Episode Transcript
[00:00:03] Speaker A: Hey, everybody, it's legal queen la. We are back with another episode of the royalty room, and we are here today with a very special guest named Jackson j. Huffman, who is the world's greatest creator, entrepreneurial, creative, mentor, and gen lie. So today we're going to be talking a little bit about all of those things, what they mean, and how we can help our younger gen z counterparts out in their creative jackson.
[00:00:37] Speaker B: Yeah. Glad to be here on royalty room, baby.
[00:00:41] Speaker A: How are you feeling today?
[00:00:42] Speaker B: I'm feeling very royal.
That's what I'm here for. I got the tassels.
[00:00:48] Speaker A: Okay, before we even get into anything real serious right now, we have to do a fit check, because right now.
[00:00:56] Speaker B: Oh, you want a fit check?
[00:00:57] Speaker A: Yes. It is giving black panther meets south beach, Miami.
[00:01:04] Speaker B: Oh, okay.
[00:01:05] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:01:05] Speaker B: I like that little mashup for you.
I let everybody interpret my thing the way they want to. For me, it's just this is a double breasted shirt.
[00:01:18] Speaker A: You got a pocket on the inside?
[00:01:20] Speaker B: No, it's just straight up, just, like, constructed really nicely.
[00:01:24] Speaker A: I love it.
[00:01:25] Speaker B: I got these teal pants on that are loose fitting because we can't do skinny nothing.
[00:01:30] Speaker A: No more skinny's out.
[00:01:32] Speaker B: Skinny is definitely out.
[00:01:33] Speaker A: I gotta go through my closet.
[00:01:34] Speaker B: These tassel y burgundy shoes.
[00:01:40] Speaker A: I love it.
[00:01:41] Speaker B: I love yeah, yeah. You looking nice, too. I'm very glad to be here.
[00:01:46] Speaker A: Thank you. I'm happy that you're here. We're giving legal barbie today.
But we met, Jackson and I, we met at the infamous hollywood and mind mental health summit back in may, which essentially started off my very, very first episode. I was doing research into what I wanted to talk know mental health statistics and different things like that. And one of the things that I came across was the summit, and I didn't know anything about it, how I could go, if I could go. And I came on the episode and I told everybody about it, and we talked know charlemagne and demi lovato and master p. And I said, and I'm going to be in attendance at this summit. And lo and behold, the day before the summit, miss Kathy sent me an email. She said, hey, ash, I found some tickets for you. So I manifested my way into this summit, and it was a life changing experience, met a lot of great people. What led you to the mental health summit?
[00:02:55] Speaker B: Wow. First of all, it was wonderful meeting you and your girl that was there.
[00:02:59] Speaker A: Yes. Shout out calais.
[00:03:01] Speaker B: Calais. Y'all are cool people. And I think that's really what stood out to me the most. It was like, I have been working in the entertainment community for three decades and working with mental health experts on solving some pretty big challenging problems among our youth right now.
And these pockets of communities that I've been working with for so many years ended up in the same room at Hollywood mind and that was absolutely amazing. It was somewhat overwhelming on one end, but it was also very I was very hopeful about the future because if we can get Hollywood to support storytelling that's necessary to help our youth thrive, overcome their challenges, specifically mental health and thrive, we can put a dent in that problem. So that's why I was glad to be good.
[00:04:02] Speaker A: That's good.
Speaking of Calais, she was on my first episode where we talked about the summit, and that episode was entitled The Culture Versus Mental Health.
[00:04:15] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:04:15] Speaker A: And today our title that came to me while we were getting ready is Communication Versus the Culture. And I was in church virtually this Sunday. I have a church in La. Shout out, Oasis. Shout out, Pastor Julian. But I always watch my church back home in Orlando and then another one or two churches that I subscribe to, like Pastor Michael Todd, he always speaks to me. But this one particular church in Orlando, Journey, was talking about the lies that loneliness will tell you. And it not only was obviously a spiritual lesson, but it was talking a lot about Gen Z. And it said that they are the absolute loneliest generation that has ever lived, quote unquote.
That's very terrifying.
[00:05:10] Speaker B: It's very true.
[00:05:11] Speaker A: That's terrifying. And just this past, I think maybe two, three weeks ago, we went to another summit. It was a mini Hollywood in mind, and it was about the epidemic of loneliness.
So I think how we got here is the communication, or lack thereof.
And I know you have a lot of thoughts on that.
[00:05:31] Speaker B: Yeah, well, first of all, very proud of you. Give you your flowers, you going to law school, recognizing that you have a great personality and being talented and then having a heart for our culture, you have a rare combination of things that make you pretty special and needed right now.
[00:05:54] Speaker C: So.
[00:05:56] Speaker B: I like your title. I would like to share with you that it's not just about communication.
When you think about communication, think about it like, what are the tools that we use to communicate nonverbal audio?
There's written video, but the one tool that we really have the greatest challenge with is listening.
For thousands and thousands of years, humans have perfected audio. We can talk. And when we're listening to somebody, a lot of times we're just thinking about what we're going to say next. So the truth of the matter is that communication is not going to we got to get deeper into that. We got to get into how do we listen better and how do we listen and then connect better. Because it's really connection versus the culture. It's really how we connect, not just communicate. We do a good job of communicating through our songs and communicating through our shows and communicating through our films as an industry. But it's truly are we listening to the voice of the youth. They say if you want to understand the temperature of a culture, check in with the music of the youth.
[00:07:30] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:07:31] Speaker B: Entirely. So if we truly want to improve the culture, we have to address what the youth are listening to and creating and play a role in that. It's truly the connection that's needed. And I'd like to double down on that and say to you, it's not know, I'm glad, especially with Hollywood mind and all of the reporters out there, that report on the mental health crisis, the Surgeon General of the United States, and this incredible report that came out this year that really kind of broke it down.
But to share with you what my understanding, having done lots of research around this, is that Gen Z is the first digital native child that was the first child born with a smartphone, with an iPad in their face.
[00:08:32] Speaker A: Right.
[00:08:33] Speaker B: Previous generations, we didn't have those tools as babies, young children, et cetera. So what we would do is a parent would be frustrated, and the parent would say the child would say, I got an issue right now. I'm going to scream until my mom or dad comes over and addresses my issue. I'm hot. So they give us a pacifier. So the pacifier will go in the mouth, and the baby would go, okay, cool. I'll take this pacifier and I'll chill the fact that I'm too hot or I'm hungry for a minute. But when the baby was not done, when it was done with that, it.
[00:09:13] Speaker C: Would spit out the pacifier and say, yo, I'm hungry, got a poopy diaper, et cetera.
[00:09:22] Speaker B: But not in this latest, latest generation. They were born with a smartphone, and.
[00:09:27] Speaker C: The baby would sit through that.
That smartphone is something else.
[00:09:32] Speaker B: So the baby would be like, okay, cool. I can tolerate this for much longer than I normally would.
[00:09:37] Speaker C: And inherently, what ended up happening is the screen became the screen between them and their relationships.
The smartphone and the iPad severed this.
[00:09:53] Speaker B: Generation'S relationship with their parents.
[00:09:55] Speaker C: Wow. It became the screen between them.
Now, what happens when the baby has a screen between them?
The ten year old has a screen between them.
[00:10:09] Speaker B: 15 year old has a screen between them and their relationships with their family.
[00:10:13] Speaker C: Members, friends, coworkers, eventually followers on social media.
[00:10:19] Speaker B: Screen between me and my relationships on.
[00:10:21] Speaker C: Social media, significant others is that you end up with an entire generation that.
[00:10:29] Speaker B: Suffers from loneliness, anxiety, depression, suicide, way.
[00:10:33] Speaker C: Too much violence, unemployment, underemployment. So we need to understand where it.
[00:10:40] Speaker B: Came from, where the problem actually came from, so we can address how to solve it. If we know that the connection is.
[00:10:48] Speaker C: The key, being able to connect with the people in your life in a.
[00:10:53] Speaker B: Meaningful way is the key. Then we can come up with a solution. And that's what we're here to talk about today.
[00:10:59] Speaker A: I love that. Yeah.
And then also you add in the regular, everydays of life as a teenager or a young adult or any adult in real life. And then you add in the pandemic and then you add in trauma.
[00:11:16] Speaker B: Every generation has had trauma, though.
[00:11:18] Speaker C: Exactly.
[00:11:19] Speaker B: That's not uncommon.
Parents struggling with their kids that's been around for generations.
[00:11:27] Speaker C: Heartbreak with significant others that's been around for generations.
But as mankind continued to innovate connect the Earth, that's what the Internet was supposed to do.
It actually did quite the opposite. Put us in these pockets where we.
[00:11:53] Speaker B: Don'T have enough connection.
[00:11:54] Speaker A: Yeah. It's like there's so many millions and trillions of people and things that you can talk to or look up or do, but in turn you're more lonely.
[00:12:07] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's a simple thing.
[00:12:11] Speaker C: The solution to loneliness is more connection.
[00:12:16] Speaker B: And the result of that is better relationships.
[00:12:20] Speaker A: So you focus a lot in working with the creatives that are in this Gen Z yeah, I do category. Can you tell us about a little bit about what you do, how that looks, and what kind of got you started on the idea that these kids need some assistance?
[00:12:42] Speaker B: Well, I've been working with three generations of creative people. My generation is Gen X, Millennials, and then now Gen Z. And I'm excited about gen a I'm.
[00:12:53] Speaker A: Nervous for Gen a you should be. Oh, that's my sister, God bless them.
[00:12:57] Speaker C: And I've worked with Boomers in very special ways, too. They've mentored me and been a part.
[00:13:05] Speaker B: Of this big solution.
[00:13:06] Speaker C: I'm recruiting incredible business people all over the world to play a role in.
[00:13:14] Speaker B: Helping the largest population of people on.
[00:13:16] Speaker C: The planet in history with their loneliness, anxiety, depression, and suicidal challenge. So when I think about your question.
[00:13:26] Speaker B: This is the creative age.
[00:13:29] Speaker C: The agrarian age was farming, manufacturing age.
[00:13:33] Speaker B: Was in the Industrial Revolution. The information age was the Internet and technology. And now we're entering into the creative age.
[00:13:42] Speaker C: And now that we're in the creative age, we have a creator economy.
[00:13:50] Speaker B: And creators are truly the resource to help civilization advance.
So I've always known that that creators.
[00:13:57] Speaker C: Can play a significant role in solving.
[00:14:00] Speaker B: The world's greatest problems and seizing the world's greatest opportunities.
[00:14:04] Speaker C: So when I identified the problem with the Gen Z population and their mental.
[00:14:10] Speaker B: Health and then how we could come up with a solution, it's all about.
[00:14:13] Speaker C: Who can deliver that solution.
The best Gen Z creators can do that.
[00:14:20] Speaker B: These are content creators, social media influencers, some of whom have millions of followers on social media. So I partner with them regularly in my work.
[00:14:27] Speaker C: Anyway, at Creators Capital, we help young.
[00:14:30] Speaker B: People develop their talent, create their projects, start up and grow their companies.
And while I was doing that work.
[00:14:36] Speaker C: Is where I discovered this problem.
[00:14:40] Speaker B: The year before, I met a young lady.
[00:14:42] Speaker C: Her name is Mellie.
[00:14:43] Speaker B: She's got a couple of million followers, 2.5 million followers on social media. But I discovered her when she was 14 years old. As a songwriter. And the year before I met her, she had tried to commit suicide twice. I didn't find that out till she was 20. Then I had another Gen Z creator named Haley. And Haley came to me about a.
[00:15:03] Speaker C: Month into working with her.
[00:15:04] Speaker B: Small town from Ohio, comes from a family of fascinating, creative women, totally brilliant social media influencer. And she was begging me for therapy.
[00:15:12] Speaker C: And I just couldn't figure it out.
[00:15:14] Speaker B: These girls are young and talented and thriving, doing what they love, and they were struggling. And then when I got to looking even deeper, I realized, wait a minute, this is bigger than just the clients and the creators that I have. There's a real problem here.
[00:15:29] Speaker C: I chose to partner with creators and.
[00:15:32] Speaker B: Not just be in the business of.
[00:15:34] Speaker C: Helping them develop their talent, create great projects, and grow their company. But how could they play a role in solving their generation's greatest crisis, which.
[00:15:45] Speaker B: Is the mental health crisis? So anyhow, they learn this life skill.
[00:15:49] Speaker C: That I'm going to tell you about today called Dialogue.
[00:15:51] Speaker B: And dialogue helps you have improved mental health, dialogue helps you have better relationships, improve mental health, and access to more career success and joy in life. So that's the promise that I say to the creator, I say, listen, if you learn this life skill, it'll help you be a better creator. It'll also help you be a better partner to other people. It'll also help you be a better friend. It also help you be a better spouse one day. So it's a pretty compelling message. I got to learn a life skill that helps me connect with the people in my life so I can have all these great results.
[00:16:22] Speaker C: And then I said, Only thing I.
[00:16:23] Speaker B: Require is that you share the message with your millions of followers is that you be an advocate for your generation.
[00:16:29] Speaker C: Learning to dialogue so they can have.
[00:16:32] Speaker B: The same great rewards that I'm about to give you. So that's what I did. I worked with them for two years straight. I recruited these great relationship therapists, dr. Helena Kelly Hunt and Dr. Harville Hendricks gave me the shot, and they made a funding contribution like my business leaders that become Gen Z allies do.
[00:16:48] Speaker C: And then I was off to the.
[00:16:49] Speaker B: Races on how do we solve this problem. But I did it in partnership with young, creative people who I believe are the best creators in history and also just so happen to have the potential to be the best entrepreneurs in history.
[00:17:00] Speaker C: They own their audience.
[00:17:01] Speaker B: That's a game changer, right?
[00:17:03] Speaker A: That's so true. Honestly, at this point, I'm not, quote unquote, old.
[00:17:08] Speaker B: I'm pretty under 30, girl.
[00:17:10] Speaker A: I'm pretty young.
[00:17:10] Speaker B: You like Gen z's big sister. You almost gen z yourself.
[00:17:13] Speaker A: Don't do me.
But I feel so old in terms of, like, I can't figure out the TikTok thing.
I don't know how to do this. I need help with doing this. And I'm just like, am I my mother?
I definitely get it.
[00:17:34] Speaker B: Well, the good thing is that they're available for you. We have creators on over 40 campuses now.
At USC, we have so I can figure it out. We can have creators come work with you. You can come meet them. They're available, and they are a real movement.
Ash, you're part of the culture. You're part of the music industry. It's the 50th year anniversary of hip hop. Yeah. And hip hop saved my life. It gave me a break as a young person.
[00:18:02] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:18:02] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:18:03] Speaker B: So what I'm sharing with my fellow.
[00:18:07] Speaker C: Leaders in the culture is that this.
[00:18:11] Speaker B: New generation needs their own version of hip hop.
[00:18:14] Speaker C: We call it deep hop dialogue pop music.
[00:18:18] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:18:19] Speaker B: Where our music came from. I remember the first time I heard Aprizi Light and these great songs from NWA and Ll Cool J, and I.
[00:18:31] Speaker C: Remember feeling like they were talking for me.
[00:18:34] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely.
[00:18:36] Speaker C: And I think that we are now so kind of removed from the spirit.
[00:18:43] Speaker B: Of why the music was originally created.
[00:18:45] Speaker A: Storytelling.
[00:18:46] Speaker C: Storytelling and the advancement of our community.
[00:18:51] Speaker B: Not the destruction of our community.
[00:18:53] Speaker A: Right.
[00:18:54] Speaker B: And I think that we have a great opportunity to step in, because I don't want to focus on the hip hop. Leaders of the past didn't really connect with the young people. We need to fix that.
[00:19:05] Speaker C: We have to connect with the younger generation and show them the way. My point is, how will they do that? See a world where Chuck D is sitting down and having a dialogue with a kid that has a switch on a gun in Chicago, ready to end.
[00:19:26] Speaker B: Somebody'S life and theirs.
They view rap music as a way out.
[00:19:32] Speaker C: But there's 1ft in, 1ft out of the know. How can we go not communicate, connect? How can we go connect with that person?
[00:19:42] Speaker B: How can we inspire them to create songs that are going to be real? Because we're never going to lose that. But real has a tendency to be relegated to this one little space, which is destructive. Real is also how real can we be? I really want to survive. I really want my people to survive. I really want to thrive.
[00:20:04] Speaker C: I really want to be a positive.
[00:20:07] Speaker B: Influence on future of humanity. If young people understand that that's what they truly have the opportunity to do, they'll begin to take ownership of, make.
[00:20:16] Speaker C: The changes that I believe are going to be necessary. We cannot go another 1020 years in the direction we're going in.
[00:20:25] Speaker B: So I'm proposing I'm not just proposing to complain about it.
[00:20:29] Speaker C: I'm proposing that dialogue life skills can play a role in that.
[00:20:33] Speaker A: So you keep mentioning dialogue. Can you tell us about what you mean?
[00:20:40] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:20:40] Speaker B: So dialogue is using carefully structured sentence.
[00:20:43] Speaker C: Stems to connect with someone else during.
[00:20:47] Speaker B: A conversation so that they feel heard and safe.
[00:20:50] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:20:51] Speaker B: And there's more, basically, connection as opposed to polarization.
Larsa there's way too much polarization in our families and our friendships and our romantic relationships and our government.
[00:21:09] Speaker C: We are a polarized society that became.
[00:21:12] Speaker B: About because we were a competitive society.
[00:21:15] Speaker C: For hundreds, if not thousands of years.
[00:21:18] Speaker B: Winner take all. Me against you.
[00:21:20] Speaker C: Self help.
Right.
[00:21:24] Speaker B: Those components created this world, this competitive.
[00:21:27] Speaker C: Society, and created a significant amount of.
[00:21:31] Speaker B: Polarization between us and the relationships that we have.
[00:21:34] Speaker A: Right.
[00:21:34] Speaker B: Dialogue says, I'm not here to compete with you. I'm here to mirror, validate, and empathize with you.
I'm here to really listen. And we're going to do a demonstration of what a dialogue truly is. And I have a little dialogue presentation today. All right, so once upon a time, there was an unforgettable campaign that taught the world to sing in perfect harmony dialogue songs, deep hop music, baby.
[00:22:00] Speaker A: Music is so powerful.
[00:22:02] Speaker B: Music is so powerful.
[00:22:03] Speaker A: Crazy.
[00:22:04] Speaker B: And these cell phones are so powerful.
[00:22:05] Speaker C: How do we use the media to.
[00:22:09] Speaker B: Play a role in solving the problem? We're in the business of developing plans.
[00:22:14] Speaker C: And we create MVPs minimum Viable Products.
[00:22:19] Speaker B: With key Performance Indicators. That's what KPIs mean.
We created a product line, an Edutainment experience. We're currently conducting business development to secure more business allies, sponsors, and donors.
[00:22:33] Speaker A: Edutainment. I like that.
[00:22:35] Speaker C: That's where we need to head this.
[00:22:37] Speaker B: Generation, because they were born with this smartphone in there. They have super brains, so that's why they're so bored in class.
[00:22:45] Speaker A: Right.
[00:22:46] Speaker C: Their brains have literally been exploring the.
[00:22:49] Speaker B: World Wide Web, and then you're going to go sit them in a K through 16 classroom. That's not going to cut it. That's why they need allies, business people to step up with their knowledge. And that's why we have to create.
[00:23:01] Speaker C: Edutainment experiences, because they truly have an unquenchable thirst for more knowledge.
[00:23:10] Speaker A: Wow. I like to think of this show as Edutainment.
[00:23:14] Speaker B: It is edutainment.
[00:23:14] Speaker A: I like that.
[00:23:15] Speaker B: Oh, for sure.
[00:23:15] Speaker A: It's a trademark. Class, education and entertainment. Yeah, class, education and entertainment. They just didn't think of the verbiage that you did.
[00:23:24] Speaker B: Oh, they didn't put it together.
[00:23:25] Speaker A: They didn't put it together.
[00:23:25] Speaker B: Okay. Well, that's what we do. We also creators. Do we put things together.
[00:23:29] Speaker A: We got to trademark that.
[00:23:31] Speaker D: So I hear brands are having a hard time reaching Generation Z. We're tricky, aren't we?
What's up, LinkedIn? My name is Haley West. I go by Haley West co on all platforms. I'm an influencer and entertainer at Creators Capital, and I'm about to teach you about my generation right now. In 2022, Gen Z makes up one third of the world's population, meaning one third of the world's population is between the ages 25 and ten.
[00:23:55] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:23:56] Speaker D: There are more of us than there are baby boomers. Now, as you are watching this video, I urge you to keep in mind that the brain is not fully developed until we're about 25. This means that right now, in 2022, generation Z does not have a fully developed brain. I want to teach you about our mindset, but first, let me teach you about our life. Gen Z is anybody born within the years 1997 and 2012. Now, I would like to point out that both the years 2000 and 2012 are within this 15 year time span. The two years that half the world's population thought the world was going to end. Like that was a thing anyways. 2001, 911. The oldest of us are four. I was three. For some of us, this is our first memory, me included. And that is terrifying. Generation Z has grown up in a world shaped by this tragic event, and now we're starting to step into the workforce. We're voting, we're making a significant impact on our family's buying decisions, and we're pushing hard to shape society to be more inclusive, equal, eco friendly. Okay, back to the timeline. It's 2008. We're in this, like, middle school, elementary school age frame, and life is good as far as we're concerned.
[00:25:07] Speaker A: And then, bam.
[00:25:08] Speaker D: The Great Recession hits us right where it hurts. Most of us have parents that are struggling to pay their bills. Some people lost their jobs. Some lost their homes. This caused a lot of couples to clash, which resulted in a rough family life for a lot of people. Half of our parents got divorced at this time. Then we get to that high school age. It's 2016. Things are starting to pick back up. And then a reality TV star becomes the President of the United States. That's what we know him as, at least. The world is in turmoil and everybody is polarizing. Then we get to that college age, and we're finally at that point where we get to step out into the world on our own and experience life for all it has to offer. Travel a little bit, make some new friends.
But then 2020 happens at an age where we're full of excitement and energy. We are forced to sit down by the COVID-19 Pandemic. We are forced into isolation and deprived of human interaction. And this has resulted in epidemic levels of loneliness, anxiety, and depression. And let me again point out that our brains are still not fully developed. These are some of the major events that have happened in the relatively short time span of our lives. This is what's shaping our minds. On top of this, we are the first generation to completely grow up with technology, social media, and cell phones. Studies have confirmed in detail how this has a major effect on our brains. However, above everything that I just listed, if you ask any Gen Z right now, what their main concern is there's a good chance they'll say something like climate change, mass shootings, the COVID-19 pandemic, health care, finances, the crises that we face as a generation right now. Generally speaking, I think my generation would rather not focus on the past, but instead the things that we can fix today. That being said, a lot of us are hopeful. Way too many of us are not. As I said before, anxiety, loneliness and depression has skyrocketed. Generation Z's suicide rate is up 54% compared to any other generation.
[00:27:16] Speaker A: Wow.
When you put it in that perspective, lots of trauma. Wow.
[00:27:22] Speaker B: And cell phones and social media added to that.
[00:27:24] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:27:25] Speaker B: So it's a different mix, it's a different bag of challenges.
[00:27:29] Speaker C: What's going to require a bag of solutions and opportunities. So I'll go on.
[00:27:38] Speaker B: So that's where Gen Z allies come in. These are business leaders. I've recruited Candy Carter, which was Oprah's top producers. Become a gen z ally.
Dr. Helen Kelly Hunt and Dr. Harvard hendricks and Gen. Z allies and head.
[00:27:53] Speaker C: Of the number one M. A.
[00:27:55] Speaker B: Firm in the world to become a Gen. Z ally. This great female venture capitalist become a Gen Z ally. And these people, one, provide knowledge transfer on camera. So Gen Z can have a lot of hope that there's somebody wants to teach me about something really hard to learn that I can't learn in high school, I can't learn in college. Really?
[00:28:13] Speaker C: But I really want to learn.
[00:28:14] Speaker B: I really want to learn how to be a venture capitalist. Haley, that was just speaking there. Learned from Lee Jin who came from a 16, Andreessen Horowitz, how to be an angel investor wow.
[00:28:25] Speaker C: Over an eight week period of time and then some Gen Z allies also.
[00:28:29] Speaker B: Make a funding contribution.
One of our Gen Z allies. This year name is Larry Malman. He's a dirt to skyscraper real estate attorney in New York. And Larry, when he retired January 31.
[00:28:42] Speaker C: Started as a Gen Z ally February.
[00:28:45] Speaker B: 1 and has played a significant role in helping us build out creator houses. We do this work in creator houses.
[00:28:55] Speaker A: Was that like in Los Angeles? Is that nationwide?
[00:28:59] Speaker B: So we have three creator houses in Los Angeles. We just purchased our first one in Dallas.
[00:29:05] Speaker A: Wow. Congratulations.
[00:29:06] Speaker B: Thank you. And that's a part of a hundred million dollar fund to buy more creator houses and help Gen Z creators develop their talent, create their projects, start up and grow their companies, and learn to dialogue with their families, friends, coworkers, and followers.
[00:29:23] Speaker E: Hey, I'm Haley. I'm from a small town in Ohio called Loveland and I grew up in a family of fascinating and super creative women. Unfortunately though, none of them had an outlet for their talents. And for most of my life, neither did I. When I think back on it, that still makes me sad and it definitely affected my mental health. But there's good news. This has all changed for me. Today I am a Gen Z artist, entrepreneur, and content creator with over 500,000 followers on social media. And most importantly, my mental health has significantly improved. This is my story about knowledge transfer from Gen Z allies for teens and young adults like me. My generation is the largest on the planet and we have a lot of potential. But we struggle with our mental health the most. The pandemic growing up with social media, school shootings, the list of traumatic experiences that we've had to endure can feel endless. Your knowledge transfer can make a difference. We are looking for older people that love us. We're looking for people that we can trust. Providing your knowledge transfer gives us hope for our future. I wanted to improve my mental health over a two year period. I learned how to dialogue from worldrenowned relationship therapists. I wanted to make my debut album. I was inspired to do it by a team of superstar grammy award winning music producers. I wanted to maximize the value of my creative work. So I learned how at a knowledge transfer workshop from leaders at the number.
[00:30:45] Speaker D: One M, a firm in the world.
[00:30:48] Speaker E: I didn't know it when I was given the opportunity, but I loved that I had the chance to learn to be an angel investor. I received eight weeks of knowledge transfer from a venture capitalist that cares deeply about educating young people like me. Thanks to the Creators Capital Venture Studio in creator houses, I have received knowledge transfer from business leaders that we call Gen Z allies. Gen zers like me cannot get enough knowledge transfer. That is where you come in. If you are a business leader who has worked most of your life and you want to give back, the easiest, most scalable and powerful thing that you can do is let us interview you for one day where you can teach us what you know about life and business. Please care. Pour into us when you teach content creators like me. I teach my family, my friends and my followers on social media and that is what makes what we can do together so special. I invite you to become a Gen Z ally and provide knowledge transfer. Make a funding contribution if you can and empower Gen Z for life.
[00:31:47] Speaker A: Wow. I think honestly, it's amazing.
My brother and sister are both 25 and I feel like there's just so many ideas, so many things that they want to do.
I've heard people tell my sister, like, you need to focus on one thing, or whatever. It's not what they do. It's not even what I do. There is no focus on one thing. Work this job for 80 hours a week and raise your family. No, that's out. And my dad is really young. My parents are, I think, 47 this year, maybe 46. And they're still on the mindset of, you work this same job at this firm or this same office for the rest of your life and then you retire? Absolutely not. We're not doing that.
[00:32:38] Speaker B: And that's why I think it's really.
[00:32:39] Speaker C: Important to help families like that connect with each other. Explain to the parents why this is.
[00:32:47] Speaker B: Why they're different than us. Never going to be able to not have the brain that they have. It's too stimulated. The World Wide Web has been racing through their minds since they were children, so there's no way to stop that. It needs more education. It needs more opportunity. It needs to see more of the world. It needs to connect more with their peers. So one of my greatest challenges is helping the generations understand each other so.
[00:33:17] Speaker C: They can connect and be a part of the solution.
[00:33:21] Speaker B: I'll go on. So Gen Z allies are really important. I'm really proud of my work with Dr. Helen, the Kelly hunt and Harville Hendrix. Just to give you a little rundown on who they are, they were featured in Oprah 17 times in 20 years. They won oprah her first. Emmy. They wrote four best selling books, including Getting the Love You Want. I highly recommend that to anybody looking to connect with their significant other. They trained over almost 3000 therapists, imago therapists. At their institute, they established a network.
[00:33:53] Speaker C: Of women that donated almost $900 million to women's causes.
[00:33:58] Speaker B: That's what Helen did. She's in the Women's Hall of Fame with that work, and she's also a Hunt family member.
They're the 18th Wilson family in America. And then they gave me the opportunity to extract dialogue from their practice and apply it as the solution to Gen.
[00:34:17] Speaker A: Z. I think maybe I should step out, and we should have Megan step in, and you guys can teach us kind of what all of this is about.
[00:34:26] Speaker B: We'll demonstrate a dialogue.
[00:34:27] Speaker A: Yeah. I want to learn, I want to see it, and I want to apply it in my own life.
[00:34:32] Speaker B: God knows your girl needs more connection.
[00:34:35] Speaker A: Your girl be running her mouth. But is it ever connecting?
[00:34:39] Speaker B: We don't know. We can help with that, SIS.
[00:34:45] Speaker C: So this is Megan A. Tully.
[00:34:48] Speaker B: She is a incredible actress.
[00:34:51] Speaker F: Got it.
[00:34:52] Speaker B: And creator. I've worked with Megan for four years. She was what I would consider to be Gen Z's big sister. She's just right outside of the top of Gen Z and at the bottom of millennial. So she's a really great resource for us because she not only has great leadership skills, but she's an extraordinary creator.
[00:35:14] Speaker C: This is our app for dialogue, and.
[00:35:17] Speaker B: I'm going to explain to you a little bit before me and Megan demonstrate this. Dialogue traditionally would be in a therapy environment. So couples in crisis. Working with Dr. Helen De, Kelly Hunt.
[00:35:29] Speaker C: And Dr. Harville Hendricks would be in a therapeutic environment.
[00:35:34] Speaker B: The challenge with that is that only 2% of the world's population can hire a therapist.
[00:35:40] Speaker C: And meds is very helpful for certain.
[00:35:45] Speaker B: People, but there's so many side effects to that. That's obviously not going to be a scalable solution to the Gen Z mental health crisis. So a lot of our work is focused on how do we create tools and methodologies and approaches that help us to scale a mental fitness solution to the Gen Z mental health crisis. And one of those is this app called Dialogue, and me and Megan are going to demonstrate what a dialogue looks like. There are a couple of main dialogues. One is called a frustration. So when you're angry, upset with someone, you want to request a dialogue, maybe a lot.
And another one is an appreciation. Today I think we're going to do an appreciation. Yeah. So Megan is going to express appreciation, which is something we don't do often with the people in our lives. Expressing appreciation is really important, and especially if you're trying to have more connection with the people in your life, which will help you have improved mental health.
We just press start here, and we're off to the races. Dialogue is used in carefully structured sentence stamps during a conversation to ensure everyone feels safe and heard, to reduce conflict skills you learn when you learn how to dialogue is you learn how to mirror. You're going to see me and Megan demonstrate how to mirror. You learn how to summarize what someone is saying properly. You learn how to validate them for their feelings, and you learn how to empathize with them so they feel more connected to you. Choose sender or Receiver? You're the sender today. I'm the receiver. So I'm going to press receiver. And every single sentence stem that a therapist would give you if they were teaching you dialogue is now in this app as a receiver. And every sentence stem that Megan is supposed to use is also an app as.
[00:37:35] Speaker F: Megan's going to contact and take three deep breaths.
[00:37:37] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:37:37] Speaker B: We make eye contact. You're supposed to be facing each other. But since we're in podcast seating, we're not quite facing each other, but we would be directly facing each other if we were like this. Okay?
[00:37:46] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:37:47] Speaker B: So ready?
[00:37:47] Speaker C: This allows us to focus on connecting with each other, with what we're about to say and share and hear. Next is Megan's going to ask me.
[00:37:59] Speaker B: Is now a good time that's a sentence?
[00:38:01] Speaker F: Is now a good time for an appreciation dialogue?
[00:38:03] Speaker C: Yes, it is, but I want to.
[00:38:05] Speaker B: Pause here on that specific sentence stem. Asking somebody, Is now a good time to talk to them about something will eliminate 50% of the conflict of your life.
[00:38:14] Speaker C: So many of us are interrupting other people's movies, which means we're interrupting their life.
[00:38:21] Speaker B: We call it interrupting their movie. So I just barge in the room and says, I need to talk to you about what happened yesterday or how I feel or what you did, or just know, whatever. And immediately the other person goes, oh, no, what did I do wrong? And this is a scary situation. So it's the fight or flight kind of flare up that our brain does automatically kicks in. But if you want to learn more about that, just reach out to us.
[00:38:43] Speaker C: We can share with you all the.
[00:38:45] Speaker B: Information you need about all these sentence stems and the importance of them, but to eliminate 50% of the conflict in your life. Stop interrupting other people's movie guys.
[00:38:53] Speaker C: Okay. Got that. Go ahead, start over.
[00:38:56] Speaker F: Okay. Is now a good time for an appreciation dialogue?
[00:39:00] Speaker C: Now is a good time. Cool.
[00:39:02] Speaker F: So the appreciation I experience towards you, I was thinking about it earlier this morning, and I think as a creative person, we work together and every day work on something for Empower Gen Z, for Creators Capital and to better the world. And I was thinking about how creative people need three things constantly validation, inspiration, and motivation. And I thought hand raised.
[00:39:38] Speaker B: So when I raised the hand, that means I'm on overload, which means I want to mirror her for accuracy.
[00:39:43] Speaker C: Let me see if I got that.
You've been thinking about how we work.
[00:39:49] Speaker B: Together and have identified that there are.
[00:39:52] Speaker C: Three things that creative people need motivation.
[00:39:56] Speaker B: Inspiration and what was the third?
[00:39:58] Speaker F: Validation and validation.
[00:39:59] Speaker C: Did I get that?
[00:40:00] Speaker F: You got that.
[00:40:01] Speaker B: Is there more?
[00:40:02] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:40:03] Speaker F: And so I was thinking about how in any given situation, you're able to give me one of those three things. I haven't had a lot of those things in my life, and especially not all from one person. So I have found myself scattering my energy and my resources and my attention quite frequently to try to get all those things. And I think it's really cool that all of that can be rolled into one human being. So it makes me feel just very appreciative, grateful and loved and happy, cool, joyful.
[00:40:46] Speaker C: So because I do these things for you, it reminds you of that.
[00:40:54] Speaker B: You don't get those things in a lot of other places. This is the only place that you got, especially all three of them.
[00:41:02] Speaker C: And now that you have it, you feel happy, joyful, and more than fulfilled.
[00:41:08] Speaker F: Yeah, fulfilled.
[00:41:09] Speaker B: Are those accurate feelings?
[00:41:10] Speaker F: Those are accurate feelings, yeah.
[00:41:12] Speaker C: Okay. Is there more?
[00:41:13] Speaker B: No, I think it's a remind. Yes. So what does it remind you of from your past?
[00:41:20] Speaker F: Oh, man, we're about to go way deep.
It reminds me of when growing up, because everything relates back to our parents. Right. So it really makes me think of a time when I was younger when I did not have that. And so that's why it's such a big impact now that I do have that from you.
[00:41:41] Speaker C: So it reminds you of when you.
[00:41:42] Speaker B: Were a kid and you didn't have these things from your parents who aren't bad people. And I always tell you that parents are not trying to do that.
[00:41:51] Speaker A: Parents suck.
[00:41:54] Speaker B: Not all parents. Well, they're just parents. And parents have a job to play, and they're doing the best they can for the most part. So what I would say is that there was a time that you did not have these things. So now you really appreciate that. You do? Totally.
[00:42:08] Speaker C: Yeah, I get that. Yeah, you got that. Well, thank you for sharing.
[00:42:13] Speaker F: Thank you for listening. And then you have to make how.
[00:42:16] Speaker B: Long of you're supposed to 5 seconds end a dialogue and you just hug it out or whatever you do, or DAP each other up. Or you can choose how you want to end the dialogue. So that is a dialogue demonstration. That is an appreciation dialogue.
[00:42:30] Speaker C: And if you can imagine doing that.
[00:42:33] Speaker B: With your family members, your friends, your coworkers, your significant others, I can guarantee you that it would bring you more connection with the people in your life.
[00:42:43] Speaker C: Improve mental health, and access to more success and joy.
[00:42:48] Speaker A: Totally.
[00:42:49] Speaker F: Definitely does.
[00:42:50] Speaker C: Makes dope.
[00:42:51] Speaker A: So the dialogue that I prefer is with my son right here because he does not talk back to me.
[00:42:59] Speaker B: He does all the listening that you.
[00:43:00] Speaker A: Could ever want, the most perfect listener. And the most important thing is he cuddles with me.
[00:43:06] Speaker B: So you just want us to be dogs?
[00:43:09] Speaker A: Well, there is an argument about a correlation between men and dogs.
[00:43:16] Speaker B: We need to be better dogs. What you try to say?
[00:43:18] Speaker A: So thank you, one for coming to the show, but also thank you for giving us a little bit of research background and also performing or acting out demonstration. Yeah, that's the word demonstrating how we can learn from this program of dialogue.
I think that it's really nice to imagine conversations with my parents or with my significant other, whoever they may be, and imagine them in that way, because I've done therapy. I was in couples therapy before for six months. I was in therapy with my sister for six months. And I think this would have been far more helpful to kind of go about things this way through the dialogue perspective or through the dialogue app, which is really convenient and obviously speaks straight to Gen Z.
[00:44:25] Speaker C: Right.
[00:44:25] Speaker A: So brilliant on that.
[00:44:28] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:44:30] Speaker A: And I think it is something that we should be learning in therapy because it kind of sets a standard at the beginning. And I remember with my ex, it was very difficult to get through sessions sometimes because whatever I'm saying is not getting in here. And whatever he's saying, I'm halfway out the door already.
[00:44:52] Speaker C: Right. There are three stages of love.
[00:44:55] Speaker B: There are three stages of relationships. Most relationships die in the second stage.
That's why we need the dialogue process to make it through the second stage of our relationships.
[00:45:06] Speaker A: What are the stages?
[00:45:07] Speaker B: So the first stage is the romantic.
[00:45:10] Speaker C: Stage of love or the romantic stage.
[00:45:13] Speaker B: Of a partnership or it's probably the.
[00:45:15] Speaker A: Only stage I ever made it to.
[00:45:18] Speaker B: No, you've made it to the power struggle because that's the second stage. Second stage is the power struggle. And that's where relationships die. And all too often, we just seek out a new romantic relationship, a new partnership that feels better, a new girlfriend or boyfriend that feels better when essentially, we're just going to go right back through the same stages of the relationship. And we have to learn how to mirror, validate and empathize with anybody in our life in order to make it.
[00:45:48] Speaker C: From the romantic stage through the power struggle and into.
[00:45:53] Speaker B: In a loving relationship is true love, unconditional love, or in a business partnership, a thriving partnership.
[00:46:00] Speaker C: So, yeah, you've been trying because congratulations to you.
[00:46:05] Speaker B: Six months of therapy is a real commitment and going to therapy with your sister is a real commitment, the opportunity that we have now. So we've been innovating in all these great areas, but we haven't been innovating on how to love each other.
We need more innovation around how to love the people in our lives, how to give and receive love. And this is what I would consider.
[00:46:27] Speaker C: To be the greatest way to love anybody.
[00:46:30] Speaker B: The foundation, listen to them and make sure they feel heard and validated and empathized with.
[00:46:36] Speaker C: And, yeah, that's the promise of learning.
[00:46:40] Speaker B: To dialogue is because you'll have more.
[00:46:41] Speaker C: Of that in your life.
[00:46:42] Speaker A: Well, thank you again, Jack. Thank you, SIS, for coming. I'm so excited about everything that you're doing. And I think you keep calling us the big sisters of Gen Z. Yes, I think it's helpful for myself, but I'm really excited to see what comes of this for the younger community.
[00:47:03] Speaker B: Ashley, it's big. We have to play a role in.
[00:47:08] Speaker C: Directing the largest demographic of people ever.
[00:47:12] Speaker B: On the face of the Earth.
[00:47:13] Speaker A: No. Whenever she said it was one third.
[00:47:15] Speaker B: Of the population of the Earth is between those ages. And we're just out here just acting like this is not going to be a problem if we just let them continue to have rampant loneliness, anxiety, depression, suicide, violence. No. We have to get scalable apocalypse solutions. We have to get scalable solutions in the mix as fast as possible. And that's what our work is done. I'm appreciative of the legal Queen La and the Royalty Room and meeting you in that great space where our tribe was Hollywood in mind.
It's starting to happen. We're starting to kind of step into the power of the entertainment and media industry yes. Really promote solutions from our greatest creators. And you're one of the people that can help make that happen. So I'm glad to be here.
[00:48:05] Speaker A: Thank you.
I'm so excited about this episode. I hope you guys feel the same way as us and make sure that you, like, subscribe comment. His email and his contact information is going to be in the info below. But let us know your thoughts and let us know any questions, comments, concerns, and we might have to bring it back around for part two episodes here soon.
[00:48:31] Speaker B: I can bring all the smoke anytime you all want to because this is my life's work and it's really fun to work with brilliant minds of all generations, because I'm really kind of creating this intergenerational movement and pulling these people together.
[00:48:47] Speaker A: That's important.
[00:48:48] Speaker B: It's going to take all of us to play a role in this. So step on in dialogue.
[00:48:53] Speaker A: Stay tuned. He said he's bringing all the smoke. So, Royalty Room podcast on YouTube, spotify, Apple, wherever you get your podcast. And Kilo might even appear again soon. Kilo good on camera. Bye, everybody. See you next time.
[00:49:08] Speaker C: Peace.
[00:49:09] Speaker B: Much love.
