

00:39:23.910 --> 00:39:32.970 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Oh patty says my daughter, and her husband are nurses and both court coven and she says it's so awful she couldn't believe people wouldn't want to be vaccinated it's a necessity.

00:39:34.290 --> 00:39:44.340 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: yeah it is confusing and look I have good friends who are not going to get vaccinated you know I have someone now again one particular friend she.

00:39:44.700 --> 00:39:52.860 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Looked me oh she's not sure she never got tested, but it sounds like she probably caught it, you know a number of months ago she was sick for a little while and then she was fine.

00:39:54.630 --> 00:40:04.530 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And also don't get me wrong, I believe, and also getting treatments like there are real treatments that work in treating coven and they're there, and you know.

00:40:05.070 --> 00:40:14.610 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That the drug cocktail but there's also natural treatments so i'm not saying that we should solely rely on vaccines, we should also have good treatments.

00:40:17.640 --> 00:40:23.220 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But it's when you're making a choice when you're making a decision to get vaccinated or not to get vaccinated.

00:40:23.940 --> 00:40:34.950 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Are you making a heart centered choice, are you making an intelligent choice, are you making a choice that feels good in your body, are you making a choice that your spirit inspires you to make.

00:40:35.460 --> 00:40:48.900 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Or is it just a pushback is it a reaction is it Oh, you know this this getting caught into this fear of all these conspiracy theories and oh they're looking to D populate the planet, because through the vaccines well.

00:40:49.890 --> 00:41:07.440 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: let's look at the reality now like these vaccines are new technology, so there are many people who've had severe reactions who've died from it, I know there are anecdotal stories of people who have even you know gotten heart attacks, a day or two after having the vaccines.

00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:18.870 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But what's the percentage, what is the actual percentage of people who've had those bad reactions to the vaccines compared to the number of people have actually been vaccinated.

00:41:20.310 --> 00:41:27.030 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And then you are, that is, that number out of the ordinary is it unusually high.

00:41:28.170 --> 00:41:30.210 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Is it low or is it average.

00:41:31.770 --> 00:41:33.540 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And if you look at the numbers.

00:41:34.920 --> 00:41:44.310 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: The actual percentages it's actually way way way way less than the percentage of people have bad reactions to a typical flu vaccine.

00:41:47.220 --> 00:41:49.470 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So is there a possibility absolutely.

00:41:51.600 --> 00:42:05.130 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But, but is it unusual no look there's nothing that's 100% safe life is not 100% safe, but there are things we can do.

00:42:06.150 --> 00:42:08.700 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: There are choices we can make to make it better.

00:42:10.290 --> 00:42:17.340 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know I know people who've traveled during the pandemic who've gotten on planes and they were fine they haven't they didn't catch it.

00:42:18.090 --> 00:42:29.670 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But i've heard a lot of stories of people who tested negative getting onto a plane and then, when they got off the plane they tested positive I really I haven't traveled anywhere, you know I haven't gotten by plane anywhere.

00:42:31.500 --> 00:42:39.540 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know, yes i'm a native New York, I wrote the subways a few times, not a lot our office has been closed since the lockdown happened.

00:42:40.110 --> 00:42:50.400 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: i've gotten I haven't had any parties we had very small gatherings we actually did a small gathering new year's Eve just four of us, and we all got tested a couple of days beforehand.

00:42:51.420 --> 00:42:53.100 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: To me that's being responsible.

00:42:54.150 --> 00:42:56.700 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: To me that's not being reckless.

00:42:57.930 --> 00:43:05.610 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And and that's really what this idea of personal freedom versus Community responsibility is all about it's about not being reckless.

00:43:06.840 --> 00:43:18.060 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And there was an instance of this when I talked to a gentleman that really sort of shocked me there was there was someone I learned about who is doing a certain kind of shamanic ceremony in New York.

00:43:19.410 --> 00:43:27.540 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And it was something that that type of ceremony I hadn't heard of before and I was curious about it, so I contacted the gentleman love to talk to you and we.

00:43:27.780 --> 00:43:34.470 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Had a phone conversation now it's like so you're gathering people together like what are you doing to keep people safe.

00:43:35.250 --> 00:43:46.740 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And he's like no we're not doing anything we keep the windows open but that's it and you know if if people are in fear fears the real virus and you know this conversation, and I was like okay thanks, but no thanks.

00:43:47.430 --> 00:44:00.060 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And I just had such an awful feeling from this, this is somebody who's doing spiritual work, and this is his attitude to me it just felt so reckless was the word that came to mind and that's why I use the word.

00:44:01.590 --> 00:44:12.570 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: it's reckless to do things that can put people at risk when there are some very simple measures we can do to not put people at risk.

00:44:14.910 --> 00:44:21.930 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And to me that is this whole point this balance between personal freedom and Community responsibility.

00:44:24.240 --> 00:44:26.280 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Is your personal freedom.

00:44:28.020 --> 00:44:38.250 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And again, in some ways, I personally don't even feel at least here in the United States it's not a limit on our personal freedom it's not we still have the choice.

00:44:42.300 --> 00:44:47.340 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: it's when we don't have a choice at all that's a different story, but we have a choice.

00:44:49.620 --> 00:44:54.180 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I didn't have to nobody put a gun to my head and said, Sam you have to go get vaccinated.

00:44:55.710 --> 00:45:04.260 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know, was there some peer pressure sure did did my sister every time she talked to me from Israel say hey when are you getting your shot when you're getting your shot yeah absolutely.

00:45:05.310 --> 00:45:15.960 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But I stood my ground and I felt I made this decision early on, I wanted the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, because that is an older technology.

00:45:16.680 --> 00:45:25.800 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I didn't feel and and you know what I got my shot yesterday, no problem arm a little teeny teeny bit sore no no reaction to it all.

00:45:26.580 --> 00:45:39.360 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: The and I actually the pharmacist and I little local neighborhood pharmacy he was really good he talked to me spent a lot of time with me and he's like you know you got about 12 hours if, like you know, by the time you wake up tomorrow morning you don't have any symptoms you're fine.

00:45:40.650 --> 00:45:41.040 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and

00:45:42.720 --> 00:45:42.930 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and

00:45:47.070 --> 00:45:52.020 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know it's the old question you know, are we our brother's keeper are we.

00:45:53.370 --> 00:45:59.970 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Responsible to our Community and to me the answer is yes it's yes in many different ways.

00:46:01.140 --> 00:46:18.900 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And to me we're not losing freedom, by paying attention to what we can do to help the community at large, not just ourselves i'm going to kind of get into that a little bit more after we come back from break and i'm going to tie it up with.

00:46:19.980 --> 00:46:34.470 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Any comments we have on the Facebook life, so thank you all for staying with me you're listening to the conscious consultant our awakening humanity, we do this every Thursday 12 noon to 1pm Eastern right here and talk radio dot nyc and we'll be right back after this.

00:48:54.030 --> 00:48:55.380 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Welcome back to.

00:48:55.380 --> 00:49:03.630 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: The conscious consultant our awakening humanity before I get back and we finish up our topic of personal freedom versus Community responsibility, I just want to mention.

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00:49:10.860 --> 00:49:23.070 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: we've got the return of Kevin barbero to the station she did a show with us a long time ago he's coming back with a show called coffee talk XL and it airs live on Tuesday evenings at 8pm Eastern time.

00:49:23.550 --> 00:49:39.690 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: He does a fun show he's a really interesting guys had an incredible life so he knows it very, very interesting people he's an actor and concert promoter he was a prior track and field coach so I really highly recommend.

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00:50:12.840 --> 00:50:17.430 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: She and she has a very wonderful approach to things and I just felt like.

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00:51:42.750 --> 00:51:48.780 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I mentioned i've been talking this whole show about this idea of personal freedom versus Community responsibility.

00:51:50.190 --> 00:52:03.900 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And it's this perspective of Community responsibility that's not just about vaccines it's not just about being safe in an environment where we have this worldwide pandemic.

00:52:05.430 --> 00:52:09.810 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: it's about how we think about the environment, ecology.

00:52:10.920 --> 00:52:13.140 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: How we treat fellow human beings.

00:52:14.460 --> 00:52:17.070 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: How we show up in the world in general.

00:52:19.890 --> 00:52:27.570 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And you know there's so much debate about the climate change and whether there is climate change or isn't climate change well you know what.

00:52:28.590 --> 00:52:38.910 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I don't care whether there is or isn't the things that the scientists are saying we need to do to help fight climate change are things we should be doing any way.

00:52:41.070 --> 00:52:52.080 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So what difference does it make what is so wrong with wanting to treat the environment and the ecology consciously.

00:52:53.550 --> 00:52:59.400 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: What is wrong with wanting to recycle more to lower our carbon footprint to.

00:53:00.570 --> 00:53:13.380 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: produce less toxins and put less toxins into our environment, I mean the amount of garbage and plastic that is dumped into our oceans each and every year is her renders horrendous.

00:53:14.460 --> 00:53:32.340 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And what we are doing when we pollute our environment where like a baby sitting in a bath of water, who shits and peas in it and just makes it disgusting and eventually they're going to get sick and die from this toxic environment that is exactly what we are doing.

00:53:33.690 --> 00:53:37.440 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So look you want the personal freedom to.

00:53:38.790 --> 00:53:52.830 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know, have plastic and throw it away and and not worried about our environment and do all kinds of things that are just not good for the planet in general yeah you have that freedom, but why would you.

00:53:54.270 --> 00:53:58.230 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Why would you make that unconscious choice.

00:54:01.230 --> 00:54:09.240 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: patty I love you patty patty says, and the Facebook live that she's been recycling, since the early 60s awesome, so now it says.

00:54:10.530 --> 00:54:19.170 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: All for one one for all patty I love my neighbor you guys totally rock I mean this is why you're my tribe, this is why you're my loyal listeners you guys are great.

00:54:20.490 --> 00:54:28.830 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But it's a message that I hope other people who might be scratching their head and might be wondering, you know, is this really.

00:54:30.600 --> 00:54:33.900 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: We know what Sam is talking about have you really thought about it before.

00:54:35.610 --> 00:54:47.910 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And look to be truly vulnerable i'm the pot calling the kettle black black I have not always been this conscious, I have not always been that careful about recycling and and being aware of how much energy i'm using.

00:54:48.390 --> 00:55:02.160 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know my mom always used to yell at us when we were kids about turning off the light when we left the room, and so I used to leave the light on just to just to be a rebel you know just just to be different, but now I try and be much more mindful of that.

00:55:04.800 --> 00:55:20.910 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So this idea of personal freedom versus Community responsibility, the Community responsibility it's not just about our responsibility to each other it's our responsibility to the planet to the animals did to life in general.

00:55:22.380 --> 00:55:40.650 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Where does our responsibility to life come to play I would love to see that work its way more into the conversation and not this you're right and i'm wrong or you're trying to control me or you're trying to take away my personal freedom.

00:55:44.040 --> 00:55:48.390 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Where does our responsibility to life in general come into play.

00:55:49.200 --> 00:55:59.040 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And how can we come together and one of the things I love the BBC and i'm part of the leadership of the BBC now was was just having this conversation around.

00:55:59.760 --> 00:56:12.270 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know how do we come together and talk about this, without making each other wrong, yet still trying to encourage people to make intelligent wise decisions.

00:56:15.540 --> 00:56:28.590 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And yes, I know there's a lot of anecdotal evidence about you know the dangers of getting vaccinated I like I mentioned before we've had shows on the network that talked all about that.

00:56:29.670 --> 00:56:39.090 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So one thing I will say, and this is the difference between the way we vaccinate kids today and the way we used to when I was a kid when I was a kid I got 123 vaccines that was about it there wasn't a whole lot of them.

00:56:39.540 --> 00:56:45.510 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And I don't even think I got them all, at the same time I got one one week one another week one and one another month later, two months later, whatever.

00:56:45.960 --> 00:56:56.340 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But these days, what I find concerning is they're giving kids like 10 and 12 and 15 vaccines all at the same time, or three or four all at the same time that to me just doesn't make sense.

00:56:56.910 --> 00:57:03.240 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Like don't you want to give a kid one vaccine and then wait a little while before you give them another one.

00:57:04.050 --> 00:57:08.610 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So that is the change that I think would be a wise more intelligent change.

00:57:09.390 --> 00:57:20.610 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And look the things that the thing that I personally don't particularly care for in this world is the lack of accountability and the lack of responsibility.

00:57:21.600 --> 00:57:28.980 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And that has to be throughout our system, which means corporations, need to be as accountable and as transparent as individuals are.

00:57:31.170 --> 00:57:45.480 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so to me, that is the real challenge, how do we bring more of that into being so all right i'm out of time i'm probably a little over time, but thank you all thank you and I see, I just want to give a big shout out.

00:57:47.310 --> 00:58:00.240 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: To Kay I saw her commenting on the Facebook live in new the new loyal listener, thank you for for joining in, and I hope that you'll come back next week we do this on Thursday at 12 noon Eastern time every week.

00:58:01.140 --> 00:58:10.230 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So I appreciate you being a part of the conversation today K Williams and I patty I love you guys you're so wonderful.

00:58:11.010 --> 00:58:17.730 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Thank you for tuning in and just to remind everybody tonight, a dear friend of mine Lisa is going to be on Graham show.

00:58:18.150 --> 00:58:27.840 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: The mind behind leadership at 7pm tonight she's wonderful you will love her if you have the opportunity, please tune in on talk radio dot nyc at 7pm tonight for the mind mind leadership.

00:58:28.050 --> 00:58:38.850 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And don't forget tomorrow, Friday, we've got a whole big block four hour block of shows, starting at 10am going all the way to 2pm Thank you all for tuning in next week, I will have a an amazing.

00:58:40.380 --> 00:58:42.930 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: guest on my show I got to confirm with her, but yeah.

00:58:43.470 --> 00:58:58.140 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I will have a wonderful guest on my show next week, I hope you will join me and yes please check out talk radio dot nyc for all the new shows coming up our complete schedule, thank you all for tuning in today I love you all, and we will talk to you next week.