HeyJaredNeaTalk: Culture
A global conversation where voices, values, and vision collide. Here we unpack culture in all its layers—race, identity, business, mental health, spirituality, and everyday life.
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Season 2 Ep 8: From City Commissioner to City Council: Joy Waitman-Powell on Power, Growth & Peoria (opens the original)
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What does your city council actually control and how much does local politics affect your everyday life? On this episode of Culture on NeaTalk Network , Nea sits down with Joysaphine “Joy” Waitman-Powell , Peoria Planning and Zoning Commissioner and candidate for Peoria City Council’s Pine District, for a candid conversation about politics at the neighborhood level. Joy breaks down how City Council and Planning and Zoning work, how Peoria’s districts are structured, and why local decisions invol
Season 2 Ep 7: 30 Years a Cop A Pig or The People's Savior? Guest: Paul Newman (opens the original)
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What does 30 years behind the badge reveal about policing that the public rarely gets to see? Law-enforcement veteran Paul Newman joins Nea for an honest conversation about what shapes a police officer from childhood, culture and academy training to department leadership, community conditions and years of repeated trauma. They examine police shortages, psychological evaluations, racial stereotypes, use-of-force decisions, media narratives and the emotional weight officers carry from one emergenc
Season 2 Ep 6: HOW DOES A STEREOTYPE BECOME “TRUE”? : Examining Stereotypes and Data in Criminal Justice (opens the original)
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In this episode of Culture , Nea examines the complicated relationship between crime, data, policing and the stereotypes that can emerge from them. Using the experiences of Black men in the criminal-justice system as the center of the conversation, Nea asks whether crime data simply reveals existing patterns or whether policing, enforcement priorities and stereotypes themselves can influence the data eventually used to justify those same patterns. The conversation refuses easy answers. Instead,
Season 2 Ep 5: HEALTHCARE IN AMERICA: Is the System Failing Us—or Are We Failing Ourselves? (opens the original)
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Healthcare in America has problems but is the system always to blame? In this episode, Nea challenges both sides of the healthcare conversation: a system that can leave patients feeling unheard, misdiagnosed, overmedicated, and overwhelmed and patients who may have become too passive in their own health. From medication before answers and the real cost of misdiagnosis to insurance barriers, prevention, personal accountability, and learning to advocate for yourself, this conversation asks a harde
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