Warning! You have just wandered into the unpopular playground arena, a unique
space specifically designed for young adults and those soon becoming where
curiosity meets unconventional learning and dialogue with brutal honesty. If
you're a bold and daring rebel who wants more options on your life journey
than you have now, keep listening. Welcome Jen Lin.
Hello, welcome back to the Unpopular Playground. This is Jen Lin. Welcome to
Season 3. Congratulations for finding Season 3. This is going to be a three-part
series introduction going over some of our past, what's going on now, and what's
to come. And happy New Year everybody by the way. It is New Year's Day. So without
further ado, I will continue. In this episode, like I said, specifically we're
going to go over some of our past. This episode specifically is going to focus on
the past and where we have been, how we got started. So that way all of this will
make sense with the new direction that we're heading. Initially we wanted to
start in September to be in conjunction with the school year and that too will be
explained, but not right now. In this episode specifically, we're going to go
over the podcast history, just a brief overview of a little bit of everything,
but mostly focusing on our podcast history. So the general overview is the
history, current focus, the obstacles we've had with the podcast, what's up,
the problems that we've come across, the vision, our intentions, the episode
content, the dysfunction of so many things that are around us that basically
inspired the podcast to begin with, community and connections and the
solutions. I mean, use some solutions. That's what it's all about. And then who
this podcast is for and who it's not for. So that way we're not wasting your time
and we're not wasting our time by having people listen that if you're not our
people, just doesn't make sense, right? So it's got to be a good fit for
everybody and our history. So we're coming off of a hiatus from our season two,
which we ended in 2022. That was our last episode and we concluded that season
with 36 episodes. In our first season, we started in 2020 and that ended in
2021 ish and that concluded with 15 episodes. And in conjunction with our
first episode here, I was doing working on the Q3 show with two other friends.
It was during the pandemic and had a great time and we thought it would be a
great thing. We came up with Q3 because we were three people who were
quarantined and that was an interesting experience because it was every week and
we went live and that was an experience. So I'm very happy that we're not doing it
live right now because it's just number one equipment and time and a lot of
obstacles right now. It's just as miraculous to be able to get to where
we've got to be able to put out this episode right now and get going and
continue on from here. But I'm very happy we got here. Better late than never.
And so yeah, the Q3 show and it was mostly focused on entrepreneurship,
ideas and alternatives to work. So that basically you love your life. There's so
many situations, life situations, where we just feel like we're going
through the motions and not really enjoying your life. It just does seem
like a lot is going against you and you're existing and not living. And
there's a way to make that happen wherever you're at. It just depends on
what you want and if your motivation is strong enough to be able to raise up to
the next level. It's not easy but if you don't like where you're at, you can
certainly change your position and how do we do that? We change your
focus, change your mindset and that's what this whole podcast is for. But this
moves us into our, it's a good segue into our current focus. Pivoting from
doing only academics. We were kind of helping parents, teachers and then went
to focusing on just didn't really have any focus to begin with and it's kind of
almost like cooking, throwing spaghetti on the wall and seeing what sticks and
the hardest part of that for me was being able, not limiting myself into a
particular niche. I'm a very creative person. I've done a lot. I was a teacher.
I was in the military. I'm a mother. I'm a lifelong learner. I love art. I just
love so many things and it was really hard to focus in on one particular thing
but also without limiting myself and where I feel like it can do all of my
creative expression within this podcast and feel like I have a lot of where I
can deliver a lot of my experience to you all. And who are you? Who is for this
podcast? Well we've gone from our pivot going from high school, from parents and
teachers and just kind of a plethora of many different things. We are focusing on
high school pre-adult which is high school through young adult and that would
be approximately 29. We want to help high schoolers all the way up to 30. We want
to be able to help you rock your life. And there's a little bit too... I think
that's a good age range and I'm just gonna keep going with this podcast. I
can't tell you how many times I've started and began again. We're just gonna
have to roll with it just like I did when I was going live. So pardon any
fill-paws that I may be making but doing the best I can to be able to get this
out to you. I just have my little notes that I'm going off of because I don't...
I want to speak from the heart. I'm not reading off of the script. I've tried it
so many different ways and it seems like note cards are the best way to do it.
Later on I might go to video when I have proper equipment but for now
everything is just going to be audio and many other things to come. So yeah and
then even of that we're gonna separate the two cohorts of groups of high
schoolers like let's say 14 all the way up to 20 because you're so rather young.
Really yeah 14 to 20 and then going from 21 to 29 because there's
different concerns, different worries, different things that you're dealing with
and a lot of them do cross over but the things that people in their people 25
26 are not gonna have the same problems as 14 and 15 year olds. So we're going to
make that divide with pre-adult and young adult and for the purposes of
content and just to be able to help it you know divide it up a little bit
better so that when you're going through the library of content that we're going
to build up you will be able to easily find it. Now does that mean that you
can't make use of anything that's out of your range? That you know if you're if
you're closer to 30 does that mean that you can't go and get information from the
other group? Of course not. It's open to everybody even if you're not 14 to 29
even if you're a little bit older or maybe a little bit younger looking to
explore and learn a little bit more. That is fine but this is just who we are
this is our target group so it's not exclusive but kind of in a way it is but
and you might not be interested unless you might be looking to fill gaps that
you've learning gaps that you don't have and skills. And the obstacles our past
obstacles that is another section that has been a challenge for us to be able
to I mentioned that we did not start in September like we wanted to. We had
personal challenges with our team this year had some change ups a lot of a lot
of things have gone on and then we've also had some platform changes. When we
first started the podcast it was with the anchor platform Spotify bought it out
and they took away all of the editing and recording features on it so now we
can just the only thing we can do is upload it. They partnered with another
company which we were going to try and then they even changed their platform
in the middle of trying to establish all of this right around September too so
lucky us and trying to be able to find another platform that's somewhat
reasonable and easy to use more importantly the combination of all of
these things just weren't meshing together and it made it very difficult to
stay on our timeline that we had planned unfortunately and why why did we start
this well originally as I said before we wanted to help parents and teachers to
be able to help their kids with what was missing and also experiences that I've
had that my team have had troubles with society issues basically starting at we
realized that they start at home strong families strong society and the problems
that start at home and school often ripple into adulthood and there's a lot
of dysfunction and gaps in skill and knowledge and doesn't seem to be a lot
of accountability and the systems the education system and the medical
complex the pharmaceutical complex big food corporations all of these systems
that are working together just seem to be one giant toxic web of confusion and
it's just too big to fix and there's no way to be able to for any one person to
fix all of it the only way to to really fix it would be to destroy it all and
build it up all over again all of the problems in society starting with the
education system and there's so much why because there's so much misinformation
and misinformation and archaic information that just doesn't work anymore and the
chaos in society and the increase of death the cluster of death and
imprisonment all of the chaos that you see out there in the world is proof that
it's not working my life is proof that it did not work and even when I was
growing up I thought it was screwed up it's even worse now because I felt like
as I when I was younger I had to figure it all out myself there was no internet
there was no Google there was nothing no AI nothing to do that I had to do all
the research myself if I wanted to get into something nothing was handed to me
and I wish when I was in high school when I was a young adult especially a
young mother I wish I would have had somebody to reach out their hand and
say and just kind of curate all of the information for me to be able to help me
to be able to navigate my life and to be able to say hey all of that over there
is BS yeah this is the way you want to go that is my purpose for this podcast to
be able to help you young people to find solutions and build real community not
the fake community of the social media where all you're doing is comparing as
if it's one big clicky competition now it's to be able to network to be able to
help build each other up and be excited about it so that is part of my why my
vision is to build an empire of confident independent thinkers who know
what they want and know how to pursue and achieve your goals and that you can
with this critical thinking skills and being independent free thinkers that
you can take information from both sides and decide make a decision based off of
real facts and knowing how to get facts how to fact check logically how to be
able to detect logical fallacies which would be the BS right and to be able to
refuse the things and the people that are not towards developing what you want
in your life and the things and the people that are not giving you an ROI a
return on investment I don't basically in a nutshell I don't want you to get to a
stage in your life and realize that wow all of that stuff that I was told in
school and even by well-meaning parents and teachers it didn't get me anywhere
and I feel like I was in a way lied to because all of that stuff almost all of
it was BS and it did not work and I would like to share in this podcast the
many things that I've learned from all of my knowledge stacking from reading
books attending seminars and through general life experience this is what the
whole purpose of this podcast is for and this is what I would like to these are
the results that I would like to get out of it your success so if that's
something that you're interested in I definitely hope that you continue
listening this is definitely something that you this would be your podcast
hello so how do I plan to achieve this well in this podcast I plan to extend as
I said before a real community of engagement with one another and to
assist you to be seen and taken seriously I'm sure when you're 15 14 15 16 and
let me tell you even at my age sometimes you are not taken seriously I want to
help give you those tools to be taken seriously and the things that I don't
know I plan to help curate the things that I believe that would be helpful to
you so that you don't have to go or risk go look yourself and then risk
misinformation because there's so much information that's contradicting one
another in case you haven't figured it out now everything on the internet isn't
true okay and being being able to be taken seriously by society and getting
that skills and knowledge that we will provide these will give you options in
life and that's probably one of the best things that you could ever have in your
toolbox are options because chances are if you're listening to me still 21
minutes in chances are your options are few or you've really finally realized
that so as I said before the intentions our episode intentions in every episode
we I myself and my team members lead by example we want to share the thought
process not just telling you what to do we want to share the how-to process of
how to get from the first step to the tenth step and leading you there giving
you a pathway of how you can get from one point to another instead of just
saying this is what you should do this is what you should think about I think
you've had enough of telling people telling you what to do how far has that
gotten you right and also to let you know that it's okay to fail and I'm sure
we've you've done that a lot but the difference is it's not really failing
it's learning when it might look as a failure to other people but what you're
doing is you're learning a lesson not to do that again or that that didn't work
so you're gonna try something else and it's a lot easier to find that out
sooner than later than to keep going and then have it fail at the end and then
you've wasted a lot of time so embrace and welcome failure in the beginning so
called failure but it's really not and in all of our episodes we want to help
not help you navigate the how-to as said before curate and develop share
solutions that you can try to be here for you to give you options so unlike
many others we're not here just for a lot of people in society only seem to
notice you for college prep military or promotion or just for graduations or how
to avoid prison let's just be honest what other times has people focus on young
people other than for those purposes anytime you see a commercial or an
advertisement it's either for college prep military graduations or prison
aversion right think about it you know I'm true and you know what I'm saying is
true and and then we come to the end to dysfunction there's a lot of
dysfunction in our society as I mentioned before with the education system
the food big food corporations the whole medical complex with pharmacy the the
big pharmacy companies and you got mainstream social media that dysfunction
and family dysfunction and we our whole thing is to be able to break this cycle
let's just break this cycle of dysfunction of all of these things
because in one way or another all of these major systems are destroying
society but with your knowledge stacking with your being able to get a grip on
your health and proper nutrition and being able to stay on top of your health
so you don't need medications at all any unnecessary ones because of the crappy
diet and the fast foods and all of the things that they push on you and you
know you're not gonna be at home forever so if you happen to be in a
dysfunctional family sadly if you're in an abusive family know that there's help
out there for you there is there are options and you are not gonna be there
forever time passes it's a season and we want to give you those options to be
able to not continue that pattern of dysfunction that you can break that
cycle community connection failures we want to be able to help you build
community have real community eventually we'd love to be able to have
centers actual building centers that's a little far out there but wouldn't that
be cool there's not a lot of hangouts high school jobs are almost a thing of
the past and there's not a lot of social places for you to share so I mean they
used to have malls and bookstores now coffee shops are almost a thing of the
past Starbucks a lot of them are being rebuilt into those grabbing goes and yeah
they still have theme parks but most a lot of them are seasonal and a lot of
them are super pricey so unless your family's got money that's not really
much of an option so those are that's pretty much our history the next thing
we're going to be going over in our next episode is current events on some
things that we got going on now things that we are implementing in the present
so that will be our focus on the next episode we hope that you join us and
stay curious and we will see you in the next episode this is Jen Lynn thank you
for listening Jen Lynn has now left the arena you've been listening to the
unpopular playground thanks for tuning in if you enjoyed today's episode please
make sure to subscribe for more thought-provoking conversations we'd love
your feedback so drop a comment and let us know your thoughts don't forget to
share this podcast with another bold and brave friend who might appreciate our
adventurous journey together and remember to return next Wednesday for our
next episode if you dare and as always stay curious there's so much more to
explore