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Please Join us this week For the premiere of The Happy Spot. With Contributors Dr. Rhoda Donat-flowers and Greg Skroce. and our special Guest Jan Lucanus. As we discuss with Intrepreneurs focusing locally on mental wellness through doctors eyes.
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Jack Thomas kicked off by introducing the premiere of The Happy Spot podcast, emphasizing its focus on guiding leaders and medical professionals in discovering sources of happiness and integrating them into their lives. He then directed the spotlight to Dr. Rhoda Donat-Flowers, inviting her to share a brief self-introduction and her perspective on health. Likewise, Siva Greg Skroce, an acupuncturist, introduced himself and shared his perspective on health. The episode's guest, Jan Lucanus, provided insights into "Justice for Hire" and underscored the importance of martial arts as the ultimate avenue for experiencing it firsthand.
Greg Skroce discussed his admiration for Jan Lucanus' initiative in starting the company and integrating martial arts, highlighting how diverse belief systems and religions can converge within martial arts. Jan Lucanus then shared his martial arts background, recounting an encounter with a formidable opponent who taught him invaluable lessons on mindset and skill set adaptation under pressure. These teachings, he emphasized, are essential for consistently performing well and making competitions meaningful. Dr. Rhoda Donat-Flowers chimed in, drawing connections from Jan's insights on the importance of a solid foundation for wellness to developing what she referred to as "superhero" abilities.
Jack reflects on personal growth by sharing a past clip, highlighting his evolution over time. Dr. Rhoda emphasizes seizing the present to enact change, advocating for planting seeds of transformation immediately. Jan Lucanus explores the synergy between martial arts and superhero narratives, suggesting that their shared moral frameworks and empowering elements mutually reinforce each other.
Finally the discussion delves into the evolving value of community and its impact on individuals, highlighting the influence of the environment on perceptions. Greg Skroce's beliefs are explored, emphasizing the formative role of parental influence as the "first belief system." Dr. Rhoda notes how siblings raised in the same household can diverge due to lack of encouragement towards their strengths, hindering their development and potential fulfillment.
00:00:46.710 --> 00:00:48.810 Jack Thomas: Welcome to my happy spot.
00:00:49.290 --> 00:00:50.919 Jack Thomas: This is Jack Thomas.
00:00:51.270 --> 00:00:53.259 Jack Thomas: The sound you just listen to
00:00:53.370 --> 00:00:57.429 Jack Thomas: is a tool that I use to calm my nerves.
00:00:57.780 --> 00:01:02.660 Jack Thomas: Who would have thought 40 years ago, being 18 years old, going out playing basketball.
00:01:02.860 --> 00:01:06.149 Jack Thomas: that 40 years later we need tools to calm our nerves
00:01:06.270 --> 00:01:21.749 Jack Thomas: at the happy spot. We're striving every day to help business owners seek and find for their employees a happy zone. Today we are lucky to have Dr. Donna. She is a chief inspirational
00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:23.740 Jack Thomas: happiness officer
00:01:24.470 --> 00:01:50.599 Jack Thomas: headquartered in New Jersey. We have an acupuncturist, Shiva Greg Scrotech, and then, coming from La Jan Lu Canis, he's the star of the show, Jan. We're gonna get into it with him. But the goal here is to be the New York old school. How do we grow together. I I have everybody here by a decade of age, and all of them have children. But we're going to share the wellness as we see it today
00:01:50.660 --> 00:02:11.859 Jack Thomas: using our tools and sharing with other people. Step one. The doctor helped me write the remedy for mental wellness. If you have an employee, they're not feeling. Well, maybe you send them to a doctor. Maybe you send them off into the universe. We have the remedy. It's written. It's what we've used in lieu of using
00:02:12.170 --> 00:02:20.669 Jack Thomas: medicine. We're not doctors here giving doctor advice. I'm just sharing the remedy that your employees can have for free for their own wellness.
00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:25.260 Jack Thomas: So let me hop in here and say, Dr. Donna, good afternoon. How are you today?
00:02:25.820 --> 00:02:27.820 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: Good afternoon. I'm phenomenal.
00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:45.539 Jack Thomas: And so coming over to the happy spot. And we've worked together professionally for half a dozen years. And what is a 30 s blip of your story that you'd want all of us to know in the world of who Dr. Donna is, and how we get to serve together as a group.
00:02:46.270 --> 00:02:53.120 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: Absolutely so. My name is Dr. Berlus, and off Flowers. I'm born certified in family medicine family medicine.
00:02:53.190 --> 00:02:59.510 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: One thing that I would love for people to know is that without wellness nothing else works.
00:02:59.690 --> 00:03:07.339 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: So really, my goal is to show people what's possible in their lives by first focusing on the fundamental of being well.
00:03:07.530 --> 00:03:13.660 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: being well in the mind, being well in the body, and being well in the spirit and in the finances.
00:03:15.500 --> 00:03:16.230 Jack Thomas: Thank you.
00:03:16.580 --> 00:03:21.090 Jack Thomas: And we have also joining us here today, Greg Scratchier and acupuncturist.
00:03:21.200 --> 00:03:46.950 Jack Thomas: Now, just to make a little joke about myself growing up. I studied martial arts as a kid, and I got into martial arts because some kid touched me. I'll never forget Joey aloo. I don't know whatever happened to him, but he touched me, scared the heck out of me so as a young kid growing up, if I got touched I would just hit somebody. Greg was the first man I had touched me. That I felt comfortable as a yogi, but his energy was right. So
00:03:46.950 --> 00:03:57.039 Jack Thomas: Greg is headquartered in Montclair, New Jersey, a dear friend and acupuncturist, and I'm proud to say, man, I allowed. Touch me, Greg, what would you like to share today?
00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:01.780 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: But, Jack, I appreciate you. That's wonderful to hear.
00:04:02.090 --> 00:04:02.800 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: and
00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:10.519 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: you know wellness in general has evolved in my mind over the years I got into this through Yoga, actually.
00:04:10.640 --> 00:04:16.670 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: and was inspired by the the master I study under in Yoga to become an acupuncturist. So I've seen just
00:04:17.200 --> 00:04:19.549 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: more than I ever thought possible.
00:04:19.760 --> 00:04:27.499 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: using means that are minimally invasive and more based on just decision making
00:04:27.820 --> 00:04:31.689 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: outside of even my presence and my pools
00:04:31.740 --> 00:04:38.869 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: make a big difference in people's lives. So I think, just sharing that message of like people have more under their control than they realize.
00:04:39.080 --> 00:04:42.670 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: I think has been what's become very important for me to commit.
00:04:44.010 --> 00:04:48.429 Jack Thomas: So so the inspiration that we all kind of weave and share myself.
00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:57.496 Jack Thomas: I had gone to church just to go experience. I'm I'm a Jewish guy, but I'd gone to church to experience in a different community. And
00:04:57.830 --> 00:05:05.260 Jack Thomas: the priest I recognized from Yoga, and how she spoke of Greg, and how other people speak in the community.
00:05:05.290 --> 00:05:11.520 Jack Thomas: that our wellness, that when I was growing up 40 years ago acupuncture, Yoga, forget about it.
00:05:11.640 --> 00:05:13.840 Jack Thomas: Now, today it's the norm.
00:05:13.870 --> 00:05:34.829 Jack Thomas: Now, the goal of this show at the happy spot is, why can't we all be happy all the time at work and happy? Is not the silliness of allowing yourself to go up or down, but containing that energy. And Jen Lu Canis, I got to meet this man. I was just out in Los Angeles, visiting family and some business, and this man's energy
00:05:34.830 --> 00:05:46.760 Jack Thomas: is consistently perfect. So, Jan Lu Canis, I just wanna read a little backdrop. Excuse me here for one moment while I have to go down, because I I would do him a disservice without reading it.
00:05:46.900 --> 00:05:52.970 Jack Thomas: So Jan Lukanus is a 3 times. Tai Chi World Cup push hands. Grappling champion.
00:05:53.100 --> 00:06:00.429 Jack Thomas: former captain and coach of the US. Tai Chi, push hands. Team writer of the most downloaded martial Arts.
00:06:00.520 --> 00:06:15.919 Jack Thomas: Comic book series called Justice for Hire, an award-winning filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is the founder of the cinematic Social network real world that uses visual storytelling as a method of personal development.
00:06:16.810 --> 00:06:19.700 Jack Thomas: Jan Lukanis, please give us your
00:06:19.990 --> 00:06:21.260 Jack Thomas: 30 s
00:06:21.990 --> 00:06:26.320 Jack Thomas: shout out of of your of you so we could feel you.
00:06:28.630 --> 00:06:32.360 Jack Thomas: You are coming in. I'm sorry I had. You're muted. Yep.
00:06:33.300 --> 00:06:51.869 Jan Lucanus: There we go. Thank you so much for for the intro. Thank you, everybody for for for for being here, and I'm I'm honored to be a part of this, you know the when Jack was telling me about the your background, both of your backgrounds and the intention for today to to weave healing
00:06:51.870 --> 00:07:16.430 Jan Lucanus: into infrastructures. And we're doing that in our own way through real world. I grew up in a martial arts family, a Tai Chi Kung Fu family. My company, real world, the first cinematic social network where every video you post is part of a movie or show we're making together as a community when our first show is justice for hire, where it's like this superhero cinematic universe that anybody can join the cast of right for their phone.
00:07:16.440 --> 00:07:40.690 Jan Lucanus: Within this storyline, we are already. And we've been doing this for 5 years training people. I start with Tai Chi, we do it online. We do it in person. We do events at comicons, we do events at at at film festivals. But we train people in slowing themselves down with breath work, and visualization, so that they can be more sensitive and aware of themselves, and therefore be able to work with scene partners.
00:07:40.690 --> 00:07:54.679 Jan Lucanus: And this is woven into the storyline. And so, by progressing in this modality, you actually help to level up your character in certain ways. So I think there's a lot of crossover, you know. I'd like to give the analogy of
00:07:54.830 --> 00:08:08.330 Jan Lucanus: what if Disney use Star Wars to teach people Tai Chi, by, you know, making Jed eyes real and allowing people to train as Jed eyes just these little opportunities within
00:08:08.420 --> 00:08:18.420 Jan Lucanus: franchise, storytelling again from from the perspective of what we're doing with real world. To me entertainment is a gateway to people's hearts, otherwise I wouldn't be in entertainment.
00:08:18.510 --> 00:08:21.080 Jan Lucanus: So I want to make sure that I can
00:08:21.190 --> 00:08:30.210 Jan Lucanus: get into folks, hearts and minds and say, Hey, guys like here are the things that have helped me so much growing up in life, and have been.
00:08:30.330 --> 00:08:38.100 Jan Lucanus: you know, from the oldest cultures on earth have helped us to to, you know, refine our humanity and become better
00:08:38.490 --> 00:08:53.519 Jan Lucanus: in within ourselves, so that we could actually make society better, and it's it's happened over and over again, and I think that to Jack's point earlier you know, when I was a kid it was still kind of unheard of. Yoga what you know like meditation, huh?
00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:55.280 Jan Lucanus: And now people get it.
00:08:55.900 --> 00:09:01.559 Jack Thomas: So I'm gonna I'm gonna interject right there. So while he, while he says, Yoga, then
00:09:01.920 --> 00:09:09.949 Jack Thomas: he's so young looking it's so difficult to tell graduate Nyu Film School. What year did you graduate out of Nyu Film school.
00:09:09.950 --> 00:09:11.350 Jan Lucanus: Graduated oh, 5.
00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:32.940 Jack Thomas: Right? Right? So the energy level and and the looks in in in those pieces today, right in your world, what is one thing that our community could do for you while you're navigating into your business world? Is your your, your growing, your your business. What can we do to help this movement?
00:09:32.940 --> 00:09:40.970 Jan Lucanus: Oh, I really appreciate that. Well, first of all, if you want to just be a part of the show and have fun, you can join for free right on justice, for hire that app.
00:09:41.040 --> 00:10:02.199 Jan Lucanus: And you can learn all about what we're doing as a community. We have a global community, 80,000 people worldwide as a part of what we're doing for justice, for hire. And it's it's so much fun. So if you want to be a hero or a villain or a client that hires them. You can join the story that is similar to Uber for heroes where you can hire a hero or become one and get paid. And it's super fun.
00:10:02.250 --> 00:10:16.850 Jan Lucanus: So that's the show justice for hire. If you want to support the company and real world right now we have like a week and a half left on we funder we're doing our first equity. Crowdfunding campaign and community ownership is a huge part of our spirit.
00:10:16.850 --> 00:10:32.930 Jan Lucanus: So we want people to feel ownership, not only in their characters, but also knowing that they can own part of the company, and that we're doing our first raise. So if anyone would like to join that round, that's wefunder.com slash real world. RELW. URLD.
00:10:32.930 --> 00:10:47.989 Jan Lucanus: And you can become an owner in the company, and we'll do a nice webinar next week to to to let everybody know more about what we're doing. But every day I'm on social talking about this, and I'm always available to to for questions, etc, on Jance Tai Chi. Everywhere else, too.
00:10:49.160 --> 00:10:56.760 Jack Thomas: So we we were so fortunate that we were connected years ago through zoom, through technology. How are you seeing that success
00:10:57.148 --> 00:11:00.460 Jack Thomas: in the in your business and justice for hire
00:11:00.540 --> 00:11:11.699 Jack Thomas: in in communicating that through is the technology helping the business grow. Because I know you're a very personal hands-on getting the feeling and sense of a human being.
00:11:11.880 --> 00:11:30.839 Jan Lucanus: Sure we we have to give a shout out to sense a John Moroney who is just such an amazing human being at harmony, Karate. Just an amazing, amazing, wonderful, wonderful human being. And I think the martial spirit is is something that I look at Tai Chi, and look at martial arts. All these things are gateways to to
00:11:30.900 --> 00:11:33.219 Jan Lucanus: a truth that has no name
00:11:33.250 --> 00:11:40.270 Jan Lucanus: rule of all religions. All these things they're all gateways to a truth that cannot be put into words and has to be experienced.
00:11:40.300 --> 00:11:41.075 Jan Lucanus: So
00:11:41.860 --> 00:11:51.409 Jan Lucanus: yeah to to. It's it's just very special to me again to be on here with you guys and to to have everyone aligned with that because I can feel it from you guys. So
00:11:52.800 --> 00:11:53.430 Jan Lucanus: when you're.
00:11:53.430 --> 00:11:57.829 Jack Thomas: What we're gonna do is when we're gonna we're gonna break in a moment or so.
00:11:57.830 --> 00:11:58.245 Jan Lucanus: Sure.
00:11:58.660 --> 00:12:20.469 Jack Thomas: And so I'd love then for Greg to kind of engage and throw some of his questions out there, and on the full on the concept of justice for hire. I think it's pretty cool scenario that you could use as examples. And then, Dr. Donna, I'd love to hear coming. What would Scotland's interest be a after as we kind of go through it? Because what I'm trying to do is bring the child
00:12:20.470 --> 00:12:38.179 Jack Thomas: childhood of our own feelings through our children and raise it up so when right as a professional and a risk manager, I walk into the office of a CEO, and he's like, Oh, yeah, I heard about people doing yoga at work. Oh, I heard about a Zen room. I heard about the happy spot.
00:12:38.230 --> 00:12:49.030 Jack Thomas: How do we go and do that. So, having a dynamic conversation, we're gonna break in a moment, and then we will pick it up. Starting off with you, Greg in the questions.
00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:52.320 Jack Thomas: Thank you, everyone.
00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:54.429 Jack Thomas: I'm looking.
00:15:07.510 --> 00:15:22.910 Jack Thomas: Well, Jen, thank you so much for really bringing us into your world and getting started. We're gonna dive in a little deeper. And, Greg, if you'll start off, and if you could see Jan is wearing his shirt. Jf, which is justice for hire. And Greg, the floor is yours.
00:15:23.980 --> 00:15:43.139 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: Yeah, I was just one of your comments was like struck me in a good way. This mantra above my head actually is. It's the symbol of my Yoga lineage is probably a little hard to see, but it's a singular point in the center, with with the flower of life coming out of it, and all the different faith traditions in each petal of that flower.
00:15:43.290 --> 00:15:51.539 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: And so, like you were saying, you know all these different, whether it's Tai Chi, whether it's yoga, whether it's just telepathic medicine, you know. They're all
00:15:51.620 --> 00:15:53.479 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: kind of pointing to that same truth.
00:15:53.650 --> 00:15:54.450 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: you know.
00:15:54.640 --> 00:15:56.480 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: and so
00:15:56.540 --> 00:16:02.060 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: I love the idea of bringing together people who have these different skill sets, and finding the common ground
00:16:02.310 --> 00:16:07.000 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: and offering whatever tool is beneficial to the individual person
00:16:07.230 --> 00:16:13.240 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: as the thing that they're able to use right? There's really no like right or wrong. This is the best that's the best.
00:16:13.480 --> 00:16:18.630 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: and in Eastern medicine especially, we see every person as an individual in every situation.
00:16:19.020 --> 00:16:26.889 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: from moment to moment, individual and unique, so to be able to address it with like a very tool. Kit is really wonderful thing.
00:16:27.170 --> 00:16:30.189 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: And so it's you know you're you're
00:16:30.805 --> 00:16:36.670 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: the app that you're using in the project that you're working on is so participatory as well.
00:16:36.800 --> 00:16:38.210 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: I really just
00:16:38.540 --> 00:16:42.803 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: I like where you're going with all this, and I'm just curious to see how you've
00:16:43.430 --> 00:16:49.079 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: integrated your knowledge with Tai Chi growing up in a Marshall family mentioned. I was curious about what that was like.
00:16:49.830 --> 00:16:51.660 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: Yeah, we're we'll you know.
00:16:52.590 --> 00:16:57.589 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: W. What are the things that you have you've seen, and what are the things you have people doing so far
00:16:57.710 --> 00:16:59.939 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: as a part of your your initiative here.
00:17:01.682 --> 00:17:11.980 Jan Lucanus: Thank you said so much that I I I wanna touch on. I wanna answer the question, of course, because Jack and I had a great conversation yesterday about Sonata Dharma at.
00:17:11.980 --> 00:17:13.879 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: Oh, yeah, man, that's it. That's it.
00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:18.285 Jan Lucanus: No, there we go, so essentially like, you know the concept that that
00:17:19.612 --> 00:17:47.519 Jan Lucanus: all the religions are pointing to the same thing, and snot, the Dharma being that remove the ceremonies, remove the forms of the interpretation of God, and align yourself with the core of what is being shared through these modalities through these disciplines, through these organizations, infrastructures. So you know, I I that's something that's just permeated my life. And to to weave that into
00:17:47.710 --> 00:17:49.880 Jan Lucanus: you know, I grew up in a Martial arts
00:17:50.050 --> 00:17:54.688 Jan Lucanus: family in Chinatown to Europe, between Chinatown and Brooklyn Heights, and
00:17:55.220 --> 00:18:05.999 Jan Lucanus: just you know, I was raised mostly around Chinese and Indian people. I I, while I'm part Asian, I'm not necessarily a a Chinese or Indian, and so I am deeply grateful to have
00:18:06.540 --> 00:18:23.580 Jan Lucanus: receive so much from these cultures growing up under under Indian Guru, while also going to Catholic Church, and just being able to have friends from all walks of life and just seeing, hey, that we're all we're all one here and you know it's it's it's
00:18:23.970 --> 00:18:27.600 Jan Lucanus: in the Marshall space. I think that there's a
00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:39.959 Jan Lucanus: especially. We're in the Western World, you know. You can't deny it, you know, and if this I'm in la right now, but I consider New York the capital of like the Western world. You know, there's so much dynamism that happens in New York.
00:18:40.030 --> 00:18:52.000 Jan Lucanus: and so many minds coming together, and when that applied to the martial scenario. I think one of the great things about martial arts is that the end of the day?
00:18:52.050 --> 00:18:54.130 Jan Lucanus: If you get punched in the face
00:18:54.180 --> 00:19:06.179 Jan Lucanus: it's real, and you can see it. So it's overt, and it's overt pressure. And the overt things are oftentimes what convinces people
00:19:06.380 --> 00:19:14.219 Jan Lucanus: to to sit to see something as real or not real. So, therefore, the subtle things can be much harder for someone to grasp.
00:19:14.270 --> 00:19:16.599 Jan Lucanus: So the cool thing about
00:19:17.356 --> 00:19:28.839 Jan Lucanus: for me, the coolest thing about my Marshall experience is that I've grown up around so much of this subtle awareness, concepts and practices that have given me insight.
00:19:28.890 --> 00:19:32.520 Jan Lucanus: But the bridge building the bridge to the overt.
00:19:32.630 --> 00:19:50.140 Jan Lucanus: so that people can be convinced that, hey, this thing is going to help you in your life. You're going to have a better life if you do. This thing has been. I've always been searching for those things, and they've come to me, and one person in particular that gave me so much that I, my big brother, is Josh Waitskin.
00:19:50.310 --> 00:20:11.290 Jan Lucanus: who wrote the book, The Art of Learning, and which is great. I recommend the the audio book, because you know Tim Ferris bought the rights to it. They're like best friends, and he then Tim convinced him to narrate it himself, and it's awesome. And you could see a lot of his. He was a child chess strategy that the movie searching for Bobby Fisher was based on.
00:20:11.290 --> 00:20:32.980 Jan Lucanus: and he grew up to be a martial artist world champion in this sort of Tai Chi push hands and the first black belt under Brazilian jujitsu prodigy, Marcelo Garcia. So, Josh, I I would. You know a lot of people in my life I grew up seeing before I met, meaning. I would I would get visual visualizations of them. I would just download and see. Oh, there's this person coming into my life.
00:20:33.204 --> 00:20:45.779 Jan Lucanus: you know, I grew up with a lot of like psychic grandmas and stuff like that. So so I'm like, Oh, I wonder who this person is who I'm going to meet. He's he's dressed in all black, and he's he's he's got this thing going. Who's this guy? And then, when I was 22,
00:20:45.860 --> 00:21:04.510 Jan Lucanus: my dad calls me? He's like, Hey, some guy, you know, we're shooting my justice for higher senior thesis at at for my Nyu film school, you know. Final project, and my dad calls me up while I'm on set. He's like some guy named Josh just came and beat up our whole martial art school in Chinatown. I'm like, what? Who is this guy? Where's it gonna be.
00:21:04.510 --> 00:21:17.500 Jan Lucanus: you know. And so he's like going to be at this tournament in in the international Chinese Martial Arts championship in Orlando. I'm like we're going to be there. So you know, I I went there to fight Josh and I. I was blown away that this
00:21:17.690 --> 00:21:32.080 Jan Lucanus: guy who's 8 years older than me, was beating all the seniors, all the masters going around, taking down all the folks who considered themselves masters in Tai Chi because he had something that they didn't have, which is.
00:21:33.020 --> 00:21:35.520 Jan Lucanus: he was a prodigy and pattern recognition.
00:21:35.950 --> 00:21:39.230 Jan Lucanus: and he applied pattern recognition to Tai Chi.
00:21:39.390 --> 00:21:45.999 Jan Lucanus: and therefore he was able to progress far beyond people who had spent more years training than him.
00:21:46.160 --> 00:22:01.539 Jan Lucanus: So he had a formula that he gave to me. That's like, hey, Jen, this is how you, how you progress quickly. He's like you take anything, you break it into 3 parts. You train each one of those parts individually, and then you put it back together. Now you've mastered it, and that's the formula for masterpiece, and I was like, Oh.
00:22:02.230 --> 00:22:23.440 Jan Lucanus: huh! And sure enough, that's how he ran all the coaching, like, you know, we, my dad and I fought him at the tournament. They beat us. Of course. We got recruited onto the Us. Team. We got our asses beat for 3 months straight every single day. Well, 4 days a week, and then my dad and I were still training outside of that. And we, you know, went to our First World Cup with Josh, and that Us. Team.
00:22:23.630 --> 00:22:24.520 Jan Lucanus: And
00:22:24.640 --> 00:22:29.440 Jan Lucanus: we got a supercharged experience in making
00:22:29.560 --> 00:22:31.390 Jan Lucanus: these modalities real.
00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:43.679 Jan Lucanus: putting them under pressure, because if they can't perform under pressure they can't perform, and that means you can't perform repeatably, and if you can't perform repeatably. You can't make it competition worthy.
00:22:43.850 --> 00:23:08.070 Jan Lucanus: So if you can't do it over and over again on command, you can't do it in in under pressure in a competition, and life to a certain extent is a competition. And I don't say that in like a destructive way, because there's a destructive way to do that. I mean that as we're pushing each other to make ourselves better when someone does something great, I want to go even higher, and I always want to raise the bar so that we, you know I can contribute to humanity.
00:23:08.080 --> 00:23:23.270 Jan Lucanus: So I look at competition as a great litmus test for these modalities, and if your modality is not allowing you to withstand great pressure, whether that's the emotional pressure or the intensity of your environment.
00:23:23.320 --> 00:23:29.820 Jan Lucanus: then you have to question your practice and and upgrade it. That's my my perspective.
00:23:31.750 --> 00:23:38.169 Jack Thomas: Jen. Your energy, your consistency, and your flow is extremely dynamic. Thank you.
00:23:41.730 --> 00:23:42.950 Jack Thomas: talk to Donna.
00:23:43.150 --> 00:23:58.549 Jack Thomas: What is something that you would like to inquire through the flow, and I know there's at least 6 subjects in there that you and I have gone down those roads before, so please feel free to pick the couple that you enjoy to engage in this conversation.
00:23:58.700 --> 00:24:16.289 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: Yeah, thank you for that share. Jan, there's so much to unpack there. But I like the last piece that you said. Actually, I started writing it down. If if your if you're unable to withstand the pressure right, it's not, it doesn't become repeatable. No, the same comes for wellness. Right?
00:24:16.290 --> 00:24:29.069 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: So a lot of people are going out they're wanting to be super heroes in the world. They're wanting to give the best of themselves, but they're not necessarily well, they don't necessarily have that foundation of breath.
00:24:29.070 --> 00:24:43.819 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: right? The foundation of nutrition, the foundation of exercise, etc, to to to do that. So I definitely want to unpack that. The other thing I wanted to touch on was the this superhero piece right? The the media piece
00:24:43.980 --> 00:24:56.409 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: justice for hire. So, as you know, I have a 9 year old, daughter, and so she's into the cartoons, into the comic con into Anime etc. And I noticed how she does learn from
00:24:56.600 --> 00:25:07.909 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: the cartoons. Right? So how amazing is it that you're doing something that will allow them to learn something positive, right. Learn a skill, if you will, that will serve them for life.
00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:10.260 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: Tell me about that journey
00:25:10.380 --> 00:25:11.720 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: that led you there.
00:25:12.610 --> 00:25:15.710 Jan Lucanus: Sure. Thank you for that. I I I
00:25:16.270 --> 00:25:23.860 Jan Lucanus: many people said versions of this, but I love, I love the concept of. We're all brainwashed. It just depends on what you wash your brain with.
00:25:24.220 --> 00:25:39.180 Jan Lucanus: And so we condition ourselves at all times. And when I realized how much my environment really affected me growing up. Wherever where I look. As a child there's another, a different religions form of God.
00:25:39.310 --> 00:25:49.450 Jan Lucanus: So I'd see Jesus. I'd see Ganesha. I'd see African powers. I'd see all these different forms of God, like pictures all around my home
00:25:49.520 --> 00:25:50.640 Jan Lucanus: and
00:25:50.880 --> 00:26:01.486 Jan Lucanus: martial arts, images, Buddhist images, etc. So and when I'm away from that. I notice that I feel different. And it really took me like, you know, wasn't it wasn't till maybe
00:26:02.230 --> 00:26:07.290 Jan Lucanus: not so many years ago that I realized my hold on. I need to have more images of God
00:26:07.550 --> 00:26:12.099 Jan Lucanus: as interpreted by various, you know systems around me.
00:26:12.150 --> 00:26:25.500 Jan Lucanus: and that the balance of those images with superheroes was massive. That's why I keep all these different. This doesn't look like a superhero, but I guarantee it is then just fun. I keep action. Figures. I keep
00:26:25.991 --> 00:26:35.919 Jan Lucanus: images of God, and I keep things that remind me of of what I want to find inside around. So recognizing that
00:26:36.170 --> 00:26:53.399 Jan Lucanus: we are in a time where people are growing up with social media, they're social. First, social first means that you are part of the conversation. We consider a social network or social media from the real world justice for higher perspective, a story that we're all telling together.
00:26:53.470 --> 00:27:21.320 Jan Lucanus: And it's not framed that way, though. But life is a story that we're all telling together, and it's not framed that way, though. So you know, when we make our cinematic social network. When we have our first show just for hire. Right now, we have one app for one show, and it's a social network for one show everybody who's on it is part of the show. Everyone is a character in this, our cinematic universe, similar to marvel where every character has their, you know supporting cast, and they have their own movies, and then.
00:27:21.320 --> 00:27:30.369 Jack Thomas: Wait one sec, please, so elaborate. So I didn't realize. So any one of us could then join that social media of
00:27:30.730 --> 00:27:31.699 Jack Thomas: yeah, just yes.
00:27:31.700 --> 00:27:50.730 Jan Lucanus: Right. Now, if you go to justice for hire app, you can you create immediately a character you? You were asked if you want to be a hero, villain, or a client that hires them, and you create your own character with your own name, and you're injected into the story right where we are, as a, you know, currently in the story world. And you start telling your story.
00:27:50.730 --> 00:28:18.859 Jan Lucanus: and then you, if you want to. Only if you want to. You can tie your story together with other people and then keep expanding. And that's ha! How you come into our events and we shoot lot stuff live with you. And then maybe you you're in the main show with some of our our our like, you know, professional cast members, etc. So it's a really fun ecosystem that we've built. And it's it's the beginning of what we see as an as a new sector in the film and television industry where the audience truly is part of the show
00:28:18.860 --> 00:28:40.110 Jan Lucanus: and not in a like arms. Length way, where it's like, okay, yeah. Your audience member, maybe you can vote on this. But you actually are controlling how everything evolves, because that's what happens with you. If you litter on the street or you throw it in a trash. Can you're controlling how the story evolves even on a micro level. So we we do it in in the narrative form.
00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:44.330 Jack Thomas: So I love that. So we're gonna come to a break. When we come back.
00:28:44.350 --> 00:28:58.669 Jack Thomas: We're gonna talk about the future. I'm gonna show a video from 20 years ago. And then we're gonna have Doctor pick up the ball again. But the concept here is the future of tools of the past. Our mind is our most powerful tool.
00:28:58.710 --> 00:29:03.919 Jack Thomas: How do we heal it? And how do we use it most efficiently in work in the professional world?
00:29:04.180 --> 00:29:19.649 Jack Thomas: Because that is, who's going to make the changes for us will be large businesses, small businesses, all businesses, and that's what we're here to help. Do really try and bring mental wellness in. And if this is an entry point, this is awesome.
00:29:19.740 --> 00:29:25.810 Jack Thomas: right? This is right, like you. And I spoke so. I didn't even know I didn't even could. It was too much
00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:28.700 Jack Thomas: awesome is great.
00:29:28.840 --> 00:29:36.549 Jack Thomas: Alright, we're gonna we're gonna jump off to break, and we'll be right back. Everybody. Thank you. Welcome to the happy spot, our first edition.
00:29:36.820 --> 00:29:44.390 Jack Thomas: Hopefully, we're bringing some dynamic thoughts and conversations, and you could reach out to us the professional guidance we can help.
00:32:04.660 --> 00:32:10.909 Jack Thomas: Okay. So I'd like to thank everybody for coming back as we listen to the by neural beats.
00:32:11.090 --> 00:32:13.540 Jack Thomas: it's a 40 megahertz sound.
00:32:14.410 --> 00:32:26.710 Jack Thomas: It's amazing how we find these tools as we get older in life. But don't worry about it because we have the remedy out at the happy spot out on Linkedin, Jack Thomas. And we're going to be providing tools for an update.
00:32:27.080 --> 00:32:31.849 Jack Thomas: That's that's where this conversation is gonna go to. Because 20 years ago
00:32:32.020 --> 00:32:36.340 Jack Thomas: I was approached by some people in New York City. I was an advisor
00:32:36.590 --> 00:32:43.420 Jack Thomas: for different schools, and bringing tools into the industry, so I had the good fortune of
00:32:43.440 --> 00:32:51.480 Jack Thomas: Emily Shulman, my Va was able to cut cut open this cut up this tape.
00:32:51.590 --> 00:32:53.919 Jack Thomas: and I'm going to share it.
00:32:54.380 --> 00:32:56.869 Jack Thomas: And this is from 20 years ago.
00:32:59.140 --> 00:33:00.890 Jack Thomas: and it's about tools.
00:33:00.890 --> 00:33:03.390 Jan Lucanus: I have a question. Was it a tape? At first.
00:33:03.740 --> 00:33:15.809 Jack Thomas: It was a total VCR, this was a VCR broken down to a CD. Now, the 2 guys that we're going to see can every. Can you see them on on, on the video here.
00:33:16.150 --> 00:33:16.780 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: Yes.
00:33:17.110 --> 00:33:37.940 Jack Thomas: Alright. So at the time I was the big shot in the automotive world in New York, because I sold to every borough and knew every different community. So I was a director of an association. These 2 guys became my partner. This is a 2 min little blip just to give a little flavor of the history of what was 20 years ago
00:33:38.210 --> 00:33:42.000 Jack Thomas: for my professional life. And coming in here where we are today.
00:33:42.220 --> 00:33:42.980 Jack Thomas: I point.
00:33:43.310 --> 00:33:45.820 Jack Thomas: you know it sure went fast, you know.
00:33:45.920 --> 00:34:03.039 Jack Thomas: while we were thinking about the first show, Nick and I felt that we should have enough. We should have somebody on the show who has knowledge from a different point of view, and our guest tonight has that that exact knowledge. His name is Larry Baskowitz, and his grandfather started A. And M. Motor fellow motor, the 1952.
00:34:03.080 --> 00:34:12.290 Jack Thomas: In 1 87 he graduated from the University of Maryland, and he then joined the family business business with his dad, Allen. Alan, I hope you're watching. I hope you feel better.
00:34:12.340 --> 00:34:19.320 Jack Thomas: His automotive background started with a training facility in California. He is constantly updating his training
00:34:19.540 --> 00:34:21.870 Jack Thomas: with automotive repair experience
00:34:21.969 --> 00:34:31.030 Jack Thomas: in the back of the industry. He's on the board of directors of the New York Auto Body Association, which is one of the largest associations in the East Coast.
00:34:31.449 --> 00:34:35.889 Jack Thomas: and he's also a technical advisor for Apex Technical school in Manhattan
00:34:36.120 --> 00:34:44.480 Jack Thomas: and the Brooklyn Automotive High School in Brooklyn. Welcome to my show, Larry, so I don't know how. Thank you, Walter, and I appreciate it. Thank you, Nicky.
00:34:44.889 --> 00:35:09.177 Jack Thomas: Being here tonight is really an honor to be here with you, gentlemen, because I know the 2 of you are looking up. Think that into the school, spend some time with the instructors. The instructors work with the students, and in the future all those students are going to be working in our industry. What I'm hoping to do is to make sure it rolls perfectly great, Larry, I have to be quick about this. Thank you very much for being on a show. You were really great.
00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:15.159 Jack Thomas: So for me here
00:35:15.990 --> 00:35:19.299 Jack Thomas: when I heard that as I was going through the tape
00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:23.569 Jack Thomas: and the future, I remember doing that the other day
00:35:24.080 --> 00:35:32.320 Jack Thomas: I remember meeting Walter in New York. I remember meeting Nikki. Never in a million years did I ever think we were going to do what we did at the time.
00:35:32.350 --> 00:35:53.609 Jack Thomas: and it was revolutionary. We're doing consulting in the auto body world in New York. They had a TV show cable as it was, but nobody was doing it. But it was tools of the communication, so now I fast forward, and I have spent some time over in Europe with the happiness movement.
00:35:53.610 --> 00:36:11.469 Jack Thomas: I was in Portugal. Last year I got to be part with Madelina Carrie, who is just a super influential professional at the World happiness movement. They had 8,000 professionals, and the joke is right. We're from New York and New Jersey. We're never happy. Everybody's miserable.
00:36:11.520 --> 00:36:34.629 Jack Thomas: and I say it a little tongue in cheek, but the reality is, we are happy here right now, how can we do a better job of it to be consistent, coming through because the speed of technology? So our future is today. It's our brains. And I take it upon being in the latter year of my fifties, that if I can't have professionals like yourselves
00:36:34.650 --> 00:36:42.740 Jack Thomas: right, bringing this information to our kids. Then how do we ever fix society? And that's what makes New York and New Jersey who we are?
00:36:43.020 --> 00:36:51.110 Jack Thomas: We are in that close knit community. We're put in there all the time, and as as you've experienced being out in La
00:36:51.230 --> 00:37:08.830 Jack Thomas: close, knit community, but it's the wealth, the oral wealth of this family office that we're building out that we get to exchange. So, Dr. Donna, I want to hand the floor back to you, cause you only got it. One question in, and I felt like you had some board thoughts in there. Please.
00:37:09.420 --> 00:37:17.360 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: No, absolutely thank you for this wonderful opportunity. So you said so much that I can unpack the first is the oral tradition.
00:37:17.712 --> 00:37:36.969 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: So, being of African descent, being Haitian, American oral tradition, is huge for us. Right? That's where we learn truly who we are in the world and who we're called and destined to be, which really ties into something that you said Shiva. Earlier. There's there's one truth right? And it's really that becoming the greatest
00:37:36.970 --> 00:37:49.149 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: version of yourself. That's really powerful. And so speaking on the future, I think the future is now right. So when I look at my day to day responsibilities as a as a parent.
00:37:49.260 --> 00:38:10.479 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: really, it's it's for me to plant the seeds that I would want to see in the future, right? So that to plant the seeds of kindness, of empathy, of being a good human right, those are the seeds that I plant, you know. Let's talk about wellness. Let's talk about conflict resolutions, things that are emotional intelligence now called soft skills in the workplace.
00:38:10.480 --> 00:38:19.850 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: It's really my responsibility as a parent to put those things plant those seeds in, my child, right? And I'm loving the work that you're doing, Jan, because
00:38:20.520 --> 00:38:32.959 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: you get to do that from a media perspective, right? So our kids inevitably are going to be in media looking at media. And so it's really great to know that there are resources out there that are conscious
00:38:33.110 --> 00:38:40.319 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: and that are really trying to create a better tomorrow. So, my, my my applause, my hats off to you for doing that.
00:38:42.150 --> 00:38:49.460 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: So. And I really love how you've tied everyone together Larry. And it's really it's it's one theme. But taken from different angles.
00:38:50.530 --> 00:38:56.190 Jack Thomas: And and so I've had this conversation that I'm part of the octopus movement
00:38:56.240 --> 00:38:58.189 Jack Thomas: and coming out of Europe. And
00:38:59.563 --> 00:39:00.829 Jack Thomas: you know
00:39:01.100 --> 00:39:04.860 Jack Thomas: I meet this gentleman right, Perry, and he immediately goes.
00:39:04.870 --> 00:39:06.899 Jack Thomas: You know you're you're one of us.
00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:20.350 Jack Thomas: and I'm like, what is that? Because you're neurodiverse? Now, now, my my son has a degree in this. I've heard these words, but when you hear from a counterpart your peer, and then you get into the conversation.
00:39:20.350 --> 00:39:36.530 Jack Thomas: my generation right? We just went to work, took care of the family. If you're neurotic, you are, you know, you just got thrown. You could just got thrown around where it's become part of society on how to deal with it. Just recently I was talking to a woman. She's 59 years old.
00:39:36.862 --> 00:39:57.499 Jack Thomas: Professional conversation. And I told her, I am neurodiverse. That is now my new liberating power is letting people my generation know I have my issues. If you didn't know it. I'm trying to work through it. And then the younger generation, it's you go into a a computer. Star went into geek squad and the young guy goes. I'm neurodiverse, too.
00:39:57.790 --> 00:40:04.369 Jack Thomas: And so it's really allowing ourselves to be true to who we are and not letting people judge on the other side.
00:40:04.780 --> 00:40:06.320 Jack Thomas: So so, Jen.
00:40:08.690 --> 00:40:32.600 Jack Thomas: something about your 9 year old that you're you're seeing. That, you know, is a gift. You'd want all other 9 year old children to have that you were able to share. What is something that you could give us in a vocal conversation? Right? If we were neighbors next door to each other right? And we're talking and hanging out, just having right conversation. You would share something. It's that little wisdom of hanging out with another family member of like mind.
00:40:33.980 --> 00:40:34.660 Jan Lucanus: Sure
00:40:35.930 --> 00:40:36.669 Jan Lucanus: it's a great question.
00:40:37.450 --> 00:40:39.570 Jack Thomas: Only one I did.
00:40:39.570 --> 00:40:40.510 Jan Lucanus: But up.
00:40:41.440 --> 00:40:42.490 Jack Thomas: Love them.
00:40:43.220 --> 00:41:06.829 Jan Lucanus: I grew up with my father. I'm obviously both my parents are really really important, or still are very important to me. But I loved that my dad was in the comic book world, and that he brought me into it. Like, you know, we're in a Martial arts family. But the comic books made the powers, the access, or the ability to have the power there in the comics martial arts made that real.
00:41:07.100 --> 00:41:14.270 Jan Lucanus: and so that interrelationship between seeing, hey, here are the characters to aspire to.
00:41:14.480 --> 00:41:24.000 Jan Lucanus: you know. Both. It's spiritually as well with all the all the different religious stories that I would hear from all different religions, seeing that in the comical world, and then being able to practice martial arts
00:41:24.200 --> 00:41:28.429 Jan Lucanus: and actually train toward that goal of actually being a superhero.
00:41:28.680 --> 00:41:47.400 Jan Lucanus: And so for my son, I I do my best to instill, to take what I was given and to upgrade it. I'm like, okay, well, I I have to do a better job, you know, than my parents did, because I and I deeply appreciate the job. The dip I just have to do better, because that's what each generation does hopefully. And so
00:41:47.400 --> 00:41:59.560 Jan Lucanus: I'm like, Okay, well, how can I make sure that this guy is surrounded by the most empowering ideas possible. How can I live? Be an example? Live those ideas out.
00:41:59.760 --> 00:42:13.619 Jan Lucanus: And you know, I just do my best to, just on those basic principles like, there are more specific things for my life that that and and his life that that happen. But it's really that general concept of okay, well, we can actually be
00:42:14.090 --> 00:42:33.780 Jan Lucanus: human beings can actually achieve so much can actually embody so much. And how can you create an environment in which that is is, you're consistently reminded of that, because there's so many people that don't know that I mean. And they're everywhere. They're literally everywhere. So it's just like, okay, cool that people don't know that. And you do.
00:42:33.780 --> 00:42:45.469 Jan Lucanus: How can you build a strong inner? You know. I like to call it a wealthy inner narrative that went wim like I do. Tai chi, for the win, for a wealthy inner narrative. And how can we? You can
00:42:45.520 --> 00:42:47.490 Jan Lucanus: build your? I surround myself with
00:42:47.830 --> 00:42:55.979 Jan Lucanus: comma books, and and you know images. How can I do that for my son? How can I make sure that the extracurricular activities that we do are reminding him
00:42:56.180 --> 00:43:16.630 Jan Lucanus: of his power. And how do I instill the principles like the the basic human values within him, and show him from a lateral thinking perspective meaning that, hey? Here's the human value here. It is applied to this experience that you just had in your life today. Here it is applied to the sport
00:43:16.630 --> 00:43:27.733 Jan Lucanus: or to the story we just read. And you know story is a vehicle for these principles as well. So how do I make sure he's consuming those stories rather than noise.
00:43:28.070 --> 00:43:28.970 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: Loving it.
00:43:29.160 --> 00:43:34.630 Jack Thomas: So thank you. So when we come back, we're gonna I'm gonna touch upon values. We're gonna break in a moment.
00:43:34.790 --> 00:43:39.470 Jack Thomas: You you brought that up. And that was the key thing. And it's the shared values.
00:43:39.650 --> 00:44:07.430 Jack Thomas: And then also from a generational family office concept, Greg, I'm gonna ask you to speak about being first generation, a family coming over here, and then the pride you take in helping with your daughter and the shared values. And and and that's where I'm gonna come back in that conversation just in a moment, Jen again. Thank you so much, Dr. Donna. Thank you. We're gonna go to break for a moment. And then we're gonna have our value conversation as entrepreneurs.
00:44:07.480 --> 00:44:14.169 Jack Thomas: We are entrepreneurs around the world because we focus local. But we can scale global.
00:46:25.700 --> 00:46:27.370 Jack Thomas: Alright, everyone, thank you.
00:46:27.560 --> 00:46:30.360 Jack Thomas: So we're just coming off conversations.
00:46:30.650 --> 00:46:33.089 Jack Thomas: and where we left off was on values.
00:46:33.510 --> 00:46:34.570 Jack Thomas: So
00:46:36.140 --> 00:46:45.264 Jack Thomas: in the world that I come from a risk manager. There's this value system. I'll use an example. Many years ago I was on vacation
00:46:45.660 --> 00:46:51.200 Jack Thomas: and I was with a group of people, and it was a Sonoda, a sonesta.
00:46:51.260 --> 00:47:08.550 Jack Thomas: There's a hole in the ground in Mexico, and it was a 30 foot jump, and it was a matter of. Okay, who's gonna go first? I just ran. I didn't, don't, don't! And oh, my God, he's like. But to me it didn't matter. My risk knew I was comfortable, jumping 30 feet and and landing in the water.
00:47:08.710 --> 00:47:11.460 Jack Thomas: What was my value? How did I get there?
00:47:11.500 --> 00:47:29.090 Jack Thomas: Well, that's the life that we're living today because we're all on top of each other and our values. And how do we establish them? It's usually done through communication. It's usually done in agreements and working on top of the agreements and not trying to fight. A lot of the negatives that go on
00:47:30.090 --> 00:47:50.020 Jack Thomas: so when people say value, they establish it based off of a rule or a metric or something. They know we are living in a world today. We all know that we've never thought we would experience. So I'm gonna give you an example of something that we never thought could be or where it came from. And so I know, Jen. I asked the question the other day.
00:47:50.050 --> 00:47:56.999 Jack Thomas: Greg, Dr. Donna, if I say the number 9, 1 one, what do you think of.
00:47:58.730 --> 00:48:00.470 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: Emergency dispatch services.
00:48:00.640 --> 00:48:02.170 Jack Thomas: Perfect Greg.
00:48:03.120 --> 00:48:05.657 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: Exactly. Ambulance is on the way. Something.
00:48:06.300 --> 00:48:14.630 Jack Thomas: Perfect right? And so we've been trained to think that now some people can go 911 9, 11. Notice they're both New York right? Just saying.
00:48:15.870 --> 00:48:22.899 Jack Thomas: Where did 9, 1 one come from? The phone number? Where did it come from? And when? What was the inspiration?
00:48:26.220 --> 00:48:28.549 Jack Thomas: New York City, 1964,
00:48:29.390 --> 00:48:48.430 Jack Thomas: so as crazy as it sounds. It was an article in the New York Post the other day. Yes, I read the post. Yes, it's written for third grade reading, but it gives you the brunt of the information you need, and for 50 years, it tells me, consistent consistently what's going on in the city which does give a worldwide viewpoint.
00:48:48.430 --> 00:49:00.769 Jack Thomas: And there was a woman in 1964 coming home from a bar, and she was murdered, and she screamed for help, and there were 38 families interviewed, and no one knew what to do and boom.
00:49:00.850 --> 00:49:03.400 Jack Thomas: New York City is the creator of 9, 1 1,
00:49:04.120 --> 00:49:15.440 Jack Thomas: right? So that little local little history, that little why do I know that? I don't even know why I know that someone told it to me years ago, but I saw it in the paper. But that value of society changed.
00:49:16.190 --> 00:49:33.990 Jack Thomas: We know our society is changing because we all talk about it privately. Now we're talking about it publicly. So, Greg, if you could chime in on your family's history of the value of hard work coming over your and whatever you'd want to share on your backdrop of your family, cause it. It's it's the New York story.
00:49:34.840 --> 00:49:38.829 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: Yeah, my my family came over here from Croatia.
00:49:40.630 --> 00:49:42.089 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: They lived on a farm
00:49:42.430 --> 00:49:48.070 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: very little money at all. My grandfather got thrown in jail twice trying to escape the country
00:49:48.110 --> 00:49:53.320 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: made it to Paris. I've worked for a year in a steel factory so we can get my father and my grandmother over there
00:49:53.440 --> 00:50:03.899 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: and then for Paris. Working for 2 years, they saved up enough to come to New York, and they met up with some family on. They lived on 40 Eighth Street and Tenth Avenue. So if you know New York City, it's a house kitchen
00:50:04.080 --> 00:50:06.860 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: today. It's like kind of nicely, you know, beautiful, like
00:50:06.940 --> 00:50:26.479 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: vibrant neighborhood. There's restaurants everywhere as a theater district restaurant rose right there, you know, it's beautiful. But back then it was a different scene, you know, so my grandfather tells me how shocked he was to see the size of the rats in the subway compared to the pristine, like the region streets, and whatever you know. So he he!
00:50:26.890 --> 00:50:38.530 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: He's shared with me his his experience and his struggles. Coming here very little money. He worked as a bus boy in Mama Leonie's restaurant for a couple of years before becoming a longshoreman
00:50:38.660 --> 00:50:42.949 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: down in Brooklyn, and then eventually Port Elizabeth down here in New Jersey.
00:50:43.280 --> 00:50:43.840 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: But
00:50:44.530 --> 00:50:46.460 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: You know you said something
00:50:46.600 --> 00:50:49.379 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: about overcoming adversity, and like that's
00:50:49.420 --> 00:50:55.829 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: my grandfather's whole story. And really my grandparents raised me more. You know just much, and my parents did. It's kind of one of those things.
00:50:57.230 --> 00:50:59.280 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: And he always had this one
00:50:59.370 --> 00:51:05.290 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: kind of saying that he would go back to if I was struggling. He's like man. If you can't laugh, you're not gonna be able to do anything.
00:51:05.400 --> 00:51:11.889 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: so he would always like wanna meet, you know, like as much as you're struggling. He would like push you over the edge even more.
00:51:11.920 --> 00:51:15.419 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: and it's like, I don't know. But there's like a Balkan culture.
00:51:15.820 --> 00:51:18.599 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: I think your parents are your first bullies.
00:51:18.850 --> 00:51:21.099 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: because they believe that, like
00:51:21.280 --> 00:51:33.169 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: you gotta be tough enough to go out and deal with the world right? So I never had like a pat. There was never a pad on the back like good job like you did something really good, and they'd be like, all right. That's what I expected it'd be. Now go do it again.
00:51:33.310 --> 00:51:34.709 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: you know, and like
00:51:34.830 --> 00:51:46.359 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: as a kid, I think there were teenage years where I questioned that it was hard for me to deal with. But as an adult I'm so grateful like going into like the workforce working. And I, you know, no one's gonna phase me.
00:51:46.480 --> 00:51:52.329 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: Yeah, let me all you want. You know my my grandfather did worse, you know.
00:51:52.610 --> 00:52:04.590 Jack Thomas: So so as as as you're talking, Dr. Donna, I I'm fortunate that I got to see her speak at a a medical conference, and I sat next to her mom and her dad and I know them for years.
00:52:04.630 --> 00:52:14.930 Jack Thomas: and I shared something private with with Mrs. Donna, and she started reprimanding me as if I was one of her own children, and I knew that it just comes from love.
00:52:15.010 --> 00:52:25.339 Jack Thomas: It's just genuine love, right? So, Dr. Donna, your your family also, if you want to share the the stories of a similar nature.
00:52:25.340 --> 00:52:36.029 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: Absolutely so. I'll I'll broadstroke it to say like this. There! There's A concept of iron sharpening iron right? And I truly believe that the home is where
00:52:36.467 --> 00:52:43.450 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: we're. We're. We're formed right? You can have 2 kids come from the same home. Same experience. Right?
00:52:43.470 --> 00:53:12.730 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: Let's say father's an alcoholic one will become an alcoholic, and the other one will become the complete opposite. But nevertheless, just those experiences at home. And so I really try to make it intentional right to say I I wouldn't necessarily say it's bullying, but I would probably say it as pulling out the best of of the child right? Showing them what they're truly capable of showing them their potential. And what's possible for them in life. Yeah, what's that great.
00:53:12.730 --> 00:53:16.660 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: Feel like just to do justice to my family. I have to say, I said, that
00:53:16.970 --> 00:53:18.140 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: facetiously.
00:53:19.840 --> 00:53:21.960 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: I did it. Yeah.
00:53:21.960 --> 00:53:36.309 Jack Thomas: But but but this is this is this is great time of using our words, our communication right? And so I'm familiar with Greg coming from Europe right, Dr. Donna, and and Jen, you wanna chime in here, please.
00:53:36.310 --> 00:53:57.199 Jan Lucanus: Yeah, I I just wanted Greg said something that that really sparked. I had to run and get this book. I I grew up around a lot of Indian comic books as well, even though I spent most of my time at like Marvel, DC. And Valiant Kid. But the Indian comics really took the format and used it to distribute the values that we were speaking of earlier, the core human values. And
00:53:57.611 --> 00:54:07.890 Jan Lucanus: this this particular book this particular story is about Subudra Sumutra, Gupta a king who gave his people the leisure to be creative.
00:54:08.050 --> 00:54:24.510 Jan Lucanus: When I hear Greg's story, I hear his family story. I hear hear all of the blood, sweat, and tears that went to get him and the family over to America, and I I often say that I actually really, truly believe that America has still has the biggest opportunity in the world.
00:54:24.650 --> 00:54:29.739 Jan Lucanus: We, as Americans, still have the biggest opportunity in the world. Because we're in this space where
00:54:29.870 --> 00:54:43.900 Jan Lucanus: so much is shifting, so much technology is coming out, that is allowing us to have even more space to be creative and within this creative space, allowing us to truly find our our core values and share them
00:54:43.900 --> 00:55:06.079 Jan Lucanus: so great. I just wanted to share that with you, because, like it was, it was. It was such a such a reminder of the privilege that we have. You know. I I see your posture. I see the the logo in the background. You know, Logo, the symbol in the background, and how what it truly means. And I really feel to your point, Jack, we're in a space and time right now that it's just.
00:55:06.490 --> 00:55:25.639 Jan Lucanus: It's going to get better and better and better, and it's going to be better than any of us ever imagine. And so I'm super optimistic on humanity. And it's because we've gone through that phase of like all this blood sweat, tears, and it's still happening. But there's also this, this light that's that's getting brighter and brighter and brighter. I think that this talk is an example of.
00:55:26.440 --> 00:55:34.620 Jack Thomas: And and and we're coming to an end. And so thank you for sharing your story and time everybody will be back here next week
00:55:34.670 --> 00:55:37.730 Jack Thomas: we're going to be providing the different tools.
00:55:38.240 --> 00:55:47.650 Jack Thomas: But the intent of the show is to let everybody know the future is here. I'm implementing it today with other professionals already. And we're bringing changes
00:55:47.740 --> 00:56:17.340 Jack Thomas: 2 businesses. And it's mental wellness. It's just one thing. It's starting first with mental hygiene in the business owners, mind, and not on the back side of somewhere in that benefits. It comes first. It leads first. We're doing it. We're doing it in a professional format, and I'm just grateful that we're able to exchange, and hopefully that the 3 of you will then be able to connect, or Jen will be able to get onto your real world and see a little social media.
00:56:18.600 --> 00:56:30.080 Jack Thomas: everybody. Thank you so much. And this is our first show. And I showed up here a little nervous, and I'm just grateful for everyone being here. This this was really just awesome.
00:56:30.965 --> 00:56:33.290 Jack Thomas: To mental, to mental wellness.
00:56:34.690 --> 00:56:35.700 Siva Gregory Skroce L.Ac. RYT800+: Thank you. Jack.
00:56:36.120 --> 00:56:47.140 Jan Lucanus: Yeah, thanks so much, Jack and and Doctor, you can join with your your child. Little kids can join with their parents or justice for ours, and you can have tons of follow up to. There's side folks in our universe.
00:56:47.370 --> 00:56:48.990 Rhoda Donat-Flowers: Alright! Sounds good. We'll be there.
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