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!
Welcome back to season 3, the introduction series and this is part 2.
This is Jen Lin. Thank you for joining us again. Last episode we talked about a
little bit about our history and this episode we're moving on to our current
events and then the next episode will be the third and final part of the series
for the introduction so that way we can have a nice little base and that'll be
talking about our future events and if you think about like the story the
Christmas Carol you have the past present and future they were little ghosts but
not only differences is that our story is gonna be a little bit happier
because right now that future seems a little gloomy and this podcast is looking
you know seeking to change that for for young people to give you some options
and this episode is going to talk about how we're going to do that so we're
gonna just a little overview we're gonna be talking about our solutions based
approach our life journey kind of how that's gonna go or approach to that
obstacles we're gonna have you use your imagination a little bit talk about some
goals and our structure and how we're going to be structuring everything so
that you can know what to expect from us our bare minimums and that way there's
some continuity and something to look forward to and also we'll make sure to
leave you with a little challenge and moving forward solutions versus problems
well somebody wise once told me that if you're going to complain about problems
that it's always she told me never to go approach her without a solution in mind
for every problem I could complain about the problems but and I could have them
because we do but if I'm going to bring something up I needed to have a solution
to go with it now will that solution always work no did they always work no
but it's you know always nice to have options and that's brings us into the
next area is options if you have solutions and you can label these problems
you can figure out what they are what you have on hand what you need and the
results that you want to get that's a pretty basic solution avenue on how you
can work through a problem very basic but it's a lot more complicated than that
and that's what we will explore with this podcast being able to show you and
tell not just tell but we'll be able to show you and discuss really unpack these
things for you on these various topics and content that we hope that you'll
share and give us ideas and share your thoughts and what your ideas are what
your solutions might be could you imagine what the news would be like if the
newscasters that complained or reported on every problem if they were required to
have a solution to present to share with every problem or every tragedy that
would certainly be a game changer wouldn't it think about that and also
the how to there's one thing to you know I'll just say in air quotes motivate
you have all of these motivational gurus and everybody telling you how to do
something they're telling you what you should do but they're not showing the
way of possible avenues of ways that you can go it seems to be one one pathway
and it's just littered with obstacles and it may be good for them but is it
good for everybody kind of like math is very direct very straight to us who is
always gonna be for but when you get to the more complicated math problems
there's often more than one way to solve a problem and some people some I've
known some teachers that would require only one way to do the problem this well
you have to do it only this way when there are other ways to solve problems
and still get to the same result as long as my thing was as long as you could
show me how you got there it's all good and it's always good to know how you
got there keep a little journey show your work because chances are you're gonna
go through that problem again something very similar or somebody that you know
might go through that and how lovely it would be to be able to reflect back on
it and think oh this is how I solve that problem and it worked you might have to
tweak a few things but just some things to think about and the way that I like
to do things is by a catch-and-release method where I will talk about it I will
show you and then we will work through that problem together and you'll practice
it and you'll have me here or my team here with you until you master it and
then we release you and you and then you do that on your own and it's that way
with any skill or knowledge something that you need to have another little
toolbox for your life journey we want you to be able to be independent to be
able to do things on your own because a lot of times there's not gonna be your
it's gonna be a very lonely life journey sometimes you're not always gonna
have people around to help you it's very nice but you need to know how to do
life tasks on your own and if you never get a chance to practice them while
you're younger I mean it's not gonna you're not gonna you're not gonna get
any younger so if you're in high school try and learn as many life lessons as
possible take advantage of this knowledge and sharing ask questions because
now is your time to practice as you get older you're gonna have a lot more on
your plate and it's gonna be very heavy and that's called responsibility and
accountability the older you get the heavier it gets because they're gonna
say you're a grown-ass man a grown-ass woman you should know you should know
better as you get older that's what they're gonna say you should know better
you should know how to do these things but sometimes certain tasks certain
knowledge and skills they're not being taught in school they're not being taught
at home or in society but guess what you're still gonna be held accountable
ignorance is not a virtue keep that in mind and in this community this is this
is what I feel most compelled to help you with and who are you who who is my
audience who is the audience of intended audience of unpopular
playground well like I said before in the last episode it was mostly geared
towards parents to help their kids but I feel that the more I look around there's
nobody here for the high schoolers and the young adults it's very limited and
being able to build a community where we can unpack these things together and
have discussions together in real time eventually that'll be the next episode
so I'm not going to go too much in the future but discussions are where you can
put everything into context and you can build ideas and really cement them into
your head so that is my little bit on solutions and our life journey if you
think about your journey it you know you're born and as you go through time
it is like a little journey because our life span is linear it's on a time frame
and if you think of it like a journey you have a map so that you know you'll
need a map so that you know where you're going you need a plan a road trip like
you're taking a road trip if you don't know where you're going you're just
going to be a vagrant wandering around and that is depressing you have no idea
where you're going what you're doing what you have and no wonder why over half
of the world is depressed because they don't have a plan you need to be able
to think on what resources you have because you don't want to get what you
don't need if you already have it that's a waste of time and money and and thought
you need a compass a direction and your compass is a little bit more than just
knowing where you want to go you also have a right way to go what's called a
moral compass am I doing the right thing does this feel right am I am I being
ethical about it am I being truthful to myself so there's a few different
compasses that you might need in life then you decide your course you mark
your path maybe you mark the possible paths and you decide your course and
then you go and you will have many many obstacles if you haven't discovered that
already on your way which brings us to the next section obstacles you may have
a solution around an obstacle or how to deal with it but there is no one solution
or magic bullet that's going to solve the problem for everybody and not
everybody has the same personal strength to be able to lift those obstacles out
of the way sometimes you have to go around them sometimes sometimes you you
have the right tools you can just plow through them so how do you get through
them with knowledge filling those gaps of knowledge and skill you can also get
there with other people that happen to be around that's been through that
situation before it's okay to ask for help and responsibility and and being
able to get through obstacles is both an art and a science it's a science because
you can go about things with as I say the scientific method you think about the
problem you can test different ways to go about it you can be very mathematical
but you can also be creative and so there's there's many different ways that
you can go about that and now well obviously if you're driving or you're
doing something important while you're listening to this you want to I want you
to imagine if you able to and it's safe for you to do so close your eyes and
just think this is what I imagine imagine being in a room and having people
excited to see you and you're looking forward to seeing them they're looking
forward to seeing you you're in a place where you feel like you really belong and
also imagine a twig a really weak twig it could easily bend apart bend and snap
and then now imagine 5,000 twigs all bound together do you think anybody's
gonna be able to break that probably not and that is my first goal for this
podcast to be able to have a large community have it built up to where we
are all familiar with one another you have real strong connections networks they
talk about having networking meetings as you get older and they have them and
business network where people just go exchange little bit business cards and
but that's not what really what networking is networking and my you know as
and being part of a community is being in a place where you can be excited to
see one another because you know that you're going to build each other up
you're going to have great discussions and you're going to get ideas you're
gonna be excited to share your ideas because people are gonna listen and
they're gonna be excited about your ideas and it just be one giant I guess
maybe fireworks of ideas going around just imagine a fireworks show and having
that be everybody's ideas bursting forth into the air doesn't that sound like
fun and you know all of your favorite things and people and feeling good and
having chats and sharing insights your hopes your goals and brainstorming ideas
trying to you know problem-solve and you know I tried this but that didn't
work and then somebody else pipes in and oh wow I tried this and this worked for
me have you tried this or hey I know somebody that can help you with that it's
just being able to help you to get to where you want to get a little bit
faster it's not the toxic social media that you see on Facebook and a lot of
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let's create a community where every young voice is heard saying you know
kind of poo-pooing all over your dreams you say so you want to be a rockstar or
you want to you want to go do something you want to try something new because
it's exciting and people just you don't want to do that or I tried that you know
that's really disheartening isn't it and wouldn't it be cool wouldn't it be
awesome to be able to go somewhere to have somebody be excited about what
you're doing and encourage you it's like yeah I hope that and be like a little
cheerleader for you I've had both happened but I can tell you when I was
younger I think the younger that you are and you share your ideas about how you
want to your hopes for the world and how you might want to change it how you
might want to make a difference it gives you something to get up for a reason to
get out of bed because you have something you feel that you were born to do
something that's exciting and then to have somebody crap all over that is
hard that's why you have to be careful with kind of who you tell that and I'm
sure you've already had that experience and but you won't have that here with
our community in the unpopular playground so we got our immediate
goals that brings us to our goals you know we want to make this podcast real
we want to make it meaningful to you and we want to break the cycle of
dysfunction because that's what this every time I look around I mean if I
really if I really think about it and if I were to really buy into everything
that's put on me I would be depressed but I I can't do that I I figure as long
as I'm trying to make the world a better place by helping others by helping you
then at least I can feel like all of the struggles that I went through that at
least may you know it kind of gives it some credibility that at least all of
that stuff that I endured in life in my younger life that it wasn't for nothing
because at least I can possibly help you through help you think through and
figure out your own problems and because I can't nobody can tell you anything
of what to do that ultimate decision is going to be yours and yours alone but
being able to help you through the process of how you go through to think
critically how you go through to get your information how you fact check how
you how to do these things what what you need to think about when you move out
all of all of these things that you're gonna be expected to do as an adult that
nobody's showing you and I think that parents are well-meaning and they want
to help you and if even if you're a young adult parent I'm sure you get that
now you might have very young children maybe in your 20s it's hard and you want
the very best but the reality is when you get older you have to work
everybody's got to work because they gotta you have to make a living and you
have to have money money makes the world go around a lot of the financial
education is not being given and there's more things that are promoted that are
bad for you that will drag you down toxic things and not a lot of information
of what you need to know is being shared so and it's very all of the things that
I'm gonna share with you is very unconventional very unpopular very
unpopular especially especially with probably the the big guys I'll just say
and the suits the suits I could say it that way the suits so we want to help
you break the cycle society break the cycle of dysfunction we want to be in a
league of our own and what is a league it's an association for common purpose
most people relate leagues to sports but in competition but really it is a
competition isn't it it's a competition for your life for yourself so it does
make sense and so yeah we want to help you connect we want to help you create
and by next by Christmas of this year we are hoping to have no less than 5,000
league members of course we want more but in 5,000 is a special number and I'm
gonna discuss that in the next episode on what the significance of that is when
we talk about our the community that we're gonna establish and yeah it's
gonna be very special so we'll explain that in the next episode so you're
gonna have to tune into this third part for the future episode now structure
we're going to establish a structure we want to so frequency we're gonna go
every Wednesday is the goal the idea and I've already totaled between now and
the end of June is gonna be at least 25 episodes and actually it's gonna be a
little bit more because I'm not counting these three episodes as part of
those 25 so it's really gonna be closer to 30 so that's exciting and then it'll
be on Wednesdays weekly and on Wednesdays because it gives you a little
something to look forward to and plus I kind of like that I like the show
Wednesday the little gothy little fun so yeah Wednesday seems like a really cool
day to look forward to it's right in the middle of the week on hump day gives you
something to look forward to to get you through the week and then you only have
two more days to the weekend right and we also for now what we're going to do
since we're not doing live and we're not doing guest stars as of now probably
not for the rest of the season three we might explore having some guests later
which we'll discuss on the next episode but for now you can contact us on
Instagram you can DMS there at unpopular playground 1791 there with your
questions and ideas for content for concerns that you might have things that
you might want in a future episode and some ideas comments that you might have
and I'll just share we are coming to the end the other thing that I wanted to you
might wonder and well I'm not sure if I mentioned this in the last episode I do
want to try to my goal is to aim to keep it under 30 minutes so I'm so far I'm
right on time I will share that last night I did was able to get a platform
to be able to distribute onto eight different platforms to distribute the
podcast to other platforms automatically so when I upload to one it's
going to automatically put out to the other platforms and then I also had a
little scare that when I had trouble uploading to Spotify I've been not
really happy with that change it was quite hard because it used to be anchor
now at Spotify they took away all of the recording and editing features recommended
another one that they partnered with I'm not going to mention the name but I
wasn't really happy with that because I was at first but then they changed and
then so when I went to go try to upload because I chose another podcasting
platform it when I changed the RSS feed it wiped the other two seasons out so
34 plus 15 episodes that's how many were completely wiped out I thought I'd lost
them forever and I was I was okay with that because well who likes to listen
to their old stuff anyway and I thought well I think we're were our own worst
critics but lucky for you I found them on pod bean there's an archive of the
first two seasons of unpopular playground if you wanted to go back and
binge on those episodes you certainly can and but on from this point on out on
the other platforms and I'll go ahead and list those out either on the show
notes for today or tomorrow's episode for part 3 I will make sure to put those
show notes down so that you know where you can listen to them popular
playground and soon it will be YouTube as well it'll be put on there and and I
will discuss YouTube and that content as well as all of our other future
content in the next episode in episode 3 so we are just just reached 30 minutes
and I think that I've made my goal because who wants to listen past 30
minutes even when I see something beyond 30 minutes I I just tune out I can't I
just can't that long I don't know how people do the three hour Joe Rogan's the
only reason why I see half of those which is very good but I like those
little shorts and he's just kind of breaks it up and I can deal with that
but three hours straight or even an hour straight I'm going to keep all of the
podcasts right around 30 minutes or less so that is that thank you for listening
I will see you in the next episode and stay curious bye for now Jen Lynn has
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